EVERTON ARE UNBEATEN IN SEVEN AWAY MATCHES
Liverpool Daily Post –Saturday, September 1, 1962
AIM IS TO SURPASS LAST SEASON'S START BY LIVERPOOL
By Horace Yates
Give a team a bad name and it sticks, although Everton are doing their utmost to wipe out the allegation so often made last season that they are a "no place like home team," for with victories at Burnley and Manchester United, they go to Fulham today with the opportunity of not only maintaining their record at the only team in Division One with a 100 per cent, record but also with the intention of bolstering their contention that the away picture is nothing like as black as it is painted. Including the victory at Higbury, in the concluding game of last season, Everton have three successive away wins to their credit, but more than that, only Spurs can show victory over them away from Goodison in eight matches. Four victories substituted for draws would have made the position better still, but many a club would be delighted with such a return. There are no substantial grounds for believing that Everton cannot continue their wonderful opening run at Fulham today, for without Johnny Haynes and Bobby Robson, the Londoners are unlikely to pose a problem as powerful as any of those so far solved. The injury to Haynes is a real tragedy for Fulham, and yesterday's announcement that he likely to be out of action until December as a result of the injuries, he received in a car accident at Blackpool last week, is distinctly disquieting. The two broken bones in his left foot are expected to heal fairly quickly, but the injuries to his right leg-a fractured ankle and damaged knee-will take longer than originally expected. Like Everton, Fulham are unchanged, but Everton's is by choice not of necessity. Everton supporters are quietly asking themselves whether or not their team will be able to carry their victory run into the seventh match and beyond. Seven is important to them because last season Liverpool swept aside all opposition in the first six matches and not until their visit to Brighton in the seventh did they drop a point. Everton like to believe that anything Liverpool can do they can do better, and to make this contention come true in this respect Everton have not only to win at Fulham today, but to follow with home victories over Leyton Orient and Leicester –is not impossible task. With every man reporting fit, Everton could hardly do other than nominate the same players who performed so ably at Old Trafford. The only possible doubt could have been Alex Parker, but everyone knows that few players can beat him as often as did Moir and Parker. I feel sure; will turn in some consolidating performances to end what was for him a nightmare experience.
BEST HALVES?
If Everton, on current form, do not possess the best half back line in the country today, I find it difficult to name one of the best if, Twelve months have been a remarkable advance by Brian Labone. I would suggest he has only to continue as he has begun to force the international limelight on to himself and while Scotland boast powerful wing halves, they will be the scorer for not paying the most scrupulous attention to the play of Jimmy Gabriel. One point might be good enough to keep Everton at the top of the table, or it may not, but supporters have grown so confident and expectant that anything less than outright victory will leave a twinge of disappointment. They lost at Fulham last season so that a turning of the tables with give them seven points more than from the comparative games of 1961-62. Fulham; Macedo; Cohen, Langley; Mullery, Dodgie, Lowe; Leggat, Cook, Brown, Henderson, Metchick. Everton; West; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey.

EVERTON FIND FORM TOO LATE TO AVOID FIRST DEFEAT
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday 01 September 1962
FULHAM 1, EVERTON 0
By Leslie Edwards
Fulham; Macedo; Cohen, Langley; Mullery, Dodgin, Lowe; Leggat, Cook, Brown, Henderson, Metchick. Everton; West; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. Referee; Mr. K.R. Tuck (Derbyshire). It was heatwave soccer at Craven Cottage. The crowd in shirt sleeve order looked more like spectators basking in the sun at the Oval. In the first minute Langley, taking a huge throw level with the Everton penalty box, found the ball cleared and Metchick, enjoying a first class right foot chance when he picked up the ball at close range, made a thorough hash of it by shooting dreadfully wide. Mullery got a bump from free kick on the edge of the area, and he needed attention before the award was taken. Mullery got his head to Bingham's attempt at floating the free kick into the danger zone. Next there was a clash between Gabriel and Leggatt, fellow Scots, and the referee had a word with both after giving a free kick In Fulham's favour. West was hurt when going down to the feet of Leggatt and he, too, needed attention in this super-hot start, both from the point of view of the weather and the temper of the game.
JUDICIOUS PASS
It was pretty scrappy football, relieved now by a glorious bit of work by Mullery and a judicious reverse pass to West by Gabriel after Metchick had crossed the ball from Mullery's pass. Neither side had really settled down so far. Gabriel and Metchick were now involved in an incident in front of the main stand and the referee, Langley and Bingham all had to pour oil on troubled water to claim things down. Everton were on top for the most part, but it had become a slow moving game with no special significance so far. Gabriel was being soundly booed when he went forward to make a left foot shot of great power and not far out-side the fart post. The third of Langley's big throw-ins proved fatal to the Everton defence. The ball landed not far from the six-yard line and was only half-cleared, so that Brown, moving to the right, was able to screw home the shot and put Fulham ahead at the 21stt minute. West missed Metchick's cross a moment later, but the ball was kicked clear ac Cook threatened to out on a second goal. The referee played the advantage rule when Vernon got away almost on his own a moment late, and the movement finished with Macedo having desperate difficulty to tip over the bar a lob from the Welshman.

REFEREE WARNS
A clinch for possession between Vernon and Dodgin rebounded so fiercely that Macedo was lucky to see the ball haven just wide. Cook and Gabriel now got at cross purposes and it seemed to me that Referee Tuck warned Gabriel that his next serious offence would probably be his last - in this match at all events. Cook had the ball in the net from a header after West had missed Leggat's centre and got a blow in the face for his pains, but the score was immediately ruled out for the foul on the goalkeeper. It was after a long delay caused by this that Langley, with another long throw, produced the situation from which Cook, standing not three yards, blinded the ball yards over the bar—the miss of the season in anyone's book. Harris was completely knocked ow when getting his head to a Leggat free kick, and again the game was stopped while a player had attention. A blunder by the Fulham defence let in Young from a Bingham centre, but he could only get half power on a tentative shot, and Macedo easily made the save. Thomson kicked away on the line from Cook after West had mis-fielded centre once again and pushed the ball almost straight out to the shooter, so all told Evertonwere having a pretty rough ride. It did not look like becoming any easier.
A LOT OF EFFORT
Macedo took low down a swerving shot by Bingham, but this was Everton's first attack for some time and it cost a lot of effort to create the position. Half-time- Fulham 1, Everton nil.
HIT OR MISS
Minus Haynes, Fulham were a very hit or miss side, but they swung the ball about without any inhibitions, and Everton, who had never struck their stride, were hard up against it. It was certainly the poorest game I have seen this season. Thomson went up to try and nod a goal from Gabriel's centre and finished all in a heap with the goalkeeper but with the keeper clutching the ball safely. Vernon was now spoken to for a foul on Metchick, but the game seemed to have simmered down a little and both sides seemed determined to make a football match of it. The Fulham defence was quite good when Everton did get going in combined style, with the war horse Langley nipping in time and again to take possession from an attack in full cry. A low centre by Morrissey across the goal face eluded everybody, including Brian Harris, not three yards out. This was Everton's near miss of the day. Thomson put some very good passes down the left wing, but Everton's lethargy and a few offside ruses by the defence, soon put a stop to any promise in the movements. Thomson was having a very good game and, ploughing through, won a free kick just outside the area; but typically today nothing came of it.
FIRST-RATE SHOT
Vernon was badly obstructed by Lowe in the penalty box, but no free kick was forth-coming. He gave Macedo a through testing a moment later with a first-rate right-footed shot just outside the penalty box.
For the first time about now, Everton began to play with some rhythm and balance. West at last made a clean catch from a corner by Metchiek. A moment later Macedo did well to field without fault a bounding, hard-hit shot by Stevens.
LOST CHANCE
The fouls still continued, and Mr. Truck's little black book still remained in his pocket, Leggat, standing slap in front of the goal had a chance to clinch the issue, but hit his shot high and wide. Macedo was quick out of goal to take the ball from the head of the incoming Stevens, though in these few minutes Everton were twice within an ace of making it 1-1,and Vernon a moment later was denied only by the unlucky run of the ball as he edged it forward. Everton claimed a penalty when Bingham appeared to be pulled down by Macedo after the goalkeeper had lost the ball, but the ref waved play on. The Everton attack was much too tentative in its finishing, but at least they should have had a goal in this half against a defence which was often in difficulty. Young got a heavy knock from Cook, and Bingham still trying to connect with some useful crosses from the left, succeeded this time, but headed just wide. Fulham had two corners in the last minute, the second given by West after an error of judgment. It nearly proved, fatal, as Cook was only inches with a close in header. Final: Fulham 1, Everton nil.

NO OTHER CITY COULD MATCH THIS INTEREST
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express - Saturday 01 September 1962
Writes Everton's Alex Young
It is still 21 days and five matches away, but already Merseyside seems to be buzzing with excitement and anticipation of the clash between Everton and Liverpool at Goodson Park on September 22. Maybe the sale of stand and paddock tickets during the week has had a stimulating effect on the Interest, but I don't believe there another city in Britain where a " Derby " fixture, or Cup-tie for that matter, would be anticipated quite so keenly as this match is. What I might term the preliminary skirmishes between Everton and Liverpool took place at Melwood last week-end, and although on the score sheet the honours were even, with Everton A beating Liverpool A 4-2 and the Anfielders' B side defeating ours 1-0, the youngsters in the Everton B team tell me they think they were unlucky to lose. MORRISSEY DEBUT
It appeal that the only goal came when an Everton defender cleared the ball straight against a Liverpool forward, from where it rebounded—with the help of a strong wind—into the Everton net. Hard luck boys, but that's football! Another Liverton interest last week-end was the first appearance in royal blue of John Morrissey. I think John was a little worried before the match about how the Everton fans were going to take to a player from across the park but he need not have worried. In fact, John told me afterwards that he was delighted with the encouragement he had received from the Goodison crowd. Yes, I think in our match against Sheffield Wednesday it was a case of local boys making good, for not only did John have a grand game, but so also did the player from the other side of the water who came into the team, George Sharpies. George, star of the Everton team which reached the final of the F.A. Youth Cup two seasons ago, is a greatly improved player since the first time I played in the Everton first team with him—in a Football League Cup match at Shrewsbury. Sorry to revive painful memories!
THE INITIATIVE
Those of you who watched the match against Sheffield Wednesday may have wondered why Everton took so long to settle into their game, and have to be honest and admit that in the opening phases their 4-2-4 style of play worried us. For example, when I moved towards the wings, with the intention of drawing Peter Swan out of the middle, I found that it was not Peter, but left half Robin Hardy who followed me. Until we settled down there were five Everton forwards opposed by six Sheffield defenders, but then our wing halves George Sharpies and Brian Harris were able to gain the initiative, carry the ball through to us, and our trouble were over. I know one can easily be misled when watching a short extract from a football match on film, but judging by the snip from the West Ham-Tottenham game which I saw on the television last Saturday evening, Spurs forwards seemed to be wearing football boots that possessed some special charm. West Ham were having just as much of the game territorially, but three of the last four goals Tottenham scored from John White, Jimmy Greases and Cliff Jones—were as fine as anyone could wish to see. We don't visit White Hart Lane until December 1, so there's a chance those Spurs boots may have lost a little of their magic by then!
GIBSON ATTRACTION
Next Wednesday Leyton Orient who seem to be finding early days in Division One just as trying as Liverpool are,come to Goodison, and on Saturday the visitors are Leicester City. Leicester will probably have Dave Gibson, the former Hibernian player, in their side, and for those who like to watch what has come to be regarded as the typical Scottish inside forward style of play, there could be a treat in store. Dave may lack inches and a little weight, but when it comes to displaying the arts and crafts of football he has few masters. For me, the game should produce another tussle with centre half Ian King, who,as I told you last year. Will a colleague of mine in Edinburgh school and junior football.
REST AWAY
As most of us had anticipated after the second half display by Manchester United at Goodison the previous week,Wednesday's game at Old Trafford produced a terrific match, with the result in doubt up to the final whistle. This was the best away performance by an Everton side in which I have played, for the occasion demanded 100 per cent, effort throughout by all 11 players—and that is just what we saw. Our goal through a late penalty. I thought, made the result a fair one and,despite the fact that throughout the match was a hard one,it was a real pleasure to play in it. There were so many Everton fans at Old Trafford that the roar which greeted us when we ran on to the pitch could hardly have been bettered at Goodison, and if these fans got as much enjoyment from the match as the 22 players did, then they must have returned home well satisfied. Jimmy Gabriel deserves a special pat on the back from the way he played United's dancer man, Denis haw, and in the second half Jimmy had his task so well in hand that he was able to raceup field and produce a fine angled shot from the right wing which almost brought us a goal. Unite, I still think, will finish up among the top teams in the league. We have been fortunate enough to record our first double of the season against them, but —and I am not blowing the Everton trumpet—l don't think there will be many others who can claim this distinction when the season ends.

EVERTON RES V. PRESTON RES
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express - Saturday 01 September 1962
After surviving the first Preston attacks in which Dunlop made several good saves from Lee and Barber, Everton took up the attack. Veall broke away on the left wing and made a perfect pass to Wignall who opened Everton's account with a fast drive in the 15th minute. Sharples and Veall hit the crossbar for Everton and Russell also had the ball in the net for them, but this effort was disallowed for an infringement. Everton were having most of the play and the Preston defence was hard pressed, Sharples, Everton's left half, hit the bar with a terrific shot. Williams, Preston's goalkeeper was out of his goal but the Everton inside forwards failed to connect a nice centre by Shaw, Preston tried hard to level and Barber shot just past the upright. In the 40th minute, Everton increased their lead, Meagan scoring a beautiful goal from 40 yards out. Half-time; Everton Res 2, Preston N.E. Res nil.

LONDON BOGY AGAIN REARS ITS UGLY HEAD
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, September 3, 1962
FULAHM 1, EVERTON 0
By Leslie Edwards
What went wrong" that is the question thousands of Everton followers are asking. The answer is two words, is nearly everything. The club changed its London head-quarters from the middle of the Strand where Convent Gardens porters had games from 5 o'clock this morning to a quieter part in the Gloucester Road area. The effect it seems was to put Everton into such a deep damper they'd hardly woken from it by the time the match at Fulham began.
THROUGH MOTIONS
They went through the motions of being the leading side in Division One, but were unrecognisable as the team which had won at Burnley and Old Trafford and had taken eight points from four games. Fulham minus Haynes and Robson startled the soccer world and asked the question; "Is it going to be another season when Everton can do everything right at home and precious little right away?" the answer could lie with referees, of whom on Saturday Mr. Tuck (Derbyshire) was, happily, not a typical example, Everton's two or three reasonable chances in the final half hour went wrong because the referee could not bring himself to give them two penalties, either of which would have been justified. I blame Mr. Tuck for these errors less than for allowing the match to become almost a travesty from the time the ball-or should I say a player? -was first kicked. One foul led to another. Things became so tough Gabriel and Cook needed lecturing three or four times. Not once was either "booked." We reached the point after the interval when players were not prepared to hold the ball lest they held a "packet," from some tackler-a most unsatisfactory state of affairs.
SPOILED CHILDREN
As if that were not enough there was misunderstanding about decisions. The unedifying-spectacle of players behaving like spoiled children as to whose throw it was and the failure of Everton to stand ten yards from the ball when a free kick was awarded, added to the crowd's fury and when Thomson, one of the cleanest players brought down Leggat inches outside the penalty area this attention became so tense the marvel was he was not asked to leave. Even after making allowances for the disregard of penalty claims, Everton did not deserved to win. They began too slowly and it was not until they realised that brown's goal (22 minutes) was likely to stand that the attack moved adequately for the first time. By then it was all too late. The temper had become so fierce there were Everton players who seemed to find it best to stay clear of it. In a sense I don't blame them.
APT TO TALK
Once the rough stuff started it was six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. Such exhibitions do football no good and when they happen in London- and a team which cost a fortune to get together is concerned-people are apt to talk. Fulham looked like a side trying to offset the absence of two of their best players. Their football may have looked untidy compared with some of Everton's but it was effective. Langley rivalled Thomson for his use of the ball and the wingers, prompted by Cook and Brown, produced a stream of centres, so tentatively handled by West the wonder was the score was not three or four. For the goalkeeper the match was a nightmare. He took a blow to the face and one to the body and must have been relieved when it was all over. It was his failure to reach the long throw by Langley which led to Brown scoring. He picked up the ball at inside right and screwed in a shot, while West was flat on the turf.
EFFECTIVE LABONE
Young was scarcely seen; Vernon except in the final fifteen minutes, never played as we know he can't but there were some fine contributions from Gabriel (when he wasn't getting himself into limber); a typically clean and effective show by Labone and a first class demonstration of full back arts from Thomson. Harris, too, played well. Young had one good chance but put the ball straight at Macedo. Bingham had his moments, but when Macedo pushed him after losing possession was certainly not one, otherwise a penalty must have come. That Fulham should beat Everton when so weakened by injury is not really unsurprising, London grounds have been Everton's grand bogy for season. Everton; West; Parker, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Vernon, Young, Morrissey. Fulham; Macedo; Cohen, Langley; Mullery, Dodgin, Lowe; Legget, Cook, Brown, Henderson, Metchick. Referee; Mr. Tuck.

SHAWWAS EVERTON'S DANGER MAN
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, September 3, 1962
EVERTON RES 2, PRESTON N.E. RES 0
Everton Reserves held up the early Preston attacks in this Central League game at Goodison Park, and Dunlop, Everton's goalkeeper, made several exceptional saves from Lee and Barber. At the 18th minute Everton took the lead when Wignall scored from Veall's perfect centre. Shaw, on Everton right wing was a constant source of danger to the Preston defence, sending across perfect centres which the inside forwards failed to take advantage of, although Russell and Temple had the ball in the net, but the goals were disallowed for infringements and Sharples hit the crossbar with a terrific drive. Just before the interval Meagan put Everton further ahead with a splendid goal from forty yards out. Everton during the second half were always in command, many times fully extending Preston's defence.

WHAT WENT WRONG?
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express - Monday 03 September 1962
ANSWER IN 2 WORDS
By Leslie Edwards
A vast disappointment. That was my reaction (and it must be that of thousands of others) to Everton's 1-0 defeat at Fulham. A first defeat at Spurs or even Arsenal would not have been disgracing, but for the top side in the land to fall to a Fulham minus Haynes and Robson… there was the sting of the failure. As if that were not enough Everton did nothing to odd to their reputation among fans in London: nor, for that matter, did Fulham! They mixed it so successfully the wonder was that none was badly hurt. Gabriel and Cook, duelling almost from the start, were often lectured by referee Tuck of Derbyshire, but never once, as far as I could see, did he book them. If he had we might have been spared some of the "spectacle" which ruined the match. I blame the referee as much as the players. From the two players the canker spread to half-a-dozen others. Finally Thomson, who had had an excellent game and who had kept clear of trouble, unrooted Leggatt at the edge of the penalty box and was fortunate, in the circumstances. I thought, to remain on field. The foul may well have been accidental, but coming late in so contentious a match it looked awful. Referee Tuck then disallowed instantly two Everton penalty claims—one for handling, one when Macedo tugged at Bingham—and Fulham survived Everton's desperate and all too late effort to snatch a point and remain unbeaten. Whether it was the heat or whether they thought their task was just too easy it isn't possible to judge. But the effect was unmistakable. They were not half the team they had been in earlier matches this season. It could be that Fulham brought them down to their own level. To be fair, Fulham fought with better spirit (sometimes too much so), and if they had taken advantage of even half the handling mistakes West made the issue would have been resolved long before the end.
Lacked rhythm and balance
Everton now face, on Wednesday, the Leyton Orient side managed by John Carey, their old manager. They will have to revert to their Manchester United form to wipe out the unhappy memories of the game at Craven Cottage. They are saying in London that Everton may not be able to win away with such facility as they do when they are supported by their huge following at Goodison Park. The evidence on which this is based, I suppose, came on Saturday when Everton lacked rhythm and balance and looked unrecognisable as a side which had played four, won four, and all against hot opposition. Even a change of hotel in London (to give the players sounder sleep than they sometimes get amid the traffic of the West End) could not change the team's traditional London luck. They have won their very rarely in the lastfive or six seasons. The heat and lethargy of Everton players, who seemed still half asleep, helped Fulham to snatch their goal at 22 minutes. It came from the third of Langley's huge throw-ins from the left-hand touchline. The first two caused alarm: the third was misjudged inflight and young Brown snapped up his chance with a right foot shot as West lay on the ground. West has played some fine games since he joined Everton from Blackpool, but this one was completely uncharacteristic. Three or four times he went up to make catches: three or four times the ball eluded him, once or twice after he had got his hands to it. He took a blow to the body and one to the face for his pains at other times so, for him especially; this was a game to forget—quickly. Fulham never had any pretentious to class, but they were quick and rarely left Everton time to indulge in artistry. It was going, going for both teams and though the interval seemed to cool down warring factions, it wasn't long before Mr. Tuck was vainly trying to check further foulness.
Brave goalkeeping
Everton, finding their game in the final half-hour, had their opponents more than wobbling, but Langley's rugged full back play and some brave goalkeeping by Macedo got them out of their predicament. Looking at Fulham's team of youngsters and old hands, like Langley and Lowe, it is staggering that they should have been able to put it across a team of Everton's calibre. But that is football. It is no use having skill and knowledge if you don't make the necessary effort from the start. Despite defeat, and despite the raggedness of the game, there were Everton men who came out with credit. Thomson was one. His foul against Leggat (always a difficult customer to handle) excepted, he did remarkably well and never better than when he was sliding the ball forward for Harris or Morrissey. At one stage Thomson, tiring of the inaction ahead, went into the very goalmouth to lend attacking weight: Harris, too, tried to put right the shortcomings of forwards who moved laboriously and lacked "bite" on one or two occasions when that quality was needed. Labone had a good match, too, and so did Harris. It wasn't Morrissey's fault that the great number of balls he crossed weren't met with foot or head. Gabriel, booed at intervals throughout the match, may have started too rumbustiously, but he seemed at pains to play the ball and nothing but the ball afterwards and even Fulham fans applauded his great moments. Bingham had a pretty rough passage and deserved a goal when Macedo denied him one by fouling him, but Fulham had far more clear-cut chances than Everton, and their shooting, inaccurate though it was, might easily have gained them two or three further goals. Except for two or three typical quick-fire runs, Vernon was seen rarely, and with he and Young below par (Young got a late physical reminder that Cook was still around) it was hardly surprising Everton looked ordinary. Add the anxiety of West's misfieldings and the Evertonians present had little joy for their long journey. If the team learn the lesson of this match they will put it to good use. It is that the weaker the opposition seems to be the more necessary it is to get them beaten quickly.

"DERBY "' GAME TO BE ALL-TICKET
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express - Monday 03 September 1962
Decision By Everton
By Michael Charters
Everton have decided to make their match against Liverpool, at Goodison Park on September 22, an all-ticket game. Tickets for the ground and boys' pen will be on sale a week to-morrow at the ground and also at Liverpool Stadium Tickets will only be sold on this day to personal applicants only. All stand and paddock tickets were sold last week within a day of the club's announcement that they were available at the ground and Stadium. Interest In the "Derby" game has been unprecedented. It is the first League meeting between the clubs for 11 years and the ground record of just under 79,000 must be in danger of being beaten.

MEAGAN AT RIGHT BACK FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express - Tuesday 04 September 1962
HE REPLACES PARKER
LEYTON GAME
By Michael Charters
Everton bring back Mick Meagan at right back in place of Alex Parker for the game against Leyton Orient at Goodison Park tomorrow night (7.30). Parker is rested and this is the only change from the team which lost at Fulham on Saturday. Meagan, who had a splendid game in the first match of the season at Burnley, dropped out with back trouble, but showed he was fully fit in the reserves on Saturday,. Leyton are unchanged, fielding the side which won for the first time this season by beating West ham last week. Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. Leyton; Robertson; Charlton, Lewis; Lucas, Bishop, Lea; Deeley, Bolland, Dunmore, Graham, McDonald.

MEAGAN OUSTS INTERNATIONAL ALEX PARKER
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, September 5, 1962
PEAK FORM IRISHMAN IS ENTITLED TO ANOTHER CHANCE
By Horace Yates
Mick Meagan is not the first player to move from wing half to full back to find that he is twice the player there although I suspect that Meagan is approaching the peak of his career and should he be wanted to play wing half now, we would find a stronger and more confident player than we have ever known before. Obviously the wonderful impression he created in the first match of the season at Burnley has not been forgotten for we find him restored to right back in place of Alex Parker for tonight's game at Goodison Park with Leyton Orient, Liverpool's companion in promotion (kick-off 7-30 p.m). It is a rare experience for Scottish international Parker to be asked to stand down when fit, and I have heard no suggestion that Alex is anything less than fit. So well did Meagan play at Burnley that it was obvious that it would be a criminal injustice to move him, even for Parker but fate intervened in the shape of an attack of lumbago, and Parker got his chance.
OBVIOUS DANGER
Even so, it was apparent all the time, once Meagan had reported fit again that Parker could only hope to keep his place with the sort of flawless exhibitions of which he is capable. Unfortunately for him, Parker has not seemed quite co commanding and I think Meagan comes in deservedly on merit. The Scot will obviously fight back for a position which he has for so long regarded as his own, but as I see it, Meagan can fill Parker's return route with the most troublesome hazards. Because one game has been lost is no reason for wholesale sniping at players but I have heard some excellent reports of the play of Albert Dunlop with the reserves. He is desperately keen to prove that Everton can still use him to advantage and this alone could be the means of bringing out the best in Gordon West. Dunlop has been dropped before and yet proved himself good enough to make a comeback. He may yet do so again. Like Liverpool, Leyton Orient have found Division 1 anything but a bed of roses, but with three points recently collected they must be greatly encouraged. No-one expects them to win at Goodison Park even though they field the same team which gained their opening visitors over West Ham United but unless they have changed their style completely and I don't see why they should they will answer football. Having tasted defeat for the first time at Fulham and not finding it at all sweet the Everton players can be relied on to erase unhappy memories at the first available opportunity and I expect to see Leyton Orient decisively beaten. Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. Leyton Orient; Robertson; Charlton, Lewis; Lucas, Bishop, Lea, Deeley, Bolland, Dunmore, Graham, McDonald.
The T.V cameras visited Goodison Park yesterday and if they were seeking to pay tribute to grounds which could do justice to the next World Cup games, then most people would agree that it was an excellent choice.

CAREY'S SIDE IS SURE OF GOODISON WELCOME
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express - Wednesday 05 September 1962
By Leslie Edwards
John Carey's Leyton Orient can be sure of a great welcome at Goodison Park to-night (7.30) for their first-ever League game against Everton. Throughout the years, whether in their guise as Clapton or Leyton of the Orient, the East London club have never been in the same division as Everton until now. The man who has guided them into the top class, in one season with them, is Everton's former manager, of course, and I've no doubt there will be many among to-night's crowd who will be wishing Leyton well because of that. You can depend upon it that Orient will be efficiently drilled to the Carey creed: "Keep playing good football and results will follow automatically." Leyton's game at Anfield last season was one of the best on the ground for years, and the general standard of their play was something of a shock to those who rated them just another side. Centre forward Dunmore was England class and wing halves Lucas and Lea were brilliant. Lucas, a Wrexham boy, who gained his place in the Welsh Under-23 side, looked one of the players of the year. The weakest part of the team. I thought, was at full back, where Charlton and Lewis are nearing the veteran stage. As at Liverpool, Mr. Carey has kept his promotionwinning side together for their opening games in the First Division, and they achieved their first win last Saturday against West Ham. They have made a tentative start, however, and are taking time to find their form among the big boys of the League.
Avoid that trap
Mr Carey was instrumental in getting together the major part of the current Everton team, the new men since his era being West, Stevens and Morrissey—and he tried to sign Morrissey more than once. He knows the form here all right, and his Leyton boys will be well primed on Everton's finer points and danger men. It is not difficult to imagine his feelings when he visits Goodison Park once again. Everton will be trying to forget their poor display at Fulham last Saturday, when they received almost universals criticism which has not done their cause or reputation much good down South. I did not see the game, but it does seem that they were too nonchalant altogether in the early stages. It is to be hoped that they will not fall into the same trap to-night just because Leyton are one of the strugglers near the foot of the table, with three points from five games. Mick Meagan is back for Everton, replacing the rested Alex Parker, and after his splendid opening game against Burnley has earned his recall now that he has proved his fitness in the reserves. Manager harry Catterick has a high regard for the football sense and ability of the Irishman, who would no doubt have been a fixture in the defence had it not been for the hack trouble which laid him low so soon. The very popular Meagan was playing better than ever after his switch from wing half to full back—a move which often pays off. As they say, "They can move back, but not forward" Everton.—West: Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. Leyton.—Robertson: Charlton, Leek: Lucas, Bishop, Lea: Deeley, Rolland, Dunmore, Graham, McDonald.
The ticket fever
It will be interesting to see the size of the crowd to-night. A comment in this column last week that the drop from the near 70,000 crowd for the last Wednesday game to the 51,000 for the Saturday match could have been due to the TV attraction of Saturday afternoon sport has brought the following observation from Miss Marguerite Daly, of 7 Derwent Close, Rainhill. Miss Daly writes: "The drop may be due to shops. Many men are dragged out on Saturday for shopping by their wives andgirlfriends. On a Wednesday, it is half-dayclosing for shops and this means that shopkeepers and assistants can get to the game when they cannot do so on a Saturday. This could account for a big percentage of the drop." Miss Daly has a good point there. I don't suppose the gate to-night will approach the size of the attendance for the Manchester United game because of the other imponderables attached to that match—Everton's first home game of the season following an opening away win, the presence of Denis Law, the fact that United brought their quota of support. &c Regarding that ticket fever which has the city for the Derby " game on September 22, Everton will not say how many ground tickets will be on sale next Tuesday but I should think that the club, very wisely, have put their own limit on them which will mean that the record gate of 78,299 against Liverpool exactly 14 years ago is not in danger. The only sure thing is that, whatever the final figure (I should guess about 75,000), double that number would like to see the game.

PENALTIES PROVIDE GOODISON MYSTERY
Liverpool Daily Post- Thursday, September 6, 1962
LEYTON PLAY FOOTBALL –BUT WITHOUT EVERTON'S PUNCH
EVERTON 3, LEYTON ORIENT 0
By Horace Yates
Leyton Orient should not worry unduly over their thrashing at Goodison Park last night, for Everton, in this mood, are a match and more for almost all teams even though some of their finishing was not of the super class and Orient, until they flagged somewhat alarmingly after the interval, gave a remarkably creditable show. Like Everton, they played football as it is meant to be played and if the home team had a right to complain about balls which refused to go into the net, Orient had only slightly less of a hard luck story, and were downright unfortunate not to have scored at all. The Londoners came out to a most encouraging ovation and I am sure this was not entirely due to their red shirts and the presence of Liverpool supporters for when their manager, Mr. John Carey took his seat in the stand he too was warmly welcomed.
BREAKNECK SPEED
Everton opened at breakneck speed and in double quick time Vernon had twice tested Robertson and as if to show that this was only a warning, Bingham rammed home the first goal after only four minutes from a most astute pass by Young. If this was calculated to sweep Orient out of their stride and out of the game it failed for they hit back with the most cultured display and even though they were opposed to one of the tightest defences in the game, whose covering work is something really extraordinary, Leyton still contrived to keep Everton at full stretch. The third Everton goal came from a penalty kick, converted by Vernon in 58 minutes, but to say that referee J. K. Taylor gave Everton a penalty would be a travesty of the truth. In fact, he merely made Everton score twice to count once, for immediately before the award was made Young had sent the ball crashing into goal. The referee decided that Stevens had been sandwiched in the penalty area and pointed to the spot. Mr. Taylor had ample opportunity to show that he knew where the penalty spot lay, for on two previous occasions, when Bingham was brought down by Lewis and Stevens was charged in the back and floored he waved play on. With such interpretation of the rules if made the odds against any penalty being awarded in this match seem fantastically high. If the crowd were puzzled by it all it was hardy surprising.

LIKE ROCKETS
Everton of course were well able to take care of the game without penalties for in forty-four minutes Gabriel had scored the second goal. It was a beautifully taken point too for Bingham after having been brought down by Lewis, flashed a free kick across goal. Both Vernon and Gabriel rose to it like rockets, but it was the head of Gabriel which sent the ball flashing beyond a well beaten Robertson. Leyton's challenge faded after the interval and a contribution to it may have been the early injury suffered by Graham when he collided with West. He pluckily carried on in a re-arranged line, only to reel about the touch line until he had been treated again and taken a rest. Young twice hit the foot of the post in addition to beating the goalkeeper before the penalty award. Only in the more delicate phases of the game did he really approach his best. He was not as industrious as the rest of the line and if that eager beaver Stevens has not converted many of the lukewarm and critical to his side by a display of non-stop endeavour then they are indeed hard taskmasters. As I saw some of the Liverpool directors sitting in the stand, I could not help wondering what their reactions were at seeing Morrissey so ably filling the bill as an Everton outside left. He is improving with each game and will go on improving even more. Without a doubt Liverpool have slipped up badly in releasing him. There is always action whenever Vernon is in possession and while Lucas and Lea both fine, hard working wing halves, did their utmost to curtail his activities the Everton skipper brought movement, sparkle and interest into the match over and over again.
RESTLESS GABRIEL
Leyton played to their centre forward Dunmore for all they were worth for they knew probably better than anyone also the power of his shot and his qualities as match winner. Their strategy might have paid off too against a less accomplished centre half than Labone so ably supported by a wonderful defence. How Gabriel fins the time to look after his immediate approach and still he on hand to cover where cover may be needed is a tribute in his fitness and enthusiasm and this should surely register on the Scottish selectors before long. He scored once and would have had a second had not Robertson made a spectacular save. Leyton kept their normal formation long enough for Meagan to prove that his promotion to first team status is no fleeting affair for he is rapidly becoming the complete footballer. Even though McDonald, when he switched wings, gave Thomson a severe testing and more than one beating, he could not erase the memories of a very workmanlike showing and West too, rehabilitated himself. Leyton like Liverpool are growing that the First Division has lost nothing in the quality of football by their inclusion and once again it seems to be a case of "Keep on playing football and the goals will come." Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. Leyton Orient; Robertson; Charlton, Lewis; Lucas, Bishop, Lea, Deeley, Bolland, Dunmore, Graham, McDonald. Referee Mr. J.K. Taylor (Wolverhampton). Attendance 51,542.

A SUPERB SHOW BY EVERTON
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express - Thursday 06 September 1962
By Leslie Edwards
If only London could have seen the Everton which played so brilliantly when beating Leyton Orient by three goals to nil! Where at Fulham they had been slow, temperamental and torpid they were now fast, clean and so clever them Leyton did not lose by double figures. There must have been 10 goals if they had not struck the bar or post three times: had two deserving penalty claims disallowed and found the veteran goalkeeper, Robertson, playing like a man with three pairs of hands. I have seen some great goalkeeping in my time, but this capped the lot, because so many of his miraculous denials of the Everton line came when even the shooter himself could hardly have sensed precisely where the ball would fly! No wonder Robertson got a warming ovation to himself among the tremendous one given to the winning side as a whole and to Young in particular. I never saw, either a man unluckier than Young not to figure among the scorers. Besides hitting a post twice and putting the ball into the net with a rocket shot after the whistle had for a penalty, at least two other great efforts perished at the hands of the goalkeeper. They said Robertson was virtually finished when he became one of Chelsea's pensioners after seasons of great service. He proved himself last night to be better than ever. As great a Scot as any on the Everson books.
Shots rained in
Whether the had Press they received in London and Liverpool—and it was one which concerned their following at home, also--caused this Everton transformation one can only guess. They certainly changed their style markedly, and so successfully that their exhibition was as fine as we have had from them since the days of Dean and company. It was a fabulously goal performance from them individually and as a team. They pulled a Leyton defence, acknowledged to be a good one, completely out of shape. They rained in shots, rammed in headers and had such a grip in their half back line Leyton must have thought they were trying to stop a runaway steam roller. It was a completely satisfying victory. And Everton seemed determined, with game, but so much less talented opponents, to make it an exhibition of the football arts, not an ill-tempered competition as to who could brawl best. Under bnlliant lights on a carpet of vivid green turf, which played fast under the effect of the dew, there could scarcely have been a better demonstration by Everton of how the game should be played and of how chance well-made should be taken. Leyton had the occasional opportunity and made nothing of it. Everton hit the ball oftener and harder for goal than they do normally in the course of half a dozen matches. One marvelled at their energy and zip after so much hard running and shooting. It must have been with mixed feelings that John Carey, who signed so many Everton stars, watched his old team "flay alive" that only in football senses the grand little team he managed so capably to get promotion a season ago. At least he must have slight consolation in defeat. The Leyton side, sporting and very good at times, could scarcely be blunted for getting close to desperation against the flood tide of attacking against them.
Fantastic Goalkeeping
As a spectable the game left little to be desired. It had everything and best of all, that fantastic almost unbelievably good work by Robertson. It may have been possible to fault Mr. Taylor of Wolverhampton, for missing palpable penalties, but he was master of the players and handled them with firmness. Leyton could well have done without the injury to Graham who pitched over West so acrobatically one feared his neck must be broken, he seemed dazed for a long time afterwards. Robertson might well have saved the Bingham shot which scored at the far goal angle, after Young had bedevilled the defence and provided the chance at three minutes. Graham, almost clean through should have got an equaliser, but he pulled his shot. Young after jinking his way to a return pass from Vernon shot against an upright and got the crowd roaring appreciation of his art concealing art. Leyton's big moment was to come and go, without the goal that would have levelled the scores. Deeley's big shot half saved by West travelled on fast and struck Gabriel before bounding over the bar. Lewis all but put through his own goal from a low Bingham centre. Graham enjoyed his second scoring chance and this time hit the side net. There followed a "legging" of Bingham in the penalty box by Lewis, no response from Mr. Taylor. Then a great shot by Morrissey but not one Robertson couldn't get his finger tips to turn for a corner. When Bingham flicked Morrissey's corner kick in on the volley the ball went like a bullet, Robertson edged it for a corner.
Wrexham Terriers
Bingham removed a painful memory when he was fouled by Lewis by flighting the free kick so well, Gabriel with an header, was able to make it 2-0 almost on the stroke of the interval. Robertson made a wonderful catch of a Bingham shot to show that the magic of the first half had not rubbed of in the interval. Lucas, one of two brilliant Wrexham born Leyton half-backs got away with a penalty push on Stevens. Young seizing his chance after Harris had been pushed to the ground in the "box" rammed home a shot and then found the score couldn't count. But Vernon's penalty did, so what matter." A Morrissey shot struck the bar. Young went near missing again by inches with a shot across the face of goal and a downward header which the bold brave Robertson pinned down literally on the line. A great save from a Gabriel header, another wood touching drive by Young- again the upright-and then a Vernon shot which came so quickly at the goalkeeper it was deflected by him, rather than deliberately put away for a corner. And a moment later, close to the end, Robertson completed what must rank as the finest game of his career with a final marvellous save from a glancing header by Vernon. In this game I pay tribute to Everton as a side. It would be unfair to individualise. They all had a great night. Leyton kept playing football and Dunmore, Lucas, Lea and Bishop and Robertson kept captivating it's by their efforts to pull the game round. They would have done immeasurably better if they had not had an outside left a player named McDonald who clearly though his mission was to beat Everton single handed. Johnny Carey remembered and respected was given a warm welcome by old admirers. Because his team is always obviously out to play the game and because their goalkeeper held out Everton single handed on so many occasions we shall be glad to welcome him, and them, again and again.

EVERTON LIMITTHE DERBY CROWD TO 73,000
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, September 7, 1962
GOODISON ATTENDANCES ARE ALREADY 41,140 UP ON LAST SEASON
By Horace Yates
Everton have voluntarily decided on a crowd limit of 73,000 for the "derby" with Liverpool at Goodison Park on September 22, and already it seems certain that this all-ticket match will be a complete sell-out. Indeed, supporters were taken so unexpectedly by the announcement that all stand and paddock tickets had been disposed of last week, that now there is a frantic demand by people, who must realise that if they are to see the game at all they must stand. This ceiling of course, is well below thee existing ground record, which is 78,299, set up when Liverpool were visitors on September 18, 1948, while as recently as December 27, 1960 there were 75,667 for the match with Burnley. Secretary Bill Dickinson, told me last night that the board had arrived at the figure on their initiative, it not being considered necessary to consult the police. While nobody goes to a match at which 73,000 spectators are expected, hoping for any real degree of comfort, supporters of both clubs ask only one thing- to be included among the number, for what already promises to be a memorable clash. Already this season, for the first home game with Manchester United, 69,501 spectators paid for admission, without complaint either of the fare or the comfort.
RECORD SEASON
Everton are playing so well and so attractively that if they can maintain such standards this might well be a record season in more ways than one. Among the records they could establish is a new aggregate. Just look at the returns for the opening games- 69,501, 53,554 and 51,542 giving a grand total of 172,597. Compare this with the first three matches of last season and we find attendances of 52,293, 36,586 and 42,578, an aggregate of 131,457. The average gate for Everton matches in 1961-62 was the very respectable one of 41,806 so that it is apparent that as this term's games have been seen by 41,140 more spectators. Everton are a complete game ahead already in attendance figures! Crowd appreciation such as this in no way flatters the start they have made and while the dirtier weather lies ahead, Goodison will never lack crowds so long as the quality of play is maintained.

ROY VERNON SAYS...
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, September 7, 1962
FORWARDS AT FAULT IN THE FULHAM GAME
Looking at the League table on Saturday evening, I found that although clubs had played only five matches, Wolverhampton Wanderers alone had not been beaten. This, I think, is a powerful indication that First Division football is no joy ride and that points have to be earned. I would only be perverting the truth if I pretended it was a good thing for Everton to lose an unbeaten record at Fulham. I have heard all the old stories about removing tension and preventing each game from becoming a Cup ties but I can't help being greedy, I like to go on winning and winning and I don't mind admitting it. It may be true that an undefeated team or a leading team is a sitting target for the rest of the clubs, and that every set of opponents is thirsting to knock you off your perch.
WHITE HOT EXCITEMENT
But I hope nobody tries to tell me that any team no matter what the opposition, puts in anything less than 100 per cent, endeavour. They would soon be called over the goals. You may be saying we shall be putting in just that little extra effort on September 22 when our friends from Anfield cross the park to do battle with us. While I agree this is one of the fixtures we simply have to win I don't believe we are capable of greater effort than what we have produced to win some of our other games. That Everton have considered I advisable to make this an all-ticket match speaks for itself. Excitement by the rival fans will be getting white hot by then and I don't pretend that some of the excitement will not be transmitted to the players. I have read that the Scottish selectors have been to watch Everton and among those they have had under review is Jimmy Gabriel. No-one need be surprised at this, for Jimmy has never played better than he is doing now. It will surprise me if he does not add to his international appearances before much longer. There are those who have asked if Jimmy has collected a full international cap. This is one of those questions I can answer for you without having to look up any record for Jimmy played for Scotland against Wales on the day I was at inside left for Wales. Jimmy and I are keeping our fingers crossed that we shall be in opposition again on October 20 at Cardiff.
DID NOT CLICK
It is amazing to find so many supporters at our away games, no matter where they may be. Even at Fulham they were there is large numbers. I am sorry they did not have more to shout about. In this case I think the forwards must take the blame for the reverse. We did not click as we have been doing and we can only blame ourselves for having been caught napping by Langley's long throw. After all, he has shown us what he had up his sleeve on two occasions before his long throw led to our downfall, I don't think he would have stood an earthy chance of succeeding with his tactics on a wide ground such as Goodison, but Fulham is very much narrower and the throw counted. I did not hear the crowd's new cheer at Fulham, but I did at Old Trafford. It seems that our fans shout "Everton" with three short, sharp claps, and the Anfield supporters do the same except for the substitution of "Liverpool." I hope our lads have not copied from the Liverpool followers. Come to think of it what is wrong with the Goodison roar? That is quite good enough for us, without any adornments. I hope you lose as much sleep as the team over the way some people in London have written off our chances of the top honours this season because top honours this season because of our defeat by Fulham, for I assure you it does not worry is in the least. The best answer we can give to criticism or that sort is on the field and that is where we mean to give it, I wonder if the same people were also writing off Spurs when Aston Villa beat them!

SO YOU CAN'T BEAT A LITTLE 'CARPETING'
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday 07 September 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Certain Everton players were "carpeted" on Monday by Manager Harry Catterick over the ill-tempered performance, if it could be so described, at Fulham. They were told that their lack of control was not in their own interests or in the interests of the club. It was pointed out to at least one of them that his future internationally might be jeopardised if he continued to play in that way. It was also made clear that where foulness is introduced into a match other players less capable of taking care of themselves were liable to come off second best. The lesson struck home as 51,000 people saw for themselves on Wednesday. This was the Everton crowds home and away will delight in. True, it takes two side to make a game sporting. There was never any fear that John Carey's Leyton Orient would not contribute their share towards this end. Lest some Everton players think that their bad Press in London came from Southern bias let them read the reactions below of some of their keenest fans—supporters who clearly want to see the club get back to maintaining the tradition which made their name respected everywhere.
Asking too much ?
"Having seen, heard and real to 10 different accounts of the Fulham match and being an Everton fan I am disgusted at their performance after such a scintillating start to the season. I only wish we could see half the effort, per man, each week they put in last season against Tottenham. Is it too much to ask these 100-plus a week men give us that effort each week for a maximum of three? Everton will not be the class side we all want until they learn to treat each game alike and not form their own opinions of the result beforehand'—D. T. Hackworth, 5 Stretton Avenue, Wallasey. " I write as an exiled Everton fan Iiving in London. I was surprised to see Everton playing into their hands for should it be heads?) Of the Fulham defence, who were much the taller men. The papers made great play of the shaky Everton defence. I feel that any defence would be shaky with their goalkeeper so often failing to take the crossed ball cleanly. Gabriel was badly fouled at the beginning of the game without the referee noting it. I do not excuse rough play but let us hate things in the right perspective " M. P. G Prowse. 5 Tempest Avenue, Potters Bar, Middlesex. "As an Evertonian of more than 26 years standing, I want to make known my complete disapproval of doubtful tactics. Everton's name has always stood for quality and sporting football, but now the team are being classed an unsportsmanlike. You may not hear this but being a long distance lorry drive who visits many towns in the country I assure you that this is how our reputation is growing. Let us stamp this out straight away. After all each man is a star in his own right and no one needs to revert to pretty fouling in order to get the better of an opponent" –True Blueite, Liverpool 6.
LEICESTER CITY'S AIM
Leicester City, at Goodison Park tomorrow, will seek to equal Everton's big of ten points. They are a good and very strong side but if Everton get remotely near their standard against Leyton they should win with something to spare.

EVERTON ARE UNCHANGED
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday 07 September 1962
RILEY FIT FOR LECIESTER
Everton First Division leaders, play an unchanged team against Leicester City at Goodison Park tomorrow. Leicester's regular outside-right, Howard Riley, has recovered after missing four matches with a strained calf muscle and takes over from Cheeseborough, who switches to outside-left as deputy for Mike Stringfellow, who was hurt at Burnley on Tuesday. Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. Leicester City;- Banks; Chalmers, Norman; McLintock, King, Appleton; Riley, Walsh, Cross, Gibson, Cheeseborough.

PARKER'S NAMED LINKED WITH ANFIELD
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday 07 September 1962
LIVERPOOL DENY INTEREST
By Leslie Edwards
Will Alex Parker, Everton right-back currently in the reserve side cross the park and join neighbours and rivals Liverpool? That is a question debated by those who say Parker is not happy to remain in Central League football. As the last of the pay rebels and one whose cartilage operation at the back-end of last season made his stubbornness to re-sign somewhat surprising. Parker missed the club's first match at Burnley and only came into the team through injury to Meagan. He deputised for Meagan for four matches, but was dropped after the Fulham match last Saturday. The story goes- and it is not without authentication- that parker could be a Liverpool player within the next 10 days. If Liverpool had been particularly anxious to get him it is strange no move was made to include him in the deal in which Morrissey left Anfield for Goodison Park.

CITY WILL MAKE EVERTON PULL OUT THE STOP!
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, September 8, 1962
GOODISON GATES CAN SOAR OVER 200,000 MARK
By Horace Yates
Last season only Manchester City and Sheffield Wednesday succeeded in winning at Goodison Park. This season may prove even more difficult for visiting clubs to take points away with them, especially if Everton can maintain the wonderfully impressive form they have so far served up. Their supporters have hardly seen them put a foot wrong, for it was only on the one lengthy journey they have undertaken –to Fulham- that things went awry. Leicester City try today to become the first team to mar the Goodison clean sheet and their record entitles them to respect for they are away to a worthwhile start, with a forward line boasting a shot in every position. It is unfortunate for them that their ace marksman, Stringfellow, is out of action, but with Howard Riley back and Cheesebrough available; the City line may still boast an appreciable kick. I have an idea that City will make Everton pull out all the stops without being able to contain them completely, but the outcome should be another exciting game. The attendance at this game will send the Everton aggregate soaring over 200,000 for the season to date, for crowds have an insatiable appetite for top class football. Johnny Morrissey who was of course away to a late start, is the only member of the Everton attack still to open the scoring accounts, but it is not for lack of trying that he has not succeeded. With any sort of luck Morrissey might have had at least two goals against Leyton Orient on Wednesday and he will not always suffer the same misfortune with his shooting.
TRUE MERIT
Not surprisingly Everton are unchanged. It is difficult to see how it could be otherwise, with all the players fit, for Meagan is now well out of the experimental stage as full back. His claims are laid on true merit and I can foresee a hectic battle between him and Parker for the right back spot. With competition so intense and the rewards for success so great the tussle for recognition will be ultra keen. Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. Leicester City; Banks; Chalmers, Norman; McLintock, King, Appleton, Riley, Walsh.

LEICESTER USUALLY DO WELL HERE
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, September 8, 1962
TEST FOR EVERTON BUT THEY CAN STRENGTHEN THEIR LEAD
By Leslie Edwards
Leicester City will be without their star winger, Mike Stringfellow, in the match at Goodison Park to-day, but as a strong side with eight points to their credit they will probably take more beating than Leyton Orient did on Wednesday. Leicester usually do well here. They usually reserve their extra - special best for games at Everton and one recalls more than one occasion when they have produced magnificent goalkeeping to help them take a point—or two. It was said authoritively that Everton players were out to win their first seven game But for that Fulham defeat which was caused Initially by Everton's too nonchalant approach to their task -they would have gone far towards achieving this aim. They rehabilitated themselves remarkably in the mid-week match and could strengthen their lead still further to-day if they came near to reproducing that form.
ARTISTRY FIRST
More and more people are taking the view that Everton are legitimate challengers to the fame of Tottenham Hotspur as the leading side in Britain. But they must not be guilty of any more displays like the one at Fulham: otherwise their repute viii be soured. It is In Everton's own interests to concentrate wholly on football and leave the contentious stuff to others. They just haven't got the height or weight to try to match the ruggedness of many of their opponents. They would be wise, as they were on Wednesday, to set out from the start to match artistry with artistry. In that field there are few teams in the land who can compare with them. There are many who will outdo them if they attempt the rough stuff. Liverpool's belief that they had to sell Morrissey to their neighbours at a fee of 15,000 –he was on month-to-month contract and had not played a first team game for a season-may have been indisputable, but the fact remains that he has done very well with his new club. They are fining him down, physically, and if he can continue to play as he did at Old Trafford and at Goodison Park against Leyton he will prove one of the best bargains they ever made. Labone's part in his club's successes this season has been considerable, but because he is essentially a quite-self-effacing man he may not get the credit he deserves. Is it significant that whenever the team gets in a spot of trouble, Labone, like his predecessor, Tom Jones, is never to be found mixed up in it?

EVERTON KEEP UP THAT WINNING GOODISON WAY
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday 08 September 1962
YOUNG'S GOAL WAS A SHEER DELIGHT
EVERTON 3, LEICESTER CITY 2
By Michael Charters
Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Vernon, Morrissey. Leicester City; Banks; Chalmers, Norman; McLintock, King, Appleton; Riley, Walsh; Riley, Walsh, Cross, Gibson, Cheesebrough. Referee; Mr. H.G. Wilson (Stockton-on-Tee).
Everton lost the toss and faced into a strong sun in the first half. The first instance of note came from a free-kick for Everton awarded when McLinktock fouled Vernon. From Bingham's kick the ball ran out to Harris, whose strong shot slewed wide. Then the referee puzzled everybody by awarding Everton a free kick on the edge of the penalty area when it seemed that, the foul on Morrissey was clearly inside the area. Nothing came of Vernon's low kick, the ball rebounding off Young for a goal kick. Vernon was crowded out in trying to work his way through a pack of players, but Everton now were piling on considerable pressure, although inclined to keep the ball a little too close.
PUZZLING DECISIONS
The referee who had made a few puzzling decisions so far, ignored the advantage rule when Vernon was fouled outside the area as he pushed the ball through to the unmarked Gabriel. Play was stopped for a free kick which Vernon put wide. Everton had gained the upper hand now and Banks had to go full length to save Vernon's shot from a few yards outside the area. When Leicester did break away a good through ball to Walsh was cut off with a superb tackle by Labone. Vernon brought the game to life with a solo effort but, having beaten a couple of Leicester players he couldn't get through the third or fourth. After 25 minutes Everton went ahead through a penalty kick by Vernon, his fourth successful one in the last five matches. It was awarded for a foul by King on Young—a very blatant one—after the centre forward had raced through after come fine work by Morrissey. Leicester attacked immediately from the restart and a mistake by Meagan almost let them through, but Stevens saved them with a good back pass to West. But two minutes after Everton had taken the lead Meagan made another slip when he failed to clear a long pass by Chalmers and only put the ball to the unmarked Walsh who had a simple Job to beat West.
MEAGAN AT FAULT
It was a pity that Meagan, who has played so well this season, should make two similar errors within a minute the second of which proved fatal for Everton. A good tackle by McLintock robbed Young in the act of shooting after Harris, with a clever dummy, had opened the way. Everton looked a bit rattled at conceding a goal so simply, and they had not quite- regained their composure. Stevens missed a possible chance for Everton when Young's clever back header put him in the clear. The ball bounced awkwardly and Stevens could not quite gather it. Harris was playing splendidly and his Service to the forwards could not have been bettered.
STEVENS'S SLAM
Morrissey was doing nicely as well, and he cut Inside Chalmers before centreing to Stevens, whose quick shot hit the net support. But Stevens redeemed himself shortly afterwards with a good goal to put Everton in front two minutes from the interval. Young made the initial opening be slipping the ball into the middle to Bingham who seemed to have wasted the chance but, with the help of Vernon, the ball was moved out of the ruck of players to Stevens who slammed it instantly into the net. Half-time. Everton 2. Leicester City 1. Everton made a couple of raids on the restart which were beaten off by the strong Leicester defence, whose tackling was keeping the Everton forwards in check. But all the tackling in the world couldn't have stopped the next superb Everton goal, which came from Young after 49 minutes. A long cross-field pass by Harris was picked up by Vernon, who swayed his way through into the penalty area before passing the ball to Young. The centre forward delicately sidestepped a couple of tackles and put the ball past Banks as coolly as you like. Morrissey was doing very well indeed, thanks to a superb service of the ball from Harris, and he cut inside to hit a good right foot shot which banks pushed away at full stretch, but with no Everton man up to take advantage of the gift.
GOOD CHANCE MISSED
Leicester deserved a goal after their best move of the match which saw Cheesebrough take the ball 30 yards, moving smoothly inside Meagan and then passing to Walsh who back-heeled it for Cheesebrough to hit his shot wide.
TENSE MOMENT
There was another tense moment in the Leicester goalmouth when Young bungled into Banks as the goalkeeper went up for a centre, and it looked as though Chalmers had cleared off the line, but the referee awarded a free kick against Young. West, who had not had a great deal to do, came out well to save Labone who was in a spot of trouble, and then Thomson leaped high to handle a good pass down the right wing but Leicester made nothing of the free kick. A fine cross-field pass from Stevens found Bingham, who had come to the inside left position, but the winger, trying a volley completely missed contact with the ball. Banks made a very good catch after a quick Everton thrust down the right had opened up their defence.
VERNON FOILED
Stevens, who was having a good match made another opening by dispossessing Walsh and giving the ball to Gabriel who raced on, and the final through pass was just cut off by King as Vernon moved on to it. Everton at this stage were in their brightest form, Vernon started and finished a wonderful left wing move with a shot which Banks saved at full stretch. The referee had a word with Vernon after Everton's captain and Cheesebrough had bene involved in a scene. Leicester still looked very dangerous when they got in Everton's penalty area and Labone made a couple of timely interceptions to relieve one spell of pressure.
VISITORS HIT BACK
Appleton came up to the edge of the area to take a pass from Cheesebrough and fire a great shot just over the top and Leicester were playing well now in an attempt to cut Everton's lead. Shortly afterwards Riley, on the opposite wing, repeated the shot, the ball whistling over the bar after Everton's defence, had slipped up in not clearing it first time. A lovely header by Young sent Vernon racing away but the Everton skipper, trying to place his shot , only succeeded in putting it into the arms of Banks. Gibson, who had been off the field for a couple of minutes for attention to his leg, came back and played on the left wing. Another defensive mistake by Everton gave Leicester their second goal after 71 minutes. This time Vernon, back on the edge of his own penalty area, tried to put the ball to West and only succeeded in giving a perfect pass to the unmarked Riley, who had no trouble scoring.
DEFENSIVE ERRORS
The oddity of this game was that West, who had not had a difficult save to make, had been beaten twice through errors BY his own defenders. Everton, appreciating that Leicester felt they were well in the game now, dominated the next few minutes play and the Best chance came to Morrissey after Banks had pushed out a corner kick, but the winger was off target it ii his shot.
KEEPER HURT
Bingham failed to gather a centre from Morrissey and the ball ran through to Banks, who saved it and then appealed for a foul against Bingham, who appeared to have caught the goalkeeper on the face. The referee, seeing Chalmers moving up into a threatening position, stopped play and had a word with all the player involved, but the game restarted with a bounce up.
HARRIS OUTSTANDING
In practically every Everton attack one could detect Harris playing some vital part. On a day when many players had done well he had been outstanding. Everton had been persistently on the attack in the closing minutes, but this strong Leicester defence had held out. Final;- Everton 3, Leicester City 2. Official attendance; 48,768.

FAN PLANS RIDE TO GREECE TO SEE US
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday 08 September 1962
By Everton's Alex Young
After that unexpected reverse at Fulham last week-end, I would not have been in the least surprised to have seen glum faces among the Everton supporters travelling back on the same train as we did from London, but on the contrary the players found themselves surrounded by a bunch of teenagers whose only thoughts were for the triumphs which we all hope lie ahead. In fact. One supporter, 19-years-old Graham Abley, of Kirkby, told me he planning to take a week of his holidays when Everton visit Salonica in the litter- Cities Fairs Cup and travel across Europe by motor scooter to watch the game. This seems a very ambitious plan to me, but if Graham does go through with it he can be assured of a great welcome front the Everton players when we see him in Greece. At Fulham a late second half rally might, with reasonable luck, have given us a point, but, looking atthe match as a whole, we played badly and would have been just a trifle lucky had we drawn Somehow we seem to keep our poorest displays for days when there are television cameras present, but I am not putting this forward as an excuse for defeat -television seems to be blamed for everything that goes wrong these days, and I don't want to add to the list! After Saturday's experience, however, you can imagine it was quite a shock to find television cameras waiting at Goodison Park when we reported for training on Tuesday morning and there was a sign of relief all round when we told they were only a going to shoot a training film, and not stay for the match on Wednesday evening.
ONLY TEMPORARY
It was a relief also, when the match against Leyton started, to find that our lapse in form was only temporary. Orient played some nice football and I thought the match entertaining, but there are one or two defensive weaknesses they will have to sort out if they are to be a better than average First Division side. Highlights of the match for me was the brilliant header by Jimmy Gabriel which produced our second goal. You remember that when Jimmy got his first goal last season, against Arsenal, he followed up by scoring again in the next two matches against Nottingham Forest and Wolves. No one at Goodison Park will complain if history repeats itself this season, for we took six points from those three fixture. It is a coincidence, too that the other goals in the Arsenal match last year were scored by Billy Bingham and Roy Vernon, who also shared the scoring honours with Jimmy on Wednesday evening. I don't know if it was noticeable from the terraces and stands, but I saw a similarity in style of play and movement between Leyton's outside left, Terry McDonald, and Spurs winger, Cliff Jones. After the game, I asked Terry whether he intentionally copied Cliff's style, and he said that while he was not conscious that he was doing so, he had always been a fan of the welsh international and this may have influenced his play.
CHARITY VISIT
At 33 years of age my fellow countryman, Bill Robertson, seems to be playing as well as ever and he made several quite difficult saves look remarkably easy during this match. His speed in picking out the ball made it hard to realise that he spent 13 years with Chelsea before moving to Orient. After the match I went along with our former manager, Mr. John Carey, Roy Vernon, Ian St. John and Ron Yeats to take part in a little ceremony at a hotel off Scotland Road during which several hundred pounds worth of pennies which have been collected there were handed over to charity. Of course, the big sports news on Wednesday was Bangor City's 2-0 victory over Naples and I would to take this opportunity of passing on congratulations from all the Everton players to Mr. Tommy Jones and his team. Their most pressing problem now must be deciding what tactics to use in the return leg at Naples. I remarked last Saturday about the tremendous pre-match interest in the Everton- Liverpool fixture on September 22 and letters this week, two of them coming from as far away as Hamilton, Bermuda and Knormaksar, Aden, indicate that the excitement of this game will by no means be restricted to Merseyside. Writing from Hamilton, J.W. Faram tells me that although he is 2,000 miles away he receives a copy of the Echo five days after each match and gets a good impression of what is going on from the reports- which I think is a compliment to the Echo sports writers. Corporal H. Aylmer, of the R.A.F, at Knormaksar, must have had a lengthy tour of duty, for he says that last time he watched Everton I was not with the club. The corporal is due to return home on or about September 21-the day before the Derby match- and says that if he can possibly get here in time he will be at Goodison Park. He not coming home just for the match, however, for the following week-end he's getting married. I thank both these writers for the interesting letters and best wishes and extend these thanks to all the fans nearer home who have written to me since the seasons started.

CHESTERFIELD RES V EVERTON RES
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday 08 September 1962
Chesterfield Reserves;- Powell; Holmes, Iggo; Smith, Carrington, Berenford, Haigh, Burrow, Poole, Broadhurst, Plant. Everton Reserves; Dunlop; Parker, Parnell; Rees, Hislop, Sharples; Shaw, Harvey, Wignall, Webber, Veall. Referee; Mr. H.B. Jones (Wolverhampton). Everton swept straight into the attack and took a three minutes lead from a free kick. Centre forward Frank Wignall cracked in a drive which gave home goalkeeper Powell no chance, Chesterfield full back Holmes took the ball almost the length of the field in a bid to show his forwards the way to goal, but his shot gave goalkeeper Dunlop no trouble. With crisp direct football the experienced Everton attack had the home defence in constant trouble. In rapid succession Wignall and Webber went near with fierce drives and then Harvey blazed. Chesterfield fought gallantly for the equaliser, but then found the Everton defence hard to crack. Wignall was the Everton danger man and it was no surprise when he cracked in his second goal in the 39th minute from a right wing pass. Half-time- Chesterfield Res nil, Everton Res 2.

BRIAN HARRIS NOW ENGLAND MAYTERIAL
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, September 10, 1962
EVERTON 3, LECIESTER CITY 2
By Jack Rowe
After this match one could hardly miss the conclusion that Brian Harris is England wing half material. Every time I see Harris play he has improved and must be one of the best half backs in the country today. He was the man of this match for me with his strong tackling, clever ball control and effective distribution and one saw how well Morrissey can respond when he is getting the ball from behind. Harris had to be good to be the pick of a game in which all the half-backs did well and Everton's middle line will play an important role in whatever success is achieved.
WILL REIMPOSED
That Everton beat Leicester so narrowly was largely of their own making, for midway through the second half they had taken a complete grip, almost to a point where Leicester looked prepared to surrender, but there was a little easing off and when City, through Riley, after Vernon's much too tentative back pass, made it 3-2 in 73 minutes there was momentary prospect that the lead might be dissipated. Everton were able to relmpose their will and were worthy winners on an afternoon which provided plenty of entertainment, good football and occasional contention, which is bound to arise in a hard match. Everton may not have played with their earlier fluency, but they played well enough against a solid Leicester side, which did not carry quite the same punch in attack. Leicester are not easy to beat. Their wing halves were strong and purposeful and one move between Cheesbrough and Cross in the second half was one of the best we saw.
MEAGAN'S MISTAKE
So Everton can be well content and if both Leicester goals came from slips by Meagan and Vernon this is a risk when a team-as Everton did-play themselves out of defence with football. Meagan's mistake was the only one in a sound display and if there were sometimes when the Everton defence was on the collar says much on the Leicester attack for they were capable. There was little to criticise in the Everton defence, where Labone impressed and in attack. Bingham produced a lot of spirit. Mr. T.V. Williams the Liverpool chairman must have been endives when he saw Morrissey's performance, the winger was always a danger to Leicester with his ability to change direction and use both feet for centring. Vernon, suffering from a sore throat in the morning was patchy but scored his fourth penalty goal of the season, while Young always has the capacity to entertain and his goal was a beauty. Stevens seems to have infiltrated himself into the Everton attack. There is nothing exotic about him, but one saw his value to a forward line. His grafting and willingness to take the weight must be a tremendous help to an attack.
PENALTY DOUBT
Leicester might have had a goal before Everton went ahead in 25 minutes, for Cheesebrough and Walsh had put shots very close. Vernon's penalty came when Young came down in the area after a tackle by King, I doubt whether the Everton leader would have reached the ball before it went out, if he had not fallen. Vernon had even that good goalkeeper Banks standing still as he lashed the ball home. Two minutes later, Meagan in a moment of indecision with Labone, did not steer the ball away and it rebounded off Walsh for the Leicester inside-right to beat West. Stevens shot outside from a good position, but in forty three minutes when the ball came to him after Young, Bingham and Gabriel had tried to shoot, he smashed it past Banks. Young made it 3-1, five minutes after half-time, with a dribble past two men and the final placing left Banks with no hope. After which the pace slackened until Riley's goal. After the players had left the field a skirmish in the crowd behind the Gwladys Street goal developed into a bigger incident, because a cushion was thrown from the stand and this was followed by others-an example of how some spectators forget their responsibilities. Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. Leicester City; Banks; Chalmers (captain), Norman; McLintock, King; Appleton, Riley, Cross, Gibson, Cheesebrough. Referee; Mr. H.G Wilson. Attendance 48,768.

CHESTERFIELD RES 0, EVERTON RES 4
Liverpool Daily Post-Monday, September 10, 1962
An opportunist hat-trick by centre forward Wignall highlighted Everton's decisive victory in this Central League game. He snapped up chances in the third, thirty-ninth and forty-seventh minutes, and initiated the move that led to Webber getting the fourth goal just on time. Methodical and efficient in defence, fast and trustful in attack this experienced Everton side were far too good for the young home team. But Chesterfield at least deserved credit for never giving up. Rees and Hislop were dominant in the Everton defence and Wignall led the forwards brilliantly.

'WARE LEICESTER! WAS CATTERICK'S WARNING…
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Monday, September 10, 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Before Leicester City set foot on Goodison Park the Everton manager, Harry Catterick, warned his team that they were meeting one of the best sides in the League. A team, he said, rating for football skill and strength with Tottenham Hotspur. How right he was. Of all the sides I have seen this season Leicester seem most likely to finish champions. They were beaten by three goals to two, it is true, but the game was as close run as the score indicates. If Everton made defensive mistakes which led to goals so did their opponents. One cannot help thinking that Leicester would have scored three times in the second half alone if their shooting off very good moves, had been a bit luckier. The penalty from which Vernon gave Everton the lead earlier should have been followed, I think, by one to Leicester when Walsh was brought down by Gabriel. Mr. Wilson of Stockton-on-Tees ignored Leicester's claim. That Everton are a great side, too, when they concentrate all their energies on football is beyond dispute as they showed again here. Their half-back line is the firm basis on which the edifice depends. They are best, I think, on the offence with Gabriel and Harris smothering opponents and lending their considerable power and skill in attack. There were signs this time, however, that the defence was penetrable: otherwise Leicester would not have pierced it so frequently and come from 1-0 and 3.1 down to 3-2 and very nearly 3-3. On the evidence of Saturday the understanding between West and his backs and half-backs is not as sound as it might be, even to the extent of the goalkeeper not 'staying at home' when tactics would dictate that necessity.
Gibson's brainy play
Leicester, a big side and an advantage when the ball was in the air, were business-like in every department. They swept through almost unopposed three times in the second half and Cheesborough, Appleton and Riley each went within inches of scoring goals which even Evertonians must have applauded, so fine was the approach play. The brains of the Leicester line was Gibson, who scarcely put a foot wrong and almost invariably used the ball well despite the close marking to which he was subjected Cheesborough had West (and the far post!) beaten in the early minutes and Bingham was malty unfortunate not to get a goal when his deliberate nod of the ball from a Morrissey centre put the ball against the side net, close to the upright. Banks, with a great save off Vernon, the move having been beautifully initiated by Thomson, kept Leicester level. It was wrong, in my opinion, for the referee to penalise Bingham after that player had properly dispossessed a goalkeeper whose manoeuvrings when he possessed the ball were pretty amateurish. Whether Young fell over King's legs at the penalty box angle, or whether the trip was intentional, the fact remained that Young went down and a penalty met the case. Vernon, who misses few of these awards, scored at 24 minutes. A minute later,Walsh, taking a pass from Riley, caught Meagan and others fiat-footed and indecisive and scored almost as he pleased. Stevens rocketed a right-foot shot into a tiny aperture of goal, and down a fine angle, three minutes before the interval to restore Everton's lead. Itis fine positional play continually takes him to these open spaces. File game had only gone four minutes in the second half when Leicester, seemingly ready to be given an offside award, allowed Young and Vernon to indulge themselves in their duo act in which the ball is slipped like lightning from one to the other. Young took the goal easily and one would have supposed the issue was resolved from that moment.
Well on their way
Nothing could have been further from the truth. Time was not on Everton's side and Leicester seemed to sense it. They continued to play sustained football and left Everton in doubt of their vulnerability. There were times when the side in the lead played as though they would have been happy if the final whistle had been put forward by 15 minutes! Everton still enjoyed chances, but not ones as well made and menacing as Leicester's three. Right-back Chalmers remonstrated with Bingham when the Everton winger, trying not to hurt the goalkeeper, inadvertently did so. Labone. never a man to lose his temper quickly, pointed a warning finger later in the direction of Cheesborough But on the whole it was a good match, relieved of incident such as that which ruined the game at Fulham. It will be interesting to see how Leicester City fare. My opinion of West Ham as a tide which would rise rapidly was borne out at Manchester. A further view of them at Anfield on Wednesday should he instructive. Everton go on Wednesday to Leyton who proved that they are a difficult side to beat at Leyton when they took the points from Manchester United. If Everton can beat John Carey's side again they will have a huge following at Bolton on Saturday where stands ticket, at 7/- can be obtained direct from the ground at Burnden Park. Everton have gone a long way towards convincing us that their old inability to in away matches is a thing of the past. Their bag of points from the next two away fixtures will indicate, beyond doubt, whether we arelikely to be hailing them as champions at the season's end. If a good start mean anything they are well on their way.
Reg Gadd, 28 Sunlight Street, adds his condemnation to mine of cushion throwers at Goodison Park. The throwing of cushions (whose corners might blind anyone) by spectators on the Gladwys Street stand—their targets were terrace spectators some of whom were having a spot of bother—was disgraceful behaviour. At the midweek match, too, some fool in the main stand said his farewell by flinging his cushion into the crowd. The unruly behaviour of certain fans on the terraces is hard to live down: what chance has Everton's reputation when stand spectators act so foolishly"?

FANS QUEUE FOR TICKETS
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Tuesday 11 September 1962
ONE MAN WAITED ALL NIGHT
Cold, wet and hungry, 24-years-old Jim Owens, 17 Hasfield Road, Norris Green, stood at the front of the ticket queue at Goodison Football Ground, this afternoon-after queuing all night for a 3s ticket. Jim waited in pouring rain, along with 40 other keen football supporters-including many women- for tickets for the "derby" game between Liverpool and Everton on September 22. "I started queuing at about midnight with 30 other supporter," said Jim, a Liverpool supporter. "But during the night it started to rain, and one by one they got fed up and went home." At 8 a.m, Jim was joined by 17-years-old David Dixon, 7 Alexander Street, Everton, an Everton supporter. David brought along a flask of tea and sandwiches to last him the long wait until the turnstiles open at six o'clock this evening.
NORTHERN TOUR
The secretary of the F.A Mr. Denis Follows, was at Anfield today to inspect the ground with a view to the possibility of home internationals and world cup games being played there. Tomorrow he is to examine facilities at Goodison Park. His next tour of Northern clubs takes him to Maine Road and Old Trafford, Manchester. Arsenal, managed by Billy Wright and coached by the former Everton trainer-coach, Leslie Shannon, are likely to move for Everton back Alex Parker, currently in the reserve side. Wignall, the Everton reserve centre forward, will not be moving, as has been reported, to Southampton. Everton manager, Harry Catterick, said today; "If anything, we are buying players, not selling them. There is no chance of Wignall moving."

THOSE RAISED PRICES
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Tuesday 11 September 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Raised admission charges for the " Derby" game on September 22—and for any other special attraction for that matter—are the subject of a grouse from Mr. G.F. Brown, 16 Acton Street, Liverpool 7. He says "Last February I wrote you about this matter. The system is in operation again. Everton have increased their prices for the match against Liverpool. Why, oh why, oh why? We all take our chances on the weather . We also take our change on what kind of game is served up. " Don't forget there will be poor attractions also. But do the prices go down for them ? No fear. Can anyone connected with the Everton club give a sound reason for doing what they have or tell me what gain or purpose is achieved" Here we have a club in a good financial position, assured of good gates irrespective of what the opposition is; yet indulging themselves in increased prices. Come off it, Everton. Stick to your normal prices. Don't bite the hand which feeds you." I spoke to Everton on the matter. They say the prices are as they always are when the facility of booking is given. Clearly the club look upon the increases as a booking fee. A 15-years-old boy. A Batty (4 Overwood Avenue, Mollington) though I was less than fair to McDonald, the Leyton Orient winger, at Goodison last week. Master Batty's impression was that he was a very fine player and in no way selfish with the ball. And, he argues, he seemed to be faring well in his mission of beating Everton single handed McDonald scored the goal which beat Manchester United on Saturday, but I maintain he'd be a far better player if he would appreciate that a half-back lay behind him and an inside forward alongside.

IN LONDON AGAIN
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, 12 September, 1962
By Horace Yates
Everton are in London again tonight, this time for the return game with Leyton Orient, and will not be deterred by the fact that some sort of bogey has been linked with their endeavours there. Everton have the form and the ability to shatter any bogey illusion although points will have to be earned the hard way. I saw sufficient potential menace in the first half attack of Leyton at Goodison Park last week to advise caution in any rash prophecy of Everton completing their second double. Gabriel is, unlucky in suffering a pulled muscle at a time when he is playing the best football of his young life, but his absence gives another opportunity for George Sharples to demonstrate that his display against Sheffield Wednesday was only a fair sample of his capabilities. The promise in this powerfully built youngster has been noted in places other than Goodison Park, but Everton have not spent so long building up reserves of standing to release one of the brightest current successes of their nursery. Orient will be encouraged by their victory over Manchester United and while I expect Everton to take one point. I appreciate that outright victory will demand a display on the display of those at Burnley and Old Trafford. Leyton orient; Robertson; Charlton, Lewis; Lucas, Bishop, Lea; Deeley, Folland, Dunmore, Graham, McDonald. Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Sharples, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey.

EVERTON AT LEYTON
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Wednesday 12 September 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Leyton missed their chances at Everton a week ago. One wonders whether after beating Manchester United, they will reverse the result tonight and become the second London side this season to become's Everton's bogey. The Leyton ground is much smaller and more confined than spacious Goodison Park and not since they went there in a Cup-tie some seven or eight seasons ago have an Everton eleven sampled it. Everton have the bigger guns and would have won by ten if goalkeeper Robertson had not played so brilliantly against them here, but a full strength Leyton, at home, may be a different proposition. One hopes that Everton will show more clearly tonight than they did at Fulham how they have risen to the lead in the First Division. Leyton orient; Robertson; Charlton, Lewis; Lucas, Bishop, Lea; Deeley, Folland, Dunmore, Graham, McDonald. Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Sharples, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey.

FAIRS CUP
Liverpool Daily Post –Thursday, September 13, 1962
EVERTON HAVE NEW OPPONENTS
As Everton's Greek opponents in the Cities Fairs Cup have withdrawn from the tournament. Dunfermline Athletic have accepted an invitation to take their place. The date of the tie, the first round of which will be played at Goodison Park has yet to be arranged.
GOODISON GAME IS SELL-OUT
Everton and Liverpool will play their all-ticket derby game at Goodison Park on September 22 before a crowd of 73,000. Following the sale of the remaining 1,059 tickets at the ground and at Liverpool Stadium yesterday an Everton spokesman said; "The match is a complete sell-out." By 11 a.m, yesterday the last of the tickets had gone quickly to queues of fans, some of whom had been waiting since 7.30 p.m.

INCREDIBLE SAVES
Liverpool Daily Post- Thursday, September 13 1962
ROBERTSON THE MATCH WINNER FOR LEYTON
LEYTON ORIENT 3, EVERTON 0
By Michael Charters
Although Everton slipped to their second successive away defeat last night, this score line tells rather a false story- for- without attempting to make any excuses –Everton were never three goals inferior to Leyton Orient. In my book, the man who did most to win this game for Leyton was their veteran goalkeeper Robertson who made five magnificent saves to keep Everton scoreless in some incredible way. Last week at Goodison Robertson had the game of his life in keeping Everton's score down to only three goals, and after his display last night Everton will remember this thirty-five year old keeper with much regret. By this comprehensive victory, however, it is safe to say that Orient have really arrived in the First Division. They played with the same skill as they had done at Goodison, but with much more penetration and their half-backs particularly were more dominating than Everton's.
LOT OF HEADWAY
With Lucas and Lea bringing the ball through well, and wingers Deeley and McDonald making a lot of headway, Leyton pressed without disturbing a sound Everton defence, in which Labone and Thomson did particularly well. The first great Everton chance came after twenty minutes, when Bishop who played splendidly, made his only mistake and mis-headed the ball straight to Young who moved on and hit a good shot which looked booked for the net until Robertson flung himself across and turned the ball wide. Although Leyton still had more of the game, Everton were playing well within themselves and with considerable poise so that it was no surprise when a delightful Vernon-Young moved ended with Vernon hitting a powerful shot which Robertson somehow reached to make the second of his match-winning saves. The first half ended with Bingham shooting over and in all that time West had not had a save to make so effective had been Everton's defensive cover. Immediately on resumption, Robertson saved well from Young and then came a miraculous effort by the Leyton goalkeeper when after failing to put out a centre from Morrissey, the ball ran out to Vernon who took deliberate aim at what seemed an empty net but somehow Robertson came across goal to make another save. A minute later, this incredible goalkeeper did it again. This time he went full length to save from Vernon's powerful shot, could not quite control the ball, and Bishop came across to save.
WENT THEIR WAY
But from that moment everything went Leyton's way. After 52 minutes a mistake by Everton's defence gave Leyton their first goal. A long cross from Lewis was breasted down by Harris towards Labone and some misunderstanding between them meant that the ball ran on to Deeley who made no mistake with the gift chance. Five minutes later with this excitable crowd going mad as they saw Leyton take the lead, McDonald made a good run past Meagan and centred the ball from the line for Bolland to turn it through. With eleven minutes to go, Dunmore scored the last goal with a good header from a free kick by McDonald near the corner flag. Everton's final contributions were a couple of shots by Vernon and Thomson, both wide, and it seemed that no matter what they did they could not get the ball past Robertson. At the final whistle, thousands poured on to the ground to cheer Leyton off and they had good reason to be jubilant for this must have been Leyton's finest performance for years. Everton's shortcomings were in the half-back line, where Sharples never played as well as he had done against Sheffield Wednesday and Harris was not as dominating as he has been this season. Stevens was the best forward working tremendously hard and covering every blade of grass on the pitch, in his efforts in defence and attack. Morrissey also did well and apart from the half-back criticism Everton played well and provided their fir share towards a great match-full of fast exciting and entertaining football. Leyton Orient; Robertson; Charlton, Lewis; Lucas, Bishop, Lea; Deeley, Bolland, Dunmore, Graham, McDonald. Everton;- West; Meagan, Thomson; Sharples, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. Referee; Mr. T.W. Dowd (Norwich).

MIRACLE SAVES MADE THIS A MATCH TO REMEMBER
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Thursday 13 September 1962
By Michael Charters
Everton will long remember Bill Robertson, Leyton Orient's veteran goalkeeper. At Goodison last week, he kept Everton to a three-goal winning margin by his efforts alone. Last night, in the return match at Leyton, he was the man responsible above all others for Leyton reversing the previous result with a 3-0 win. He made five great sates, aided by luck a couple of occasions, and long before the end the Evertonfowards must have felt that whatever they did, they could not get the ball past him. It may seem odd to praise a goalkeeper when his side has won by such a clear margin. But that 3-0 score line is misleading, for Everton were never that much inferior to Leyton in a magnificent game of speed, skill and great excitement. By this victory, Luton can safely say they have " arrived" well and truly to find their true sphere in the First Division after an indifferent start to the season. They playedattractivefootball without much punch at Goodison last week, last night they again played football of high skill on a standing with Everton but added greater forward penetration after Everton had given them a gift of the first goal.
WING HALF WEAKNESS
Yet at half-time, without a goal scored, looked to me as though Everton would bring back the points. Although Orient had had more of the midfield play, it was Everton who made the scoring chances and, defensively, had the measure of a livewire Orient attack in which wingers Deeley and McDonald played particularly well. Labone had done splendidly, together with Thomson, and although Meagan had been beaten by McDonald's cleverness at times, he usually recovered well enough. In fact, the whole defence covered up a notable weakness at right half where young George Sharples was struggling. He never approached the excellence of his game against Sheffield Wednesday, and Harris was not so dominating as he has been this season. Weakness or not, the defence kept Orient out so that West did not have a save of note to make before the interval. At the other end, Robertson had saved superbly from Young and Vernon when they were both clean through, Stevens cracked one just over the bar, and also seemed to have been fouled in the penalty area without an award being given.
CAME FROM NOWHERE
Within two minutes of the resumption Everton might have had two goals. Robertson failed to cut out Morrissey's centre, the ball came out to Vernon, who aimed a deliberate shot at what appealed to be the empty net, but Robertson, despite his bulk, came from nowhere to turn the ball away. Seconds later, Robertson had log moment of luck when he only partially saved a screaming shot from Vernon, the ball running away from him and Bishop was able to come across to clear.No doubt stimulated by their goalkeeper's miracles. Leyton's attack began to hit top form, with Dunmore wandering around and creating havoc in with his through passes. But it was a tragic Everton error(52minute) which gave Leyton the opening they had not been able to achieve themselves. A long harmless cross from the left sting was breasted down by Labone towards Harris, standing only (three yards away. The invitation to clear the ball was clearly offered but there was misunderstanding, and Deeley stepped forward to accept the gift and score.
FULL LENGTH SAVE
From that moment on, Leyton were on top. Five minutes later McDonald raced past Meagan, pushed the ball across from the goal line and inside right Bolland side-footed it home. Eleven minutes from the end, Dunmore firmly settled it with a good header from McDonald's free kick near the corner, flag and Everton had thus gone down to their second successive away defeat by a score which stay-at-home fans must not accept on its face value. In between the second and third goals, Robertson came up with his fifth masterpiece. Morrissey cut in and hit a great shot which the goalkeeper saved at full length without being able to retain possession. As Vernon moved in to connect with the ball bouncing away from the goalkeeper, Robertson stretched out his very long arm and finger-tipped the ball away from Vernon. West saved well from Deeley, Graham missed a great chance, Thomson and Vernon shot wide…the game never lacked incident for a moment and when the end came, thousands swarmed on to the pitch to cheer the Orient side.
KEPT IN CHECK
They deserved all the congratulations, and John Carey must have been a proud and happy man as he saw the wild excitement. Layton had played splendidly, without an apparent weakness and there's no saying what confidence this great win will have given them. Their strength-as it should be- is based on their first class half backs of Lucas, Lea and Bishop, who all did well, particularly Bishop, who kept Young under tight check most of the game. For Everton, I thought Labone, Thomson, Stevens and Morrissey were the pick. Stevens worked hard and well, covering the whole pitch in his excellent covering and foraging. He once took the ball of McDonald's toes as the winger was about to shoot, the next moment he was chasing the ball in the other penalty area. Everton will play worse than this and win. They played hard and well, with fine spirit which has done much to dispel the reputation they gained at Fulham 10 days ago.

EVERTON STAND ALONE IN INTER-CITY
Liverpool Daily Post –Friday, September 14, 1962
BIRMINGHAM, WEDNESDAY AND CARDIFF CITY ARE REPLACED
By Horace Yates
The seemingly interminable squabble about which English clubs should take part in the Inter-Cities Fair Cup competition is over and the net result is that Everton will carry the England League club banner alone. Even they, approved by both the League and Cup authorities have new opponents, for it was confirmed yesterday that Dumfemline would provide the opposite, instead of Iraklis of Greece, who have withdrawn. The Cup committee meeting in Barcelona yesterday have met a Football league ultimatum that only their nominations would be allowed to take part by withdrawing not only Burnley and Sheffield United, but clubs they themselves invited –Birmingham City, Sheffield Wednesday and Cardiff City. The replacements are Rapi of Vienna, Ferencyaros of Hungary and A.D.F of Basle. In addition the Danish club Odense will take over from the French club Strasborg for the first round meeting with Drumcondra. When I asked Mr. Harry Catterick the Everton manager last night for his views on the substitution of Dumfermline for Irakis, he said, "We have not been informed officially who our opponents will be and until we receive confirmation from the authorities we can offer no comment.

ROY VERNON SAYS-
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, September 14, 1962
PENALTY KINGS IS EVERTON'S NEW TITLE
Everton are becoming known as the "Penalty Kings," arising, I suppose out of the fact that we have had four awards in five games. I have been asked over and over again how I account for these penalties and I assure you I have not been lost for a reply. "The referees have not seen the others or we might have had more like 14," I have said- and I was not being funny. I cannot remember a season in which so many of our players have been brought down in the area, on that four penalties make by no means n abnormal crop. You may think I am prejudiced but I can point to two or three games these last few weeks when we might easily have had three penalties a match. I don't pretend to know what goes through a referee's mind when he has to decide on a penalty area incident, but it seems that some of them lean over backwards to be absolutely certain. Mind you, one day I may be glad of such extreme care!
TAKING CHANCES
Why is it that there are all these incidents? I don't think the answer is far to seek. Our attacking football is proving so successful that once defences are beaten they fear the worst and take chances they might otherwise avoid. It has been stated that a highly trained professional footballer who cannot score from a spot kick should forfeit his wages. They point out there is all the goal to aim at and a stationary goalkeeper, but it is always easier to indulge in theory than to achieve an objective practically. I will be the first to admit that the odds are distinctly on the man taking the kick, but even stationary goalkeepers are up to all sorts of little tricks to try to put off the kicker. A favourite trick, of course, is for the goalkeeper to stand a yard or so to one side of the centre of his goal therefore giving a direct invitation to place the ball towards the greater space. He then dives in that direction, hopes for the best- and sometimes it comes off! If all the penalty kicks could be taken behind closed doors with the crowd excluded I think it might be possible to step up on the average of eight conversions from the kicks. I don't mind admitting that my worst moment this season was at Old Trafford. When the referee awarded a kick for the foul on Morrissey, I could have leapt for joy. Thus came (part missing article)
threat and it was not until about 11 o'clock that I was declared fit to play. I noticed in Tuesday's Daily Post that my good friend Ian St. John was building up the hopes of Liverpool supporters of an away win at Goodison. Really Ian, I should have hoped you would have known better by now. We know what it is like to have a spell of matches without a win away although fortunate that now seems to be a thing of the past. Much though we want Liverpool to make a go of their first season in Division, I suggest Ian makes this forecasts a little more carefully in future, especially where Everton are concerned.

PLEA TO BALL-PLACERS
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday 14 September 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Everton's second defeat in London within the space of less than a fortnight confirms their long standing inability to succeed in that city. Apart from winning at Arsenal last season by 3-2 and at Fulham the season before they have not won any others of 13 League games there during the past three seasons, the most notable defeat being 10-4 at Tottenham in 1959-60. They changed, recently their London hotel headquarters. Clubs being notoriously superstitious one wonders how long it will be before they change it again. To-morrow, at Bolton. Denis Stevens will be making his first appearance against his old club. Everton will take a big contingent with them and all going well should do at least as well as Ipswich did a week ago. The game will show whether Everton are tending to slide back to their win at home, lose away form or whether the football. Which took them quickly to the top of the table is going to be maintained. Games at Burnden are not lacking in "bite" and being something of a local "Derby " before a big attendance, swollen by many travellers from this city, this one would seem likely to produce a memorable match and a close one.
Plea to ball-placers
A friend, writing from Ireland, appeals to the man who places the ball in our competition to place it "where Roger Hunt and Ian St. John can put it in the net and not over the bar." This correspondent should have been at Anfield on Wednesday when St. John got his goals. True Red asks for space to say his piece about distribution of the Everton-Liverpool match tickets: "First they state that stands and paddock would be all-ticket. Fair enough. Then they decided to make it all-ticket everywhere, not giving a thought to thousands of shift workers on afternoons (2.10 pm.) who could have obtained a paddock or stand ticket if they had known they were not being given the chance to pay at the turnstiles on the day of the match. Many of us have sworn we shall not attend Goodison Park again if we don't get a ticket for the match to-morrow week." Fervent Liverpool follower, J. R. Foster, cannot understand why the team plays so well at Anfield and goes down so consistently away. Neither can F. X. McLaren, 98 Gregson Street, Everton, complains that Everton slack off when they've established a lead. The way they did this against Leicester City, he says, was disquieting to say the least. Twelve years old J. Wilson (1 Walton Breck Road) maintains that good referees are fast disappearing from the game and that most match reports criticise the referee for being too lenient. For example Referee Tuck in the Fulham-Everton game. Out of the mouths of babes and...

GABRIEL RETURNS FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday 14 September 1962
MANY BOLTON CHANGES
TOMORROW
By Leslie Edwards
Everton are at full strength for their match against a much-weakened Bolton Wanderers team, at Bolton, tomorrow. Gabriel, who missed the match at Leyton owing to a pulled muscle, is fit and replaces Sharples at right half-back. Stand tickets for the Everton-Liverpool match a week tomorrow are changing hands on the black market at 3 pounds a time; paddock tickets fetch 1 pound. The club announce that a few tickets for the boys' pen remain. Personal application should be made for them at Goodison Park.
SWEEPING CHANGES
Injuries, illness and loss of form are responsible for sweeping changes by Bolton, McGarry, Rimmer, Pilkington, Threlfall are all injured; Hartle was taken ill with tonsillitis overnight and Holden is relegated to the reserve team. Four players come in to the team for the first time this season- Graham Stanley, Graham Cunliffe, Francis Lee and Brian Birch. Bolton; Hopkinson; Stanley, Farrimond; Hatton, Edward, Cunliffe, Lee, Hill, Davies, Deakin, Birch. Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey.

EVERTON GO TO BOLTON
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, September 15, 1962
By Horace Yates
Everton go to Bolton intent on avoiding a hat-trick for they have lost their last two away games and another reverse against the much changed Bolton side would bring into prominence all over again the theory that they are; "A no place like home team," despite those two stirring victories at Burnley and Old Trafford. Sharples apparently, was not the success at Leyton that he was against Sheffield Wednesday, and it is reassuring therefore, to find Jimmy Gabriel fit and well again, and restored to right half. Gabriel is so wonderfully efficient in defence and so restless in attack that he may be just the man to pull this Everton team back into shape. Strangely enough the only one of the four teams to have visited Burnden Park this season and gone away with the points have been Liverpool's visitors of today, Ipswich Town. The Wanderers were hammered by three clear goals at Old Trafford in mid-week and with a total of 15 goals conceded, have one of the most vulnerable defences. While Everton are happy to announce a full strength side, Bolton have Hartle, McGarry, Rimmer, Pickering and Threlfall all unfit, while Holden has been relegated to the reserves. It would be surprising if a team chopped and changed to this extent, with Stanley, Cunliffe, lee and Birch making their first appearances of the season, can hold a team of Everton's pretensions, and one would think that if Everton go into this match with the spirit which saw them through their early game, they must have something in hand of the Wanderers. I hope to see Everton win, for failure would seriously undermine the bright prospects we have been weaving around them, and with so little distance to travel, the team should have the encouragement of a big following. Bolton Wanderers;- Hopkinson; Stanley, Farrimond; Hatton, Edwards, Cunliffe, Lee, Hill, Davies, Deakin, Birch. Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey.

HOPKINSON GREAT, BUT BINGHAM FINDS WAY THROUGH
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday 15 September 1962
BOLTON WANDERERS 0, EVERTON 2
By Horace Yates
Bolton Wanderers;- Hopkinson; Stanley, Farrimond; Hatton, Edwards, Cunliffe; Lee, Hill, Davies, Deakin, Birch. Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon (Captain), Morrissey. Referee; Mr. R.H.Windle (Chesterfield). Stevens back on his old pitch was brought down in the opening minutes by Cunliffe, but Young was unable to profit by the free-kick and when Thomson slipped up Bolton roared into the attack. The Everton supporters roared with delight when they saw Vernon charge Hopkinson into the net and the referee was seen pointing to the middle. The Joy was short lived for the point was disallowed. Everton's luck was right out for only two minutes later Vernon shot struck Cunliffe and it looked as though the deflection had taken it over Hopkinson's head, but the goal keeper, with a great backwards leap just touched the ball onto the bar. Birch and Cunliffe combined to bring Deakin into the picture being Cunliffe well placed for a shot. Deakin slipped him the ball and only a superlative save by West prevented a score.
GREAT DRIVE
Bolton were always seeking an opportunity to strike back and it came when Gabriel misjudged a header from Meagan, which allowed Hill to push the ball to the unmarked Lee. The winger swept in from touch and hit a great drive just wide. Hopkinson brought the house down with another terrific save and again the unlucky player was Vernon. A missed clearance left Vernon running through with only Hopkinson to beat. The Everton skipper tried one of his chips but reckoned without the amazing judgment and reach of the Bolton goalkeeper. Harris retrieved an earlier blunder to prevent Lee from finding a shooting position inside the area. Young beat Edwards time after time and when confronted by Stanley Young again won possession to put the ball menacingly across for Vernon. The pass was only just too strong for Vernon to gather and again Hopkinson was the race winner. Everton had already carved out enough chances to have won any game but as much through the industry of Hopkinson as anything reward had been denied them.
NEAR MISS
Everton enjoyed an escape when Hill connected with a Lee corner kick and the ball shot over the bar. The hoo doo on Everton continued. Thomson outstripped the defence with a well-placed through ball and Morrissey fastened on to it. He pulled the ball round Hopkinson but as he went to tap it into the empty net his feet shot from under him. Down he went and the ball rolled outside the post. Everton considered themselves badly done by when the referee turned down appeals for a penalty when Cunliffe brought down Vernon as he juggled for a shooting position. The referee had words with Hill and Vernon There was nothing very much in the incident but it is always wiser to clamp down from the start. The question all through this half had been how long could Bolton be able to contain the Everton attack? They held out right to the interval but Everton were well ahead on points if not on goals. Half-time; Bolton Wanderers nil, Everton nil. Everton could easily have been one goal down within a minute of the resumption. Lee put the ball across and it ricocheted from a group of defenders to the unmarked Hill. Instead of taking his time and beating West as he chose. Hill plumped for a first time shot and skied it over the bat. Bingham set Everton the example. He cut out all the shilly shallying, bored straight towards the goal and slipped the ball to Gabriel. He returned it as the winger raced through and Bingham showed that even Hopkinson could be beaten. This goal after only five minutes of the second half must have heartened an Everton side which had previously done everything but score. Hopkinson was at it again when he made a superb save from Stevens, Morrissey had crossed the ball at top speed and Stevens glancing header looked a winner until the long arms the goalkeeper brought the ball down. Plainly this Bolton side had not the class of Everton. West did his side a service when he intercepted a centre from Hill destined for Lee, who was unmarked beyond the post. One goal was not enough to insure Everton against accidents, and this was underlined when Hill was only just off target
DAVIES MISSES
Immediately afterwards there was no excuse for Bolton not being on level terms, Hill gave Davies, the former Wrexham centre forward, the ideal shooting position but he could only clear the bar. Bingham, operating temporarily at outside left, gave Stevens the most inviting through ball but he pulled his shot wide. Bolton were now throwing everything into the attack and by way of a chance found West not Hopkinson barring the way to a goal. A Young header, delivered at full stretch, found its way into the waiting arms of Hopkinson. A shot by Bingham was well placed but Hopkinson handled it safely. Everton clinched their victory at 83 minutes through a headed goal by Gabriel. Morrissey tested Hopkinson from short range and when the ball rebounded he headed across goal to Gabriel, who leaped up, and this time Hopkinson was well out of saving distance. Lee and Hill worked the ball for 50 yards before giving Deakin a chance, but his effort went the way of so many more -over the bar. Official attendance: 27,239 Final; Bolton Wanderers nil, Everton 2

MAN UNITED A V EVERTON A
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, September 15 1962
Everton A went ahead after five minutes when Tyrer raced on to a forward pass and beat Briggs with a well-placed shot. Two minutes later, Ackerley scored for United with a good shot which Rankin could not stop, and within 15 minutes. A were in the lead with a goal by Gravson after a scrimmage. United A continued to have more of the play, and Fry was unlucky with a shot which hit the upright. Half-time; Manchester United A 2, Everton A 1.

WE WILL WIN, CLAIMS LIVERPOOL'S RON YEATS
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday 15 September 1962
I think we shall beat Everton in the big match next week. In the first place, we must start second favourite. Everton's record this season is a good one in comparison to our own rather mediocre start, but in a needle match such as this, position in the League table means nothing. If anything, the under-dog is an advantage because so much is expected of the other. We have all seen this Everton side in action and they are not a bad bunch of boys, but they are by no means unbeatable and we came away from the Leyton game with the unshakable conviction that, when we meet, it will be a case of "anything they can do, we can do better." That is the spirit at Anfield and to time will show exactly how justified this outlook is. With so many friends at Everton it would be too embarrassing to say that so-and-so has the measure of so-and-so, and X can beat Y more often than not, but I have such views and they lead me to the definite conclusion that we shall win. However, my friends of Everton are nice fellows and will lose to us with the some grace that they have beaten others.

NO, YOU WON'T SAYS EVERTON'S ALEX YOUNG
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday 15 September 1962
It is usually considered unwise to disagree with someone five or six inches taller and weighing some two stone or more than you do, but when my old Army buddy, Ron Yeats, says (at the top of the Page) that Everton ore not going to win the Derby match next week-end, then I just cannot let him get away with it. As Ron points out, relations between the Everton and Liverpool players are most friendly, but all that will be forgotten at three o'clock next Saturday when we at Goodison Park expect to spend the following 90 minutes or so settling all the arguments about which is the best team in the city. I think Everton will win because, taken all round they are the more skilful side. In addition, we have found our form more quickly than Liverpool and must therefore approach the match with more confidence. We have not had the opportunity of watching Liverpool in action so far this season, although I believe they took a peep at us when we entertained Leyton Orient. This, however, doesn't worry us unduly. I know the players of both sides are looking forward to this meeting very much and I can assure you that all share the spectators hopes that it will provide a match full of interest. May the best team win - and may that team be Everton
LITTLE DIFFERENCE
Trying to forecast a margin of victory in a fixture like this, however, would be foolish for one important lesson I think we have learned from our first month's football this season is that, generally speaking, there is not a great deal of difference between the skills of any of the teams in the First Division.
In my first Football Echo article, I pointed out that while many people expressed concern that there had been so few close season transfers between League clubs, my view was that it could lead to a levelling up of strength in the League- and this appears to be what is happening. This means that if a team eases up in the slightest degree it is more than likely that the opposition will steal the initiative, and perhaps the match, and also means that winning matches away from home is a most difficult task. PENALTY KING
Our captain Roy Vernon is establishing something as a reputation as a penalty king, and against Leicester at Goodison Park he made his tally four goals out of four attempts. Each of the four goals have been scored on the goalkeeper's left hand, and on no occasion has the 'keeper looked likely to make a save. These goals have already helped Roy into the list of leading scorers in Division One and if he had enjoyed reasonable luck with some of his other non-penalty attempts, then he could well have been out in front. By the way, I am not helping opposing goalkeepers by drawing attention to how Roy has scored his penalties, for he has been perfecting another technique during training recently- and any of the Everton goalkeepers will tell you that this new method is as good as the old one. Dave Gibson. Leicester's wee Scottish inside forward, didn't show us all his magic at Goodison Park, but I thought he was particularly good during the first half. Dave, however, has not been out of the Army very long and I expect he is finding the readjustment to regular training and football difficult. I found this a most trying time, and an injury didn't help me, either.
SENSE OF HUMOUR
One unusual incident occurred in this match when our trainer. Tom Egglestone, on the field attending to a knock Billy Bingham had received. Obviously wanting to get on with the game, the referee went over and told Billy that if he wanted further attention, then he and Tom should go onto the other side of the touchline. Billy told the official that he was fit to continue and at the same time gave has face a playful rub with the trainer's sponge. Luckily for Billy, referees have a sense of humour. On Monday evening I cent along to see our Reserves play Huddersfield in a Central League match at Goodison and they were unfortunate only to draw 3-3. Colin Harvey caught my eye in this match by capping some very intelligent ball work with a great goal, and I think we can safely put him down on the ever-growing of Everton youngsters worth watching as they make their way to the top.

EVERTON RESERVES V BOLTON RES
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday 15 September 1962
Everton Reserves;- Mailey; Parker, Green; Rees, Heslop, Sharples; Temple, Harvey, Wignall, Weather, Veall. Bolton Wanderers; Smith; Goulden, Cooper; Wilkinson, Oxtoby, Lennard, Holden, Taylor, Redrove, Bromley, Butler. Referee; Mr. H. Ashton (St. Helens). After a spell of midfield play Bolton were first to attack and Mailey fisted out two fast drives from Holden and Redrove. A dive from Butler, outside left, was kicked off the goal line by Heslop. Bolton were the more dangerous side. Everton attacked an Rees put a useful forward pass to Wignall who shot just over the bar. After 20 minutes Sharples scored for Everton with a fast drive after good work by Veall. While the Everton defence was wide open, in the 30th minute Redgrove levelled the score for Bolton from a break-away. Mailey was lucky to tip a shot from Holden over the bar. Parker came through for Everton but his shot went past the post. Just on the interval Wignall put Everton in front. Half-time; Everton Res 2, Bolton Res 1.

EVERTON SCORE AS LEADING RIVALS SLIP
Liverpool Daily Post –Monday, September 17, 1962
HOPKINSON HELPS TO MAGNIFY A LACK OF FINISH
BOLTON WANDERERS 0 EVERTON 2
By Horace Yates
Whatever trimmings may be added, either in praise or criticism, the bald fact remains that Everton's victory at Bolton, where only one team in four had won this season means that not only have they braked the lurking suspicion of away performance frailty, but they now have as many victories to their credit on opponents grounds as during the whole of last season-with only five visits paid-at a time when their leading rivals are finding the going hard. To an assertion that Bolton do not suggest themselves as being one of the best sides in Division One there would be few denials, for in plain truth Everton, for the most part, made them look like a willing gang of labourers trailing in the wake of craftsmen.
FOREMANHOPKINSON
Yet, those labourers, blessed mainly with willingness to keep on working with little hope of reward, almost surprised themselves-let alone Everton. They reeled before a first half Everton combination that tore yawning gaps into their defensive structure and laid bare their goal time after time, but their foreman, goalkeeper Hopkinson, such a wonderful and inspiring example in blunting the Everton attack at the last fence, that he converted his team into men who appeared to have lost all thoughts of inferiority complex. Had Hopkinson, wavered however monetarily, Bolton would have been swamped by a first half deluge of Everton goals. The goalkeeper was magnificent, almost defying Everton to beat him and the constant raiding without reward took a lot of the steam and the sparkle out of the Goodison team's attack. Not until fifty minutes had gone, during which time Everton's misses were legion, did the great-hearted Bingham, who had bobbed up in all sorts of positions in search of an opportunity, to show that his boot still carries a scoring punch lost faith in the commonplace crosses that were getting nowhere and took a lone hand. He beat two men on the touchline and bored right in towards goal. A flick to Stevens and on he raced to the through pass he was inviting. It came, and Bingham proved that even goalkeepers like Hopkinson are really only ordinary mortals. If the ball is placed correctly.
BOLTON STURGE BACK
If we expected this to be the signal for Everton to run riot, then we miscalculated, for a revitalised Bolton surged back and it was the finishing failing of their forwards, rather than any defensive invincibility that prevented a storm breaking over Everton. Hill twice, Deakin and Davies all failed to beat West when failure was almost inexorable and the Gabriel goal in 83 minutes, after a double presaged Morrissey result, which ended in the winger heading across goal for Gabriel to direct a header well away from Hopkinson was essential to guarantee victory. It was when Bolton found the solution to the Vernon-Young first half plague that Everton lost their hostility, for Stevens was denied any opportunity of celebrating his second game against his old colleagues with any show of dominancy. Before the game I had been told that the one man Bolton could not have afforded to part with was Stevens. That may still be true but his old colleagues did their best to disguise the fact. Morrissey like Bingham, had not been without his successes and nobody made a more goal-worthy effort than he when he actually pulled the ball round Hopkinson, and then lost his footing on the greasy turf in his attempt to step aside and push the ball into the empty goal. Gabriel's return was timely, for his spirited endeavour was always a rallying point in the defence when colleagues were less sure-footed than we have come to expect.
FIRM REFEREE
It was perhaps as well that there was a referee as firm as Mr. Windle to keep on top of excitable player, for more than once there were incidents which exceeded the bounds of both prudent and sporting endeavour. While West may not have been put to the test as seriously as he should, he was an Everton stalwart more than once, and it is games such as this that help prove the theory that forwards with finish are worth their weight in gold. Hopkinson may have barred the way to Everton time after time until the recording of his saves became monotonous, but surely the goal is wide enough to slack the odds heavily against any goalkeeper. As this was the second game in succession in which Everton have helped to put goalkeepers into the world class, there must be food for thought when the forward line get down to examining their failures. I agree that it required a hairline decision by the referee to deny Vernon a goal in four minutes. Hopkinson leapt up to grab a high ball just outside his goal line. In went Vernon to deliver a beautiful shoulder charge, shoulder to shoulder in copy-book fashion. The ball was dislodged and over the line it went. The referee's free kick signal for all the world looked like an indication that Everton were ahead, but when I interviewed Mr. Windle after the game he told me that Hopkinson still had both feet off the ground when Vernon's charge was made. The referee was on the spot, ideally placed to arrive at such a conclusion, but inevitably it must have been a very very close call. Bolton Wanderers;- Hopkinson; Stanley, Farrimond; Hatton, Edwards, Cunliffe, Lee, Hill, Davies, Deakin, Birch. Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. Referee. Mr. W.H. Windle, attendance 27,239

EVERTON RES 3, BOLTON RES 2
Liverpool Daily Post-Monday September 17, 1962
Everton were quick to seize their scoring chances in this game at Goodison Park and Sharples and Wignall scored during the first half and Redrobe broke through to score for Bolton. Webber increased Everton's lead at the 65th minute, Bolton attacked strongly in the closing stages and Mailey in the Everton goal made many brilliant saves but could not prevent Butler heading a good goal for Bolton near the end. Wignall and Veall were prominent in the Everton attack and Redrobe and Butler did well for Bolton.

EVERTON HAVE MATCHED LAST SEASON'S AWAY RECORD
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Monday 17 September 1962
By Horace Yates
LAST SEASON'S AWAY RECORD
By Horace Yates
Victory by two goals to nil on any away ground in the First Division is an achievement to be respected, for while clubs in the top flight are very much a mixed bag these day's, before their own supporters the invariably produce a show of spirit and determination that so often counter and overthrow superior skill. That only the leaders, Wolves, have taken more points away from home than Everton, and that only five teams in the entire division have won more than one game on opponents' grounds is an indication et just how much so many clubs will home points for their well-being. Everton, Interrupting their the full sequence of two defeats in London, not only scored their third away win at Bolton but matched last season's entire yield of winning points away from Goodison—with only five games played. This represents a remark able advance, and if maintained must make the team a genuine championship proposition. Indeed, only Everton and Nottingham Forest have records free from blemish on their own grounds, and while Everton finishing at Burnden Park was hardly as devastatingly effective as one would like, much of it come nearer to success than a two-goal reward indicates.
IRONIC GOALS
It was ironic that both goals should come in the second half in which Everton were neither so classy looking nor dominant as they had been earlier, when it was a case of way -traffic towards the Bolton goal. To their credit, however, they snatched the chances that won the points even if their falling away in controlled cleverness did encourage Bolton to hit back with a fury and directness, of which they had earlier seemed incapable. Nothing short of tragedy could have described any other result than this, and yet the patched-up Bolton side had only themselves to blame for fluffing the opportunities to have extended Everton to the full. At least, when one points to the Everton failings to riddle the Bolton defence beyond hope of repair, it is easy enough to spotlight the bouncing Hopkinson in goal as the man who barred their way with as magnificent a display of goalkeeping as anyone could wish to see.
While West may have been efficient to a comforting degree in the Everton goal, only a wilful refusal to admit the truth would deny that on three outstanding occasions Hill, Davies and Deakin should have given him no chance whatever. Obviously a highly experimental Bolton forward line must have achieved quite a bit to put themselves in this menacing position and the fact is that even Gabriel-reinforced as it was the Everton rear-guard made too many mistakes for comfort. Gone was the customary command during a second half offensive which showed Bolton in a far better light, and neither Labone nor Meagan will include this among their best performances. Of course, all this anxiety would have become so unnecessary had the Everton attack, which at times suggested an ability to run riot, not aided and abetted Hopkinson to put on a super show.
TORMENTOR VERNON
Vernon, without a doubt, was Bolton's tormentor-in-chief. He showed them the way of things after only four minutes when he shoulder charged Hopkinson and forced the goalkeeper to drop the ball over the goal line, only to lose a score the referee's decision that the charge had been delivered a split second before Hopkinson had both feet on the ground. Cunliffe put himself in the way of another Vernon drive and so deflected the ball that only the most amazing back-ward leap by Hopkinson kept the ball out of the net and similarly, when Vernon released one of his famous overhead chip shots, it was the commendable dexterity of Hopkinson that got him to the ball when his goal lay exposed.
In 25 minutes then, Vernon might easily have had a hat-trick, and for good measure he had a penalty appeal refused after he had gone down in the area. The skipper was not the only man to help to make this Hopkinson's day, for Young enjoyed an early share of the limelight when he showed himself to be too fast and tricky for an extended for an extended Edwards. When Bingham showed them the way five minutes after half time, as he brought the ball in from the touch line, to take a short return from Stevens and pushed it beyond Hopkinson, it was hard to resist the impression that this was the beginning of the end for Bolton, but Everton's control slipped. Their football mastery was checked and that twin threat of Vernon and Young, just disappeared. It was the Everton wingers, Bingham and Morrissey, who kept the attack flickering into life but it all, might have been in vain had the Bolton attack not outdone Everton in their failure to beat the goalkeeper.
BOY FROM WREXHAM
Centre-forward Davies, the boy from Wrexham, in whom Everton were so interested at one time, looked the part with his ideal build, but appearances proved deceptive and doubt if anyone left the ground believing that Everton were in error in not converting admiration into possession. – It was Morrissey who made possible the clinching goal by Gabriel seven minutes from the end, for when Hopkinson could do no more than beat out his shot. Morrissey bent low to head the ball across to Gabriel. He took a kick in the face for his pains and maybe it was the sight of Gabriel leaping up to head into goal that took much of hurt from the knock. Everton will have more difficult trials to surmount than this, and if the realisation leads to a sharpening in acceptance of opportunities, Hopkinson or not, they have no need to be apprehensive.

ALL-TICKET ADMISSION WAS THE RIGHT STEP
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Tuesday 18 September 1962
By Leslie Edwards
There only one talking point this week, and it revolves around next Saturday, at Goodison Park, time 3 p.m. We have received many letters on the pre-match arrangements, some of them criticising the prices, but only one complaining of Everton's decision to make it an all-ticket game with a crowd limit of 73,000. This comes from Mr. A.S. McQuillan, of Old Lane, Eccleston Park, Prescott. He asks was it necessary for thousands to queue in the rain for tickets last week when Everton have a crowd counting system which would enable them to decide when the attendance reached the limit they imposed. I think Mr. McQuillan is in a minority of one over this. More and more these days it is becoming essential to make big games of this nature all-ticket admission. Everton decision was eminently wise and if they had not taken step, I'm sure police authority would have insisted. As it was the police were not consulted. Had it not been all-ticket, a general free for all would have developed outside the ground and the task of the police would have been even more onerous than it will be. Even so, there will be thousands there without tickets hoping for the best with the police trying to prevent the worst. When the record gate of 78,299 was set up in the corresponding game 14 years ago 9not an all-ticket match), at least one gate was broken down and hundreds poured in without paying. Crowd control and general admission arrangements have been tightened since then, and the all-ticket decision should ensure the comfort and safely of the majority, which is as it should be.

SPECTATING THE HARD WAY
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Wednesday 19 September 1962
By Leslie Edwards
I met several Everton fans last week outside the ground after the Leyton Orient game. Two of them watched every game last season bar the final at Arsenal (which Everton won), and were bewailing the fact that they had not seen their team win in London for years! Their disappointment in the capital is more acute, they told me, because the team plays so well at home. "We know how good they can be," they said. "Imagine how we feel when they keep on losing in London after we've come all this way to see them. They had left Liverpool just after mid-day last Wednesday, arrived in Leyton in good time for the game, and set off for the M1 and Liverpool after 10 p.m., hoping to arrive home in the early hours. That is football spectating the hard way, but, defeat at Leyton or not, I know they'll be in London for the next away game there- and the rest elsewhere. I've had an interesting letter from another Everton supporter living in London which is valuable for its detached outlook. He is Mr. Patrick O'Shea, of 53 Cheyne Walk, Hendon, and he writes; - "My friends and fellow Everton supporters in Liverpool have ben hailing the present Everton side as great. As a purely away games fan-detached from the partisan cauldron of Goodison-I believe that I have been able to make a cooler and more honest analysis of the team. "Last Wednesday I saw Everton play Leyton; on Thursday I saw Real Madrid play Arsenal, and comparisons were inevitable. Real's two 26-years0old really greats' displayed more combined artistry; skill and sheer goal-menace than I could ever in my wildest dreams, hope the present Everton attack to produce. The Real defence showed how a great side treats old-fashioned centres, and how to football out of trouble from one's own goal area. In comparison, the Everton defence is primitive. "Right now Everton are a reasonable good side; with two of three quality replacements they will be very good. and with a couple of season's experience against top-class Continental sides, they could probably be great. But please-please-please, let us all retain a sense of soccer values, and not claim that the team has arrived until it has really proved itself."

EVERTON PLAYERS EARN £670 THIS SEASON
Liverpool Daily Post- Thursday, September 20, 1962
CROWD BONUS SCHEME IS WORTH £468 TO FIRST TEAM MEN
By Horace Yates
A result which gave Everton players tremendous satisfaction last night was the 2-2 draw between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur, for it means the Goodison boy will now be on maximum bonus when they turn out against Liverpool on Saturday and that wolves are only a point ahead from a similar number of matches played. Had Tottenham won at Wolverhampton they would have drawn level with Everton on points, but would have stolen the second place from them by a slender advantage in goal average. Pushed into third place, Everton's bonus would then have been calculated at 35s a thousand for every 1,000 over 35,000 instead of the £2 while they are one of the top two clubs. As there is a guaranteed unless of course the club feel gate of 73,000 this means with the experience of the that the Everton boys will "derby" crowd to guide them each receive £76 a man that they may safely admit crowd bonus, which of course more when teams like Wolves will eventually be paid and Tottenham are visitors. Without doubt Saturday will yield the biggest payment ever received by Everton, and as the 73,000 capacity is a maximum fixed by the club, it looks as though this celling will remain undisturbed unless of course the club feel with the experience of the "derby" crowd to guide them that they may safely admit more when teams like Wolves and Tottenham are visitors. How many would have wanted tickets for the "derby" had accommodation been unlimited in anybody's guess. Possibly not far short of 90,000. In view if the complaints of crowding, which followed the admission of 75,667 for the visit of Burnley on December, 27 1960. It is difficult to see similar figures ever being allowed again. Just how groundless were the fears of some of the players, who before the season opened considered that the promise of big money was one thing and their realisation another, has already been shown for if they had been able to hammer out a fixed rate of payment it is hardly likely they would have had the nerve to ask for sums such as they are now getting. It is interesting to look back over the season so far as it has gone, and try to estimate just what Everton's football success has meant to the players. As a result of the match with Manchester United a bonus of £68 has twice gone into the pay packet; Sheffield Wednesday yields a double payment of £32. Similarly with Leyton Orient. It was comparatively iron rations when Leicester City provided only a £26 addition home and away, of course, but that £76 on Saturday will help to make amends. As a result of five home games then (even though the bonuses may have to await the playing of the corresponding away game), the Everton first team members have earned around £468 –from bonuses alone. When you consider that the average playing wage (for Everton players, unlike Liverpool, negotiate individual contracts) is about £35 a week these are indeed golden days for footballers on Merseyside. That of course is not the end of the story, for the seven League victories have also carried with them £4 winning bonus as well. Since the season opened then, I estimate that average gross earnings are around £670, including of course, the Liverpool game, and the subsequent second bonus. That not only makes the Everton players the highest paid in this country but with a considerable margin in hand. "Give us success" said chairman John Moores before the season opened, "and you will share it." The players are doing just that.
GAULD PLAYS AGAIN
Jimmy Gauld former Everton player and one of soccer's most-travelled men, who broke a leg in his fourth game for Mansfield Town on Boxing Day, 1960 is to play for the first time since his injury on Saturday. He will either play for the reserve in a Football combination match against Cardiff or for the A team in a Central Alliance cup match. In addition to Everton, Gauld has also played for Charlton Athletic and Plymouth Argyle, and joined Mansfield from St. Johnstone.

ROY VERNON SAYS...
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, September 21, 1962
EVERTON WILL BE DAY'S BEST HOME BANKER!
I doubt if there has ever been a match we are more confident of winning than tomorrow's "derby" with Liverpool at Goodison Park. All the lads feel the same way. Their one regret is that we can only play Liverpool twice for, quite apart from the points this game will yield, the Everton players will have a handsome bonus as a result of the 73,000 crowd. When we made the return trip on February 9 it will be Liverpool turn's to collect a fat wage packet. I wish them well. I trust the packet will be full to overflowing for they will need something to console themselves. Mind you, I sincerely hope they will do better in their other games, for we want to see this series of matches continued down the years. All leg pulling apart for a moment let me put the position quite squarely. Suppose Liverpool were visiting Goodison Park tomorrow under any other name, did you think they would be given the slightest ghost of a chance of winning by anybody? Look at their form and look at ours. This should be the best home banker of the day. Only the fact that it is a "derby" game gives Liverpool any hope, and I know that form is not always the most reliable guide in these circumstances.
TITLE SEASON?
We need look no further back than last Saturday to the "derby" game at Manchester, City surely had no chance against United and yet they won. That is the sort of thing "derby" atmosphere can do, but I suggest the gulf between Everton and Liverpool is deeper than that between City and United. Here we are fighting for leadership of the League, and I believe we have an excellent chance this season of taking the title, while Liverpool are grabbing at home points as life-saves. I don't mind letting you into a secret-I expect to see Liverpool perish on our half back line. I don't believe there is a better line to be found in any club team. For addition good measure a forward line which has found difficulty in scoring will not find an easy way past our backs to challenge Gordon West. When someone was pulling Johnny Morrissey's leg about being the only non-scoring forward in the Everton line, he chirped back, "Don't you know I'm waiting for the Liverpool game." Morrissey has had bad luck in not finding the net so far, but that does not matter so long as he keeps on helping others to get the goals. I thought he deserved a medal for his courage in heading the ball which enabled Jimmy Gabriel to score at Bolton, for he took a kick in the face at a time when he must have known full well of such possibilities. I am a professional footballer and as such I want to win every game in which I play. This just happens to be one game I want to win just a little bit more than any other. Frankly, life would hardly be worth living-even if e draw. No, it must be an outright victory.
DAY OF RECKONING...
It may not have escaped Liverpool's notice that we have scored quite a lot of goals at Goodison Park this season, I have news for them. We have missed a whole lot more than we have scored by the proverbial coat of paint or by some super saves by goalkeepers. One day things are bound to go right for us and what an awful day of reckoning that is going to be for some unfortunate, I like the Liverpool lads too much to wish it on them, but somebody has got to catch it- soon. Liverpool had the opportunity of seeing us play against Leyton Orient while we have not yet had a chance to watch them, I don't think they are likely to profit very much from this advantage. They don't appear to have settled down to First Division football. I had expected them to do better than they have; I believe them to be a better side than they have so far proved, but if they expect to start proving it against Everton tomorrow then that is the first of their mis-calculations. Half the crowd are sure to be disappointed at this result. We have resolved it will not be the Everton half. Everton then have another home game to follow against West Brom and by that time there may be only a pin point to choose between ourselves and Wolves when we go there on October 6. These are great days for the players, I only hope the crowd are enjoying the games as much as we do. One final note on the "derby." Here's hoping the match is a real cracker, fast and full of non-stop thrills played in truly sporting fashion and I will content myself by saying may the better team win-for what should be obvious reasons! After that, Everton daren't lose.

IF IAN ST. JOHN IS FIT DERBY TEAMS WILL BE FULL STRENGTH
Liverpool Daily Post-Friday, September 21, 1962
By Horace Yates
The prospects are that Everton and Liverpool teams for the "derby" game at Goodison Park tomorrow will be at full strength. The only doubt concerns the fitness of Ian St. John, Liverpool's Scottish international centre forward, but latest reports are most encouraging. Last night Liverpool manager Mr. Bill Shankly, told me St John has trained and today we arranged a short match for his special benefit. I would say there is a good chance of St. John being fit to play but no definite decision is possible yet. "He is certainly in better condition that we had dared to hope at the beginning of the week. The pain and bruising have largely disappeared from his big toe, and he could be quite normal for Saturday. "If we can say with certainty tomorrow that St. John is fit we will announce the team. Otherwise we shall probably reserve an announcement until the last moment." St. John is of course, desperately keen to play in this game, for it is just the sort of match which might appeal to the Scottish selectors to help them in choosing their side for the game with Wales next month.

LET US HOPE THIS WILL BE GAME TO REMEMBER
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday 21 September 1962
By Michael Charters
To-morrow, they say, will settle it all. I wonder. Whatever the result of the " derby " game at Goodison, there will be many thousands who will see no good whatever in the " other " team, who will say one side was lucky to win, the other side unlucky to lose, and so on. Inter-club arguments have simmered since Liverpool won promotion last season until they have boiled up to reach a veritable frenzy this week, with to-morrow's game as the only sporting topic worth discussion, but let no one believe that the match will decide all the differences of opinion. It may do for those who can take a detached view of the proceedings; but for the majority of the fanatical fans of each club, to-morrow is just another episode in the long-drawn out serial which has been going on for generations and resumes now after an unseemly gap of 11 years. The many games between Everton and Liverpool since Everton were relegated in 1951, to change places in the Second Division three years later with Liverpool have been rather in the nature of side-lines to what really matters—the League. Now it is the real thing and 73,000 people will pack into Goodison Park to-morrow to savour and relish the excitement, the atmosphere and the thrills of what has become the pattern for all "Derby" games throughout the country. I hope the game itself lives up to its build-up and satisfies those who go to a football match to see a good, spirited and sporting exhibition of the finer arts. Unfortunately, there are many who won't be satisfied unless "their team " wins, but was ever thus. The final wish will be for a fine day, otherwise many thousands will find themselves pinned out in the open and unable to gain cover under the double-decker stands. The coloured ground tickets have been issued to admit only at specified turnstiles, which will have coloured signs to correspond with the ticket. Everton secretary Bill Dickinson emphasises that admission will only be through the turnstiles marked on the tickets and asks that everyone, stand, paddock and terrace patrons, come in good time and not cause congestion at the turnstiles by arming at the last minute, keep the entrance corridors clear and then there should be no over-crowding anywhere.
Full strength hope
Both teams hope to be at full strength. The last time they met, in the semi-final of the Liverpool Senior Cup at Goodison late last season, Everton had Roy Vernon missing and Liverpool were without Roger Hunt, both on international duty. The only doubt in either side this week has been Liverpool's Ian St. John, injured against Ipswich last Saturday, but intensive treatment on his damaged big toe has eased the bruising and smelling. A final decision will be made to-morrow, but it is expected he will be fit. Anything one writes in a pre-match review on a game of this nature, however objective it may be, is liable to misconstruction by the rabid followers of either team. But even Liverpudlians will admit that Everton start favourites—a glance at the league table will show why Liverpool have not made an impressive start in the First Division. In the opening games, they tended to be over-confident after their all-conquering season last winter: now they are over-anxious and the ball it not running kindly for them because of that. Everton's performances, particularly at home, have been much more consistent and pools tipsters throughout the country make them a good number to-morrow. But Merseyside football followers know that Liverpool have developed over the years a facility for upsetting predictions where Everton are concerned, and they will be hoping to make this game the turning point to better things. Certainly, victory over their city rivals would do much to remove the memory of their mediocre form so far. They have met five times at Goodison Park in First Division games since the war, and Everton only won once. Liverpool won two of those games, and two were drawn. Results so far this season would point to an Everton victory, but form and records count for little in "Derby" games. Providing both team give the 73,000 spectators a match to remember, played in a true sporting spirit, the majority should be satisfied. Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. The Central league "Derby" between the reserve teams at Anfield, also a 3 p.m, kick-off, is likely to have a good attendance with the overflow from Goodison. Liverpool have made arrangements for the score at the Goodison game to be replayed at Anfield every 15 minutes.

INTER-CITY FAIRS CUP
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday 21 September 1962
EVERTON COULD PLAY HOLDERS
By Leslie Edwards
If Everton beat Dunfermline in the first round of the European Inter-City Fairs Cup- the proposed dates for the two-legged tie are October 24 at Goodison Park and October 31 at Dumfermline-they will meet the winners of the Glasgow Celtic and Valencia match. Valencia won the last competition for the Fair Cup, the final being played only a fortnight ago. The possibility of a crack European team being seen in opposition to Everton here is intriguing but the chance of two games against Glasgow Celtic (who have never before played in this city in my recollection) would be even more compelling.
ST JOHN NOW DOUBTFUL FOR BIG GAME
INJURED TOEW STILL TENDER
LATE CHOICE
On the eve of the great Everton v Liverpool "Derby" match- the first in the First Division for eleven years-Liverpool find themselves faced by then prospect of being without their star centre-forward, Scottish international Ian St. John. He damaged the big toe of his right foot against Ipswich at Anfield last Saturday. The trouble has improved but the toe is still very tender. He had a test at the club's training ground at Melwood today, but it will probably be within an hour or two of kick-off time before manager Shankly decides whether he should play at Goodison Park. Fortunately Liverpool have a home reserve team match tomorrow against Everton and so a deputy can be named at a moment's notice. Kevin Lewis whose father used to play on the wing for Everton could be the alternative if St. John is unfit. He has scored nine goals at inside forward in the reserve team this season and played in several of Liverpool's vital promotion games last season. Everton will be unchanged. Teams for the Central League match at Anfield (3 p.m) are;- Liverpool; Lawrence; Jones, Molyneux; Wheeler, Lawler, Ferns; Graham, Scott, Arrowsmith, Lewis, Wallace. Everton; Dunlop; Parker, Green; Rees, Heslop, Sharples; Shaw, Harvey, Wignall, Webber, Veall.

IAN ST. JOHN FACES LAST MINUTE FITNESS TEST
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, September 22, 1962
LIVERPOOL HAVE TO FIND SOLUTION TO VERNON'S TORPEDOES TO SURVIVE
By Horace Yates
Only a fitness test this morning will decide whether or not Ian St. John, the Liverpool centre forward, will be able to play in the "derby" game with Everton, before a capacity 73,000 crowd at Goodison Park this afternoon. During the week hopes have ebbed and flowed, starting with a dismal St. John on Sunday night fearing he had little chance of playing. The position improved steadily day by day until Thursday, when prospects were at their brightest. Yesterday there was more soreness in the damaged big toe than there had been the previous day and although treatment was continued during the day and last night, all manager Bill Shankly could say was "St John is doubtful, but he has not been ruled out. We are hoping that tomorrow morning the toe may be a lot better, but we shall have to wait and see what a test reveals." If St. John has to stand down of course, it will be a terrific blow to Liverpool, and yet one which may not necessarily be mortal, for I feel sure that while Mr. Shankly declines to discuss the question of a replacement until he knows that one is necessary, he has already decided that if there is no St John, Kevin Lewis will lead the attack.
PROMOTION GOALS
Lewis opened the season as the man in possession at outside-right, held it for three matches only and was then superseded by Ian Callaghan, after failing completely to recapture his true form. Since being relegated to the reserves he has been scoring freely and playing with all his old confidence. It may be recalled that the last occasion Lewis played at centre-forward was in the promotion-clinching game of last season against Southampton at Anfield when in the absence of St. John, Lewis scored the two goals which gave Liverpool victory. Everton are more fortunate. They have no team worries, on the score of fitness at least, and the team which won at Bolton will again be on parade. I should say if there is any team in the League completely unworried by the power-might and majesty of Everton, it is Liverpool. They have faced so many situations similar to this and emerged triumphant when everything seemed to be against the possibility of their victory, that they have almost come to relish the idea of being considered the under-dog. In attempting to preview possibilities all the facts point to Roy Vernon being absolutely right when he makes Everton the best home banker of the day. I should say that any impartial handicapper, trying to equalise these teams, would concede Liverpool two goals start, but on impartial handicapper would hardly be ideally placed for his last.
TRAIL OF NERVES
Atmosphere, tradition and the needle element all part and parcel of these "derby" clashes make then as much a trial of nerves and courage as anything else, and it remains to be seen which side measures up best to a situation electrically charged. In a straight forward analysis of possibilities I would say that the Everton half back line holds the key to the problem, if they play true to form they will lock in an iron grip the Liverpool inside trio, which apart from Melia has hardly fulfilled expectations. History shows that St. John has enjoyed probably as much success against Labone as any centre forward in the game and some of Hunt's best performances have been against Everton so much so that Everton at one time explored the possibilities of putting him into their attack. What a hope! Gabriel's play is positively commanding and if Melia is able to boast a star rating at the end of hostilities, then it will represent one of the best performances of his career. Liverpool need the sort of prompting that Melia can give. If he fails to provide it, who is there to step into the breach? Harris knows of old that he has only to allow Hunt to settle on the ball to find the goalkeeper picking it out of the net, and one can expect first time hustling tackles to exploit the Hunt tendency to require time to charge into action. I would say the odds are on the half-backs.
VERNON THE DANGER
If we search for a potential match winner, it is not in the Liverpool ranks that we find him, for while Alex Young may try to lead Ron Yeats a merry dance, with his fairy-like footwork and floating movement, it is the Vernon fired torpedoes that could sink Liverpool without trace. To Gordon Milne, then, falls the task of keeping the Welsh international at bay. Milne has settled down to First Division requirements as well as any man in the Liverpool side. He is as tenacious as any terrier and he knows what is required of him. If Vernon still contrives to shoot up Liverpool, it will mean he has enjoyed more success than any of Milne's previous opponents. Everton are more dangerous on the wings than Liverpool, for Bingham's scoring record is easily the best of the four and Morrissey, who has sparkled so often in those Liverton meetings, will want to make this his best show of all. To do it, he will have to master his friend Gerry Byrne, but while the battle is on, it will be every man for himself and Byrne is a tougher obstacle than some are prepared to concede. A top rank display from Alan A'Court is overdue, but supporters will forgive him any past disappointment if he gives them cause to rejoice today. I don't expect to see either goalkeeper proving to be the weak spot in a match which could provide a magnificent spectatcle of football, for both sides are capable of hitting the highest standard. In games as keen and spirited at this is certain to be, there will be hard knocks given and taken as a matter of course, but I trust the sporting spirit will be upper most all the time and that whatever the result it will not be influenced in any way by misfortune to either side in the way of injuries. Everton are unbeaten at home, while Liverpool have yet to win away but I steer clear of giving an outright forecast, only because he records of previous meetings have shown what an awful trap these matches are for the unwary.

THEY'RE ALL NEW BOYS IN TODAY'S BATTLE
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday 22 September 1962
By Leslie Edwards
One incredible fact emerges from to-day's great "Derby" game- before a ball has been kicked! Not one member of either side has ever played in a League "Derby" in this city before. What bets one could have won on this remarkable happening? Never before in the long history of the two clubs has such a thing happened. Fern , Chedgzoy, Clennell, Thompson, Pursell and Fleetwood (Everton), and Longworth, McKinley, Lacey and Sheldon of the rival side all played pre-World War 1 " Derby" matches and again In 1919-20 season and after the Second World War others who did similarly were Joe Mercer, T. G. Jones, Alex Stevenson, Norman Greenhalgh, Stan, Bentham, Jim Harley, Nivvy," Phil Taylor, Jack Balmer and Harry Eastham Yet to -day every player who sets foot on the lush turf of Goodison Park is completely new to the fire of a pukka League match between the two senior team of this city. Everton Manager Harry Catterick, who had his share of games against the traditional enemy, must have told his team stories of old times battles in which he took part. The necessity for keeping a cool, calm head (especially when there is a chance of taking a goal) will have been stressed. I don't doubt that Mr. Catterick's opposite number at Anfield, Mr. Shankly, will also have emphasised the need for the phlegmatic approach on an occasion like this.
MUST SET EXAMPLE
Perhaps the greatest testing of all will come to the rival captains, Roy Vernon and Ronnie Yeats. They must inspire their men, but set an example in behaviour so that this city can help to regal some of the status it has lost, from time to time, in recent years. The crowd ask for hard but fair fair football. They go to be entertained and they better the football and the less the contention the better they like it. The referee, the captains and the crowd all have responsibilities in this respect. Let the two-by-two entrance of the gladiators, which did so much on its introduction between Wars to give the game a neighbourly atmosphere, continue now that the long series has been continued.
SEE-SAW EXISTENCE
The clubs last met in a League game in 1951. Judged by the enormous interest the game to-day has engendered, one would have thought that their last meeting had been in 1851. In 40 years of watching soccer in this football-crazy city I can't remember a game between the teams which created so much talk and conjecture a week in advance. Or one looked forward to with such eagerness. The long spell in which the two clubs have been Leagues apart—it's been a see-saw existence for them for the past 11 years— has heightened everyone's desire to be there "on the day." Some 50,000 who would like to be there must, from force of circumstance, "see" the game from the authoritative report in tonight's Football Echo. Goodison Park is vast, but only 73,000 holders of tickets can be inside when Referee Kevin Howley blows the whistle. My advice to him (and I doubt if he really needs it) is to take the game and the players by the scruff of the neck from the first moment. Because if they are kept disciplined the crowd on this gala occasion will follow the lead.
RESERVES ALSO MEET
The links between the two clubs behind scenes-there is now friendliness where there used to be rabid partisanship –should lead to the teams providing us with a match in the best interests of the city and of the two clubs. To say nothing of the two sets of rival supporters. And this goes for the meeting of the reserve sides at Anfield, where many who have not been fortunate enough to get a ticket for the big game will take consolation from the Central league battle-and the latest score from across the park announced at intervals. From long association with both senior clubs I have inevitably enough, been rated red and blue by turn. I like to see them both win. It makes life much easier. But they can't both win here. On the face of the evidence, so far this season, Everton have the better side. It remains to be seen whether they can translate their League superiority to the field of play. Though its long history this game has come up with surprises. One of them is that Everton have won the match only once on their own ground since the war. They should improve that record today, but it would be a brave man who would bet on them doing so. Liverpool, still the unpredictable, are capable of great stuff when the opposition is strongest.
PERSONAL DUELS
You can weigh the chances on paper a thousand times and still be proved wrong. And with every player on the field new to a tremendous occasion you are more likely to be wrong this time than any other time. The personal duels between players we see in action week by week promise to be most instructive, not least the encounter between the broad-sword of Ronnie Yeats and the rapier of Alex Young. The way this goes could be the key to the game. So go to it with an open mind, all of you, and may the better team win demonstrably, sportingly. And may the lesser take defeat with the good grace which is never lost on football spectators, no matter what their colour.
THE MANAGER SPEAK…
Mr. William Shankly (Liverpool F.C.); "On these occasions it is never wise to make predictions. We have done reasonably well so far, but not as well as we had hoped. The simple solution is that certain of our players have not played as well as we know they can. We hope they will choose today to find the form which we expect of them when they are at their best."
Mr. Harry Catterick (Everton F.C.); "I've played in Everton v. Liverpool Derby games and from my days as manager at Sheffield know the tension of corresponding matches there, but there is nothing to equal the atmosphere of the Merseyside match. Having due regard to the enormous interest in the renewal of the game here I sincerely hope we shall see an enjoyable and entertaining 90 minutes of football."
Teams
Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. Liverpool; Furnell; Byrne, Moran; Milne, Yeats, Leishman; Callaghan, Hunt, St.John, Melia, A'Court.
MEN WHO CHASES THE CHAMPIONSHIP
Gordon West (Goalkeeper)
Ever since taking over at Goodison Park, Manager Harry Catterick had felt the need of an experienced goalkeeper in case anything happened to Albert Dunlop, but it was not until just before the transfer deadline last March that he succeeded in his quest and signed English Under-23 custodian Gordon West from Blackpool at a substantial fee. West made his debut for Blackpool in December, 1960, when only 17, and was soon getting high praise for his solid work.
Mick Meagan (Right Back)
Originally signing for Everton as an amateur, Meagan became a professional just over 10 years ago, so that he has now qualified for his second benefit, and fully deserved it for his loyal and consistent work. He made his senior debut in the early part of the 1957-58 season, and though not a regular first-teamer in the last few seasons he has invariably given a very sound display when called upon. Normally a wing-half he was switched to full back when Alex Parker underwent a cartilage operation last April, and though Parker returned after missing the opening fixture this winter, Meagan was recalled after four further games.
George Thomson (Left Back)
Signed by Everton from Heart of Midlothian in November, 1960, at the same time as Alex Young. Thomson was the lesser-priced of the two by a long way, but in his own sphere has proved just as good a buy as Young. He was an automatic choice last season until injured in the third round Cup-tie against King's Lynn, an injury which later necessitated manipulative treatment and kept him out of the team two months. Has played for Scotland's Under-23 team, and is an ever-present this season.
Jimmy Gabriel (Right Half)
When Everton paid Dundee 30,000 for Gabriel in March 1960 it was the highest fee ever to change hands in this country for so young a player, but Gabriel has proved well worth it. Both an Under-23 and a full Scottish international, Gabriel is an extremely strong and determined player with a penchant for going up on the heels of his forwards and trying his luck at shooting. Last season he got six goals and has scored twice in the current campaign. Prior to this season he had missed only two League games since making his debut.
Brian Labone (Centre Half).
A very loyal player, Labone has made sacrifices for his club more than once. The first, before the unlimited wages came in was when he gave up the chance of a University career to become a full-time professional, and again last season, when he missed an England Under-23 game because of Everton's fixture with Arsenal the previous day. Unfortunately the League game was called off through weather conditions, so the sacrifice turned out unnecessary, but it cost Labone his place on two occasions, as his deputy was chosen for the next Under-23 game. A nature of Liverpool, he made his League debut at the age of 18 four seasons ago, and has rarely been absent since coming into the senior side regularly in succession to Tommy Jones.
Brian Harris (Left Back)
Now in his ninth year as a professional, Harris was originally a winger, but never shone there to anything like the extent he has since being switched to wing half. He made his League debut in 1955-56, on the same day as his namesake Jimmy now with Birmingham City, and wants only another few games to complete 200 appearances in League matches. Was born in Bebington, and first joined Everton as an amateur soon after leaving school.
Billy Bingham (Outside right)
A native of Belfast, Bingham started his career four years after the war with Glentoran, but after barely a year in Irish football was signed by Sunderland in October, 1950, spending nearly eight years on Wearside before joining Luton Town in the summer of 1958, Everton secured him on October 14, 1960, at a big fee, plus John Bramwell and Alec Ashworth, Bingham has played in 47 international matches for Ireland, including a run of 42 in succession, which only ended when Everton were unable to release him for the game against Wales 18 months ago. He is now approaching his 350th Football league appearance for all clubs, and has scored 82 goals.
Dennis Stevens (Inside Right)
Signed from Bolton Wanderers last march in order to bring more aggression and determination to the Everton front line, Stevens has been filling the bill admirably this season. Last spring he displaced Bobby Collins, who a few days later was transferred to Leeds United. Stevens a native of Dudley, joined Bolton Wanderers soon after leaving school, and spent close on 12 years at Burnden Park, playing for England Under-23 England "B", and the Football league representative 11. He complete 300 League appearances for his two clubs earlier this season.
Alex Young (Centre Forward)
One of the most stylish of all centre forwards, Young is a delight to watch, but since coming to Everton has not scored as regularly as he did in Scotland, though he was second highest marksman last season with 14 goals in 40 League games. He joined the Goodison club from Hearts, along with Thomson, in November 1960, but did not make his debut until a month later, and after one game without through injury and Army duties for another six weeks. In addition to Under-23 appearances. Young has also played for Scotland in six full internationals.
Roy Vernon (Inside Left)
Born in a Welsh village not far from Holywell, Vernon was sought by Everton when an amateur, but chose instead to join Blackburn Rovers under Manager Johnny Carey, the man who later persuaded him to come to Goodison Park after his appointment as Everton manager. That was in February, 1960, and in the last two seasons Vernon has been the club's leading scorer, with 26 League goals last winter and 21 the season before. A great ball-player as well as a strong shot, Vernon has played for Wales on 17 occasions.
John Morrissey (Outside Left)
You can bet your last shilling that young Morrissey will be pulling out all he can this afternoon in an effort to prove to Liverpool that they should never have parted with him. Born in Liverpool, he played for Liverpool and England Schoolboys and joined the Anfielders straight from school, making his League debut-after only four Central League outings-on September 23, 1957, when only 17. In his first three seasons as a professional he made only 13 first-team appearances, had 23 outings the following winter, but failed to secure a single senior chance last season. His transfer to Everton last month came with startling suddenness, and he has played in all their seven games since, without scoring so far.

MORRISSEY (EX-LIVERPOOL) IS EVERTON'S HERO
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday 22 September 1962
HARD KNOCKS IN A SCRAPPY GAME
EVERTON 2 LIVERPOOL 2
By Michael Charters
Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. Liverpool; Furnell; Byrne, Moran; Milne, Yeats, Leishman, Callaghan, Hunt, Lewis, Melie, A'Court. Referee- Mr. K. Howley (Middlesbrough).
The first sensation of the first League meeting between Everton and Liverpool for 11 years was the news that Liverpool centre forward Ian St. John had failed a fitness test this morning and his place was taken by Kevin Lewis who played centre forward last season and scored two goals against Southampton. Forty-five minutes before the kick-off the ground looked full, and yet there were still thousands outside making their way through the turnstiles. The atmosphere was electric and within seconds of the start there was a sensation when Vernon appeared to rob Furnell of the ball near the penalty spot, and pushed it over the line for what looked fantastic goal. But Mr. Howley considered that Vernon had fouled Furnell and Liverpool were given a free kick. Furnell had to have attention from the trainer to his face before the game was resumed. Bingham robbed Leishman in mid-field and set off with a clear run to the goal, but stumbled with no one near him and lost possession to Yeats. PENALTY CLAIM
Everton looked far quicker on the ball than Liverpool in these exciting early stages and Vernon broke through the middle to hit a great shot at Furnell the ball rebounding off the goalkeeper, and Everton claimed a penalty as Leishman appeared to handle the ball in making his clearance. Liverpool looked as though they were going to make an opening when Lewis moved to the left wing, but his square pass to Melia vas cut off by Labone. Then Everton were awarded a free kick for a foul by Milne on Vernon, and from Labone's kick Vernon put the ball into the Liverpool goalmouth where Yeats cleared at the expense of a corner. Bingham pulled the ball back to Meagan whose cross was slipped through to Stevens who put the ball in the net, but who was flagged offside. Thus within the first six minutes Everton had twice had the ball in the net but neither counted. A ball came out to Milne who hit a hard pass which was beautifully gathered by Callaghan, and from the youngster's centre Lewis had a wonderful chance and made a good shot, only for West to make an equally good save. A brilliant move by Bingham almost brought a goal to Everton. He back-heeled a pass to Vernon, and then ran down the middle to take the return pass, which was accurate to the inch. In heading the ball down, Bingham just pushed it far enough for Furnell to make a good save. When Liverpool attacked there was great swaying behind the Gladwys Street goal as a shot by Melia glanced off an Everton defender for a corner.

INERT INTERCEPTION
Yeats made a splendid interception to rob Vernon when the Everton skipper seemed to be breaking clear down the middle, and Liverpool's' defence generally had played well against the Everton pressure. A miskick by Leishman gave Bingham an opening and he made thirty yards with the ball before trying a left foot shot which went wide. A shot by Young from 20 yards glanced off Melia, but Furnell was still able to change direction and make a nice save low down. The tension of the occasion was so great that the players were rarely able to make a sustained move on either side. Tackling was sharp and quick. From a corner on the left Hunt got a chance for a shot when the ball was headed out, but he spooned it high over the top from no more than 10 yards. Furnell lost possession of the ball from a long cross by Harris as he was challenged by Young, but when Young returned the ball into the middle it went straight to Leishman.
PENALTY LEAD
Everton went ahead after twenty-five minutes through a penalty by Vernon-his fifth so far this season. Liverpool disputed the award for a weak shot by Stevens seemed to brush the arm of Byrne, and it may have been accidental, but Mr. Howley was quite firm in his decision, and Vernon hit the ball low past Furnell's left hand. Tempers gout out of hand when Yeats fouled Vernon and with the Everton captain still on the ground Melia ran in and tried to clear the ball. The referee had to calm them all down before the free kick was swung into the goalmouth, where Furnell made a good catch and cleared. Harris had to have attention from the trainer and resumed limping after 34 minutes. He appeared to have twisted his right foot with no one near him and when the game resumed he went on to the left wing, with Morrissey moving inside and Stevens dropping back to wing half. So far what shooting Liverpool had done had been straight at West.
THE EQUALISER
Lewis however, redeemed this with an equalising goal after 38 minutes. A long cross by A'Court was beautifully gathered by Callaghan, who had been doing very well, and when the winger put the ball back into the middle, Lewis was standing on his own in the centre of the goalmouth and hooked the ball into the net from only a couple of yards range. There had been some bad covering by the Everton defence to allow Lewis so much room. Yeats moved up into the Everton penalty area for a free kick from the right, and when the ball came to him his right foot shot turned out to be a pass to the right wing; but Everton cleared when the ball was moved into the middle. Half-time; Everton 1, Liverpool 1. Liverpool's best spell of the first half had come in the last 10 minutes or so when Harris was little more than a passenger for Everton. But the game, although always highly exciting and full of tension, had generally been very scrappy. Harris was the last of the players to return after half time, and he resumed in his proper position. Liverpool's best player was their youngest- Callaghan who so far had not put a foot wrong, and early in the second half, he beat Thomson nicely, but the Everton back brought him down with a clear foul.


WEST INJURED
From the free kick, West! Mis-fielded the ball as he went up high, the ball dropping behind him as Hunt moved in to take what appeared a gift opening. West recovered marvellously and pushed the ball away but seemed to take Hunt's boot to his face as he did so, and went down as though he had been poleaxed. He recovered after attention when he was obviously given smelling salts. Not a lot had been seen of Young so far, but he made a nice run down the right wing before crossing the ball only for Furnell to make a good catch as he went up with. Stevens. Young took a nasty toss when he landed among the photographers, and the referee moved them back before Furnell took his goal kick. Labone failed to cut off a cross from A'Court and Hunt worked the ball through before trying an angled shot which went straight into West's body. At the other end Furnell once again failed to make a clean catch of a high centre and the ball came out to Morrissey, whose attempt to lob the ball into the far corner failed by some yards. Liverpool's defence was on trouble when Young, moving out to the right, made a good centre. After Morrissey had headed the ball back it bounced around before Yeats cleared with a thundering kick. Bingham hit a hard shot into the side netting, and at this stage it was Everton dominating as they had done in the early stages of the game. Yeats was in the wars, and seemed to have been stung by some blow or other, but was back in action after attention from the trainer. At this point Everton had been awarded a right wing corner and the ball came bouncing out some ten yards outside the penalty area for Vernon to try a snap shot which went just over the bar.
A'COURT'S VOLLEY
Melia and Callaghan worked the ball cleverly down the right wing, and when Melia put in his centre A'Court running in, connected with the ball on the full volley and it went straight into West's body from only a few yards range. The goalkeeper seemed stunned-and no wonder- but played on although he must have been hurt by the power of the shot. After 62 minutes, Everton went in the lead again with a goal by Morrissey against his old side, and what a dramatic one it was too. A centre from the right was headed by Young to Vernon, whose shot was blocked by Yeats, but the ball rebounded to Morrissey. He hit the ball back instantly as Furnell was on the ground, and although Byrne, standing on the goalline, appeared to have cleared it, the referee, right on the spot, gave a goal as the ball must have crossed the line. Moran took a free kick from the region where he scored against Everton in the Liverpool senior cup last season, but this time his direction was off and the ball swung well wide. This was Morrissey's first goal for Everton, and it could not have come at a better time for his club.
MELIA'S SWITCH
Meagan got his team in trouble when he failed in his attempt to dribble the ball out of the penalty area, and Melia switched it across to the right wing, where Thomson took the full force of Callaghan's centre on his body and succeeded in averting the danger. Young slipped beautifully past Byrne and Milne, and pulled the ball back to Vernon who mis-timed his shot wide. From the goal kick the ball went straight down the middle to Hunt whose shot from some thirty yards was so powerful that West could not retain possession, although it went straight to him. He still had plenty of time to recover and clear. After a clash between Vernon and Leishman the referee spoke to both players before Everton were awarded a free kick. Everton moved the ball over to the right, but Liverpool cleared, and then Furnell failed to gather the ball cleanly for what seemed to be the tenth time, and Stevens trying a quick shot towards the empty goal failed badly. Everton were awarded a free kick for a sliding tackle by Byrne on Young over on the left, and when Thomson made a long cross, Vernon headed the ball from fully 12 yards out and Furnell had to move fast across goal to turn it over for a corner. There was a sensational end as there had been a sensational beginning when Hunt equalised for Liverpool with only a minute to go. A good centre by A'Court was headed down by Lewis and Hunt from six yards range hammered the ball into the net. Everton attacked feverishly in the closing seconds and Leishman almost headed the ball into his own net, but just put it over. Hunt's goal had broken Everton's 100 per cent, record this season. Final; - Everton 2, Liverpool 2.

MORRISSEY'S COURAGE EARNED THE VITAL GOAL
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, September 22, 1962
Say's Everton's Alex Young
Among many letters I have received this week containing good wishes for to-day's match, there was one from London which wished Everton the best of luck in the "Derby " match but also expressed the writer's disgust at being "snubbed" by the Everton team as they left the Leyton Orient ground recently. Believe me, the last thing the Everton players wish to do is upset a supporter - especially one like Brian Hulme, of 34 Holland Road, London, W.14, who tells me that since leaving Liverpool four months ago he has travelled back here for every one of our home matches. Nineteen-cars-old Brian who also claims to have been an Everton supporter since the age of five, writes: "It gets me down when you wait outside to say either: well done" or bad luck to the players, and then they don't even bother to say 'hello."' I am very sorry Brian, but much as the players would like to stop and chat to the fans after the match especially when those fans have travelled a great distance, they are not permitted to do so. The reason is that the police, especially in a residential area like Leyton, insist that the players should walk straight to their coach and I think this is quite right for if one player should stop to sign his autograph, 50 or so fans might gather round and this would only add to the congestion outside the ground. Anyway Brian, I hope we do find the opportunity to have a chat one of these days.
From The Embassy
Another interesting letter this week comes from S.A.C. W.A (Bill) McLean, whose home is at 12a Kelday Close, Northwood, Kirkby, and is now on the R.A.F. Staff at the British Embassy in Washington. S.A.C Mclean who receives his Football Echo every Tuesday is lavish in his praise for the paper. In addition to following the fortunes of Everton, he tells me that he also likes to see how Aintree S.S., Ellesmere Port Town reserves, St. Helens Town and Stafford Rangers get on, for in the past he has played for all four club. "Football over here is somewhat different than in Europe." S.A.C McLean writes, "although in our particular league, which has eight teams, the majority of the players are European by birth. "We have two referees, usually one at each end of the pitch, and this, plus the fact that there are no linesmen, usually creates an argument or two after the match. With 15 players named to complete a season- yes, only 15 allowed on the books- and these allowed to substitute at any time during the game, we have all the ingredients of a complete farce. "However," says S.A.C. McLean, "football comes out on top and the lads manage to enjoy a good game." I thank Bill Mclean very much for his letter, which contains other interesting points which I have not got room to mention here. It does seem, however, that to win that league in America a team would have to be lucky in escaping injuries.
OLD-TIMERS
From 205 Norman Road, Camp Hill, P.A., U.S.A., Mr. Lewis Gerard encloses a cutting from the "New York Times" of September 9, which shows that Everton's 3-2 win over Leicester was headline news, on the other side of the Athletic. Mr. Gerard used to live at 57 Eton Street, Walton, and says that he enjoyed watching such great old time players as Dixie Dean, Dickie Downs, Tom Fleetwood, and Sam Chedgzoy. An organist by profession Mr Gerard, who travels all over America and Canada giving recitals, says he is still a 100 per cent Everton fan and never fails to listen to the English football results when they are broadcast on short wave at 6.45 each Saturday. He closes by asking me to point out that he would be delighted to hear from anyone in Liverpool who remembers him, particularly anyone who attended Gwaldys Street school at the same time he did. A feature of our match at Bolton last Saturday was another splendid goal by Jimmy Gabriel, but I think Jimmy will be the first to agree that had it not been for the courage of left winger John Morrissey he might never have got the chance to score.
NEVER FLINCHED
After a hard shot had been blocked by Bolton goalkeeper Eddie Hopkinson, the ball travelled head high in John's direction. Despite the height of the ball, however, a defender tried to kick it clear, but John, well aware of this, never flinched as he went in to meet the ball with his head and guide it into the centre for Jimmy to score. John's reward for this effort was a painful crack on the head, but he has the consolation of knowing that this and other actions like it are quickly gaining him the reputation of being the First Division's toughest and most courageous winger. Although Bolton fielded five reserves against us, they must be given credit for fighting all the way. This is not an excuse however, for although Everton ran out comfortable winners, we did not play at all well. It's a strange game this football, especially when one considers that we played extremely well at Leyton and came away pointless, then three days later played badly at Bolton and took both points. Our 12th man at Bolton, incidentally, was Roy Parnell, who still maintains his 100 per cent, record as our lucky mascot. By the way the cancellation of our Inter-Cities Fairs Cup visit to Greece could be a blessing in disguise. The journey to Dunfermline will be far less tiring, and as I once played with the British Army in Salonica I can tell you that the shale, tennis court-like pitch there might have resulted in an injury or two which we could ill afford during mid-season.

MANY NEAR MISSES AT ANFIELD
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday 22 September 1962
WIGNALL IN LIVELY FORM
GRAHAM'S RUN
Liverpool Res;- Lawrence; Jones, Molyneux; Wheeler, Lawler, Ferns; Graham, Scott, Arrowsmith, Smith, Wallace. Everton Res; Dunlop; Parker, Green; Rees, Heslop, Sharples; Shaw, Harvey, Wignall, Webber, Veall. Referee; Mr. J. Whittaker (Bacup). Everton kicked off and went straight into the attack and the Liverpool goal was under pressure, until a free kick taken by Heslop saw Shaw shoot wildly over. Play went from end to end with Everton still the more aggressive, and from a corner by Webber, Sharples shot over the bar with goalkeeper Lawrence completely beaten. A lovely movement started by Ferns on the left with a cross field pass to Graham, ended when Smith shot wide of the far post. Everton returned to the attack, and Jones was forced to give away another corner, but this was safely cleared. From a goal kick, Wignall got through on his own and with only the goalkeeper to beat he shot straight at Lawrence and the ball bounced away to safety. The best shot of the match came from Graham, taking the ball down on the right wing put in a fierce 30 yard drive which beat Dunlop but his the crossbar and went out of play. A lovely Everton right wing passing movement between Shaw, Rees, and Wignall saw Lawrence make a good save from Harvey's final shot, Wignall then headed on to the bar during a goalmouth scrimmage, and Everton were looking much more dangerous. Passes were going astray, but Liverpool began to show more fight. Both goals were bearing a charmer life. Twice Wignall headed on to the crossbar after a pass by Webber, but on a second occasion the ball went to Molyneux who was able to clear.
LOVELY DRIBBLE
Dunlop was lucky when another shot from Smith sailed inches over the bar, and then a lovely Wallace dribble down the left wing was spoilt when Arrowsmith missed his first-time shot and Parker was able to clear. Wignall was by far the most dangerous forward on the field, but he was just not having any luck, and another shot from close range was pushed round the post by Lawrence. Half-time; Liverpool Res nil, Everton Res nil.

NO THRILLS LIKE DERBY GAME THRILLS
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, September 24 1962
EVERTON AND LIVERPOOL PROVIDE COMPENSATION FOR ELEVEN LOST YEARS
EVERTON 2, LIVERPOOL 2
By Horace Yates
For eleven years we have waited for this day when Everton and Liverpool should renew rivalry on equal terms in the First Division, without minor cup trimmings as an excuse for bringing the teams together. While we have thrilled to fare in the artificial atmosphere, after the real thing provided at Goodison Park in the grand reunion on Saturday, the previous games were relegated into their proper place as makeweights. This was a rip- roaring, tension packed, excitement laden and full-blooded return to reality-and how the capacity 73,000 crowd loved it. I would not argue with any contention that there have been more spectacular, more classical exhibitions of football in "derby" encounters, but for sheer thrills and unrelenting drama this battle zooms to a very high place in the list of matches which have excited me most. It had almost everything required for complete entertainment. In the beginning we had a sensational goal scored and disallowed, and in the end there came another goal, this time legitimate and honour saving. If this, then, was the outer part of the sandwich, the filling was almost equally wholesome, nourishing and satisfying. From time to time there was a little show of temperament, coming where experience has taught us to look for it, but for the most part the players were too busy getting on with the game to lower its standard with vexatious illegalities. Only "derby" atmosphere could have raised a game like this to such high entertainment level. Taking points there were in profusion, providing material enough, I should say, to keep the rival fans arguing until the next capacity gate at Anfield on February 9, when the second get-together has been arranged. If anyone in cold blood, had been asked to endure the thunderclap of sound for ninety minutes that they so willingly contributed to at Goodison, even the boldest might have shrunk from the invitation. Beyond any doubt, the Merseyside of today is the unrivalled centre of soccer enthusiasm. No other city could lay on an atmosphere such as this and whether or not Liverpool supporters were in a minority in that vast crowd, they certainly made noise enough to suggest that they stole a match on the Everton fans by going into special training for this vocal contest.
EQUABLE VERDICT
Any verdict but a draw would have been a travesty of justice for while both teams supporters may offer reasons why their particular side should have won, I for the life of me could not see a side which deserved to lose. Liverpool obviously went into the game as the underdogs, the team without a chance in almost all neutral opinion, and when St. John had to cry off because of his foe injury, the odds against them could only have lengthened. That was the pre-match setting and for the opening ten minutes the game ran its expected course, with Everton completely dominating and threatening to rain the contest by making it so one-sided. Only fifth-one seconds had elapsed from the kick-off to the ball nestling in the Liverpool net, and no amount of argument will convince me that it was not a perfectly legitimate goal. Furnell had flung himself on the ball on the goal line to prevent the concession of a corner kick. As he ran forward and bounced the ball, Vernon chased from the rear. If there was any sort of contact between Furnell and Vernon at that stage I missed it, but the goalkeeper lost control of the ball, Vernon pulled it clear and wheeled round to hit it into the net. Whether Furnell took his eyes off the ball at the vital moment, or whether he suddenly became a victim of nerves I know not, but if the referee had awarded a goal, I doubt there would have been a whimper of protest from any quarter. In the event this goal timed as it was might easily have ruined the afternoon's entertainment, had it been allowed. Instead it merely became inflammatory topic No 1.
DANGEROUS EVERTON
In seven minutes Stevens had beaten Furnell again, but the thrill was killed before it was born, so clearly was Dennis offside. Still, two balls in the net in seven minutes was a gripping enough start. I made it 13 minutes before the Liverpool attack began to earn their followers cheers, and then a cracking drive from Lewis was saved only at the second attempt by West. Everton's direct approach looked much more dangerous than Liverpool's more lateral reply, and whatever Furnell may have done well or badly throughout the game he certainly saved Liverpool when he interrupted a Vernon-Bingham duel attack with a courageous leap which took the ball right off the toe of Bingham. The game was bubbling all right and crack shot Hunt helped to keep it on the boil as he ran into the ideal position with the ball at his feet, only to sky a shot harmlessly over the bar. Seemingly Liverpool had weathered Everton's first assault wave and were competing on much more level terms when sheer disaster befell them. Without a doubt the ball struck Byrne on the arm in the penalty area, but a more innocuous situation I can hardly imagine giving rise to a penalty. Certainly it was ball to arm and not arm to ball. Even the referee, I thought, hesitated before making the award. Once he has pointed to the spot he could not have been firmer, but I rated it his second major blunder of the match.
NO DANGER
There was no suggestion of imminent danger of the Liverpool goal no excuse for any defender exposing his side to such a risk. The one consolation was that here at any rate, two wrongs had made a right, for if Vernon had been denied one goal he had been presented with another, his fifth penalty goal of the season. The pendulum was swinging firmly in favour of Liverpool as Harris went down with an ankle injury, and resumed only as an outside left with Stevens at half-back. Liverpool were proving themselves bonny fighters and Gabriel was forced into a lot of unproductive chasing trying to eliminate Melia's strategical contribution while Hunt was really going all out in his efforts to make his presence felt. Yet it was A'Court, a refreshingly improved winger in this match, who crossed the ball that produced Liverpool's equaliser. Without Callaghan this was never a scoring cross, for the ball was passing over by the by-line when Callgahan with the most accomplished bit of juggling, hooked it back to the feet of Lewis, who drove it into goal first time, just ten minutes from the interval. In their opening game at Burnley, Everton showed the alarming weakness of their goal-packing drill, leaving a player exposed to a ball that completely crosses their goal. It cost them a goal then and another against Sheffield Wednesday but that the weakness is still there unchecked was shown when Melia by-passed the Everton goal and A'Court running in, crashed a terrific drive into West's body. How the goalkeeper stood up under the impact I just don't know.
MORRISSEY'S JOY
In sixty two minutes Morrissey had scored the goal which probably brought him greater joy than any in his career. Not only was it his first for Everton, but it was also against his old pals. It was a Furnell failure to smother the ball that left Morrissey with a shooting chance and he drove the ball pass Yeats and Milne. Moran headed the ball out of goal, but not before the referee had decided it had crossed the line. Clearly Moran did not agree, but his view was comparatively unimportant. Both Stevens and Lewis missed open goals and Furnell saved at full stretch from Vernon and Thomson, before Goodison exploded in acknowledgement of Hunt's equaliser, with less than a minute left for play. Again it was A'Court who put the ball over, Lewis, inches smaller than Labone, got up high enough to head forward and down and Hunt moved in relentlessly to shoot almost out of the hands of the diving West. Had the match been stage managed, the plot could not have unfolded with greater drama. Everton did not play as well as we know they can, although I thought there was more skill in their approach, but maybe it was that Liverpool were such terriers that further reward was denied then. Young's almost complete lack of contribution was testimonial to the defensive excellence of Yeats, and I thought Vernon and Stevens tried hardest to shake off opponents as persistent as shadows. Milne indeed, had a splendid match. The best of the four wingers was probably the youngest of them all- Ian Callaghan. Neither the First Division nor a 73,000 "derby" crowd has daunted this talented youngster, who had Thomson flying distress signals.
EFFECTIVE HARRIS
Harris, despite his injury, was far more effective than Gabriel even though he lost his man in the vital dying seconds, and Labone, so much the master of almost every situation was marked absent when Lewis scored and was beaten again when the centre-forward made Hunt's goal. Whether Liverpool would have been the better for the inclusion of St. John must be a master of opinion. Lewis may not have made his forward line flow, but against that he scored one goal and made the other-and goals do count. The most relieved player at Goodison when the final whistle sounded was probably Jim Furnell, for whom the game must have been a nightmare, I have never seen him fumble and lose possession so frequently. When so many others will choose this as a game to remember, for Furnell it must be one to forget. West's activities gave rise to far less anxiety, but of course he was not in the firing line quite so often as his opposite number whose first minute experience must have shaken him to the core. If Morrissey gained nothing else from his duel with Byrne but the goal, he could afford to be content, but despite that and the penalty, for me Byrne was one of the men of this match. Bingham's best contributions came not as a winger, but when he forsook the touch line in favour of infield excursions. Still, a vote of thanks to all for five star entertainment. Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon (captain), Morrissey. Liverpool;- Furnell; Bryne, Milne; Yeats, Leishman, O'Callaghan, Hunt, Lewis, Melia, A'Court. Referee Mr. K. Howley.

EMPHASIS ON ATTACK
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, September 24, 1962
LIVERPOOL RES 2, EVERTON RES 0
Liverpool Reserves fully deserved their victory over Everton Reserves in this Central League derby game at Anfield on Saturday. The game was played at a brisk pace throughout. Both sides laid emphasis on attacking play, and if luck had been with Everton centre forward Wignall and Liverpool's young outside right Graham in the first half, there would have been a spate of goals. Wignall headed against the crossbar twice with Lawrence well beaten, and Graham's shots from the right wing gave Dunlop plenty to do. Both goals came in the second half, when Liverpool increased their pressure. Arrowsmith's bullet-like shot from a Graham cross near the corner flag gave Dunlop no chance and the second goal was the result of another Arrowsmith shot which Dunlop was only able to parry away to the feet of Scott, who made no mistake from about five yards. Liverpool should have had another goal when Smith was brought down in the penalty area but Wheeler shot straight at Dunlop. Considering the occasion, both sides played good clean football and except for the first five minutes of the second half, when three players were slightly injured, referee Whittaker from Bacup, had an easy match to control.

HARD, EXCITING, NOISY, TEMNSE-BUT NO CLASSIC
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Monday, September 24 1962
By Leslie Edwards
A just verdict—but only just! That, in a sentence, sums up the memorable game at Goodison Park. It was hard, exciting, entertaining noisy, tense and fluctuating, but never a football classic. How could it be, with the atmosphere so charged—with dynamite? Many, including those who only go on special football occasions, thought it commonplace; the regulars, of whom I am one, probably rated it as an outstanding meeting of seniors of our city because it had a thousand agonising twists of fortune: a dozen incidents to keep us talking for weeks and two disallowed scores that will be debated for as long as there is an Everton. Seventy-three thousand people (rather too many, I would say, on the terraces) gave this first League Derby for eleven years an extraordinary back-cloth of sound and movement. They were never still, never silent. They swayed: they roared: they cheered: they chanted. Almost from first to last, Ever-ton! Liverpool! But this week there were no staccato handclaps. For the simple reason that most of the people in the ground were packed so tight there wasn't room for them to get one hand to the other. Obviously the intensity of the occasion was translated to the players, and to the minds and hands of the goalkeepers in particular. In midfield a mistake could be covered up: on the goal-line errors were blatantly obvious and sometimes penalising. Yet if West and Furnell, as last-liners, had their fumbling moments they contributed a great deal when to be less than courageous and competent would have been excusable.
Life's ironies . . .
How ironic that Liverpool should be the first team to take a point at Goodison Park this season, that Morrissey, until a few weeks ago a man Liverpool had not placed in the senior side for more than a season, should get his first goal for his new club against his old teammates, that Kevin Lewis, pitchforked into the side at the last moment in place of Ian St. John, and the son of in old Everton player, should score one equaliser and help to make the other. How ironic that Everton should have not one, but two "goals" disallowed (the first in that dramatic first minute) and that Byrne, perhaps the most brilliant performer of them all, should be the man whose arm gave Everton a penalty decision when contact between ball and player was feather-light and no particular danger threatened. Life and football is full of such uncommon linking, but these ninety minutes produced more than their quota. When the teeming thousands, limp, exhausted and hoarse, moved away at the final whistle, none could deny that they hadn't had their money's worth. Whatever they paid. It was a tremendous start and a tremendous finish and never for any intervening moment was there any slowing of the pace—on-field or off! The relief of a battle which ended even, with eleven whole players still standing and the pitch free of encroachers, must have been shared by the managers, the referee, the police, the ambulance men of St. John and certainly this columnist, whose praise goes to everyone concerned. The game I thought, bubbled at near boiling point all the way. Happily it never boiled over to make a great domestic football occasion a kitchen-bink tragedy.
Asked, answered
Should the referee have disallowed Vernon a goal?' Was Stevens offside when he hammered the ball into the net? Did Byrne intend to handle? These are the salient questions the match posed. Evertonians argue that when Vernon chivvied Furnell out of possession and rolled the ball gently into an empty net the verdict should have been goal. They maintain that Furnell, bouncing the ball as he pivoted to get clear of his challenger, lost it and should have paid penalty. The call for the trainer, they say, covered Furnell's confusion at such a blunder in the opening sixty seconds. Liverpool fans argue that the goalkeeper lost the ball because he was rapped on the hand. That could be, but from where I sat this was not discernible. Of the Stevens goal I can only say this the linesman on the main stand side had his flag raised before the player even reached the ball and it staffed raised while he went on and rocketed his shot home. Of the penalty incident from which Vernon sauntered half way to the spot before scoring impudently, it can be said that the full back's arm came into the slightest contact with the ball in the penalty area. We have to take Mr Howley's word (and whistle) for it that the arm moved intentionally. Just as 73,000 saw all these incidents so there must be 73,000 different versions of what happened and why. They will mostly be coloured according to the redness or blue ness of the people who hold them. Not being either I think Vernon's goal was probably good: Stevens position probably offside and Byrne's offence likely to be unintentional. But you don't get everything you deserve in soccer and no one, not even referee Howley is infallible. He did well enough. I maintain, remembering the horse-power of the machine he was set to control. But if he had been firmer at the outset we should have been spared the few ugly tackles which threatened to make the game and the crowd explode.
Like one o'clock gun
Unforgettable moments were many. The first-minute goal which wasn't, Yeats' telescopic leg reaching out to turn Bingham's header for a corner: Stevens' joy -cut-short score: Callaghan's acrobatic skill in keeping the ball in play and offering Lewis a chance which West denied him brilliantly: Vernon's cheeky penalty: Lewis great half volley from Callaghan's clever lob to make the scores level at the interval. Then afterwards, amid goalkeeping misfieldings, a shot by Morrissey over an empty net and an A'Court volley from Melia which brought down the house and all but bored a hole in West. A'Court hit the ball with all his power as he ran in. Even amid the din it sounded like the one o'clock gun. And the thud as the hall buried itself in the goalkeeper amidships a moment later was for the entire world like the sound re-echoing at Pier Head. How the goalkeeper clung to the ball and had enough wind and sense to get rid of it remains the great mystery of the 1962 Derby. Morrissey shot through the ruck to put Everton 2-1 ahead was yet another thing photographed on one's memory. So was the was the ball was hooked out from over the line to find its way miraculously to the arms of Furnell when he must have been standing at least 15 yards away from his sentry beat! After Young, Moran (free-kick) and Hunt had all made strikes, they changed the ball, but not Liverpool's luck. Purnell mishandled and Stevens missed a clinching chance: Vernon and Leishman were lectured. Furnell then saved two very awkward ones at the goal angle, one from Vernon's header (via Thomson) and the other from Thomson. Then with Liverpool seeming fated to lose A 'Court produced the centre from which Lewis made the downward nod for Hunt to slide in and beat West to it for a goal which tied the scores at 2-2 and drew the final ecstatic roar for the Liverpudlians.
On and off in pairs
The players had come on, traditionally in pairs (to the accompaniment of the Z cars theme song). They went off almost two-by -two to tumultuous applause and some handshakes. If there had been eleven A'Courts faced by eleven Mick Meagans, Mt. Howley could have stayed at home. I said if… Liverpool played above themselves; if they had not they could not have snatched a point: I think Everton were probably surprised their opponents played so well. For half an hour Everton had the game in their grip; then Harris injured himself and was forced on to the wing. From that moment Liverpool came into the game with their challenge. The second-half was their best and the final twenty minutes produced the most sustained football from both sides. For me Byrne was the day's hero. And one with a bloodied nose. He has never played better or more determinedly. Callaghan, too, was first-class an eye-opening case of another local boy making good. Milne, whose hand was accidentally trodden on, had some great moments; Hunt excused all defensive work, had his best game of the season. Lewis under the thumb of Labone, for the most part "escaped" twice to score and to provide the ammunition for Hunt. I have seen Young play better—and Vernon. They moved the hall as if it were a hot potato. Maybe they were right to do so in face of such stern tackling. Meagan often failed to match A'Court's speed—that was where danger to Everton lay: Bingham and Stevens, a most valuable wing gave Leishman and Moran a thorough testing. Until his Injury Harris was playing like an England half-back and Melia, all through, got close to his form as a potential England inside-forward. Our thanks our due to twenty-two players for making this such a rumbustious, exciting and enthralling, afternoon's watching with a result, as I have said, just- but only just! The breaks, I thought, went Liverpool's way.

DERBY, AT ANFIELD, HE SAYS, SHOULD BE FREE
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Tuesday 25 September 1962
By Leslie Edwards
A host of correspondence today, not a lot of it, mercifully, dealing with events at Goodison Park on Saturday. Nearly everyone appears to have been satisfied with an exciting match and the result, though that disallowed Vernon goal will be the subject of heated debate for as long as followers of the two clubs foregather. It is extraordinary what a diversity of opinion there is as to the standard of play in the match. "The crudeness of it," says J. M. Shaw, of Farnworth Street, Liverpool 6, "makes me wonder whether we are going to be allowed into Anfleld free for the return game." Another complainant (though not about the performance on the field). R. Prescott, of 79 Sunbeam Road, Liverpool 13, cracks: "As a Liverpool supporter who visited Goodison Park for the local Derby. I found another instance of why Everton F.C. are about the richest club in the land. A 16-page programme cost sixpence, whereas at Anfield the same 16-page programme costs only four-pence. The printers are the same in both cases." That incorrigible Anfield wit, David Darley, whose further suggestion to popularise Everton and Liverpool appears lower in this column, says, "I did enjoy the game, despite being pushed, showed, battered and half suffocated. Not a classic, but what could one expect in an atmosphere so electric? By the way, how on earth do you and your colleagues observe such strict neutrality? Heaven knows that I try to myself, but in spite of all my efforts I don't succeed." It is good to know that at least one reader confirms the neutrality o this columnist. One can only try to be neutrality of this columnist. One can only try to be objective and fair and see the best in both clubs.
Hence no film . . .
Great minds think alike, they say. Thus James Gallacher (40 Lynstead Road, Liverpool 14) asks me to do what I' ve spent hours doing already—getting a copy of that B.B. C. film of Saturdays game to break it down into still photographs and see just what did happen when Vernon dispossessed Furnell in the first minute and had his " goal" disallowed. Mr. Gallacher asks the clubs concerned to try to borrow the full-length film so that it can be shown to old age pensioners who were unable to see the match. After a dozen calls to the B.B. C, and two down appealing conversations with people who did not happen to be on leave, I discovered that the F.A. contract with the B.B. C. prohibits the Corporation from loaning films and allowing them to be shown elsewhere. A pity for the old aged pensioners and for those who still cannot understand why Mr.Howley ruled that what seemed a good goal should not count. Was a crowd of 73,000 too many people to have in the ground? Goodison Park has accommodated thousands more in its time, but it did seem to me that people on the terraces below and in front of the main stand were unduly crushed and uncomfortable. Maybe the extra 3,000 over 70,000 made a world of difference. I hope some older old-timer than myself will come to the aid of T. Lloyd (45 Brookside Avenue, Liverpool 14) in remembering an incident in a match at Anfield long ago when Donald McKinlay broke the crossbar with a free-kick aimed at the Kop goal. Mr. Lloyd thinks the opposition were Notts County and believes that Sam Hardy (still alive in Derbyshire) was in the Nottingham goal. I have a lively recollection of Donald McKinlay's bulleting free-kicks, but I don't remember one which broke the bar. Harry Chambers I saw burst the ball with one of his hard-hit drives in a night match at the same ground.
It pays to advertise
Reverting to that man Darley. Listen to what he's cooked up (but don't take it too seriously) to make Evertonians fond of Anfield and Liverpudlians fond of Goodison Park. " After much diligent research and consideration I have devised a plan, simple and comparatively inexpensive, by which both our senior clubs can, if they wish (and I am sure they do) increase their attendances by about 30,000 for each home game. Impossible? A dream? Not at all. Here's the way; - "Both clubs have, I suppose, a hard core of about the figure quoted, of supporters who would in no circumstances dream of going to the opposition's games. Right. Now all that is needed is a vigorous publicity campaign to sell the attractions of the clubs to rival supporters. "For a start, at Anfield, a board might be carried round in the wake of the sportsmen who advise us of the forthcoming attraction at the Stadium. The notice would perhaps read: ' You like Scottish centre forwards? There's a good one at Goodison, too. At Everton the notice might display: ' After the Everton School of Science, why not try the Anfield Academy of Art. Leaflets could be distributed at Everton matches showing Jim Furnell in action, and saying I keep out everything, except my friends, from Everton—they are always welcome at Anfield. "At Anfield the leaflets would he of Brian Labone, stating—" I bar all centre forwards, but Everton is always wide open to my friends from The Kop." "The next step would be television, of course, and to the persuasive chaps who convince us nightly of the magic powers of ' Splosho.' Sludgo ' and ' Scummo ' (when every husband who's tackled the weekly wash in his wife s absence knows everything comes out a dirty grey, anyway) the conversion of Red to Blue and vice-versa should be mere child's play. "Once the transformation is complete, the situation would have intriguing possibilities. Picture the scene at Anfield after the game, when the announcement is made that Everton have been beaten 4-0. Instead of the customary cheers, the Anfield air would be rent with groans and strong men in red and white scarves would be led sobbing from the ground. "True, there would be some opposition from the ladies, who have hitherto relied on their spouses' support on the home front every other Saturday, but another campaign could be directed at them stressing, perhaps, Alex Young's smashing hair-do, Roger Hunt s profile, or Ron Yeats's physique. "This accomplished, the weekly attendances would be up around the 100,000 mark, and at this stage I pass the ball on to Messrs, Moores and Williams. "If any readers have any ideas of their own to further this great cause, please put them in a sealed envelope, with two aspirins, and send them to Leslie Edwards "

FITNESS TESTS FOR TWO AT GOODISON
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express - Wednesday 26 September 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Two Everton players will need fitness tests before the side for the match against West Bromwich Albion, at Goodison Park, on Saturday is announced. Left-winger Morrissey has a pulled thigh muscle; half-back Harris is nursing a twisted ankle. Harris' trouble is responding to treatment, but Morrissey's is making slow progress. Billy Bingham, the club's right winger has been released to play- at outside left- in the Irish team which plays in Poland the week after next.
Neil Young, Manchester City's 18-years-old wing forward who can play equally as well on either flank, has been the centre of attraction of several clubs, including Everton, have manager Harry Catterick saw the youngster in action in the League Cup game with Blackpool on Monday evening.

BUT THE MONEY'S GOOD, SAYS VERNON
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Wednesday 26 September 1962
By Leslie Edwards
From the sublime (73,000 at Goodison Park) to the ridiculous (about 4,000 of Halifax Town).
That is the way of it on Saturday for the referee of the Derby game, Kevin Howley, of Middlesbrough. He told me to-day: "I'll find it difficult this week to appreciate that I'm of o football match. There was never any doubt that I had a match on my hands at Everson. What an atmosphere! What a scene! I wish I had a game like it every week." The man in charge at Goodison Park received a fee of only £7 7s plus expenses: Everton players two have wage packets of something considerably over £100 each for their work. When Furnell was injured going down to the feet of a forward Referee Howley observed to Roy Vernon: "I would have thought twice before I would have dared to do that." Vernon's comment: "Maybe. but the money's good " Mr. Howley is convinced that he was right to disallow Vernon's first-minute score hits version of the incident was that in harassing Furnell. Vernon, accidentally or otherwise, touched the goalkeeper's elbow and caused him to lose possession. Mr. Howley says that Furnell's hand injury came later when he was scrambling to the ball to try to present Vernon from shooting. The referee was full of praise for the players. "In view of the tremendous atmosphere they did extraordinarily well and made my job much easier than it would have been in other circumstances." he said. Would he get the return at Anfield? He thought not; the same referee does not automatically get the appointment. The league would probably give some other official the honour, and fun, of the second meeting.

EVERTON NEWS
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Thursday, September 27 1962
Everton at home to West Bromwich Albion, will give fitness tests to Harris (twisted ankle) and Morrissey (pulled muscle) before announcing the team. Everton Supporters club fans are chartering a plane to take members to see Everton play at Dunfermline in the Inter-City Fair Cup on Wednesday, October 31. It will leave Speke at 5 p.m., returning immediately after the match. Two players formerly with city clubs were much in the picture in last night's battle between Cologne and Dundee, in Germany.

AFTERMATH OR AFTERMYTH
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Thursday, September 27 1962
By Leslie Edwards
More aftermath (some might say aftermyth) of the "derby" game. The most novel suggestion, and it is sensible, comes from James Davey, 8 Warden Street, 4, who argues;" When Vernon ran from behind Furnell he was in an offside position; hence the free kick. It is so simple." This is one the referee and linesman never thought of! One man who saw only 30 minutes play, M.S. Marlowe, 17 Nelson Street, New Brighton, explains why; "I protest to Everton at the overcrowding, I bought a ground ticket (Gwlady's Street) and was kicked, shoved and generally knocked about.
After suffering this for 30 minutes-during which time I saw the ball three times –I left in disgust. "Attending matches one expects to be jostled, but with 73,000 in Goodison Park is ridiculously overcrowded, 60,000 would be nearer to a figure which would allow ALL to see the game. "But perhaps clubs are not concerned with giving real value for money, only with the packing 'em in until some further disaster like the Bolton one occurs."
Other "derby" day ruminations from reader: - "I was with my father, an Evertonian, behind the Gwlady's Street goal. If the rest of the crowd enjoyed it as much as we did they got their money's worth. What fun we had with three Blues, one of them from Bebington. But why no pre-match spectacle –a band, &c,? –J.E. Trowler, 16 Whinfield Road, Liverpool 9.
"The decision to disallow Vernon's goal was one of the worst and most scandalous I've ever known.
The referee was running up the field with is back to the goal when the crowd's roar caused him to turn and see the ball in the net"- W. Cashman, Stanley Road, Liverpool 5.
"Was Morrissey's shot over the line when it was headed out?" I am certain this was another blunder by the referee. The ball did not cross the line at all, much less the whole of the ball. Just before the ball went to Vernon it was handled by Stevens in the Liverpool penalty area, but no free-kick was given." E. Spedding, 9 Ranworth Close, Liverpool 11.

IS TIME NOW RIPE FOR EVERTON TO RECALL ALEX PARKER TO FIRST TEAM?
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, September 28, 1962
By Horace Yates
What is happening to Alex Parker? Everton's Scottish international right back has been out of the team for five matches, his longest break with first team football since he made his debut at Aston Villa on November 9, 1958, part from his absence at the end of last season when he was afflicted with cartilage trouble. One might have thought he was in danger of becoming Goodison's forgotten man were it not for the letters I have received from supporters, championing his case and asking how Everton can afford to keep him in the reserves. John Douglas Bootle describes him as the best right back in Britain and adds "Everton are only Ridding themselves if they pretend they have a better back on their books."
JUGGLING WITH THREE
I too have a big admiration for Parker, even if I would hardly go quite so far as Mr. Douglas and while I agree that Mick Meagan has exceeded all expectations in his emergency role, Everton full backs have not always been so impressive that a bit of juggling with the three available players might not have produced a better combination with Parker as one of those selected. His clean, decisive tackling and his flair for attack give him credentials which make a top-form Parker a decided acquisition to any side. I subscribe to the contention that his recall is overdue and that the Everton team would be stronger for his inclusion, whether Meagan or Thomson were to be given the left back position. Let us examine the results of the side so far as this season has gone, and possibly we may find them illuminating. Parker lost his place following the 0-1 reverse at Fulham on September 1. In the matches in which he did not play, Everton conceded one goal, at Burnley, kept a clean bill in the home game with Leyton Orient, yielded two goals against Leicester, three at Leyton, a clean sheet against Bolton and two against Liverpool. This means that in his six matches, eight goals have been conceded. With Parker in the side there was never more than one goal against the team, and none at Old Trafford, a match curiously enough in which Parker probably experienced his poorest display in an Everton jersey. Admittedly it is not always the fault of the full backs when goals are conceded, but at the same time Everton gave away fewer goals than any Division One club last season, and in the previous season only the top two clubs Tottenham Hotspur and Sheffield Wednesday could show a more watertight defence and Parker played his part well in both campaigns. Only then, if Parker has lost form following his operation or the emergence of a classier replacement would I appear that the evidence is against him. If he is being asked to play himself back to peak form in the reserves so and good, but if reports which reach me are correct, parker is again hammering at the first team door. Some correspondents are concerned lest Parker may be transferred. In that connection all I can say is that any reports suggesting a move for Parker are entirely unofficial, if the whisper had been anything other than that I do not think there would have been any lack of interest in him. Everton will have need of Parker and I would be amazed if this were not the official view. Whether the time is ripe to restore him must be a matter for Everton, and Everton alone, but at least one would like to think that such a possibility is receiving urgent consideration.

ROY VERNON SAYS...
Liverpool Daily Post, Friday, September 28, 1962
I COULD HAVE CRIED WHEN HUNT EQUALISED
The "derby" is over, but that does not mean it is forgotten. Far from it. I expect the various arguments will go on for a long time, and that is hardly surprising, for there were more debatable points in last Saturday's match than in two or three normal games, I don't mind confessing that when I saw Roger Hunt score that last minute equaliser, I felt as though had been kicked in the stomach, I could have cried. If you could have come into the Everton dressing room, I think you might have thought we had been beaten, so disappointed were we all, and it needed some encouragement from Mr. Harry Catterick to make us forget our sorrows. "Don't worry," he said "there's always February 9 to think about." After all, it will not be so bad if we take three points out of four from Liverpool, and I believe we can. Probably the most explosive incident was that in which I figured the first-minute goal that did not count. I would like to tell the story, as I saw it. In the first place, nothing will alter my view that it was a perfectly good goal. O saw Furnell go for the ball and pick it up. In the ordinary course of events I don't think I would have bothered to challenge him for normally. It is just a waste of energy and gets you nowhere.
GOLDEN CHANCE
But I looked at it this way. Here we were with a 73,000 crowd and an atmosphere that could be felt. If I felt it what then would be the feelings of the two young goalkeepers experiencing their first Everton-Liverpool game? I reckoned that either might be panicked into making a mistake and it was a golden opportunity to put my theory to the test. Whether Furnell was unlucky enough to get a bad bounce, whether the ball struck his foot as he bounced the ball or whether he just had a fit of nerves. I cannot say, but I do know that the ball bounced clear of him straight to me. I whipped round and put it into the net. I was staggered when the goal was disallowed for there was never anything approaching a foul. That I can say with absolute certainly for the simple reason that there was never any contact between Furnell any myself. When Ron Yeats dashed up to Furnell and told him I was not a goal, his face lit up with a smile. It is true that Furnell received attention from the trainer, but what it could have been for I have not the slightest clue. The only way he could have injured himself, was when he fell to the ground and seemed to beat the turf with big hands. Although I do not consider the match was a classic it was a good one in which to play. Dangerous, some of you may think. Not at all. There was the old incident but I have played in far tougher games. As a matter of fact it was impressed on us before we went on the field that we were to play football and try to run Liverpool off their feet. What is more, I believe that if that first minute goal had counted that is what we would have done. Perhaps it was a good thing for the crowd that the goal was disallowed but it was not so good for us.
VALUABLE POINT
All it cost us in pounds, shilling and peace were two pounds, but while money is important, it is not the end of everything. It also cost us a point, a very valuable point, for we are chasing the championship and points dropped at home are always a cause for concern, if only because they are twice as hard in earn away from home. "I don't know how you can be so cool when taking a vital penalty kick," someone said to me after the game if only he had known. When the referee pointed to the spot, I let everyone get on with the usual protestations and appeals and took advantage of the time lag to take a little walk round. I needed it just to make sure that my legs had not turned to jelly. Then when I came up to take the kick I could have fumed for joy for if I had been given the privilege of placing Furnell where I wasted him, I would not have asked him to move an inch. It was a great tonic for I knew it would be a goal. Experience has taught me never to take anything for granted, and yet that is what we did when Liverpool scored the first equaliser. It looked a thousand to one on the ball going out of play and I think we reacted accordingly. How young Callaghan brought it back into play I don't know, but it did him the greatest credit. Credit too for Lewis, who was on the spot to bang the ball home but it was a nasty jolt all the same. All I will say about our second goal is that in my view it was a perfectly good goal despite anything Moran may have to say to the contrary. I expected to have my leg pulled quite a bit at having to settle for a draw but I think the explanation probably lies in the fact that the Liverpool supporters are too busy celebrating their good fortune.

100 REFEREES SHORT –AND NO WONDER
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday 28 September 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Football authority in Liverpool Is short of 100 referees this season. And no wonder. If the treatment of referees of Football League matches is any criterion the marvel is that volunteers can be found to endure indignity week after week when performing their thankless task. Almost every day we see or hear of trouble at grounds in Britain or on the Continent. The man in charge is inevitably the butt of the players and or spectators. The system of Football League clubs assessing the performance of the man with the whistle is wrong fundamentally and psychologically. Whenever, I wonder, does a referee get full marks from a club whose defeat at home he has inadvertently caused by giving a disputed penalty? The appointment of referees should be taken out of the hands of the League and the Football Association. Referees' Societies should be empowered to make their own appointments. If referees banded together and took a firm line and refused to officiate until conditions were made better, and fairer, they would win their tactical battle. They and the spectators who pay at the gate are the only indispensables of League football. Imagine what chaos there would be if League referees and linesmen dug in their toes and refused to handle matches until conditions were improved. I hope to see the day when they take action and secure for themselves elementary rights. Then, and only then, will we be spared the disgusting spectacle of referee-batting and worse which is becoming one of the more disgusting aspect of big-time football. What is the sense of having a trained, fully-qualified referee to adjudicate if teams and spectators are going to refuse to accept a verdict honestly given?
Mercer's the man
You can take it for granted that the new England manage, all going well, will be one of two people—Joe Mercer, former England, Everton and Arsenal captain or fellow Ellesmere Port townie, Stanley Cullis, onetime Wolves and England half-back. More than a month ago when the F.A. announced the England managership had become vacant I said Mercer would be the ideal man for the job. He has not applied for it: nor has Cullis, but I am sure the grapevine has sent the message to both of the possibility of their being asked to take the appointment. That is all to the good because when the offer comes either of both can demand a free hand in team selection, something, it seems, the F.A. want to keep for them. Wally Barnes, Mercer's one time team-mate at Highbury thinks it unnecessary for England players to be together for more than a week prior to games. "They'd be sick of the sight of each other if they were together for a fortnight or three weeks, as has been proposed," he maintains. I think he is right and so, I imagine, does Mercer. Cullis' record as a player and manager makes him most favoured to get the England job, but he is a forthright man and his face may not "fit." as they say, in all inner councils of the F.A. Mercers record for management is excellent both with Sheffield United and Aston Villa.
He was such an inspiring England and Arsenal captain and such a good tactician I rate him as a certainty for the post. It is no use the F.A, applying to the Aston Villa club for his release. The decision really rests with Mercer himself. He would be prepared to tackle the job, I am sure, if he were given full authority to get a team together and make it work tactically. The money side is comparatively unimportant, but the F.A. would need to double their ante of some £3,000. Compared with the rates players are getting a £6,000 salary for being the England boss is little enough...
Mutual aid . . . .
Liverpool can do Everton and themselves a good turn to-morrow. If they take two points at the Molineux ground the cheer that will greet the news when the result is announced at Goodison Park will be a welcome change from the usual reception of news of the enemy." It is a lot to expect Liverpool to get their first victory at the ground of the club which shares League leadership with Everton, but after becoming the first side to take a point at Everton this season Liverpool's hopes must be good. Certainly they won't find Wolves harder opponents than Everton a week ago. The position is intriguing because Everton go to Wolverhampton next week In the meantime we have at Goodison Park tomorrow the West Bromwich Albion side which includes that goal getting menace Derek Kevan. Everton may start at an advantage a week to-morrow at Molineux since three Wolves players will have had a hard game with England against France on the previous Wednesday. After the excitement of the Derby game the visit of Albion will be pretty small beer. One hopes to see Young and Vernon put their imprint on the match to a greater extent than they did against Liverpool. Neither of them really "blossomed" in that game. Having played to their top form at Goodison—possibly for the first time this season—Liverpool with St. John back, and Milne recovered from his hand injury should now go all one way. The result tomorrow will indicate just how near they have got to their championship winning form of last season.
H.J. Evans, 95 Guernsey Road, 13, read with disgust Billy Liddell's statement that the terraces were strangely quiet in the Derby game. "Where was Billy? At the reserve team Derby at Anfield?"
W.L Dodd (33 Wern Avenue, Bagillt) thinks it would be a good idea for Everton to re-assess their ideas about how many people should be allowed in for a Derby occasion. The players are having a squarer deal; why shouldn't spectators?"
James Smith (33, Otway Street 19) who has followed Everton all over the country protests at the way Everton sold tickets for the Derby match without, he alleges, consideration for their own supporters.
The tickets, he argues, could have been sold at any of Everton's home games this season. He paid 12s 6d for a 3s ticket and from what he heard before and after the match half the people in the ground paid over the odds. "There is much talk," he concludes, "of Everton supporters deserving something better, but when it comes to the point at which the club can help their following they jump on the band wagon of ballyhoo and throw all opportunities to the general public, leaving their fans to like it or lump it."

EVERTON ARE UNCHANGED
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday 28 September 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Everton who have a home match against West Bromwich Albion, will be unchanged. Morrissey and Brian Harris, both damaged in the game against Liverpool passed fitness tests this morning. Left winger Clive Clarke returns to Albion's team. He replaces Geoff Cater, the only change from the side which beat Bolton last week. Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. West Bromwich Albion;- Millington; Howe, Williams; Cram, Jones, Drury; Jackson, Foggo, Smith, Kevan, Clark.

PARKER STILL OUT
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, 29 1962
By Horace Yates
Everton can still manage without Alex Parker, if we are to judge by the announcement of an unchanged team for the visit of West Brom and it will be up to Meagan and Thomson to prove the official view correct. I would think they are both on trial. I know it is up to the minute form which really counts but few teams can take greater comfort from tradition than West Brom in visits to Goodison Park. How many times would you think Everton have beaten them here since fixtures were resumed in 1954-55? If you have not kept a note you may get quite a shock. Last season Everton won 3-1 but it was only the second time they had taken full points, and it ended a run of four successive draws.
The other two matches were lost. So West Brom have taken as many points and Everton from their visits to Goodison Park during the period under review! Among their achievements this season was a victory by 3-2 at Leyton where of course, Everton went down 3-0 and they have lost only two of their five away matches. If figures are any guide then, Everton face anything but a joy ride today. Providing Young regains some of the early season lustre which promised to make this one of his best campaigns but has since been followed with a single goal from seven games, the Everton fire power should shoot down this West Bromwich threat, although it is worth noting that the rangy Kevan regards Everton as one of his favourite opponents. In the last six meetings Kevan has a haul of ten goals five of them in one game and only once has he failed to score. I hope this message will not be lost on Jimmy Gabriel. I hear that Derek Temple the winger who looked like blossoming forth to stardom this season has still not pulled clear of an unlucky spell, which began preseason with an ankle injury for he has been receiving treatment for thigh muscle strain. Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. West Brom Albion; Millington; Howe, Williams; Cram. Jones, Drury; Jackson, Foggo, Smith, Kevan, Clark.

MORRISSEY GRABS THREE IN EVERTON JOYRIDE
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday 29 September 1962
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE AGAINST 10 MEN
EVERTON 4, WEST BROM 2
By Michael Charters
Everton; West; Meagan, Thomson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Bingham, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Morrissey. West Bromwich Albion;- Millington; Howe, Williams; Cram, Jones, Drury; Jackson, Foggo, Smith, Kevan, Clark. Referee; Mr. G. McCabe (Sheffield). For the second successive week there was a Scottish selector at Goodison, watching Everton's contingent in view of Scotland's international against Wales in three weeks. A gusty wind which blew up only half-an-hour before the start seemed likely to make things difficult. The crowd was in the region of 40,000. A lovely bit of combination between Morrissey and Young ended with the winger putting his centre on top of the netting.
In the opening stages, there was some fine football from both sides, and Clark made an opening for Foggo, whose shot from the edge of the penalty area was deflected just wide.

TERRIFIC FREE KICK
A terrific free kick by Howe just outside the penalty area was too hot for West to handle, and he dropped it at the feet of Smith. But the centre-forward was not quite quick enough to take advantage of a gift chance, and the ball was eventually scrambled away. In the next minute West failed to collect a simple back pass from Meagan, and, with Smith challenging, the ball ran clear until Meagan saved the situation with a brilliant piece of work. Albion's wing-halves were particularly, good, and Cram came bursting through to pass to Clark. His beautifully-judged through-ball only just missed Smith, and, with West standing still watching it, it's continued on its curving flight and slipped just outside the post.
For the second successive game, Stevens had the ball in the net at the Stanley Park end—but again it was offside.
CLEARLY OFFSIDE
This came from a corner by Bingham, who pulled the ball back to Meagan. His centre was headed in by Stevens, but both he and Young were clearly offside. A right-wing corner taken by Foggo eluded the packed goalmouth, but reached Clark whose quick shot went straight into West's arms.
Everton had the better of the game for about 10 minutes now, and deservedly took the lead after 20 minutes with a headed goal by Morrissey. It stemmed from a corner by Bingham, headed on by Gabriel to Morrissey. His deliberate header was badly mishandled by Millington, who succeeded only in turning the ball into the roof of the net.
SIMPLE HEADER
This was a simple header and Millington should easily have caught the ball. He seemed to have been trying to turn it over the bar. Smith went through very neatly to beat Labone, and his fast low cross was amazingly missed by Kevan from only a yard or so out. The ball went on to Jackson, whose attempt to put it back was blocked. Everton were saved when Howe slammed the ball high over the top.
Another glaring defensive mistake brought the second goal of the match, this time an equaliser for Albion after 31 minutes. A 50-yard free kick by Howe was dropping comfortably into the penalty area as West came running out to collect it, but Harris, jumping in front of him in an attempt to head away, succeeded only in glancing it into the empty net. This was clearly a case where lack of a call from either Harris of West had resulted in disaster.
JONES INJURED
Jones went down injured near the centre circle, with no-one near him. He resumed limping badly, and moved to the forward line. Drury went to centre half and Kevan to wing-half. Young missed a great chance when a long pass by Morrissey bounced awkwardly and beat Drury. But, as Young moved in, Millington stuck out an arm and gathered the ball when the situation seemed impossible. The ever-dangerous Kevan, who has scored many goals against Everton, moved up from his temporary wing-half position to try a volley from Jackson's centre. It zoomed narrowly over with West apparently transfixed to the spot, watching it fly past. Everton could not get their passes flowing accurately and as half-time approached it was Albion, despite their handicap of playing with only ten men and a cripple, who were having the better of affairs. Albion had been full of gamesmanship-tricks which had annoyed the crowd-but they slipped up badly three minutes from half-time, when Everton took the lead with another goal by Morrissey. They delayed Everton taking a free kick 10 yards outside the penalty area, but when Young chipped the ball through to Gabriel the Albion defence stood still and allowed Gabriel to head across the goal where Morrissey turned the ball in from close range. Thomson and Gabriel were guilty of another misunderstanding which allowed Jackson to take the ball 30 yards before hitting a shot just wide as West dived across. Half-time; Everton 2, West Bromwich Albion 1. Jones resumed in the second half at centre forward with his left foot heavily bound.
SWIRLING WIND
Everton had the swirling wind behind them this half; the conditions were particularly difficult for goalkeepers. Everton went further ahead after 49 minutes after another free kick just outside Albion's penalty area. Young hit a great shot, which flicked off an Albion defender standing ten yards out and went right away from the helpless Millington. Kevan was now centre half and with Everton's forwards moving with greater purpose his task was difficult. Thomson, who was not having a good match in front of the Scottish selectors, was twice beaten by Foggo in a right wing dribble, and when the ball was moved into the penalty area Albion gained an indirect free kick for obstruction on Drury by Stevens. But Everton all back in defence, cleared comfortably. After 55 minutes Morrissey scored his third goal with a delightful header to put Everton 4-1 in front. It came from one of the game's best moves, after Everton had taken the ball brilliantly down the right wing. Young passed to Bingham, whose cross; Morrissey glanced perfectly into the far corner. Morrissey had not scored for Everton up to last week, but he scored against his old side last Saturday, and now he had three more.
Immediately after this goal, the limping Jones went off altogether, thus leaving Albion with ten men.
ALMOST A FOURTH
Morrissey was having something of a day out, and almost scored his fourth with a great cross-shot from Young's pass. Albion were still dangerous in patches but their handicap was too much, Everton, in view of the circumstances, should really have been doing better. Jackson headed just wide following a good run by Foggo. Another fine move involved Stevens, Bingham, and Vernon, the Everton captain shooting straight at Millington when clean through. The referee spoke to Williams after he had fouled Stevens, Albion's tackling could be described as "forth-right." Albion gallantly got a goal back after 73 minutes-and a lovely one it was, too, Kevan made it by robbing Young, striding on and hitting a perfect Crossfield ball to Clark, who easily beat Meagan and pulled the ball back to Jackson. The winger, in the centre forward position, hit a great shot that gave West no chance. Kevan had been the man of the match for me- a first-class deputy centre-half, now moving up in one attack to point the way to his forwards.
STEVENS STANDS OUT
Everton's forwards had disappointed, apart from Stevens, in defence greatest credit went to Labone, Meagan and Gabriel. Thomson, who had one of the poorest games was booed when he fouled Foggo. Final; Everton 4, West Brom 2; Official attendance; 45,471
Lancashire League
Bolton W A 2, Everton A 2
Bolton W B nil, Everton B 3

WAS IT A GOAL?
YES, SAYS ALEX YOUNG
NO SAYS RON YEATS
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 29 September 1962
DISAPPOINTED WITH THE "DERBY"
By Alex Young
Last Saturday's "Derby" encounter was close enough throughout to provide the man on the terraces with plenty to shout about, but my personal feelings after playing for the first time in a full-scale Everton-Liverpool fixture were of disappointment. True, the thrills, spills and controversial decisions were there, but I am one of those people who judges a match by the standard of football achieved, and I think those of you who were present will agree that this was not quite as good as it might have been. Main reason for this, I think, was that both teams concentrated too much on trying to stop the other winning and too little time was found for settling down and trying to play the kind of constructive football we are accustomed to seeing at Goodison Park and Anfield. Remember, too, that all 22 players were playing in a League "Derby" for the first time and this is a nerve – wracking business. Few, in my view, could claim to have produced their best form.
The more I reflect on the match, however, the more convinced I am that Everton should have won it and if the championship race eventually turns out to be a close one, then we may well be kicking ourselves for dropping this point.
THAT INCIDENT
You have never seen me use the old soccer saying "We was robbed," in this column before, but I think there is some justice for doing so this week in reference to Roy Vernon's "goal" in the opening minutes. I saw no contact at all between Roy and Jim Furnell from where I was standing-some five or six yards away- and as far as I am concerned all that happened was that the Liverpool goalkeeper dropped the ball and Roy kicked it into the net. No matter of the Everton team was keener to see us take two points from Saturday's game than Johnny Morrissey, and although he did not get his wish he had the consolation of scoring against his former colleagues and at the same time registering his first goal for Everton. Congratulations. Johnny. We'll try to put the other matter right on February 9.
AT WOLVES
The next two Saturday's provide interesting League matches for us, with a trip to play League leaders, Wolverhampton, next weekend, followed by a visit from Aston Villa, one of the Division I dark horses. At Wolves, we hope to repeat our performance of last season when we won 3-0. You will remember that most of this match was played in fog, so given clear visibility we may get a few more this time. Joking apart, however,
Wolves, with three of their players turning out for England again.t France next week will be no easy side to beat. Ron Flowers, we all know well, while new cap Chris Crowe, who seems to have found his best form since leaving Blackburn, played in many Army matches with Ron Yeats and myself.
HINTON DANGER
We have been warned, however, by a member of the Everton staff who has watched the Molineux boys this season, to keep a careful eye on England's new outside left, Alan Hinton, who is reported to be a speedy player who can control the ball and shoot hard with either foot. I was pleased to see England give a chance to Birmingham ginger Mike Hellawell, whose forthright style of play I have much admired on the occasions I have seen him. With so many candidates of almost equal merit it was only natural that the selection of Ray Charnley at centre forward would bring forth some criticism, but while, like most of us, the Blackpool leader has his faults, he is, in my view the best forward in the First Division when it comes to heading the ball.
LONDON LETTER
There is another interesting letter in the mailbag this week from London, this one coming from Mr. Ernie Woodyer, of 22 Melthorne Drive, Ruislip. Mr. Woodyer says he has watched Everton more than 30 times when they have visited the Metropolis, and like most Evertonians is concerned about our poor form there in recent years. "I am sure your fortunes will not improve until you start travelling the previous day and arrange tor a pipe-opener or some light training on a neutral ground on the morning of the match," he writes. This, Mr. Woodyer, is a suggestion worthy of consideration, but I would like to point out that for a Saturday match In London, Everton do travel the day before. As for the "pipe opener," we never have one before our home matches, but nevertheless seem to do all right at Goodison Park. This, however, does not indicate that the idea is not a good one.
Mr Woodyer ends by saying he hopes to watch us at Wembley at the end of the season. I certainly hope we shall be able to oblige. In closing, I would like to give without comment a letter from Steve Long of 94 Ponsonby Street, Liverpool 8, who, after pointing out that Everton and Liverpool were not the only ones playing on Saturday to the accompaniment of 73,000 roaring voices, says:
"The team I keep goal for, Trinity Albion, in the Central Amateur League, were playing in Stanley Park at the time, and whereas you professionals say that noise doesn't affect you, it must have had some effect on us because we lost our first game of the season, 3-1. It's to be hoped we're playing at Kirkby on February 9!"

NO CLASSIC BUT A THRILLER
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, September 29, 1962
By Ron Yeats
Nobody can pretend the "Derby" game was a classic, but then nobody can complain that it was dull or locking in incident. The outstanding incident was, of course, the "goal "scored by Roy Vernon in the first minute. I was close to the whole thing and, as I saw it, Jimmy Furnell was challenged in possession by Roy, who appeared to jog Jimmy's arm. Jimmy lost the ball and we were certainly pleased when the referee awarded a free kick, for it was a very close thing. I felt that we had the beaten of Everton and I know that Roy Vernon was very confident of beating us. Roy's forecast of a 3-1 win was not as close as my own, but in making my forecast I did not give Everton credit for being able to score two goals against us! As far as the scoring went we did at least hit the back of the net twice. I have heard it said that we were lucky to score in the 89th minute, but I don't see it this way at all. There are 90 minutes in every match, and I don't see why the 89th should be any luckier than the 13th or 52nd. In fact, this goal wasn't lucky at all: It was a good movement which beat the defence and as well worth a score.
No remarks about this game would be complete without reference to the encouragement given to both sides by their supporters. I don't think it ceased for a moment and on the pitch, confined by the high stands, the noise as deafening. Our Liverpool supporters must hate been in Special training because theirs was the chant which we could hear above anything else, and we all want to thank them for their great encouragement. Ian St John was terribly disappointed to miss the game.
He watched it from the trainer's box and admitted to being a nervous wreck by the end. He said that watching took far more out of him than playing. It was unfortunate for him to be out of it as Mr. McColl, the Scottish team manager was there and I am sure that Ian could have convinced him that he was the lad to continue to wear the Scottish No 9 jersey.

DERBY RES V EVERTON RES
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 29 September 1962
Derby County Res;- Matthews; Richmond, McAndrew; Webster, Rogers, Hopkinson, Mansfield; Bowers, Hutchinson, Williamson, Grace. Everton Res; Dunlop; Parker, Green; Rees, Heslop, Sharples; Shaw, Tyrer, Wignall, Webber, Veall. Referee- Mr. C.S Allatt (Birmingham).
Everton Reserves enthusiasm for the power-packed shot shocked Derby County Reserves at the Baseball Ground. Everton's young side took the initiative from the start and swept into County's half where their forwards were always a worry to the County defence. The visitors main worry to the County defence was outside left Veall. In the first opening minutes Veall cleverly rounded two defenders, but his cross was just short. Then minutes later centre forward Wignall had a chance, but he shot wide. An Everton defensive slip gave Derby centre forward Hutchinson a splendid chance after seven minutes, but he shot straight at Dunlop. The visitors main worry to the county defence was outside left Veall.
In the first opening minutes Veall cleverly rounded two defenders, but his cross was just short. Then minutes later centre forward Wignall had a chance, but he shot wide. An Everton defensive slip gave Derby centre forward Hutchinson a splendid chance after seven minutes, but he shot straight at Dunlop.
Veall shot from close in, but Mathews, with a twist that would do credit to an acrobat, held the power packed shot. Against the run of play County scored after 28 minutes when Mansfield, always quick to seize an opportunity, hit the ball to the hard-working Hutchinson who gave Dunlop no chance.
Hutchinson could have got a second minutes later but he hit a perfect cross just wid.
Then it was Everton's turn to get into the attack. From a defensive slip by County Veall latched on to the ball and from an angled position shot at Matthews, who grabbed out as it rolled over the line. Only one minute later, in the 37th minute, Hutchinson had the crowd roaring when he produced a solo effort and headed for Dunlop. The keeper could not hold the ball and as it went up in the air Hutchinson moved in to hit home. Half-time; Derby County Reserves 2, Everton Reserves 1.