Bally - scores to knock the other lot out of the FA CUP - nearly 100-ooo in both grounds watched this game on a windy night with a big screen at the Pit -
Poor Fred he was Man enough to say his knee was not right despite scoring a few goals in the final run up in the league yet disappointed when only chairman John Moore's broke the news to him before the Catt - he understood it was far to much of a risk in the days of no substitutes - he was a phenomenal no 9 goalscorer -
The blue & white shirts were worn for the Club’s first four seasons and were the shirts wore in their final season at Anfield. John Houlding {Brewery Magnet} had paid for the kit, & wasn’t letting it go to Goodison - he even tried to keep our name when we moved, but an appeal to the FA stopped him, and that lot were spawned..... the Devil club -
The new away travel Blue Streak was launched - the trains stopped running due to vandalism, the last to run being our neighbours’ trip to Port Vale. When their supporters returned, every man and his dog from their special put the blame on Everton, saying it was the Everton fans and we were well behaved and never saw our own fans cause damage to a train. Even back in the seventies, it was not their fault.