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Old Everton Pictures

For @roy vernon & co Gabby nods it down for Roy to thunder a shot in to open the scoring in a Derby game which we won -

Vernon beats centre-half Yeats to a ball headed downwards by Gabriel and hits it on the half-volley into the Liverpool net to put Everton in the lead.

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His stature as a player was far worse - if it was raining he looked like a wet Echo skin & bone - but I can tell you he was dynamite as a player creative & a player with a thunderous shot - as a pen taker he took most almost 100% conversion rate - & he took a lot of pens deadly accurate into the inside of the net by the post - he had the cheek to point which corner he would hit the ball to the keeper - & in it went like a thunderbolt -

Evidently he took pens as a schoolboy & he started as a fast winger - his chain-smoking in the words of the GV stopped him from being the no 1 forward in his era - the only player the GV knew who could smoke after a game to smoke in the showers ...

A rebel who was made captain of our club never got the accolades the GV ever got - yet he was an amazing classy inside forward who with the GV fetched us the title in 1963 & he topped the goal scoring charts 10-12 where pens though ....

for @roy vernon & co -

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Pure poetry you wrote here mate
 
Surely scoring a hat-trick for England or hat-trick on his Everton Debut would rank higher as
Career highlights go
You had to be there on the night. He was at a reunion of the team some years ago at a special night at BR and he intimated in his speech that it was right up there with his career highlights. You have to remember Fred had a lot of near misses in his career and that April night in 1970 was a big win for him.
 

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