18th April 1987, Division 1, Aston Villa 0 v Everton 1, Peter Reid, Everton, Peter Reid won 13 England international caps between 1985-1988 what a great buy from Bolton he really was -
Andy Hinchcliffe -
Chris O'Connor
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Cheers Jeff that makes sense about John Moores, Did Theo Kelly leave Everton possibly retire, after his spell in charge of the team finished in 1948 and first a committee of directors took over the running of the team before Cliff Britton was appointed as the first proper post war manager in 1951? Reading on wiki he reverted to being club secretary after 1948 so may still have been there when Buchan appointed (b 1896 so only 60ish in 1956)
I know Kelly was principally an administrator and reading he was seriously disliked for some of his treatment of our star players, and especially in the transfer market where he sold some big players and in which we were only really sellers. To his credit he guided us through the difficult war years and apparently left us in a good financial position.
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Jeff Jones
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I know of Theo Kelly but he was a bit before my time and I don't know much about him. I said that Carey was our first 'proper' manager, but I'd forgotten
about Cliff Britton. Managers as we know them today weren't employed much in those days.
Britton was probably the man in charge when my grandad started taking me to Goodison Park when I was a little lad.
My love affair with EFC lives on.
Chris O'Connor
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Me too, although it's been tough supporting them for much of it
Theo Kelly died in 1964 before I was born although I learned of him from my grandad who was a big fan of Tommy Lawton and didn't have much time for Kelly. John Moores brought us into the 20th century appointing Carey and then ruthlessly replacing him with Catterick.
Theo Kelly indeed was not popular - before plus after the war - Joe Mercer begged to leave -
TG Jones fell out with our club for ever, blamed for fiening injury - even when TG was invited to the hall of fame ate his lunch & cleared off back to Wales before giving a speech many, many years later the wounds just would not heal ...... Our club treated The Prince of Centre halves poorly - Dixie Dean predicted what would happen upon leaving ....... Yes he was a miser for all the wrong reasons - Theo Kelly imo of what I have read in all my books ........had a bad habit of upsetting top players asking Joe Mercer to play Centre Half when TG was completely banished.......by him!
Roger Brown Norwich City and Bob Latchford Everton 1979 -
11th October 1980. Leeds United defender Brian Greenhoff jumps to head an effort by Everton's Bob Latchford off the line, at Elland Road - we lost 1-0 doh our jinx ground yet again ....
30th March 1974. Everton centre forward Bob Latchford in a foot race with Spurs Terry Naylor, at White Hart Lane in a 2-0 win for the Blues -
Circa 1978/79. Everton and England centre forward Bob Latchford -
The Latch playing for England -
17th September 1969 Jimmy Husband accepts a pass from Alan Ball, swerves past Tommy Gibb, Ollie Burton and Bobby Moncur before lifting a shot over Iam McFall from the edge of the penalty area to score Everton's first at Newcastle in away in a 2-1 win for the Blues -
21st May 1968 John Hurst scores Everton's second against Fulham after inter-passing between Tommy Wright and Alan Ball in a 5-1 win for the Blues -
Fred Boomer Pickering looks on? What game? Is that West Hams Kit ?
