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Old Everton Pictures

Everton football squad pre season photograph. Top row left to right: Johnny Morrissey, Jimmy Harris, Sandy Brown, Brian Labone, Gordon West, Andy Rankin, Jimmy Gabriel, Fred Pickering, Colin Harvey and Jimmy Hill. Bottom row: Alex Parker, Alex Scott, -
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What a squad. With out a doubt some the best players in the league back then. Wish a lot of our younger posters had seen them play.
 
Danny Blanchflower of Spurs who publicly condemn us for splashing the cash Mersey millionaires enjoys a joke with then Everton manager Harry Catterick -
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iirc, he had a newspaper column for the southern papers, he may have even been one of the very few who actually wrote it himself
But that sort of stuff would play well in london where Spurs were the big deal about then.
Ive seen other articles saying how we were ' too rough' and basically kicked the southern media darlings out of it to win the league
 
iirc, he had a newspaper column for the southern papers, he may have even been one of the very few who actually wrote it himself
But that sort of stuff would play well in london where Spurs were the big deal about then.
Ive seen other articles saying how we were ' too rough' and basically kicked the southern media darlings out of it to win the league
The book article I read he was the main complainant of us buying success......
 

A photo of our first FA cup final win in 1906 vs Newcastle at Crystal Palace Stadium, very limited detail but you can see the colours we were wearing were lightish tops (presumably amber and white shorts)

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