Old Everton Pictures

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Tony Cottee scoring 1 of his 3 goals versus Newcastle on his debut. Did you know Cottee has more hat-tricks for Everton than Latchford, Lawton, Sharp, Royle and Hickson -{Sharpy claimed he was a greedy player allegedly}-
Here he is on his debut with his first hat trick for us-
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Should have been six. Bracewell injured, and Derek Mountfield should have gone imo.
Had to make room for all them (southern) media favourites.
tbh, Bracewell had no chance of going, somebody did his ankle at Newcastle in Jan(?) but he kept on keeping on, finished the season and once he stopped that was it - didnt kick a ball in anger for 2years.
iirc, he went from specialist to specialist trying to get it fixed properly. Had to go to some wonder doctor in Chicago to get it fixed.
He was never the same...though coming back into a fading team didn't help.
It's a testement to his, skill, nouse and plain guts that he even came back at any decent level
 



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