It Was Fifty Years Ago Today

[Paul Rideout]

Thought you were about to break out into Sgt. Pepper but got the number of years wrong.

 

[Houghty19]

Great at pointing though lol

World class pointer i would say

 

[roy vernon]

Arsenal went into decline themselves after that double in 1971. So he went from one team on the slide, to another one on the slide. I think most Arsenal fans think fondly of Bally imo.

Spot on Bally was actually made captain at Arsenal and was a firm favourite there. He broke his leg in 1974 towards the end of the season and missed the first half of the next season. He was never quite the same player after that.

To say he only shone as part of the trinity at Everton is not quite correct either. Kendal did not play in Balls first season but Bally still managed 18 goals including 2 against Liverpool in his home debut. He was 21 years old then BTW. He was a thorn in Liverpool's side for many years, they were terrified of him and they hated him like no other Everton player. He hated them just as passionately.

Not world class my arse.

 

[peteblue]

FFS - he was one player. If the club is so delicate that the selling of one player can be used to justify 50 years of 'mediocrity', them we deserve all we (didn't) get. Besides, (unpopular opinion alert) i don't recall him pulling up any stumps for Arsenal after he left. Maybe we got the best years out of him and sold him when we could still get a decent price?

Bally was never world class outside of that trio. i know that may outrage many blues, but its like taking Messi out of that Barca trio, still a great, great player, but never a shadow of the man for Argentina etc. Messi, with xavi and Iniesta either side was the ultimate footballer. Ball with Harvey and Kendall either side was our best ever midfielder by a million miles. Without them, he was very, very good, not world class!

You never saw him did you….

 

[peteblue]

Yeah I seem to remember that. Must have been something and nothing cause as we all know Johnson came back to the RS and had a decent career there.

But they never did have any standards…..

 

[duncs pigeon]

Bally was never world class outside of that trio. i know that may outrage many blues, but its like taking Messi out of that Barca trio, still a great, great player, but never a shadow of the man for Argentina etc. Messi, with xavi and Iniesta either side was the ultimate footballer. Ball with Harvey and Kendall either side was our best ever midfielder by a million miles. Without them, he was very, very good, not world class!

Have a word with Arsenal fans, they will tell you how good he was, world class.

 

[mahermi1]

We replaced him with Mike Bernard. Need I say more?

Thought it was Mick Buckley, homegrown replacement ? Could be wrong like.

 

[Canuck Darryl]

Ball is a major reason I'm an Everton supporter. He was MVP in the 1979 NASL playoffs. The only time Vancouver ever won anything, soccer-wise. A few things led to my Blueness, but when I found the Ball connection with Everton, I was Blue forever.

 

[bring back the catt]

Thought it was Mick Buckley, homegrown replacement ? Could be wrong like.

Blimey, I thought it was Tommy Jackson. The years have caught up with me.
Could somebody a lot more informed tell us the answer to this please. @Eggs perhaps?

 

[Eggs]

Blimey, I thought it was Tommy Jackson. The years have caught up with me.
Could somebody a lot more informed tell us the answer to this please. @Eggs perhaps?

….ha, ha. Henry Newton I reckon.

 

[bring back the catt]

….ha, ha. Henry Newton I reckon.

Streuth, you are probably right. Top marks to that man.

 

[Eggs]

Streuth, you are probably right. Top marks to that man.

….Tommy Jackson was an able understudy to Ball, I think he moved to Forest as part of the Newton deal. Our friend @Joey66 often mentions getting a useless Henry Newton as replacement for the greatest Everton player of our time.

 

[bring back the catt]

….Tommy Jackson was an able understudy to Ball, I think he moved to Forest as part of the Newton deal. Our friend @Joey66 often mentions getting a useless Henry Newton as replacement for the greatest Everton player of our time.

@Joey66 has been correct over many things over the past, but is totally spot on with this synopsis.
Thanks for the information.

 

[Joey66]

@Joey66 has been correct over many things over the past, but is totally spot on with this synopsis.
Thanks for the information.

Tommy Jackson cost us very little & covered for the Trinity in our title winning season brilliantly by putting a workmanship like shift in for mainly Bally ( suspended for five crucial games ) plus Colin Harvey long term eye injury .....
Henry Newton was signed for a big fee as the permanent midfielder Henry the Hammer flopped ......
I read he never really wanted to join us preferred Derby County...... Everton That .....

 

[Joey66]

Thought it was Mick Buckley, homegrown replacement ? Could be wrong like.

Mick Buckley was born in Manchester ......not a local lad , but a decent midfielder.......