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Old Everton Pictures

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You're going to laugh at my memory here again mate but I recall as a six or seven year old getting the Shoot annual for Chrimbo(didn't we all lol) and George Best was on holiday in Majorca with his girlfriend of the time.....Susan George and she was wearing the bikini in that photo before...........I was certainly impressed as an infant!!!

….ffs, brilliant. I got Shoot weekly and can only remember the league ladders. You were a young lad with recall of attractive ladies bikinis.

Had an inkling she was an Evertonian but probably wrong (maybe with Ed Stewart at one point).
 


Wee Bobby Collins starting life as a cobbler & playing amateur football for the Boys Brigade in th local football team Pollock - An Everton Scout heard about this lad & swooped to sign apprentice forms meeting his parents a trip to Goodison park with his father they loved what they saw, and accepted terms in a letter - typical Everton FC in the early 1950s never put the details on a usual mandatory signing on forms that day - as soon as they got back to Scotland the Celtic Club who were interested met the Collins family & offered him the same terms with the correct forms to sign - we threatened legal action, but the Scottish FA squashed our claim as a letter meant nothing - Everton that! - 9 years later after fantastic service to Celtic we paid £24,500 for Wee Bobby in 1958 -59 season, and he was an instant hit with a struggling blues team again due to circumstances the new Manager the Catt thought Collins was past it & sold him to Leeds losing no money - a familiar theme rings out here as with the sale of Bally -
As Wee Bobby made Leeds then at the bottom of the third division climb up the leagues to be the nemesis thorn of the Catt as Bobby player then coach made Leeds the force they became .....
Here's Bobby as an apprentice cobbler - we lost ten years of his services -doh -

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