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Old Everton Pictures

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Leeds Utd - 3 Everton 2 in Aug 1970 at Elland Road. Norman Hunter bite your legs on the ball, this is a crucial game for Bally as captain lost the plot on the field & afterwards in the dressing room upsetting the team with his behaviour, maybe the Catt should have taken the captaincy off him ? as things went worse under his captaincy -

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Bobby Collins was a member of Everton's holy trinity with Alex Young and Roy Vernon. - a letter sent in to a newspaper -
As an Everton fan of very long standing I was sad to hear of the death of Bobby Collins. He was one of postwar Everton's greatest players, largely responsible for our winning the Division One title in 1962-63, along with the other two members of the "holy trinity", Alex Young and Roy Vernon; and virtually single handedly the reason for our having stayed in the division the previous year.

I attended all Everton's home games from 1953 to my leaving Liverpool in 1968 except for one, and that was the midweek fixture against West Brom immediately after Bobby's transfer to Leeds. I could have told Everton's board that Bobby was far from finished, as was subsequently proved by his equally distinguished career at Leeds -


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Bobby Collins was a member of Everton's holy trinity with Alex Young and Roy Vernon. - a letter sent in to a newspaper -
As an Everton fan of very long standing I was sad to hear of the death of Bobby Collins. He was one of postwar Everton's greatest players, largely responsible for our winning the Division One title in 1962-63, along with the other two members of the "holy trinity", Alex Young and Roy Vernon;
The letter writer obviously mixed up “largely responsible” with “not even remotely responsible” when referring to the league title win.
 

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