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Very hard to be footballer of the year - when you sell the captain of , player who clearly was not finished it was only one season later that we won the league with virtually the same Carey team the two main stars the GV & Roy Vernon were the main reason they clicked - Carey signings remember he was. sacked when we came 3rd in 1962 -
The GV the idol of blues fans stated if he had not arrived injured - he may have saved Careys job ......as for Collins the great Roy Vernon stated Bobby Collins was the best box to box goal scoring midfielder he had ever saw plus he would not like to play against him ....
Then one retirement Labby for all the great players Catterick signed - his two biggest mistakes were selling Collins & Bally - the 1963 team were an effective machine type team defensively minded a very good side that won the league - the 1970 side were imo the best footballing side In blue I have ever seen - built on a great youth system & stars ...
Someone stated Harry Catterick best last signing was Howard Kendall & I agree with that - he broke up a championship winning side in 12 months a great strict disciplinarian when major factors health etc, lost his ability sadly led us into the doldrums - he hated European football making our record very poor in it ....
I will cherish the great days he gave us, but it could have been far better with the teams he built as some players hated him ....the GV was one of them .....Bobby Collins was amazed to be transferred just like Bally the rest is history....
HK -
1950s Everton team with Harry Catterick as our no 9 - he was a poor no 9 but a successful Manager for us a decade later -
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EVERTON SQUAD 1953 training -I wonder where ? I can name a few obvious players -
Colin Harvey & Roger Kenyon signing autographs abroad -
My hero -
1963 the semi circles behind each goal at Goodison had to be installed for coins alleged darts being thrown at away keepers & away players - the bad winter was just about to set in -
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Catterick realised that with those two greats further forward (RV & GV) Collins could be a liability in tracking back and toiling. Hence, Stevens being preferred a much stronger midfield, especially with the addition of Kay (he also bought Morrisey and West so hardly just Carey's team). Winning the league and cup for the first time since the 1930s proved this was a good decision at the time, regardless of how good Collins was- and his sale was beneficial for him and Everton (like Strachan's was for him and Man Utd).
It may have upset the fans but they were obviously slower to realise that football was moving in a different direction and a more defensive era- and by the end of the 1960s teams could win the title by scoring 60+ goals (Leeds), rather than 115 near the beginning of the decade (Spurs)- that's not far off double the amount. Look at overall the amount of goals scored in the top-flight as a whole in the early 60s to the late 60s, a massive difference.
Even take Everton 69/70, regarded as the better footballing side than the 62/63 team, but actually scored far fewer goals- that's because tactics had changed and it was simply more difficult to score by that time (hence playing Stevens and selling Collins, a prelude to what was going to happen in the future).
He admitted years later, it was a big mistake to sell Collins OK