Fit as a fiddle, wee Bobby Collins -
Wee Bobby Collins starting life as a cobbler & playing amateur football for the Boys Brigade in th local football team Pollock - An Everton Scout heard about this lad & swooped to sign apprentice forms meeting his parents a trip to Goodison park with his father they loved what they saw, and accepted terms in a letter - typical Everton FC in the early 1950s never put the details on a usual mandatory signing on forms that day - as soon as they got back to Scotland the Celtic Club who were interested met the Collins family & offered him the same terms with the correct forms to sign - we threatened legal action, but the Scottish FA squashed our claim as a letter meant nothing - Everton that! - 9 years later after fantastic service to Celtic we paid £24,500 for Wee Bobby in 1958 -59 season, and he was an instant hit with a struggling blues team again due to circumstances the new Manager the Catt thought Collins was past it & sold him to Leeds losing no money - a familiar theme rings out here as with the sale of Bally -
As Wee Bobby made Leeds then at the bottom of the third division climb up the leagues to be the nemesis thorn of the Catt as Bobby player then coach made Leeds the force they became .....
Here's Bobby as an apprentice cobbler - we lost ten years of his service - doh -
Everton That -
As Wee Bobby made Leeds then at the bottom of the third division climb up the leagues to be the nemesis thorn of the Catt as Bobby player then coach made Leeds the force they became .....
Here's Bobby as an apprentice cobbler - we lost ten years of his service - doh -
Everton That -
Ted Sager -
The year I was born -
John Hurst receiving a Dixie dean memorial trophy - a fantastic Centre back marauding midfielder -
Derek Temple & Ken Rogers -
1966 -
BurghToffee
Player Valuation: £500k
Anyone got any good pictures of the Stadium in the 80s?
The old Park End at Goodison Park 1980s -
In the early 1980's the original corrugated roofing of the Gwladys Street Stand was replaced by blue cladding, giving the roof a rich colourful look. Then, in 1987, the pitched roof was replaced by an upturned sloping roof extending out over the terracing below, which joined the roof of the Bullens Road, creating a continuous roof on two sides of the ground.
