ALAN BALL REMEMBERED

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Magus said:
Its difficult to describe his attributes to younger supporters - the best I can think of is a turbo-charged Scholes with added class.
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that's actually not a bad description but he wasnt the snide scholes was. The comment above about being MOM in World cup final was also true but he wasnt our player then!!!
He was a truly BRILLIANT footballer who was excellent as an individual player but who also brought the best out of players around him........ until he was made captain when it was clear he coped badly with the errors mere mortals made.
Went to school with bottom lip quivering the day the news broke he was being transferred. When my dad told me just before he went to work it was like he was telling me there had been a death in the family. Argued, fought, denied reality with every RS at school that day and then cried myself to sleep for most of the week.
In a team of truly excellent players he was a class even above them.
Once Alan Ball had touched you watching football was never quite the same. He absolutely LOVED being an Everton player, everything else was his job.
 
MoutsGoat said:
Easy lads.

I gave my viewpoint.

Sorry if it doesnt fit in with yours.
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Fair enough, but now having been told you will, hopefully, know better.

It is better to ask and be thought a fool than to keep silent and remain a fool

Take it from those who were there.

The man transformed a team who were out played in the charity shield by an over the hill rs team, 3 or 4 games later he ripped them a new one virtually all on his own.

I know, I was there.
 
Azzurri said:
“I was running back to the centre circle after I scored the second goal against Liverpool and pure elation welled up inside me. I remember thinking, “I just love this place – I want this place forever.”

RIP Alan Ball.
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I wonder if any of them are like that now??? Not having a dig at anyone just seems you don't hear players talk about us like that any more. Like a more sanitized version of people.

I can't remember the last time I read or heard one of our players say something that made me feel like that!
 
When my lad asked me to describe what sort of player Bally was, I told him he had the aggression of Roy Keane, the energy of Steven Gerrard in his prime, the passing of Paul Scholes and the goalscoring ability of Frank Lampard.

Apart from his ability as a player, it was his obvious love for Everton that really endeared him to fans. He also had an uncanny knack of scoring against the RS. When he got sold to Arsenal, Bill Shankly rang him to say that he felt like he'd had a thorn removed from his side.
 
The day he was sold to the Arse was awful it felt like a death in the family,just can't imagine what his value would be today.
 
Bluetintedspecs said:
When my lad asked me to describe what sort of player Bally was, I told him he had the aggression of Roy Keane, the energy of Steven Gerrard in his prime, the passing of Paul Scholes and the goalscoring ability of Frank Lampard. Apart from his ability as a player, it was his obvious love for Everton that really endeared him to fans. He also had an uncanny knack of scoring against the RS. When he got sold to Arsenal, Bill Shankly rang him to say that he felt like he'd had a thorn removed from his side.
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he went on to score agaist them for arsenal, i along with every other blue in school went up to anfield it was a day game due to power cuts, to watch him score .
 
Also, for those who were too young to watch him, it's worth mentioning how he evolved as a footballer whilst at Goodison. He was a kid of twenty-one when he signed. He was like lightening. He thought faster than anyone else on the field and had quicksilver feet. It was nothing to see him drop his shoulder and beat two men inside a yard with a trick. He played further up the field then as his goalscoring record shows. Eighteen in his first season, then twenty, then another eighteen. We were scintillating to watch, but couldn't find the consistency to dominate a whole league season. By 69/70, he'd moved back a little and the Holy Trinity were in their full pomp. Bally stopped trying to beat the opposition on his own and didn't dribble as much, but was everywhere. He was called Mr Perpetual Motion and was the get-out ball if any of his team mates were under pressure. He was the oil that made the brilliant machine run. He was twenty-five by then and more responsible, and the more experienced he became the better he read the game. And he still chimed in with twelve goals. Turbo Paul Scholes? With a bit of Peter Reid thrown in? And perhaps even a touch of Denis Law? Maybe. But comparisons aren't much use because he was unique. And he was ours.

RIP Bally. Still my Hero.
 
MoutsGoat said:
Im gonna be honest, he totally passed me by.

For me he will always be the gash Southampton Manager with the weird voice.
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Better to say nothing then eh....... He was the finest Everton player over the last 50 years and it was an absolute privilege to see him play..
 
edge said:
he went on to score agaist them for arsenal, i along with every other blue in school went up to anfield it was a day game due to power cuts, to watch him score .
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he scored a pen in the kop , told clemence what corner he was putting it in and duly did ,
 
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