VERNON AND PARKER ASK FOR TRANSFER
Monday, July 2, 1962 The Liverpool Daily Post
THREE PLAYERS DECLINE BEST TERMS IN EVERTON HISTORY
By Horace Yates
Roy Vernon, Welsh international inside forward and Alex Parker, Scottish international right back, have followed up their refusal to accept Everton’s terms for next season, by asking for a transfer.  Alex Young, Scottish international forward is taking further time to think over the terms.  A decision is expected from him this week.  It was obvious that if Everton players and club stuck to their guns the present difficult position must arise.  I understand that some elasticity was shown in the bargaining between the parties but obviously not sufficient to bridge the gap.
£3,000 POSSIBLE
It has already been revealed that if Everton enjoy a successful season their players can earn something like £3,000 a man, and because one individual is reported to have asked for double the amount offered, it may have been presumed that he fancies himself as a £6,000 a year man.  If that were true there would be little public sympathy extended to any player who found the club unwilling to accede to such demands.  In fairness I do not believe that such is the case at all.  To earn their £3,000 the players must collect a liberal number of win and draw bonuses and play their football so attractively that gates will be maintained or increased for much of the promised reward depends on the click of the turnstiles.  The basic pay is £35 a week.  I have been told that for next season the starting point for crowd bonus payments has been fixed at 35,000.  For every additional 1,000 there is an extra pound in the wage packet, in respect of both the home and away game.  That is not all, if the team win a position in the top four, the bonus increase to thirty shillings a 1,000, and if they lead the League or are second best, the bonus becomes £2 a thousand.  In other words the club is willing to pay for success and who can fault such a policy? 
RECORD WAGES
Without a doubt the terms which have proved acceptable to the vast majority could, according to normal expectations, produce the biggest wages ever paid by the Everton club and it is claimed that last season only the Tottenham players as a team, earned more money than Everton.  With the better bonuses now offered, the players earning can soar still higher.  The club may take the view that they are being held to ransom, having worked out what they consider to be an offer of more than generous terms.  They feel they are straining the limits of consideration by their offer to the players and many will feel that the day when footballers could claim to being underpaid are no longer with us.  If they cared, the club might point out that salaries are not the end of the story.  Players are housed in modern dwelling at a most considerate rental, a certain number of free meals are provided and no club goes to greater expense than Everton in catering for the travelling comforts of their staff.  There are so many considerations of this sort that one is apt to overlook them in any assessment of payment, and yet it is a costly service aimed all the time at the players well being.  Clubs now put forward a claim that this is the day when players should count their blessings and the fact that so many do accept terms is all indication of general satisfaction.  Admittedly Roy Vernon was Everton’s top scorer, Alex Young from time to time, showed touches of sheer genius as a ball-juggling expert, and some there are who think of Alex Parker as being among the best right backs in the country.  Despite all that Everton’s away record still fell a long way short of what was expected or required. A little more success on opponents grounds and Everton would today be champions.  The injury bogey of course, did not help matters.  Is it surprising then that the club think twice about abandoning the idea of payment for success?  I have no doubt they would be delighted to see very member of their first team can earn £3,000 or more next season, for they would be paying on results.  Problems such as these are not peculiar to Everton alone.  When I discussed a similar sort of position with a player from another club, he refuted the idea that his pay should be governed in any way by the success or failure of his other colleagues.  He suggested that the only fair method was to judge each individual according to his merit and performance, and pay him accordingly.  No one will think an worse of a man who tries to realize on his talented, especially transitory talents nor does anyone question loyalties in such circumstances. 

EVERTON MUST NOW DECIDE THEIR ATTITUDE
Liverpool Echo- Monday, July 2, 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Everton must now decide their attitude with the new season a good seven weeks away, Everton Football Club must decide, within the next week or so, what attitude to adopt towards two of their leading players, Alex Parker, their right full back, and Roy Vernon, their inside forward, both of whom have refused terms and both of whom have paid that they would like transfers. A third player who has not yet accepted terms, Alex Young, has asked for more time to consider his position. If he follows the lead of Parker and Vernon, Everton would start the season with reserve players in three positions.  Parker saw Mr. Catterick, manager of the club, and said that the terms offered were not suitable; he signed the alternative contract, for the month of July, at £15 per week and after saying that he wanted a transfer, went off to Italy for a holiday. Vernon saw Mr. Catterick and put forward his suggestions for an increase in wages. When told these were unacceptable he produced a letter to the club asking them to transfer him.  The club's half back, Gabriel, who had withheld his signature, signed the new contract on Friday, and so did Bingham, an Irish international with more than 40 caps to his credit.  The question arises " Have the preponderance of Everton players have signed been chumps' " Or are those who are refusing putting themselves in that category?’  Mr. Catterick's only quotes on a situation which worries, but does not daunt him, are these: “These players should be thinking more of giving value for money than of asking for more money. We have the best supporters in the land at Goodison Park, fans who are behind the team all the time, home or away. Players should be seeking to win for them the honours their support deserves."
Baker, Crawford? 
With three players holding out against them, as did George Eastham in the case of Newcastle two or three seasons ago. Everton must make up their minds whether they are going to give way, or whether, like Newcastle, they are going to battle the issue to the end.  The result of the Eastham case was that the player succeeded, but can these Everton players convince authority that the terms they have been offered are not good enough?  Can they enlist the sympathy of followers  of the game ?  It is possible that Everton will tell the public just what these players have been offered, and what other advantages accrue from a place in the Everton team.  The rolling stone which gathers no moss does not apply to professional football. Indeed, the reverse is true. The man always on the move; always the central figure in a big transfer deal is the man who thrives most financially.  Are these Everton players determined not to kick a ball again for their club unless they are paid what they demand? It couId be. Possibly the club would then place on their heads transfer fees of commensurate size.  I do not doubt that other clubs in the country would seek to get the services of all or any of them, but could they pay the price?  I learned only last week that Everton had prepared  the way, by getting League sanction, for the possibility of  taking Liverpool-born Joe Baker, but a fee of 78.000 for  a player who has not been in a match since his serious car crash about six months ago will appeal only to a few clubs  and to Everton not at all. Crawford, of Ipswich, is another name which has been linked with Everton’s. This player is 29 years old and one wonders whether, for Everton s purposes, that would be too old. The Baker and Crawford contingencies arise, of course only if the impasse between Everton and Young persists.

BIGGER BASIC WAGE IS SOUGHT 
Liverpool Echo - Monday 02 July 1962
Everton Stars’ Proposals 
NO CROWD BONUS 
By Leslie Edwards
The secret of the pay negotiation " pause " of  three famous Everton  footballers, Alex Young,  Roy Vernon and Alex  Parker (none of whom  have signed their club's  proffered terms for  next seasons) is that they  want a bigger basic wage  with no rewards from the club's crowd-bonus  scheme.  The basic wage of most Everton players last season was £35 per week with an average of £6 per week from crowd bonuses. It is felt that players’ rewards should represent what he is worth, without regard to contingencies such as possible Injury: possible failure of the side as a whole or poor crowds due to falling gates or the counter attraction of Liverpool F.C, as First Division rivals.  The Players feel that if, as their club says, they will be able to earn, with bonuses, more than £3,000 a year next season there is no reason why they should not be paid a far better basic rate at the outset so long as they forego all bonuses save the ones the League sanction for a win or a draw.
NEGOTIATIONS
One of the players concerned, I understand, wanted to start negotiations with the club at a basic wage of £70 per week. Later he was prepared to sign for a basic £55 per week. The club's counter proposals were an offer of £40 per week plus crowd bonus.  Thus, fundamentally there is little between the disputing factions. The main holdup is due to the players Insistence that they should be guaranteed a bigger basic reward: the club plainly feels that the incentive to earn much bigger money should be sufficient guarantee. 

LIVERPOOL AND EVERTON OUT OF LEAGUE CUP
Liverpool Daily Post- Tuesday, July 3, 1962
By Horace Yates
Neither Everton nor Liverpool will take part in the League Cup competition in the coming season, a decision which I believe will be completely endorsed by their following.  Actually there was some keenness in official quarters to have the two Merseyside clubs included, in the belief that their presence would add a new interest to the tournament.  The reception for this struggling competition has again been lukewarm throughout the First Division and it is interesting to note that the game’s top clubs are evenly divided about the desirability of taking part.  Everton and Liverpool are joined by Arsenal, Manchester United, Sheffield Wednesday, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Nottingham Forest, Burnley, and Ipswich Town, in standing aside although Ipswich have made it clear that they are in favour of the competition, but consider they will have their hands full in view of their European Cup commitments and have asked to be excused. 

SHADES OF DIXIE, WARNEY AND TORRY
The Liverpool Echo- Tuesday, July 3, 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Readers of this column would be wrong to think that I am taking sides in the Everton pay controversy. I have given the facts as I know them. I have said (and still say) that players who were on  £20 per week as recently as two seasons ago  should think again before they turn down terms  which will give some of them more than twice as  much. By withholding their signatures they are not only losing money, but, much more important, the goodwill of their public. The fact that Fulham pay Haynes £100 per week has undoubtedly sparked the refusal of many star players to re-sign, but what Fulham can afford is their business. And whether Haynes is worth £ 100 is an open question.  No one blames Everton players concerned for trying to do the best they can for themselves and their families, but it is significant. I think, that all save three first-teamers have thought their club's terms satisfactory. Until they sign the provisional monthly contract at £15 per week. Young and Vernon cease to be registered professional footballers. If they were not to sign that form they would receive no wages for the month of July.  No player or players are greater than the club they represent. Everton have had in the past magnificent performers such as Dixie Dean, Joe Mercer. Alex Stevenson,  Nobby Fielding, Tom Lawton, Torry Gillick, Warney  Creswell, Ted Sagar and many, many others almost as good.  Many of these men were in teams which on promotion or the F.A. Cup. Their rate of pay was mostly £8 per week, plus £2 for a win and £1 for a draw, and crowd bonus had not even been dreamed of in their time.  I am told, and there is no reason to disbelieve it, that  the terms offered to a famous English international of long  standing are less than those offered at Goodison Park. 
And no improvement 
When the new pay scheme was introduced it was thought that it would lead to an improvement in the standards of play So far as I can judge, football is no better than it was, but the players who have produced an improvement in performance are more demanding than ever.   Is it any wonder the fans are becoming tired of their temperamental tantrums?"  In Everton's case, the request for a bigger basic wage is, in a sense, reasonable. But surely if they think they are as stood as that they have sufficient confidence in themselves to accept a smaller basic wage and pork to take advantage of monetary incentives to success. There are no grounds in the country more likely than Goodison Park to produce a better return in the way of attendance bonuses.  The position of the three players at Goodison Park has produced a great deal of correspondence, much of it so angry it is hardly fit to print. But here are some valid points well made by readers whose views, at least, are fair and reasonable.— 
Mr. D. L. Evans, of Garth, Heswall Avenue, Higher Bebington, says: "Your disclosures last week that seven of the Everton players had not re-signed came as a bombshell to me I was under the impression that all had re-signed  except Vernon and Young.  “I thought at the time that the Football League had made a colossal mistake when they agreed with the Players’ Union to allow a free-for-all ' for players to negotiate their own pay. They have landed the clubs in an impossible position. I think the players will kill football in this country by their exorbitant demands. Only a few wealthy clubs will be able to pay them, eventually. Surely, a maximum rate for the job should have been imposed.  I am surprised at Young, especially; he has been so well treated. I expect he was paid his wages while he was still in the Army and while he was off for a long time with an injured knee when he first came to Everton. 
“Whatmore?”
“I hope that Mr. Catterick will stand up to these players and not give in to their demands. If I were manager I would put them on the transfer list with a big fee on their heads and play men who are willing to put club first.  “In view of the Burnley slump towards the end of last season, I am convinced that Everton could have won the League if the forward line had shown more spirit in away matches: If any extra pay is given it should go to the half backs, not to the forwards on last season's form  " I hope there is no truth in the rumour that Mr. Catterick is interested in Joe Baker. We don't want any of these unreliable Italian prima donnas at Goodison.  I thought the England forwards were very poor in the World Cup, especially Greaves. I am hoping that the fighting kicking and brawling of the Continental players will quieten the advocates of the Super League for a while. I am sure the average fan would prefer to see his team fighting for the League championship or Cup provided the football was good. The sportsmanship of Continental teams is very poor on the whole, despite their cleverness I think I am right in saying that the Everton club have provided all their married players with houses. I wonder what more they want?

BASIC DIFFERENCE IS ONE OF PRINCIPLE
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 04 July 1962
By Leslie Edwards
How are the Everton pay rebels arguing their case? Quite simply that they want reward for their own services, irrespective of whether the team gain honours or whether other players, through loss of form or injury, affect the success of the side. On the other hand the club says: If you play well you can earn up to £3,000. If you produce the results we will guarantee you are adequately rewarded."  So basically the difference between club and players is one of principle. So far the public seem to have come down in favour of the club. One of the players at least has indicated indirectly what terms he has demanded and what the club has offered: the public would welcome. I am sure, the club's disclosure of the precise terms of the new contracts. If this were done followers of Everton would at least be able to judge the situation for themselves.  There is much to be said for both sides.  Players who do not sign the League's monthly contract  for July, after refusing terms offered, may put themselves  in the wrong when their appeal to the League arises  at the end of a further month.  At the moment neither Vernon nor Young has signed the monthly contract.  It is to be hoped that the breach between players and the club does not become so wide that both become determined that a parting would be in their mutual interests.  Followers of Everton, looking forward to greater success in 1962-63 would be disappointed if the team began without two or three of its established entertainers, but at the moment this seems a possibility.  Not since the days of Albert Stubbins., of Liverpool, a player who often kept his club on tenterhooks, have fans in this city been kept in such doubt about a player re-signing. History shows that if and when a popular player makes up his mind to stay the public accept him back to the fold with no bitterness.

VERNON RE-SIGNS FOR EVERTON 
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 05 July 1962
Two-Year Contract 
OTHERS WAIT 
By Michael Charters
Everton and their Welsh international forward Roy Vernon have now settled their differences over pay for next season and Vernon to-day signed a two-year contract.  I understand that terms are very little different to what Everton offered originally.  Centre-forward Alex Young, at present on holiday in Scotland, has not yet re-signed but the club expects him to follow Vernon’s example and accept terms within the next few days.  The third player still to resign—full-back Alex Parker-- has signed a month-to-month contract which permits him to be paid £15 per week. If the player and the club do not relent their opposing stands, Parker can then apply to the Football League for his case to be considered. 

EVERTON IN INTER-CITY FAIRS CUP
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, July 8, 1962
By Horace Yates
An additional tit-bit for Merseyside football followers during the coming season will be Everton’s participation in the Inter-Cities Fair Cup.  Manager Harry Catterick told last night that Everton had been nominated as one of the two English clubs to take part.  The other is Burnley.  I should think club supporters will consider this a much more attractive offering than the problematical League Cup competition which Everton are ignoring. 

ALEX YOUNG RE-SIGNS
Liverpool Echo - Friday 13 July 1962
CONTRACT FOR TWO YEARS
Alex Young, Everton’s Scottish international Centre forward, today re-signed for the club on a two-year contract.  Announcing this, Manager Harry Catterick said that Young had accepted the terms originally offered by the club.  This means that full back Alex Parker, who is on holiday, is the only Everton player not yet re-signed.  There were originally three who refused Everton’s terms for next season, but Welsh international Roy Vernon signed a two-year contract last week.
GROUND SEASON PRICE UP AT EVERTON
Readers' letters this week have football as their major topic (as always), but there is also an important view on athletics.  From Mr. R. Donnelly, of 41 Sandhurst Drive, Aintree:  "Last season the price of a ground season ticket at Goodison Park was £2 15s.  Next season it is increased to £3 5s, which means that assuming one is able to attend every home League game the price is 2s more than the total that would be paid at the turnstiles for the 21 matches.  "This provides little incentive to purchase a season ticket which has no viewing advantage over the man paying at the turnstile.  "Burnley recently announced substantial reductions in the prices of their ground season tickets in a bid to promote better sales and this is the sort of thinking we want at Everton if the club wants to encourage regular support."
ATTACK QUERY
From Mr. W. J. Heslop, of 39 Woodville Avenue, Liverpool 23.  "Amid all the argument as to whether Everton or Liverpool were the better team last season, there is something much more important to an Evertonian—the club’s playing strength for next season.  "Assuming Parker signs, the defence, with strength in reserve, looks good enough to provide few worries. But the forward line is a different matter.  "Even with Alex Young signed on; Everton still will have only six experienced forwards. Two early injuries and Everton would be reduced to playing inexperienced reserves in their most formidable group ‘of opening fixtures.  "I do not think Temple is a left-winger. He is an excellent player, but always:  seems to be coming into the centre. His best use would be:  as an inside forward.  "I think Everton, to reach the top, need a first class outside left and two experienced forwards in reserve. “All this may sound obvious, but there is only a little more than a month before the season opens and when it does. It will be almost impossible to sign players then." 
Labone's value 
From Mr. A. H. Dray, 106 Manor Drive, and Great Crosby:  "The correspondent, who suggested that the three Everton players who were or are in Impute with the club over pay were the backbone of the team, interested me.  "I have always understood that the backbone of any good side was the half-back line and Everton are no exception to this rule.  "If we accept this premise, then I suggest the one player who can lay claim to this distinction is centre half Brian Labone.   "If more players modelled themselves on Labone, Everton in particular and football in general, would be the better for It. ”Apart from the match at Nottingham last season. I don’t believe he had one indifferent game and this fact, coupled with his quiet gentlemanly bearing and conduct on the field, make him the finest asset Everton possess"

MOST OF EVERTON REGULARS HAVE 2 YEAR CONTRACT
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, July 14 1962
By Horace Yates
With the re-signing of Scottish international centre forward Alex Young yesterday, Everton’s playing family is almost complete again, and it would be in no way surprising to find Alex Parker signing on again before Friday next when the Everton players report for training.  I understand that, like Vernon, Young has re-signed for the terms originally available to him.  There seems little likelihood of the battle for better terms repeated at the start of the 1963-64 season, for most of the regular first team players have accepted two-year contracts.  Players are discovering that while theoretically the sky may be the limit so far as permissible terms go, only a very select few have any hope of approaching a weekly three-figure salary. 

BOY FOR BRIAN 
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 19 July 1962
Mrs. Beryl Harris, wife of Brian Harris, the Everton wing half, gave birth to a son at Ormskirk last night.  Both are well. This is their first child and they are now living in a club house in the Maghull area.

EVERTON AIM TO WIN AMAJOR TITLE
Liverpool Echo - Friday 20 July 1962
CHAIRMAN CALLS FOR ALL-OUT EFFORT TO SUCCEED
PLAYERS REPORT 
By Michael Charters
Everton chairman,Mr.  John Moores, greeting the players when they reported for training at Goodison Park to-day, called for an all-out effort to win a major title next season.  He told them have a  team rich in talent but if we  are going to win a major title  and that is our aim we  must have a strong will to win  and a strong team spirit,  " If we can win the League  championship next season, that  will mean “The European Cup”  the following year with  increased gates and increased  bonuses. Next season we will be competing in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup against some of the best Continental teams, and that again can bring its rewards to you players.  Your success means success for the club and we can offer you greater prospects if you can bring the success we hope for at Everton.  We have every confidence in you that you can do it Goodison Park spectators demand attractive football and also successful football “Manager Harry Catterick.  Welcoming the staff, also called on the players to show a determination to succeed.  He explained that he hoped to have a good deal of free discussion between players himself and the coaching staff during the pre -season training.
ALTERNATIONS
Tactics would be considered and if necessary, the team’s style could be altered.  Everton have a staff of 26 full-time professionals, three part-timers and 13 apprentice professionals.  They returned after the summer break to find, as at Anfield, considerable changes to dressing rooms, with a new players’ entrance from Goodison Road.  Around the ground, contractors are building several bars and refreshment rooms, many new toilets, and also strengthening work at the back and top of the Goodison Road stand.  Much painting work has been done and by the time the season starts, Goodison Park will have had a considerable face-lift with many improvements for spectators.  The players spent this morning in being kitted out, and then started light training this afternoon, with another spell tomorrow morning, before the more serious work gets under way in the next few weeks. 

EVERTON CLAMP DOWN ON PRIVILEDGE TICKETS
Liverpool Echo - Friday 20 July 1962
By Michael Charters
Everton have now solved the vexatious and long drawn-out question over privilege season tickets for shareholders following an approach to the Football Association for guidance. And they have received a mild ticking-off from the F.A. for breach of rules in the past. Ever since the club was formed, some shareholders have received season tickets at a vastly reduced rate and the position had grown so complicated with the original holders of some shares having died that the club wished to clarify the matter. Some were paying only 2s 6d and 3s 9d for season tickets.  Mr. Denis Follows, secretary of the F.A., has now told Everton that they must implement the F.A. rules governing these tickets “at the earliest possible opportunity."  Briefly, the rules lay down that a shareholder may  purchase a season ticket with a reduction of 5 per cent,  from that charged to non-shareholders,  and also that  privilege granted to shareholders registered before May 1,  1921, may be continued (but not extended) to such shareholders.  Mr. Follows adds: " It is clear to me that in the distant  and immediate past, Everton were in breach of the F.A. rules in as much as they had permitted shareholders to  receive season tickets at a discount considerably greater than that permitted under those rules."
NEW REGULATIONS
The Everton club sent a copy of the F.A. letter to all shareholders with their own decision to make new regulations for the issue of season tickets to all shareholders.  They say: "The Board of directors consider themselves bound, in the interests of the company, to take such steps as may be necessary to bring the situation into line with the requirements of the F.A. These new regulations come into force immediately.  Season tickets with the previous privileges will only be issued to members whose names were entered in the Register of Members before May 1, 1921. These privilege tickets will only be issued if the member goes to Goodison Park in person with proof of identity. The privileges are restricted to holders and will cease on the death of the holder or the transfer of the shares.  Shareholders whose names are on the club register on or after May 1, 1921, shall be entitled to the 5 per cent, reduction on season tickets. This means a payment of  £7 2s 6d for next season instead of the £7 10s charged to  non-shareholders  Some members of the Shareholders Association, who  have been in dispute with the club over this matter for  some time, asked if they could meet the secretary of the F.A, to explain their point of view.  Mr. Follows has told Everton that he could only see an official representative of the club.  

EVERTON DRAWN WITH SALONICA
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday 23 July, 1962
By Horace Yates
Everton find themselves making their debut in the Inter-Cities Fair Cup with a home game against Salonica (Greece), and while two legs to each round will make progress somewhat more difficult, the opposition is not sufficiently reputation-laden to cause Everton undue worry.  If they progress as they should them awaiting them is a double battle with the winners of Valencia (Spain) and Celtic.  The draw has been made in eight selections and the tournament opens on September 15.  It is expected that the road will be clear for the eight-survivors to try conclusions by December. 
Everton are advertising for an assistant trainer coach, apparently in the expectation that les Shannon will throw in his lot with Arsenal.  Shannon has already asked for his released, according to my information. 

EVERTON SHAREHOLDERS NOTE…
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 24 July 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Some misunderstanding is being caused over the new arrangements for Everton season ticket holders. Non - privileged shareholders may purchase seats in the shareholders stand at £6 per season. That is £6 6s, minus the 5 per cent, concession (6s). If they wish to have seats in the centre of Bullens Road stand, where these are available, they may purchase them at £7 2s 6d, that is £7 10s minus 7s 6d concession to shareholders.  League football three weeks next Saturday and a new era of our teams in the First Division. And it seems onlyyesterday that we were writing of the F.A. Cup final.  The World Cup helped to make the close season seem shorter; so did the long drawn-out pay rebellion of such Everton players as Young and Vernon. A pity full back Alex Parker has not come to terms. From what I hear he seems adamant at disagreement until he gets his way.  The back-log of correspondence while I was away suggests that not all followers of Everton were sympathetic to the club.
And one, J. Evans, from Teck Street,  Kensington. took exception to my " Shades of Warney, Dixie  and Torry " headline in a saucy letter which finishes: " In  your subtle campaign against the players, why not go further  back into the past and quote the ' stars' of some sports who  did it for “ free “ that is, the Christians being fed to the  lions? " 

FOR SHANNON THE WHEEL GOES FULL CIRCLE
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 26 July 1962
By Leslie Edwards
If, as seems likely. Leslie Shannon joins Arsenal as senior coach the London club are unprepared to say anything about the matter, but I understand that it is virtually settled—the wheel will have turned full circle for him. It was against Arsenal, at Anfield, that Shannon, then a slim young light-haired inside forward, paired off with Jimmy Payne, also making his way in the game, and gave one of the finest exhibitions of partnership football seen at Anfield since the (lays of Chambers and Hopkin.  Shannon, soon to be transferred to Burnley where he really made good, joined Everton in the Carey era and was last season assistant coach to Tom Eggleston.  Arsenal asked permission from Everton to interview Shannon and the dub not wanting to stand in his way of a better position-he will be much better paid as senior coach at Highbury—were glad to do this.  At the same time they are left in a rather difficult position with the season less than a month away.  They  have advertised the vacancy but are in no hurry to fill it  until they can find the right man  Meantime. Shannon is in hospital recovering from a slight eye operation. He had an operation on his nose about a year ago. Arsenal will pick up one of the best men at his job in the business when he joins them, as he is almost certain to, when he has recovered from his short spell in hospital.   The Billy Wright regime at Highbury has started well it will derive much benefit from the service of the Liverpool boy whose enthusiasm for the game and the club will be second to none.

EVERTON WAGECEILING CAN SOAR TO £119
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, July 27, 1962
SUCCESS WILL MAKE THEM HIGHEST PAID PLAYERS IN THE FOOTBALL LAND
By Horace Yates
Everton players, in the coming season, can earn anything up to £119 a week.  This fantastic revelation was made last night by chairman John Moores, who, with manager Harry Catterick, welcomed the new apprentice professional signings of the close season, with their parents to give them an insight into the sort of life and career they can build with Everton.  Without a doubt, Everton can be the best paying club in the land.  If the players fall short of the goal it will be nobody’s fault but their own.  In the most matter of fact times, without the slightest suggestion of boastfulness of tall-story telling, Mr. Moores unfolded the glittering financial prospect which must have made the eyes of the youngsters, on the threshold of a new life, boggle at the possibilities without precedent in football history, it eclipses even the Johnny Haynes, Jimmy Greaves ceiling, providing the results come.  So long as Everton are one of the two leading clubs, said Mr. Moores the first team players will receive a bonus of £2 for every 1,000 spectators over 35,000.  In third or fourth place the bonus is reduced to 35s per thousand, but in any event, no matter what the League position, the offering is £1 a thousand.  If we accept the current ground capacity of Goodison Park at 75,000 this means that a capacity gate (and with Liverpool) and the Law-reinforced Manchester United included among the visiting attractions, who can say that “house full” signs will not be hoisted on at least two occasions? Will yield on £80 bonus.  On top of that there is a basic wage for many of the players of at least £35; with of course £4 addition for a win.  The bonus payment does not apply merely to the game in which it is earned but is payable also for the following away match. 
RIGHT FROM WHISTLE
Everton are at Burnley for the opening game.  If they win that match it will be interpreted that they are in one of the first two-places and the following home game with Manchester United will have the bonus calculated at £2 a thousand over 35,000.  Right from the first whistle then, Everton players can strike it rich.  Of course, the players may not receive such breathtaking payments, for success is a very necessary pre-requisite, but who can quibble at that requirement?  Everton mean to be a great again and in gathering the cloak of success about them they offer in return a most generous incentive.  While gates may be falling elsewhere, there will be few empty spaces at Goodison Park if the team are doing well and matching quality payments with quality football.  Among the youngsters present were four England school-boy internationals-Aiden Maher, a Liverpool outside left; Gerry Glover, a Liverpool centre or inside forwards; John Hurst a centre forward from Blackpool and Geoff Barnett, a goalkeeper from Weaverham.  There were also Frank D’Arcy centre half and George Rooney, a full back.  Everton make no secret of their belief that this latest crop of school-boy acquisitions will prove to be the most rewarding of any. 
GOALKEEPER SIGNED
Included among them are three of the England forward line, and last night it was revealed that Geoff Barnett the international goalkeeper, was the latest recruit to the party.  Geoff played in all the international matches last season.  He is 15, stands six feet high and weighs nearly 12 stone.  A future Frank Swift?  Who knows, but it is an exciting prospect.  Mr. Moores took advantage of the opportunity to discuss with the parents of the boys a club plan to kill any ideas that may still prevail even in this golden age of football that soccer is a blind alley occupation, and that after the rich and fertile years comes a bleak future.  The chairman explained that not only are Everton willing, but are keen to give all the youngsters a second string to their bow by discovering what job they would like to cultivate alongside their football.  Arrangements will be made for them to attend technical school lectures or if need be have the instructors visit Goodison Park.  “Now is the time, while they are young, to let them study and learn,” said Mr. Moores.  “When it is left for a few years they lose the art of getting down to study and everything is so much more difficult.  We whole-heartedly seek the co-operation of the parents in helping us to put across the advantages of a second occupational qualification by way of insurance.  “There is always the possibility of injury and there is nothing like being protected against it, “he said.  Mr. Moores went on to add that Everton had come to be regarded in different quarters as a millionaire club,” but he wanted to stress that while Everton looked for the best the door to stardom to home trained youngsters was wide open at Goodison Park. 
HIGH PROMISE
“With the wise guidance these lads will receive at the hands of Mr. Catterick, Mr. Eggleston and the coaching staff there is no reason why they should not fulfill the high promise which has brought them to our notice.  “There is a limit to that we can accomplish by spending.  If there is a vacancy in our team we cannot go on paying £60,000 or £80,000 or more for players and in any event no matter how much money may be available clubs will not part with good men.  There are too few of them about.  “That is one of the reasons why we hold out to you, lads the opportunity to make a name for yourself.  We will be delighted to see you grasp it.”  Mr. Moores coined a new phrases to rival that of the well known “Busby Babies” when he said “I think you will find that the Catterick Cubs will have a better career here than anyone could find elsewhere.  “They are among friends and we will stand by them.  From now on they are professionals men dedicated to a job and the most industrious will get the highest rewards.  “Football is a hard game and while it may promise much, we want something back in return.” 

WHAT IS EVERTON’S ALL”?
Liverpool Echo - Friday 27 July 1962
Writing from 13 Cherry Avenue, Liverpool 7. Mr.  C. Noviski says: "Don't Everton ever get fed-up telling us the same things year after year? I see we are given the same old tiresome tale -Everton will do all for their wonderful supporters. Honestly, they must think that the majority of those wonderful supporters are pots!  "What, may I ask, is Everton's interpretation of the word all? How are we expected to believe in these promises when players like Law, Baker and Crawford are being snapped up by other clubs" Are their alls greater than Everton's?  It is no use wailing that Law is temperamental or that Crawford is too old. The same reasons or excuses could quite easily have been applied to Vernon or Stevens. One could have claimed that there was no point in signing Young because he was not able to score goals.  "I'm sick of Everton claiming that they want nothing but the best. Is this team Everton's idea of the best?  What happened to Mr. Catterick's promises about new forwards? Are we expected to assume that the present lot has suddenly been converted into wizards? Surely it  is obvious that this side will need a great deal of luck to  win any honours, never mind the League"  "Spurs, Burnley and now Arsenal and Manchester  United all have more class forwards than Everton and I  predict that it will be to these teams that honours will go.  "It must be wonderful to support a team like Spurs or United where things aren't done in half measures.  Lastly. I would like to warn Mr. Catterick not to be too surprised at Everton's gates next year. The novelty of having a good side has worn thin. It's a great side that’s required now to bring us to Goodison.'
AND THE ANSEWR…
It is only fair that the man against whom Mr. Noviski’s complaints are directed, Harry Catterick, should have his say. Some of the points made, he says, are good ones, but the majority is not. The Everton manager agrees, for example, that his side is a good one rather than a great one. He agrees that the famous players named have not arrived at Goodison Park. For the very good reason, he argues, that they happen to be men who play in positions which are not deemed to be Everton's weakest by any means. There have been no big moves by players withBritish clubs, Mr. Catterick maintains. He also believes that it is no use signing great players merely because they are great. There is the question of whether they would blend with other famous footballers already on the books.  My correspondent gives himself a four-to-one on chance when he says that Spurs, Burnley, Arsenal and Manchester United are most likely to be among the honours. What about Ipswich, the champions? Should they not appear among his list?  Mr. Catterick feels that all going well Everton will be among the top notchers at the end of next season. And he promises if good players become available and they are of the kind which will suit Everton's book they will be signed. 

YOUNG’S FEET ARE ‘KILLING’ HIM AGAIN
Liverpool Echo - Monday 30 July 1962
Bad news for Everton and for their following who dote on the arty-crafty footwork of centre-forward Alex Young. After only a few days training—on the specially lush turf of Bellefield too —he finds himself inactive through foot blisters which caused him to get the name Tenderfoot a season ago.  Manager Harry Catterick thus starts the new term with a big problem. If Young is laid off to give his blistered feet time to recover the edge goes off his fitness; if he continues to train his feet get into such a state that he might not even be ready for the season's start.   Everything has been tried by the club to obviate the blisters. Specialists have given their opinion and so, not  long ago did hundreds of Echo readers who produced  hundreds of cures, but the net result is nil Even that  time-honored cure on which Warney Cresswell set such  store—constant bathing in sea water—failed.  In some matches last season on hard grounds the club applied antiseptic ointment to Young's feet and swathed them in gauze. At the interval off came the bandages and there were new blisters so painful that the player was reduced almost to walking on the outsides of the soles of his feet.  Young had this trouble since the days he joined Hearts They, too, failed to find anything which would prevent him from suffering foot agony when he played on hard, dry grounds. I suggested to Mr. Catterick that the answer might be to give Young a size or two bigger boots and let his feet rest on a cushion of foam rubber.  That has been tried. The rubber serves only to form blisters in greater numbers.  With the season now less than three weeks ago and Young out of training, even temporarily, the prospects of his playing in all the most vital first half-dozen matches are not good. It would seem that Everson may have to  ration Young's appearances until such time as the grounds  soften and he can play 90 minutes in comfort To play him  when his feet are " killing " him would not be fair to the  team or him.

EVERTON’S BLANK IN SCOTLAND
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, July 30, 1962
By Horace Yates
Reports current in Scotland yesterday credited Everton with a bold attempt to obtain from rangers possibly the best outside left in Britain, Davie Wilson, or alternatively Alex Scott or Willie Henderson, an approach said to have been promptly turned down by Rangers’ manager, Scot Symon.  Last night I asked Everton manager, Mr. Harry Catterick, if it were true that Everton were willing to spend any thing up to £50,000 to bring another Scot to Goodison Park.  “I did contact Rangers,” he said, ‘” I merely asked if they had any surplus forwards.  No names were ever mentioned be me.  “The reply was a blunt refusal, for I was told that Rangers had only sufficient talent for their own needs.  It ended at that.” 
EVERTON ENTERPRISE
I suspect that an Everton innovation in the production of a magnificently-illustrated and instructive booklets aimed at introducing youngsters to the scheme of things in operations at Goodison Park is the brainchild of Mr. Catterick.  Entitled “Everton and you” the idea is that this publication should be presented to any young player considered by the scouting staff to have promise sufficiently rich to make a professional career a possibility.  It not only sets out, better than any conversation could just what are the advantages of joining a club like Everton.  The story is told of just what a would-be apprentice would do his day at Goodison or on the Bellefield training pitches, his hours of duty right down to the arrangement of accommodation.  Because finance is important in every discussion, this is dealt with in detail.  It shows that an apprenticeship normally lasts three years, but in exceptional cases full professional status could be granted at 17.  A boy of 15 receives about £7 a week, rising to £8 during the second year and up to £9 or £10 during the third year, according to Football League rules.  “These days the earnings of a full-time professional of first class ability are quite well known, the booklet adds.  “Actual salary is a matter for annual negotiation between himself and his club, but a figure round the £3,000 a year mark may be taken as not unusual.  “There is a bonus from the cub after the first five year period as a full professional of £750.  After a second five year period of service there is a further bonus of £1,000.  “An amount equivalent to 8 per cent of every footballer’s salary is contributed to the Football League’s Provident Fund.  On retiring from football or at the age of 35, the player draws an accrued sum, which can amount to as much as £3,000.  “The close season for the full professional is so much time off, with pay.” 

MICK MEAGAN IN THE LEAD
Liverpool Echo - Monday 30 July 1962
FOOTBALLERS’ GOLF AT WOOLTON
By Leslie Edwards
Professional footballers attached to clubs in the North West competed at Woolton to-day for 14 places for the final stages of the Footballers' Golf Championship which takes place in a fortnight’s time at Sandwell Park, West Bromwich.  Qualification is by the gross score. Among the early leaders was Derek Mayers, the former Everton and Preston winger who is now at Bury. He had a splendid round of 71, out in 36 and home in 35 for a net score of 68.  With half the field still to come in Mick Meagan, the Everton defender led the handicap returns with 78-14-64. 

EVERTON’S TASK
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 31 July 1962
The Everton footballers face a big task at Wadham Road tonight, when they will attempt to overhaul Bootle’s declared total of 226 for nine wickets.  Ken Sneligrove (68), E. Baker (47) and D.W Bromilow (35) batted well for Bootle, whose big total was helped by dropped catches and indifferent fielding.  For Everton, Billy Bingham was the star with five wickets for 50 runs.  Brian Labone took two for 13.  Wicket keeper Gordon West and Brian Harris, who made two smart catches, took fielding honours.