I did, mate. Many, many games. Not an easy bloke to have on the pitch .... screamed at everyone (except Westy who would have bloody eaten him!!!). To much talk at the refs, and when he and Bremner were on the same pitch it was petrol and matches.
But oh my God. The man could play for the...
LCAB has motivated me to write something about our greatest ever post war player.
I want to get rid of a couple of ghosts.
The news that The Man had been sold came as such a shock; from out of the blue, that gossip started to do the rounds.
Bally deserves the truth and not the lies that...
God was good to me. April 1970 was when merit got its reward. I will NEVER forget Bally dancing on the pitch with the trophy.
West, Wright, Brown, Kendall, Labone, Harvey, Husband, BALL, Royal, Hurst, Morrisey. Thank you all.
Brilliant and painfully accurate.
First of all, thanks, Dave. This must have caused you a lot of painful effort.
Secondly, for the benefit of younger fans, take note of LCAB's sentence about Catterick not liking stars. His treatment of Bally and the Vision was squalid. In those long...
In my view, he's lost the ability to motivate a goodish group of players who have seen that the Club lacks the means to achieve its ambitions.
No shame in that.
If you believe the players are ace / superstars / legends, I can understand you must be very disappointed.
Picking up on something that Toxteth Blue has hinted at, I think the major problem is that the established players don't actually believe sufficiently that we're going to do things. Tactics, formations and personnel matter ... of course they do, but with out that inner conviction, sides are...
This was the day that one of the greatest Everton teams was finished as a force. We lost 2 - 1 to Liverpool in the semi final of the F A Cup, and it was evident that there was no coming back for some of the players. Some were ageing, others had a catalogue of previous serious injuries, others...