Alex 'The Golden Vision' Young

[roy vernon]

Sandy suffered for his versatility, he played absolutely anywhere and in the days of only being allowed 1 sub he was a very valuable squad member, our regular number 12. It is easy to forget that he was also a very good left fullback he was just unfortunate that the best left back in the world, at the time, was also at the club

 

[dave abrahams]

Fans forget Sandy scored a very good goal in another Derby for the blues, and in that seasons own goal we won the league anyway!

True Joey, he scored in a 3-1 win at Goodison, he scored in a shirt with no number on the back after coming on as the
sub, was it the game when Alan Ball had scored the first two goals?

 

[Joey66]

True Joey, he scored in a 3-1 win at Goodison, he scored in a shirt with no number on the back after coming on as the
sub, was it the game when Alan Ball had scored the first two goals?

spot on 1966 august 27th at home Ball 2 Brown 1 - Att 64,318
The Alex young's last game for us was in a 1-1 draw v west ham away on May the 11th 1968-his last Goodison appearance was as sub V Arsenal as a sub on April the 6th in a 2-0 win - he also appeared at old trafford as sub in the famous 1-0 victory over Leeds!
That was his last season!

 

[Steve Wigan]

Saw him play loads, on his day he was brilliant. He sometimes 'hid' in away games, and towards the end of his time at Everton he started hiding in home games as well. Harry Catterick was right when he famously dropped him in favour of a very young Joe Royle. I once stood in the Gents at St Philomenas Club at the Old Roan, with Alex Young and Jimmy Gabriel....Young didn't speak, but Gabriel said to me 'Whats it like having a p*ss with a Scottish International, matey?.....

 

[dave abrahams]

spot on 1966 august 27th at home Ball 2 Brown 1 - Att 64,318
The Alex young's last game for us was in a 1-1 draw v west ham away on May the 11th 1968-his last Goodison appearance was as sub V Arsenal as a sub on April the 6th in a 2-0 win - he also appeared at old trafford as sub in the famous 1-0 victory over Leeds!
That was his last season!

He didn't play in the cup final against WBA that year, would have been a fitting end to his career at Everton, in that game
Everton fielded all English players including the sub, if I'm not mistaken Roger Kenyon.

 

[Joey66]

He didn't play in the cup final against WBA that year, would have been a fitting end to his career at Everton, in that game
Everton fielded all English players including the sub, if I'm not mistaken Roger Kenyon.

The way we played that day if he had come on as sub who knows????

 

[spekejim]

He didn't play in the cup final against WBA that year, would have been a fitting end to his career at Everton, in that game
Everton fielded all English players including the sub, if I'm not mistaken Roger Kenyon.

It didn't help that day that WBA had a left back, Graham Williams I think, who was captain and he basically kicked Jimmy Husband up in the air every time he got the ball. The GV would have got the same treatment referees were blind to violence in those days. Typical Everton beat WBA 6-2 at the Hawthornes a few weeks before Bally scored 4!

 

[Dario Terracotta]

He didn't play in the cup final against WBA that year, would have been a fitting end to his career at Everton, in that game
Everton fielded all English players including the sub, if I'm not mistaken Roger Kenyon.

I've heard Alex say he regrets that as he felt he had the WBA's full backs number(Williams?)in the two league games we'd played and won against them that season,he felt even if he had been made a sub(I think Roger Kenyon was sub) he may have made a difference,who knows eh?

 

[Joey66]

I've heard Alex say he regrets that as he felt he had the WBA's full backs number(Williams?)in the two league games we'd played and won against them that season,he felt even if he had been made a sub(I think Roger Kenyon was sub) he may have made a difference,who knows eh?

Jimmy Husbands states he still has nightmares of that missed header!
If the GV had have been sub, and come on that day who knows?
Also how fitting it would have been for him to get the winner - doh!

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Jimmy Husbands states he still has nightmares of that missed header!
If the GV had have been sub, and come on that day who knows?
Also how fitting it would have been for him to get the winner - doh!

My old fella always goes on about that Husband miss,I only actually saw it for the first time ever recently and yes it was quite a sitter!!!

 

[Joey66]

Found this in my everton pictures hunt - so accurate -
271 appearances, 87 goals “I left Everton Football Club in 1968. But I can honestly say that Everton has never left me.” Alex Young was the beatific poster boy for the School of Science. Bought for £42,000 from Hearts, Young bewitched all with his skill and it soon became fluorescently obvious to Evertonians that they had someone truly special. “The Golden Vision” with his vicar’s collar and blonde locks was an elegant, gracile forward who – for a slight man – had wonderful heading ability. So acute was his reading of the game that he could deliver exquisite passes without even checking where his teammates were. Young scored 89 goals in 275 appearances; his 22 strikes helped win the league for Everton in 1963 and he was in the FA Cup winning team of 1966. There was something almost ethereal about Young, who somehow throttled the life out of games with the lightest of touches, and he is probably the most beloved of all Everton legends.

 

[royvernon39]

The level of devotion to Alex was incredible. I remember people travelling midweek up to Glasgow in the chance that he would be playing for Scotland. Of course, there was hardly any televised footie in those days but he was really idolised in a way that I have never seen since.