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summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
They had thin waists back then. lol
Some team that was - my favorite referee too -
T LEAFE
Player Valuation: £50m
What year was that Joey? Initially I thought it was 1970 when Whittle scored but obviously not...?
That was little bald Roger the ref wasn’t it?
Bumped into Ron Yeats in Lime St station back in the 70's, and I mean actually walked into him, I'm just on 6ft but it was like walking into a mountain, he was enormous.
Players who became known for the wrong reasons -
Bernie Wright
By 1972 the wheels were coming off Harry Catterick's glory team of the 1960s. Catterick himself was in ill-health, the team were under-performing and nobody could score goals. In February of that year we played Walsall in the FA Cup. We won 2-1 but the Midlander's centre-forward caught the eye of someone at Goodison and - so the story goes - with Catterick in hospital, trainer Harry Cooke signed the player.
Step forward our saviour Bernie Wright. There was only one problem. He was dreadful.
He played 7 games that season (plus one as sub) and scored a solitary goal. He managed one more goal the next season in 3 more starts.
But it wasn't just his total lack of ability that captured the imagination - there was also his appearance and personality. He was quite simply a very large scary-looking nutter with big hair.
He frightened not only his opponents but his team-mates and managerial staff as well.
There are loads of stories about him. A brave diving header against Sheffield Utd saw him kicked in the head. He brushed himself off and got on with the game but Eddie Colquhoun, the offending centre-half, had to go off with a broken toe. On being told that he'd been dropped for a game, he chased coach Stewart Imlach around the training ground whilst Catterick locked himself in his car. He turned up drunk for training just before Christmas 1972 and then disappeared until just before the new year. This last misdemeanour was one too many and after only 11 months at the club he had his contract terminated.
He ended up back at Walsall before bizarrely, in later life, qualifying as a referee. You couldn't make it up.
The stats:
By 1972 the wheels were coming off Harry Catterick's glory team of the 1960s. Catterick himself was in ill-health, the team were under-performing and nobody could score goals. In February of that year we played Walsall in the FA Cup. We won 2-1 but the Midlander's centre-forward caught the eye of someone at Goodison and - so the story goes - with Catterick in hospital, trainer Harry Cooke signed the player.
Step forward our saviour Bernie Wright. There was only one problem. He was dreadful.
He played 7 games that season (plus one as sub) and scored a solitary goal. He managed one more goal the next season in 3 more starts.
But it wasn't just his total lack of ability that captured the imagination - there was also his appearance and personality. He was quite simply a very large scary-looking nutter with big hair.
He frightened not only his opponents but his team-mates and managerial staff as well.
There are loads of stories about him. A brave diving header against Sheffield Utd saw him kicked in the head. He brushed himself off and got on with the game but Eddie Colquhoun, the offending centre-half, had to go off with a broken toe. On being told that he'd been dropped for a game, he chased coach Stewart Imlach around the training ground whilst Catterick locked himself in his car. He turned up drunk for training just before Christmas 1972 and then disappeared until just before the new year. This last misdemeanour was one too many and after only 11 months at the club he had his contract terminated.
He ended up back at Walsall before bizarrely, in later life, qualifying as a referee. You couldn't make it up.
The stats:
| League | Total | ||||
| Starts | Subs | Gls | Starts | Subs | Gls |
1971-72 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
1972-73 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Total | 10 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 2 |
Yard dog Yeats.......
Threw Tommy Smith do1n the stairs in the Embassy club (allegedly)Players who became known for the wrong reasons -
Bernie Wright
By 1972 the wheels were coming off Harry Catterick's glory team of the 1960s. Catterick himself was in ill-health, the team were under-performing and nobody could score goals. In February of that year we played Walsall in the FA Cup. We won 2-1 but the Midlander's centre-forward caught the eye of someone at Goodison and - so the story goes - with Catterick in hospital, trainer Harry Cooke signed the player.
Step forward our saviour Bernie Wright. There was only one problem. He was dreadful.
He played 7 games that season (plus one as sub) and scored a solitary goal. He managed one more goal the next season in 3 more starts.
But it wasn't just his total lack of ability that captured the imagination - there was also his appearance and personality. He was quite simply a very large scary-looking nutter with big hair.
He frightened not only his opponents but his team-mates and managerial staff as well.
There are loads of stories about him. A brave diving header against Sheffield Utd saw him kicked in the head. He brushed himself off and got on with the game but Eddie Colquhoun, the offending centre-half, had to go off with a broken toe. On being told that he'd been dropped for a game, he chased coach Stewart Imlach around the training ground whilst Catterick locked himself in his car. He turned up drunk for training just before Christmas 1972 and then disappeared until just before the new year. This last misdemeanour was one too many and after only 11 months at the club he had his contract terminated.
He ended up back at Walsall before bizarrely, in later life, qualifying as a referee. You couldn't make it up.
The stats:
Just checked my bible and Whittle must have been in for Husband as in that era that's our only 1-0 away win ? Kirkpatrick was the funny ref who used to pace the ten yards out for a free kick and sit on the ball until they were ten yards back no paint spray in those days on the mud bath pitches lol
Down
bluelord49
Player Valuation: £8m
Jimmy Husband didn,t play,
Alan Whittle did number 7 that day..sorry night
11 th March 1970
Alan Whittle did number 7 that day..sorry night
11 th March 1970
Another striker flop and an expensive mistake -
Rod Belfitt
Everton won the League in 1969-70 and at the start of a new decade we stood poised to dominate English football.
Of course it didn't happen and there were many factors that contributed to the fall from grace that lasted throughout the 70's.
One of the early reasons was a lack of goals. In 1971-72 our top League scorers, Joe Royle and Dave Johnson, had managed just 9 goals each. Royle hit a rich vein of form at the start of the following season but by the time Ipswich Town arrived for a League match at the end of October 1972, the injuries that eventually saw his Everton career curtailed had really started to bite.
Royle missed his first game of the season that day and in fact didn't play again in the whole campaign.
Royle's partner so far that season had been David Johnson, only just 21 at the start of the Ipswich game and already a hugely promising forward with a knack of scoring goals on all sorts of debuts - Youth Cup, Central League, League, FA Cup, League Cup, Europe and the Derby!
With Royle facing a lengthy spell on the sidelines the talk was naturally about who Harry Catterick would sign to partner Johnson up front.
The Ipswich game ended 2-2 with one of the East Anglian scorers being a certain Rod Belfitt. The Catt was obviously impressed by what he saw because he signed him.
Nothing wrong with that on the surface perhaps. The trouble was that it was an exchange deal and Dave Johnson headed off in the opposite direction to Portman Road.
It is understating things somewhat to say that Everton didn't get the best of the deal.
Belfitt made his debut in our next match - a 1-0 defeat at Crystal Palace - and then in the next match, his home debut against Manchester City, he achieved the remarkable feat of scoring in successive matches at Goodison for 2 different teams.
That goal, which couldn't prevent a 3-2 defeat, was one of only 3 that he was to score for Everton in just 17 starts.
Yes, there were mitigating circumstances - Everton were a team in decline and his striking partners included the likes of Bernie Wright and Joe Harper - but, despite being an honest journeyman, Belfitt was just too hopeless to ever cut it as an Everton player.
He seemed to lack confidence from the start and was never anything other than ill-at-ease during his 11 months at the club.
He struggled in almost every game and it was a blessing when he was sold to Sunderland in October 1973.
As for David Johnson, well he scored 35 times for Ipswich and then another 55 for Liverpool, winning 3 League titles, 2 European Cups and a host of other honours.
By the time he re-signed for Everton in 1982 he was almost as poor as Rod Belfitt had been.
Trouble was, by that stage he'd had 10 years of success at the highest level away from Everton. Belfitt didn't even get 15 minutes of fame at Goodison.
The stats:
Everton won the League in 1969-70 and at the start of a new decade we stood poised to dominate English football.
Of course it didn't happen and there were many factors that contributed to the fall from grace that lasted throughout the 70's.
One of the early reasons was a lack of goals. In 1971-72 our top League scorers, Joe Royle and Dave Johnson, had managed just 9 goals each. Royle hit a rich vein of form at the start of the following season but by the time Ipswich Town arrived for a League match at the end of October 1972, the injuries that eventually saw his Everton career curtailed had really started to bite.
Royle missed his first game of the season that day and in fact didn't play again in the whole campaign.
Royle's partner so far that season had been David Johnson, only just 21 at the start of the Ipswich game and already a hugely promising forward with a knack of scoring goals on all sorts of debuts - Youth Cup, Central League, League, FA Cup, League Cup, Europe and the Derby!
With Royle facing a lengthy spell on the sidelines the talk was naturally about who Harry Catterick would sign to partner Johnson up front.
The Ipswich game ended 2-2 with one of the East Anglian scorers being a certain Rod Belfitt. The Catt was obviously impressed by what he saw because he signed him.
Nothing wrong with that on the surface perhaps. The trouble was that it was an exchange deal and Dave Johnson headed off in the opposite direction to Portman Road.
It is understating things somewhat to say that Everton didn't get the best of the deal.
Belfitt made his debut in our next match - a 1-0 defeat at Crystal Palace - and then in the next match, his home debut against Manchester City, he achieved the remarkable feat of scoring in successive matches at Goodison for 2 different teams.
That goal, which couldn't prevent a 3-2 defeat, was one of only 3 that he was to score for Everton in just 17 starts.
Yes, there were mitigating circumstances - Everton were a team in decline and his striking partners included the likes of Bernie Wright and Joe Harper - but, despite being an honest journeyman, Belfitt was just too hopeless to ever cut it as an Everton player.
He seemed to lack confidence from the start and was never anything other than ill-at-ease during his 11 months at the club.
He struggled in almost every game and it was a blessing when he was sold to Sunderland in October 1973.
As for David Johnson, well he scored 35 times for Ipswich and then another 55 for Liverpool, winning 3 League titles, 2 European Cups and a host of other honours.
By the time he re-signed for Everton in 1982 he was almost as poor as Rod Belfitt had been.
Trouble was, by that stage he'd had 10 years of success at the highest level away from Everton. Belfitt didn't even get 15 minutes of fame at Goodison.
The stats:
| League | FA Cup | Texaco Cup | Total | ||||||||
| Starts | Subs | Gls | Starts | Subs | Gls | Starts | Subs | Gls | Starts | Subs | Gls |
1972-73 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 3 |
1973-74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 14 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 3 |
Another Donkey striker -
Brett Angell
"If Brett Angell can play for Everton so can I" we should have sung but I think we were all too gobsmacked that someone so dreadful could be dishonouring the hallowed shirt to be able to sing anything at all.
Brett Angell - what a name! Sounds like an American pornstar! - was a tall lumbering, slightly stooped, striker who some would describe as being an "old-fashioned" centre-forward, which would only be correct if "old-fashioned" meant "couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo".
Think of James Beattie, but without any of Beattie's strengths (which is really saying something) and you'll get the full painful picture.
He joined Everton on loan in September 1993 - well done Howard! - but managed only one substitute appearance - in the 5-1 home humiliation handed out to us by Norwich. Not surprisingly Kendall realised the error of his ways and Angell was sent back to Southend whence he came. It was only a temporary respite. Mike Walker arrived in January 1994 to bring the good times back to Goodison and promptly snapped him up for £500,000.
He made his full debut in the 6-2 home win against Swindon. It was the only half-decent game he had for us - and he couldn't even score in that!
He then set about proving how good Walker was at judging players by putting in some of the worst performances ever seen by an Everton centre-forward. Dixie Dean would have been turning in his grave. Bob Latchford and Graeme Sharp must have held their heads in despair. Stuart Barlow and Alan Biley must have held their heads in despair!
He had the touch of a baby elephant and the movement and passing ability of one too. Toffeeweb listed his strengths as "None" and his weaknesses as "Too many to list". They were being over-generous.
He scored his only goal for us in a 4-2 home win over Chelsea - a 2-yarder that he bumbled in and nearly missed - and then somehow got pipped to the Footballer of the Year awards that season by Alan Shearer and Eric Cantona.
Neither he - nor Mike Walker - lasted much longer and Joe Royle finally put us all out of our misery by offloading him to Sunderland in March 1995 for £600,000. Amazingly we made £100 grand on the deal!
Like many centre-forwards of his ilk, he was good at a lower level - in his full career he scored bags of goals for the likes of Stockport, Southend and Walsall - but at the top level, for Everton, he was a donkey - in fact as the Observer once memorably put it (and thanks to Ian McAlley for digging this up) he was a "donkey's donkey".
The stats:
"If Brett Angell can play for Everton so can I" we should have sung but I think we were all too gobsmacked that someone so dreadful could be dishonouring the hallowed shirt to be able to sing anything at all.
Brett Angell - what a name! Sounds like an American pornstar! - was a tall lumbering, slightly stooped, striker who some would describe as being an "old-fashioned" centre-forward, which would only be correct if "old-fashioned" meant "couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo".
Think of James Beattie, but without any of Beattie's strengths (which is really saying something) and you'll get the full painful picture.
He joined Everton on loan in September 1993 - well done Howard! - but managed only one substitute appearance - in the 5-1 home humiliation handed out to us by Norwich. Not surprisingly Kendall realised the error of his ways and Angell was sent back to Southend whence he came. It was only a temporary respite. Mike Walker arrived in January 1994 to bring the good times back to Goodison and promptly snapped him up for £500,000.
He made his full debut in the 6-2 home win against Swindon. It was the only half-decent game he had for us - and he couldn't even score in that!
He then set about proving how good Walker was at judging players by putting in some of the worst performances ever seen by an Everton centre-forward. Dixie Dean would have been turning in his grave. Bob Latchford and Graeme Sharp must have held their heads in despair. Stuart Barlow and Alan Biley must have held their heads in despair!
He had the touch of a baby elephant and the movement and passing ability of one too. Toffeeweb listed his strengths as "None" and his weaknesses as "Too many to list". They were being over-generous.
He scored his only goal for us in a 4-2 home win over Chelsea - a 2-yarder that he bumbled in and nearly missed - and then somehow got pipped to the Footballer of the Year awards that season by Alan Shearer and Eric Cantona.
Neither he - nor Mike Walker - lasted much longer and Joe Royle finally put us all out of our misery by offloading him to Sunderland in March 1995 for £600,000. Amazingly we made £100 grand on the deal!
Like many centre-forwards of his ilk, he was good at a lower level - in his full career he scored bags of goals for the likes of Stockport, Southend and Walsall - but at the top level, for Everton, he was a donkey - in fact as the Observer once memorably put it (and thanks to Ian McAlley for digging this up) he was a "donkey's donkey".
The stats:
| League | League Cup | Total | ||||||
| Starts | Subs | Gls | Starts | Subs | Gls | Starts | Subs | Gls |
1993-94 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 1 |
1994-95 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Total | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 1 |
Won 1-0 with a Mark Higgins Goal -
Won 3-0 - goals by Heath , King and Sharpy
