T LEAFE
Player Valuation: £40m
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Major Gowen
Player Valuation: £6m
On the subject of that era, Joey, there's a great chapter on Joe Mercer in Graham Kelly's book,Terrace Heroes: The Life and Times of the 1930s Professional Footballer (2005)
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Terrace_Heroes.html?id=ed71ymndrmoC
ManxBrian
Player Valuation: £2.5m
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Got a hefty book for Father's Day from my son - Faith of our families the total history of our club by known comments by people players etc about our club from day one....
Joe Mercer, and Dixie state how Theo Kelly a nasty piece of work treated them and Tommy G Jones.....
Joe was going to resign so he sadly went to Arsenal for £9000 - Dixie wanted to stay to help Tommy Lawton out , and claimed Kellly wanted to get rid of him - a disgusting situation, and why you can understand why the great TG Jones was treated so badly ......
Hunter Hart and Theo Kelly with a director, mid-1930s -
Its what the caption stated they do not get it correct remember Tommy Husband.......
Ask an Evertonian about Theo Kelly and he or she, if familiar with the Club's history, might respond: “He was Everton's first manager who fell out with - Dean, Mercer - and treated TG Jones despicably...-
Theo Kelly (top left) with the Everton team in 1947 - Joe Mercer reason for leaving-
“It was a terrible blow for me to go, because I was so crazy about Everton. Mind you I wasn’t easy to handle. I was Captain of England at the time and had been a Sgt Major, running my own show. Theo Kelly and I had one or two ups and downs. The funny thing was, he wanted me to play centre-half – Me, a wing-half who used to go diving into the action, when the club had T G Jones, the best centre-half of all in my opinion! Things became so bad between Theo and me that one day I went to see the directors at the Exchange Hotel, where they held Board Meetings, and said ‘Transfer me, or I turn it in’. The directors said they wanted to me to stay but I was determined and Arsenal paid £9,000 for me.”
“It was a terrible blow for me to go, because I was so crazy about Everton. Mind you I wasn’t easy to handle. I was Captain of England at the time and had been a Sgt Major, running my own show. Theo Kelly and I had one or two ups and downs. The funny thing was, he wanted me to play centre-half – Me, a wing-half who used to go diving into the action, when the club had T G Jones, the best centre-half of all in my opinion! Things became so bad between Theo and me that one day I went to see the directors at the Exchange Hotel, where they held Board Meetings, and said ‘Transfer me, or I turn it in’. The directors said they wanted to me to stay but I was determined and Arsenal paid £9,000 for me.”
Cliff Britton arrives at Goodison Park-
Blimey the state of our 5 there....talk about get stuck in !! Is that v City ?
Everton squad photographed in the summer of 1957. Ian seated far left Ian Bucan another failed manager fitness fanatic-
Everton Chief Scout Harry Cooke Welcomes Mike Trebilcock -
John Carey parades his new signing Bobby Collins -
Major Gowen
Player Valuation: £6m
The rank mismanagement of the club in the period following the 1938-9 championship winning season was, and remains, staggering. Kelly emerges as a martinet more concerned with control than success.
Goodison Park - terraces plus Grandstands-
