PETER REID has no trouble naming his best moment at Goodison Park, but he can also remember his worst.

Both came during games between Everton and Queens Park Rangers, four years apart.

In 1985, Reid was part of what most would consider the greatest Everton team of the modern generation, as Howard Kendall’s side swept away all before them, both domestically and abroad.

They would finish the 1984/85 season with two trophies, and were only denied a third by a piece of genius from Manchester United’s Norman Whiteside in the FA Cup final.

Reid would pick up the PFA Player of the Year award that year – he would also come fourth in World Soccer Magazine’s World Player of the Year award, behind only Michel Platini, Preben Elkjaer and Diego Maradona – and the crowning glory of a memorable season would come in May, when Frank Sibley’s QPR side visited Goodison.

In front of more than 50,000 fans – easily the biggest league gate of the season – goals from Derek Mountfield and Graeme Sharp would see the Blues clinch the First Division Championship with a 2-0 success. They would win the title by 13 points from Liverpool, a margin unheard of at that time.

The Goodison golden era, though, was destined not to last. Kendall departed for Athletic Bilbao after guiding the club to a second league title in 1987, and the great side he had assembled was beginning to crumble.

And by January 1989, Reid’s Everton career was over. A 3-1 home defeat to eventual champions Arsenal would be the last of his 235 appearances for the club.

“Colin Harvey was in charge,” he remembers. “He wanted to go with (Ian) Snodin, (Paul) Bracewell and (Stuart) McCall in midfield. I was in my 30s by then and I wanted to play, QPR came in, so I moved on.

“Trevor Francis was in charge, and he just told me that they were desperate to stay up. I went there, had nine months or so there and we managed to stay up quite comfortably.”

Comfortable it may have been – Francis’ side finished ninth, just one place below Everton – but Reid’s first visit back to Goodison, on April Fools’ Day, was most certainly not.

“I remember going back to Goodison for the first time and I dropped a clanger, playing a short back pass and allowing Tony Cottee to score,” he laughs. “As we were walking off at the end Kevin Ratcliffe came over and said ‘Why couldn't you find him like that when you played for us?’. We lost 4-1 that day, and it was one to forget all round.”

Reid would go on to make just 29 appearances for Rangers before leaving to link up again with Kendall, by now in charge of Manchester City. He would eventually succeed Kendall as manager at Maine Road, in November 1990.

“I enjoyed it down at QPR,” Reid says. “I remember myself and Ray Wilkins playing maybe three games together in midfield. We were both well into our 30s by that point, but we won all three games. I don't think teams could get the ball off us to be honest!

“It was short and sweet, but I enjoyed it. Kenny Sansom joined us, Paul Parker was there, Dave Seaman was there, so there was the backbone of a really decent side.

“They were a good set of lads and, to be fair, it was a smashing club. It always had that family feel about it; it's a small club but it is a very, very warm club with great local support.”

That local support, of course, will be looking to cheer their side to victory over Everton at Loftus Road tomorrow.

Rangers won 1-0 at Goodison Park back in August, ensuring the Blues’ start to the season, delayed a week by the London riots, was a miserable one.

Much has changed in west London since then, with Mark Hughes replacing Neil Warnock as manager back in January, and overseeing a late influx of players before the transfer deadline passed.

Results, though, remain poor. Rangers have won just one of six league games since Hughes’ arrival, and sit 17th in the Premier League table, above the relegation zone on goal difference only.

And Reid believes there are defensive issues which Everton can take full advantage of at Loftus Road this weekend.

“I watched them recently up at Blackburn, where Blackburn turned them over,” he says. “They looked poor at the back that day.

“Mark Hughes has come in and it is fair to say that they are still struggling. He has bought a few players, the likes of (Nedum) Onuoha, (Bobby) Zamora, and (Samba) Diakite – who got sent off against Fulham last weekend – but it takes players time to get to know each other.

“It is a bit of a struggle for them at the moment, and they do look a little bit weak at the back for me. I think Everton can fancy their chances going there this weekend.”

On Warnock’s sacking, a move which took many by surprise given the fact he had guided them to promotion last season, Reid adds: “Nothing surprises me in this game.

“Gary Megson's just had the sack at Sheffield Wednesday and Lee Clark's had the sack at Huddersfield, Mick McCarthy's had the sack at Wolves, and sometimes you genuinely wonder what the reasons are.

“In QPR's case the new owners came in, and decided to change things. That is part and parcel of football these days I'm sorry to say.”