Your Memories Of Your Favourite Football Hardman `Bernie The Bolt Wright`

[cwright75]

i will of course let dad know you all send your regards - he knows he created something during his time , he does wish he had used his time better but hey ho no regrtes ehhh xx

 

[cwright75]

 

[cwright75]

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fa cup 1975 --- changing rooms man utd 2 walsall 3 -----goal wright , buckley , buckley

 

[cwright75]

I would have been at all or most of those games

I very rarely missed in the 70s, before marriage and kids intervened

This is the best thread ever.

Bernie Wright’s name has endured down the Everton decades.

To achieve cult status on the back of a mere ten appearances is testament to that fact.

Bernie, if you get to read this post please know this thread, which I just discovered tonight, has brought a smile to my arl face.

Vying for a place in the team with George Telfer and Rod Belfitt among others,

Little Joe Harper as well.

Thanks for starting it, cw

i will show dad your post mate .,, he will smile x

 

[cwright75]

 

[BigMick]

Chris, one thing I've always wanted to know is who exactly signed Bernie for Everton?

Catterick had a heart attack in early January '72 and by the time we played Walsall he was at home recuperating, so wouldn't have seen the game. Tommy Casey was running the 1st team in his absence but I doubt he would have had the authority to sign anyone. Chief scout Harry Cooke seems the likeliest candidate - I think he'd watched Walsall in preparation for the cup-tie and Bernie must have caught his eye then, as well as in the game against us.

Catterick only began to resume his duties towards the end of the season as I vaguely remember him being there when we signed John Connolly but I don't think he returned to work full time until the following pre-season when, no doubt, he would have had a good view of Bernie through his office window.

 

[tommytowne]

I always likened him to Garth out of the Daily Mirror comic strip cartoon.
His barrel chest and gleaming white muscle bound thighs with his shorts pulled up.

 

[cwright75]

Chris, one thing I've always wanted to know is who exactly signed Bernie for Everton?

Catterick had a heart attack in early January '72 and by the time we played Walsall he was at home recuperating, so wouldn't have seen the game. Tommy Casey was running the 1st team in his absence but I doubt he would have had the authority to sign anyone. Chief scout Harry Cooke seems the likeliest candidate - I think he'd watched Walsall in preparation for the cup-tie and Bernie must have caught his eye then, as well as in the game against us.

Catterick only began to resume his duties towards the end of the season as I vaguely remember him being there when we signed John Connolly but I don't think he returned to work full time until the following pre-season when, no doubt, he would have had a good view of Bernie through his office window.

it was cooke he had permission

 

[cwright75]

 

[Dario Terracotta]

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Memories of big,bad Bernie and that Everton kit, the first change in our kit in about ten years,what a contrast to today!!I got that shirt as a birthday pressie,my dad got it from Jack Sharp's in town,can you believe they were the only stockists? wasn't even available from the club!!!however although they had the shirt it came packaged in the box but without the EFC italics!!!.......enter my dear old nan,a sewing wizard,hence I was the only kid around in our school with the proper Everton top!!!all the best and regards to Bernie the Bolt

 

[larbert toffee]

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This is exactly as I remember him, head down and running arms to the side and running all day, not skillful probably out of his comfort zone always gave 100%

 

[royalblue66]

Recall Alan Ball putting one Ona plate for Bernie,which he skied over the bar, can still see Bally’s face, absolutely disgusted.

 

[BigMick]

Recall Alan Ball putting one on a plate for Bernie,which he skied over the bar, can still see Bally’s face, absolutely disgusted.

That certainly sounds like Bally but it couldn't have been Bernie he was mad at - Bally had gone to Arsenal months before Bernie signed.

 

[royalblue66]

That certainly sounds like Bally but it couldn't have been Bernie he was mad at - Bally had gone to Arsenal months before Bernie signed.

Memory aye, could have sworn it was him.

 

[Joey66]

Chris, one thing I've always wanted to know is who exactly signed Bernie for Everton?

Catterick had a heart attack in early January '72 and by the time we played Walsall he was at home recuperating, so wouldn't have seen the game. Tommy Casey was running the 1st team in his absence but I doubt he would have had the authority to sign anyone. Chief scout Harry Cooke seems the likeliest candidate - I think he'd watched Walsall in preparation for the cup-tie and Bernie must have caught his eye then, as well as in the game against us.

Catterick only began to resume his duties towards the end of the season as I vaguely remember him being there when we signed John Connolly but I don't think he returned to work full time until the following pre-season when, no doubt, he would have had a good view of Bernie through his office window.

A good view he could not miss him as his kit hardly fitted him lol