NOTHING BUT THE BEST FOR EVERTON
Monday, August 1, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Leslie Edwards
Everton’s Latin motto a free translation of which is “Nothing but the best is good enough” looks like meaning something this season.  The keynote of the new regime under the chairmanship of Mr. John Moore as efficiency everywhere and already the edict has made itself felt- even in the club kitchen which provides during the season the players mid-day meals.  There have been economies there and in the office staff and home has been left in doubt that nothing slipshod or second best will do.  Professional footballers, whose eye for the stationary golf ball is often as expert as their eye for the moving football, hold their North-Western Golf Championship at Childwall a week today.  Everton players move off the following day for their tour of Holland and will not be faced at Eindhoven by Tom Finney, who was tempted to come out of retirement by the Dutch club but refused an inviting request.  By then we may know more of the possibility of the season starting with a players strike.  I do not think it will come to this because the league are sure to produce some financial salve to obviate it, but if it does prepare for the players taking steps to run their own competition on any ground available for the propose of drawing their own strike pay “at the gate.” 
OLD SOLIDERS....
What happens t former Everton and Liverpool players when their playing days are over?  Some return to their home towns, some marry local girls and set up in business in this city; some, whose interest in the game remains keen, go into management and make a success of it; other like old soldiers, fade away.  But not often does one fine off stars on the stands at the grounds where they were once famous; much more likely to find them on the terraces.  It seems there is little sentiment in soccer especially when a man’s career ends. 
Everton presented each season, for many, many years a free season-ticket to one of the famous full-back uncles of Jack Balmer, but that is the only case I have heard of an old servant being given free admission for life.  Would it not be fitting if the handful of former player still living on Merseyside had their reserved places at Goodison Park and Anfield!  It would not cost much and old players would be saved the embarrassment of saying “oh when I go up to see them now I usually pay and stand on the terrace.” 

EVERTON OLD-TIMER PIPES UP
Wednesday, August 5, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Leslie Edwards
My note about few old servants at Anfield and Goodison Park not being given seats in the stand caught the eye of one faithful who promptly telephoned to say that this was not strictly true.  At Everton he maintains Ernie Gault (now over the 70 mark), George Jones (who used to understudy Sam Chedgzoy) and a man named Rigby (not Arthur but the player who deputised for Joe Clennell) all have places behind the directors box at home matches, as does William Ralph Dean, whose business as an hotelier in Chester so often precludes his presence from matches in this city. I am glad to be able to put the record straighter though there are still some old Everton and Liverpool players who feel disinclined to ask for a ticket when one is needed.  It would be manifestly impossible to accommodate all who had worn the colours of our two senior clubs, but where players have appeared in the first team for seasons and have given good service the granting of a ticket of admission thereafter should be almost automatic. 
THEY SOLDIER ON...
Many famous old players in Football in other capacities.  For the rest they are situated in all sorts of unlikely places up and down country, Warney Cresswell often leaves his North-East hostelry to see Everton when they play at Newcastle Fred Hopkins the Liverpool winger who is little changed from when he played at Anfield comes from Darlington to see Liverpool whenever they are in that area; Bobby Irvine whose sixpenny-piece dribbles used to thrill (and sometimes infuriate) Everton fans works at Leicester and usually attends any match in which Everton are involved at Filbert Street.  It is not long since I bumped into Jock Thompson, Jasper Kerr, and Jimmy Stein (jet-blank hair now completely white) at a golf tournament in Scotland.  Jimmy McDougall is, of course, still around the City and so is Jimmy Dunn.  Everton’s former amateur goalkeeper, Howard Baker and the bespectacled Gordon Menham, are also keen spectators-and perhaps critics-of League football when business permits. 

LIVE SOCCER ON YOUR SCREENS ON SATURDAY?
Friday, August 5, 1960. The Liverpool Daily Post
The Football League reached agreement last night with Independent Television for twenty-six league games to be televised live during the coming season it was announced at a Press conference in London last night.  The fee to be paid to the League for these exclusive right was not revealed.  Most of the matches are Saturday games and the kick off will be delayed until 6.50 p.m. so that about ten minutes of the end of the first half and the whole of the second half can be televised on Saturday evening at 7.30 without interruption by the whole ITV network.  Six or seven matches will be televised week-day evenings.  The first match will be at 7-30 p.m. on Saturday, September 10 when television big autumn programme season begins.  The agreement is expected to be signed within the next ten days when formalities have been ratified. 

LEAGUE CUP SHOULD HAVE HAD A ‘PRELIM’
Friday, August 5, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Leslie Edwards
Officials of League clubs are naturally chary of criticising the League Cup.  They want to give it a fair chance to succeed.  If it does the fence-sitters the half-dozen great clubs who did not enter this time will be clamouring for a place this time next year; if it doesn’t there may be other notable non-starters for season 1961-62.  My opinion is that the League and League and F.A Cup programmes, plus the proposed televising of selected Cup ties and star league matches will lead to such overcrowding of fixtures managers will be wondering where to turn for fit players in the mid-winter months.  The possibility of some second round ties of the new tourney being played before the certain first round matches have been completed is unusual to say the least and as one well-known football officials (who must be nameless) said; Why the League did not choose to have a preliminary round fought out by Third and Fourth Division clubs only is something only they can explain. 
Everton with the possibility of two home ties in succession, should go far; no wonder the rush for season tickets has been a record one.  At least one other League club I hear season ticket holders who had not applied for a renewal of their tickets were contacted by television and reminded that their new application was due.

WHAT, NO BADGE?
Friday, August 5, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Leslie Edwards 
Another record for Everton.  Three shares in the club were sold recently- and there was no ticket concession with any of them- for £200.  The nominal value of Everton shares is £1 apiece. 
Followers of the club who work at Lime Street station write to say they think Everton should have the club badge Latin motto and all on players shirts.  I confess it surprises me that Everton are one of the few clubs whose playing strip includes no badge.  Perhaps they want to be different.  Many will be satisfied to see them doing the handsome thing of the field irrespective of whether they look pretty or not. 

AN OLD BLUE
Monday, August 8, 1960 The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Leslie Edwards
One of the old Everton players who does not frequent the ground is the former full-back William Robinson, a member of the Fern; Thompson, Robinson; Fleetwood, Waring, Grenyer, Chedgzoy, Jefferis, Gault, Clennell, and Harrison, team.  “It would be a great pleasure to see surviving members of the team say my correspondent who writes from 54 Prince Edward Street, Birkenhead.

EVERTON TAKE 13 PLAYERS TO HOLLAND
Tuesday, August 9, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
TWO-MATCH TOUR
BY PLANE
By Leslie Edwards
Everton F.C., players flew to Holland from Manchester today for their two-match tour there returning on Sunday.  Tomorrow night they meet the Ado team in The Hague and on Saturday they face P.S.V. at Eindhoven.  The party comprises Mr. Cyril Balmforth, Mr. Holland Hughes and Mr. Jack Taylor (directors), manager John Carey and players Bramwell, Collins, Dunlop, Gabriel, Harris B, Harris J, Jones, Labone, Lill, Meagan, Parker, Ring, and Vernon. 

A NOTE OF OPTIMISM AT EVERTON
Tuesday, August 9, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Leslie Edwards
Within a fortnight of the start of the season one detects a note of great optimism about Everton’s prospects.  The general feeling seems to be that the club have the players the manager and the chairman to make an impact on the First Division for the first time since the War.  People point out that if Everton can plug the defensive hole which caused them to lose away points after the attack had given them what should have been a winning lead they will figure this time, not in the last half dozen but at the top where they belong.  There are still reservations about certain points in the defence but starting from scratch with one of the most talented sides they have had for seasons the attack may prove strong enough to carry any shortcoming in defence. 
Mr. Carey himself is optimistic.  He set out to give Everton followers attractive and winning football and he will not be content until his mission has been completed.  The story which went the rounds not long ago that Blackburn would have liked him back had sound basis bit it is unthinkable that a man of his calibre, having accepted a contract to fulfil an aim at Goodison Park would do other than carry it through. 
The new regime under chairman John Moore has begun auspiciously in that players, management and directors are more unified to-day than ever.  The system of directors taking it in turn to attend training sessions has given players the feeling that greater interest is being take to them that there is no gulf between them and the management. 
TO MAKE A “GO” OF IT
Even director who may have been sceptical of the value of their appearance at Bellefield are now beginning to think that much good comes of it.  The board basis of the aim at Goodison Park is that everyone will put their backs into it in order to make a go of it this time.  With Leslie Shannon taking care of the youngsters more than one of whom may get his first team chance this season, I fancy Everton will make their mark and quickly, though the opening tests against Spurs at Tottenham and Manchester United at Goodison Park are as stiff as they have ever faced.  Incidentally Spurs, with seven fixtures of the first eight against Lancashire clubs they be made of broken at the outset by those games. 
One man Mr. Norman Irving of 105 Parkhill Road, maintains his stand about the new order at Everton.  He now says.  My recent criticism of Mr. Moores appoint to the Board and subsequent elevation to the chairmanship of the club has brought forth opinions that I am (a) jealous of Mr. Moores and (b) the advent of Mr. Moores will produce Madrid-type football here.  The fact that I (like) every other football far reserve the right to criticise what I think is wrong should not suggest that I am jealous.  On the contrary I admire Mr. Moores’ acumen in business but feel it is out of place in sport. 

NO MATCH AT ANFIELD OR GOODISONN THIS DAY
Wednesday, August 10 1960 The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Leslie Edwards #
For the first time in my memory neither Everton nor Liverpool this year will have a match on the Saturday prior to Christmas.  Christmas Eve falls on Saturday and as Tuesday, December 27, had been proclaimed a general holiday, Football League clubs have accepted the opportunity to play two holiday fixtures consecutively on Monday and Tuesday rather than involved themselves in loss of receipts on Christmas Eve a busy time when father is more concerned with getting (and paying for) Christmas shopping than attending Goodison Park or Anfield. 

RAIN GREETS EVERTON
Thursday, August 11, 1960. The Liverpool Daily Post
Everton’s match against the Dutch soccer club Ado due to be played last night was call off because of torrent rain which waterlogged the pitch.  The match has been rearranged for tomorrow.

VERNON PROVES THE MASTER GOAL TAKER
Saturday, August 12, 1960 Liverpool Daily Post
EVERTON RACE TO 3-0 WON IN OPENING MATCH OF DUTCH TOUR
Ado 0, Everton 3
By Tony Stevens
Palatable though the 3-0 victory undoubtedly was at The Hague last night, much more important from Everton’s point of view was the opportunity to assess a relatively new collection of expensive talent about to embark on a season, which will prove the merits of high expenditure.  It is difficult to sum up even this match, because of unusual conditions, following three days of abnormally heavy rain, which had caused the match to be put back from Wednesday and had left pools on the pitch, which made footwork difficult and at times caused the ball to behave unusually.  The emergence of Vernon as masterly goal-taker, primed not only by his own ground-work by the industrious graftying of Collins, proved prime ingredients of the victory which left Everton officials happy enough but certainly not unaware that there are still positions which can be improved.  Most encouraging feature, I thought was Everton’s first 20 minutes in which the players possibly apprehensive following general suggestions that positions play is often better on the Continent were moving remarkably well into open spaces, calling intelligently and generally taking advantage of marking much less severe than in Football league games. 
CLOSE CALLS
Everton’s obviously hoped for early goals in the belief which is reasonable enough, that Continentals tend to lose heart with earl setbacks.  It was Ado who nearly opened the score, when after Meagan had fouled the outside-right, right half Haak lashed in the free kick which almost went into goal at the far angle.  At the other end Collins and Vernon both shot wide before Ring did his best work of the match, calmly and cleverly and most accurately tipping a twenty-yarder over the grasping hands of giant goalkeeper Vianen.  Unfortunately the ball hit the crossbar and bounded away.  On the half hour Everton opened the score.  A series of square passes on the edge of the box between Parker, Gabriel and Vernon gave the Welshman the chance of a quick shot.  His effort was not particularly powerful but soared accurately to the corner, beating Vianen, who appeared rather slow to move.  Two minutes later, Vernon nearly got another when Harris offered him an immediate shot right in front of goal, but this time Vianen made a clever save off Vernon’s first time drive. 
VERNON AGAIN
Five minutes after the hour Everton put the game into safe keeping just at a time when it appeared possible they were losing a little confidence and hesitancy was creeping into their game.  Harris moved out to the left and hooked a short high centre.  Vernon pulled the ball down smartly manoeuvred for position and then produced his shot over the keeper and just under the bar.  A minute later Jimmy Harris got a runaway from the half-way line, dribbled round Viaten and slotted the ball safely home.  Just before the end Ring who like Lill had a quiet match following close marking did beat the goalkeeper with a low twenty-yarder, but the whistle had sounded for offside.  Some fine saves by Dunlop whose handling of the wet ball was immaculate and intelligent advances from goal kept Ado from scoring.  The Dutchmen could consider themselves unlucky on two occasions for once their outside left was clear in front of goal when his feet slipped from under him.  Again Parker was rather lucky to heel the ball away from an open goal just as two Ado forwards were ready to pounce after Dunlop had lost his balance.  Vernon, Collins, and Dunlop can be very satisfied with their performances and Labone was steady but generally I believe manager Carey will hope to see better things from the team as a whole when they play in Eindhoven tonight.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Jones (Captain); Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Lill, Collins, J. Harris, Vernon, Ring. 

VERNON’S GOALS BEST FEATURE OF EVERTON
Saturday, August 18, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
WIN IN HOLLAND SHOWED UP THE WEAK SPOTS, TOO
By a Special Correspondent
Following Everton’s surprisingly high level pre-match tension and the disappointment because the game had been postponed for two days the 3-0 victory at the Hague over Ado came easily enough last night.  Despite the score, none in the Everton party was fooled in believing the means was as sweet as the victory.  There must be hopes of a better performance for one or two players in the tougher match against P.S.V. in Eindhoven tonight.  Vernon, Collins, Labone, Dunlop and Jones turned in fine performance against part-time players who offered technical skill in midfield full backs who were not afraid to move up and make an extra man in attack but who showed a tendency to fade after Vernon scored the second of his goals on the hour.  Everton’s players afterwards felt that there was not much punch about the Ado attack but in the excitement they may have tended to forget that on two occasions Ado forwards were right through within ten yards of goal only to lose their balance when about to shoot.  Ado’s pitch was soft put good in the middle and only difficult on the wings.  Vernon’s display was outstanding.  Despite the prescience of Clavan the class Dutch international who showed some clever tricks.  Vernon demonstrated the brilliance of his control, strength in screening the ball despite his lack of weight and accurate shooting.  In both his goals the final shot was not powerful but firmly planted out of the reach of just about the tallest goalkeeper the Everton players had ever seen.  Vernon’s first goal came on the half hour after Parker had linked up with Gabriel and the young Scot had squared the ball along the penalty area; Vernon steadied himself then punched the ball firmly into the corner.  For the second he pulled down a short Harris lob and found the net just under the crossbar to the goalkeeper’s right hand.  A minute later clever midfield play sent Jimmy Harris away and he had no difficulty in rounding goalkeeper Vianen before pushing the ball in.  Labone played finely at centre half and Dunlop showed intelligent anticipation and remarkably keen-handling of a wet ball in defence.  Although Parker was quietly effective Jones was supreme at full back.  Unfortunately the attack never really clicked and indeed was showing signs of hesitancy when Vernon and Harris scored their second half goals.  Team; - Dunlop; Parker, Jones; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Lill, Collins, Harris (J), Vernon, Ring. 

EVERTON NOT STRONG IN EVERY LINK
Monday, August 15, 1960. The Liverpool Daily Post
BEATEN BY PART-TIMERS WHO DID NOT FADE
P.S.V 4, Everton 2
By Tony Stevens
It is essential to remember that this was Everton’s second match on successive evenings and that nine of the team had played against ADO on Friday.  Nevertheless it has to be admitted that the Dutch part-timers, Clerks, electricians or fitters, fully deserved their victory.  Broken down to basics, it is fair to say that Everton lost because they ran out of stream after an hour’s play.  Again the old favourite story of the local boys tumbling the giants made good reading here, as the team which is reputed to have cost £200,000 with its blaze of big names and star reputations, were ground into submission.  Certainly P.S.V played well above themselves, tackling hard before the interval to restrict Everton two goals scored by Roy Vernon and replying once themselves.  The second Vernon goal three minutes before the interval appeared to come at just the right time for Everton.  One felt that the Dutch players, if checked in their first attacks after the resumption, would fade later and Everton would be able to cruise comfortably home. 
TOO HOT TO HOLD
This was not to be.  Two minutes after the res-start a tremendous twenty yard drive from P.S.V centre forward Dillion reputed to have one of the strongest shots in Europe proved too hot to hold for Dunlop.  The ball spun off the goalkeeper’s chest, and inside left Kruiver rushed up to score the equaliser-that shattered Everton and inspired P.S.V. considering the Dutch team was without its two best players their centre half and outside right their performance after half time was remarkable.  It seemed that a last they realised their expensive visitors could be beaten and that reputation were not all important wing halves started to get in consistency successful tackles against Collins and Vernon and the wingers, who had been effective in the first half and centre forward Jimmy Harris who was not effective at any stage, were kept in only part employment.  It is not unfair to Albert Dunlop to indict him for two mistakes which cost goals.  The equaliser was one of them.  P.S.V’s final goals five minutes from the end was another Dunlop misjudged a shot from outside right Louwers and succeeded only in helping the ball into the net but he had no chance with the others.  The first after seventeen minutes came from a rebound after a shot hit the crossbar and left Dillion with a simple task, the third half way through the second half was a goal in a million, coming from a rising powerful twenty-five yards drive by Kruiver which few goalkeepers would have stopped.  Merseysiders have seen that type of goal from Liddell.  The Everton goals by Vernon were further indications of his accuracy rather than power of shot.  He scored two against Ado, and this double against P.S.V were on similar lines. 
CAUSAL PLACING
For each of those goals the Welshman killed the ball manoeuvred for position and almost casually placed the ball out of the goalkeeper’s reach from the edge of the area.  Vernon can look back on the tour with some satisfaction, as can Collins and Labone.  All three played remarkably well in both games and Tom Jones against Ado, was at his peak form.  What was disturbing was to see some players making things difficult for themselves with poor positional play.  Parker springs to mind in this respect but in his case maybe over confidence was the trouble.  If Gabriel a most promising player, erred at all it was in his tendency to go up in attack when all Gabriel’s natural abilities stress his best work is in defence.  Of course the value of this reasonably successful tour is that the players will be a couple of games in advance of those from other clubs towards match fitness.  Unfortunately it offered further proof to Everton’s officials that the team is by no means strong in every position. 

EVERTON’S TOUR SHOWED UP WEAKNESSES
Monday, August 15, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By a Special Correspondent
Home from Holland yesterday came Everton’s touring party, a little disappointed at the 2-4 defeat by P.S.V. on Saturday and more than a little aware of remaining deficiencies in the team which, costly as it is, may still need additions before it is successful.  The victory over Ado by 3-0 on Friday evening was achieved easily because the opposition was moderate (at the same time one or two Everton players were themselves moderate).  However Saturday night in Eindhoven where the Philips Radio Factory team were the opposition, turned out to be a different story.  The Dutch part-timers despite natural dismay before the game with the news that injuries would rob them of their two best men, performed heroics.  This was another instance of local boys gearing themselves to match and defeat a team which on paper should have beaten them, Everton’s reputation made the Dutchmen fight for the ball harder than usual, chase everything furiously and find inspiration when it was most wanted.  They were helped by two mistakes by goalkeeper Dunlop P.S.V second equalising goal and the blew which fired them to dominance for the first time in the game came just after half time.  Dunlop failed to hold a fierce 20 yard shot and the opposing inside left ran up to put the ball over the line.  Unlucky Dunlop appeared to set off the wing’s way for an angled shot coming from the right wing.  The ball swerved in flight he turned too late and could only help it into goal. 
NO CHANCE
The goalkeeper had no chance with P.S.V’s other two.  The first was easy for the centre forward who netted a rebound from the crossbar and the third goal which set P.S.V alight came from the inside left after 75 minutes in a magnificent rising drive from just outside the area and the type of screamer on which Bill Liddell held copyright.  Few goalkeepers would have stopped this.  Vernon’s two goals before half-time were remarkable for the fact that they were almost replicas of the two he scored against Ado the previous evening.  For each goal Vernon picked up a ball, manoeuvred for position, and beat the goalkeepers more by accuracy than power.  Although Collins, Vernon, Labone and Tom Jones, who was great in his one match against Ado can look back upon the trip with satisfaction, the tour has had little value apart from pushing the players nearer match fitness.  But unfortunately it has further underlined problems. 
TACTICS
It seems that manager Carey’s basis in tactics is playing the backs rather square and wide, pulling the wing halves deeply defensive with Collins or occasionally Vernon coming back to pick up passes and set attacks going from midfield.  That looks a sound plan, it is question now of certain players adapting themselves.  It was disturbing against P.S.V to see Parker put himself repeatedly in trouble by poor positional play, and in neither game did centre forward Jimmy Harris show up to advantage.  Harris appears to have not retrevolved technique by which he can obtain maximum use of his speed and he was dominated in the air by both Dutch centre halves.  At right half Jim Gabriel may be in danger of suffering the illusion that because he is a high priced player he must attack.  Gabriel was a star defender in Scotland, he is better equipped to play that style of game and as he gains experience he will realise it is possible to justify his high fee without going too far upfield. 

CHESTER SIGNING
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Monday 15 August 1960
Chester on Saturday — signed John Walton, an 18 years old full-back from Everton.

EVERTON’S TEAM TO MEET TOTTENHAM
Wednesday, August 17, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
SAME AS BEAT DUTCH CLUB
NO SURPRISES
By Leslie Edwards
Everton are first in the field with their team for the kick-off to the new season on Saturday-and the side chosen for the match against Tottenham in London is as expected.  The team is that which played in the first game of the club’s Dutch tour last week when they won against The Hague club AD.  For the second match the following night at Eindhoven against PSV Bramwell was introduces at left back and Brian Harris at left half back.  These moves made to give Harris and Barmwell the opportunity of a game.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Jones; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Lill, Collins, Harris (J), Vernon, Ring.
Everton Reserves (v. Huddersfield Town Reserve at Bootle Stadium) Griffths; Parnell, Green; Jarvis, Gorrie, Harris (B); Temple, Tyrer, Wignal, Ashworth, Edwards. 

EVERTON OUT TO SMASH AWAY BOGEY
Thursday, August 18, 1960. The Liverpool Daily Post
By Horace Yates
Everton could have had few harder opening games, than that which faces them at White Hart Lane against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday but at least they are in the happy position of being able to call on a full strength team.  The players are conscious of the fact that last season they did not record a single away victory and it is their ambition to see that the dismal sequence does not extend extensively through this season.  What a wonderful fillip it would be if they shattered the bogey at the first opportunity.  It is reassuring also to find Ashworth able to resume with the reserves, his first match since displacing his kneecap in the home game with Bolton Wanderers on January 2.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Jones; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Lill, Collins, J. Harris, Vernon, Ring. 

GOODISON TRANSFORMATION COMPLETE
Friday, August 19, 1960, The Liverpool Daily Post
I HAVE NEVER KNOWN FINER SPIRIT OR MORE IMPRESSIVE CONFIDENCE
SAYS EVERTON’S ROY VERNON
These are exciting days.  It is natural I suppose to feel all agog, before a new season opens-up, wondering what the months ahead will bring.  Will they produce better or worse results, greater or less satisfaction?  What any fear of being accused of exaggeration I can say that so far as we are concerned at Goodison Park, I have never known a finer spirit or a more impressive quiet confidence.  We are a very happy family and it is from such foundations that greatness comes.  When I cast my mind back a few months to the day when I first made my acquaintance with Everton I can hardly believe that it is the same club.  Gone are the doubts and nagging worries that prevent players from giving of their best in their best in their place comes fun, composure and a burning desire to plunge into our new season’s fixtures.  We may not sweep the board, for that is a considerable target for any team, but we shall all be disappointed if this season does not leave happier memories than last.  No-one denies that our coaching and training staffs are our bosses, but while they put us through the hoop in their own way, it is all done so pleasantly that training is a joy and there is no need to wield the whip at Goodison Park.  Whether our team is perfect in every department is something for others to worry about. All I can say is that every player has complete faith in his colleagues.  Speaking personally, I have never felt better.  If this is not the best season in my career so far, I shall be at surprised as I will be disappointed.  Even in my more youthful Blackburn days, I never felt fitter, more highly charged and ready for action and what is more I have no niggling doubts about health or soundness in wind and limb. 
WORRIES GONE
I don’t mind admitting that I was a very worried man as we reached last season’s closing days.  The knee injury I suffered against Blackpool caused me endless anxiety, for try as I would I found it hard to thrust aside the fear that a date with the surgeon was very close at hand for me and that only an operation for the footballer’s occupational injury-cartilage trouble-could put me right.  Fortunately the best advice and attention are always available to Everton players and I was advised that though the symptoms might be puzzlingly similar my trouble was not cartilage and that rest treatment and then exercise would pull me right.  So it has.  You might ask if I have had specialist’s opinion that the knee is sound again.  To that I would reply “No” when something is right you don’t need any second opinion.  A player knows better than any specialists if he is sound.  It is when that certainty is missing that one flies to the medical geniuses for that is what some of them are for aid. 
UNWARRNTED CRITCISM
To say that Everton players were a trifle surprised to return from their two-match trip to Holland to find themselves the subject of rather severe criticism is certainly an under-statement.  Because we lost one match at Eindhoven; it seemed that are we were being condemned to another year of struggles to avoid relegation.  What rot! Of course, we lost the second match but remember it was our second game in two days, played with almost the same side after fairly lengthy travel, conditions such as we would not have to endure at home except possibly over the holidays when our opponents would be similarly placed.  No, believe me, we played a lot of good football.  We found our moves working out well and there was every reason for satisfaction.  It was no tragedy to lose a practice match in such conditions.  Those who say that defeat by a team of part-timers will do nothing but harm to our morale, are well wide of the mark.  I assure you there were no sleepless nights for us.  The idea of talking us on a short trip such as this was If I might say so, excellent.  The value will be shown in our League games.  We play against reserves so often- at least every week-that another clash for us would have been just another game, even though it might have been before a crowd.  Against the reserves this week I think the first teamers won by nine goals to one.  I might have been ten or eleven but who cares?  Goals and results don’t matter in these kick around and that is why a genuine match against strangers must score heavily in value.  I have seen our goalkeeper Albert Dunlop heavily criticised for misjudging a couple of shots that produced goals.  How easy it is to be severe on a player without knowing the facts.  The ball we played with in Holland was only partially inflated, certainly not to standards to which we are accustomed, and the result was that a shot of any great power developed the sort of swerve that would bring joy to any swing bowler, if only he could imitate it.  It is only when you see the ball playing tricks like this you can appreciate the difficulties of others.  I was delighted to be able to score four goals on the trip and for the good of the club I can only hope that I can remain on target in this fashion.  It worries me not one lot to read that my shots lacked power and only just beat the goalkeeper. 
AWAY POINTS COUNT
We all realise that for security and ambitions games have to be won on opponents grounds as well as at home.  It’s is team which makes a habit of collecting away points the climbs the table most easily.  Keep your fingers crossed for us, for you can believe me we will be trying just as hard away from home and perhaps a little bit harder.  We are convinced that this legacy this trail this past defeats is not going to get us down.  We will conquer it.  We must if we are to get anywhere.  One thing we picked up in Holland which, I don’t think you will find us repeating as a practice over here, is the way in which having gone into the lead the just adopt negative play to waste time and keep the ball from the opposition instead of getting on with the game.  Everton have won a reputation for playing football in the classical mould I have an idea that is way we shall try to carry on-and please don’t accuse me of being an incurable optimist if I venture the opinion that we are going to succeed. 

NEW SOCCER SEASON OF GREAT EXPERIMENT
Saturday, August 20, 1960. The Liverpool Daily Post
£300,000 OF TALENT ON VIEW AT TOTTENHAM
By Horace Yates
The season of great experiment is at hand.  Nobody attempts to deny that soccer is now face to face with its sternest trial for a very long time and official acknowledge of the difficulties which is being encountered comes in the originating of the League Cup competition, the new Friendship League, and a link-up with television which seemed impossible not so very long ago.  In these conditions players are asking for greater rewards than ever in the history of the game.  I should imagine it will be a pleasure to pay them-always providing they earn any increase, but it is their livelihood with which they are flirting and I trust they will show a fitting sense of responsibility.  It is for them in disprove allegations that football standards are declining.  It is all very well to say this is the modern practice of drawing unfavourable comparisons with the past, but they are on dangerous ground.  The only way they can answer the charge satisfactorily is on the playing field and if they can do that the artificial aids to soccer popularity such a League cups and flirtation with T.V, will be found unnecessary.  It is the mixture as before that everybody wants to avoid and I hope to find a new urgency, a new desire to lift playing standards and a willingness to give free rein to sportsmanship, all playing their parts in giving us a memorable season. 
LONDONERS IN LUCK
Londoners are in luck for a start, especially those who are able to visit White Hart Lane this afternoon for the clash between Spurs and Everton, among the most expensive sides in soccer.  Here we have teams willing and able to lay emphasis strongly on the football arts and crafts.  It is estimated that there will be £300,000 of talent on view and if that is not enough to produce a spectacle to remember how difficult it is to know how to stage one.  I should say that this game will attract the biggest attendance of the day.  Dunlop in the Everton goal will not allow the memory of ten goals conceded on this ground two years ago to worry him.  The past is gone.  Everton may not be calling the heights just yet, but I think it is fair to assume that they are out of the depths, and while I do not expect to find them chalking up an away victory a sharing of the spoils is no impossibility.  Tottenham Hotspur; Brown; Baker, Henry; Blanchflower, Norman, Mackay, Jones, White, Smith, Allen, Dyson.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Jones; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Lill, Collins, J. Harris, Vernon, Ring. 

EVERTON PROTEST BOMBSHELL ON LEAGUE TV AGREEMENT
Saturday, August 20, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
CRITICISM TAKEN UP BY OTHER CLUBS
ARSENAL REFUSE BROADCAST
By Leslie Edwards
Everton’s strongly-worded protest to the Football League about the arbitrary way in which the League Management Committee decided, without consulting clubs to accept ITV’s hugh offer for television of selected matches on Saturday evening created an eve of the season bombshell whose repercussions were still reverberating today.  The interpretation that the club’s new millionaire chairman Mr. John Moore was at the back of it and that it was characterised in some quarters as a revolt or rebellion is entirely wrong and will cause Mr. Moore and his fellow-directors dismiss and surprise when they learn of it.  I cannot emphasise too strongly that the protest was lodged with the League-and with all other clubs in the First and Second Division-purely on a club basis and not because Everton are strongly against the televising of League games, but because as they say in their letter the League’s action in negotiating with I.T.V without reference to League members was “irregular and unconstitutional.” 
STATEMENT
If I had been a decision taken in the same way about say other matter they would have been equally disturbed.  They feel –and I hinted at this as long as a week ago- the League should be subservient to the will of the clubs and not vice-versa-which is perilously near to the position in this instance.  These are the facts as no one else save only Everton officials know them.  When chairmen of Football League clubs were called to a meeting in London a fortnight ago they attended believing that the agenda contained two items of now world-shaking importance and certainly not remotely connected with policy about the television of League matches. 
CONFIDENTIAL
The business completed the chairmen were told confidentially that negotiations were taking place between the League management Committee and I.T.V but that they were in such a delicate state that it would be wise if chairmen returning to their clubs refrained informing other directors of what was taking place.  It came as a surprise to the Everton board and to some others in the North to learn that the I.T.A deal had been completed and that the first matches selected for television (including one of their own) had been decided.  It was felt at Everton that television of League games would probably be a good thing but that the new idea would have to be tried for a season to judge its effect before there could be wholesale commitment to it.  Because the club felt so strongly a decision was taken to send a letter of protest to the League and a similar letter to all clubs in the First and Second Division. 
NO REVOLT
There is no revolt and no single Everton director is at the root of the protesting letter.  As chairman it was merely his duty to sign the letter.  The sequel to one of the greatest bombshells to burst coincidentally with the opening of a new season will be damage ones.  It is more than likely that Everton and other clubs who feel disgruntled will demand an extraordinary general meeting of the League at which the episode can be examined and reviewed afresh.  One of the other clubs concerned with Everton in this matter is Sheffield Wednesday who rang up Everton initially to get their reactions on the matter. 
CLEAVAGE WIDENS
Everton’s letter of protest started a chain reaction in London to-day of such proportions that the affair may develop into a full scale row with the cleavage between the Football league and Football Association widened.  Arsenal with an even stronger letter to the League than Everton’s have also circularised at First and Second Division clubs, have refused to allow their team to be televised on September 17 when Newcastle are due to visit Highbury and are calling for an extra-ordinary general meeting of the League.  If the League refuses one Arsenal say they will find other clubs to support then-notably Wolves, Everton, Sheffield Wednesday, West Bromwich Albion, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur-to form a quorum and insist on an extraordinary general meeting. 
PALTRY REWARDS
Arsenal’s latter suggests that the League cannot afford to take part in a TV experiment of this kind if only for a season.  The rewards they say are paltry-compared with the losses certain to be sustained.  The club calls on the League to call an extraordinary general meeting to obtain instructions from clubs and until this has been done ask for the suspension of the start of the scheme. 

DOUR FIGHTERS, BUT IT’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH, BLUES
Saturday, August 20, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
Tottenham Hotspur 2, Everton 0
By Leslie Edwards
Tottenham- Brown; Baker, Henry; Blanchflower (Captain), Norman, Mackay; Jones (C.), White, Smith (R.), Allan, Dyson.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Jones (Captain); Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Lill, Collins, Harris (J), Vernon, Ring.  Referee; Mr. E. Crawford, Yorkshire.  The atmosphere at Tottenham where Everton began the season, was hot and humid and in the inner circles of soccer the main topic of conversation was the action of Everton and Arsenal and others in challenging the validity of the league’s decision to televise selected matches.  Everton were out to break their spell of non-success in away matches dating way back to April 1959 and the muiti-millionaire chairman of the club in taking the seat for the first time at white Hart lane as chairman and chief.  He flew down this morning and will return by air this evening.  The pitch was in magnificent order.
MISFORTUNE
Everton’s first misfortune was not to get the decision when Ring ploughing through three defenders as uprooted and the crime I thought justified a free kick.  Spurs were glad to get one for handling when Vernon attempted to burst through and the situation was a little critical.  Everton were caught slow-moving more than once and seemed to need to step up their pace a good deal in these early minutes.  Tottenham might well have scored first when as a result of a free kick against Lill, Allen found the defence so often he was able to stride on and aim at goal almost unchallenged. It was due more to his failure than to Everton’s recovery in defence that no goal arose.  There was no question at all that the Spurs were the nippier and more dangerous side, but when White screwed a long distance shot very wide he shot from an opening which might well have produced a goal. 
ONE-HANDED SAVE
Labone charged down another drive by Smith, and then Dunlop brought off a truly one-handed save from a header by Allen when the Spurs man was at point-blank range and apparently a 100 to 1 on to score.  Spurs did well to crowd out a shot by Ring after a fine run and pass by Vernon.  At this stage Everton were slowly coming into the picture. 
DUNLOP AGAIN
Both Blanchflower and Mackay produced some brilliant touches and when Blanchflower went upfield to hit a vicious shot from 20 yards, Dunlop again made a first-class save at full stretch.  Everton were keeping the ball too close and the attack looked laboured compared with that of Spurs.  Blanchflower was too often striding upfield unopposed in open spaces left by the Everton defence.  Everton were feeling the heat of the day and the heat of Spurs command of the game. 
MACKEY HURT
The first stoppage was for injury to Mackay, who seemed to be suffering from a blow to the left ankle.  He was soon able to resume minus his shin-pad and with his left stocking rolled down to the ankle.  Gabriel who was here, there and everywhere never did his side better service than when he headed over the goal angle a cross-shot by Allen, and Everton had further escapes following the corner kick before Cliff Jones, who was not to-day in his usual inspired form, completed the movement by being involved in a free kick offence.  Jimmy Harris came off worst in a clash of bodies with goalkeeper Brown when both shaped for a Ring centre which the goaklkeeper collected with difficulty. 
INCHES WIDE
Tom Jones was having a good innings against his namesake, but when the Everton Jones and Gabriel indulged in some inter-passing the scheme went wrong and the sequel was that little Dyson shot inches wide, low of an upright.  Meagan wasted completely the free kick award which came when the massive Norman stopped Harris unceremoniously at the left touch line.  Norman seemed to collect all the through balls Everton delivered in Harris direction and Blanchflower with his nonchalant back heel flick was strolling through the match as though he were playing against a team of schoolboys.  Even Norman came far upfield to add his power to the attack, and Dunlop fielded with no difficultly at all the big man’s shot from twenty yards out.  Another very good save by Dunlop was seemed to deny Mackay a goal when fairly rocketted the ball from the inside left.  Yet again Dunlop saved this time high overhead from White.  A foul by Harris on Norman denied Collins his first real opportunity to shoot at goal when fairly close in and not too badly angled. 
Half-time –Tottenham nil, Everton nil. 
Dunlop got an ovation from the behind the goal crowd at the outset of the second half and the 47,000 spectators must have hoped for better things from Spurs and much better things from Everton. 
PEACH OF A PASS
After Spurs had found Smith with a peach of a pass whose arrival seemed to surprise him more than anyone the ball was slipped to Dunlop to bring yet another useful save.  Only Dunlop stood between Everton and defeat all the time and to supplement his first half performance he now took in his sure grasp a header made almost straight at him by Smith, who could scarcely have been closer.  Only when Parker joined Lill and Collins in a right wing move which progressed with certainly did Everton look impressive and Spurs who had to concede a corner must have been glad to see Brown, with his first real save of the day rivalling Dunlop for brilliance.  White and Blanchflower were brilliant engineers of many Tottenham moves but Everton for the first time in the game seemed to find some sort of form for a while. 
NEARLY...
Harris with a half hit shot almost undid Spurs and Brown and the goalkeeper was scrambling desperately to get in touch with the ball as it rolled slowly outside of the post.  Everton were fighting every yard of the way, but Cliff Jones in a brilliant run, did enough to ebbed Allen to score and a volleyed shot very wide by the Spurs man was no sort of return for Jones’s effort in the more approach. 
REHABILITATED
Allen was all but clean through when Dunlop went down to his feet courageously for yet another save, and he has certainly rehabilitated himself for the ten Spurs put past him in the corresponding match two years ago.  Gabriel had done almost two men’s work in defence but Everton were ever so lucky to escape so much against a team which enjoyed six chances for every one that fell to their opponents.  Considering that Jones was only a passenger and now on the left wing with Dyson on the right, Everton made little of their advantage and it was Spurs who were always menacing.  Never more so than when Blanchflower shot across the face of goal with the Everton defence completely unable to prevent their swarming for half a minute on end.  After 83 ½  minutes Allen scored for Tottenham.  Allen beat Dunlop from close in while Spurs were busy appealing in vain for a penalty against Meagan who had brought down Smith.  The referee had already waved this claim aside when Allen fastened on the ball and drove it into the net.  The after 87 minutes Smith scored again for Tottenham.  With the Everton defence wide open, White went down unopposed at inside right, crossed the ball precisely to the head of Smith and the burly man did the rest with an unbeatable header.  After this the injured Cliff Jones left the field and Tottenham with only ten men were still far too good for Everton, who had not clicked at any stage.  Final; Tottenham 2, Everton nil. 

WE WERE SATISFIED WITH OUR FORM ON TOUR
Saturday, August 20, 1960. The Liverpool Echo
By Alex Parker
When I wrote the final article last season, the middle of August seemed a long way away, but here we are again with another soccer season.  Still, Everton have still managed to keep in the news one way and another with the announcement of our new chairman, our players who went on tour with representative sides, and our own club’s tour.  The fact that Mr. John Moores had become chairman of Everton was probably the biggest item of soccer news that broke during the close season, particularly in this part of the world.  Naturally his game is among the best known on Merseyside and it would be fair to say it is among the best known in Britain.  I’ll guarantee Alex Parker had heard of Mr. John Moores long before Mr. John Moores had heard of Alex Parker.  The first time the players met him was on the day we all reported for training.  Our manager Mr. Carey introduced all the staff and the players to him.  He told us he hoped we would have a successful season and he planned to put the names of Everton in the position it had held many times before –on top.  Although this is the first time he has had an active part in running a football club, it would be wrong to think he knows nothing about the business for he has been following Everton for a number of years.  As part of his new plan he has spent many hours at Bellefield watching us train and it is obvious he is no novice at the game. 
INTERESTS AT HEART
Many people have asked me what the players feel about having Mr. Moores as chairman. Well, as far as I can see, and I think I speak for all the boys, it is impossible to imagine how anything but good can come of it.  He obviously has the interests of Everton at heart as much as anybody on the staff, and this, added to his position and business brains sound like an ideal combination to me.  For certain that time will prove me right.  I would like to take this opportunity to comment upon our recent tour of Holland.  The reports did not treat us too kindly, so here are the players views.  We were one to play our first match on the Wednesday night but due to the water-logged state of the ground it was postponed until the Friday.  It was still like a swamp when we played, but the pitch was fit enough to won comfortably 3-0.  Immediately after Friday’s game we had a meal and went to bed.  Next day we set off on a three hours coach ride, managed to get a few hours rest, and then had to go straight into the match against P.S.V.  In the first half we played the best soccer of the tour.  In fact, I thought the side played exceptionally well, and we went in at half time leading 2-1.  After the interval, I’m afraid our experiences of the previous 48 hours caught up with us and we fell away, losing 4-2.  You may have read that our opponents were part-timers, but I think that is a little misleading.  No doubt they are officially part-timers but they are a very good side and I have no doubt that do as much training as the average English League side.  Also, one of their directors told me after the game that his side had played far above themselves.  I don’t want this to appear as If I am making excuses, but I know when we have played badly, and quite frankly we were quite pleased with our form.  The Dutch team represent a very well known firm and naturally their directors are keen to have a good side.  So they have built one.  Anyway practice and tour match results are notoriously deceptive.  We will wait and see how we do in the League.
ABROAD
In addition to the trip to Holland a number of the Everton players have been to other parts of the world since last May.  Brian Labone went to Germany, Poland, and Israel with the England Under-23 party; Mick Meagan visited Sweden and Germany with the Eire side managed by Mr. Carey, Bobby Collins played a few exhibition games in South African, and Jimmy Gabriel and I went with the Scottish party to Austria, Hungary and Turkey.  I was with the Scottish side that went to Poland just before the World Cup games in 1958 so Brian and I had quite a chat.  We discovered that we had stayed in the same hotel and been taken on a visit of the same places.  While in South Africa Bobby Collins tells me he met Doug Rudham and Des Palmer the ex-Liverpool players.  Apparently they have settled down well, in fact Des is making quite a name for himself as a goal scorer.  Bobby also told me he partnered Stanley Matthews in South Africa.  As a full-back I think that is the best place for a Matthews-Collins wing-South Africa, thousands of miles away.  My own trip only came about because Charlton’s John Hawie had to cry off and the Scottish F.A had to try to find me to tell me I was taking his place.  They never did trace me.  How did I know I was touring?  That’s quite a story, and I’ll tell you about it next week. 

EVERTON RES V HUDDERSFIELD RES
Saturday, August 20, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
Everton Res;- Griffiths; R. Parnall, Green; A. Jarvis, Gorrie, Harris (B.); Temple, Tyrer, Wignall, Ashworth, Edwards.  Huddesfield Res- Fearnley; Atkin, Parker; Holden, Holt, Fretwell; Conmy, Balderstone, Milner, Bettany, O’Grady.  Referee; Mr. F.S Jackson (Preston).  Huddersfield kicked off before a disappointing attendance at Bootle Stadium.  Everton were immediately hard pressed to keep the lively Huddersfield forward at bay.  Not surprising Milner gave Huddersfield the lead in the sixth minute following good work by O’Grady.  Four minutes later Harris who had been prominent in defence enabled Ashworth to equalise with a splendidly taken goal.  Everton might have gone ahead when Tyrer fastened on to a bad clearance but Fearnley saved brilliantly.  A breakaway split the Everton defence wide open for Bettany to net from Conmy’s pass.  Ten minutes later Conmy cut inside to increase Huddersfield’s lead and six minutes before the interval Conmy netted again off the far post.  Temple had been Everton’s most dangerous forward and when he was switched into the middle he responded with two good efforts the second of which was saved at point-blank range.  Just on the interval however, Huddersfield again went close, the ball on two occasions just clearing the crossbar.  Half-time; Everton Res 1, Huddersfield Res 4. 

EVERTON SUB-STANDARD TO A LARGE DEGREE
Monday, August 22, 1960. The Liverpool Daily Post
Tottenham Hotspur 2, Everton 0
By Leslie Edwards
The crux of this game came four-and-a-half minutes from the end when the sides were level and goalless.  Then, in the pace of less than two minutes Tottenham scored twice and Everton, who had promised to snatch what would have been an underserved point were undone.  They were remarkable goals.  The first came when Spurs were vainly appealing for a penalty, and Everton’s defence had almost stopped, waiting for the whistle which never came.  Allen had possession and put the ball in the net.  Little over Spurs had done it again. White finding the defence hopelessly out of position took the ball forward weighted his centre to the last ounce and left White to head home from such a position that if he had failed it would have been gross negligence.  I though Everton would have success from the first kick of the new season, with the chance of a fresh start and opportunity to break their run of away failure as sufficient incentive to inspire them.  They could scarcely have been more disappointing Spurs in my view were little better.
INSPIRED DUNLOP
More than £300,000 worth of talent was on view, but I have seen better and more satisfying Second Division matches.  What was wrong with Everton.  Nearly everything.  They must have been beaten handsomely, if Dunlop had not reserved for the occasion a performance such as even he has rarely equalled.  He was inspired-especially with a one-handed save of a header from point-blank range, and the ball was moving away from him- courageous and given the little bit of luck all good and gallant goalkeepers deserve as a right.  When Spurs were on target he defied them on half a dozen other occasions when he might well have had no chance the shooting was dreadful.  The middle was that there was no tangible margin between the teams for more than 85 minutes.  It is no use trying to gloss this performance; it was sub-standard to a serious degree and just will not do.  Ring tried to do too much single0handled.  Vernon had a complete off-day; Harris after an opening ten-minutes in which he was all effort and enthusiasm was left a solitary striker.  Collins could not have worker harder or more unrelentingly but when your defence is hard pressed it is hard to be in two places at once and Collins elected wisely to lend most of his aid where it was most needed.  Like Ring, Lill did not always aim at the easy, practical method of making progress.  Two fair chances fell to him, but he could accept neither.  The basis of Spurs win was the work of their wing half-backs.  Blanchflower and Mackay.  Like Mackay, Blanchflower was continually coming into the open midfield (ask the Everton defence why it was always so open!)  to begin attacks which were cleverly engineered if ineffectively completed.  Mackay suffered an early knock and Cliff Jones a late one.  Once Spurs had scored their second goal, Jones was called off for attention.  Tom Jones handled this tearaway type very well.  It was only when Jones slipped inside and started those famous weaving runs that he seemed menacing. 
DYSON’S PROMISE
Parker had a more difficult time with Dyson who cost nothing but who played so well he looks to be the answer to his club’s outside –left problem.  For Labone, Meagan and Gabriel (who must have covered more ground than anyone) the match was a continuous diet of defence and that they succeeded in keeping Tottenham from goals for so long is some tribute.  Everton need more zip and some of their players must learn to think as hard when they are out of possession as they do when the ball is at their feet.  They must take up such open positions that they can be found by the most elementary of passes.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Jones; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Lill, Collins, J. Harris, Vernon, Ring.  Tottenham Hotspur; Brown; Baker, Henry; Blanchflower, Norman, Mackay; C. Jones, White, R. Smith, Allen, Dyson.  Referee Mr. E.A. Crawford, Doncaster.  Attendance 53,395. 

HUDDERSFIELD SHOW EVERTON HOW
Monday, August 22, 1960. The Liverpool Daily Post
Everton Res 2, Huddersfield Town Res 5
The manner of Everton Reserves on their first appearance at Bootle Stadium does not augur well for the immediate future as Huddersfield Res were so vastly superior in all phases of the game.  In the ten minute Ashworth wiped out Huddersfield early lead, but any hopes of an Everton recovery from a shaky start were shattered by the visitors, who netted three times before the interval and again second after the resumption.  Everton’s solitary reward was another Ashworth goal and goaklkeeper Griffiths alone emerged with credit in defence.  Milner (2), Conny (2), and Bettany scored for Huddersfield. 

COMPROMISE WILL END TV CRISIS
Monday, August 22, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Leslie Edwards
What is to be the immediate outcome of the move by Everton and Arsenal to compel the Football League to retrace their steps over the decision to televise on I.T.A?  In my view an emergency general meeting of clubs which form the League –perhaps within a day or two- at which certain officials will be censured; at which clubs will come to some compromise among themselves to agree to television for one season only and until they have had opportunity to see its reactions on the game and on active support for it.  No wonder Messrs Joe Richards and Alan Hardaker were shocked when they learned in Rome of the letters Everton and Arsenal had written to them and to other clubs; no wonder they returned, as fast as planes would carry them, to try to get to the bottom of a matter in which, I suspect they see the hand of certain of their rivals for football authority and status, the Football Association.  All going ell Everton and Arsenal’s anger will be assuaged.  All going I’ll we might arrive at the stage when senior league clubs divide into factions, one to remain loyal to the League and the others to create the nucleus of some Super League of the kind the F.A have interested themselves in so often.  Everton and Arsenal and other matter of principle.  If League Chairman are going to be pledged to secrecy against their boards and stand by while the Management Committee take far reaching decisions there will be no end to the difficulties which could beset clubs, individually and collectively.  It is the old, old story of tail waggong dog.  The League, with their Pools thousands each week, have done well.  That is not to say that they may now take over as masters of the clubs rather than as their servants. 
HE SAYS NOTHING
Everton chairman, Mr. John Moores would say nothing of the crisis when I saw at Tottenham and I don’t blame him.  It was wrong to interpret Everton’s action as being triggered off by their Chairman.  Like others on the Board, he has open mind on television.  Like others on the board he doesn’t want to see the League bull-dozing through without first consulting the people vitally concerned with the decision.  Only three Everton directors saw the team beaten 2-0 at Tottenham; the others were all at Bootle where the Central league side hit the woodwork three times without scoring off the rebound and were in turn almost hit for six by Huddersfield Town Reserves.  On their London trip Everton rubbed shoulders with a clutch of famous cricketers of old –Patsy, Hendren, Denis Compton, Leslie Ames and George Duckworth-and later with the famous old Spurs defender, Arthur Grimsdell, but the oddest coincidence was the meeting in a Regent Street store of Manager Carey and a fellow Irishman-a Gaelic footballer-who told him; “The last time I saw you play soccer in Ireland it cost me a fortnight’s suspension!”   The Gaelic law is that if any player are found at a football match they must suffer suspension or, if persisting in the offence expulsion!
It emerged from all this that Mr. Carey’s first love in sport was tennis and that he used to receive 6s a week to act as ball boy to such famous players as Tilden, Von Cramm and Perry and such. 
WAITING ANXIOUSLY
With many others, I am waiting anxiously for Wednesday evening and the changes it could bring in Everton’s performance as compared with the one at Tottenham.  Manchester United, who lost at home have even more reason to be anxious and a little apprehensive, especially at Everton have tended to become their bogey team in the past few seasons.  Did not Albert Dunlop make his name in a dream debut at Old Trafford?   However well he played that day he could scarcely have been more effective than he was at White Hart lane where for three parts of the game he was the only man who stood between his side and a defeat as damaging, if not as heavy as the one Everton at the same ground when losing 10-4 two seasons ago?  Dunlop did not make a mistake.  He was courageous quick, wise in his outgoing and unlucky, I thought, to lose the bonus merely because Spurs scored twice in the last few minutes when the game seemed settled as goalless.  The referee waving away Spurs’ appeal for a penalty when Smith was brought down, gave Everton a moment’s respite, but meantime in a general hiatus before the decision, Allen seized on the ball and shot it home.  The Everton defence was all too open and two vulnerable to White a minute later when the Scot cruised through unopposed and crossed the ball for Smith to head a second Everton did not deserve to draw, but having survived so long they may have been a little unlucky not to carry their desperate and almost continuous defence to its logical conclusion. 
SLUGGISH IF NOT SLOW
Allow for Dunlop’s brilliance! for Collins untiring efforts to get the attack moving properly for Gabriel’s propensity for rescuing critical situations here, there and everywhere and you have precious little about which to be happy.  The defence as a whole kept plugging away at wave after wave of Tottenham effort-mostly engineered by two brilliant wing half-backs, Blanchflower and Mackay-but as a whole the side was sluggish, if not slow and unimpressive.  Maybe it was the humid heat; maybe it was the fact that Vernon, Lill and Ring never touched form.  And that Jimmy Harris faced by the towering Norman seemed content to stand almost in his opponent’s pocket rather than move out to where he could be round by a long ball from his partners or the wing half-backs.  I only hope there’ll be a change of tactics; a chance of heart on Wednesday.  If there isn’t all those –I number myself among them-who looked forward most hopelessly to this fresh season are going to be keenly disappointed. 

NO JONES FOR 2 WEEKS
Daily Mirror - Monday 22 August 1960
Spurs 2, Everton 0
Early Blow to Tottenham Hopes
By Bill Holden
Anxious to win the League Championship and have a crack at the glamorous European Cup, Spurs have made involved plans to ensure their players are at peak condition tor each match. They travelled to Blackpool at 10 a.m. yesterday in readiness for tonight's match.
May Decision
"I decided that as soon as we got the fixture list in May." manager Bill Nicholson told me. "I wanted to avoid any chance of players feeling below par because they had had a long journey in a hot train on the day of the match.” We have been through our whole programme to prepare our travel plans, linking them with what is best for our players' performances.” This morning, Nicholson will check the pitch and weather conditions in Blackpool before naming his attack. "I had decided to take fifteen players with me before Cliff Jones was injured— now I'm adding Terry Medwin to the party." he told me at the end of the Everton match. Jones, playing at outside right instead of his Welsh International position on the left wing, damaged his right ankle in the second half.
Damaged
“He got a bad knock and I sent him to hospital for an X-ray,” Nicholson told me.  “Luckily nothing is broken.  There is bad brushing and he will probably be out for a couple of weeks.”  If conditions will probably switch John White to the right wing and bring back Tommy Harmer at inside right.  There was little in the game against Everton’s to suggest that between them the two clubs had spent over 300,000 on players.  He almost saved Everton a point-but they threw it away themselves by becoming over-confident after the injury to Jones.  That was fatal.  Five minutes from the end Dave Mackay left half, threw in to unmarked Jones.  He headed the ball on to centre forward Bobby Smith who fell appealing for a penalty.  Everton’s players became more concerned about the appeal than the ball, and inside left Les Allen rolled it into the net.  Two minutes later John Smith, moving on to the right wing flashed over a centre which Bobby Smith headed in to clinch the game. 

EVERTON RESERVES MORE DIRECT
August 23, 1960. The Liverpool Daily Post
Manchester United Reserves 0 Everton Reserves 2
Everton’s win at Old Trafford last night against United in this Central League game, was due to them using more direct methods to goal.  It was a mediocre first half, neither side showing much thrust and a heavy rainstorm, did not improve matters.  Before the interval Gaskell was forced to make a great save from Wignall, While Slater, Ashworth and Tyrer both hit the upright.  Play improved in the second half with the Everton attack led by Wignall menacing the Manchester goal scorers for Everton Reserves were Tyrer and Jarvis. 

EVERTON UNCHANGED
Tuesday, August 23, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Leslie Edwards
Everton at home to Manchester United are unchanged for their match tomorrow evening.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Jones; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Lill, Collins, Harris (J), Vernon, Ring. 

EVERTON DEFENCE PROVES SOUND-QUERY ON ATATCK TONIGHT
Monday, August 24, 1960. The Liverpool Daily Post
By Horace Yates
Two of the League’s glamour teams, clubs which make news whether they win or lose Everton and Manchester United-should attract a near capacity crowd to Goodison Park this evening (kick-off 7.p.m) The fact that both are seeking their first points will probably heighten rather than diminish enthusiasm.  Even though they came near to bringing a point back from Tottenham, Everton did not satisfy their supporters by any means but apparently manager John Carey believes they can do better than that and he gives the same side another-chance to justify his confidence in them.  I know that the players believe they have not shown their true form yet although the attack cannot speak too highly of the team’s defensive show.  There were times when United appeared to be taking a miraculously short cut to recovery, following the ravages of Munich but last season’s experiences showed that even with a manager as astute as Matt Busby at their helm, team-building for United was no sinecure.  It is not lack of cash that prevent Mr. Busby from plunging on new players, for cash is of little concern to this football model of prosperity.  United are too well advised to squander their wealth on players of anything but proved worth.  This seems to be an admirable opportunity for Everton to open their winning account a win which will be doubly valuable because it is against Manchester United.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Jones; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Lill, Collins, J. Harris, Vernon, Ring. 

GALA OPENING ON A NEW PITCH
Wednesday, August 24, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Leslie Edwards
A Gala opening to the Everton home season this evening.  A new Chairman (post-haste with his opposite number at Anfield from a trip to Scotland); a new pitch a new regime programme (sixteen pages), two new 45 minutes clocks and the most attractive opponents this side of the ocean, Manchester United.  What more-except the first victory of the season-could the Everton fan ask? 
I do not doubt there will be between fifty and sixty thousand at the ground, though not all of them will see the match from start to finish unless they heel the club’s request not to leave it late and arrive together in such numbers that queues and delays are inevitable.  Everton have done the sensible thing.  They have chosen en bloc the side which lost at Tottenham.  That, in effect tells the team; “We’ve confidence that you comprise our best eleven; go in and win and show us the Tottenham form was all wrong;” I think the players reaction to this will promise results.  They need to step up their pace, from the outset; they need to think when the ball is not at their feet, they need in need in more than one quarter, to appreciate that it is easier to employ fundamental principles than to try to beat three of four players of your own bat. 
BOGEY, BOGEY ROLE
Jimmy Harris has the speed and the strength of shot to be an important factor.  The necessity in his case is to tuck himself in some position from which he can easily be found.  Such faults as Everton showed at White Hart Lane would be magnified many times if they were repeated against Manchester United and whatever the failings of the Busby team, to sate, they don’t often miss chances of the sort Spur missed.  Everton’s home record last season was good enough for anything it was their complete failure to win away that took them into trouble, I think they may well continue their bogey role against Busby’s team tonight and if they don’t the season’s start will be for me and for thousands of others one of utter disappointment, since we expected so much. 
Everton fan A Nelson of 69 Buttermore Road, Liverpool 16, is fearful of the club’s goalkeeping resources.  He says “There is urgent need for a second-string.  Why they let O’Neill go I don’t know.  It is to be hoped Dunlop keeps fit; otherwise there might be panic to sign someone.  Further a couple of experienced players are needed in the reserves to help the young one along.  If they continue as they played against Huddersfield they will lose all confidence and potential ability.” 
Mr. Nelson must not turn a blind eye on the Reserves’ fine win against Manchester United Reserves-at Manchester.  In the light of this he might argue that some of the young ones might be introduced into the first team to help the older ones along! 
Mrs. E. Weller if Claudia Street, Walton, says how pleased she was her father’s (Jack Macconnachie’s) named mentioned in this column.  Though her married name is Weller she is not related to the former Everton player contemporary with her husband at Goodison. 
Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Jones; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Lill, Collins, Harris (J), Vernon, Ring. 

UNITED NAME TWO TEAM CHANGES
Wednesday, August 24, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
FIRST GAME ON NEW PITCH
AT GOODISON
By Leslie Edwards
Manchester United Manager Mr. Matt Busby, has made two changes for the match tonight (7 p.m) at Goodison Park.  He has dropped Cope from the side which lost at home to Blackburn Rovers and has replaced him by Brennan substituting Nicholson at left half-back in Brennan’s place.  The fact that Setter’s was sought so keenly by Everton before United stepped in and took him from West Bromwich midway through last season gives the match additional favour. 
Everton’s pitch is completely new one, has not had a game on it and after yesterday’s and today’s rain can hardly be other than yielding. 
The two new clocks at Goodison Park each show 45 minutes have been installed but will not be ready for use tonight.  In any event they will serve only as a rough guide for spectators.  The referee’s watch is the final arbiter in timing. 
Manchester United; Gregg; Brennan, Carolan; Setters, Haydock, Nicholson; Giles, Quixall, Violett, Charlton, Scanlon. 

BRILLIANT EVERTON TEAR UNITED APART
Thursday, August 26, 1960. The Liverpool Daily Post
PROMISE OF SEASON OF ACHIEVEMENT AND END TO DOUBTS AND ALARMS
Everton 4, Manchester United 0
By Horace Yates
If the evidence of one game is sufficient on which to base an assessment of possibilities, Everton’s period of doubt and often despair is at an end the future spreads wide and cheerfully; full of possibilities.  Team building is not complete, but Manchester United will bear witness to the fact that it has gone quite far enough to make them watertight against most of the storms of the season.  United may be going through the mill a trifle themselves just now, but they have not so far deteriorated that they are easy prey for all.  They helped to prove that Everton have gathered about themselves an utterly convincing defence which is not a bad contribution to a team’s well being.  How the crowd loved the football both sides produced.  It was a feast in conditions which might have been impossible a little later in the season when the turf is slightly less lush and the mud calls for reserves of stamina rather than displays of speed.  The tempo of the game was fantastically fast and that Everton were able to shoot away on attack with a pace and polish that often had United at full stretch, grateful for the experience and ice calm reliability of Setters, the man who so nearly came to Goodison Park himself, was reassuring evidence of fitness.  Even in times of elation, when it is hard not to find reason to praise everyone there are invariably heroes who surpass even the magnificence of their colleagues.  So it was last night.  Show me a man who could have taken a game into his keeping and moulded it to his will with greater artistry and confidence than Collins and I will gladly join the hymn of praise.  Critics will run out of superlatives long before Collins runs out of sheer football sorcery.   What a tribute it is to his energy that he can cover so much ground, hunting for the ball in defence bringing it forward into attack, and pin-pointing precision centres with a skill that compels the admiration of all.  As if that were not enough to be crammed into a frame so small.  Collins twice helped himself to goals. 
BADLY NEEDED GOAL
Everton required 68 minutes before they could add the opening goal of the season, claimed by Lill (22 minutes) and the man who scored it was Collins.  It was badly needed for while Everton were clearly the better side United were taking comfort and deriving encouragement from the home team’s inability to add to the lead and so long as the score remained 1-0 there was danger that Everton might be deprived of their legitimate rights.  Satisfied spectators streaming off the ground five minutes from the end, could not fail to interpret one of the biggest roars of the night as a third goal in 86 minutes, with Lill the scorer and Collins the producer.  Only two minutes later came another dose of the most palatable medicine, with Collins applying the scoring finish to goal number four, but really this was a Gregg presentation affair.  Two goals in the last four minutes obviously suggests that Everton were flattered beyond reason by such a margin, I am not so sure.  Particularly in the first half they were so much on top that they might have turned round with a score that could only have spelled heart-break to United.  Twice they had the ball in the net and twice were denied a goal for infringement and over and over again an anxious and struggling United defence was relieved beyond measures to find the debit only one.  There was nothing wrong with United’s spirit.  They fought back well and if they could only have had the encouragement of a goal they might have done even better. 
ROBBED OF PENALTY?
With so much to admire and so much to talk about in this game, I believe one of the greatest topics, particularly where United are concerned was the incident after ten minutes when they are convinced they were robbed of a penalty kick.  Giles, who recovered from an ordinary start to look like a winger with possibilities, crossed the goal with a fine centre, to which Scanlon got his head and off went the ball towards the corner of the goal.  Parker and Dunlop hurled themselves across, and many there are who will take a deal of convincing that it was Parker’s head and not his hand which kept the ball out.  Certainly United players thought it a case of hands.  The referee was so uncertain that he consult a linesman and the decision of head not hand must have come as a great relief to Everton.  United continued to keep in the game, but for every near miss they could claim, in the first half at least.  Everton could rightly point to two or three.  The best work of the Manchester forwards was in the second half when Dunlop carrying on apparently from where he left off at Tottenham excelled with anticipation and handling that were a joy to behold.  Three or four times when United threatened a come-back Dunlop stood against them like a goalkeeping superman.  United are not the truly great of yesterday, but nobody can doubt that the team is still rich in talent.  It would not be difficult to praise almost all of their forwards in turn, but the trouble was that the teamwork once part and parcel of their achievement is not there just now.  Individualism there is in plenty but against a rearguard as tight as Everton’s this will not supply any consistent scoring punch.  Their defence is highly experimental and while Haydock playing his second senior game at centre-half, and Nicholson a young left-half both looked like typical Busby babes in the course of growing up the full-backs inspired little confidence and Gregg’s hand-line was nothing like as safe as Dunlop’s. 
ADVANCE OF GABRIEL
What has happened to put backbone into the Everton rear-guard.  The advance of Labone is obvious.  His is now a commanding presence and quite a lot of centre-forwards can expect a thin time when in opposition to him but just as convincing last night was the young Scot, Gabriel.  During the disappointment of last season, when Gabriel did not live up to the reputation which had preceded him, the confidence of manager Carey in him was most pronounced.  “I am not at all worried,” he said over and over again.  “I know Gabriel can do it and I know he will do it.”  Gabriel has not let down his boss and he looks likely to prove another jewel taken from the Scottish treasure house of football.  This was not Roy Vernon’s night but if Everton can tear United apart without the Welshman’s brilliance, how much more potent will they become when Vernon is vieing with Collins for stardom?  All that is required now to complete the picture is evidence that Everton’s achievements are not to be reserved as the exclusive right of the partrons of Goodison Park.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Jones (Captain); Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Lill, Collins, J. Harris, Vernon, Ring.  Manchester United; Gregg; Brennan, Carolan; Setters, Haydock, Nicholson; Giles, Quixall, Violett, Charlton, Scanlon.  Referee; Mr. J.K. Taylor, (Wolverhampton).  Attendance 51,602. 

WHEN ONE SOAKING WAS WORTH ANOTHER
Thursday, August 25, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Leslie Edwards
A big hand please for the Everton players who made the Manchester United match so memorable; a big hand for Mr. Manager (whose faith in the team which played at Tottenham was shaken but not shattered); a big hand too for all those addicts who risked pneumonia –and worse from their wives-on a night of almost incessant rain and finally a massive round of applause for whoever was responsible for the new Everton pitch and a surface which the studs scarcely scratched, much less tore to ribbons, as everyone expected.  With four goals, three in the second half, the last two within the last few minutes, Everton celebrated the start of their home programme handsomely, deservedly and so promisingly that Leicester who won last night, will be lucky to get off without a hiding when they come here on Saturday, I assume of course, that Everton’s new-found confidence and the spiritedness which characterised their play last night (and made Saturday’s form seem stodgy in retrospect) will be displayed fully again in a way which leaves Mr. Carey and Mr. John Moores in no doubt that there are eleven men anxious to respond to the appeal  to “make a go of it.”   I assume, also, that goalkeeper puff-and-blow Dunlop will put on again, if necessary, the magnet fisting performance he gave last night when shots and headers flew unerringly to his grasp-or was it that he flew unerringly to them?  Perhaps a little of both. 
OVATION ON OVATION
No wonder Everton got an ovation at the interval when they led 1-0; no wonder goals against Mr. Busby’s bright, but, oh, so impractical babes caused wringing wet spectators to forget their soaking and concentrate on the soaking their side were administering to a club which must be more than ever convinced that Goodison Park in no place for them.  This was keen mostly clean, fast, hard football of consequence and not the kind which sent us to sleep at Tottenham.  Masters in the long-field were Manchester United; masters when the business of an attack needed developing were the side which won; which chivvied and chased such great ball players as Charlton, Quixall and company until they gained possession or caused the man in possession to make mistakes.  United would be “roasted” by their chief for doing so well and capping it with so little but we must not forget that Dunlop’s unbeatability was initially the basis on which his side built a solid four goals.  He played even more brilliantly on Saturday, but there was a greater weight of work last night.  One must not forget either the contribution, more particularly in the second half, of the little man, Lill (and what a good sportsman) who will assuredly get the prefix “Diamond,” if he continues to produce such fire and sense with the ball pulled back where others might be looking for goals for their own account.  And how splendidly Bobby dazzler Collins played as king-pin originator of so many attacks, the scorer of two fine goals and as if that were not enough, the man who was often back in defence helping to close the few gaps Everton conceded to opponents who rarely had a chance to shoot and when they had seemed to forget their aim in life. 
WRECKED THEMSELVES
Well as it was that Everton did not have to face a side which finished well, one could not escape United’s potential.  They are still a great side they were a great side last night until they reached the shooting range.  Then with some Everton persuasion they were wreckers of their own hopes.  If Everton’s victory was triumph, United’s defeat domestically was tragedy.  Everton got away to a good start, but the initiative was soon with the others then Lill’s headed goal after 21 minutes gave hope.  It took a clinching shot by Collins- how well he took it- to quiet our fears and then in the final few minutes both of them repeated their goals to “send” the crowd as only goals against Manchester United can.  By this time Everton were completely on top and a defence which had been subjected to pressure up to a point could take a breather and congratulate themselves on their part in making possible a win by 4-0.  But things did not go so smoothly from the start.  There was too disallowed goals 9one, I suspect in which the ball never actually crossed the line!) and a tackle by Jones to undue an unfortunate reverse pass by Ring to Dunlop before that leading goal and a strong appeal by United for a penalty when Parker took from the line a header from Scanlon which seemed likely to defeat Dunlop, Parker was on the right spot at the right moment as ever and scored another bull’s eye on a good natured policeman’s helmet before Harris (J) in heavy collision with Gregg when trying to connect with Ring’s centre, did well to escape more serious hurt. 
HEEL TAPS
Gregg made a wonder save, one-handed from a header before Harris with a back-heeled pass and Collins with a back-heeled shot all but brought off what would have been a remarkable opportunist score.  Collins flicked centre after Vernon had nonchalantly chipped the ball forward to him was the lead to Lill’s headed goal; then Dunlop began after Ring’s hook shot had struck the underside of the bar, that series of masterly saves which had the crowd roaring it’s gratitude.  He saved from Setters from Quixall from Scanlon and then from a rebound from Tom Jones after the ball had spun from his hands off a shot from Charlton.  Collins with a peach of a shot taken as he pivoted then succeeded where Vernon had failed to find an opening.  But Dunlop saving again with seconds, this time from the closest range off Violett and again from the young left half Nicholson whose style and ability remind me a great deal of the late Duncan Edwards.  Lill seizing the ball off the merest deflection by Vernon got the third and taking another unexpected opening sensibly went to the line before presenting Collins with an easy chance he could score at his leisure.  Only violet with three staggeringly good solo runs, all of which took him within an ace of getting a goal, had the penetration United required.  It was criminal waste that so many fine approaches were so badly used.  Setters a great half-back spread the ball about him with wonderful accuracy but it was no use- Everton’s Tackling urge their urgency and United’s own mistaken tactics meant that this match could go only one way.  For Everton this was a night for medals all round.  What weaknesses were exposed were never properly exploited because there was such good team spirit, such preparedness to fight for every ball.  If the side can keep this going they’ll be all right and the dawn of the long awaited era. 

THE PLAYERS’ SIDE OF TV ARGUMENT
Friday, August 26, 1960. The Liverpool Daily Post
ROY VERNON SUGGESTS BETTER CONTRACTS WOULD BE SOLUTION

Have you ever thought what footballer’s think about the battle of the television cameras which has been waged in recent days?  After all it is the players who will be the performers.  Without them, there would be no argument, nothing for the cameras to portray.  Clubs are protesting that a League deal with I.T.A was brought almost to the signature stage without them being given an opportunity to express their point of view.  If clubs are up in arms and it is not difficulty to see why for I cannot help feeling that this tail-wagging-dog business might easily get right out of hand, what then of the players?  They have not been consulted.  Some people, who are inclined to regard us as money grabbers might wonder why but we are not as black as we are sometimes painted.  In truth, I have never heard any player seriously suggest that he should have been taken into conference.  No we are servants of the club.  We have our agreements and are paid to fulfilling wishes of our bosses.  At the present moment there is a feeling that we are getting enough and who knows in these enlightened days, we may have a new ceiling or a new agreement, quite soon, and it could well be that television gold will help to bring about a more attractive world for players.  It is for us to see, according to the best of our bargaining ability, that our conditions of employment are right, but once having accepted those I would be the last to suggest that we should take issue anew on every fresh slant that is presented.  We have not apparently been left right out in the cold in the TV negotiations for I note a sum of £10 a man has been mentioned for every player taking part in a televised game.  No-one suggests we will grow fat or wealthy on these drops in the football ocean, for at best which team can hope to be television more than twice or maybe in a season? 
NO MONOPLY
Obviously the deal will be to pick the most attracting games, at the same time avoiding a monopoly by any club.  Too many screenings of one club would soon produce a squeal. I heard an interesting argument the other day when footballers and TV were the topic.  A parallel was drawn between football as an entertainment and the threate.  I was then truthfully pointed out that in the theatre it is the artists who command the fees.  They do the bargaining and until they are satisfied with their cut of the taking there is no agreement.  TV will get a soccer match on their screen for the duration of more than half the game and so far as the performers are concerned the total outlay will be £220.  What sort of a show can you imagine being presented in the leading theatres of the country for remuneration of the country for remuneration of that order or on the TV screens either?  Remember that money is not only for payment of the chorus, but for all the stars has well, so far as a football match is concerned.  It was a very interesting theory and it is so easy when one hears a line which is so admirably suited to one’s advantage to see in it virtues when disappear in a flash as soon as the position is seriously examined.  Let us go back to the theatre for a moment.  The performers there do their stuff, simply and solely to entertain.  That is what they are paid for and on the various degrees of their ability the remuneration is fixed.  Don’t the footballers play their games to entertain?  Well of course they do.  BUT they would do this week in and week out if television had never been invented as indeed they did long before the cameras presented their probing hoses anywhere near football grounds.  The League programme and their Cup ties would still have to be fulfilled and the presence of the camera inside the ground are merely incidental to the engagement. 
NO HARDER
It does not make the footballer’s job one scarp harder.  He earns on playing, completely ignorant of the fact that his every action may be flashed all over the country.  It is less distracting than the football photographers sometimes are.  More so in the Rugby code than in ours, for there cameraman run along the touch liens, and in the depths of winter do not hesitate to sue flash. 
No whatever criticism we may level at TV it does not interfere with our normal game in any way.  If clubs are to grow, rich from television, should the players simply stand aside and watch it?  No, I do not believe for a moment that would happen either.  If television is to play an increasing part in our lives, I have no doubt that the effect of it will be seen on future contracts.  In fact if future experiments were to prove that the dangers of television to soccer, in the way of reduced attendances is just another example of crying “Wolf” when there is no danger around this medium could well become the golden key to unlock the doors to an entirely different sort of annual playing contract.  A simply way of satisfying players requirement’s might be tossed into the lap without putting new and deeper wrinkles in the foreheads of the financial expertise.  I would hesitate to give a view as to whether or not I think TV screening can undermine the strength of the game.  I can only tell you that while I do not hesitate to watch football whenever I can on the screen, it is only because the match is usually so far away that I cannot possibly get to it or that I couldn’t get a ticket anyway.  Personally I do not think there is any substitute for the real thing.  At best television can only be second best.  “How long, I wonder will the public be content to prefer second best.”  Clubs must try to improve playing standards (and here of course there is a heavy responsibility on the players) and they must certainly give spectators the comfort and weather protection what should be theirs by right.  If only all grounds were like Goodison Park!  Most clubs have already shown themselves to be fully alive to this necessity, and I think if we all put together to put our house in order television will not stop the crush at the turnstiles.  I await with interest the outcome of the present negotiations, but I think it would be folly to imagine that television has our great national game by the throat.  The game will always be master, if we choose to keep it so. 

LILL MAY NOT BE FIT
Friday, August 26, 1960 Liverpool Daily Post
By Horace Yates
Mick Lill, who brought aggressive action to Everton’s right wing against Manchester United on Wednesday is a doubt starter, according to manager John Carey, for tomorrow’s home game with Leicester City.  Apparently Lill, scorer of Everton’s first goal of the season, and claiming his first double for the club, damaged his knee in hitting his second goal a few minutes from the end.  Because of this doubt the announcement of the team which would almost certainly have been unchanged again has been delayed until to-day.  If manager Carey has to name a substitute for Lill, he will not find it easy to make a decision for there is no outstanding clamant at the moment.  Young Alan Tyrer made his debut in that position last season and also wound up the programme at outside right, but his inclusion in this role would obviously only be an emergency move.  Similarly Brian Harris successfully converted to half back, played in only one game there last season but because of his greater experience, he must be seriously considered.  Then again Derek Temple could step up from the reserves.  Utility forward Alan Shackleton is no longer available. 

EVERTON ‘WELL AWAY’ AFTER THIS FIXTURE
Friday, August 26, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Leslie Edwards
Victory against Leicester City last season (remember the interloper and his Hickson placard?) was for Everton, a turning point; It could be that Leicester could be victims of another solid victory tomorrow when they come fresh from their win at Chelsea to test the new Everton and a new pitch which stood miraculously to the wear and tear of the weather and the exciting game against Manchester United.  As I saw it, Everton had to pull out all the stops to win that match 4-0 and although Leicester are not in the same class as the Busby side it might well be that they have better ideas of getting the ball into the net!  There should be another huge crowd giving indication of the capacity figures we could expect if Everton really got cracking as possible championship contenders.  It is essential that they continue where they left off against Manchester because within the nine days they have three of the most testing games on their calendar- at Old Trafford next Wednesday and at Villa Park three days later and on the following Monday at Blackpool.  Everton must break that sequence of away failures otherwise all their excellent home work is wasted. 
WITH LESS EFFORT...
There were reservations about the side’s play in London even the United game left an impression that they could win with less effort if they carried good approaches through with the ball on the turf.  Their pattered progress looks, and is, very good, but once they start flinging the ball upwards over a distance the other defence takes the initiative.  If Everton are going to piece a defence their safest ways is through the sort of passes they use when an attack is being developed.  A quick-fire inter-passing duet between Collins and Lill, without a moment’s hesitation on either part was one of the most heartening things we saw on Wednesday.  Dunlop’s fine goalkeeping –surely he is the best and safest in the country?- Collins lively one-man show and the new resurgent spirit at Goodison Park make tomorrow’s game compelling and if the sides cannot play good stuff on the best Everton pitch in my experience of football at Goodison park I shall be surprised. 

LILL HAS KNEE INJURY
Friday, August 26, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
IS DOUBTFUL STARTER
TREATMENT
By Leslie Edwards
Mickey Lill, the Everton right winger who scored twice against Manchester United on Wednesday may not play tomorrow against Leicester City at Goodison Park.  An injury he suffered during the match on Wednesday asserted itself yesterday when his left knee became locked and specialist treatment was required.  A splint was put on the knee after the leg had been straightened under anaesthetic and not until this has been removed will it be known whether he is fit for action.  The specialists has good hopes that all will be well.  It is just possible that Lill’s injury arose from the lush state of the new Everton pitch after such torrential rain.  The Cup Final pitch at Wembley equally velvety has been responsible for a number of unaccountable injuries –mostly to knee cartilages.  Bobby Collins who also scored twice against United bruised an ankle, but is expected to be recovered.  Leicester play the team which won at Chelsea.  Leicester City; Banks; Chalmers, Norman; White, Knapp, Appleton; Meek, Cheesebrough, Hines, Walsh, Wills. 

DEREK TEMPLE AT OUTSIDE RIGHT FOR EVERTON
Saturday, August 27, 1960. Liverpool Daily Post
FIRST SENIOR MATCH FOR 18 MONTHS
LILL HAS KNEE INJURY
By Horace Yates
Derek Temple, the Everton youth international, makes his first appearance for the Goodison Park Football league side for eighteen months in the home match against Leicester City to-day-at outside right a position he has not previously played in the senior eleven.  Temple plays because former Wolves winger Mick Lill has not recovered from the knee injury he sustained in the 4-0 victory over Manchester United on Wednesday night.  Lill had treatment from a specialists yesterday and there were hopes that he would be able to play in an unchanged team, but late in the day it was apparent that the recovery could not be made in time and Manager John Carey calls on Temple to take over.  When Temple came into the Everton first team in season 1956-57 he was regarded as one of the most promising youngsters the club had produced and some of his appearances at centre forward brought much admiration from Goodison fans.  But Temple ran into a bad spell and his last outing with the first team was on February 21, 1958 when he played against Birmingham City at St. Andrews.  Then came a spell of National Service and Temple had service in Kenya before returning home about last Christmas and being demobbed a month or so later. 
KEEN TO JUDGE
When he resumed at Goodison Park, Manager Carey wanted an outside right for the Central League side and put Temple there.  Temple played several matches in the position and continued in the Central league this season.  Now his first team chance comes again and Goodison followers will be keen to judge whether he has regained the speed of movement and of shot which made him look so good earlier in his career.  Temple’s incoming is the only change in the Everton team for a match which they start favourites to win, especially after the performance against United on Wednesday night.  United though are far from being the strength they were and the result might in some respects have flattered Everton.  They have the opportunity today of consolidating the view of those who feel that then club is in for quite a good season.  It will take a handsome victory over Leicester to do that and it is notable that they will find the Filbert Street men a more difficult proposition than the United of Matt Busby.  Still it will be something of a surprise if they cannot make home advantage tell and take the points to four from three matches.  Leicester drew with Blackpool last Saturday and won at Chelsea during the week.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Jones; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Temple, Collins, Harris (J), Vernon, Ring.  Leicester City; Banks; Chalmers, Norman; White, Knapp, Appleton, Meek; Cheesebrough, Hines, Walsh, Wills. 

RAHABILITATED EVERTON LOOK FOR ANOTHER WIN
Saturday, August 27, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Leslie Edwards
Victory over Manchester United and the fact that Leicester, the opponents today at Goodison Park won the same night at Chelsea, have made Everton’s game almost compelling one.  If there had not been torrents of rain on Tuesday and Wednesday the attendance for the United game must have been almost record-breaking.  As it was 51,000 tucked themselves away, many of them under the stands, to see a performance which rehabilitated Everton a good deal after the disappointing show at Tottenham.  It was a match, too, which suggested that Everton’s pitch difficulties which might well have caused more than one game to be transferred last season, are ended.  Before the game, many people telephoned the club and this office asking “Is it off?” 
I don’t know who starts these rumours but there was never the slightest chance of the game not being played and such mischievous rumour-mongering can only harm club and followers.  That difficulty is that if any statement were made that the ground was fit for play it would automatically inter that there had been doubt initially over the fitness of the pitch. 
BREAKING THE ICE
Everton have successive games at Old Trafford, Villa Park and Blackpool following this Leicester visit and whether the team reaches a challenging place or not depends largely on whether they can break the ice which has been frozen solid against them since the end of the season 1958-59.  Their last League away win was at Portsmouth-so long ago it is almost ludicrous that they haven’t had a solitary away success since.  At home their record has been good enough for anything.  Leicester managed by the old Bolton half-back Matt Gillies are one of the clubs who have gone through a good number of managers since the war.  Until about a year ago, they had as one of their back-room boys at Filbert-Street the old Liverpool half-back Tom Bromilow who had innumerable managerial posts prior to settling down there.  One man who will look eagerly for the result this afternoon is the old Everton inside-forward Bobby Irvine who works in Leicester at the Post office and who never fails to link up with his old club when they visit Leicester.  A year ago, on the debut of Tommy Ring, Leicester came and were devoured by a side which had just lost Dave Hickson to Liverpool.  Now with the advent of Meek of Leeds United, one of the few men who cost them big money Leicester have taken three points from four and seem set for a fairly good season.  The Gillies touch has produced a team costing very like indeed. Chalmers the back and captain cost only the £10 fee when he joined Leicester from Corby in Northamptonshire, White the half-back was for free from Celtic so was Walsh the inside forward who came from the same club.  Appleton cost the £10 when he left Scarborough; Hines cost nothing.  He’s a grafter more than an orthodox centre, Knapp of course toured South America with the F.A in the close season, but did not get a game with England.  Meek and Cheesborough, Leicester’s most expensive wing are not big ‘uns Meek is the smallest man in first class football.  Everton’s one change enforced by the injury to Mickey Lill brings in Derek Temple on the right wing-his first league appearance since he went into the Army and his first run on the extreme wing.  Lill damaged a knee in the game against Manchester United but felt nothing during the match.  His knee became locked the next day and needed specialist treatment.  Many had though that young Alan Tyrer who did so well on his debut at Fulham last season would be given his chance, but Temple who is more experience, gets the place and well provided for by Bobby Collins should do well enough.  The lush new Everton pitch like that at Wembley may be unusually productive until it firms up of knee and ankle injuries. 

EVERTON NAMEPLATE
Sports Argus - Saturday 27 August 1960
Before the start of their home First division match with Leicester today, Everton F.C. were presented with the nameplate of the railway engine of that name, now scrapped. 

EVERTON WERE SHOCKED INTO GOAL ACTION
Saturday, August 27, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
SCORING RUSH AFTER 65-MINS. FIDDLING
EVERTON 3, LEICESTER 1
By Michael Charters
Everton; Dunlop, goal; Parker, Jones; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Temple, Collins, Harris, Vernon, Ring.  Leicester City;- Banks; Chalmers, Norman; White, Knapp, Appleton, Meek, Cheesebrough, Hines, Walsh, Wills.  Referee; Mr. H. Webb (Leeds).  Talking to the injured Mickey Lill before the game, he told me that he expects to have the specialists report and X-ray result on his left knee by Monday.  His knee is in sprints and he is having considerable pain from it.  There was another big crowd at Goodison –well over 40,000 at the start-for the visit of Leicester.  Everton’s only change was Derek Temple for Lill at outside-right, this being Temple’s first-ever game at outside-right for the first team.  It took three Leicester men to take the ball off Vernon in a left wing dribble and from the resultant throw-in the ball came loose to Harris who tried a spectative shot from 30 yards which swung wide. 
ONLY INCHES AWAY
Collins was only inches away from reaching a glancing header from Harris and Ring put across a centre which was just too far for Harris to reach.  Everton were having the better of the play in the early stages, but generally play was a little ragged.  Everton moved the ball impressively in a fine-looking move working across field from Parker and it took the intervention of centre forward.  Hines coming back deep into defence to cut off Ring’s final pass to Vernon.  Ring twice cut in and shot when a centre might have produced better results, but generally Everton were much the more aggressive side. 
CERTAIN SCORE SAVED
Collins started and finished another good move on the right with Temple noting his foot to the final cross and the ball coming back off the unsuspecting legs of Chalmer’s to save a certain goal.  The first Leicester attack of any quality came when Walsh a worked his way down the right wing, slipped around Labone and beat Dunlop with his centre but Parker was in position to clear.  When Walsh handled the ball 10 yards outside his own penalty area, Vernon smashed the free kick against the defensive wall and collected the rebound to put the ball over the bar.  Although Everton were doing the vast majority of the attacking they had not yet settled down into any real rhythm but their defence was certainly too good for League attack which could not get moving at all. 
POOR FINISHING
Gabriel and Parker were doing very well defensively but the forwards were unable to work a clear-cut opening despite the midfield superiority.  There were flashes of good play from Collins and Vernon but the finishing pass invariably went wrong.  Temple had been quite nicely.  He provided the first major goal threat when he volleyed Ring’s centre into the side netting-a good effort with an awkward ball.  Ring was getting a first-class service from Meagan and Vernon but he was far too strong with his centres which swung harmlessly away on the far side of the goal.  Hines twice beat Labone in the air in isolated Leicester attacks and from the second his header went on to Willis who seemed to be taken by surprise that the ball had come to him and he made a feeble effort at heading it past Dunlop.  Leicester began to come into the game a little more now and when the pressure was on with Walsh their star.  Banks saved a good shot from Collins at full length after temple had set up the chance by working the ball across field and slipping it across to Ring for the centre.  Banks surpassed his earlier effort with a wonderful save from Collins who was put clean through by Gabriel.  Collins tried to work the ball around the goalkeeper who flung out a telescopic arm to divert the ball when it seemed a certainly that Collins would put it into the net.  It was all Everton now but their shooting was off target.  Collins and Temple set up a chance for Vernon who hit the ball, but high with his left foot. 
SHOT-SHY FORWARDS
Everton’s forwards were slow to shoot whenever the chance prevented for by this time they should have been at least two in front but for their poor finish.  Gabriel came up for a right wing corner and put in a good header which just swung wide as though to show his forwards a little aggression in front of goal.  Meek made a good breakaway down the right wing, his shot was beautifully saved by Dunlop-the first time he had been extended in this half.  Everton had been so much on top that it was almost criminal that they had wasted so many chances.  Their finishing had been very poor indeed.  Half-time; Everton nil, Leicester City nil.
Everton resumed with much more purpose than they had shown earlier and Banks made a thrilling full length save to cut off a centre from Ring.  The winger was again prominent with a first class run and it was Knapp this time who headed away for a corner as Harris went up for the ball. 
STRONG IN DEFENCE
Both Gabriel and Meagan were pushing through plenty of good passes but the forwards still couldn’t break down a strong Leicester defence in which Knapp and Chalmers were doing particularly well.  In a tone Leicester break-away Jones cleared Meek’s centre straight out to Walsh who returned the ball instantly for Dunlop to make an excellent save.  Most of the Leicester’s threats in attack came from the strong Walsh, who looked an excellent player.  A bad pass by White put Vernon in possession with a clear run to goal but Vernon shot too soon straight at Banks.  Vernon was again at fault with a glorious chance as Ring cut the ball back to him from the byline but he slewed his shot hopelessly wide.  Everton were missing an incredible numbers of chances for by this time they should have had the game completely sewn up with at least a four goal lead. 
WOEFUL SHOOTING
Everton were fiddling when flight was needed.  They seemed to play as though they could score any time they liked, but their shooting continued to be the worst part of their make-up.  There looked every danger now that this game would be a replica of the fixture two years ago when Everton had 90 per cent of the play and lost by a breakaway goal.  Parker broke up a Leicester attack but when he did not clear instantly it led to a leading goal by Leicester after 65 minutes.  Parker lost possession in the centre circle and the ball was swung out to Meek whose shot beat Dunlop but Gabriel cleared off the line.  The ball never went out of the penalty area however and Banks returned it into the middle for Cheesebrough to tap it home easily. 
QUICK EQUALISER
It was incredible that Everton should have been behind but within two minutes they had equalised.  The hero this time was the villain of the piece of Leicester’s goal-Parker, who broke away from the kick-off and gave a perfect pass to Ring.  The winger turned it inside for Vernon to try a shot and the ball rebounded off a defender to Collins who slipped it past Banks.  These two goals had injected tremendous bite into the game and Everton might well have taken the lead shortly afterwards when Collins with a perfect through pass gave Vernon an excellent chance, but he failed to beat off the tackle of Chalmers and lost possession with only the goalkeeper to beat. 
GREAT REVIVAL
But at last this Everton pressure told after 70 minutes with an amazing goal by Ring.  The move started with Gabriel pushing the ball through for Collins to hit a perfect cross field pass to Ring.  The winger took the ball on some 10 yards before hitting a tremendous shot from 25 yards into the far corner of the net, the ball lodging between the net and the metal support to hang as though in triumph of the shot.  Vernon put the perfect pass through to Harris and it took a brilliant diving save from Banks to take the ball off the centre forward’s toe. 
IMPUDNET GOAL
Ring scored an incredible goal after 80 minutes to make the game apparently safe for Everton.  Harris swung the ball across from the right wing and Collins jumped over to it to let the ball run through to Ring.  There was more excitement in the closing 15 minutes than there has been in the whole of the opening half with Banks making another first class save from Collins fiercely hit shot from 12 yards.  With the utmost nonchalance Ring toe-ended the ball from 20 yards into the top corner of the net with Banks completely bemused at the impudence of the shot. 
Final; Everton 3, Leicester City 1.

BARNSLEY RES V EVERTON RES
Saturday, September 27, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
Barnsley Reserve;- Williams; Green, Brookes (H), Bereford, Sawyer, Houghton, Wyke, Baxter, Strainsby, Olives, Brookes (C.).  Everton;- Griffiths; Parnell, Bramwell; Jarvis, Gorrie, Harris (B); Boner, Tyrer, Wignall, Ashworth, Edwards.  Referee; Mr. S.B. Stokes (Nottingham).  Soon after the kick-off Barnsley was hit by a thunder storm.  The lightning was almost frightening and there was torrential rain, and hail-stones.  After six minutes during which neither side had really got the grips of the game.  Referee Sidney Stokes of Nottingham sent the players back to the dressing room.  He said “Conditions were just impossible and the linesmen could not see across the ground”.  After 25 minutes from the start the players were still off the field and the thunderstorm and rain were as heavy as ever.  Twenty-four minutes after the players had been called off the field Referee Stokes abandoned the game.  He said “Conditions were impossible and I had no alternative.” It was still raining very heavily at four o’clock and the terraces were flooded.  There was no score. 

MISSING MAN-UNTIL I MET LIDDELL
Saturday,  August 27, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
Scottish Tour Tip Came By Chance, Say Alex Parker
Last week promised I would tell you how I heard I had been picked to go on Scotland’s close season tour of Austria, Hungary, and Turkey.  Naturally I was delighted to be selected, and although I did not play in any of their games, these tours are always good experience and very enjoyable.  What happened was that only two or three days before the tour was due to start John Hewie the Charlton Athletic player, had to cry off for personal reasons.  Naturally the selectors had to act quickly to find a replacement.  They settled for yours truly, but their next job was to find me as they contacted Everton, sent telegrams to Scotland and even had it broadcast over the radio.  But at the end of the day they still hadn’t found me.  Where was I?  Believe it or not, at home in Liverpool watching television.  It appeals the Scottish selectors tried everywhere and everything to find me- except my home address. 
SPECIAL TRAINING
What happened was that only a few days previously I had been at Blackpool doing a few days special training and when I arrived back in Liverpool to discovered I had left a pair of flannels in the hotel.  I telephone the hotel and they said they would send the trousers to the Everton club.  On the Wednesday morning (the day the selectors were looking for me) I went up to Goodison to see if the trousers had arrived but they hadn’t.  I left word at the club that I was off to Scotland for a few days to stay and would call in at Blackpool on the way to pick up by flannels.  After I had collected them, my wife and I decided to postpone the Scottish trip for a few days and return home.  I had only been gone a few minutes when Everton rang my hotel asking for me and when they were told I had left, the club naturally presumed I was heading for Scotland.  So the search for Parker went on north of the border.  I them headed to the golf club and after a few minutes I met Billy Liddell when he said, “Alex congratulations on being picked for the Scottish tour,”  “What do you mean” I said.  When I finally convinced him I knew nothing about it (for once I hadn’t even brought a newspaper), he said; “You must be the only person who doesn’t know.  It’s been on the wireless and in the papers.”  So the next day, Friday I was heading for Scotland again to be fitted out for a blazer and flannels (yes, another pair) and to have my passport put in order.  Fancy having to be told you have been picked for your county by a Liverpool player.  Still all’s well that ends well, but I wonder what would have happened if I hadn’t bumped into Billy. 
GREAT MATCH
Many of you reading this will have been at Goodison on Wednesday night to see the game with Manchester United, and even overlooking the fact that we won by such a good score, you must agree that it was a great match.  After our defeat at Tottenham there were some who thought that we might not turn out as good as many expected this season, but I think our display against Matt Busby’s boys must have given them something else to consider.  I don’t think anybody in the side had a bad game and if we have kept it up today we should have gained another two points.  As you know, Mickey Lill grabbed a couple of goals, which is a good thing for him really as the boys have been pulling his leg lately saying “We expect some goals from you this season Mick.”  Well, he had the laugh on us on Wednesday.  He got them.  Now he has to face being told to keep it up.  I remember writing last season that in Bobby Collins and Roy Vernon we had two inside forwards who could both score and make goals.  On our tour of Holland, Roy grabbed four, but in case any side thinks that he is the one to watch, Bobby popped up with a couple on Wednesday.  Personally I don’t mind as long as somebody does, if I have any preference, it’s for myself. 
CELEBRATION
The boys had an additional reason for wanting to win on Wednesday (in addition to avenging that 5-0 defeat during the last match of last season) for this week Gordon Watson our popular trainer, celebrated his silver wedding.  Early in the week the team presented him with a “teas-maid” complete with clock to tell him when the tea is ready.  After the game with United, he invited all the players back to his house for a little celebration, so Wednesday as quite a happy night.  The Goodison pitch has come in for more than its fair share of criticism over that past few months so it was good to me that on Wednesday night it was in perfect conditions. A few supporters have mentioned this to me, and practically all the players commented on it.  On behalf of the team, I would like to say a big thank you to the ground-staff.  The turf was like a bowling green and it deserved a good game.  During the past few days I have had letters asking me if I am a going to continue my parker Pen pals feature which proved so popular last season.  I received letters from exiled Evertonians all over the world, and I gave many of the letters in this column.  So if any Evertonians and Liverpudians) no matter where they live would like to join the club they can do so by writing to me c/o the Sports Department, Liverpool Echo, Victoria Street, Liverpool.  If the letters are interesting enough and I have the space, I will reproduce them on this page. 

NO MATCH FOR EVERTON
Birmingham Daily Post - Monday 29 August 1960
Everton 3, Leicester City I.
The Goodison Park ground, which so often in the past has proved a lucky one for Leicester City, looked as though it was going to be so again. Against the run of play, Cheesebrough put them ahead in the 64th minute. However, the superiority of Everton's costly eleven got no more than it deserved when first Collins (65 minutes), and then Ring (69 and 79 minutes) scored the goals which brought victory. Apart from the opening goal —it came when Cheesebrough put Walsh through from a defensive error and was in position to convert the centre— Leicester's attack was little in evidence and compared unfavourably in football skill with that of the home side.   
Stout Defence
Hines had an unhappy time at centre-forward and the occasional flash of danger that came from Walsh and Wills was wasted. In defence, however, Knapp, Norman and Chalmers earned full marks for their endeavours and Appleton got through some good work. Banks made some good saves but was completely outsmarted by the coolness and accuracy of Ring's shooting when the winger scored his two goals. Attendance: 45,215. Teams: Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Jones; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Temple, Collins, Harris, Vernon, Ring.  Leicester City; Banks; Chalmers, Norman; White, Knapp, Appleton, Meek, Cheeseborough, Hines, Walsh, Wills. 

JUST A SINGLE PURPLE PATCH SAVES EVERTON
Monday, August 29, 1960. The Liverpool Daily Post
Everton 3, Leicester City 1
By Jack Rowe
Most ironical point about this match was that if Leicester City had not scored first they might have got a draw.  Yet if this had happened the frustration of Everton followers would have been boundless, for they had seen their side fritter away enough chances in the first hour to suggest they would not score if the game had lasted another hour.  One was being driven to the confusion that a goal-less draw, or a Leicester shock victory, was inevitable when the match exploded with three goals in five minutes, so that the Goodison Park men were able to take their just due in the end.  It was also ironical that Everton full-back Parker should be the man to bring the vital goal spark, for it was his midfield error which led to the Leicester goal in sixty-four minutes and his brilliant cross-field pass to Ring which brought the equaliser a minute later.  Parker lost the ball near the centre circle and down swooped Leicester for Cheeseborough to score after Gabriel had kicked off the line from Meek.  Parker by his next action, ended fears of a disaster when from the kick-off, he flung across the perfect pass to Ring and when the left winger’s cross bounded off a Leicester defender, Collins was there to put it into the net.  Then, four minutes afterwards along came Ring with the first of two amazing goals.  Collins gave him the pass and from 20 yards a stabbed shot flew into the top corner of the net, past a surprised Banks.  The shot was made with deliberate and nonchalant action that the odds against Ring repeating it were high, but he was even more deliberate and casual in the 79th minute when he took a back pass from Jimmy Harris.  Again from twenty yards out the ball left his foot, this time toe-ended from a standing position, and again it flew into the net.  So Ring scored twice and helped to make the other Everton goal.  On this score he can be reckoned to have had a reasonable match, but it was as well he had this great patch for his first half impact had been negligible. 
SORRY REFLECTION
Everton’s lead up work was pleasant to watch in the first half, but there was nothing particularly great about their play and the failure to take chances was a sorry reflection on the ability, or otherwise, of the present day forward to shoot accurately.  Because of this Leicester were always in with a chance until Ring’s 65th minute, goal and Collins can hardly miss again as he did with one of the easiest chances of all.  He had actually dribbled round Banks, a good goalkeeper, but delayed long enough for the Leicester man to dive back and push the ball off his toe.  Collins was not the only offender.  We shall remember Vernon in this match, simply because he missed at least three good opportunities while Temple the deputy outside right, should have had another couple.  Against this Leicester could offer only the galliant and striving dashes of Walsh and it was from him that Dunlop had to make his only real saves.  Banks had much more work to do and did it completely with a diving catch in mid-air from Vernon the most notable save.  The match did not lack incident and Everton’s victory was deserved, but I shall need more convincing evidence before believing that they are going places this season.  True they have a fine half-back in Gabriel and a hard-worker in Meagan while Parker did not do much wrong I have seen Labone and Jones play better and there were times when the positional play of the defence would not inspire too much confidence against a forward line with ideas and speed.
TEMPLE FADES
The ability of Collins to keep going, for so long and to cover so much ground is remarkable and he was clearly the best forward, for Harris was against a good defender in Knapp, while Temple faded towards the end.  But manager John Carey will not have any regrets about choosing him, for generally Temple did well, particularly in the first half when he moved away from the wing and appeared in the middle as a menace to the Leicester defence.  That he missed a couple of chances will be a matter of self-criticism but he and the rest of the Everton attack have to learn that there is nothing more criminal in football than to make your opportunities and then squander them.  A word for Referee Webb.  Only once could I fault him, when Collins was fortunate to escape the consequences of at least a free kick for a tackle on Chalmers.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Jones; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Temple, Collins, J. Harris, Vernon, Ring.  Leicester City; Banks; Chalmers, Norman; White, Knapp, Appleton, Meek, Cheesebrough, Hines, Walsh, Wills.  Referee; Mr. H. Webb (Leeds) Attendance 45,215. 

TEMPLE WILL FILL LILL BILL ADMIRABLY
Monday, August 29, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Leslie Edwards
Everton’s 3-1 win against Leicester City took them to third place in the table.  Can they stay there in face of successive away games against Manchester United, Aston Villa and Blackpool?  Unhappily it seems unlikely that they will have right-winger Lill for these matches, but if Derek Temple, the man who came back can maintain his form and his happy association with Bobby Collins it could be that they will not only keep it, but improve it.  The performance of Lill’s deputy – someone had the genius to convert this one-time inside forward into an extreme winger-was, despite eighteen months out of first-class football, one of the great contributions to Everton’s cause.  I liked his sportsmanship; his studded and studied passes; his ability to get into top gear quickly his propensity for masking a slickly-made pass and his fine understanding with Collins a man he can rarely, if ever, have partnered before.  In short an outstanding good effort for a boy who slipped out of the Everton picture about two years ago after showing a cracking shot and a lot of penetration in his formative days.  Temple’s “hands” was in many of the Everton moves which failed vexatiously in the first half and in some which didn’t fail.  The crowd kept goal-less all through a first half in which Everton seemed likely to score, got impatient too prematurely in that their team’s failure was due as much to the ball not running for them as for their inability to take chances calmly and effectively.  In the end all was well but it needed an immediate counter to that leading goal by Cheesebrough to give Everton their chance to break through to the victory their play warranted. 
TOO WILLING HORSE
If Collins goal had not done so soon after Leicester had scored Everton might have been sunk without trace.  Instead Ring came along to cap his best game since his debut with two of the cheekiest goals he will ever get and not only did Everton have cause to think their two forward Scots for all three scored, they were obliged also to full back Alex Parker for his part in one of them.  Parker is the willing horse of the team.  He is prepared to shoulder his own and other burdens and when team-mates are undecided where the direct the ball, they usually find him willing and eager to construct where they might clear hap-hazardly.  It was parker’s upward move that led to the crossed ball which found Ring and then Collins for the equaliser.  This coming so quickly after Leicester had gone in front sent Everton the message and Ring from Collins, literally hung the ball momentarily in the net for the lead and then with one of his own special brand of carefully dug up toe-enders found target again to clinch the game.  It was not Ring’s fault that Everton left it tale.  His dawdling’s dribbles often completely mystified Chalmers and it only needed reasonable steadiness by others to convert his offerings.  Collins for example once got through so completely he literally had only Banks to bat.  As so often happens the goalkeeper came off best in the duel against the forward who tried to dribble round him.  But I still maintain that Everton deserved better reward from their fine first half in which Vernon first with one foot and then the other replaced Banks from a free kick.  Ring shot straight at the goalkeeper after receiving a fine pass, from Temple and Harris had the misfortune to see a header hit Knapp on the line, Temple again having produced the opening. 
SIGN OF THE TIMES
Against this Dunlop made a great one-handed save from meek and later from Walsh the red-haired roamer who was easily Leicester’s best forward.  Is it a sign of the times that Everton fans can reward sincerely a good if unsuccessful move by the other side that they can make known their pleasure that a visiting player has recovered from injury; the players like Collins and Temple can be solicitous of the well-being of injured opponents that we get so little riotous behaviour on and off field at Goodison Park these days? I fancy it is and who would have it otherwise?  Everton’s tradition was established by their football and fair-dealing.  It seems that the Carey aim to give us the best of football’s supplemented by his desire to rehabilitate his club’s rather battered reputation.  If so more power to him and to those who know good play and are prepared to cheer it whether it comes from friend or toe.  One thing more, please.  Can we have a decent welcome for opposing teams?  After, all it is a bit hard to be booed even if only by schoolboys before a ball has been kicked.  Leicester moved well at times but not well enough to take the honours.  The new Everton, not perhaps quite as determined as they had been against Manchester United did very well indeed and Gabriel’s brilliant work and understanding with parker, plus his ability to range far and wide suggests that he may prove himself the best buy of them all. 

NO MATCH FOR EVERTON
Birmingham Daily Post - Monday 29 August 1960
Everton 3, Leicester City I.
The Goodison Park ground, which so often in the past has proved a lucky one for Leicester City, looked as though it was going to be so again. Against the run of play, Cheesebrough put them ahead in the 64th minute. However, the superiority of Everton's costly eleven got no more than it deserved when first Collins (65 minutes), and then Ring (69 and 79 minutes) scored the goals which brought victory. Apart from the opening goal —it came when Cheesebrough put Walsh through from a defensive error and was in position to convert the centre— Leicester's attack was little in evidence and compared unfavourably in football skill with that of the home side.   
Stout Defence
Hines had an unhappy time at centre-forward and the occasional flash of danger that came from Walsh and Wills was wasted. In defence, however, Knapp, Norman and Chalmers earned full marks for their endeavours and Appleton got through some good work. Banks made some good saves but was completely outsmarted by the coolness and accuracy of Ring's shooting when the winger scored his two goals. Attendance: 45,215. Teams: Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Jones; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Temple, Collins, Harris, Vernon, Ring.  Leicester City; Banks; Chalmers, Norman; White, Knapp, Appleton, Meek, Cheeseborough, Hines, Walsh, Wills. 

TEMPLE KEEPS HIS POSITION
Tuesday, August 30, 1960 The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
EVERTON TEAM UNCHANGED
By Leslie Edwards
Everton today announced an unchanged team for their match tomorrow (7.30) against Manchester United at Old Trafford.  Lill, who damaged a knee against the same opponents at Goodison Park last week is progressing but is still unfit and Temple continues as Collins partner on the right wing.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Jones; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Temple, Collins, Harris (J), Vernon, Ring. 

NO POINT TO THEIR NAME
Wednesday, August 31, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Leslie Edwards
Everton will take a big contingent to Manchester.  The 7.30 p.m. kick-off gives many a chance to nip smartly from office to Old Trafford.  United because they were surprised at home in the first match defeated at Everton last Wednesday and “rained off” on Saturday still haven’t a point but that I think is merely due to a circumstantial chain of events which sometimes strikes the best of teams.  I can well believe Everton will find the Busby boys harder to beat tonight than in that memorable game at Goodison Park where two late goals created the impression that Everton won more easily than was in fact the case.  Everton retain Temple on the wing, Lill being still unfit, and if Derek does as well, as he did against Leicester the absence of the lively little man be substitutes for will hardly be noticed.  Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Jones; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Temple, Collins, Harris (J), Vernon, Ring. 

EVERTON STILL NOT SATISFIED
Wednesday, August 31 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
FOOTBALL LEAGUE AND TEVEVISION
By Leslie Edwards
Everton F.C one of the original rebels against the Football League Management Committee’s alleged failure to consult clubs before agreeing with I.T.A a £150,000 deal for televising league matches are still not satisfied that an informal meeting of League chairman a week tomorrow is qualified to thrash the matter out.  They have written again to First and Second Division clubs demanding an Extraordinary General Meeting of League clubs.  I understand that Everton have re-circularised clubs.  Everton also complain at the League’s off-hand treatment of a matter of such vital importance.  The meeting a week tomorrow with Sheffield Wednesday and other clubs strong in support of Everton may be a particularly contentious one, but I expect that the majority of clubs who may argue that the management Committee may have only slightly exceeded the authority given them will back the League in their desire to give the new scheme a season’s trial. 
LEAGUE CLAIM
The Football League I understand claim to have a complete answer chance that they have acted unconstitutional and will disclose it at the relevant time.  Everton’s main argument may be that the television of matches was not on the agenda when League Chairman met informally to discuss other things that the original plan to televise some matches on Saturday and as many on Friday evening was shelved and a purely Saturday plan evolved in its place. 
UNITED TEAM
If Manchester United manager Matt Busby intends playing Albert Quixall on the wing against Everton at Old Trafford tonight he hasn’t disclosed it in the team selection, Quixall moved to the wing with Johnny Giles inside right in the opening minutes of the abandoned game with Manchester City on Saturday and the move proved successful.  Alex Dawson is again centre forward and Bobby Charlton at outside left. A  chance in the defence brings back Bill Foukles to right back after injury Shat Brennan moving to left back to the exclusion of Tom Heron.  Manchester UTD;- Gregg; Foulkes, Brannan; Setters, Haydock, Nicholson, Giles, Quixall, Dawson, Violett, Charlton.