The best player I've ever seen in royal blue, he had the lot, tireless, hard, niggly, great vision, deadly finisher and above all, a winner's mentality, Bally didn't take seconds from anyone.
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The late, great, Alan Ball
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allezlesbleus
Player Valuation: £35m
Bally and big Joe were my heroes when I was a lad.
I remember him coming back to Goodison right at the end of his career, he was about 36, received a standing ovation and never missed a pass.
RIP Alan Ball one of the best ever players to wear the Royal blue.
I remember him coming back to Goodison right at the end of his career, he was about 36, received a standing ovation and never missed a pass.
RIP Alan Ball one of the best ever players to wear the Royal blue.
I’m looking forward to reading this
Every tribute made to Bally is fully justified. I remember going to the Arsenal v Stoke FA cup replay at Goodison April 72 four months after we sold him , Stoke were in Gwladys Street Arsenal were in the Park end .
I was in the Enclosure there was a grown fella near just singing Ballies name with tears running down his face.
I was in the Enclosure there was a grown fella near just singing Ballies name with tears running down his face.
royalblue66
Player Valuation: £70m
When Shankley said “ That man is a thorn in my side”
that did it for me.
that did it for me.
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
There will be a huge number of fans grimacing at your post. Whilst every bit of it is true, loads hold it against all of us that witnessed the sixties are somehow detached from our current state and don't understand their suffering.
I say that it's us old arses hurting more exactly because of how far we fallen from grace.
So did I,couldn’t believe it, what a bombshell it was at the time.
Dario Terracotta
Player Valuation: £70m
Did you have to break the news to the pupils as headmaster mate?I guess being in your mid forties back then it was easier for you to deal with than the Evertonian scholarsThat day in school the news broke about his transfer … blimey it was terrible. Absolutely punishing for Blues. Probably on second to them beating us in the cup semi in ‘71.
As many have said, he was brilliant. The KDB comparison by @Joey66 is a good one.
PSB1
Player Valuation: £8m
The beating heart of the club. His sale was the most blatant act of vandalism committed against us in my time. Utter treachery.
I have never trusted a manager or Board since then.
@Thetigerblue has posted a photo of his first Goodison derby in the August a couple of weeks after he signed for us. Scored two and left the Reds looking like mugs.
I have never trusted a manager or Board since then.
@Thetigerblue has posted a photo of his first Goodison derby in the August a couple of weeks after he signed for us. Scored two and left the Reds looking like mugs.
Dario Terracotta
Player Valuation: £70m
Remember that myself,he was with Southampton,I recall thinking as a kid he must have been a hell of a player to get a reception like that!!!
Our KDB on mud bath of pitches & hatchet men in those days he was world-class - why the Catt sold him beggars belief -
He was no longer intimidated by the Catt, Joey. Anyone who didn't live in fear of the Catt had to go.
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