YOUNG’S FIRST GOALS SHATTER BLACKBURN
Saturday, April 1, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
BLACKBURN ROVERS 1, EVERTON 3
By Paul O’Brien
Everton’s win at Blackburn, their first away League success since Boxing Day, and Blackburn’s first home reverse this year, was a case of many happy returns.  It was happiest perhaps form manager John Carey, who came to Goodison from Ewood Park, for he saw his side for once playing like a team of expensive players worthy of occupying a leading spot in the First Division.  What a happy come back it was too for £42,000 centre forward Alex Young, who missed Everton’s last two games through Army commitments, for he really showed his class and apart from scoring two goals was a constant worry to the Blackburn defence.  Roy Vernon, playing for the first time against his old club, also had a good game.  He was not the strong-shooting Vernon of old, but an intelligent inside forward, always prompting his co-forwards and racing into position for a return pass.  Gabriel, who missed the West Brom game through injury and Meagan back in the side for the first time since early in the season made a vital difference to the Everton halves.  Gabriel served his attack with constant passes and Meagan helped Thomson to play the dangerous Blackburn right wing of Douglas and Dobing out of the gamer for long periods. A special word here for Thomson who played Douglas superbly. 
NEW COLOURS
Everton turned out in new colours of old gold with black collar, sleeve edgings and numbers, and both sides observed a minutes silence before the start in memory to the late Mr. Arthur Drewry.  Play swung from end to end in the opening minutes and the first danger came when McLeod raced down the left wing, centred the ball to Dobing, who however only half hit his shot, and it passed harmlessly wide.  A long throw in by Clayton gained a corner kick for Blackburn and after some uncertainty in the Everton defence the ball was cleared up field, where a lovely Young pass to Collins almost brought results.  Woods was not commanding the middle and was dispossessed by both Young and Vernon.  Vernon managed to get the ball to Young following one of three errors, but off-side ended the movement.  A great save by Dunlop from Thomas saved Everton and the ball was passed quickly up field to Young who was once again to rob Woods and square the ball to Bingham, who almost put Collins through.  Pickering (Blackburn) and Vernon (Everton) both went close before Everton went ahead in the twenty-fourth minute. A neat Fell-Vernon  move ended with Everton’s new signing , crossing the ball perfectly and Young on the spot six yards out, headed home.  A minute later, after the game had been held up through over-enthusiastic boys from Liverpool invading the pitch, Everton scored again.  Gabriel lobbed the ball towards goal and Clayton Woods and goalkeeper Reeves got in an awful tangle and allowed Vernon to gain possession and place the ball into an empty net.  Reeves, dropped a Young shot perilously close to Bingham’s feet and Dunlop made another wonder save from Thomas.  A heavy drizzle, which started during the interval made conditions difficult, but Everton were back on the attack at the beginning of the second half.  Everton’s third goal was the result of a bad mistake by Taylor, but Young was quick to seize the chance.  He gained possession at the edge of the penalty area, tapped the ball over Taylor’s head, collected it again and calmly steered it past Reeves.  The pace slackened but Everton delighted the crowd with exhibition football.  Bingham and Young both had chances to increase the lead, and full back Bray kicked one shot off the line.  It was only in the dying seconds that Douglas put Dobing through to score Blackburn’s consolation goal.  Young, Gabriel, Thomson and Labone were outstanding for Everton and the Vernon-Fell left wing showed tremendous promise.  Yesterday he showed a lot of promise but was at times a little slow.  Blackburn Rovers; Reeves; Taylor, Bray; McEvoy, Woods, Clayton; Douglas, Dobing, Pickering, Thomas, MacLeod.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell.  Referee; Mr. A. Holland, (Barnsley).  Attendance 24,900.

BLACKBURN RES TOO STRONG
Saturday, April 1, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
EVERTON RESERVE 1, BLACKBURN ROVERS RESERVES 3
Everton’s youth reserves found a strong Blackburn Rovers side far too clever and experienced for them at Goodison Park.  When goalkeeper Dunne’s fumbling of a header led to Crowe scoring in the first minute and slack marking allowed Ratcliffe to volley home a corner kick nine minutes later it looked as if Everton were booked for a hiding.  The Everton defence however tightening up and nine did better than left back Atherton though Gorrie and Sharples were also prominent.  Centre forward Webber worked hard to bring some cohesion to an Everton attack which apart from having poor service was at a big disadvantage in height and weight.  Daly scored Blackburn’s third goal in the seventy-eight minute with Bentley getting Everton’s five minutes from the end. 

AN AWAY WIN FOR EVERTON AT LAST
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 01 April 1961
ALEX YOUNG’S GREAT GAME
VERNON’S PART
By Paul O’Brien
A team which had not lost a League game for three months entertained a side that had not won a Division One match away from home during the same period and -the visitors won! That's football: and it's' exactly what happened at Ewood Park yesterday afternoon, when Everton defeated Blackburn Rovers 3-1. This was a victory Everton richly deserved, for they were a yard quicker to the ball than 'Blackburn and their football was of a higher standard. Everton’s attack was brilliantly led by Scottish international Alex Young. He looked a £40,000 class player every time he had the ball and crowned a great game by scoring two goals, and having another shot kicked off the, line by Taylor after it had beaten goalkeeper Reeves.
CLEVER HEADER
Young's first goal came after 24 minutes when he cleverly headed in a Fell centre, following good approach work by Vernon and Fell. His second came after 55 minutes after a long through ball from Collins had caught the Blackburn defence unawares.  Right back Taylor was slow to clear and Young gained possession, lobbed the ball over the Blackburn man's head and calmly stepped round him and drove the ball home. Vernon also played a fine game for Everton and it was fitting that he should score the other goal. This came at the 26th minute, when Reeves, Woods and Clayton got into an awful tangle over a harmless Gabriel lob, and Vernon was able to take possession and score from close range. Blackburn consolation goal came in the closing seconds through Dobing, following good work be Bryan Douglas.  Douglas had started off as if he was going to beat Everton by himself, but Thompson soon got his measures and the England man had to move into the centre to find a way through.  
ACCURATE PASSES
Everton impressed with the, way in which they set up attacks from deep in defence. There was no big booting, the ball being transferred to the forwards by means of a series of accurate passes. In this respect Gabriel was outstanding, reading the play cleverly and moving into position just at the right time.  Labone was a far more solid centre half than former Evertonian Matt Woods, and it must be remembered that but for three great saves by Dunlop from another ex-Everton boy, Thomas, the scores could have been level and the away jinx would not have been safely buried. Thomas, if only for his willingness to have a shot, was Blackburn's best forward while, Clayton did best in a defence which was sometimes bewildered and too often caught in possession. Everton's new winger, Fell, did enough to show he is a good buy, and it was pleasing to sec Collins, who suffered a knock on the head in the first half and for a time had double vision, revealing something of his true form.

JIMMY HARRIS RETURNS TO GOODISON TODAY
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 01 April 1961
By Leslie Edwards
All going well Jimmy Harris, the boy Birmingham City spirited away from Goodison Park in mid-season (at a pretty considerable cost, of course) plays against his old side, here, this afternoon.  Harris, who filled the initial Hickson vacancy at Everton as though he would become a world-beater, never quite fulfilled that promise but, let’s face it, the attack with him rampaging in the centre had more punch than it has ever possession since.  Albion were disappointed to miss him, Birmingham having used the good offices and knowledge of the one-time Tranmere and Sheffield Wednesday winger, Tom Jones, from Tonypandy, in South Wales, to make the personal approach to Harris, which made all the difference.  He’s done very well indeed for his new club, and will be anxious today to challenge comparison with Alex Young or whoever fills the centre position in the home attack.  The Football League have ruled that fell cannot play, so Everton are once again faced by the vexed question of who to put in on the left.  I can recall a great number of men who have been tried there, following Tom Ring’s departure as a result of a broken leg-Brian Harris, Bingham, Kavanagh, Tyrer, Temple, and Fell among them.  Never was a club so puzzled to find a satisfactory substitute for one position. 
CAME FROM WREXHAM
Birmingham have two Welsh boys-Brian Orritt, from Bangor, who has been a fixture at inside forward for some seasons now, and Hennessey, the right half-back, who was discovered with a Wrexham junior club.  Wrexham must be one of the most productive nurseries in Britain, but not all these young men have graduated through the League team of that town.  On the right wing Everton will face Hellawell, who comes from Yorkshire and promises to gain promotion soon from the Yorkshire second cricket team.  Harris will have on his left, all going well, Bloomfield, the former Arsenal inside forward who is always a live wire.
MANY LOCALS
\manager Gil Merrick, the famous old England goalkeeper who manages Birmingham has got many Birmingham locals or semi-locals in his side-Withers (who joined them from Albion) Farmer from Stourbridge, Sissons and Smith.  Rudd, at outside left comes from Stalybridge.  One of the best and most long-serving men is Dick Neal who was, of course, at Wolverhampton and Lincoln City before he finally established himself at Brum.  Birmingham had a match yesterday at Cardiff, travelled home late last night and came on early this morning.  They need points to put them safe and for that reason this afternoon’s game will be no sinecure for Everton. 

TEMPLE SCORES EVERTON WINNER WITH 3 MINUTES TO GO
Saturday, April 1, 1961 The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
EVERTON 1, BIRMINGHAM 0
By Leslie Edwards

Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins (captain), Young, Vernon, Temple.  Birmingham City; Withers; Palmer, Allen; Hennessey, Smith, Neal; Hellewell, Orritt, Harris (captain), Bloomfield, Rudd.  Referee-Mr. R.J. Simons (Carlise). 
Birmingham played the side which won at Cardiff yesterday and Everton the team which won at Blackburn with the exception of Temple for Fell.  Jimmy Harris was Birmingham’s captain for the day  against his old side and got an ovation as he stepped up to spin for choice of ends with Bobby Collins.  Everton kicked into the Park end goal and Collins got the ball out well to Temple, whose final pass was cut off.  Then Temple after a long solo run, turned the ball towards the foot of the post, where Withers just took possession as Young came in a moment later after a gorgeous passing bout between Bingham, Vernon, and Collins, Bingham gave the Birmingham goalkeeper another difficult one to field, then from a corner kick, Young made an overhead shot which puzzled Withers and finally came to rest on the top netting. The crowd loved this new style opening by Everton who, nevertheless, were a trifle lucky to escape when Meagan was caught in possession by the greater speed of Harris.
UNLUCKY YOUNG
Everton were inclined to make a move too many on a pitch which was heavy and treacherous and whose pace was difficult to judge. Young was desperately unlucky not to score when hooking the ball over, and next Withers saw and fielded the shot through the ruck delivered by Vernon. But Everton were a trifle fortunate to survive when Indecision provided Orritt with an unexpected chance, and be hit the ball almost straight at Dunlop from inside the penalty box. The way Young then meandered through the ranks of the Birmingham defence before dragging the ball back for Temple’s almost to score as he pleased, was one of the most brilliant bits of football seen on this ground for seasons, and the pity was that Temple's hard-hit shot thumped against a post and rebounded to play and not into the back of the net. Dunlop brought off a grand save from a header by Orritt following a right-wing corner. Harris was leading the Birmingham line well and the visitors were coming more and more into the picture. Everton had an escape when a header by Harris looked like entering the net just inside the post where Parker, with a foot, and Dunlop, with his hands, both shaped to take it at the same time. Parker got there, first, and Dunlop suffered a knock as a result, but he was soon up and in action again. From a corner, Young picked up a mishit shot by Vernon, swivelled round—and missed from point blank range
SPECTACULAR CATCH
A lovely pass by Vernon to Young at outside left a spot-on centre by the Scot and a flying header by Vernon led to Withers flinging himself yards to bring off a spectacular two-handed catch with the ball almost on the goal line. Collins and Hennesy tussled while Parker prepared to take a free-kick for a foul on Bingham, and the episode ended with Hennesy deposited in the mud. Bingham made a beautifully timed hooked volley from a Collins corner, but Withers punched away from just under  the bar, and was still in position to nick ups moment later a deflected shot by Temple.
Half-time. Everton nil, Birmingham nil.
Collins, following up Everton's first attack of the second half, lobbed the ball in from an angle and again Withers, who must stand well over 6ft., claimed the ball as though there was not an Everton forward in sight. Thomson cleared from near the line after a Birmingham corner on the left, and Hellawell strode up to hammer the half clearance high and wide. Parker was having a very good match, but there were signs elsewhere of a little friction, and things were not improved when Hellawell and Thomson got at cross purposes.  Bingham, accepting a return pass, hit the ball dangerously across the face of the Birmingham goal with Withers floundering.  Withers was caught in possession and put over the line for a corner when challenged by Young, but Birmingham’s big defence dealt with this one with customary coolness and effectiveness.
APPLAUSE FOR TWO
Jimmy Harris got applause and so did Dunlop when the former Everton forward put in a left-foot floater of a shot which Dunlop palmed for a corner at the last moment.  Vernon, from the inside right position, fired in a vicious shot which Withers got away with a double-handed punch. A good, intricate short-passing move by Everton on the right was ruined when Collins lost his footing when in the act of shooting from close range, and although the crowd appealed for a penalty, there could never be any question of any such appeal being granted. Vernon was not having a very happy game, but he did unloose a long distance shot which Wither reached only at full stretch. Both Vernon and Collins were sometimes defeated by the mud in then efforts to work the ball closely, and the treacherous foothold caused a great number of mistakes. Collins left the field to receive some sort of running repairs from the trainer. Collins reappeared again, after a minute's absence, and from a short corner the little Scot took steady aim to drive the ball through the eye of a needle as it were and he did it well that Withers had to palm the ball for a corner. Birmingham now got on top thanks to the excellent power and brain power of half back, Neal, who was a dominating figure both in defence and attack. Jimmy Harris lost most, of his duels against Labone, but scarcely put a foot wrong when he was free from the centre half’s immediate attention.  The long awaited goal came after 87 minutes. Collins centred to Young, whose glancing header Withers saved one-handed, but as the goalkeeper edged the ball to his right, Temple, on the spot, banged it straight into the back of the net. –Final; Everton 1, Birmingham nil.  Official attendance: 31,872

YOUTH TEAM DESERVES A BIG GATE
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 01 April 1961
BRILLIANT AT STOKE, SAYS ALEX PARKER
Well, if our youth team don't get a big gate for the second leg of the Youth Cup semi-final at Goodison on April 19 they never will. I was not at the game but from the Press reports, end the general talk at the ground on Thursday morning, Les Shannon's boys put up magnificent display—and two of their regular players, Alan Jarvis and Roy Parnell, could not turn out. There were nearly 20,000 people at the game, which is a great deal more than watch the Stoke first team, so it is easy to see how much interest there is in the team. If there are more people at Goodison for the second leg than turn up for First Division matches, we first team will never hear the last of it from the youngsters.  I had heard that Stoke had a great side and they did very well to beat our old Youth Cup bogey team - Manchester United —in the quarter final, but apparently Everton were unstoppable in the first half, during which they scored their two goals. They must now stand a great chance of reaching the final, which is also played on a two-legged basis, and would then meet either Arsenal or Chelsea, the holders. Along with everybody else connected with the club I shall be at Goodison for the Stoke game—and the final as well. I hope.
KEVAN GOALS
After last Saturday's game at West Brom I overheard Derek Kevan telling some reporters that he wished he could play against Everton every week, as he always scores against them. How right he is. He scored five against us last season, and within seconds of the start of last week's game proved he hadn't forgotten how to do it by banging in another. As if that wasn't enough he scored another later on. I believe that he cultivated the habit of scoring against Everton at a very early age ... on his debut, in fact, I was told the other day that Kevan played his first game for West Brom against us, scored, and liked it so much he has done it practically every time he plays against us.  Up at the club the other day they were saying that the late Dennis Westcott was another who liked playing against Everton. It was before my time, but they do say that while with Wolves, Dennis never failed to score against Everton in all the games he played against them, both before and after the war. Mickey Lill came through a practice game at Bellefield this week so well that it was decided to give him a runout with the reserves yesterday, and depending on how he shaped then, he may get another game over the holiday.
NET REPAIRS
A week ago yesterday I went to see the match against Plymouth at Anfield and witnessed one of the most unusual sights I have ever seen on a football pitch. Just before the kick-off the referee signalled that the netting on one of the goals had come away front the crossbar. Trainer Bobby Paisley immediately dashed across with a ball of string and I overheard one person near me say: "There's not much use in Paisley running over. He'll never be able to reach the crossbar.' But they reckoned without the Plymouth goalkeeper who, cool as you like, put up his arms, reached the loose netting with ease, fixed it and handed the string back to Bobby. He was certainly a tall goalie.

NAT LOFTHOUSE LOOKS AT THE GOODISON PARK SLUMP
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 01 April 1961
EVERTON WILL BE GLAD SEASON IS NEARING THE END
With the end of the season ahead, footballers will be looking forward to o rest after the eight-month playing season. For many it will not be just a case of o deck-chair on the beach for three months between the end of the season and reporting-back day in July. Some clubs will be off on overseas tours, and a number of leading individual players will no doubt be off on coaching trips. One such official invitation reached me this week when I was invited by the Football Association to undertake an eight-weeks coaching trip to Fiji sold Sarawak. I must say that these “faraway places with strange sounding names" had an immense appeal when the invitation arrived. But acceptance was complicated by the fact that my own future role in the game is currently in the melting pot, and coming, as it did, at comparatively short notice I had to write to England team manager Walter Winterbottom and tell him that much as I appreciated the honour I Just could not accept this time. One club who will no doubt welcome the end of the season, for more reasons than one, must surely be Everton. The dominance of Tottenham Hotspur from the first week to the last has rather blinded everyone to the astonishing decline of Goodison Park fortunes.
BUILT FOR SUCCESS
For this they are undoubtedly grateful for on performances in the last three make Spurs fight all along the line. They looked a good F.A. Cup bet, too. It was this great start that responsible for the still respectable position they hold in Division 1.  For this they undoubtedly grateful, for on performances in the last three months they are lucky not to find themselves down in a fight against relegation. Everton seem to have a side built for success, and no money has been spared in bringing together a team talents. Of course, there are many instances of clubs who have tried to buy success and have found to their costs that they have bought only failure. I refuse to believe that such is the case with Everton, who began the season with such drive and ambition. Johnny Carey's boys will come again, and can expect big things in the 1961-2 season. They will not need reminding that in Division 2 Liverpool are making a great bid for restoration to the too right and a return to Division I will mean a rare battle for supremacy on Merseyside. 

BURY RES V EVERTON RES
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 01 April 1961
Bury Res;- Heath; Lodge, Eastham; Wilson, Bunner, Lawman; Boland, G. Jones, Dyson, Moulden, Bartley.  Everton Res; Mailey; Green, Gannon; Harris, Gorrie, Harland; Bentley, Tyrer, Wignall, Morton, Webber.  Referee-Mr. M. Matthews (Sheffield).  Everton were hard pressed in the early minutes.  Corners were conceded on both wings and Mailey saved well from Boland.  Green also kicked off the goalline.  Everton began to do better in attack, and Wignall disappointed when went between the backs only to lose control of the ball.  Everton were unlucky when with the goalkeeper drawn off his line, Bentley lobbed the ball inches too high.  After Bury pressure Everton raced away to take the lead in the 42nd minute, Tyrer centring for Morton to race in and volley into the roof of the net.  Half-time; Bury Reserves nil, Everton Reserves 1. 
EVERTON B V ACCRINGTON A
It was a fairly even half, with moves by both teams petering out in front of goal.  Accrington had slightly more of the midfield play, but Everton’s tackling and interception evened up this advantage.  Half-time Everton B nil, Accrington S A nil. 

EVERTON STILL DO NOT PACK A PUNCH
Monday, April 3, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
EVERTON 1, BIRMINGHAM 0
By Jack Rowe
For the third time in recent weeks Everton scrambled to a solitary goal victory at home.  It was not until three minutes from the end that Temple managed to penetrate the Birmingham defence and it was perhaps fitting that his should be the foot by which Everton made their holiday points total four in two days. Brought in on the left wing as substitute for latest signing Fell, he played quite solidity for most of the match, produced touches and moves which are usually foreign to him and in addition was carrying the burden of missing a chance which, if taken would have climaxed a piece of work which was not only by far the best of the match, but which was also the best I have seen for some time.  Temple did much to right his wrong when he chipped the ball into the net with 87 minutes gone but there must have been many who felt that Everton were a shade lucky to get both points.  Neither side did sufficiently well to justify victory, and neither was so much inferior that the other could claim decisive superiority. 
OPENING DWINDLES
There were periods when the football from both had merit but generally it was not a game of rich entertainment, particularly when Everton’s fine looking opening had dwindled and it became apparent that there was going to be too much emphasis on the short, delayed pass rather than the swift dividend-paying type.  Birmingham were often just as guilty in this respect and both forward lines made their moves across, instead across, instead of down the pitch.  Everton might have threatened danger more frequently and there were coasters when they nearly scored, but the longer the match went, the more convinced I became that until punch is injected into the attack, Goodison fans are not going to get the reward they are hoping for.  Even when Everton dominated the forward line, in spite of its undoubted craft, lacks drive and the ability to ram home an attack and the fact that it took them eighty-seven minutes to score is a firm indication of that.  I still contend that Young must use his brilliance in the scheming sense and if that is so a spearhead is necessary.  Just how brilliant Young can be was seen on several occasions, especially when he brought the ball under control, beating centre-half Smith with effortless ease and moved almost with contempt beyond two other players before pulling the ball back to Temple, whose shot hit the post instead of the net as it should have done.  There was nothing to compare with that at any time and if Young himself missed a couple of chances later he is the type of player who can produce the match-winning move in a flash-always providing there is someone to apply the finishing touch.  Collins and Vernon are nothing like the power they used to be.  Vernon hit one good shot only and then his drive was fisted away by Withers.  Withers is most promising and was one of the most competent men in the Birmingham side.  He did nothing extraordinary, but his work was good and inspiring and it was hard fortune for him that when Temple scored, his diving save from Young’s header, following a Collins centre went straight to the Everton winger.  Temple was more progressive than Bingham, but either had the same forward movement of Birmingham’s Hellawell.  He caused Thomson quite a bit of trouble and twice laid on chances, first for Orritt and then Jimmy Harris to head in powerfully.  Dunlop finely saved Orritt’s try, but might have been beaten if Parker had not hooked away from Harris.  Harris captained Birmingham, but rarely won his duels with Labone, who played strongly.  His wing passes were the top feature of his play and he had one curling shot in the second half which made Dunlop move hastily.  Everton’s defence looked pretty sound with Parker, Meagan and Gabriel having a good match, just more forward power is needed.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Young, Vernon, Temple.  Birmingham- Withers; Farmer, Allen; Hennessey, Smith, Neal; Hellawell, Orritt, Harris, Bloomfield, Rudd.  Referee; Mr. R.J. Simons (Carlisle). 

EVERTON RES SHOW FINE ENTERPRISE
Monday, April 3, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
BURY RESERVES 0, EVERTON RESERVES 4
Everton Reserves 4-0 victory at Bury was not so easily gained as the score suggests for in the early stages they were lucky to keep on terms.  Then, when the enthusiasm of the Young and inexperienced home side had spent itself, Everton took command and in the end the four goals did not exaggerate their tactical and technical superiority.  In the second half Bury were swept out of the game by a better balanced and more enterprising team and were fortunate to concede only three goals.  Morton (42 minutes), Wignall (50), Wilson (own goal 55), and Bentley (89) scored for Everton. 

UNFORGETABLE MOMENT BY YOUNG
Liverpool Echo - Monday 03 April 1961
By Leslie Edwards
Everton may well complete a highly satisfactory Easter by repeating their Friday victory over Blackburn Rovers—this time at Goodison Park. What incredible changes the Easter glut of matches produces. And how eagerly will followers of Liverpool F.C. look to the results to-day from Portsmouth and to-morrow from Bristol Rovers. Manager Bert Tann's Bristol side have the decision of the Second Division promotion battle in their hands. They have, between now and the end of the season, home matches against Liverpool, Norwich City and Sheffield United. It could be that Liverpool's outstanding fixture, in May, at Stoke will decide whether they regain First Division status or not. But if Sheffield United were to win at Portsmouth to-day and Liverpool fail at Bristol to-morrow that would be the end of the line for us. Everton should have won the Birmingham match long before the 87th minute, but their finishing was luckless and ineffective by turn and it was left to the deputising Temple to save the bacon close on the final whistle, when he positioned himself well enough to take advantage of a half save by Withers. Collins had dug up a nice heading chance for Young and Young had accepted it, and the ball glanced sharp and true to where Withers wasn't. It was a great effort by this massive and competent goalkeeper to turn the ball away one-handed. Fortunately for Everton, Temple was in position to slam it straight into the net. He went close, after some more good positional play, to adding another a moment later. One a surface made yielding by a lot of rain, the game appeared to be a good deal slower than the one at Anfield the previous day. Two games in two days plainly had its effect and there were times when both sides went into a mere dawdle: yet it was a match which had some high spots, the main ones coming from runs by Young, in which he " Up-toed through the tulips" of the Birmingham defensive garden with the greatest daintiness and extraordinary skill.
HIT THE POST
Everton’s best scoring chance came from the best of these never-to-be-forgotten weaving runs by a player who has taken a good deal of time to settle down, but who has now made a firm niche for himself in the hearts and affections of a crowd who love football finesse above all else. Having beaten Smith and left him far behind, Young ballet-danced his way through the rest of the defence and then dragged the ball back from the line, giving Temple an open invitation to mark his return. Temple struck his shot well and solidly, but the ball hit an upright and bounded out. Young had little chance to beat Smith "in the air," but on the floor it was a different story. Even with Collins and Vernon pestered and chivvied by half backs who fought for the ball unceasingly, the Everton line enjoyed chances and should have had the match sewn up long before the finish. And that is not detracting from the work of the Wrexham boy, Hennessey, who made Collins his special mission, or from the excellent goalkeeping of Withers. When this giant goes up for a corner kick his hands usually get what they seek. He timed a deflected Vernon free kick beautifully and made a glorious save from a Vernon header, opportunity for which came from a perfectly flighted pass by Young. It was tough, unrelenting football all through, if not at cracking speed, and when the ground dried out a little and became sticky Vernon and Collins both found its tackiness hindering their attempts at close working the ball. Birmingham gave their captaincy for the day to Jimmy Harris. It was good to hear the crowd give him a hand for old time's sake, though they realised well enough what a lean time their club have had since the day he went! Harris has rarely played better, Labone had him as well collared at close quarters as Smith had Young, but at other times Harris spread passes very expertly and was exceptionally good in the air.
SUPERB POSITIONAL SENSE
Another good contribution came from Bingham, whose heading alone almost ensures his place. His positional sense is as good as any I ever saw—and so is his courage. Temple fought harder in this match than in most others and seemed determined to make a success. He may be mercurial, doing the wrong things at moments when his task should be easiest, but he certainly does many difficult jobs with surprising artistry. If he had a bit more devil what a grand player he would be. To-day of course be must give way to Fell, but let none say that he didn't play his part in getting these points. Meagan is not fitted for the mud-plugging conditions of Saturday and seemed content in the end to remove the ball through short accurate passes. When he attempted anything more spectacular he did not often succeed, but he is always such a willing and hard worker it is almost unfair fault him Thomson at back is improving and getting the hang of the speed of the game here, to say nothing of the necessity for going for the ball with a tackle that really means something. Parker had a tough little fellow in Rudd to control and did his task splendidly. Orritt, from Bangor, impressed me very much and Hellawell, a Yorkshire cricketer made a good partner for him. Young’s brilliant spurts excepted the best thing of the game was the sure construction of Neal—now a truly monumental looking half-back—who has come on tremendously since his Lincoln City days. Birmingham will not go far wrong while they have this willing, earnest man to engineer their attacks or while they have a goalkeeper like Withers (one of the best young ones I've seen for years) to form their last line. Withers had a look of "Swifty" of old (may be rest lightly). Birmingham, like Liverpool, know where goalkeepers " grow' and Gil Merrick himself a great man between the sticks in his day, has certainly found a good one here.

YOUNG BREAKS HIS (HOME) DUCK IN SCRAPPY GAME
Liverpool Echo - Monday 03 April 1961
BUT EVERTON LOSE GRIP IN CLOSING STAGES
EVERTON 2 BLACKBURN ROVERS 2
By Michael Charters
Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell.  Blackburn Rovers; Jones; Bray, Newton; McEvoy, Woods, Clayton; Douglas, Dobing, Pickering, Thomas, MacLeod,  Referee-Mr. K. Howley (Middlesbrough).  Everton had Fell back on the left wing in their bid for a 100 per cent Easter programme against Blackburn Rovers this afternoon.  Blackburn brought in Jones, son of the former Stockport trainer, as goalkeeper, and had former Evertonians Woods and Thomas in the side.  There was a crowd of well over 30,000 on a fine but keen afternoon who saw a tentative sort of opening.  Both teams were guilty of numerous mistakes in the opening minutes and the first attack of any consequence came from Blackburn after Bray had moved up the right wing to centre.  Pickering got his foot to the ball and ballooned it high in the air, but Dunlop was able to make an easy pick-up. 
WOODS TO THE RESCUE
Everton’s first attack started with a free kick by Vernon which Jones only palmed out to Bingham whose shot was heading for the net when the large body of Woods got in the way to save a tense situation for Rovers.  But the game so far had not reached any great heights with Blackburn’s attacking plan rather thwarted by the habit of Douglas, who came drifting inside to crowd his other forwards out.  Young almost got Vernon clear with a glorious glancing header and it looked as though Everton were settling to their game now.  Gabriel caused some consternation by dribbling the ball for 30 yards towards his own goal as he was challenged by Macload, and Everton’s forwards were rather inclined to pass the ball backwards instead of going forward.  There was very little of any quality, however, from either side so far with mistakes and inaccurate passing far more frequent than any success.  Everton did at last arouse some enthusiasm when Vernon got the ball from a mistake by Bray and he pushed the ball through for Collins to try a quick shot which hit the side netting.  Woods made an excellent last ditch interception to take the ball off Young after Vernon had pushed the ball through, the ball rebounding to Bingham whose shot was blocked by Newton.  Everton piled on a shot of pressure for a spell but it was ended by a first-class interception and pass by Thomas up the left wing to Pickering but Meagan dispossessed Dobing when danger threatened for Everton. 
STRONG DEFENCE
Woods and Newton were doing particularly well for Blackburn as Everton kept command of the game, with Dunlop not having touched the ball for some ten minutes.  The game continued to be a bit of a scramble all round, with Everton holding the upper hand in midfield but unable to establish a clear-cut opening near goal.  They had the Rovers’ defence in a bit of a tangle, however, when Bingham floated over a good centre which Young missed with his head and Fell, behind him, nodded it down into the hands of Jones.  Neither Collins nor Young could get their passes going well but Collins brought a spot of light into the match with the best shot yet, but it was straight at Jones who had no trouble at all with it.  Blackburn were even worse in their attacking ideas, although Thomas was doing quite well and looked the best of the line.  Up to now this had been one pf the poorest games seen on the ground this season.  One incident of some note was when Thomson dispossessed Douglas in midfield and moved up to take a pass from Vernon in the centre forward spot, but was dispossessed by woods who was one of the few players who was playing with any certainty.  After 38 minutes came a memorable event for Everton when Young scored his first goal on the ground.  He went up perfectly among a group of Rovers defenders and headed a free kick from Gabriel past Jones into the net.  This had been very much the highlight of a disappointing half and full marks too Young for the way he got up in the air to beat men inches taller than himself.
IDLE GOALKEEPERS
Dunlop had not had a save to make in this half and Jones had not been very much busier, although Everton had dominated the game up to the penalty area where the inside forwards were inclined to crowd by standing a few yards of one another.  On the stroke of half-time a brilliant movement from Everton, starting with Parker deep in his own half and going via Bingham and Collins to Vernon saw Jones make an excellent catch from Vernon’s quick hit shot.
Half-time; Everton 1, Blackburn Rovers nil.
Everton had the sun behind them this half and the crowd no doubt hoping that they would strike their rhythm.  Jones produced a very fine save from a cleverly-hooked shot by Vernon after Gabriel, who was playing very well, had put the ball across. 
GOAL WITH FIRST SHOT
Blackburn earned their first corner of the match after 48 minutes and it produced a goal. Dobing took the kick, low to Douglas, who flicked it inside to Thomas who was unmarked and had a simple job to volley it into the net from close range. The remarkable thing was that this was also Blackburn s and from about 25 yards sent ion the goal line. Runcorn went (necked Liverpool's eon-stop, first shot of the Match. Gabriel was Everton's best player and be twice got his attack moving with sweeping crossed passes, the second of which Fell centred onto the top of the netting.
BLACKBURN'S BEST
Although Everton were fighting hard to take the lead there was not enough conviction about their attacking play to indicate that they could beat Woods and his colleagues and create an opening for themselves. Blackburn were coming a little more into the game with  Douglas getting through well on one occasion but Dobing did nothing with a perfects lipped pass down toe wing. Everton were keeping the ball far too close, and were making very little headway on a compact Rovers' defence in which the first-time tackling of Woods and Clayton was preventing many Everton moves from reaching danger point.
MAGNIFICENT RUN
The crowd had been very quiet for a long time, the inaccuracies of the play them with little to applaud, but Young suddenly brought them to life with a magnificent run in which he beat off the challenge of two or three men before hitting the ball hard for the far corner of the net, only for Jones to make a superb one-handed save, the ball bouncing out against Vernon’s body and going past the post for a goal kick. With 20 minutes left for play Everton suddenly started move with some pace and purpose after Young's run had seemed to inspire them. The game came alive properly for the first time. But Everton's finish was disappointing and Jones seemed in unbeatable form in goal.
SURPRISE LEAD
Blackburn took the lead after 74 minutes with a goal by Pickering-practically the firs time he had ever done anything of any merit in the whole game. Douglas started the move with a good pass to Dobing, who went after Gabriel cleverly and squared the ball where Pickering just had to let it touch his foot and go into the net. Considering the way Everton had dominated the game in midfield, this was a remarkable turn of events , for still Dunlop had not had one save to make. He was extended a couple of minutes, after Pickering’s goal with a cracking shot by Clayton from 30 yards.
FLICKED PASS
Vernon almost got through from a flicked pass by Young, but he overran the ball and finished up in the crowd. A shot a little earlier instead of trying to dribble around the goalkeeper might have paid dividends here. Bingham put Everton level terms after 81 minutes with a tremendous shot when he ran on to the ball at top speed as Young flicked it across and smashed it with tremendous force into the net to give Jones no chance at all. 

BLACKBURN RES V EVERTON RES
Monday, April 3, 1961. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
Blackburn Rovers Res; Reeves; Sims, Hughes; England, Appleby, Leech; Isherwood, Crowe, Douglas, Daly, Mulvey.  Everton Res; Mailey; Green, Gannon; Harris, Jones, Sharples, Lill, Tyrer, Temple, Morton, Webber.  Referee; Mr. R. Gettins, Bolton.  Mulvey brought out a fine diving save from Mailey with a rasping shot from the left in the first minute. And the Rovers, with Crowe and Daly making the openings, kept Everton on the defensive Jones kept a close watch on Dougan, the Rovers lanky centre forward, except when Douglan left him trailing to bring out another spectacular save from Mailey.  Crowe put Blackburn ahead in the 25th minute with an unstoppable shot from 12 yards after an indirect free kick had bene given against Mailey for carrying.  Five minutes later England missed a penalty for Blackburn awarded after Harris had fouled Dougan.  Half-time; Blackburn Rovers Res 1, Everton Res nil. 

YOUNG SCORES AND SHOWS HE CAN SHOOT
Tuesday, April 4, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
EVERTON’S EASTER AS FRUITFUL AS LAST 12 GAMES
EVERTON 2, BLACKBURN ROVERS 2
By Horace Yates
In four days over the Easter holidays Everton have taken five points from three games, a return worthy of their high placing in the League table, and in fact it represents a total just as great as that produced from their previous twelve matches.  How cheering it is to find the tide turning at this late stage, but it would be a bold man who would venture to suggest that the two victories and a draw restore the early-season standards.  Far from it, for Everton are still struggling and making hard work of their football, I do not suggest they were lucky to take a point from Blackburn at Goodison Park yesterday, for I think they were the more deserving side.  While they were unable to claim any clear cut advantage and indeed came precariously close to defeat in the second half, they were the more constructive combination.
YOUNG PLEASES
After the salvaging of a point probably the most satisfying feature was the highly creditable form of Alex Young the Scottish international centre forward who had the satisfaction of scoring his first League goal at Goodison Park, but possibly almost as gratifying was the non-scoring shot he unleashed in the second half.  Without a doubt it was his most powerful and goal worthy shot in English football and the irony of it was that it did not obtain the goal it so richly merited due entirely to a terrific save by goalkeeper Jones.  Those who write off Young as a centre forward make the criticism that he cannot shoot.  This effort gave the lie to the theory, for it was a superb effort.  More accurately, it might be alleged against him that he does not produce shots of that nature often enough to make him into a lethal leader and for all this shaft of brilliance and the excellent work he did at various stages of the match, including the laying on of the equalising goal, I think he will still become the rage of Goodison Park as an inside forward.  How that will come about is less certain but I feel convinced this talented Scot can make that £42,000 expenditure seen well worth while even though it would still mean Everton pulling out just as much, and probably more for someone to wear No.9 jersey with the distinction required.  It has to be remembered that Young has not enjoyed the good fortune to play between Collins and Vernon with both in the form of which we know them to be capable.  Possibly such a situation could after existing theories but it is Young’s reluctance to hit the ball hard and often that puts the big query against his name so far as centre forward is concerned.
HARD WORKING VERNON
Vernon, I thought worked like a Trojan to shake himself free of his recent fallings and came nearer to doing it than in any previous match this year Collins also has seldom tried harder, but the results are most stubborn in coming.  How so little could be achieved from such prodigious endeavour from one so talented does not pose the easiest of problems, Collins, one day, will come storming back, and then Everton’s football will begin to flow more readily, more attractively and I hope, more profitably.  Admittedly Fell received no sort of service to run himself into any state of exhaustion but until late in the game, his performance rarely rose above ordinary standards.  Gabriel was a much better half back than he has been in some of his recent outings and it would be hard to criticise Labone, but I find it difficult to appreciate how Mick Meagan can keep Brian Harris out of the team for any length of time.  Thomson has weathered his passage into English League football and now that he is becoming more and more acclimatised to requirements looks more like the sort of full back to justify his inclusion in the side, and Parker was convincing equally on attack and defence.  Eddie Thomas former Evertonian was obviously resolved to show his old club that he is a more dangerous forward than some gave him credit for and it was his persistence that helped to bring the best out of Gabriel. 
HEADED GOAL
First half incidents were few and far between.  If we except a half-hearted appeal for a penalty on the grounds that Newton had handled in eleven minutes, there was little or nothing of note until the 39th minute when Young opened the scoring with a header.  The score came from a free kick by Gabriel.  He cleverly floated the ball into the goal mouth and for once in a way Young was able to rise higher in the air than Woods.  It was only the merest flick, but it was still sufficient to send the ball over Jones.  It is not easy to understand the faith of some Everton players in the ability of their small forwards to reach higher than defenders, who are invariably inches tailor.  This was not a fault peculiar to this match, for it happens far too often and more often than not with the same disappointing result.  Almost from their first threat and certainly from their first corner kick, Blackburn equalised and it was Thomas who got the goal in 49 minutes.  Dobing pushed the ball to Douglas, who crossed it squarely across goal and found Thomas in a comparatively open space.  Tapping the ball into the net presented no sort of problem.  It was another Douglas Dobing move that presented Pickering with an equally easy scoring chance in 73 minutes and the spectre of one more defeat began to loom large in everyone’s calculations.  With nine minutes left, Collins hooked the ball to Young, who sized up the situation at a glance and glided the ball forward to the unmarked Bingham, who simply sent the ball hurtling into the net from more than twenty yards.  It was a magnificently taken goal, and I doubt if even Blackburn could have claimed that it was out of turn.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell.  Blackburn Rovers; Jones; Bray, Newton; McEvoy, Woods, Clayton, Douglas, Dobing, Pickering, Thomas, MacLeod.  Referee; Mr. K. Howley (Middlesbrough).  Attendance 41,072. 

BINGHAM ‘WONDER’GOAL SAVED A POINT
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 04 April 1961
By Leslie Edwards
ALL the fun and games of the Everton-Blackburn Rovers match came in the last 17 minutes. With the sides level at 1-1 (Everton having scored first) Blackburn went ahead with a goal by Pickering and then, when they seemed likely to avenge themselves for defeat on Friday, Bingham come up with the goal of the season-from a terrific cross-shot taken as he ran on to Young's pass-to give the score an equitable look. The point crowd rose to the little Irishman for his brilliant timing of a difficult chance and for the power behind the ball as it flashed, almost too fast to be followed by the eye of the spectator or goalkeeper 'Jones, son of the famous Bob Jones who kept for Everton before he went on to greater fame with - Bolton. So, Everton , collecting five of the six points available during the four days' holiday, have done better in that period than in whole of the preceding three months! This was the first time this year they have scored more than once in a League match at home. Moreover the occasion will be remembered as producing Young's first League goal at Goodison Park. It came from a lovely backward header from a free kick by Gabriel. Coming at 38 minutes in a half in which Blackburn did not once force Dunlop to a solitary save or catch the prospect was that Everton would win without difficulty. Only a brilliant save high overhead by Jones off a quick shot by Vernon- how well he brought the ball down from a peach of a pass by Young - prevented Everton from going to 2-0 before the interval. In the first-half Douglas, not looking even a pale shadow of the man he used to be, had crowded his own attack by veering inwards and not using the width of the pitch. Later he went inside to create havoc among Thomson and Meagan and from this moment Blackburn sensed they could retrieve themselves. Douglas seized on a half-cleared corner kick from Dobing to cross the ball to Thomas, once of Everton, for that player to ram it in for the equaliser.
A “CENTRE” WHO WASN’T
Young, brushing of challenges right and left somehow contrived to keep control of the ball in a spectacular run which led to him hitting a stinging left -foot shot which  brought the save of the match from Jones, but Dobing quickly worked the undoing of the Everton defence a second time. From outside-left he centred a ball which Pickering drifted over the line, almost accidentally, as he rushed in. Pickering is normally a full-back and it is not fair to judge him as a forward, although he has had success there in the past three matches. His slowness meant that Labone had one of the easiest games he will ever have. Blackburn were in effect playing with ten men all through and so in the circumstances must be judged to have come out of the game with great credit. It was poor, tired football for three-quarters of the journey and it was as well the goals in the last twenty  minutes injected life into players and spectators, other-  wise it would have been the only addled Easter egg of the three we have been offered over the week-end. And I am not forgetting that the players concerned were having their third game in four days Young’s continued improvement is the brightest thing on the Everton horizon The spectators now know him for what he is-one of the most able artists with a ball in Britain. Art conceals art and none demonstrates this better than Young with his quiet drift to right or left and the ball taken with head, chest or foot as though killing a fast pass were the easiest of tasks and not the most difficult. It was Young’s calm bringing of the ball down and his edged pass to Bingham which set up the situation Bingham exploited with the sort of crash-bang shot which usually finishes, from such an angle, in the grounds of the nearby Church. But this one he judged to perfection. The measure of Everton’s cover of Dunlop is in the in the fact that he handled only one shot - a grand long-distance one by Clayton. For every chance Blackburn made Everton created half a dozen.
AND REE FROM FOULS
GABRIEL ' S contribution this time was outstanding and happily free from free-kicks he is sometimes inclined to concede. Fell, after an unhappy start, never really got going I and with Clayton never giving Collins time and space in which to move the Everton line was not impressive; nor was the team as a whole until they found defeat imminent and were jolted into a recovery mood. If there had not been the excitement and drama of the last 20 minutes the match would have ranked as one of the poorest this season. The final fling by both sides saved the day Bingham’s memorable shot gave his side the point they deserved. Eddie Thomas never moved better or faster than he did yesterday. He took his goal well: got through a great amount of work in defence and looked to me like an ex-Evertonian who has made his Blackburn place secure for ever. But what a shame there was no one in the centre to help him crown his good moves by goals. Matt Woods, too, gave his side value for money, though not getting up high enough to prevent the comparatively - small Young to make that clever over - head header which gave Everton the lead.  Dobing’s consistency was notable, but Macleod was never himself and with Douglas trying to beat everyone in sight in the first half and coming to his game only later it was hardly surprising the Everton defence held the challenge with almost impudent ease - for a time. Three games in four days is too much for Mick Meagan - that soon became obvious - and it was when Blackburn sensed weakness in the Everton defence late in the game that Everton lost their command and Blackburn took over. Newton, at left back, looks a good player in prospect and so does McEvoy, but the full back honours were Parker’s. What a worker. And how inspiring he can be when he takes the ball forward to link with the attack...

EVERTON WINGER SELECTED
Wednesday, April 5, 1961, The Liverpool Daily Post
Everton’s young right winger Peter Maddocks, has been selected to play for England in a Boys’ Clubs international soccer match against Northern Ireland on Leeds United’s ground on April 28.  Maddocks is a member of the Ellesmere Port Boys club, and also in the team is S. Crombie, of Port Sunlight Boys Club. 

EVERTON STARS REQUIRED FOR FRIENDLY
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 05 April 1961
MISS CO CHANCES
BINGHAM RECORD
By Leslie Edwards
Two Everton internationals, Roy Vernon, of Wales, and Billy Bingham, of Ireland, will miss the chance of further international caps (and 50 each appearance money) next Wednesday because their club requires them for the friendly match against the crack Brazilian side, Bangu, at Goodison Park. Everton interests that night clash with the match Ireland v. Wales in Belfast. In the past only vital championship or relegation matches have prevented Everton players from playing for their countries.  The F.A. of Ireland refused to comment on whether or not Everton advised them that Bingham would not be available. Bingham will be missing a match for Ireland for the first time since 1952, since when he has set up a world record for a winger, placing in 38 consecutive games for his country. I understand that the Welsh F.A. asked Everton whether Vernon would be available for the match in Belfast and were told No." Bangu, who won the New York international tourney last summer, are possibly the best side in Brazil. It is clear that Everton, who will also compete in the New York event next June, want to keep faith with their public and see how their strongest side compares with last year's champions.

NOT ALL FANS WANT BIFF-BANG SOCCER …
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 05 April 1961
By Leslie Edwards
There may be, among followers of Everton and Liverpool, spectators who date on biff-bang-wallop football, with full backs commanded to lash the ball upfield irrespective of the situation, but there are, too, those who can assess and appreciate football finesse at its best.  Otherwise why should every artistic touch at both grounds-I’m thinking of such gambits as those employed by Young, Collins, Vernon, Melia Wheeler, among others- bring such a roar of approval?  The fan in this city wants to see a winning team, but he will put up with a draw or even defeat if his afternoon is “made” by two or three touches of genius.  And if they come off so much the better.  Alex Young, after a slow start, has won his way into the hearts of the crowds who appreciate the way he makes room for manoeuvre without appearing to hurry.  The captious critic would expect him to produce a shot oftener than he does, but there are good reasons why at this stage of his career, he should want to share the physical load with those around him.  Don’t let it be forgotten that he’s in the Army… most people who served between 1939 and 1945 rarely saw a football, much less kicked one, but the peace-time drill, and especially for soldiers who profession is football is for them to see scarcely anything else.  Take the case of Young.  He played last Wednesday for his unit team; then on Friday had a game against Blackburn at Blackburn.  On Saturday he played at Goodison Park against Birmingham, on Monday against Blackburn.  Tomorrow he will be playing again for his unit and on Sunday he will be thousands of miles away helping the British Army (on the football field of course) against the French in Oran.  Thus in twelve days he will have played six times.  Even the fittest footballer cannot hope to be at his best after so many matches, and so much travel.  And you can bet his club will want him in their attack a week to-day at Goodison Park for the visit of the crack Brazilian side, Bangu, who won last summer the New York international tourney that Everton are due to compete in about ten weeks’ time. 

EVERTON’S INTERNATIONAL POLCY STAYS
Thursday, April 6, 1961, The Liverpool Daily Post
VERNON AND BINGHAM REFUSALS EXCEPTIONS TO GENERAL RULE
By Horace Yates
Everton’s reputation for consideration for their players in connection with release to play in international games will bear the closest scrutiny and is probably as good as that of any club in the country, so that their decision when asked first by Wales and then by Ireland if Roy Vernon and Billy Bingham, respectively, were available for selection, not to give them permission to play, may have surprised some people.  It was however a line of action not idly embarked upon and it was only after the most serious consideration that the board decided reluctantly that this was one occasion on which their hearts could not be allowed to rule their heads.  On the same day as Ireland v Wales game in Belfast on Wednesday next Everton are at home to Bangu the Brazilian club which won the New York tournament last season, and will be opposing Everton in America in this season’s competition.  The experience of both players does not mark any change in the attitude of the club towards any future requests which may be made for international consideration.  Every application will be treated on its merits.
MR. CAREY EXPLAINS
Let Mr. John Carey, the Everton manager, explain how the club came to be the innocent party to breaking a record run of forty-three successive games by Billy Bingham for his country, a run which started against France in 1950-51 and also depriving Vernon of his chance of being an ever-present for Wales this season.  Mr. Carey puts the position like this; “We feel that Bangu are one of the finest teams in the world.  It is not just another friendly game with the result of so importance to either side.  “We consider this is a big prestige match and there is no reason to assume that Bangu regard it in any other way.  There is a duty to the club and to our spectators that for this unusually interesting clash we should field our strongest available team.  “My director could not have been more lothe to take this step, but with Vernon and Bingham out we could hardly have kept faith with the crowd who will want to see the game.  They expect to see first class entertainment and it is our duty to try to give it to them.  “Bangu have a tip-top reputation and they are not coming here merely to fill in the day.  They are definitely coming to beat us.  “Everton in the past, have always been most generous to countries in making players available and I have no reason to doubt that we will be equally generous in the future.
PLAYERS AGREE
“I have explained the club point of view to both lads and they have agreed that their first duty must be to the club.  Naturally they would like to play for their country, but this is one of those unfortunate exceptions when we must break with tradition.”  I don’t think Everton’s view is in any way unreasonable if they were to field a scratch side the meeting with Bangu would become just another friendly game.  Goodness knows, Everton have not been setting Goodison Park alight with some of their recent displays and it is not unnatural that they should wish to see what sort of class they will have to produce to do themselves justice when the New York tournament takes place next month.  Although Alex Young, who must be something of a superman not to have grown completely stale with the amount of football he is being asked to play (five games in eight days is his record of the recent past) will be assisting the British Army against the French Army at Oban on Sunday, he will be back for the Bangu clash.  He returns to England on Tuesday and will travel to Liverpool immediately.  Roy Vernon, yesterday received word that his grand-father had died in North Wales and left immediately.  Although the funeral will be on Saturday morning, Vernon has expressed his readiness to travel to Newcastle to play for Everton.  I understand that Mickey Lill is now more satisfied about his knee than for many a day and with anxiety dispelled may be ready to be considered for League football in about two weeks, just in time to try to earn himself a place among the party to play in New York. 

EVERTON’S NEW YORK DATES
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 06 April 1961
By Leslie Edwards
Bangu, the Brazilian team who will play Everton next Wednesday at Goodison Park, are in the same group of the New York international tournament in which Everton will be representing the Football League.  Kilmarnock last year’s beaten finalists by Bangu, are also in the section.  Everton’s fixture list is;-
May 23 v. Concordia (Canada) in Montreal
May 25; v Kilmarnock in Montreal;
June 4 v. Eintract (Frankfurt) in New York
June 7; v. Dynamo (Rumania) in New York
June 10 v. Bangu (Brazil) in New York
June 14 v Besiktas (Turkey) in New York
June 17 v New York in Montreal

EVERTON DELAY TEAM SELECTION
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 06 April 1961
Young, Fell Ruled Out
AT NEWCASTLE
By Michael Charters
Everton, who are at relegation - haunted Newcastle United on Saturday, will not name their team until to-morrow but neither centre forward Alex Young or outside left Jimmy Fell will be playing. Young is required to play for the Army in Oran. Algeria, on Sunday and Fell has been ruled by the League as ineligible to play because of Newcastle's position in the table. Newcastle will be unchanged from the side which gained away draws at Sheffield Wednesday and West Ham during Easter. Newcastle;- Hollins; McKinney, McMicheal; Neale, McGrath, Bell; Hughes, Woods, McGuigan, Allchurch, Scanlon. 

ROY VERNON SAYS-
Friday, April 7 1961 The Liverpool Daily Post
EVERTY MATCH WILL BE LIKE A CUP-TIE
If you look at the record books they will tell you that Liverpool ended their Cup fighting on January 28 when Sunderland beat them by two goals to nil, but if my own experience with Blackburn Rovers is any guide they will be in Cup battles right to the end of the season.  They will not be labelled Cup-ties, but every match they play will be contested with the utmost keenest.  It is not that there is any particular antagonism against Liverpool, for it will be just the same so far as Sheffield United are concerned.  Opponents take it upon themselves to see that clubs do not easily attain their goal, and anything they can do to upset the easy passage to a target, they do to the best of their ability.  This is sportsmanship of course, and I hope it will always be the case.  Sport flies out through the window as soon as one team goes on to a field and tries anything below its best to beat the opposition, whether there is anything or nothing at stake.  Liverpool would make a great mistake if they imagined that any of their remaining games will be easy.  They will not, and they would be foolish to examine a club’s record and assess possibilities from that. 
I DO NOT BELIEVE IT
It is amazing what can be accomplished by a club of no great pretensions when they really set themselves out to hit the headlines with a surprise victory.  I know you may have read in recent weeks how money has eased the path of certain clubs.  Personally, I do not believe it, I do not think it possible for anybody, no matter how affluent to undermine the sportsmanship of a complete side.  What a sorry day it would be if there was even the faintest suspicion that such a thing could be done.  I have no doubt whatever that Liverpool are a very popular side in the Second Division but they cannot count on popularity to help them in the fight that lies ahead.  On the contrary, Liverpool are an investment for all the clubs in the division.  Their gates are so good, that it is often very profitable to visit Anfield while Liverpool who have all the basic requirements for a First Division club, will probably fail to cover their expenses from receipts away from home almost as often as they break even.  Don’t imagine that only clubs concerned in a promotion race know which fixtures the competing teams have left to play.  Plans will be laid with all the earnestness of a Cup-tie to try to unseat the favourities, and very often they succeed. 
EXCITING RACE
The Second Division race has all the promise of being one of the most exciting in recent years and I would be prepared to find us waiting until the last fixtures of the season to know whether Liverpool have succeeded in winning the fight that has gone on constantly since they were relegated.  On that occasion I am told Everton and Liverpool passed each other on the way up and down.  I am thankful that if this is to be Liverpool’s promotion year there is no chance of history repeating itself so far as Everton are concerned.  We may have had plenty of disappointments in this eventful season, but at least the spectre of relegation has never been just over our shoulders.  What a great day it was for Alex Young at Blackburn on Good Friday, for I know what it means to break a non-scoring spell, especially by scoring a double and in Young’s case of course it was the more important because they represented his first goals in English League football. 
A DIFFERENT YOUNG?
I think we shall see a different Young from now on.  He has proved he can score goals against the toughest opposition and if you examine his scoring record in Scottish football you will find it is much better than many people have been inclined to believe.  I think everybody felt a trifle sorry for Derek Temple in having to be left out on Monday following what was probably the finest game he has played so far, but when youngsters are coming up that is often the way of it.  His display will not have been forgotten and it should be a great encouragement to him to take that showing as a pattern and follow it as faithfully as he can. 

A STRUGGLING NEWCASTLE
Liverpool Echo - Friday 07 April 1961
By Leslie Edwards
Everton’s visit to Newcastle United to-morrow does not carry the same urgency as Liverpool's games these days—but to Newcastle, it could not be more vital. They need every point and goal they can to steer clear of the frantic struggle for survival among the bottom six clubs and how alarming it must be to those partisan Tynside folk to see their famous team down among the dead men. Everton will not be facing Jimmy Harrower, who has been dropped twice by Newcastle in the short time he has been with them after his transfer from Liverpool. And Everton will be without Alex Young owing to Army commitments, so that Frank Wignall will be deputising again. These soccer-wise Newcaste fans know a footballer when they see one, and there will be some disappointment there that they will not have the chance to see Young. Another absentee will be outside left Jimmy Fell, ruled ineligible by the League because Newcastle are in relegation toils. A notable non-starter for Newcastle is centre forward Len White, one of the best in the business, whose injury will keep him out for the rest of the season. White has scored some great goals against Everton in the last few years and Everton will not be sorry he is missing. Newcastle will be unchanged from the side which drew at Sheffield Wednesday on Monday. Newcastle United: Hollins; McKinney, McMichael; Neale, McGrath, Bell; Hughes, Woods, McGuigan, Allchurch, Scanlon.

EVERTON’S CHANGES AT NEWCASTLE
Liverpool Echo - Friday 07 April 1961
WIGNALL AND TEMPLE PLAY
By Leslie Edwards
Everton have two changes for the match at Newcastle tomorrow.  Frank Wignall is at centre forward for Alex Young, who is playing for the Army against the French Army in Oran on Sunday, and Derek Temple at outside for Fell, who is ineligible because Newcastle are in the relegation zone.  Otherwise the team is as against Blackburn Rovers.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Temple. 
Everton Reserves (v. Chesterfield at Goodison Park-Mailey; Green, Gannon; Harris, Jones, Sharples; Lill, Tyrer, Webber, Morton, Fell. 

EVERTON AT NEWCASTLE
Saturday, April 8, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
By Horace Yates
This time last season it was Everton who were anxiously considering their slender hold in a First Division place.  Now its Newcastle turn to be looking for every point being even more precarious placed than the opponents today.  Before last Saturday groans might have greeted the announcement that Jimmy Fell could not play, but so well did Temple perform against Birmingham that he has only to give a repeat performance for the former Grimsby man not to be missed at all.  Wignall as replacement for Young has nothing like the craft of the Scot and has made no sort of scoring impression during his most recent games but if Vernon and Collins can regain their touch and give Wignall the sort of service a centre forward is entitled to expect he will not let them down. 
NO ENCOURAGEMENT
It may not be generally known that four or five clubs sounded Everton before the signing deadline was reached, regarding the possibility of Wignall being realised.  The most persistent was probably Norwich City but none of them received the slightest encouragement.  That is a measure of the confidence Everton have in this young leader and here is yet another chance for him to pay tribute to it.  While Everton have gained two wins and a draw from their last five visits to Newcastle last season the tally against Everton was 8-2 and in the preceding season it was 4-0.  It is time the slate was wiped clean of such unhappy memories.  Newcastle are strengthened by the return of Dick Keith their right-back, who has made a rapid recovery from a knee injury.  Newcastle United; Hollins; McKinlay (or Keith), Neale, McGrath, Bell; Hughes, Woods, McGuigan, Allchurch, Scanlon.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Temple. 

EARLY ESCAPES, THEN EVERTON WIN AS THEY PLEASE
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 08 April 1961
NEWCASTLE UNITED 0, EVERTON 4
By Michael Charters
Newcastle United; Hollins; Keith, McMichael; Neale, McGrath, Bell; Hughes, Woods, McGuigan, Allchurch, Scanlon.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Temple.  Referee; Mr. E. Crawford (Doncaster). 
In the first minute there was a ball shock for Everton when Dunlop mistimed his catch of a long centre from Hughes, the ball dropping out of his hands and, being scrambled away by Thomson. Then Meagan lost possession of the ball just outside the penalty area, allowing Allchurch to race through and hit a fierce shot straight at Dunlop, who could not hold it. Gabriel put the ball behind for tor a corner. Everton’s defence looked very shaky in the opening minutes, with Meagan conceding a needless corner and Thomson almost putting through his own goal when Dunlop had McGuigan’s shot covered.
DANGER CLEARED
This danger was cleared well enough and Everton, in their first attack of the game, saw Wignall, put through by a neat header from Bingham, hit a fine shot from 25 yards which Hollins pushed round the post at full stretch. Everton had settled down quite well after those early shocks and when Temple came into the game for the first time he rounded Keith nicely and pushed the ball across for Collins to shoot from close range. The ball beat Hollins, but McMichael cleared off the goal line. Newcastle's defence was making as many errors as Everton's and a bad pass from Keith let Gabriel come through with the ball, passing it to Bingham who over-ran it for a harmless goal kick. Everton scored what I thought a good goal when Wignall headed the ball through for Vernon to race through unchallenged and place it in the net, but the linesman flagged the Welshman offside. In my book Vernon was onside when Wignall made the Pass.
ANOTHER LET-OFF
Then Everton had another let-off when Thomson let a long centre go past him, thinking the ball was going behind, only for Hughes to nip behind him and head the ball into the goalmouth where it hit McGuigan in the face, and bounced wide. Everton took the lead after 15 minutes with a typically clever Bingham goal. After a neat bit of play between the winger and Vernon, the, Welshman pushed the ball through for Bingham to cut inside and beat Hollins easily with a well-placed,' angled shot.  Everton were much more incisive in their attacks then Newcastle, and Bingham got Vernon away down the right wing with a lovely chipped pass. Vernon delayed his centre a little too long, I thought, but finally got it across to Temple whose right foot shot struck McGrath and rebounded into the arms of Hollins.  There could have been a bagful of goals by now if Newcastle had taken their chances and Everton had finished off some of their good-looking moves with a little more finality. Then another one did come to Everton, after 32 minutes. Temple, who had been playing very well indeed, weaved his way beautifully through the middle before slipping the ball across to an unmarked Wignall out on the left, who hit it instantly with his left foot and his low, swerving shot had Hollins completely baffled. At this stage Newcastle were playing with the Second Division look clearly stamped on them. They had little method and their defensive covering was weak in the extreme. There were some close offside decisions going against Everton, who were completely on top now. When Scanlon made a bad pass, the ball went to Wignall who, incredibly, was stopped for offside.  Temple was having a particularly good innings, playing in fact the best game I have ever seen from him. He dispossessed Hughes on the half-way line and cut through into the middle to put one on a plate for Collins, who hit the ball just wide of the angle with a first time shot. Dunlop had had little to do after that opening five minutes or so, but he saved Everton when he turned in mid-air to punch away a good header by
McGuigan from Scanlon's centre.  Wignall, too, was doing very nicely and he was unlucky when his headed pass to Bingham was just a little too quick for the winger to collect, it looked odds-on another' Everton goal.
BINGHAM’S MISS
Everton should have got a third after Collins had split the Newcastle defence with a perfect pass to Wignall on the right wing, Bingham turning the centre wide when he should have put it in the net. Parker headed off the line from McGuigan after Meagan had failed to clip the ball smartly up-field. Dunlop was hurt in this goalmouth scramble taking a blow to the body. He looked quite dazed, but played on. Half-time.—Newcastle United , nil, Everton 2.
Meagan made a mistake which created on opening for United, but Woods made a mess of it by shooting wide with a fine chance. Newcastle were playing with more urgency now -little wonder in view of their perilous position. They kept Everton pinned on defence in the opening stages of the second half but finished poorly. Everton were not playing with the same conviction as they had done in the first half although Thomson, Gabriel and Parker were outstanding.
FORWARDS FAIL
Allchurch was getting through an incredible amount of work in an attempt to get his forwards moving but they were failing when they neared Everton's penalty area. On the other hand Vernon was tending to slow up Everton's line in trying to do too much himself in mid-field. Then, just as I said it was Vernon who put Everton three ahead after 62 minutes with a shot which Hollins should have saved. Vernon started the move by dispossessing Neale and then pushed the ball through for Collins to chip it forward to his unmarked colleague, and Vernon hit quite a slow shot into the far corner of the net. This goal seemed to knock what appeared to be the temporary life out of Newcastle and Wignall almost got a fourth in the next couple of minutes when he hooked a pass from Vernon just wide. Allchurch made a fine shot when seemingly well covered for Dunlop to make a first class save, pushing the ball out for Thomson to whip it away for a corner. Everton went further ahead after 69 minutes when Bingham scored what must have been the easiest goal of his life. Hollins dropped a centre from Collins at Bingham’s feet and he just had to turn it into the empty net. SWEET REVENGE
Everton were doing almost as they liked now and this victory was sweet revenge for the crushing defeats which they had suffered on their last two visits, here by 8-2 and 4-0. On this display there seems nothing more certain that Newcastle are heading straight for the Second Division. With a few minutes to go, Collins was unlucky not to score what would have been a superb goal. He and Vernon took the ball through, with Collins taking the final pass to glide smoothly round Hollins, but hit the ball wide with the empty goal in front of him. Final; Newcastle nil, Everton 4.  Attendance 30,040.

OUR MANAGER’S CODE PAID OFF IN THE END
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 08 April 1961
ALEX PARKER WELCOME EVERTON’S EASTER EGG
It certainly a good Easter for Everton with five points out of six, and naturally we are hoping that it means we have left our poor form behind.  It’s strange thing, but I think we gave our best display in the away game at Blackburn on Good Friday, although that’s probably because it was the first of our three matches in four days.  Although, naturally, everybody was pleased the way our three games went, I don’t think anybody was more delighted then Alex Young and our manager, Mr. Carey.  The two goals Alex scored at Blackburn were his first in the League for us, and he followed it up with another one on Monday, so I don’t suppose the Easter could have been better from his point of view.  During our recent bad spell, our manager has insisted that we keep playing football all the time, even though the results have been going against us.  I couldn’t even attempt to remember the number of times he has said to us; “Keep playing football and the results will come.”  Well he has certainly proved his point.  Our only hope now is that we can finish the season in the same way and carry it on for our America trip.  In the remaining League programme, we will be all out to try to recapture our pre-Christmas form, and if we do I feel sure we can give a very good account of ourselves In New York.
SO TIRED
 I have been asked this week just what effect playing three games in four days has on players, and I think can speak for every one of us when I say: "It makes you awfully tired." That as undoubtedly why the third match, against Blackburn on Monday was the quietest of the three. The players' feet and legs were beginning to feel the strain a little. We have with us at Goodison a Malayan coach at the moment. Choo Seng Quee, who is in England to see just how we go about things. He has been at Burnley for a few months and returns home In July. Although he has undoubtedly seen some good matches involving the League champions, he reckons that the football we played at Blackburn on Good Friday was the best he has seen in England. Our holiday matches were remarkable for the number of players who turned out against their former clubs, and after each game the dressing rooms were so packed it was hard to tell just who was playing for which team.  In both Blackburn matches, Eddie Thomas and Matt Woods, the former Everton players, were in laughing and joking, and Roy Vernon went along to see his old Ewood Park pals. On the Saturday, Jimmy Harris, now with Birmingham City, came in for a chat. Jimmy was made captain for the day against us and it was nice to hear the round of applause from the crowd as he went up to toss the coin with Bobby Collins.
LILL BETTER
Mickey Lill played twice for the reserves over the holiday, on the Friday and Monday. He said he was a little tired after the first game but stood up to his second match much better. It looks as if he will soon be 100 per cent, match fit again. We are all looking forward to the game with Bangu at Goodison next Wednesday with rather more interest than usual for a friendly against a foreign side, for the Brazilian boys won the New York international tournament last year, and we are anxious to see just how good you have to be to do that. I think most fans in this country know how good Brazilian football can be after the stuff they played to win the last World Cup. We were reminded the other day that it won't be too long before we meet them again, for our manager told us he had received a copy of our fixture list for the Canada-America tour. We start off with two games in Montreal and then move to New York for the remainder of our games.
LIVERPOOL HOPES
After our own position in the League, I think most Everton players take notice of how Liverpool are doing, and we were all disappointed to see them beaten at Bristol Rovers on Tuesday.  Just as the fans like a “Derby” game, there’s nothing we players like better than playing in one, and although Tuesday’s defeat knocked Liverpool’s hopes of coming up, another  couple of matches could completely change the position Here's hoping. I notice that Tranmere's position is nowhere near as hopeless as it seemed a few weeks ago, and I believe that one of the players who is having a lot to do with their revival is Tommy Murray, the outside right they signed from Leeds United. Tommy is an old Falkirk colleague and played in the same Scottish Cup winning side as Bert Slater and I in 1957.
Not so long ago, Bobby Collins and I were invited to the David Lewis Theatre to present prizes for the Wavertree Darts League. The league officials made us very welcome and we thoroughly enjoyed the evening. This week we received a very pleasant surprise when we each received a canteen of cutlery from the league. It came right out of the blue. On behalf of both of us, I would like to say "Thank you very much" to both officials and members of the Wavertree Darts League and wish them every success and "good throwing" for the future.

EVERTON RES V CHESTERFIELD RES
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 08 April 1961
Everton Reserves; Mailey; Green, Gannon; Harris, Jones, Sharples; Lill, Tyrer, Webber, Morton, Fell.  Chesterfield Reserves;- Osborne; Holmes, Trigg; Fowler, Smallwood, Milligan; Newson, Broadhurst, Lewis, Parnham, Kenyon.  Referee; Mr. H.B. Jones, of Wolverhampton. 
After Morton had headed the Chesterfield bar from Fell’s first minute corner-kick, the defences were in command for some time.  Lill eventually livened matters up with a fierce low drive which Osborne turned out for a corner.  Good work by the Everton defence and particularly by Jones and Green, had so far kept Chesterfield at a safe distance, but suddenly a long pass from Kenyon to the opposite wing was collected by Newson.  The winger found himself with only Mailey to beat, but the Everton goalkeeper smothered the shot and the ball went out for a corner.  In the 25th minute, Everton went ahead when Tyrer converted a hard centre from Lill.  Everton had now taken Chesterfield’s measure and were turning n some copybook football supported by powerful finishing.  Osborne made several fine saves notably from Lill, Tyrer, and Morton.  Just on half time Chesterfield made a brief assault for Kenyon to shoot into the side netting.  Half-time; Everton Res 1, Chesterfield Res nil.
EVERTON C V. BLACKBURN ROVERS C
After 25 minutes a shot by Newitt gave Everton the lead, Newitt volleyed the ball into the Blackburn net after 33 minutes, but a few minutes later Monks reduced the arrears with a penalty.  Half-time Everton C 2, Blackburn Rovers C 1.

NEWCASTLE ARE HEADING FOR DIVISION TWO
Monday, April 10, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
NEWCASTLE UNITED 0, EVERTON 4
By Michael Charters
Everton gained a sweet but rather hollow, revenge for some of the defeats they have suffered at St. James’ Park in the last few years, by their most complete and convincing victory of the season on Saturday.  The feature was not so much Everton’s first-class win, as the disintegration of this once fine Newcastle side, who look certain to play in the Second Division next season.  If you take out Allchurch, you are left with very little else.  They played without method or drive and apart from the opening minutes were never a match for Everton, who played some superb football at times which earned due applause from the Newcastle fans, who know good football when they see it.  Newcastle, of course, are a team of great tradition, but this must be one of the poorest sides they have ever had in their history.  Everton just toyed with them and after scoring the fourth goal 20 minutes from the end, large sections of the crowd drifted away in disgust.  It must have been heart-breaking for the players and officials to hear the derisive jeering at some of the inept attempts of the forwards to score. 
ROMPED AWAY
Everton must be given credit for the completely convincing way in which they sized up the poorness of their opponents after the initial stages, and romped away almost without exerting themselves.  The whole side played well with some more outstanding than others.  They moved best in the first half when Temple and Wignall were particularly good and the defence, although a bit shaky at times were not made to pay for the errors they made because of the lack of finish of this very poor Newcastle forward line.  Thomson had a superb game, completely blotting out Hughes and delighting everyone with his artistic touches and Parker too, did almost as he liked against Scanlon.  Dunlop was only called on to make two difficult saves from Allchurch and McGuigan and he carried these through with the complete confidence, which marked his display throughout.  Labone, playing with a heavy cold, strolled through the match against the ineffective McGuigan while Gabriel was the best wing-half on view.  Meagan improved as the game went on, but was guilty of some mistakes in the first half which could have proved costly and as the game wore on the whole forward line clicked into action to outplay Newcastle completely.  The first goal came after fifteen minutes with Bingham taking Vernon’s pass and scoring with a clever angled shot from ten yards. 
WIGNALL’S GOAL
After 32 minutes Wignall got the second, after Temple had glided through the middle beautifully, slipping the ball across for the centre forward to beat Hollins with a low swerving shot.  It was Vernon’s turn next in the 62nd minute, going through after a fine link-up with Collins to shoot just inside the far upright, with Hollins looking a little slow to get down to it.  Seven minutes later Bingham scored one of the easiest goals of his career when Hollins dropped the ball at his feet from Collins centre.  In the last five minutes Collins, Temple and Vernon might all have scored with good shots, Hollins saving a scorcher from Vernon.  The longer the game went on the more dominant Everton became with Collins and Vernon playing beautifully and making counties openings.  Had Everton been playing at full pace in the last 20 minutes they could well have doubled the score.  Newcastle United;- Hollins; Keith, McMichael; Neale, McGrath, Bell; Hughes, Woods, McGuigan, Allchurch, Scanlon.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Temple.  Referee-Mr. E. Crawford (Doncaster).  Attendance 30,040. 

EVERTON RES HAVE HARD FIGHT
Monday, April 10, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
EVERTON RES 2, CHESTERFIELD RES 1
Despite being superior Everton were made to fight hard by the Chesterfield defence.  Against a less efficient rear-guard Everton’s almost incessant raiding must have had greater reward, but the effectiveness of wingers Fell the best forward on view and Lill was nullified through their inside men being crowded out.  Even when Lill added to Tyrer’s first half goal, Chesterfield refused to surrender and eleven minutes from the end Lewis, a former Everton player headed in to keep the issue open.  For the most part however, the Chesterfield forwards rarely penetrated the Everton half back line of Harris, Jones and Sharples, who dictated the course of the game. 

EVERTON COAST TO THEIR EASIEST WIN OF SEASON
Liverpool Echo - Monday 10 April 1961
By Michael Charters
A Union Jack flies in a corner of Newcastle United's ground on match days. Twenty minutes from the end of the game there on Saturday, with Everton leading 4 -0 one of the thousands of disgruntled fans streaming away from the ground moved the flag to halt mast. There it stayed to the end, a mute token of the position at St. James Park these days with the famous United seemingly headed who was struggling at the for the Second Division with what must be one of the worst teams ever to have played in the black and white strip. There were demonstrations after the match, and one man tried to climb into the directors' box to put his point of view even more forcibly. It was not so much that Newcastle had been humbled by brilliant Everton football but that the side were so pathetic that some of them didn't even look Second Division standard. Take Ivor Allchurch out of the team, and you’re left with little else.  The Welshman played a magnificent game-on his own.  He had no support, no team-work, nobody around to help or take advantage of his work.  In a word Newcastle are appalling.  Hollins, the Welsh Under-23 goalkeeper, looked very shaky, full-backs Keith and McMichael slow to the tackle, the wing halves, almost non-existent, centre half McGrath only a shadow of the good player he was with Bury, and the forwards, Allchurch apart, were pathetic.  It was little wonder that so many people left the ground long before the end for all they had to applaud was Everton’s skill.  To their credit, they do so frequently and it was good to hear appreciation of some first class football when all Everton players showed in turn.  Some may say that Newcastle were so poor that they made Everton look good.  I would not agree with that for a moment.  Everton’s culture and method were certainly given more time and room to bloosom because of Newcastle’s shortcomings, but they played delightfully.  They strolled through to their easiest win of the season and the manner of achieving it could not have been more attractive.
SHAKY OPENING
Yet, in the first five minutes, no one could have anticipated that the game would turn in their favour so convincingly.  Everton’s defence looked very shaky in these opening minutes, with parker, Gabriel, and Thomson all clearing desperately for corners.  But, in their initial attack, Bingham put Wignall through with a crisp header, and Wignall hit a wonderful shot on the run which Hollins saved at full stretch.  From that moment, there was only one team in it and the longer the game wore on the more Everton took control.  In the end, they were moving at half pace and flicking the ball from man to man leaving the Newcastle defenders marked with that “Second Division, here we come” label.  Everton’s football could not have been better and they could have scored three more goals in the last five minutes with a little more luck.  All Everton team played well, with some a little more outstanding than others.  Gallantly as Allchurch strived and fought, I made George Thomson the man of the match. 
CLASS BACK
Thomson has been slowly improving after his unsettled early days with Everton.  Here he showed himself a class full-back fast into the tackle and superb in his use of the ball.  His constructive touches were brilliant and the Newcastle crowd showed they appreciated him.  He looked a £30,000 player on this form.  I would also single out Wignall and Temple for special mention.  I have never seen Wignall play better than this, shooting well and heading a ball even better.  He was more mobile than usual, moving out to the wings and creating great gaps in the leaden-footed Newcastle defence.  Temple had a particularly good first half, and his move in making Wignall’s goal, gliding into the middle to draw the defence and then slipping a pass to the left for Wignall to score was one of the highlights of the game.  Collins had a great game and he almost crowded his display with what would have been a superb individual goal late on. He slipped through a crowd of defenders like a wraith but after rounding the goalkeepers hit the ball as it was moving away from him and it went wide. He was more aggressive than usual with his shooting and was able to speed less time in the midfield area. Here, Vernon and Gabriel did much of the prompting, with Gabriel the best wing half on the field and Vernon, ignoring some strong tackling most sensibly. Hollins produced the save of match from one Vernon scorcher, and the Welshman was playing better towards the end than he has done for weeks.  Start and most of the goalmouth shocks Everton had early on could be traced to his reluctance to clear danger quickly. 
PARKER ON TOP
Parker was so much in control of Scanlon that I can't recall the former Manchester United man supplying one effective contribution to United’s cause.  He was adventurous and sound in the right proportions while behind him Dunlop was very competent in everything he did.  His twisting save from a McGuigan header was brilliant from one of the few Newcastle moves which amounted to anything, while he made another equally good one from Allchurch in the second half.  Labone, playing with a cold, was never extended and must have had the easiest game of his career.  Bingham said before the game that he always enjoyed playing at St. James’s Park where he had a knack of getting a goal. He came up with two, the first a fine angled shot after he Vernon had opened up the defence, and the last a gift chance after Hollins had dropped the ball at his feet. He was always the master of his old Irish colleague, McMichael, and created havoc in the Newcastle defence with his varying tactics. Everton's other goal came from Vernon, a neatly placed shot just inside the upright after he had linked with Collins. It was all very satisfying, very efficient, with Everton playing well within themselves and yet paralysing Newcastle with their speed and skill.

EX-EVERTON PLAYER
Liverpool Echo - Monday 10 April 1961
By Leslie Edwards
Harry Catterick, former Everton centre-forward, has resigned the managership of Sheffield Wednesday, the second most successful club in the Football League this season and last.  This move, not entirely unexpected by people in the inner council’s of the game, comes after some weeks of uncertainty about Catterick’s position following some friction between him and the board and many rumours of the possibility of him leaving to take up a more lucrative position.  Hs three years’ contract was due to expire in August.  He said after the emergency meeting of the board to-day; “I am not going anywhere else immediately.  This means I am out of work.” 
SORRY TO LEAVE
Asked if he had parted with the club on friendly terms, Catterick said: don't wish to comment." But he added: “I am sorry to have to leave a very fine bunch of players who I certainly think will have further successes. “It is pleasing to leave a club and to know that the first team is second in the First Division, the second and third teams too of their respective divisions and the fourth team second in their table." Mr Eric Taylor, the club’s general manager, said: Mr. Catterick can leave to-day if he wants to. We have no one in mind as a replacement" The first real hint of a breach between the manager and his club came with the news that he was not invited to the important meeting of League chairmen and managers in London on Friday.  At the back end of last season Catterick's name was linked with that of Blackburn Rovers and Nottingham Forest. When it seemed certain that he would succeed Billy Walker at Nottingham the matter fell through and Catterick said he would be staying at Hillsborough.
EVERTON LINK
Again this season there was rumour that Catterick would soon be joining a First Division club in Lancashire with unlimited financial backing.  At the time, Everton were playing badly and there was some basis for believing that Catterick might re-join his old club.  He told me at the time, “Whatever I go, I shall insist on complete authority in team matters.”  Everton’s revival may well have caused a change of heart on the part of those who felt that Catterick might have a big future at Goodison Park.  I am told that he is anxious, if possible to stay in the North and the situation at both Newcastle and Manchester City would seem to hold out hope for him in those cities if things there do not improve quickly. Those who know the former Everton player who made good so quickly in management, first with Crewe, then with Rochdale and Sheffield Wednesday, sense behind his resignation some behind-scenes clash with Mr. Taylor, one of the best paid administrators in the game and a man tipped as a likely successor to Sir Stanley Rous when he retires. 

YOUNG AND FELL BACK AGAINST BANGU
Liverpool Echo - Monday 10 April 1961
EVERTON AT FULL STRENGTH
LILL BETTER
By Leslie Edwards
Crack Brazilian team, Bangu will face a full-strength Everton in the long-awaited match at Goodison Park on Wednesday evening (7-30).  Alex Young will be back after playing for the Army in Oran, and Fell, who missed the Newcastle game because of ineligibility, will be on the left wing.  Having taken nine of the last 10 points available, Everton are much readier to meet their opponents in New York in June, than they were before the Easter holidays.  The Bangu team, who play Sunderland tonight, arrive in Liverpool tomorrow. 
LILLL’S TEST
Meanwhile, manager John Carey announced good news of Mickey Lill, the winger whose career at Goodison Park has been cut into by two cartilage operations.  He played for the reserves on Saturday came through the test splendidly and played really well.  “He has made wonderful progress, I rate him at 80 per cent on the way to complete fitness, said Mr. Carey.  Everton Reserves have a match at Manchester City tonight.  The team is being held over until the fitness of Alan Jarvis is decided. 

MANCHESTER CITY RES 2 EVERTON RES 2
Tuesday, April 11, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
Everton gained a fine point last night at Maine Road, Manchester, who had five first team regulars in the side, never matched the visitors for team work and can think their defence for a share in the spoils.  The visitors took the lead in the third minute when Harland got possession from Webber and scored a fine angled goal.  It could have been two but Gomersall City’s left back, kicked a shot from Tyrer off the line.  Manchester’s equaliser came from Hart, but following a good forward move Webber restored the lead for the visitors.  Two minutes from the interval.  Meadows made the scores level with a header.  The second half saw the visitors take control of the game for long periods with Lill, Tyrer, Webber all going close. 

YOUNG AND FELL IN EVERTON SIDE
Tuesday, April 11, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
Everton, for tomorrow evening’s match against Bangu of Brazil, will have two changes from the team that won at Newcastle.  Alex Young the Scottish international returns to centre forward in place of Frank Wignall, and Jimmy Fell will be at outside left in place of Derek Temple.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell. 

FRIENDLY (WHICH ISN’T!) AT GOODISON TOMORROW
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 11 April 1961
By Leslie Edwards
THE game which has been as eagerly awaited as the one against Tottenham (let us hope there is no veil of fog to mask it from us!) is due at Goodison Park to-morrow night (7.30) when the finest team in Brazil, Bangu, face Everton at full strength in a friendly which isn't. Everton are tackling this match seriously as one which can indicate the strength of teams they are likely to face in the New York tourney in June. Bangu won the competition a year ago. If Everton won they would go to America content that they were not going to be outclassed or outplayed. Time was (not so long ago when things were going badly) when some Everton fans felt it would be unwise for them to undertake their United States tour. Happily, they have now found form again. I cannot imagine anyone interested in football in this city who will miss the opportunity to see a world class team in action against the best Everton eleven for seasons. This is a match where much prestige is at stake; I hope Everton followers will note their club's action in withholding such players as Bingham and Vernon from the International so that club followers in this city will at least be represented against distinguished opposition by the best team possible. The match ranks as the most attractive additional one ever put on here. Here are some brief pen pictures of Bangu players likely to be seen: Small, but skilful
Übirajara (goalkeeper)—Very small, but what he lacks in height he offsets by his skill.
Desio.—He can play anywhere in the team. Lately he has had success as centre forward.  Started his career as a full back.
Joel (right full back).—A fast, tough player. One of the candidates for the Brazlian World Cup team. Likes to raid in the front line when his forwards are failing.
Nilton Santos (left full back).—Botafogo's Nilton Santos was elected the best full back of World Cup 1958. Nilton Santos of Bangu is playing as well as his more famous namesake.
Darey Faria (centre half).—One of the strong men of the team. He is one of the best headers in Rio. Does not kick away desperately, but always tries to hand the ball over accurately to a comrade. Another aspirant fur a place in the Brazilian party to Chile.
Helcio (halt back).—impressive in action.  He works hard throughout.
Annanias (full back).—Has occupied all positions in the defence. Is very fast
Correia (outside right).—Very fast and a great dribbler. Famous also for the precision of his shots. One of the top scorers.
Luiz Carlos (inside right).—The brains of the attack, but also a scorer. Difficult to mark. Has received many offers (rum other clubs, but Bangu have rejected them all.
Walter (inside left).—Rose suddenly last year in the Brazilian football firmament. Experts believe that Walter is going to be a new Didi.
Beto (outside left).—Said to be the hard-hitter of the team and is also amongst the fastest players. Durval (centre forward).—Durval is only 18 years old and was juvenile champion in 1959. A man of the future.
Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell.
Not all agree
Not all followers of Everton agree that it was right to save Vernon and Bingham for to-morrow's game. Mr. B. Culligan, of 38 Copy Lane, Netherton, writes: “Everton’s decision to deprive the two players of the honour of representing their countries and also the financial reward entailed, apart from being in the worst possible spirit, was totally unnecessary. There was no important Cup or even League game at stake—just a friendly—and because of this, Bingham is forced to lose his magnificent international record. What makes this worse is that Bingham is not indispensable to Everton, who have an adequate deputy in Temple. “It has been obvious for some time that team spirit at Everton leaves something to be desired, but with this kind of treatment, what can one expect?"

CATTERICK; NO OFFICIAL EVERTON MOVE
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 11 April 1961
CONCERN OVER RUMOURS
STATEMENT
By Leslie Edwards
Rumour is linking the name of Harry Catterick, the Sheffield Wednesday manager who resigned yesterday, with Everton F.C.  Catterick has heard these rumours and those associating him with Newcaste United, Manchester City , West Ham and other first-class clubs.  He deplores them all.  “I think it is a poor thing when such matters are aired when the clubs concerned already have managers, some of them my personal friends, he said to-day.  “I have never had any official approach from Everton,” he added.  “So far,” he said, I have received three offers.  One from Leyton Orient and two from first-class clubs, the identity of which I do not want to disclose.”  Catterick still has not touched, except between the lines in my story of his leaving, the reason for his parting from Wednesday.  He told me; “Everyone is conjecturing about my reasons for leaving.  I could say a lot but I’m not going to because what I would say would not do good to the game, the club, or me.  “This is my first real day out of harness since I started football in 1938.  I’m going to enjoy it and take a rest.  When some club comes up with a firm offer I shall consider it.” 

DIXIE ILL
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 11 April 1961
EX-EVERTON STAR IN CHESTER HOSPITAL
W.R. (Dixie) Dean, former Everton star, who was admitted to hospital in Chester last week is on the road to recovery.  Mrs. Dean, who is looking after their Chester public house while her husband is recuperating, told the Echo yesterday Dixie had influenza and it very nearly turned to pneumonia.  He was admitted to hospital and when I saw him yesterday he was obviously much better.  “I do not think it will be long before he is back at work.” 

FORGET CATTERICK FOR EVERTON RUMOURS
Wednesday, April 12, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
NOT FAINTEST FOUNDATION FOR HINT OF MANEGERIAL UPSET AT GOODISON
By Horace Yates
The mere fact that Mr. Harry Catterick, one of the most successful managers in the game has parted company with Sheffield Wednesday and is now available to consider new offers, has led to his name being associated with Everton.  Why this should be so, could scarcely be more difficult to imagine.  I do not believe for one moment that there is the slightest foundation for any sort of theory that Mr. John Carey is not still as firmly established in the Everton saddle as ever he was.  Why should there be any dissatisfaction with the man who has taken the club to its highest League position since they gained promotion to Division One in 1954? It is true the team has passed through a disturbing and unrewarding patch, but which team does not?  For all their set-backs their League position is hardly affected, so that obviously while Everton have been finding points difficult to accumulate other teams have not exactly made child’s play of the task.  Nine points taken from the last ten with successive away games to emphasise the theory that the turn of the tide has been reached, suggest that Everton’s worst is past.  It may take time before they sweep all before them as they did earlier in the campaign.  While it was very exciting to find favourable results being peeled off one after the other in the opening months there is such a thing as success coming too quickly.  Anybody who will be truthful must confess that the progress made by Everton was more dazzling than could have been expected, and even now team building is not 100 per cent complete.  Until it is, the sort of stability which every club supporter so ardently desires cannot be commanded. 
ENVY OF OTHERS
Everton are still the envy of most clubs, not merely because of the financial power behind the throne because of the quality of their playing material and the standard of their football, but also because of their manager.  I realise full well that football clubs cannot be rushing into print ever time some suggestion appears which is at variance with the facts, but there are occasions when club interests are so virtually concerned that an official statement must be worthy of consideration.  Last night I was unable to obtain such statement regarding the Catterick reports which as far as my inquiries went, are nothing more substantial than idle speculation.  Because it has followed so often that when a top class player comes on offer Everton have been among the first in the field with their offers, it would be wholly wrong to imagine that the same thing applies equally to managers.  Mr. Carey is one of the most able and popular managers in the game and unless I misread the situation completely Everton are not unaware of that fact.  For all their spending I would not be at all surprised if Everton were able to report at the end of the season that a little profit had been made.  They have seldom, if ever been happier so far as the strength of their youthful talent is concerned.  Mr. Carey has made no secret of the fact that he believes in making his own stars, not buying them, but because he considered the club’s needs were so desperate for matured players to give the Merseyside public quality football, he departed from his “Don’t waste money in the transfer market” theory. 
GREAT YOUNG SIDE
Everton’s youth team is one of the greatest young sides in the country.  In that team may be many of the Goodison first team players of the future, and anyone with half an eye must be convinced that Mr. Carey while meeting an extraordinary situation by extraordinary measures is as great a believer in breeding his own boys as ever he was.  This youthful strength is build up at Blackburn was one of the greatest testimonials to his merit and it looks as though he has carried on at Goodison where he left off at Ewood Park.  When a club is nursing a deeply guarded secret little things suggest themselves as pointers.  I have noticed no such veiled clues with regard to the managerial position.  Mr. Carey’s contract has still two and a half years to run and it is my guess and hope that he will be with us to see the completion of it.  He is being well paid for his job, but in return it giving nothing short of his best.  Mr. Catterick yesterday confirmed that Leyton Orient had made him an offer and added that two other first class clubs had been in contact with him.  There are a lot of first class clubs in English football who have far more reason to be worried over their managerial problems than Everton, and I suggest that whichever clubs they have approached Mr. Catterick Everton are certainly not one of them. 
BANGU MATCH
Now let us return to normality and get on with the game.  Tonight’s match is with the Brazilan side, Bangu, a game considered so important by Everton that they declined to allow Roy Vernon and Billy Bingham to be considered for international duty on the same evening.  This move was dictated to ensure that spectators would see two full strength teams in action, prior to their meeting in America in the New York tourney.  A thrilling win for the home team would give them a substantial feeling of confidence to meet the challenge to be faced later.  The kick off is at 7;30 p.m. Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell. 
HONOUR FOR SHANNON
A feather in the cap of coach Les Shannon and the Everton Football Club is an invitation to Shannon to take part in an international coaching course in Switzerland in June.  I understand the Everton board have been only too willing to make it possible for him to accept.  Some idea of the standard being called for in the choice of candidates may be gathered from the fact that the other members of the British party are thought likely to be Waiter Winterbootom, the England team coach, and Billy Wright.  Les Shannon has steadily been building up a reputation as a most capable man at his job and this recognition shows that his advance has been defected beyond Merseyside.  He came to Goodison Park last year. 
Mickey Lill striving to regain full fitness as soon as possible, suffered a slight set-back in the Central League game with Manchester City on Monday evening when for the first time since he resumed playing he felt a pain in the knee on which an operation was performed some weeks ago.  I understand it is nothing to be alarmed about the sort of natural reaction to his trying to make the comeback pace too hot.  He played in a match on Saturday and then gain on Monday, Lill believes that the only way to establish true fitness again is by more and more football. 

EVERTON LEAGUE SIDE TO FACE TRANMERE
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 12 April 1961
By Leslie Edwards
There are three big mid-week games in Liverpool next week-Liverpool Senior Cup semi-finals between Everton and Tranmere (Monday, at Goodison Park) and between Liverpool and Southport (Tuesday) and on Wednesday, the second leg of the Youth Cup semi-final between Everton and Stoke at the Everton ground.  The important thing about the Monday game is that Everton have announced that they will field their complete First Division side.  They are clearly anticipating a full-scale tilt in the final against their Anfield neighbours and if this materialised and was half as good as the last one between the teams last season neither ground would hold all who would want to see it.  The Youth match, in which Everton carry over a 2-1 lead from the first leg at Stoke has been eagerly awaited.  There were nearly 20,000 people for the initial match and Everton may well have an even bigger attendance to see whether the home side can qualify for the final against Chelsea who won their semi-final in London last night.  Tranmere have already faced Everton in the League Cup this season but their side was a great deal less effective then than it is under the influence of Walter Galbraith whose resurrection of a team as good as relegated has been one of the most starling bits of retrieving seen on Merseyside for a long, long time.  Tranmere are getting exceptionally good home gates.  They had 15,000 at Prenton recently and with Young, Vernon, Collins and company “present and correct” on the night it would not surprise me if the attendance at Goodison park surprised Everton and their opponents.  There is room for everyone, stand and terraces, on such occasions and if past experience is any guide Tranmere –and particularly their goalkeeper-save their best for Goodison park when the odds against them are heaviest. 

BANGU AT FULL STRENGTH TONIGHT
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 12 April 1961
PLAY EVERTON AT GOODISON
By Leslie Edwards
Bangu, crack Brazilian side who meet  Everton at Goodson Park to-night, were beaten at Sunderland on Monday.  But don't let that fool you. The team they played at Roker Park was shorn of three of their best players. To-night's eleven is the full strength one whose record so far in their 2-3 months tour in Europe shows them to be of world class. They played Barcelona, in Barcelona, a week or two ago and were leading 3-2 seven minutes from time! Barcelona eventually won 4-3. The crowd numbered 55,000. They went on to Red Star, Belgrade, and won 3-0, again watched by 55,000. Then they beat Austria F.C, and Vienna Sports Club, both by 2-1, in the Easter tourney in Austria, the two gates aggregating 74,000. The Bangu manager, Mr. Borje Lantz, who speaks excellent English and who is a philosophical type, told me to-day: "The Sunderland defeat does not worry us. Three of our best players were absent and the game did not run well for us; two of the Sunderland goals had elements of doubt about them. Sunderland said they had not had a more attractive or pleasant game for seasons. “We aim to entertain the public. We have a great regard for English football and for our task at Everton to-night. We are going up before the match to see the ground, which we understand is an especially fine one. We complete our tour in Scandinavia and go straight from there to defend our title as champions of the New York summer tourney." Everton fans must watch out for Walter, the smallest and best Bangu forward. He was rated by experts in Austria as the finest player of all seen in the Easter tourney.
YOUNG FROPS OUT
Everton announce a late change, Alex Young is required for an Army match tomorrow and will not be available, Wignall will take his place at centre forward.  Bangu; Ubirahara; Jeol, Darcy; Farria; Helclo, Ananias, Nilton, Santos; Correira, Vermelho, Durval, Walter, Beto. 

SOCCER ENTERTAINMENT –BRAZILIAN
Thursday, April 13, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
IF THIS WAS A FRIENDLY, STAND BY ARMED GUARD FOR NEW YORK
EVERTON 2, BANGU (BRAZIL) 2
By Horace Yates
Well, if this was the friendly game before the Cup-tie, call up the armed guard.  Police reinforcements were rushed up to Goodison as a sensible precaution last night when passions mounted and needle was as much in evidence as in any over-worked sewing machine.  To their credit the players went so far and no further, so that a nasty conflagration was avoided, and police became comforting ornaments.  That so much good football nay brilliant football was possible in the circumstances was little short of miraculous and it was a tragedy that as the game unfolded the man became more important than the ball.  Fouls came in such a steady profusion that they became monotonous and I can remember no finer wise-crack during the whole of the evening than that by one spectator who commented; “I reckon the referee’s report should be that the ground was struck by foul pest.”  It all started so amiably, Bobby Collins exchanged an Everton pennant for one from Bangu.  The Brazilians lined the centre circle and waved their greetings to the crowd, who responded and hospitably.  The goalkeeper Ubirajara saluted the spectators behind his goal, and there was great merriment when six substitutes and a trainer, all attired in flaming red track suits, took their places on the line.  When the trainer made one of several Incursions infield to attend to an injured player, along went an ample-sized suitcase with him.  At the very least he appeared to be fully equipped to perform a major operation on the spot.  Bangu were quickly put on their mettle for Everton were a goal up in three minutes, Fell crossed the ball and the goalkeeper, failed to smother it.  Collins pushed it back to Vernon, who thundered it into goal.
SCREAMING SHOT
Everton were playing well but when Bangu machine started up it was easy to see that most of the side were bang on so far as shooting went.  Helcio came up from right back to set the pattern with a screaming shot narrowly over the bar.  The field became a firing range, with Bangu enjoying the target practice.  The forwards move sweetly with the most direct type of football.  Passes were delivered at speed, controlled with equal skill and it was a football joy to see such movement and incisiveness that made so many of our League games appear drab and colourless in retrospect.  Beto hit a magnificent shot from fully 35 yards, right on target but Dunlop fortunately had it covered all the way Walter followed suit from slightly shorter range, but the warning was clear enough for everybody.  This shoot on sight side with dynamite in their boots could be lethal if given the half chance.  The game found Everton equal to the occasion.  Their play had not the sheer brilliance and progression of their victory, but by our English standards it was good and quite entertaining even though Vernon required time to settle down to the super speed at which the Bangu people wanted to play.  Tackling was as swift and menacing at their attack, although I thought I detected some complacency by the rear-guard in the vicinity of their goal.  Particularly was this evident when Bingham floated over a shot from the wing and the nonchalant Ubirajara never raised a finger to stay its progress although it passed no more than a yard or two wide.  Possibly we under-rated his judgement.  To help him do his job with increased efficiency out went a towel that looked like an advertisement for a film of soap powder manufacturers.  It did not stay that way for long and Vernon showed the keeper that all the fire and fury were not contained in the boots of the Bangu side. 
SHADOW WITH BITE
Collins began to dance around in the most elusive vein and as he became a shadow with a bite incidents began to happen.  Helcio had his number taken, but looked as though he could not care less.  I suppose it was easier for the referee than insisting on the name especially as this was a side speaking no English a problem which manifested itself more than once.  In 36 minutes Bangu were level through a goal scored by Walter with the help of a deflection, after Beto, a magnificent winger, had seen his shot pushed out.  Everton regained the lead in 54 minutes when Collins and Wignall worked the ball through for Vernon to take a pot shot which he slightly miscued, Collins was there to receive it, and shot into the roof of the net.  Ubirijara started by patting Wignall sportingly on the head in acknowledgment for the centre forward’s obvious efforts not to damage him while lying on the ground.  This development into a much less amicable affair, with the goalkeeper sometimes taunting Wignall and almost inviting him to charge him in possession.  I don’t know how the referee went on when he tried to speak to Collins and one or more of the Bangu team.  There was Collins surrounded and dwarted by five Brazilians, until the referee had his say.  It looked so comical.  Equally was restored again in fifty-eight minutes and what a magnificent goal it was.  It came from one of the interminable free kicks.  From over twenty-five yards Beto hit the half and Dunlop did not appear to be in the least concerned.  Neither was anyone else.  The ball seemed to be directed yards outside the post, but as it flew it developed a swerve as though related to some guided missile, and all too late Dunlop flung himself across his goal only to see the ball flash past him into the net.  I don’t think I have ever seen a finer goal scored from a direct free kick.  If the referee had language difficulties some of his decisions were not too obvious either, and when an Everton supporter twice mounted the wall around the pitch and advanced infield, I think it was more to offer advice to the referee than to join battle on behalf of his Everton favourites.
ANANIAS TARGET
Ananias became the target of the crowds wrath when following a series of fouls on Vernon, he brought off a fine sliding tackle (Rugby fashion) on the Welsh international and almost deprived him of his shorts.  So disgusted was Ubirijara who had by this time become something of a comedian, that he picked up his towel and sent it fluttering into the roof of the net with the gesture of a boxer’s trainer, calling off the fight.  It was simply that he did not like the referee’s decision and then Nilton became equally demonstrative as he stood there, like a policeman on point duty, pointing to the corner flag, when everybody knew the correct decision was a goal kick.  Sarcasm, do you think?  Undoubtedly, I should say.  What a battle there is likely to be between these two teams when they clash in New York.  From that point of view this misnomer of a “friendly” game must have been of infinite value to Everton.  I don’t think for all the fouls, there will really be a legacy or bad blood between the teams as a preliminary to the game.  It is the excitability of these Brazilians that prompts spur of the moment reactions rather than considered ill-temper.  Everton did not let down-their followers.  They fought back with the utmost spirit and if I could term this a round by round summary, I would be almost justified in saying they returned blow for blow as well.  The defence was very good, with a high marking for Thomson, Parker, Labone and Meagan.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Fell.  Bangu; Ubirijara; Helcio, Darcy; Faria, Nilton, Ziozimo, Ananias; Paulo, Waiter, Vermeiho, Blachin, Beto.  Referee; Mr. K. Collinge (Altrincham) Attendance 31,706. 

EXHIBITION? YES BUT WHAT AN EXHIBITION!
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 13 April 1961
By Leslie Edwards
What was that headline? The friendly which isn't? Well, unwittingly, I never wrote a truer word. If what was supposed to be an exhibition game at Goodison Park last night is a sample of club football on an international scale you can it have it. What should have been delight finished near disaster. The crowd's stamping, jeering, booing as the Brazilians left the field sounds sourly in my ears even now. It was venomous. I give Everton players full marks for standing there and applauding off opponents who had at least shown some brilliant touches in a game which was virtually a write-off once the rough stuff started. No wonder squad cars brought extra police: no wonder the referee, having appeared to be walking off in the direction of the dressing room with Wignall (who had been incited to charge the goal-keeper) called it a day immediately and blew the final blast. He'd plainly had enough. So had I.   If ever there was a match worthy of walking out from a three-quarter time this was it. For a time all went well: then two Everton fouls, bad ones, set the fashion. The Brazilians appeared to say: "If you want it that way you can have it” The result was disgracing. The game was punctuated by uproarious moments of up-ending and worse. Collins and left half- back Ananias were involved at one time in a running battle with the game going on elsewhere and the referee, Mr. Collinge, of Altrincham, all too tardy in laying down the law and getting some decency into a game which could have been memorable for the best of reasons-not the worst.  I've been watching football in Liverpool for nearly40 years, and I don't remember a game which developed so completely into one which brought so little credit to the clubs, the referee, or the crowd. It was a good example of how a match that had every sign of being a great one could suddenly get out of hand and useless as a spectacle and a sport. 
And nothing at stake
There were players on both sides who were studiously fair and sporting; there were others who were determined, it seemed, to keep this blazing fire of foulness going.  And what was at stake? Precisely nothing except prestige. If and when the teams meet in New York, I hope I shan't be there. We're not used in 1961 at Goodison Park to scenes and tantrums of the kind we sometimes endured in the past. The Everton aim is to entertain: so I think was the Bangu mission until the game got almost completely out of hand. The result a draw of two goals each, is of academic importance. Everton led twice; Bangu who began to employ "They shall not pass tactics" equalised twice, both of them very good goals. Everton were on top for most of the way and Übirajara, a goalkeeper who plainly felt he was an "untouchable" so far as opposition forwards were concerned, had to make two or three first- class saves to keep his side of dark-skinned compatriots in the hunt. Maybe the pitch, brassy under the lights and carrying a great deal of surface water, caused too many tackles to go through full-bloodedly once the tackler was committed. If that was so it was the same for both teams, though I dare say Bangu don't play on a pitch of this nature once in a hundred times in their own country. The miracle was that no one was seriously injured.  The Bangu trainer, a red shadow of a man. complete with week-end case of the same colour, was often on the pitch (mostly to the accompaniment of jeers and hoots of derision) but Gordon Watson, mercifully, stayed snug in his dug-out.  What got the crowd on the raw in the final minutes was the antics of the goalkeeper who, not being accustomed to being challenged after fielding the ball, waved Wignall away as though he had no business to intervene in his time-wasting, bounce-the-ball technique. Wignall refrained for three parts of the game from going near. Then, taunted by the crowd who wanted Everton to have time to get the third and winning goal, he decided to change his mind and “had a go." The contact was not solid, but Mr. Übirajara stayed down and a free-kick was given. It was then that I thought, wrongly as it turned out, that the referee had sent Wignall from the field. It was not a foul that deserved such reward. All the fouls which merited that penalty had been glossed over long before. Mr. Collinge must take as much blame as the players for that.
Pass of the match
A very good Everton left wing move, with Fell breaking through and centring and Collins carefully shepherding the ball before making a reverse pass to Vernon produced the first goal at three minutes. Vernon fairly belted the shot in. The pass of the match, one made when centre forward Vermelho leaped like a ballet dancer, was the starting point of the equaliser at 37 minutes, Beto, on the left, shot hard and true, the ball was half got away and little Walter, almost a facsimile of Collins in style and stature, hit the bail in and then leaped as high as his own inches. The contentious moments of the first half had by now faded, and we looked forward-what a hope!-t o a second half in which all which had gone before was forgotten. At 55 minutes Vernon tried a shot, pulled it badly and Wignall, not getting hold of the ball, it travelled on to make a perfect opening for Collins. His shot from close in hit the top net. Collins and the left half-back and Wignall and the goalkeeper now got at cross (very cross) purposes. Two spectators jumped the barrier to remonstrate with the referee; police appeared from nowhere. And then with Everton lined up against a free-kick, taken by Beto, the Brazilian got so many swerves and such a good flight on his deliberately-aimed drive Dunlop was completely beaten. The match might just as well have ended there. Everton's good football: some brilliant, sharp moves by Bangu (and how quickly and accurately their passes were made), all went for nought in a finish in which the crowd stamped and stormed and finally booed Everton's opponents off the field after a game which did nothing to cement international or club goodwill. On the contrary. This was a match to draw a well over; not one to report at length. I liked Thomson immensely; I liked Parker's performance and Vermelho's. But better not have matches like this if they cannot be handled better , and if players cannot appreciate that they are not there to win at any cost, but to display the football arts.

YOUNG TO LEAD EVERTON AGAINST CARDIFF
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 13 April 1961
FELL ELIGIBLE TO PLAY
By Michael Charters
After two Army games this week, Everton centre forward Alex Young returns to the team to play Cardiff City at Goodison Park on Saturday.  This is the only change from the side which drew with Bangu last night.  Permission has been obtained from the League to play outside left Jimmy Fell, who was ineligible at Newcastle last Saturday.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell. 

EVERTON CHANGES                                                                                                                               
Friday, April 14, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
By Horace Yates
With Alex Young available and Jimmy Fell, given permission to play, Everton face their game with Cardiff City with a team changed in two instances from that which won so easily at Newcastle last week.  Temple and Wignall are the men to lose their places.  It may be a tried and trusted theory that a winning team should not be changed, but circumstances sometimes alter cases.  I think this may be considered to be one of them.  Whether the Goodison fans have taken Fell to their hearts or whether they merely consider the lad is being neglected by his colleagues, I hardly know, but it is a fact that whenever the ball goes his way the cheers ring out.  Roy Vernon’s fear that once left out of an international team it can be terribly hard to regain a place, looks like being confirmed for a vote of confidence in the Welshmen who scored so convincingly over Ireland, means that Vernon is not called upon again.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell. 

ROY VERNON SAYS...
Friday, April 14 1961 The Liverpool Daily Post
LACK OF FIGHT BY NEWCASTLE SHOCKED ME
If ever I saw a side heading for relegation it was Newcastle United.  Whether or not it was the fact they felt so inferior to Everton that created the impression I do not know, but they looked far too ready to throw in the sponge than I normally associate with a team in the danger region.  Someone has to go down, that is inevitable, but when it looks like happening to a club of the reputation of Newcastle, it is hard to resist a pang of regret.  Time is running out and one superb performance against Tottenham Hotspur counts only two points.  It matters not what the opposition may be, each is equally important in terms of points and I must admit that Everton found victory at St. James’ Park far easier than we had ever anticipated.  We expected a battle to the death.  Instead we won almost as we liked, and I could not help contrasting the lack of fight by United with the all out enthusiasm and endeavour of Preston North End only a few weeks ago.  Normally, a tussle with a club anywhere near the relegation bracket, is generally recognition to be as tough as a Cup-tie, but if we were elated at our win and our return to scoring, I would not help being a trifle shocked at United lack of spirit.  Unless they will themselves together immediately they can have no chance of staying in the top flight.  I had hoped that Jimmy Harrower, former Liverpool forward, whom I know can play such wonderful football would be in opposition but apparently Jimmy has not had the luck to show his new club just what a great player he can be. 
WAY TO RECOVERY
The last few games have shown Everton to be well on the way to recovery.  I think the bad old days have gone right out of the system and while I believe it would be unwise to expect an immediate return to those thrill-a-minute matches of the opening months of the season, there is now no doubt that we shall be able to do our club justice in America.  The fact that only sixteen players will be able to make the trip guarantees all out endeavour right to the last kick of the season to try to make sure of a place in the party.  It would be idle to pretend that Billy Bingham and I were not disappointed when we were dented the opportunity to play for our respective countries because of our friendly game with Bangu.  There is more than the question of a single international at stake.  The World Cup preliminaries are at hand and every footballer knows the danger of having to give up his place in emergency to a deputy.  If that deputy plays well, there will be a reluctance to chance a winning side and what started off by being the loss of one game, could well become relegation for several.  I always believe it is far more difficult to push your way into a team than it is to stay there once selected.  Nothing has been more cheering at Goodison Park recently than the slight of Tommy Ring making good progress towards recovery from his broken leg.  He is now training daily running and kicking a ball; but I don’t think he will offer to play in a match until all trace of his slight limp has disappeared.  When he come back he want it to be as a perfectly fit player with confidence and ability fully restored.  I don’t think he will worry if he cannot play in an organised game this season so long as he can resume where he left off when he does try again in earnest.  If rather look as though Liverpool have missed the promotion boat once again, unless their leading rivals slip up between now and the end of the season.  There will be genuine regret in the Everton camp if they fail to go up to Division 1-if only for the fact  that would like to feel certain of four League points next season.  If that doesn’t start a war, I don’t know what will. 

EVERTON TEAM
Liverpool Echo - Friday 14 April 1961
By Leslie Edwards
After the tempest of the Bangu match it will be nice to get back at Goodison Park to football as it should be Played. Everton, rising again after their period of misfortune, are recovering spectators fast. With the keen North Wales contingent always in evidence when Cardiff City are here the attendance seems likely to be one of the day's best. Let us hope that we get a worthier game than we did on Wednesday when George Thomson's brilliance was over-shadowed to some extent, by the general Ill-temper of the game. Thomson has been given every chance to find his feet. It has taken him time, but who can doubt that he has come to stay ? The essence of his full-back play is to ensure that the ball shall be placed, not punched haphazardly.  With Young back Everton, whose recovery since Easter has been so complete, will be all out to take a further step to a place in the top five—or four ? Considering their very indifferent spell after Christmas they have done remarkably to hold their place. Everton; - DunIop. Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell.

EVERTOR F.C. BOMBSHELL
Liverpool Echo - Friday 14 April 1961
Everton announce that with effect from tonight Mr. Carey’s engagement as manager with the club is terminated

EVERTON F.C. SACK MANAGER CAREY
Saturday, April 15, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
SOCCER DAY OF SHOCK

1. SUDDEN END TO A GOODISON PARK REGIGN
2. FRESH STORM OVER LEAGUE PLAYERS’CONDITIONS

THE QUIET MAN WHO LOSES A £3,000 JOB SPEAKS IN A DARK STATION
“I DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING UNTIL 4.15 TODAY”
By Horace Yates and Jack Rowe
Mr. John Carey is no longer manager of Everton.  The club through secretary, Mr. Bill Dickinson announced this news early yesterday evening in a terse 18-word statement...”Everton announce tonight that with effect from tomorrow Mr. Carey’s engagement as manager with the club is terminated.”  The statement came while Mr. Carey and Everton’s millionaire chairman Mr. John Moores were in London for yesterday’s Football League meeting –and it was a shattering one for the world of football.  The ending of his £3,000-a-year job certainly shocked Mr. Carey.  He spoke his first words about his dismissal to Daily Post reporter Kenneth Gibson, as he stepped off the train from London at Preston shortly before midnight last night on his way to his Birkdale home.  He was alone, looking quiet and sad in the dark station as he spoke.  He said; “I did not know anything until 4.15 p.m. today when the club chairman, Mr. John Moores told me in London that my contract had been terminated.  I had no reason to suspect any such move.  There have been one or two small differences within the club but nothing which gave me any suspicion of such a decision.  I am not prepared to go into the background of the decision, I think it is up to the club to make any further statement on this matter”   when he reached his home at past midnight, he spoke again;  “I just don’t have any reactions at the moment.  Naturally I am upset at losing my job, but I don’t wish to make any comment.  “I shall be going to the ground tomorrow to collect my things and watch the match, I will take it up with the club then.”  Asked if he had any dispute with the chairman he said; “I don’t wish to talk about that now.”  As Mr. Carey was shaken by the decision, so were others.
THE SURPRISED ONES
Those present at yesterday’s football League meeting were considerably surprised-for Mr. Carey and his chairman were present for the League talk together and less than an hour before the announcement came from Goodison Park they had walked out of London’s Cafe Royal and strode off, side by side, deep in conversation.  Surprised too, were some quarters of the Everton hierarchy-that the phrase “engagement is terminated” had been used in the announcement.  They had expected an announcement that Mr. Carey had resigned.  Yet if the sudden ending of his engagement came as a shock, then Mr. Carey has known, like everyone else, that he had been living on the edge of a volcano with a club which had only one goal. –SUCCESS.
That drive for success has become even more intense in recent months.  In the advent of the dynamic Mr. Moores.  When he spoke at the annual meeting of the club in June, Mr. Moores said; “Everton must have the best players, the best coaches, the best manager and the best directors, if any of them fail, they must go.” 
Successor’s Name Coming Today?
There has been no official statement from Everton other than the eighteen words which ended an association which had promised so much.  Who will new take Mr. Carey’s place?  There is little doubt that this has already been settled.  The man expected to take over at Goodison Park, is Mr. Harry Catterick the former Sheffield Wednesday manager and Everton player, who resigned from his Hillsbrough position only last Monday.  Everton may well announce today that Mr. Catterick has been appointed and will take over on Monday.  Conjecture will run rule about the reasons for the sudden ending of Mr. Carey’s managership.  The facts, however, virtually speak for themselves.  Although Everton are high in the First Division table with a chance of ending in the top four, this may not have been enough reward for the money the club has spent this season on new players. 
THE CLASH OF PERSONALITIES?
The figure is around £100,000 plus this season-with one outlay of £55,000 for Alex Young and George Thomson-and up to the middle of last December the hopes were that the First Division Championship, the F.A Cup and the Football League Cup were not beyond the reach of the club.  But then a big Everton slide started-which has only recently been halted.  For this, Mr. Carey has undoubtedly been made target of criticism.  There may well be a question of clashing personalities –the quietly-spoken Mr. Carey and the strong-minded successful businessman Mr. Moores.  The dismissal may be viewed alternatively merely as an expression of dissatisfaction in with club performances.  Mr. Carey has known that partial success was not enough to please leading members of the board.  The Everton manager leaves after compelling two-and-a-half years of the five-year contract at £3,000 a year he was given to come to Everton in October, 1958.  Compensation to him will probably run at a level of around £7,500.  Mr. Carey left the Blackburn Rovers club, where he was successful, to come to Goodison Park in spite of appeals by the Blackburn board to stay.  He came to Everton because he likes a challenge.  He said on the night he accepted the Everton post that he knew he was coming to a club which was the first in the country. 
THE SUMMIT WAS HIS AIM
His aim, he said, must be to build up the best team in the country.  Some people will think he has not had enough time to fulfil his mission.  But there are also those who say that two-and-a-half years is sufficient- especially when the policy has been to buy and buy big.  Everton are changing their team managership for the third time since 1956 when Mr. Cliff Britton left the club.  His departure was a shock and then Everton created another shock in football by appointing Mr. Ian Buchan, who then had no actual experience of Football League management to be in charge of the team.  Mr. Carey followed Mr. Buchan and has been regarded at one of the most astute personalities in the game. 

CAREY KNEW HE WAS ON EDGE OF A VOLANO
Saturday, April 15, 1961. The Liverpool Echo
WAS THERE CLASH OF PERSONALITIES
By Horace Yates
Everton’s decision to terminate the contract of their manager Mr. John Carey with effect from today can only be described as a bombshell.  He knew like everyone else that he was living on the edge of a volcano with a club, which more than ever in recent months with the advent of dynamic for Mr. John Moores as chairman, had only one goal success.  There is no statement from the club regarding a likely successor, but I cannot think that such a drastic step has been taken without ensuing that the man they want to take over is both ready and available.  That man I forecast, is undoubtedly Mr. Harry Catterick who this week resigned his position as team manager of Sheffield Wednesday.  Mr. Catterick is an old Everton player, and if he is appointed it will mean that Everton have gone back on, yet another vowed intention never to have one of their former players in charge of club affairs.  This was the position after Mr.  Cliff Britton left Goodison Park some years ago.  Mr. Carey had the bombshell broken to him from the lips of his chairman in London yesterday, where both had been to attend a Football League meeting.  He is I know completely shattered by the news. 
TAKEN BY SURPRISE
Only this week, when I was investigating rumours that a move of this nature could be a possibility he expressed to me complete surprise that such reports should be possible.  “It is news to me” he said, “if there is anything in it then somebody obviously knows much more than I do.  Not by any word or deed from any member of the board have I been given the slightest clue that there is any dissatisfaction or disappointment with my work.”  He added that he felt he knew the members of the Everton board sufficiently well to ensure that if action of this nature was contemplated he would not have been left in the dark.  I know Mr. Carey will take the philosophical view that a manager enters into his occupation realising that it is the most perilous of any in the sporting world.  Mr. Carey has sufficient confidence in himself and his ability to believe that he can overcome these difficulties and dangers and can come out on top of any challenge football has to offer.  I believe that not only will today’s news shock football followers in general, but that it was only yesterday that some members of the Everton board knew what was happening.  It was not by any action of his that Mr. Carey came to leave Blackburn Rovers for Everton two-and-a-half years ago.  He did not seek the position, but was approached by a delegation from Goodison Park and confronted with the kind of offer which no ambitious man could afford to refuse. 
A DREAM CONTRACT
Whereas at Blackburn the attitude had always been “We will give Mr. Carey a contract when there is any danger of losing him” Everton gave him a dream of a contract.  Before Blackburn had any opportunity to put their idea into practice they had lost their man for Mr. Carey had agreed to go to Goodison for five years, with a £3,000 a year guarantee.  Blackburn tried all they knew to persuade him, in the absence of any written undertaking to Everton, to stay with them and take up a contract just as favourable as he could have in Merseyside.  A man of his word, Mr. Carey said; “I may not have signed anything but I have given my word and my word is my bond.”  The fact that 2 ½ years of the contract remain to run means that Everton may be liable to pay compensation to him amounting to £7,500.  Obviously only a club of great wealth and equally high ambition could afford to take a step of this sort, for if Mr. Catterick does land at Goodison Park, it is unlikely he will sign for an amount below Mr. Carey’s figure. 
PERSONALITY CLASH?
It was remarkable that almost at the same time as the announcement of Mr. Carey’s axing was being made; Mr. Catterick was pursing an inquiry from Leyton Orient about engaging him as manager.  Why has Mr. Carey been asked to go? Is it a question of personalities clashing between Mr. Carey and the strong minded successful business man Mr. Moores or is it more an expression of dissatisfaction with club performances?  Who knows?  All I can tell you is that Mr. Carey has known for some time that partial success was not enough to please leading members of the board, and while he might have thought that the improvement in form by Everton in the last few weeks, would allay anxieties obviously a decision to make this change must have been made nearly a week ago.  The only criticism I have heard personality of the former manage is that he was a players man, that he defended them whenever possible, and I have heard one member of the board say that Mr. Carey was too lenient for his liking in his dealing with the players.  That has not been my experience of the man, Mr. Carey, I have found, has always been capable of dealing firmly with any situation which he felt called for firmness.  At the same time his charming manner produced results without the bludgeon blow.  With Mr. Carey, it has always been a case of the velvet glove concealing the fist.  He invariably got his way with men, no matter how difficult the problem.  One of the players once confided to me that when had been in for an interview with “The Boss” it was not until after he had come out that he realised he had been ticked off.  Everton I know, have spent well over £200,000 in attempting to become the top team of the country, and who can say that they have not advanced a great way along the road to that goal?  I can only add that I am deeply sorry to see Mr. Carey go.  I say this in no disrespect to any successor, but I have always been impressed by Mr. Carey’s grasp of soccer in all its phrases, and a more agreeable and even-tempted man even in the most trying situation would be difficult to find.  I hope that the disruption to his football life will be temporary and that he can find a club worthy of his talent.  The game cannot afford for a man of such outstanding qualities to be out of football. 

EVERTON’S PROGRESS
Saturday, April 15 1961 The Liverpool Daily Post
With the season speeding to its close, Everton who have accomplished so much and yet disappointed not a little, seem reasonably assured of fifth place in the League table.  The sharing of £220 in talent money will not make them rich men, but at least it is a tangible indication of progress greater than many people admit.  The badly overworked Young, who must have had as much football this season as any player in the country, pops in and out of the team due to the exigencies of Service life, and is in action again today, which means that the sturdy, if slightly cumbersome Wignall must stand down.  The only other change from the team victorious at Newcastle is the substitution of Jimmy Fell for Derek Temple.  If Wednesday’s Bangu game did little else, at least it showed that there is nothing wrong with Everton’s fighting heart, and a similar show of spirit should ensure the taking of three points from the two clashes with Cardiff.  Cardiff City make three changes at Everton compared with the side defeated by Leicester in mid-week.  Maurice Swan displaces Ron Nicholls in goal, Derek Tapscott returns at centre forward in place of Trevor Edwards, while Dal Ward plays at inside left for Peter Donnelly.  Cardiff have taken only one point from their last six games.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell.  Cardiff City; Swan; Harrington, Milne; Hole, Malloy, Baker; McMillian, Moore, Tapscott, Ward, Hogg. 

CAREY SACKING WAS UNANIMOUS
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 15 April 1961
CLASH OF PERSONALITIES AND METHODS
CATTERICK COULD BE NEW MANAGER AT GOODISON
By Leslie Edwards

The joint aim of multi-millionaire Chairman John Moores and Manager John Carey to make Everton a club of world renown—and they have already spent more than £150,000 on players to help achieve it—was shattered by the club's announcement yesterday that they were terminating as from to-day Mr. Carey's agreement as manager of the club. The way is now clear, after one of the loudest soccer bombshells on Merseyside, for someone else to team up with a chairman who will not be content until Everton are rated among the Real Madrid, and Juventus’s. This will be a tough assignment. It is my bet that the man chosen for the task will be Mr. Harry Catterick one-time Everton centre forward and until a few days ago manager of Sheffield Wednesday. His resignation at Hillsborough this week may have been made in the knowledge that some club, better placed financially than Wednesday, were prepared to give him his chance if opportunity arose.
NO OFFICIAL APPROACH
It was significant that when I asked Mr. Catterick about rumours connecting him with Everton, his reaction was: "I have had no official approach." The fact that there were no denials from Everton suggests that Mr. Carey's outgoing, the justice or otherwise of which will split Everton's followers into two camps, did not pass un-noticed.  What is the inside story of the sensational sacking of Mr. Carey for that is what it amounts to? The official statement gives no hint; no one outside the club can really say, but submit salient pointers from my knowledge of the club, of Mr. Moores and of the man who must bear philosophically this most unexpected blow. First, it is sad that one who has piloted his team to a higher position than the, have held regularly in the First: Division since the War should find himself not one of the best paid managers in the game, but looking for another club and puzzling on a fate which denuded him of some of his great players, through injury, at the time when he expected his team to consolidate a splendid, first half of the season. This promised a challenge for the First Division championship and a long run in the Cup. In the event there was neither.  Yet Everton still stand fifth: have weathered the storm of non-success which struck them from Christmas onwards, and if they beat Cardiff at Goodison Park to-day, may finish among the talent money. For a manager to have his, contract terminated with his team placed so high and a better band of youngsters than ever before in the Youth team is astounding.  Yesterday's events must have been the most dramatic in the: football lives of Chairman and Manager.  They attended the important League meeting in London and Mr. Carey, I am sure, had no thought that the axe was going to fall.  The Everton Board, I understand, had already arrived at a decision. It was left to the Chairman to put the grim facts to Mr. Carey.  It may have been expected that news of the manager's parting with his club would take the form of a resignation "received with regret.”  It did no such thing. I understand the Board's decision was unanimous-though the reasons behind such a vote may not have been unanimous Mr. Carey telephoned his wife at Southport before leaving London and gave her the news. She told me: "I am relieved that we have definite news of the rumours which have been disturbing us. It is better to know—even if it is the worst-than to be kept in doubt. I am sure John would have welcomed the club's denials of stories but none came."
AT LOWEST EBB
My view is that the decision to replace Mr. Carey was taken when the team was at its lowest ebb and failing almost week by week. If this were so Everton would have followed the course of their neighbours, Liverpool, whose non-success in the days when Mr. Phil Taylor was in office led them to make a change. By the time the appointment of Mr. Shankly was made the team had retrieved itself and was en route to possible promotion. To have put so much money into the club in so short a space of time and then found things going indifferently may have weighed heavily with Mr. Moores and made him determined to make decisions considered necessary to right things. By this time Ring had broken a leg, Lill was not recovered from two cartilage operations and Young, of Hearts, the club’s greatest signing, was on the side lines nearly two months after joining the club as a result of a knew injury which must have made his career at Everton somewhat problematical. 
CATTERICK THE NEXT MANAGER FOR EVERTON?
CRUCIAL MOMENT
Moreover, Everton had signed, with Young, a full back, George Thomson, whose play in early matches in English football suggested that he might not justify the price paid. But at the crucial moment when even Mr. Carey's closest friends were inclined to despair of anything plug right for the Team, came a transformation. The club took five points out of six over Easter; then won 4-0 at Newcastle for good measure. Even more telling. Young showed Everton fans his true with economies and potential—one of the most brilliant players ever to be on the Everton books, and Thomson found form which convinced his one-time critics that he, too, was a football artist and worth every penny of the fee paid.
THE BACKGROUND
This, then, is the background to events which led to yesterday's sensational news. Even row all the explosive force of the situation may not be spent in many cases managers have resigned or gone out with good will, taking considerable solace from what clubs were prepared to pay as recompense. I understand that no such financial agreement has so far been negotiated by Everton with Mr. Carey. His five-year contract, signed when he joined the club from Blackburn, where he had success or; success in Cup end League, had still two-and-a- half years to run. He was one of the best-paid managers in the game and there were perquisites. He has never told me his salary but I put it in the £3.000 plus class. When, at the start of the season, things were going indifferently for Everton there were reports that he might re-join Blackburn Rovers. When I taxed him with this he said; “No I’m here to do what I set out to do.  To give Everton fans entertaining and, if possible, winning football.  I shall remain with Everton to fulfil that mission.  At Blackburn it was said with some authority; “John Carey can come back here whenever he likes.”  Since then Blackburn have had success with Mr. Jack Marshall in the managerial chair.  At the height of Everton’s period of failure Mr. Moores had a plain-talking session with the players.  The manager was present.  Arising out of that came statements from inside –forward Bobby Collins that he was not happy at being singled out as a man who had not been playing to top form.  Mr. Moores, I believe, wanted greater effort; more direct methods of attack.  He had said when welcoming the players at the beginning of the season; “I trust that you players will co-operate with me to help me make a ‘go’ of putting Everton back on the map" I see behind undoubted difference of outlook between Chairman and Manager a clash of personalities and methods. I have heard it said that there is now no room for both at Goodison Park. Mr. Moores, a businessman who joined the Board last season and became Chairman in mid close-season, does not like to be the top man in an organisation which fails.
Mr. Carey, more than 25 times a Republic of Ireland player: a great captain of Manchester United and the game's quiet man—putting his pipe and hearing much and saying little—has had the difficult task of managing not one or two stars but phalanxes of them—some (quite naturally) of the sort to which an occasional show of temperament comes easily. Mr. Moores started his work as chairman the desire to have discipline and efficiency in all things. He once told me he was not sure whether discipline at Everton was as effective as it might be, but not long before Christmas, in an interview published in the Echo. He said: "John is very good. He knows how to deal with the players. I leave that side to him." Mr. Moores frequently went into the dressing room before a match and sometimes afterwards to wish the players well or congratulate or commiserate with them. 
The Carey method of telling a player he had fallen short of requirements was to take him quietly to a corner, on his own, and have a friendly chat, point out where things had gone wrong. Mr. Carey’s courage, moral and his knowledge of football is beyond dispute, I had experience of his quality in all these respects.
NO TURNING SACK
My belief in Mr Carey has never been shaken nor will it ever be. I believe he will find another niche as quickly as Mr. Catterick is likely to find his. The position, as I understand it, is that Everton's decision in the matter of termination of contract was irrevocable and that once arrived at there was no turning back. The pity is that Mr. Carey must go when his team has regained its balance and promise and when the future is bright for everyone connected with the club.  Mr. Catterick, it and when he takes over, will accept this golden legacy with alacrity.  He is like Mr. Carey a man who knows the game and who knows, too, his own size in hats.  And there for the moment the situation rests: though it is possible, as I have indicated that we have not heard the last reverberation of this Everton explosion.

NO HINT OF THE END AT NEWCASTLE
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 15 April 1961
By Michael Charters
I spent last week-end with John Carey in Newcastle attractive, and there was no hint in his demeanour that he had any worries about his future with Everton. In fact, the reverse was the case.  We spent several enjoyable hours discussing football in general and Everton in particular.  He told me of his great hopes for the future with the brilliant youth team, how pleased he was with the way the first team had recovered its form, and, it seemed, there was not a cloud on the horizon as he planned his tactics to make Everton one of the greatest clubs in the land in a playing sense.  At Newcastle, his team had played first class football in winning 4-0.  In this quiet, undemonstrative way, he was delighted with their performance and I know his thoughts already were moving ahead to next season when greater experience in his young players is likely to ensure an even more successive season than this when it is probable they will finish in the top five.  He was always looking to the future, planning, scheming, and anticipating.  His ambition was plain; to give Everton everything he had so that the teams under control would fit the pattern of Everton tradition of attractive, top-class football.  We discussed the possible outcome of yesterday’s meeting of League club chairmen, and how it might affect the leading clubs such as Everton.  He had plans for any eventually there, even to writing down a possible new wage scheme for his stars with the abolition of the maximum wage.  On not so important a level, I sat over supper in the Newcastle Hotel with the players, trainer Gordon Watson and Mr. Carey while they talked about a new change strip for away games.  He asked the players their views-what colour shorts and stockings they preferred. 
A HAPPY FAMILY
There was a happy family atmosphere -as there has always been on the many away trips I have made with Mr. Carey and the Everton players. He is the most pleasant of travelling companion, and his views on football are reasoned and sensible. But the emphasis was always "What is right for Everton: is this man or that man the right sort for Everton." He told me that there was criticism from directors while the team were having their bad spell early this year. He added: "I don't mind that when it comes from someone who has the best interests of Everton at heart" To my mind, he was a dedicated man—dedicated to the cause of Everton. He showed it in every word and deed. I for one (and there will be man, others) find it difficult to realise that the axe has fallen on a man who put Everton and his job before everything else.

GRAND-SLAM FAREWELL TO CAREY AT GOODISON PARK
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 15 April 1961
JEERS AND CHEERS MINGLE IN THRILLING DISPLAY
EVERTON 5 CARDIFF CITY 1
By Michael Charters
Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell.  Cardiff City; Swan; Harrington, Milne; Hale, Malloy, Baker; McMillan, Moore, Tapscott, Ward, Hogg.  Referee; Mr. C.H. Rogers (Middlesex). 
The crowd at Everton this afternoon were more interested in the occupants of the directors’ box than they were in the appearance of the teams on the pitch.  There was some jeering when chairman John Moores appeared and took his customary seat in the front row of the directors’ box and the crowd, some of them slow-hand-clapping, set up the cry “We want Carey.”
IN SECOND ROW
Mr. Carey came in the box as the match kicked off and sat in the second row.  His usual seat was next to Mr. Moores.  After this preliminary burst of excitement the crowd settled down to see how Everton payed with Mr. Carey as manager for the last time. Bingham headed the ball into the Cardiff net in the first minute following a free kick but was several yard: offside. But the crowd had something to cheer about for Everton were a goal up after three minutes following a brilliant move.  It started with Labone putting a perfect Crossfield pass to Collins, who pushed it through for Young, who held off Malloy’s challenge and slipped it inside to Collins, who hit a perfect left-foot shot low into the corner of the net.  Everton were playing some superb football and Cardiff had hardly been allowed a kick at the ball so far.  Young with a fine reverse pass give Vernon a chance to run on to the ball and hit it just over the top from 25 yards.  It took Cardiff more than 10 minutes to mount an attack of some penetration.  It started with a first class link between Ward and Hogg who moved the ball down the left wing and when it was switched into the centre Baker was only inches wide with a good shot.  Cardiff were slowly coming into the game having weathered the early Everton attacks.  McMillan twice beat Thomson with some neat footwork, but Everton defenders got the ball away when it came inside Ward was particularly clever with his adroit passing. 
BRILLIANT MOVE
McMillan looked a very good player indeed and most of the Cardiff attacks came from him. When Everton did move the ball quickly they looked better side and one brilliant move should have brought a goal. Vernon put a perfect pass out to Bingham who gathered it full speed and hit it smartly across goal where Young, running in at top speed, got his foot to it and put the ball high over the bar from no more than five yards range. Parker and Labone were playing particularly well for Everton, while some of Young's flicks and touches in distributing the ball were times to the last inch. 
SECOND PENALTY APPEAL
Everton had yet another penalty appeal turned down from what I considered a genuine case. This time Harrington handled a shot from Young, but the referee waved play on then, after 28 minutes, Everton did get a penalty at the third time of asking. This same when Harrington, the "guilty" man In the other two instances fouled Vernon who recovered from the tackle although stumbling and went on to push the ball across the goal where Milne cleared. But the referee had blown for a penalty seconds before and Collins had no difficulty in scoring tram the spot.  Young was at it again in the next minute, with a superlative piece of dribbling to glide his way past two defenders before crossing the ball and Cardiff were lucky when Malloy blocked Vernon's shot, the ball going back to Swan.  ATTACK IN FORM
Everton had now recovered, the excellent form they had shown in the first ten minutes, and Fell, from Young's pass, put across a pin-point centre for Bingham to head just over the bar.  Ten minutes before half-time Everton went three up with a goal which rivalled the first in the superb way it was built up. Collins began it with a 30 yard run from mid-field before pushing the ball through to Fell who cut inside Harrington perfectly, flicked the ball inside to Vernon, whose through pass to Young was so accurate that the centre forward was able to step around the goalkeeper and push it into an empty net. Everton were indeed, giving Mr. Carey the finest of send-offs for their football had not been better all season.  Young a touches were those of a football master. He was thrilling the crowd every time he got possession, and one centre pulled back to Vernon's feet was remarkable in its accuracy, but Vernon's shot hit Malloy in flight, came back to Collins, who put the ball just wide. 
Half time: Everton 3. Cardiff City 0.
There were jeers again when Mr. Moores resumed his place after half-time, and he greeted them with a smile. The crowd in front of the main stand were still looking up at the directors' box when Young put Everton four up within seconds of the restart. Everton attacked instantly and Young put Vernon through. The Welshman took the ball up to the goalkeeper, lost possession as Swan came out, but the ball ran loose to Young, who put it into the empty net. This goal must have been a matter of ten seconds only from the restart.  Cardiff fought back courageously under this crippling handicap, and Dunlop had to make his first real save of the match by diving to turn a shot from Moore just round the post.
COLLINS AGAIN
After 45 minutes Collins put Everton five in front with a headed goal of which even Dixie Dean would have been proud. He started the move himself with a pass to Bingham, who took his time before centreing hard, and Collins, standing a couple of yards to the right of the upright, flicked it past Swan with his head. It remarkable that Collins, who has been right off the goal standard for so long before scoring in the friendly against Bangu on Wednesday, should now score three goals for the second time for Everton this season.
KEEPER GOES OFF
After 54 minutes, Swan, the Cardiff goalkeeper, went off for attention with an injured right shoulder and Tapscott took his place in goal. Tapscott was quickly in action to make a fine catch from a corner by Fell as Swan walked off holding his right arm to his body. Everton were now doing almost as they liked, playing brilliant football but not quite with the same pace as in the first half.  Gabriel was unlucky not to get into the scoring act when his shot looked booked for the net only to hit Malloy in fight and rebound high over the bar.

NOW WE’RE CONFIDENT OVER TRIP
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 15 April 1961
ALEX PARKER LOOKS BACK ON THE BANGU GAME
Now we know what to expect when we go to America for the international tournament next month. I don't wish to sound over-confident, but after Wednesday's match against Bangu—last year's winners—we feel we should be able to put up a good show. That the general opinion of the Everton players after the game, although we all conceded that the Brazilians would probably look a better side on a firmer pitch. As against that, I thought we had rather more of the play in what was undoubtedly an exciting match. There's no point in denying that it was exciting in more ways than one, and there were a few incidents that upset some of the players and a few of the spectators. Still, speaking for the players, I can safely say that the trouble was forgotten as soon as the match ended as is usually the case when games seem to get a little rough. Willie Waddell, manager of Kilmarnock, the Scottish side who were in New York last season and will be there again this time, was at the game and he told me afterwards he had thoroughly enjoyed it. It looks as if the Scottish team will be travelling on the same plane, so I can foresee a lot of leg-pulling.
OUR OLD FORM
Although some of our supporters may have been a little disappointed that we only drew, they must have seen that we are now playing something like the form we showed earlier in the season. At Newcastle the team really hit top form and after the opening few minutes the home side were never in with a chance. While nobody likes to think they are practically deciding a club's drop into the Second Division, that apart, it gave us great pleasure to win 4-0 at St. James's Park. That gives us a 9-0 aggregate score against the North-East team this season. I remember that on our last two visits to the ground we lost 4-0 and 8-2. We are now reaching the time of the season when there are a number of night matches and on Monday we meet Tranmere in the semi-final of the Liverpool Senior Cup. We won at Prenton Park earlier in the season in the League Cup, but from all accounts the team are a vastly different proposition now. Added to the fact that I am told they usually play well on their visits to Goodison, it looks as if it might be a harder game than many of our supporters seem to think.
TURN FOR YOUTHS
Next Wednesday night, of course, it is the turn of the Youth team to show their pace when the Stoke City in the second leg of the Youth Cup semi-final. They won 2-1 at Stoke and were watched by a crowd or 20,000, so I hope we shall have about 40,000 for Wednesday's game.  I hope so for these boys are well worth watching and I have never been disappointed when I have seen them, although, I would never say that to their faces.  I think anybody who has seen them this season will agree, and even with a goal lead our boys will need all the encouragement they can get.  If they reach the final they will meet Chelsea, the holders. As the youngsters have pointed out to us first team men, it is now up to them to bring any honours to the club this season.  And, of course, we haven’t any answer to that one. 
FAREWELL MESSAGE

Last week I told you of the visit we are having from Mr. Choo Seng Quee, the Malayan coach who formerly had a spell at Burnley.  He has had coaching experience in different parts of the world and will be leaving us for Sheffield United this month.  After reading my article last week he came up to me with a piece of paper with his farewell message and asked me to print it. I give it here exactly as he has written it. The F.A. sent me to Everton F.C, and have always made me feel very much at home. I now know what made Everton a great team. The future prospects of Everton are very bright indeed, now that they have clicked again as a team. They have not lost a League game since my arrival in Liverpool on March 30. A team of fine trainers, like Cooke, Watson, Bentham and Shannon—mighty jobs to do. Their job is to keep all of the players in the peak of fitness—makes these four trainers very busy persons. After their four victories these trainers can now rely on the players to train bard and seriously. "The players all know the value of fitness. Everton is a footballing side. I expect this very good team to do great things next season. "I feel very reluctant to leave Goodison Park. My Stay at Goodison Park has been short but most interesting and beneficial to me. There are many happy memories which will linger for a life time. I want everyone at Goodison Park to accept my heartfelt thanks for their kindness and hospitality shown towards me towards me during my short to the club." Thank very much. Mr. Choo. We ye been delighted to have you, hope we have been able to help you and will certainly miss you. All the best from everybody at Everton.

SHEFFIELD WED RES V EVERTON RES
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 15 April 1961
Sheffield Wednesday Res- McLaren; Martin, Birks; Hardy, O’Donnell, Young; Griffin, Frye, Quinn, Dobson, Meredith.  Everton Res; Dunn; Green, Jones; Jarvis, Gorrie, Harris; Lill, Bentley, Wignall, Temple, Harland.  Referee; Mr. J. Rouse (Leeds).  A good run by Bentley down the left ended with Lill miss-kicking when McLaren dropped the centre.  Then Young shot over in Wednesday’s first attack.  Everton were one down after five minutes, the scorer being Frye.  Griffin trapped a Meredith cross, rolled the ball across the face of the goal, and the inside right coolly picked his spot.  Everton hit back with several neat tackles, but were able to make little impression on the Wednesday defence.  After a brief spell of play which they might have scored on two or three occasions Everton were subjected to a purely defensive role.  Outside left Meredith was particularly prominent for the home side and might have gained a penalty when tackled by Green.  In a lone Everton raid, home right half Hardy was glad to kick a centre from Lill clear with several forwards harassing him.  Half-time; Sheffield Wednesday Res 1, Everton Res nil.
PRESTON A V EVERTON A
Both teams played attractive football.  Lang, of Preston scored the first goal which after a few minutes was equalised by Bennett.  Preston took the lead again with a goal from Gavin.  Half-time; Preston N.E A 2, Everton A 1. 

MR. MOORES ENJOYED THE LAST LAUGH
Monday, April 17, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
EVERTON 5, CARDIFF CITY 1
By Jack Rowe
The most incongruous moments were the jeers, catcalls, boos and cheers which swept over Goodison Park before and during the match.  Inevitably, in view of the news, the irate demonstration was against the Everton chairman, Mr. John Moores, when he took his seat in the directors’ box.  He showed no signs of being ruffled, smiling all through and I wondered what his feelings were when the crowd lauded with cheers the football genius of Alex Young.  This great Scot earned the cheers, but incongruity for me lay in the fact that the pleasure he has given and will give, Everton fans would not be possible but for the backing of the man who had to bear the brunt of the demonstrative crowd, who felt sympathy for Mr. John Carey, the manager who was saying farewell.  Mr. Carey has gone now and the pleasure of his last day at Goodison Park, if there was any for him, will stem from the performance of the team he has managed for the past two-and-a-half years.  For much of the match we had a football treat and Everton were so much superior to Cardiff that if the Welsh side had not lost their goalkeeper Swan with a collar bone injury in the fifth-fourth minute I think the score would have been higher.  When he went off Everton were leading 5-0, so there can be no arguments about the injury helping Everton.  On the contrary, Everton allowed their zip, if not the control to diminish in the knowledge that they could scarcely have an easier success.
THOMSON BEATEN
Only for about five minutes did Cardiff look like offering a serious threat.  That was shortly after Collins had shot Everton into the lead with three minutes gone and the Ninian Park side came back strongly with right winger McMillan beating Thomson almost at will.  But Thomson came back strongly and got a grip on his man so that from then on Everton swept ahead and played so brilliantly that 3-0 at half-time was really no indication of how much on top they were.  They were, I think, right to claim a penalty in the first minute other survivals by the Cardiff goal were lucky while Young once put the ball over from about three yards out. But the crowd were ready to forgive Young for this because his other work was superb.  He challenged the big Malloy unceasingly and his body swerve, dribbling and perfect passes stamped him as one of the class players in English football.  He also scored two of the goals and helped in the other three which to Collins, one a penalty when Vernon was hampered in the area as he attempted to climax the lead-up work from the two Scots.  With such an easy victory one cannot find any fault with any of the Everton team.  All played well with Young, Collins, and Parker perhaps particularly outstanding.  Collins did so much better because he was always well up with the forwards, while Parker put such a clamp on Hogg that in the second half he was able to join the attack in the search of a goal, which would not come after Swan’s injury.
MALLOY LOST
Cardiff, with the exception of those five minutes, did not afford much opposition.  Their defence was always unstable but Young moved about so intelligently that poor Malloy hardly knew where to look for him. The Ninian Park attack depended largely on McMillan and when he was snuffed out it was almost non-existent, Tapscott’s best contribution came when he took over from Swan and made several good catches from high centres and corners and also a good save from Vernon.  Collins’ first goal came when Young took Gabriel’s pass on the right and flicked the ball back for the scorer to hammer in a twenty yard left foot shot.  Then the penalty in 28 minutes and Young made it three after 35 when he controlled Vernon’s quick through pass and calmly piloted the ball past Swan.  Ten seconds after the restart Young and Vernon took the ball down and when it ran loose to Vernon and Swan collided, Young slammed it home.  The fifth in 48 minutes was spectacular.  Collins allowed Young’s pass to go to Bingham and when the winger hit in a hard centre Collins flashed it into the net with his head.  Cardiff’s goal was scored by Ward seven minutes from the end.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell.  Cardiff City; Swans; Harrington, Milne; Hole, Malloy, Baker; McMillan, Moore, Tapscott, Ward, Hogg.  Referee; Mr. C.H. Rogers (Greenford, Middlessex) Attendance 34,382. 

EVERTON RESERVES ON THE DEFENSIVE
Monday, April 17, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
SHEFFIELD WED RES 2, EVERTON RES 0
After a brief spell of play in which they might easily have scored two or three times Everton were forced to adopt a purely defensive role against the Central League leaders.  The home side went ahead after just five minutes, inside right Frye scoring, and although there were no further goals in the first half, Everton were forced to defend desperately.  Wednesday soon regained control after Everton’s short burst of attacks.  Griffin added a second goal two minutes after half time, and for the rest of the match Everton were a well beaten side. 

EVERTON ASK MR. CATTERICK TO BE MANAGER
Monday, April 17, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
By Horace Yates
When Mr. Harry Catterick takes his seat at Goodison Park tonight to watch the Liverpool Senior Cup semi-final between Everton and Tranmere, it will be as manager of Everton.  Yesterday club secretary Mr. Bill Dickinson issued the following statement.  “The Everton directors have today been in touch with Mr. Harry Catterick, and it is expected he will be appointed manager.  Mr. Catterick is coming to Liverpool and will attend tomorrow’s meeting of the directors at Goodison Park.”  Mr. Catterick has already made it known that he would like to manager Everton-for whom he once played at centre forward-more than any other club so the appointment is unlikely to be delayed.  Mr. Catterick will have been unemployed for exactly one week.  It was only last Monday that he resigned his position as team manager of Sheffield Wednesday.  Strangely he will soon be retracing his steps for on Saturday Everton play Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough.  And to carry coincidence even further, Mr. Catterick’s final First Division appearance for Everton was also against Sheffield Wednesday. 
LITTLE CHANCE OF AN EXCHANGE
There is, however, little chance of the two clubs simply exchanging managers, for I understand that Mr. Carey is not interested in the Sheffield post.  Mr. Catterick was signed for Everton as a player by the ten secretary Mr. Theo Kelly, before the war, when he was transferred from Stockport County, where members of his family still reside.  For a time he understudied England international Tommy Lawton, but following Lawton’s transfer to Chelsea he became a regular member of the side.  The fact that Everton are known to be hard task-masters will worry Mr. Catterick not at all.  He is an experienced manager, thoroughly confident of his own ability and that is hardly surprising.  Since he (Continued on page two-unfortunately need to get part two). 

CATTERICK MEETS EVERTON BOARD TODAY
Liverpool Echo - Monday 17 April 1961
By Leslie Edwards
Mr. Harry Catterick, the man who is likely to replace Mr. John Carey as manager of Everton, will meet all members of the Board at a conference at Goodson Park later this afternoon. The news of the meeting was given by the club chairman. Mr. John Moores, who added: “It is hoped that matters will then be concluded." Were agreement reached, and this is most likely, Mr. Catterick one-time Everton centre forward and until a week ago manager of Sheffield Wednesday, would take over the team for the Liverpool Senior Cup semi-final against Tranmere Rovers an hour or two afterwards.  No decision about the possible compensation of Mr. Carey, who was only half way through his sacked by the club on Friday, five years contract when has been taken.  
COMPENSATION
Mr. Carey said Yesterday: I shall not be in touch with the club myself.  Matters arising between us will be dealt with by me legal advisers." If Everton compensated their former manager in respect of two and a half years of contract uncompleted, he would receive some 7,500. Mr. Carey said at his home in Southport: “I am not bitter and I don't want to start slanging match with Mr. Moores, but if, as reported, he has said that I was given the opportunity of resigning before I was sacked, I must deny it completely. No such suggestion was ever made to me. The first I knew of the decision to finish me as manager was after the meeting in London on Friday when Mr. Moores told me in taxi.”

CATTERICK WILL WANT FREE HAND WITH TEAM
Liverpool Echo - Monday 17 April 1961
By Leslie Edwards
All going well Mr. Harry Catterick will be manager of Everton this evening in time to see his new team face Tranmere Rovers at Goodison Park in the semi-final of the Liverpool Senior Cup. It is hardly likely that Everton would have made, yesterday, their statement about the matter if they had not have gone far with preliminary negotiations with their one-time player. The only doubt now would seem to be whether the salary is acceptable and whether the parties can find agreement on their new manager's terms of reference. He told me about two months ago when the first inkling of his possible move from Sheffield Wednesday was disclosed: “Wherever I went I should insist on complete control of the playing side." Even as long ago the thought occurred that he might be asked to take over at Goodison Park, a club he has told me which offers so much—ground, supporters, tradition and financial resources—compared with the club from which he resigned only last week. Providing Everton can satisfy him on the points mentioned Mr. Catterick would take over with a minimum of delay, from the man whose outgoing has caused such a storm, Mr. John Carey. These men have much in common: both are former players, both have great regard for the enthusiasm of Everton supporters and both are content to concentrate their skill and knowledge to one end—team management. They are not as was Mr. Cliff Britton, prepared to shoulder the many other club commitments which, at Everton, are of themselves one man's work. Mr. Catterick knows the form at Everton —he was a player with the club until 1953—and I believe he will make good use of the players brought together painstakingly by his predecessor. His appointment might not 'cad to many changes in playing staff, but it could mean that there could be changes.  In other departments.
Sixty of the finest
One of Mr. Catterick's first duties would be to ready the side for the New York international tourney in the close season. Not long ago people were asking "Should not Everton withdraw from this event?" Whatever doubt remained of Everton's right to represent Britain was dispelled completely on Saturday when, in sixty minutes of the finest football I ever saw from the club, they thrashed Cardiff City (as they would have almost any other side) with five goals and an out-of-this-world performance by inside-forwards Collins, Young and Vernon. No outgoing manager can ever have had such an unwritten testimony from men he always believed would one day justify his faith in them as individuals and as a force. That they good naturedly eased off once the Cardiff goalkeeper, Swan, had gone to hospital with a broken collar-bone was understandable. Otherwise it might have been double-figures. Mr. Carey visited his team in their dressing room for the last time shortly before the start and thanked them for their co-operation. The players' spokesman replied saying how sorry they were that he was going. On field with the ball spotted and ready for the kick-off some spectators on the terraces under the directors box let Mr. John Moores know their feelings in a demonstration which surprised me Just as it must have surprised the referee and the players. Mr. Moores, unperturbed and smiling took what was given and everyone settled down to see what effect the excitement of the previous day had had on the men who matter—the team.  Whether they were playing for Mr. Carey or for the new Everton is an answer each must decide for himself. I put it on record that their first hour's play was superb in every respect. And if Everton's Scots had been playing for their country at Wembley there would surely have been no 9-3 disaster
Best in Britain
How they fought for the ball; for supremacy and for goals. Vernon hit peak form: Collins worked like a demon: Young—surely the most superb centre in Britain on his form?--glided here, there and everywhere putting artistic touches to magnificent use with his head and feet. Labone was mountainously commanding: Parker had the game of his life: there was scarcely a weakness and Thomson, the man who has taken so long to show us his potential. Had the crowd roaring with studious, shrewd passes and joy in at last finding his form in England. A wonder goal by Collins, at three minutes, started an Everton display which can never have been equalled, much less surpassed Labone found Young with a fine pass and the Scot, with Bingham on his right, dummied to put the ball to the wing, then swivelled and turned it inside to Collins. The late man knew what to do and did it. He has rarely hit the ball so true; so hard into the net. This set the pattern and although no goal came for half an hour Everton were on top always and scintillated in the spring sunshine. After two near miss penalty risks Cardiff fell to an award in favour of Vernon, who very nearly went on to score although fouled from behind by Harrington. Collins made it 2-0. The third, and best, goal came five minutes later. It was most beautifully worked and so simple it seemed absurdly easy. Collins to Fell, Fell to Vernon (a clever square pass when it would have been more obvious to try a commonplace centre): and then a side-footed forward pass to Young who moved deceptively fast to win a clinch for possession and calmly edge the ball past Swan as he advanced. Perfectly simple. Simply Perfect!
Greatest, if saddest
And it was 3-0 at the interval at which-point some people had still not finished with the chairman and the chairman had not finished shrugging off their reaction. Young and Vernon nodded the ball between them before Vernon beat the goalkeeper in a challenge and Young slammed the ball into an empty net with Swan lying injured. Then another brilliantly-taken goal with Bingham centring low at the second attempt and Collins, reflexes working like lightning, flicking the ball in with his forehead as it came to him just wide of goal. Nine minutes of the second half had gone when Swan's injury took him off field to the accompaniment of applause which did the Everton crowd nothing but credit. Ward made it 5-1 and Cardiff deserved a goal for their stolid, unremitting slogging with ten men, but once that golden hour of glory was ended, who cared?  A momentous day on a momentous day and the poignant end the silent, sympathetic assembly of some thirty or forty people round the Carey car, waiting to assure him of their gratitude and to wish him well. "That touched me very much." he said, “and so did the players' little speech before a match which was, for me, one of the greatest and yet, one of the saddest of my career."

EVERTON'S CHANGE FOR SENIOR CUP
Liverpool Echo - Monday 17 April 1961
Everton centre forward Alex Young has returned to his Army unit and cannot play against Tranmere Rovers in the semi-final of the Liverpool Senior Cup at Goodison Park to-night (7.30 pm)  Frank Wignall is his deputy and this is the only change from the team which defeated Cardiff City 5-1 on Saturday.  Tranmere Rovers will field their full strength side and are unchanged for the eighth successive  game.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Fell.  Tranmere-Leyland; Frith, Brown; Neill, McGugan, King; Murray, Williams, Arnell, Gubbins, Eglington. 

TRANMERE OUTCLASSED BY EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 18 April 1961
By Michael Charters
Within an hour of being appointed manager at Everton, Mr Harry Catterick watched his new team beat Tranmere Rovers 4-1 in the semi-final of the Liverpool Senior Cup at Goodison Park last night. If he needed to see his new charges in a match to assess them, he would not have learned much, for Everton won without being extended. Their superiority was so pronounced that the match became a one-sided procession of shooting practice for Everton. I was disappointed with Tranmere, although I suppose one must consider the relative positions of the two teams in the League Everton fourth from top in the First Division, Tranmere fourth from bottom in the Third. I have seen Tranmere play very well at Goodison in this Cup series, but this was not one of their days Murray apart the forwards were completely shut out of the game by Everton's defence, which played superbly well and limited Tranmere to two scoring chances, one of them taken neatly by Murray when Everton were 3-0. Tranmere could make such little headway against the speedy tackling and better positional sense of Everton's defence that one did not see their forwards for long spells. They received little help from the men behind them, of course for Tranmere's defenders were too busy trying to cope with an overwhelming pressure. Had Everton won by ten goals, the score would not have exaggerated their dominance of the game. Everton played well within themselves, never having to move into a gallop. But I must single out Thomson for a brilliant display at left back, with Parker and Labone little behind him.  Thomson’s constructive use of the ball has never been seen to better advantage. Vieing with Thomson for the man of the match tag was Collins, who baffled Tranmere with his so-accurate passing and general control of the game at though stages. He looked asthough he could have beaten themselves, and he is in tremendous form at present.   
POWER SHOOTING.
Vernon's shooting was breath- taking and Leyland made many fine save from him. But the man who could have hit the scoring headlines was Wignall, who was given chance after chance but could not time his shots properly or place than in the right direction. In one five minute spell just after half-time, he could have had a hat-trick but shot wide each time. Vernon, too, could have scored four or five himself on the law of averages with his shooting, but I give full marks to Leyland. McGugan and Brown for sticking to an overtime stint of defensive work. A match so one-sided as this can never be entertaining, and I fear the crowd never really got warmed up apart from Murray's goal. Shortly after he scored, Murray was carried off on a stretcher with what looked like a serious leg injury, but ten minutes later he was back in action seemingly little the worse for wear—thanks no doubt to the magical fingers of Everton veteran Harry Cooke, who went down to attend to him. 
ONLY FAULT
It was good to see this clever winger back so soon, for he was Tranmere’s one bright spot and he took goal well from Neill's good through pass. By then, Vernon, Collins (penalty) and Gabriel had put Everton serenely in front, and Vernon completed the scoring by heading in after Leyland had punched the ball up and Wignall had headed it against the Crossbar. This was the only time I faulted the Tranmere goalkeeper. Everton are in the middle of dominating spell and Tranmere's performance last night must be judged in that light. I fear, however, that they were so outplayed that it may have an effect on their mural for their tough task ahead in trying to stay in the Third Division. It cannot do a team anything but harm when they are outclassed to the extent they were at Goodison.

AS CATTERICK JOINS EVERTON...
Tuesday, April 18, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
CAREY TO ACT OVER CONTRACT
By Horace Yates
Only a few hours after Everton had installed Mr. Harry Catterick as manager yesterday, the man he deposed, Mr. John Carey whose contract still had two and a half years to run, announced that he had given instructions for immediate action to be taken to enforce my rights under my contract with Everton and to clear my name.”  This decision.  He said, had been arrived at on the advice of his solicitors.  In his statement Mr. Carey added “I have tried to avoid being drawn into public controversy since the fact that I had been sacked became public property.  However, in view of certain statements which have received wide publicity, I feel bound, in fairness to myself to place on record the fact that I was never given an opportunity to resign before my dismissal.  “I should add that I do not even now know of any reason which would entitle the directors to ask for my resignation.  “Certain reports have been open to the construction that I have been offered a sum of money by way of compensation –what is known in business circles as the golden handshake.  “I wish to make it clear that no such offer has been made.  “I should like to take the opportunity of thanking all the Everton players, staff and supporters for their wonderful loyalty and kindness to me during my term of office at Goodison Park.  This is something I shall always remember” Mr. Catterick’s contract is for a term of four years, at a salary thought to be £3,500 per annum.  He is in full charge of team affairs, including the selection of the sides. 

CATTERICK TAKES OVER AT GOODISON
Tuesday, April 18, 1961, Liverpool Daily Post
FOUR-YEAR CONTRACT AND FULL CHARGE OF TEAM MATTERS
By Horace Yates
For forty-one-years-old Harry Catterick, an ambition was realised at 5 p.m, yesterday, when following a conference with the Everton club board, he signed a contract which made him manager from that moment at the biggest salary of his life.  What that salary is he declined to discuss, but if it were to be put at £3,500 a year, I do not think there is the slightest danger of exaggeration.  The term is four years, one year less than that of the man he succeeds, Mr. John Carey.  When chairman John Moores was asked if he was prepared to talk about the Carey regime, he replied “One king has gone and another takes his place.  Let us stay with the present.”  I can reveal that when Everton had taken the decision to dispense with the services of Mr. Carey three or four top names were discussed as being the most suitable to conform with Everton’s ideas for the future.  That short list was whittled down to two.  Mr. Catterick and another leading First Division manager, and eventually the finger pointed firmly at Mr. Catterick.  One of the features in his approach to his job which made a great appeal to the Everton board, said Mr. Moores, was, “that he is constantly with the players.  He spends a lot of his time playing with them.  A successful manager must know his men as well as he knows football.  From Mr. Catterick’s point of view his appointment is almost a case of “local boy shakes good,” for though he was not born on Merseyside he spent much of his playing life at Goodison Park, so that it was hardly surprising to find him saying, “I am terribly proud to have had the job offered to me.  I think you can say it has been one of my ambitions to return to my old club.  “It is a club of wonderful traditions and I only hope I am able to fulfil all expectations and put them back among the major honours of the game again.”  If Mr. Catterick does not have complete control he has sufficient to satisfy all his desires and requirements.  He will be solely responsible for team matters, including selection of team.  “I have as much control,” he said “as any manager should need.  I am very happy about that side of the job.  There is no point in being called a manager if you are not one.”  Mr. Catterick said he had not seen a great deal of the Everton team this season, but he recalled what a great game they played against Sheffield Wednesday before the decline set in.  Regarding his financial freedom to negotiate for players, Mr. Catterick said, “I don’t think there is any manager who can go out and just spend what he likes.  “This board, I feel sure, will consider any recommendations I make.  He said that at this advanced stage of the season, and because of his lack of intimate knowledge of each particular player and his possibilities, the question of re-signings and new terms for players for next season would depend to a large extent on the recommendation of the directors and staff.  Mr. Moores broke in to add, “We have full confidence in him and have appointed him with a great deal of pleasure.  All the directors were very keen on his joining us.” 
CONTACT ON SUNDAY
Mr. Catterick maintained that the first contact between himself and the Everton board was made on Sunday, when an offer was put to him.  Although no permanent solution to his housing problems have yet been found, Mr. Catterick was stay with friends within easy reach of the ground.  He met the first team players with the exception of Alex Young, yesterday before the Liverpool Senior Cup semi-final game with Tranmere Rovers, but the team had already been announced before he reached Goodison.  Mr. Catterick watched the match and today will meet the remainder of the staff.  It was easy to see that Mr. Catterick was delighted to be “back home,” and the fact that Everton is now being referred to in some quarters as “The new hot seat of management in the football world,” caused him no concern.  He struck me as a man, who believes he knows where he is going and that he has the ability to take him there.  At least he begins by knowing that on results and only on results will he be judged.  At the first pause in the firing of questions, Mr. Catterick’s impatience to get out and watch his new charges in action made it clear that he realised his duties had already begun.  Mr. Moores chucked when asked what he thought of the hackling and jeering by the crowd before and during Saturday’s game with Cardiff City.  “They pay their money and they can shout as much as they like,” he said.  “I don’t mind in the least.”  For Mr. Catterick Saturday’s will be a sentimental journey back to the scene of his former triumphs at Sheffield, where his old and new teams clash. 

LIVERPOOL SENIOR CUP
Thursday, April 18, 1961 Liverpool Daily Post
TRANMERE WERE NO MATCH FOR THIS EVERTON
EVERTON 4, TRANMERE ROVERS 1
By Michael Charters
Everton’s new manager Harry Catterick watched his team cruise through to the final of the Liverpool Senior Cup by beating Tranmere Rovers far more easily than the score suggests at Goodison Park last night.  Everton won without extending themselves and for long spells it was little more than shooting practice for the Everton forwards.  Tranmere tried hard, but really one could expect no other than this result when one considers the comparative positions of the teams in the Football League.  Tranmere never presented any treat to the Everton defence and Dunlop was only called upon to make his first save after an hour had gone, Everton’s defence with Labone and Thomson particularly outstanding, limited Tranmere to two reasonable scoring chances, one of which they took and the other was missed rather badly.  It was only the fine work of Leyland in goal and some stout tackling by McGugan and Brown who kept Everton’s score down.  The match could have been a highlight in Wignall’s life, but although he produced plenty of shots the young centre forward, deputising for Alex Young could find no direction for them.  At times Tranmere were mesmerised and baffled by the brilliance of Collins who played superbly.  Tranmere had no answer to his footwork and the inch perfect accuracy of his passing. 
TREMOUS SHOTS
Vernon also joined the shooting range and had bad luck with some tremendous shots with either foot.  Everton took the lead after eight minutes, Vernon scoring a well taken goal from Collins pass and ten minutes later Collins scored from a penalty after Vernon had been fouled by King.  Ten minutes after half time Gabriel scored Everton’s third from a fine floating pass by Collins, but within six minutes Murray Tranmere’s best forward, got Tranmere’s goal when he was put in the clear by a good through pass by Neill.  Two minutes later Vernon completed the scoring when he headed the ball into the net after Leyland had punched it up and Wignall had headed it on to the crossbar.  Shortly after that Murray was carried off on a stretcher with what look like a leg injury, but what might have turned out to be a serious blow to Tranmere ended more happily when he returned ten minutes later and appeared to play quite soundly.  This was never a good match as Everton’s superiority was too pronounced for Tranmere to be able to make little more than a token flight of it, Tranmere were outclassed and outplayed from the start and Everton were never playing at little more than half pace.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Fell.  Tranmere; Leyland; Frith, Brown; Neill, McGugan, King; Murray, Williams, Arnell, Gubbins, Eglington. 

EVERTON ‘PERMED’ ONE FROM FOUR…
Tuesday, April 18, 1961 The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Leslie Edwards
Within an hour of the appointment of Harry Catterick as new manager of Everton at a salary of some £3,500 and a four-year contract one from in (just time for surtax relief) come a statement from his predecessor, John Carey. It read: - "On the advice of my solicitors, I have given instructions for immediate action to be taken against the Everton Football Club to enforce my rights under my contract with them, to clear my name.” I have tried to avoid being drawn into public controversy since the fact that I had been sacked became public property. However, in view of certain statements which have received wide Press publicity, I felt bound, in fairness to myself to place on record the fact that I was never given an opportunity to resign before my dismissal, and that any statement to the contrary is false. I should add that I do not, even now, know of any reason which would entitle the directors to ask for my resignation. "Certain reports have been open to the construction that I have been offered a sum of money by way of compensation - what is known in business circles as the ‘golden handshake.' I wish to make it clear that no such offer has been made. “I should like to take the opportunity of thanking all the Everton players, Staff and supporters for their wonderful loyalty and kindness to me during my term of office at Goodison Park. This is something I shall always remember."
Chosen from four
IT was disclosed last night that Everton had originally had four candidates in mind for the position: that there had been a short list of two (one's immediate reaction is to think that Joe Mercer and Stan Cullis may also have been considered) and that the final choice fell on Harry Catterick, who was seen by the directors late yesterday afternoon and whose appointment was announced almost immediately. The new manager will be given control of all team matters and team selection.
At Hillsborough. Sheffield, where he was in charge of players until his resignation a week ago. Harry Catterick was responsible for team control and selection, but also ran his own scouting network. One of his most successful aides, here, was the former Everton player. Matt McPeake, who sent from this area more than one player who made good. Harry is realising a long ambition in returning to his old club, where he was contemporary with Tom Lawton and Eph Dodds. He was a courageous, if not exceptionally well-built centre forward, who used to have to accept some pretty severe hammerings from big centre halves. Not long before he left the Everton club he scored at Tottenham a goal which would have saved his club from relegation to the Second Division. To the surprise of everyone, the referee disallowed the score for offside and Everton went down. By the time they were promoted Catterick had left and was successively (and successfully) player-manager at Crewe manager at Rochdale, and finally team manager at Sheffield Wednesday. In one season at Goodison Park he broke the same arm on two occasions.
NEARLY WENT TO NOTTINGHAM
Last year his name was associated with possible moves to Nottingham Forest and Blackburn Rovers. Neither materialised, though the Nottingham case was a near miss, club. Oddly, it was a clash of personalities at Sheffield which led to him to feel dissatisfied at Hillsborough. Catterick's first League commitment will be to take his new team to his old club at Sheffield, and the result of this game, on Saturday, should be indicative of the strength he has left as compared with the strength now at his disposal. Harry Catterick, born in Darlington, son of a former Stockport player and trainer, visits his family there regularly. He is quiet, shrewd, capable and a good judge of a young player. He was keen when Jimmy Harris seemed like to leave Everton to step in and take him. His success in gaining promotion for Sheffield Wednesday: his successful Cup runs with them and his shrewd selling at top prices and "buying cheap "-a good example being inside forward Craig - has impressed everyone on the inside" of football. The legacy left to him by John Carey is one of the most satisfying any manager could have. It includes the Youth team which may well beat all its rivals for the Youth Cup, a stage of which is due to-morrow at Goodison Park, when the second leg of the semi-final against Stoke City is due to be played. Everton Chairman, John Moores announced the new appointment at 6.45 last night and the Everton team started the new regime as they had closed the old one with an easy victory. The Everton Chairman said: “The Board as a whole chose Mr. Catterick because they felt that he seems to be constantly with the players. He knows how they think and how to get close to them and we regard that as most important." Asked about the demonstration against him on Saturday he said: “The crowd pay their money. They are entitled to shout. "
YOUTH TEAM
Everton Youth team to meet Stoke City at Goodison Park tomorrow evening in the second leg of the F.A Youth Cup semi-final will be; Mailey; Parnell, Gannon; A, Jarvis, Gorrie, Sharples, P. Maddock, Tyrer, Webber, Morton, Edwards.  Everton won the first leg 2-1 and if successful tomorrow will meet Chelsea the holders in the first leg of the final at Stamford Bridge on Saturday (3 p.m). 

SHEFFIELD TEAM DOUBT FOR EVERTON MATCH
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 18 April 1961
TONY KAY INJURED
AGAINST SPURS
Sheffield Wednesday, Mr. Harry Catterick's old team, beaten in last night's championship decider at Tottenham, are likely to be without left half and captain, Tony Kay, at home to Everton on Saturday, when they bid to clinch the 880 talent money runners-up place for which Wolves are their challengers. Wednesday trainer Tom Eggleton said when the team left London to -day: "Kay is the worst of our three casualties last night. He suffered a badly wrenched knee in a tackle and will require special treatment immediately we get back to Sheffield.  But there was good news of Wednesday's other players Injured against Spurs. Goalkeeper Ron Springett, who was off for five minutes late in the game after being charged by his England team mate Bobby Smith, said "My back is bruised and sore where I hit it as I fell against the goal-post, but I'll be all right to play on Saturday." Centre forward Keith Ellis, who suffered slight concussion and was being revived while the rest of the team joined the Spurs in an after-match champagne party, was well again to-day.

AS READERS SEE IT…
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 19 April 1961
By Leslie Edwards
After watching Everton play Bangu I protest at the treatment of the visitors by the crowd. At the start everyone was in friendly mood and the crowd's applause was generous for the Brazilians. Admittedly the visitors were not blameless, but Everton players and fans should know better. “I single out Parker, Gabriel and Bingham as credits to the club. Bingham took heavy punishment but always, bounced back without dissent." "Gerry." 180 Gorsay  Lane, Ford.

EVERTON UNCHANGED
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 19 April 1961
LAST AWAY GAME OF THE SEASON
Everton will be unchanged for the game at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday-their last away match of the season but their first League clash under the control of new manager Harry Catterick.  Wignall continues at centre forward as deputy to Alex Young, who is required for an Army game.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Fell. 
MAY BE POSTPONED
If Everton beat Stoke in this evening’s F.A Youth Cup semi-final second leg at Goodison Park, they will postpone Saturday’s Central League match against Derby Reserves.

EVERTON THROYUGH TO YOUTH CUP FINAL
Thursday, April 20, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
SHARPLES COULD BECOME A SENSATION OF THE FUTURE
EVERTON 3, STOKE CITY 1
By Horace Yates
By an aggregate of five goals to two Everton last night qualified at Goodison Park for the F.A Youth Cup final, by ousting Stoke City in the two-leg semi-final.  Everton now oppose Chelsea in the final, the first leg of which will be played at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.  Everton’s Central League game with Derby County being postponed in consequence.  What a credit this set of lads are to Everton.  These players of the future and possibly not too distant future at that, look capable of advancing all the way and it seems to me that Everton may not find it too difficult to maintain standards on a far more economic trudged than it took to assemble the present senior time.  Everton’s football at times even on a difficult greasy pitch was so fluent that Stoke found it hard to complete on anything like equal terms, but whatever skills they may have lacked Stoke were of the true bull-dog breed so far as defensive work was concerned.  Four of the Everton teamers Parnell, Sharples, Tryer, Webber –have played in First Division football while none of the Stoke lads has so far graduated above the reserves.  This judicious blooding of the Everton boys has undoubtedly produced results, and they are better players for their experience.  Sharples in particular thrust himself forward as a half-back who could one day become a sensation.  In the first team he was just that little bit slow making him appear to lack decisiveness but against lads of his own age and maturity he was a football giant.  In the tackle he was devastating effective and on attack the strength with which he resisted tackles and the way in which he placed the ball to advantage, focused attention on him.  I should be surprised if Mr. Harry Catterick, watching from the stand, has not made a mental note of Sharples.  First team followers have heard of four of these boys, and are probably aware of the name of Jarvis, if only because of consistent recognition by Wales but Stan Edwards of Rhyl may mean little to most.  After last night, at least 21,417 people who braved a horrid evening will be wondering why he has been kept under lock and key for so long. 
FIRST CLASS FARE
In better company he may be less effective and less assured, but with the sort of outside left void there has been in match after match I would have been tempted in face of such promise to give him his chance alongside the other youngsters, who have been brought in to taste first class fare and left to digest it at their leisure.  Tyrer attempted to take on the Bobby Collins’ role without scaling the heights quite so effectively and Webber worried openings out of the Stoke defence, and then just failing to turn them to account.  None can doubt this lad’s effectiveness and enthusiasm.  Parnell was a full back with the Parker touch and overall I should say Everton are in the final on true merit for if there are better youth teams than this then football is not the bleak affair it is sometimes represented as being.  I think Stoke Bloor adds to his experience and years, and if Sherratt committed the unforgivable sin of conceding a goal from 40 yards allowing a ball to slip through his grasp it was the one blot on a superb display.  Everton scored first in three minutes when Parton slashed wildly at Maddock’s cross and Edwards hit it straight for goal.  Nothing could have saved it but Winder stuck out a despairing foot, which merely accelerated the ball’s progress into the net. Five minutes before the interval came the 40 yards effort by Sharples, a goal which could only have materialised with such a greasy ball.  A Philpott shot eluded Mailey and Gannon, and Bridgwood shot into the undefended goal, a score which gave Stoke ideas of saving the tie, but when the pressure was on Everton proved they knew how to react.  Brilliant play by Sharples saw Maddock’s push the ball into the middle for Morton to sweep it past Sherratt.  Everton; Mailey; Parnell, Gannon; Jarvis, Gorrie, Sharples.  Maddock, Tyrer, Webber, Morton, Edwards.  Stoke City; Sherratt; Parton, Philpott; Grffiths, Bloor, Winder; Bebbington, Braidgwood, Walters, Matthews, McGrath.  Referee Mr. J. Powell (Rotherham). 
WIGNALL IS EVERTON LEADER
Everton’s new manager, Mr. Harry Catterick, is compelled to make one change in the side to visit his former club Sheffield Wednesday, on Saturday.  Centre-forward Alex Young is required for an Army game so Frank Wignall deputises.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Fell. 

EVERTON IN YOUTH CUP FINAL
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 20 April 1961
By Paul O’Brien
Everton’s Youth team, which has been hailed for months now by its followers as the best under-18 side in the land, is just one hurdle away from proving this to be true.  They beat Stoke 3-1 at Goodison Park last night- aggregate score-5-2-and thereby entered the F.A Youth Cup final for the first time.  Everton, however, did not have things their own way in last night’s semi-final second leg.  They had to fight every inch of the way against a Stoke side which stubbornly refused to admit defeat.  As the final whistle blew, spectators crowded around the players tunnel to show their appreciation of the visitors performance and the Everton players stood back, joined in the applause and waited until the last Stoke man had left the field before they took their equally well-deserved ovation.  Everton play Chelsea in the final and the first leg is at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, Stoke were held up in the Mersey Tunnel on their way to Goodison and arrived at the ground only 15 minutes before the kick-off.  They were a goal behind at the third minute.  The pitch had received a thorough soaking by rain and it was the slippery stale of the surface which was responsible for this opening score.  Tyrer, Everton’s inside-right swung a long ball across field in the direction of outside-left Edwards, Parton, Stoke’s right back moved in to intercept, slipped and Edwards gained possession.
FIRST CLASS
The Everton winger’s shot beat goalkeeper Sherratt, and a defender, who made a despairing last-minute attempt to hook the ball out of goal, only succeeded in helping it on its way.  Play swung from end to end for most of the first half, but competent goalkeeping by Sherratt and Mailey, plus some first class tackling by both sets of defenders, prevented addition to the score until two minutes before the interval.  Then Everton got goal No. 2 and what a sad moment it was for goalkeeper Sherratt, Sharples hit a harmless-looking ground shot from 35 yards, Sherratt bent down to make a simple pick-up without getting firmly behind the ball and it rolled through his legs and trickled over the goal-line.  Gannon, Gorrie, and Parnell all made perfectly-timed tackles in the Everton penalty area when a Stoke forward was on the point of shooting, and at the other end Sherratt atoned for his error with a series of superb saves.  Stoke placed their corner kicks throughout much more dangerously than Everton and it was from one of these, taken by left back Philpott that Bridgewood scored Stoke’s goal, the ball entering the net via the underside of the bar after 69 minutes.  Everton’s third goal at the 87th minute was the result of the game’s finest football.  The ball travelled 80 yards from deep in the Everton defence without a Stoke player touching it and when it was returned to the centre from the right, Morton nipped in to apply the finishing touch.  Each member of the Everton defence had a moment of glory when he either made a superb tackle or a fine interception.  Although the forwards did not combine as well as we know they can, they did extremely well against a strong, resolute Stoke defence, in which Phillipott and Winder were outstanding. 

MR. CATTERICK’S SQUARE DEAL FOR A SQUARE DEAL
Friday, April 21, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
By Roy Vernon
No doubt I shall be expected to refer this week to the momentous development at Goodison Park during the last few days, although obviously it is not easy for an employee to refer to matters of policy by men in authority, over him.  It is fair to say however, that we were all just as surprised as the general public when the announcement was made of Mr. Carey’s removal from the Goodison scene.  The appointment of Mr. Harry Catterick to succeed him as manager followed so quickly that it was probably the best possible thing that could have been done to take everybody’s minds off Mr. Carey.  I can just imagine Mr. Carey saying when told of his fate; “That’s life,” for that is the philosophy which those who earn their living from football develop as times goes by.  I would hasten to add that Mr. Catterick has created an excellent impression with all the players and I feel sure that now that the tumult and the shouting has died we shall become one big happy family again.  If, I write in terms of affection for Mr. Carey it is simply because that is how we regarded him.  He treated us well and we tried to give our best in return. 
 A REALIST
Mr. Catterick is a realist and I think we will all get along very well with him.  He has been through the football mill and he knows much of the problems and feelings of players.  It would be a very bad recommendation for any set of men if they were to be told that one of their number had gone and there were no regrets.  I know these will not be misinterpreted for only on Tuesday Mr. Catterick told me “if the players give the same sort of loyalty to me as they did to Mr. Carey I will be very satisfied.  He said he asks nothing more than a square deal and promises an equally square deal in return.  His wishes will be fulfilled to the letter, for it still the aim of all of us to make Everton truly great.  We are not jealous of Tottenham, but that is where we want to be next season.  I have said before, but applies equally well in the present situation, that the game is greater than the individual.  Mr. Carey was always honest and fair with us and we respected him for it.  It was the board’s decision that he should go and we must fully accept it.  Our job is to do as we are told.  Some of us in moments of passion may have said it which on reflection must have been better left unsaid, although sometimes it is a good thing to have the opportunity of relieving one’s feelings.  Not one of us would dream of allowing our regard for our late boss to interfere in any way with our welcome and performances for Mr. Catterick I hope no one runs away with the idea that any man will give him less than 100 percent of his capabilities. 
COMMON PURPOSE
To prove the point we will beat his old Sheffield Wednesday colleagues tomorrow, if that is humanly possible.  The enthusiasm and endeavour which were there for Mr. Carey are there now for Mr. Catterick.  We are all members of a team with a common purpose, I think all the lads realise that while our form has shown an agreeable improvement just lately, we have not yet attained the pitch we can and must reach.  Mr. Catterick has come to us with an outstanding record of achievement and if we all work together with a will our new manager’s reputation for putting his team among the honours could quickly be realised. 

MIXED FEELINGS
Liverpool Echo - Friday 21 April 1961
What mixed feelings of loyalty Harry Catterick will have when he goes back to-morrow, with his new club to Hillsborough. Everton beat Wednesday earlier in the season in a fine game at Goodison Park and producing the inspiration of their performance against Cardiff might well repeat the dose, especially as Wednesday were involved (not a bad word !) in that lusty battle against Spurs earlier In the week. Everton's team will not this time have Alex Young at centre-forward so Frank Wignall, left out after the Bangu match, comes back in time to show the new manager his potential as a good deputy for a Scot who has after a slow start completely won the hearts of Everton fans. Everton start at a double advantage in that any team managed until so recently by anyone must re-formulate their tactics when they meet their old guv'nor as a member of the opposition. If Everton win, as I think they will, and then wind up at Goolison Park with a victory over Arsenal on Saturday week they will emerge in a very respectable position after their long, lean spell of the New Year. Mr Catterick has said, and how wisely, that he does not propose for the moment to interfere with existing policies and plans. He will want time to get acclimatised. It is possible that changes he makes will not be far reaching and concerned only in detail.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Fell. 

BINGHAM TO GO ON IRISH TOUR
Liverpool Echo - Friday 21 April 1961
Misses Last League Game
YOUTH FINAL
By Leslie Edwards
Everton wall be without their Irish International right winger, Billy Bingham, for the last League game of the season, against Arsenal, at Goodison Park a week to-morrow. Immediately after Everton's game at Hillsborough, Sheffield, to-morrow, he travels to join the remainder of the Irish team which is touring Greece and Italy. Bingham will be back in time to join the Everton party which goes to America for the international tourney there in June. It is anticipated that all Everton's stars will be available for this trip. Everton's retained list will not be decided until as late as possible. “I shall be guided by what I have seen and by what my trainers and coaches tell me." says Mr. Catterick. "I am anxious to get my wife and little girl comfortably housed and settled in before I leave for the American trip which is, of course, a highly competitive one."
YOUTH FINAL
Mr. Catterick foresaw a tough challenge to-morrow in London for his side's youth team in the first leg of the Youth Cup Final. "Chelsea have got together an out-of-this-world youth side; a fantastic team:' he added. Among them are seven players who won Youth Cup medals last season. They are backs Butler and Harris, half backs Venables and More, and forwards Murray, Shaw and Bolland. Chelsea's record in the competition so far is 34 goals to nil: Everton's 35 against 7. Chelsea youth team chief, Dick Foss, says: Our target is to start the second leg at Goodison Park next Wednesday with a four goals lead. We shall need it. Everton are very good indeed. Everton coach Leslie Shannon will be in charge of the Everton youngsters in London. Everton; Mailey; Parnell, Gannon; Jarvis, Gorrie, Sharples; Maddocks, Tyrer, Webber, Morton, Edwards.  Chelsea; Cowan; Butler, Harris (A); Venables, Mora, Harris (R.); Murray, Shaw, Bolland, Johnston, Gillingwater. 

WIGNALL HEADS LATE WINNER AT SHEFFIELD
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 22 April 1961
SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 1 EVERTON 2
By Horace Yates
Sheffield Wednesday;-Springett; Johnson, Megson; McAnerney, Swan, Kay; Finney, Craig, Ellis, Fentham, Wilkinson.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Fell. Referee; Mr. E.T Jennings (Stourbridge).  A mild outburst of booing greeted Everton's new manager Mr. Harry Cattertck, when he took his place with the club directors in the stand before the beginning of his first game in charge of the Goodison side. Mr. Catterick was entirely unaffected by the demonstration of Wednesday spectators who had probably been only too ready to cheer him before his switch of clubs. Dunlop Parker rescued Everton from early difficulties when Gabriel', Pass to Vernon was intercepted by Ellis. The full back flicked the bail clear before the centre forward could bring Craig into Play. Parker's defensive play was first class during the opening minutes when several times his sliding tackle got Everton out of difficulty. The first time Everton attacked Wignall beat Swan to find Johnson racing up from behind to concede a corner kick as Wignall attempted to send the ball over. Wignall was doing surprisingly well in the air with his tussles against Swan, but the cover of the Sheffield defence, which was quick to seal gaps which the odd error threatened to create.
OPPORTUNIST SHOT
Wilkinson raised Wednesday's hopes with an opportunist shot from 25 yards and Dunlop leapt across his goal to find the ball passing narrowly wide of the post. A heavy rain shower sent the crowd scampering for what cover there was available. The rain persisted and fired rather than dampened Wednesday's enthusiasm. Craig was the sparkling point and a lob by Finney promised possibilities until the rangy Ellis misdirected a header. A Kay, Ellis and Wilkinson link up brought heavy pressure on the Everton goal and when Finney shot across Parker did not hesitate to help the ball on its way over the bye line and only a moment later Dunlop had to be wide awake to keep out a well-directed shot from Ellis.
INSIDE MEN SWITCH
Vernon and Collin were switching positions in an effort to upset the strong tackling of McAnearney and Kay but the half backs had been clear winners of the tussles. Wilkinson earned the biggest cheers of the day when Craig slipped him the ball from a Gabriel header which had gone astray, and from outside the penalty area the winger hammered in a shot which appeared to gain pace as it skidded from the greasy turf and flew only inches wide of the post with Dunlop hurling himself to meet the challenge . Everton’s switching of positions paid dividends at the half hour for when Bingham moved Inside and Vernon on the right wing, the Welshman planted the ball In the Sheffield goalmouth where Bingham, despite slightly mis-cueing, sent the ball to Wignall who hooked it just past the out-stretched fingers of Springett for the opening score. This was a goal extremely well taken and was a reward for Everton’s persistency, Labone and Ellis engaged in several aerial battles and the Everton centre half had no reason to be disappointed at the outcome. Everton's most dangerous moment came when the defence moved forward as one man in an effort to play Wednesday offside. They failed and Fantham put the ball through in the mast threatening fashion. Dunlop raced out of goal and was beaten by the greasy ball, but Bingham happily had fallen back to clear. Parker was really playing magnificently. Time after time he went into the tackle and very seldom was he beaten. Thomson took Finney's legs from under him four or five yards outside the area and McAnearney flashed the ball wide of the goal from the free kick. Sheffield hit back solidly in search of the equaliser and they got it two minutes before the interval. Again it was one of those menacing Finney centres dropping with alarming accuracy right in a position to hurt Everton most. Gabriel headed the ball back towards Dunlop but Wilkinson got a touch to score the equaliser.
Half-time Sheffield Wednesday 1, Everton 1.
Johnson, Wednesday's right back, soon put Everton under pressure when he was allowed to advance right to the penalty area where he served Finney. The winger crossed the ball and first Ellis and then Johnson connected with their heads but Dunlop was well placed to save. Wednesday were piling on the pressure, and following the example of Johnson. Megson advanced deep into Everton territory to hit a shot wide but near enough to goal to cause some alarm.   For five minutes almost without a break Wednesday rained attacks on the Everton goal and from a lofted centre by Johnson Finney shot over the bar. Thomson was twice hooted for unceremoniously dealing with Finney and the second time the referee had a word with him.
COLLINS WIDE
McAnearney's free kick produced a free for all in the Everton goalmouth which ended with Meagan clearing from a half-hearted shot by Craig. It was a change to find Everton at the Wednesday end, and they forced a corner kick from which Collins shot disappointingly well wide. Fell did his best to open the way for Vernon who breasted the ball down and sent it just too far ahead to control in the face of Kay's challenge. Still, it was good to see Everton fighting their way back into the game. Everton came back again through Meagan. Gabriel, and Vernon, and from the touch line Bingham dropped a shot under the bar which had Springett worried. With every player except Springett in the Everton half there was a desperate chase when Vernon found the opportunity to send Bingham away on the right. Fell met his centre but Wednesday were able to scramble the ball away for a fruitless corner. Bingham had to receive attention to bring a pause in the Sheffield assault, but it was only a momentary respite as McAnearney forced Thomson to concede a corner kick. Collins served warning on Sheffield that they had to take care, and it was only by a yard or so that his through ball was too strong for the foraging Vernon. Wignall showed that Swan could be beaten by rounding him cleverly, only to finish with a ball that was lofted yards too high. The risk Wednesday took in deploying all their forces so far up field was emphasised in 72 minutes when Bingham went away on the right and Megson's belated challenge, was ineffective. The Irish- man crossed the ball to within a yard or two of the near post, and there Wignall leaned forward to direct the ball past Springett with his head. It was a beautifully taken goal and a due reward for an Everton fight back against all that Sheffield could hurl against them. A minute later they might have been two goals up for Wignall's header beat Springett again only to pass over the bar. Sheffield were now completely dedicated to all out aggression and Megson, from outside left, dropped a ball under the bar for Dunlop to show his tremendous alertness in pushing it to safety. Megson was up again for the corner kick but never got a chance. The crowd roared for a penalty kick as Finney went in the area but the well-placed referee paid no attention to their call Final; Sheffield Wednesday 1 Everton 2.  Official attendance 28,521.

EVERTON PLAYERS ARE 100 PER CENT BEHIND NEW MANAGER
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 22 April 1961
Says Alex Parker
Just before 7’o’clock last Monday night our chairman, Mr. John Moores, walked into our dressing room at Goodison Park with our new manager, Mr. Harry Catterick.  Mr. Moores introduced Mr. Catterick to all the players and then out we went to play Tranmere Rovers in the semi-final of the Liverpool Senior Cup.  As soon as the game was over Mr. Catterick popped in to tell us he had enjoyed the game and was quite pleased with our display.  The next time we saw him was during training at Goodison Park on Wednesday morning and he was with us again on Thursday.  While the appointment of a new manager is obviously a big thing for him and the Board who chose him, people must also remember that it is a big thing for the players as well.  As in every walk of life we are most anxious to see what our new boss is like.  From our talks with players from other clubs we have gathered that Mr. Catterick is a very fair, but firm, man.  In all honesty I don’t think we, the players, have a right to expect any boss to be more than that.  In the words of one Sheffield Wednesday player, I spoke to a few months ago, Mr. Catterick will play fair with you if the players are fair with him.
SAME END
Mr. Catterick has a good record as saying that he is going all out to get the highest honours he can for Everton, but I can assure him that he is no keener than any of the players for we are all out to do just that.  So with the same end in view, we are off to a good start.  From the general talk amongst the players this week there is no doubt that he will get the fullest co-operation from us all.  His past record has proved he is a great manager and we are hoping to prove we can be a great team.  Of course, many of our fans will remember our new manager as a player I know there are some on the staff now who played with him, so he should not feel too strange.  There has been a great deal written about the new appointment to Goodison over the last few days, so there is little point in my adding too much, except to say that nothing has been said or written that will stop the players giving anything but their best for Mr. Catterick. 
BEHIND HIM
I can assure everybody that we are 100 per cent behind him.  It would be foolish to be otherwise for it is the only way to get success and that is what we are all after for it is to the collective and individual benefit of us all.  Regarding the match itself, although it was reported that we “walked” it, we were all very much impressed by the way Tranmere always tried to play good football and if they can avoid relegation from the Third Division this season, they will make a few sides sit up starting next August.  Before the game I was talking to old Falkirk team-mate Tommy Murray and fellow-scots Brown and McGugan.  They tell me they are very happy at Prenton Park and are looking forward to starting from scratch with the club next season. 
HIGH STANDARD
It’s been quite a week for football and on Tuesday I went along to see the other semi-final between Liverpool and Southport at Anfield.  Southport also surprised us with the high standard of their play and it was certainly strange to see ex-Evertonians Bentham, Griffiths, and Blain playing in another clubs colours against Liverpool.  Still, I must confess that the Everton team were glad Liverpool won for we like nothing better than a “Derby” match, even if the Anfield boys so always seen to save their best for us.  Our Youth team reached the final of their Cup competition by beating Stoke 3-1 on Wednesday night after winning the first leg 2-1.  Like every youth game I have seen, this was a real thriller, although I’ll admit I have seen our boys play better, in the second half Stoke could afford to go all out as they had nothing to lose, and this seemed to put Everton off their stride a little.
SECOND LEG
It was hard luck on Stoke’s goalkeeper that he should let a long-range shot from George Sharples slip through his hands, but he more than made up for it afterwards.  The first leg of the final, against Chelsea, was played at Stamford Bridge today, and the second leg is on Wednesday.  That should be worth going a long way to see.  Those of you who were at our game with Cardiff will, I think, agree with me that is was one of our best displays of the season.  It is a long time since I enjoyed a game so much.  Bobby Collins hit a hat-trick to show that he is right back to his best again, and Alex Young and George Thomson are still proving that those who were so quick to write them off when they first signed are now wrong. 

TOUGH FOR EVERTON’S YOUTH TEAM
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 22 April 1961
CHELSEA TAKE 2-GOAL LEAD
Everton were almost immediately on the defensive in this first leg of the F.A. Youth Cup final at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea inside right Shaw looked dangerous as he ran into the penalty area, but before he could reach the ball. David Gorrie heavily but fairly charged him to the ground. Outside right Murray scored for Chelsea after 20 minutes. For the rest of the first half Chelsea were continually on the attack, but Everton's centre-forward Webber, forced Cowen to dive full length for his 20 yards shot. At the other end, Bill Mailey was constantly in action and he saved brilliantly from goal-grabber Shaw. But he could not save Murray’s volley from a corner five minutes before half-time. Half-time; Chelsea Youth 2,  Everton Youth nil. Everton made slightly more impression on the Chelsea defence on the resumption, but as in the first half, too many passes were going astray and the home defenders did not look as if they would allow Everton to be the first side to score against them in this season's competition. Aber 56minutes centre forward Bolland scored Chelsea third. 

A DAY TO REMEMBER FOR MR CATTERICK
Monday, April 24, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
DOUBLE DEFEAT NEW EXPERIENCE FOR WEDNESDAY
SHEFFIELD WENDESDAY 1, EVERTON 2
By Horace Yates
If Mr. Harry Catterick, Everton manager and former Sheffield Wednesday team manager, was elated at the way in which his new club defeated his old club at Hillsborough on Saturday, as he must have been he concealed his feelings remarkably well.  His only comment was; “I was very pleased at the way Everton performed and I can only hope that this is the forerunner of many more triumphs together.”  If last week it could be said that Everton were playing for John Carey, it must be equally true that this week they showed beyond any doubt their willingness to accept Mr. Catterick and to play themselves to a standstill for his and Everton’s sake.  I have Mr. Catterick’s assurance that only five teams have won at Sheffield in the last three seasons and for Everton to be one of them, and the only club to have performed the double against them this term, is a performance that scarcely needs any elaboration.  This was not a case of Everton catching their opponents on an off day, for if Everton were happy to make this a match of Cup-tie intensity Wednesday were more than willing to accept the terms.  More entertaining displays and better football exhibitions there have undoubtedly been but I very much doubt if there can have been many more sustained endeavours or more spirited exchanges. 
NEEDLE ENCOUNTER
It was patently obviously that this was no ordinary end-of-season clash, for there was a tension and bite about almost every move that advertised the needle nature of the encounter. A less determined, resolute Everton would have been swept out of the game in the early minutes of the second half when Wednesday threw everything into the most naked aggression.  The slightest easing up, the most elementary error might have swung the game beyond them but Wednesday found themselves confronted by a foe which simply refused to admit the possibility of defeat.  Defence as solid and reliable as this, coupled with a willingness to snatch opportunities in the scoring line, converted Everton into a combination sound enough to have brought a glow of pride to their supporters.  If the claim were to be made that this was Alex Parker’s greatest hour and a half of his playing life, I would not be prepared to argue to the contrary.  His weakness of playing wide to the wings, with the tendency to leave the middle in jeopardy, was gone.  His tackling was speedy, efficient and completely effective.  He did his own job and was more than willing to lend a hand elsewhere, it was needed.  If he sacrificed some of his attacking flair in consequence, what of it? As a defensive barrier he was flawless and perhaps it was a mark of his mastery of every situation that Wednesday’s most dangerous forward, Finney, achieved little or nothing when he switched his operating to the left.  Had Scottish selectors seen this exhibition they could only have gone back with a “Parker for Scotland” resolution. 
MIGHTY MEAGAN
Thomson had more trouble with Finney, but his unflagging devotion to duty brought him out of the match with a credit shared by all his colleagues.  Mick Meagan about whose retention there have been mixed feelings threw the taunts back into his accuser’s faces with a game which was as solid defensively as it was attractive in an attacking sense.  The relentless prodding and pressure tactics of Fatham, so upsetting to many a half back, made little impression on Gabriel and Craig was never allowed to assume the role of dictator.  Similarly, the magnificence of McAnearney and Kay, particularly Kay wrought havoc with the intentions of Collins and Vernon.  For Wignall this day was memorable.  Had he chalked up his first senior hat-trick no one could have been surprised and none could have denied his entitlement to it.  Twice he scored. A third time Megson headed out when Wignall had beaten Springett and on a fourth occasion, he cleared the bar narrowly.  Few centre forwards have beaten Swan as often and with such apparent ease, either in the air or on the ground, and there can be little doubt that he was the biggest thorn in the Wednesday flesh.  With Young back it is almost inevitable that he will have to lose his place, but he now knows he is able to make the first team grade and with the sort of threat he can mount there must only be uneasiness by the man in possession.  Wignall on this form, is posing a mighty threat to any forward complacency.  It was only a half chance that came his way in 31 minutes for he was facing his own goal as the ball appeared.  Quick as thought he hooked it over his shoulder and beyond Springett it was a shattering blow to Wednesday and not until two minutes before the interval did Wilkinson apply a scoring finish during a moment of Everton defensive uncertainly in front of goal. 
GAME-READING
It was almost as though Mr. Catterick had spotlighted the chink in Wednesday’s armour and instructed Everton to attack on the right to give Bingham the opportunity to profit by the slowness on the turn of left back Megson, for it was on this flank that Everton crowded on pressure after Wednesday had hit Everton with everything they had in a sustained second half offensive.  How handsomely it paid dividends for in 72 minutes Bingham crossed the ball magnificently to the head of Wignall just outside the post.  The centre forward out reached Swan and in the most accurate fashion headed over Springett’s protesting arms into the net.  Lucky said some of the Wednesday following.  What slander! It was a beautiful goal, a real credit to Wignall and a regular appetiser to Everton.  Wednesday’s greatest threat were the precision centres, lofted perfectly by Finney, and designed to reach the lofty head of Ellis.  Against lesser foes than Everton it was a plan which must have succeeded, but to his great credit Labone achieved a startling mastery over the tall Wednesday centre forward, and the victory plan disintegrated.  The nastiest moment of all was when Finney fell in the area.  It might easily have been a penalty-but it wasn’t.  Sheffield Wednesday;- Springett; Johnson, Megson; McAnearney, Swan, Kay; Finney, Craig, Ellis, Fantham, Wilkinson.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Fell.  Referee; Mr. E.T Jennings (Stourbridge).  Attendance 28,521. 

MAILEY WAS HERO OF EVERTON
Monday, April 24, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
CHELSEA YOUTH 4, EVERTON YOUTH 1
Despite a galliant display by goalkeeper Mailey, who was given an ovation at the end, Everton lost 4-1 to Chelsea the holders in the first leg of the F.A Youth Cup final at Stamford Bridge.  Mailey injured twice in the second half could not stop the brilliant Chelsea forwards by himself and Everton will require more than a repeat performance from him, for the formidable task in the second leg at Goodison Park on Wednesday.  Chelsea had a record of 34-0 before the match and the Everton outside left Edwards was first to score against them, in this season’s competition.  Murray the Chelsea outside right, scored twice in the first half and Bolland made it 3-0 in the 56th minute.  Until Edward’s surprise goal the Everton forward line had given goalkeeper Cowan little to worry about.  Then Murray netted his third and Chelsea’s fourth. 

BOOS FOR CATTERICK, THE MAN WHO ONLY ASKED FAIR PLAY
Monday, April 24, 1961 The Liverpool Daily Post
By Peter Price
One week there are jeers and boos for the Everton club chairman, Mr. John Moores and cheers for the departing manager John Carey.  Last Saturday there were Sheffield shrieks and whistles for their former manager Harry Catterick, but next Saturday I expect it will be cheers all the way at Goodison Park for a team which has found itself.  If Mr. Catterick was rather taken aback at the demonstration against him, who can wonder, for the neutral fan would concede that he did a very good job of work for the Hillsborough club? He earned them promotion right away.  He wiped out the derogatory tag of “Yo-yo team,” cut short an away record which extended more than twelve months without a victory and set up a home sequence of three years with only four defeats.  Everton made that into five but this was after Mr Catterick had laid down the reins of office.  Wednesday had it within they power to make Mr. Catterick so comfortable that he would not have listened to outside whisper.  They chose not but accommodate him in what may have been considered reasonable requests.  Which fair-minded man could blame him for looking after his own interests?  If blame there be for Mr. Catterick departure, surely it lies at the door of the club officials!
PROGRAMME COMMENT
Mr. Catterick could afford to permit himself a smile as he read the following extract from the club programme.  “Close on 200 years ago a Frenchman wrote, “If there be any man having the itch to compress a whole book into a page, the whole page into a phrase and that phrase into a word, it is I.  The quotation is given because it sums up the feeling of quite a number of people who have become tired of the voluminous comments on recent club, managerial decisions.  Every Tom, Dick, and Harry knows what has occurred since our last programme was issued.  Almost immediately after the match with Leicester City, Mr. Catterick resigned his position as manager and the resignation was accepted by the Sheffield Wednesday board.  Before the week was out Everton announced that the contract of Mr. Johnny Carey as manager had been terminated.  Within a matter of days Mr. Catterick was appointed manager of Everton.  “We have been unable to compress these facts into one word, but we’ve cut them down to bare bones.  And we think they’re enough when you compare the decisions to Russia’s staggering feat of speeding a man round the earth in less than 90 minutes and bringing him down to terra firma again.  It’s time there was a senses of proportion.”  

A HAPPY START FOR THE NEW EVERTON PARTNERSHIP
Liverpool Echo - Monday 24 April 1961
By Horace Yates
What a happy start this was for the new partnership between Mr, Harry Catterick and Everton, If there was one match this season that Mr Catterick would have liked to see Wednesday lose this was it— and they did. For Everton the achievement was most noteworthy for they became the first team this season to accomplish the double over the Sheffield side, although with a match against Aston Villa still to be played, there is still the possibility that Wednesday could suffer yet another double reverse. Another individual who could extract the greatest satisfaction from this performance was centre forward Frank Wignall, scorer of both Everton’s goals and a snapper-up of trifles so brilliant that this sort of opportunity makes all the difference to a side’s fortunes.  As one might expect from a clash against Sheffield Wednesday, a team second in the table, the points had to be earned the hard way.  Particularly during the second half the Everton goal was under assault almost continuously for minutes on end and possibly it was this concentration on all-out attack by Wednesday that helped Everton to spring a surprise when they managed to turn the tables. 
DUG IN
Mr. Catterick did not see Everton produce their brightest brand of football.  The smart tackling defence of Wednesday in which Kay, McAnearney and Megson were outstanding, was proof against such an eventuality.  There could not have been a more spirited performance, however, for after losing the goal lead which Wignall gave them in 30 minutes to an equaliser by Wilkinson in 43 minutes, Everton dug in their teeth and prevailed against everything Wednesday could throw at them.  Fighting displays such as this throughout the season must, have made Everton much more serious challengers for the top honours of the game. The winning goal, which came in 72 minutes, was a credit to both Bingham and Wignall. Bingham it was who made the ground up the right wing and then crossed the ball immaculately for Wignall to steer it beyond Springett. Apart from his goals, Wignall could be content with his display against Swan, for he beat the normally watertight centre half on several occasions, which in itself is no mean feat.  Labone, too, earned the highest marks, for the Sheffield wingers Wilkinson and Finney fashioned their play to take the fullest advantage of the height of Ellis in the middle, but it was rare indeed for Ellis to out-head Labone.
PARKER PRAISED
Parker, too, was in superb form. There were some in the crowd who commented that if Scotland have a better full back than Parker then their results hardly bear out the contention. Wilkinson could make nothing of the Scot. Finney, achieved almost all his success, when opposing Thomson and when he switched back to the' right Parker gave him no latitude at all. Although beaten several times. Thomson was a bonny fighter and the Everton half back line acquitted itself nobly when the tide seemed to be flowing strongest against them. Although Meagan got through a lot of work he was an attacking spark whenever opportunity presented itself.
TROJAN COLLINS
Bingham was a more impressive winger than Fell and over, and over again offered opportunities to the men in the middle. Collins worked like a Trojan, but found a tough nut to crack in Kay and in the circumstances it was perhaps not surprising that his accomplishment were fewer than usual. Vernon had only one real shooting chance when he teed up the ball for himself cleverly and then missed it. Mr Catterick's influence on the Everton victory was evident, for against a team normally so composed as Sheffield he had pin-pointed the weaknesses which must have been so well-known to him for Everton to exploit.  If he can continue to beat opposition sides as accurately as this and if the teams can obey his dictation so successfully, then the new partnership should flourish and prosper.

YOUTH CUP
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 25 April 1961
By Leslie Edwards
Everton coach Leslie Shannon is confident his bunch of bonny boys can overcome their three-goal deficit against Chelsea in the second leg of the F A. Youth Cup final and bring the trophy to Everton for the first time. The deciding game is at Goodison Park to-morrow night (7.30 p.m.) and Mr. Shannon feels his team has only to produce the form they showed in earlier rounds to cinch victory. Chelsea's goals on Saturday came from defensive mistakes, so they may regret handing the London side a 4-1 lead. I anticipate the biggest crowd ever in this city to watch a youth game and If Everton play as they did at Stoke City In the semi-final, there should be a football treat. The attendance at Chelsea on Saturday (about 6.000) was disappointing in view of the home team's excellent performances in this competition over the past two years. There should be at least three times that number at Goodison for, whatever the result, supporters will be able to see the basis of Everton sides for years to come. They have some wonderful prospects among this youth team.

CHELSEA YOUTH AT GOODISON
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 25 April 1961
UNCHANGED TEAM FOR CUP GAME
Chelsea, who beat Everton 4-1 last Saturday, will field an unchanged side in tomorrow night’s F.A Youth Cup final second leg at Goodison Park.  This means they will parade seven of the team whom won this trophy against Preston in last year’s final.  They are full backs Dennis Butler, and Alan Harris, half-backs Terry Venable and Terry More and forwards Bert Murray (who scored three goals against Everton in the first leg) Colin Shaw and Gordon Bolland.  The Chelsea lads are particularly keen to retain the cup and so commemorate youths manager Dick Foss’s 25 years’ service at Stamford bridge.  Billy Liddell is to present the trophy tomorrow night.  Chelsea; Cowan; Butler, Harris (A); Venables, More, Harris (R.); Murray, Shaw, Bolland, Johnston, Gillingwater.

JONES AND LILL IN TOUR PARTY
Wednesday, April 26, 1961, The Liverpool Daily Post
If there is a surprise in the party of Everton players nominated to make the trip to America to take part in the soccer tournament in New York it is probably that of Tom Jones, the club captain, who has played in only two League games since the turn of the season.  As well as being a tribute to the devoted service given by this fine player and great sportsman, Jones’s inclusion could pay dividends for with his ability to turn his hand to centre half or full back, he could be a useful man to have with the club.  Another surprise, possibly, is the inclusion of Mickey Lill, who has not figured in the first team since his operation, but I am told he has proved his fitness with the reserves.  The touring party will be Dunlop; Parker, Thomson, Gabriel, Labone, Meagan, Bingham, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell, Lill, B. Harris, F. Wignall, Temple, Jones. 

EVERTON DELAY TEAM SELECTION
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 26 April 1961
U.S. Tourney Party
YOUTH CUP SIDE
By Michael Charters
Everton mirage Harry Catterick is delaying selection of the team to play Arsenal at Goodison Park on Saturday in the last League game of the season until he hears whether centre forward Alex Young will be available. There is an Arms, Cup Final on Saturday in which Young may be required to play. Although Young is not due for release from the R.A.S.C. until July, he is included in the Everton party for the New York tournament next month. Sixteen players will be going and they are: Dunlop. Parker, Thomson, Gabriel, Labone, Meagan, Bingham, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell, Lill, Harris, Temple, Wignall and Jones. It is good to see that Lill has recovered sufficiently from his double cartilage operation to make the trip. He has been making good progress in recent reserve team outings. Only one goalkeeper Dunlop—is included, and if he is injured in the rather heavy programme of matches, the team will be in trouble.
YOUTH FINAL
Both Everton and Chelsea will be unchanged for the second leg of the F.A Youth Cup Final at Goodison Park tonight (7-30), in which Chelsea hold a 4-1 lead.  Billy Liddell will present the trophy to the winners.  Everton Youth ; Mailey; Parnell, Gannon; Jarvis, Gorrie, Sharples; Maddocks, Tyrer, Webber, Morton, Edwards.  Chelsea Youth; Cowan; Butler, Harris (A); Venables, More, Harris (R); Murray, Shaw, Bolland, Johnston, Gillingwater. 

EVERTON BEAT CHELSEA AND YET LOSE CUP
Thursday, April 27, 1961 The Liverpool Daily Post
YOUTHS HELP TO RESTORE FAITH IN FUTURE OF FOOTBALL
EVERTON 2, CHELSEA 1
(Aggregate; Everton 3, Chelsea 5)
By Horace Yates
What a flight the Everton boys put up in the second leg of the F.A Youth Cup final at Goodison Park last night.  Starting 4-1 down, a seemingly impossible position against a side which had scythed down all opposition with a fantastic scoring record.  Everton had Chelsea wobbling at the knees with the most sustained thirty-minute blitz I have seen all the season.  Within a goal of equality, and with 15,946 spectators, making noise enough for 50,000 in never-ending encouragement Everton mounted wave after wave of attack until it seemed that Chelsea must capitulate, but to their eternal credit, they weathered the storm, and claimed a consolation goal in the last minute.  This was a match that had everything and if there is a record sale of throat pastilles tomorrow, who can be surprised.  The roar was continuously for most of the game and the Everton boys, swept forward on this flood tide of support, came within an ace of wiping out their deficit against a side which has not conceded a single goal to any other teams.  Everton are a team of which to be proud.  Their spirit, football, determination and individual skill’ were of such high quality that it is no exaggeration to suggest that the entertainment they provided could hardly have been battered by their seniors.  Everton were beaten, but they lost nothing except the trophy when Chelsea retain for the second successive year, for they proved that the London side, played everywhere as the country’s best, could not only be beaten but could be outplayed as well. 
LIKE INTRUDERS
If Everton dominated the exchanges in the first half than they monopolised play subsequently so much so that Chelsea almost looked like intruders when they crossed the half-ay line.  Everton could easily have gone ahead, 22 minutes when Webber with a shot from 30 yards out beat goalkeeper Cowan and left a black smudge on the crossbar as testimony to the nearest of near failures.  The live-wire Webber laid on a perfect opportunity, which Maddocks squandered, but Everton received no more than their due when Edwards finding himself in the clear from a corner kicks, seemed to take an eternity to hit the ball, but when he did it was the most perfect lob and in 35 minutes inroads into the deficit had begun.  With Everton’s second goal coming in 54 minutes the stage was set for a triumphant reply.  Tyrer placed Morton in possession and across goal went his centre for Webber to flick it into goal.  Now sleeves were really stripped on in earnest.  It was easy to see Chelsea’s concern.  They wasted time whenever possible, pushed the ball out of play, passed back to the goalkeeper and indulged in a variety of safety-first tactics, which showed they had been well drilled to meet such an emergency though the experience has been.  Everton continued to thunder forward and at any moment it appeared the equaliser must come.  Webber nearly did the trick with a block-buster of a shot that screamed only just wide and Tyrer seized on a pass with only Cowan to beat but the young goalkeeper barred the way with his body, and Tyrer simply could not clear him. 
SAVE OF THE NIGHT
Webber headed over and Tryer’s lob must almost have grazed the bar on the upper side, but the save which will be remembered when all others are forgotten was from an Edwards header.  The match hung on that single incident and inches decided against Everton.  The direction was flawless as Cowan flung himself at the ball and retrieved it at the second attempt when it must have been actually on the line.  This was excitement clean above ordinary expectations, but flesh is only human and without the reward of success Everton naturally began to tire.  With one minute to go a needless conceded free kick by Parnell gave Murray the chance to drive the ball into goal.  No one dared leave the ground before that goal for Everton were the great dictators capable of snatching an equaliser and even a winner, against a desperately packed defence.  If I had to name the outstanding player among so many brilliant performers I would unhesitatingly plump for George Sharples, a lad to whom his colleagues looked for leadership and my goodness how they got it.  Jarvis less forceful but almost equally effective was another great player. 
DASHING WEBBER
Tyrer’s skill was evident to all, and Edwards is a useful winger with the right sort of scoring ideas.  I doubt if there is any player, apart possibly from Bobby Collins who covers as much ground in a single game as Webber.  These will want dash and all out drive in their centre forward most be charmed with Webber but I thought if he showed a little more control and a stern legs exuberance a game could only be improved in consequence.  For all that there was a player whom the crowd were putting they hopes of success there was doubt that Webber was the boy.  Parnell and Gannon at full backs did everything asked of them and did it in an accomplished fashion while Gorrie who was given the hardest task of the Everton defence in having to control the skilful and skilful and industrious centre forward Bolland could hardly be faulted.  I liked both Chelsea wingers Murray and Gillingwater but Moore at centre half already plays with the assured calm and retain defence of a First Division player.  These boys helped to restore one’s faith in the future of soccer.  Everton; Mailey; Parnell, Gannon; Jarvis, Gorrie, Sharples; Maddocks, Tyrer, Webber, Morton, Edwards.  Chelsea; Cowan; Butler, A Harris, Veneables, Moore; R. Harris, Murray, Shaw, Bolland, Johnston, Gillingwater.  Referee; Mr. G McCabe (Sheffield) Attendance 15,946.   

BRITTON LEAVES PRESTON
Thursday, April 27, 1961 The Liverpool Daily Post
MUTUAL CONSENT
Preston North End new retain of being relegated to the Second Division yesterday decided to part company with their manager Mr. Cliff Britton who had been in control at Deepdale for four and a half years.  The official statement read “The Board of directors and Mr. Britton mutually decided to sever their connections forthwith.  The former England wing half had some months of his contract to run.  Following the relegation of Preston last Saturday after a stay of ten years in the First Division, Mr. Britton publicly thanked his players for making an all out, if unsuccessful team effort and stated “As I have had full control at Deepdale I therefore accept full responsibility for the club’s descent.” 

EVERTON CAME WITHIN INCHES OF SUCCESS
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 27 April 1961
By Paul O'Brien
Hats off to the gallant youngsters of Everton! They are only runners-up in this year's F.A. Youth Cup competition, but how very, very close they came in the second leg of the Final at Goodison Park last night to pulling back a 4-1 First leg deficit and becoming the trophy winners. For the record, Everton won 2.1 and Chelsea took the Cup for the second year in succession with an aggregate score of 5-3, but the score-line of last night's game is best forgotten as it does little justice to the Goodison boys' tremendous effort. Everton literally came within inches of success, firstly when centre forward Webber crashed in a 30 yards' drive which hit the bar, and then on half a dozen other occasions when shots and headers passed within a foot or so of the Chelsea woodwork. Cowen in the Chelsea goal sealed Everton's fate two minutes from the end with almost brilliant save from a perfectly placed header by outside left Edwards, previous to which Chelsea's two outstanding players, centre half Moore and right half Venables, made a series of timely interventions and tackles to deny Everton. On a pitch which was' exceedingly heavy, each member of the Everton side made a 100 per cent, effort and it was a mystery how they lasted the game out at such a pace. No one in the 15,946 crowd could have asked for more.
WONDERFUL SHARPLES
Everton, inspired by a wonderful display from left half George Sharpies, rose to great heights at times, so much so that Chelsea, easy winners at Stamford Bridge last Saturday,  were made to look a very ordinary side. Centre forward Webber ran himself into the ground in an attempt to force openings in the Chelsea rear-guard and right half Alan Jarvis touched the peak of his form in the second half. Mike Gannon had an outstanding game at left back and left winger Stan Edwards was always threatening. Everton's first goal came after 35 minutes and stemmed from a pass back by Chelsea left half Harris (R.) which was well wide of his goalkeeper. From the resulting right wing corner, taken by Maddocks, Cowen punched the ball out and, Edwards calmly lobbed it back over the goalkeeper's head and into the net. Webber got the second after 55 minutes when he turned the ball into goal from five yards following a through pass by Tyrer and a cross from Morton, and outside left Gillingwater scored for Chelsea seconds from time after a free kick just outside the Everton penalty area.

EVERTON’S ROY VERNON SAYS-
Friday, April 28, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
FINNEY COULD HAVE SAVED PRESTON
On Monday last I had the sentimental journey back to Blackburn to take part in the benefit match for Bill Eckersley, former England full back, who is calling it a day at the end of the season, after a most meritious career.  It was a great pleasure to be called on to play in this match for Bill, one of my heroes.  He was skipper of the Rovers’ side when I first made my way into the team and you have a habit of looking back on men like.  But through the hero-worship of young eyes.  What a character Bill, was full of hunour and as there was also in the eleven at that time born funsters like Bob Langton and Eddie Quigley, life was never dull.  Bill has deserved well of the Blackburn crowd and it was heart warming to find that none of them had forgotten.  They turned up in their thousands on a wretched night to pay their tribute and the match ended with the fantastic score of eleven goals to nine.  It was a bit strange finding myself in a Blackburn shirt again, but any strangeness soon wore off in the goal flurry.  How I wished I could do that for Everton, I thought as I banged home my fifth goal. 
SHOOTING BOOTS
One of the humorists cracked that I had returned to Blackburn for my shooting boots, but it is a fact that I took them with me from Goodison.  Players readily respond to invitations to lend a hand to deserving cases like Eckersley.  There is none of the needle of League games about there affairs, but they are none the less enjoyable, for crowd as well as player, I believe.  As I watched artists like Mannion, Langton and Finney at work I could not help thinking that skill such as was theirs in abundant measures never dies.  It is simply that they work their wiles at a slightly reduced pace, but there is all the touch of the maestro lingering about their play.  I never saw Mannion at his best, but after this belated glimpse I can begin to understand what a brilliant player he must have been.  It was also a delight to watch Tom Finney a player who makes the difficult game of soccer look so ridiculously easy.  As he toyed with defenders and made efforts of able players look up labours and slow.  It was hard to resist the impression that if only Preston North End could have persuaded their most gifted son to have forsaken his retirement for the last couple of months or so of the season Preston would not have suffered a relegation fate.  I dare say that if Finney decided on a come-back there are any further of clubs who would still willingly pay a sizeable fee for his transfer and I think it would prove well worthwhile.  I must have heard crowds sing Auld Lang Syne many and many a time, but never has it touched me quite so much as at Blackburn.  Suddenly, I became aware of how short a player’s career really is.  With vacancies for managers and coaches so rare, and sometimes an extremely hazardous, the message seemed to be shrieking out loud that clubs should encourage their players while still at the height of their powers to look ahead to the time when the earning of a living does not come quite so naturally or so easily.  Another player I greatly admired in this Blackburn festival was Jimmy Armfield, the Blackpool and England back, and yet while I admired him I cast my mind back a couple of days ago to Sheffield –and Alex Parker.  I have never seen Parker have a more immaculate and sustained exhibition of tip-top full back play than he did in this match and it is my view  that Parker is every bit as good as Armfield.  Yet Armfield is good enough to be selected for his country in match after match, while Alex languishes apparently in the international discard. How Scotland can even consider leaving Parker out of their suspect side baffles the imagination.  I know Alex is still very much Scotland conscious and would dearly like to win back his place.  For the life of me I cannot see what more he has to do to achieve his objective. 

EVERTON’S FINAL FLING FOR FOURTH PLACE
Liverpool Echo - Friday 28 April 1961
By Michael Charters
The end of the season at Everton, with one more to go next week for Liverpool, and, as a final appetiser, the Liverpool Senior Cup clash between them a week next Wednesday. And that, as they say, wraps it up. For Everton, it has been an exciting, fascinating season with the team reaching second place to Spurs just before Christmas and then subsequently falling from grace, if not too far down the League, before finding their form again at Easter. Since then, they have dropped only one point in the last six games and will finish fourth if they beat Arsenal to-morrow at Goodison Park and Burnley lose at West Ham. A visit from Arsenal is always an occasion, even if it is the last League game. Although the old great side ain't what it used to be, there is a glamour about the name Arsenal which draws the crowds, and the current team, mid-way in the table, has the added attraction of the power-laden boots of David Herd. This rugged young man ended Everton's run of 13 games without defeat last November with an explosive hat-trick at Highbury, and even if he lacks the classical touch, he has thunder in his shooting. Arsenal left back McCullough, who made his international debut for Northern Ireland against Italy in Bologna on Wednesday, flew back after the match to play at Everton. But 18-years-old Neill, centre halt in Arsenal's last six games, remained with the Irish party because John Sneddon returns after injury. Everton, of course, also have Billy Bingham on the Irish tour and he will probably be replaced by Derek Temple.

YOUNG TO PLAY AGAINST ARSENAL
Liverpool Echo - Friday 28 April 1961
Temple On Right Wing
AT GOODISON
By Michael Charters
Scottish international centre forward Alex Young returns to the Everton team to pay Arsenal at Goodison Park to-morrow. One other change has to be made from the side which defeated Sheffield Wednesday last week—Derek Temple is on the right wing in Place of Billy Bingham, who is with the Northern Ireland team on the Continent. Next week Young loins the Scottish party for their tour games and thus cannot play for Everton in their friendly match in Dublin against Shamrock Rovers on Monday night. Frank Wignall replaces him and this will be the only change from to-morrows side if all come through without injury. Everton; DunIop; Parker,Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Temple, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell. Arsenal solve their centre half problem by playing Mel Charles in that position. Grove is fit to play at left half and Skirton returns on the right wing, with Strong leading the attack and Herd at inside left. Arsenal; Kelsey; Bacuzzi, McCullough; Barnwell, Charles, Groves; Skirton, Eastham, Strong, Herd, Henderson.

EVERTON FINALE
Saturday, April 29, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
By Horace Yates
Everton ring down the curtain on their League programme today with a visit from Arsenal who are always worth watching, even if this season has not produced the fireworks of other seasons.  The Londoners have only won once at Goodison Park since Everton returned to Division one and that was in 1958-59.  Those who saw it will not have forgotten for Arsenal won 6-1, and Herd made scoring appear the simplest of exercises.  Of course, the man Herd who so nearly became a Manchester United player, this season probably submits the Everton defence to greater dignities than any other forward in the game.  This season at Highbury where Everton went down 3-2 on the day George Thomson made his debut.  Herd scored all three in a blistering short term hat-trick.  In fact it was that display which led to Arsenal supporters protests about Herd being allowed to move, and the idea gradually petered up.  If the Everton defence is as watertight as it proved at Hillsbrough last week I cannot see Herd treating himself in a further hat-trick luxury but to relax momentarily against a terrific sharp-shooter of disaster.  Frank Wignall is deposed by Alex Young as Everton centre forward, a decision has been inevitable as it must be disappointing to a youngster after having the game of his life the week before.  Obviously there was no alternative and Wignall, I think will have the sense to realise this.  Everton opened the season with a 2-0 reverse against a London side-Tottenham Hotspur.  Is it too much to expect them to conclude it with a similar margin this time in their favour against another London side-Arsenal? I think not.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Temple, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell. Arsenal; Kelsey; Bacuzzl, McCullough, Barnwell, Charles, Groves; Skirton, Eastham, Strong, Herd, Henderson. 

FOURTH PLACE IS EVERTON TARGET
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 29 April 1961
Arsenal end momentous season at Goodison
By Michael Charters
THE last League game of the season at Everton brings always-welcome Arsenal to Goodison Park to-day, and signals the end of one of the most momentous seasons in Everton's history, culminating in the dismissal of manager John Carey a fortnight ago and the incoming of ex-Everton centre forward Harry Catterick in his place. From a playing point of view, Everton have had their finest days since their championship year just before the war and will finish fourth from top if they win this afternoon, and Burnley lose at West Ham. They reached their peak just before Christmas when they were second to all-the-way winners Tottenham, but fell away in the first two months of this year before coming again from Easter. Since then, they have only dropped one point from the last six matches and Temple have showed form similar to some of their scintillating displays last October and November. Highlight of the season, from the playing viewpoint, was the double signing of Alex Young and George Thomson from Hearts in November for a combined fee of £53,000—highest ever in the history of both clubs Both players have taken time to settle down at Goodison Park, but both now are delighting everyone with their skill, debut at Highbury. It was not a particularly happy start for the player or the team for Arsenal I won 3-2 to end Everton's run of 13 unbeaten games at that, stage. It was the power shooting of Arsenal centre forward David Herd which brought about that defeat. He rocketed in a first half hat-trick before, Everton scored and although this current Arsenal side cannot be compared with their great teams of the past Herd is one of the leading personalities of a team which has held a midway position in the table all through the season.
TEMPLE PLAYS
Bingham Is missing from Everton's right wing this afternoon because he is touring with the Ireland team on the Continent but Temple will make an able deputy. Alex Young is available from the Army game to appear again at centre forward after missing last week's match. It is only right to pay tribute to the man he replaces. Frank Wignall, who scored the goals which beat Sheffield Wednesday to enable Everton to be the only team this season to score the double over the Hillsborough club. Wignall drops out without complaint whenever Young is available—and accepts reserve place as correct in view of Young's brilliance. But not every young player would act in this way considering the able part he has played on his appearances this season. There would be cries for a transfer, but not from Frank. Everton should end the season with a good win and the hope that Burnley don't do the same at West Ham—in this match which will decide either fourth or fifth place talent money. And then on to New York next month.

ARSENAL OUT-GUNNED BY VINTAGE EVERTON DISPLAY
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 29 April 1961
VERNON SCORES TWICE WITHIN 3 MINUTES
EVERTON 4, ARSENAL 1
By Michael Charters
Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Temple, Collins, Young, Vernon, Fell.  Arsenal; Kelsey; Bacuzzi, McCullough; Barnwell, Charles, Groves; Skirton, Eastham, Strong, Herd, Henderson.  Referee; Mr. A.E. Ellis (Halifax). 
There was quite a good crowd for Everton's last League game of the season. It was probably in the region of 30,000 at the start, with the main issue being whether Everton could finish fourth in place of Burnley. It was good to hear a fine round of applause for referee Arthur Ellis, who is having his last season as a League referee. Ellis, regarded as the best referee in the world, ends his active career when he takes charge of Liverpool's rearranged match at Stoke next Wednesday Arsenal played some delightful football in the opening stages, but the first real threat came from Everton. Young, with a superb pass, put the ball inside to Vernon, who lobbed it on to the unmarked Collins, who got too much loft on his lob and put it over the bar. But Arsenal looked dangerous when Eastham split the defence with a pass to Henderson, but Labone came to the rescue with two first-class interceptions in the air.
YOUNG SHINES
Young was leading Everton's forwards beautifully. It was his flicked class to Temple which gave the winger a chance to square the ball across the face of goal and Fell ran in to hit it first time with Kelsey putting his foot to it and turning it away for a corner. From Fell’s kick, Temple hit the ball first time but straight at Kelsey. Kelsey was a lucky man in one Ever ton attack, scrambling the ball away from Collins and then finding Vernon's shot, coming straight at him through a crowd or players. Everton were now taking control and looked much more dangerous. Kelsey made no attempt to go for a lobbed shot by Collins, which dipped suddenly and hit the top of the crossbar.
VERNON SCORES
Eastham was showing some brilliant touches, but Parker got the better of him in a due close to the corner flag much to the delight of the crowd. It was proving a fascinating match with Arsenal playing very well in mid-field but without the finish of Everton, who always carried more power in their attacks. Both Fell and Temple were doing very well and Fell brought Kelsey to his knees when he shot through a crowd of players, the ball rebounding from the goalkeeper to Charles who quite impudently lobbed it back into Kelsey's arms. Everton deservedly went ahead after 22 minutes with a magnificent goal from Vernon -one of the finest seen on the ground this season.  It started with a powerful header from defence by Parker which was picked up in midfield by Temple and pushed quickly through for Vernon to chase. He out-stripped Groves, took the ball around Kelsey and slotted it into the empty net. Arsenal fought back from the kick-off and were a little unlucky I thought not to equalise immediately. Henderson put the ball over dangerously, and Meagan failing to put power behind his clearance the ball only came out to Herd, who was dispossessed by Collins inside Everton’s penalty area. Vernon got a second goal after 25 minutes with another excellently worked effort. I give major honours here to Thomson, who came forward to the outside left position to take a pass from Fell, move it inside to Collins and the ball then passed on via Young to Vernon whose shot from the edge of the penalty area hit Groves and was deflected away from the diving Kelsey. BACK TO FORM
One couldn't find a fault in this Everton team at the moment. Their display against a good side was similar to their early season form. Arsenal were not out of the picture by any means, however, Strong missed a sitter when he only needed to put a foot to Herd's cross, but missed the ball completely. Fell was having his best ever game for Everton. He was responsible for the start of another move which could easily have brought a great hat-trick for Vernon. He pushed the ball through - when it looked impossible for him to get in his pass-straight to Young, who pushed it forward for Vernon to take in his stride, but the Welshman perhaps overeager, got his foot under the ball and put it over the bar with only Kelsey to beat.  Dunlop made his first save after 35 minutes, diving at the foot of the post to clutch the ball as Herd tried to brush it through with his body. There were appeals for a penalty when Young dribbled through brilliantly but fell in the penalty area as he appeared to be sandwiched by Groves and Charles but Mr Ellis waved play on.  
BRILLIANT GOAL
A minute before the interval Young set the seal on a magnificent Everton display with another brilliant goal.  The scorer and Temple linked in an intricate dribble near the touchline before the ball was slipped inside to Collins and Young was away in a flash into the open space to take Collins' pass and move right up to Kelsey before shooting with great accuracy into a corner of the net.   Everton went off at half time to one of the greatest ovation's the ground has heard this season, and they deserved every single clap.  Half-Time; Everton 3, Arsenal 0
Early in the second half Everton had a real let-of when Labone, with his first mistake in an otherwise faultless display, turned the ball out of Dunlop’s hands and it hit the crossbar before sliding over. From the corner kick Barnwell beat Dunlop with a first-time shot, but Parker kicked off the line. A centre from Temple hit McCullough and spun along the goal-line with no Everton man available to put the finishing touch to it, and although Arsenal were now having more of the game. Everton were still in very competent control.
MISSED CHANCE
Strong missed a great chance; for Arsenal when quick shot must have brought a goal, but he delayed so long that the ball was blocked away. The crowd kept calling for more goals but Everton were moving now at only half-pace. Herd, now playing at right half, almost put the ball through his own goal, and it spun away inches outside an upright. Everton were strolling through the game, but nothing could detract from the glory of their first half display which was football at its very best. Kelsey made the save of the match after Young had put Collins clean through and now the game had become merely of academic interest but with plenty of delightful football. Ten minutes from the end Herd got a goal back for Arsenal with a typical power shot after Everton's defense had been too careless in getting the ball away. Herd collected the ball on the edge of the penalty area and the next anyone saw of it was when it bulged the back of the net. In the last minute Vernon scored from a penalty for Everton after Herd had brought down Young. Players of both teams lined up at the end to applaud Mr. Ellis off the pitch-a fitting gesture to the end of a very fine game. Final: Everton 4, Arsenal 1.  Official attendance 39,810. 

WEDNESDAY GAME HARDEST OF THE SEASON
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 29 April 1961
MANAGER’S TIPS PAID OFF, SAYS ALEX PARKER
A week ago yesterday, Mr. Catterick, our manager, called the team together that was due to play at Hillsborough last Saturday to tell us of the strengths and weaknesses of his former side. We tried to adapt ourselves to his suggestions and, as you all know, it paid off with a 2-1 win. So that made us the only team to have completed the double over Wednesday this season. Some of the critics said afterwards that the game was not as good as one would have expected from teams so high in the table. That may be so, but it was certainly hard.  In fact, it was about the hardest game I've played in this season and the two points were won the hard why. It was good to see Frank Wignall grab another two goals, and I’m sure England centre half Peter Swan must have had many easier game this season.  Frank played exceptionally well against him as he did in the Goodison game earlier in the season.  It is also remarkable how he keeps popping up with the goals just when they are needed.
TOUR PARTY
Personally, I think Wednesday deserved a draw, but I'm not complaining about the two Points. There was great interest around the players notice board at Goodson last Tuesday morning when the list went up with the name of the players who are going to America, and this week we have all had to go to see a tailor about getting measured for our suits. We were all delighted to see Mickey Lill's name down and needless to say, so was Mickey.  He has an aunt and uncle who live about 15 miles outside New York so, along with some of the other boys, he will be able to get some visiting done. George Thomson and Bobby Collins, who have already been to America on club trips with Hearts and Celtic, were telling me the other day they have some old friends to see. The Scottish boys in the team will certainly not be lonely, as I believe there are a large number of Scots and Liverpool people who have settled over there so we shall be justified in calling on them both.
YOUNG'S DOUBLE
It will be quite a close season for Billy Bingham. At the moment he is in Italy with the Ireland party, and will be going to Greece and Germany with them. He will only be back in England a few days when he will be coming with us to Canada and America. Alex Young is going to Eire and Czechoslovakia with the Scottish party and we are hoping he will then be able to get Army permission to come with us for the New York tournament. Incidentally, congratulations to Mick Meagan on his selection for the Eire World Cup pool. That means that all our half-backs have had representative honours this season, for Jimmy Gabriel played for Scotland against Wales, and Brian Labone has played for the England Under-23 side. I noticed that Kilmarnock beat Bangu 1-0 the other night and gained revenge for being beaten in the final of last year's New York tournament, so it seems that the Scottish team are going to prove more than a handful as well as the Brazilians. While on the subject of Brazil, I must take this opportunity to thank John Darwin, of 12 Letterstone Street, Liverpool 6.  John is in the Merchant Navy and on the night we played Bangu he tells me he tried to contact me to give me a beautiful table cloth he had brought back from Brazil. He didn't see me that night but waited for me outside the players entrance before our game with Cardiff City and handed me the table cloth which depicts the big sports Stadium at Rio de Janeiro' surrounded by many coloured crests and shows a footballer kicking a ball, with a goalkeeper diving. It is all done in colour and makes a very welcome surprise. Thanks gain, John
YOUTH TEAM
The people who turned up to see the second leg the Youth Cup final between Everton and Chelsea at Goodison last Wednesday, certainly got value for their money. Everton, 4-1 down after the first leg, could an easily have pulled it back with a little more luck. Keith Webber in particular was very unlucky with a 30-yard shot that came back off the bar and a header which went just over.  They eventually won 2-1 but nobody is really disappointed. The three goals our boys scored against Chelsea were the only ones they have conceded this season and it could so easily have been more.  Coach Leslie Shannon is very proud of his team, as we all are.  But congratulations to Chelsea who have now won the trophy in successive seasons.  

PRESTON N.E. RES V EVERTON RES
Saturday, April 30 1961 The Liverpool echo and Evening Express
Preston Res; Kelly; Ross, Wilson; Morley, Gornall, Hart; Mayers, Lambert, Lang, Spavin, Taylor.  Everton Res; Mailey; Parnell, Jones; Harris, Gorrie, Sharples; Lill, Tyrer, Webber, Harland, Edwards.  Referee; Mr. H.B. Jones (Wolverhampton).  Everton were quickly in difficulties and it was no surprise when Taylor opened the score with a low shot after four minutes, Mailey was again in action before he was beaten a second time by Spavin after 13 minutes.  Everton were dangerous in breakaways and Harland was wide with a flying header while Edwards had a centre turned round the post.  Mailey made a great save from Taylor and when he was beaten again by Ross the shot hit the foot of the post and was cleared.  Gorrie and Jones defended well for Everton whose attack got few chances.  Just on half time Everton broke away and Harland hit the cross-bar.  The ball bounced down for Edwards to bang it into the net.  Half-time; Preston North End Res 2, Everton Res 1.