EVERTON NEWS
Liverpool Echo-Thursday, March 1 1962
Everton's team to meet Wolves at Goodison Park will not be named until tomorrow. All the players are fit. It is probable that the side which should have played at Highbury on Tuesday –the match was postponed-will be chosen again. It had Young at outside left and Wignall at centre forward, with Bingham rested from the game at Nottingham at outside right.

SPURS CAPABLE OF CAPTURING EUROPEAN CUP
March 2, 1962 The Liverpool Daily Post
Says Roy Vernon
Because I did not have a ticket for the Liverpool-Preston North End Cup replay at Manchester on Monday, I stayed at home, and I mean no disrespect to my Liverpool friends when I say that I might have been in luck after all, for I was able to see the second half of the Tottenham Hotspur v. Dukla European Cup match on the television –and what a match it was! Spurs left me with the impression that here is a team the country can be proud of, one which could well go on to make history by bringing the Cup back to Britain. If they can maintain this high-class form their chances must be good in any hope and away series. I had personal experience of these Dukla boys in New York when you remember, they beat us to the final of the competition and I formed a very high opinion of them. They impressed me then as a very fast, spirited and efficient team, who would take a lot of beating. Tottenham not only accomplished this, they did it with comparative ease. It was apparent that once that Dukla's lead established in the first leg in Prague, had been neutralised the Czechs could not live with the British team. Spurs played some fantastic football the more impressive because of the fact that their £100,000 star Jimmy Greaves, got no nearer the match than a seat in the stand. I have seen Tottenham in many moods, but I don't think I have ever seen them in quite such magnificent shape as they were against Dukla, a side supposedly ideally equipped for Cup-fighting of this kind.
GOOD PROSPECTS
Of course, one can get different impressions from different games and it could well be that against a top English club, more accustomed to their ways, Spurs might not find the going quite so smooth. For all that they must have a wonderful prospect of pulling off another double to follow their Cup and League feat of last season- a second Wembley triumph with the European Cup to crown everything. Our faith is British football has been shaken to some extent over the past few years by the unceremonious way the foreigners have death with us, but in Spurs we have a team who can show that English footballers can still top the bill in any country. With their five Englishmen, three Scoots, two Welshmen and an Irishman theirs appears to be the ideal blend! It is one thing to have a team of stars, and another for them to be able to rise to the occasion, but the greater the glamour the more these Spurs boys appear to be at home. Mind you, all the Spurs groundwork was not done at White Hart lane. It seemed to me that the strenuous fight they put up in Prague to restrict Dulka's advantage to a single goal, was really the performance that put them into this match with their tails up. What a pleasant thought to remember that Everton whipped Spurs 3-1 when they were at Goodison Park earlier in the season. We still have to go to Tottenham. What a wonderful thing it would be for us if we could boast a double over this fine side. More impossible things have happened.
A SUPRISE
Tomorrow we have the chance of registering our first double of the season when Wolves are at Goodison, but what a difference from the sort of double we anticipated looking forward to ground this stage of the season when we assessed our prospects earlier in the campaign. What a surprise awaited the Everton boys when they reported at the station on Tuesday morning in readiness for a trip to London and our match with Arsenal. We were greeted by a grinning Tommy Eggleston, our trainer who said "Off you go, lads, back to Goodison for a couple of hours training. The match with Arsenal is off." We joined in the laughter for Tommy is a great leg-puller and we thought this was another of his jokes, but he meant it and back we went. At Bellefield we had a six—a-side battle in the snow and thoroughly enjoyed it. We could not help offering our sympathy to Brian Labone. When he know that Everton's game with Arsenal had been rearranged for Tuesday he promptly offered to withdraw from the England under-twenty-three team in assist Everton. It was galling to find Tuesday's match off and Brian missing his outing with the young England hopefuls, but he was not the least worried. This sort of thing cannot be anticipated. Brian's consolation should come soon in the shape of even higher honours, for in our tour of the other clubs we believe British is as good as any of them. Perhaps we are biased in Brian's favour, but I don't think so. Sometimes his consistency in match after match is enviable.

WOLVERHAMPTON, AND McPARLAND
Liverpool Echo-Friday, March 2, 1962
By Leslie Edwards
A few weeks ago Manager Stanley Cullis was flayed, on Television, by followers of Wolverhampton Wanderers. Just as well, perhaps, he was not present while critics suggested it was time Wolves made a change; that Cullis had had his day. Stanley has had many days, of course (and thundering good ones) and I do not doubt he will have many more if his club are wise enough to keep him in his present position. One wonders what the anti- Cullis brigade are saying now the club have recovered so well following the astute Cullis signings of McParland, from Villa, and Crowe from Blackburn Rovers ! To-morrow, at Goodison Park, we shall see for ourselves the effect the injection of these two great players have made on the team which faces Everton. McParland, who might have been of use to Everton but who was turned down, I believe, because there were thoughts that his best days were over, can be a matchwinner. Whenever I have seen him Crowe has looked a rather ethereal sort of inside-forward. But he has certainly blended well into the Wolves attack. Having lost at Burnley in the Cup and at Nottingham a week ago, Everton have every incentive to find winning form again in front of their supporters. Some anonymous correspondent whose letter is of the sort best fitted to go straight into the waste basket, has been reading into my statement "Perhaps referees at Goodison Park are more lenient to the home team" more than was intended. If he thinks Football League referees do not, on the whole, tend to be kinder to teams at home than those playing away he had better consult the points assessment of referees by clubs. He will find there, I understand, proof that the home club's marking is better, on aggregate than that of clubs who have played away.
Worth another trial
That Everton are a better team at home is beyond question. That their support means a great deal is alsoundeniable. But in the final analysis the players are the only people who can command victory. A pity the further trial of playing Young at outside-left could not be measured at Highbury, on Tuesday, when the match was cancelled twelve hours after Spurs and Dukla had got through their fixture in the same city! In any circumstances Wolves are a pretty tough side; because they are still not out of trouble at the foot of the table and because they now seem to have snapped out of their spell of failure they will be hard to beat, Walsall, whom Liverpool play tomorrow, have lost only twice at home this season. Their small pitch is rather confined, especially at one end where the winger travelling fast is in dire peril of flattening himself out against a factory wall a few yards beyond the goal-line. Having risen from the ranks—Third Division last season. Fourth Division the season before—Walsall are now destined to have a further spell in their present sphere, but their rise has been remarkable. Their 2-2 draw on Saturday at Scunthorpe, stamps them as a team capable of giving Liverpool a testing. The occasion will be notable for the debut in the Liverpool goal of James Furnell, whose signing from McParland at Everton Burnley was announced just after Liverpool's Cup defeat against Preston.

EVERTON SIGN 'KEEPER WEST FROM BLACKPOOL
Liverpool Echo - Friday 02 March 1962
Plays To-morrow
Against Wolves At Goodison
YOUNG ENGLAND CAP
BY Leslie Edwards
Everton F.C. to-day signed from Blackpool, England under-23 goalkeeper, Gordon West, who is not yet 19 years of age. He plays to-morrow against Wolves, displacing Liverpool - born Albert Dunlop whose long run in the first team dates from the days when Cliff Bittton was manager at Goodison Part. The fee paid Everton was not disclosed, but as Blackpool had said that they would not take less than £25,000, it must have been one of the biggest ever paid for a goalkeeper. West, who was born in Barnsley and played for that club before he joined Blackpool, knew notting of Everton's k interest in him until last evening when Everton Manager Harry Catterick made a quick visit to confer with Blackpool manager, Ronnie Suart. Negotiations progressed so well it was possible for West to come to Goodison Park at mid-day to-day. He had earlier trained with the Blackpool team at Bloomfield Road.
PHYSICAL CHECK
The only thing delaying his signing was the necessity- and Everton always insist on this- for a full-scale physical examination of the player by the club's orthopaedic specialist. West has played in England under-23 teams with Everton centre half back Brian Labone so he will not feel entirely strange when he steps out tomorrow against Wolves at Goodison Park. He played centre half in the school team there until he accidentally discovered he performed best between the sticks. He went to Blackpool as a 15 years-old ground staff boy; turned professional nearly two years ago and has played often in the first team having his best spell as a senior when playing in the first 14 League matches this season. This new signing, plus the appearance in the Wolves team of their new players, McParland and Crowe, should give the attendance a considerable boost. Dunlop, who Is 32 and a good club cricketer, has given Everton splendid service. He had had a benefit from the club before he finally made the first team. For some seasons he shared his position with Jimmy O'Neill, but once O'Neill went to Stoke he was rarely displaced. West, who will be 19 in April, joined Blackpool as a 15-years-old schoolboy in 1958, and made his League debut at Aston Villa on December 31, 1960. Six feet one Inch in height and weighing 14st. he gained England youth international honours before being chosen for the England Under-23 side against Israel last November. Mr. Catterick said: "We had not adequate cover goalkeeping position since reserve Mailey broke a leg andthis move is the outcome. We feel we have now safeguarded our position." This afternoon Blackpool manager Ronnie Suart meetsCambridge City attempt to sign their old goalkeeper Brian Harvey who formerly played for Newcastle United.
WOLVES CHANGES
Centre half Bill Slater has recovered from a knee injury and returns to the Wolverhampton team. In the forward line, South African Cliff Durandt, takes over at inside left from Peter Broadbent, who was injured in Wednesday's match. Everton.—West: Parker, Green: Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Young. Wolves; Davies; Stuart, Thomson; Kirkham, Slater, Flowers; Wharlton, Crowe, Murray, Durandt, McParland.

DRAMATIC DEBUTS OF NEW GOALKEEPERS
Liverpool Daily Post-Saturday March 3, 1962
DESTINY DAY FOR GORDON WEST AND JIM FURNELL
By Horace Yates
For Gordon West and Jim Furnell this is probably the most important day in their football lives. Never before have Everton and Liverpool signed new goalkeepers in the same week and pitched them straight into the first teams, and so these two young men, who were not in the Burnley and Blackpool League sides when they were signed, have to justify the decisions which make them displace Albert Dunlop and Bert Slater. West, not yet nineteen, became an Everton player yesterday-at a reputed fee of £20,000-following negotiations which started between Manager Harry Catterick and Blackpool on Thursday night. West the England Under-23 goalkeeper, came to Goodison Park for the usual specialist examination and then signed. It is difficult to judge who faces the more testing debut Furnell plays at Walsall in a Liverpool side heading for the First Division while West goes in at Goodison Park against the Wolves who have not been beaten since Manager Stan Cullis signed McParland from Aston Villa and Crowe, from Blackburn Rovers. Whether Everton's season goes out like a lion or a lamb depends entirely on the ability of the team to maintain their home form, which generally has been good enough for most tasks and more important still, reproduce it away from home. The mystery of what makes Everton tick at Goodison Park and reduces them to a token team away from home is as far away from a solution as ever.
IDEA REJECTED
The players, I know reject out of hand any idea that they put more effort into their work in their home ground, but their record is too consistently poor to lay the blame at the feet of misfortune all the time. The knowledge that sooner or later inability to give satisfaction must lead to some replacements should surely be the spur to tap any reserves of endeavour there may be, but still the sorry story continues. The visit of Wolves recalls that it was against this club that Everton scored their last victory away from Goodison –as long ago as October 14. Facing the fact that the season can offer nothing to Everton now in the way of honours they can still prevent their programme winding up in a wave of apathy, but only by serving up performances worthy of their name. It is no good pointing to one particular player and attributing the entire and position to his, loss of form, for if we face up boldly to the truth, how can we stand the admission that in the forward line at least the failure is widespread. If adequate reserve power were available and unfortunately that boast is denied us, how many of the present line could confidently claim that their position was secure? That the forwards can rise to the heights we know, for have they not done so against some of the best opposition? Let us hope that the challenge of Stan Cullis men will be the signal for the reawakening. Undoubtedly the loss of George Thomson has been felt in defence, but when all allowance has been made it is the forward line which stands convicted of the major responsibility for the Everton decline. Everton; West; Parker, Green; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Young. Wolves; Davies; Stuart, Thomson; Kirkham, Slater, Flowers, Wharton; Crowe, Murray, Durandi, McParland.

GORDON WEST MAKES HIS BOW
Liverpool Echo-Saturday March 3, 1962
NEW GOALKEEPER STARTED FOOTBALL AS A CENTRE-HALF
By Leslie Edwards
Everton produce, out of the Catterick hat, a brand new goalkeeper for their important game to-day against Wolves. He's not yet 19; tall, strong, facially rather like the boxing k.o, expert, Billy Walker, and one of the Barnsley breed. The last from that tough Yorkshire town was . . . the fabulous Dicky Down,. If Gordon West gives his new club as much good service as Downs then the very big fee paid yesterday will be justified. West started the season with 14 games in the Blackpool first team—not had for a boy of 18. In one of those matches he was up against Wolves (his opponents again' to-day) at Molineux and it says something for his goalkeeping that his side got a 2-2 draw. Everton need to go one better to-day. West had no idea until manager Catterick visited Blackpool on Thursday evening that he would be an Everton player before the end, of the week. He even trained yesterday morning with his Blackpool team mates. Then he came over to Goodison Park (where he has played several times in Central League matches), was examined, by the club specialist, signed the papers and met some new and old friends.
BACK TO FORM
He has played in the same England Under-23 side as Brian Labone and in the England Youth eleven with George Sharpies. West, whose fiancée is a Blackpool girl, started football as a centre half. He might have made another Ron Yeats, but one day he went between the sticks and found he liked it better there, than in the outfield. From that moment he progressed splendidly. Wolves, with McParland and Crowe fitting in well are back to their old form. They have had a lean spell, but these two judicious signings have done them as much good as the signings by Liverpool of St. John and Yeats.
TO HAVE OPERATION
The news about George Thomson, the Everton back, who has been out of the game two months, is not good. He must have a manipulative operation to try to cure the thigh muscle trouble which has kept him out of football and out of training. Meantime Green continues. He had a pretty good game against Forest a week ago, when Everton all but snatched a draw after being 2-0 down at the interval. Wolves have not had much success here in the past few seasons and I don't see them surviving to-day with Wignall at centre to give the Everton line punch and Young at outside left to draw the defence away from him. Everton; West; Parker, Green; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Young. Wolverhampton Wanderers; Davies; Stuart, Thomson; Kirkham, Slater, Flowers; Wharton, Crowe, Murray, Durandt, McParland.

BLUES' SPARKLE SWAMPS THE STRUGGLING WOLVES
Liverpool Echo-Saturday, March 3, 1962
YOUNG'S PART IN VERNON AND WIGNALL GOALS
EVERTON 4, WOLVES
By Michael Charters
Everton; West; Parker, Green; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Young. Wolves; Davies; Stuart, Thomson; Kirkham, Slater, Jones; Wharlton, Crowe, Murray, Durandt, McParland. Referee; Mr. R.T.E Langsdale (Darlington).
Only a tracing of snow in the four corners of the pitch remained after last night's fall for a game made notable for the first appearance of Everton's new goalkeeper, Gordon West, signed yesterday from Blackpool. Wolves made a late change as left half Ron Flowers became ill this morning with a stomach upset, andhis place was taken by Glyn Jones, normally a full back. The Scottish team manager, Mr. Ian McColl, was watching Everton for the second week in succession; Scotland's next international is against
England in about six weeks' time. The pitch was very difficult in that it was quite holding in the centre, but treacherous where the snow still lingered.
HEADED WIDE
Wolves gained a corner in the first minute, and some faulty marking by Everton's defence allowed McParland a simple header but he put the ball wide. West delighted the crowd with the speed with which he raced out from goal to snatch the ball from the toes of Durandt, and shortly afterwards he made a good save, at the angle of crossbar and upright, from Wharton. Everton's first shot came from Wignall, a long range effort which went well wide. At this stage Collins, who had taken a knock on a knee moved to the right wing, with Bingham inside.
BRILLIANT WORK
Everton took the lead after nine minutes with a fine goal from Vernon, although major credit must go too Young for a brilliant bit of work on the wing. He slipped the ball past Stuart and Kirkham within a square yard, moved inside and cut the ball back to Vernon. Despite a strong' challenge by Jones, Vernon hit a lovely shot past Davies. Two minutes later Everton were two in frontwith another goal from Vernon, which was a triumph for his power of shot and clever placing of the ball. From a free kick by Green, Collins headed the ball to Wignall, who put it back to Vernon, standing fiveyards outside the penalty area, and he hit a low shot right away to the corner of the net from the diving Davies. Vernon,trying for a fast hat-trick, collected the ball from a poor goal kick by Davies and tried a 30-yarder, which the goalkeeper saved at full stretch.
GREAT SAVE
West made a great save from Murray but his work was in vain as a Wolves forward was offside. West soon showed the power of his throws, a couple of which were a bit too speedy for the Everton players. McParland spent most of his time in the middle and all Wolves' corner kicks on the left were taken by Durandt to give the Irishman a chance to show his heading ability. Everton had the Wolves' defence in a real tangle with one attack which saw Vernon pull the ball back to Harris, whose shot was blocked. The ball ran out to Bingham,and his shot was diverted only inches outside the post by Thomson.
BINGHAM EFFORT
Bingham made a splendid shot after curving his way through a crowd of players in the Wolves' penalty area, the ball just slipping wide of the post as Davies dived across to touch it. From the corner kick Everton went three in front with a good headed goal by Wignall after 23 minutes. Wolves defence,which had been fully extended for some minutes, never cleared Young's kick, the hall eventually coming out to the winger again, and from his centre Wignall beat Davies. Everton's attackingdominance had been so marked thatnew boy West had not had a great deal to do, but what he had done had been impressive. Wolves' defence had been fully exposed by some fine work from the Everton forwards, who had switched positions cleverly.
WING HALVES HELP
Both Everton wing halves were moving up well to help the attack. Everton were awarded a free kick as Kirkham fouled Vernon a yard outside the box and Vernon slipped the ball to Collins, standing unmarked, and his fine shot was well saved by Davies—just about the busiest man on the field. From a beautiful pass from Vernon. Bingham moved inside neatly and tried a left foot shot, but it went straight at the Wolves goalkeeper. Everton were playing some of their best football for weeks. Passes from Gabriel and Harris had hardly been an inch out so far, and with Vernon in his best form. Everton always looked more likely to score than Wolves, whose play, generally, was ragged.
CUTE LOB
West invariably threw the ball rather than kicking it, and always found the right man with it. One of the attacks which initially stemmed from his throw ended with Vernon making a cute, lobbed shot when everyone expected a power drive. The ball just slipped by the post with the goalkeeper beaten. Half-time. Evert on 3, Wolves nil. At the start of the second half Stuart lined up at outside right with Murray at right half, Thomson right back, and Jones left back. Stuart had received attention from the trainer very early in the game but had shown no sign of any injury. Murray moved up into the attack to take a pass from , Wharton and hit a good shot from 25 yards which dipped just over the bar—Wolves" best shot of the match so far. Everton had a chance when a long pass from Parker beat the Wolves defence. But Wignall and Vernon seemed to get in each other's way and the ball was scrambled clear. Wolves had an even luckier let-off a minute later. Collins' centre came across to Young who pulled the ball back to the inrushing Vernon, whose shot hit the goalkeeper rather than being saved. Vernon followed up to put the rebound wide.
GLORIOUS MOVE
A glorious Everton more from Wignall to Bingham and, on to Vernon saw the Welshman try to place the hall justinside the upright, but Davies came across to make a good save. This Liverpool-born boys was having a fine game for Wolves. Wolves could not make any real impression on Everton's defence, in which Labone was playing brilliantly. Everton's play now did not contain any of the snap of the first half and the crowd were naturally, restive for a repeat performance. The forwards had lost all their earlier drive.
COLLINS CHANCE
Collins missed a great opening after Bingham had headed the ball back to him in an unmarked position a few yards from goal. Collins had to wheel round and when hefinally delivered his shot it hit Davies. Very little had been seen of Young in this half and he switched wings with Bingham., Bingham was unlucky with a quick hook shot which hit Jones with Davies nowhere in sight. Vernon took the ball right up to the goal-line before pulling it back to Young as he came rushing in from the right wing, but Young got his foot right under the ball and sent it yards over the top. When Davies lost the ball as he came out. 10 yards from goal. Wignall fastened on to the loose ball but shot straight at the goalkeeper. Vernon slipped the ball through quickly from a free-kick, just outside the penalty area, and it looked for a moment odds-on that Young would figure among the goal scorers, but his shot hit the foot of the upright and bounced assay to safety. As the game reached its closing stages the only summing-up one could give of Everton's new goalkeeper was that he had had little to do, but what he had done had been highly efficient, and he certainly initiated many attacks with his excellent throwing to a colleague. Three minutes from the end Wignall scored his second goal after a great pass from Young had sent Vernon, unmarked, away down the right from Vernon's low cross Wignall ran in and had a simple job to divert the ball over the line. Final; Everton 4, Wolverhampton Wanderers nil. Official attendance: 40,508.
Lancashire League
• Liverpool A 1, Everton A 3
• Liverpool B 2, Everton B 1

IT'S TRUE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT DIXIE
Liverpool Echo- Saturday 3, March 1962
ALEX PARKER HAS NIGHT WITH THE OLD-TIMERS
I told you a few weeks ago that the show the Everton Supporters' Federation planned to put on for Harry Cooke would be something to remember, and it certainly was. The big night was last Wednesday, and there were Everton players of four eras present. Unfortunately Harry was taken ill shortly before the show and could not be present, but many of the pre-war players called round to his house to wish him well. To try to capture some of the atmosphere of a great night here are just a few of the past stars who were there... Jimmy Dunn, Jock Thomson (he came all the way from Dundee), TedSagar, Charlie Gee, and Dixie Dean. Then there were letters read out from Torry Gillick,Sam Chedgzoy and Cliff Britton, Peter Farrell and Cyril Lello represented the immediate post-war side, and among the ex-Everton players now with other clubs were plat' Woods, Harry Leyland, Jimmy Hams, John Parker, and Tony McNamara. Even Liverpool were represented in the person of Bert Slater. And., of course most of the present Goodison side were there. Two of our present backroom boys, Gordon Watson and Frank Blundell, had a great time meeting old friends and chatting about great matcher of the past.
IT'S TRUE
But there was no doubt who was the most popular personality with the audience. He was playing a little before my time, but it certainly seems, to be true what they say about Dixie. There were terrific cheers for him, and it did not die down until he had said a few words. I hear he could crack goals in. He's just as good these days at cracking gags. He said that over the last 50 years there had been only two trainer in England—Harry Cooke and Captain Boyd Rochfort! Liverpool naturally were not forgotten either, and he had a couple of digs at them. For instance, he reminded them that they were playing on Everton's old ground. I can't think why I never thought of that one myself. Yes it was certainly a great night, and if some of the names I have listed seem a little vague to some of the younger fans of to-day, their fathers will be able to tell them just how much better those players were than the present ones. Fathers are like that. No doubt to-day's youngsters will do the same when they are older.
SUPER SPURS
Last Monday I saw Spurs put up a wonderful show to beat Dukla 4-1 in the European Cup. Watching via a TV set is not always the best way of judging a game, but it looked to me that in the conditions Tottenham played some great stuff. It must be a wonderful feeling to hammer one of the best teams in Europe and know that you have Jimmy Greaser sitting in the stand. It's a good thing to see Bobby Smith has apparently regained his form. If he can do for England what he is doing for Spurs there are a few teams due for a shock in the World Cup in Chile. Had another look at the goggle-box on Wednesday and saw Real Madrid beat Juventus. Many people say Madrid are past it now, but they still look a great side to me. Their approach work is fabulous, and Puskas, although he seemed to be out of the game for long spells, still managed to do enough to win the match. He chipped a free-kick on to the head of Del Sol for one goal, then made another with a deflection of a Di Stefano pass. Yes, Icould watch that sort play all night—from a safe distance. Well. It's back to Scotland next week for our friendly match with Hibs. All the Scots boys in the team are looking forward to playing back home again.

LIVERPOOL A V EVERTON A
Liverpool Echo-Saturday, March 3, 1962
Everton took the lead when Bennett scored from Humphries' well-taken corner after five minutes. Scott and Jevons were prominent in Liverpool's attacks. Humphries increased Everton's lead. Half-time; Liverpool A nil, Everton A 2.
LIVERPOOL B V EVERTON B
Liverpool opened their account after 10 minutes, when Sinclair scored. Marsden added a second, Green reduced the arrears for Everton. Half-time; Liverpool B 2, Everton B 1.

ANOTHER AFTERNOON FULL OF BLUE MAGIC
Liverpool Daily Post-Monday, March 5, 1962
EVERTON STRIKE SNAPPY FORWARD FORMATION
EVERTON 4, WOLVES 0
By Horace Yates

Every now and again Everton turn on a brand of cultured precise, devastating football that makes us a little self-conscious about some of the cruel things we have had to say about them and their fallings, and Saturday was such a day, when the marauding Wolves perished on the snow fringed pitch, the victims of a withering attack, which at times looked so mercilessly efficient. In completing their first double, Everton produced a 7-0 aggregate, with which nobody would seek to quarrel, at least nobody on Merseyside and if this sort of thing could only have been the pattern of the season's programme, instead of just a couple of purple entries, how different would be the picture! Even now, with so many willing to concede that, "This is the best forward line Everton have fielded this season," caution dictates that until a similar spirit of enterprise and adventure is manifest on foreign soil, we should reserve final approval. Is this just a cause of the mixture as before? The players can hardly blame us for harbouring suspicious. Once Everton can unfold these delights as a habit, rather than a threat, excitement will be justified.
WEST SATISFIES
Gordon West, eighteen-year-old goalkeeper from Blackpool, must have been delighted to have joined such a team of easy rhythm and effective finishing, and if he set out to show just what he could do, it seemed the rest of the team were on their best behaviour in return. West did not have sufficient work to leave us with any final impressions of true quality, but what he did was carried out with confidence, certainly and high promise. Probably the most satisfying moment came early in the game when he timed a run-out so precisely that his final dive at the feet of the oncoming Murray crushed any scoring chance there may have been. No, only was he able to kick more than half the length of the field, but probably more important still he could also throw an equal distance- and with far greater accuracy. His express passes from hand sometimes took his colleagues by surprise at the speed with which they were placed in possession. These are early days and in future Everton will be in a better position to appreciate possibilities. West directed his throws superbly showing a ready appreciation of the point from which attack might be more readily sprung. The future will paint the picture more clearly, but the incoming of West has introduced a new interest at the best psychological moment. Two picture goals in a match is something we have seen before from the ready foot of Vernon but two from the centre forward position was something only he had previously produced with Tottenham. The quick thinking, fast moving and dynamic shooting of Vernon was a joy to witness for this was one of his moods for which superlatives come easily. At the same time one might wish that Vernon thought equally readily and wisely in face of temptation, for his game is so much more satisfying when his thoughts are devoted entirely to football. The crowd's reaction to Young is too obvious to leave in doubt just now great a favourite he is, and he fell into the outside left position (even though much of his time after the interval was spent at outside right), so smoothly that the obvious reaction is to leave well alone. At times Vernon appeared more intent on giving Young the fillip of a long overdue goal, than completing his own treble, and the Scot actually hit the post with one effort. Yet, it is probably the way he laid on goals for Vernon (nine minutes) and Wignall (23 minutes) that we shall remember rather than his futile efforts at marksmanship. Wignall did not look like the finished article. He was too slow on the turn and his slowness of movement at other times was equally disappointing, but he scored twice and a centre forward who does that is earning his corn.
HEADER OF POWER
His first goal came from a header of power and superb direction from the most fantastically accurate centre by Young, and his second (87 minutes) was easy enough for the man on the spot, and that was just where Wignall was when Vernon lashed the ball across goal. Vernon's second goal (11 minutes) from a Wignall nod, broke Wolves' heart and ambitions and if the second half never lived up to the excitement of the first, we still had a more than usually interesting afternoon. Bingham took his cue from the others and might have scored more than once in a display which looked more like Bingham than we have seen in recent times. Collins is still not Collins. Hard though he is trying to recapture the mislaid sparkle, the going is tough. Imagine what an exhibition there might have been if the Collins cog had been turning with its more customary freedom. Harris, I thought, was terrific with a display which showed just how fortunate Everton have been not to have had a ready replacement to hand for him, and Gabriel too, did his utmost to suggest to the Scots that he is ready for recall to the national side. With Labone commanding the rest of the defence was adequate. Everton; West; Parker, Green; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Collins, Wignall, Vernon, Young. Wolves; Davies; Stuart, Thomson; Kirkham, Slater, Jones; Wharlton, Crowe, Murray, Durandi, McParland. Referee; Mr. R.T.E Longsdale. Attendance 40,548.
Note Everton Reserves game against Stoke City Reserves at Stoke was postponed.

BEST THROWER SINCE MECKIFF
Liverpool Echo- Monday, March 5, 1962
By Leslie Edwards
The debut he must have dreamed of—that was the way of it for Everton's new 18-year-old goalkeeper, Gordon West. No wonder the crowd liked him and gave him a rally as he came off having kept a clean sheet (and a cool head) in helping his side to beat Wolves by four goals to nil. Rarely can a man making his bow have had so few shots to save: rarely has a young and untested goalkeeper used the ball so judiciously "from hand," as the billiard players say. - Following careful analysis of Eintracht and Real Madrid tactics. Everton discovered, in the days of Mr Carey, that Continental goalkeepers kicked the ball down-field far oftener than they threw it. Further examination of him demonstrated that although opponents more often than not got their heads to the ball there were usually two or three players of the goalkeeper's team waiting to seize on it as itfell! That is why, I think, Dunlop may have been criticised unfairly for kicking from hand so often and apparently finding nothing more useful than an opponent's head. But here West, left to his own devices, favoured on nearly every occasion the throw to full-or half-back. He did it quickly, effectively and almost with the over-arm action of a fast bowler. Everton built up from that position. Every ball he sent through was easily acceptable. As for his other attributes one can say little except that he was not slow to come out and smother a shot and that when he decided to do so he did it with admirable resolution and judgment. The most testing moment of all for him? The one in the first minute when a header by McParland flew a few feet wide of target. Now if that had gone in what a different debut story it might have been . . .
Won in 23 minutes
For a boy of 18 years, West is immensely big and strong. He has thighs like Dicky Downs, that other Barnsley tyke who figured in many Everton defences. Everton appear to have got a good buy, and, better, a good boy. But because these were Wolves whose fangs were never bared—one even doubted they existed!—West was never given opportunity to show what he could do against powerful, accurate shooting. The match was virtually won and lost in the first 23 minutes. It was almost a formality from that point because no side three goals down so early has much chance of rehabilitating itself. Vernon went close to scoring what must have been the quickest Everton hat-trick since the days of Dixie Dean. He had two in the apace of two minutes, and only a desperate, full-stretch save by the Liverpool boy, Davies, swept the ball round the post when he threatened to snatch a third. And what great goals they were! If Vernon's dynamic shooting can win a match in the space of a couple of minutes it is true, too, that Young's dynamic approach play can do similarly for anyone who cares to accept the chances he "tees up" for them. In the first case Young slipped the ball through the legs of a defender; beat another in a clinch for possession, and then when most outside lefts would have looped the ball into the goalmouth, edged it sharply with the outside of his foot to where Vernon stood poised to make his strike. It was a magnificent shot, but not more magnificent than the approach by Young which led to it. Two minutes later Vernon scored from a headed pass by Wignall. At 23 minutes Wignall headed a goal from another centre by Young. Three minutes from time he scored again to prove that even if he appears slow in thought and action he is usually effective in the air near goal.
Bully for Brian
Wolves played so well to a point it did not seem possible that Everton's lead could remain, but just when the Cullis team needed resolution they demonstrated, all too often, a tameness one had never associated with them. The chief offender was Crowe, a lovely mover, but a man who lost the ball time and again at the crucial moment. The Everton half-backs have rarely played better, but if Crowe had had the "light" of say Durandt or McParland how much more difficult their task would have been. An injury to Stuart meant that he spent most of the second half on the right wing. McFarland then operated in the centre. That Labone was able to hold him was the best indication we have had so far of Brian's right to take over the centre half position in the England team. He was superb. The backs, too, with Green gaining in confidence, were excellent. What a different Everton this was from the one which played at Nottingham. Even with Wignall plainly not satisfying himself or many of the 40,000 present, he scored twice and helped to justify the further appearance of Young on the wing. I still maintain this is not his best place, but he was certainly very effective, and with Bingham full of life and enthusiasm following his rest, and Vernon pirouetting and performing his sixpenny-piece manoeuvres that so delight his fans, the Everton team as a whole could scarcely have done more. In the circumstances, Slater, once of England, did not do badly. There is one Wolf who impresses me as the best uncapped centre forward of his era—Murray. In whatever his sphere he did splendidly. To think that Liverpool all but signed him two seasons ago when he was for the moment in the Wolves' reserve side . . .

EVERTON MAY PLAY IN GLASGOW
Liverpool Echo - Monday 05 March 1962
Charity Cup Invitation
FELL DECISION
By Leslie Edwards
Everton, who go to Edinburgh for a friendly match against Hibernian on Saturday, may pay a further visit to Scotland on the last day of the season—Saturday, May 5. It is understood that they willbe invited to appear in the Glasgow Charity Cup at Hampden Park against the select of the six Glasgow clubs. This charity tournament has produced small gates in recent times and it is felt that the attractiveness of Everton with their manyScots would help boost the gate. Scottish team manager. Ian McColl, who was at Goodison Park on Saturday for the match against Wolves,went away very impressed with the play of full-back Alex Parker. When Newcastle United tackled Everton manager. Harry Catterick, on the possibility of their signing wingerJimmy Fell, the answer was: He Is not for transfer: nor are any of our other wingers."

EVERTON JOIN QUEUE FOR DAVIES
Liverpool Daily Post-Tuesday, March 6, 1962
FELL AND HESLOP SWICH CLUBS IN EXCHANGE DEAL
By Horace Yates
Everton have come into the transfer news with a rush. Today outside left Jimmy Fell will leave Goodison park for St. James Park, Newcastle, and centre half George Heslop will make a journey in the reverse direction subject to his satisfactorily passing a routine examination by the club's specialist. To cap the burst of activity which began with the capture of Gordon West, a goalkeeper from Blackpool last Friday, could be a spectacular triumph in the race for Wyn Davies, Wrexham's teen-age centre forward. Everton have been watching Davies for several weeks and the approach of March 16, last date for registering players to be available for teams concerned in championship or relegation possibilities coupled with his hat-trick in Wrexham's ten goal thrashing of Hartlepool's on Saturday, sent the Everton negotiating machine into high speed action yesterday. When Everton set their sights on a player there could not be more formidable negotiators and only in the event of a personal preference by the player concerned are they likely to be beaten to their goal. When I asked Manager Harry Catterick last night to confirm Everton's admiration of Davies and a positive step towards securing his signature he replied. "No comment," Mr. Catterick's "No comment," however, will deceive no one.
NEAR £300,000
Although the Newcastle deal will cost Everton nothing indeed they are considered likely to collect a cheque from Newcastle for about £6,000 the difference to valuation between Fell and Heslop, the signing of Davies could send the club's total expenditure on players since the spending spree began a couple of years ago to a figure approaching £300,000. With Everton in their present determined mood it would be unwise to conclude that even this week's moves will mark the end of their signing ambitions and the fact that they only need to count the cost after the deals are completed gives them a tremendous advantage compared with competitors who have first to work out how their budget will look after making any major move. Work began early for Mr. Catterick yesterday morning for among his first calls of the day was one from Newcastle United which set the ball rolling. They wanted Fell and Everton, almost as concerned about their reserve strength as that of the first team, found that this was the ideal opportunity to land Helsop, to double up for the vital centre half position. Mr.Catterick left Liverpool accompanied by Jimmy Fell for Leeds at 1.30 p.m and there, at this half-way stage the meeting took place with the Newcastle contingent. Fell joined Everton from Grimsby on March 3, 1961, for £18,500 and has since played in twenty-two League and Cup matches scoring four goals but he lost his place in January and has been with the reserves for the last six weeks.
8-2 DEBUT
Heslop, a native of Wallsend, is 6ft 1in and weighs around 13st. Neither he or Everton have forgotten his introduction to League football on November 7, 1959, for it was against Everton at St. James Park, a day on which the Merseysides were beaten 8-2. He was in the Newcastle team in both their defeats by Liverpool this season. Mr. Catterick told me he was well satisfied to have been able to sign an experienced centre half, for without such a standby the international prospects of Brian Labone were liable to disruption. "We want to help Labone in his international career as much as we can," said the manager. "Since the injury to Tommy Jones we have been left without a seasoned deputy and the first person to realise the problem this presented was Labone himself. "Only last week he forfeited his place in the Young England team when he told me he had no objection to our seeking his release from the game with Scotland, if we so desired, so that we might field him in the rearranged game with Arsenal. "This match was postponed but the news was too late to allow Labone to play with the Under 23 side. Now that we have a deputy the road is clear for the future. "

77 YEARS AN EVERTON FAN-CAN YOU BEAT IT?
Liverpool Echo-Tuesday, March 6, 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Dixie Dean, now happily restored to health, was reminding Everton supporters last week that Liverpool now played on Everton's old ground, at Anfield. Mr. K. Rinaldi, from the Kop, wonders why Dean did not explain that the move arose because Everton could not pay the rent? This isn't true. It was not that they couldn't pay it, but that they would not pay it when it was increased. And so they moved across the park to build the foundations of what is generally acknowledged to be the finest ground in the North. I am reminded of Everton playing at home (at Anfield) by the most ancient, in the sense of years, supporter they have. He is 82-year-old Mr. Jack Owen, of Childwall, who has been their supporter for 77 years. Can anyonebeat that that? Born to Anglesey, but a Liverpudlian from the time hewas three, he remembers Everton players Danny Kirkwood, George Farmer, Hannah, Holt, Latta, Brady, Geary, Chadwick, and Millward among them--dressing at the Sandon Hotel and walking across the road to the Anfield ground. As a thorough-going Welshman he was surprised and dismayed to find himself the only man sporting a daffodil button hole in Liverpool on St. David's Day, last week. He is still actively employed, though long since retired from the Post Office. He served in the Boer War and the First World War and is a founder member of the Merseyside branch of the South African War Veterans Association. There can't be many others about. I am glad to give Mr. Owen's record in connection with Everton because I cannot think there is anyone in this city who has followed the team for a longer period.

EVERTON SIGN STEVENS FROM BOLTON
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 06 March 1962
Follow-Up To Heslop Deal
DAVIES INTEREST
By Leslie Edwards
Everton manager, Mr. Harry Catterick, who exchanged left winger Fell for Newcastle United reserve centre half Heslop (plus cash) late last night at Leeds, came up at midday to-day with another big capture— Dennis Stevens, the Bolton utility inside forward, for whom a very substantial fee was paid. Stevens, aged 27, stocky and strong on the ball, signed at Goodison Park this morning and then, like Heslop, who arrived in the early afternoon, went to be examined by the Everton orthopaedic specialist a safeguard Mr. Catterick insists on in all transfers. Stevens has been bought to go straight into the first team. He is likely, therefore to make his debut on Saturday in the friendly against Hibs in Edinburgh. His League debut could come a week later against Chelsea at Goodison Park. Ironically, Stevens was a member of a Bolton Central League side which came to Everton some seasons ago and took part in a match, the temper and temperature of which became so hot the game was held up for about ten minutes while encroaching spectators were cleared from the pitch. Steven, arrivalcould mean that Bobby Collins,the Everton captain, might lose his first team place, as his contemporary. Dick White. has at Anfield, Collins has been a pillar of the Everton side ever since he joined them and for some season carried them as few other Everton players have. A Dudley (Worcestershire) boy, Stevens joined Bolton in 1950. In 1953 he took over at inside forward from the injured Harold Hassall and he's been there, except for injury, ever since.
MOVING FAST
Everton F.C. are thus moving far and fast for players for their first and second teams. Manager Harry Catterick. having signed goalkeeper Gordon West from Blackpool last week, to-day announced a player-exchange in which Everton take Newcastle reserve centre half, George Heslop, and Newcastle take Everton left winger Jimmy Fell, so it represents the best business they have done since they paid the equivalent of £35,000 is Blackburn for Roy Vernon . The deal between Mr.Catterick and Newcastle was virtually concluded last night at Leeds, where Fell and Heslop had travelled yesterday to confer in what were expected to be protracted negotiations. Fell was to-day in Newcastle training in preparation for his debut against Middlesbrough to- morrow evening. The Everton manager told me: "We have plenty of talent in our reserve side but It has not developed sufficiently yet to give adequate cover for the first team. Our policy is to get better all-round cover, then we can go places. Heslop knows he is coming to understudy Brian Labone. We hope that when Brian is chosen for international matches we shall be in a position to release him. It embarrasses us that we cannot do so in existing circumstances" Heslop's signing was due to the impression he made on the Everton manager when Playing for Newcastle at Anfield last October. He had a great game against Ian St. John and still found time to distribute the ball splendidly. Newcastle fans rate him as the best centre half on the books, but he has been figuring for some time in the Central League side.
FORMER GUARDSMAN
A former guardsman. Heslop, light-haired, 6ft. 2in, tall and 13 ½ stones, is not yet 22. He joined Newcastle as a 15-years-old. He has played at wing half in the reserve side and occasionally at full back in the first team. For his size he is very fast indeed. Fell joined Everton last seasonfrom Grimsby Town. He lost his place only a few weeks ago. When he asked for a move, he said he felt his play did not suit Everton. It could be that Everton, in what would be the busiest transfer day in the club's history, might sign to-night the Wrexham centre forward, Wyn Davies, currently sought also by Bolton Wanderers and Sheffield Wednesday, but I gather interest in this player is not nearly so white hot as some reports indicate.
WATCHING DAVIES
Everton have been watching Davies, a Caernarvon boy. for a long time. Mr. Catterick is expected at the Racecourse to-night to see Davies in the Wrexham team which faces the Danish side, Bronshoj. His rivals for Davies' "hand." Bolton and Wednesdaywill almost certainly be there also. Wrexham manager Mr. Ken Barnes confirmed this morning that Wrexham are prepared to let Davies go,but only so long as a replacement, or replacements are available. Mr. Barnes told me that he would be interested in the possibility of getting Frank Wignall. His bid to try to persuade Everton winger Alan Tyrer to join Wrexham failed after intense effort. When Davies Joins Wrexham, Caernarvon received a sum of £250 for him. The player, big, strong, fast, is now in the £25,000 class -afigure which surprises some Wrexham fans.

STEVENS COSTS EVERTON £25,000
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, March 7, 1962
THREE DEALS IN FIVE DAYS- INTEREST IN DAVIES WANING
By Horace Yates
Everton manager, Mr. Harry Catterick, last night watched Wrexham's friendly game with the Danish Club Bronshoj, but a security screen has been drawn about the intentions. Was he taking a final look at the Wrexham centre forward, Wyn Davies, watched also by the managers of Bolton Wanderers and Sheffield Wednesday, with a view to pipping them both on the post, or was he merely relaxing after days of hectic activity? Who can tell? The latest tip, I have received is that Everton are not convinced that Davies is the answer to their centre forward problem and although he scored twice against the Danes, he hardly set the Racecourse aflame. My view is that Everton will aim considerably higher than Davies and that not until the future of Joe Baker is resolved, will a decision be taken. Naturally Everton will give no sort of clue to their intentions, for it is club policy not to associate their name with any player who is not officially for sale. In any event Baker is injured and until he has proved that the car accident has left his ability unimpaired, speculation of any sort is futile.
TIDE TURNING
Mr. Catterick has not remained inactive in the transfer market for so long because that was the way he wanted things to be, but rather because inquiries for the players he would like to bring to Goodison Park have not been encouraged in any way. Now the tide is turning. How far it will go we can only wait and see, but this is not the first time that Everton have crowded spectacular activity into a matter of days. On Friday Gordon West was signed from Blackpool. Yesterday Dennis Stevens from Bolton and George Heslop from Newcastle, joined him. Cast your mind back two years and you will remember that Lill, Vernon and Ring were all February acquisitions and Gabriel followed in March. There may yet be a fourth this time, before the signing deadline. According to my estimates of transfer fees, Everton have paid out £336,000 or its equivalent, in signing since 1958. Here is the list;
O'Hara (£7,500) and Parker (£17,500) both in May, 1958
Collins (£23,500) in September, 1958
Laverick (£6,000) in February, 1959
Shackleton (£10,000) in September, 1959
Ring (£12,000), Vernon (£35,000) and Lill (£25,000), all in February, 1960
Gabriel (£30,000) in March, 1960
Bingham (£20,000) in October, 1960
Young (£42.000) and Thomson (£16,000) both in November, 1960
Kavanagh (£4,000) in February 1961
Fell (£18,500) in March, 1961
Veall (£12,000) in September, 1961
West (£20,000), Stevens (£25,000) and Helsop (£12,000) all in March 1962
SPENDING SPRESS
The spending began in Mr. Ian Buchan's reign, was continued by manager John Carey and now Mr. Catterick has taken over the re-building programme. The Jimmy Fell-George Helsop exchanges deal was completed yesterday and then manager Bill Ridding, accompanied by utility forward Dennis Stevens, took their place in the manager's office. Terms had previously been agreed and the remaining formalities did not take long. Although Mr. Catterick generally likes his players big as well as busy, Stevens' out-size hearts has always impressed the Everton manager, who knows that in the ex-Bolton player he has someone who can play inside right, inside left, centre forward and when occasion demands at wing half. He belongs to Dudley (Worcestershire) and like Duncan Edwards first attracted attention in the school-boys side. He was only 15 when he went to Bolton, and signed professional forms in 1950 on becoming 17. Not a prolific scorer, his season's average is around the ten mark. While the club are finding him a house, he will continue to live at Astley Bridge. Like Heslop who travelled to Goodison yesterday, Stevens received a 100 per cent, fitness report from the club's orthopaedic specialist. Fell left Liverpool yesterday morning and goes straight into the Newcastle team for their "derby" game with Middlesbrough tonight.

FROM THE MANAGERIAL CHAIR
The Liverpool Daily Post-Wednesday, March 7, 1962
SPURS POISED TO ECLIPSE LAST SEASON'S RECORD
By Harry Catterick
The toast-despite last week's crash at Manchester –is Tottenham Hotspurs! I feel we must all acclaim London's No. 1 club for their magnificent achievement in reaching the semi-finals of the European Cup. Previously only Manchester United's pre-Munich side had this distinction in English football. Not only have Spurs a chance of lifting the greatest honour that can befall a League club, but they stand poised to eclipse their record-making season of last year. Then they were League and Cup winners; now they can be Cup and European Cup winners, with just the slimmest of slim chances of the League championship. It is a tribute to a mighty club and the different approach they have made to the game in recent years. Not so long ago Spurs rarely dipped into their capacious pocket to keep the team going. Instead they relied upon their well-run Northfleet nursery which produced so many of their stars at cost price. The man who built the first successful Spurs post-war side, Arthur Rowe, was a product of the nursery scheme, so was present Sheffield Wednesday manager Vic Buckingham. I believe their present chief, Bill Nicholson also came from that source.
GLAMOUR TRAIL
But in recent years Spurs have hit the glamour trail with shrewd buys in the top-priced transfer market that has paid terrific dividends. Goalkeeper Bill brown, half-backs Blanchflower, Norman Mackay, Smith (West Ham) and Marchi (an out and in transfer to Italy)! Forwards Medwin, Jones, Allen, Smith, (Chelsea), White and the most fabulous of all, Greaves, have all been big-money buys. That little batch must have topped the £300,000 mark with greaves alone costing nearly one third of that figure. In every case the money has been wisely and well spent and Spurs have not only built up a first-class team, but have extremely capable reserves. In fact the situation at Tottenham is pretty well what it was at Old Trafford just before Munich. At the time of the Manchester United crash they had internationals like Jackie Blanchflower, Johnny Berry and David Pegg playing in the reserve team. Pre-war this situation existed at Highbury where Frank Hill, the present manager of Charlton Athletic and Pat Beasley, now with Dover were unable to command a regular place in the League side. But this has been much more difficult to achieve these days when there is a shortage of players. 'Spurs are obviously I would think using a pool of players who are labelled first team for pay purposes.
TEAM SPIRIT
Even so, it is a tribute to the club and the team spirit that players of the calibre of Johnny Smith, an England Under-23 player, Bobby Smith and Tony Marchi have been content with so much second team football this season. Now Spurs find themselves ranged against the holders, Benfica in the semi-final having avoided the outstanding club-side probably of all-time Real Madrid. The success of Tottenham Hotspur is something that I do not envy in any way. Rather do we managers accept it as a challenge to improve our own teams and standard of play. For what Spurs can do, others can do and their success in the European Cup is a tremendous fillip for football in this country. Spurs will be subjected to tremendous physical strain in their efforts to keep going in all three competitions. This is where their extra-ordinary reserve strength will be of such immense value to them. For my part I hope to see them succeed against Benfica and go on to bring the European Cup to this country for the first time. We are all aware of how close Manchester United must have come to this honour with the splendid young team that was lost at Munich. By comparison with Spurs the United team was young and obviously had its best days before then as they gained experience. Spurs, however, have a blend of experienced players, with Jimmy greaves the baby of the side. Some baby! It seems that Greaves, all things being equal will go t on to set-up a goal-scoring record that will never be beaten. Not only will Jimmy be a vital striking force for Spurs in the game to come, but he will be England's mainspring in Chile next June. The F.A must be delighted that spurs went to such financial lengths to bring him back from Italy!

EVERTON'S INQUIRY FOR WYN DAVIES
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 07 March 1962
Wignall Out Of Hibs, Game
THIGH INJURY
By Leslie Edwards
Everton Interest In 19 -years - old Wrexham centre– forward, Wyn Davies, has increased two-fold. One. Mr. Catterick saw him get two goals last night in the friendly against the Danish team, Bronshoj: two, Everton centre-forward Frank Wignall had to have examination by a specialist to-day of a mysterious injury which has reused much swelling of his thigh. It is clear he will not be fit for the friendly against Hibs in Edinburgh on Saturday. Davies, a Caernarvon boy, was to-day discussing with the Wrexham manager. Mr. Ken Barnes, and members of his own family, the offer made to Wrexham last night by Bolton Wanderers, Sheffield Wednesday and Everton.
PERMUTATIONS
All manner of permutations of players in exchange plus cash were put up to Mr. Barnes, who is unlikely to make any move until he has had an opportunity of watching the men offered, In the final analysis Davies is the man who must make up his mind whether he wants to come to Merseyside or Bolton. Mr. Catterick would not disclose the proposition he put to the Wrexham manager, but Everton have more than one player who could be very useful to the Welsh club. Talk of Bobby Collins, the Everton captain being transferred is premature. There are many clubs who would like him, but he is at the moment, not available for transfer. "What is the use of our building up our strength if we are going to let players go wholesale'" said Mr. Catterick. "It would take a very tempting fee indeed for us even to consider letting"Bobby go." he added. Wignall's injury is thought to be a recurrence of trouble when he collided with a wall, at Chesterfield, some weeks ago. He felt no damage in the match against Wolves on Saturday but swelling developed yesterday and specialist examination straight away was considered essential.

TRIBUTE TO STEVENS- AND BOBBY COLLINS
Liverpool Echo- Wednesday, March 7, 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Everton may not have spent in the past week the astronomical sums mentioned in connection with mysterious centre-forwards and wingers in the South—and places even beyond that -but they have secured, at economic rates, three players who should do them a great deal of good this season and even more good nest season. Two of them, Gordon West and Dennis Stevens, have been bought for immediate first-team service. The other, the massive George Heslop, from Newcastle, will go into cold storage as a magnificent deputy for Brian Labone. Steven, latest of Mr. Catterick's buys, is a man who has always struck me as being one of the hardest working and most courageous in the game. He would have been an even better proposition, I think, three seasons ago. Like the late Duncan Edwards he is a Dudley, Worcestershire, boy: like Edwards, too, he is a goer from start to finish. It is sad that Bobby Collins is the man most likely to lose his place, but he goes out with the gratitude of countless followers of the club who appreciate that for seasons when the rest of the team was below standard he" carried" them and general led them in more than one fight against relegation Only in the past few weeks has It been clear that he was not the player he used to be, though staleness and tiredness after covering so much ground in attack and defence might well be the reason.
All forgotten . . .
Stevens followed the ill-fated Harold Hassan, an England player, into the Bolton attack. In one very hot Everton -Bolton Wanderers reserve match at Goodison Park in which Stevens took part an Everton player was sent off and the game was held up for some ten minutes while the pitch was cleared of spectators. They included, I am told, an irate lady brandishing an umbrella. All that has been forgotten and forgiven, of course, and Stevens is sure of a welcome when he makes his League debut, almost certainly against Chelsea at Goodison Park a week on Saturday. He should get opportunity in Edinburgh on Saturday to get an understanding with the rest of the line in the friendly against Hibs. Mr.Catterick's interest in the Newcastle piper, George Heslop, dates from the night last autumn when he saw Heslop have such a good game against Ian St John at Anfield. Newcastle were a little unlucky that night. The tall (6ft. 2ins) Helsop—his light hair also draws attention to him—had a wonderful match, not only frustrating St. John, but using the ball with exceptional calmness and accuracy Newcastle advices are that Heslop`was the best centre half back on the books,I understand that McGrath was initially offered to Everton as part of the exchange. This represents the best Everton buy—and include the signing of Stevens—since they paid £35.000 to Blackburn for Roy Vernon. Brian Labone will be happy that there is a deputy ready for duty on the occasions (let us hope there will be many) when he is needed for England Under-23 or full England X1's. It was hard on him that he should have to forgo an Under-23 cap last week and then find his club match not played.
He'd satisfy me
Mr Catterick has never kept secret his belief that his club had not adequate reserves. He knows well enough the potential of many of the youngsters playing in his reserve side, but his point is that you cannot rush these boys and that some of them could not be put into the first team in emergency. A team is as good as its reserves allow it to be is not a had maxim, and Everton, realising that, are going for all-over cover for every position. They may still need a winger, they may still need a centre forward, though Young would satisfy me there every time. Weeks ago I heard from what is usually a reliable source that Joe Baker was the man Everton wanted. It was said, though Mr. Alan Hardaker, secretary of the Football League, denied it, that Everton had already been in touch with him over the possibility of Baker returning to football in Britain. Baker's car crash injuries and other contingencies may have delayed things, but I don't doubt Everton would be first in the queue if his Italian club decided to let him go. Apropos the signing of goalkeeper West, it was Interesting to see the reaction of the Blackpool manager, Ronnie Suart. He went straight to Cambridge and there signed Harvey, the onetime Newcastle United goalkeeper, at a £5,000 fee. Earlier in the season a Spanish club was hot on Harvey's track and would have been prepared to pay very big money if they thought the League would allow his to go. Experts in soccer say that it won't be long before Harvey is challenging Waiters for the Blackpool first team job.

HIBERNAIN NOT USUALLY FRIENDLY TO "FOREIGNERS"
Liverpool Echo-Wednesday, March 7, 1962
SAYS EVERTON'S ALEX YOUNG
This weekend, we have a break from English football, flying to Edinburgh on Friday afternoon for a friendly match against Hibernian the following day. It is, however, a "friendly in name only, for you can take it from me that both teams will be taking the match seriously. Hibernian boast a most impressive record in matches against " foreign" opposition having beaten some of thebest teams in Europe, and I know my home town club well enough to say they will be just itching to add the name Everton to their list of victims. Amongst the teams who have tasted defeat at Easter Road in recent years, probably the most famous isBarcelona, beaten by Hibs last year in a Fair Cities Cup tie which is still talked about in Edinburgh,and indeed all over Scotland. Naturally, all the Everton Scots want to do well in front of their own countrymen, but the Hibernian team will be all out to try and convince us that we "down-graded" ourselves by leaving Scottish football.
KNOWN IN ENGLAND
Although I will be seeing some of the younger Hibernia, players for the first time, not all the team will be strangers, in fact, three of Hibs' stars are probable as well known in England as north of the border. The players I refer to are Gerry baker, currently at inside right, who played at Manchester City at Goodison earlier this season; Ally McLeod, an old buddy of Roy Vernon when they were both at Blackburn; and Ronnie Simpson, goalkeeper in Newcastle United's 1955 Cup-winning team. On Saturday, too, we might be playing against one or two stars of the future, for Hibernian have a reputation for unearthing young talented players. Only last year they reached about 100,000 pounds when they transferred two of their "discoveries," Joe Baker and Johnny McLeod, to Torino (Italy) and Arsenal. By the way, most of Hibernians triumphs against non-Scottish teams which I mentioned earlier occurred under floodlights. It is perhaps as well that our match has an afternoon kick-off.
FEELING FINE
George Thomson went into hospital for a manipulative operation on his leg last Friday, but, knowing George as I do, it was no surprise that he was able to talk the hospital authorise into discharging him in time to watch Saturday afternoon's match. George says he feels fine after the operation, so we are all keeping our fingers crossed that he will be able to make an early comeback. Also watching Saturday's game was Scottish team manager Ian McColl, always a welcome onlooker and I think he must have been impressed with the displays of Alex Parker and Jimmy Gabriel. Jimmy had a fine game and obviously must come into the reckoning when Scotland's team to meet England on April 14 is selected. Alex has played so well on the two recent occasions Mr, McColl has watched Everton, that my tip is he has already clinched Scotland's right back berth. Gordon West, I thoughtcame through his debut -it must have been quite an ordeal for him -very well, Not 19 until April, Gordon can obviously look forward to an exciting football career.
TRAIN HARD
Chris Crowe, who play inside right for Wolves, as a buddy of Ron Yeats and myself during our Army days, Chris tells me he is enjoying life at Molineux, but assures me that whatever is amiss with the Wolves side this season, lack of training can't be blamed. "We train tremendously hard." Chris told me. When he added that they ran 12 times round the pitch just to warm up before each training session. I was convinced he was right. Another former Army, colleague. Johnny Byrne, of Crystal Palace, is reported to be ready to try his hand in First Division football; I think this is a sensible move on Johnny's part, as he will obviously improve his already very good game by playing regularly in a higher sphere. Lastly, in answer to those who have asked how I like playing at outside left. As I have said before, if I can make chances and see the other forwards converting them, then I'm happy. The team come first, and as long as they do well, that's all that matters to me.

LEEDS UNITED MAKE MOVE FOR COLLINS
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 08 March 1962
Clubs And Player Meet At Goodison Park
EVERTON CAPTAIN
By Leslie Edwards
Bobby Collins. Scottish international and Everton inside-forward and captain of his club, may be transferred to Leeds United within the next 24 hours. The fee Leeds must pay will be a record for an outgoing transfer from Everton, far exceeding the £20.000 received from Villa for Dave Hickson and from Birmingham for Jimmy Harris. The fee Leeds have already offered would be a record one for them. Collins, who played in the Everton team against Wolves on Saturday, consulted Everton manager Harry Catterick yesterday and said, in view of the certain introduction into the side on Saturday of newly, signed Dennis Stevens from Bolton: "If any club is interested in me, I would be glad If you would let me know." Leeds United manager, Don Revie, and two directors including the chairman, Mr. Reynolds drove through the snow from Leeds this morning, for discussions with Mr. Catterick at Goodison Park. Mr. Catterick, fulfilling his promise to Collins, advised him of this and brought him in for consultation straight away.
HIS BUSINESS
It could be that Collins will be a Leeds player in time to help them in their relegation match against Swansea Town, but Collins has business commitments—he runs a pig farm , at Aintree—and other matters to consider. He has said that he will do nothing until he has talked with his wife about his soccer future. Of the possibility of Collins leaving after being the sheet anchor in the Everton side since he Joined them in September, 1958, from Glasgow Celtic, the Everton manager said: Collins" saw me yesterday and requested that would notify him if opportunity arose for him to go to another club. "We are reluctant to release him, because he has been the back-bone of our side for so long, and could be again,but he has been such a good, loyal servant we want to do what is beat in his interests. "We should be perfectly happy to keep him here, but l we want to do what is best for him. He has many matters to consider before making a decision, and other clubs are interested, "It would not surprise me if he made no decision until after the week-end. Leedsof course, are anxious to get him in time for Saturday's game."
WORTH IT
Collins, who is 32, is a pintsized man whose strength on the ball is phenomenal. He was signed "unseen" except for a view on TV by Messrs. Jack Sharp and Dick Searle at a fee of £24.000 and has been worth every penny. He carried Everton untilthe arrival of Alex Parker' (signed earlier, but then serving in Cyprus), Gabriel, Vernon, Young and others... Until this season, when he began to be rather overshadowed by others in the attack, Collins was THE motivating force at Goodison Park, doing almost as much work in defence as in attack. He certainly held Everton up from relegation more than once in the era of Ian Buchan and John Carey. He wears size-four boots, but has an outsize heart for courage and tenacity. Maybe his loss of form stems from too much football and too much effort on Everton's behalf over the past four seasons
WAIVED CLAIM
Ironically Collins signed amateur forms for Everton 10 seasons prior to his joining them as a professional, but later he decided he would not come to England and Everton waived their claim on him and he joined Celtic. He has innumerable Scottish caps some in association back in 1950-51 with Billy Liddell), but had not been honoured for some seasons. In May, 1959, there were reports that he was unsettle at Goodison Park. These were denied. He remained here to captivate big Goodison Park attendances with his skill and artistry. The public fickleness, in treatment of once great players may have influenced Collins towards seeking a fresh start elsewhere. At the beginning of the current season Collins was out of the game for some weeks following injury at West Bromwich. He damaged the ligaments of his right knee. Wherever Collins goes, Everton will receive a bigger fee than they paid for him. There will be many who will be sorry to see him leave and many who will always be grateful to him for his magnificent personal contribution to football on Merseyside.

CRI DE COEUR
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 08 March 1962
By Leslie Edwards
" Away Blue," of Prescot, has this cri de coeur: " I am prompted to write, following recent reports regarding the generous treatment shown to certain supporters by Liverpool at official level, which has aroused some jealousy in my own and fellow travellers' breasts. "Liverpool supporters who travelled the ' short ' distance to Scunthorpe were rewarded with Cup-tie tickets, and following this a noble gesture was made when youthful supporters were given transport with the team from Preston. " In contrast (and I report this more in sorrow than in anger), my loyal compatriots and myself feel forced to claim that at top level no real interest exists for away supporters of Everton. "The incident I detail may seem of no importance, but at the same time will remain in memory as an example of official indifference. "I would explain that, along with one or two other sturdy supporters, I have travelled by road to all Everton's away games, except those at Cardiff and Fulham,where only impossible circumstances forced our absence (I may add that our record includes a wasted journey to Highbury). "More recently, after the long drive to Ipswich we chanced, to our joy, to come face to face with a member of the Everton party. A friendly (and, I thought. Respectfull) greeting to him brought forth no response, no recognition of our effort, no promise of any consideration for the future (with a Cup-tie in the offing) "The fact that fortune had not at that stage smiled on us during the game (it was then half-time) could go some way to explain this attitude, but even so supporters often feel this more keenly than most when the promise of victory is slipping away. A similar unfriendly meeting occurred at full-time, and we left the ground to seek lodgings for the night, more depressed by lack of encouragement than by the defeat or the bitterly cold weather, may not be possible for persons travelling in relative comfort with the official party to comprehend the great amount of staying power required to maintain the away support which we promise to give the club, despite our lack of success on away grounds. "The horribly early starts on cold mornings, the snatched meals, the varying road conditions, and the gradual demise of cars at some pain to pockets. All this, I admit has in the end some peculiar fascination and the hope of eventual victories on away grounds, drives us ever on. "Let is please be known to officialdom that despite rebuffs we shall roll majestically into Edinburgh on Saturday as full of hope and pride as ever. Our devotion is to the players who are the Everton team. The finest inside forward, Roy Vernon, is ours, and in Alec Young we have the greatest footballing centre forward of this age. When the true days of glory come, as they must, the Evertonians of our time will surely know where the credit really lies."

DAVIES IS LIKELY TO JOIN BOLTON
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 08 March 1962
His Decision To-night
LAST WORD
Wyn Davies, muchsought Wrexham centre-forward, is expected to make up his mind this evening whether to join Bolton Wanderers, Sheffield Wednesday or Everton. It is unlikely I understand, that he will choose to go to Goodison Park, although the Wrexham club have been left in no doubt that Everton would be prepared to go one better than anyone else in the matter of terms. The player Bolton are prepared to transfer to Wrexham as part of the deal. Phythian, who is only 19 and a centre-forward, travelled to Wrexham to-day with Mr. Ridding, the Bolton manager, to confer with Wrexham manager, Mr. Ken Barnes. Bolton, it is understood, have offered Wrexham £20.000 plus Phythian. Mr. Barnes told me: ''We are not bolding an auction. That is not our way of doing business. If it were, I should be no further ahead with the transaction than was at the beginning of the week. We want to do the best we can for Davies and for ourselves. The player has the last word, of course. He may well choose to go to Sheffield Wednesday instead of Bolton." Davies's widowed mother, who lives at Caernarvon, was at the Racecourse crowd this afternoon to help her son decide his future. The Wednesday offer is said to be not as high as Bolton's, but they are believed to be prepared to wait for Davies until the end of the season if need be.

LEEDS UNITED PAY £30,000 FOR COLLINS
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, March 9, 1962
DAY-LONG NEGOTIATIONS FOR TRANSFER OF EVERTON SKIPPER
By Horace Yates
Everton skipper and Scottish international inside forward, Bobby Collins, was last night transferred to Second Division club, Leeds United, for a fee of £30,000, which is a record sum received by Everton for any of their out-going players. Negotiations, which opened at 11 a.m, yesterday, were concluded at 8.15 p.m, and Collins will make his debut for the Yorkshire club against Swansea Town at Elland Road tomorrow. The Leeds contingent of Mr. Harry Reynolds (chairman), director Mr. Cousins, and manager Don Revie achieved a major triumph is persuading thirty-two-years Collins to leave Division One football for a club, which is not certain to retain Division Two status. Even though the Collins we have seen this season has not been the scintillating player to which Everton crowds have grown accustomed. I am certain the regret felt by the board, and their manager, Mr. Harry Catterick, will be shared by the vast club following who have idolised the Scot. I have no doubt that the injury which Collins suffered at West Brom in the second match of the season, has cast a shadow over his play ever since. It takes time to recover confidence after such an upset, but Collins fighting spirit could well see him through and he may still emerge as brilliant a player as ever.
PROMISE FULFILLED
When Leeds first contacted Mr. Catterick yesterday morning to ask if Collins was for sale, they were told "No" Not easily put off, they made an offer, and Mr. Catterick agreed to place it before his board. Fulfilling a promise he had given to Collins earlier in the week, when the Scot suspected that his position in the side was in jeopardy, following the signing of Dennis Stevens from Bolton Mr. Catterick promptly Collins into the picture. Had Collins said he was not interested that would have been the end of it. When Collins said he was prepared to consider the offer, the board reluctantly agreed to open negotiations with Leeds. A compromise fee was agreed on and Collins was given the opportunity of discussing the positions with his wife, one of his keenest football fans. After the meeting with the Leeds representative, Collins signed. "The fact that we brought Collins into the negotiations at such an early stage was a mark of our admiration for him," said manager Harry Catterick. "This would not have been considered by the board had Collins not given Everton such wonderful service, I felt more than reluctant to part with him as did the board but because we believed it was in the player's interest and for his future welfare, we decided not to stand in his way. The matter was left entirely to him.
COLLINS TRIBUTE
I would have been delighted to have kept him at Goodison, but Collins appears to be happy enough with the decision he has taken. After the negotiations were completed he paid tribute to the club for the way in which he had always been treated by Everton, and for the manner in which the transfer negotiations had been carried out. He is a good player and I feel sure he will do well for Leeds? Since he joined, the club from Celtic on September 12 1958, for a fee of £22,500, a triumph for the negotiations powers of Moores, Dick Searle and Jack Sharp, Collins has played in 133 League matches in which he has scored 43 goals, and is nine Cup-ties which produced five goals. I was present at Maine Road, Manchester, the day after his signing, when he made his debut against Manchester City. Let me recall the circumstances. The Everton record to that date was Leicester (a) 0-2, Preston (h) 1-4, Newcastle (h) 0-2, Preston (a) 1-3, Arsenal (h) 1-6, and Burnley (a) 1-3. Six games played and not a single point won. A great feeling of depression was settling about Goodison Park, but Collins effected a status-saving transformation. Not only did he score in a 3-1 victory over Manchester City, but Everton won three of their next four games, before a 10-4 thrashing by Spurs brought them to earth again.
CONFIDENCE REBORN
The Collins influence was such that confidence was reborn, the worst was over, and in bringing about the revival he brought the stamp of class back to Everton football. I may be wrong but I feel that without Collins we would not have had to wait until next season for the resumption of "derby" games. He struck up a wonderful understanding with Roy Vernon and how happy everyone was when the biggest argument after an Everton game used to be whether Collins or Vernon had been the star. We have seen Collins control the ball and move it to his bidding almost as though mechanically. He has prised open the tightest defences with the daintiest of footwork and it is hard to imagine a more nimble brain in soccer. Although physically he was invariably at a disadvantage he never allowed this to affect his outlook and the pounds and inches he lacked very compensated by the punch he packed and the unbeatable spirit that was always in evidence.
FIRST RUMMLINGS
It was on November 4, when Spurs were beaten 3-0 with Collins that the first serious suggestions were made that the time to replace the Scot was approaching. Collins has not, been satisfied with his own form recently but these are the sort of spells that have to be endured sooner or later by most players. Bobby has taken longer than I expected to pull out of the doldrums but of his ability to do it eventually, I am certain. Possibly, a change of club could be just the tonic he seeks, but it will not be the same simply reading of the Collins frills and thrills instead of seeing them. Everton have gained £8,500 on the Collins outlay, but it is almost impossible to weigh in £s d the entertainment value h has provided. Collins will go to Leeds with not only the good wishes of every Evertonian- but with their most grateful thanks. Everton team building goes remorselessly on. Casualties there must be in the process, but the memory of Collins will not fade easily.

ROY VERNON SAYS...
Liverpool Daily Post-Friday, March 9, 1962
I HAVE NOT SEEN A TAMER PACK OF WOLVES
If Everton were to adopt a theme song for this season, it looks as though it could be "Who's afraid of the big bad Wolves." In view of the fact that they have provided us with our first double, obviously the answer to the question is; certainly not Everton. I don't think I can recall a tamer pack of Wolves since I first came into League football. Admittedly, this could have been one of those days when things ran well for us, and little went for them, but I admit we had expected a much keener challenge. These are exciting days for Everton in one way or another, and a season which looked in some danger of petering out with no excitement is being completely reshaped. If anyone had told us at the beginning of last week that we would draw attendance bonus as a result of the Wolves' game, we would have looked on the opinion with some doubt.
TOP ATTENDANCES
Whether it was the signing of Gordon West or some lingering magic in the name of Wolves, there is no way of knowing but the crowd of 40,548 was further proof, if proof he needed of the interest there is in the Everton club. Not only was it the top attendance of the day, but it was the best by many thousands. The potential is almost limitless, if only we could hit peak form and maintain it, there is no reason to doubt the theory that we could have 60,000 gates as a matter as routine. Old favourites command a following, but the additions of a new face or two undoubtedly creates new interest for the crowd. It was only last January that Chelsea were in Liverpool as opponents to the Anfield side in the third round of the F.A Cup. The match attracted 48,455 spectators which, I believe was the biggest gate of the round. Today we are flying to Scotland for our friendly game with Hibernian, the first time we have flown to a match in this country, but we all have plenty of flying hours to our names. The fact that we are going to Scotland is a reminder of our departures from the Cup competition for tomorrow we shall know (proving there are no drawn games) the short list for Wembley.
INTERESTING TIES
I think most interest will lie in the Tottenham v. Aston Villa and Sheffield United v. Burnley ties, if only because Spurs are bidding to carry off the trophy for the second year in succession and Burnley are trying to accomplish the Cup and League double, said to be almost impossible before Sours did it last year. If either of these two sides are to fail at tomorrow's fence, I do not expect it to be Tottenham. I know they fell from grace last week when they came a cropper against Manchester City, but how much better it is to hit rock-bottom form the week before a Cup date instead of in the Cup itself. It would be surprising if Tottenham were to flounder again, although I can warn them from my experience of Aston Villa this season that theirs can be a tightly-knit defence. Against that the Tottenham forward line carries a defender-buster in every position. Burnley will have their heads full at Sheffield, for United are showing form in the Cup, which allied to ground advantages, must give them a great chances. The League leaders attack is good enough to carry the day, but equally their defence is sufficiently suspect to leave them again to a powerful, determined attack. Even if the semi-final draw should co-operate I don't think we will be seeing the final of the century between Tottenham and Burnley –but that is just my hunch. In case you may never have noticed, I have been known to be wrong before now! My old club, Blackburn Rovers, must have a first-class chance of qualifying for the last four, for Fulham are hardly one of the big shots in Division one. I know Preston defeated Liverpool in the fifth round, and yet I would have been less certain of a Manchester United triumph had they been called on to visit Anfield than I am with their destination as it is-Deepdale. Still, Preston found a way to short-circuit the Liverpool attack. I doubt if many clubs could play through 300 minutes against Liverpool without conceding a goal. If therefore, Preston have found a way to bar the path to Kelly and beyond, even the vastly improved United might flounder, but that is not the way I see it. My last four clubs are Tottenham Hotspur, Sheffield United, Manchester United and Blackburn Rovers.

DUNLOP AND WEST AGAIN
Liverpool Echo - Friday 09 March 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Everton with a friendly match against Hibernian in Edinburgh, have a ready-made chance to try out their new forward, Dennis Stevens and give further experience to Gordon West whose debut in the League against Wolves ended so happily. The linking of the names Dunlop and West, both goalkeepers, at Goodison Park, reminds reader N. W. Wood, of Claughton, that this is not the first time players of that name have figured in the history of football on Merseyside. Were not West and Dunlop full-back partners in the Liverpool team of the early 1900's. They were. And in their team was that wonderful old man, still going strong, Jog., Hewitt. The Everton side which faced West and Dunlop in April 1, 1904, included a Young and a Balmer also. And the present Manchester United chairman, Harold Hardman, always an amateur and Jack Sharp, father of the Everton director of the same name. At Hibs, Everton will be without their Scottish fullback, George Thomson, news of whom seems to have escaped two readers who ask: How is he progressing and when will he be back?" We printed the news a few days ago that Thomson had a manipulative operation on his damaged thigh muscle. When he will be playing again is anyone's guess. One man who has written about Thomson points out that in the time he has been absent Everton have conceded almost as many goals as they did in all the matches played previously. Tile figures are 25 goals against in as many matches while Thomson was playing and 16 goals in got League and Cup matches when he was missing. People are still saying that it was wrong that Thomson had to pay to see the Burnley tie. What the player had to explain to his manager was his absence from Goodison Park where he was due, that day, for treatment! At the same time it seems a little hard that a first-teamer should be denied, for any reason, opportunity to see a great Cup game in which he would have figured, all going well. But there it is…

EVERTON AGAIN HIT BY INJURIES
Liverpool Echo - Friday 09 March 1962
Bingham and Harris Unfit
STEVENS DEBUT
BY Leslie Edwards
Everton's long list of injured players -there were eleven this morning—is due, says Manager Catterick, partly to the strenuous tour the club had in the United States last close season. "So many of my players are suffering strained muscles am sure the tour was a contributor, factor," he said this morning when giving news of two further casualties—half back Brian Harris and right winger, Billy Bingham—both of whom miss the friendly match against Hubs, in Edinburgh to-morrow. Mr. Catterick is wondering how he is going to get a fit team for the postponed match next Wednesday, at Sheffield, against Sheffield United. Promising, of course. United are not involved in a Cup replay. Meagan comes in to-morrow in place of Harris; Temple takes over at centre-forward from the injured Wignall and the outside right position remains unfilled until players available to fill it have had fitness tests.
YOUNG ON WING
Dennis Stevens, the man signed from Bolton, will be at inside right and Alex Young at outside left. The defence except for Harris, remains as it was. Bobby Collins, signed yesterday by Leeds United, plays, to-morrow for his new club against Swansea at Leeds. Everton full-back George Thomson is in light training but he has reached that stage three or four times in the course of his long fight to get back to full fitness and Mr. Catterick is now waiting anxiously to see whether the manipulative operation performed last week-end will really do the trick. Everton.—West; Parker, Green: Gabriel, Labone. Meagan: AN. Other, Stevens, Temple. Vernon, Young.

OPERATION ON WIGNALL WILL KEEP HIM OUT FOR SIX WEEKS
Liverpool Daily Post-Saturday, March 10, 1962
By Horace Yates
Everton's ill-luck with injuries is seemingly never ending. Still without Thomson, and with Harris and Bingham unfit for the friendly game with Hibernian today, manager Harry Catterick learned yesterday, within hours of transferring Bobby Collins to Leeds United, that Frank Wignall is to go into hospital this week-end for an operation on his injured thigh, and may be out of action for six weeks. It seems unlikely; therefore, that very much more will be seen of Wignall this season. His injury was received a fortnight ago at Chesterfield when he fell over the boundary wall, but he appeared to have made a good recovery, until there was a recurrence of the trouble this week. Whether this will prompt Everton to regard a centre forward replacement as a matter of even greater priority now, remains to be seen. The absence of Wignall gives an unexpected opportunity to Derek Temple to return to the side, for what will be his first senior outing as centre forward since April, 1958 (v. Leeds) and he holds the distinction of having played in every position in the forward line. Temple may not be Everton's leading scorer, but undoubtedly he boasts the best average of any player in the club for he has five goals to show for his five games this season. As deputy for Bingham, Everton gave a first team airing to local boys Stuart Shaw a seventeen-years-old, in his first season as a professional. Bingham is with the party in Scotland as is Thomson, but neither will play. Like other correspondents, Mr. J.D Bridge (Maghull) is concerned at the continued absence of Thomson. He writes, "For some reason the injury sustained by Thomson has been played down. What injury was actually sustained and what are the prospects of his reappearance in the near future?" Who better than Mr. Catterick to deal with a query of that sort? "There has been no effort to play down this injury, "says Mr. Catterick. "Thomson is in the care of the orthopaedic specialist, suffering from a torn muscle fibre. "While this is not serious by ordinary standards, it is sufficient to impair his running action until it is completely healed. Of necessity it is a lengthy job. "More than once it has appeared to be all right and the boy has started to open out hopefully, but three times he has broken down. Eventually it will heal and Thomson will be as sound as ever, but we have no alternative to treatment and waiting." Stevens makes his debut and Meagan deputises for Harris. Everton; West; Parker, Green; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Shaw, Stevens, Temple, Vernon, Young.

EVERTON DRAW FRIENDLY WITH HIBERNAIN
Liverpool Echo- Saturday, March 10, 1962
WEST SAVES PENALTY
TEMPLE SCORES
Hibernian; Simpson; Grant, McClelland; Preston, Easton, Baxter; Stevenson, Barker, Fraser, Falkner, McLeod. Everton; West; Parker, Green; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Shaw, Stevens, Temple, Vernon, Young. Referee; Mr. G. Bowman (Clyde Bank). Dennis Steven from Bolton made his debut in Everton's royal blue jersey in this afternoon's friendly match at Easter Road. He partnered 18-years-old Stuart Shaw, also playing his first game in the senior team, on the right wing. Hibs forced a corner off Green, then a neat pass by Stevens allowed Gabriel to loft the ball high into Hibs goalmouth. Stevens next bobbed up on the left wing to take a throw –in for Young, but the former Hearts favourite was stopped by Grant. Labone headed away a dangerously lobbed free kick by McClelland as Hibs continued to hold a slight edge in attack. A defensive mistake by Baxter allowed Temple a sight of the goal by he shot wide. Then a 30 yards effort by Stevenson earned a cheer from the home crowd but West watched the ball pass safely round the left hand post.
QUICK TACKLES
Gabriel had two quick tackles to hold up Hibs and when they came again strongly, West pulled down Baxter's cross with easy grace Shaw, on Everton's right, tried hard, but he was seldom able to make much of the fierce tackling McClelland. Fraser should have made more of an inter-passing move with baker, but he sliced his final shot and West was able to save much more easily than he had expected. Everton switched their front line, and Young suddenly shot through on the right wing only to be pulled up for offside. A minute later he was at centre, challenging Simpson for a right wing cross from Noble. Young then beat three men in a mid-field manoeuvre. In the cut and thrust of this, anything but a friendly game, the keepers each cleared splendidly in turn, Simpson from a Temple drive, West from Baker.
HECTIC MOMENT
There was a hectic moment near the Everton goal as the ball rebounded three times from defenders before West could get his hands on it. Temple swung out to the left in a likely Everton attack but he shot wide. Stevens collected a Parker free kick to keep Everton on the offensive. It had been a splendid half, in the best traditions of Easter Road challenge games, and the issue was wide open.
Half-time; Hibernians nil, Everton nil.
West was momentarily hurt in the reopening stages when Falkener accidentally kicked the keeper on the face and he went down at the Hibs man's feet in a daring attempt to cut off a pass by baker.
SCORCHER
Shaw shot wide in a quick Everton reply and then Vernon sent Simpson sprawling to save a scorcher from just inside the penalty box. West had the game's best save, a one-handed run which sent a searing header from Baker over the bar. The goalkeeper then ran 30 yards out of his goal to the left after he had beaten out a grand cross from Stevenson. It was certainly a lively fair, and Stevens, after a quiet spell, flashed into the picture with a 30 yards drive from near the left wing. The ball bounced over Hibs bar from Shaw's header, but the young winger forced a corner as Everton stepped up their pressure. West saved a penalty from Baker before Temple slipped the ball in between the backs and put Everton ahead in 69 minutes. Ten minutes from time Stevenson equalised. Final; Hibernain 1, Everton 1.

HOW WE PLAYERS LOOK ON TRANSFER
Liverpool Echo- Saturday, March 10, 1962
Writes Alex Parker
Everton have been hogging the headlines again for the past few days with transfer deals actual, possible and, in some cases, imaginary. Not unnaturally, many people seem anxious to know just what we players think about all this activity, and how it affects us. They are not easy questions to answer, but, in an effort to satisfy the inquirers, I shall try to give on honest opinion of what I think the overage player thinks. First of all, let me say that comings and goings at football clubs are part of the game. Unlike any other people, with the possible exception of Servicemen, we grow up inthis atmosphere and accept it,Therefore it is not as difficult for us to understand as it would be to most people. That is not to say players don't feel disappointed at times when they may have to step down, but, to counteract this, at some time they have had the pleasure and excitement of stepping up. There is a saying among professional footballers: Football is a funny game." And it is certainly true. When a club buys players it is only done for one reason to strengthen the team in a bid to win honours.
WANT THE BEST
While this may lead to disappointment for some people, and there is always the chance that a club may have made the wrong decision as some clubs undoubtedly have done don't think that anybody can blame a club for doing It. It is only natural to want the best. They are perfectly entitled to try to get it. I don't think it is a matter of being nice to one prison or nasty to another. It is simply a matter of getting a good football team together if some of we players have to suffer in the process that is an occupational risk we take. It's like being put in the position of maybe missing a penalty or giving a goal away. We know when we come into the game that we are not going to go through our careers with the same players we started with. There will be changes, if not from month to month, certainly from season to season.
PART OF JOB
But, whereas it would be a catastrophe to people in some jobs. It never comes as such a big surprise to a professional footballer. The newspapers are full of coming and goings every day. It's part of our Job and we have to make the bed of it. We are paid to play football. It is the club'sjob to ensure we play winning football. They have the right to decide how they shall set about doing it. Everybody at the club has welcomed the new players and wished them well. And I mean everybody. Funny thing happened last Wednesday morning. When I went into the dressing room the first three people I saw were Gordon West, George Heslop and Dennis Stevens.
WRONG CLUB
I stood looking at them for a few seconds without speaking, then said "Sorry, wrong club." and went to walk out. But they all saw the funny side of it. I don'tknow what the odds against going into the ground and finding that the first three people you meet are the new boys." I have played against Dennis Stevens a few times in Everton and Bolton matches and last season I bumped into him when I was on holiday at Newquay. Anybody would have thought it was a footballers' outing, fur in the three days I was there I met Dennis., Bobby Collins, Peter Dobing, Peter Brabrook and Jimmy Murphy, Manchester United's assistant manager. Some holiday!

EVERTON RES V SHEFFIELD UNITED RES
Liverpool Echo-Saturday, March 10, 1962
Everton Res; Dunlop; Gorrie, Gannon; Rees, Helsop, Jarvis; Lill, Tyrer, Webber, Russell, Veall. Sheffield United Res; Widdowson; Badger, Ridge; Matthieson, Finnigan, Orr; Doherty, Ash, Shields, Rooney, Lee. Referee; Mr. L. Seddon (Leyland). The first appearance of Helsop in Everton's colours drew a larger than usual crowd for a reserve game at Goodison Park. Russell gave two perfect passes to Lill in the first two minutes, but the winger's centres were cleared. In the sixth minute, however, Everton took the lead rather fortunately. A Jarvis drive struck one of the Sheffield defenders to place Veall onside, and the outside left coolly netted from a sharp angle. When the United did break through Heslop twice intercepted nicely, and at the same time used his clearances constructively. Everton almost went further ahead when Lill fired in a low drive which Widdowson could not gather cleanly, and Russell nipped in but his shot was cleared off the goal line. When Webber was brought down on the edge of the Sheffield penalty area he headed against the bar from Gorrie's free kick and Badger was able to clear. From a similar award to Sheffield, Rooney shot inches from the far upright, and the same player forced Dunlop to tip over the bar a few minutes later. United were not striving hard for the equaliser and Dunlop had to go full length in saving from Shields. Half-time; Everton Res 1, Sheffield United Res nil.

STEVENS AND WEST ARE FULL OF PROMISE
Liverpool Daily Post –Monday, March 12, 1962
HIBERNIAN 1, EVERTON 1
By our Special Correspondent
Scottish football crowds enjoy the reputation of being knowledgeable about the game and the reception accorded Everton after their 1-1 draw against Hibernian, and in particular the appreciation shown Gordon West and Dennis Stevens suggests that the Goodison Park management has spent it's thousands wisely in the acquisition of those two recruits. It was the former Blackpool goalkeeper who gave his club-mates confidence with two magnificent one-handed clearances from Baker at crucial moments. He finger tipped a header out of danger, at full stretch and from a penalty he anticipated the direction of the shot fast enough to direct the ball against the post, and another the rebound. It was a quick-witted thrust of Parker's hand which had prevented an up and over attempt from Preston reaching the Everton net, and the action was justified as it saved a goal. The advent of Stevens is expected to give more solidarity and more punch to Everton's attack, and in both respects the former Bolton forward has qualities to fulfil the hopes. He started in restrained fashion against the tough Hibs defence and gradually opened out when he found that Temple and Shaw responded to his moods.
GOAL IN DANGER
Once or twice moves which he initiated put the Hibernian goal in danger, and with a less lively ball he might have been able to control it sufficiently to put more weight behind his shots. Cast in an almost traditionally. Scottish mould, Stevens does not look fast, but that is probably an illusion. He was always up with the play, and the effortless manner in which he stabbed passes suggested that his Everton colleagues should not lack opportunities when he begins to blend with them. It was asking a lot of teenager Stuart Shaw to link up with Stevens, but the youngster had many likeable touches and despite an occasional miss through inexperience, was not afraid to forage for the ball nor indeed to shout for it. Temple's speed was often a worry to Easton, Hibs young and promising pivot. Alex Young, former Hearts' favourite, seemed to be affected by the demonstrations of the Hibernian fans in retaliation for a foul which the winger incurred when he tackled Stevenson very awkwardly. He seemed more able to withstand the hurly burly than in his Scottish days, but only occasionally did his tricks tantalise the Hibernian defenders into mistakes. While it is true that West had opportunities to earn the limelight in defence, much solid work came from Parker and Green.
BUSY GABRIEL
Labone kept a firm grip when play approached his goal area, but the busiest half-back was undoubtedly Gabriel. The Scot was invariably in the thick of it and, like all the Everton players his tackling was excellent. Indeed that was a feature of the game. After a goalless first half, the excitement began with West's penalty save from Baker shortly after the interval . Temple scored Everton's goal with a quick burst between the backs, to give Simpson, former Newcastle and now Hibernian's most dependable keeper, no chance. Hibs equalised ten minutes from time. McLeod helped to keep a passing move alive, and as the ball bobbed invitingly in front of Stevenson, he lashed a left foot shot high into the net. It was a spectacular goal, and while it could have been very easily, an even more spectacular miss, Hibs deserved to finish on level terms. Hibernian; Simpson; Grant, McClelland; Preston, Easton, Baxter; Stevenson, Baker, Fraser, Falkener, McLeod. Everton; West; Parker, Green; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Shaw, Stevens, Temple, Vernon, Young. Referee; Mr. G. Bowman (Overbank).

EVERTON RES 1, SHEFFIELD UNITED RES 1
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, March 12, 1962
Despite doing most of the attacking Everton Reserves dropped yet another home point, the visitors equalising three minutes from the end. Everton should have put the issue beyond doubt long before then, especially as the ball ran kindly to give them an early goal. A shot cannoned off a United defender to put Veall onside and the outside left took the chance well in the ninth minute. With the Everton inside men fading out, most of the punch and drive came from Webber and Lill but even they missed chances. Left half Jarvis was the star of Everton's defence in which Helsop, who was invariably the master in the air, settled down after an uncertain start. Shields scored for Sheffield.

EVERTON AND WINGER PAINE
Liverpool Echo - Monday 12 March 1962
NOT FOR SALE, SAYS MANAGER
By Leslie Edwards.
Southampton manager Mr. Ted Bates, said to-day of reports that Everton were trying to sign his star winger, Paine: "We are more interested in strenghing our side than making transfers out. "At the moment we should not think of letting Paine go, especially as he is very happy here." Mr. Bates was not at the Everton Reserve match on Saturday but he does admit to having interest in Everton reserve centre forward Frank Wignall. News that Wignall is likely to have an operation on his thigh, on which a swelling developed last week, means that Southampton's idea of a straight money deal for him goes by the board for some weeks. Southampton need a centre forward and an inside forward. Their interest may now switch to the possibility of sounding Everton over, Webber and Tyrer.
LABONE IS IGNORED FOR UNDER-23 SIDE
Gordon West A Reserve
TURKEY GAME
Brian Labone, Everton's centre half, has not been selected for the England Under-23 team against Turkey at Southampton on March 22. Labone was originally chosen for the Under-23 side against Scotland a fortnight ago but dropped out because; Everton were due to play at Arsenal the previous night. It was a wasted gesture because the Arsenal game was postponed, and now Marvin Hinton, the Charlton centre half, who replaced Labone in the England side, keeps place. Labone's colleague, goalkeeper Gordon West, is one of the three travelling reserves for the Turkey game.

A BUSINESSLIKE DEBUT FOR DENNIS STEVENS
Liverpool Echo - Monday 12 March 1962
Dennis Stevens, Everton's new inside forward, gave a business-like display on his debut in Saturday's friendly with Hibernian, at Easter Road, Edinburgh. He seemed physically equipped to withstand the hardest shock tackles of the Scots, and his occasional excursions into goalmouth shooting positions only broke down when the lively ball beamed awkwardly for the stickily-built ex-Bolton forward. The fact that Everton scored only one goal is no criticism of their attack, for the Hibernian defence is among the best in Scotland, and Stevens should be able to give more purpose to the Everton attack if it is decided to play him in the support berth. Alex Young had little scope to show his artistry, and it was really unsporting for local fans to demonstrate against him for an unlucky foul on Stevenson Probably the fact that he was a product of Hearts, traditional rivals of the Easter Road club, had as much to do with the hostility as anything. It was only occasionally that he touched peak form and Scottish selector and former Hearts chairman. Nicol Kilgour would almost certainly take back a much better report about Alex Parker and Jimmy Gabriel than his own former player.
OVATION FOR WEST
It was certainly a compliment to Everton that the Scottish F.A. though it worthwhile to send one of their top legislators to the game. This was, of course, no mere friendly. Hibs believe in tackling these exhibition games as seriously as any cup tie and if Everton had any idea of an easy afternoon's outing, they soon forgot about it and gave the Scots quite as good as they got. Most of the headlines were earned by defenders, In particular goalkeeper West, who looked well worth the money Everton paid for him. Gordon stretched his 6ft, in all directions to cut out all but one of the Hibernian shots. Two saves in particular earned him ovations. A panther-like leap enabled him to fist a Baker header over the bar, another brought him within reach of the inside man's penalty kick when Parker handled a shot from Preston over the bar to save a certain goal.
HONOURS CANDIDATE
Parker always worked with his usual zeal to subdue Hibs lively left wing, Labone had the height to dominate in the middle in the air and where-ever the battle wasgrimmest Gabriel was sure to be there. He should keep himself among the candidates for further Scottish representative honours on this all-round display. Teenager Stuart Shaw is not yet reaching for a regular first teamplace but shows considerable promise. Probably the most effective Everton forward was Temple. Rangy and fast, he was not afraid to roam and It was all that Easton could do to hold him Hibs clever young pivot was caught flat-footed midway through the second half when the centre burst between the backs and cracked home! Everton's goal.

UNDER-23 TEAM-EVERTON'S WEST IS RESERVE
Liverpool Daily Post- Tuesday, March 13, 1962
The England Under-23 team to meet Turkey at Southampton on March 22, shows four changes, one positional from the side which beat Scotland 4-2 at Aberdeen on February 28. West (Everton) travels as a reserve.

READERS PAY TRIBUTE TO A GREAT LITTLE SCOT
Liverpool Echo-Tuesday, March 13 1962
By Leslie Edwards
I never expected the transfer of Bobby Collins to Leeds could have triggered of such correspondence. He may not have played brilliantly in the past few months, a but his exceptional service to the club has not been forgotten by many. It is fitting such a loyal servant should receive praise. "What Everton owe this great inside - forward can never be fully estimated. He came when the club was literally on its knees and from that day he was the back-bone of the club's existence in the First Division.
"At 28-years-old he was set in Scottish ways. Everton were in a hopeless mess, having lost their first seven games. But Bobby was (and is) such a fine player he gave the club 100 per cent, effort every match and so prevented his club fromjoining Liverpool in Division 11. He worked himself "to a standstill for his club. No wonder his play became a little jaded."-C. K. Connor, Nelsen House, Station Road, Ellesmere Port. "Despite the smooth words spoken, I for one,regret Collins' departure. Whether it was the magnificent Collins of last season or the struggling Collins of the past few months his play was always marked by maximum effort"- Norman Costain, 7 Lathom Avenue, Wallasey,"
"After weeks of promises to improve the playing strength at any cost we were treated to the transfer of Stevens. Then the club transferred Collins. This does not make sense for several reasons. First, the club have paid money for a man no better, if as good, as Collins. Collins has also to be replaced as a captain. I am sure Everton could have kept Collins if they had wished to. How he is supposed to be better off at Leeds than Goodison Park would need some explaining."-George Downey, Old Swan, Liverpool 13. "On returning from Everton games recently we invariably discussed the growing ineffectiveness of Collins. I was myself critical of him. While working at Leeds last week I received the full blast of his injection of experience and skill into the starved Leeds United team. "Bad results and gates had forced Leeds into buying a name' aged 32 at what I thought was an extortionate figure. The largest gate turned up to see him. He didn't "seem sad at the lack of atmosphere. They expected the earth of him. He gave them the best goal I have seen this season. We scousers had not heard a cheer like that at Elland Road since John Charles was there. Will you tell everyone that even though ' our Bobby ' is now ' their Bobby, he is still the mighty atom."-Tom Askew, 16 Asthury Drive, Berates, Northwich.
HE "MADE" THE TEAM
"Collins pulled the whole sloppy mess that was Everton when he arrived into a compact team. Since then the constant chopping and changing methods-good men coming and going -led us to believe that Everton wereinsatiable. "A transfer such as this could have ruinous consequences. Whose head will roll next? I feel sad that Colling has gone. However, we must wait and see if our despondency' is justified' -Malcolm Johnston, 64a Manor Park, London S.E. 13.
And finally on the same topic this effort from Wag:-
Players come and players go-
"Twas ever thus and will be so-
But one deserves a special word of thanks.
Salute the wee, mercurial feet.
Which helped to boost a balance sheet ,
And raise a team, then struggling, from the ranks. Mrs. Joyce Wagstaff , 154 Park Lane, Netherton, Liverpool, 10
Re first and last time, Echo. Wednesday, March 7, Evertonians will sympathise (?) with the Liverpool Is supporters and Mr. L. Johnson in particular for the trials and tribulations they suffered in obtaining tickets for the Preston ties. However, if one is a true supporter he must be prepared to face these hazards as we Evertonians do ""As for its being Mr. Johnson's last time for ticket queues, this is just not true. I should know. I'm his brother.-V. H. Johnson, 46 Mill Lane, Liverpool, 13.

GANNON MAKES LEAGUE DEBUT
Liverpool Echo-Tuesday, March 13 1962
Local boy in Everton team
Mike Gannon, a local boy who played for Liverpool and Lancashire schoolboys before joining the Goodison Park ground staff in 1958, makes his League debut for Everton in the re-arranged game at Sheffield United to-morrow evening. Gannon,who signed professional forms two years ago, and has been showing good form in the Reserves lately, displaces Colin Green at left bark. Manager Harry Catterick had difficulty naming his team, for 11 players were receiving treatment for injuries at Goodison Park to-day. They Included Harris, Wignall, Lill, Thomson, Sharples, Mailey, Jones and Bingham. Bingham, however, passed a fitness test and takes over from young Stuart Shaw at outside right. Sheffield United make three changes. Left - half Summers and left-winger (Simpson are both suffering from pulled thigh muscles and their places will be taken by Orr and Hartle, Finnigan, comes in at centre-forward for Joe Shaw, who this morning went to hospital and had his fractured toe set. , Everton; West; Parker, Gannon; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Stevens, Temple, Vernon, Young. Sheffield United; Hodgkinson; Coldwell, Shaw (J); Richardson, Finnigan, Orr; Allchurch, Kettleborough, Pace, Russell, Hartle.

FROM THE MANAGERIAL CHAIR
Liverpool Daily Post-Wednesday, March 14, 1962
NEW DIVISIONS IDEA KNOCKED ON THE HEAD
By Harry Catterick
The crisis which has hit Accrington Stanley has been the talking point in soccer circles these past few days. Let me say first of all that it is a very sad thing for football generally as it is for the locals whose pride was Stanley. This is a situation which could have a direct bearing on the proposals suggested by the Football League of the re-formation of the Leagues into five divisions involving the introduction of eight new clubs into the League fold. The experience of Accrington will, I feel, effectively knock this suggestion in the head, I cannot see those with the vote electing eight more clubs into their framework at this stage. Rather will they be concerned lest other clubs feel the draught of the present economic conditions within the framework of League football. For football, just like everything else, is a simple matter of £ s d. The throngs on the terraces decide whether a club shall be successful of unsuccessful. I presume that Oxford will now be making active preparations in expectation of a call to the League ranks. I for one, will be pleased to see them in the fold.
FIRST TO REGRET
Oxford are managed by Arthur Turner, who was the former centre-half and skipper of Stoke City in the days when such famous players as Stanley Matthews, Freddie Steele, Frank Soo were making their names. But I know that Arthur would be the first to regret that his entry into League football with the former Headington-named club was brought about in such fashion. In the same week that the Accrington crisis hit the headlines we saw Tottenham Hotspur, the game's current Bank of England team-to borrow a phrase that was always synonymous with Arsenal in the Herbert Chapman era-thrust themselves into the semi-final of the F.A Cup. Following their wonderful dual feat last year it is a tribute to the manner in which Spurs have been nursed to retain their form, despite a terribly strenuous season, that they have come so far again this year. We at once recall the efforts of Newcastle United a dozen years ago when they won two successive Cups at the expense of Blackpool and then Arsenal in 1951 and 1952. But soccer presents its usual sobering thoughts when one looks at Newcastle United today. The great Cup feats are forgotten as the club struggle to maintain their position in the Second Division. It is a reminder, if any is needed, to us all of how fortunes can so easily be reversed in this great game of ours. Spurs have chosen the star-studded route to success via the transfer market and what a grand job of selection and blending they have achieved. But, perhaps one of their best buys has been the mere £20,000 paid for the jinking genius from Falkirk, inside right John White. White was a National Serviceman when he moved to White Hart Lane. He has slotted into the Spurs manner sticky and his ability to "lose" his immediate opponent-some-what in the fashion of Wilf Mannion-has earned him the title of the Ghost of White Hart Lane! One inevitably tries to compare the present Spurs side with that magnificent machine built by Arthur Rowe which won the Second and First Division championships in successive years in 1950 and 1951. It is a difficult thing to do, but it is significant that Spurs present manager Billy Nicholson, was the right half in the previous Tottenham set-up. No doubt many of the Spurs moves are based on the overall plan of Arthur Rowe's. By comparison, Burnley have chosen to build their team quietly on youth, with particular emphasis on that fertile area of the North=East. Their team cost very little by comparison with the London club-but the results themselves are comparable. Only left back, Elder, about £4,000 and McIIroy (£6,500 cost transfer fees. That denotes good pickings by the scouts and sound work by the back-room boys in imparting their soccer know-how. But both these clubs will be the first to admit that luck plays a very big part in whichever channel one chooses to move. It aids soccer's fascination.

FIFTY-FIVE YEARS AND NOT A GOAL BETWEEN 'EM
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 14 March 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Everton and Sheffield United, both hard-hit by Injuries—Harry Catterick says he has never known a season like it as manager or player—get to grips to-night at Bramall Lane in a rearranged League match. The John Harris boys will be looking for a further notch in their recent successful League run and Everton, with Dennis Stevens and reserve Gannon making League debuts for them, will be seeking the away points which have become so elusive. Both clubs are in the talent money area, but even if that were not so Everton have every incentive to want to snap out of their propensity for winning every match at home and losing nearly every game on opponents' grounds. In connection with the Everton-Chelsea match at Goodison Park on Saturday there is a remarkable coincidence. This would surely have escaped the statisticians if it had not been for the watchful eye of A.M. (Aintree). In 55 years of League rivalry the clubs have met 63 times. Each have won 24 times: 15 of the matches have been drawn (nothing remarkable in this. Each have been defeated 24 times and each have scored 108 goals and had the same number scored against them ! The only result which could keep the record on its parallel course on Saturday would be a 0.0 draw. My informant's postscript has a sting. "For many years Chelsea have been a music hall joke. What does this make Everton when one remembers that Chelsea hold a 3-2 advantage over them in the F.A. Cup? "He asks.

HIBS HAVE DISCOVERED ANOTHER STAR IN STEVENSON
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 14 March 1962
SAYS EVERTON'S ALEX YOUNG
Hibernian, as I mentioned last Wednesday, have a reputation in Scotland for discovering promising young footballers, and, after our friendly against, the Edinburgh club, I came away convinced that Hibs had another find." The player to whom I refer is outside right Eric Stevenson, who, unless I am very much mistaken, is destined to make the trip across the border in the very near future. Still in his 'teens, Eric appears to me to possess many of the characteristics associated with really great players. The goal he scored against us was a real beauty too. He is already a great favourite with the Easter Road fans, and I found this out to my cost in the early stages of Saturday's game. After I had tackled Eric and he had gone rolling over, the partisan Hibernian crowd made it perfectly clear that wee Alex Young, formerly a member of rival Edinburgh club, Hearts, would not finish very high in an Easter Road popularity poll. WEST DELIGHTS
However, if yours truly didn't exactly please the Hibs supporters, I am sure they were delighted with the goalkeeping of Gordon West. Gordon made a number of fine saves, and the one from a penalty kick had to be seen to be believed. He flung himself sideways to turn the spot kick against an upright and then recovered so quickly that he was able to catch the rebound as calmly as if the ball had been tapped back to him by one of his own defenders. As I forecast, this was a friendly match Hibernian wanted to win. They fought hard and we had a really tough tussle, with a draw, I think, a most fair result. The fact that a Scottish youth trial preceded our game and cut up the pitch considerably didn't help from the football point of view, but although the play may have lacked a little finesse because of this, I think the crowd and players enjoyed the game. We had new signing Dennis Stevens, from Bolton, inside right, and young Stuart Shaw, whom I mentioned a few weeks ago, had his first outing with the senior side. I think Stuart must have been satisfied with his debut, for he did very well against experienced opposition.
RECOMMENDED
Bobby Collins, who left last week for Leeds, did much for Everton during his stay at Goodison. He did, however, do one good turn which may not yet be fully appreciated he recommended Shaw, an Aintree boy to Everton! We were all a little sad to f see our captain Bobby go to Leeds, but in football you make so many new friends, it is rather selfish to complain when you lose one or two old ones. Bobby, however, is one of the nicest people I have met in football. It was a pleasure to play alongside him and doing so is a memory I will cherish. It could also be said Bobby had a hand in shaping my career, for it as during tea at the Collins' home that the "wee man," as he was affectionately known, " sold " George Thomson and myself the idea of leaving Hearts and joining Everton. After that Bobby did all he could to make us feel at home in the strange new world of English football, and I am sure I speak for all connected with Everton when I wish him the very best of luck with his new club.
JOINS YOUNGER
I am certain, too, he will find himself at home with the Leeds players for they include a number of Scotsmen, including former Liverpool goalkeeper, Tommy Younger, many times a colleague of Bobby's in the Scottish international team. Also in the Leeds team at the moment is Eric Smith, one of Bobby's team-mates during his days with Glasgow Celtic. How nice it was to see Bobby get off on a happy note, scoring a goal in his first match for Leeds, if anyone can prevent United dropping into the Third Division, then I am sure it is Bobby. He may be a little fellow, but he's got an awfully big heart. Best wishes also to Jimmy Fell, who has joined Newcastle, and a cordial Goodison welcome to George Heston and Dennis Stevens, both of whom have arrived at Everton since I wrote last week's article. Best wishes, welcomes, and now congratulations to Liverpool's Roger Hunt, not only on his selection by the Football League for their match against the Scottish League, but also on his many scoring feats this season. And by the way, while I'm mentioning Liverpool, there have been a few complaints because I suggested Alex Parker and Jimmy Gabriel for the Scottish team, and didn't mention Ron Yeats and Ian St. John. I assumed that the way he has been playing. Ian would be an automatic choice: and if my old pal Ron should get a cap, then I'll be one of the first to offer him congratulations. I was glad to see the semi-final draw keep Tottenham and Burnley apart and give us hopes of a tremendous Cup Final at Wembley in May. There has been plenty of "double talk "over Tottenham and Burnley, but none of it has come from me. Burnley may win the First Division championship, but I think Spurs will be Cup winners again. Just in case you should think I have gone overboard for Spurs, however, let me say that I think they, in turn, will lose their chance of a double when we see Real Madrid winning the European Cup.

BATTLING EVERTON LACKED GOAL TOUCH
Liverpool Daily Post-Thursday, March 15, 1962
MEAGAN STARS IN 1-1 DRAW AT BRAMALL LANE
SHEFFIELD UNITED 1, EVERTON 1
By Horace Yates
This was D-Day for Everton with Gannon and Stevens making their debuts and it might easily have been celebrated with their first away victory since that almost forgotten triumph at Wolverhampton Everton fought with splendid spirit and if only their finishing had been better Sheffield could have been beaten. It was not a game however on which either side will look back with particular pleasure for fouls were too frequent and pettiness from time to time punctuated the play. Sheffield also had their opportunities and twice within the last ten minutes might have sealed the game when Meagan saved on the line from Pace and Kettleborough after West had missed the ball, and then again when the goalkeeper dived fearlessly to take the ball off the toe of Kettleborough as he was in the act of shooting. There were long periods when play was purposeless and unproductive, but shining though it all with a brilliant exhibition was Mick Meagan who carried out all his work with an assured calm and skill. His constructive ideas when so much effort elsewhere was concentrated on sheer destruction was most marked this despite the fact that he had to retire for ten minutes in the first half while a cut over his eye received attention. If we looked for a brilliant start by Stevens in his new colours, then we were disappointed. It was seldom that he came into the attacking picture although he fought hard all through. Little that he attempted paid off and Gannon plainly found his first experience of Division 1 football something of an ordeal.
VERNON INJURED
Gannon was showing more confidence as the game advanced but towards the end, Everton, with Vernon limping from a leg injury were striving hard to hold on to the point. Everton paid the price for inexperience at left back in fifteen minutes. They were taken off guard by a short corner kick and although the danger appeared to have passed when Russell badly miskicked in front of goal, Gannon in his anxiety to clear merely placed the ball to Allchurch who banged it past West from the corner of the penalty area. Gannon frequently lost his duels with Allchurch, but continued to challenge with courage and vigour and it must have lifted a load off his mind when he compensated for his lost goal by paving the way for a Bingham equaliser in 27 minutes. With the coolness of a veteran Gannon, facing his own goal, hooked the ball away from Pac and over his head to start a forward movement ending with a pass to Bingham. The winger retained the ball in a tussle with Finnigan, a worthy deputy for the injured Shaw and although he appeared to have approached too closely to the advancing Hodginson, Bingham hit a ground shot into the net. For a time Temple switched to outside left with Young leading the attack although they reverted to normality again before the end. The speed of Temple was often in evidence, but his finishing was not all that could be desired, Vernon presented him with a splendid opportunity with a ball pushed beautifully into the penalty area. Temple had time enough to spare but instead he lashed at the ball and over it went.
MISSED THE BALL
Stevens might easily have celebrated his debut with a goal for when a Parker free kick outstripped the United defence all that was needed from Stevens was a flick of the head to beat Hodgkinson. Chances were so few and far between that it seemed almost criminal to squander them when they were created. How fitting it would have been if Meagan, the best player in the game had scored the winner in 73 minutes as well he might. Meagan chased Vernon's pass and when Hodgkinson came out, Meagan in the tussle hooked the ball round the goalkeeper but fell to the ground where he watched Shaw race back to retrieve a ball that was trickling slowly towards the vacant goal. On this showing further evidence was given that in West, Everton had spent wisely and well. He appears to have all the qualities needed to make him into an outstanding goalkeeper but judgement on Stevens can only be reserved. Sheffield United; Hodgkinson; Coldwell, G. Shaw; Richardson, Finnigan, Orr; Allchurch, Kettleborough, Pace, Russell, Hartle. Everton; West; Parker, Gannon; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Stevens, Temple, Vernon, Young. Referee; Mr. G.E Cooke, (Cambridgeshire). Attendance 21,072.

MEAGAN OUTSTANDINGIN EVERTON DRAW
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 15 March 1962
By Horace Yates
Not by any stretch of imagination would anyone Include Everton's 1-1 draw at Sheffield United's Bramall Lane last night among the season's matches to remember, but for all that Everton showed a fighting spirit, which had it been accompanied by greater opportunism, might easily have produced their third away victory. With both sides marking closely, opportunities for fast, open football were severely restricted and the petty fouls, which crept into the exchanges, did nothing to raise the quality of the play. Vernon has been singled out for criticism, and while he was not entirely blameless, it would be grossly unfair not to refer to the treatment to which he was subjected.
MAY NOT BE FIT
Whether he will be fit to play on Saturday is some-what doubtful at the moment, and the scars left down one shin by a set of studs, bear testimony to his having been at the receiving end. I can only think that on one occasion when a player made a swinging kick at Vernon, that the referee must have been unsighted, not to have considered any reproof necessary. Meagan had to have a stitch inserted in a wound over his eye, but this resulted from a pure accident. I don't think Meagan would mind the injury unduly, for there was so much to delight him in the way he came back to League Football. Without any hesitation name him as the outstanding player of the 22. At times when it was so easy to forsake the cultured approach to tire game, Meagan continued to play his football in copybook style. All in all the game was no conspicuous for its constructive endeavour, but almost everything Meagan did help to lift the standard. Like his attack, his defence was entirely satisfying, free from doubtful action or intention, and it was fitting that he should be the man to drop back to the Everton line In the closing minutes to save his side from defeat after West had lost possession and: Pace and Kettleborough were striving to complete a score.
FAIRY-TALE MATCH
Indeed, this could have been a fairy-tale match for Meagan, for after 73 minutes, with the scores level at 1-1 the Irishman might easily have scored the winner When Vernon hooked the ball into the clear, just inside the Sheffield penalty area, there was Meagan to run on to the all. In the tussle with Hodgkinson, Meagan pushed the ball towards goal before losing his balance, and as he lay helplessly on the ground, he saw Shaw race up to kick clear as the ball was rolling towards an empty net, Not by any means would rate this one of Vernon's best games, but for all that he made three scoring openings, none of which was accepted, and for the record Temple. Young and Stevens will find it hard to explain the non-appearance of their names on the scorers' chart. I can hardly think that he saw the best of Denis Stevens on his League debut, for the former Bolton forward created little Impression. Like most of the side, Stevens fought hard and never gave up trying, but for all that there was no impact worth talking about it. The other debutant, Mick Gannon had a mixed experience. He caught a tartar in Allchurch, for the Welshman was the most dangerous member of the line, and he struck hardest while Gannon was still feeling his way. It was an error of the full back's that enabled Allchurch to open the scoring in 15 minutes, but 12 minutes later Gannon turned an assault on the Everton goal into a score at the other end by Bingham, with a clever piece of retrieving play, and a well-placed pus to Bingham, who not only did well to score, but played well also. He was always trying to place himself in the open space and was a more successful winger than Young, while Temple showed such bursts of speed that he seemed able to outstrip the opposition at will, but nothing came of it.
PACE STARVED
Labone left Pace almost without a kick at the ball, so successfully did he dominate the middle, and with Gabriel making Russell's a fruitless evening, the Everton half backs came out of the struggle with great credit. Gannon improved as he got more closely to grips and may have earned another chance for himself, but I would hardly rate this as one of Parker's best nights. Although his was not an entirely flawless display, I think West is certain to be a big success in the Everton goal. One fearless dive of his snatched the ball from the feet of Kettleborough when there was an outstanding scoring opportunity. Richardson followed Vernon faithfully and if he prevented the Welshman from contributing a single shot, he could not stop some beautiful passes from opening up exciting possibilities. The forwards, still disappointing and below the Goodison standard, must accept responsibility for the fact that Everton were unable to celebrate their second double of the season.

NO LAST MINUTE EVERTON ATTEMPT TO BEAT THE DEADLINE TODAY
Liverpool Daily Post-Friday, March 16, 1962
By Horace Yates
Everton supporters encouraged by the recent burst of signing activity into a brief that something costlier and more spectacular was afoot, and would be achieved before the last day for unrestricted signings, will be disappointed. Today will come and go without any sensational, addition to the register. That is my confident forecast. It is perfectly true that the search for players who would make an immediate impact on the Everton side has been stepped up in recent weeks, culminating in an all-out drive in the last fortnight or so, but without achieving the desired results. There have been many inquiries and approaches, but in each case the clubs concerned have declined to discuss the matter further. The search will not end with today's deadline and it would be unwise to conclude that the season will now go out without news of transfer activity. Everton I know, will continue to make inquiries wherever they feel they can strengthen the side.
SOUTHAMPTON'S PAINE
Possibly the name most frequently on the lips of Everton followers just lately has been that of Paine of Southampton. Everton have never admitted any official interest in this player, although it is known they have had representatives at several matches in which he has appeared, the last time no more than a week ago. I put the position bluntly to manager Harry Catterick, by asking, "Do you expect to sign Paine either now or in the future?" Mr. Catterick's reply was, "I don't remember ever having mentioned the name of Paine!" The Everton manager invariably works on the principle that unless a player is actually on the list of those available for transfer, it is wrong to discuss them in public at all, a view of course, in conformity with regulations. One player on the transfer list, with whom Everton's name has been associated, is that of Middlesbrough's international left winger, Eddie Holliday, but the position is that Everton have made no more whatever in that direction. Both Sunderland and Sheffield Wednesday have watched him, but have not followed up their observations with any offer.
THOMSON TRAINS WELL
Roy Vernon was given intensive treatment at Goodison Park yesterday for severe bruising of the shins received at Sheffield on Wednesday and is considered to have a good chance of being fit for tomorrow's home game with Chelsea. Mick Meagan will almost certainly be available, despite the cut over his eye. The most encouraging item of casualty news is that George Thomson out since the third round of the F.A Cup, has not only resumed training but has been able to step it up without any ill-effect. He is doing more training now than at any time since his injury. When I saw him at Goodison Park, he said, "I am feeling fine, I am more hopeful now than I have ever been. I have my fingers crossed." Thomson has suffered a series of previous breakdowns in training.
ARSENAL-EVERTON ON MAY 1
Arsenal and Everton are hoping to be able to play their match for which three dates have been named on May 1, at Highbury, kick-off 7-30 p.m. The first postponement on February 17, came because of a clash with Cup-ties and when a second attempt was made to play the match, ground conditions were impossible.

ROY VERNON SAYS...
Liverpool Daily Post-Friday, March 16, 1962
CUP IDEALISTS LIKELY TO SEE DREAM MATCH
Once people begin to develop ideas about perfect pairings for a Wembley final the draw usually contrives to shatter the illusion, and at other times, up pops a team whose chances are considered negligible, to administer the k.o to one of the favourities. Obviously then, we might still be denied a Tottenham v. Burnley match at Wembley on May 5, but my hunch is that this time the idealists will have their way. Having gone so far so well, it would be little short of cruel luck to have the spectacle shattered just as it is coming finely into focus. Any Wembley final will pack Wembley, such is the hold this institution now has, but for a match which almost makes the imagination boggle at the prospect, a Wembley two or three times as big would still be insufficient to accommodate everybody who would like to see it. We shall never know of course, just what is the true crowd saturation point for a Cup final with teams of this calibre in opposition. If everybody believed they would be able to see the game, in a stadium big enough to house them, a fantastic figure would be reached, even if to achieve this end those furthest from the play had to be issued with binoculars.
150,000 MAYBE?
I think 200,000 might be putting the figure too high for practicability but is a figure of 150,000 beyond possibilities? I don't think so. What could be done with those extra thousands? The first thing that suggests itself is that the finalists could be allocated a realistic number of tickets which would ensure that every one of their REGULAR followers could be guaranteed a ticket for Wembley. Forgetting team loyalties and bias for a moment, I think most people would admit that two more worthy sides for the final could not be found on this season's form. Spurs taught us last season that the double in possible so Burnley's chances of pulling it off will be respected. Not that I think Burnley will do it, even if they reach the final. My belief is that the League title will be their reward for a wonderful season, but that the Cup will still belong to Tottenham. Spurs have a much better equipped side for the big occasion. Their defence strikes me as being just that bit tighter then Burnley's and their attack, especially with Smith back to form is every bit as good as Burnley's. If the Lancashire side can point to Pointer, Spurs can crow about Greaves, I don't believe for one moment that any player anywhere is worth £100,000 but if that was the only way by which Tottenham could get him, then they were justified in paying the cash.
CLASS OF HIS OWN
He is in a class of his own as a goal poacher, and with one so young, maybe the outlay is not so ridiculous. Certainly if Spurs should win the European Cup and the F.A Cup this season, you will not find them shedding any tears over that £100,000. It is a sign of Greaves quality that he has already scored 16 Cup and League goals for the Londoners, although it was not until December 16 that he played his first game for them. If anybody were to ask me what I liked best about Edinburgh last week-end, I would reply without hesitation "Stephenson, the Hibs winger." On this form he looked a grand little player, bit I was disappointed with Hibs ground.
SOFT AND BUMPY
The Hibs pitch was soft and bumph, hardly ideal for carpet football and with only a small crowd present there was nothing like the atmosphere Everton are accustomed to. The Everton party must have come away from Scotland, however, convinced of one thing and that is that if they have not got the best goalkeeper in the country in young Gordon West, then he is near enough to it not to cause us any worry.

STEVENS HOME DEBUT
Liverpool Echo –Friday, March 16 1962
By Leslie Edwards
The Everton side against Chelsea at Goodison Park, has needed a deal of selecting. Mr. Catterick has so many players not available the team, at best, can only be a rather makeshift one. Yet the club got a valuable point at Sheffield where Mick Meagan. coming in as he did about this time last season, had a brilliant match despite an eye injury which needed stitching, and young Gannon did well enough to his debut to suggest that he may be in again in place of Colin Green. That West makes another appearance he's yet to finish on the losing side and Dennis Stevens his debut makes the match more attractive, though Chelsea minus Greaves, are not the side they were. Stevens may find it difficult for a time to fit in with Everton's short-passing style. At Bolton he was used to flinging the ball about. His partner, Bingham, his side's best attacker at Sheffield, should eventually link up effectively with his new inside partner. The absence of Collins will create a feeling of nostalgia. Wignall, now on crutches after an operation on his thigh for the removal of a clot of blood, will have as deputy Temple, who just needs that bit more devil to make his approaches telling. The possibility exists that Young, on the left, and Temple will switch positions if things go badly. While Young is operating on the wing there should be room and space, on occasion, for anyone leading the line.

YOUNG IS SWITCHED TO LEAD ATTACK
Liverpool Echo - Friday 16 March 1962
Temple on Left Wing
By Leslie Edwards
The same players who gained a draw at Sheffield On Wednesday appear again for Everton against Chelsea at Goodison Park to-morrow, but two interchange positions. Derek Temple goes to outside left (where he played several times last season) and Alex Young reverts to his customary position as leader of the line. Harris, Thomson, Wignall, Jones, Mailey, Lill and Morton are still casualties in a staff which has been harder hit by Injury than any Mr. Harry Catterick can remember. The fact that Chelsea are desperate for points and that they have so many good young players in their side convinces the Everton manager that to-morrow's fixture will be a difficult one to win. As Bobby Tambling plays for England Under-23 against Turkey next Thursday, he is left out by Chelsea so that he can recover fully from a knock on the knee. Moore takes his place at inside left, with Bridges leading the attack Feathers For Stadium Williams And Taylor Everton; West; Parker, Gannon: Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Stevens, Vernon. Temple. Chelsea. Bonett; Shellitto, Butler; Malcolm, Scott, Harris (R.); Brabrook, Murray, Bridges, Moore, Harrison.

EVERTON NEWS
Saturday, March 17, 1962 The Liverpool Daily Post
By Horace Yates
I should not be in the least surprised if the player most eager to get out on to the Goodison Park pitch today is not Dennis Stevens, for he will be most anxious to show that the ordinary display he produced on his League debut at Sheffield on Wednesday was below his best standard. Stevens may get something of a surprise himself when he finds the way Everton play at home. The football will be more flowing and more productive than anything he saw at Easter Road or Bramall Lane, and in this event the opportunity to show his power will be consequently increased. For many people, today will also provide them with their first sight of former Liverpool schoolboy Mick Gannon who sufficiently impressed manager Harry Catterick at Sheffield to warrant another chance. I had thought when Brian Harris was injured that Everton would feel his absence more than a little but if Mick Meagan plays against Chelsea as he did against Sheffield United, Goodison will rise to him.
WITHOUT COMPLAINT
When Harris is fully restored again and if Meagan is asked to step down, it will be without compliant without rancour, although other players might have convinced themselves that a display as brilliant as that of Meagan's at Sheffield should entitle them to selection for several matches to come. Everton; West; Parker, Gannon; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple. Chelsea; Bonetti; Shellito, Butler; Malcolm, Scott, Harris R; Brabrook, Murray, Bridges, Moore, Harrison.

EVERTON CAN FORGE AHEAD TODAY
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 17 March 1962
DENNIS STEVENS MAKES HIS HOME DEBUT
By Leslie Edwards
Everton and Chelsea are poised absolutely level, with 108 goals for and against, after 55 years of League battling. Each has won and lost the some number of matches. This remarkable record is likely to be changed, in Everton's favour, this afternoon when Denis Stevens, formerly of Bolton Wanderers, makes his League debut for his new club and Gordon West gives us another opportunity to see for the second time his expert throwing of the boll. Everton could move up the table despite their welter of injured players, among whom are Thomson, Wignall, Sharpies, and Harris, and might well overtake fabulous Spurs whose commitment at Burnley could mean the end of their hopes of a second double. The passing of the signing deadline last night with Everton taking no further action in the transfer market indicates how difficult it is to get top - class players nowadays. There are a number of players Everton would like, but getting them would be almost impossible. Mr. Harry Catterick is not the first, nor will he be the last, manager to discover this frustration.
EFFECT OF INJURIES
In the circumstances Everton have done reasonably well. Only their inability to get points from away games has prevented them from being close on Burnley's heels. Their home record is very good indeed. Injuries and a certain amount of staleness have had their effect on the side's performances and it would surprise me very much if the club undertook, as they did last close season, a full-scale summer tour. Chelsea are remembered for their great fight back at Anfield in the Cup in January. Their young side has a great potential, but the team is not sufficiently developed to make its mark in top class soccer. Now, if Greaves had still been in the attack how different the story would have been...
HECTIIC BATTLES
Docherty, the one-time Preston half-back who was, wanted at Goodison Park, before he joined Arsenal, is now manager at Stamford Bridge and will instil his enthusiasm into the side. He is a great pal of Alex Parker's, so there will be a little leg-pulling whichever side wins. Tin the past matches against Chelsea, particularly at Stamford Bridge, have been pretty hectic battles, but a lot of the players who took part have now gone and there is no need to-day for memories to be kept sharp. That football crimes can be forgiven and forgotten was well demonstrated at Anfield week ago. Chelsea's 10,000 wing half signing from Leyton Orient Dennis Sorrell, loses his place in the first team after only one game. Docherty has recalled 17- years-old Ron Harris the left half and reshuffled the forwards, with Bridges leading the attack and Murray and Moore as the inside men. Mike Harrison is fit again and returns to outside left. Everton; West; Parker, Gannon; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple. Chelsea; McNally; Shellito, Butler; Malcolm, Scott, Harris (B); Brabrook, Murray, Bridges, Moore, Harrison.

YOUNG'S ARTISTRY THE HIGHLIGHT OF EVERTON VICTORY
Liverpool Echo- Saturday, March 17 1962
EVERTON 4, CHELSEA 0
By Michael Charters
Everton; West; Parker, Gannon; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple. Chelsea; McNally; Shellito, Butler; Malcolm, Scott, Harris (B); Brabrook, Murray, Bridges, Moore, Harrison. Referee; Mr. R.H. Mason (Worcester).
Chelsea made a late change bringing in McNally in goal for Bonetti. This was McNally's League debut. Everton made four changes from their last home game-the incoming of Gannon, Meagan, Stevens and Temple, Gannon and Stevens were making their home League debut. A practice ball as still on the pitch In the Chelsea penalty area hen play began. A spectator ran on to the held to retrieve the ball just as Young collected the match ball in an offside position. The centre forward put the ball to Bingham who shot into the corner of the net, but the referee had blown seconds earlier.
Labone put a good pass down the middle for Vernon to chase but Stott cleared to Stevens who tried a 35 yards shot which went wide.
BRILLIANT MOVE
Bridges and Harrison almost worked their way through Everton's defence with a good move. Then a brilliant piece of work by Young saw him go down the left wing, cut inside and slip of a Chelsea attack which saw Brabrook, who was doing very well against Gannon, putting too much power on his centre.
BRAVE SAVE
McNally made a brave save at Vernon's feet -another incident which started the crowd booing, although at seemed that the Chelsea goalkeeper was completely innocent. There was too much ragged play, with tempers rising. Then came, after 40 minutes, a brilliant piece of Individual, play by Vernon which brought) Everton's second goal. Young sent a high ball down the middle which Vernon chased. As the goalkeeper came out of goal he headed the ball over McNally, rounded him, not into the net.
Thus a scrappy first half had been relieved by two great goals plus the artistry of Young.
Half - time. Everton 2, Chelsea nil.
STEVENS BLASTS OVER
The first incident of the second half concerned Stevens who had not been very conspicuous earlier on. He tried a volleyed shot when Young pushed the ball back to him but he put the ball high over the top. A great through pass from Vernon gave Stevens a great chance but he lacked the speed and Harris came across to whip the ball away from his toes for a corner. Everton should have scored again following more excellent work by Young. He robbed Scott and took the ball to the edge of the penalty area before chipping it across to the unmarked Bingham in the middle but Bingham shot wide. Chelsea's attacking Ideas had been so poor that West had not had a difficult shot to save so far.
YOUNG AGAIN
Young continued to delight with his artistry and this must have been one of his finest games for Everton. He was almost a forward line in himself. He worried Scott into conceding a corner from which Temple tried a hooked shot, which was only inches wide.
UNLUCKY STEVENS
Stevens was unlucky not to score when he connected with a centre by Bingham but, headed the ball just over the top from an awkward position. After 75 minutes Temple made it 3-nil for Everton through a tragic mistake by the young Chelsea goalkeeper. Temple worked his way into the middle and tried a right foot shot which McNally appeared to save but he then let the ball trickle through his legs. Immediately afterwards (Stevens missed the easiest) chance of the match after Gabriel had taken the ball 40 yards down the right wing and crossed it to the unmarked Inside man, who mis-cued his shot and placed It wide.
GLORIOUS GOAL
Vernon gave Temple a clear run for goal but Shellito was able to come back and concede a corner from which Young made a full powered shot from 10 yards which McNally saved. Six minutes from the end Young scored his second goal —a glorious effort—to set the seal on a great display. He took a pass from Bingham, out to the right of Scott and hammered a great right foot shot into the top corner of the net well away from the diving McNally. The crowd rose to him. One of the best Chelsea shots of the match followed from Harrison but West saved at full stretch. The Everton crowd gave Young a great reception as he left the pitch at the end. Final;- Everton 4, Chelsea 0. Attendance: 37,215.

UNREAL ATMOSPHERE AT BRAMWELL LANE
Liverpool Echo-Saturday, March 17 1962
By Alex Parker
Just as many fans keep a record of what grounds they have visited, so do players, and on Wednesday night I had my first experience of playing at Sheffield United's ground at Bramall Lane. The reason I mention this is that it is unlike any other ground I have ever played on. Other players had told me about it, yet despite that I still found it strange. For those of you who have never been there, there are spectators round three sides only. On the fourth side there is nothing between the touchline and the distant cricket pavilion except the width of the Bramhall Lane cricket pitch, and at this time of the year, a lot of silence. At first, it is a little disturbing, for when something happens that you instinctively expect to attract a roar from the crowd, there is only silence. I played on that tide of the ground in the first half and, quite frankly, I felt right out of the game. Consequently, I was more aware of the crowd in the second half. It is difficult to describe on paper, but the best I can do is to is to say that when I came off at the end, I felt as if I had played in a practice match before the interval, and in a Cup-tie after it. Another thing I noticed was the condition of the pitch. As only to be expected at this time of the year there was not a great deal of grass on it, but it was as flat as a bowling Men. Consequently, the ball ran true and made the game easier. I noticed that some critics said we were lucky to get a draw, but I cannot agree. While Sheffield probably had more of the play, certainly had more chance, and if we had taken them, could have won. In addition, I think it is worth remembering that we had Mike Gannon and Dennis Stevens making their League debuts for us. Gordon West playing only his second League game, and Mick Meagan and Derek Temple in the first team after a long lay-off. Mick Meagan, by the way, was off the pitch for a while having stitches in his eye. So a draw with a team who have been having as good a run as any in the Division Is not too bad a performance in the circumstances.
SETTLING DOWN
While I'm on the subject, I would like to say something about Gordon West and Dennis Stevens. I have said it before, but it still holds good, give them a chance to settle down. They are players who have not been used to being pushed to the forefront of the soccer news. Gordon Is only very young, and Dennis had spent all his career with Bolton. It can be something of an ordeal to suddenly find yourself a big money player. There am very few fully-fledged internationals who find it easy to settle in with a new team. So take it easy. I have said this before, and feel that you will agree with me when I say I have been proved right. I hope the new boys play "blinders" from the word go. But if they don't, it will be understandable, so be patient. It was a nice experience to get hack to Scotland last week for the Hibs game, and gave me one of my rare opportunities to speak to my father, who came to the game . He used to be a Kilmarnock supporter, but started following every team I played for. He used to watch me when I played for the school team, and came to see me play for juvenile (Under-18i)and junior sides, Falkirk, and eventually Scotland He became a strong Falkirk fan, and he told me last week that he is now a strong Evertonian. He even reminded me that we have let him down on his pools coupon once or twice lately.

LEEDS UNITED RES V EVERTON RES
Liverpool Echo-Saturday, March 17 1962
Leeds United Res; Carling; Jones, Kilford, Hunter, Charlton, Bell; Mavers, Johnson, Addy, Peyton, Johanneson. Everton Res;- Dunlop; Gorrie, Parnell; Rees, Heslop, Jarvis; Humphreys, Shaw, Webber, Lill, Veall. Referee; Mr. Alletson (Rochdale). The opening exchanges were even, with Everton slightly more aggressive. Webber went through on his own but was well stopped by Charlton. Dunlop brought off two spectacular saves from Johanneson and Addy. Lill broke away and grazed the Leeds bar with a rasping shot. The Everton goal had a narrow escape when Gorrie miskicked, but Parnell raced across to clear. Veal and Lill combined well, but run into the offside trap. The home team took the lead in the 27th minute, Johanneson scoring from the penalty spot. Everton's forward line was not clicking, and Webber was receiving very little support. As the interval approached Leeds piled on the pressure and Everton were hard pressed to keep their goal intact. Half-time; Leeds United Res 1, Everton Res nil.
EVERTON A V BLACKPOOL A
Everton took the lead through Russell after eight minutes. Blackpool had several scoring chances, but their shooting was off target. Bennett for Everton was unfortunate when he hit the Blackpool crossbar. Half-time; Everton A 1, Blackpool A nil.

ALEX YOUNG IS DARLING OF GOODISON PARK
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, March 19, 1962
EVERTON 4, CHELSEA 0
By Jack Rowe
Personalities make football and no matter how Alex Young may play away from home he is the darling of the Goodison park crowd. He made this match and this fact will not have been missed by Everton chairman, John Moores, and his directors, who know that entertainment can still bring in the spectators when League and Cup have gone by the board. Victory in League or Cup- or both-is the Everton ambition and by next season there will be two or three new players to add glamour to that shown by Young and Vernon. Chelsea are struggling and it is difficult to see them escaping relegation so that Everton's victory meant little as an assessment of the future except to show that the class of player like Young, Vernon, Labone and Parker stood out like a searchlight. When Young or Vernon were not in possession this game had no bold. For a time Chelsea had almost their equal in Brabrook, who with former Cardiff City player Moore, produced the only Stamford Bridge danger, but when he was injured in a dubious tackle by Gannon early in the second half, the last remnant of Chelsea hope disappeared.
COLLINS OR STEVENS?
Before this there had been one or two other tackles by an Everton player which I thought outside the code and when the referee dropped the ball after one set to between Gabriel and a Chelsea player. In my view he erred in leniency towards the Goodison side. But fortunately we had Young to compensate for any incidents such as this and the way the crowd reacted to his genius-and his two goals- illustrated the poverty of much of the rest we saw. Everton supporters have yet to become reconciled to the exchange of Stevens for Collins. While one pays tribute to the endeavour of Stevens, one felt that the loss of a general and a personality had not yet been replaced. Stevens may yet do this, but there will have to be improvement and until there is Everton are going to have to rely on the two man team of Young and Vernon. They were easily the best forwards and once Vernon got into the game there was no doubt to whom the crowd looked for their thrills. Everton were always much better than Chelsea in their approach to goal for even Brabrook before injury could not coax the rest of the line into effective action, so that West had only one real save to make, but impressed us most by the length, if not always the accuracy, of his throw. Young made his impact in the first minute, for while we had the unique spectacle of a spectator racing on to the pitch to get rid of a practice ball, he whipped through and pulled the ball back for Bingham to shoot under the debutant goalkeeper McNally into the net. That Young was offside did not dim the brilliance of the ball control and speed and there were other occasions when he did exactly the same with no offside hindrance, and each time Vernon, Bingham, and Stevens failed will wonderful openings. Young had not scored for long time, but the crowd roared their approval when he dived full length to head into the net in 14 minutes, when Temple took over Parker's quick throw in, before middling the ball and they emphasised their joy 71 minutes later when the centre forward hammered the ball into the top corner of the net from nearly twenty yards. This was the last goal and between, at 40 minutes Vernon was on the right spot to run on to Young's header, take the ball round McNally and drive it home. Vernon might have had a couple more as well, but he deliberately taken shots were inches wide. Vernon laid on the third goal with a pass to Temple, who veered inside before making a shot which McNally should have saved, but allowed to cross the line just before Young raced in and prodded it to the back of the net. Everton won as easily as the score suggests without convincing anybody that they can do without Thomson pr Harris or that the attack, apart from Young and Vernon, is good enough. Everton; West; Parker, Gannon; Gabriel, Labone, Meagan; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple. Chelsea; McNally; Shellito, Butler; Malcolm, Scott, Harris; Brabrook, Murray, Bridget, Moore, Harrison. Referee; Mr. R.H. Mann (Worcester) Attendance 37,215.

LEEDS UNITED RES V EVERTON RES
Liverpool Daily Post-Monday, March 19, 1962
Leeds and Everton gave an uninspired display, Gorrie and Parnell defended well, giving Dunlop excellent coverage. When Johanneson scored from a penalty for Leeds, it looked as though the game would spark into action, but pretty fouls became far too frequent.

HEY HO, SANDY SCORED THE goal…
Liverpool Echo- Monday, March 19, 1962
By Leslie Edwards
When is a centre-forward not a centre-forward? Ask this of most followers of football and they would answer: "When he doesn't get goals." They've been saying for months that Alex Young isn't a centre-forward because he happens not to be of the battering-ram type; because he does not go through, shrugging off charges, to plant the ball in the net. They cannot say it anymore because he demonstrated beyond doubt in this latest match, against Chelsea, that he could lead a world attack, much less Everton's and still be one of the finest centres the game has ever known. Young has created a new fashion. His own fashion. He considers it better to give than to receive. That is why most of the goals his side had scored this season have come from him. Does it matter if he never scores? In my estimation not a bit. Does it matter if he substitutes artistry for bull-dozing? Not a bit! There are sufficient lovers of football genius about at Goodison Park to appreciate Young and to want to attend to see him much less the team. He's as artistic and worth watching as Matthews. And, like that other wonderful man, his artful method of concealing art makes his game look absurdly easy. Which it isn't, of course. Did you note how he switched the ball from right foot to left and then forward all in a twinkling so that the defender was as bemused by magic as we were? Did you note the way he "made" the most perfect scoring chance for Bingham? One which was taken, but which did not count because Young had, it seemed, been offside when he first ran on to the ball.
Magic set them roaring
That the goal was disallowed could not detract from Young's part in it. There was to be more magic, and two cracking goals, one headed, one shot, by this demure, slightly-built man who set the crowd roaring with delight at breaking his duck after such a long non-scoring spell. The crowd rose to him. The applause was as warming to me as it must have been to him. Young, in training, hits the ball harder and more accurately than any other Everton forward. How ironic that he should have to go full length, like Stubbins on the snow of that famous Anfield Cup tie, to ram the ball home with his forehead. And what a perfectly simple and simply perfect goal it was. A throw-in on the right; Temple moving to the ball unopposed (no danger of offside from a throw) and hooking it inwards across the face of goal for Young to come from nowhere and finish up sprawling, face almost on the turf, for the goal which gave almost as much pleasure as Dixie's sixtieth long ago. Vernon, with a flick of his head to tame a bouncing ball, went on to round goalkeeper McNally and get the second. Then after the interval, Temple, in one of his most inspired moments (and to the complete undoing of the spectator who kept shouting: " Let's have yet, Shirley!") took the ball on and on and then hit a shot the goalkeeper could not prevent rolling just over the line as Young came pelting in to get himself entangled like a fish in the back netting. The complete vindication of Young was yet to come. He took a pass from Bingham, feinted an opening as only he can and then drilled a right foot shot just where McNally couldn't reach. Again the spectators erupted. This, for them, put the final touch to Young's accolade, could I say halo'. It was never a great match; it was often sough and scrambling and unworthy of both clubs, but it was a match never to be forgotten because Young made it so. To play him anywhere but in the centre is waste. He needs the centre of the field in which to operate, though it is true to say that the more he is outnumbered and the less the space at his disposal, the more certain he is to come through with the ball and present it almost on a plate to someone well placed to hit it into the net. There was a great contribution from Vernon, who is almost equally brilliant in a different and fierier way. Roy was captain on Saturday and looked much to me like the rumbustious private soldier who is given a stripe to help him conform to authority. Vernon's admonishing forefinger wagging in the direction of the referee was a sight worth seeing. When the whistle blows Vernon seems, automatically, to think that the award must be in Everton's favour'
No hope of recovery
What was not a sight to see was the 'way More and Gabriel squared up to each other. Chelsea were pretty desperate who wouldn't be when so much ground-work means so little when the movement has arrived in the penalty box—and Mr Mann of Worcester demonstrated, appropriately. that this is a man's game by imperiously having Brabrook to the touchline when I thought the game should have been stopped for the player to be spared a painful hobble to where his trainer stood waiting for him. Brabrook was off field for the remainder of the match, some twenty minutes, and Chelsea had no hope of recovery from that moment. Gannon did well, after being chopped for speed by Brabrook in the early moments. But the Chelsea line just had no penetration. West had only one difficult save to make and did it superbly. I thought Stevens rather too slow to make a good mart with his new club but he certainly put himself in a position to score three times. Unhappily not one chance was converted. Young and Vernon apart, there was another man she impressed me enormously and all the more because he is usually a half-back. More, of Nottingham, at inside-left, made more telling and beautifully accurate passes, in this game than any inside forward we have seen at Goodison Park this season. And what a great grafter he is, if I were building for the future this is the man I should get whatever the cost. But it is impossible not to revert to Young and his part. When Everton won the Cup in 1906 their Alex Young got the goal that did the trick and the chant sung was "Hey ho. Sandy scored the goal. Sandy scored the goal ..." Strange that the same song could have been sung just as aptly on Saturday—except that there were not enough old timers at Goodison Park to remember it and start it going again… Perhaps next time.

THE OLD DAYS
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 20 March 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Now an old-timer has his say, Mr. James Caird, of Sandforth Road, Liverpool 12, writes; "In reply of Mr. Owen's claim of being the oldest Everton supporter, I was born in May, 1879, six months before Everton were formed, I can't remember the exact date I started to watch Everton but I can give some details of the team. Jollife was goalkeeper (he was our postman, too); Dobson and Gibson were backs. I remember A. Dick being transferred from Kilmarnock, and there was Fleming, Higgins, Corey, Costley, Farmer, Briscoe, and Richards. "I lived in Salisbury Road and used to climb over the low stone wall to get into the ground, I should say it was about 1886. Outside the ground, in Walton Breck road, there were gipsy encampments. With the other kids of that day, I used to clap the players on the backs as they ran back to the Sandon Hotel. Alex Dick gave me a back-hander which knocked a couple of tenth out, so I had reason to remember him. I have been a supporter ever since and still go to all their home matches."
Another old-time supporter of Everton Mr. Charles Reed, of 20 Woodend Avenue, Maghull, sends a fixture list of Everton's for season 1888-9. He says that in view of Accrington's demise from the League, it is interesting to see other names, once prominent in football, who have now gone out of the League existence. This fixture list contains the names of clubs like Padiham, Blackburn Olympic, Halliwell, Accrington Stanley, Derby Midland, Derby Junction, South Shore, Ulster, Bootle, Cambuslang, Battlefield, Dundee Stanmore, Northwich Victoria, Earlestown, Witton, Renton, Notts Rangers. In that season also played clubs still in existence today, such as Notts County, Aston Villa, Bolton Wanderers, Derby County, Blackburn Rovers, West Bromwich Albion, Burslem Port Vale, Stoke, Third Lanark, Preston North End, and Wolves.

EVERTON PLAYERS WILL BE READY TO CHEER HUNT
Liverpool Daily Post-Wednesday, March 21, 1962
By Horace Yates
If Roger Hunt, Liverpool's scoring inside-right, has the good fortune to mark his first representative honour by scoring for the Football League side against the Scottish League team at villa Park, this evening, he will find cheers ringing out from a most unusual quarter-eighteen Everton players, who are being taken to the match by manager Harry Catterick.
THOMSON AND HARRIS
Before he joins the Everton party for Villa Park, Brian Harris will have had a full-scale training session, and if it is as successful as he confidently expects, he will be in line for selection for the match at Tottenham on Saturday. Reassuring news is also to hand concerning George Thomson, the Scottish left back, who has missed the last ten matches through a leg injury, for yesterday he had his first game since the accident against King's Lynn. True, he played only with the juniors, but the important thing is that he came through with no ill effect. Don't expect George to be back in the side for Saturday, but if all continues to go well, the beginning of the end of his long spell of inactivity draws near. There will be a ready welcome for him when he does return to the League side, for he has been missed.

FROM THE MANAGERIAL CHAIR
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, March 21, 1962
NO CLUB BUYS FOR THE SAKE OF BUYING
By Harry Catterick
March 16 passed with its usual, flurry of transfers. We ourselves contributed to the headlines with our signings of Gordon West and Denis Stevens before the deadline, thus adding to the general activity. There have been efforts, from time to time, to have the date changed to an earlier date for effective transfers, but I see no reason for changing this rule. It does give clubs a time-limit on their last-ditch efforts to aid promotion or ward off relegation and generally, I think that this activity gives the League programme a fillip at this time of the season. There is no doubt that no matter how good one's team is the public generally do like to see an occasional new faces. And if he is a prominent player for whom a good fee has to be paid, in the eyes of the public, so much the better. But remember no club would buy just for buying's sake. In the history of the game there have been many buys made which in the game itself, are referred to as "panic buys." Invariably these do not turn out at all well, hence the phrase. Buy at haste and repent at leisure can too easily be the lot of a Football League club. Before the war when Arsenal were the top-ranking side they made quite a corner in buying centre-forwards, Dave Halliday, Tim Coleman and Jimmy Danne were three they brought at big fees to replace Jack Lambert. It was only when Ted Drake arrived from Southampton with his busting direct style that the Highbury club felt they had found the natural successor to Lambert. Events, of course, proved how right they were. Yet, and I am sure Ted won't mind me saying this, those three were probably better equipped players technically than he was, but in the style peculiar to Arsenal at that time, Drake was the most successful player for the side. Since I came back to Goodison Park there are a number of top-class players that I have tried to sign. But we have been unable to get their clubs to agree to part. Not even an inflated offer has been able to swing the deal our way.
GREATER SHORTAGE
There is today a greater shortage of top-class players than ever before in the game's history. It is a source of considerable concern to all managers and frankly, we wonder where all this is going to lead. Certainly from evidence supplied by sporting papers one should not have any difficulty in finding talent. In the Midlands area alone, I counted the tables for no less than ninety three Leagues playing regularly on Saturday afternoons. That would supply a nucleus of footballers for every League club in the country or so you would think, but all the big League clubs have these sort of competitions regularly covered by men experienced in looking for talent. And their recommendations are few and far between. It has always been my desire to give youth every chance. When I was managing at Crewe I sold Frank Blunstone to Chelsea, and also discovered Johnny King, now at Cardiff, after a long spell with Stoke. At Rochdale I brought George Heyes (Leicester City), Les Spencer (who went to Luton Town, but has now had to give up playing) and established players like Ray Aspden and Norman Bodell into League football.

IT WAS TWO NOT THREE FOR YOUNG
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 21 March 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Distance, they say, lends enchantment to the view and, in the football sense; it can also lead to false impressions of incidents where inches count. How often have we heard people at one end of a ground howling their displeasure at offside decisions when they could not possibly be in a position to judge? When spectators adjacent to a goal-line express on opinion, one can usually rely on their judgment, but here's the exception to prove the rule. This concerns Everton's third goal against Chelsea at Goodison Park on Saturday, and for the record let us get it straight. Mr. R. J. Carlin, of Faraday Road, Ellesmere Port, and Mr. K. Byers, of Winchester Avenue, Aintree, haze written to say that Derek Temple was not the scorer, as credited, but Alex Young, who forced the ball over the line when Chelsea goalkeeper Erroll McNally allowed Temple's shot to pass through his hands after partially saving it. Several people also have telephoned to make the same protest on the lines that as Young had not scored since December 2, it seemed a shame not to credit him with three goals not two after he had played so splendidly against Chelsea. From the Press box, some 60 yards from the Gwladys Street goal, it seemed to me and others that the ball rolled slowly behind the grounded McNally with just enough force to pass over the line before Young, dashing in, connected with it and ended up entangled in the back of the net. Mr. Carlin comments: " I am certain that McNally would have saved Temple's shot at his second attempt (the ball was a foot from the line) if Young hadn't hit it in." Mr. Byers says: "The ball was not over the line until Young ran up and hit it into the net." Gentlemen, I fear you're wrong, although I'm sure you are convinced otherwise on the evidence of your eyes from your positions at that end of the ground. The man who has clarified the point is the man best placed of all to do so—Alex Young himself. He makes no mention of it in his weekly column elsewhere on this page to-day but he tells me that the ball was just, and only just, over the line as be kicked it further away from the groping hands of McNally.
The official list Everton have named Temple as the scorer in their official club list and that is what counts in the final reckoning, not the Press agency which compiles the results, goal scorers and league tables week by week. It happens frequently that clubs correct the list of scorers several days after a game has been played. There was the incident at Anfield last month when Liverpool beat Middlesbrough 5-1. During the game, one of Liverpool's goals was credited as an own goal by the 'Boro right-back Stonehouse, but this was corrected within a few minutes of the end because Liverpool said officially it was scored by Roger Hunt as one of his threesome that day. Yet Middlesbrough said Stonehouse put the ball over the line before Hunt connected Stonehouse himself admitted it afterwards. There is the natural feeling in football not to acknowledge own goals unless the situation is crystal clear and it is understandable that when there was some doubt, Liverpool felt Hunt should receive the credit. Certainly, Middlesbrough raised no objection, nor would any other club in a similar position. Everton s Gordon West must have felt earlier in the week that he was going to get his second Under-23 honour for England against Turkey at Southampton to-morrow. There was a considerable doubt about Chelsea's Bonetti, whose injury made him an absentee at Goodison last week, but a game at Stamford Bridge between the Football League and the Under-29 side yesterday proved the Chelsea player's fitness, and West remains on the side-lines at Southampton. No matter, I'm sure his chance will come again.

BENIFICA TIE IMPROVES OUR CHANCE OF DOUBLE
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 21 March 1962
SAYS EVERTON'S ALEX YOUNG
Tottenham take another step in their bid to become the first English club to win the European Cup when they meet Benfica in the first leg of this year's semi-final of Lisbon to-night, and I am sure I can speak for all Merseyside football fans and wish them the very best of luck. I played for Hearts against Benfica in the first round of last season's European competition, which the Portuguese team eventually won, and weighing up the potentialities of both sides, my tip is that Spurs will reach the final. Benfica beat Hearts 2-1 in Edinburgh and 3-0 at Lisbon, but in both cases I thought the score rather flattered the Continentals. The Hearts team of last year was not so good as the present Spurs side, in my opinion, so I fancy the White Hart Lane men to win.
MAGNIFICENT STADIUM
The stadium where Spurs will play to-night is a magnificent one. Almost new and built mainly of concrete, it has a top-class playing surface on which Spurs should feel completely at home. One difference between playing in Portugal and this country, however, is that instead of the constant roar of the crowd. Spurs can expect to hear an almost continual chant of "Bentica, Benfica." In Lisbon, they almost worship Benfica. I remember that Hearts stayed at an hotel some distance from the ground and travelled there for training in the Benfica coach. It carried the name Benfica in large- letters, and' we were mistaken by the Lisbon people for their own favourites as we travelled through the town. They cheered the coach all the way along the route, and there were times when they gathered round and brought us to a standstill. It was quite a relief when we arrived at the ground in one piece.
EASIER FOR US
I wish Tottenham well to-night, but the harder Bentica fight, the easier they could make things for us when we visit White Hart Lane for a League match on Saturday. Having already beaten Spurs at Goodison, all the Everton boys are keen to make it a double. To beat last season's League and Cup winners twice in a season is a feat to be proud of, and we will be all out to do just that. Although 1 have not played at White Hart Lane before with Everton, it will not be my first game on the Spurs ground. I went there with Hearts to play a friendly, and although we lost 4-2. I think it was during this game that Spurs became interested in their present left half, Dave Mackay That was no doubt a happy occasion for Spurs, just as Chelsea's visit last Saturday proved a happy occasion me. It was a great relief to break my long spell of non-scoring, and I hope now that It might by my turn for an equally long spell of scoring success, just to balance matters. My thanks to the Goodison fans for all the encouragement they gave me. On Saturday I felt just as happy on the field as they seemed to be looking on. By the way, there was a gypsy—you know him better as Jimmy Gabriel—who foretold that I would score during the Chelsea match. "You'll score to-day." Jimmy assured me beforehand. "Just shut your eyes and belt the ball at goal." I know that advice would make soccer coaches shudder, but nevertheless Jimmy's a grand guy to have around when you need a little encouragement. Dennis Stevens adds his name to the long list of players who have come to Goodison and been amazed by the tremendous encouragement Everton receive from the terraces. Dennis told me after Saturday's match that, although he had played at Goodison Park before, it was only when he played in Everton's colours that he realised what a fantastic experience it was to play with the home fans solidly behind you. Dennis, I think, will become a grand clubman. He gets through a tremendous amount of work during a match, although this may not be apparent from the terraces and is continually doing his best, not in an attempt to win individual honours, but with the well-being of the whole team as his objective.
REGULAR ATTENDER
Goodison's treatment tables continue to be the most used in the country, with Billy Bingham one of several unfortunate enough to be considered regular attenders. Roy Vernon had to have a stitch in his knees following the Chelsea match. "You'll have to catch me first," I heard him remark when told that a stitch was required. He can't be as fast off the field as he is on, however they caught him. There is more cheerful news though from some of the other injured players. Tommy Jones had an operation last week-end to remove a metal pin which has been placed through his broken kneecap and he seems doing quite well. Meanwhile goalkeeper Willie Mailey, who broke his leg earlier in the season, has started light training. Brian Harris's pulled muscle is responding to treatment, and George Thomson tells me he is hoping to be fit enough to play in the Reserve team this week-end.
HESLOP'S REMINDER
Newcomer George Heslop reminded me the other day that we once played against each other. The British Army XI were due to meet the English F.A. at Newcastle and the day before this match the Army side played a practice game against Newcastle Reserves. George was at centre half for Newcastle. I remember the occasion well Newcastle had a bobby-dazzler playing on the left wing, and I commented to my Army colleagues afterwards that he must be the best reserve outside left in British football. They readily agreed. The player's name-Charlie Mitten.

ROY VERNON SAYS...
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, March 23, 1962
IPSWICH ARE PROVING THE CRITICS WRONG
Over and over again last season I was told that Ipswich Town were in a false position, riding high in the Second Division table, and when were promoted it was said that it was no more than a one-season wonder and that their first acquaintance with the top flight would be their last-at least for some time. Yet, such ideas have been confounded. I confess that when I caught sight of them at Goodison Park early in September, when we won 5-2, I was inclined to agree that their stay in Division One would be brief. Just how wrong it is possible to be is shown by the fact that now, with the season in its dying weeks, they are outstandingly the closest challengers to Burnley for the championship. This has not come about because they have rushed in for reinforcements to enable them to complete in the top grade, for there is very little change in the side today compared with that which won promotion. Similarly, look at the position of Sheffield United. They were unluckily defeated by Burnley in the F.A Cup's sixth round and command a place in the leading half dozen clubs in the League. Here again, no significant team-building has taken place since promotion was won.
WHOLSESOME RESPECT
What then is the conclusion? Are we to believe that clubs at the top of the Second Division are as good as almost anything in the First, or is it that Ipswich and Sheffield United are exceptions? I would not dismiss it as lightly as the second part of the question implies, for I have a wholesome respect for football in this division. I have played there and know-how tough it can be. My considered opinion is that there are a number of teams in Division Two which are of very poor quality, but at the same tome in the top flight clubs linger merely because only two can be promoted. I am prepared to admit that the best two or three clubs in the Second Division would prove a match and more for many of their rivals in Division One, and for that reason am prepared to see Liverpool, if they complete the present course successfully, give a account of themselves next term. Whether they will be able to prove themselves another Ipswich remains to be seen. Having said that I would not like to convey a false impression. It is power and spirit largely that is so essential to gain promotion and those two qualities are still important when the goal has been reached, but football ability, too is very necessary. Meanwhile, Everton continue to be the problem team- so good at home and not quite so good away. For the life of me I cannot start to offer a solution, I have heard it said, just as you have that there is no problem at all, and that we simply do not put as much effort into our work away from Goodison Park. It simply is not true. If anything we try harder although I would find that difficult to support by results, I wonder if it has ever struck you that Everton may not be the only club which is good at home and not so good away. It may be that if clubs played as well at Goodison as they do when opposing us on their own grounds our home record might not be so convincing.
HARDER AWAY
It is not the teams which find it hard to win away from home so much as those who find it hard to win at home, who are in trouble. Home success is a guarantee of safely. Look up the records and you will find that Burnley have won more games on opponents grounds than any other club, and yet they have triumphed in no more than six of their fifteen matches. We were all delighted to see Alex Young breaking his non-scoring sequence against Chelsea and I know what a relief it was to Alex. Some people say it does not matter if a player is not scoring if he makes chances for others, but believe me; I have yet to find anybody who did not feel twice the man after putting one or two into the net. My wish for Alex is that he goes on scoring. I expect Mr. D.L. Evans (Higher Bebington) is expressing the hopes of many when he writes to me in this strain- "I am a regular reader of your article in the Daily Post and am a very keen Everton fan. "I know I am asking a lot from you, but what about a special effort to give us a shock result in our favour at Tottenham? "It would partly compensate us for being knocked out of the Cup at Burnley. "Everton usually play so well at Goodison, I am at a loss to understand this continued mysterious failure away from home." We will see what we can do Mr. Evans.

EVERTON FUTURE
Liverpool Echo - Friday 23 March 1962
BY Leslie Edwards
Players past and present attended the annual social of the Everton Shareholders' Association last night. Bill Dean was there with Ted Sager, Bill replying to the toast of the club, while Alex Parker, Brian Labone, Brian Harris and George Thomson were among the rests. Mr. D. McPhail, a member of the association committee, said he felt sure the club would have the best team in the country in two or three years, and the shareholders owed a lot to Mr. John Moores for his enterprise and initiative.
Not a happy venue
Everton's trip to Tottenham could give them a memorable double. After their effort against Benfica on Wednesday and some unexpected lapses at home Tottenham could be both tired and rather sated with the game. But White Hart Lane for Everton is not the happiest of venues. Their relegation, last time, was virtually sealed when what seemed a good goal was disallowed and one cannot forget the nightmare of that 10-4 hammering—even though the score that day might well have been 12-9. The result to-morrow depends on Everton's ability to produce, away from home, the form which has enabled them to win most of their matches at Goodison Park. They have so rarely managed to bring this off on opponents' grounds one fears they may be in process of setting up another long run without victory. No one has yet solved the mystery of how and why the side can be so competent on their own pitch and so uninspired on others. There seems an air of defeatism almost from the start in matches away from the homely atmosphere of Goodison Park. Tottenham, being virtually resigned to losing their League championship trophy and having two important Cup commitments might well look not as seriously on the dame as they would in other circumstances, but the old rive to win will still be there. The lure of the bonus, and of talent money, is still compelling even when little else is at stake.

MEAGAN MAY PLAY AT LEFT BACK
Liverpool Echo - Friday 23 March 1962
Green Also In Everton 12
HARRIS RETURNS
By Leslie Edwards
Everton manager. Harry Catterick, may convert wing -half Mick Meagan to the full back position at Tottenham to-morrow. Meagan, a great club man and a success since he returned to the side a fortnight ago, is named, with Green for the left back position. Choice from these players will be made to-morrow. Brian Harris returns after injury and so the side will have two changes, Meagan having deputised for Harris against Chelsea with Gannon as Parker's partner. Tottenham have named 13 players. In addition to that team which lost to Benifica, full back Mel Hopkin, inside forward, Jimmy Collins and winger Terry Medwin, are included in the party. There are slight doubts about Jimmy Greases and Terry Medwin. Tottenham (from) Brown: Baker, Henry, Hopkins; Blanchflower, Marchi, Norman, McKay: Medwin, White, Collins, Smith, Greases, Jones, Dyson. Everton; West: Parker, Meagan or Green: Gabriel, Labone, Harris: Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple.

SUCCESS CAN BE BOUGHT
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, March 24,1962
By Horace Yates
Tottenham Hotspur, Everton's hosts today, are the club which have proved what the Goodison club are on their way to attempting-that success can be bought-and are still in with a chance of compelling a fabulous F.A Cup and European Cup double. It would require a prodigious effort for them to complete a treble by including the League Championship as well, and I would not be at all surprised to find Everton finishing above them in the final League table. One win from their last eight League games is hardly championship form and Tottenham threaten to keep Everton guessing about their team formation right to the moment. They have named 14 players, Hopkins, Collins and Medwin joining the team which lost to Benfica. For Everton, there is a glittering prospect of scoring a double over their London foes, a feat performed only by Ipswich Town this season. Against them however, is their dismal away form. The players are so conscious of their failures in this direction that today could be the day for them to rise and flay their critics. What a happy thought! If Young can set the example, as he apparently did so well last week, the response may be forthcoming, but they need someone to set the pattern. Can Young do it? Brian Harris returns to the half backs and manager Harry Catterick may pay tribute to Mick Meagan's fine form by giving him the defensive trouble spot- left back. Colin Green is with the party as well. Among the crowd will be the Turkish under-23 team which lost 4-1 to Young England on Wednesday. The Turks fly home tomorrow. Tottenham Hotspur; (from); Brown; Baker, Henry, Hopkins; Blanchflower, Marchi, Norman, Mackay; Medwin, White, Collins, Smith, Greaves, Jones. Everton (from); West; Parker, Meagan, Green; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple.

EVERTON UP AGAINST IT AFTER SPURS' CHAMPION START
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 24 March 1962
TOTTENHAM 3, EVERTON 1
By Michael Charters
Tottenham Hotspurs; Brown; Baker, Henry; Blachflower, Norman, Marchi; Jones, White, Smith, Greaves, Dyson. Everton; West; Parker, Meagan; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple. Referee; Mr. R. J. Leafe (Nottingham).
With the return of Brian Harris after injury. Everton switched Mick Meagan to left back. This was his first game in that position for the first team. Before a 50,000 crowd the teams kicked off on a lovely day, but the surface of the pitch as deceptively difficult, with the ball bouncing awkwardly. From a free kick awarded for a foul by Labone on Smith, Spurs took the lead with a goal by Jones after eight minutes. Marchi flicked the ball forward to White, who hit a fine shot through a crowd of players. West made a full length have, but the ball ran out of his grasp and left Jones an easy chance to put the ball in the net. Two minutes later Tottenham were two goals in front with the dangerous White this time being the scorer. Hr tried a shot from 20 Yard, the ball hitting the underside of the crossbar and bouncing down over the line and out. It seemed to me that West was a little slow to go up for this. Labone twice intercepted dangerous centres from Jones which looked as though they would create havoc in the Everton defence, and so far Evert on looked completely unsettled by the shock of these two quick goals for Tottenham, who were dominating the game at this stage.
HEAVY PRESSURE
Jones and Dyson had switched wines and altogether Everton were under heavy pressure from a Tottenham forward line which was moving really well backed by a fine half back line. Vernon took advantage of a slip by Norman to produce Everton's first shot of the game. He collected the ball in the centre circle and went on down the middle, but as the full backs moved in to challenge he tried a 35 yard shot which Brown saved without difficulty. Everton were trying to get going but the forwards could make little headway against a strong half-back line in which Marchi was particularly good. Everton defence looked suspect again when Tottenham went three goals up, after 21 minutes, through Greaves. A lovely pass by March into the penalty area found Greaves unmarked and the inside left was able to wheel round and shoot Past West from 10 yards for a well taken goal.
PENALTY MISS
Three minutes later Vernon failed from a penalty for Everton, who I though a little fortunate in the first place to get the award. Mr. Leafe was right on the spot, however, and awarded Everton the kick. Vernon tried to side foot the ball past Brown, but the goalkeeper made a fine save full length, the ball rebounding out and Henry clearing for a corner. Bingham won a free kick for hands by Henry and tried to score direct from an angled position, the ball hitting the top of the crossbar and glancing over. One of the best Everton moves so far ended rather unluckily. Young made the opening, working his way down the right and cutting the ball back for Vernon to try a first time shot, but the ball rebounded off Blanchflower to safety. Everton were trying very hard to get back into the game but although they had more of the play they never looked as dangerous as Spurs. Gabriel and Harris were playing well, as was Meagan in his unusual position at full back, but there was a general lack of zip about the Everton side. A minute before half-time Everton managed to get a goal back through a good shot from Temple, Young got the ball across and the winger after appearing as though he had lost possession, recovered to put a fine angled shot into the net. Half-time; Tottenham 3, Everton 1. With a little luck Vernon might have scored in the opening minutes of the second half. From a free kick off Gabriel sent a high ball down the middle and Vernon was able to dash forward, but the ball just ran away from him as he tried to collect it. Temple, without a good deal of the ball, was still managing to do something useful on most occasions. He slipped a good pass Inside Norman for Young to chase and it took intelligent anticipation by Brown to cut off the chance.
DULL GAME
The game generally tended to be rather with flashes of occasional inspired play from some individual or other. I particularly liked White and March' in the Tottenham side, while Gabriel, Harris and Labone were doing best for Everton. Spurs, although quite casual in their work, were creating openings because of the way the player not in possession moved into the open space. Everton, on the other hand, were in possession of the ball a good deal and yet always looked the more struggling side. Everton kept probing and struggling along without making any real impact and Brown had not had a real shot to save, except Vernon's attempted penalty. One of the highlights of the match followed when Labone was considered to have fouled White just outside the penalty area. This seemed a harsh decision to me and Everton got away with it when Blanchflower tipped the ball a few inches to Smith, whose rocket-like shot hit the crossbar and bounced down and out. The ball was scrambled away to the left where Smith retaliated after a tackle by Gabriel. The referee spoke to both players and seemed to take out his notebook, but whether he took the names of both of them or only one, I could not say. The outcome was a free kick for Tottenham, which Everton cleared with some difficulty.
INCIDENTS
Labone looked as though he had taken a blow to the face in a skirmish with Smith but 'he resumed quickly after attention. It was good to see that when Labone got to his feet he and Smith shook hands sportingly, for there had been some unpleasant incidents following the clash between Smith and Gabriel. The game was not a good one. There was a good deal of scrappy play on both sides, although Spurs always moved much better as a team than Everton whose forwards once again were operating as units rather than a cohesive line. There had been no real attacks of account for some time but suddenly the Spurs' produced one which had Everton's defence at full stretch. Blanchflower moved the ball down to Dyson, now operating on the right wing, and West made a first-class save from Dyson's shot. A long down-the-middle pass by Smith almost caught Everton's defence in trouble as little Dyson chased it, but Gabriel came back and made a fine tackle to push the ball away for a corner. Then came a rare Everton attacking burst, Gabriel sent Bingham away down the right wing and from the centre Young tried a shot on the turn which Brown saved well. There were, I thought, some rather petulant and childish gestures from some of the players and generally speaking this had been a hard, rugged match with no quarter asked for or given. In effect, Tottenham and won the match in the first 10 minutes and Everton's chance of retrieving it had gone when Vernon failed with that first half penalty, Final;- Tottenham 3, Everton 1; Official attendance. 47,343.

VILLA GATE A POINTER TO BIG GAME AVENUE
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 24 March 1962
BY ALEX PARKER
Sitting in the Everton team coach as it returned home from Birmingham lost Wednesday night after the inter-League match, and after having had my say about Scotland's wonderful win, I began thinking about something which had struck me as rather odd during the game. For such a match, and at such a great ground as Villa Park, I was staggered by the size of the crowd, and must confess that I was very conscious of the fact as sat watching. The next day I took special note of the attendance and saw it was 18,459. Now I know that recently there have been some complaints levelled at the F A. for theft Cup semi-final arrangements, and I have no wish to join in, but it has often struck me as strange that, despite having what is undoubtedly the biggest football following in Britain, Liverpool - and I mean Anfield and Goodison has had very few big matches since I have been here. Now I have no axe to grind on the subject. It makes no difference to me where the matches are played, but I would have thought that our two grounds would have had a bigger share of representative matches, and semi-finals than they have. There is always the argument that these "plums" must be passed around, but in the light of one or two recent attendances. I think it could also be argued that the big games might as well be allocated to the people who are going to turn up to see them.
EXPECTING MORE
I honestly feel that had last Wednesday's game been at Goodison or Anfield, particularly with Roger Hunt in the team, there would have been between 45,000 and 50,000 people to see it. On the other hand. I can understand the F.A. expecting—and being entitled to do so—more than 18,000 from an Aston Villa crowd. There is also the point that if football fans knew that their chances of continuing to get big matches depended on their attending the next one, they should be more inclined to turn up. The game itself was very with Scotland grabbing the winner in the last minute. Their hat-trick star, Davie Wilson, is an old Army team colleague of mine, as is Villa winger Tommy Ewing. I was talking to Tommy before the game and he tells me he is enjoying English football. He was transferred from Partick Thistle a few weeks ago. As with representative games, there was quite a gathering of footballers. In addition to the Aston Villa players, we met the Birmingham City and Wolves teams, which gave us a chance to talk to Jimmy Harris, and Billy Bingham to meet his old Ireland colleague. Peter McParland. Liverpool manager Bill Shankly was also there, complete with big smile and after the way Roger Hunt took his two goals, nobody could blame him.
BACK TO FITNESS
Now that the season is drawing to a close, some of our casualties are beginning to improve. George Thomson Is in full training. Willie Mailey has the plaster off his leg and is doing light training, and Frank Wignall has thrown away his crutches. Tommy Jones has had the pin taken out of his knee, and to prove it he brought it in to show us. It is about 1 ¼ ins, long and looks like a screw. Tommy save he is going to keep it as a souvenir. I have been had a letter from a gentleman signing himself Wilkie, of Heyworth Street. Liverpool 5, asking one for confirmation of something I must confess I am completely in the dark about. He wants to know it about 30 years ago, Everton signed the then oldest man in the world, a 117-years-old Turk named Zaro Aga. Anybody help? While on the subject of queries. I have had quite a few lately asking about things which happened long before I came to Everton. As I do not keep football records I can only suggest they write to the Echo Sports Department, who will publish the answers in their sports page.

EVERTON RESERVES V BLACKBURN ROVERS RESERVES
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 24 March 1962
Everton Reserves; Dunlop; Gannon, Thomson; Rees, Heslop, Jarvis; Lill, Shaw, Webber, Tyrer, Veall. Blackburn Rovers Reserves; Jones; Bray, Wellis; Sims, England, Holden; Isherwood, McEwoy, Ratcliffe, Ferguson, R. Tong. Referee; Mr. S…G. Osborn (Walsall). Everton's fast and accurate football had the Blackburn defence at full stretch. After Lill had had two drives charged down, Veall completely miskicked with only the goalkeeper to beat. This followed excellent work by Shaw, who took the ball over half the length of the field. The Everton goal had a fortunate escape when Ratcliffe drew Dunlop out before slipping the ball inside to McEvoy, whon fired high over the bar from eight yards. Blackburn gradually improved and the Everton defence had many anxious moments. Dunlop had to go full length to save from Ratcliffe after Thomson had been dispossessed by Isherwood. In the 39th minute, Rovers went ahead through a penalty converted by McMcEvoy, after Gannon had brought down Ratcliffe. A minute later Everton were on level terms when Lill cut into the middle to leave Jones helpless from 25 yards. Half-time; Everton Res 1, Blackburn Rovers Res 1.

WEST'S ERRORS GIVE SPURS A FLYING START
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, March 26 1962
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 3, EVERTON 1
By Michael Charters
In a hard, rugged match with no quarter asked or given, Everton once again failed to reap reward from an away game. In effect, Tottenham won this match in the first ten minutes with a two goals in two minutes spell, and on both occasions thought Gordon West in the Everton goal, could have been faulted. It was a pity the first mistakes he has made since joining Everton from Blackpool should have proved so decisive. The other turning point was when Vernon failed to score with a penalty in the first half, which might have had the effect of spurring Everton to fight back.
EXERCISE GALLOP
The match generally was not good. Tottenham, without Medwin and Mackay, gave me the impression they were using the match as something of an exercise gallop, following their exertions in the European cup. Although they probably had rather less of the play than Everton they always looked the more dangerous because they moved more effectively as a team whereas Everton's forwards operated as units. The match, was very much a replica of other Everton away displays. It was notable for a good deal of solid play by the defence, and an equal amount of inaccurate work by the forwards. On the Tottenham side I particularly liked White and Marchi, while Everton's best were the halves and full backs. Particular mention should be made of Meagan, playing his first game at left back. He did remarkably well in a strange position although it must be said that the flying winger Jones, suffered a leg injury early on which cut his speed by half and reduced him almost to a passenger. The first goal came after eight minutes when White, following a free kick by Marchi hit a fine shot through a group of players. West appeared to have made an equally good save but lost possession. The ball jumped out of his grasp and Jones running in, had an easy task to put the ball into the empty net.
SURPRISE SHOT
Two minutes later White tried a surprise shot from 20 yards which surprised the most important man of all- West. He made no move to the ball, which hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced over the line quite clearly before coming out again. Greaves made it 3-nil after 21 minutes, taking a chance created by Marchi, wheeling round to put the ball past West from 10 yards. Three minutes afterwards came Everton's great chance when they were awarded a penalty for a foul by Marchi on Young, but Vernon trying to side foot the ball wide of Brown, hit the ball slowly enough for the goalkeeper to punch the ball out, for Henry to clear for a corner. Brown was not troubled until a minute before half time when Temple beat him with a good angle shot from Young's pass. The second half was marred by pretty incidents and petulant gestures by experienced footballers, who should know better. The outstanding incident was when Tottenham gained a lucky free kick when Labone was considered to have fouled White- a bad decision in my opinion.
DOWN AND OUT
Blanchflower took the free kick, pushing the ball a few inches to one side for Smith to hammer the ball against the underside of the crossbar, the ball bouncing down and out. Immediately afterwards Gabriel and Smith were involved in an incident. This was the signal for a series of rough tackles and the game slipped away, with a number of the crowd leaving long before the end. This was not championship form by either side, although Tottenham full deserved their win. Tottenham Hotspur; Brown; Baker, Henry; Blanchflower, Norman, Marchi; Jones, White, Smith, Greaves, Dyson. Everton; West; Parker, Meagan; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple. Referee; Mr. C.W King (Mons) Attendance 47,430.

LILL'S FINE GOALS FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Daily Post- March 26, 1962
EVERTON RES 2, BLACKBURN ROVERS RES 1
Two fine goals by outside right Lill enabled Everton Res, to obtain their fifth home win of the season; in this Central League game at Goodison Park. After beginning as if they would swamp the visitors, Everton became ragged and for the last hour the Rovers showed more purpose and understanding. McEvoy's 39th minute penalty put Blackburn ahead, but Lill equalised immediately and go the decider in the 58th minute. Good defensive work particularly by Heslop, Gannon and Dunlop, under steady pressure, then kept out the visitors, although the woodwork saved Everton once. Left back Thomson came out of his first game for several weeks without any apparent mishap, though he was a trifle slow at times.

EVERTON PRODUCE THOSE AWAY FORM "BLUES" AGAIN
Liverpool Echo - Monday 26 March 1962
By Michael Charters
Tottenham and Everton gave a disappointing display on Saturday. No one—and least of all the watching Turkish Under 23 side—would have thought these teams were in the leading group of the First Division. Spurs played with more than half their interest centred on their European Cup and F.A. Cup commitments to come , and Everton, yet again, showed that lack of sparkle which has characterised so many of the of their away games this season to the bewilderment of those few who trouble to travel to see them. Everton have become a Jekyll and Hyde side. The report on this game is practically a replica of most of their away displays In that defence played hard and soundly in the main, but the forwards fell away from the high standards they show at Goodison Park. The difference in their play home and away has to be seen to be believed. In this game there was also the disappointment of Spurs receiving two gift goals in the first ten minutes, with the added indignity of a missed penalty by Vernon, which came at a time when Everton might have salvaged some- thing from the match. One felt sorry for young West in the Everton goal, as the first two errors he has raids made since he Joined the club proved so costly as to present Spurs with a two-goal, lead. Everton never recovered and Spurs were able to take things easily. When White made a surprise shot after eight minutes. West dived across well to make what seemed a fine save. He had the ball firmly in his hands but lost possession, and the ball rolled away from him to give Jones a gift opening. Two minutes later, White shot from a similar position just outside the area. West thinking the ball was going over the bar, made no attempt to move to it and the ball dipped late, hit the underside' of the bar and bounced down over the line. Greaves. drifting into the open space in the style which is his greatest asset, clipped a smart shot past West 10 minutes later and there were Everton three down, and struggling to retrieve something from the wreckage. They did not look as though they could do it because the forwards were not moving with any real thrust and go.
Vernon had the opportunity to do something within three minutes of Greaves' goal when referee Kingston awarded Everton a penalty as March tackled Young. Vernon tried to side foot the ball wide of Brown's left hand, but the goalkeeper anticipated the placing of the shot, dived across to make contact with the ball and Henry was able to complete the save by banging the ball away for a corner. A minute from half time Temple scored with a good angled shot after Young had made a precision cross to his feet, but the game by that time had gone from Everton's' ken. They never carried enough power in attack to effectively disturb a strong tackling Spurs defence. The game became ragged and rugged. The second half was liberally sprinkled with tough tackles, petulant gestures from experienced players who should know better, and there developed a personal duel between Gabriel and Smith which began when the Spurs leader had his name taken.
RETALIATED
Smith had just hit the Everton crossbar with a fine shot and chased across after the ball when it was cleared away towards the touchline, Gabriel moved into the tackle and floored Smith, who jumped up and retaliated. A stronger referee than Mr. Kingston might have taken stronger action than he did. Labone took a knock on the face in another incident nigh Smith, a powerhouse of a man on the move, but both players shook hands when Labone recovered after treatment. Stevens was flattened in the penalty area by what seemed to be a Stadium-style blow from a Spurs defender, the Tottenham man having been incensed by some of Stevens' tackling. It was all so unnecessary, so petty, and so out of keeping from two of England's finest teams. Tottenham had the game make him an adequate re- 20 minutes' play, despite the fact that regulars Medwin and Mackay were missing, that some of their forwards sauntered around for the best part of an hour. Greaves confined his contribution to a gentle trot, while Jones, hurt when he collided with West, stayed on for what turned out to be little more than mild exercise on the wing.
MARCH BEST
Tottenham's best were Marchi and Norman, while Brown looked very capable in goal against what little Everton achieved, the best thing a shot from Young in the second half. Marchi deputy for Mackay, must be one of the finest "reserves" in the country, a first-team regular anywhere else. Although Gabriel was involved in a good deal of trouble one way or another in the second half, I still rated him Everton's best, with Labone and Harris little behind him. The half-back line is the side's great strength in away games. Parker, watched by a Scottish selector had an adequate match, but not one of his best, while special mention must be made of the fine work of Meagan at left-back for the first time. He was helped by having a quarter-pace Jones in direct opposition, but still played with fine football sense, using the ball skilfully and tackling well. Young tried hard without ever really, succeeding, a criticism which can apply to the rest of the line. Stevens, I fear, had another indifferent match and has still to show the sort of form which can make him an adequate replacement for Collins.
EVERTON MAY TOUR EGYPT
Everton are considering a short tour of Egypt in the close season. If they accept the invitation, it will be the first time the club has played in the country. The club has received several Invitations to tour, and at present this seems the most favourable. It would include probably three games and would last between 10 and 14 days. Everton also considered a tour in the Canary Islands but rejected the Idea when they found the organisers waned run a tournament there.

EVERTON'S MOVE TO CUT DIRECTORS
Liverpool Echo - Monday 26 March 1962
A SPECIAL RESOLUTION
MEETING
By Leslie Edwards
An Extraordinary General Meeting of Everton F.C., Company Ltd, has been called for April 17, at the Chamber of Commerce. Shareholders will be asked to consider a special resolution changing the club's Articles of Association in respect of number of directors. It is proposed that there shall not be fewer than five and not more than seven. Under existing arrangements there were nine directors, until the resignation, a few months ago, of Mr. Arthur Joynson. The special resolution calls for the number of directors to remain at eight until such time as that number shall be reduced to seven by voluntary resignation, disqualification, death or removal of any one director other than by rotation. Directors shall retire in the following year.
A QUORUM
It is purposed that three shall form a quorum. Sent out with the notice of the Extraordinary General Meeting is a letter of explanation of the special resolution by the club's Chairman Mr. John Moores. It is felt, he says, that seven directors would be the most suitable maximum, with five as a minimum. Nine directors, adds Mr. Moores, is considered by the board to be rather a number too large. Shareholders are asked to attend the meeting to make it as representative as possible. Voting is also by proxy. A three quarters majority is necessary to carry a change in Articles of Association.

FROM THE MANAGERIAL CHAIR
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday March 28, 1962
A BURNLEY V SPURS FINAL IS MY CHOICE
By Harry Catterick
London v Lancashire. That is how the semi-finals have turned out probably to the satisfaction of travel agents caterers and the general public and that is how I feel the final will be too. Forecasting is always a dodgy business but when the top of the League side meets the one at the bottom on a neutral ground there should only be one result. That is the situation in which Burnley and Fulham find themselves. The only thing barring Burnley's way to Wembley one would feel could be over-confidence. But the extremely able Turf Moor outfit have never to my recollection, taken their football so tardily. They have a competent defence shrewdly marshalled by Jimmy Adamson, surely one of the game's most knowledgeable uncapped players. In attack they again have an outstanding general in Jimmy McIIroy with two of the best club wingers in the county, a mobile spearhead in Ray Pointer and a powerful goal-getter in Jimmy Robson. Remarkably too, the side has cost very little, only left-back Elder and McIIroy having cost transfer fees. It is a first-rate team-building effort and I really do feel that they are going to reap their rewards this season.
COMMANDING LEAD
They are well placed in the League with two games in hand of their nearest rivals, without such a commanding lead as Spurs had a year ago. Frankly, I would not be at all surprised if the double was achieved once again this year, until Spurs laid the bogy a year ago, it did seem that the double was beyond the capabilities of a side in these modern times. Manchester United's out-standing side and Wolves, too, had found the double beyond them. But Spurs surmounted the obstacle last year to stride just as majestically to a Final victory as they did to league honours. The fact that the duel feat has now been proved physically possible may result in further double winners in the future. The new wage scale in football must favour the wealthier clubs therefore widening the gap. This is evolution and it has to be faced. I know that Villa Park has been said to be an unlucky ground for Burnley, but a team makes its own luck to a certain extent and Adamson and Co, are quite capable of making a whole heap of it for themselves. Recent results suggests that Fulham are pulling out of a bad spell, but they do not have the all-round solidity of their opponents. By contrast they will need a complete spin of the game's wheel of future to remain Cup-interested after Saturday.
SUPREME MASTERS
The clean, modern lines of Sheffield Wednesday's new stand will be jam-packed for the Spurs-Manchester United game. Here are the present-day glamour boys against the game's supreme masters until Munich caused the United club to rebuild as no other club in this country has had to do before. United, of course, cannot be compared with the team of four years ago. But they have a blend of youth and experience and they have proved themselves to be Cup fighters in the age-old tradition. Strangely, too, recent results have been in United's favour in their League encounters and they certainly have no need to fear the London club's reputation. I only hope that this game lives up its promise for it could be a classic with Spurs providing the subtle moves that have enabled them to remain in the European Cup competition to the semi-final stage and United all industry Cup competitions. Somehow or other I cannot quite see Matt Busby's boys marching on to Wembley. Spurs are so well-drilled, have such a loyal strength in reserve that they are remarkably well-equipped for a determined tussle at both Cup competition. The prospect of a Burnley-Spurs final is certainly one to exile the connoisseur. Burnley would thoroughly enjoy a Wembley climax to decide which is really the better side. Certainly, an appearance at Wembley in may is a fitting background for such a test of the giants. However one tries to ponder the imponderables that can happened in ninety minutes, I still cannot see anything but Burnley v. Spurs for the Final.

ENGLAND WITH GREAVES CAN WORRY SCOTS
Liverpool Echo- Wednesday, March 28, 1962
SAYS EVERTON'S ALEX YOUNG
Following the Scottish League team's victory over the Football League last week, there seems to be many people, both North and South of the border, who regard the result of the full Scotland-England international, at Hampden Park next month, as a foregone conclusion. Victory would leave Scotland as home international champions, but I confess I am a wee bit worried that an over-confident approach to the match might prove Scotland's undoing. My experience of Scottish international teams is that they seem to do better when the odds are against them, and even without Dennis Law, they are likely to start firm favourites at Hampden on April 14.
NEW BLOOD NEEDED
I think England's selectors must now realise that new blood is needed if the team is to give a good account of themselves in the World Cup finals this summer, and one or two changes seem probable. Jimmy Greaves, who was unable to play in the Inter- League match because of Tottenham's European Cup semi-final in Lisbon, is almost certain to be picked, and he is the man Scotland will have to watch.
I think Greaves must be conscious of how much England's chances in Chile, and Tottenham's hopes of a European and F.A. Cup double, rest on his shoulders. I have a feeling that, although we have seen some fine displays and great goals from Jimmy since he returned to English football, the best may have yet to come. The Everton club treated first and second team players to a "night out "at the Inter- League game last Wednesday and we were able to cheer two tremendous goals by Roger Hunt. Scoring one with either foot. Roger showed the England selectors watching what a versatile player he is.
WORLD CUP
These goals plus his feat in equalling Liverpool's club scoring record I'll be at Anfield to-night hoping to see him breaking it—should put Roger into England's World Cup party. Ray Crawford, the Ipswich centre forward who has scored 30 League and Cup goals so far this season, also deserve, to be in on last Wednesday's display, along with centre half Peter Swan and left back Ray Wilson. The Scottish League, I thought, had two outstanding players, outside left Dave Wilson, who scored three goals, and right half Pat Crerand, I think Pat passes the ball more accurately than anyone else currently playing football in Britain, while Dave gave Jimmy Armfield, the Blackpool full back, a most unhappy evening. On Friday, Jimmy's team visit Goodison, and this could be quite a game. Our new goalkeeper, Gordon West, will obviously be all out to show his former colleagues Just what he can do, while Blackpool, who are in seventh place at the moment are bound to be conscious that a point or two at Goodison could make the world of difference to their chances of picking up talent money.
DUNLOP CAPTAIN
I can't let it pass unnoticed that our reserve team scored their first success under new captain Albert Dunlop on Saturday, while George Thomson, who tried out his injured leg in the same match, tells me that everything went O.K. Sorry I can't say the same thing about our visit to White Hart Lane, for after Spurs had scored three times in the first 20 minutes, we were never able to make a real impression against their solid defence. Derek Temple did manage to get a goal back just before half-time, but although we enjoyed much more of the play after this, we never really got to grips with goalkeeper Bill Brown. Derek's goal, by the way, was his seventh in eight League appearances this season. Before the match, I had a chat with Spurs' wing half Dave Mackay, who was unable to play because of injury. Dave is confident Tottenham can beat Benfica and get into the European Cup final. He reckons Spurs should have had a couple more goals in Lisbon and that a three-goal winning margin in the second leg is by no means impossibility.
TOUCH OF HUMOUR
There was one humorous incident prior to the Tottenham match which I think worth mentioning. As Jimmy Greaves approached the players' entrance, a group of young Everton supporters, obviously mindful of Jimmy's' Italian League days, rendered a chorus of "I Want to Go Home." It was a spontaneous act and greatly amused those standing around, none more so than Jimmy himself, who smiled broadly. These youngsters are a great bunch and follow Everton all over the country. So far, however, they haven't waited around after an away game to sing us a chorus of "There's No Place like Home"

THOMSON BACK FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 29 March 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Everton full back George Thomson, out of the game for many weeks following an injury to his thigh, returns to the first team tomorrow evening against Blackpool at Goodison Park. He replaces Meagan. Everton; West; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple. Everton Reserves (at Blackpool)- Dunlop; Gannon, Green; Rees, Heslop, Meagan; Lill, Shaw, Webber, Tyrer, Veall.

THOMSON RETURNS
Liverpool Daily Post-Friday, March 30, 1962
By Horace Yates
It is a tribute to the fitness of George Thomson, Everton's Scottish left-back, that after a lay-off which has lasted from January 6, taking in eleven games he is considered ready to resume in First Division football after just one testing spin with the reserves. He comes back for tonight's match with Blackpool (kick-off 7-30 p.m) at Goodison Park, in place of Mick Meagan, the third player called on to deputise during Thomson's absence. It would be remarkable indeed if Thomson proved himself completely match fit, but I don't think there is any gamble in playing him. None of his deputise looked capable of placing Thomson's position in any sort of jeopardy. Because as such a good side at Goodison Park and not because Blackpool's away record is at all uninspiring, the probability is that Everton will continue their winning home vein and so make the Blackpool clashes worth three points. Blackpool announces an unchanged side and will be opposing their former goalkeeper, Gordon West, for the first time. Everton; West; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple. Blackpool; Harvey; Armfield, Martin; Crawford, Gratrix, Durie, Hill, Hause, Charnley, Parry, Horne.

ROY VERNON SAYS
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, March 30, 1962
SELECTORS SHOW NEW AWARENESS OF PROBLEMS
I wonder if other people thought as I did on seeing the Scottish League team defeat the Football league team at Villa Park last week? I could not help thinking that if England continues her conservative policy in regard to team selection she could fail dismally in the World Cup games in Chile. England may experience the utmost difficulty in avoiding defeat at the hands of the Scots Hampden next month, and yet who can pretend that the Scots are as tough as some of the opposition that will be encountered in Chile? Goals came too easily against the Englishmen for any sort of complacency and if Scotland can force so many openings, what will happen when busier and more mobile forwards tear into it on the hard grounds. There are occasions when weight and strength are admirable qualities, but a little less of both and a little more speed and control seems to me an admirable exchange for the Chile task.
THE POINTER
The introduced of Roger Hunt, who accepted his scoring chances brilliantly, I think points the way to more courage by the selectors and the team to oppose Austria is a big advance I have always been a great believer in players being chosen on their form rather than reputation and I think England would do well to forget names and encourage more youthful claimants to fame. Johnny Haynes has been an England king-pin for a long time and may be for years to come, but it might not be a bad idea to blood his deputy just in case of necessity, caused by sickness or injury. One can never tell, especially with Johnny's team fighting a tough rearguard action to avoid relegation to Division Two. Those who have seen Liverpool's Jimmy Melia oftener than I tell me there is no better inside left available for England at the moment, and that his scheming approach to the game might be as successful for England as it has proved for Liverpool. Be that as it may, if Melia measures up to praise of that kind, surely it would be policy to try him out against the Scots? Everybody knows what Haynes can do in international company, but do we know for sure that Melia could be the stand by? It is better to prove it at Hampden than in Chile.
THAT PENALTY...
Tottenham's famous "Hit 'em hard and them hit 'em again" policy which has produced scores in rapid succession against so many teams, never gave Everton a chance to flight back at White Hart lane. Whether we could have staged a come-back had I not fluffed a penalty kick I do not know. Maybe we could. It was the first time I had failed from the penalty spot with either Blackburn Rovers or Everton, and I could kick myself now when I think about it. The lads tell me Brown moved before the kick was taken but I am not making that an excuse, I was kidded soft by Brown and there is no use denying it. Looking back I can see now that he deliberately stood to one side of the goal giving me a great big target at which to aim, knowing that I would go for it. It all looked so simple and I was so desperately anxious there should be no slip up, that instead or cracking the ball as I usually do, I directed it. It was beautifully placed all right, but there was not enough power behind it to have burst a paper bag and that was why Brown was able to make the save. I think I have learned my lesson. If I had cracked the ball hard and failed I would not have felt so badly. There is still plenty of room to either side of the goalkeeper to stack the odds heavily against him. You know, penalty-taking has become accepted as such an automatic event that little practice is devoted to it. This week, as though to convince myself that I had not lost my touch, I took a few shots at Gordon West, and did as I should have done at Tottenham-scored.

ALEX YOUNG NEARLY HAD A HAT-TRICK IN SEVEN MINUTES
Liverpool Echo-Saturday, March 31, 1962
EVERTON 2, BLACKPOOL 2
By Horace Yates
Two goals by Alex Young in successive home games, after scoring only once in twenty-one previous matches, helped Everton supporters to forget some of the disappointments of last night's tussle with Blackpool, for tussle it was and no one can begrudge the visitors their points. The game was dying on its feet, for lack of something really substantial to give it an interest, when we got it in the shape of a Blackpool goal, after both sides had shown an alarming lack, of shooting accuracy. It came in 50 minutes from deputy, inside left Peterson ad was the prelude to a scoring burst which brought two further goals, all within ten minutes. Of course, it was a vastly more interesting and exciting game once the goals began to flow, for I found it hard to resist the idea that earlier on the crowd were being given a sample of the sort of side Everton can be when away from home.
SUBDUED VERNON
With Vernon almost entirely subdued, it was hard to see where the spark to set Everton aflame would come, Temple promised to provide it from time to time and the way in which he dealt with Armfield was a most encouraging sight. Near misses there were in profusion, just to keep the pot boiling, but while it was early to despair of ever seeing a goal, that was the way it was beginning to look. Nobody gave a second thought to danger when Parker, off balance conceded a corner kick, for nothing short of a penalty, looked at all likely to open the score. Yet surprisingly, the corner kicked provided it. Parry's kick outdistanced the goal and found the pint=sized Hill swooping on it. Back he sent the ball and Petersen met it on the turn to give West no sort of chance. Whether it was the goal or the roar of the crowd that helped to galvanise Everton into attack hardly matters, but in 56 minutes they were level. Vernon, covering a lot of ground. But being permitted no latitude at all, made this equaliser without touching the ball. It was temple who sent in an innocuous looking shot, which would have threatened no-one, had Vernon not charged after it like a bull at a gate. On and in he went so that Harvey, playing in only his fourth game for Blackpool, could hardly help noticing the advancing figure and calculating that he would receive man and ball together. He had time merely to push the ball out before Vernon arrived, and straight to Young it went, for the centre forward to accept the scoring chance readily.
SHREDS AND PATCHES
Vernon was knocked out and needed attention but quickly recovered, Hauser missed a glorious chance by ballooning over the bar and the dainty dancing, courageous Hill apart, the Blackpool line was a thing of shreds and patches. Everton were ahead in 60 minutes. It was a Young-Vernon link up which opened the way and when Stevens cracked the ball into goal Harvey made a wonderful save, but could only parry outwards. Again Young was there to receive it, and he scored readily. Only three minutes later Martin kicked a Young header off the line, otherwise we would have had a remarkable Young hat-trick, all inside seven minutes. Had Everton been satisfied with their lead, this game might well have been won, but in a praiseworthy effort to make up entertainment value for anything that may have been lost previously, they crowded on to attack. When Armfield made a long clearance, there was only Gabriel to challenge Charnley. So little had been seen of the Blackpool leader that we almost lost sight of his haul of 26 goals this season, but for all Gabriel's effort he could not prevent Charnley shooting from the edge of the area. What a shot it was! It hit the underside of the bar and West was completely beaten. I understand that one Blackpool boys' club has been responsible for producing Armfield, Hill, Martin and Durie. It would not be easy to find any better players than these in the Blackpool team. Not surprisingly Thomson was mis-timing his tackles and I thought Gabriel was the best of the halves. Everton; West; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple. Blackpool; Harvey; Armfield, Martin; Crawford, Gratrix, Durie; Hill, Hauser, Charnley, Petersen, Parry. Referee; Mr. L. Ticebuck (Halifax). Attendance 38,302.

GOAL BY BLACKPOOL ROUSED EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 31 March 1962
By Paul O'Brien
There was an end-of-season atmosphere about much of the play at Goodison Park last night, where Everton drew 2-2 with Blackpool, and the 38,302 spectators had to wait until the 50th minute for the entertainment to start. It was then that Blackpool took the lead through Petersen, whose job of tapping the ball home from six yards was a mere formality after right winger Hill had chipped a corner by parry right to his feet. This instilled some life into an off-colour Everton and within 10 minutes they had turned the one goal deficit into a 2-1 lead, thanks to two well taken goals by Alex Young. Young scored his first goal after 56 minutes, but most of the credit goes to Vernon. The Everton inside left darted through the middle after a long ball from Temple, catching Harvey, the Blackpool goalkeeper, in two minds. Harvey finally decided to race out and fling himself at Vernon's feet, but he could only push the ball out to Young, who rammed it home, with Vernon prostrate after his collision with the goalkeeper. Four minutes later Young got his second, turning the ball into the net after Harvey once again had pushed it right into his feet.
UNLUCKY
Shortly after this, the Everton centre forward was most unlucky not to complete his hat-trick, right back Martin kicking off the line with Harvey beaten. Everton kept up the pressure without really striking top form and at the 79th minute Blackpool equalised, Armfield kicked the ball just over the half-way line, and with Everton standing still and appealing for offside, Charnley raced on to crack in a superb shot from the edge of the area, which gave West no chance. Seconds from time Vernon hit the ball high over the bar from five yards out. George Thomson returning to the Everton side after injury had a most testing comeback against England under-23 winger Mandy Hill, a most lively forward, Gratrix and Crawford did well in the Blackpool defence, while in the first half Everton's left winger Temple, treated Jimmy Armfield with scant respect. Young played much better in the second half than he did before the interval, and Everton's defensive honours went to Gabriel.

EVERTON B V BURY B
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 31 March 1962
Atherton scored twice for Everton. Wright increased the lead after 35 minutes when he lobbed the ball into the Bury net from short range. Half-time; Everton B 3, Bury B nil. Final Everton B 4, Bury B nil
Everton A 1, Liverpool A 3

A STAND'S-EYE VIEW AT ANFIELD
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 31 March 1962
BY ALEX PARKER
In football, as in practically everything else, it is said you can always learn something. Just how true that is I discovered at Anfield lost Wednesday night and, before you Anfield fans make one of a dozen obvious wisecracks, let me say that it had nothing to do with the play. Before the match I decided to take the opportunity of having a closer look at the reaction of spectators around me. My idea was to find out how a fan reacts to certain incidents compared with a player, and what exactly he gets out of the game to short, a footballer's view of a football fan at a football match. And the results were quite enlightening. I would advise all players to do the same. I was lucky in that I picked a match which produced a hat-trick for Ian St. John and a club scoring record for Roger Hunt, but although I fully realised that the fans clap and cheer their favourite... I confess I didn't know exactly how much it all really means to them. It was obvious from the reactions and comments by the people around me that they enjoyed seeing the ball go into the net every bit as much as the player who put it there.
SATISFACTION
They were not just applauding and showing their appreciation. They gained a great personal satisfaction, just as much as If they had scored themselves they laughed, cheered and slapped each other on the back with an enthusiasm that astonished me. An enthusiasm much greater than I have seen from some players. There have been times when I have been playing for Everton and with only minutes to go we have increased our lead to four or five-nothing. While I have been glad to see the ball go in. I have been condom of the fact that it is going to make little difference to the result and consequently refuse to do cartwheels of delight up and down Goodison. But at the same time, I have noticed a roar go up from the crowd: a much greater roar than the occasion warranted. Now I know why. And, keen though Everton and Liverpool supporters are, I suppose every soccer fan feels the same way. This is not criticism. Naturally, such enthusiasm is the life blood of the game and when it dies the game will die top. But I must confess that although I have been in football a number of years now. It is an enthusiasm about which I was tolerant. The order of things has always been that the fans watch the players In order to be entertained and possible to learn something . I would recommend any player to take the next opportunity to watch the fans. He will be entertained and certainly learn something, I did. I would like to say how pleased I was to see Roger break the record and also gain his first England cap. I have played against him many times and have said in this column that he was a good player. Apparently the England selectors agree. Congratulations also from everybody at Goodison, particularly the Scots, to Ian St. John for being named by Scotland in the 19 for the England game. Remember Torry Gillick? He lives in Glasgow these days but has been staying with Gordon Watson during the past week and was at our match against Blackpool last night. Why is he here? Keen racing man is Torry, and I believe there was something on at Aintree this afternoon he wanted to see. Bobby Collins was training with us at Bellefield last Tuesday morning. He was telling me that he is still living in Liverpool, spending about four days here and three in Leeds. He's always been a stickler for fitness and, home or away, keeps at it.