Just reading about Fred Pickering his nickname at Blackburn FC was Boomer Pickering, because of his booming hard shot- He was taken from fullback to play centre forward for them - My late Father and Brother many times seen him destroy us with many goals against us one hattrick - they were rightly glad he signed for us as he got a hat trick on his debut -i think the he had scored a hattrick v us close together for Blackburn only player to score two hat tricks at Goodison with different teams his strike record was something like 77 goals in 100 games - shame he got injured -which in today's times was maybe probably not the end of his career for us....
an England international too , and still the fastest EFC player in the modern era to score 50 goals even beating Lukaku....
...looks like World Cup winner, George Cohen in the background.
I remember Fred Pickering well, he definitely knew where the net was. I think there was one game, it might have been against Kilmarnock in the Fairs Cup where he went off but came back on bandaged, a bit like Dave Hickson did.
