31st August 1965 Derek Temple watches as Fred Pickering opens the scoring against Sheffield Wednesday in a 5-1 win for the blues - The GV got a hat trick and Fred boomer Pickering got the other two goals -
4th March 1964...Everton's Captain Roy Vernon congratulates Fred Boomer Pickering following his hat trick against Nottingham Forest, Goodison Park - on a mud heap of a pitch -
Bobby Collins, Everton 1961-62- My older brother remembers my late father buying this poster outside Goodison as he was the best player he had seen since Alan Ball as a midfielder the original box to box first midfielder-
Just look at the trophies -
1950's Everton team The Catt on it -
They came with a decent team and a plan, rough up the stuttering Champions and play with intensity and attitude, iirc, we were 3 goals down before we knew what was what.
We got a couple back eventually, then conceded another.
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My late Dad always wore a cap, even on a short-sleeved kind of a day.
I am now lost if I don't have a cap, although not on warm days.
My work colleagues even rob me about my caps - I am my Dad now If I can be half the man ......
Fred’s debut that was. I was there, I remember thinking, ‘what a centre forward this lad is’. I wasn’t far wrong, but, Fred had terrible luck with injuries.
Bally -
1970/71 - Westy -
1950s Goodison Park action with Bullens Road stand as the backdrop. Eddie Wainwright heads for goal at the Park end -
