GROUND IMPROVEMENTS REFLECT BOOM DAYS
Liverpool Echo - Monday 03 June 1963
By Michael Charters
The Merseyside football boom, obvious on the playing pitches last season, is reflected just as strongly in the work now going on at Goodison Park, Anfield and Prenton Pork, in ground improvement schemes. I cannot recall a close season when there has been so much construction aimed at making better accommodation at our senior grounds. Normally, the summer months are used for pitch re-seeding and maintenance work around the grounds such as painting, but this year's flurry of activity is exceptional.  All three clubs report that the fine weather is helping to push along the work and excellent progress is being made.  At Everton, new seats are being installed under the Bullens Road stand at the back of the paddock to make it a double-decker stand in the true sense of the phrase. In addition, the roof is being extended to the edge of the paddock and will be covered with transparent plastic sheeting similar to Wembley. This provides cover from the worst the elements can offer and yet gives an airy effect of lightness.  There will be 3,750 extra seats for next season, making Goodison Park's total seating capacity in the region of 18,000 the highest of any club ground in Britain.  The paddock standing accommodation will be cut by a little more than half. Some 2,000 of the extra seats will be allocated to season ticket holders, and Everton Secretary Bill Dickinson tells me he has been inundated with applications for next season.  There is a similar ticket story from Liverpool secretary Jimmy Mclnnes. With Everton champions and in the European Cup for the first time, and Liverpool invited to take part in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup competition next season, these are great days for our senior clubs.

EVERTON LOST £19,659
Wednesday, June 5 1963 Liverpool Daily Post
Record gate receipts of £190, 897 returned last season by Everton, whose 11 home League games attracted 1, 080,654, an average of 51,460.  Yet the champions lost £19,659, due mainly to the fact that  they paid £84,970 more than they received in transfers and their bill for wages and bonuses increased by £22,718to £47,954. 

EVERTON LOSS ON SEASON
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 05 June 1963
By Michael Charters
Everton's record-breaking season, during which more than 1,000,000 people watched their home games and receipts were an all-time record as the team moved to their first championship success since 1939, still produced a loss on the year of £19,659 compared to a profit of £12.651 the previous year. The loss was due to the heavy expenditure on transfer fees—an expenditure of £84,970 last season as against £40.470. This figure is the overall one after transfers in and out have been considered, and it must be set against the fact that the club paid in the region of £100,000 for two players, Tony Kay and Alex Scott.  Gate receipts soared to £190.807 in the League as against £145,975, but the income from Cup ties and other matches dropped from £54,920 to £28,441. This is accounted for by the fact that all Everton's three F.A. Cup ties were away from home. Players' wages and bonuses increased from £44,336 to £67,054.  The club still owes to the bank and on property mortgages a total sum of £65,144, but the fixed assets of freehold land, the ground and floodlights are at £115.379 after the usual annual amounts have been written off. Last year, £47,599 was spent on ground expenses and maintenance, a little less than the previous year when £50,232 was the figure.  The annual general meeting will be held on June 24 and the directors do not recommend payment of a dividend.  The three retiring directors are: Messrs. C. E. Balmforth, N.W Coffey and E. Holland Hughes, who offer themselves for re-election. Nominations for office have been received from Mr. J. N. Lindop, of 246 Allerton Road. Liverpool 18 and Mr. D. M. McPhail, of 16 Lulworth Road, Birkdale.  Mr. McPhail is vice - chairman of Everton Shareholders 
HAROLD BELL TAKES OVER
Harold Bell, the former Tranmere Rovers centre half and full back, has been appointed player-manager of Holyhead Town, the Welsh League club, in succession to Peter Farrell, the ex- Everton captain and onetime Tranmere manager. I understand that Mr. Farrell has returned to his home at Dalke, near Dublin.  Bell, who made more than 600 appearances for Tranmere and set up a Football League record of 461 consecutive appearances, has been playing for Holyhead for the past two seasons with Mr. Farrell who took bell and former Everton full back Jim Tansey with him to the Welsh League club when he took over at Holyhead shortly after Tranmere.  This will be Bell’s first experience at managerial level but his long, outstanding service to his one and only League club will help him in his new line.  Bell works and lives in Liverpool and now has the task of trying to strength his team for next season.  His many admirers on Merseyside wish him well. 
Tony Kay plays tonight for England against Switzerland in Basle. 
SCOOPED THE POOL
Brothers Peter and John Moores, of Apply Bridge, Wigan, sons of Mr. John Moores, the Everton F.C. chairman scooped the pool in the Aberdeen Angus classes.  They won the Aberdeen Angus Challenge Cup and three other championship awards.  They won three first prizes and one second. 

LIVERPOOL SNAP UP THE LOCAL BOY STARS
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 06 June 1963
BY Michael Charters
Liverpool and Everton have been busy in the past few day’s negotiating for the brightest and best of the current crop of schoolboy internationals.  Their signing as apprentice professionals is the culmination of months of work by the scouts of both clubs who have watched these boys progress from city and town teams to county and then international status.  Liverpool have signed the complete inside forward set-up of the Liverpool City team- two of them England stars- while Everton, I understand, will be announcing shortly the signing of boy internationals, but only one of them is a local.  The Everton net has been spread further than Liverpool’s this season. 
Everton manager, back from the club’s Spanish holiday, tells me that the club have had to be very selective this year in assessing the schoolboy talent available.  The youngsters already on the staff, having won both their divisions of the Lancashire League last season, have shown their great promise and therefore any new boys coming in have been screened carefully.  My own information is that Everton are likely to sign four boys who reached international level last season, and the club is expected to name them shortly.  These are boys of fifteen, but I hear from Scotland that a 17-years-old lad in whom Everton have been interested for some months may be an Everton player soon.  He is Scottish junior international right back George Caldwell, from Glenafton Athletic, a junior club in the Dumries area.  Everton have watched many times this youth, rated one of the finest young defenders to emerge in Scotland for years, and he has accepted an invitation to come to Goodison Park for a fortnight towards the end of the month.  He will take part, no doubt, in private trials and also have a chance to see the set-up at the club.  Many senior clubs have been eager to sign Caldwell, who display in a recent Scottish junior cup final was most impressive.  Perhaps the fact that there are so many of his fellow Scots already at Goodison will persuade the boy to make the decision that Everton is the club for him.  I understand he is keen to play in English football.  Two other local boys of promise who have joined senior clubs are Douglas Livermore, inside left and captain of Huyton and Prescot Boys last season, who has gone to Bolton Wanderers, and Graham Turner, centre half from Ellesmere Port Boys apprentice professional with Wrexham. 
THE WIGNALL POSITION
With all this talk of incoming players, it is expected that Everton reserve centre forward Frank Wignall will sign for Nottingham Forest next week.  Terms in the region of £20,000 were agreed between the clubs some weeks ago, but the completion of the transfer was held up while Wignall considered Forest’s offer and inspected housing accommodation in Nottingham.  Now I understand that the deal will go through providing Wignall passes a specialist examination for an injury he received 18 months ago.  He suffered then a fractured wrist, but Forest manager Andy Beattie said today; “Wignall is willing to sign for us and will do so providing the medical report is satisfactory.”  The Forest club committee –they are the only League club without a Board of Directors-will be meeting next week to consider the report, and it is anticipated that Wignall will join Forest after the formality of that meeting.  Good to see the splendid performances of Everton’s Tony Kay and Liverpool’s Jimmy Melia in England’s 8-1 rout of Switzerland last night.  From what we could see via the screen, it seemed to me that Kay was in his most impressive form, the fulcrum around which the rest of side revolved. 

EVERTON PLAYERS CASH IN ON THEIR TITLE
Liverpool Echo - Friday 07 June 1963
By Michael Charters
Everton players are making financial hay out of their League Championship triumph. Robbed of any chance of the highly lucrative perks" that come the way of the Cup Finalists, they intend to cash in on their title and have formed a committee headed by skipper Roy Vernon to amass the largest money pool they can arrange. They plan to publish an illustrated brochure of themselves but their first big venture is a dance at the Rialto on June 13.  They aim to sell 1,400 tickets at a guinea each, and hope to boost the interest by inviting as many of the top.  Liverpool names in the entertainment world as can possibly attend. The match ball used against Fulham in the championship-clinching game at the end of the season has been autographed by all the Everton team and is to be raffled and sold. In addition, four of their internationals have put up their playing jerseys for another raffle.  Billy Bingham has provided an Irish shirt. Vernon a Welsh one. Alex Scott a Scottish and Brian Labone the white of England.  The club's official celebration dinner will not be held until after the start of next season. This is customary because invitations are sent to other League clubs and it is not possible; during the summer holiday period, to arrange a date to suit everyone. Once the League programme has started again, it is easier to have a representative gathering and this is what other League champions have done in recent years.
Civic reception planned 
What has surprised ow and many others Judging from the correspondence to this office and to the Everton club—is that so far there has been no civic recognition of Everton's feat by the City of Liverpool. But I understand that the Lord Mayor has plans for an official occasion to pay tribute to the club on a generous scale. The delay has been unavoidable. There was the lateness of the playing season, the fact that Everton officials and players left soon after the last match for their fortnight's holiday in Spain and that, during this time, there was the annual change in Mayoral office. However, arrangements are now well In hand and details will be announced soon.  Last year, when Liverpool won the Second Division Championship, there was a dinner at the Town Hall when the Lord Mayor invited officials and players of both Liverpool and Everton. That function was able to be organised earlier because Liverpool had won promotion long before the end of the season.  Everton will receive the League Championship trophy at the annual meeting of the Football League in London to-morrow. Chairman John Moores will not be there as he is on holiday, but a senior director will receive it on behalf of the club. Two other championship trophies will be presented to Everton next week, the awards to the  Everton junior teams who won both "A" and "B"  Divisions of the Lancashire League. The occasion will be the annual meeting of the League in Blackpool next Wednesday.  And looking ahead to the start of next season on August 17. Everton announce that the players will report for training on Monday, July 22. It won't be long now!

EVERTON'S DISPUTE WITH TOTTENHAM 
Liverpool Echo - Monday 10 June 1963
Articles by Captain 
By Leslie Edwards 
After the Everton- Tottenham Hotspur battle on the field for the League championship - with Everton finishing on top the battle of words between the clubs.  Everton allege that remarks made by the Tottenham captain Danny Blanchflower in newspaper articles in February and April were derogatory to them.  One article referred to the signing by Everton of Rangers winger, Alex Scott, after Tottenham had also been in the field for his services: the other referred to success at sport which had been bought.  The Football League presented Tottenham with a copy of Everton's complaint.  The Tottenham answer was:  "The player was given permission to write articles for this paper: the articles concerned were vetted by a senior member of the club.  We have nothing further to say." 
CONFIRMED 
That the League dealt with Everton's protest at Saturday's meeting in London, is confirmed by the President of the League, Mr. Joe Richards.  He said to-day: "Everton’s request was dealt with.  Beyond that I do not propose to make comment."  Reports that Tottenham have been rapped over the knuckles by the League, and that they have been warned that if there is further comment Blanchflower may leave himself open to serious consequences are wide of the mark.  The League secretary was not at his St.  Annes, Lancashire, headquarters to -day and an official there said: "If the matter has been dealt with Mr. Hardaker has not had time to acquaint Tottenham of the decision." 

LESLIE EDWARDS NOTES
Liverpool Echo - Monday 10 June 1963
Reader R. Rimmer, of 70 St. Luke’s Road, Southport, has gone to considerable trouble to submit the following graph showing the comparative positions of Everton and Liverpool last season on the last Saturday of every month through the season.  It shows clearly two outstanding features of the programme –the consistency of Everton in not dropping out of the leading three at any stage, and the startling rise from the lower regions by Liverpool after October. 
Albert Dunlop, who played his first game of the season against New Brighton at Wadham Road, must surely regard cricket as a more dangerous game than football.  He was the victim of a lively pitch when a ball from New Brighton paceman Fawcett reared up and struck him a nasty blow in the face.  Dunlop pluckily resumed – with one eye almost closed- after changing his bold-strained shirt, but Bootle crashed to defeat by five runs. 

FOOTBALLER’S WIFE
 Liverpool Echo - Monday 10 June 1963
PRIZES AT FORMBY FESTIVAL
The wife of Everton football player Gordon West went home to Maghull on Saturday with several prizes from the Formby Music Festival.  Twenty-years-old Ann, of 18 Claremont Road, Maghull, who is expecting her first baby in September, has been going to the Formby Festival for 13 years and has won many prizes.  “I only got back from Spain at the beginning of the week,” she said.  “I wasn’t going to come, but at the last minute I changed my mind, Gordon was watching me for part of the time while I was playing the piano – he is tone deaf.”  
CUP WINNERS
Ann came first in the three main piano solos and won one of the most important prizes of the festival, the Collinson Cup.  Other prize winners were; Hanson Cup, Sylvia Stanway (Blackpool); Weld Blundell Cup, Janet Hughes; Rushworth and Dreaper Cup, Kaye Perry (Blackpool); Ken Cup, Alison Dalton (aged 12), Formby.  The Secretary of the festival, Miss Madeline Wright, said; “It has been a great success; there has been very high standard amongst the performers this year.” 

EXILED EVERTONIAN WITH A COMPLAINT
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 11 June 1963
By Leslie Edwards
From Cunard’s chief in Montreal, Mr. Reg Smathers (who used to play a nifty game of cricket and football in these parts) comes criticism of Chris Brasher’s view in a Canadian paper on “Everton’s championship success.  After wondering whether Tottenham or Milan are the best team in Europe, Brasher goes on to “wrap up” the English season in these provocative words;  “Everton a team controlled by millionaire John Moores who have brought their way to the top and played tough, unattractive football hard men from the hard tow of Liverpool…,”
Mr. Smathers’ comment; “It is a great pity that places abroad have writers who give such a wrong impression, and I am afraid at times this is not only confined to sport.”  Though John Moores may have spent a great deal of money in helping Everton to get the players to produce a championship team, all the money in the world cannot buy success in football, as many millionaires outside this city have found to their cost.  The Everton triumph was as Joe Mercer said the time, due to the club’s chairman for jolting the club out of its complacency; to John Carey for forming the basis of a brilliant side; and to Harry Catterick for introducing two or three players with sufficient “bite” in their play to ensure success in many away games.  Everton’s play has usually been attractive and not often been rough.  Since so few of the players come from Liverpool I don’t see how they can be described as hard men from a hard town.  Mr. Basher does not even recognise Liverpool as a city.  Almost needless to say Mr. Smathers is and always has been a keen follower of Everton.  But not so rabid that he would not have liked Liverpool to help their neighbours to gain a double.  The Anfield Cup quest failed, he thinks, because of injuries to key men at a crucial time and because they were so unlucky in the semi-final against Leicester City at Sheffield. 
NO CONFIRMATION, BUT…
Though no one will confirm that the League are on the side of Everton in their complaint against Tottenham Hotspur captain for alleged derogatory references to them in newspaper articles before the season ended, it seems likely that the Management Committee will not be satisfied with Spurs’ answer to the allegations, and that they will take action.  Having read the articles, I think Everton more than justified in complaining. 
That old champion of Wally Fielding Mr. A.J. Higgins, of Crosby has been discussing football rates of pay which must surely make Mr. Selwyn Lloyd’s eyebrows life when he comes to examine them at the request of football authority.  Mr. Higgins says;- Mine host of the Crow’s Nest, Great Crosby, is a rabid, even fanatical, Liverpudlian, I am of course, an ardent Evertonian who would have liked to see Liverpool win the Cup once Everton had been knocked out.  “During the close season we both wish each other all the joys of the Second Division to come!  He thinks that the money-making venture proposed by the 100 pounds per week, well-paid Everton players a bit much, and for once, I agree with him.    “With a few exceptions it seems to be the fashion these days that the more they get the sooner they are back again going a bigger, and better, Oliver Twist act, Surely, with the fattest pay packet ever footballers generally and Everton footballers in particular have never had it so good, and are not so good as in the vintage years of the late “twenties and early “thirties? 
“For a second time I agree with him that this largest money pool’ is too mercenary for words.  Yet the well paid teenagers with money to burn will flock to it, no doubt.” 
Everton footballers are devoting a major slice of the proceeds of their League Championship celebration ball at the Rialto on Thursday to the Liverpool boy Association. 
Observed goalkeeper Albert Dunlop; “The L.B.A. does an enormous amount of good for young footballers through its many clubs, and all the players have agreed that they should share in Everton’s success.” 

THEY’RE NEITHER PIN-HEADS NOR BIG-HEADS
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 12 June 1963
By Leslie Edwards
England under- 23 team manager, Joe Mercer, went to pains at the League meeting last week-end to tell Everton manager, Harry Catterick, what a good job Brian Labone did as captain of the team which toured the Continent recently.  “Brian is a grand type.  He gave me tremendous help,” Joe said.  The Everton manager told me yesterday; “He wasn’t telling me anything I didn’t know.  Brian gets a good living from football and puts a lot back into the game.  He listens to advice and is common sense about his football and everything else.  I wish there were more like him, it would make life a lot easier.”  Maybe the influence of Mr. Labone, senior, himself a one-time player, has put Brian on the right track.  I never knew a parent whose sense of proportion in football matters did him greater credit.  Why, he even telephoned this office a season or so ago to thank us for our encouragement of his boy.  To be thanked for anything by anyone in football- save for a Cup final ticket- is very rare.  What Mercer and Catterick say of Labone could just as easily be said of Tom Jones, whose departure for an Italian team in Montreal, occurred a week or two ago, while this columnist was on holiday.  It would seem that the local boy who makes good –we have had many of them in this city- is the one who maintains his size in hats, whether he is capped or not.  Jones had a long, useful spell with Everton.  He was always the little gentleman and I can’t see him doing other than success in his new sphere.  He took with him a 1,000 pound benefit and more the respect of all the Evertonians (and Liverpudlians, for that matter) who had watched his play over the last 15 seasons.  His senior debut at Highbury for Everton was a special occasion.  He played so well that when he suffered a knee injury and was carried off, the Arsenal crowd rose to him.  T.G. Jones, his predecessor namesake in the centre half position at Goodison Park, was a great artist with the ball, but T.E’s solid club work for the team made as much impact. There must be something about the hard men of that hard town of Liverpool (quoting Chris Brasher) which helps them to be untemperamental and modest throughout their football days. 
At Goodison Park the apprentices train twice a week, but are free for the rest of the time.  “We’re training them for football, not to be artists,” said Mr. Catterick yesterday, when I asked how they were using their time.  “Besides,” he added, “you usually find that they put more paint on themselves than on what they are painting.”  I hope that isn’t true of the chairman of the club, who has taken his easel and palette to Italy for brush work of a different sort.  Gordon West, the Everton goalkeeper, who missed some of the team’s later matches through a painful shoulder injury, is now pestered by throat trouble.  The club have arranged for him to have his tonsils removed.  Gordon’s wife, daughter of his landlady at Blackpool, and a brilliant pianist, won a major award at a music festival in the North-West over the week-end.  Everton will not necessarily be faced this season with rebellious players who demand more money, because all the first-teamers signed two-year contracts twelve months ago.  There are ten other players on the staff who may well ask for more and there is no certainty that players already on contract will not ask the champions to “spring” a bit extra, but there will be no long hiatus such as there was last season, when Vernon, Parker and Young withheld their “hand” for a week or two prior to the season’s start.  For soccer managers the few weeks after the end of the season is a busy time catching up with old correspondence.  Messrs. Catterick and Shanky are not exceptions.  Neither is to holiday until the end of the month.  Of all people in the game here are two who have certainly earned their few weeks’ leisure. 
WAR-TIME “DERBY”
Arthur Westcombe, doing belated spring cleaning, came across a 1941 programme dealing with the wartime meeting of Liverpool and Everton at Anfield.  The band of the Irish Guard (60 performers) was an added attraction.  In those days crowds were limited to a few thousands because of the risk of air raids.  George Kay’s bulletin on this single-sheet programme talked of practically all the club’s professional joining H.M. Forces at or before the war’s outbreak.  The Liverpool manager of those days used to rake up his team from the countryside 50 and 60 miles away from Liverpool.  They included C.S.M-Instructor M. Busby, C.S.M Dick Temp Sergeants Riley, bush, McInnes, Balmer, H. Eastham, Taylor, &tc, 7c, and Flight Sergeant Nieuwenhuys, Able Seaman (and what an able-seaman he would be!)  Jim Harley and Gunner Bob Paisley.  As far as I know Second Lieutenant Len Carney who played so well for the club in war-time is still school mastering somewhere is these parts.  The joke about Liverpool and their many T.A players when the war started is that they travelled in style through the Woodhead tunnel near Sheffield, returning from their first game of the season at Sheffield United and a few days later were set to guard that same stretch of the line, eating Army rations where they had a few hours before been dining off the fat of the restaurant car.  As a matter of interest the teams for that far-off match in October, 1941, were;- Liverpool; Hobson; Lambert, Ramsden; Taylor, Bush, Kaye; Nieuwenhuys, Ainsley (Leeds United), Done, Dorsett (Wolves), Liddell.  Everton; Burnett; Cook, Greenhalgh; Bentham, Keen, Watson; Anderson, Jones (H), or Owen, Lawton, Stevenson, Lyon. 
Mr. Wescombe wonders where these Liverpool players are today.  “Nivvy” is a golf professional in South Africa, Ramsden also went abroad; most of the others are still around; some of them still in the game. 

LESLIE EDWARDS NOTES
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 13 June 1963
Talking of money, several people have written critically of Everton players' out-of-season activities to cash in on their League championship win. To raffle the autographed ball used in the decisive Everton v. Fulham match, plus International shirts worn by Everton players last season seem more that a little mercenary.  Time was when International shirts and caps were beyond price, but in 1963 apparently, everything, everyone has a price—and is for sale. Under the heading. "Much wants more" If. Arnold says of Everton's wind-raising venture: "I think the players have cashed in sufficiently already. Doesn't a free holiday (wives included) or the talent money paid account for anything?  Everton players have been well and truly rewarded and don't need to resort to things like this which are usually done by struggling clubs." 
Word battle continues 
Mr Arnold, I think, has a point. No one wants to deny the players anything they can get, but a dance, with tickets at one guinea each, and raffles of trophies... 
A Huyton reader reminds me that Everton are the only Lancashire club, during the past 24 years, not to have won a major title or made appearance at Wembley in the Cup final.  He asked whether the present number of Internationals supplied by Liverpool to England and Scotland (six full caps and one under-23 cap) ever been equalled.  With its McKinlay, Macnabb, Campbell, Bromilow, Chambers. Longworth, Lucas the team of the early 1920's had its share of capped England and Scotland men: unfortunately in those days there was no such thing as an under-23 England team.  On the battle of words between Everton and Tottenham, whose captain, Danny Blanchflower has said some hard things about the Everton set-up, R. Morris (266 Hunt’s Cross Avenue, Woolton) says: "Having read Blanchflower's delicately couched references to Everton and Roy Vernon's not so delicately couched references to Liverpool. It is no small source of amusement to me that Everton have carried their tale of woe to the Football League." 
When Blanchflower wrote of the power of money he was speaking, presumably, not tongue in cheek, but with a mouth full of corn-flakes ...  Though season 1963-64 is far away, or at least that is the way it feels, it is already clear that everyone will be gunning for Everton, in print and on the field, by the time the new season starts. It is still true as ever that getting to the top is relatively easy compared with the task of staying there.  Why there should be such antagonism to Everton is mysterious. Perhaps the club's three unfortunate experiences in London over the past few seasons at Chelsea in Dave Hickson's day at West Ham and Fulham last season—have not been forgotten or forgiven.
WIGANLL SIGNS
Everton centre forward Frank Wignall signed for Nottm. Forest.

FEE BALANCES EVERTON BUDGET
Liverpool Daily Post – Friday, June 14, 1963
WIGNALL COSTS NOTTINGHAM FOREST £20,000
MR. CATTERICK EMERGES AS ONE OF FOOTBALL’S ABLEST MANAGERS
BY Horace Yates
Cleared by a medical examination, Frank Wignall, the Everton forward, who has been troubled by a broken bone in his wrist, yesterday signed for Nottingham Forest, for a fee of £20,000.  Although it is too late to include this cheque in the accounts for last season, in effect this transfer fee wipes out the loss shown by the club of £19,659and leaves a balance of £341, despite the expenditure of big sums on players manager Harry Catterick considered essential to give the team that little extra punch and stability required to convert it into a Championship winning combination.  An examination of the position produces the indisputable fact that Mr. Catterick is probably the outstanding business chief of his day and as the Championship trophy now rests at Goodison Park, he might lay fair claim to being right up in the top bracket in his handling of playing affairs as well.  The Busbys, the Nicholson’s and the Buckleys, with their brilliant records, cannot point to a job better performed.  We have heard criticisms from far and wide of Everton buying success and it is undoubtedly true that the ability to lay hands on big sums of money when required, has aided Everton’s cause, but if ever a club has made success pay handsomely surely it is Everton. 
POPULAR FIGURE
Since Mr. Catterick took over in April 1961, he has not only lived down a lukewarm reception brought about in its entirely by the fact that he replaced a popular figure in John Carey, but has built solidly and progressively on the foundations be found.  He dipped into the club coffers to the extent of about £172,000 to buy the men he wanted, for as chairman John Moores revealed recently; “Harry names the men he wants and then we try to do something about it,” but if that seems to be a staggering sum, let us offset it by the money he has received for players considered no longer able to fulfil adequately Goodison Park requirements.  We find that his sales have produced at least £102,000 leaving a comparatively adverse balance of £70,000.  Then, think what Everton have got from the exchanges! Not only have they a Championship side, claimed at Goodison to be only now approaching its best standard, and worth a fantastic sum of money in today’s transfer values, but there is every possibility that the record receipts of last season will be left well behind next season if plans unfold as successfully as is hoped and expected.  Mr. Catterick bought Gordon West from Blackpool for £20,000.  George Heslop of Newcastle United figured in an exchange deal with Jimmy Fell, which left Everton £6,000 better off.  Denis Stevens came from Bolton for £25,000 and Johnny Morrissey from Liverpool for £15,000.  Then there was the £100,000 splash which put Wednesday’s Tony Kay into Everton’s half back line (£55,000) and Alex Scott, of Rangers on the right wing (£45,000).  Since then Kay has been capped and only illness prevented an international come-back by Scott. 
OUTGOINGS
While all this was going on however, Mr. Catterick took £30,000 from Leeds United for Bobby Collins; £20,000 from Nottingham Forest for Frank Wignall £18,000 from Birmingham City for Colin Green, £18,000 from Newcastle for Jimmy Fell (Heslop was valued at £12,000 in the deal); £10,000 from Plymouth for Micky Lill and a small credit was produced by the moves of John Bentley to Stockport County, Stan Edwards to Port Vale and Tommy Ring to Barnsley.  Not easily could a pleasanter picture be painted and if Mr. Catterick has had to spend almost to the point where it hurt, some balm at least has able sale of players considered surplus to requirements.  Everton’s big spending may have come to a temporary half, but only because there is nobody currently for sale who is considered able to improve on the man in possession.  If the time comes as it will for Everton to plunge again, I have not the slightest doubt that a considerable centre entry will be made.  Everton are a wealthy club but one of the big factors in their ability to buy well to that they can sell well.  There is always a demand for men who have served Everton.  Forest, for example, were willing to pay a club record fee to sign Frank Wignall, a man who has worn the club jersey n only 33 occasions.  In these days when really able players are at a premium it is not difficult to find clubs ready to pay for men who appeal to them, but there is a constant fear among managers of releasing a player who turns up trumps for some other club.  Despite the delight with which Leeds hailed their capture of Collins and their tremendous satisfaction with his form last season, it can hardly be said that Mr. Catterick has made any selling errors.  Whether Wignall will change that picture we can only wait and see, but my opinion is that far from taking a chance, Everton have sold well.  Some there are who say Wignall only needs a prolonged run in the senior side to prove his worth.  It is a calculated risk, but one I suggest, worth the taking.  Everton I think, aim at bigger names and more talented men.  The Everton Millionaires is a phrase which rolls readily off the tongue, but there are two sides to every story, particularly that at Goodison Park. 

£22,000 FEE
Liverpool Daily Post – Saturday June 15 1963
ASHWORTH JOINS PRESTON
By Horace Yates
Alec Ashworth, former Everton and Luton Town inside forward, was yesterday transferred by Northampton Town to Preston North End for a £22,000 fee.  I understand that Ashworth, who had requested a move, was able to make his choice of club from Blackburn Rovers, Aston Villa, and Preston.  As he belongs to Southport, it is perhaps hardly surprising that he choice Deepdale.  Last season he was at centre forward for Northampton and his contribution of twenty-five goals in thirty games played in important part in the club gaining promotion to the Second Division.  Preston plan to utilise him as replacement for Alf Biggs, who returned to Bristol Rovers during last winter.  It marks the end by manager Jimmy Milne of an intensive search for a striker forward and last night Mr. Milne said Ashworth would be used as a spearhead inside right. 
BUSTLING FORWARD
A bustling readers type of forward. Ashworth showed much early promise when with Everton, but his progress was upset by a nasty knee-cap injury.  When he recovered he was included with John Bramwell in an exchange deal with Luton Town, by which Everton paid a £10,000 fee to secure Irish International outside right Billy Bingham.  He scored twenty goals for Luton in 63 League games before going to Northampton and into Third Division football, which he had refused previously, when Bury and Everton had agreed on a £9,000 fee in 1960.  Ashworth really found his feet last season, when his trustful play brought him to the attention of several clubs and the way in which his valuation has soared from the £8,000 Luton received from Northampton to the £22,000 deal of yesterday is evidence of the advance he has made.  Ashworth travels have taken him from Division One to Division Two and in to Division Three.  Now he starts on the road back to the top with Preston in the Second Division. 

THAT EVERTON DANCE- THE FACTS
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 18 June 1963
By Leslie Edwards
Everton footballers, whose dance last week was reported initially to have been promoted for the benefit of the pool formed to capitalise on their League championship success, now inform me that all proceeds will go to charity –to the Liverpool Boys’ Association funds.  The facts (and I get them from Billy Bingham, one of the promoters of the dance) are these;- All profit from the dance; from the raffle of players’ international shirts and the Fulham match ball, will go to the Liverpool Boys’ Association funds.  Billy Bingham says; “As promoters, we may be partly to blame for not slating early enough to the public that charity would benefit from any profits.  What upset us most was the criticism your readers –and you agreed with it- that we were cashing in on the sale of our own international shirts.  This is not and we should have made this side of the matter clear.  “We did not wish to mention charity, because people might have thought that we were using charity to help the success of the function.” 
I am glad to have from Bingham this explanation of the players’ aims.  Those who wrote criticising the players will no doubt feel different now that they know the facts,.  So far as the Everton brochure is concerned, we shall do everything we can to help its success. 
On the same topic G. Brown, a friend of the players, says; “As the informant of the article on the Everton players dance which caused a stir among your readers last week, I feel it is only fair that my side of the story should be told.  “After the meeting of the players over the dance, Roy Vernon gave me the information to pass on to the Echo.  I asked if I should mention that the proceeds of the raffle for international shirts and ball were going to charity, along with part of the ticket sale.  The typical Roy Vernon reply was; “Don’t mention charity, as people will think we are using this as a means to get them to come to the dance.   “I have often wondered whether the public realise the amount of good work done by Everton and Liverpool players during the season.  I have never heard of any player refusing to attend a function, whether a club event or presentation dance.  This often entails two or three hour signing autographs and presenting prizes.   “I think there is justification for saying that the Everton players are and the money grabbers they are made out to be.  In closing, I would like to remind you that a top-line professional footballer’s life is very short.  If he is lucky enough to keep top form and escape injury, seven to 10 years is all he can expect at the top.  The more discerning of your readers will agree with my comments and say good luck to them and all they can get from an all-too-short career.” 
TOTTENHAM WARNED
Tottenham Hotspur, at present on tour in South Africa, will find a sharp letter from the Football League awaiting them when they return.  It says, in effect; “If any of your players write anything which can be held to be derogatory about other clubs in the Football League we shall hold you, the directors, responsible and the consequences could be serious.”  The League’s letter arises from complaints by Everton that the Tottenham captain, Danny Blanchflower, wrote last season articles held to be derogatory to Everton.  The Tottenham club, faced by this protest, said that the articles had been vetted and that they saw nothing wrong in Blanchflower’s writings.  It is clear that the Football League think the articles were unjustifiably critical of Everton and that they have taken steps to see that similar comment is not repeated. 

JACK GRANT JUNIOR APPRENTICED TO EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 19 June
By Leslie Edwards
Footballing sons of footballing fathers.  They are a pretty rare bread.  The Easthams, Mercers, Nelsons, and Lewisis, plus the Chedgzoys (both of who played for Everton) came to mind, but few others.  Now we must add the Grant family.  Jack Grant senior was an Everton fixture for years at right half back; a stocky hearts of oak type came up with a brilliant one or a useful goal.  It is possible in a few years’ time that his 15-years-son, signed a day or two ago as an Everton apprentice, may fill the same position with distinction, in the Everton first team.  David Grant learned his football in Stanley Park at the feet of his father, the emphasis being on the word feet.  The first thing Jack told him was; “You’ll never make a footballer if you can’t use both with equal facility.”  David graduated through Gwladys Street and Arnot Street schools; captained Arnot Street last year when they reached the final of the Echo Cup and played for Liverpool, Lancashire and England Schoolboys.  He now gets his big chance with his father’s old club, presumably because Manager Catterick (contempary of Jack Grant at Goodison Park), thinks there is a fair chance in this case of the like-father-like-son tag working out well.  David, like father has no size and weight, but he’s developing stamina by long-distance running in the summer.  The criterion, as in all other forms of sport, is “If they are good enough they are big enough.”  The uncomplaining Jack, club man nor excellence, thus has a new interest in his old club; Everton fans will watch the boy’s progress with great interest. 
CALLS FOR THE TROPHY
The League Championship trophy won by Everton may make one trip for display in town before it is put in the place of honour in the club’s trophy cabinet.  There is no further news of the possibility of a Civic reception for the team.  Manager Catterick says there have been many demands for the club to display the trophy in and around Merseyside, but that of they agreed all requests the thing would never be in its proper place at Goodison Park.  The Huyton reader who pointed out, innocently or otherwise, how long it was since Everton last won a major trophy or appeared in the final at Wembley, has his answer from the equally deep-dyed M. McKenzie, of 94 Crosswood Crescent, Huyton-Roby.  He writes;-
  “Your Huyton reader (obviously a Kopite) should be careful before making remarks about Everton, for the same thing can be applied to his own.  “He really should get the book and swot up a few dates, in 1923 Liverpool won the League Championship and then followed, guess what?  Twenty-four years without an honour until 1947.  Amazing, isn’t it?  “As a footnote, I will regale the reader-faced Huyton Liverpudlian with honours I have personally witnessed while following Everton.  At the age of 11 (my first full season in the boys’ pen) I saw the Division I trophy come to Goodison Park in 1927-28.  This was repeated in 1931-32 and again in 1938 (Pardon me, I forgot the F.A Cup win in 1933).  And I’ll soon be seeing the League Division 1 trophy again…” 

THE MAESTRO ON MAESTRO…
Liverpool Echo - Friday 21 June 1963
By Leslie Edwards
Some of the queerest sporting things come up for discussion at pubs and clubs.  Was Stanley Matthews ever selected to play for England at outside left?  What colours did Everton and Manchester City wear when they met in the final of the F.A Cup in 1933?  I saw that match, but I confess that if anyone were to pay me 100 pounds I couldn’t recall either side’s colours.  For the record Everton played in white and City in red.  All the players numbered, for the first time.  But the numbering ran not from 1 to 11, but 1 to 22.  As for Maestro and his selection at outside left this, I am told, never happened.   He often drifted to inside-left in an international match, but he was never named in the team sheet for that position.  The only way one could get the answer to this question was to ask the great man himself.  I caught him just before he left for Wimbledon, where his son plays in the singles championship for the first time next week.  “He’ll be lucky to survive a round,” said Stanley, “they are all pretty hot and the great value to him will be the benefit of the experience.”  “No, I was never selected to play for England at outside-left.  The only time I played there was as a boy – I was 17 –at Stoke and even in that game I was put on the team sheet in my usual position.  I played all the second half on the other wing.”  Matthews denied reports that he had had heat stroke during Stoke’s tour in Israel.  It was just a little indisposition; nothing more.  I was playing the next day, I don’t know how the story that I collapsed got about.” 
Double Thrill
The Maestro told me that he was thrilled at the prospect of playing again in the First Division next season.  He was thrilled, too, with the chance of Everton doing well in the European Cup.  That famous drift from one position in the field to another (but no one, least of all defenders, sees him move) Matthews explained this way;-
“It is something I’ve done only since the war.  You see there was no close marking before then.  These days they stick to you so close you’ve got to drift around a bit and pick up a loose ball otherwise you’d hardly get into the game.”  Of the chances of his long, magnificent career ending soon he said; “I’m ready for the season coming up and maybe for others after that.”  I can promise him one thing.  This Stoke’s share of away receipts this season will break records by thousands of pounds. 
From one famous outside-right I pass to another, as famed in his native Northern Ireland as Matthews is here.  Bouncing Billy Bingham, winner of more than 50 caps for Northern Ireland, has been distinguishing himself again on the Continent, but not in his customary right wing position.  During the recent tour in Spain it became necessary or him to appear at inside right.  He played better than ever and was subject to “rave” notices from the Spanish Press.  One wrote; “No one was doing anything exceptional except Bingham.  No one seemed able to stop him, not even the back, Raja; not even Pachin.”  It would be strange if, after losing his first team place to Scott, Bingham should find a new lease of life in the game as an inside forward. A s one of three Everton players who are reported as being available for transfer (the club will not confirm or deny it), Bingham should not be long out of the first team status if he goes, especially as it has now been found that he can operate as successful inside as out.  Though it is the choice season, fans on Merseyside are still occupied with last season and with the alleged “bias” shown to one team or another by this columnist.
L.W. Griffiths, from Castle Street, Birkenhead, says; “We all know you are an Evertonian, but your classic remark about Gabriel and company having “bite”! Well, Mr. Moores could have got a set of lions cheaper! You, with your immoral praising of these non-Merseyside men, will never admit that they are not a great side. 
Mr. Griffiths words will cause surprise at Goodison Park, where only this week I have been accused of being a “knocker” and at a Prenton hostelry run by the old Everton back, Norman Greenhalgh, who said to me the other day at a golf tournament; “You at least should be happy today.  They are playing off the red tee boxes!” 

EVERTON STAR SIGNS ON
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 22 June 1963
MAX BRIDE OR JOHNNY MORRISSEY
Members of Everton’s championship winning team watched this afternoon as their team mate, outside left Johnny Morrissey, signed on in a new role- as a husband.  They were guests at the wedding at St. Anthony’s Church, Scotland Road, of Mr. Morrissey and Miss Celia Collister, of Lord Street, Douglas, isle of Man.  Mr. Morrissey, who is 23, is the son of Mr. and Mrs J. Morrissey, of 122 Athol Street, Liverpool.  A former England schoolboy international, he played for Liverpool before signing for Everton at a fee of 15,000 pounds at the beginning of their championship season.  He met his bride, who is 22, while holidaying in Douglas six years ago.  She is the daughter of Mr. Jack Collister, of Lord Street, Douglas.  Miss Collister was attended as bridesmaid by her sister, Miss Betty Collister, and the bridegroom’s cousin, Angela Harding was the child attendant.  The best man was the bridegroom’s brother-in-law, Mr. Frederick Stanley.  After the wedding, about 80 guests were entertained at the Lord Nelson Hotel.  The month’s honeymoon will be spent in Majorca. 
BIG CROWD
A crowd of several hundred, many of them women and children, crowded the pavement outside the church and the church entrance as the various Everton players arrived for the service.  There were special cheers for captain Roy Vernon, Jimmy Gabriel, and Alec Parker.  The bridesmaids arrived shortly before 2 o’clock, both in orange dresses, and the bride in white, was only two minutes late when she arrived having to push through the crowd as she entered the church.  The wedding ceremony was performed by Mr. W. Flynn. 

IMPROVE FACILITIES
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 22 June 1963
COMPLIANT OF NUISANCE NEAR GROUNDS
EVERTON AND LIVERPOOL
UNSATISFACTORY
Liverpool Corporation Health Committee is to send to Everton and Liverpool Football Clubs details of improvements they would like to see at the grounds in toilet and eating facilities for spectators.  This is the outcome of a meeting of the committee yesterday, when members received a report from Professor Andrew B. Semple, Medical Officer of Health.  “Conditions existing inside the grounds have been given special attention and also the possibility of nuisance arising in the vicinity of the grounds when they are large extra attendances,” says the report. 
CO-OPERATION
The clubs had shown every co-operation, says the report, and had carried out improvements during the past few years.  Both had embarked on schemes for the provision of additional facilities for spectators.  But then the report goes on; “The unsatisfactory conditions observed, however, at the grounds include, generally, inadequacy of public conveniences, unsatisfactory provision for food, inadequate artificial lighting of passages and approaches to the conveniences during evening matches and lack of adequate cleansing.  “Nevertheless, the majority of these difficulties arise during the tremendous pressure that is exerted for short periods during first team matches.”  After saying that detailed specifications to comply with requirements would be forwarded to the clubs, the report adds;-
  “The Medical Officer, however, reminds the committee that there are insufficient public conveniences in close proximity to the grounds, and spectators use the conveniences in the local licensed premises and overflow into the side streets. 
BUS CONVERSIONS
“There have been complaints of public nuisances existing due to the lack of adequate conveniences.  The Medical Officer recommends that more public conveniences should be provided, and consideration given to the conversion of buses into mobile conveniences.”  Members of the committee were told that evidence was submitted for the inclusion of a section in the Liverpool Corporation Act, 1955, to provide mobile conveniences and that the Corporation may adapt for use any omnibuses or other sanitary conveniences, and make such charges as they thought fit.  Those mobile convenience would be suitable for use at football grounds and open-air meetings.
STREET TRADERS
Another matter that had been considered, says the report, is the problem of street traders selling hot dogs near the grounds, and whenever possible, legal action would be taken.  Mr. Harold Cartwright, the chairman of the ground committee of Liverpool F.C., when told about the report, commented; “When our new stand is completed there will be no complaints.  There will be adequate provision for toilets and four or five modern, hyglenic cafes.”  Mr. Cartwright said he had never heard the question of inadequate lighting brought up before, but though that certain members of the public were to blame if they were any lack in this direction.  “Light fittings and bulbs which are provided are the target for a minority of hooligans,” he added.  Mr. W. Dickinson, secretary of Everton F.C., said last night; “Until I have seen the report and digested the details I cannot make any comment.” 

EVERTON MAY MEET DUKLA AGAIN
Liverpool Echo - Monday 24 June 1963
By Leslie Edwards
Everton may get the chance to avenge a heavy defeat in the 1961 New York tournament when the draw for the preliminary round of the European Cup is made in Zurich on July 3. The latest club to qualify for the tournament are Dukla Prague, who retained the championship when the Czech League finished their programme last week.  Thanks to the big freeze-up, some of the European championships have had to go on into June, but only two more names are awaited now. The playoff for the West German title will not be completed until four days before the draw, but already it appears that the favourites, Hamburg who knocked Burnley out of the European Cup two years ago, are going to be eliminated this time.  Apart from defeated finalists Benfica and Real Madrid  —still a big attraction in spite of their decline—the plums  in the 1963-64 tournament will be the Italian rivals, holders  A.C. Milan and Internazionale, who won the championship.  This is the one city in Europe where football fever rages even more fiercely than on Merseyside. Both clubs use the same ground, the 90,000-capacity San Sire stadium, and enthusiasm in the city has already reached such a pitch that A.C. Milan have asked the European Union to stage the 1964 final there.  Other qualifiers from the better-known countries are Rangers (Scotland), Monaco (France). Standard of Liege Belgium). P.S.V. Eindhoven 'Holland), F.K. Austria of Vienna (Austria', Partizan Belgrade (Yugoslavia), Zurich Switzerland’ and Brann, of Bergen, Norway.  Ai holders, A.C. Milan will be exempted from the preliminary round draw.
Scrupulous sports  . . . 
I have been reading an excellent article by a Liverpool man, Mr. Cyril Hughes, in the F.A. News, the monthly magazine of the Football Association. Entitled “The Capital of Football," it discloses many interesting sides of League football in Liverpool, not least that before last season’s freeze-up it was estimated that one-seventh of the total of Football League attendances had been registered by the Liverpool and Everton clubs.  Mr. Hughes, who knows his Liverpool and Everton well except for one salient inaccuracy) recalls the Liverpudlian father, whose daughter wanted to marry an Evertonian, observing after forbidding the union: "No good ever came of these mixed marriages."  The part of the article on which I disagree, and on which I think nearly everyone who has ever seen a Liverpool v. Everton match will disagree, is in the following paragraphs: Nevertheless, despite the intense rivalry between the supporters, it is pleasant to record that the players of the Everton and Liverpool teams have for many years been on the most excellent terms with each other. The trouble is, as one dyed-in-the-wool partisan sadly reminded me, most of them ain't Scousers. They just don't understand.  "Whatever the reason, the local derby games between Everton and Liverpool have for a very long time now had the reputation of being at once the hardest-fought, the most exciting and the most clean and sporting games in the British football calendar.  It was, I gather, not always so, but very few fans are old enough now to recall the bad old days. I have myself seen many of these local clashes, both at Anfield and Goodison and cannot suggest a parallel for their combination of tremendous endeavour and scrupulous sportsmanship."  Mr. Hughes that is the over-statement of the year'...

EVERTON GET LOAN FROM MOORES
Liverpool Daily Post- Tuesday June 25 1963
Away, and from then until Christmas they had played with rhythm.  The break-up of the weather made them seem to lose their rhythm, but eventually the League championship was won.  The third and fourth teams had also win championships.  Paying tribute to the manager.  Mr. Harry Catterick the coaching staff, skipper Roy Vernon and the first team players he spoke of their constant endeavour.  He also congratulated Brian Labone and Tony Kay on their first international caps.
THANKS BOARD FOR CO-OPERATION
“I gratefully acknowledge the wholehearted co-operation of everyone on the board during the last season,” he added.  Turning to the future he said that the European Cup would present new problems and a new challenge.  “We shall be playing on strange grounds and under conditions of great stress, and under referees whose interpretation f the laws are slightly different from those to which we are used.  It will be a quite different type of football.  “We have a very good team –indeed a team which has not yet reached its peak.  Although our new players have fitted in well it is not until they have played very many difficult games together that they will really learn to reply on each other” he said.  He said that the club would stage not only some of the preliminary matches of the World Cup competition in 1964, but would almost certainly be invited to stage one of the semi-final ties
DIRECTORS RE-ELECTED
The three retiring directors Mr. C.E Balmforth Mr. N. W. Coffey and Mr. E. Holland Hughes were all re-elected – the nomination of Mr. D.M. McPhall, a nominee of the Shareholders Association being withdrawn at the last moment.  A spokesman for the association requested Mr. Moores to meet representatives of the association to discuss the question of representation of the association on the board, Mr. Moores said that he would not-it was not up to him to arrange such things.  It was up to the shareholders themselves to appoint directors.  Later, he said, he was quite willing to discuss matters for the good of the club with shareholders.  A Shareholder asked whether it was true that the trip to Spain had cost the club £4,000 or more yet the dividend was being withheld Mr.Moores said that he thought that the money was well spent.  Speaking of the recruiting of young players, Mr. Catterick said that young players signed were insurance for the future, but it did not mean that an occasional flutter in the transfer market might not be necessary.
QUESTIONED ABOUT APPRENTICCES
Replying to a question he said there were thirteen apprentices at Goodison at the moment.  They were governed by F.A rules to 15 but numbers fluctuated from time to time, and they were interested in young players all over the country.  Questions about the dismissal of Everton from the F.A Cup by West Ham and refereeing in general were married by Mr. Catterick “I cannot comment on the club’s official report on a referee, which is sent to the Football League or the F.A. after each match.”  And Mr.Moores said; “I have no rumble with that result.  We had enough chances to win the game before that mentality.”  On the whole British referring is very good. 

THEME SONGS AND SUCH
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 25 June 1963
By Leslie Edwards
Theme songs are all the rage. Everton's Z-car (to the old Johnny Todd tune' signature is becoming well known but their chant, like Liverpool's. is probably more effective.  Ron Chambers (104 Attington Road. Anfield) says: " I detect a move to scrap the wonderful sound which went arm-in-arm with Everton's success last season—the chant.  “While I have nothing against a theme tune, I take exception to the insistence of one writer that Everton need this song. Who could have wished more from supporters than the chanting ovation given to the team throughout the Fulham and Spurs games in particular'? “I ask you to call on all Evertonians to ensure that whatever comes or goes the Ev-er-ton chant stays. While I do not always agree your views on the local soccer scene. I readily credit you highly for your sporting intentions and obvious willingness to allow sports fans to 'get things off their chests.' " 
Trevor Ridgeway (25 Taunton Street, Picton Road) also has something to say on the topic: “I see Everton are adapting the tune of Johnny Todd as their theme song and that the supporters' club are offering a prize for the writer of the best words to go with it.  “So isn't it about time Liverpool adapted a tune of their own instead of copying Southampton's' There are plenty of tunes available. One that comes to mind is the old Scouser air, Maggie May. 

EVERTON BROUGHT TWO STARS WITH £100,000 INTEREST-FREE LOAN
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 25 June 1963
SHAREHOLDERS HEAR OF GESTURE BY CHAIRMAN
£190,000 GATE RECEIPTS
By Leslie Edwards
Everton chairman, Mr. John Moores, explained after last night’s annual general meeting of shareholders why he loaned the club £1000,000 interests free.  He said “I made the loan because Harry Catterick wanted to sign Tony Kay and Alex Scott.  The directors would not agree to having these players unless I put up the money.  This was my biggest loan to the club.”  Although it was not disclosed at the meeting, I understand.  Mr. Moores has been recipient of two gifts to mark the club’s championship success last season –one a piece of plate, autographed by directors, and the other a memento from the players.  News of Mr. Moores’ loan was given by the chairman of the Finance Committee, Mr. Holland Hughes.  Referring to the balance carried forward this year of £53,045, compared with £41,774 a year ago he said “This gratifying result has been made possible by the assistance of the chairman which is reflected in the figure of £33,594 which appears in the balance sheet under donations.  The loan, interest free, of £100,000 was then disclosed. 
RECORD GATES
Gate receipts from League matches, said Mr. Hughes, were an all-time record (£190,807); expenditure at £313,165 was very high.  Players wages cost £67,054; transfers fees £84,970-a figure that would have been considerably higher but for the satisfactory transfer out of players by the Everton manager.  Mr. Hughes added “We have actually made a loss of £19,659.  Bank advances and loans secured by mortgages on properties, listed among the club’s liabilities, totalled £65,144 compared with £44,228 last year.”  Mr. Hughes said £47,599 had been spent on ground maintenance.  Bar profits were £4,153; programmes sales showed an increase of nearly £3,000. 
TRIBUTE
Mr. Moores paid tribute to Mr. Catterick, to the club’s captain, Roy Vernon and to the players.  He acknowledged the wholehearted co-operation of everybody on the board.  The European Cup would present new problems to Everton, but the team had not yet reached its peak.  The club would stage some of the World Cup games of 1966 and probably one of the semi-finals.  The retiring directors Merrs Cyril Balmforth, Norman Coffey and Holland Hughes, were all re-elected.  Mr. D.M. McPhail, nominee of the Shareholders’ Association, withdrew at the last moment.  When a spokesman for the Shareholders’ Association asked whether Mr. Moores would agree to meet representatives of the Association to discuss the Association being represented on the board, Mr. Moores said he would not.  It was not up to him to arrange such things.  It was up to the shareholders to appoint directors.  He would discuss with shareholders any matters likely to be for the good of the club. 
£4,000 HOLIDAY
After the announcement that the club would pay no divided a shareholder asked Mr. Moores whether it was true that the holiday trip to Spain by players and officials cost £4,000.  The chairman said he thought that money had been well spent.  Questions about the dismissal from the Cup of Everton at West Ham were parried by Mr. Catterick.  He said; “I cannot comment on the club’s official report on a referee.”   Mr. Moores added; “I have no grumble with that result.  We had enough chances to win game before West Ham got their penalty.  On the whole British referring is very good.” 

EVERTON CELEBRATION –CIVIC AND CLUB
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 26 June 1963
By Leslie Edwards
Everton are to have two celebrations of their League championship win; the first, a civic one at which the Lord Mayor will preside; the second, their own, at a Liverpool hotel, when the new season has stsrated.  The civic dinner at the Town Hall will take place on July 24; the club’s celebration, at which some 300 guests will be present, is fixed, for the moment, for September 5.  Because most of the First and Second Division clubs of the Football League, the F.A and other bodies will be represented at the club’s celebration, not all shareholders can be invited.  It is proposed to ballot for 20 places.  Some former Everton players and officials are likely to be present.  It is possible that Everton may have to go to Moscow for one of their European Cup games.  The U.S.S.R are entered for the first time this year; their season is in full swing and Moscow Spartak, last year’s champions, have been nominated.  East Germany will be represented by Motor Jena; Hungary by Ferencvares. 

CIVIC SEND-OFF FOR CHILDREN’S OUTING
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 26 June 1963
LIVERPOOL MOTORISTS TAKE THEM TO SOUTHPORT
The Lord Mayor and Lady Major of Liverpool (Alderman and Mrs. John McMillan) gave a civic send-off to Liverpool motorists’ annual outing for physically handicapped children today.  Everton footballers Billy Bingham, Alex Parker and Alex Young were among the large crowd on St. George’s Plateux to see the children leave for Southport. 

RE-SIGNED
Liverpool Echo - Friday 28 June 1963
TYRER TO GO TO MANSFIELD
EVERTON FORWARD IN DEAL
Alan Tyrer, Everton’s Liverpool –born inside forward, who was on the transfer list, is expected to sign for Mansfield Town, the Third Division club, later today.  Everton reduced the fee to a nominal one to enable Tyrer to find another club, and Mansfield agreed the new figure with Everton.  Tyrer asked to go on the transfer list during last season and Wrexham made an offer for him.  Tyrer refused to go then because he preferred a higher class of football. 

LETTERS
Liverpool Echo - Friday 28 June 1963
From Mr. J.T. McLoughlin, of 277 Fountains Road, Liverpool 4.  “I see that Everton are planning a benefit match for Dixie Dean next season, I am sure the fans of Everton and Liverpool would be delighted to attend, and I suggest a near international game between England and Scotland with the following teams; - it would pack Goodison Park. England; West; Bryne, Moran; Milne, Labone, Kay; Callaghan, Hunt, Arrowsmith, Melia, Morrissey. Scotland;- Lawrence; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Yeats, Stevenson, Wilson, Young, St. John, Wallace, Liddell.”

EVERTON RE-SIGNINGS
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday June 29 1930
MANSFIELD SNAP UP ALAN TYRER
By Horace Yates
Mr. Harry Catterick, the Everton manager; announced yesterday, before leaving on holiday, that all the Everton players had accepted the terms offered to them and had re-signed.  In view of the wonderful season they experienced in their Championship year, with its record financial yield, this statement is hardly surprising and if the professional staff fare as well as next season, and the possibilities are that their earnings will be greater still, I doubt if there will be any grumbling this time next year either. 
TYRER GOES
Everton yesterday parted company with their reserve forward Alan Tyrer, who signed for Third Division club Mansfield Town.  Having agreed terms with Everton, Mansfield manager Tommy Cummings travelled to Manchester yesterday afternoon where he met the player, and after a short discussion Tyrer agreed to the move.  The fee involved is unlikely to make any impression on Everton’s overdraft, for the club were prepared to treat Tyrer generously in order to assist him to find a new outlet in time for next season.  Aged 20, Tyrer joined Everton in 1960 and made his debut the same year at outside right in a match at Fulham.  He made three other appearances that season and in all has played nine League games.  Tyrer could have joined Wrexham last season, but declined the move.  When I asked if there was new foundation for suggestions that Bingham, Thomson, Dunlop and Don McIntyre a young outside left, might also be on the move Mr. Catterick said “We have had no office for any of these players, or in fact for any player.” 

LIVERPOOL; CAPITAL OF FOOTBALL
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 29 June 1963
By Cyril Hughes
Who says that football in Britain is on the way out? Who are the pessimists who allege that our great national and international game can no longer attract players or spectators? Such people may find evidence to support their views in some peculiar and forsaken ports of Britain, inhabited by peculiar and forsaken people.  But they have obviously not spoken to the thousands and thousands of youngsters who actually play football every week. And they have obviously not been to the places where football is talked and lived and dreamed about day in, day out, from beginning to end of the season, by tens upon tens of, thousands of ardent supporters.  Season? For your real football fan, there is no such thing as a close season. Summer is merely a period of hibernation, of suspended animation, to be devoted to catching up on work or family responsibilities, and resting nerves and vocal chords in readiness for the resumption of the normal rhythm of life in August.  Supreme among such places is the sprawling, dirty breezy cocky city of Liverpool, which for sheer fanatical devotion to the game has no serious rival to the proud title of “the capital of football.” 
ATMOSPHERE 
Before the great freeze-up hit this season's football programme, it was estimated that one-seventh of total Football League attendances to date had been registered by the Liverpool and Everton clubs, and there is no reason to suppose that the proportion has not been maintained or increased during the remainder of the season.  Everyone who reads the sports pages of the popular Press knows, or thinks he knows, all about the atmosphere at the home ground; of Liverpool's two senior clubs.  This season, of course, Merseyside has quite a lot to shout about with Liverpool reaching the semi-final of the F.A. Cup, and Everton, despite some lapses, winning the Football League Championship for the first time since 1939.  But support for these two teams has always been at a fantastically high level compared with that commanded by other clubs, even during the lean years.
BEYOND PRICE 
Since the war both clubs have had prolonged spells in the Second Division, and neither has won a major  football honour apart from Liverpool's immediate post-war League championship; yet the turnstiles at both grounds have all along continued  to click like rattles, with attendances of 50,000  and upwards by no means unusual especially at the larger Goodison Park,  and  anything under 30,000 a rarity  If a mere player can command a transfer fee of  £100.000, crowds like these would be beyond price if  there were ever a transfer market In supporters!  But of course such supporters could never transfer their allegiance. This fact must be borne in mind in any analysis of the reasons for such fanatical interest in the game on Merseyside. One reason is probably economic.  As I have suggested before, mass spectator support for a professional football is a late product of the industrial revolution, the cheapest means of escape from drab and depressing surroundings, from ill-paid work or the misery of unemployment, into a world of colour and excitement and sheer aesthetic pleasure.  Football, as Marx might have said, was the opium of the people. Increased material prosperity has provided a greater variety of escape routes. Teams like Accrington Stanley are the victims of the growing availability of the cathode ray tube and the internal combustion engine.
SIGNIFICANT 
Perhaps it is significant; too, that support for football flourishes to-day in places like Spain, Italy and Latin America, which are among the less prosperous countries. Certainly the terraces of the average British football ground seem to have been designed for the accommodation of cowed and dispirited multitudes in cloth caps and mufflers.  It is the game, if anything, that must inspirit and uplift them.  In Liverpool this still happens, perhaps because in a generally prosperous country, Merseyside is a comparatively depressed area. Liverpool, it must be admitted, is still an ugly, dirty, depressing city, and unlike its ugly and dirty counterparts in the Midlands and South.  It is not rolling in newfound wealth. The North- East, another area that has not "had it so good." also finds solace, and a healing source of local pride, in football.  Economic circumstances alone, however, do not account for the popularity of the professional game on Merseyside. Nor can the explanation be found solely in the fact that there are two senior clubs in the city, though this inevitably has much to do with it, producing local "Derby" games and intense rivalry.  But other cities have two or more teams in direct opposition without, except perhaps in Glasgow, exciting in their supporters passions as high or as deep as those of Merseyside.  The fact is that in Liverpool football has long been the religion as well as the opium of the people, replacing and sublimating the Old Catholic Protestant sectarian strife that used to bedevil relationships between different sections of the Merseyside community (and still complicates local polities).  Some people will tell you that the rivalry between Everton and  Liverpool was merely the continuation of sectarian strife by other means, as it still is in Glasgow, but if that was ever the case it is no longer so. The football rivalry has long been a crusading cause in its own right, cutting across all other loyalties, and uniting Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Buddhists and atheists in passionate identification with the Reds or the Blues.   For such supporters to transfer their loyalty from one team to the other would require apostasy on a superhuman scale, or brainwashing of an intensity as yet unknown to the most misapplied modern science.
PARTISAN 
Your true Scouser cannot escape commitment.  Just as, according to W. S. Gilbert, it used to be this case that every boy and every gal born into the world alive was either a little Liberal or a little Conservative, so in Liverpool every infant becomes either an Evertonian or a Liverpudlian at the baptismal font, if not sooner.  Family influence naturally has much to do with what a child becomes but this football partisanship can cut across, can even estrange and split families.  They tell in Liverpool, invariably with a straight face, of the ardent Evertonian, whose daughter, a minor wished to marry a young man discovered, on discreet inquiry, to be a Liverpudlian.  The father forbade the union. "No good," he declared, "ever came of these mixed marriages."  Supporters of each team, understandably, tell innumerable stories against the other. One of the best originated soon after the war, when Everton were languishing near the bottom of the First Division. This was in the days when there was a First Division, a Second Division, and a Third Division, divided into a Northern and Southern Section.  There is a famous hospital in Liverpool, known as the Northern.  According to the story, the then Everton manager was involved in a street accident and was carried unconscious to the Northern Hospital. When he came round he asked, in the classic manner: Where am I?" "You’re in the Northern," came the reply.  "Blimey!" he groaned.  "We didn't stay long in the Second Division either, did we?”
HARD-FOUGHT 
The same story, needless to say, has also been told with the Liverpool manager as protagonist.  Nevertheless, despite the intense rivalry between the supporters, it is pleasant to record that the players of the Everton and Liverpool teams have for many years been on the most excellent terms with each other.  (“The trouble is," as one dyed-in-the-wool partisan sadly remarked to me, most of e'm ain't scousers. They just don't understand.").  Whatever the reason, the local "Derby " games between Liverpool and  Everton have for a very long time now had the reputation of being at once the hardest fought, the most  exciting, and the most clean and sporting games in the British football calendar. It was, I gather, not always so, but very few fans are old enough now to recall the bad old days.  I have myself seen many of these local clashes, both at Anfield and at Goodison, and cannot suggest a parallel for their combination of tremendous endeavour and scrupulous sportsmanship.  Never have I seen a match F.A. Cup Finals and international matches included - to equal the searing tension and intense rivalry of these games.  Never have I witnessed a single act, by either team in these matches, which departed from the highest standards of sportsmanship.  It’s a proud record.  The players established this basis of friendly coexistence  a long time ago, and all true fans welcome  the present state of affairs, symbolised by the fact that  at Derby " games Everton  and Liverpool players  always come on to the field  side by side .Many people  think this practice was a  Wembley Cup Final Innovation.  It was not. The Liverpool clubs were the first to adopt it).  Even the rival supporters despite their chauvinism, are friendly, or at least tolerant, enough towards each other these days. Ugly partisan clashes are largely a thing of the past. This does not mean that out of the thousands of spectators that both clubs attract week by week there are not a few who occasionally misbehave themselves.  It would be remarkable if it were otherwise, but some newspapers undoubtedly exaggerated both the incidence and the significance of these occasions - especially newspapers published in London, that most provincial of all British cities.  Let foreigners remember that both Everton and Liverpool take up to 10,000 supporters with them even to distant away games. If one or two, far from home and family, go off the rails, that is deplorable, but  hardly a fair basis for reflection  on the character of scousers as a whole.  Remember too, that if Everton or Liverpool fans show disappointment when their team is defeated, it is not so much the opposing team or the defeat as such that they are concerned about, but the fact that they will have to live through the next week with the jibes of Liverpudlians or Evertonians jangling in  their sound-boxes.  Supporters of these two clubs, in other words, identify themselves far more fiercely with the fortunes of their teams even than the players do.  At this point I had better come clean. Scousers who read this will by now be muttering in their beards and asking what right I have to analyse their motives and their loyalties.  Only scousers, they will say, are qualified to discuss these sacred matters, for both Liverpudlians and Evertonians, whatever their differences, are jealously united in insisting on their right to remain the best of enemies, without outside interference.  My qualification is that I was born and bred and brought up in, and long breathed the dusty air of, Liverpool, I attended an elementary school that once gloried in the name of Eggy Nash (scousers will need no explanation of that, for others it would be superfluous) where we played football on a bald patch of wasteland known as The Hidden, in white jerseys with a V motif and when an attempt was made to kit the school team in red jerseys, half the lads refused to play. They were Evertonians, of course, but the incident shows how careful teachers have to be in Liverpool.  Later I went to the grammar school that supplied Johnny Balmer to Liverpool and Brian Labone to Everton (also, to keep up the football connexion, the present Postmaster - General, who after all, does quite well out of the Pools).  With that sort of back- ground, it is no use my pretending to a neutrality in which none of the locals would believe.  If you’re born in Liverpool, you can’t be neutral.  At an early age, then, I became an Evertonian, largely because of the first professional match I ever was from the boys' pen at Goodison Park. (The second was from the boys' pen at Anfield, so that even in those days I was trying to be impartial. Actually, I must confess that I have often seen Liverpool play better football  that the boys from the  School of Soccer Science  across the park and that  statement is enough to have  me drummed out of the  Everton Supporters' Club
IN WILDERNESS 
I think I became confirmed as an Evertonian because I liked the Goodison spectators better.  They always seemed to appreciate the finer points of the game, whereas the Anfielders would tend to cheer mere crude endeavour but criticise their team when the lads were really trying to play football and that statement is enough to have me blacklisted at the Anfield turnstiles.  This season, success, whether partial or complete, has rather gone to the heads of both sets of supporters. After long years in the wilderness both teams have done well, and  the fans have allowed optimism to overcome judgement, which is to invite disappointment,  Wild visions of the League and Cup double gave way to talk of the League for Everton and  the Cup for Liverpool.  Liverpool's chance of success looked much the better, but supporters must never under - estimate the immense difficulty or achieving either of these glittering prizes.  Everton, after a splendid start, faltered (perhaps through changing a winning team?) but they often played brilliant football and finished in grand style by obtaining 20 out of the last 24 points. That surely is cause for satisfaction, and their supporters can look to the future with confidence.  As for Liverpool. All Evertonians were genuinely sorry that they did not win the Cup. Their team has had a great season, has played excellent football and brought credit to the club and the game. What more can supporters ask?  Several things more, of course - supporters always do. Ironically, from my own point of view, the very success of Everton and Liverpool this season prevented me from seeing them as often as I wished. 
FLOURISHING 
No longer living in Liverpool, I have to make a long journey to reach  Goodison or Anfield, a journey not worth making unless admission to the ground is certain which rules out the most attractive fixtures, now likely to be all ticket or full up before I get there. Like a good supporter, I accept this personal inconvenience as a welcome sign of the flourishing state of football on Merseyside.  Eggy Nash is gone, the trams are gone, the dockers' umbrella is gone. St.  George's Hall, Queen Victoria's statue, and the Liverpool and Everton football clubs remain. Go to Anfield or Goodison on any match day and savour an atmosphere that you will not find anywhere else in the country.  Praise it or condemn it,  but you will never forget  it, with its cheers, its roars, its gasps, its sighs, and of late its imported staccato chant of "Ev-er-ton!" and  "Liv-er-pule!" Enthusiasm, fanaticism, catharsis, escapism, mass inspiration, mass hysteria call it what you will, but it is bigger than football.  As a lifelong Blue I can now hold my head high, even with Reds around. Of course, outside the 'Pool the sour grape industry will flourish. They are already saying that Everton's entry into the European Cup competition, by bringing about an invasion of the Continent by thousands of fanatical Scousers, will finally end Britain’s hopes of entering the Common Market. Who cares? Liverpool gave the world Paddy's Market, and there was nothing common about that.  They say that in schools in Spain and Italy and France and elsewhere children are no longer being taught English, but are being subjected to painful incomprehensible sessions of Scouse language, which is an amalgam of English, Irish, dust and adenoids.  Well, that's the gear. I gladly provide them with the classic key to the mysteries of Scouse talk. It is a riddle: 
O: What’s the difference between a pan o’ scouse and a marrerwack?
A; What’s a marrerwack
Retort; Nuthin’ –wozser-marrerwityew?
If Real, or Torino, or Rheims or the rest can work that out, they’ll be welcome at Goodison.  They’ll be welcome anyway, or the Goodison crowd always welcome a really good football team, whatever the colour of its shirts.  Till then, tarrarfernow, well.  (Reprint from the F.A. News by permission of the Football Association.) 

TYRER TRANSFERRED
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 29 June 1963
Alan Tyrer, Everton’s-year-old inside forward was transferred yesterday to Mansfield Town for a nominal fee.