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Old Everton Pictures

Dario Terracotta said:
I remember it Joey,Granada have probably obliterated it considering the toxic content!!I remember the RS went into meltdown around that time when Forest dumped them out of the European Cup,Kick Off used to be on Granada on a friday night,at the end of the programme Elton Welsby played the song"The parties over"enough to say bullets in the post for Welsbylol
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I was going to ask about it but you have answered it.




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My dad loved Roy Vernon. He always said he was one of the best goal scorers we'd ever seen - compared him with Greaves and Law. He did say that he was always interested in money and when we signed Fred Pickering he was supposed to be on more money that Vernon. So much so, that according to my dad, he used to deliberately over hit the ball to Pickering so he couldn't get it and look slow. Good job the internet wasn't around at the time. And the 'gossip' was confined to the pub.
 
hullefc said:
I was going to ask about it but you have answered it.




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My dad loved Roy Vernon. He always said he was one of the best goal scorers we'd ever seen - compared him with Greaves and Law. He did say that he was always interested in money and when we signed Fred Pickering he was supposed to be on more money that Vernon. So much so, that according to my dad, he used to deliberately over hit the ball to Pickering so he couldn't get it and look slow. Good job the internet wasn't around at the time. And the 'gossip' was confined to the pub.
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Roy Vernon was a fantastic player lived a bit under the shadow of the Golden Vision - yet his goal record was as good as Alex's - Pickering was a fantastic goal scorer for us short passes or not!
 
Joey66 said:
Roy Vernon was a fantastic player lived a bit under the shadow of the Golden Vision - yet his goal record was as good as Alex's - Pickering was a fantastic goal scorer for us short passes or not!
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Just looked it up Vernon got 101 in 176 games and Pickering 56 in 97. That's not bad going. We banged in some goals. While I was looking at it I saw the 1963 Cahrity Shield game at Goodison against Manu and we won 4-0 and the crowd was shouting 'We want 5, we want 5'. I went the Manu away game a few weeks later and they battered us 5-1 and they were singing 'we want 6, we want 6'.
 

hullefc said:
Alan Ball (Everton): 5 weeks and £100 for three bookings collected in 3 separate matches in 1969-70 season; he missed four league games and an England international, and was reported to have lost around £1,000 in wages and bonuses.



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3 bookings and Bally got 5 week ban.
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John Fitzpatrick of UNT - what a dirty B he was -I can remember him in one game at Goodison he was disgusting kicking everything that moved - the blues fans threw coins - apple cores, and spat at him if he came close to the wall -.garbage player too!
Did Tommy Jackson step in for Bally, and Alan Whittle for Jimmy Husband?
 
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BACK in the Pre-Premier League days, the losing FA Cup semi-finalists competed to see which one of them qualified for a non-existent bronze medal and the other nothing. The match lasted just five years, played between 1970 and 1975.

Initially, the game was played at a neutral ground, lending it the aura of a real Cup Final. At the inaugural Cup, played one day before Chelsea and Leeds United contested the final at Wembley, Manchester United beat Watford 2-1 at Highbury. The crowd was 15,105.

One year on and Stoke took on Everton. To further entice paying punters, the game was played one day before Arsenal played Liverpool on May 8. The footy-starved neutral and fans of the two finalists would surely lap it up. Well, that was the plan. But only 5,031 turned watched the game at Selhurst Park.

Everton’s Alan Whittle (r) beats Stoke City’s goalkeeper Gordon Banks (l) to score Everton’s first goal of the night. Stoke City went on to win the match 3-2 in front of just over 5,000 fans.


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Dario Terracotta said:
I remember it Joey,Granada have probably obliterated it considering the toxic content!!I remember the RS went into meltdown around that time when Forest dumped them out of the European Cup,Kick Off used to be on Granada on a friday night,at the end of the programme Elton Welsby played the song"The parties over"enough to say bullets in the post for Welsbylol
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As an aside, i worked with a lad years ago who told everyone that Welsbys real name was Maurice Chesworth.
He said it with such conviction it was ages until we saw through it.
Even now it still makes me smile.
 

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