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Yes but left after the war divorced us, and later stated it was a mistake he should have divorced his wife, he helped us to a title a great CF by all accounts.....

Yes, I'll always remember reading about Lawton's testimonial at Goodison in the early seventies. He said when he walked onto the pitch and heard all those Evertonians chanting his name it brought a tear to his eye and he realised he never should have left.

Tragic that such a footballing legend could fall on such hard times.
 
Yes, I'll always remember reading about Lawton's testimonial at Goodison in the early seventies. He said when he walked onto the pitch and heard all those Evertonians chanting his name it brought a tear to his eye and he realised he never should have left.

Tragic that such a footballing legend could fall on such hard times.
He did a prison sentence for bankruptcy, that testimomonial which Joe Mercer and others put on with great support from Everton fans on a wet evening in a great turn out hardly scrcthed his debts- a shame he got into such a complex mess financially spending money he never had .......in the first place .......
 
He did a prison sentence for bankruptcy, that testimomonial which Joe Mercer and others put on with great support from Everton fans on a wet evening in a great turn out hardly scrcthed his debts- a shame he got into such a complex mess financially spending money he never had .......in the first place .......

...read he used to get the tram to matches and travelled with supporters. How times change.
 
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