A THREE-GOAL DAY OF JOY FOR MORRISSEY
Liverpool Daily Post-Monday, October 1, 1962
EVERTON 4, WEST BROMWICH ALBION 2
By Jack Rowe
Whether Everton would have won with such comfort if West Bromwich had not lost their centre half Jones with just over half an hour gone is problematical, but for two players- Morrissey, the Everton outside left, and Kevan (Albion) –the match was one which gave considerable satisfaction.  Morrissey scored three goals, to make his total four in two games, while Kevan took over at left half when Jones was hurt and did it so well that Everton were held on a rein when there seemed no reason why they should not have indulged in a scoring spree.  When Kevan dropped back Albion inevitably lost their main striker and it could be that Everton would not have been able to move casually to victory if they had not been facing ten men. 

NEGLIGIBLE VALUE
Jones, ironically, sustained an ankle injury a minute or so after Albion had equalled Morrissey’s first goal and although it was not until ten minutes after half-time that he finally went off his value was negligible.  Everton won with something to spare but were not convincing in a scrappy, ragged second half and it must have been a disappointment to their followers that they did not rub it in with more conviction.  After half time Kevan went to centre half and produced a performance which was one of the highlights of a game obviously ruined when Jones was injured.  Thomson had a poor afternoon and did not help with a trip on Foggo, which was hardly in the accidental category and in the attack Vernon, after two early first rate shots, emerged only momentarily.  Young pretty well sauntered through the game, but he can do more with a flick than others with much more time to operate.  He missed one great chance and so did Vernon and Stevens, so that the chief striking power came from Morrissey, who scored two of his goals from an inside forward position.  Gabriel, Meagan, Labone and Harris came out with too defensive rating as did Kevan and Howe for Albion, whose forwards always contrived to play football.  Jackson kicked good before the disappointments and as did Foggo, who did even better when he went on the right wing, when he often beat Thomson by sheer speed.  Jackson scored Albion’s second in 73 minutes and this with Morrissey’s 18 minutes earlier were the best of the goals for the others were tained.  Millington, the Albion goalkeeper, should certainly have saved Morrissey’s header in 20 minutes, after Gabriel had helped Bingham’s corner on to the scorer and the equaliser 11 minutes later was even worse. 
MISJUDGED HEADER
Howe out a long free kick just inside the penalty area, where Harris misjudged his headed clearance and the ball skied up and over West, who had left his goal.  It seems the goalkeeper called, but it looked injudicious to claim a ball so far out.  No sooner had the game re-started than Jones was hurt and the way was clear for Everton.  Two minutes from half-time Stevens was brought down Young took the free kick and there was Gabriel again to head the ball across for Morrissey to score from almost on the line, with Millington not moving.  Everton went further in front four minutes after half-time from another free kick, this time when Young shot for goal and a deflection off a defender sent it wide of Millington.  Morrissey’s third in the fifth-fifth minute was a beauty for he made a glancing header from Bingham’s cross which left Millington helpless and then came Jackson’s goal.  Kevan who in the first half had missed the bar by inches with West immobile, came upfield, flung out a pass to Clark who tricked Meagan and pulled the ball to Jackson.  The first time drive flew high into the net, but it was all Albion really did offer in the way of a real goal threat.  Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon (captain), Morrissey.  West Bromwich; Millington; Howe, Williams; Cram, Jones, Drury; Jackson, Foggo, Smith, Kevan, Clark.  Referee. Mr. G. McCabe (Sheffield).  Attendance 45,471. 

HAT-TRICK BY WIGNALL
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, October 1, 1962
DERBY COUNTY RES 2, EVERTON RES 5
A second half hat-trick by Everton Reserves centre forward Wignall in this Central League game at the Baseball ground, Derby, on Saturday sunk Derby County Reserves deeper into the depths of depression.  Derby seeking the second win of the season, have now conceded 41 goals in eleven matches.  They were leading 2-1 at the interval and deserved the lead.  But tragedy struck and right half Ron Webster, making his first appearance since August 22 after suffering a cracked collarbone suffered the same injury when he went in to tackle Wignall and was taken to Derby Royal infirmary for treatment.  After this County were no match for the clever Everton forwards who cruised comfortably onwards, with the whole forward line worthy of praise.  Not to forgot Scottish international Parker, always the defending menace.  Derby’s man of the match was centre forward Barry Hutchinson.  Scorers; Hutchinson (2) for Derby County and Wignall (3, one penalty), Veall and Webber for Everton. 

THEY SHALL NOT PASS- NEW STYLE…
Liverpool Echo- Monday October 1 1962
By Leslie Edwards
They shall not Everton’s motto, Only The Best is Good Enough (Nils Satis Nisi Optimum), could well be changed to the First World War one which ran.  They Shall Not Pass. This, applied to a defence, is a grand thing to aim at, but when it tends to permeate a team it is less commendable.  There was an instance in the match against West Bromwich, on Saturday (Albion were 3-1 down and mustered only 10 men on the field at the time), when both Thomson and winger Morrissey were beaten, fairly if rather ignominiously, at the touchline.  Was the Albion player allowed to go on with the ball?  He was not!  Am I wrong, I wonder, in sensing that Everton supporters liked this as little as the man brought down?Judged by the reaction of some people in the stand, it seemed clear that they thought it unnecessary and, if I could coin a term, “un-Everton."  We all like to see our sides win: some of us are a little particular how they win. This case, and it was one of many, looked bad. Everyone must be beaten by an opponentseveral times in every game. On the evidence of this match  one could not resist the impression that no one, no matter  how cleverly or properly they won their duel, was ever  by hook or by crook, going to be allowed to pass.  For me, the joy of John Morrissey's three goals and of  Everton's clear-cut victory was a little tainted for this  reason, especially as Albion were 3-1 down and minus centre  half Jones when many of these unpleasantries happened.  Albion did put on a second goal—and what a fine one!—to make the score 4-2, but they could and should have lost by a heavier margin. Oddly, their best work was done when Jones left the field shortly after the interval.
Wind-blown goals 
Living down that terrific Derby match will take time.  The game on Saturday seemed tame almost from the beginning and when Everton took a long lead and Albion lost their centre half the whole affair became something of a formality. It is true there was better and more sustained football than the week before, but the intense atmosphere was not there. Also, the beginnings of a Force Eight gale swirled the ball about so disconcertingly that accurate passing over a distance was something of a gamble.  The effect of the wind had bearing on at least two of the goals. Morrissey's header after a corner on the right rode in on the wind so deceptively, Millington, in trying to keep it out, only succeeded in helping the ball over the line.  Ten minutes later, at the half hour, Harris, dropping  back to nod away a free kick, floated by full back Howe, was flummoxed by the flight of the ball and only succeeded  in lobbing it gently over his own goalkeeper, standing a yard  or two behind, with the ball safely " covered." I wouldn't know whether West shouted the usual command to a co-defender in such cases, or whether, if he did. Harris heard him. The fact was that West Bromwich were level and Everton had to start building all over again.  They went 2-1 three minutes before the interval when Young dug up a free kick cleverly for Gabriel to head towards goal and Morrissey to apply the coup within inches of the goal-line. Young then scored with a rocket of a free kick given for a foul by Kevan on Stevens, and Morrissey,  with a fine glancing header from Bingham's centre, got his  third and his side's fourth goal before Jackson came along  with that "picture" consolation for Albion.
Shades of Eggo 
Albion were rarely in the hunt after Jones damaged an ankle in the first half. He hobbled among the forwards for a while, but in the end had to give his injury best and retire. Kevan eventually became his deputy, and while the side remained disorganised it did rather too much in the second half to indicate that the Everton defence would have been happy against a side at full strength.  That Morrissey, getting his first goal for his new club a week ago, should now come along with three from the wing —nothing like it has been seen at the ground since Tom Eglington got five in one of the club's Second Division seasons—shows how shrewd Everton were to take a man many at Anfield thought unworthy of his place.  Morrissey's help to the defence is always welcome, unless, as on Saturday, it includes the few little extras we could well do without.  Everton crowds have been nurtured on fine football and they are getting so much of it these days it is a pity to remove some of the shine. Young, this time, was not so commanding as he usually is, but Vernon snapped back to his best form and there was never any doubt that the basis of the team, the half back line, would meet any of their commitments, offensive or defensive.  Labone is the sort whose play Evertonians revel in:  quiet, effective, clean and worthy of himself and the club.  Stevens's far flung passes were his forte; Bingham, the  life and soul of the party as ever, had his part in the goals  and something of a battling duel with Williams, a back who could figuratively eat him for weight and chunkiness..  The little Scot, Foggo, made his mark and so did the veteran back Howe, unflustered, unburned, a grand captain and certainly no man to bring his opponents down on the few occasions when they were good enough to get past.

EVERTON’S INTEREST IN SCOTS FORWARD
Liverpool Echo- Monday, October 1, 1962
GAME IS WATCHED
SCOTT DOUBT
By Leslie Edwards
Everton were represented at the Queens Park v. East Stirling match at Hampden Park on Saturday.  Their interest, it is said, was in young Jim Mulholland, the East Stirling inside left, who was his club’s leading scorer, with 25 goals, last season.  Hibs and Chelsea (who not long ago took full back McCreadie from the same club) also had representatives at the match.  Everton have said more than once that they are seeking reserve strength.  Any move for Mulholland would seem to confirm this.  Scott, the Scottish international right winger, of Glasgow Rangers, has not yet heard whether his request for a transfer will be granted.  Inner circles in Scotland think it likely that the request will be turned down. 

LETTERS
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 02 October 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Reader;- R.E Siddell, once a member of the Everton office staff asked whether Jack Balmer, bald pated, dark moustached former Liverpool forward- and what a forward-ever turned out for Everton’s senior side.  The answer is no; Balmer’s two uncles both played for Everton and Jack was on the books at Everton for a time as a youngster, I believe but he never figured in the first team.
Answer to a further query about Tommy Griffiths’ clubs is as follows; After joining Everton in 1926 they were relegated in 1930 when Tom played in 26 League games.  He joined Bolton in 1931.  They were not relegated while he was with them.  He joined Middlesbrough in 1933.  They were not relegated while he was there.  Griffiths played 26 games for Villa the season they went down (1935-36) after joining them in November 1935-36) after joining them in November 1935.
“HARMLESS SWAYING”
“Your remark that only the grousers came up with reactions to the Derby game was hardly surprising,” says J.F. McCarthy, of 33 Marie Currie Avenue, Netherton, “because your column is becoming a literary wailing wall! “You referred to a disgraceful foul by a Manchester United player in the match against Benfica.  Are you suggesting foreign teams are never guilty of such offences?  When all the brawling was finished in the World Cup we found that only England and Brazil came out whiter than white.  And who said Real Madrid must play Arsenal or Benfica must play Manchester United?”   “Then you said you thought there was discomfort among ground spectators at the Derby game.  You published a letter from a Mr. Marlowe who was at the Gwladys Street end, I too, was there and remarked to a friend how good the crowd distribution was.  Don’t forget we all knew before buying tickets that there would be a crowd of 73,000.  If Mr. Marlowe had his way there would be a limit of 60,000.  That’s fine.  Thirteen thousand people denied the thrill of this match so that Mr. Marlowe can watch in comfort.  They’ll be wanting armchairs next!  “The harmless swaying one sees is not indicative of a too crowded ground.  There are bound to be a few spots where it is necessary to stand on tip-toe to see the goalmouth thrills; the inevitable swaying caused by people off balance looks bad from the stands, but really there is no danger because the steps are so shallow. 
“JOLLY GOOD VALUE”
“If only a few people were dis-satisfied with the arrangements then over 72,000 got jolly good value for their money.  Little tit-bits of information or conversation such as you had with Billy Shankly about Benfica are excellent reading and we should all have liked to hear Roy Vernon’s and Jim Furnell’s version of the disallowed goal.  But please Mr. Edwards, let us be more cheerful about our soccer.” 
If Mr. McCarthy thinks the Manchester United foul I mentioned was not disgraceful he is entitled to his opinion.  I maintain mine.  I’m not concerned with the reputation for clean play of Continentals, but I am concerned with the sportsmanship of clubs in this country.  About complaints of overcrowding, does Mr. McCartry think that people who left the ground after 30 minutes were imagining they were being crushed?”  When he says a limit of 60,000 would be the sole comfort of Mr. Marlower he conveniently forgets the 59,999 other fans in the ground who would also benefit!  Swaying on the terraces is indicative of crowding; there is never swaying when grounds are comfortably crowded.  Finally if I had let Mr. McCarthy know the other tit-bits of information I received over the Manchester United-Benefica match from experts who were there he would be left in no doubt that my reaction to the foul seen on  TV was all too mild.  If correspondents and the great number of people interested in soccer in this city cannot use this column for an occasional grouse where else, tell me, can they have their feelings ventilated? 
NOT FATAL, BUT…
“Except for the Derby game and the one against Sheffield Wednesday, I have seen all Everton’s home games.  The most alarming feature of them was the number of mistakes made by the defence; in fact I think they have made more errors so far this season than they did during the whole of last season.  “The displays of West, especially at Bolton and Old Trafford, were excellent but for the most part his handling has not been good.  Thomson has not yet struck his real form and seems to have forshaken his footballing for something which has dismayed me as well as others.  Meagan I maintain, is suspect when he meets a fast winger.  Thanks goodness the half-back line is still stable as ever.  Despite the difficult conditions (swirling wind, &c) Labone and Gabriel were outstanding on Saturday.  Harris had one of his rare off-days which every footballer is liable to have at some time.  “In general the attack has played better than last season and as a result defensive errors have not proved fatal, but.” 

CATTERICK HAS ‘FLU, BUT TEAM FIT
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 03 October 1962
VITAL MATCH WITH WOLVES
By Leslie Edwards
Everton manager, Harry Catterick, is at home, a victim of influenza, but the team, to a man are fit and free from colds.  All being well Mr. Catterick hopes to travel with the team to Wolverhampton on Saturday for what promises to be the most vital fixture of the season to date. 
   “”For some time now I have noticed the apparent inability of Everton forwards to beat the offside trap.  Young, in particular, is often caught when a long ball comes through.  I can draw only two conclusions from this; either the players are incapable of notching that they are offside or they are not prepared to do anything about it.”  -D.R.. Julian, 41 Brookfield Avenue, Liverpool 22. 

HE KNOWS, Y’KNOW
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 04 October 1962
By Leslie Edwards
True Blue, 30 Duerdon Street, 7, knowing how heart-breaking it must have been or Liverpool to have had what appeared to be “good goals” disallowed at Molineux adds; “As an Evertonian I know these supporters must feel having experienced the disallowing of Vernon’s goal at Goodison Park the previous week.”  The onset of dark winter days-nothing could seem further away when sweltering yesterday in the sunshine of Beeching’s unofficial October Bank Holiday-occupies the thoughts of J. M. Lloyd (84 Tarbock Road, Roby).  “Could you,” he asks, “though the medium of your column request the Everton powers-that-be to use the white goal-nets we saw on some occasions last season.  While it may or may not encourage a return of Vernon’s lethal shooting it would be of a great benefit to spectators peering through the gloom.”  
A MAN IN 73,000
“It amuses me to read of fans grumbling about ticket prices, I haven’t the slightest sympathy for any of them.  It is a good job for Everton that all fans are not like me because last I have not been to a match there and I don’t think Goodison Park will ever see me again.  “I saw better play 60 years ago when there were as many as 60,000 people at Goodison Park, even before they had double-decker stands.” 
-E.W. Pearson, 3 Hollyn Street, Birkenhead. 
SCOTT DECISION
Glasgow Rangers today refused the transfer request of international right winger Alex Scott in whom Everton are said to be interested. 

AFRAID OF THE WOLVES?
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, October 5, 1962
ANYTHING REDS CAN DO WE CAN DO BETTER
Says Roy Vernon
Wolves are sitting pretty on top of the First Division two points clear of Everton and four points clear of Spurs and Burnley.  When you think that two points only divide the last twelve clubs, Wolves position is one to be envied.  It will not be our fault if Wolves do not lose the cock-of-the-walk look tomorrow, for we have been tremendously encouraged by the great show Liverpool put up at Molyneux last week.  We believe despite that Goodison draw, that anything Liverpool can do we can do better.  They went close in a division of points and with our superior finishing, it hardly seems unnatural to hope for two points even though Wolves have not been beaten at home this season.  I may be wrong, but my hunch is that Wolves will not be in the final reckoning for the championship.  I believe it will be between Everton and Tottenham Hotspur.  Wolves, of course maintain that they are at their best when the opposition is most formidable and now having got their bad game out of their system they will be ready to go to battle with a will. 
PROUD BOAST
To have three members of the current England side in their ranks, must be a tremendous boost to their confidence and it is their proud boost that since Billy Wright started the sequence they have always had at least one player in every England side.  I must confess that while our points total continues to grow very promisingly I don’t believe we have been hitting our best form in recent games.  We are obviously capable of something better as we showed against Burnley and Manchester United.  That was the peak we must get back to and the sooner we do it the better the players will be pleased as well as the supporters for nobody realises better than the players when the edge is missing.  There is this consolation if we can hit second place and keep it when playing below our best, then what is to stop us winning the title when we hit our best?  I would like to congratulate West Bromwich on the great fight they put up against us with ten men.  It is a curious thing, but when a team loses a player it can affect them in one of two ways. 
RALLIED ROUND
Either they go to pieces or their rally round each other as one man and prove difficult to beat.  That is just what happened to West Brom; they became more united than ever before.  I have an idea this West Brom wide may prove to be one of the teams of the season.  The sort of team which might give you a run for your money when it comes round to thinking in terms of the more reasonably-priced sides for the F.A Cup.  We were all delighted with the three-goals feat of John Morrissey who has quickly made himself at home with us.  It is not every day you get three goals from the wing.  John is going better and better all the time as he gets fitter and I don’t think we have seen the best of him yet.  He is a bonny fighter and although I have seen fees varying from £10,000 to £15,000 as being paid for his transfer I don’t think it really matters.  Whatever the fee, I think it presents one of the shrewdest buys for a long time.  So impressed are we with Morrissey’s display that none of us will be in the least surprised when the next England Under-23 team is selected to find his name filling the outside left spot.  Apart from the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, mid-week games are over for the time being and I think no one will have a greater sigh of relief than club trainers.  One match a week gives them a chance to get down to a more realistic training schedule and training plays a vital play in the success of any side.  You look at the names of the top clubs and you will always find they have a good trainer.  We are lucky at Goodison for in Tommy Eggleston we have one of the best, the sort of chap who puts you through your paces and yet skilfully disguises the fact that he is doing so.  It has been very noticeable to me that in every game in which we have played we have lasted the ninety minutes without the slightest trouble.  The reserve of stamina is bound to stand us in good stead when the heavier grounds come round to take a toll of energy. 

ST DOMINGO’S GO RED ?
Liverpool Echo - Friday 05 October 1962
St. Domingo Methodist Church which produced the seed out of which Everton grew, have re-form their football club which went out of existence fifteen years ago.  Oddly enough they propose to play in red! Everton have had many changes of colours (including those of the Black Watch) since their early days.  Tomorrow, with Wolves in old gold, will be one of the occasions when they do not need an alternative strip.  They have met three times in succession teams in the red,’ physically if not financially.  Manager Catterick, recovered from ‘flue, has seen Wolves in opposition to Spurs this season, and rates them a fast, go-ahead side who will want some beating.  It is as well, I suppose, not to take too much for granted against a side which is, after all, top of the heap-I only for the present.  I have not seem Hinton play, but T.V. glimpses of him show the danger of his directness and power o shot.  Crowe who has always seemed to be rather frailly built, has found his game at Molyneaux, but certainly did not show it in the little I saw of the England match at Sheffield. 

EVERTON UNCHANGED
Liverpool Echo - Friday 05 October 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Everton tackle the League leaders, Wolves, at Molyneux in a vital championship match.  The Everton eleven is that which beat West Bromwich 4-2.  One of Everton’s young stars, John Hurst, aged 15, makes his bow in the Central League match against Bury at Goodison Park (3 p.m).  He will play at inside left.  He is a Blackpool boy, who stands 6ft, tall and weighs 11 ½ stone.  Everton; West; Meagan. Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. 
Wolves’ winger Peter McParland gets his second game of the season at centre forward.  He replaces the injured Ted farmer who led the attack against Liverpool.  Wolves; Davies; Showell, Thomson; Goodwin, Woodfield, Flowers; Wharton, Crowe, McParland, Murray, Hinton. 

EVERTON CAN SHOW TITLE POSSIBILITIES TODAY
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, October 7, 1962
WOLVERHAMPTON ARE SO FAR UNBEATEN BUT ARE NOT UNBEATABLE
By Horace Yates
There are those who have already made up their minds that Tottenham Hotspur needless of their fate in the F.A. Cup this season will at last be crowned champions by the end of April, leaving Everton and Wolverhampton Wanderers among the also, rans.  Unless the Wolves I saw last week were completely out of touch and only a shadow of their real selves, I don’t think it unreasonable to doubt their ability to stay the pace despite their leading position. The key to the championship tussle may be today’s game with Everton as visitors to Molineux.  The team I know Everton capable of being can beat this Wolves side our of sight unless of course it is true that Wolves are at their best when the opposition are mightiest as their supporters claim.  It may be worth remembering that not only are they the division’s only unbeaten side, but the remainder have lost at least twice.  Certainly the display they gave against Liverpool was unworthy of a side with championship pretensions, and they drew so deeply on their share of the good luck that was going that there may not be a lot left to sustain them today.
DEFENCE OPEN
Their saving grace was the ability to snap up opportunities as they presented themselves but if they allow their defence to be ripped open as often by Everton as it was by Liverpool, Wolves will pay the penalty.  Davies cannot always be their saviour.  For the life or me I cannot see the Wolves half-back line holding the Everton inside trio for Flowers wonderful player though he is, can hardly be expected to cover up for the lack of experience of his colleagues.  This is the sort of match tailor-made for Vernon and Young.  If they go to work with a will, they should enjoy themselves, for the speed and understanding suggest an afternoon of toil and struggle for Goodwin and Woodfield.  Wolves introduce Peter McParland for the second time this season in the absence of Ted Farmer, who is injured.  The former Villa player showed the extent of his determination to reclaim a regular place when he scored two match-winners goals on his last appearance at Ipswich. Here we have a genuine test of Everton’s merit.  If they succeed hopes will soar if they fail fears will be underlined.  Both Tottenham and Nottingham Forest took a point from Molineux so that Everton must at least do likewise.  Wolves by the way, have declined a transfer request from inside forward Broadbent.  Wolverhampton Wanderers; Davies; Showell, Thomson; Goodwin, Whitfield, Flowers; Wharton, Crowe, McParland, Murray, Hinton.  Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. 

NO FLOWERS FOR WOLVES, EVERTON LATE TO BLOOM
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 06 October 1962
BINGHAM AND YOUNG THEN GATHER GOALS
WOLVES 0, EVERTON 2
By Jack Rowe
Wolverhampton Wanderers;- Davies; Showell, Thomson (R.); Goodwin, Woodfield, Kirkham; Wharton, Crowe, McParland, Murray, Hinton.  Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson (G); Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey.  Referee; Mr. R. Aldous (Ipswich). 
There was a big shock for the Wolves supporters when it was announced prior to the match with Everton that their skipper, Ron Flowers, was unfit and his place would be taken by local-born Johnny Kirkham.  I talked to Flowers just afterwards and he told me that he had been injured in the international, and had failed to pass a fitness test this morning. This meant that the unbeaten Wolves would be without their skipper who had held their defence together.  The game had hardly been  in progress a couple of minutes before West was in  action making two excellent  saves from McParland and  then from Crowe.  The centre forward began the first move himself with a lovely flicked pass to Wharton and from the centre made a header which West leapt to and turned over.  The corner taken by Hinton, was met squarely by Crowe and this time West hurled himself to the left to beat the ball away. 
MORRISSEY'S SHOT 
So far the match was meeting  expectations, fast and  direct, with some good midfield  touches,  none better than that by Young which  enabled Morrissey to go and  hit a terrific right foot shot which Davies could not hold  but was able to recover  quickly enough to avoid any  damage.  Again the long ball through the 'Wolves defence produced menace, until Vernon was out- paced by Woodfield who made another good tackle to prevent a shot. 
BINGHAM IS BUSY 
Everton were turning on the heat at this point, and Vernon only just failed to keep the ball in after an excellent run, and it was as well for Wolves that this wasso because Bingham met the centre and planted it in the net, but the referee was perfectly placed to confirm that the ball had gone out of play.  Next it was Gabriel setting up an Everton attack, on this occasion Bingham got in his shot which Davies saved at full stretch. 
OFF THE LINE 
Young's touches were superb, and after he had earned a corner on the left.  Wolves were saved by Showell, for Young's header had beaten Davies and was sneaking into the net until the full back headed away from the line.  Everton were playing gloriously now, and Harris went up to link with Young, and when he got the return pass his shot scraped the wrong side of the post with Davies nowhere.  Wolves,  however, were  always quick in their movements and Wharton indicated  their menace when he suddenly cut inside Thomson and  from twenty yards smashed inside a shot which West had to go down to very smart to save.
YOUNG'S ARTISTRY 
Everton were not as penetrative as they had been earlier, but this was still an excellent match, with Young continuing to be the man of many touches when he got the ball.  The Wolves' defence was never happy when Everton advanced, and they were certainly fortunate not to be a goal down at this point for' we had another occasion when a shot, this time from Vernon, was stopped by a defender when it looked to have the beating of Davies.  For much of the first half  Everton had given Wolves a  football lesson with every man contributing something and that they were not in front was due to the fast that the run of the ball had done the way of the Wolves  Half -time. Wolves nil.  Everton nil.  Wolves, facing the sun In  the second half, began as they  had done the first with all-out  attack and again McParland  was the provider for Hinton  to make a centre of ideal  length from which Wharton  headed in strongly and West  got down quickly to make a  safe clutch. 
STRONG TACKLING 
The tackling of Gabriel and  Harris was strong and  determined, as Crowe and  Murray found in turn when they took that second too long in getting the ball in control  and all round there was nosign of any let-up of the  game's entertainment.  Vernon was another was having a good outing and one defence-splitting pass from him deserved better response than Stevens gave it, for the inside man shot wildly outside  after being left in the clear.  There was no comparison between the sides as football exponents and Everton continuedto play certainly the best stuff I have seen them play this season.  Young's beautiful side flick had Vernon in the clear, but Everton were not finding the finishing touch and the shot went straight to Davies, who held on to it.  On the hour Everton scored at last—a goal from  Bingham made possible by  Thomson And Morrissey, or Thomson beat his man near the half-way  line and  pushed the ball through to the winger, who beatShowell with a fine turn of  speed before centring to  the far side of the Wolves  goal area.  There Bingham made a downward header andthe ball struck Kirkham and bounded into the net for a deserved lead by the Goodison side.  Vernon joined the ranks of the long-range shooters, one effort just whistling outside and the other having no pace at all to trouble Davies. 
THOMSON IS CHEEKY 
Everton were almost cheeky in their approach to things now, and certainly there had been nothing cheekier in the match than the way Thomson outwitted Murray near his own corner flag to wriggle out of a situation which could have developed nastily for the defence.  The Wolves fire had been dampened, but Wharton was always capable of making the dangerous thrust yet since the goal it had been all Everton, and Gabriel was only an inch or two high with a great first timer from 20 yards.  Suddenly the Wolves found a new burst and West did well to get down to Hinton's volleyed drive, while Meagan ended the next moment of  danger by a quick tackle on  Wharton at the cost of a  corner.  BANG FOR BINGHAM 
Bingham' perseverance brought a chance and a knock out for the Everton winger,  because in heading the ball forward he collided heavily with R. Thomson and went out cold, and he did not see Young hook the opportunity  over.  Bingham soon recovered to take part in a movement with Stevens, but I thought the Everton forwards at this point anyway were Indulgingin too much trickery and not enough directness.  Everton got a second in 74 minutes and a great one it was., Meagan passed to Vernon, the inside - left  jinked his way across field  and then slipped through a  wonderful pass for Young  to run on to and fire into  the corner of the net  as Woodfield bowled him  over.   Straight after this Morrissey  was lectured by the referee  after a tackle on Wharton.  Wolves had missed Ron Flowers, but one wondered whether even they wouldhave been able to have done any better against an Everton side which had put on a top class show.  Wolves were trying to make a light of it, and did better in attack than for some time with West saving from McParland and Murray making a poor effort from close in.  Final: — Wolverhampton Wanderers 0, Everton 2.  Estimated attendance 50,000.

EVERTON TAKE POINTS YET BELOW THEIR BEST
Liverpool Echo- Saturday 6 October 1962
Writes Alex Young
If a team's chances of winning the League championship depend on its ability to keep picking up points even when not producing its best form, then Everton have gone a long way towards winning this year's First Division title.  Whether it was reaction after playing so well and then losing 3-0 at Leyton Orient, I don't know, but I think it must be admitted that our form against Bolton, Liverpool and West Bromwich was not quite as good as we know it can be."Bad patches" are  inevitable, and even the  best teams and sportsmen  seem unable to escape them  but If to-day's result at  Wolverhampton was a satisfactory  one, then I think we can forget all about the past few matches and look  forward to the rest of the  season in confident mood.  Feature of last Saturday's match against West Bromwich I am told they have been one of Everton’s bogey teams since the war was undoubtedly Johnny Morrissey's “hat-trick."  Johnny has my congratulations and those of the rest of the Everton boys.  He tells me it is the first time he has notched a “treble" in League football, although he has scored three goals in Central League and minor football games. Keep up the good work, Johnny 
KEVAN BLUNDER 
I sympathise with Albion for having to play with only  10 fit men for minutes, although I don't think this  affected the result in any way, I do think, however,  that they made a tactical  blunder in moving Derek  Kevan to centre half after  Stan Jones had been hurt.  Derek Is far too good a  goal-poacher to be withdrawn  from the forward  line, and although I admit  he played exceptionally  well in this unaccustomed  role, the West Brom attack lost much of Its effectiveness  without him.  So many present day forwards are experts at, "taking a dive" In the  penalty area that the  referees seem to think  twice before they award  spot kicks after a player  has been brought down, and I suffered because of this on Saturday.  Sent sprawling in the area. I looked round at the  referee quite confident that  he would be pointing to the  spot, but all that happened  was that Mr. McCabe, of  Sheffield, gave me one of  those grins which seemed  to say. "Hard luck, lad.  You didn't fool me."  Mr. McCabe, however, had been fooled by my fall for there was nothing “phoney" about it and I was well and truly tripped by an Albion defender. The only consolation I got was a pat on the back and “Sorry about the penalty, Alex." from the player concerned as we left the field.
MANAGER THERE 
Mind you, I was fooled myself on Saturday, for I had the impression that West Brom, were a side without a Scottish player.  When the match started no one was more surprised than me to hear commands being issued to the opposition in abroad Scots accent, and I realised that the man responsible was young inside fight Ken Foggo.  It was a welcome surprise  to hear that Scotland's  team manager, Mr. Ian  McColl, watched the game  against West Brom, especially  after reading reports  alleging that he had gone  away dissatisfied after the  "derby " match.  Mr. McColl's visit to Goodison probably had a  double purpose, Scotland's  opponents on October 20  are, of course, Wales, and  Mr. MColl was no doubt  figuring a way to stop that  Welsh danger man, Roy  Vernon, at the same time as  he was watching how the  Everton Scots fared.  Tottenham have had their critics this season, and Saturday's 9-2 victory was a most effective way of silencing them. It should  also stop any complacency  among other teams who  think they will win the First Division this season, for, in my view, the mighty  Spurs are still (outside  Goodison Park, of course)  No. 1 title contenders. 
STILL LEADS 
As the season goes on, Merseyside still leads the country as far as football attendances are concerned, which makes it difficult to understand why more international andrepresentative matches are not played in this area.  Obviously Goodison Park  or Anfield could have  toppedthe attendance at the England– France match in Sheffield on Wednesday,  so the football authorities  seem to be knocking a few  hundred pound or so off the  credit side of their balance  by repeatedly ignoring  Merseyside for this type of  match.  Letters from America, Bermuda, Aden, and now Singapore the Football Echo seems to travel almost everywhere.  Writing from 32 Jalan Kebaya, Singapore 10, Dave Barker tells me he stayed up into the early hours of the morning waiting for the Everton-Liverpool match score on short - wave radio.  Dave says be "did his not” when he heard it reported that Hunt had equalised in the last minute.  An Everton fan for 15 years, Dave, who now works in Singapore, says there is plenty of sun out there and he enjoys every minute of it, but adds that he would give almost anything to be able to watch 90 minutes of football at Goodison Park every fortnight.  He enclosed cuttings to  show me that even in Singapore,  the name Everton  makes football headlines  and that the local paper  even carried a picture of  our match with Fulham,  Only thing wrong is that  it is a picture of Brown  scoring Fulham's only  goal. 

EVERTON RES V. BURY RES
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 06 October 1962
Everton Res;- Dunlop; Parker, Green; Rees, Heslop, Sharples; Temple, Tyrer, Wignall, Hurst, Veall.  Bury Res; Adams; Bromilow, Robertson; Colquhoun, Bunner, Riggs, Bradshaw, Irving, Beaumont, Durrant, Bradley.  Referee; Mr. F. Lassey (Blackburn).  The players were slow to get into their stride and it was 10 minutes before any shot with power was delivered.  This came after a movement between Parker and Rees which finished with Rees putting a drive inches over the crossbar.  Wignall had another power drive which flashed round the post, and goalkeeper Adams began to have a busy time.  Another movement by Everton followed a centre from the wing by Wignall which Adams managed to cut out before it could be dangerous.  Everton now started to turn on pressure and goalkeeper Adams was playing a magnificent game against a forward line who shot at every opportunity.  Parker was feeding his forwards magnificently and eventually an upfield drive of his was picked up by Wignall and he shot straight at Adams.  The goalkeeper could only punch the ball and it went straight back to wignall five yards out and he headed it into the corner.  Half-time; Everton Res 1, Bury Res nil.  

EVERTON WILL PROVE WORTH CHAMPIONS
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, October 8,1962
IN MOOD VERNON AND YOUNG HAVE NO SUPERIORS
WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 0, EVERTON 2
By Jack Rowe
Everton for the First Division championship this season and participation in the European Cup next season.  That is how I think it will happen after the superb performance at Molyneux, a view confirmed by Wolverhampton observers, who have also seen Sours in action this season.  They reckon Everton can beat Spurs and if that is so, who else is there in the First Division to keep the Goodison Park side from ultimate triumph.  Wolves could not do it and their failure meant relinquishing top place to a team which so thoroughly deserved it and which brought tribute from Stan Cullis. 
INJURY BLOWS
Cullis knew what the loss of Flowers and Farmer, through injury, meant to his side, but he was left to wonder whether if they had been playing it would have made any difference to the result.  I doubt it, so well did Everton play as a team, with Vernon and Young illustrating that when they are in the mood there are no better forwards anywhere who can control and direct a game.  Vernon particularly was good in his determination to cut the Wolves down to size and speed.  His deliberation in midfield, plus the wonderful touches and control of Young, took the fire from the young Wolves until they were made to follow the dictates of their masters.  Vernon and Young can scarcely have played better this season and they had the response from the rest of the side so that we save a combination which fitted in beautifully with each other and with the vital link between defence and attack.  Probably the other vital factor in this Everton success was the domination of Gabriel and Harris over Murray and Crowe. 
NO ENGLAND PLAYER
If Wolves had not had Wharton they would have fared badly as an attacking force and even he could not stop Thomson from having a good match, while on the other side Meagan was so much in command that Hinton never had the look of an England winger.  Labone also kept McParland so much in subjection that a header and a missed chance in the first half were the total of his contributions and the longer the game went the more difficult it was to visualise Wolves getting a goal.  Unfortunately for an hour there was also this feeling about Everton.  The ball would not go into the net due partly to their own failings, but mainly I thought because the run of fortune was with Wolves.  Each of the Everton forwards found their way through in the first half to be defied first by goalkeeper Davies then by Showell heading off the line and eventually Harris came storming through to put a shot inches outside which inches the other way would have given Davies good goalkeeper through it was no chance. 
CHEEKY APPROACH
No fault could be laid against any Everton player in a match full of entertainment and much skill, chiefly from Everton who once they had taken the lead in the 60th minute were positively cheeky and almost contemptuous.  They were so much on top perhaps the risk was understandable of not acceptable and in the event they were proved right by the margin of their victory.  I have not seen them play with such conviction for a long time and a pleasing feature was that although Wolves were given a lesson they took it without acrimony and so helped to make an occasion memorable for the brilliance of Young, Vernon, Gabriel, and Harris and the contribution of all twenty-two players to a fine match.  Everton should have been ahead before the hour, when Bingham- how whole-heartedly he played –got the goal which ended Wolves hope of salvaging a point.  Thomson ended a Wolves raid and promptly put Morrissey in possession.  The winger left Showell behind and when near the line centred over Davies to the far side of the goal. 
DEFEAT ASSURED
Bingham made a downward header which cannoned off Kirkham into the net and from that moment the first defeat of the Wolves this season was assured.  In 74 minutes came the second goal, Meagan beat Hinton almost casually before sliding the ball to Vernon who began a crossfield run, which took him into the centre of the pitch.  Then came the pass, a killer on the outside of Woodfield, so that Young was able to run on to it, and crash a left foot shot low into the net as he went headlong after Woodfield’s desperate tackle.  On this form Everton will be worthy champions.  Wolves; Davies; Showell, Thomson (R.); Goodwin, Woodfield, Kirkham; Wharton, Crowe, McParland, Murray, Hinton.  Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson (G); Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey.  Referee; Mr, R. Aldous (Ipswich).  Attendance 44,506. 

ADAMS KEPT EVERTON’S SCORE DOWN
Liverpool Daily Post –Monday, October 8, 1962
EVERTON RESERVES 2 BURY RESERVES 0
A magnificent display by Bury goalkeeper Adams saved his side from complete rout by a goal-hungry Everton Res, forward line in this Central League game at Goodison Park.  Everton were slow starting until a terrific shot by half back Rees which grazed the crossbar brought life into the game and their pressure increased until Bury were virtually penned in their own half for two-thirds of the match.  Wignall and his colleagues were well fed by Parker, and Rees, but it was not until the 35th minute that Adams was beaten Wignall shot straight at him from close range.  Adams got his hands to the ball but only to punch it straight back, and this time, using his head, Wignall made no mistake.  Everton sealed their victory with a grand second half goal by Temple after a shot by Tyrer had rebounded to his feet at 85 minutes.  Afterwards Bury had slightly more of the play, but this was due mainly to the home side, confidently on top, taking it easy. 

WOLVES TAMED BY COOL ARTISTRY OF A GREAT EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Monday 08 October 1962
By Jack Rowe
Until the hour the large hand of Everton supporters at the Molineux Ground on Saturday must have been apprehensive, not because of the way the side was playing, but because of the danger that their superiority over the Wolves might not be crowned with the success it deserved.  However, all turned out well in the end and Everton in succeeding where Liverpool failed so narrowly the week before, justified the view of many at Wolverhampton that on this display they are the best side in the country.  Certainly for me they have not played as well this season as a team.  All 11 players take every credit for a performance which not only took the sting and the fire out of the dashing young Wolves, but made them look almost pedestrian in comparison.  After the first minute when West made two cracking saves from McParland and Crowe, Wolves were rarely in the game as a force capable of striking a mortal blow against this cool compact Everton whose strength at wing half particularly was one of the major factors of the victory Everton were obviously determined to play it cool and bring the Wolves round to their speed of operation. 
THRUST AND FINESSE
They succeeded admirably and in achieving that, produced football which has not been seen at Molineux this season.  There was thrust and finesse in the forward line where Young had a great day with his many wonderful touches and supreme ability in controlling the ball, but there was also Vernon with devastating through passes and a calmness of application which showed what a great player he can be.  Bingham, Stevens, and Morrissey all played their noble roles and there was no-one in defence towards whom a finger of criticism could be pointed.  Ture everything did not always run right, but once Everton had dictated the terms the Wolves were tamed.  Stan Cullis’ team had to go on without their captain and strongman Ron Flowers, but it would have taken a side of Flowers to have stopped Everton. 
NARROW ESCAPES
As I say, the danger was whether Everton were going to be robbed of a victory triumph by the fortune of the Wolves, especially in the first half when their goal had some narrow escapes and by Everton’s own inability to take to finality the excellence of their other work.  The 60th minute changed all that for Thomson and Morrissey linked up beautifully, the winger’s centre flew to the far side of the Wolves goal and there was the gallant Bingham to make a header which rocketed into the net off Kirkham.  Fourteen minutes later came a goal in keeping with the glory of most of Everton’s play Vernon took over from Meagan, spread-eagled the Wolves defence with a joyous pass and Young hit it into the net.  That was that and Everton supporters were full of joy as well they might because in thrashing the League leaders the Goodison Park side had on this occasion at least, fulfilled all that which they had promised so often. 
LABONE’S GRIP
Wolves’ best forward was Wharton on the right wing, in spite of Thomson’s fine match.  We saw little of Crowe and even less of Murray due to the brilliance of Gabriel and Harris, while Hinton did not look an England forward against Meagan.  Whether Farmer would have done better against Labone and McParland is also doubtful because the Everton centre half must have convinced everyone that he is due for a place in the England team.  Certainly McParland would endorse that view, for in an excellent match which was never marred by any unseemly incidents he could never escape the grip Labone put on him almost from the start. 

BRIAN LABONE WINS ENGLAND CAP
Liverpool Echo - Monday 08 October 1962
FIRST EVERTON PLAYER SINCE THE WAR
GAME IN BELFAST
Everton centre half, Brian Labone, holder of several England Under-23 caps, gets his first full internationalrecognition against Northern Ireland at Belfast on October 20.  Other new caps in the side are Freddie Hill, of Bolton, who played so brilliantly at Anfleld on Saturday, and outside left Mike O'Grady,of Huddersfield.  Labone the first Everton player to win a full England cap since the war.  The team shows four changes from the side which drew 1-1 with France at Hillsborough last Wednesday.  Recalled to centre forward is Middlesbroughs Alan Peacock, who twice led the attack in World Cup games In Chile.  After announcing the side, Mr. Walter Winterbottom, the England team manager, made the following statement: "The selectioncommittee has an eye to the future. This period is one of building and trial. They desire to see as many of the non-established players under International match conditions as possible."  England team:—  Springett (Sheffield Wed.);  Armfleld (Blackpool, captain),  Wilson (Huddersfield): Moore  (West Ham), Labone ( Everton),  Flowers (Wolves): Hellawell  (Birmingham), Hill (Bolton),  Peacock (Middlesbmugh),  Greaves (Spurs), O'Grady  (Huddersfield). Reserve to travel: Deakin (Aston Villa). 
FINE PLAY 
The last England centre half produced by this city was Laurie Hughes, of Liverpool, who gained several caps, and notably in the World Cup at Rio.  Labone's recognition will delight all Evertonians, indeed many who follow the rival club. He has deserved acknowledgment for his fine play and sportsmanship.  In the past two seasons he has developed that little "bite” in the tackle which was lacking.  Considering that he is the most undemonstrative of players, the F.A. have done well to single him out as the best in land.  Labone, who is 22,joined Everton straight from Liverpool Collegiate School, where Jack Balmer and dozens of others made their mark in soccer. He might well have chosen to forego football for a University career, but Everton persuaded him, in Ian Buchan's days as manager, to come to Goodison Park and not to Anfield. He was a success almost from the beginning. He has several England Under-28 caps and wears them as he will wear his latest honour, with characteristic modesty.  When told today’s news he said; “This is great news; I am very pleased.”  His father, one of his most loyal followers, home and away, had a brother who played as a professional with Villa before the war.

LABONE FOR ENGLAND-VERNON FOR WALES
Liverpool Daily Post- Tuesday, October 9, 1962
CITY CLUBS MAY NOT HAVE MATCHES ON OCTOBER 20
By Jack Rowe
Everton and Liverpool could be without a First Division fixture on October 20, the date of the Ireland v England (at Belfast) and Wales v. Scotland (at Cardiff) international matches.  Yesterday Everton’s Roy Vernon and Brian Labone were selected for Wales and England respectively and it is probable that they will apply for the match t Notts Forest to be postponed.  Labone, at 22, one of the best centre half backs in the country gets his first full cap after several Under-23 appearances and he replaces Norman, the Spurs centre half. 

EVERTON’S APPLICATION
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 09 October 1962
Everton F.C., have applied to the Football League for permission to postpone their match at Nottingham Forest on October 20.  On this date England play Ireland and Wales meet Scotland, Labone (England) and Vernon (Wales) are not available for their club on that day and there could be others of the side chosen in the Wales v. Scotland match at Cardiff.  Forest are anxious to stage the fixture the following week, but Everton who have an Inter-City fairs Cup engagement, do not favour this date. 

LETTER
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 09 October 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Gordon Stanley (115 Ince Avenue Anfield) makes some shrewed observations on the Everton team, not all of them agreed by this columnist.  He thanks West lacks confidence in the air, Meagan lacks the experience and power, of Parker.  Thomson, he says is superb on the ball, but has to make up for a slight clumsiness and lack of speed with occasional shows of strength.  The half-back line are going to be greats; Bingham overloaded with guts and spirit is not quite enough.  Young at times is so detached from the game.  Mr. Stanley thinks he might be composing his article for the Football Echo! Morrissey with a certain first team place and a “touch of the Eileen Flowers” could be a first class winger. 
If Mr. Stanley is critical of the team which heads the League, I wouldn’t like to hear this comments on an Everton whose position was in the lower half of the table…
BOBBY BURGAN
Bobby Burgan, who has been on Everton’s books for the last four years and has played mostly in the “A” team, has joined Skelmersdale United.  Burgan is a very useful right back but at the moment is unlikely to displace Colin Bridge, former Marine player who has been United’s most consistent defender all season. 

STOCK-TAKING TOUR BY EVERTON MANAGER
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 10 October 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Manager Harry Catterick, missing from the Everton scene yesterday and for a further few days yet, is busy taking stock of players here, there, and everywhere who have been recommended by his scouts. There is nothing like the personal touch and the Everton manager, very sensibly, wants to confirm or otherwise the assessments of his scouting staff.  Football management is a 24 hours a day job. Within minutes of Cammie Fraser being signed by Everton's Aston Villa opponents of Saturday the news had reached the Everton chief. He does not anticipate that anything tangible will come immediately from his mid-week tour, but he will gain valuable information for the future.  Mr. Catterick has done well for his new club. He had an idea, I am sure, at the outset that the first and second teams needed some strengthening. Maybe they did. The incoming of West, Stevens and Morrissey seems to have done the trick. The few reserves tried have nearly all proved their right to be considered splendid deputies.  Everton's success away from Goodison Park is the most heartening change in the old order. There was never any question that they were good enough to win most of their home fixtures.  It is one thing to reach the top and another, more difficult, thing to stay there. With long experience at Sheffield Wednesday of staying at the top Mr. Catterick should know the answer to this problem.  If he can pilot Everton to a League championship win he will have the thanks of all Evertonians, whose team for so many seasons has been far out of the “big" honours. 

EVERTON FINED £20
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express - Thursday 11 1962
Morrissey Registration
The Football league management Committee dealing with the case, and with similar cases Coventry City (J. Whitehouse) and Aldershot (H. Priscott), said they took a serious view of the offences and imposed fines amounting to £20 for each appearance while unregistered.  Morrissey was signed by Everton from Liverpool soon after the start of the season.  An Everton official said to-day: "There is no mystery about the Morrissey registration. All that happened was that it went astray in the post." Permission has been given to Liverpool to pay an accrued share of benefit to Morrissey.  An application by the club pay an additional payment to the player has been turned down. 
VILLA'S DOUBTS 
Aston Villa have two doubts for their trip to Everton on Saturday. Right half and skipper Vic Crowe has aggravated the ankle injury which recently kept him out of action for three weeks: outside right Tommy Ewing, Villa's most expensive capture in recent seasons, also has an ankle injury.  Both players are receiving treatment, but in view of the present state of the injuries manager Joe Mercer may not announce his side until Friday.  The inside right Mercer would like to sign is Peter Broadbent, Wolves' English international. The Staffordshire club, however, have rejected his transfer request.  One Aston Villa player who may move shortly is centre-half Jimmy Dugdale. Southport and Peterborough United   are two clubs who are interested in the Liverpool-born pivot. 

EVERTON ALL SET FOR TITLE THIS SEASON
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, October 12, 1962
Says Roy Vernon
It is no new experience for Everton to be on top of the First Division table.  We have been there before, during this season too, but there is something different about being perched at the top just now.  I know there is a long way to go before next April and that all sorts of thing might happen, but for the first time since I came to Everton I feel it in my bones that we shall grab the title this season.  Everybody was busy telling us last season that we could never hope to be champions until we started winning matches away from home and of course that was fair criticism and an indisputable fact.  We knew it as well as the next man but try as we would we just could not make it.  Gradually we have been built up into a side bursting at the seams with confidence.  We are not big headed, just that little bit of cocky for I am one of those who believes that all the best players are a bit cocky, if only from the confidence they have in their own ability to do well. 
WONDERFUL FILLIP
The fact that in six games we have already beaten our quota of away victories last season, is a wonderful fillip in itself but when you consider that numbered among those victories have been those won at Burnley, Wolves and Manchester United then even a man with half an eye must see possibilities for us.  Last week some of my friends in the Liverpool camp were busy telling me that we couldn’t miss at Wolverhampton.  I admit I was all very cheering, but I am one of those who believes that a bird in hand is worth two in the bush, and it was a more satisfied Roy Vernon when we trooped off the field two goals up.  I think the season has come far enough now to show fairly clearly who the really big guns in the division are likely to be.  It looks like Everton, Wolves, Tottenham Hotspur, Nottingham Forest, and Burnley, with Tottenham probably the most dangerous of our rivals.  Not until December 1 do we try conclusions with the famous Sours, and then it will be in London.  What a day to shatter for all time the illusion that we never play, well in London.  The way things are shaping this season could be one of the tightest competition known for a long time.  Just now there are three points between the fourth club Spurs and Everton at the top.  Yet three points are almost enough to cover the difference between the club at the bottom and those approaching half-way. 
WELL DONE BRIAN
It may be the away games which will decide championships, but don’t forget that it is the home game which spell safely for the great majority and that being on points on opponents grounds are going to be very difficult to claim.  On behalf of the team, I should like to offer heartiest congratulations to Brian Labone on his selection for England, an honour we all knew would come one day, and which many of us through overdue.  Still, he is only 22 and has all his career before him.  If Brian does as well as we think he will England will only have to bother about naming the other ten for a long time to come!  I know how Brian must feel.  It is a terrific thrill.  I suppose you might call me a comparative old hand at the international game now, but I assure you the top of my head threatens to blow off every time I hear I have been honoured by my country.  Labone, is a player with both feet firmly placed on the ground, so that his elevation will not after a modest a lad as ever I have met.  Some of the Everton players took on the Bootle police at golf last Monday, and I am told we scored a very good victory.  Mind you, I feel we should compliment the police on their honesty in divulging their correct handicaps for there are times when I feel that the memories of our boys are not top reliable.  It was tough luck of course on the poor chap who had to play Brian Labone.  He had just been told by Mr. Harry Catterick of his selection for England.  With a fillip such as that I dare say Brian would have beaten Arnold Palmer. 
PEAK DISPLAY
Brian’s selection means that Everton have a team in which more than half are full internationals.  If we could play every game as we did at Wolves, I think we would all be internationals.  It was our peak performance and I can only hope we play at that peak for a long time.  The true test of a great side is that it is able to rise to the really big occasions and that is what makes me so optimistic about Everton.  When the chips are down more often than not we are at our best and these are the matches which count most heavily in points.  I bet Mr. Catterick keeps pinching himself to make sure he is really awake this season.  Remember last year when injuries knocked us for six in match after match until we hardly knew what the team would be from week to week.  This season fortune has smiled a little more warmly and just how much confidence is generated in a team which remains unchanged in game after game has to be experienced to be appreciated.  We are just one large family, with each individual’s strength and weakness well know to everybody ground.  It is a healthy sign when you find yourself no just thinking about which team you meet next but looking forward to the new challenge.  That’s the Everton of today.

EVERTON TEAM
Liverpool Echo- Friday October 12 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Everton field an unchanged side against Aston Villa at Goodison Park tomorrow, Billy Bingham reporting fit after playing for Northern Ireland against Poland, in Poland, on Wednesday. 
Everton and Forest cannot agree on a date and must wait for the decision of the Football League. 
Double-edged cheer 
Biggest cheer of the afternoon is likely to be reserved for Everton as they step on to the pitch. It isn't every week fans can acknowledge victory at Wolverhampton and not since the War have we had the pleasure of acknowledging, at Goodison Park, the selection of an Everton player as a full England International. Everyone, it seems, is delighted with Brian Labone's distinction—yes, even Liverpudlians who may be dismayed by the non-selection of their own favourites.  Villa will be without McEwen and Crowe,two established stars, but they will have their new boy, Cammie Fraser from Dunfermline, as aid to his Scottish under-23 partner, Aitken. Many Liverpool fans who had hoped that Fraser would eventually come to Anfield will no doubt take this opportunity to assess for themselves the value of a man for whom Joe Mercer paid £25,000 this week.  Everton.—West: Meagan, Thomson: Gabriel, Labone, Harris, Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey.  Aston Villa; Sidebottom; Fraser, Aitkens; Crowe, Sleeuwenhoek, Deakin; Ewing, Wylie, Dougan, Thomson, Burrows. 

SCHOOL NEWSPAPER DOUBLES UP
Liverpool Echo - Friday 12 October 1962
AND CONGRATULATIONS COME FROM ABROAD
Only five months after it was launched, the Ruffwood Mirror, the monthly newspaper of Ruffwood Comprehensive School, Northwood, Kirkby, has doubled its circulation from 600 to 1,200.  Under the editorship of 14-years-old Brian Finch of 10 Wingate Road, Northwood, the paper has a staff of about a dozen reporters as well as two assistant editors and writers on fashion and cookery, all aged 14 years or under.  The next edition, which is expected to be published in about three weeks’ time, will contain, among the usual news reports and features, articles dealing with football as a career and exploring behind-the-scenes at the Everton and Liverpool clubs.  Mr. Dewi Hopkins, the deputy head of the school’s English department, started the paper in an effort to improve the pupil’s reading, writing and spelling. 
OPINION POLL
In the current issue, the editor acknowledges congratulations from readers as far away as Oregon, U.S.A., and Norway.  Each issue carries a school opinion poll, the latest of which reveals that the favouritie actors and actresses of the children at the school are Pat Phoenix, Doris Day, Norman Wisdom and Bob Hope.  The result of the next poll will show who the children regard as the greatest living person and as the greatest person in history. 

VILLA’S GOODISON RECORD SOUNDS A WARNING
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, October 13, 1962
By Horace Yates
Aston Villa’s prospects of providing the day’s turn-up by shocking the League leaders, Everton at Goodison Park, were not improved by yesterday’s announcement that their colourful unpredictable menace of a centre-forward Derek Dougan has to stand down because of a back strain received in Ireland’s mid-week game with Poland.  New signing Cammie Fraser, who was to have made his debut, had the misfortune to damage his ankle ligaments in training soon after being signed from Dunfermline, and he too, stands down but the restoration of Lee in his place will not weaken the defence anything like so much as the attack will suffer for the loss of Dougan, who must be the fastest starting, big man in football today.  Fraser’s absence is disappointing inasmuch as most people would have liked to see whether or not the man in whom Liverpool were at one time interested, represents a miss or not.  It would be wrong, however, to assume that it was Liverpool’s unwillingness to compete in a financial sense, that lost them Fraser, for their last information quite recently was that the player was not for sale.  How then came Villa to get him?  My information is that Villa too, were told that Fraser would not be released and that this was the position until within an hour of the deal going through.  Because of Villa’s persistence a special meeting was called by Dumfermline, and then the charge of heart was announced.  Villa will be led by Thomson, who is the club’s leading scorer with seven goals, compared with five each for Burrows and Dougan.  If Dougan is searching his history to discover under which unlucky sign he was born, it is not to be wondered at, for yesterday he was told he begins a fourteen days suspension on Monday following his dismissal in the game with Nottingham Forest on September 22, so that today’s injury enforced absence is just so much as in the wound, not even counting towards his period of enforced idleness.  The Irishman will miss next week’s international game with England.  For what could be one of the most attractive games in today’s programme, the man in charge was to have been Mr. Jim Finney, formerly of St. Helens, and now of Hereford, who referred the Spurs-Burnley Cup final last May, but he has gone to Uganda in connection with the independence celebrations and the game at Goodison will be controlled by Mr. J.E. Carr, of Sheffield.  Few teams come to Goodison with better records than Villa to boost their morale.  It is one of their favourite grounds.  No wonder.  The past five League visits have produced the following results -3-0, 1-2, 2-1, 1-2 and 0-4 with a 4-1.  Villa victory in the fifth round of the F.A Cup in 1959 for good measure.  There you are.  Six games with an outright result in each, is that the cue for indicating a share of the spoils today?  Everton’s last home defeat was as long ago as September 4, 1961, when Manchester city won.  Everton undoubtedly are the form horse, fresh from their victory at Wolverhampton and if they can impose their will and with the freedom to play their normal game the warning shadow cast by Villa’s previous performances will be swept away and the unchanged Everton side can consolidate their leading position.  Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey.  Aston Villa; Sidebottom; Lee, Aitkens; Crowe, Sleeuanhoek, Deakin, Ewing, Baker, Thomson, Wylie, Burrows.
Confirmation was received yesterday for the postposement of Everton’s game at Nottingham Forest, next Saturday, because of international calls.  A new date will be named by the League. 

WARM WELCOME FOR EVERTON-AND LABONE
Liverpool Echo- Saturday October 13 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Aston Villa’s centre forward Derek Dougan, who must miss playing for Northern Ireland against England in Belfast next Saturday-the matter of a 14-day suspension intervenes-will also miss today’s big game against Everton at Goodison Park.  So, unhappily, will Cammie Fraser, signed by Joe Mercer from Dunfermline at a fee of £25,000.  Dougan strained his back when playing for Northern Ireland in Poland on Wednesday; Fraser, after being chosen to make his debut today, injured ankle ligaments in training with his new club yesterday.  Brian Labone, newly capped by England will get a specially warm welcome today.  The team’s victory at Wolverhampton plus the honouring of their centre half back, makes the occasion doubly notable.  With Billy Bingham winning to further Northern Ireland caps and Roy Vernon appearing for Wales again, Everton are starting to become a glamour club as they were in the days of Dixie Dean, Alec Troup, Torry Gillick, Alex Stevenson, Tom Lawton, Jimmy Dunn, T.G. Jones, and Joe Mercer, whose career as player, and manager spans 30 years and more.  Joe returns to his old love, Goodison Park, today, with mixed loyalties.  He’s still a great Evertonian at heart.  But sentiment plays little part in football management and when the teams get into battle all Mercer’s energies and tactics will be aimed at Everton’s defeat. 
SUCCESS SHARED
The Everton players’ salary harvest is still being gathered in hundreds, thanks to the crowd bonus scheme.  I dare say some of the single men look ruefully at a pay packet out of which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has removed £50 or £60 for himself.  So in one respect, the players’ success on the field is being shared by the Government.  Of course, among the thousands who throng the Goodison terraces-the people who pay the players’ salaries- there are thousands who would gladly pay the Government £50 per week in P.A.Y.E.  It is only when you are in the super-tax bracket, it seems, that you realise what a big slice Income Tax takes from salaries boosted to £100 per week and above. 
Mr. Jim Finney, of Hereford, who was the referee at the Spurs v. Burnley Cup Final, at Wembley, last May, is in Uganda in connection with the Independence celebrations and will be unable to control the Everton v Aston Villa match.  Mr. J.E. Carr, of Sheffield will deputise.  Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson (G.); Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey.  Aston Villa; Sidebottom; Lee, Aitken; Crowe, Sleeuwenhoek, Deakin; Ewing, Baker, Thomson (R.), Wylie, Burrows. 

VILLA’S FIGHTING RALLY TAKES SHINE OFF BLUES
Liverpool Echo-Saturday October 13 1962
EVERTON PIPPED ON POST BY LATE GOAL
EVERTON 1, ASTON VILLA 1
By Michael Charters
Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson (G.); Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon (captain), Morrissey.  Aston Villa; Sidebottom; Lee, Aitkens; Crowe, Sleeuwenoek, Deakin; Ewing, Baker, Thomson (R.), Wylie, Burrows.  Referee; Mr. E. Carr (Sheffield). 
A crowd in the region of 45,000 to 50,000 gave Evertonand their internationals, Vernon, Labone and Bingham a great reception at Goodison Park this afternoon. Everton opened slickly with a good move between Morrissey and Stevens but the winger ended with a quickly hit shot high over the bar. Deakin, who had been hurt when Morrissey tried his early shot, took another knock when Meagan bundled him in the Villa penalty area. The referee spoke to Meagan while Deakin was receiving attention.
After Young had been pulled up, quite rightly, for offside, the crowd objected to decision, and an apple was thrown on the pitch from, behind the Stanley Park goal. 
MORE IMPRESSIVETEAM
Everton were the more impressive team in these opening stages, for Villa were much too delicate with theirclose passing and Everton's defenders were taking the ball off them quite easily. Morrissey, with a clever change of pace, beat Lee handsomely and from his cross the ball rebounded off Young to Stevens, whose first time shot went high over the top.   A beautiful pass from Vernon to the unmarked Bingham was accepted promptly by the winger, whose shot was beautifully saved by Sidebottom at the expense of a corner.  From Bingham’s flag kick Gabriel was penalised for charging the goalkeeper.  Gabriel did well to cut off a fine through pass by Crowe before it reached the dangerous Wylie, who looked the best of Villa’s attack.  We had the unusual spectacle of a bounce up in Everton’s penalty area as Labone fell awkwardly when challenged and the ball nestled against his body. 
A RED HOT SAVE
Everton cleared from this and a great pass from Vernon to Young, on the left wing, produced a wonderful piece of football from the centre forward.  He cut inside three men and hit such a powerful shot that Sidebottom handled it as though it were red hot, dropping the ball, which ran across the goalmouth.  Bingham tried to return it to Young, but Aitken intercepted and cleared.  Morrissey did well to break through between two Villa defenders and his fast cross well saved by Sidebottom. Everton, although having more of the game, were still not creating the goal openings, although they were finding Sidebottom in fine form. 
SUSTAINED PACE 
The pace was so fast that both sides were making some errors, but generally the game was excellent entertainment in every way.  After 33 minutes Everton's deservedly took the lead with a penalty by Vernon—, his sixth of the season. It was awarded for a clear foul by Lee on Stevens; Vernon strode casually up and put the ball wide of Sidebottom’s left hand.  This goal set Everton alight and a brilliant move between Bingham, and Gabriel saw the right half hit a fierce shot, from an angle which Sidebottom punched out excellently--another great save.  A quickly-taken throw-in by Bingham near the corner flag gave Everton a chance when Gabriel put the ball across promptly and Stevens made a good header from a standing position, the ball just sliding over the bar with Sidebottom groping. 
Everton had taken quite firm control now and West had not had any trouble in Everton’s goal: the cover in front of him, with Labone in great form, had withstood all Villa’s rather tentative attacking moves.  But two minutes before half-time West really did have to exert himself and he made a really fine save from Ewing after the right winger had been left unmarked by George Thompson.  At times, Everton’s forwards moved like a machine and Vernon started one brilliant move with the ball flashing out to Bingham whose cross was well headed by Stevens, and just as neatly saved by Sidebottom.  Half-time.- Everton 1, Aston Villa nil.  West made a good save from Bob Thomson immediately the second half resumed, but generally the story was as before- Everton persistently attacking.  Villa’s attacks, when they came, were good enough in midfield but usually petered out through lack of punch where it mattered-in the penalty area.  Deakin put a good volley wide but, that apart, it was always Everton who were dictating the game.  A bad goal kick by Sidebottom-his first mistake of the game- put the ball straight out, Stevens moved it up to Young, who produced hip usual delicate side step to beat Sleeuwenhoek and push the ball forward invitingly for Morrissey, but the winger sliced his shot across the face of the goal.  Young had his admirers almost cooing with delight after one particularly superb bit of work near the corner flag, but his centre was collected by a Villa defender.  At times, Everton were doing almost as they liked in building up their attacks but like Villa they were not impressive with their finishing.  Vernon started and finished one glorious Everton move which featured some more artistry from Young before Vernon went up well to Bingham’s centre and headed the ball just wide. This was football at its best. 
HALF BACKS THE PICK 
As usual, Everton's half backs were the pick of the side, all three playing faultlessly.  The disturbing feature was that Everton with all their superiority, still only had one goal, and that a penalty, to show for their efforts.  Sidebottom had played brilliantly in the Villa goal, and he kept up his good work with another fine save from Bingham, who shortly afterwards was put through gloriously by Young. He beat the Villa goalkeeper with his shot, but it went past the far upright.  From the free kick, in one of Villa’s rare breakaways.  Burrows put in a great shot, which struck the angle of the upright and crossbar and bounced out fur Stevens to clear.  Villa were attacking in fits and starts and for Everton fans there was always the danger that they would snatch an equaliser.   Sidebottom made another poor goal kick and Vernon, quick to see the chance, tried a first time shot which swung wide of the posts with Sidebottom scampering after it.  But Bingham almost surprised the goalkeeper with a low free kick from 35 yards out. It travelled through a crowd of players and was taken at the last possible second by the goalkeeper. Villa were getting stronger, and better, as the game entered its closing stages and there was certainly a good deal of trepidation among the crowd that Everton'sgoal would fall.  The weakness in Everton’s side was at full back, and Burrows, who had done well against Meagan, beat the full back again quite easily. His fast, low centre was flicked on by Bob Thomson only Just wide of the far upright.  Young, who had made some wonderful openings, again got the ball through to Bingham when the chance seemed impossible, but Bingham,well angled, put the ball into the side netting.  At the 77th minute,Villa got the equaliser that had been threatening for the previous ten minutes. It came when Bob Thomson pushed a good pass through into the penalty area to Baker, who turned and slipped it into the far corner of the net. His shot seemed to deceive West by its flight.  A good deal of Everton’s poise had gone in the preceding 10 minutes and Villa, although the inferior side for so long, had now got back on level terms with only their third or fourth shot of the match.  Everton tried desperately hard to regain the lead but their efforts were too hurried.  Vernon did have the ball in the net, diverting a shot from George Thomson, but was clearly offside.  Before Sidebottom took the free kick he threw several objects off the goal line. The  Incident ended with the referee going up to the goal and telling a policeman close  by to prevent the crowd from throwing anything further.  With only a minute to go Stevens missed an open goal after Young had contrived to give him a wonderful opening.  Villa were kicking the ball anywhere now to hold on to their point. Some of their tackling was too desperate and received the censure of the referee.  The game was ending in at an atmosphere like a boxing night at the Stadium with a foul by Ewing on Vernon. The Villa’s outside right went crashing down when he burst through from an offside position and cannoned into West.   There was a storm of booing as the Villa players left the pitch. One or two hotheads in the crowd threw pieces of orange peel at Villa and also Referee Carr when he left last of all.  Final; - Everton 1, Aston Villa 1.  Official attendance: 53.045.
Lancashire League
Everton B 2, L’Pool B 1

TOP PLACE AND CAPS AT HAPPY EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 13 October 1962
Writes Alex Young
With Everton top of the League and international honours flowing our way, you can guess that the atmosphere at Goodison Pork this week has been a particularly happy one.  Brian Labone, who makes his full England debut in Belfast next Saturday, and Roy Vernon, who will be in the Welsh attack against Scotland the same day, both have my congratulations, and also those of the rest of the Everton staff.  Speaking purely from a Scottish point of view, however, I was a little sorry to see Roy chosen. Just think of the damage he is capable of doing to us at Cardiff!  Last time Scotland visited Ninian Park, two seasons ago, Roy had Jimmy Gabriel making his international debut, to contend with. I too, played in that match. Billy Bingham has been away for most of the week travelling to Warsaw, where he played for Northern Ireland against Poland in a European Nations Cup match, and back home again.  Billy has my congratulations at gaining further honours, but I did not envy him when I read reports about the travel difficulty he and his colleagues had. 
TEAM VICTORY 
Back to last Saturday’s game at Molineux, where I find it difficult to add very much to the excellent Press we received.  This was a magnificent Everton team victory, and was particularly satisfying to myself and one or two of the other lads who have not found the ball running too kindly for us in recent matches.  It was such a magnificent show that I thought Everton might have had six goals-then, of course. I'm biased,  Fred Davies, the Wolves  goalkeeper, had a very good  game, and as he is a Liverpool-born  player must be particularly pleased with his performances on successive  Saturdays against the two Merseyside clubs.  Wolves undoubtedly have the makings of a good side, but at the moment they appear to me to have a little too much youth and not quite enough experience.  Time will tell whether I'm right, but for me Spurs and Burnley are our main championship rivals.  I was confident of the result of this vital match right from the previous Saturday when I heard the Wolves, manager, Mr Stan Cullis, confess during a radio interview that he thought his young players might be beginning to feel the strain a little. 
TV HOODOO 
It is at times like these that a team needs an adequate number of experienced players to pull the youngsters through.  The Wolves match, too, marked the end of a series of poor Everton displays in front of the TV cameras; which is just as well when one remembers that the whole of the F.A. Cup final is televised!  We were home in time to see the film of the match later in the evening—it was far too short. I thought- and I was rather surprised to observe a boy racing onto the pitch and slapping me on the back after Ihad scored. I was so pleased about scoring that at the time I had not noticed he was there.  The future of English football will be well taken care of if youngsters throughout the country continue to show the enthusiasm and skill I saw on a recent visit to Our Lady of the Assumption Junior School, Childwall Valley.  Our trainer, Tom Egglestone, is a friend of the headmaster, Mr. Smyth, and he took Jimmy Gabriel, Brian Laboue and myself along togive the boys a demonstration, after which we watched them play in a practice match.
IMPRESSED
The players were aged nine and 10, and I was most impressed with the all-round standard of their display, which was the best I have seen by boys in this age group.  I observed one wing half with a trusty left foot and was told that he was Jimmy Tansey, whose father of the same name was once an Everton full back.  Jimmy senior is, I believe, now with Holyhead Town.   An Interesting letter this week comes from Keith Tanner, an Everton fan living at Lulworth, Beechenlea  Lane, Swanky, Kent, who has spotted one or two  unusual features about  Everton's scoring this season.  Certain players seem to have a habit of scoring at certain times, he writes, pointing out that I have scored twice at the 74th minute and once in the 75th, in addition to gettinggoals at the 49th and 50th minutes.  Roy Vernon has scored two penalties at the 25th minute and one at the 26th, while Denis Stevens's two goals have come at the 38th and 43rd minutes, he adds.  Keith goes on to say that onthe four occasions Billy Bingham has scored, not only have Everton won, but the opposition have failed to add to their tally afterwards.   There is very good reason  for Keith s wish that Billy  may get many more goals  this season, especially if he  can keep this record.  May I close with a vote of thanks from all the players to those of you who travelled to Wolverhampton to support us.

WOLVES RES V EVERTON RES
Liverpool Echo- Saturday October 13 1962
Wolverhampton Res;- Finlayson; Harris (J), Harris (G); Kirkham, Slater, Durandt; Ford, Knowles, Stobart, Broadbent, Thompson.  Everton Res; Dunlop; Parker, Green; Rees, Heslop, Sharples; Temple, Harvey, Webber, Hurst, Veall.  Referee; Mr. W.S. Castle (Sedgley).  Everton’s first attack saw Hurst, neatly put through by Webber, just beaten to the ball by Finlayson.  Temple tried a shot which was deflected by Slater, but the Wolves goalkeeper was able to reach it.  Wolves forwards were slow to settle but eventually Knowles was put through and hit a cracking shot against a post.  Veal fastened on to a loose ball and raced down the wing to shoot just wide.  Everton’s attack had a quiet spell until Heslop joined in but he gained no more than a free kick on the edge of Wolves area.  Parker was applauded for a clever stop on Broadbent and Dunlop saved from Kirkham before Wolves took the lead in the 39th minute.  A corner taken by Ford was his first time by Knowles and the ball was in the net before Dunlop could move.  Half-time-Wolves Res 1, Everton Res 0. 

VILLA NOT DAZZLED BY EVERTON POLISH
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, October 15, 1962
LEADERS LOOKED THE PART IN ALL EXCEPT FINISH
EVERTON 1, ASTON VILLA 1
By Horace Yates
Well, of course, this result was just travesty for on the one hand we had Everton, leaders of the League, and often looking like it, with the most controlled, exciting and at times brilliant football that had everything except finish.  It was a case of so far, so good, and yet in the end not good enough, and on the other hand there was Aston Villa, tough resolute and unyielding, but in a footballing sense like clumsy, apprentices privileged to be on the same site as the craftsmen.  Everton had the good sense to appreciate that tempting though it may have been to have retaliated with tactics as hostile as Villa’s this would simply have been squandering their own tremendously superior ability and Villa  were left to advertise their shortcomings.  It was very nice from time to time to see players touching hands after an incident, as though in acknowledgement of no hard feelings, but how much nicer it would have been had there been no occasion for the hand-shakes.  The Everton crowd blotted their copybook from time to time with displays of temper.  On one occasion, they produced a half in play while Sidebottom removed a variety of objects from the field and at the end some of the Villa players were showered with orange peel and paper, with a major barrage reserved for the referee. 
OFTEN PENETRATED
Rugged though the Villa defence was it was penetrated so often that scarcely a man in the Everton forward line could justifiably claim freedom from blame for not beating Sidebottom, excellent goalkeeper though he was.  Stevens, Bingham, well though he played and Vernon were the chief culprits, and while it is possible for a team to be as overwhelmed as Villa and yet take a point (and come near to capturing both) mention of championships should made in subdued tones.  Everton will hardly ever dominate any game more than they commanded in this and thrilling though their artistry is, they will find other Villas if they encourage them by taking the field without the knock-out punch, in the shape of scoring finish.  League leaders are fair game for all rivals.  If every Villa defender had been a superman, Everton’s failures could have been more readily excused, but individually few of them were faultless.  Crowe was probably as good as any, but there were times when Vernon danced past him to the most unconcerned fashion, seemingly yards faster; Lee slipped alarmingly more than once and Aitken was always at full stretch against Bingham.  It was collectively that Villa put up such a solid defensive front, with everyman willing to do his own job and more in the interests of the side, that kept them fighting.  What the effect of another goal, may have been after Everton had taken the lead with a Vernon penalty in 33 minutes when Lee brought down Stevens, is a matter of conjecture, but the Everton failure to consolidate kept Villa hoping when all hope should have gone.  I appreciate that Sidebottom was in first class form, but his task was made easier by forwards whose shooting did not by any means live up to the rest of their play. 
FIRST DOUBTS
As time went on and Villa occasionally stole away, the first possibilities of anything other than an Everton victory began to emerge.  In 70 minutes we saw Burrows cross the ball fast and low over the face of goal, Thomson left no one in doubt of his disappointment with himself when he flicked the ball wide of the post.  That could have been the equaliser.  In 77 minutes possibilities had become fact, for this time, Thomson pushed the ball forward to Baker to bear West and the teams were on terms.  West must accept a lot of responsibility for the score, for hesitation was fatal and prevented him making the shooting angle for Baker impossible.  What a grandstand, finish there was.  Seemingly only when faced with reality did Everton pull out all the stops.  Four minutes from the end Vernon deflected a Thomson shot into the net, but was patently offside.  Three minutes to go and Young finds Stevens in a completely exposed position.  Just a stab forward and Everton must have regained the lead, but Stevens from the minimum distance, contrived to push the ball round the post.  One minute to go and disaster states Everton in the face as Meagan miskicks to give Ewing the chance of a lifetime.  There he was out on his own with only West to bar the way.  The biggest hush of the afternoon fell over Goodison and it was not broken until Ewing had fluffed the opportunity of producing the biggest turn-up in the day’s results.  Once again Everton’s half back line was superb, with Labone, dealing very effectively with a restless, vigorous centre forward in Thomson and Gabriel and Harris both playing well enough to warrant the distinction still to be conceded of making up a current all-international trio.  How long Everton can maintain a show of satisfaction with the full back position, on present playing standards, I do not pretend to know, but patience must surely be nearing breaking point.  Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey.  Aston Villa; Sidebottom; Lee, Aitken; Crowe, Sleeuwenhoek, Deakin; Ewing, Baker, Thomson, Wylie, Burrows.  Referee; Mr. J.E. Carr (Sheffield).  Attendance 53,045

EVERTON MET STRONG DEFENCE
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, October 15, 1962
WOLVERHAMPTON RES 2, EVERTON RES 0
Everton Reserves although a strong team, had not got enough power behind them to make any real impression on a strong home defence able led by Slater in this Central League game at Wolverhampton.  The home forwards combined well and their calm, accurate play had Everton beaten from the start.  The visitors confirmed themselves to short close play, whereas Wolves made continual use of the long ball and their accurate passing found many gaps in Everton’s defence.  The highlight was an outstanding goal from Wolves inside right Peter Knowles who from a corner by Ford hit the ball as it struck the around and crashed it into the net.  Stobart scored Wolves second goal.  Of the visiting men, winger Veall was the most dangerous and he was tireless in his efforts to spur on his fellow forwards.  A great shot of his hit the crossbar and this was Everton’s only clear-cut chance at scoring. 

LEAGUE RULE NOV. 13 FOR NOTTS F. V. EVERTON
Liverpool Echo- Monday, October 15 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Nottingham Forest were today notified by the Football League that their postponed game with Everton is now to be played in the second week of November.  The actual date will be Tuesday, November 13.  It, will, of course, be under floodlights beginning at 7.30 p.m., with Everton having players engaged in this week’s internationals, Forest desired to play the game one night next week with Dunfermline on succeeding Wednesday.  It now appears that Forest have been over ruled.  They considered that the League fixture should take precedence over the Fairs Cup.  One of Forest’s arguments was that they played a League game on their own ground on one Saturday last season, a League Cup-tie on the following Monday, flew to Valencia for an Inter-City Fairs Cup fixture on the Wednesday and went back in time to fulfil a League game at Blackpool on the Saturday!  A glut of extra fixtures in two Cup tournaments- the F.A Cup is not far away-might jeopardise Everton’s leading position in the League.  Every extra commitment involves their players in additional risk of injury. 
Young's finest shot 
Every championship team must expect to drop a point at home occasionally. But having dropped one to Liverpool last month we were not expecting Everton to do the same thing against a Villa denuded, at the last moment, of star performers, Dougan and Cammie Fraser. They wouldn't have, either, if it had not been for the magnificence, in goal, of the Yorkshireman, Sidebottom. He made two or three outstandingly good saves, the best from a swerving, hard-hit shot by Gabriel. When Young, feinting his way through a defence which had no answer to his wiles, cracked the finest shot he has made for months Sidebottom got his hands to the ball and had the luck to see it bound upwards and go for a corner just outside the upright.  No one can blame Everton for not getting better than a 1-1 draw in such circumstances. Their faulty finishing came much later when first one and then another of their forwards missed chances to clinch the issue.  Some jugglery by Young Ito whom the crowd rose after his wonderful shows of artistry I produced for Stevens the opportunity to put the score light straight in the final minutes from not more than two yards range.  The ball rolled gently wide of the line!  To say that Everton's performance was their worst of the season is totally wrong. It was one of their footballing days.  Only Sidebottom and some unrelentingly fast and furious tackling by Villa's young men, of whom the 18- years-old Sleeuwenhoek was one, kept Villa in the hunt and set up a position out of which Baker was able to equalise Vernon's penalty, awarded when the leggy Lee contrived the downfall of Stevens at the 33rd minute.
Fruit-salad farewell 
It was a particularly hard match for both sides.  Nothing was conceded: the tackling was full-blooded.  Referee Carr (deputising for the Cup final referee of last season. Mr. Finney) opened with a clear warning to Meagan after a collision with Deakin, but the temper of the game subsided only temporarily.  In the end, frustrated by the inevitability that Everton were going to drop a point, and angered by a clash between Vernon and Ewing at the touchline, the crowd gave Mr.Carr a fruit-salad farewell of orange peel and apple cores.  It is important, t think that Everton fans who do these things should realise that not every great team wins all its home games. Don't let the rest of the football world come to the realisation that we can't even " take' a draw on our own pitches.  Those who saw this game should have no recriminations against their own team: if they have they are not being fair. True, the inability of both Meagan and Thomson to cope with Villa's persistent rallies in the final 20 minutes demonstrated where Everton are likely  to fail, if fail they do, but the side as a whole played well  enough to have won most matches out of sight against  normal goalkeeping long before these testing moments  arose.
Ballerina Leap
Vernon, Young, Bingham and Gabriel all but beat Sidebottom in the first half hour and Stevens, with two sharp headers both made quickly in difficult circumstances, was just as near to scoring. In the first half Villa's only strike, though their approach play was excellent, came  from Ewing whose shot West put away, brilliantly, for  corner.   Vernon's header, just wide, after Young's ballerina  leap to produce the opening, Sidebottom's two further  saves from Bingham specials t the little Irishman sandwiched  the missing of a sitter between these efforts) and  a free-kick by Burrows which struck the post were the  opening gambits of the second half.  Baker slid the ball home to level the scores at 77 minutes and Vernon was rightly ruled offside when he thought he had established his team as leaders again. That Stevens miss, plus one by the Villa winger, Ewing, and a foul by West on Ewing when the whistle had already gone completed an eventful, but not happy afternoon for Everton fans.   Labone celebrated his full capping with a masterful  show. Harris with passes slid or 'dug up', according to demand, and Gabriel with yet another notably cool-headed enthusiastic contribution made the half-back line first-class.  Young, at times, was tremendous: the ebullient Bingham almost a forward line in himself. Vernon, marked (I almost wrote narked) by the marking of his Welsh compatriot Crowe, was not so forthcoming as usual.  But whatever the verdict, Everton played well enough to win. Full marks to Villa for denying them, even if it took tremendous goalkeeping by Sidebottom to do it.

NEW BONUS SCHEME FOR EVERTON RES
Liverpool Echo- Monday, October 15 1962
SIMILAR TO FIRST TEAM
CROWD FIGURES
By Leslie Edwards
Everton F.C., whose first team players, thanks to a crowd bonus incentive scheme, are the best paid in Britain, have instituted a similar scheme for their reserves side.  It starts on Saturday when the Everton v. Sheffield United Central League match will be the only one at either senior grounds.  “We aim to give our youngster players extra incentive for their loyalty as reserves and to make their games more attractive,” said Manager Harry Catterick.  “The scheme, which is based on hundreds of spectators as compared with the thousands the first team must draw, is dependent on the side’s position in the top half of the table.  “All going well it could mean 5 pounds a week more for Central leaguers.  At best it could be even better.”  Everton central League gates last season averaged between 1,300 and 1,400.  It would not take much success by the reserve side to double such attendances. 
Everton’s right winger, Billy Bingham, one of the most capped players in their history of the game, gets his place again on the Northern Ireland left wing. 

A NEAR FLAWLESS DISPLAY
Liverpool Daily Post- Thursday, October 18 1962
PARKER TOO GOOD FOR RESERVES
EVERTON 0, BURNLEY 1
The 5,624 spectators who saw this thrilling Lancashire Senior Cup first round tie at Goodison Park must have gone away convinced that Scottish international right back.  Alex Parker, is far too good to be languishing in the Everton reserve team.  Parker turned a near flawless display for an Everton team who found luck running against them almost throughout.  Parker could not always quell the fact moving, quick shooting Towers, but it remains a fact that his shrewd distribution of the ball repeatedly set up Everton attacks which had the rugged Burnley defence reduced to panic measures and over-forceful tackling.  Burnley have won this trophy for the last three seasons, and if they continue to enjoy the good fortune which favoured them in this game there seems little likelihood that they will win it again.  Everton pressed almost continuously and had it not been for the brilliance of Thomson in the Burnley goal they must have won.  Quite apart from this Burnley were lucky not to concede a penalty in the 73rd minute when the quick moving Veall was uprooted inside the area by right half Walker who later had his name taken by referee D.W. Goddard of Leyland.  On top of this Temple (twice) and Sharples had vicious shots charged down by defenders with the goalkeeper hopelessly out of position.  As is so often the case, however, Burnley raced away to take the lead in one of their menacing raids in the thirty-third minute.   Former first teamer Robson was perfectly placed to head beyond Dunlop’s reach when a sharp header from Towers rebounded from the bar.  Burnley take credit from a forward viewpoint for the fact that they were always ready to shoot on sight and Towers and Morgan forced Dunlop to brilliant saves.  It was surprising therefore, when Irvine and Towers went clean through both neglected clear cut openings.  Everton can take credit for a first class performance and the fact that they were able to check the quick-moving Burnley forwards who repeatedly exploited Heslop’s inability to close the gap down the middle. 

YOUNG EVERTON SHOW THEIR GREAT PROMISE 
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 18 October 1962
Everton's prospects for the future must be bright indeed if the performance of their reserve team in the first round of the Lancashire Senior Cup at Goodison Park last night is any criterion. They were beaten. Admittedly, by the only goal of the game, headed by inside left Robson after 35 minutes. But the score line is no true reflection of how this game went.  Against what is generally conceded to be the strongest outfit in the Central League, the quick moving Everton pressed almost ceaselessly.  They played first-class football, except for the occasional ragged spell, and bombarded a charmed Burnley goal with shots and headers from all angles.  But fortune was against them in a big way. Not only did they run up against an inspired goalkeeper in Denis Thomson, but they saw savage shots from Temple (twice) and Sharpies strike unwitting defenders with the goalkeeper hopelessly out of position.  They were unfortunate notto be Awarded a penaltywhen Veall a captivating outside left –was uprooted by Walker in the area.  And they had to withstand a pretty sold battering from the desperate Burnley defenders in the final 15 minutes.  Two of the Everton youngsters who impressed by their potentiality were inside forwards Harvey and Hurst.  Experienced Walter Joyce, watched by Liverpool chairman Mr. T. V. Williams, was never able to quell the lively Harvey, while Hurst, although somewhat cumbersome in movement, tested Thomson with two splendid headers and one blistering drive.  But no-one on the field compared with the immaculate Alex Parker. He had some lively duels with the quicksilver Towers - not all of which he won—but it was in his flawless distribution that Parker shone.  He repeatedly engineered Everton raids which, given a little luck and less impetuosity in finishing, would have yielded a bagful of goals.

EVERTON’S CUP PRICES ARE NOT INCREASED
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 18 October 1962
By Leslie Edwards
I have received correspondence and telephone calls from irate fans who charge Everton with increasing their prices for Everton v. Dunfermline Fairs Cup game at Goodison Park, next Wednesday.  They have the facts wrong. It is true that Dumfermline, for the second-leg match on their ground the following week, have raised prices—who shall blame them?—but Everton are maintaining their normal League charges for the game at Goodison Park.  I am afraid my angry Evertonians have read what relates to the second match as applying to the first. Indeed.  one man who telephoned, an reading the Dunfermline  report a second time, confessed that he had done just this  and promised to go home and put on his spectacles.  With Liverpool moving the most rearranged rearranged game in history to November 14, the day after Everton are due to play their postponed League game at Nottingham, fans will not now have the embarrassment of having to choose between two big matches on successive evenings next week.
"Difference of one” 
On the point of many League matches postponed  because one or other of the clubs have players concerned  in the Internationals this week-end I am at one with those  who complain that the situation is becoming almost farcical.  How long will it be. I wonder, before clubs whose players may have received injuries when playing for their country, demand the postponement of further matches?  The present unsatisfactory situation is nicely summed by some of my readers: — “Simply because soccer clubs have two or more players on international duty they request the League fixture on that date to be postponed. Don't you think this is a lot of nonsense' Take the Liverpool game against Arsenal, postponed at Arsenal's request because they have two players appearing for Ireland. Has it been forgotten that Ian St.  John is playing for Scotland on the same day? So actually it boils down to a difference of one star player.  "Wolves played Everton recently without Flowers and Farmer, both injured, but if they had been playing for their country Wolves could have applied for a postponement.  Then again, if Everton were unfortunate enough to have two stars injured when the Notts Forest fixture is due they would still be obliged to keep the date.  "All clubs should take their chance. After all, what is a reserve team for some clubs forever boast of their wonderful reserve strength, but they are not ready to back their own when the occasion arises.  “Anyway, what about the opposition? Why should they be forced to have an open date? Why should their supporters have a dull Saturday? And there is the danger I see which the Football League may have forgotten.  "Suppose Mr. Soccer Fan finds some new interest on that particular day and enjoys it. He may not so readily return to his first love. Now that gates are on a higher percentage than last season the postponement of matches is a sure way to alter all that.  "One moment you hear clubs moaning about the cluttering of fixtures, the next you find them making extra commitments for themselves. It may have been to Everton's advantage to fill the Nottingham fixture on Saturday while the team is in form and playing well rather than leave it later to a stage when they may find themselves with too many games on hand. Look what happened to Burnley last back-end. They lost their chance of League and Cup.  "Now the Liverpool-Arsenal match has been mined to November, merely because two players, poor boys were kicking a ball around for 90 minutes this week-end. This sort of thing must make Rugby fans weep. Why doesn’t Arsenal send a photograph of the team down here and as our club seems to be in generous mood they could then send along the two points. Why not play all internationals in mid-week and put a stop to the rot""—A. E.  Jones, 38 Snaefell Avenue, Liverpool 13.

DUNFERMLINE CLASH FULL OF INTEREST
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, October 19,1962
Says Roy Vernon
I suppose it is true that everybody looks forwards to a little bit of novelty in life, and that is one reason why we Evertonians have a special eye on next Wednesday when Dunfermline the Scottish Division 1 side, visit Goodison Park in the Inter-Cities’ Fair Cup.  The Scottish members of our team say that up in Scotland they are saying there will never be a better yardstick for judging the respective strengths of the two League than the meeting of Everton and Dunfermline and Rangers with Spurs.  They have already made up their minds that Everton and Spurs are England’s best sides and Rangers and Dunfermline are, I suppose, a fair sample of Scottish strength.  There must be something in Scotland and Scottish football or so many of our managers and directors would not spend as much times as they do over the Border.  For all that we look forward to our clash with Dunfermline with confidence, and although we may have to call on the aid of three Scotsmen to do it, we hope to show the Scots that the strongest teams are down here. I have every confidence that Spurs will back us up. 
NOT COCKINESS
After the result of our Aston Villa clash, I expect some of you will regard the foregoing as cockiness I don’t think so, for I believe that we could play, much worse in many games this season and still win, for I don’t believe we can miss as many chances again.  It is a good thing we were not fined a fives for every individual miss or our wage packet this week would have looked a bit sick, despite the faithfully click of the turnstiles.  Of course the hurt was all the greater because it followed the grand win at Wolverhampton I honestly believe our supporters would have been for happier if we had drawn at Wolves and beaten Villa although the points haul is just the same.  But while Villa have a defence that is worthy of their great club traditions I see in Wolves a far more dangerous threat in the honours race.  I cannot see Villa being any sort of problem so far as the championship is concerned, but they could be tough customers in the F.A. Cup competition.  Of course, big Derek Dougan after the game modestly told us how lucky we were that he had not been playing for it was Derek’s view that we would not even have had a point to console us.  Villa received quite a bit of credit in the Press for their success in holding us to a draw.  I could not help wondering what sort of reaction there would have been he an Everton draw at Villa if our tactics had been on similar lines.  I have no doubt that Villa’s approach to football will set them some results and achieve some shocks but I doubt if it will fill Villa Park with the sort of crowds Everton draw to Goodison Park.  I have been accused of making a song and dance about the “goal” I had disallowed in the closing minutes, it being put to me that it was so flagrantly off-side that I was wasting my time even starting to doubt the referee’s decision.  Let me put the record straight.  I admit that I was in an offside positions, but when George Thomson shot the ball was going right away from me, is its flight it struck as I thought centre half Sleeuwenbeck and came on to me.  I gleefully put it into the net, but the referee maintained that it had struck Young and the Villa centre half.  It was a shattering decision for it was obvious that only minutes remained.  There are enough clocks on the Everton ground to leave no-one in doubt as to the march of time! Here’s a tip, if you can possibly make it go to Sheffield on Monday night for their game with Santos for the Pele you will see the finest footballer in the world.  He has everything and I mean it.  I think it is true to say that he is one of the few men I have read about seen boosted to the skies and when I have seen him in action have not been disappointed.  Pele alone should be worth your time and trouble.  Opinions differ of course, but I always think there is a chance of picking up something useful from watching others.  Take the Everton one-two movement in which Alex Young and myself figure so often.  That idea I believe was obtained from a film of the old Hungarian side in action.  What is more in my view it is the most difficult movement to stop.  Done properly it is paralysing.  If you picked up n idea like that now and again it would make a wonderful difference to a team’s performances. 

EVERTON MEN MAY MISS THEIR LIE IN…
Liverpool Echo-Friday, October 19 1962
By Leslie Edwards
While three Everton players are playing internationally to-morrow, the rest of the side may be doing a double training stint. The Everton manager told me: “I haven't decided yet whether I will have them in on Saturday morning or whether I will give them an intensive spell of training to-day. It doesn't do to have two days clear of work. I'm sure it is better for them to maintain training, even though we have no first team match on Saturday. -  True, Everton have Dunfermline nest Wednesday, but coming in on the one Saturday morning when they have no match seems ‘a bit." ‘Ard” Perhaps Mr. Cattcrick will relent and give his men opportunity to sleep late.  Dunfermline, a fine workmanlike team I am told,is making their headquarters at Southport. They are likely to ask the local club for the use of their ground for training.  Many fans’ thoughts tomorrow will be with Labone and Bingham in Belfast and Ian St. John and Vernon, in the other international, at Cardiff.  It is a pity we have no game, but until internationals are played out of season or always on Wednesday I don’t see how the situation can alter.  It is almost 40 years since I went to Windsor Park to see England beaten 2-1, with Chedgzoy in the England attack and Hufton of West Ha keeping goal.  That, until just after the last war, was the only match I ever attended which had an armed escort.  Police carrying revolvers patrolled the touchline from the first minute!  In 1945 in Wuppertal, where 53 Division tackled the German side, Shalka ’04.  Military Police with loaded Stens patrolled the touchline-for a different, but equally useful, reason. 
EVERTON RESERVES
Everton Central League side v. Sheffield United at Goodison Park tomorrow (3 o’clock) will be; Dunlop; Parker, Meagan; Rees, Heslop, Sharples; Temple, Harvey, Wignall, Webber, Veall. 

A LOOK AT THE DUNFERMLINE TEAM
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 20 October 1962
OUR TIE IN SCOTLAND COULD BE SELL-OUT
By Alex Young
Ticket applications were the last thing I thought I would have to worry about when I journeyed up to spend a few days at home in Scotland at the beginning of this week, but when I arrived in Edinburgh it took me no time at all to find out that interest in the Inter-city Fairs Cup-tie between Everton and Dunfermline was running high and before long I had lost count of the number of people who asked me if I could get a ticket for the second leg in Dunfermline for them.  Like all the Everton players, and supporters. I am convinced that we are going to win this match.  The Scots, nevertheless, left me in no doubt that Dunfermline are determined to win, and confident they can pull it off.  With this feeling over the border you can guess that  George Thomson, Jimmy Gabriel and myself are  really looking forward to  the match, and although it  is not likely that the crowd  at Goodison on Wednesday  will equal that for the  Liverpool match, I feel  certain the " house full"  notice will go up at Dunfermline  the following  week.  There is always an extra keenness to win when a Scottish club meets one  from England, and when  that team is as high up the  League chart as we are, this makes the Scots keener  than ever to win.  While in Scotland,  I  played against several  present members of the  Dunfermline team, so I  thought this week it might  be an idea to mention  something about them. 
IN THAT TEAM 
Two members of the side Everton fans will no doubt  remember are left back  Bill Cunningham and outside  right Tony McDonald,  who both played for  Leicester City and were in  that team when they visited  Goodison Park in February,  1959. Before that Cunningham was with St. Mirren, while McDonald has played for Hibernian and Wolves also.  Cunningham, too, has made many appearances in the Northern Ireland side with the man he will be opposing on Wednesday, Billy Bingham.  Looking at the records I see that both made their international debut in the  1950-51 season, but in different matches, Cunningham  has 29 caps, while  Billy, of course, needs just one more after to-day to  complete his 50.  Two youngsters in the Dunfermline side about whom I have heard good reports are goalkeeper Herriott, who has recently displaced Scottish international Bill Connachan, and right back Callaghan, who hastaken over from Cammie Fraser, now with Villa.  Right half Thomson and centre half Mclean I don’t know, but I remember Dunfermline’s left half Miller, as a strong, tough tackling player who gives very little away.  Left winger Peebles, a Scottish Under-23 international, is, in my opinion, likely to be the most dangerous visiting forward, although on his day centre forward Dickson, who stands well over six feet, can be a menace to any goalkeeper.  Dunfermline's 16-year-old  right winger, Edwards, was  injured last Saturday and  probably will not play at  Goodison, in which case  McDonald is likely to take  his place with Smith as his  inside partner. Smith is a tall, clever inside forward; very similar in style and appearance to England’s new inside man, Freddie Hill.  At inside right,Dunfermline will probably have Melrose, a grand ball player who had experience with Hearts and Rangers before joining his present club.  Corporal R. Ensor, of the Band of the Queens Dragoon Guards, Wolfenbuttel, Germany, by the way, assures me there will be plenty of support if we should make progress in the fairs Cup and eventually has to visit Germany. “There are many Evertonians in this unit, so you can expect quite a roar of encouragement if you come to play over here,” he writes. 
GREAT FORM 
Back to the League programme, and a pat on the back for Aston Villa, who refused to give in during their match at Goodison Park last Saturday.  To my mind, Everton did not play badly at all in this match, but it was a day when we were unable to turn superiority into goals and they are what really matter.  I'm not trying to draw a veil over our failings in front of goal, but I thought Villa’s goalkeeper,Geoff Sidebottom was in tremendous form.  Jimmy Gabriel, as you know, became a proud father on the morning of this match, and when we saw the tremendous smile on his face as he reported to Goodison there was no need to ask if the handy event had taken place.  May I add my congratulations to the many Jimmy  and his wife have been  receiving throughout this  week  Next Saturday, when  Ipswich visit Goodison, we  are hoping it will be a case  of the reigning champions  playing the 1962-63 title  winners!  Ipswich are still a hard  side to beat, but I think  First Division clubs have  realised that their main  method of attack is the  long ball down the centre  of the field to Crawford  and Phillips and made  plans accordingly, which is  why the East Anglians are  not doing quite so well  this time.

EVERTON RES V SHEFFIELD UNITED RES
Liverpool Echo- Saturday October 20 1962
Everton Res; Dunlop; Parker, Meagan; Rees, Heslop, Sharples; Temple, Harvey, Wignall, Webber, Veall.  Sheffield United Res; Thompson; Badger, Ridger; Brewster, Finnigan, Matthieson; Docherty, Russell, Sheils, Wagstaff, Hartle.  Referee; Mr. D.W Goddard (Leyland).  Before an estimated 5,000 crowd, almost double that for a normal reserve game, Everton took the lead in the 18th minutes.  This was the culmination of some very haphazard early play.  Both sides failed to settle down and eventually Dunlop in the first real Sheffield attack, was knocked unconscious.  He had dived at the feet of outside right Docherty, gathered the ball, kicked it away then collapsed.  Play was held up about four minutes then Everton seemed to get into their stride and Wignall, who was dangerous every time he got the ball, scored a beautiful goal from a pass by Temple.  The ball had come across field from Rees and Temple turned it straight to Wignall who gave Thompson no chance.  After the goal Everton began to put the pressure on, Temple was serving up some nice centres to Wignall.  The centre forward got in another blinding shot from about 30 yards which, with the goalkeeper beaten, whistled across the crossbar.  Against the run of play Sheffield got an equaliser when, in one of their rare attacks the ball cannoned off a defender to the feet of Russell who made no mistake.  Five minutes before the interval an Everton attack, in which the ball was almost in the net twice, culminated in an incident between Wignall and Thomson.  The referee had no hesitation in taking out his notebook and the centre forward was sent off.  Play after this became rough and the crowd very restive quantities of orange peel being thrown at the players as they left the field.  Half-time; Everton Res 1, Sheffield United Res 1. 

LABONE AND VERNON CAPPED
Liverpool Daily Post –Monday, October 23 1962
Notes only
Ireland 1, England 3
Brian Labone (England) and Bingham (Ireland) played at Windsor Park, Belfast, Bingham captained Ireland. 
Wales 2, Scotland 2
Vernon (Wales)

WIGNALL IS SENT OFF
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday October 22, 1962
EVERTON RESERVES 1, SHEFFIELD UNITED RESERVES 2
A magnificent, display by goalkeeper Dunlop in the latter half of this Central League game at Goodison Park kept the score down to a one goal advantage for the Yorkshire side.  It was hard fought throughout, the first ten minutes consisting of a series of pretty fouls by both sides and very little football, which ended when Dunlop was accidentally knocked out diving at the feet of Russell.  On his recovery, Everton went into the attack and Wignall, who was sent off five minutes from the interval by Referee Goddard after a goalmouth incident with Thompson, put the home side ahead with a pile-driver from ten yards from a beautiful pass by Temple.  In one of their rear attacks in the first half, Sheffield equalised when Russell found the ball at his feet as it rebounded off a defender and Dunlop had no chance.  The second half saw a ten-men Everton attack continually trying to get a leading goal, but Sheffield held firm, and as the home side tired, got on top.  A good goal by Shiels from a pass from Hartle gave them the points but Dunlop’s safe hands saved his side from a rout by the then goal-hungry Sheffield forwards. 

WED –THEN MATCH
Liverpool Echo - Monday 22 October 1962
George Miller, Dunfermline half-back who will be appearing against Everton on Wednesday evening, at Goodison Park, in the Fairs Cup match, is marrying in Scotland tomorrow.  He will join his team fellows at Southport late tomorrow evening.  Miller played at left back on Saturday in the absence through injury of Cunningham, but with Cunningham fit, it is certain Miller will revert to his right-back position.  The Dunfermline party were due in Southport today.  Their team will be selected from the side which played on Saturday, plus Cunningham, Conachan, Sinclair and Mailler.  Probable team; Herriot; Callaghan, Cunningham; Thomson, McLean, Miller; McDonald, Smith, Dickson, Melrose, Peebles. 

EVERTON RECALL PARKER
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 23 October 1962
REPLACES MEAGAN
CUP MATCH
By Leslie Edwards
Everton bring back Scottish international full-back Alec Parker, for tomorrow night’s Inter-Cities Fairs Cup match against Dunfermline at Goodison Park.  Parker takes over from Mick Meagan the team otherwise being that which has done duty in the League in recent weeks.  Everton; West; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. 
Everton announce that ground and paddock season-ticket holders can use their own turnstiles tomorrow, and avoid queuing by producing spare coupon No. 43 and the requisite admission money.  Dunfermline’s team has not been chosen.  They may shift Thomson to right back and bring in last year’s skipper, Mailler, at half back. 

NO ‘PUSHMOVER’ THIS SCOTTISH
Liverpool Echo- Tuesday October 23 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Everton will find Dunfermline Athletic anything but a“pushover" at Goodison Park to-morrow night when they meet in an Inter Cities' Fair's Cup first round, first leg game.  Dunfermline are one of the best sides in the Scottish First Division with their players magnets for English clubs. Only a fortnight ago they sold Fraser, their right back, to Aston Villa for £25,000, but they had a first class replacement standing by in young Willie Callaghan, whom they originally signed as an inside forward from the county junior club, Crossgates Primrose side.  Herriot, the goalkeeper who was signed from the Lanarkshire junior club, Douglasdale, four years ago, had been in such brilliant form for the reserves that when  International star Connochan had a bad game against Kilmarnock in the League Cup. Dunfermline did nothesitate about promoting him. That was in earlySeptember. Herriot has never looked back.Left back Willie Cunningham is an Irish Internationalwho has played in turn for St. Mirren and Leicester City.He was bought from Leicester two years ago and won aScottish Cup medal in April, 1961, when Dunfermlinestaggered everyone by winning the Scottish Cup for thefirst time in their history. They beat Celtic by 2-0 in the Mid-week replay.  Other members of the Cup-winning team still going strong are left half George Miller, a six-footer and a delightful passer of the ball, inside right Alec Smith, centre forward Charlie Dickson, inside left Harry Melrose, and left winger George Peebles.  Smith has been regularly under review by English clubs. Dickson is the chase-everything type of leader.  Melrose is the shrewd, calculating type of inside forward and Peebles is a live wire at outside left and a beautiful centrer of a ball.
Came on free transfer 
Right half Jimmy Thomson joined Dunfermline on a free transfer from St. Mirren. Oddly, he was originally discovered on Dunfermline's doorstep with the Fifeshire, junior team, Valleyfield Colliery. Since returning to his native county, Thomson has been a star. He is certainly the best bargain the club have picked up for years. Centre half Jim McLean was bought from Ayr United towards the tail end of last season. His on the small side as pivots go, but is most effective,  Dunfermline have had a blow on the eve of their visit to Merseyside by the leg injury incurred by 16-years-old Alec Edwards, their right winger.  This boy is on their ground staff and being carefully nursed, but he got a knock against Third Lanark and at the moment is a doubtful starter.  Dunfermline’s manager is Jock Stein, the former Celtic and Llanelly centre half.  He has had a wonderfully successful run with the club, especially as they won the Scottish Cup in his first season as boss.  He is no relation to Jimmy Stein, the former Everton left winger.  The latter now lives at Armadale, West Lothian, and scouts for Burnley.  After Saturday’s game with Patrick Thistle at Firhill Park, Dunfermline made for Southport with a 15-strong party.  Such is the enthusiasm for them a number of their fans will be among the crowd at Goodison Park tomorrow. 

WHERE DID YOU HIDE YOURSELF?
Liverpool Echo- Wednesday 24 October 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Where did week-by-week patrons of Everton and Liverpool hide themselves on Saturday.The question arises out of the fact that so few of them took their patronage elsewhere. Liverpool City's  gate was doubled—to 1,000—Tranmere had a fair,  but not overlarge attendance and Wrexham had a  handful of Anfield fans who dared identify themselves  at Wrexham, but where were the 40,000  normally occupied in watching football every week  in this city? Television? Gardening ? Motoring?  Or betting in the shops, some of which are so full on Saturdays you could almost walk in on the heads of the jammed multitude!  It would seem that there are on Merseyside about 40,000 people so interested in our two clubs they don't care to go anywhere else on the rare occasions when there is no senior game.  I don't think any other city in the kingdom has such devoted followers as ours. Or such expert assessors of football skill. True, many of them are very pro-red or pro-blue, but in general they are shrewd and the phoney is soon separated from the genuine. They have an unerring sense of occasion, too. They can sort out for themselves which matches are "musts" for their attendance.  There is one this evening at Goodison Park, Dunfermline  may not be among the top-drawer sides in Scotland, but  they are a first-class team and the prospect of Everton  beating them and then going on to a clash with Glasgow  Celtic gives the Fairs Cup tournament a piquancy which  cannot be denied.  A lot of Everton fans have complained that prices for the second leg tie at Dunfermline a week to-night have not only been doubled, but almost trebled; Everton can do nothing about this. The tournament rules lay it down that home clubs take all the receipts at their own ground.  Another complaint of Everton fans is that Tottenham will not make block bookings for the League game against Everton, in London, early in New Year. A man who wanted 70 seats for the match as told that he could have only No.  Tottenham's explanation was that the demand for seats was so heavy they were doing the most equitable thing— handing them out two at a time and trying to do the greatest good for the greatest number.
TRIBUTE TO YOUNG
A rare tribute to Alex Young come from J.C. Fisher (6 Denson Crescent, Childwall, Liverpool 16).  He says; “As a football supporter of some 40 years, may I be permitted to pay a small tribute to Alex Young.  “Without indulging in any of the histrionics normally associated with star players, he is providing Goodison Park fans with the most superb exhibitions of the soccer arts seen for years; certainly in my lifetime.  I have never seen his superior as a footballer.  I believe that he is one of the rare players who knows that his function is to entertain, and that he sets out to do just that, detaching himself with contempt from the doubtful tactics and gamesmanship so prevalent today.  “His games ion successive Saturdays against Wolves and Aston Villa were, I thought, outstanding with his magnificent ball control twice producing open goals (for Bingham and Stevens respectively).  “It is significant that every one of his seven goals this season has required individual and diversified brilliance on his part.  My only regret is that he does not unleash his powerful shots were frequently.  “How the Scottish selectors can ignore him is beyond comprehension, but then, look at their treatment of Alec Parker during the past two seasons, and perhaps it is not so surprising.” 

OVER THE MERSEY WALL
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 24 October 1962
HE’S BUILDING A TEAM TO BEAT THE BLUES
If you find, sometimes in the years ahead, the national team of the Philippine Islands, mid-Pacific, dominating the world of soccer-and football fans will tell you that stranger things can happen than this-you can blame it on or credit it to a 38-years-old Liverpool man.  Alan Rogers, of 40 Carisbrooke Road, Walton, Liverpool, 4, who had  a trial for Everton and turned down an offer to become a professional player,  has been appointed the national coach by the Philippines Football Association.  He and another Englishman, Brian Birch,  who is  to help him, arrived in  Manila, the capital of the  Philippines, a month ago  and spent the first three  weeks watching matches  arranged by the local  Association, to enable them  to assess the standards of  the players among whom they will be working.  Now had a letter from Alan giving me the gen on what things are like in those sun - soaked lovely tropical islands. "I'm making a start by organising a programme of training here in Manila before moving into the provinces, he writes.  “Pre-war, the Philippines had quite a good standard of soccer, but with the Japanese occupation during the war, and lack of playing fields since, there has been a leaning towards basketball and baseball, following the American influences.  “However, despite their poor showing recently in the Asian Games, the Philippines F.A., are extremely keen and willing to accept that with harder training schedules and better organised leagues to create stiffer competition, improvements will come.  “I have an entirely free hand, and I’ve already set up a referees’ society to raise the standard, which has bene rather weak.  “A course for club coaches is a must in the near future.  Meantime I am also putting in a lot of work off the playing fields, with TV appearances, newspaper articles on coaching, lectures, Press conferences to explain our ambitions-and I’M enjoying every minutes of it!” adds Alan Rogers. 

NO HOLDS BARRED IN BATTLE GOODISON
Liverpool Daily Post- Thursday October 25 1962
EVERTON ONE GOAL UP IN FOUL-AMINUTE INTER-CITIES FAIRS CUP MATCH
EVERTON 1, DUNFERMLINE ATH 0
Everton won the battle of Goodison Park last night by the only goal of the game, if one can call it a game and still lay claim to accuracy, for it developed into a foul-a-minute exchange in the second half, with football completely impossible and sportsmanlike thrown to the winds.  It was the most nakedly ill-tempered match I have ever seen, and I shudder to think what may happen in the second leg of the first round of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup competition unless there is firmer control.  This is the competition, their exclusion from caused Sheffield Wednesday and Birmingham City to protest and fight for a reversal of the decision.  If this is the sort of fare we can expect from the competition, I would have thought all the fighting and protesting would have been to keep out of it.  It became commonplace to play the man and ignore the ball and although the referee scribbled away industriously, putting the names of players of both sides into his note-book, he was hardly the man to bring peace in such war-like conditions. 
OUT OF CONTROL
Patently the game passed clean out of his control.  Players did as they liked and the amazing thing was that 22 men were still on the field at the end, even if Thomson, a first half casualty, limped off.  The Scots left to an out-burst of boos and the slow had clap from all parts of the ground.  They were pelted with peel, paper but they replied with arms to the air in an expression of complete satisfaction with a mission carried out to the letter.  They believed that if they could hold Everton to a single goal they could repair the damage with something in hand at Dunfermline next week.  On their own narrower pitch they will be able to exert their stranglehold even more effective on any down the middle approaches and while football was still possible Everton slipped up badly by persisting in making Young the spearhead, when plainly they should have tried to drag the Scots out of position by exploiting the wings.  Dunfermline began with a “they shall not pass” formation founded on two centre halves and the idea seemed to be that if Young is reputed not to thrive unduly on rough handling they were willing to out the theory to the test and Young did well to stick to his game so manfully.
NO PRISONERS
When I suggested to a Scottish colleagues that this was “All in” soccer he said “Up in Scotland we call this type of match “No prisoners taken.”  It was easy to see what he meant.  Yet it all looked so different in the opening stages for the Scots impressed with keen, first time, quickly delivered tackles that stamped them as a formidable defence to overthrow, and yet most of it was within the bounds of fair play.  Everton were able to slip clear often enough to provide mastering of football, even if it never flowed as consistently as we have come to expect.  Dumfermline too had many clever touches.  They had wingers who troubled Parker and Thomson more than a little, and at half-time we were reported to concede that if this was Scottish football, it was a test for England’s best.  The only goal produced came in 25 minutes from a corner kick.  Bingham placed the ball incorrectly and the linesman drew his attention to it, so that the ball was replaced.  This caused Bingham to change his mind and instead of the out swinger he settled for an in swinger.  Up went Stevens and seemingly catching the ball with the back of his head, hit the underside of the cross bar. 
LIVELY LEADER
Cunningham was there to head out as the ball dropped, but the referee, right on the spot was confident that the ball had crossed the line, as indeed it appeared to have done from the stand.  Only twenty-five minutes had gone and although Dunfermline were extending Everton at times, it did not seem unreasonable to look for more.  Dickson was a lively leader of the Scots attack, and much of the chasing and charging was not only unnecessary, it was inclined to be explosive and from small beginnings the explosion came.  He once put West over the line, only just after the ball had gone.  In forty-three minutes Bingham should have scored again, for he slicked Morrissey’s corner kick wide, when a direct prod must have succeeded.  The pattern for what followed was set when McLean knocked out Harris, to earn only the mildest of mild rebukes from the referee.  Then we saw Callaghan looked for a foul on Bingham and the crowd erupted when the referee ran over to Bingham and added his name as well.  Next it was Steven’s name which went into the book, for a foul on Callaghan and plainly this was the now a war of attrition.  In 63 minutes Dunfermline almost got on terms for McLinden’s header completely beat West, whose handling was abnormally good in this encounter, and was heading for goal when Harris contrived to kick clear.  It was a wonderful last ditch save and immediately following West magnificently tipped the ball over the bar from Smith.  These were dangerous moments for Everton, the most perilous actually of the ninety minutes.  Dickson was left with only West to beat and yet couldn’t avoid kicking the ball at the goalkeeper.  While Dunfermline were on top, as they undoubtedly were for these fleeting moments, we were treated to the sight of McLindon bringing off a Rugby tackle on Harris, in an effort to obtain the ball.  Young was booked apparently for kicking the ball at Cunningham.  Herriot, a great goalkeeper for Dunfermline, ran clean out of the area with the ball, but nobody seemed to care and this farce of a game dragged on.  Miller, blatantly offside was allowed to carry on, and had not Labone flicked the ball off his toe, West must have been beaten.  At the other end Young rose beautifully to send Bingham’s corner kick crashing against the bar, with Herriot beaten.  From time to time Vernon could be seen plainly indicating to the referee that nobody could play football under such circumstances, but he, like the rest, had to make the best of it.  Apparently all’s fair in the Inter Cities Cup, and unless this was an unfortunate sample of what we may expect the competition to produce, I shall find it hard to mourn, if in future years the “honours” of representing England falls to clubs other than Everton.  Their time, I am sure, can be much more profitably and attractively utilised in other directions.  League games may seem tame after this, but at least there is a reasonable chance of seeing some football.  In such circumstances then I shall refrain from criticism of the play of any member of the teams, and content myself by acclaiming a truly magnificent display by Jimmy Gabriel and one, only slightly less satisfactory by Brian Harris.  Everton; West; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon (captain), Morrissey.  Dunfermline;- Herriot; Callaghan, Cunningham (captain); Thomson, McLean, Miller, McLindon, Smith, Dickson, Melrose, Pebbles.  Referee J. Meigha (Dublin).  Attendance 40,224. 

RECKLESS, SCRAPPY, SCRUFFY…
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 25 October 1962
By Leslie Edwards
If last night's miserable exhibition is any indication of the shape of things to come in the inter-city Fairs Cup they can keep the Cup—and the competition. A more dissatisfying 90 minutes of “football " would have been hard to devise. Some blamed the referee, Mr. Meighan, of Eire. He might have taken more drastic action instead of issuing cautions and “booking " players, but does  anyone think he was mainly to blame for all the hacking  and tripping and kicking. I don't. You have to have players of good will on both sides and there were precious few of them around in the Everton v. Dunfermline match.  The odd handshakes at the end (what a hypocritical gesture!) must have been mutual congratulations between players who were able to walk off on two sound legs. A storm of booing and slow handclapping broke over the heads of the Scottish side as they disappeared down the subway. A little applause was reserved, appropriately, for the goalkeeper. Heriot, whose bravery in this most reckless match had enabled his team to go home only a goal behind and eager to rub that out in the second leg of the tie in Scotland next week.  Heriot was one of a few players worth mentioning:  Gabriel, who had a spotlessly clean book, praise be, was another. It is inconceivable to me that professional can treat fellow-professional as they did last night.  Remarkably, in the circumstances, the only man injured was Thomson the Everton back, who came back after the interval to figure at outside-left, having damaged his left thigh.  Football needs all the good publicity it can get. This performance, if it could be so described, did the game nothing but harm. To be candid it was disgraceful.  If Dunfermline, by their negative, defensive tactics from the start and their constant chivvying of Everton players in possession got the game off on the wrong foot, Everton for their part did little to bring sense and sound football to it.
ROLL ON SATURDAY
The referee, I think, could have improved things by taking stronger action, but I don’t whether he could have cleaned the game to the stage at which it represented entertainment.  If this is cup football at international level then roll on Saturday and Ipswich Town and some hope of sustained football of the sort we have had often seen this season at Goodison Park.  The money incentives of the tournament may well have caused some of the trouble we saw last night. It was certainly the least worthy event we have had since the so-called friendly against Bangu, giving us recklessness, pettiness and third-class football where we had expected good stuff played in the right spirit.  Dunfermline, it seemed, were content to maintain their position at one goal down for the final half hour at least. Everton had one chance, ten minutes from time, to get what would have been a near-clinching second goal, but Young's fine header struck the underside of the bar and stayed out.  At 25 minutes Stevens' back header from an in swung Bingham corner (the linesman by insisting that the ball was placed "just so" at the flag had his part in Bingham’s change of plan) put Everton in front and from that moment to the end it was an unrelenting rough-and-ready battle, with feet and fists often raised and one scene at the touchline which threatened to erupt into a battle between the dozen players congregated there after Stevens had fouled Callaghan.  There would be some sore shins and thighs for treatment  in both camps to-day. All I can say to those who nurse them is: "What do you expect from such a match?" 
Football content: Nil 
The football content of the match was virtually nil. No  great, artistic runs by Young (he wouldn't have got far if  he'd attempted them); no brilliant inside forward play by  Vernon: no really sustained movement from either side  and so few shots of power and accuracy the wonder was the  game was not goalless. Dunfermline, with their slavish defence, made it more necessary than ever that Everton should produce their slow, sure build-up from back to half back and so on into attack.  From the start Everton appeared to have the notion that the policy which wins them League games was not sufficient. I never saw the ball thumped so often or so hard by the backs. If this was a gambit specially employed for a Cup occasion, it was strikingly ineffective.  Dunfermline had their moments. There were times when they moved the ball prettily and competently.  Dickson almost surprised West (after surprising Labone) in the opening minutes when he picked up the ball from a long clearance and hit the ball just over the far goal angle. A last-minute tackle by Labone on Miller saved Everton in second half and a kick from the goal line by Harris from McLndon a back-header following a free kick was another close call for the home side.  Dunfermline argued, vainly, that the ball had not been over the line when Stevens's header struck the underside of the bar, bounded to earth and was then cleared by Mclean, but the referee, who was in a good position to judge, let the goal count. It would have been followed by others if Heriot, the night's hero, had not stuck to his job so courageously.  He was saved by a co-defender when Everton produced a barrage of headers, but he completed the bill with his wonderful one-handed save, amid the ruck, from a header by Young. Oddly, the game finished with a burst of applause for him where it had started with a heart-warming applause for Dunfermline when they presented their opponents with a commemorative pennant.  They won't need to hang this on the wall to remind them of the night Dunfermline came to Goodison Park!  Carnegie gave the town of Dunfermline everything: Dunfermline gave Everton nothing but one big inter- City Fairs Cup headache, the intensity of which cannot be appreciated until after the return game.  I've spilled much more ink on this apology for a match than it was worth. For the record, players I saw booked-and there may have been others—were Callaghan, Bingham, Stevens, Young and McLindon. A sharp lecture to the captains and the sending off of the next serious offender might have produced better results.  Postscript to an unhappy occasion (overheard by a friend): Evertonian: “Who do you fight next week, mate?”  Fifer, “We’ll nominate you for Cuba!”

THOMSON WILL MISS IPSWICH GAME
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 25 October 1962
TREATMENT FOR 6 OTHERS
AT GOODISON
By Leslie Edwards
Six Everton player- Thomson, Young, Vernon, Stevens, Bingham, and Harris- were having treatment today for cuts, strains, bruises or abrasions.  This was the sequent to last night Fairs Cup battle against Dunfermline at Goodison Park.  Thomson, who has a pulled thigh muscle, will not play against Ipswich on Saturday.  The referee for the second leg of the tie in which Everton hold a goal lead, at Dunfermline, will not be the one who officiated last night, Mr. Meighan, of Dublin.  A Northern Ireland referee will take over.  This is in accordance with the rules of the competition.  Everton manager Mr. Harry Catterick, said today; “I felt sorry for the spectators.  These Fairs Cup first-leg games always follow the same pattern.  The visiting team don’t go out to win; they set out to make certain their opponents don’t get a goal. 
TIME WASTING
“I was amazed at the time-wasting Dunfermline employed even as early as the first 10 minutes.  The referee acted as though he was going to take the time lost into account but as far as I know he did not.  “I also felt sorry for some of our forwards.  They just weren’t allowed to play.  Players can only take this sort of thing for a time.  Then when they see t is not going to be checked by the referee a battle develops.  That is inevitable.  “The referee last night gave too many cautions and was not strict enough when he saw how the game was likely to develop,”
RAMSEY IS NEW ENGLAND TEAM MANAGER
Mr. Alf Ramsey, the secretary-manager of Ipswich Town, the League champions and Everton’s visitors on Saturday, has been appointed England team manager in succession to Mr. Walter Winterbottom, who leaves the F.A. on December 31. 

ROY VERNON’S VIEW
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, October 26 1962
CHARLES AGAIN KING JOHN THE MAGNIFICENT
How good must a player be to be considered good?  The thought occurs to me following the international match between Wales and Scotland at Cardiff last Saturday, for if John Charles, the Welsh centre half, was not back on his illustrious throne, then I am no judge of a player’s quality.  I though John was magnificent and I doubt if Liverpool’s Ian St. John will be in any good to argue after his experience at the hands of “King John.”  Possibly it would be more correct to say head instead of hands, for it was in the air that the Welshman was supreme.  Scotland good as they were, were not quite as dominating as most people expected.  For that maybe some of the credit is due to the Welsh, but in my view the Scots contributed to their difficulties and certainly made St. John’s afternoon a very worrying one.  Charles must have towered over St. John by six or seven inches and nobody can afford to give away a start like that to the Welsh giant and hope to complete successfully in the air.  Yet for so much of the time the Scots persisted in putting the ball up the middle in the air. 
CAUSED HEARTBREAK
Charles has caused heart-break to bigger men than St. John in circumstances such as these, and it would have taken a magician rather than a centre forward of Ian’s build to have made anything of the Scottish tactics.  I doubt if there is any man in the game better able to take over two positions and perform equally well in either, yet it is impossible to say whether Charles is a better centre forward than a centre half.  What a wonderful tribute to the natural ability of this born footballer.  Charles is reported to have said that he has been disappointed with his inability to recapture his best form since returning from Italy.  What a hard taskmaster he must be, if he is not content with what he achieved at Cardiff!  Ron Yeats, may think himself unlucky in having to complete with rivals such as Scotland possesses, but just imagine the plight of a Welshman trying to push out Charles.  I considered Scotland more than a trifle lucky to beat us, for after all the Law goal would never have been scored had Millington not been beaten by a deflection.  He had the original shot well covered, but while the deflection only tricked over the line it was agony watching it, for it obvious that Millington could not turn in time.  Still that’s football and if this victory enables them to retain the championship they can thank their lucky day at Cardiff.  I had a letter this week from a fan who wanted to know that I had done with my shooting boots.  I promise him to make a thorough search in time for our next game.  On the other hand, my wife- maybe she able in just a little prejudged in my favour –says that I should be more sporting and in future do my shooting from a little further out than 12 yards to give goalkeepers a chance. 
TOUGH EXPERIENCE
I have told you before what a tough experience it can be having to take a penalty kick, especially a vital kick before a huge crowd, but I am beginning to feel better about it now.  The other day by way of a change I went into goal while somebody else hammered a few penalty kicks past me, and believe me the goalkeeper’s job is frightening.  He does not know which way to turn and when even if it is the right way, it is often too late.  Standing between the posts it seems impossible for the kicker to miss and yet, the goal does not seem such a yawning chasm when you are in front of it.  Returning to the international match for a moment I must pay tribute to the eighteen-years-old.  Henderson for his magnificent match-winning goal.  It was one of the best I have seen and deserved to win the game.  This lad is already brilliant.  What he will be like in another couple of years, I don’t know but if he continue to develop what a time there is going to be for him.  He is speedy, has score important still, so in a in a fantastically fast starter and seems to have gone ten yards almost before you realise be has started.  People keep on saying that present day football is not throwing up stars.  All I can say is that those who believe that must be going to matches with their eyes closed! 

THE CHAMPIONS VERSUS POTENTIAL CHAMPIONS
Liverpool Echo - Friday 26 October 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Champions versus potential champions. That is the billing for the Everton v. Ipswich Town game, at Goodison Park, to-morrow. The last time Manager Alf Ramsey's team came to the Everton ground they were hammered 5-2: their trip to Anfield this season yielded a 1-1 draw from an undistinguished match in which the champions  looked anything but, as they say.  One thing is certain. To-morrow's game must be better than the one we saw on Wednesday. Maybe Everton will revert to their more considered football movement. Their typical cup-tie stuff, so unusual in them, was strikingly ineffective against Dunfermline.  I rate Ipswich as less dangerous opponents, in more senses than one, than Dunfermline. But the fact that they emerged champions, after many people had said unkind things about their play, was sufficient proof that they "had something." That something included team spirit second to none in the Football League.  Mr. Ramsey, the new England manager, a great England and Tottenham full-back and one of the quietest, nicest characters in the game is nothing if not a tactician.  His side has few stars, but that, at times, can be advantageous.  Everton should win and with not much trouble. I hope they do so less contentiously than against Dunfermline.  Thomson must miss this match through a pulled thigh muscle; at the moment there are doubts about others’ fitness. Six players needed treatment yesterday and Mr. Catterick was not sure whether he would be able to name his side even late to-day.  Give it a miss 
D. T. Hackworth, of 5 Stretton Avenue, Wallasey,  says: "After the disgusting brawl at Goodison Park  (Everton v. Dunfermline) I honestly believe that the Everton  board should do one of two things in relation to the second  leg in Scotland next week—  EITHER, send the reserve team to represent the club.  OR withdraw from the competition altogether.  “If neither of these courses are adopted. Everton will lose valuable ground in the League championship race, because half (if not more) of their players may be ‘crocked.'  "Dunfermline obviously did not want to play attacking football when they found they were a goal behind, and whilst admittedly, Everton retaliated to their questionable play, what man would not have done under the same continuous provocation?  "It was the most disgusting exhibition I have seen on a football field (second only to the historic scenes in the World Cup in Chile), and I only hope we do not see a repetition.  "Most of the irate fans coming out of the ground were saying that Everton ought to forget about this cup after such a brawl, and concentrate on the Football League and F.A. Cup."  Just as well we can get a laugh (as well as tears) from the Dunfermline fiasco. A man phoned asking whether it was true Bertrand Russell had written to Everton and Dunfermline offering to act as mediator before next Wednesday.  
E. M. Maghull) suggests the following Everton forward line for the return match: Liston, Mills, Tiger, Marciano and Gilroy.  R. Bowen. Church Road, Huyton, has written to the Dunfermline club condemning the team's methods. The club should make a Kennedy-style announcement so that Everton Supporters' Club, instead of hiring a plane can, in fact, send in the R.A F. 

MEAGAN BACK FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Friday 26 October 1962
THOMSON OUT WITH INJURY
By Leslie Edwards
Everton make one change for the visit to Goodison Park tomorrow of Ipswich Town.  Thompson, who pulled a thigh muscle in the first half of the match against Dunfermline, is out and Mick Megan takes his place.  Five players who suffered bruises and abrasions in the Fairs Cup game are all fit.  Ipswich without a League win since September 8, are unchanged.  Everton; West; Parker, Megan; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey.  Ipswich; Hall; Carberry, Malcolm; Baxter, Nelson, Elseworthy; Stephenson, Moran, Crawford, Curtis, Blackwood. 

USE SCHOOL YARDS AS CAR PARKS
Liverpool Echo- Friday, October 26, 1962
YOUR LETTERS
I have read with interest various letters from readers regarding planning (or lack of planning) in local administration, &c.  May I draw attention to what I consider is a planning problem that causes a great amount of unnecessary chaos every other Saturday afternoon.  On football match days traffic hazards and bad tempers are increased because of disorderly or disputed parking of vehicles in side streets, near tradespeople’s premises and private houses, &c.
The problem might be relieved if school play yards were temporarily used as organised parking stations, with authorised attendants.  The school play yards are not used in the critical time I have in mind.  Any money gained in this more methodical system could subsidise the particular school sports equipment costs, &c.   At the time of writing the schools I have in mind are near the Everton Football Club- Gwladys Street School and Arnott Street School-although I think this participle of parking on these occasions could be applied in more cases. - A Ward, 34 Poulter Road, Aintree, Liverpool 9. 

BACK TO NORMAL
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, October 27 1962
By Horace Yates
Everton have the opportunity to return to normality at Goodison Park with the visit of the champions, Ipswich Town, and if forecasting is always fraught with danger, I think it perfectly safe at least to say there will be more football and sportsmanlike in this clash than we saw last Wednesday.  As anticipated, only Thomson (pulled thigh muscle) has to stand down through injury, and it could be Everton’s good fortune to see Parker and Meagan pair up in the first team.  Thomson has not been as consistently impressive this season as he was last, when I considered him one of the most improved backs in the game.  That he will recapture his best form I have no doubt.  In the meantime, this may be the chance for Meagan to show that a little competition could expedite the process.  Ipswich have slipped down the table alarmingly this season and the fact that Ted Phillips has not been included will hardy bring any regrets to the Everton defence for it was the superb combination and striking power presented by Phillips and Crawford that did most to put Ipswich on their pinnacle last season.  I know that strange things are continually happening in soccer, but I see little danger of Ipswich being the first club to blot Everton’s home record, unless the Dunfermline battle has left its scars.  Town’s only away triumph in seven outings was at Bolton.  Spurs, undoubtedly the biggest danger to Everton ambitions of carry off the championship are pressing very closely for the leading place, but this is Everton’ s chance to establish themselves with a clear cut win, which will see them right back on the goal standard.  Everton; West; Parker, Meagan; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey.  Ipswich Town; Hall; Carberry, Malcolm; Baxter, Nelson, Elseworthy; Stephenson, Moran, Crawford, Curtis, Blackwood. 

GOODISON WELCOME ENGLAND’S NEW MANAGER
Liverpool Echo- Saturday, October 27 1962
ALF RAMSEY AND THE CHAMPIONS HERE TODAY
By Leslie Edwards
The visiting manager today is sure of a great welcome as soon as his familiar features are recognised at Goodison Park.  Alf Ramsey, newly-appointed England manager, was one of the game’s great gentlemen.  He is a fine character and personality, and quite out of keeping with many contemporaries in that he says little and says it quietly.  Incidentally, what he says is none the less worthy hearing… Ramsey is to have full control, so far as selection and coaching is concerned.  If he does as well with the glided England men as he has done with some run-of-the-mill players at Ipswich he will succeed.  If he doesn’t know what is required to blend England into a successful force for the World Cup then we had better give up.
UNIMPRESSIVE
Ipswich came to Goodison Park last season and were most unimpressive, this season they have already appeared at Anfield and again they looked disappointing.  I fear we must have caught them, on both occasions, on an “off” day.  Otherwise how could they have become First Division champions at the first time of asking?  However, this match goes it must seem a great deal better than anything we saw on Wednesday.  My own preference is for League football as always likely to provide more football entertainment than anything we see in a knock-out competition.  It taken two sides to make a rough match, however.  Whenever I have seen Ipswich they have concentrated slavishly on efforts to play clean, sporting stuff.  They will be all out to be the first side to win at the ground in a League match since late in 1961.
NOT PANICKING
Thomson’s injury means that Meagan comes in at left-back.  Otherwise the side is unchanged, the other five players damaged in the Fairs Cup match having recovered from their knocks.   Ipswich are certainly not panicking, despite the fact that they have not won a League match since September 8.  Among their side is crack-shot Crawford, a man now honoured by the Football League, and Carberry, a back whose family have been much associated with the boxing game in Liverpool. 

DOUBLE BY MORRISSEY TURNED THE TIDE
Liverpool Echo- Saturday October 27, 1962
VERNON’S PENALTY WAS 7TH THIS SEASON
EVERTON 3, IPSWICH TOWN 1
By Michael Charters
Everton;- West; Parker, Meagan; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevenson, Young, Vernon, Morrissey.  Ipswich Town; hall; Carberry, Malcolm; Baxter, Nelson, Ellsworthy; Stephenson, Moran, Crawford, Curtis, Blackwood.  Referee; Mr. H. Honer (Coventry).  A fine drizzle of rain began just before the kick-off.  Everton took up the running from the start and after Vernon had just failed to break through, a fine right wing move between Parker and Bingham saw the ball moved inside to Harris who hit a beautiful shot from 20 yards, which beat Hall, but hit the crossbar and bounced to safety.  Several times Ipswich lost possession of the ball through inaccurate or too tentative passing, and in these openings stages Everton were rampant.  Everton made poor use of a free kick just outside the penalty area, but generally it was a series of constant Everton attacks with the Ipswich forward unable to get going at all.  From a short corner by Morrissey, Meagan- deputising for the injured Thomson –burst through to the penalty area, but was blatantly obstructed by Baxter.  From the indirect free kick Everton again made little of the opportunity. 
SLIPPERY TURF
The rain on the turf was making foothold rather slippery and several times players went down in attempting to take a pass.  Although having the vast majority of play the Everton forwards were inclined to hold the ball too long and too closely, so that many good-looking moves in midfield broke down when they neared the Ipswich penalty area.  There was, however, one first class effort started with a good pass from Bingham to Vernon who side stepped a couple to tackles, but then, in a good shooting position hit the ball hard against Hall to miss a fine opening.  After 24 minutes Everton deservedly took the lead with a penalty by Vernon- his seventh of the season.  It was awarded quite rightly for a double tackle by Hall and Carberry on Vernon himself after a shot from Morrissey had been blocked by the goalkeeper out to Morrissey had been blocked by the goalkeeper out to Vernon standing only a yard from the upright.  In his usual style Vernon calmly walked up to the ball on the spot and put a low drive wide of Hall’s left hand. 
CONTROL IN THE AIR
The first moment of anxiety for Everton defensively came just before the half hour when Stephenson flicked on a corner kick by Blackwood to Curtis, who made a first-class header just over the top.  Ipswich contributed to Everton’s dominance of the play by their own inaccuracies.  The best feature of the visitors was their control in the air, for they had several six-footers who controlled everything.  Blackwood pulled the ball back to Ellsworthy and with a surprise shot from thirty yards the wing half sent the ball through Everton’s defence to just flick the outside of the upright.  For the first time the Ipswich attack began to move with more purpose and accuracy.  They gained two successive corners and from the last one Curtis headed the ball into the net when the ball was chipped back by Baxter, but was clearly offside. 
ANXIOUS MOMENTS
Everton’s defence did not look too happy as Ipswich swung into the game and with the players slipping about on the difficult turf there were some moments of anxiety for the Everton supporters.  The first Everton attack since Vernon scored was a fiercely hit shot from a standing start by Young which went straight into Hall’s arms.  A fine pass from Stephenson to Moran opened the way for an excellent Ipswich attack as the inside forward centred close to goal for West to bundle it away towards the incoming Curtis, whose shot struck Parker, luckily for Everton.
CRAMBLED AWAY
When hall made a mistake with a poor pass from a goal kick Bingham stepped in and centred for Young to pull the ball back to Stevens whose shot was blocked.  The ball ran out to Young and his shot was also blocked before Ipswich managed to scramble the ball away.  The game now, with the rain persisting, had dropped in level, and tended to be rather scrambling.  Just before half-time Young slipped the ball through in a wonderful position for Stevens, but Hall made a brave save and then dived courageously forward to snatch the ball just as Vernon came moving in.  Half-time; Everton 1, Ipswich Town nil. 
During the interval, the rain became more intense, and the crowd moved back into the shelter of the stands, so that the terraces presented a strangely empty appearance.  After Meagan had done well to take the ball up to the goal line and centre Ipswich broke away, and Gabriel almost beat West with a back pass, the goalkeeper doing well to stretch out an arm and punch the ball away for a corner. 
IPSWICH IMPROVE
Ipswich were now playing better.  They were moving the ball quickly and well, and Everton were having their work cut out to maintain their lead.  Hall came far out of his goal to make a good save from Stevens, but the ball ran out to Bingham, and from the centre Morrissey made a good header just over the bar.  From the goal kick, Ipswich went away to equalise after 53 minutes.  It stemmed from a good run by Stephenson who found Carberry moving up to join the attack and West saved the full back’s initial shot.  The ball was never properly cleared and Curtis shot across the face of the goal when Moran, from only a couple of yards range, had a comfortable job to turn the ball over the line. 
SHOT FROM YOUNG
On their play of the preceding 25 minutes, I though Ipswich deserved their goal.  Everton inevitably failed to make progress when they put the ball in the air, but always looked like achieving something when they kept it down.  Typical was a fine pass from Gabriel to Stevens who was slow with a fine opening.  Some good work by Meagan who worried the ball away from Baxter and then made a fine pass to Young saw the centre forward hit a quick shot which hall saved well.  Everton were becoming desperate in their efforts to regain the lead and Ipswich with their slower but more methodical play, looked the more dangerous side in patches.  Everton were still having more of the play but were not doing very much with it. 
GOOD DEFENCE
Ipswich had quickened their pace remarkably after their lethargic start, and their defence was playing particularly well, as Everton tried to make a clear cut opening, Everton forwards could not get moving at all and with Vernon under control, they had lost their major scoring point.  It seemed now that Ipswich’s defence had the master hand over the Everton forwards, and whatever the home attack contrived, the big strong visiting defenders were in control. 
GREAT SAVE
Hall made a great save from a header by Gabriel following a corner from Bingham, and this was the prelude to Everton regaining the lead after 74 minutes.  Vernon took the corner on the left and when hall made a half clearance the ball came out to Morrissey, who shot through a crowd of players, sneaked through into the corner of the net with Hall unsighted.  A minute later, Morrissey scored again.  From the restart, the ball was moved down the right wing to Bingham, whose long centre beat the Ipswich defence and Morrissey closed in to breast the ball over the line. 
Almost Hat-Trick!
Morrissey came within inches of a record hat trick in the space of time, when he took a pass from Young and closed in to shoot but put the ball straight at Hall.  Morrissey’s two in a minute had put the crowd on good terms again after it had looked as though Ipswich had taken over the run of play.  Morrissey’s efforts had also taken the sting out of Ipswich, and their first attack for some time saw Baxter move up and hit a good shot just wide with West diving across his goal.  With a few minutes left for play, Harris cleared off the line from a shot by Ellesworthy.  Final; Everton 3, Ipswich Town 1. 
Lancashire League
Everton A 3, Man United A nil
Everton B 3, Oldham Athletic A 1

ENGLAND PESSIMISTS COULD BE SO WRONG
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 27 October 1962
YEARS TO GO BEFORE THE WORLD CUP TEST, SAYS ALEX YOUNG
As most people anticipated, the home international season started with victories for England and Scotland, but the success over Northern Ireland seems to have done little to make the pessimists change their view that hopes of England doing well in the 1966 World Cup are practically nil.  These people are, in my opinion, making a big mistake, for when most teams find it hard to maintain consistent form from season to season, it is folly to express a view as to how a side will play three or four seasons hence.  Years to go before the Scotland seem to be the best United Kingdom international team at the moment, but fortunes change so quickly in football that by 1966, England could once again be well in command.  My country has been  extremely lucky, for they  appear to have not only  found 11 footballers at the same time with styles and  temperaments which can  be blended into a good  team, but also have players  of similar style and almost equal ability standing by  should one of the 11 he  forced to withdraw.  This point was emphasised last week when McNeil dropped out and Ure took over at centre half. Both play a strong stopper-type game, so the tactics of the side did not need altering.  Liverpool's Ron Yeats could have filled the bill equally well without upsetting the rhythm of the team.  This is just one example, but there are several other positions in the Scotland side where this also applies.  While on the subject, I  would also venture to say  that in Jimmy Gabriel and  Dave Mackay, neither of  whom can command a place  Scotland has two "reserves"  who might easily have  Rained a regular International  place had they  been born in England.  Wales or Ireland. 
SOUND SCHEME 
Just after the war when the England team contained such great players as Matthews, Mortensen, Mannion, Finney and Lawton, there were many top class players Hagan and Shackleton, for example —who could not gain a place. By 1966, the wheel may have turned a full circle!  England have spent much time, energy and money on coaching youngsters, and they have a sound scheme which will doubtless pay dividends before very long.  They could be rich dividends!  Why England should have got into the football doldrums at all, surprises  me, for I can honestly say  that First Division players  in this country are the  keenest and most hard  working bunch you could  wish to meet anywhere in  the world. Naturally, they make some mistakes … but all are keen and to learn by them.  I slipped up last week when saying that Billy Bingham was making his 49th appearance for Northern Ireland in the match against England, for, as you will know by now, it was his 50th.  All Everton players and fans applauded Billy's "half century’ and I hope many more honours come his way. 
BILLY'S BOOK 
Billy, incidentally, has been writing a book which he tells me will be published next month. The title is "Soccer with the Stars” and in it, Billy says he has  not attempted to write an  autobiography, but to try to  tell the story of his life in  football through the wealth  of personalities he has met  in the game.  He has, of course, had many famous colleagues at Glentoran, Sunderland, Luton and Everton, so this is obviously going to be a book that the fans will enjoy. All the boys at Goodison, I assure you, are anxiously awaiting publication day.  Billy has had a busy time recently and after the second leg of the Inter- City Fairs Cup-tie at Dunfermline next Wednesday, will have played football in England, Ireland, Poland and Scotland within the space of about three weeks.  Now, with his selection to play, for Wales in Budapest in November Roy Vernon's turn has come to travel. By November 7, I reckon that he will have played in England, Wales, Scotland and Hungary in under four weeks.
MY COUSIN
With no First Division game in Liverpool last  weekend, most of the  regular Goodison and Anfield fans appear  have spent a day at home,  and I was one player who  did likewise,  I did, however, go to  watch Everton Reserves  when they played Burnley  in a Lancashire Senior Cup  match the previous  Wednesday. Burnley won by the solitary goal and one of the reasons was the excellent goalkeeping of Harry Thomson.  Harry (whisper it when any of the Central League  team boys are around) is  a cousin of mine, and I  must admit that I was very' impressed with the  tremendous progress he has  made since the last time I  saw him play, two seasons  ago.
BEST UNSAID 
There are obviously many things I would like to say about last Wednesday Inter-City Fairs Cup match with Dunfermline, but at the moment they are best left unsaid.  Obviously the vast majority of footballers like this type of game as little as the supporters do, but I suppose it is inevitable they will crop up from time to time.  This match, and others like it we have read about in the past. Surely emphasise that for international Interclub games only the best refereeing will do, and I think that players and spectators have a tight to expect the authorities to provide it.  Dunfermline, although they lost 1-0, can claim a moral victory. Their tactics were obviously to concentrate on defence, give us no opportunity to play our normal game, and keep Everton’s lead to as little as possible.  This they succeeded in doing…   the performance of Jimmy Gabriel and the Dunfermline goalkeeper, Jim Herriott, were, I thought, outstanding, but taking the match as a whole, I form the opinion that if this is football, then I would have found more enjoyment if I had carried on working in a Scottish coalmine. 

BLACKBURN RES V EVERTON RES
Liverpool Echo- Saturday, October 27 1962
Blackburn Rovers Res; - Jones; Whelan, Sims; McEvoy, Slater, Holden; Tong, Airey, Brennan, Byrom, Radcliffe.  Everton Res; Dunlop; Parnell, Green; Rees, Heslop, Sharples; Temple, Harvey, Wignall, Webber, Veall.  Referee- Mr. G. Ollerton (Preston).  Everton showed the better ideas and Veall gave Whelan early trouble with some fine runs.  Webber ran through from Harvey’s prompting but his shot lacked power.  Under Rovers pressure Hyslop headed back to his keeper and Dunlop had to fist over to keep the ball out.  In the 16th minute Rovers took the lead, Brennan beating Dunlop with a backwards header from Byrom’s pass.  In the 24th minute, to end an eat five-man movement inspired by McEvoy; Byrom made it two for Rovers, with a left foot shot.  Everton played it too close, although Rees went close with a great shot from 20 yards., Jones saved in a flying drive.  Half-time; Blackburn Rovers 2, Everton res nil. 
EVERTON B V OLDHAM ATHLETIC B
Defence were on top in an end-to-end battle, but five minutes before the interval Everton took the lead from a Glover header.  Half-time; Everton B 1, Oldham Athletic nil

EVERTON WIN- AND LOSE HE LEADING PLACE
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday October 29 1962
EVERTON 3, IPSWICH TOWN 1
By Alan Pinch
Winners and losers on the same drizzly afternoon.  That was the Everton paradox at Goodison Park on Saturday, as – after a struggle-they overcame last season’s champions, yet at the same time conceded the League leadership to the again rampant Spurs.  Early days yet, and you might rightly say at this stage that a hairline difference in goal average is of no consequence, but with Tottenham’s tremendous form in mind- eleven goals in the last two games- a glance at Everton’s scorers’ list may not be without significance.  Vernon leads the way with nine goals, but remembers that seven, including Saturday’s contribution, came from the penalty spot.  Then comes Young with seven, Morrissey –match winner against Ipswich –six, Bingham four, Stevens and Gabriel (two each) and Parker.  Excluding penalties, then, wing-half Gabriel has so far proved as effective a striker as either of the inside forwards, surely an indication of lack of balance in the attack.
CAPTAINCY CARES
One wonders whether captaincy cares are blunting Vernons edge.  Twice in the first half he failed to produce power of shot after creating the opening, and there were occasions when he seemed determined to breach the close-knit Ipswich defence by sheer physical effort- then looked appealingly at an unsympathetic referee when his path was impeded.  Young, however, must have impressed Scotland team manager Ian McColl, with a series of delightful flicks and feints and, perhaps equally important his willingness to shrug off the attentions of a sometimes uncompromising Ipswich rearguard.  Indeed this was a good game all round for Everton’s Scots for Parker played with great gusto, while Gabriel was perhaps the most effective of all.  The left flank, however, was not so impressive.  Meagan though he pushed through some lovely passes was not always sure in defence and Harris, under the eye of England’s new manager Alf Ramsey, disappointed, often late in the tackle, and seemingly at a loss when bringing the ball through.  After surviving Everton’s early onslaught at the expense of several inept taken free kicks, the visitors showed us that the simple move, done with speed and precision, can still carry menace.  With splendid backing by wing halves Baxter and Ellsworth-both of whom went close with power drives- the Ipswich attack had one particularly dangerous spell soon after the interval when Everton’s defence looked anything but certain.  Oddly enough the expected battle between Labone, England’s current centre-half, and former England leader Crawford was never really joined.  Crawford, though he switched from time to time, was rarely in evidence and it was left to inside forwards Moran and Curtis and outside-right Stephenson to produce most danger.  A patchy game, but one that never for long lacked incident first truly came to life after twenty-four minutes when Stevens challenge for an awkwardly bouncing ball flustered the Ipswich defence.  Goalkeeper Hall managed to get his hand to the ball, only to be dispossessed by Vernon, and after Morrissey’s shot had been charged down, Hall later to prove himself with some very good saves, went into a Rugby tackle to prevent Vernon turning the ball home.  It was a clear penalty, and the Everton captain duly gave his team the lead. It was not until ten minutes after half time that the visitors equalised through Moran, after West had done well to beat out a shot from close range. 
MORRISSEY DECIDES
Hall then saved Ipswich with a dive to his right to deny Young a goal, and it was not until the crowd took voice that Everton decisively gained control.  Previous most heartfelt roar went up when Butlin’s young ladies treated us to a pre-match Twist demonstration but as the home team hotted up the pace, the fans took up their thunderous chant EV-ER-TON.  Between the 74th and 75th minutes the plan was answered as little Johnny Morrissey shattered the blood red-shirted champions.  Two quick corners each time producing a header from Gabriel, and when the second was scrambled away Morrissey struck a low, right footed shot which pierced a forget of legs and landed in the far corner of the net.  Within sixty seconds the lively Bingham supplied a cross to the far post and Morrissey and only a touch it over the line.  Everton; West; Parker, Meagan; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon (captain), Morrissey.  Ipswich Town; Hall; Carberry, Malcolm; Baxter, Nelson (captain), Elsworth, Stevenson, Moran, Crawford, Curtis, Blackwood.  Referee Mr. Horner.  Attendance 39,706

NEARLY A 90-SECONDS MORRISSEY HAT-TRICK
Liverpool Echo- Monday October 29, 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Johnny Morrissey has many times contributed more, in general play, than he did on Saturday against Ipswich Town, but he made himself the hero with two goals in 60 seconds and very nearly a hat-trick in little more than a minute. At 74 minutes the score stood at 1-1 and the fear was that would be the final reckoning.  Morrissey then hit a right-foot shot through what seemed like a thousand legs to beat the unsighted Hall.  No sooner had the game restarted than he sailed in to head another goal from Bingham's centre.  Seconds later Hall saved the left-foot Morrissey shot which might well have given the shooter a niche of his own in first-class soccer.  Thus Everton snapped out of their lethargy against an Ipswich so casual; so slow-moving and so profligate at losing the ball to the defence there seemed little chance of them making any sort of match of it. In the first half hour a shot by Harris had hit the bar before Vernon, with his seventh penalty kick of the season, had put his side ahead. The Welshman. unerring in his timing of what should he the game's easiest task, gives  goalkeepers little chance to make up their minds where  the chosen " spot " will be. He takes a nonchalant trot towards the ball, moves fast only when a yard or so from it and fairly hammers the ball in.
Saved some indignity 
Though they got nearer to their normal form than in the match against Dunfermline this was not one of Everton's most worthy performances on their own ground. They were saved some indignity. I think, by the speed and alacrity with which Morrissey took chances. The first opening was hardly worth the name. The ball had been half-cleared from a corner and Morrissey must have puzzled to know where to try to find a place for a pass when he elected, rightly as was proved, to hammer the ball in the direction of just inside Hall's left hand upright.  His second, coming so quickly (and fairly rammed in as he went toward goal at full gallop) was, for Ipswich, the ultimate blow. They went close, more than once, to making it 3-2 but they were a beaten side from that moment.   Maybe the unusual conditions reacted sharply against both sides. The dancing girls had no sooner finished their twisting than a heavy drizzle and worse came in on the wind to lie on the top of the turf and give the players a most uncertain foothold. They sipped and slithered alarmingly.  What appeared to be rather prolonged Interval may have been due to both sides wanting to change the studding.  Everton appeared by far the faster and fitter team, though some reaction from their efforts of the Wednesday was clear. Ipswich, champions or not, will have to encourage a greater sense of urgency into their play: otherwise they will be champions at the first time of asking risking relegation at the first time of asking—a possibility I mentioned before the end of last season.  I will say this for them. They aim to play football all the time: they take their medicine like the big men they are. It was refreshing after the battle three days before to end a game in which players kept their tempers.  Indeed, on this evidence nothing short of an atom bomb would disturb an Ipswich team who move almost with elephantine sloth, especially in attack.  It could be that the difficult pitch contributed something to their slowness: it was certainly a day on which the Everton defence, for once seemed to get itself into tangles all too easily against opponents who were clearly not top-class.  Ipswich had their unlucky moments when their massive left half-back. Elsworthy, topped the bar with a fine shot and when Curtis had his “goal" disallowed 
Confident at the finish 
If they had taken properly half their chances Everton would have had the game won much earlier.  There was some frustrating finishing and at other times Hall, who had a fine game, was in unyielding mood. Only when Morrissey had saved their bacon with two quick goals did Everton begin to play confidently.  The ease with which little Stephenson worked his way through on the right caused more than a little apprehension on and off-field after Moran had had the impudence to get an unexpected equaliser, thanks to Liverpool-born Carberry adding his full-back weight to a right-wing attack The new England manager, Mr. Ramsey, has instilled some fine football principles into his men, but there is an aged look about the side and without Phillips' cannonades they are pretty innocuous up front.  Gabriel who must have found ten thousand new friends now he has forsaken, for ever, the occasional shows of force which used to spoil his work, again had a fine match. He must have impressed the Scottish selector whose scouting mission makes him almost “live" at Goodison Park.  I have seen Young put his imprint deeper on a match,  but his shooting (and what a good shot he has) was more  in evidence and if he can produce his dazzling dizzying  runs plus shooting of this sort what more do Scotland  require of him. More and more is being made clear that the guts of the Everton side is at half-back. Harris for his consistency is an England man now or in the making.  With Parker back land how glad the crowd seem at that!) and fit as ever their place at or near the top is assured.  The game at Manchester City next Saturday, after the hard one at Dunfermline in mid-week will show whether or not Spurs are going to their hundredth part of a goal grip on the leadership. Everton's lack at the moment, I would say, is the ability to remain poised and balanced when things go against them—or even when the other side are marking them like leeches. The mark of a great side is their propensity for changing their game to suit the occasion I don't think Everton did this against Dunfermline and that is why rate their Fairs Cup hopes as unpromising.  Perhaps when they have played longer together and have some title under their belts they will show this missing quality, I hope so.

LETTERS
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 30 October 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Then my eye turned to the score line.  It was not Everton 1, Dunfermline nil, but Lisbon 1, Dundee nil, the goal coming in the final seconds. 
Writing from 287 Walton Breck Road, Anfield, Mr. P. Mahon says; “I blame both sides for what took place last Wednesday but most of all I blame in incompetent referee for not taking a quick, firm hold on the game.  I paid 3s to watch a football match.  All I received for my money was a farce and public brawl. 
“I have heard of these brawls taking place on a football field but never until Wednesday had I seen one.  “Five players had their names taken, but, to me at least two or three should have been given marching orders.  “I remember one disgusting foul on Brian Harris.  The player concerned did not even receive a caution.  “Things must be bad when Alex Young begins to lose his temper.  “How much longer have we to put up with snoddy referees?  Where is it all going to end?  For goodness sake Everton and Dunfermline let bygones be bygones.  Let us have a clean sporting game at Dunfermline. 
J. Manion, of Birkenhead, sends news of what he calls the Blue Angels.  “Do Everton supporters know,” he asks, “that the tam is noted in certain parts of Britain for its toughness?  Remember,” he adds, “the Bangu match, the Cup game against King’s Lynn and a friendly match against Hibs, in Scotland when an Everton player was booked within five minutes of the start.  If you dish it out don’t crib when you get it back.”  Various reports of how Johnny Morrissey got his second goal on Saturday-some described him breasting the ball in from Bingham’s centre; others maintained he headed in a real ‘bullet”-prompted me to get the facts from Everton players.  As I suspected Morrissey’s head connected so solidly with the ball his team-mates were teasing him, in the bath, about his Dixie Dean technique. 

INJURIES DELAY EVERTON CHOICE
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 30 October 1962
CUP GAME AT DUNFERMLINE
AIR TRIP
By Leslie Edwards
Everton will take a party of 13 or 14 players to Dunfermline tomorrow for the second leg of the Fairs Cup match.  Owing to some reserve players having knocks on Saturday, Mr. Catterick, the Everton manager, cannot name his party. They leave by air from Speke to-morrow morning.  They will spend the afternoon in Edinburgh. The journey by road to Dunfermline must be made across the bridge at Kincardine and not over the Forth ferry.  Dunfermline have not announced their team. Injuries  hold up selection but centre-forward  Dickson and left  winger, Peebles, who missed  the game against Dundee an  Saturday, are both expected to  be fit.  Goalkeeper Herriot and left-back Cunningham were casualties against Dundee but will be fit for to-morrow. 
SAME DEFENCE 
The defence is expected to be the same as played at Goodison Park. There could be one change in the attack.  Because of injuries sustained in the Everton game Dunfermline fielded three reserves in the attack against Dundee.  Sinclair, one of the deputies, was outstanding and must be considered for a place.  Dunfermline (From):  Herriott; Callaghan, Cunningham:  Thompson, McLean,  Miller; Sinclair. McLandon, Smith, Dickson, Melrose, Peebles.

EVERTON TAKE 14 PLAYERS TO DUNFERMINE
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday October 31 1962
CAT AND MOUSE TACTICS BUT TEAM IS LIKELY TO BE UNCHANGED
By Horace Yates
The second leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round between Everton and Dunfermline at East End Park today, is a regular cat and mouse affair, with neither club willing to reveal their hand in advances to what the team formation will be.  How much either will profit from the reticence is doubtful.  Dunfermline say their only worry is the one goal deficit they incurred at Goodison Park in last week’s hair-raising and bruising battle.  Come hail, rain or snow (and who can say that any one of them is unlikely?) there will be a record attendance for a floodlit game on the ground, of something in excess of 30,000.  Let us hope it is the closeness of the struggle that is the attraction and not a bloodthirsty desire for strong entertainment.  This will almost certainly be a grim battle, without so frequently exceeding the bounds of fair play as occurred last week for I cannot conceive that the referee will operate without a knowledge of what has gone before.  He is the ling pin, the man on whom everything depends. 
CONFIDENT PLAYERS
If he is on top of his job, the dismal forebodings that Everton will part company with the competition could prove wide of the mark for I know the players are flying up today confident of their ability to make that one goal lead count heavily in their favour.  There will be no flag or surrender and although three reserves are named in addition to Saturday’s team, it hardly seems likely that any change will be made.  Frank Wignall, George Heslop and Albert Dunlop are the additions to the normal team.  George Thomson had treatment twice yesterday and after tests manager Harry Catterick decided that the risk of including a player whose100 per cent, fitness could not be guaranteed, was not worth taking, and Thomson will not travel.  The Everton party therefore will be West; Dunlop; Parker, Meagan; Gabriel, Labone, Heslop, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Wignall, Vernon, Morrissey.
DEFENSIVE ROLE?
Dunfermline manager Jock Stein announces that left back Cunningham centre forward Dickson and outside left Peebles all passed tests yesterday so that he has no worries on the score of fitness.  What of tactics?  I would say that Everton will choose to adopt a defensive role, for they have proved their ability to cope adequately with First Division attacks, so much so that ten of their fourteen rivals have had to be content with one goal or nothing.  The Scots have to score at least twice to win.  I think Everton will attempt to put up the barrier of barriers and if Dunfermline are encouraged to concentrate just a little enthusiastically on attack, who knows the openings may be there for Everton to peg them back?  I think only the super optimistic looks for an exhibition of all the football skills, and even he will probably be disappointed for the stage is prepared for a battle to the death.  One irate Everton fan writes to me to say, “I know our game with Dunfermline last week was a little on the rough side, but do you think that justified you in sending your boxing correspondent (Alan Pinch) to report our game on Saturday?”  If it is a good sign, Alan is not available for today’s clash. 

TOMMY JONES SHOCKS CARDIFF
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday October 31 1962
MANAGERIAL DISCUSSION ENDS IN SLARAY DEADLOCK
By Horace Yates
Tommy Jones, manager of Bangor City, the Cheshire League club, who remains in non-League football because he is happy there, has declined Cardiff City approaches, designed to put him in line to become their manager in succession to Bill Jones, and instead George Swindin, manager of Norwich City for only five months, and previously manager of Arsenal, gets the Cardiff appointment.  I know that Tommy Jones, very happy in North Wales, where his merit and ability are well recognised, made no move to apply for the Cardiff City post until he was unofficially invited to submit an application.  Like the gentleman he is, Mr. Jones played fair by the club, who have always played fair by him, kept them informed of developments and only with their approval did he submit the requested application.  Mr. Jones, former Everton and Wales international centre half, and among the most gifted player, accepted an invitation to have lunch at Hereford with a deputation of the Cardiff City club. 
LITTLE PROGRESS
I understand that not a lot of progress was made at the discussions, for the simple reason that they could not find a way past the No. 1 talking point- salary.  If Cardiff expected that by going into non-League football they could fill the vacancy left by the departure of Bill Jones, at an economical rate, then they were quickly disillusioned.  My information is that Cardiff were somewhat shocked by the valuation which Mr. Jones placed on his services and no amount of negotiation could bridge the gap.  When I asked Mr. Jones for confirmation of my information, he replied; “I would rather not make any comment except to say that I am so content at Bangor that only a handsome offer could have tempted me to move south.”  From time to time various people have expressed surprise that a man of Tom’s talents is still on the outside of League football, but not for lack of invitation does this remain the position.  My reading of the situation is that if ever he does break into league soccer it will be only in one of the real plum jobs, unless of course, the bottom should fall right out of non-League football.

EVERTON FANS MAY GET THEIR RELIEF…
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 31 October 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Everton fans will divide their interests to-night.  They'll have one eye on the Televised Spurs v.  Glasgow Rangers match and the other on the interval and 90 minutes' score in the Fairs Cup second-leg tie of Dunfermline.  Many Everton followers would be relieved to hear their club were safely out of the Fairs Cup competition. I think they will get their wish. I don't see how Everton can survive, even though they are a goal ahead, in the cauldron in which they will almost certainly find themselves this evening.  That the referee has been changed makes little difference.  Not since League matches in England were played on a  home-and-away basis in successive weeks—wisdom has since  brought a longer interval between return games have  Everton faced such a tough commitment  Not since Dunfermline played in the quarterfinals of  the European Cup Winners' Cup against Dozsa last  season has the football fever in the town been higher. The record gate against Dozsa was 24,700 and this is certain to be beaten to-night. All stand and enclosure tickets have been sold; indeed over 20,000 tickets were sold for the game before the match at Goodison!  The incidents at Everton are still talking points with Dunfermline supporters. Everton fans have been described by the Dunfermline contingent as almost fanatically partisan.  Dunfermline manager Jock Stein has this to say. "We recognise that Everton are a great team. The lessons learned in the first leg will form the basis of the plan to win to-night. Dunfermline can and will win."  What will Everton supporters find when they arrive  A town with a population of around 50,000 and the focal  point for the thickly-populated coal mining areas in the West  Fife basin. Dunfermline has always been a cultural centre and boasts the birthplace of Andrew Carnegie, the American multi-millionaire, who left £2,000,000 on trust to the town. That means cash of £50,000 to be spent each year “to bring sweetness and light into the lives of the toiling masses “Normally quiet, the townsfolk are ready to discard their staid outlook to give moral and vocal support to their team.  The ground is situated at the east entrance to the town.  The new grandstand, still under construction, gives seating for 3,500 and with other enclosures there is covered accommodation for upwards of 15,000.  Ground capacity is set at 35,000 but there is a police limit of 30,500 for to-night all ticket game 

EVERTON PARTY FLY FROM SPEKE
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 31 October 1962
CUP-TIE AT DUNFERMLINE
14 PLAYERS
By Leslie Edwards
Fourteen Everton players- the men who played against Ipswich, plus reserves Dunlop, Heslop and Wignall- caplaned at Speke this morning for Edinburgh, their headquarters for the match tonight against Dunfermline.  The team will be announced only shortly before kick-off time.  Thomson the full-back who pulled a thigh muscle in the first leg of the tie a week ago, is improving but it was thought inadvisable to gamble on his fitness.