EVERTON ARE STILL UNCERTAIN
Liverpool Daily Post- Tuesday, May 1, 1962
By Horace Yates
Manager Harry Catterick still could not say last night whether or not Mick Meagan (leg injury) or Dennis Stevens (strained back) would be fit to play at Arsenal tonight.  Roy Parnell (190 stands by to deputise for Meagan if needed and if Stevens drops out, Young will move to inside right, with Webber taking over at centre forward.  Everton (from); West; Meagan, Parnell; Thomson, Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple, Webber. 

EVERTON SMASH THAT AWAY HOODO
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, May 2, 1962
ARSENAL TWICE ON TARGET IN DYING MINUTES
ARSENAL 2, EVERTON 3
Two minutes from the end of the match Everton were comfortably crusing to there first away victory since October 14.  They were 3 goals to the good and had completely mastered a mediocre Arsenal side.  Then trouble hit them.  Two goals in 90 seconds by Arsenal had Everton n a panic kicking desperately to any part of the ground to play out time.  But they succeeded to finish fourth in the table.  The first half had an end of season look about it.  Arsenal doing little right while Everton showing more ideas displaced far less energy and enthusiasm.  The visitors went in at the interval leading by Young’s goal and in a 20 minutes spell after the interval they piled on the pressure and scored twice more. 
CASUAL PERIOD
Then came a casual period where the ball was rolled gently from man to man with Arsenal vainly attempting to get a look in it would probably have stayed that way but for slip by goalkeeper West.  He had previously made two errors without paying for them, but this time it was Arsenal’s turn to profit West lost his grip on a back pass and Griffiths the only other player in the penalty area was able to prod the ball over the line.  Less than two minutes later Arsenal scored again, oddly enough through the efforts of the two men who had done least to help their cause.  Left half Petts put a free kick to the one spot not covered by an Everton man and the eighteen year old Armstrong pivoted quickly and slammed a fierce shot into the far corner for his first League goal.  From then on Arsenal fought with a spirit which must have gladdened the heart of Billy Wright who takes over as manager today.  They threw everything into attack, with first Gabriel and then Meagan diverting shots and then centre half Neill scraped the bar with the hardest shot of the night from 40 yards.  But time was on Everton’s side and they just managed to hold out Gabriel was Everton’s star performer.  Meagan ran him close in his new position at right back and Stevens was the most hard working forward.  Everton’s first goal on the half hour followed the best movement of the half Vernon, Bingham, Young did the spade work and Young’s first time shot went in off the post.
POWERFUL DRIVE
Arsenal’s best chance of this period ended with Strong their best forward, heading against the bar with West completely beaten.  Any hopes of a bright Arsenal start to the second half were ruined when Temple put across a low corner which Young converted with a powerful drive.  Then, with an hour gone, a four-man move ended with Gabriel crashing through a tackle to score the third.  Everton would have had a bigger score if Vernon had not missed three reasonable chances in as many minutes before the scoring began.  West who plays on same ground on Friday along with Labone in the Young England v. England match, must be hoping that he can avoid a similar error to that which started Arsenal on their galliant recovery.  Arsenal; Kelsey; Magill, McCullough; Brown, Neill, Petits, Clapton, Griffiths, Strong, Eastham, Armstrong.  Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple.  Referee; Mr. J.R Osborne (Ipswich),  Attendance 30,034

EVERTON GET THEIR AWAY WIN AT LAST
Liverpool Echo- Tuesday, May 2, 1962
By a Special Correspondent
Mid way through the first half at Highbury last night Referee Osborne awarded Arsenal a free kick after a blatant push by their left back McCullough on Bingham. The Everton man merely scratched his head, picked the ball up and gave it to his opponent. For the first half at least it was one of those games—polite, almost to the point of friendliness with minds obviously fixed on summer holidays, lawn mowers and deck chairs.  That the match finished on a note of high drama was due to two things Everton’s surge forward at the start of the second half and Arsenal’s fighting finish.  Everton after dawdling through the first half, at last I realised that the Arsenal Wright inherits has little to recommend it and began to move in something like Goodison Road style. 
GOALKEEPER ERR 
Young, who had opened the score off a post after half-an, hour, slammed in a second (48 minutes from a Temple corner, and then Gabriel added a third after Kelsey’s save had deprived Young of a hat-trick.  With Temple scraping the bar with a shot of staggering violence Everton were coasting to their first away victory since October 14. Then the goalkeeping bloomer of the season opened the door.  West somehow allowed a gentle back pass to escape his, arms, his body and his legs, so that Griffiths, the teenager, from Wrexham, was able to  turn it over the line.  Within two minutes Arsenal left half, Petts, for once put a pass to the right spot and Armstrong did his one notable feat of the evening by shooting past West on the turn.  From then on Everton were in trouble. Even Vernon began to run instead of trot. Gabriel and Meagan kicked away when West would have been in trouble, and Neill came up to scrape the bar from long range with a shot of even greater power than Temple’s two.  But Everton held on and justice was done.  They were well worth their victory with Gabriel, Labone and Harris giving them such a mid-field grip that Arsenal scarcely had a look in before their late rally.  Meagan had a fine match at right back; Young and Vernon were far too clever for the enormous Brown and his colleagues; Temple and Stevens worked hard without much reward, but really there wasn’t much for Everton to beat.  Arsenal is carrying too many substandard players these days. 

EVERTON MANAGER IN SCOTLAND 
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 02 May 1962
Will Watch Uruguay 
By Leslie Edwards
While Everton were winning their first away match for months last night, their manager Harry Catterick, was busy scouting in Scotland.  He is staying over for to-night's Scotland v. Uruguay match, in which his main interest, it is said, is likely to be he back whose name has been linked with Liverpool—Hamilton, of Dundee the Everton manager attended the Glasgow Cup.  Third Lanark v. Rangers.  Match last night. Findlay McGillivray, Third Lanark’s right back and captain although  he's barely 22 years  old—played most impressively.  He is a Scottish under-20 international and joined Third Lanark from the Edinburgh’ club Newtongrange Star. 

ROY VERNON’S VIEW
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, May 4, 1962
SPURS ARE WAY ABOVE CLASS OF BURNLEY
So we have done it at last!  No, not carried off the championship.  That will have to wait until next season, but we have won a match away from home-at Arsenal, and that surely must be a fine note on which to end the season, a note full of promise.  Mind you I am not one who subscribes wholeheartedly to the allegation, that Everton are a different side away from Goodison Park.  Just look at the number of draws we have made away from home, and it is a popular belief that the team which takes three points from opposing clubs during the season is well on the way to a title.  I admit we have not taken three from each of our rivals, but the record is not as black as it has been painted.  Consider the handicap we have laboured under, compared with say Ipswich or Burnley in the shape of injuries and there I am convinced is the key to the question.  Why have we not won the title this year?  Since Tottenham and Burnley qualified for the final, I have never been in any doubt about my choice for the trophy-Tottenham all the way and as this is apparently the choice of 19 people out of 20, there is nothing very noteworthy about that.  My confidence in Tottenham is not tinged with the knowledge that Burnley have slipped just recently, I believe Spurs are way above Burnley’s class. 
MARTYS TO NERVES
I don’t think any team is entirely unflappable.  They are all martyrs to nerves in varying degree, but if there is one club right now capable of taking the short trip from their own ground to the Wembley Stadium and going out into the middle to play in the final as thought it were just another League game, that team is Tottenham.  They are the perfect contradiction of the theory that success cannot be brought. Obviously it can for not only have Tottenham been able to do it, but I think they may be able to go on doing it for there is a magic about their name just now that draws top players like a moth to a candle and I am convinced that as and when holes appear and are in need of repair Spurs will repair them with the finest material available.  It is said and often proved right, that success comes in cycles and once a great team is worm out then it must go into the backwaters until the recovery process is complete. Had there been no Munich I am convinced Manchester United would still have been a mighty side, but instead of having to replace one man this year and another the next, they were left with a major reconstruction, which of necessity takes time.  Tottenham naturally are hoping there may not be a lot of repair work to be done in the immediate future.  If Danny Blanchflower does decide to call it a day after Wembley they have in Marchi the man ideally equipped to step right into the breach.  If, however, Mackay should follow the trail to Italy, what then?  Can Spurs plug two holes in their half back line, without feeling the pinch?  Normally of course, Mackay could remain a Spurs power house for years.  It is the lure of the Bra that raises complications. 

DIXIE DEAN 
Liverpool Echo - Friday 04 May 1962
Ceases To Hold Licence at Chester 
After 18 years as licensee of the Dublin Packet on Chester Market Square, 55 - years - old Mr. William R. (Dixie) Dean, the former Everton and England footballer, leaves to-day.  At Chester Magistrates’ Court, Mr. Derek Adamson, of Dawpool Drive, Bromborough, was granted a protection order making the application, Mr.  G. Ousley Smith said Mr. Dean was retiring from the trade.  Mr. Dean, whose father has recently died, said he was going to live in Princes Park and he was taking a job.

RUN OF INJURIES WAS EVERTON’S HANDICAP
Liverpool Echo- Saturday 5 May 1962
By Alex Parker 
In my first article this season, which appeared last August 19, I wrote of our chances: "With average luck and freedom from the injuries which dogged us last season we should do well. With above-average luck we could do very well." Well, how have we done? I think it all depends on how you want to look of it. The "knockers" will point out that we haven't won anything. Our sympathisers will say we have improved because we have finished one place higher in the League table.  Referring back to my pre-season forecast, I feel that over the season the good and bad luck has evened itself out as it invariably does. But as far as the injuries are concerned things could hardly have been worse.   Bearing that in mind, I honestly feel that we have done as well as anybody, ourselves included, could have expected.  One of the many necessities for success is a settled team, and we just haven’t had one. In 45 League and Cup games I doubt if our manager has been able to pick a full-strength side for a quarter of them.  Now I am not criticising the reserve players who have stepped up to deputise.  Some in particular have done exceptionally well, but the point is that the team was never allowed to settle down into any sort of rhythm.  Look at Burnley.  They were carrying all before them when they had an undisturbed side.  Then, just as they looked set to lift the First Division title the injury bug caught up with them.  And despite having some very good reserves they could only finish runners-up.  They had to play with that disadvantage for just a part of the season. We have had it all season. 
NO EXCUSES
I am not making excuses, I must confess that our away record was not good enough for a team chasing honours.  Why that should be even the players do not know.  If we did we would be able to do something about it.  Looking back at the way Burnley and to a lesser extent Ipswich, slipped up on the run-in, it doesn’t take much working out to realise that with a few extra away points we could  have won that title.  On the credit side is the fact that nobody has really hammered us. The biggest defeat was 4-0 at Sheffield Wednesday. But, apart from that, no side can look back and say, “We really hammered Everton. They were easy.  My most outstanding memories of the season are the Goodison Park victories over Spurs and Manchester United.  We beat Spurs with only 10 men, because for most of the game I was a passenger on the right wing.  To beat Spurs is no mean feat. To do it under the circumstances we faced was a tremendous performance.  I remember the Manchester United game because of our first-half show which gives us a 5-0 lead.  For me this was the best football display the team put on all season. 
ALL THE GOALS 
My outstanding memory as a spectator (and I spent a fair amount of time as one) was last week's game against Cardiff. They say supporters like to see goals.  Well, they certainly got them against Cardiff. I would love to have been on the pitch helping.  I was working out the other day that of the 11 matches I have missed through injury we have only lost one there must be a moral there somewhere.   My disappointment?  Easy.  Our Cup defeat at Burnley, particularly as we had done so well against them in the League game the previous week.  Yet I suppose all Cup defeats are disappointing.  I hobbled along to Anfield last Monday to see the game against Charlton, and strange as it may seem, I felt quite at home.  After the presentation of the Second Division Championship medals. I heard speeches from Manager Bill Shankly, Ron Yeats and Ian St. John. It was just like home from home. I felt strange to be sitting in England and hearing three Scots accents one after the other.  And immediately after the game I bumped into Billy Liddell! 
MY THANKS 
Now, before I close this  series of articles, I would  like to:  Apologise to those Liverpool  fans near me on  Monday for not standing up  when their team scored,  just couldn't . .  Wish Roy Vernon a successful tour of South America with the Welsh team.  Thank all those people.  Reds and Blues who have taken the trouble to write . . .  And hope you all have a good summer.  Now it's off to Goodison for Tuesday's "derby” match and then some hard work to get fit again. If I manage it I'll see you next August.

HUNT OUT OF EVERTON CUP CLASH
Liverpool daily Post- Monday, May 7, 1962
By Horace Yates
Roger Hunt will not be available for Liverpool’s senor Cup semi-final game with Everton at Goodison Park tomorrow (7.30 p.m) He has been named as reserve for the England team for the fixture with Switzerland at Wembley on Wednesday.  This means that both teams will be without their top-scoring forward, for Everton have already agreed to the release of Roy Vernon to travel with the Welsh party on their South American tour.  It is a pity that this cannot be a complete test of strength but I am certain the supporters of neither side would have wished to interfere with the international opportunities given to the players.  Liverpool will tackle the problem of finding a deputy for the Football League’s highest scorer, by switching Lewis to inside right.  Callagham will play on the wing, Hunt will join the England party in London today.  Manager Harry Catterick told me last night that until he had an opportunity of studying the injury position, he was unable to name the Everton side.  Liverpool; Furnell; Byrne, Moran; Milne, Yeats, Leishman, Callaghan, Lewis, St. John, Melia, A’Court. 

HUNT AND VERNON ABSENT 
Liverpool Echo - Monday 07 May 1962
Senior Cup Semi-Final 
GOODISON GAME
By Michael Charters
Everton and Liverpool will be without their leading scorers for the Liverpool Senior Cup semi-final at Goodison Park, to-morrow (7.30).  Roy Vernon leaves with the Welsh party to-morrow for their South American tour and Roger Hunt is reserve for the England team ‘against Switzerland at Wembley on Wednesday. He is training in London with the English squad.  Everton switch Alex Young to inside left to fill the Vernon vacancy, with Keith Webber at centre forward.  Liverpool have Kevin Lewis at inside right in place of Hunt, with Ian Callaghan on the right wing.  Thus the team will be at full strength with the exception of Parker and Vernon for Everton and Hunt for Liverpool.  Everton: West; Meagan, Thomson: Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Webber, Young, Temple.  Liverpool: Purnell; Byrne, Moran: Milne, Yeats.  Leishman: Callaghan, Lewis, St. John, Melia, A'Court. 

EVERTON'S GANNON MOVES TO SCUNTHORPE
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 08 May 1962
A Reserve Full Back 
£8,000 FEE 
By Michael Charters
Everton's 20-years-old reserve full back, Mike Gannon was transferred to Scunthorpe United to-day for a fee in the region of £8.000.  This first close season move involving local clubs came as something of a surprise for Gannon had been retained by Everton. He played three times in the first team last season and regularly in the Central League side.  But when Scunthorpe manager Dickle Duckworth made an approach to Everton chief Harry Catterick. Everton decided it would be in the best interests of the boy to accept a move to Scunthorpe, where he would be assured of a first team place and more money as a regular in the Second Division side.  Mr. Catterick told me to-day: “We did not want to lose Gannon, who was a very useful member, of our staff but Scunthorpe offered him immediately a better chance.  For the lad's sake, we agreed to the move." 
LIVERPOOL BOY
Terms were agreed yesterday and Mr. Catterick drove Gannon to Scunthorpe this morning. They met Mr.  Duckworth and Gannon signed  after a talk with the Scunthorpe  manager  Scunthorpe will be delighted  if Gannon proves as fine ant  acquisition Is the last Everton  player to loin the Lincolnshire  club—Brian Godfrey, who was transferred as a left  winger two years ago but has  played so well at inside forward  that he is in line for  ,Welsh international honours.  Gannon, a Liverpool boy played for the City and Lancashire boys' teams before joining the Goodison Park staff during the summer of 1958. He signed professional in February. 1960.

DIVISION 1 WILL NOT WORRY LIVERPOOL
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, May 9, 1962
RONNIE MORAN ROCKETS EVERTON OUT OF THE SENIOR CUP
EVERTON 0, LIVERPOOL 1
By Horace Yates
If Everton can finish fourth in the Fourth Division and Liverpool can beat the, at Goodison Park, where no visitors have dared win since Manchester City succeeded on September 20, how high can Liverpool climb next season?  There’s the conundrum, but the answer is not always as easy as would seem obvious although at least the signs must be reassuring that the new members of the premier division should acquit themselves worthy and successfully.  Local partisanship is sufficient to instil into “derby” meetings an atmosphere and excitement which is hardly justified when considered on more sober reflection, and that is how I felt about the clash.  Certain it is, that both teams can serve up more spectacular and cultured football than this, and maybe this is hardly the best stage of the season for the teams to do themselves full justice.  It was Liverpool Senior Cup semi-final played, I feel sure, when both teams would have preferred to be resting from their labours.  Now, at some date still to be found Liverpool oppose Tranmere Rovers in the final.  Only once before this season has Moran scored a goal and that from a penalty kick against stoke, and yet last night the left back was the match winner with the only goal of the match in fifty minutes-from a free kick.
DID REFEREE ERR?
This incident alone is sufficient to provide arguments for the rest of the week.  Did the referee err in penalising Labone?  It was a matter of how you looked at it.  In some eyes there were two fouls, first by St. John on the Everton centre half, and then vice versa.  If that be so, then Everton were unlucky that it was Labone who was caught, and that is the view I take.  All credit to Moran for smashing the ball into goal with the sort of cannon-drive for which he is renowned for West could do no more than get his finger tips to the ball, which was moving away at great speed all the time.  Whether Everton deserved to lose or not, there can be no doubt that they had only themselves to blame for not compelling Liverpool to greater effort.  The chances were there and although the Liverpool defence, after surviving as uncomfortable opening fifteen or twenty minutes clamped down on the Everton forwards with the sort of emphasis spectators are not accustomed to seeing at Goodison Park, those forwards should be feeling a trifle guilty this morning.  Once Liverpool had taken the lead I thought I defected a spirit of surrender by the Everton attack, except for one period of seven or eight minutes when they struggled with all the power they could command to shake off the Liverpool chains which bound them. 
STEVENS HITS POST
Stevens for example had the most cruel ill-luck when the cleverly flicked the ball over the head of the advancing Furnell, and then saw it hit the post and come out.  With only ten minutes to go there came one of the narrowest escapes by either side.  Young sent Temple away, and he crossed the ball accurately in front of goal to Stevens who directed his hot beautifully just inside and to the foot of the post.  Down went Furnell with a reaction that did him the greatest credit and he made the sort of save which proved conclusively that good as he is in the air, ground shots hold no terrors for him, big man though he is, I counted this among the most thrilling incidents in the whole game.  Another debating point came when the match was only four minutes old.  Bingham threatened to burst clean through down the middle.  As he approached the penalty area, in went Byrne and down went Bingham.  Penalty or not?  The referee against but it was a very close thing.  Thrills abounded in these opening stages and Liverpool’s principal worry was centred around the battle between Yeats and the stand-in centre forward Webber.  The youngster showed a disconcerting turn of speed so fan as the Scot was concerned and he was rushed into making several errors.  Possibly because we have grown to consider Yeats immune from the sort of thing, his difficulties were the more surprising.  For example, it was completely foreign to Yeats that he should miss a through ball from Young as he did and in went Webber, with a wonderful opportunity.  Here again fabulous Furnell had the situation weighted up in a trice.  Out he came to charge down the shot from the shortest of short range and Liverpool breathed again.  The opening promised a “derby” of genuine class, even though it was Everton who were making the running, and Liverpool marshalled their resource coolly and only occasionally was there any sign of panic.  Liverpool weathered the storm, and it was a completely different story after the interval, for Liverpool undoubtedly took over the ascendancy and they looked most dangerous when they brought their wings into play.  A’Court often made ground most promisingly against Meagan and though Callagham struggled with Thomson, still this was the type of play that was required to lift the standard.  As time went on Milne, Yeats and Leishman took such a stranglehold on Young, Webber and Stevens that Everton almost came to a full stop.  St. John could never quite gain the mastery of Labone except in the air, when he succeeded consistently and in Gabriel, Melia found a virile defender, terribly difficult to beat.  It was Gabriel, who not only did his defensive work, but struggled to put some pep into a flagging attack.  I thought West distinctly fortunate in 70 minutes to get in the way of a grand Callagham strive, deflected possibly en route.  Maybe it was the manner in which Milne so completely mastered a Young, who earlier had threatened to be troublesome, that caused the almost criminal neglect of Temple, the player who more than anybody else in the Everton team looked able to pull the match out of the fire.  After St. John had almost paid tribute to an A’Court cross by flicking narrowly wide, Everton’s dying effort came from Young.  His best shot of the match, low and fast moving, swung right across goal and wide.  This was sufficient in release the Liverpool victory chant “When the saints go marching in” obviously a tribute not only to St. John, but to the whole team, for it is not every day Everton lose at Goodison.  This may not have been the best “derby” in the series, but we have seen many less exciting games during the season, momentous though it has been.  Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Webber, Young, Temple.  Liverpool; Furnell; Byrne, Morgan; Milne, Yeats, Leishman; Gallagham, Lewis, St. John, Melia, A’Court.  Referee; Mr. RV Stringer (Liverpool).  Attendance 46, 600

SCUNTHORPE SIGN MIKE GANNON
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, May 9, 1962
Following telephone negotiations on Monday, Everton yesterday transferred a reserve full-back, Mike Gannon, to Scunthorpe United, the Second Division club who made such a determined bid for promotion this season, for a fee of about £8,000.  Aged 19, and a product of Liverpool schools soccer, Gannon made his debut at left-back in the away game with Sheffield United on March 14.  He had two other first team games, one at left back.  Very fast, and a determined tackler, Gannon had been retained by Everton, but manager Harry Catterick felt that as full back is one of the positions in which the club are pretty well off for reserve power, that it would be unfair to deprive Gannon of the opportunity for immediate advancement.

MORAN MISSILE SETTLERD IT FOR LIVERPOOL
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 09 May 1962
By Michael Charters
Liverpool maintained their winning streak over Everton to reach the final of the Liverpool Senior Cup with a one-goal victory at Goodison Park last night—the decider against Tranmere Rovers will probably be played early next season.  The result is one of the few satisfactory features for Liverpool, for it was Everton who played the better football in a hard-fought game, with some contentious moments inevitable, I suppose, when the match takes place in the pent-up, partisan atmosphere which one could sense from the word go last night. Everton's football, up to the penalty area, was of a higher standard than Liverpool's:  they made many more scoring chances, missed them all and Liverpool were never made to pay for an alarming number of defensive blunders.  The ball ran for the Reds defensively, and so Everton lost their first home game since September.  The result hinged on a highly debatable free kick six minutes after half-time. There had been a good deal of barging and pushing between Labone and St. John, with the Liverpool man, I thought, the principal offender. In my book, St. John fouled Labone as he had done several times without being spotted by the referee Mr. Stringer. Labone pushed back and Mr Stringer penalised the second offence, not the first.  From the free kick, all of 30 yards out, Moran strode up confidently to hit a fantastic shot into the net, the ball lodging high in the net behind the iron support. No goalkeeper in the world could have saved it for Moran must be just about the hardest kicker of a dead ball in the game to-day. It was a superb effort.
THE OPENING SCORNED
OUTSIDE THIS GOAL, Liverpool made only two other clear-cut scoring chances-a fine header by Callaghan which West saved brilliantly and then, later on, when St. John failed to connect properly with A ‘Court’s centre after the winger had made a great run.  Everton's dominance, in technical skill and chance making, began very early on, continued throughout the first half and most of the second half but if you can't convert just one opening into a goal, you don't deserve to win matches. Minutes after the start, Bingham was going through from a neat pass by Webber when he was fouled by Byrne. Mr. Stringer, many of whose decisions puzzled me, gave the free kick just outside the penalty line when  I thought the offence had taken place just inside. Then Stevens, who was fated to receive the best scoring chances of the game and miss them all, put a header wide when it seemed easier to have put it between the posts.  Liverpool's best chance came when West, moving out  to collect the ball, fell over Melia and A'Court pushed the  ball across to St. John, with every Liverpool fan in sight  screaming for the scoring shot. The Scot shot, but straight at Meagan, who was coffering the goal as West was still stranded yards away.  Furnell, in tremendous form, made a superb save from Bingham’s long, well-placed header, and when Young went through to hit a fine shot just wide, it looked like being Everton’s night with a vengeance. Temple went past Byrne as though the Liverpool back just wasn't there and. with Young and Bingham also making openings. Everton might have been three up if there had been a Vernon up front to put the finishing touch in the right place. 
Lob hit the post 
Yeats, a strangely insecure Yeats, blundered badly to let Webber through but the youngster's shot hit Furnell and went skidding away outside the post. Webber was struggling most of the game. He tried hard, but at present does not possess the skill with the ball on the ground to link up effectively with Young and others.  After Liverpool had scored. Stevens had a wonderful chance after Temple had nodded the ball back to him, but he put the ball wide. Temple cut through time and again, but his shots were blocked before they could reach Furnell, and then came the moment when Everton should have equalised. Webber beat Yeats in the air—a good performance in itself—and headed the ball to Stevens who moved on to it with only Furnell to beat. He lobbed the ball over the goalkeeper and it hit the post.  Shortly afterwards, Stevens missed again from a reasonable opening and then did connect with a neat turn of the foot as Temple's low centre beat the Liverpool defence. This looked "on - but Furnell, quick as a cat in his reactions, turned the hall aside 
Thrills but  . . .
This game did not reach the same standard of good class football we have seen in recent years when the teams have met. It had its thrills, I agree, but with Liverpool not as   good as they have been so often this season, there was not the sustained excitement of other years.  But I still thought Liverpool had the outstanding player of the game in Milne, whose all-round performance, defensively and constructively, was immense. His Everton counterpart. Gabriel was almost as good—in fact, the Everton half back line, collectively and individually, was the high spot of the side. Moran rates top marks, too, while A'Court was Liverpool's best forward. Strangely enough, Meagan, in direct opposition, had another splendid match and his use of the ball was always faultless. Stevens worked very hard but Oh! those missed chances.  Young is not happy at inside forward, and I made Temple Everton's best attacker. Surely, on his form of the past month or so, Temple must have made Harry Catterick’s mind easier about that problem left wing spot?   He is improving all the time and he had Byrne in trouble numerous times last night.   Final thoughts on the final match of the season . . .  the chanting "Off-off-oft" by some of the crowd whenever a foul is committed borders on the childish. I wish they’d stop because there is no sense in it when it happens so often and why have some Liverpool fans started the song “When the Saints Come Marching In" as their theme note?  There have been more than a dozen other players apart from St. John who have earned promotion and last night St. John was one of the players who did not make a major contribution to their victory. 

EVERTON GIVE HELPING HAND TO BILL dean
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 10 May 1962
By Michael Charters
Everton have made a handsome gesture towards the man who ranks as the greatest player they’ve ever had on their books—the one and only William Ralph Dean. When the club learned that Bill Dean was giving up his business as a licensee in Chester, they told him they would help in any way they could to get re-established. His father died last week and Bill is now living with his mother in their old home in Birkenhead. I believe that since he has re-appeared in the Claughton Village district where he is regarded as their sporting hero, he is still being asked for his autograph—at 55 years of age!  He has not been in good health in the past few years but when I last saw him about six weeks ago at the annual dinner of the Everton Shareholders' Association; he seemed to have recovered well enough. He has twice attended functions at Everton Supporters' Federation club recently, to receive a presentation himself and to link with other onetime Everton players in the gift to veteran trainer Harry Cooke. He was in cracking form then.  Bill will be settling in Liverpool again and all football supporters will wish him well. So many of them—and not  only the old-timers--have treasured memories of the man  generally regarded as the greatest centre forward of  them all.

NEAR £3,000 PAY BRACKET FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, May 14, 1962
17 PLAYERS HAVE ACCEPTED NEW TERMS ALREADY
By Horace Yates
If the Everton players enjoy as successful a season next term as they have this they will rocket into the near £8,000 a year bracket as a result of the new terms offered to them recently.  This was revealed to me last night by manager Harry Catterick.  Mr. Catterick said; Most of our players exceeded £2,000 a year last season and with the new offer it lies in their power to do even better next time.  I would say that they can be just about the highest paid footballers in the county or an average.  Obviously there will be some individuals with certain other clubs who will get more, but I speak of average rates.  “So far seventeen or eighteen of our players have accepted the terms and have re-signed.  To date, no player has refused the terms.  All the players have until fourteen days before June 30 to accept or reject offers.  “Some players accepted the offer immediately and included among the number who has resigned are quite a few first team members.  “There are some who take longer to get around to a decision about acceptance, but there is no immediate hurry.  It seems to me that our players will be financially much better off next season.” 

EVERTON TRIO STILL IN TRAINING 
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 22 May 1962
Daily Sessions 
By Leslie Edwards
Three Everton players are still training and will remain so until they regain complete fitness.  They are full-back Alex Parker, half-back Tom Jones and goalkeeper Willie Mailey.  They do their remedial exercises and laps day by day at Goodison Park in the close season to recover from injuries which kept them out of action for a good portion of the season just ended.  Parker is now walking well after his cartilage operation:  Malley is recovered from a broken leg and Jones, who had a smashed knee-cap, is expected to reach full fitness shortly. 

UNSIGNED YOUNG WOULD GO TO ITALY?
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 23 May 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Alex Young, Everton's brilliant Scottish International centre forward, is going to turn down the terms his club have offered for next season. He wants more money and security and is prepared to go to an Italian club to get it. He says he is happy at Goodison Pork and had probably the best season of his career there last term, but feels that a football career is so short he should make as much money as he can while the going is good. It was reported to Young that an Italian club had already been in touch with Mr. Catterick over the possibility of a transfer, but the Everton manager has denied this. “Young is an essential part of the Everton setup and will remain so “Mr. Catterick says.  I understand that several other star Everton players have also not re-signed. Maybe they are waiting to see how Young's application for more money is received. Among those withholding their signature for the moment is Roy Vernon, who is touring in South America with Wales.  Doubtless the tremendous sums of money mentioned    in connection with Law, Baker and Charles and their Continental clubs have whetted the appetite of Everton players, whose wages rose markedly last season once the ceiling on footballing rewards was raised.  With players like Haynes and Greaves on £100 per week, it is natural that others, whose skill is as high, or almost as high, should want their clubs to pay more. In the past, first-team players at Goodison Park and Anfield have been paid a flat rate, with appearance money and bonuses as extras. It would seem that Everton at least will now have to negotiate separate terms with every member of the team and that great secrecy will play a part in these negotiations; otherwise there must be many jealousies. 

LIVERPOOL AND EVERTON SIGN BOYS
Liverpool Echo - Monday 28 May 1962
STARS FROM CITY TEAM
Six members of the very successful Liverpool schoolboys team of last season signed apprentice professional forms today for Everton and Liverpool.  Everton have snapped up four.  They are centre forward Gerry Glover outside left, Aiden Maher, centre half, Frank D’Arcy, and right back George Rooney.  Glover and Maher are England internationals and the other two played for Lancashire. 

ANOTHER BOY STAR FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 29 May 1962
HURST FROM BLACKPOOL
INTERNATIONAL
By Michael Charters
Everton todays signed their third England schoolboy international in two days, by snapping up John Hurst, the Blackpool, Lancashire and England centre or inside forward.  Yesterday they signed Liverpool’s Aiden Maher and Gerry Glover so today’s capture means that they have taken three of last season’s England Boys forward line on apprentice professional forms.  Hurst, a particularly well-made boy, standing 5ft 11in and weighing 12 stone, was the star of the Blackpool boys team defeated by Liverpool in the Lancashire Schools’ Cup Final- a match which was watched by Everton manager Mr. Harry catterick.