Catterick or Kendall

[Joey66]

…yep, I think he was a CF but not a very good one. He played for us, though.

Started as an amateur- my late father stated he was crap as a no 9 - but a very good manager!

 

[Joey66]

That reminds me to get a couple of Rob's other books:

..and...

TG - my late father ranted about him - the first ball playing Centre Half - and how the club treated him he hated us entered into our hall of fame - & left without giving a speech back on his train to North Wales!

 

[davek]

TG - my late father ranted about him - the first ball playing Centre Half - and how the club treated him he hated us entered into our hall of fame - & left without giving a speech back on his train to North Wales!

Mine too mate.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

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Go away.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

2-2 draw..
I can't comment on Catterick I'm too young,although I recall hating him ,peer pressure?
Kendall made us the best in Europe from tatters.

 

[roy vernon]

Kendall by a mile on the basis of their enormously different level of expenditure.

I'm not sure about the expenditure, Catterick's great team of the late 60's: Wright, Hurst, Labone, Harvey, Husband and Royle, all free as products of our youth system. Brown was bought for a modest sum as was Morrissey, the only big money signings in that team were Ball and Kendall, even the two players who came in to cover Labone and Husband's injuries, Whittle and Kenyon were products of our youth system. That's the whole point, that team, in my opinion the best I have seen, cost buttons compared to the teams they competed with.

 

[Cameron Manning]

Yep my dad saw him in action and Harry was cr#p according to him

Yes Harry wasn’t the best of centre forwards and you could say that about quite a few of them at the time——Jock Dodds, Oscar Hold, Billy Higgins, Jimmy McIntosh, but being honest some of them had their careers ruined by the Second World War.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Yes Harry wasn’t the best of centre forwards and you could say that about quite a few of them at the time——Jock Dodds, Oscar Hold, Billy Higgins, Jimmy McIntosh, but being honest some of them had their careers ruined by the Second World War.

Pinchbeck and juliessen make my dad grimace to this day

 

[Iana]

Pinchbeck and juliessen make my dad grimace to this day

The mere mention of Juliessen would have my Dad and Uncle with their head in their hands…he was that bad according to them

My dad thought TG Jones was brilliant and so immaculate that he didn’t need to get his shorts washed as he never went to ground.

 

[Bluerover]

….Catterick built two title winning teams so I’d have to go for him as Manager. No doubt, Kendall was the better footballer of the two.

Kendall won two but I suppose it is arguable that much of same squad for both.

Gray was gone for 86/7 and Watson had joined.

 

[salmon fingers]

For us oldies out there how lucky where we to see the teams these two great men put out at Goodison. Catterick died at Goodison watching Sheedys free kicks at Goodison against Ipswich. What a way to go.

 

[Cameron Manning]

Pinchbeck and juliessen make my dad grimace to this day

Yes Cyril Pinchbeck and Albert Juliessen, we got our money back on Juliesson turned out he had varicose veins when they sold him to us! Only Everton eh!

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Yes Cyril Pinchbeck and Albert Juliessen, we got our money back on Juliesson turned out he had varicose veins when they sold him to us! Only Everton eh!

 

[scullhed]

The thing with Catterick was that he built two great teams, the team that won the league in 1963 was great but had lots of players at their peak and those players were coming into the last couple of years at the top. He then built the team that won the league in 1970, that team from1968 to 1970 was absolutely the best footballing club side I've watched, it's also worth remembering that over half of the first choice 11 were products of the Everton youth system.

I think on the basis that the football was so good and that he did it twice, I'd go with Catterick, but , maybe that's just an age thing. They were both tremendous either way

I think I'd have to agree although my era was Kendall. My Dad reckons 68/69 was the best footballing team he'd ever seen including all the championships in 63,70,85&87.
A second great team built from mainly academy and young players bought from the northwest. Some achievement.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

Both of these legends outside of Evertonians seem to be very underrated manager by the wider footballing public.

I think Catterick can boast more accumulated points in the 60's, than his contemporizes like Busby, Shankly and that corrupt cheat Don Revie.

Two legendary managers but due to the European trophy i give the nod to Howard here. We were about to embark on a dynasty period of success in both England and Europe, but them lot across the park ruined it all for us sadly!

I know that people losing their lives is the bigger issue and football is very trivial in such circumstances, but i'll always be bitter towards them for the events of May 29th 1985 and their subsequent whitewashing and lack of accountability for it over the past 40 years.