5 December 1964 Sandy Brown completes a 5-0 victory over Wolves as he heads home to score --
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The big carve up - Gordon West about to chop through a large leg of beef watched by his Everton colleagues Tommy Wright, Alan Ball, Sandy Brown, Brian Labone and Howard Kendall. December 1969 -
Cardiff City - The Everton goalkeeper dives at the feet of Cardiff striker Derek Tapscott watched by Everton's Brian Labone - 9th Dec 1961 - note the amber shirts-
Brian Labone with the 1970 championship trophy at Goodison Park -
T LEAFE
Player Valuation: £40m
Same header as his og v the RS5 December 1964 Sandy Brown completes a 5-0 victory over Wolves as he heads home to score --
Remember this one well as I was at Elland Road for my 16th birthday. The two best teams in the league. We lost 3-2 after twice being in front. Sandy Brown (in for Colin Harvey who was injured) and Jimmy Husband were the goal scorers. Bremner got the winner late on to put a dampener on my birthday celebrations.22nd August 1970. Leeds United winger Peter Lorimer is challenged by Everton's Brian Labone and Keith Newton. -
Never a great day away at Leeds - Rooney got our win when they were relegated - our last league win before that was in the Dave Hickson era - even with Ball, Harvey, and Kendall I seen us get beat late on with a disputed winner for them 2-1 ending our long unbeaten run I never 1968/9 season -Remember this one well as I was at Elland Road for my 16th birthday. The two best teams in the league. We lost 3-2 after twice being in front. Sandy Brown (in for Colin Harvey who was injured) and Jimmy Husband were the goal scorers. Bremner got the winner late on to put a dampener on my birthday celebrations.
The greatest win that on that ground was the 1995 semi final v - Spurs at Elland road .........
Sandy is forgotten that. He scored a great headed goal v the reds in a victory over them - I did post thst picture way back on this thread - always seems to be forgotten.......
T LEAFE
Player Valuation: £40m
Unfortunately i havent forgotten his og. I can still see him flying through the air...
Really enjoyed the report“A night of memories at Goodison Park, of nostalgia and sentiment, and a heart-stirring moment when the fans greeted Goodison’s greatest ever player, Bill Dean, as he led the players out for his testimonial match.“Where else in this country would a crowd nearing 40,000 turn up towards the end of a season to watch an exhibition match for a player who last appeared for the club more than 25 years ago? Of course, the player they were honouring was exceptional – so was the gate.“The most memorable ovation was still to come. After Dean had kicked off he walked off alone, waving to the crowd, and I suspect there were tears in his eyes as every person in the crowd sounded their appreciation with prolonged applause and cheers. This was Dean’s night.”
The event raised £7,000 which would have been an immense help to Dean and his family, and would have helped fund his retirement from Littlewoods when he was 65. A lot of the praise must be directed toward Moores. He saw a club legend in need of support and went above and beyond to support him. Dean was not asking for help but Moores provided him with two jobs and a big payday to thank him for his loyalty to Everton. Football is completely different today and no elite club would ever really need to support a player in the way Moores did for Dean. Nevertheless, it is hard to not look back fondly at this era of football and realise how much has been lost in terms of relationships between players and fans. Players are so much removed from normal life that it looks like personal relationships like Dean working in Littlewoods, will never return.
What a man he was!Brian Labone with the 1970 championship trophy at Goodison Park -
Blues' 20+ Goal-Getters -
...a little surprised Fred Pickering didn’t get in that elite group given his 56 goals in 97 games. They must have been spread over a few injury impacted seasons but it’s a very impressive ratio. Also, Dave Hickson used to tell me how good John Willie Parker was, and his record of 82 in 167 is eye catching.
Respect to them all.
Sorry I was doing the chart in pictures and had a blip .......
Dave Hickson and the GV are not on the goal standard.........
MAIN POINT - only midfielder on there is ALAN BALL........
It was another game, another record for Romelu Lukaku as his late brace against Hull City saw him become the first Everton player in the Premier League era to score 20+ league goals in a season.
A mightily impressive feat - but the Belgian is by no means the only Blue to reach the landmark in a single league campaign.
From Fred Geary to Gary Lineker, Lukaku joined an elite list of 17 former Blues who had reached that tally in previous years.
Below we look at those goalscorers and what those strikes meant for the Toffees.
Gary Lineker
- 30 league goals in 1985/86
An icon of the time, Lineker possessed almost subliminal instinct for being in the right place at the right time. Howard Kendall made him the Club’s record signing after paying £800,000 for him and the striker instantly repaid his manager’s faith with 30 goals in what would be his one and only season at Goodison Park.
Graeme Sharp
- 21 league goals in 1984/85 (Champions)
The Blues’ post-war leading goalscorer hit top form with the arrival of Andy Gray in November 1983. Under the tutelage of his fellow Scot, he was able to mature into a key player in Howard Kendall's side. After helping the Blues lift the FA Cup in 1984, there was no stopping him the next season as he put his name on the scoresheet 30 times in 54 games as he fired the Club to domestic and European glory.
Bob Latchford
- 30 league goals in 1977/78
In six successive seasons Latchford topped Everton's club goalscoring charts, but it was the 1977/78 season, when he topped the nation's scoring charts, that Latchford really fired the public imagination.
Concerned by the apparent demise of out-and-out goalscorers, a national newspaper offered a £10,000 prize to the first man to score 30 League goals in a single season. A last day of the season double against Chelsea secured the prize - with almost perfect timing - just seven days short of the 50th anniversary of Dixie Dean's 60-goal milestone.
Joe Royle
- 23 league goals in 1969/70 (Champions)
Royle became the Club’s youngest scorer at the tender age of 16 when he netted against Blackpool in 1966. In four seasons that followed, he rifled in a remarkable 95 goals from 190 appearances. His power and 23 strikes made him a crucial member of the 1969/70 Championship-winning side.
Alan Ball
- 20 league goals in 1967/68
Ball’s first campaign as an Everton player ended with his name at the top of the Club’s goalscoring chart - netting 18 in all competitions to outscore the likes of Derek Temple and Alex Young. The following season he struck 20 goals in the league alone. The fact that he regularly hit double figures was an enormous bonus for the Blues.
Fred Pickering
- 27 league goals in 1964/65
Everton smashed the British transfer record in March 1964 when Harry Catterick signed Blackburn Rovers forward Fred Pickering in a deal worth £85,000. Although his arrival was initially met with some bemusement as fans saw him as a replacement for the late, great Alex Young, Pickering hit the ground running with a hat-trick against Nottingham Forest on his debut. His second full season was his most prolific, scoring 27 league goals in 41 appearances.
Roy Vernon
- 24 league goals in 1962/63 (Champions)
- 26 league goals in 1961/62
- 21 league goals in 1960/61
Vernon broke the 20-goal mark in three consecutive seasons, the last of which culminated in a league championship triumph. He was an expert penalty-taker and supremely powerful and accurate from any dead-ball situation.
John Willie Parker
- 31 league goals in 1953/54
Birkenhead-born Parker formed one of the most dangerous attacking combinations in the country alongside Dave Hickson. His 31 goals in 1953/54 were enough to see the Blues secure promotion back to the top flight after a brief stint in the second tier.
Tommy Lawton
- 34 league goals in 1938/39 (Champions)
- 28 league goals in 1937/38
Lawton moved to Goodison Park from Burnley in January 1937 to link-up with his boyhood hero, Dixie Dean. He top scored in two consecutive seasons, the second of which saw the Blues earn a fifth league title. Lawton was the division’s top scorer again when the 1939/40 season was suspended due to the Second World War.
Dixie Dean
- 24 league goals in 1936/37
- 26 league goals in 1934/35
- 24 league goals in 1932/33
- 45 league goals in 1931/32 (Champions)
- 39 league goals in 1930/31 (Division 2 Champions)
- 23 league goals in 1929/30 (Relegated)
- 26 league goals in 1928/29
- 60 league goals in 1927/28 (Champions)
- 21 league goals in 1926/27
- 32 league goals in 1925/26
Arguably the greatest goalscorer ever to grace the game, undeniably the greatest Everton player of all-time, William Ralph ‘Dixie’ Dean's name was the first installed in the Millennium Giants roster when the original Everton Giants listed was formulated in 1999. In the 1930s he captained the Club to an unprecedented treble of Second Division, First Division and FA Cup triumphs. But the achievement for which he is best remembered is the individual goalscoring record of 60 League goals in a single season - a record set in 1928 and never beaten since.
Jimmy Cunliffe
- 23 league goals in 1935/36
Cunliffe established himself as the Blues’ main man in the 1935/36 season, top scoring for the with 23 goals in 38 games. He later helped the Club win the First Division title in 1938/39.
Wilf Chadwick
- 28 league goals in 1923/24
Bury-born Chadwick began his Football League career with Everton after joining the club in February 1922. He made an instant impression during his debut just a month later – scoring both goals in a 2-0 win over Bradford City. And the goals kept coming for Chadwick, who was the Blues’ joint leading scorer the next season and then the leading scorer in the First Division with 28 goals in 1923/24.
Bobby Parker
- 36 league goals in 1914/15 (Champions)
Scoring on his debut, Parker went on to net 17 goals in just 24 games during his first season, topping the scoring charts in 1914/15 as Everton were crowned champions. His record of 36 goals in just 35 games during the title-winning campaign included six hat-tricks and with that remarkable form he was unlucky not to have been capped by Scotland by the time war intervened. Parker saw action in the First World War and when football resumed four years later he had a bullet still lodged in his back.
Bertie Freeman
- 22 league goals in 1909/10
- 38 league goals in 1908/09
A naturally-gifted, skilful player, Freeman set a new Club record in his first full season with the Blues, scoring 38 goals in 37 league games as Everton finished runners-up to Newcastle. He was the first Everton player to hit over 30 goals in a season and with that he was the First Division top scorer for the 1914/15 campaign.
Alex ‘Sandy’ Young
- 28 league goals in 1906/07
Sandy Young – no relation to his later namesake – was signed from Falkirk in July 1900 in the hope he would be able to hit the goalscoring heights of former strikers Jack Southworth and Fred Geary. Young top scored for the Club six out of the 10 seasons he remained at Goodison – including 28 league goals in 1906/07 to become the First Division’s top scorer.
Jack Southworth
- 27 league goals in 1893/94
Southworth signed from Blackburn Rovers in 1893 and although he played only 32 games for Everton, the fans saw enough of him to know that he was a great talent. After joining in the August for just £400, he netted 10 goals in just two games – four against Sheffield Wednesday and six the following week against West Brom. In total, he scored 36 goals in just 32 appearances and he was also capped three times for England. Sadly, injury forced him into early retirement and he later became a professional violinist!
Fred Geary
- 20 league goals in 1890/91 (Champions)
- 21 league goals in 1889/90
Leading the forward line with a distinctly robust style, Geary netted 20 goals in Everton’s League Championship-winning campaign of 1890-91. He was described as small and powerful, standing at barely 5ft 2in and he relied on his pace and acceleration to get away from defenders. Geary was called up to the England squad to play Ireland in 1890 and he scored a hat-trick in a 9-1 victory.
Dave Hickson and the GV are not on the goal standard.........
MAIN POINT - only midfielder on there is ALAN BALL........
It was another game, another record for Romelu Lukaku as his late brace against Hull City saw him become the first Everton player in the Premier League era to score 20+ league goals in a season.
A mightily impressive feat - but the Belgian is by no means the only Blue to reach the landmark in a single league campaign.
From Fred Geary to Gary Lineker, Lukaku joined an elite list of 17 former Blues who had reached that tally in previous years.
Below we look at those goalscorers and what those strikes meant for the Toffees.
Gary Lineker
- 30 league goals in 1985/86
An icon of the time, Lineker possessed almost subliminal instinct for being in the right place at the right time. Howard Kendall made him the Club’s record signing after paying £800,000 for him and the striker instantly repaid his manager’s faith with 30 goals in what would be his one and only season at Goodison Park.
Graeme Sharp
- 21 league goals in 1984/85 (Champions)
The Blues’ post-war leading goalscorer hit top form with the arrival of Andy Gray in November 1983. Under the tutelage of his fellow Scot, he was able to mature into a key player in Howard Kendall's side. After helping the Blues lift the FA Cup in 1984, there was no stopping him the next season as he put his name on the scoresheet 30 times in 54 games as he fired the Club to domestic and European glory.
Bob Latchford
- 30 league goals in 1977/78
In six successive seasons Latchford topped Everton's club goalscoring charts, but it was the 1977/78 season, when he topped the nation's scoring charts, that Latchford really fired the public imagination.
Concerned by the apparent demise of out-and-out goalscorers, a national newspaper offered a £10,000 prize to the first man to score 30 League goals in a single season. A last day of the season double against Chelsea secured the prize - with almost perfect timing - just seven days short of the 50th anniversary of Dixie Dean's 60-goal milestone.
Joe Royle
- 23 league goals in 1969/70 (Champions)
Royle became the Club’s youngest scorer at the tender age of 16 when he netted against Blackpool in 1966. In four seasons that followed, he rifled in a remarkable 95 goals from 190 appearances. His power and 23 strikes made him a crucial member of the 1969/70 Championship-winning side.
Alan Ball
- 20 league goals in 1967/68
Ball’s first campaign as an Everton player ended with his name at the top of the Club’s goalscoring chart - netting 18 in all competitions to outscore the likes of Derek Temple and Alex Young. The following season he struck 20 goals in the league alone. The fact that he regularly hit double figures was an enormous bonus for the Blues.
Fred Pickering
- 27 league goals in 1964/65
Everton smashed the British transfer record in March 1964 when Harry Catterick signed Blackburn Rovers forward Fred Pickering in a deal worth £85,000. Although his arrival was initially met with some bemusement as fans saw him as a replacement for the late, great Alex Young, Pickering hit the ground running with a hat-trick against Nottingham Forest on his debut. His second full season was his most prolific, scoring 27 league goals in 41 appearances.
Roy Vernon
- 24 league goals in 1962/63 (Champions)
- 26 league goals in 1961/62
- 21 league goals in 1960/61
Vernon broke the 20-goal mark in three consecutive seasons, the last of which culminated in a league championship triumph. He was an expert penalty-taker and supremely powerful and accurate from any dead-ball situation.
John Willie Parker
- 31 league goals in 1953/54
Birkenhead-born Parker formed one of the most dangerous attacking combinations in the country alongside Dave Hickson. His 31 goals in 1953/54 were enough to see the Blues secure promotion back to the top flight after a brief stint in the second tier.
Tommy Lawton
- 34 league goals in 1938/39 (Champions)
- 28 league goals in 1937/38
Lawton moved to Goodison Park from Burnley in January 1937 to link-up with his boyhood hero, Dixie Dean. He top scored in two consecutive seasons, the second of which saw the Blues earn a fifth league title. Lawton was the division’s top scorer again when the 1939/40 season was suspended due to the Second World War.
Dixie Dean
- 24 league goals in 1936/37
- 26 league goals in 1934/35
- 24 league goals in 1932/33
- 45 league goals in 1931/32 (Champions)
- 39 league goals in 1930/31 (Division 2 Champions)
- 23 league goals in 1929/30 (Relegated)
- 26 league goals in 1928/29
- 60 league goals in 1927/28 (Champions)
- 21 league goals in 1926/27
- 32 league goals in 1925/26
Arguably the greatest goalscorer ever to grace the game, undeniably the greatest Everton player of all-time, William Ralph ‘Dixie’ Dean's name was the first installed in the Millennium Giants roster when the original Everton Giants listed was formulated in 1999. In the 1930s he captained the Club to an unprecedented treble of Second Division, First Division and FA Cup triumphs. But the achievement for which he is best remembered is the individual goalscoring record of 60 League goals in a single season - a record set in 1928 and never beaten since.
Jimmy Cunliffe
- 23 league goals in 1935/36
Cunliffe established himself as the Blues’ main man in the 1935/36 season, top scoring for the with 23 goals in 38 games. He later helped the Club win the First Division title in 1938/39.
Wilf Chadwick
- 28 league goals in 1923/24
Bury-born Chadwick began his Football League career with Everton after joining the club in February 1922. He made an instant impression during his debut just a month later – scoring both goals in a 2-0 win over Bradford City. And the goals kept coming for Chadwick, who was the Blues’ joint leading scorer the next season and then the leading scorer in the First Division with 28 goals in 1923/24.
Bobby Parker
- 36 league goals in 1914/15 (Champions)
Scoring on his debut, Parker went on to net 17 goals in just 24 games during his first season, topping the scoring charts in 1914/15 as Everton were crowned champions. His record of 36 goals in just 35 games during the title-winning campaign included six hat-tricks and with that remarkable form he was unlucky not to have been capped by Scotland by the time war intervened. Parker saw action in the First World War and when football resumed four years later he had a bullet still lodged in his back.
Bertie Freeman
- 22 league goals in 1909/10
- 38 league goals in 1908/09
A naturally-gifted, skilful player, Freeman set a new Club record in his first full season with the Blues, scoring 38 goals in 37 league games as Everton finished runners-up to Newcastle. He was the first Everton player to hit over 30 goals in a season and with that he was the First Division top scorer for the 1914/15 campaign.
Alex ‘Sandy’ Young
- 28 league goals in 1906/07
Sandy Young – no relation to his later namesake – was signed from Falkirk in July 1900 in the hope he would be able to hit the goalscoring heights of former strikers Jack Southworth and Fred Geary. Young top scored for the Club six out of the 10 seasons he remained at Goodison – including 28 league goals in 1906/07 to become the First Division’s top scorer.
Jack Southworth
- 27 league goals in 1893/94
Southworth signed from Blackburn Rovers in 1893 and although he played only 32 games for Everton, the fans saw enough of him to know that he was a great talent. After joining in the August for just £400, he netted 10 goals in just two games – four against Sheffield Wednesday and six the following week against West Brom. In total, he scored 36 goals in just 32 appearances and he was also capped three times for England. Sadly, injury forced him into early retirement and he later became a professional violinist!
Fred Geary
- 20 league goals in 1890/91 (Champions)
- 21 league goals in 1889/90
Leading the forward line with a distinctly robust style, Geary netted 20 goals in Everton’s League Championship-winning campaign of 1890-91. He was described as small and powerful, standing at barely 5ft 2in and he relied on his pace and acceleration to get away from defenders. Geary was called up to the England squad to play Ireland in 1890 and he scored a hat-trick in a 9-1 victory.
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