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I am struggling with this photo. It is definitely White Hart Lane and it looks like Fred Pickering but John White is in the photo and he died before Pickering ever played at WHL for Everton. And who are Nos 4 and 7 for Everton. Could this actually be when Fred was playing for Blackburn ?

Roy Parnell, Barry Rees, Colin Harvey and Jimmy Hill - on their way to Milan September 1963

Yes that seems right ! I was going on the assumption it was Dixie Dean's testimonial. That explains why it doesn't look like Tony Kay and indeed it is an all-Scouser team. I wonder what the occasion was. There was probably no actual game played otherwise they would have had the photo taken in...

I think that is Gerry Byrne not Doug Livermore. Photo is from 1964, isn't that too early for Doug Livermore. This photo is from 1964, surely that is too early for Doug Livermore ? I think the names are Labone, Rankin, Wright, Lawler, Smith, Gerry Byrne, Callaghan, Temple, Kay, Harvey...

Yes I see your point. Will try and think of more recent players you might have seen. You asked earlier if Colin Harvey was box-to-box, a playmaker or a defensive mid. I say yes, yes and yes - which kind of sums him up !

it is usually said that the Kendall-Ball-Harvey midfield was so well balanced which I take to mean that one player did the running, one the tackling and one the passing (or something like that). I always thought that was wrong and that each of the three was balanced. All three could defend and...