The Sunday Sermon ; Big Joe Royle

[little curly alan ball]

That was particularly good even by your standards mate. Cheers.

Thank you , Dude .

 

[Neiler]

I actually think this is my favourate one, stuff like this cant be bought, honestly mate i would buy a collection of these if i saw them is a shop. Yourself and Hsd should get together would be a wonderfull book to have, not kidding here!

 

[little curly alan ball]

I actually think this is my favourate one, stuff like this cant be bought, honestly mate i would buy a collection of these if i saw them is a shop. Yourself and Hsd should get together would be a wonderfull book to have, not kidding here!

Hahaha .

I AM gonna do something , kid .

In truth , this was the WORST , least researched , most badly written - no-one mentioned that I neglected to include , eg , Kanchelskis' Anfield Smash and Grab , NUMEROUS spelling / flow fuk up's , etc ....

Seriously , for a minute though , THANK YOU ALL FOR THE KIND WORDS .

I get Pm's / VM's / Texts / Calls/ Tweets and word of mouth encouragement on these .

SOME Peeps dig them . I GET that now .

Many, many thanks to ALL OF YOUS .

 

[a2b chris]

Btw , to A2B , an' SPECIFICALLY , the kid in Khandahar , Afghanistan , please excuse today's rather sub-standard effort . It WAS VERY LAST MINUTE . All MY FAULT , incidentally .

Anyway , so's you know .

Will TRY HARDER - an' START MUCH EARLIER , next time .

P.S. YOU are my inspiration , my mate .

Nice one .

The Reverand L.C.A.B.

I wish sir, i wish

 

[little curly alan ball]

I wish sir, i wish

YOU send them on , though , kid . THAT'S why I gave you a shout .

Yeah , the kid in the Army ,.. Talk about humbling , Dude ???

No [Poor language removed] . Ego or NO fukn Ego , my mate .

Humbling , lid .

 

[little curly alan ball]

Hahaha .

I AM gonna do something , kid .

In truth , this was the WORST , least researched , most badly written - no-one mentioned that I neglected to include , eg , Kanchelskis' Anfield Smash and Grab , NUMEROUS spelling / flow fuk up's , etc ....

Seriously , for a minute though , THANK YOU ALL FOR THE KIND WORDS .

I get Pm's / VM's / Texts / Calls/ Tweets and word of mouth encouragement on these .

SOME Peeps dig them . I GET that now .

Many, many thanks to ALL OF YOUS .

Neon Leon ; Didn't I tell you I'd fuk it up doing it THAT way , Brains ???

 

[trebilcock66]

Cheers , Leader . Toughest yet , that one .

Sack that , " Start from scratch ,.." [Poor language removed] , " I'm L5CABizzzzllle ,...."

I feel OLD , kid !!!

You feel old? I was at all those games, lid. I feel freakin' ancient....

Seriously, David, thanks for all those memories - even the ones that hurt like 1968 and that 3-0 tonking from our neighbours, Sandy's flying header and all....

Thanks and take care, mate.

 

[little curly alan ball]

You feel old? I was at all those games, lid. I feel freakin' ancient....

Seriously, David, thanks for all those memories - even the ones that hurt like 1968 and that 3-0 tonking from our neighbours, Sandy's flying header and all....

Thanks and take care, mate.

Hahaha .

Fair do's , Treb' .

Welcome , mate . As ever .

 

[trebilcock66]

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 gone days when we were in the top four; when Scottie was more than a road; when Evertonians believed in the genius of the club, things like dropping The Vision mattered. When he sold Bally, I swore I'd never believe any of the lying ba**ards ever again.

You've brought it all back to life. Cheers.

Now that sentence got to me. That's what it meant to be an Evertonian back then - we were the ones that all the others feared. Joe was a key part of that.

Here's another memory of him. After we got our revenge over WBA on a cool night in April 1970 (we won 2-0 to secure the title), there was a good natured pitch invasion. I stayed in the GSE (Dad's orders....) and waited for the victorious champions to emerge from the tunnel to take the applause. First out of the tunnel? Big Joe Royle, flash bulbs goin' off all over, crowd went mental. I'd never witnessed anything like it - my hazy memories of 1963 were nothing like this, I thought....

 

[trebilcock66]

Hahaha .

Fair do's , Treb' .

Welcome , mate . As ever .

You should be in bed gettin ready for the Ashes transmission - I'm off to do the same as soon as I've done the washin' up and ironed the kids school shirts....seriously.

 

[little curly alan ball]

Now that sentence got to me. That's what it meant to be an Evertonian back then - we were the ones that all the others feared. Joe was a key part of that.

Here's another memory of him. After we got our revenge over WBA on a cool night in April 1970 (we won 2-0 to secure the title), there was a good natured pitch invasion. I stayed in the GSE (Dad's orders....) and waited for the victorious champions to emerge from the tunnel to take the applause. First out of the tunnel? Big Joe Royle, flash bulbs goin' off all over, crowd went mental. I'd never witnessed anything like it - my hazy memories of 1963 were nothing like this, I thought....

Points upwards ^^^^^ ,..

Children ; Listen to BOTH your Uncles , Dixie AND Treb' ,..

THEY KNOW OF WHAT THEY SPEAK .

 

[little curly alan ball]

You should be in bed gettin ready for the Ashes transmission - I'm off to do the same as soon as I've done the washin' up and ironed the kids school shirts....seriously.

Staying awake . See how long I last ,...

McBoomerang-won't-come-back's Fiddy is keeping me eyes open ,...

 

[dixie1928]

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.

 

[little curly alan ball]

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.

He was . I cannot .

You are welcome .

 

[micknick]

Have to say Joe Royle has always had a certain amount of class. Really like the guy and Saturday must be a strange day for him.

Dogs of war were ace- after the tosh from before we had some heroes again.