Harry Catterick appreciation thread

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degsy said:
These 'Pluses' were also a big part of his 'Minuses'
Many players, were with hindsight, moved on a tad early.
It might've been for 'age' and/or a perceived drop or fears of a potential drop in effectiveness reason, this might be coupled with an 'I didn't sign him' attitude. Throw in anybody who he didn't take a shine to, or they had a mind of their own/talked back to him.

You take all the big names of the 60's...any of them, total up the points they accrued in the 1st Div and Harry is top

All that not withstanding, he allowed me to watch what may have been the joint best 10yrs or so in Everton's History...up to now.

I'll take him warts and all, any day of the week and twice on Sunday's.
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Great point about the points total mate;) when you consider this was an era when there was many teams winning the league due to their being so many great club sides(burnley, Ipswich, Liverpool, city, United, Spurs, United, Leeds). Not like nowadays, club didn't stockpile talent, all the top clubs had 2 or 3 really talented players.
 

strummer said:
He's before my time but I love the fact that he had a pure football side and was so
understated as well. The complete opposite of Shankley and his team.
The 63 team seems to get nowhere near as much recognition as the 70 side. Could some of our older posters explain why
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They 'say' that Carey (Martinez?) had a team with 'too much' football in it.
A hard nosed business man - John Moores (moshiri?) took over and installed the more blunt, pragmatic, some might even say, snide (doing young over his bonus) manager in Catterick (Koeman?)
When we won the league in 62-63 there was a Spurs / Southern media thing...no change there then...that we were a 'bit too hard and rough'. so much so that Vernon had to take to print himself in some football mag or other and refute this.

As for credit, when have we ever had much. The 69-70 team was that good even they got 'some' grudging credit so 62-63 is left by default in the pre-rs shadow.
As we all know the BBC/MotD, with help from The Beatles and Alf Garnett actually invented modern football in 63-64...Sky only Re-invented it in 1992
plus ca change, plus c'est la - nothing changes but it remains the same.
 
degsy said:
Back in the day we used to have a Butchers Shop at 108 County Rd. Being the best in the area (obvs) many of the players used to come in for all the healthy stuff, like pork pies, sausages, black pudding etc. All made on site, mainly the Scottish ones for some reason; Collins, Parker, Young, Sandy Brown etc.
I'd come home from school and there'd be an autograph or 2 on a shop paper bag...I'd keep one of each and flog the 'swaps' in school.

You've probably seen the photo on 'Old Everton Pictures' thread of Alex Young and some others looking at the glossy brochure for the 62-63 title win.
I left my copy down the side of the till...one of those 'killer - open all hours' tills, with instructions to get anybody blue who comes in to sign it.
One day I went to get it - gone - panic, where is it...Oh Alex Parker took it, he said he'd get you some more autographs
2 weeks later, 'ere you go, there's your book back.

Some autographs?? - anybody who had a picture in that book...and there were plenty, everybody from John Moores down to the tea lady, if they had a picture in it, how ever small, it was signed...Including Harry.
When Parker left, Sandy Brown took over as Degsy's autograph monitor and every season for 4 or 5 years he'd get it topped up for me. Pickering, Wilson, Ball, Kendall - Harvey, Wright, Husband, Royle etc etc. if they signed or came through the ranks they went in the book.

Still got it.
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Was related to Sandy.
 
Harry died at Goodison says it all really. The night we won the league in 1970 the crowd were singing "we wont kick Harry anymore" refering to the incident at Blackpool what a night that was.
I didnt realise till looking just now that he was only 65 when he died which made him about 52 when he left the club through illness far to young really, he should have gone on for another 15 years and given the dark side a proper run for there money.
He was my first Everton manager we were the biggest club in the land.
 

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degsy said:
They 'say' that Carey (Martinez?) had a team with 'too much' football in it.
A hard nosed business man - John Moores (moshiri?) took over and installed the more blunt, pragmatic, some might even say, snide (doing young over his bonus) manager in Catterick (Koeman?)
When we won the league in 62-63 there was a Spurs / Southern media thing...no change there then...that we were a 'bit too hard and rough'. so much so that Vernon had to take to print himself in some football mag or other and refute this.

As for credit, when have we ever had much. The 69-70 team was that good even they got 'some' grudging credit so 62-63 is left by default in the pre-rs shadow.
As we all know the BBC/MotD, with help from The Beatles and Alf Garnett actually invented modern football in 63-64...Sky only Re-invented it in 1992
plus ca change, plus c'est la - nothing changes but it remains the same.
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Catterick would have cringed at the football Everton were playing under Moyes and appreciated the direction Martinez went in and wanted to refine.
 


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