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Old Everton Pictures

...certainly looks like an old team mate of mine on the right of front row, Tommy Wheeldon. Tommy signed for the blues at the same time as Duncan McKenzie. It might be Ray Deakin on the extreme left of the front row (sadly no longer with us).

Many of these feature in @alan ball excellent & highly recommended books.

....a bit of trivia for any Canadian Evertonians.

Tommy’s son, Tommy Wheeldon jnr manages Cavalry FC in the Canadian Premier League & his other son, Jay, plays for them. As expected the family are massive Evertonians.
 
Oh, to have him in our side tonight -

Circa 1969. Everton winger/centre forward Jimmy Husband. -

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Everton footballer Fred Pickering makes rice pudding with his wife, Margaret, after scoring a hat-trick at the weekend, April 1964 My older brother reckons he was a complete no 9 a prolific goal scorer - @TangerineToffee ;) -


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I dunno about rice pudding but Pick was adept at making mince meat out of defences during his pomp in the 1960s ;)
 

THE WEE BARRA - Bobby Collins -​


When Collins moved to Everton, former Scottish amateur international Ian Buchan was ‘chief coach’ (he was never given the title of Manager). But he hardly had time to unpack before Buchan’s disastrous spell in charge came to an end and Johnny Carey was installed as the new man at the helm.-

A midfield dynamo like Bally sold far too soon -

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Collins gives his son a boot-mending lesson - he was a cobbler by trade, we signed him as a youth player but made a mess of the paperwork -Everton that

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