Old Everton Pictures

3 x ex EVERTON Managers Gordon Lee, Harry Catterick & Billy Bingham -

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Fred Pickering described a striker who “at his rampaging best was an irresistible performer. Though neither outstanding in the air, nor over-physical for a man of his power, nor even particularly past, he could disrupt the tightest of defences with his determined running and a savage right-foot shot that earned him the nickname of ‘Boomer.’ as the noise when he hit the ball so hard made a booming sound - He was our leading goalscorer in Europe until Lukaku pipped him to that record - he was a prolific goal machine......

BLACKBURN, ENGLAND - MARCH 10: Footballer Fred Pickering leaving Ewood Park after completing his £80,0000 transfer from Blackburn Rovers to Everton on March 10, 1964 in Blackburn - for @edge & co -

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The England football squad, UK, 1st January 1964. From left to right, (back row) Bobby Thomson, Roger Hunt, George Cohen, David Sadler, Mike Bailey, and six others. (Front row), manager Alf Ramsey, Ron Flowers, ?, Fred Pickering, Peter Thompson, Jimmy Greaves and John Sissons. -

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