Jimmy Gabriel a key all round player for the blues -
Blues won 2-0 -
Westy sent off Ernie tries to defend him at Newcastle - Sandy Brown went in goal to not save the resulting pen beaten 1-0 -
Tommy Wright & Mick Lyons go up v forest? away -
My older brother emailed me this photo of Bobby Collins being introduced to the Catt my son watermarked it for me - Tony Kay gave it to my brothers mate all them years ago - great photo -
Everton team in the autumn 1948. New manager Cliff Britton stands next to TG Jones - a certain HC on the front bench -
Ball, Labone, Newton, Wright, you could maybe blame England.
So why did Westy go to pieces then
Just sayin like
His wife stated she would divorce him if he went as she wanted a family holiday - years later Westy sulked may as well gone as we divorced years later anyway she was a concert pianist ........
Yes Joe... looks like Peter Cormack lurking in the background
PSB1
Player Valuation: £8m
From memory, West was a keeper who 'lived on his nerves' ... always seemed to be having some kind of manic conversation with himself and roamed round his area like a caged animal. Again, from memory, Catterick had dropped him a number of times during the sixties - to keep him on his toes, I guess.
Yes, I remember that story.
I don't know if there was a single reason we dropped off the pace so calamitously in 70 / 71 (from 1st to 14th for God's sake). Husband always seemed to be crocked and operating at 70% when he was fit (and I never rated Whittle, I'm afraid, despite his goals in the title run in). Kendall's crossfield passing seemed to go to hell; Morrissey either lost confidence or put a spanner in his left boot and Labone was not the rock he had been ... never a gazelle, but his legs seemed to go and he depended more and more on Hurst.
Bally? Seem to remember he was initially a bit sluggish but recovered. Certainly never remember the Street End criticizing him and he never lost that will to win.
I think the team needed strengthening at right wing, with better quality back up in defence. Although Sandy gets good rep on here, he just wasn't of the quality we needed given the situation with Labone. But, the money wasn't there: we were building that (to me at least) bloody awful main stand and John Moores wasn't a bloke to stretch the purse strings too far.
Dario Terracotta
Player Valuation: £70m
we were in for Archie gemmill,ended up with Henry Newton,who knows,Gemmill could well have kick started that 1970-71 season for us?,great little dynamo.
