INJURY PROBLEMS AT EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 01 January 1964
KAY IS VERY DOUBTFUL
HULL CUP-TIE
By Leslie Edwards
The news from Goodison Park to-day is as grim as ever. Tony Kay, injured in his first game at Leicester after his suspension ended, is not likely, after all, to be fit in time for his club’s F.A. Cup game at Hull on Saturday. Thus Everton’s championship season half-back line of Gabriel, Labone and Kay seems to be destined out of action on Saturday. Labone and full back Parker are definitely out, and Gabriel has not much chance of recovering in time. If manager Harry Catterick thought the New Year might bring him a change of luck, January 1 has served only to confirm his misfortunes on and off the field.

A TOO-CHEEKY CHAPPY
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 02 January 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Reader J.W Hubble, who signs himself Cheeky Chappy, takes issue with me over my criticism of the insults Everton players had to bear after their uninspired show against Leicester City. I could not agree less with his conviction that the public have a right to barrack if the players’ performance does not come up to their approval. Manager Harry Catterick told me yesterday; “Whenever the argument against spectators when their side is playing badly I am convinced that barracking does players no good- only harm.” That is also my view. Let fans withhold praise; let them stay away if need be but when things are going badly surely what players want, what players need, is encouragement?
Mr. Hubble argues; “Once again I find myself compelled to write to you with reference to your remarks in your column regarding the behaviour of Everton fans last Saturday. “You stated that the Everton players needed no reminding of their lamentable display against Leicester, but surely it is the privilege of fans on the terraces to hurl “gratuitous insults” at the team if the team if they think the occasion calls for them. It is, after all, our only way of expressing approval or disapproval.
“Everton, as you have often said, have one of the finest bunch of supporters in Britain, and the team is well praised and appreciated if they play well, but it just isn’t logical that because the team played well the previous game we should accept a poor performance the next fixture. “ The fans on the terraces at Goodison Park, get slated right, left and centre for all sorts of misdemeanours; they build barricades behind the goal, wire mesh the players entrance, post notices in the ground &c (all this with just cause I grant you), but please don’t try to prevent us on the terraces from voicing our disgust. The next restriction will be sticky-tape on our mouths as we pay our three bob at the turnstiles.”

STOLEN WATCH FOUND SMASHED TO PIECES
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 02 January 1964
COULD BE CLUE IN HUNT FOR GOODISON PARK RAIDERS
A gold wristlet watch stolen by vandals who caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage in a New Year’s Eve raid on Everton Football Club’s ground, was found smashed to pieces in nearby Stanley Park last night. Detectives believe the watch- inscribed D.R. Lewin, Spanish Football Association, 1949 and owned by the club coach, Mr. Ralph Lewin- could prove a vital clue in their hunt for the vandals. Fingerprint experts spent all last night and this morning at Goodison Park, carefully checking the watch for prints.
SENSELESS THIG.
To-day, Liverpool C.I.D intensified their search for the vandals. Said a police spokesman; “We are determined to track them down.” He said that the watch, was found in the middle of a children’s playground adjacent to Walton Lane by Park Constable Charles Nolan, had been smashed to smithereens. “It was a senseless thing to do,” he added, “normally thieves try and dispose of stolen property with a fence. This watch was valued at about 20 pounds. But the vandals just wantonly smashed it.” Club officials were to-day still sorting out the mess made by vandals at the ground. The vandals entered the ground by forcing a door in Bullens Road and there used a hammer to smash open doors. Players’ kit was thrown about, holes smashed in a wall and wires wrenched out of the broadcasting system used to give commentaries to patients in Liverpool hospitals.

ONE CHANGE BY HULL
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 02 January 1964
CUP-TIE AGAINST EVERTON
Hull City make one change for Saturday’s home cup-tie against Everton with John McSeveney at outside left in place of Alan Shaw. Manager Cliff Britton is probably prompted by the scoring ability of McSeveney, who lasts season scored nearly 30 goals. Shaw is the smallest footballer in the League at 5ft 1in. Hull City; Williams; Davidson, Butler; Collinson, Feasey, McMillan; Clarke, Wilkinson, Chilton, Henderson, McSeveney.
REPLAY PLANS
EVERTON CUP TICKET ARRNAGEMENT
Should a replay be necessary in Everton’s tie against Hull City on Saturday it will be played on Tuesday (7.3o p.m). Owing to shortage of time no postal applications will be entertained. Stand season ticket holders will be entitled to one stand ticket each at either 10s or 8s. These must be applied for personally on Sunday, from the Gwladys Street side of the ground between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. by tendering the third round cup voucher from the season-ticket book or from the Liverpool Stadium. Ground and paddock season-ticket holders, will use their usual turnstiles on the day of the match, handling in the third round Cup tie voucher and admission money, Paddock 4s ground 3s. The balance of the stand tickets will be sold to the general public from the Bullens Road turnstiles on Monday beginning at 9.30 a.m. admission to the ground will be by payment of cast at turnstiles on the day of the match at 3s and paddock 4s.

EVERTON’S ROY VERNON SAYS…
Liverpool Daily Post, Friday, January 3, 1964
OH, FOR THAT OLD INJURY BUG TO STOP BITING!
In the last day or two, I have read and heard many wishes for the New York. In the convivial atmosphere of festive celebrations, I suppose I must have expressed some myself, but if I could make one wish with any real hope of it coming true, it would be that we have seen the end of injuries at Everton for the rest of the season at least. What a world of difference the fulfilment of that wish would make to many thousands on Merseyside, not least the players. Defeats, I know to my cost, are worrying and frustrating. They mark the end of an ambition, yet I am convinced that if only Everton could field a first-choice side Saturday after Saturday as some of the more fortunate and higher placed teams have done, we would be able to look after the rest. The talent that won the Championship last season is still there. The snag is we cannot assemble it on one pitch for more than a fleeting match or two. Speak to Evertronians and they will tell you that Everton must have a new player in this position or that. The wound of unexpected reverses has gone deep. What a different story there would be to tell what a different picture the League table would present if that injury bug stopped chasing us around.
GRANDSTAND FINISH
Football form is one thing and experience has shown that this is elusive, in the most mysterious fashion. That worry is difficult enough to combat, but seldom do players go off form together in the way that injuries have depleted our ranks. Given better breaks in the future, there is still the chance that we might confound our rivals with a grandstand finish. Yet can you blame anybody for wondering where, and if, the blight on us will ever end? I was asked, over the holidays, which newcomers to football, this season, did I consider most meritorious, I did not have to spend a lot of time puzzling over candidates although I may not have seen them all. Instantly my thoughts raced to Andy Rankin, our new goalkeeper. He has seized his opportunity splendidly. In the midst of our disappointments, nobody has pointed an accusing finger at this boy. He hardly came into the side at the most favourable moment and yet he has settled in, weathered the storm and must be a source of great satisfaction to our manager. Mr. Catterick who first saw his promise and encouraged him in every way to develop it. When Albert Dunlop was transferred to Wrexham there were a few rumblings. The wise old owls said Everton might live to regret the day Albert left. If Albert had stayed Rankin might still be competing fort a reserve team place, instead of laying claim to the position of the club’s No 1 goalkeeper. A rival to Andy in the merit stakes, I suppose, must be Stoke City’s scoring sensation, centre forward Ritchie. I have not seen much of him and his display against Everton could hardly have been his best. It is purely on his achievements in other matches that I put him high in the table of up-and-coming youngsters. When so much has gone wrong for many established players it is encouraging to note the progress made by Derek Temple on our left wing. Week after week Derek looks as good as any outside left, we meet and a whole lot better than most. I can think of few players to whom the New year looks more interesting and inviting than Derek Temple. Our first Cup battle this season could by the most difficult. We have to face it with depleted forces. Surely it is not too much to expect that for any future hurdles we will be better represented than we are likely to be to-morrow?

EVERTON TOUR
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, January 3, 1964
Everton will play eight matches on their close season tour of Australia later this year. Australian officials said yesterday that Melbourne and Sydney would each stage two games but the venues for the other matches have not yet been described.

EVERTON TAKE 2 PLAYERS TO HULL
Liverpool Echo, Friday, January 3, 1964
By Leslie Edwards
GABRIEL MAY BE FIT
Everton make choice from 12 players to-morrow for their cup-tie against Hull City at Hull. They take with them their physiotherapist, Norman Borrowdale his portable equipment and wing half-back Jimmy Gabriel who had been almost ruled out earlier in the week by his persistent thigh injury. Manager Catterick said “it is a tragedy that we may have to be without Gabriel. Earlier this week I thought he had no chance of playing. As things stand, he’s very doubtful, but we are hoping for the best.” If Gabriel does not play it, is likely that Stevens will be played at right half with Jimmy Hill, the club’s Irish international utility forward at inside right. The physiotherapist is not only working this evening and to-morrow morning on Gabriel but on others in the team who received knocks in the match against Leicester City. If Gabriel is unfit the team would almost certainly be; Rankin; Brown, Meagan; Stevens, Heslop, Harris, Scott, Hill, Young, Vernon, Temple.

“DERBY” GAME TICKETS
Liverpool Echo - Friday 03 January 1964
BIG CROWDS AT GOODISON
Though Cup-fever is currently gripping most football centres, in Liverpool to-day it was thoughts of a League game next month which caused supporters to turn out in their thousands at both Goodison Park and Liverpool Stadium. The game involved is the ‘derby’ between Everton and Liverpool at Goodison Park on February 8 and by midday Everton were able to report all the stand and paddock tickets for this match have been sold. Many were turned away empty handed from the Stadium, but even greater were the disappointed crowds at Goodison Park where one supporter told an Echo reporter he had waited three hours without getting a ticket. Everton will make an announcement regarding ground tickets after to-morrow’s F.A Cup-tie with Hull City. They will endeavour to see these sometime next week.
SICK-OF-IT HUMOUR
On the eve of the Cup-ties football fans on Merseyside were chuckling to-day over one of the best gags ever perpetrated in a city notorious for its humour. (Writes Leslie Edwards)
Someone started the rumour that the vandals who wrecked Everton’s dressing room on New Year’s Eve had been apprehended. The story went (quite unfoundedly) that they were a gang of British Railways coach repairers from Edge Hill.

EVERTON, TO HULL, AREW SO MANY PENNIES…
Liverpool Echo - Friday 03 January 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Strange how clairvoyance becomes fashionable at F.A Cup times. A reader from Birkenhead, who points out that Everton’s last Cup tilt against Hull City on January 6, 1951 (when they lost 2-0) and not as Jasper Kerr stated at the Villa ground in 1927, goes on forecast that Everton will lose to-morrow by 2-1 and that Liverpool will beat Derby County and go on to win the Cup for the first time. Because I have a greater regard for the windows of his home than the accuracy of his crystal-ball gazing I refrain from giving his name and address.
He is not alone in thinking Everton may have difficulty against the team managed by their old chief, Cliff Britton. The record shows that Hull City have lost none of their last six homes games and that Everton haven’t won one of their last six away fixtures. That is merely an indication that Hull have had a good home spell and that the champions, largely due to injuries, have had a pretty lean time away from Goodison Park in the past month or two. It could be that Everton reserves in the team to-morrow will be better suited to the hurly-burly of Cup football against a Third Division side than others who would have played had they been fit, but it would not be wise to base hopes on such a flimsy reason. Having already faced Rangers and Inter-Milan, both home and away, this season, Everton should not be daunted. After all, they won handsomely at Barnsley and Swindon last season in much more difficult, dangerous ground conditions than they will find at Hull to-morrow.
BLACKBOARD REHEARSAL
The danger to Everton, as I see it, is that Cliff Britton may have cooked up some tactical strategy out of the defensive book of Leicester City. He made very good use in his time at Goodison Park of the material available, reaching two cup semi-finals in the process, and if Everton were taken a replay none could be really surprised. It is remarkable how tradition works out in the Cup and traditionally Everton have never done well against opponents who have been noted for their giant killing. Much depends, of course, on whether Vernon and Young strike form (and fear into the other defence). Much depends on whether Everton’s makeshift half-back line comes off and maintains the steadiness which is essential in neck-or-nothing competition. Everton’s need, in this match at least, is of some old hand to guide them through the perils of what promises to be a tough contest far from home and not with as many travelling followers as they would have liked. The crux of the thing for Everton is whether they can snap back to their Manchester United form. Because Hull City, good as they may be on their own ground, are no Leicester City, I think Everton will survive, but, it looks like being a close run thing. Everton’s big money championship team must face the penalty of having as opponents people who are desperately anxious to take them down a peg. In Hull City’s blackboard “rehearsal” of to-morrow’s game they have been represented by 11 pennies…

TREATMENT CONTINUES TO-DAY
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, January 4, 1964
GABRIEL’S FIGHT FOR FITNESS
By Horace Yates
So much importance does manager Harry Catterick attach to the chances of Jimmy Gabriel being fit to play in to-day’s F.A Cup third round tie at Hull, that the club physiotherapist, Mr. Norman Borrowdale, travelled with the party to Beverley yesterday. He took with him a portable electric machine and worked on Gabriel’s thigh injury last night. The treatment will be repeated this morning. Obvious Gabriel must be considered to have a genuine prospect of playing. Otherwise, those eleventh-hour moves would never have been employed. Quite rightly I think, Mr. Catterick realises that a fit Gabriel can transform the outlook in this tie. Everton have been written off as possible Cup winners by many people almost entirely on the grounds of depleted forces. If they survive this round, the injury position must surely improve, and Everton could still emerge as a force to be reckoned with on the road to Wembley. In employing this specialised treatment for Gabriel, Everton are taking a leaf out of the Liverpool copy book, for earlier in the season Gordon Milne was made fit to play at Ipswich by the use of machine-magic. Modern developments may still not have produced a cure-all, but there is no doubt that short cuts to some types of injury are now an accomplished fact.
If all Everton’s efforts fail to put a fit Gabriel into the field, then once again Mr. Catterick will draw on the versatility of Denis Stevens and toss the No.4 jersey over to him leaving Jimmy Hill to fill in at inside right. That may be one way of difficulty, but nobody would pretend that team strength would be unimpaired. Vernon and Young have been subjected to considerable recent criticism because of a lack of liveliness not customary in their performances. It may be more than coincidence that their struggles have proved more and more unrewarding during the absence of Gabriel and Kay. Nobody will welcome the return to half back power more than these two forwards in distress. When last Everton visited Hull City in a Cup game (1951) they were managed by Cliff Britton. To-day he has switched sides. On that occasion Everton lost 2-0, I don’t believe such ignominy will be their lot to-day. This does not suggest itself as a game of goals and if each side registers once Everton I fancy will count it a very satisfactory day’s work. Hull City; Williams; Davidson, Butler; Collinson, Feasted, McMillan, Clarke, Wilkinson, Chilton, Henderson, McSeveney. Everton (from); Rankin; Brown, Meagan; Gabriel, Stevens, Heslop, Harris, Scott, Hill, Young, Vernon, Temple.

VERNON, YOUNG EFFORTS DISALLOWED, BUT SCOTT EQUALIES
Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express -Saturday, January 4, 1964
HULL CITY 1, EVERTON 1
By Michael Charters

Hull City; Williams; Davidson (Captain), Butler; Collinson, Feasey, McMillian, Clarke, Wilkinson, Chilton, Henderson, McSeveney. Everton; Rankin; Brown, Meagan; Gabriel, Heslop, Harris, Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon (Captain), Temple. Referee; Mr. K. Howley (Middlesbrough). It was only decided at 1 p.m. to-day that Gabriel would play in this F.A Cup tie at Hull. He had intensive treatment on his injured thigh by the club physiotherapist, immediate Norman Borrowdale at the hotel this morning. Gabriel them said he felt fit to play. Chairman John Moore was unable to be at the game. He had planned to fly from Woodvale this morning but was advised that owing to mist in the whole area his plane may not have been able to land near Hull. Hull had the 40,000 crowd right away; Henderson moved the ball across to Chilton who passed across goal to Clarke and Rankin had to make a first-class effort to save a fiercely driven ball. Vernon had the ball to the net within five minutes, but the linesman flagged for off-side and the effort was disallowed. It seemed to me that this was a bad decision because when Harris headed the ball forward it rebounded of Fease straight to Vernon who instantly put the ball in the net having been played on. After nine minutes the unlucky Gabriel hurt his nose which was damaged against Leicester last week. After attention on the pitch, he came off with blood streaming from it. Just after Gabriel went off Hull took the lead with a picture goal by Wilkinson. The inside right started the move with a good pass to Clark, and from the wingers’ centre Wilkinson went up well and headed the ball like a rocket into the corner of the net. The Hull inside trio were cutting great holes in the Everton defence and Heslop did not look happy at all.
PRESSURE
Gabriel came back after three minutes and Everton began to put on pressure. Heslop was having a nightmare experience against the quick-moving Hull forwards. From a centre by Davidson, Chilton beat him easily and with only Rankin to beat completely miskicked with the goal at his mercy. Everton were being harried into mistakes. Hull might well have increased their lead but for a bad centre by Clarke after he had beaten Meagan cleverly. He put the ball high over everybody with his inside men waiting for the chance. Everton appealed for a penalty when Young went headlong, trying to connect with Vernon’s pass, but it seemed that he had fallen over a Hull player. Then Stevens fouled McMillian and after the referee had blown for a free kick, the linesman drew his attention to McSeveney, lying injured and the referee spoke to Brown before play resumed.
GREAT PASS
Temple sent Scott away with a magnificent pass, and he should have done better than run on with the ball and finally claim a corner. Everton had been knocked right off their early rhythm and little had been seen of their forwards for some time. This Hull side seemed faster of the ball and had more ideas than the Everton attack. The one man who was making some openings for Everton was Harris. A cross field pass to Scott was particularly effective and the winger headed it forward, but Vernon was unable to get the ball under control. Everton should certainly have equalised after a brilliant run by temple. He weaved his way through three of four tackles and crossed the ball well for Stevens whose shot blocked. The ball ran to Vernon, but he could not get in a shot. Everton had a let off immediately afterwards, as a centre from the excellent Clarke beat the Everton defence, but Henderson headed wide. Young had a great chance to equalise, Vernon drew the goalkeeper out and chipped the ball over everyone, but Young was too slow to get in his shot. The nearest Everton went to scoring was when Scott cleverly beat Butler and turned the ball back to the incoming Gabriel who hit a powerful shot on the run, it beat Williams but struck the top of the crossbar before going over. Half-time Hull City 1 Everton nil.
GOASL CLAIM AGAIN
More bad luck for Everton immediately on the restart when it seemed that a back heeled shot from Young following Temple’s centre crossed the line before a Hull defender turned it back. The referee did not allow it and after protests by the Everton players went across to speak to a linesman, but still disallowed the point. But five minutes after half-time Everton did equalise with a magnificent goal by Scott. He began the move in his own half by drifting inside to beat three defenders pushed the ball to Vernon who swept it down the middle as Scott ran on and made a perfect shot low into the corner of the net. The Hull defence looked panicky from two successive corners by temple. From the first Vernon’s shot was blocked and went for a corner. From the next, the ball bounced awkwardly for Harris who was coming up for all the corner kicks.
FINE CATCH
Rankin made a fine catch from a free kick by Clarke with two Hull forwards breathing down, his neck. The game now was posed to go either way for Hull seemed to have fought off Everton’s pressure just after half-time and were coming back into the match with a vengeance. There was one exciting scramble in the Everton goalmouth, with seven players heading the ball until finally Wilkinson made a shot which looked on target until it hit someone and stopped dead in front of an open goal before Brown scrambled it away for a corner. After a tackle on Chilton, which brought a free kick to Hull, Heslop was off for attention having slid over the line in making the tackle. He came back a few minutes later. Rankin has never made a better save in his brief career than when he flung himself backwards to clutch the ball from a Clarke centre, which turned out to fierce shot.
PENALTY APPEALS
Heslop, limping had moved up into the centre forward position with Stevens dropping back into the half-back line. Hull seemed to have grounds for a penalty when Gabriel charged into Wilkinson as Rankin came running out for the ball, but the referee, in a good position to see turned down all appeals. Then it seemed in this match at incidents that Everton should have been given a penalty when Scott clean through in the middle was pulled down from behind by Butler. Mr. Howley refused Everton’s appeal. Hull were pressing incessant and Everton packed their defence. Rankin made another top class save from McMillan. Final; Hull City 1, Everton 1. Official attendance 36,748 (receipts £6,000).

A GOOD YEAR- DESPITE HOW WE FINISHED
The Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express
By Alex Young
Nineteen hundred and sixty-three faded away week leaving Everton with a lengthy injury list the memory of an unexpected home defeat by Leicester, but having won the League championship, Charity Shield and unofficial Championship of Britain,” I think we can claim it was a good year. In May it was the championship and a champagne celebration, now the “champ” label has become a little tarnished and it’s the pain of injuries which flow through the dressing rooms. But that’s how things go! Footballers become accustomed to quick changes of fortune and I am fully confident that before 1964 is very old, the Everton football machine will once more be going full steam ahead. Hopes that the New Year might bring a quick return of better luck were damped on Wednesday morning for, as I approached Goodison Park, it was not clear whether a training session or an “extra” part in Z Cars formed the morning programme. The sight inside the players entrance was no laughing matter, however, and there was a little delay before the work of the vandals the previous nigh could be sorted out and we were able to carry on with the preparations for to-day’s Cup tie. Our kit has been messed about but luckily the match boots were undamaged. If they had been damaged, we would have found ourselves in serious trouble. While the police got on with their job and the Goodison staff cleared up we went off toe Bellefield for a hard training session. And believe me, training at Everton this week has been hard.
THE REMEDY
When a team plays as disappointingly as we did at home last Saturday there appeals to be two remedies -extra hard work or a complete rest from football for a short while. The former was prescribed as our “cure.” Our display against Leicester was not one we will care to remember, but it would be unfair to pass on without giving the Filbert Street boys their deserved praise. One cannot but admire the efficiently of that fine defensive set-up for it is top class teamwork more than anything which makes the now famous (or infamous) will so solid. In fact, looking back, I rate Leicester display, at Goodison as one of the finest teamwork exhibitions I have seen during my three years in English soccer. In football, brilliance, Leicester cannot touch Tottenham Hotspur, but every member of City’s team does his bit, and there are very few mistakes made.
ILL LUCK
Frank McLintock who covers the whole of the field with a No. 4 jersey on his back had outstanding games against us, both on Boxing Day and Saturday but there is little doubt that the man who finally breaks the hearts of the opposing forward is Gordon Banks. When you manage to prise a gap in the defensive wall up looms England’s finest goalkeeper to close the path to success. It was Banks fearless goalkeeping which cost us injuries both at Leicester and Goodison, although I must hasten to add that Gordon was in no way to blame. At Leicester Tony Kay hurt his knee as Gordon smothered a shot while a Goodison Park Jimmy Gabriel was the unfortunate victim in a collision. Jimmy dogged by ill-luck this season now has a broken nose. Alex Parker resumed training again this week after his lay-off through a leg injury but unfortunately his progress was again halted -this time by a spot of back trouble. Surely fortunes must change Goodison way very shortly and it is perhaps a good omen than our first League match of 1964 next Saturday should be against Burnley at Turf Moor. It was on this ground that we started the successful 1962-1963 season with a victory. Burnley too have had injury troubles, but things are looking a little brighter for them now, and we are looking forward to a top-class game. May I end this week by thanking readers not only for all the messages of seasonal goodwill which members of the Everton team have received recently but also all those who shared in our 1963 championship by giving their wholehearted support from the terraces and stands both home and away. I sent them all best wishes for the New Year and a promise that well be doing our best to put Everton back on top of the football world in the shortest time possible. The forecast for this year is at there is going to be quite a bit of chopping and changing before the First Division title is win, probably in the closest of finishes.

LAWTON, SUPREME HEADER, TAKES EVERTON TO THE TOP
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express, Saturday, January 4, 1964
By Percy M. Young
FOOTBALL ON MERSEYSIDE
Everton’s fluctuations of fortune continued as airily as ever Cup-winners in 1933 and looking like Cup finalists in 1935 until meeting the sober determination of Bolton Wanderers in the sixth round, they tagged in confidence in the late month of that year until the threat of relegation once again loomed ominously over Goodison Park. Considering the equality of Sagar, the industry of Cook and Mercer the thrust of Geldard the cleverness of Cunliffe the Celtic sorceries of Stevenson and Gillick and the presence of Dean, it is astounding that the statistics, should have carried such foreboding. But a determined effort in the New Year, when there was but a single defeat from January until the first week in April, raised the team to a position of tolerable sub- respectability. To go higher demanded a new centre-forward, of at least, one who coming as the understudy to the now much aspired Dean could be readily invested with the mantle of the master. Such a one rumour had it was to be found at Burnley a team then bleakly situated in the Second Division and impelled to put its talent in pawn against the distant dawn of brighter days. On the last day of December 1936, Will Cuff and Tom Percy, representing the Everton directorate, together with the manager Theo Kelly, invaded the Burnley Board Room, and T. Lawton, centre-forward was sent for and duly added to the Everton list. The cost to Everton was enormous; £6,500. Lawton principal achievement to date and had been to score a hat-trick for Burnley on October 10 against Tottenham Hotspur.
DEDICATION
At the present time this sum stands low on the list of such dubious records, but nearly 30 years ago it was spectacular. And so was Lawton a footballer of the modern age, just as his immediate Evertonian processor, Dixie Dean eglomise olden times. The resolution of the latter his dedication to the single purpose of scoring goals his loyalty to one club his brusque indifference to ephemeral fame his evening retirement in a quiet publican’s life in his own territory all these things marked the professional of yester-year. Lawton on the other hand carried his special and undeniable skill as a passport. He played with brilliance with Everton and then in 1945 joined Chelsea at a cost of £11,000. Three years later at a fee of £20,000 and another player Lawton went to Notts County. This prepared for the rigours of the twentieth century this affable personality made a presentable figure for journalism and television interviewer and was at one time spoken of in respectable terms by Conservative Parry, organisers prospecting for parliamentary candidates of more than ordinary quality. There is probably a moral somewhere if there is it is of more than limited application. Lawton played a game and scored a goal for Everton reserves against Burnley and was then taken down to Molineux on February 13, 1937 to play against Wolves. The Everton team that day was Sagar; Cook, Jones (J.E), Britton (first capped for England in the 1934-35 season), White (deputising for Gee), Mercer, Gillick, Cunliffe, Lawton, Bell and Coulter.
NINE GOALS
Bell was none other than the Tranmere prodigy who at centre-forward, sprang into sudden prominence by scoring nine goals in an afternoon against Oldham Athletic in the Third Division, Coulter came to Everton from Belfast Celtic in 1934-35 and after recovering from a broken leg sustained in an Ireland-Wales international, proved to be among the best of the outside-lefts of his period. In the first big match Lawton was faced with an opponent, only two years his senior, whose talents were also regarded as of a rare order. This as Stanley Cullis. Neither Lawton nor Everton enjoyed a prosperous day in Wolverhampton. The Wolves ten resurgent scored seven times -Clayton claiming five- and Everton were hardly consoled with two goals. The first was by Cunliffe, the second by Lawton, from a penalty. The critic of the Sporting Star this dismissed the newcomer Lawton. I did not have ha bad match for he was rarely given the support so necessary to successful leadership.” It read like Dean’s first appearance all over again. In the last season before the war Everton and Liverpool, counting their blessing, surprised the world at large by reversing the policy of extravagance. In spite of the general trend of events, noted one critic,” neither Everton nor Liverpool intend to pay ransom prices for players, and both used to be big buyers.” So far as Everton were concerned it became once again a matter of blend. And luck played its part too Norman Greenhalgh joined the club, at nominal cost from New Brighton and discovering a form that had hitherto eluded him at Bolton and New Brighton, made a highly competent left-back partner to Cook. It also happened early in the season, that Jack Thomson who in his middle years at Everton enjoyed only two first-team appearances, reverted to the confident consistency that had earned him a Scottish cap as far back as 1933. At right half Joe Mercer who had played on the opposite flank against Ireland a year earlier was so clearly outstanding that Cliff Britton must inevitably remain in the reserves. The centre-half was T.G. Jones, Welsh international and if the forward line was now to be found W. Boyes formerly by West Bromwich Albion. Of former Everton players, Stein and Miller, who had gone to Burnley for £1,800, were now with New Brighton and Tranmere Rovers, respectively while Higham was with Middlesbrough. The season opened well both for Everton and Liverpool. Everton won their first six matches, and where on September 24, they lost to Huddersfield (unexpectedly, by 3-0 they led the First division with 12 points. Liverpool were third with 10 points. On October 1, the two teams met at Goodison on a day when emotions were aware of other issue than football. The match was prefaced by a special performance of the National Anthem to signalise the return of the Prime Minister from Munich. Bentham gave Everton the lead, Boyes scored a second goal all that Liverpool -with three South Africans, three players from junior football, and only five having been acquired by transfer – could manage was a penalty. The scorer was Fagan, who like Jack Balmer, Ray Lambert, Phil Taylor, and James McInnes was to carry Liverpool with greater prominence in the post-war future. If Liverpool lost to Everton, they maintained their standard at Anfield where they won six matches in a row, Everton remained at the top of the Division until the end of October. During the first period of eminence Lawton’s star was high in the firmament. It was with his head that Lawton was supreme. Of all centre forwards of modern time, he was the one who could with the minimum of effort divert accurate centres into the net.
CHAIN BROKEN.
The chain of success was broken by a heavy defeat by Leicester City and Derby County took over the leadership of Division 1. On December 3 Everton with 25 points from 17 matches were second. Liverpool with five points fewer were third. Coming up the table with speed and determination were Wolves at present lying sixth and on December 10 Wolves showed their power by defeating Everton by 3-2. At the end of the year the position among the heads was as follows First Derby, with 35 points from 24 matches, second Everton with 30 points from 23 matches, third Wolves with 23 points from 23 matches. In the New Year came the Cup match, and Everton were drawn at Derby in a ragged game, before 22,247 spectators, Gillick stood out at the tantalizing genius he was. But it was a disappointing, ragged game in which the only goal came from a well-timed header by Boyes. This match was not only important in the Cup but also in the League, for it shook the confidence of Derby who promptly lost two league matches, failing to score in either. In the third round of the Cup Liverpool were also successful, disposing of Luton by 3-0 (Balmer 2, and Paterson being the scorers). The fourth round was by way of being a double massacre. Sagar a Doncaster man by origin was able to stand untroubled after the first five minutes of the match at Goodison and watch Boyes (2 goals) Lawton (4), Stevenson and Gillick apply the coup disgrace to Doncaster Rovers while at Anfield goals from Niewenhuys (2), Balmer (2), and Harry Eastham dismissed Stockport County.
CUP DEFEAT
By February 4 Everton were once again League leaders equal on points with but with a superior goal average to Derby County. Each had 38 points with Wolves still behind them at a distance of four points. In the fifth round of the Cup, Everton needed a replay to defeat Birmingham but at Molineux the Wolves were peremptory in their despatch of Liverpool. On March 4, Lawton and company had the opportunity to visit Wolverhampton in the sixth round of the Cup. The fifth-round tie with Liverpool had brought 61,315 people on Molineux still a record at attendance. Everton were watched by 59,545. Their team, chastened by a 7-0 defeat in the League match 10 days earlier was Sagar; Cook, Greenhalgh; Mercer, Jones, Watson; Gillick, Bentham, Lawton, Stevenson, Boyes. This formidable equipage, however, was incompetent to counter the thrust of Wolves for whom Westcott played the game of his life and scored two decisive goals. Out of the Cup, however, Everton were able to concentrate on the League, and after the best. Easter for a decade turned into the last lap of the season with a monumental lead of eight points. When on April 15, England beat Scotland at Hampden Park for the first time since 1927, Lawton, in the manner of Dean, scored the winning goal two minutes from the end, Everton had further cause for satisfaction in the fact that Mercer was also in that team. A week later, the League championship was decided. Although Everton lost to Charlton -the only team to take four points from Everton that season – Wolves could only draw with Bolton. That left Everton with five points in hand and only two more matches to be played. By unhappy coincidence Everton won the championship in the last season of the first war era and that which ended on the eve of the second; a record not to be assailed again one hopes.

HULL CITY TIE WAS FULL OF HARD LUCK STORIES
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, January 6, 1964
HULL CITY 1, EVERTON 1
By Horace Yates
Everton are still in the Cup and while there’s life there’s hope. Nobody would rank their draw in round three at Boothferry Park as the finest feat of their career. Neither was it their worst. In view of all their trails and tribulations a draw was generally accepted as eminently satisfactory. Against teams from lower divisions and away from home, there is inevitably a spirit of adventure and air of uncertainly. More so, as with Hull no team other than a friendly has won there this season.
COLLINSON MISS
Much there was then for which to be thankful. For example, there was that inexplicable miss by Collinson, reputedly the most accurate of all Hull marksmen, from a few yards range and with an exposed target. Minutes only were left for play. A goal then and Everton would have been out. Now I believe, almost certainly they will quality for round four as a result of the replay at Goodison Park to-morrow (Kick-off 7.30 p.m.). “Thanks for the game” said one Evertonian to Hull manager Cliff Britton. With typical candour Cliff replied. “You’ve nothing to thank us for. What you got you earned.” How true! Reciting their hard luck stories, Hull could point to a startling miskick by Chilton right in front of goal, a penalty appeal of no little merit when Gabriel unceremoniously upset Wilkinson (without the ball) In the area, crowned by the Collinson lapse. Naturally, it was nothing like as one-sided as that. I doubt if many people, other than referee Ken Howley knew why a Vernon goal in four minutes was not allowed to count. A score then and Everton might easily have converted their opposition into toothless Tigers. Vernon told me after the game that the referee ruled, he had pushed someone in getting to the Harris header. I can only assume the referee was deceived, for Feasey and Davidson actually collided with each other in a shocking bit of miscalculation. This I rate the worst decision of the game, although it was not the only controversial award.
DOWN GOES SCOTT
With only eight minutes remaining, Scott in one of his greatest displays as an Everton winger, tore through the middle as he had done to score Everton’s equalising goal in fifty minutes. Butler from behind, whipped away the winger’s legs and down he went. Only because he had just previously refused Hull a penalty kick against Gabriel did the ruling make any sort of sense. It was a case of two blacks making a white. In continuation of the hard luck serial, I must refer to a back-heel flick by Young one of the very few worthwhile contributions from him in the game. Everton players are convinced the ball was over the line before Butler kicked clear. Mr. Howley consulted his linesman before ruling in favour of Hull. Because the goal line was not even visible from the Press box, I can add nothing usefully to the argument. All the unlucky breaks, therefore, were not against Hull. Maybe the unkindest cut of all struck Everton after nine minutes when Gabriel’s nose, broken last week came part again in a heading duel with Henderson. While Gabriel was receiving attention on the touch-line, Clarke floated across a perfect centre for Wilkinson to head into goal (eleven minutes). Had Gabriel been on duty it is problematical whether or not that gap would have been there. This was bad enough, but when Gabriel resumed, he was little more than a shadow of the rampant half-back we know.
PACE AND FIRE GONE
True, he cracked in one terrific shot which struck the top of the cross-bar and found a place in the crowd, but with pace and fire quenched alike, Gabriel’s returns had no fairy-tale ending. What a joyful moment it was in fifty minutes, not merely because Scott treated us to one of his scoring rarities, but because it was a move from the mould, which Everton used to exploit so brilliantly and with such glittering reward. It was the one-two specially act, Scott to Vernon, through to the on-running Scott, and the goalkeeper was beaten. Many a goal this ever so simple moves has produced for Everton, but, alas, not this season. Heslop’s limitations, I am afraid, were exposed by the restless Chilton, even though the centre half’s courage and resolution were never in doubt. I was left with the impression of a constant struggle without Heslop ever getting on top of the job. Meagan’s calm assurance was a tonic, and the phenomenal leaping and fielding of Rankin underlined the gifts of the goalkeeping discovery of the season, Harris was the best half-back. To say that Temple and Scott were the better wingers is no slight on useful Clarke and McSeveney, but more than any other players it was the Everton wingers who looked like winning the tie. Quite a number of teams have inferior inside trios to Wilkinson, Chilton and Henderson, and if we were to judge purely on Saturday’s play you can include Everton in that category. Vernon occasionally looked like Vernon, but hardly often enough. Hull City; Williams; Davidson (A) (Captain) , Butler; Collinson, Feasey, McMillian, Clarke, Wilkinson, Chilton, Henderson, McSeveney. Everton; Rankin; Brown, Meagan; Gabriel, Heslop, Harris; Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon (Captain), Temple. Referee; Mr. K. Howley (Billingham). Attendance 36,748 (receipts £6,000).

CUP RE-PLAY OUTLOOK
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, January 6, 1964
LITTLE HOPE FOR GABRIEL; HESLOP, KAY DOUBTS
By Horace Yates
To-day may bring a clearer picture of Everton team possibilities for the F.A Cup third round replay with Hull City at Goodison Park to-morrow. It certainly cannot be any gloomier than it appeared immediately after the match at Hull. Then manager Harry Catterick, relieved that his scratch combination had saved the game, could only confess a feeling of real doubt about Jimmy Gabriel being available. In addition to the nose fracture opening up again, it seemed to me that the old leg injury had slowed the Scot down alarmingly.
HESLOP DOUBT
George Heslop who damaged knee ligaments in a sliding tackle during the second half and limped about at centre-forward for a spell before resuming his normal position, also has a query against his name. Mr. Catterick was unable to say whether or not Kay would be fit to resume. With injuries taking an increasingly serious toll among defenders the limit has almost been reached in improvisation. If, as they should, Everton win tomorrow they may be over the worst of their troubles for by the time Round 4 comes along surely the picture must be brighter and the side more representative.
CUP TICKETS
Secretary Bill Dickinson told me last night that the balance of stand tickets (10s and 8d) will be available to the general public from 9.30 a.m., to-day for as long as they last up to 6 p.m. They will be sold from Bullens Road turnstiles.

EVERTON WERE THANKFUL TO GAIN THE REPLAY CHANCE
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express, Monday, January 6, 1964
By Michael Charters
Everton’s current run of bad luck flowed as strongly as ever in the Cup-tie at Hull City on Saturday -two players injured, two apparently good goals disallowed, a clear penalty claimed refused. Yet they were thankful to have earned a replay at Goodison Park tomorrow night with a 1-1 draw, and if that sounds like a paradox let me explain. This was one of Everton’s bad days. There were brilliant individual performances from a few notably Temple, Scott, and Rankin, but the general standard of team work left much to be desired. It was Hull who looked the more capable outfit out-guessing Everton in some departments and certainly giving a few of Everton’s rather tarnished stars the pointed lesson that sheer endeavour and spirit can make up for lack of class. Of course, it was all to gain and nothing to lose for Third Division, Hull against champions Everton. They played as one expected, with tremendous verve and dash, never giving as inch in defence and if they lacked the finer touches their display was first class in every other direction. So, all credit to this strong virile team who come to Goodison to-morrow with their reputation high. If they can repeat their display Everton will have to improve a 100 per cent to beat them. Hull’s forwards, well eld by the active Chilton, and inspired by a gem of an inside forward in Henderson had the Everton defence bothered into distraction and error time and again. Heslop had a nightmare game against Chilton and was penalised time and again for obstructive tactics.
RANKIN GREAT
Hull wisely exploited this weakness in the centre and with right winger Clarke beating Meagan with his directness it was Hull who did most of the at attacking Rankin kept them out late on with three brilliant saves. Everton’s defence was made to look very ordinary at times. The Hull finishing was the poorest part of their make-up and Everton will remember two simple chances missed by Chilton and wing half Collinson with a sign of relief. I don’t think Everton could have complained if there opening had been taken, for Hull were the better team on the day. These same active mobile forwards had a deal task in that they were quick to double back and help their defence when Everton were attacking. All Everton’s orthodox offensive moves were mopped up quickly and it was obvious that individual brilliance was needed if goals were to come. Everton lacked the power and drive in the centre which Hull should so lavishly Young had a dreadful match and seems to have lost his form completely. Even his usual artistic constructive work was missing. Openings were created- Vernon and Scott each provided a lethal pass at the right moment in the first half- but Young delayed his shot each time and the Hull defence recovered like lightning to blot him out.
WING THREAT
Everton’s main – indeed their only – threat came from the wings. Temple was magnificent on the left making at least four long sinuous runs through, and around the back-pedalling Hull defenders. Only one did anything come from his pulled-back centres. Immediately the second half started be beat half a dozen, tackles and slotted the half across for Young of back heel it towards goal. From high in the stand, it seemed clear that the ball had crossed the line before full back Butler hooked it away, but referee Howley refused Everton’s appeals and consulted a linesman to satisfy himself that his decision was correct. The Everton players who were in the goalmouth at the time afterwards said the ball was over the line. Scott, who wasted a few passes early in the game recovered to taunt and torment the defence with his speed and accuracy. He scored one of the best goals of his life five minutes after half-time for Everton’s vital equaliser. He took the ball inside from the touchline at speed making some 30 yards before passing to Vernon, who swept it through the middle instantly for Scott to run on and clip a well-placed low shot wide of Williams right hand. Scott was through again some 10 minutes later when Butler brought him down with an ankle tackle from behind Mr. Howley said no penalty to Everton’s amazement and frustration.
GABRIEL’S INJURY
Hull had taken the lead after 12 minutes while the unfortunate Gabriel was of the pitch having a broken nose set. He broke it to the same place as he had done the previous week against Leicester. As Gabriel had only been named to play a couple of hours before kick-off, this latest affliction is adding to his problems of trying to recover from his thing muscle injury. Plainly, he was not a hundred per cent fit because he is unable to train during the week, but he played gamely and well without being his usual dominant self. Inside right Wilkinson headed a picture goal from Clarke’s centre to make all Hull shout with joy out before he scored Vernon had the ball in the net from a pass by Harris one of the few Everton successes. It was disallowed for offside, but the ball had been played on by Feasey. This was just another incident in a match full of them. If the replay is as exciting, the crowd will be well satisfied to-morrow, for Hull’s position, in the League means nothing in a Cup-tie. Manager Harry Catterick’s defensive problems were increased because Heslop, who strange a knee ligament in the second half will miss the replay. Gabriel too, must be doubtful. It could be that Brown will be switched to centre half, with Labone, still not match fit. These additional injuries to defenders are giving the manager the most worrying time of his career.

EVERTON MANAGER TAKEN ILL IN NIGHT
Liverpool Echo - Monday 06 January 1964
DOCTOR CALLED AT 4 a.m.
TRAINER IN CHARGE
By Leslie Edwards
The latest of Everton’s many casualties is…Mr. Manager! Mr. Harry Catterick having arrived home in Ainsdale from Hull near midnight on Saturday was taken ill in the early hours of yesterday morning. His wife was so concerned for him she had the family doctor to him at 4 a.m.. He diagnosed gastric flu. The Everton manager had suffered a heavy cold all last week. Mrs. Catterick said to-day; “The doctor saw him twice yesterday and is coming again to-day I am sure he will not be fit to attend the replay to-morrow. “Tom Eggleson the trainer is supervising in his absence and I expect the team will be chosen after Harry and he have consulted together on the telephone.”
YOUNG MISSING
Yet another surprise for trainer Egglestone when he arrived at the ground this morning was the absence of centre forward, Alex Young. He had complained on Saturday of a cold and stayed at home all day yesterday. Tony Kay is to have a fitness test tomorrow, but is very doubtful for the replay, Heslop is a definite non-starter owing to a wrenched knee. Brian Labone, is fit again and would be a ready-made deputy. Though Gabriel’s re-set nose was put slightly out of true in the match on Saturday- he lost a lot of blood in the process- he will play to-morrow. He may have the nose re-set again after the match. If Young’s cold does not clear up in time, Irish international, Jimmy Hill, will probably lead the attack.
REPLAY TICKETS
Everton F.C. announces that stand tickets for the replay to-morrow will be on sale from Goodison Park (Bullens Road) and the stadium until 8 this evening.

EVERTON SUPPORTERS CAN COME BACK ANY TIME, SAYS HULL CITY MANAGER
Liverpool Echo - Monday 06 January 1964
“THE BEST BEHAVED WE’VE EVER HAD”
ALL QUITE ON LATE TRAIN
REPLAY PLANS
By Leslie Edwards
Hull City are likely to play an unchanged team for the replay at Goodison Park to-morrow. Some of their players have knocks and bruises, but all are expected to yield to treatment. A remarkable tribute to the behaviour of the Everton contingent at the match on Saturday comes from former Everton manager, Mr. Cliff Britton. He said to-day;
“As far as we are concerned this was the best behaved attendance we’ve had. There were no incidents at the ground or in the town. “Everyone here is delighted, because we have read so much about misbehaviour. Everton fans can come back here any time they like. We shall welcome them. “Two of them paraded –to the delight of Hull people- a nine-foot dart. The joke went down well.”
FINE CHANCE
Of his team’s replay chances, Mr. Britton said; “We are delighted to have got a second game, but we should have preferred to have gone into the hat to-day alone. We had a fine chance to win in the least five minutes and missed it, but that’s football. “It will be pleasing to get back to my old club again. We haven’t given up hope through we appreciate Everton will be a stiffer proposition on their own ground.” The Hull City party will travel by train to-morrow, being due to arrive in Liverpool at 4 p. m.
ALL QUITE
Despite the 1-1 draw with Hill, 640 Everton supporters were on their best behaviour on the returned excursion train on Saturday night. They were delayed by a burst pipe on the stream engine which had to be changed at Leeds. The train, which left Hull at 5.48 p.m., was due in Liverpool Lime Street at 9.22 p.m., but did not arrive until 10.27 after delays at Huddersfield, Stalybridge and Manchester. Cup fever and the beer supplies which some carried with them, led to nothing more destructive than card games. A crumpled blue and white rosette empty soft drink bottles and an untidy heap of evening papers was the only evidence of football fans’ presence when they whooped their way off at Lime Street.

EVERTON AWAY FOR SIXTH SUCCESSIVE TIE
Liverpool Echo - Monday 06 January 1964
VISIT LEEDS
By Leslie Edwards
Liverpool at home again; Everton drawn away, if they win tomorrow, for the sixth successive time. That was the way of it to-day in the fourth round F.A Cup draw. No wonder, Everton, whose further misfortunes to-day are detailed elsewhere feel that their Cup luck has run dry. If Everton beat Hull tomorrow night they quality for one of the toughest assignments of the round. They will be meeting for the first time since he was transferred two seasons ago, the pocket Hercules, inside forward Bobby Collins, who was such a fixture at Goodison Park in their pre-championship seasons/ Collins still lives and has a business in Liverpool. He has been the mainstay of a Leeds United who have gone from being one of the worst sides in the Second Division to one of the best. They are valid championship contenders with a side moulded by Don Revie, whose men this season have been criticised as over-robust. The former Manchester City man initiator of the deeply lying centre forward plan, vehemently denies this. For Everton the link with Leeds could be fortunate in that when they last won the Cup, in 1933 against Manchester City, their opponents in the fifth round at Goodison Park were the Yorkshire side, Everton won 2-0 that day.
CARDIFF WIN
Leeds quality for the big game against Everton by winning on Saturday at Cardiff City. Both teams lost a player with a broken leg. The last time Everton played a Cup-tie at Leeds was in 1910. This was a semi-final against Barnsley. The first game was drawn 0-0; Barnsley won the replay at Old Trafford 3-0.

LADY LUCK AGAIN FROWNS ON EVERTON
Liverpool Daily Post – Tuesday, January 7, 1964
GOODISON REPLAY LINE-UP STILL IN THE BALANCE
By Horace Yates
Everton are non-starters in this season’s Good Luck Stakes. The law of averages decreed that Everton would at least be given the incentive of a home draw this time, for supporters are beginning to strain their memories to recall the last occasion when they were privileged to have ground advantage. It was against Manchester City in 1962’s round four, so that this is the sixth successive time the draw has treated them shabbily. First things first, however- to-night’s third round replay with Hull City. Not only players but also manager Harry Catterick are racing against time in an effort to achieve fitness. Mr. Catterick is a victim of gastric flu, and it may be that team selection will result from a telephone conversation between the manager and chief coach, Tom Eggleston.
DOUBLE TROUBLE
Guessing at the man is very much a hit-and-miss affair. Gabriel’s spirit is tremendous. On Saturday evening, with a broken nose, he was not given any sort of chance of figuring in the replay. Yesterday he was said to be something better than a possible. Young is struggling to shake off the after-effects of a cold which affected his play last Saturday. Tony Kay will know better after undergoing a fitness test this morning. Heslop has little or no chance of playing, so that the return of Brian Labone might have to be expedited. In less worrying circumstances further rest would have been prescribed for Labone who has missed nine games.
McSEVENEY FIT
Not until their outside left Jacky McSeveney underwent a severe fitness test yesterday was Hull City manager, Cliff Britton able to announce an unchanged Hull team. McSeeveny crashed into the Iron railings behind the Everton goal near the end of Saturday’s match and it looked like a serious accident. However, nothing worse than severe bruising was the outcome. Hull City; Williams; Davidson, Butler; Collinson, Feasey, McMillian; Clarke, Wilkinson, Chilton, Henderson, McSeveney. Skippered by Bobby Collins the former Goodison Park favourite. Leeds have been handicapped by double trouble at centre half. First Charlton and then Goodwin have gone down with injuries but compared with Everton their experience has been almost trouble free.
END OF ROAD?
Whether or not this pairing marks the end of the Cup road for Everton (provided they win to-night, of course) depends to a large extent on the sort of side they will be able to field. I doubt if a scratch combination will carry them over the Leeds hurdle. How comforting it would be to know, for example that Kay will be on hand to restrict Collins activities. The Scot has destroyed many an opposition when playing for Everton. He is the one player in the Leeds ranks most likely to destroy Everton. When these sides last clashed in the Cup competition venues were reversed, Everton were 2-0 victors in the fifth-round tie of 1933.

LABONE RETURNS TO EVERTON TEAM
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Tuesday, January 7, 1964
ONLY CHANGE FOR REPLAY
HULL CHOICE
By Leslie Edwards
International centre half Brian Labone returns to Everton’s team for the F.A Cup third round replay with Hull City at Goodison Park to-night (7.30). It is Labone’s first senior outing since he injured a leg in the match at Nottingham Forest on November 16. Labone for the injured George Heslop, is the only change from the team which drew 1-1 at Hull on Saturday.
YOUNG FIT
Centre-forward Alex Young who has been ill reported fit this morning, but Tony Kay failed his fitness test and Brian Harris continues at left half. Manager Harry Catterick announced the team following a telephone consultation with Train Tom Eggleston. Mr. Catterick ill at his Ainsdale home is suffering from gastric flu -will miss the tie tonight.
PASSED TESTS
Before they left Hull, this morning Hull City were happy in the knowledge that a full fitness test on their Scottish outside left John McSeveney who cashed into iron railings near the end of Saturday’s match had shown him, he match fit. McSeveney is still badly bruised but showed no ill effects in his test, manager Cliff Britton was able to decide an unchanged side. Everton; Rankin; Brown, Meagan; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple. Hull City; Williams; Feasey, McMillan; Clarke, Williamson, Chilton, Henderson, McSeveney.
Everton F.C announce that tickets for the North end, Bullens Road stand, will be available for cash to-night at 10s and that any unsold tickets for the two ends of the lower stand, Bullens Road, will be available at the turnstiles. Ground and paddock season-ticket holders will use their usual turnstiles handing in the third round cup tie voucher and admission money. Paddock 4s, ground 3s. Admission to the ground will be by payment of cash all the turnstiles. Ground 3s paddock 4s.
FELL TRANSFERRED
Former Everton winger Jimmy Fell was to-day transferred from Walsall to Lincoln City.

FORWARDS THEY MUST WATCH
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 07 January 1964
By Leslie Edwards
I wish I could be as sure of being right with the result of the Everton v. Hull City replay at Goodison Park. But the only forecast I can make is that if the game is as hard-fought as the first either side will be very relieved to quality for that tilt against Leeds United. Occasionally Everton have been hard put to it to win ties on their own ground, but only times they have come undone badly were against Crystal Palace (whose goalkeeper had time to peel and eat an orange as he lounged against the upright) and Third Division Leyton long before they got their only season in the First Division. Hull, according to those who saw them on Saturday are a workmanlike side. The fact that Cliff Britton manages them means a great deal because he knows the Everton “form” as player and manager and invariably has his players putting in their all for the club. It is good news that Gabriel will play; the obvious deputy for the injured Heslop is Brian Labone. It could be that Everton’s most serious absentee could be Manager Catterick who must sweat it out at home on a sick bed while his boys try to beat Hull at the second attempt. The forwards Everton must watch, advises colleague Michael Charters are the inside three- Wilkinson, Chilton and Henderson. The last-named is a particularly good player and was outstanding in the first game. Chilton is big and an awkward customer to face, as Heslop found to his cost. Right winger, Clarke, is direct and efficient rather similar to Leicester’s right winger, Riley, whose prompt centring from near the touchline often has defences in trouble. Everton’s hopes lie mainly on the wings. Temple could be a match-winner. The Hull City defence in parts has an aged look.
NOT SO TICKETY-BOO
Everton’s system of selling tickets for the game against Liverpool at Goodison Park in February has caught some of their followers on the raw. There is also a complaint that at least one reserved stand seat at Goodison Park offers an almost completely obliterated view of the pitch.
This second allegation comes from Mr. A.G. Relis, of 12 Grasmere Drive, Wallasey. He says; “I attained a recent home match at Goodison Park and was seated in the new lower stand in an 8s reserved seat, the ticket stub of which I enclose. “From this position, two adjacent pillars completely obliterated my view of play between the penalty spot and the goal at the Gwladys Street end, and there was a third pillar aligned with the opposite goal. “I think it disgraceful that the club should accept money for such poor facilities and would struggle that this seat and others similarly placed should be removed.”
Mr. J.W. Evans (53 Ashbourne Crescent, Roby) writes; “I would like to register my disgust at the way the sale of tickets are handled. I and many others were at the Stadium at 12 noon to find that all the tickets had gone by 10.30 a.m. I have it on good authority that as many as six tickets were being sold at a time, and no doubt being sold on match day at inflated prices to those stupid enough to pay them. “I can’t for the life of me understand why the club advertise the sale of tickets from 9 to 5 at the Stadium and 9 to 8 at Goodison when they must be aware that the allocation, as is obvious lasts only one or two hours. “Is it any wonder thousands of tickets were returned to Hull for the Cup-tie? “One last word. Could you find out why it was 43 6d admission to the paddock for the Manchester United game, instead of the usual 4s? I think you’ll agree it’s all very disconcerting.”
Rader F. Burns (19 Branstree Road, Liverpool 11) adds his wail; “The same old complaint- I was at Goodison Park on Friday morning at 9.30 a.m., and there were about only 300 in front of me in the queue. As there were only two windows with sellers the rate of sale was only about 8- per hour. “By 11.15 word came down the queue that there were no Stand tickets left! “I did get a paddock ticket and left at 11.45 and they were still selling paddock tickets. Anyone who knows Everton’s ground will agree when I say there should be more stand than paddock tickets, but, as usual, they seemed unobtainable.”
MNAIDEN’S PRAYER
Miss Pauline Smith of 9 Sandbrook Road, Childwall Valley, makes this novel suggestion for the use of Everton barricades. ‘After waiting for an hour for a ticket for the ‘Derby’ match I was one of hundreds turned away disappointed. I have never missed one of Liverpool’s matches this season. It seems a shame to miss the game of the year, which of course, I must, for it would be utter madness for a girl to stand on the terraces. “As this is a local match, which will only attract local interest, do you think that Mr. Catterick would let the girls stand inside the barriers built behind the goals? It seems a pity that this space should stay empty when it would be so much appreciated by the girls fans of both teams. I am sure that Mr. Catterick could trust us not to throw anything (even if Everton do win! We would be far, far too grateful.
DANGEROUSLY ILL
WIFE OF EVERTON F.C. DIRECTOR
Said to be still unconscious and dangerously ill at Walton Hospital to-day is Mrs Eliza Macklesfield, aged 75 of 25 Park Avenue, Crosby, the wife of Mr. Fred Micklesfield, a director of Everton Football Club. Mrs. Micklesfield was admitted to the hospital on Saturday with head injuries after being in collision with a car at about 6.35 p.m in Moor Lane, near Park Avenue, Crosby.

OH, THOSE TIGERS…HOW THEY FOUGHT!
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, January 8, 1964
HARRIS HEADS EVERTON INTO ROUND 4
SCOTT EQUALISES AFTER HULL TAKE A SHOCK LEAD
EVERTON 2, HULL CITY 1
BY Horace Yates
Tigers they are called and like tigers this Hull City side, humble relations of the Third Division, savaged and mauled Everton in a tremendous F.A. Cup third round replay battle at Goodison Park last night, before going down to defeat. The agonies the crowd passed through as they watched the drama unfold, could have been as nothing compared with those endured by Manager Harry Catterick, waiting for periodical bulletins at the end of a telephone Mr. Catterick is suffering from gastric flu. Although Everton were twice the side they were at Hull in spirit, ideas and will to win, their life-line was stretched to precarious limits before they prevailed. More glamorous names, and probably worthier sides, will cross Everton’s path if they are to make further progress in the competition, but they will not encounter a fiercer refusal to admit defeat. For much of the first half, which surprisingly enough remained goalless. Everton had all the advantages. It was so one-sided as to threaten monotony. Everton raced had all the advantage. It was so one-sided as to threaten monotony. Everton raced around like greyhounds and Hull were in danger of being swept out of the tie in the slip stream of the champions speed. Twice in eleven minutes Young, a much better leader than he was at Hull, still without reaching form exciting enough to recall some of his brighter displays, should have scored, but didn’t. Gabriel, Scott and Vernon all had their opportunities before, Hull could raise an attacking spark of any kind. No wonder people were saying that when Everton got one, they would get half a dozen. That seemed to be the way of it. Courage and a refusal to acknowledge the opposition’s superiority were all Hull had to keep them going.
SIDE NETTING
What we had not reckoned with, of course was the possibility of a Hull goal, for 25 minutes had gone before they posed the least sign of a threat, then twice in two minutes they might have scored and again before half-time Wilkinson’s header flew into the side netting. As time went on and still there were no goals Hull screwed up courage to develop their own attack. Respect wore off and at last we had a Cup-tie worthy of the name. It still needed a goal to make the game sparkle and Hull it was who provided it. No danger was remotely near as Chilton amiably took the ball down the left wing, and as brown swooped into the tackle from behind, pulled the ball back and passed to McSeveney, veteran of the side. from 25 yards he hit a great first time shot, and it screamed into the net going away from Rankin all the way. With 55 minutes gone here were the making of a tremendous sensation. What might have happened if a minute later a worthy effort by Wilkinson had gone just inside instead of outside the post, is anybody’s guess. Certainly, Everton would have been shaken to the foundation. One goal behind with command of initiative surrendered was unenviable enough. Give Everton every credit for their realisation that they had to striker as soon as possible if the Hull tigers were to be tamed. As has happened in so many games recently, Vernon was being shadowed into obscurity. He found progress of any sort very difficult. Whether or not he heard the murmurings in the crowd as his efforts continued to misfire. I don’t know but, in the end, here was one of the team’s real heroes.
REPLICA MOVE
He it was who opened up the game. He took part in a replica move with Scott that produced the Everton goal at Hull. Again, it was the one-two approach that did it. Sixty-five minutes had gone when Scott pushed the ball inside to Vernon and the skipper swept a forward invitingly to the advancing winger’s toe. He was through and a magnificent shot over Williams head hit the back of the net. One felt instinctively that the tide had turned, and that Everton would exert decisive a superiority. So, it proved, but not without several alarms at the other end, and in 73 minutes the crowd were cheering the winner from Brian Harris. The goal followed immediately Everton’s narrowest delivery from disaster. Wagstaff smashed a shot towards goal and Rankin got a hand to it, without being able to take all the pace off the ball. It was still rolling into goal as Labone raced back and succeeded in flicking the ball wide. Out went the clearance to Vernon, on to Scott and across the Hull goal. There was Harris to leap into the air and rocket a header beyond Williams for the score that takes Everton to Leeds in Round Four. What a habit history has of repeating itself. Remember the Cup competition of last season and the visit to Barnsley? Harris was again a scorer although on that occasion the margin was a clear 3-0. It marked the termination of the Harris claim to a first team place as he handed over to the newly signed Tony Kay. Now, with Kay approaching fitness, there may soon be no regular place for this very able player, who has proved of such inestimable service in Everton’s recent hour of need.
GRIN ON THE FACE.
In his hour of elation Harris made light of the cut he received under his eye in a collision with an opponent in the concluding minutes. Two stitches were inserted in the wound after the game. When Hull went into the lead, I could imagine the grip on the face of the chief tiger, manager Cliff Britton. He was entitled to it, for his hunch looked as though it were to be a trump card. For the occasion he brought back out of form McSeveney, top scorer of last season, but a struggling reserve nowadays. His extra fire power, it was thought might keep Hull in with a chance. Everton turned this into a sentence of hard labour, for they persisted in attacking where the defence was thickest and when it must have been obvious that in Scott and Temple, they had the attackers who could shoot down these troublesome Tigers. With an adequate supply of the ball, I believe the two could have saved Everton much of their anxiety, for every time they had the ball at their feet there was progress and near panic as the defence back pedalled furiously. In the end Scott did get a goal, an obvious case of horses for course, for he had also scored at Hull. Two goals in two matches- as big a total as he can boast for the rest of the season- and at a time when goals could not have been more important or rewarding. Labone was back to a competent reintroduction against the business-like Chilton and Gabriel was obviously much better for his game last Saturday. When Hull are awarding bouquets to the men who added lustre to the club name, they will not forget the defensive worthiness of men like Feasey, Collinson, Davidson and Williams. Everton; Rankin; Brown, Meagan; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple. Hull City; Williams; Davidson, Butler, Collinson, Feasey, McMillian, Clarke, Wilkinson, Chilton, Henderson, McSeveney. Referee Mr. K. Howley (Billingham). Attendance 56,613 (receipts £12,804).

FELL GOES TO LINCOLN CITY
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, January 8, 1964
Jimmy Fell the Walsall outside right who was formerly with Grimsby, Everton and Newcastle has signed for Lincoln City for whom he will play at Hartlepool on Saturday.
LEEDS TIE IS ALL-TICKET
Leeds United’s fourth round F.A. Cup tie with Everton will be all ticket. A limit of 50,000 has been fixed. The usual League prices will be charged, and the visitors will get 12,500 tickets.

HARRIS, OLD FAITHFUL, SAVES HIS SIDE…
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Wednesday, January 8, 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Guess who saved Everton when 20 minutes after the interval Hull City led 1-0 and 56,000 the majority Evertonians, were beginning to despair of their side drawing much less winning? Old faithful Brian Harris, the man who sits the side lines waiting to be called it to play here, there and everywhere the man who doesn’t ask for a transfer the Bebington boy whose fame would have been twice as great if held come from Scotland and had cost £50,000 instead of the proverbial tenner. It was Harris tired of seeing so many chances go to seed “up front” who made that quick interchange of the ball to give Scott opportunity to score a peach of a goal, right foot to put Everton level. It was Harris not long afterwards who sailed in to head the ball in off Scott’s centre for Everton second and the goal which put gallant Hull out of the competition, when they had threatened to do just that to their more costly and more famous opponents. It was Harris all night who used the ball well and kept his head when others were losing theirs. This was as much Harris’s night as Hull City’s and if Everton walked off with a fourth round ticket to Leeds it was the Third Division team which emerged with most of the credit from a rip-roaring tie which kept the crowd enthralled from first minute to last. When the final whistle came -and how relieved Everton must have been to hear it- the salient, rather sad fact was that Everton had been taken almost literally to the last gasp to beat a Third Division side by the narrowest margin. No wonder the crowds rose to Harris as he left the field happily only temporarily to have a facial injury attended to late in the game. No wonder players of both teams walked off to an ovation no wonder Rankin of Everton made a special journey to shake his goalkeeping vis-à-vis by the hand.
TRANSFORMATION
Everton should (but didn’t) have had the game sewn up by the half-way. Young missed two good chances, Vernon one. When Everton did get on target, Williams saved Hull with some acrobatic leaps to the ball and a one or two handed save Hull were scarcely ever in it, but at the interval, with the game still goalless you likely to be, they were as near Wembley as we were. They had scarcely framed one real attack had lashed the ball from defence time and time again to give Everton possession and never looked like getting a goal. But what a transformation came once they snatched that first goal. Clifton tall, strong and able but working mostly single-handed drifted to the left wing, offered a gorgeous square pass to McSeveney and watched the player crack a lovely shot right-footer to cause pandemonium on the terraces. Worse was to come. The game had scarcely started again when Hull were through again- this time through Wilkinson. He darted through so quickly the Everton defence seemed statuesque it wasn’t Everton’s fault he did not make the score 0-2. Somehow his low shot, which beat Rankin tricked inches outside the upright. Ten minutes later with Hull playing better than at any other stage, Everton got the goal which transformed them and rocked Hull. Scott took a difficult angled chance with his best cross shot, hit as he ran on to the ball. Then Everton got the second big break. Rankin half-saved from Wilkinson but the ball was hit so hard it passed on towards the line and must have crossed it or been hit over it, if Labone had not appeared from nowhere to turn it away. Ten further minutes replete, as were all others last night, with drama and suspense, passed before Scott’s pass was headed in hard and true by the night’s herd. Harris to produce the defensive goal- the one Hull could not counter.
VAST -ON PAPER
Hull were on the attack when the final blast came from Kevin Howley who handled what could have become a difficult game well enough though he did miss, I thought, a finger to save by Williams and he did involve Stevens in a free kick which most people I imagine thought should have gone the other way. Hull fought with great gallantry. The margin between First and Third Division on paper, may be vast, it was small enough at Goodison Park last night where the little team, in a status sense, were sharp to the ball and made Everton look less than ordinary at times. If Everton had not been better and cleverer side individually, they might have won more deadly. They fell into the mistake of clever, but sometimes useless meanderings with the ball cluttering up the available space are making Hull City’s job easier than it might have been. When Everton’s finishing was poor Hull survived when it was good, they still survived because Williams had one of those nights when he could do no wrong. He saved magnificently from all sorts of angles and range a top-class show which might well have been crowned by winning bonus. Temple and Scott with the ubiquitous Harris were Everton’s best Labone did his job well and never better than when removing the ball from the line, when Hull were within inches of going ahead for the second time. For the rest of the Everton side there was not a lot of credit. All the praise, remembering the difference in League, was with Hull City, whose manager Cliff Britton must have been delighted with the brave show against his old club. I’d like to see more of Chilton. He could develop into a great centre. But for a entertainment and sustained excitement the teams could hardly have done more. While fan can see ties like this their appetite for the game is likely to remain insatiable. Most relieved Evertonian of all at the finish was Manager Harry Catterick who never saw a ball kicked. From his sick bed at home, he learned from me over the telephone progress reports of the game. But when Hull scored, I thought I had better not risk causing a relapse. I gave him McSeveny’s goal AND Scott’s at the same time. The news that Harris had made it 2-1 sent the invalid down for the night a happy man.

HOME AGAIN
North Wales Weekly News - Thursday 09 January 1964
Former Bangor City centre forward Gwynfor Lewis, now 33, is to settle in Caernarvon next month. Gwynfor, brother of ex-footballers Ken and Arnold, joined Everton from Bangor and played with Rochdale and Chesterfield before joining his present club, Sutton Town.

YOUNG…SIGNS OF STALENESS
Liverpool Daily Post, Thursday, January 9, 1964
TEMPLE SHOULD TAKE OVER IN THE MIDDLE
By Horace Yates
They have no ready-to-hand Alf Arrowsmith bursting with a desire to take over, but the patience of manager Harry Catterick, making progress from his attack of gastric influenza, must be near to breaking point. An examination of Everton’s recent attacking record does nothing more surely than precipitate a mood of depression. Non-League and clubs from lower leagues can and often do make things awkward for their more illustrious opponents, so that Everton’s struggle with Hull City was hardly sensational.
GENERAL PATTERN
It is the general pattern, capped by the Hull City experience, that causers the most faithful to lose confidence in some of the star names they have idolised. One does not envy a club manager his task in deciding the moment has arrived to depose one or more players who are idols in the eyes of the fans, but if the stars have lost their twinkle, it may be more cruel than kind not to give them a rest. Let us examine the scoring feats of an attack which has cost over £150,000 and commands among the biggest remuneration in the game.
Alex Scott, now promising to show the kind of form which caused Mr. Catterick to such tremendous trouble to sign him, has scored two goals in his last twenty-three outings -in the Cup-ties with Hull City.
Denis Stevens, three goals all season, has not scored in fifteen successive outings
Alex Young, eight goals in all, can claim only four in his sixteen most recent games
Derek Temple, equal top scorer with Alex Young, with a total of nine, can show only three successes in thirteen matches.
It is a doleful story and hardly calculated to inspire confidence either in the team’s ability to make up ground in their championship ambitions or two provide adequate compensation with a successful Cup run. The excuse may be offered that players can give a good account of themselves without necessarily concerning the goals, but the unfortunate aspect of modern soccer is that somebody must score if a team is to win. In Everton’s last nine games they have failed to score four times, there have been two singles, two doubles and a heart-warming four against Manchester United. Roy Vernon is clearly fighting a hard battle to regain his touch. Whether he or Alex Young is suffering more from adequate service will be a master of opinion. Suppose Mr. Catterick were to decide on his first voluntary forward change of the season, what could he do? Jimmy hill, clever player though he is, does not shout his claims from the house tops as a leader. A stronger case could be built up for him as schemer of the line. Many of my correspondents suggest that as soon as Kay is available, Gabriel, should move up to lead the attack. There much of the unanimity disappears. Some would have Young at inside left and others at inside right.
DOES NOT APPEAL
It is a remedy which does not appeal to me. Gabriel is among the best right halves in football. Why move him from a position in which he can do so much good to one of such doubtful possibilities? I am not against improvisation by any means as will be seen by my suggestion that Derek Temple should take over in the middle. That is not so shattering as it may appear, for Temple in his younger days at least, considered that his true position. Denis Stevens despite his lion heart, is not everybody’s favourite, and some there are who ask, “Where is our McIIroy, Douglas or White,” One makes bold to suggest “Why not sink our pride and go to Anfield for Jimmy Melia?” I don’t think Mr. Shankly would put out the red carpet for such a deputation! It may be that what Young needs above everything else is a rest -a week or two away from it all rather than a spell with the reserves. If we accept that, then Johnny Morrissey could be called on to replace Temple at outside left. Young, in my view, shows most of the signs of a player gone stale. A short respite might bring him bubbling back to peak performance again, and that is the Young we all want to see. Brian Harris, with far fewer games played than the forwards, has scored four goals- as many as Scott and one more than Stevens -from half-back. The amazing feature’s that for all their attacking unworthiness and the unluckiest visitation of injuries, Everton have not slumped so seriously that they could not still remedy the decline with a storming finish. Nobody doubts that the forward talents is in abundance at Goodison Park but waiting for it to manifest itself can be a tiresome, unrewarding business.

CATTERICK NEARLY HAD HIM
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Thursday, January 9, 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Finally, Arrowsmith signed but not before a last-minute bid by Sheffield Wednesday managed ironically at that time by Harry Catterick was pen put to paper. That was in 1960, it has taken Arrowsmith three-and-a-half years to arrive but if as they say, its better to travel hopefully than to arrive that mat be no bad thing… while Arrowsmith a few weeks ago, was unheard of, in Liverpool’s Central league side two stars across the park, Alex Young and Roy Vernon were reviving ovations for their brilliance against Manchester United. What does a manager do in such circumstances? If he’s wise, I submit, he should tell them he realises they have struck bad patches and should ask them to work out their problems in their own way. A player off form needs a boost to his morale. Some of them are too easily depressed. There aren’t two better or more talented forwards in football than Young and Vernon when things are going well. The surest way to damage their confidence would he to leave them out. Mr. Catterick, still out of action through these illness has played football long enough to appreciate this. That is why the side to go to Burnley on Saturday may well be that which beat Hull City. Though Burnley would seen to hold all the aces an Everton can recovered from its several indifferent performances could jolt their old rivals and make those. “They’ve had the League championship “taunts look foolish. But to draw or win they must show more fight than they have in recent away fixtures.
MIAOW!
Mrs Jean Barnes from 49 Adlington Road, Crewe (I’m twenty-seven years old, but no old fogey”) does not agree with Miss Pauline Smith suggestion that Everton should use the free space in front of their goal end barricades to allow female spectators to watch the game in comfort. Why? Because she’s a rabid follower of Everton and segregating one sex with leanings to one or other of our senior clubs could lead to a new sort of trouble.
Mrs Barnes says; “What a palaver there would be. I’m an Everton supporter. Fancy me standing next to Pauline. There would be lots of arguments. There is nothing worse than a crowd of women together especially when they take different points of view.
Miss Smith thinks it utter madness for a girl to stand on the terraces. Well, I will stand anywhere to watch Everton. We are in the same class as men when we watch a man’s sport. Why should they give special consideration for girls? If you are keen enough you are thrilled enough to get ground tickets.”

F.A. CUP TIE
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, January 10, 1964
EVERTON SALE OF TICKETS
Everton’s F.A Cup fourth round tie at Leeds on January 25 will be all-ticket. Applications for stand tickets, priced at 10s 6d and 8s 6d each can only be considered from stand season ticket holders, but as the tickets for seats are limited there is no guarantee that there will be sufficient for all applicants and will be limited to one ticket each. Those tickets must be applied for to the Everton offices enclosing fourth round Cup-tie voucher (which will be returned for use on the event of a replay); remittance and stamped addressed envelope and the outside of their envelope should be marked “Leeds (S T)” in the top left-hand corner. Paddock tickets are 4s 6d, terrace tickets 3s 6d and ground tickets 3s each. Priority for these will be given to paddock and ground season-ticket holders who must apply by post enclosing fourth round Cup-tie voucher, remittance and stamped addressed envelope should be marked “Leeds (S T)” in the top left-hand corner. Applications by post from the general public for ground and paddock tickets must contain correct remittance and stamped addressed envelope should be marked “Leeds” in the top-left hand corner. Boy tickets will be 2s 6d to the paddock 2s for the terrace and 1s 6d for the ground. A further announcement will be made when ground and paddock tickets are available for sale on personal applications.

EVERTON’S ROY VERNON SAYS…
Liverpool Daily Post, Friday, January 10, 1964
BOBBY COLLINS WILL BE LEEDS’ MAN TO WATCH
There are few easy Cup games and what few there are never seem to come the way of Everton. What a struggle we had with Hull City. Those who merely criticise Everton for not winning the game more easily are guilty of a disservice to Hull. There is much more talent in that side than many people are prepared to admit. Frankly, I did not consider that a replay should have been necessary. Nobody has given me a satisfactory reason why the goal I scored at Hull was not allowed to count. I was told that I had obstructed a defender, but this simply wasn’t true. Similarly, Alex Young certainly scored in the second half when the ball was scrambled away from goal. In my view is had clearly crossed the line. As a matter of fact, some of the Hull players, after Tuesday night’s game admitted that the ball was over the goal line by at least a foot. Still, all’s well that ends well, although judging by the disappointment of some of our supporters -you might be excused for thinking we lost instead at winning the replay on Tuesday. What they would have said if they had been supporters of Aston Villa, Birmingham, Leicester, Newcastle, Sheffield Wednesday, or Tottenham, I can hardly imagine!
A BIT CLOSE
Maybe we did approach too closely to membership of the shock troops for comfort but how often in this case when a First Division club are up against opposition from lower Leagues? We are on a hiding to nothing and if the unfishable sides, with all to gain and nothing to lose, should get the first gaol, anything can happen. I think we did well to survive two games in which Hull scored first. No one will pretend that our general pattern of play is as successful as we could hope, but in view of the circumstances can we really complain? You can hardly expect to find the signs of a rebirth appearing in the hurly-burly of Cup fighting. We are just as anxious to slip back into our championship groove as you are to see it happen, but these things apparently will not be hurried.
TOUGH BATTLE
Talk to any player with a top club and he will tell you that in Cup games he would far rather meet a club from Division 1 than anywhere else. We have to beat another Yorkshire club- Leeds United -if we are to have a prospect of trying conclusions with somebody from our own sphere. I know it sounds crazy, but I believe if we surmount the Leeds hurdle we will have to be taken very seriously as a Wembley proposition. Our injured are coming back and with them, I hope, so will our form. It is unnecessary to remind us that we will not get through the fights with Leeds without a terrific battle. We know that Bobby Collins our former skipper, will be anxious to make this the game of his life and we have seen enough of him to appreciate just what an influence Bobby at his best can have on a game. He will be the No.1 man for us to watch. It is so long since Collins was with us and so many things have changed in the interim that I doubt very much if his former knowledge of us will be of any really great value in the tactical planning Leeds will be relying on. It is not easy to think of many more difficult tasks that could have been set us than a visit to Leeds, but I have a hunch we will do it.
In a letter Mr. D.L. Evans (Higher Bebington), asks why Everton, with a star forward line, could not score a single goal in three hours play against Leicester, while Leyton orient scored three at Leicester, I seem to remember that it is not only Everton who have found the Leicester defence impregnable. They ruined a lot of Merseyside appetites last year as well. If I could produce answers to questions like that what a help it would be in considering future games. When Leicester set out to strangle an opposition, they do it fairly effectively. Whether that is the sort of football you would want to see here, I don’t know, but I have my own ideas.

YOUNG AND VERNON DROPPED BY EVERTON
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express -Friday, January 10, 1964
FOR THE MATCH AT BURNLEY
By Michael Charters
Everton manager, Harry Catterick, back in harness at Goodison to-day after his illness, came up, with sensational changes for his team’s game at Burnley to-morrow. He has dropped international stars Roy Vernon the captain and Alex Young. He told me to-day; “When I returned to the office, I studied reports on the cup replay against Hull City. “I decided to drop both Vernon and Young. Both players were told of my decision before the team-sheet was pinned up in the dressing roomed. “I am sure that players of their ability appreciate they are out of form at present and we hope that a game or two in the reserve will help them to recover their form.” This is not the first time Vernon has been dropped. Young has been switched in attack several times.
TEMPLE SWITCHED
As a result of these moves Mr. Catterick makes three forward changes, one positional for to-morrow. Derek Temple switches from outside left to centre forward with Johnny Morrissey in on the wing. Jimmy Hill the Irish international will be at inside left in place of Vernon. The rest of the team is unchanged from that which won the Cup replay. Both Vernon and Young will play in the Central League game against Burnley Reserves at Goodison Park to-morrow. In additional Alex Parker and Tony Kay now recovered from injuries will also be in the Everton Reserve side. this is Parker first game since he was injured at Nottingham Forest in November and Kay reappears after being hurt at Leicester on Boxing Day. Kay is not 100 per cent fit. Mr. Catterick explained but it is felt that a run in the reserves will help him. Everton; Rankin; brown, Meagan; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Stevens, Temple, Hill, Morrissey. Everton reserves; West; Parker, Parnell; Rees, Sharples, Kay; Shaw, Harvey, Young, Vernon, Veall.
BURNLEY CHOICE
Burnley are likely to make one change, bringing in Arthur Bellamy at inside right in place of Ian Towers who was injured in the Cup replay at Rotherham on Tuesday. Bellamy is fire boy who scored three against Everton early in the season in Everton’s first home defeat for two seasons. Burnley; Blacklaw; Angus, Elder; O’Neill, Talbut, Miller, Morgan, Bellamy, Lochhead, Harris, Connelly.

CHANCE OF A DOUBLE
Liverpool Echo - Friday 10 January 1964
By Leslie Edwards
One of Everton’s fears at Burnley is that Harry Potts’ team may repeat the easy victory they scored against Everton at Goodison Park earlier in the season. The match was notable for the goals Burnley scored in the first half, several from long clearances from hand by their Scottish goalkeeper, Blacklaw. Brian Labone was the Everton centre-half that day and is likely to be so again to-morrow. No doubt he will be more wary of this long down-the-middle clearance which caused him and the rest of the defence much embarrassment at the Everton ground. Games between Burnley and Everton have always been hard fought and this one is not likely to be any different. If Everton had been going well in their bid to retain the championship many thousands would have travelled with them; it is unlikely that they will have much support this time from the terraces because since just before Christmas their form has been of anything by championship standard. Their trouble this season has been partly due to injuries and partly to loss of form by the two players who must be performing well if the side is to maintain its high place- Roy Vernon and Alex Young. In my view great players are essentially mercurial ones- if they were not they would be ordinary good club men, only capable of playing to their limited best week after week. Everyone who has ever played a game knows that there are times when things can’t go right and the harder one tries the less one succeeds. Young and Vernon have both endured such a spell.
SENSELESS ANIMOSITY
Is he senseless animosity (as distinct from the age-old leg-pulling) between followers of Everton and Liverpool increasing? I think so and so does Frederick Fairclough from Donsby Road, Liverpool 9. Anything which tends to worse the position –and there have been some pretty tactless statements from officials and players of both clubs- I deplore. Mr. Fairclough wades in at the morons this way;
“As a supporter of bothy local clubs for the past forty years I have always been surprised and disturbed by her amount of ill-feeling and dislike between their supporters. “It extends to the manager, officials, players, even the trainer. In fact everything and everybody in any way connected with the club. “There have been a few occasions when a player has crossed the park, and it is quite remarkable how on one day he is a blue-eyed boy and the next a you-know-what. “This ill-feeling has now become an absolute hatred. I thought that I had heard everything, until last Saturday coming home on the bus after the Liverpool-Derby County cup-tie. I was asked how Everton finished and I said 1-1. Someone else said the replay would be on Tuesday night. “A gleeful voice higher up the bus said; ‘Good, I hope a few more of the --------are injured! “I thrust that this lunatic had some pleasure in knowing that he was right and that two of the ---------were, in fact, injured. “Small wonder that there are missing millions. This sort of thing makes a real football supporter sick. “If ever either of our teams have a bad time this is the sort of fanatic who will not go and cheer them on.”

AXE FALLS ON VERNON AND YOUNG
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, January 11, 1964
STEEVNS NOW COMES UNDER SCRUTINY
WIDESPREAD SEARCH FAILS TO FIND TALENT WORTHY OF AMBITIOUS EVERTON
By Horace Yates
The Goodison Park axe was bound to fall sooner rather than later, but few anticipated it would prove a double-edged weapon to fell both Welsh international and club skipper Roy Vernon and Scottish international centre forward and joint leading scorer, Alex Young, with a single blow. Both lose their places for the visit to Burnley to-day. Readers of this column were prepared for action by manager Harry Catterick by the exclusive story in Thursday’s daily Post placing the query firmly behind the name of Young as leader of the attack, with Morrissey playing at outside left, coincided exactly with Mr. Catterick’s view of the position, for those are the moves he has made. Frankly, I had not anticipated that at this stage Vernon would lose his position for thinking that Young would be a lone victim. At Hull in the F, A. Cup third round tie, Vernon not only put the ball into the net, even though the award was mysteriously withheld, but he collaborated perfectly in Scott’s scoring move. Similarly, at Goodison Park on Tuesday. It was Vernon who teamed up with Scott in a replica of the Saturday move for the equalising goal. He also laid on the pass from which Scott was able to after Harris the chance to head the winner. On several occasions late in the game, he showed more penetrative ideas than any of the inside forwards. Now Jimmy Hill is the man to take over from Vernon.
GREAT TOLERANCE.
Clearly Mr. Catterick was compelled to tackle this problem of goal-shy forwards. He has shown them great tolerance and lucky is the man who can, in such difficult circumstances, score a bull’s eye at the first shot in finding a remedy. Mr. Catterick’s approach may yet prove a commendable near miss. What happens now if the reshaped attack reveals no greater scoring thrust than the old formation? Where does Mr. Catterick turn next? I know that he has explored the home countries in a search for players of the stature and ability to make Everton better. The result is that there is not a single man of sufficient merit available. It would be easy enough to provide new faces for the sake of novelty. Mr. Catterick works on foundations much more substantial than those. If and when he swoops, the capture will be no mere make weight. It will be a star or nothing. With Young and Vernon out then, I fancy that Mr. Catterick will put the play of the forwards under microscopic survey at turf Moor. The deposed internationals maintain that it is not so much lost form that has dulled their brilliance, as lack of a constructive link of sufficient quality. In other words, close marking defences give them not the least encouragement to break loose from the type of approach laid on. To-day Mr. Catterick will see Irish international Jimmy Hill, with the reputation of a ball player, and Dennis Stevens one of the most tireless workers in football, in the inside births. What will he be looking for? Will he be trying to make up his mind whether or not Hill can do the fetching and carrying, the serving up of scoring invitations more efficiently than Stevens.
RESTRICTED
Everton have used Stevens defensively so much that in my opinions his attacking contributions have attacking contributions have been restricted. To give the order to Stevens to place, the emphasis on attack and let the defenders do the defending might be a key to the whole problem. Nobody suggests it is wrong for a forward to lend a hand defensively, for this happens with every side, but when there is a scoring famine it may not be unreasonable for a forward first to do a forward’s job. While two forwards are out to-day, then, in effect the entire inside trio is under suspicious. The turf Moor findings could be enlightening! Everton appreciates that Stevens probably covers more ground in a match than any man in the twenty-two players and his scoring record is hardly his greatest testimonial. In seventy-nine League game he is credited with fourteen goals. Another Bellamy, twenty-one-year-old inside forward, will play for Burnley if inside right Ian Towers fails a fitness test. Everton will need no reminding of the name- he scored three goal against them at Goodison Park last September. Although he scored six goals in a handful of games, there has been no regular place for Bellany at Burnley. Burnley; Blacklaw; Angus, Elder; O’Neil, Talbut, Miller; Morgan, Towers or Bellamy, Lochhead, Harris (G), Connelly. Everton; Rankin; Brown, Meagan; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Stevens, Temple, Hill, Morrissey. The reserve teams play at Goodison Park, reserve teams with a difference. Nine Everton players have figured in First Division football and eight of the Burnley side are similarly experienced.
Everton res; West; Parker, Parnell; Rees, Sharples, Kay; Shaw, Harvey, Young, Vernon, Veall. Burnley Res; Thomson; Smith, Buxton; Todd, Morrington, Joyce, Meredith, Pointer, Irvine, Robson, Price.
GLOVER’S OPERATION
Gerry Glover, Everton’s teen-age centre forward and former England schoolboy international yesterday successfully underwent an operation for cartilage trouble.
GOODISON DERBY GAME SELL-OUT
Every ticket for the Everton v. Liverpool “derby” clash at Goodison Park on February 8 has now been sold. Secretary Bill Dickinson said last night; “There was a big demand for the ground tickets, which were on sale yesterday, and I should say the last ticket went around 4 p.m. “This means there will be 68,000 spectators at the game.” Goodison’s biggest attendance so far was the 65,383 who saw the League match with Tottenham Hotspur on October 26. With a home game against Ipswich proceeding the “derby.” Everton’s gross attendance figures for the season will soar to more than 700,000.

NEW-LOOK EVERTON CRUSH BURNLEY AFTER BEING 2 DOWN
Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express, Saturday, January 11, 1964
BURNLEY 2, EVERTON 3
By Michael Charters

Burnley; Blacklaw; Angus, Elder; O’Neill, Talbut, Miller; Morgan, Bellamy, Loochhead, Harris (G.), Connelly. Everton; Rankin; Brown, Meagan; Gabriel (Captain), Labone, Harris, Scott, Stevens, Temple, Hill, Morrissey. Referee; Mr. J.K. Taylor (Wolverhampton). Gabriel captained Everton in the absence of Vernon. The first incident of note was when Temple sent Morrissey away with a good pass, and the winger took the ball on well, before shooting just over. After four minutes Brown went down fearing after colliding with Lochhead and had to have attention to his right leg before resuming. Gabriel and Harris were sending the ball through well and Harris himself tried a shot from 25 yards the ball bouncing awkwardly for Blacklaw who took if on his shoulder.
FULL LENGTH SAVE
Then Blacklaw make an excellent full length save from Hill, who hit the ball first time from a pass by Stevens. There was little wrong with the new look Everton attack at this stage. They were playing sharp and moving the ball well. The first Burnley shot came from O’Neill, who was far too high in fact. Burnley were making too many errors. When Morrissey shot from outside the penalty box, the ball swerved away. Then O’Neill robbed Hill as he was about to shoot. The chance was made by temple, who was playing intelligently. Temple cleverly beat Talbut and centred from the line, but Stevens could not reach the ball and Miller cleared. Stevens with a back header timed to find Morrissey in the centre, but Angus was there first. It was against the run of play when Burnley took the lead through Connelly after 22 minutes. Brown cleared a centre from the right straight to O’Neill, only 20 yards away. The wing half moved it inside to Connolly and Brown missed an easy tackle. The winger’s flighted shot passed over Rankin into the corner. Rankin had to go full length to save from Lockhead then Blacklaw saved from Stevens.
SKIRMISH
The referee had a word with Brown and Bellamy who were involved in a skirmish in the Everton penalty area with play at the other end. From an indirect free kick Scott slipped the ball to brown and Morrissey dashing in, just missed connecting with his crossing. Burnley’s defence was constantly being penalised for obstruction and Gordon Harris was also in trouble with the referee. Stevens has fouled the Burnley player who picked up the ball and ran with it towards Stevens apparently with the intention of hitting him in the face. But he cooled down when spoke to. Temple made a good header from a centre by Gabriel and shots by Stevens and Hill cannoned off Talbut. Then Morgan missed two good chances for Burnley. Everton were twice unlucky within a minute 0-first when Stevens almost beat Blacklaw from a centre by Scott, and afterwards when Temple forced Blacklaw to a good save taking a fine through pass by Hill. After Hill’s excellent volley had been superbly saved Burnley increased their lead after 41 minutes. Again, it was caused by an Everton defensive error. Gabriel muffled a back pass to Rankin who was left stranded as the unmarked Connelly once more stepped in to score.
GOOD HEADER
Everton replied from an indirect free kick from which Temple’s good header was again saved by Blacklaw. A minute before half-time Everton got a goal back through a pen to Scott. The award was given as Temple forced his way through the middle Miller not only fouled him from behind but also handled the ball. Scott’s shot went low into the net past Blacklaw’s left hand. Half-time; Burnley 2, Everton 1. Blacklaw made yet another excellent save from a fierce shot by Scott. Then Connelly always a danger beat Rangers with a great shot from a pass by Gordon Harris- but the ball was just wide. When Stevens was chasing through -pass by Hill it seemed that Gordon Harris used his arms illegally, but penalty claims were ignored. Everton equalised after 56 minutes -this time due to a Burnley error Temple made a magnificent 40-yard run wearing in from the touchline but Blacklaw dived to save and Talbut seemed to have cleared but Gabriel 35 yards out, shot through a crowd of players, the ball bouncing in as Blacklaw watched it go.
BLUES TAKE LEAD
Everton deserved to be level because of their sharpness in attack, but it was strange that Blacklaw should be beaten so simple a shot. Everton took the lead for the first time after 64 minutes, through Morrissey. Blacklaw could only push Scott’s centre against the bar. From the rebound Temple made a clever lob to Morrissey who headed into the empty net. The greatest success of the new Everton attack was Temple. He was playing brilliantly, and now beat three defenders with a superb run before hitting a low shot which Blacklaw saved well. Hill, who had used the ball well from midfield sent Stevens away, but he passed instead of shooting and the chance was lost. Brown had his name taken after sending Lochhead heading long.
FRACTION WIDE
From another fine centre by Scott, temple touched the ball to one side and Morrissey hit it instantly only a fraction wide. They were taking a pounding now with 10 men back and only Temple who was injured but resumed -waiting for a breakaway. Miller had a shot charged down and from the rebound Gordon Harris shot just wide. Rankin was keeping cooler than some others in the Everton defence who were lashing the ball anywhere. In a late breakaway Stevens again wasted a chance by failing to shoot, but a couple of minutes from the end, Blacklaw had to make a great save from Stevens. Rankin did the same from Gordon Harris. Final; Burnley 2, Everton 3
EIGHT FANS REMOVED BY POLICE
During half-time several policemen climbed into the crowd behind the goal which Everton had been attacking in the first half. In all eight youngsters wearing Everton favours were taken out of the ground plus two young girls with Everton scarves. One of the girls seemed to have hurt a leg as she was carried by two policemen. The police action followed a disturbance among the crowd.
LACASHIRE LEAGUE
Everton A 4, Blackburn R A 1
Everton B 2, Blackburn B nil

HULL WERE WORTH THE PRAISE
Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express, Saturday, January 11, 1964
By Alex Young
By holding us to a 1-1 draw on Saturday and then containing us to 2-1, Tuesday’s replay at Goodison Park, Hull City are intitled to claim a moral victory in the third round of the F.A. Cup,but it is Everton who go forward to meet Leeds United in the next round, on January 25, and that is the thing which really matters. Hull, however, must be praised for giving us the toughest of passages into round four in one of the most sporting Cup battlesand when their manager Mr. Cliff Britton, walked in our dressing room after Tuesday’s game and congratulated skipper Roy Vernon as our representative and wished him the best of luck in the later rounds it was a fitting climax to two memorable occasions. Remembering our 5-1-win last season against a top form Swindon Town I must admit that I thought the Hull tie would be hard bot not too difficult. How wrong I was. City are very good for a Third Division side and tactically I think they make the best one of the material available. The skilful way their defence operated its man-to-man marking system also impress me. After this fright and seeing what has happened to Newcastle United, Aston Villa, Leicester and Birmingham City, it is very clear to us that there will be no easy matches in this year’s competition. Hull city who are reported to have sound financial backing are a side to keep a watchful eye on in the future for a found the difficulties their Boothferry Park headquarters excelled and the pitch particularly good.
LUCK WAS OUT
Our luck was out at Hull when we found ourselves a goal down early on the game, a time when Jimmy Gabriel had left the field for attention to his broken nose,” as Terry Downes would call it) and then both Roy Vernon and myself had what seemed to be perfectly good goals disallowed. In the first case the referee seemed to think that Roy pushed a Hull defender as he ran around him to collect the ball before shooting. Later I back-heeled the ball through a defender’s legs and I thought it had crossed the goal line before someone kicked out a foot and pushed it clear. The linesman, who was well positioned to see the incident ruled that the ball had not entered the goal, and I had to accept his verdict. Alex Scott eventually managed to crack the ball into the back of the net and satiety everyone that it had been place there legislatively but looking back I feel that we might not have lived the fight another day but for the find goalkeeping of young Andy Rankin. Andy made three really brilliant saves when the score was 1-1 one of them from a point blank Wilkinson shot, having to be seen to be believed. Between the two games I have spend a couple of days in bed when a series of illness which I have had during the past month or so seemed to reach a peak. By Tuesday however I felt much better.
REPLICA GOAL
Most people had visions of Everton cruising to victory on Tuesday evening, but the shocks were not over has it was Hull City who went ahead with a clever goal from their left winger McSeveney. And Alex Scott -Roy Vernon movements -a replica of the one which produced the goal at Hull – enable Alex to put us level with a tremendous shot and then Brian Harris who had a fine game came up to the attack and headed a great goal to decide the issue. Hull gave us moments of anxiety in both matches but everything turned out right at the end. In the past there have been occasions when a team has got off the floor and gone on to win the Cup and we are hoping that it will be our turn to do just this in 1964. Now our obstacle in our path is another Yorkshire side, Leeds United. A glance at the Second Division table shows us how formidable a task this is. The great dangerman in the Leeds team is of course our old Everton colleague Bobby Collins. Bobby the United captain was at Goodison Park on Tuesday with manager Don Revie weighting up the opposition there can be no doubt that he knows several Everton secrets.
ACCUARATE
This works both ways however, foe we at Goodison know exactly what we are up against in Bobby whose rely must be one of the most accurate passes of the ball playing to-day. I have played in the Leeds ground once before, in my early days with Everton and the memory is all particularly happy one because it was my first match for a winning Everton team. It was my second appearance for the club; the least unhappy when we lost to Tottenham. The strange thing is that this friendly on January 28 took place on the day when the fourth round Cup is were being played and this arranged because Everton and Leeds had been knocked out in the previous round and were without a league fixture. Everton won 3-2 with Bobby Collins young John Bentley and Jimmy Gabriel score our goals. As I remember it the match was played on a very heavy pitch and we found ourselves two goals down in the first 20 minutes or so. Latest addition to the Everton injury list is centre half George Heslop who has done so well since he came into the side when Brian Labone was hurt in November. George was disappointed at losing his first team place in this way, that’s the way it goes in football. Every injury problem have their lighter sides, however for since Alex Parker and Brian were injured during the same match against Nottingham Forest there has been keen rival between them to see who could get back into the team first. Brian of course is declared the winner making his return against Hull on Tuesday -and playing very sound too.

STAR HELD IN EVERTON RESERVE GAME
Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express- Saturday, January 11, 1964
Everton Res; West; Parker, Parnell; Rees, Sharples, Kay; Shaw, Harvey, Young, Vernon, Veall. Burnley Res; Thomson; Smith, Buxton; Todd, Merrington, Joyce, Meredith, Pointer, Irvine, Robson, Price. Referee Mr. C.S.AS Allan, Birmingham. Before an estimated crowd of about 8,000 Everton were in trouble in the first minute. A long through ball by Joyce to Meredith on the right wing saw the latter put across a precision centre to Irvine’s head and West had no chance. For the first quarter of an hour Everton were not even in the game. Burnley were well on top with their defence led by a capable Merrington keeping both Vernon and Young well under control. Neither of the forwards up to this stage had shown any real bite. Vernon did get the ball into the net the first time he was really in possession, but the whistle had gone for offside before he even touched it. The best Everton shot so far had come from young right winger Shaw, but goalkeeper Thomson was in the right position. Parker and Kay were playing quietly and obviously taking no unnecessary chances. The crowd temper improved when Everton equalised at 29 minutes. Young was tackled in the penalty area and Vernon scored from the spot. Three minutes later however, Burnley were back in front again from a beautiful header by Irvine off a Joyce free kick. Young Shaw was still having a good game and Parker right upfield to have a shot himself which tip over for an unproductive corner. When in possession, Burnley were much the more dangerous side, and their weight defence was keeping the small Everton forward line out of mischief. Kay was showing some nice moves and as the game progress he and Parker steadily increased. Half-time -Everton Reserves 1, Burnley Reserves 2.

ANFIELD EMINCE, BUT BURNLEY END HOPES OF DOUBLE
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 11 January 1964
FOOTBALL ON MERSEYSIDE
By Percy M. Young
The post-war history of Merseyside football divides into these phases: the Liverpool climacteric; the sad decline of Everton and their transiencethrough a subsequent period of unspectacular co-habitation with the less distinguished; the fall of Liverpool; the shaping of a new Everton image according to the tenets of mid-twentieth century public-relations philosophy; the resurgence of Liverpool. In the progress of the two clubs lies, for better or worse, the whole pattern of modern football; yet, as this story has shown, the pattern was laid down long ago in the varied traditions of Merseyside. When the threads of football were picked up again after the Second World War it was Liverpool who swept into eminence. In the first season of normal fixtures they won the League championship, after an infuriating prolongation of the season that left their fate dependent on the actions of others. In the same season they reached the semi-final of the Cup and were probably unfortunate not to reach the final. Three years later they were, after an unconscionable delay of 36 years, in the Cup Final again. As for Everton during these years, the curve on the graph pointed constantly and depressingly downward: the League positions registered 10th, 11th, 18th, 18th . . . If anyone was capable of reaching any writing on the wall there was an ominous message. Towards the end of the war—on April 10. 1944 the Everson directors. W. C. Gibbins being chairman, showed their appreciation of the loyalty of a number of their players who had made strenuous efforts to fulfil their playing commitments. No fewer than 17 were given proportionate payments from a grand total of £5,500 for accrued shares of benefit, in respect of their service up to the outbreak of war. The Supporters' Club at this time looked to the future he buying the derelict Coliseum Cinema in Walton, "for club repurposes" In 1945 Liverpool, aided by their fine defence and by their rivals' growing talent for squandering opportunity, eliminated Everton from the League Cup, and while both teams looked possible candidates for League honours, both failed. Liverpool having made the better effort. Having lost to Accrington Stanley in the semi-final of the Lancashire Cup, Everton made some amends by defeating Tranmere Rovers in the two-leg final of the Liverpool Cup. The second leg brought Hedley, on trial from North Shields, into the side at left back.
LAWTON GOES
In the 1945-6 season interest in Lawton, who had hitherto scored some 400 goals, intensified, and Arsenal, Millwall, Crystal Palace again, and more forlornly Sunderland, formed up into a queue at the head of which was Chelsea. On November 7, late at night, the news was disseminated that Chelsea had got their man. Lawton's last game for Everton was at Bramall Lane on the previous Saturday when Sheffield United had won by 4-0. At that time Everton, with eight of their pre-war Championship side playing, were infuriatingly variable. Sometimes they moved in the style of their best days, with Boyes flippantly floating from wing to wing," and with Wally Fielding showing a delicacy and intellectuality worthy of inclusion in any anthology of inside-forward play. He it was who could draw a squad of defenders to himself and then eludes them by grace of movement. He it was "who taught the spectator to hold his peace instead of chanting; “Get rid of the ball.” In an exhibition match in Belfast Everton could beat Glasgow Rangers, but in the realities of life they were less successful, and were easily mastered by Liverpool in the Liverpool Senior Cup. In the autumn Eglington arrived from ShamrockRovers to continue a tradition of Eirean players inaugurated by Stevenson. His first appearance for Everton was against Arsenal, at Goodison Park, on September 11. Everton lost by 3-2 in spite of a fine full-back display by Saunders. By now Joe Mercer had changed his allegiance and was an Arsenal player.
BY-PASSED
In the early matches of the season, after Liverpool had beaten Sheffield United, at Bramall Lane, and Chelsea -the latter overwhelmingly - while Everton had lost to suchindifferent sides as Brentford and Blackburn Rovers, it became apparent that the former had a persistence that their neighbours lacked. Despite frequently dazzling approach work. Everton lost many opportunities for want of another Dean or Lawton, and the arrival of the restless Jock Dodds was not the answer. The currently available and ideal centre-forward had by - passed blandishments from Goodison to throw in his lot, rather hesitantly, with Liverpool. Albert Stubbins came to Anfield from Newcastle United, for whom he had indeed scored 244 goals. Stubbins cost £12,500 and, in spite of continual suggestion that he preferred the climate of Tyne to that of Mersey, stayed as leader of the Liverpool attack for six years. He joined the club afterBill Jones had led the forwards not quite unsuccessfully for four matches until a chastening 5-0 defeat by Manchester United had compelled George Kay and W. McConnell (restaurateur turned football director and now chairman) to reassess their resources.
GOALS GALORE
Before the season had started goal - scoring had seemed an easy matter, for on an American and Canadian summer tour the club had amassed 70 goals against 14 with sensational results of 12-0 against Philadelphia Select, 11-1 against Ulster United, and 10-1 against American League All Stars (results which were, more or less, duplicated in 1948). But the English League provided stiffer opposition. So, in fact, Stubbins discovered when he played against Everton on September 21. The match ended in a goalless draw because Tom Jones, at the height of his considerable form, cunningly saw to it that Stubbins rarely received the ball. Nevertheless, the acquisition of Stubbins paid, to this extent, that Liverpool enjoyed a run of 16 matches (four in the Lancashire Cup competition) without defeat, and that his formidable and well-noted presence left more scope to that finely matured ex-centre forward Jack Balmer, now captain and at inside right. Balmer, who played until 1952, was among the stronger influences on the game. Like many good club men he was ill-recognised in the higher flights but with a respect among his colleagues and opponents that brought its own recompense. In the month of November. 1946, Balmer reached the zenith of marksmanship with three successive hat-tricks: on November 9 against Portsmouth, on November 16 against Derby County (in this match he scored four goals), and on November 23 against Arsenal. By now Liverpool were at the top of the League, and remained top even after losing to Blackpool by 3-2 at the end of the month— which also terminated the 16th - match stretch of immunity.
CAPITULATED
To lose away from home was no great disgrace. But when, on December 7, the team capitulated at Anfield it was not regarded as a laughing matter among the crowd. Wolves, to be Liverpool's closest challengers for the most part of the season, came, and, through Westcott’s opportunism, set up a half-time lead of 4-0. Wolves won this match by 5-1, and the defeat was only the Liverpool club's second home defeat of the season so far. The other, early on, had been by Middlesbrough. Thus with the Championship hopes (if any were entertained at that stage) somewhat dimmed, the Cup competition was imminent. Herein Liverpool were first drawn at Walsall, a notorious graveyard of illustrious reputations, and when the home team took the lead the locals scented another Arsenalisation. Liverpool equalised. Walsall went ahead again. Pandemonium reigned in Fellows Park. This unseemliness was ended by Liverpool scoring four more goals, whereat Walsall supporters lowered their collective blood - pressure and acknowledged that the better side—and one composed of "gentlemen"—had won. In the next round Liverpool were at home and balanced Everton's dismissal by Sheffield Wednesday by a neat 2-0 victory over Grimsby Town, for whom goalkeeper Tweedy performed prodigies of valour in the face of consistent cleverness by Liddell—not to be excluded from a Liverpool team, except on account of Scottish commitments or injury, for 13 years— Stubbins, and Balmer. The forwards were adroit at interchanging, but this was purposive and not merely speculative, and controlled by the designing mind of Balmer. It was Balmer who won the fifth round. Derby County were magnificent in defence and it not until the 76th minute that Balmer, by now injured and working at reduced speed, managed to add another to his already large collection of League goals against the County. The sixth round belonged to Stubbins, who scored a hat-trick. This was a triumph of skill and adaptation—which, of course, is one part of skill. The ground was icy—it often was during that biting winter, with its trail of postponed matchs- and intolerant to accuracy.
METHODICAL
Yet Liverpool contrived to play methodically and in the 33rd minute took the lead through a well-placed throw-in. Taylor sent the ball to Fagan, who headed it on to Stubbins. He, after making some ground, shot and the ball went into the net off an upright. After half-time Birmingham equalised from a penalty, of which the cause was obscure. Two minuteslater a free kick to Liverpool went to Balmer, whose first-time shot was not to be stopped. Then Birmingham called it a day and Stubbins came in with two more goals, one of which surprised Liddell, whose pass did not conform to his own critical standards of accuracy, as much as Gil Merrick, the Birmingham goalkeeper. Burnley, a promotion-worthy side whose defence had conceded only seven goals in the last 27 matches, were Liverpool's companions in the semi-final, and a crowd of 53,000 saw a stern defensive engagement at Blackburn. At Maine Road, Manchester, where the gate had been limited to 72,000, the same pattern restated—until 10 minutes from time when Harrison, Burnley's centre forward, managed to score the decisive goal. In this match Liverpool played in white.

STILL ROOM FOR ALEX YOUNG OR ROY VERNON
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, January 13, 1964
BURNLEY 2 EVERTON 3
Says Jack Rowe
Least starry-eyed man to-day will be manager Harry Catterick. He was entitled to show delight that his gamble in dropping Young and Vernon -and it was a gamble- had paid off to some extent with this deserved victory, but not for a moment do I believe he will be satisfied that the problem which brought the gamble, lack of scoring power, has been eliminated. Everton got three goals, one a penalty, one from a twenty-five yards range by Gabriel and the third from Morrissey, when they should have had at least half a dozen.
ANOTHER RUN
Although the prospects are that Mr. Catterick will give this attack another run out next Saturday what must be in his mind is how he can strengthen the side, especially forward. The biggest queries hang over Hill and Stevens. Both missed good chances, Hill’s first after only a few minutes, and it might be a case of deciding between them. Hill has never let the side down, but my reservation about him is whether he is powerful enough. One sees him in patches rather than continually and that cannot be said of Stevens who, even if he does make mistakes, is always having a go. I think the re-introduction of Young and Vernon in one of the inside positions could do a lot for the line because I would not be disposed to move Temple from centre forward. Ironically, he did not score, but he had the biggest stake in victory, each goal coming from his work and twice only the brilliance of Blacklaw stopped him from getting through.
CASUAL APPROACH
Temple’s often casual approach hides a quicksilver reaction as we saw in the flashing run which led to Gabriel’s goal and to him, with the half-back line, goes the chief credit for this success. There was another asset which every player can claims -fight and endeavour. There was never any flagging even when Burnley went into a first half two goals lead, certainly underserved, and the way Everton hit back was one of the joyous points of the afternoon. Gabriel and Harris were superb and Labone, after a diffident opening, was back to very hear his best in the second half when his experience was vital in staring off Burnley. Often it was a desperate defence by Everton, but they survived and rightly so. Rankin also made his saves at crucial moments and he looked a safer goalkeeper when he did venture too far from his line, while Brown and Meagan got through a lot of work without ever really convincing. The covering work of the halves was magnificent and the willingness of the others to give a helping hand when Burnley’s pressure was at its peak was a vital feature.
UNLUCKY BROWN
Brown was injured early on and I thought he was unlucky to have his name taken after a barge with Lochhead, because one or two Burnley players escaped for offences just as punishable. Another pleasing feature of Everton’s play was the way they moved about off the ball and generally they were the better side. Burnley’s half backs could not compare, and their inside forwards were blotted out. Morrissey’s return was such that if he can maintain this form, Mr. Catterick can have an easy mind in leaving Temple in the middle and if Scott did not always make the most of slowness by Elder his runs and centres gave the Burnley defence anxiety. Most contentious point was Everton’s penalty award on half-time. Miller could only have stopped Temple breaking clear by using his hand to a ball which had been chipped over his head, but in any case, Burnley should not complain because there were two other occasions when a penalty might have been given against them and was not. Morrissey was blatantly body checked by Angus and got away with obstruction and Stevens appeared to be pulled when he had beaten the man. Connelly scored for Burnley in 22 minutes and 38 minutes, Brown made a hash of a clearance which led to the first and Gabriel, trying to get the ball back to Rankin, played Connolly onside for the second. Scott made a penalty look easy for Everton were level in 57 minutes when Temple made that glorious run and centre which Blacklaw could only thump out to Gabriel, 25 yards away. Gabriel, who captained Everton hit a shot which bounced in front of the line and entered the net just inside the post. Scott beat Elder before making his cross which seemed to strike the bar at the far angle and then bounced off Blacklaw’s arm to Temple who flicked it back for Morrissey to head in. Burnley; Blacklaw; Angus, Elder; O’Neill, Talbut, Miller; Morgan, Bellamy, Lochhead, Harris, Connelly. Everton; Rankin; brown, Meagan; Gabriel (Captain), Labone, Harris; Scott, Stevens, Temple, Hill, Morrissey. Referee; Mr. J.K. Taylor (Wolverhampton) attendance 23,024.

MR. CATTERICK -NO TRANSFER PENDING
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, January 13, 1964
MOVES NOT MADE FOR PICKERING OR CHILTON
By Horace Yates
Roy Vernon and Alex Young for transfer fantastic Everton cash offers for players like Chilton of Hull and Pickering of Blackburn! These and other reports like them, fill the football air over Merseyside and I think if I were to describe them as “Hot-Air.” Mr. Harry Catterick from time to time, he would not recommend any transfer requests from players generally because they were out of the side. Applications of good faith, on what might be considered sound grounds, were a different proposition. Short of saying that Young and Vernon would not be allowed to go, Mr. Catterick could hardly have been more forthright. Both players are under contract to the club. Young, I believe, accepted a new offer early in the season to sign up at Goodison for a further two years. A similar offer was made to Vernon, but he preferred to abide by the contract which expires at the end of this season. Only one or two other players took Vernon’s line, so that the remainder have two-year agreement
MANAGER SCOFFS
Mr. Catterick last night scoffed at transfer stories incoming and outgoing. He told me; “There are no transfer pending. In the last five months we have not made an inquiry for any player and it is three years since Blackburn was approached. This effectively disposes of the story that Everton had attempted to persuade Blackburn to part with centre forward Pickering by dangling an £80,000 offer before them and that attractive bait had also been laid at Hull City’s door with Chilton in mind. Money is only useful when the required commodity is available. Meanwhile Mr. Catterick and Everton scored a resounding triumph at Burnley on Saturday, recovering from a two-day, recovering from a two-goal deficit to win 3-2. Naturally Mr. Catterick was delighted. He had reason to be, for voluntarily to take the field without two international forwards reflected courage of a high order. Congratulate Mr. Catterick on his gamble and I would not be surprised if he were to say; “What gamble? I don’t believe in gambles.” The manager has been weighing up evidence for several matches now, so that when he made his move, he was perfectly satisfied that he was perfectly satisfied that he could justify it. Everton apparently did that beyond wildest dreams for not many clubs will recover from being two goals down and go on to win at Burnley. I am certain there is no sort of vindictiveness in any shape or form in the manager’s decision. What he did he considered best for the club, believing it to be necessary.
SAME AGAIN?
One might think that the Everton attack for the visit of Ipswich Town next Saturday automatically selected itself, with a no change verdict. That may well be so but knowing Mr. Catterick I would not be at all surprised if he did make a change. If he thinks a change justified, he will not hesitate to adopt it. He has the courage of his convictions to the extent that if he thought for example that Young or Vernon would make a better job of the inside berth than Jimmy Hill, he would not hesitate to implement the ideas without the slightest qualm. He has to consider that on Saturday week Everton will be involved in the F.A cup competition at Leeds and survival is of paramount importance. There is only Saturday’s match to use a testing ground to produce the best side. I think Mr. Catterick realises as well as anyone that if the Cup game comes and goes and Vernon is still in the reserves, a transfer request may be inevitable. That will not influence the manager’s judgement to any degree. Mr. Catterick has the managerial reputation of being. “As tough as any of being. “As tough as any of them and fairer than most,” I think it is well earned. He will judge both Vernon and Young dispassionately and if consequences arise from the exercise of his judgement, he will take them to his stride. Time was, not so very long ago, when the mere suggestion of displacing Young would have brought howls of protest from the fans. Yet the demotion of Young and Vernon was accepted last week-end comparatively quietly.
NO INTERVIEWS
Because Everton players by the terms of their contracts are not allowed to talk to the Press without managerial approval it is hard to know what their thoughts and intentions really are. Even if Everton continue to leave out the two stars and continue winning matches, I cannot see Vernon and Young being offered for transfer until Everton have achieved more success in the scouting field than has come their way recently. Everton’s team of Saturday, with the addition of Young, Vernon, and West, are staying at Llandudno until Tuesday.

VERNON, YOUNG FIND NET- BUT-
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, January 13, 1964
EVERTON’S TWO BANISHED HEROES STILL LACK DRIVE
EVERTON RESERVES 3, BURNLEY RESERVES 5
By Ian Hargreaves
There was an air of unreality about the proceedings at Goodison Park on Saturday. The towering pylons frowned down upon a host of well-known figures -Vernon, Young, Parker, Kay, West, Pointer, Robson, and Joyce, to name a few -but the sparsely populated terraces emphasised that this was only a Central League game and not a battle of the giants. It was, in fact, primarily a test of fitness. Physical fitness in the case of convalescing casualties like Parker and Kay, footballing fitness in the case of those erratic artists, Young and Vernon. Since the latter scored Everton’s three goals between them, it might be thought that the 8,887 spectators -about twice the usual reserve attendance- must have gone home satisfied that all is well in this department after all. Alas, that was not the case. Young displayed his usual effortless ball control and positional sense in midfield yet seemed as incapable as ever of either fighting or bluffing his way past determined challengers. He DID win a penalty by provoking a foul from Merrington and he DID score a lovely goal with a clever flick from Rees’s pass. But he did NOT look the thrustful spearhead so badly needed in Everton’s senior attack.
WANDERED IN ISOLATION
Vernon remains an even greater enigma. The skill is still there, as he showed with two or three superb passes and one header that left goalkeeper Thomson helpless, but the all-out endeavour that makes a player great is not. For most of this match he wandered happily in splendid isolation producing a shot or a pass every ten minutes or so but making barely half the overall contribution of the enthusiastic if inexperienced Harvey. Still, is, of course, a vital asset in any footballer’s make-up, but it is of little use on its own. Until Everton’s banished heroes recapture the drive and determination that made them so effective last season, manager Harry Catterick is unlikely to recall them to the fold.
TWO FINE GOALS
The fact that Burnley won this match is of little consequence. Parker, playing his first game for several weeks, and Kay, another casualty, came through without injury and without exerting themselves. With Sharples out of position at centre half there were inevitably a number of openings and the visitors took full advantage of them. Irvine gave Burnley an interval lead with two fine headers, replied to with a Vernon penalty, and in the second half Robson, Price and Pointer -playing too well to remain a reserve much longer -added further goals. Vernon and Young scored for Everton during this period, and had Harvey not hit the bar and Vernon missed a second penalty, they might well have scraped a draw. If they had, it would possibly have placated the critic who cried, on his way from the ground; “Call this a £180,000 reserve team-I’d swap the lot for Lawton.

TEMPLE THE INSPIRATION IN EVERTON’S GRERAT RECOVERY
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Monday, January 13, 1964
By Michael Charters
Any team which can recover from being two goals down and go on to win AWAY from home has produced a first-class performance. That Everton did so at Burnley on Saturday amid the furore and atmosphere caused by the dropping of you know who gives their victory additional merit in fact almost approaching the famous class. Let no one imagine that Everton have miraculously found the perfect blend with the introduction of Morrissey and Hill as the left wing, and Temple at centre forward. Certainly, authority at the club does not claim that. But, with equal certainly these forward changes did result in a vastly improved team spirit, noticeably increased endeavour from the side, and a heart-warning exhibition in attack of constant effort, dash and skill. These forwards magnificently led by Temple, never stopped working moving well up and of the ball and revealed a never-give-in spirit which has been an attribute missing in many recent matches. There was fluency and purpose about everything they did. But the best feature of their work the willing to share the burden in a hard-fought game which was never a classic but had its ration of thrills and excitement. Everton thoroughly deserved their win over a Burnley side which has gone back considerably from last season. They had much more of the game in the first half then Burnley and yet it was the home team which led by two goals five minutes before half time. Both goals scored by left winger Connelly game from errors in defence by Brown and Gabriel, but Everton picked themselves of the floor and fought back. It was a great recovery.
BLACKSHAW BEST
Everton created numerous half-chances in the first half, but Blacklaw Burnley’s best player kept them out with his the anticipation and safe handling in goal. Temple was fair and incisive in the middle moving intelligently about the line and he had nonstop support from Stevens. Hill used the ball well from midfield his passing being accurate, but he does not have the goal threat of an in-form Vernon. Morrissey slipped back into the first team with a 100 per cent performance and Scott maintained his fine current form. The mobile active attack had the Burnley defence fully extended at times so that it was against the rub of play that they were two down. Then came the break they needed, the incident which turned the game round, temple trying to force his way down of middle, was knocked off the ball by Miller, who also handled just inside his own penalty area. Scot stroked the ball in low from the penalty spot. This goal only seconds before the interval, gave Everton the incentive and impetus to go on and win. They were level soon after half-time, thanks initially to a superb run by Temple. Blacklaw managed to drive out full length to turn away temple’s centre, the ball going to Gabriel some 25 yards away. Gabriel captain for the day and a very capable one, too cracked the ball back. Talbut got out of the way thinking the half-hit shot was going wide and Blacklaw stood transfixed on his line at the ball slipped just inside the post.
DECEIVED
Four minutes later came the winner. Blacklaw deceived by the teasing flight of a centre by Scott pushed the ball on to the crossbar and as it rebounded Temple cleverly lobbed it towards Morrissey who headed it over the line with great deliberation and force- a well taken goal which made the scorer’s and Everton’s day. Burnley pressed incessantly for the last 20 minutes with all their danger coming from winger Morgan and Connelly who had Brown and Meagan in constant difficulty. But Everton’s half-back were in great form particularly Gabriel and Harris, while Labone showed in the hectic closing minute that he is rapidly regaining his confidence and power. Note that temple was involved in all Everton’s goals. His performance was the outstanding story of the game, but the general all-round improvement of the forwards showed manager Harry Catterick pre-match decision to be correct and also vindicated the opinion of trainer Tom Egglestone. It was on his report of the display against Hull in the Cup replay that Mr. Catterick based his action, it was a triumph in every way, for this was the first away win since October 7.

YOUNG AND VERNON; NO TRANSFER PLEA
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Monday, January 13, 1964
MEAGAN HAS TREATMENT
KAY HOPE
By Leslie Edwards
Displaced Everton forwards Roy Vernon and Alex Young are in the Everton party enjoying a few days break from routine at Llandudno. Neither asked for a transfer when their Manager Mr. Harry Catterick called them to his officer to tell them they had been dropped for the Burnley game – and why. Mick Meagan left the Llandudno party this morning to travel to Goodison Park for treatment on a strained thigh. He has suffered some back trouble also recently. Tony Kay still under treatment could be fit for the game at Goodison Park on Saturday, against Ipswich Town. His return to fitness would pose another problem as Brian Harris, his deputy has played splendidly. One situation might be to accommodate Harris in the left back position on for which at the moment Meagan is doubtful. The Everton players return from North Wales at midday to-morrow.

NO VANDALISM ON TRAIN
Liverpool Echo - Monday 13 January 1964
BUT IT WAS 29 MINUTES LATE
The train which brought 500 Everton fans back from Burnley on Saturday evening arrived at Exchange Station practically unscathed from vandalism. But it was 29 minutes late because, in the last 12 miles of the journey, the communication cord was pulled twice without reason. The first time was between Town Green and Maghull, the second at Kirkdale. Plain clothes railway policeman travelling on the train made an examination of each of the carriages after the second stop. A British Railways spokesman said he thought it not unlikely that the communication cord had been pulled to enable someone to alight from the train at an unauthorised stopping place- just to get home quicker. “If so, that is a stupid and dangerous practice,” he said. “It endangers the other passengers on the train and apart form that is a source of inconvenience to everyone.” The train was examined by carriage workers and by police when it reached Exchange Station. Only a few light bulbs were missing. No arrests were made.

IMPOSSIBLE TO STIFLE A LITTLE SYMPATHUY
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Tuesday, January 14, 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Though appreciating fully, the reasons for Everton’s dropping of Vernon and Young, one cannot stifle a feeling of sympathy for them. After all they are players whose performance at best is of world class, they were members of the Everton championship team; they are men many other clubs would give their eye teeth to have on their books and they were dropped from a winning team. I gather that if you asked either whether he had asked for a transfer the information might cost you £100. Good as they are a yes or no is hardly worth that figure, especially as the Everton manager can -or could yesterday -confirm that he had received no request written or verbal from either. The position now is that each much suffer while he remains in the Central League team, a substantial loses in bonus. When I suggest to Mr. Catterick that both would probably be pretty discontented with a place in the reserve side he answered. That is the way it should be I like discontented players in the second team. That gives them the more incentive to produce the dynamic performance which could help them back to the first team. If Vernon and Young elected after a week or two in the reserves to ask for a transfer the answer, they would get from Mr. Catterick and I suspect from the Board would be “We consider this request frivolous. You have been dropped because you have temporarily lost form. You have been given plenty off opportunity to first form and have not done so. We cannot give players whoever they may be preferential treatment. Every club is forced at some time to relegate players to the second team. Football has always been like that and always will be. There is only one big name at Goodison Park- Everton. The rules of the club govern all players.
NOTHING MORE DEMORALISING
The rule at Everton is that when players sign contracts they undertake to play for the club, not necessarily for the first team but it is equally true that players of the calibre of Vernon and Young cannot be expected to soldier on indefinitely in a reserve team. They are entitled unless I am mistaken, to say to their club “If we are considered not good enough now to rate a place in the senior team surely, we should be given opportunity to take our skills elsewhere.” The club answer to this would almost certainly be. “You signed a contract. We expect you to honour it to its completion.” Running counter to this is the statement made frequently by means clubs including Everton “We do not wish to keep a dissatisfied player on the staff. There is nothing demoralising to dropped footballers to find themselves in the stiffs for weeks on end. Mr. Catterick has suggested that Young and Vernon were getting stick from the terraces and that giving them a rest from these critics might enable them to recover their confidence. Yet putting a man into the second team when he is playing indifferently is equally likely. I should have thought to undermine belief in himself. It is unthinkable that Everton should go for the rest of the season or even for the next half-dozen matches without two men who were in a team which received a standing ovation at Goodison Park as recently as three weeks ago- the occasion of the Manchester United match, they were not out of form then. They may have been in two matches against Hull, but in the event, neither of these were lost. While football becomes more and more of a business and sentiment plays a decreasing part in the running of clubs, the official standpoint about these players is understandable. But one must not forget the position of the players concerned. Manager Catterick’s admit freely that he is not a man opposed to changing a winning side. But he feels from what he saw at Burnley that the newly arranged attack deserves a further chance.
TIME CAN ANSWER.
Do they go o in en bloc against Ipswich on Saturday? And if they do and two more points are collected do, they go in for the Cup game at Leeds the following Saturday? These are question time can answer. Young and Vernon at their best are surely the two talented men on the books. Mr. Catterick told me that if it happened that Young and Vernon remained out of the first team for say six to eight weeks, there might be a case for team to ask their club to consider the possibility of letting them go. He was not sure even then that the board would agree to a move. I agree with him that men out of the senior side for such a period would be justified in arguing that if they were not wanted at Goodison Park they should be given the chance to move. Both players have been favourites, almost idols, of Everton supporters who appreciate their special artistry and their part in helping of being the League trophy here a season ago. The old hand who phones occasionally giving me the benefit of his and others, opinions about Merseyside soccer, says there is room for Young and Vernon in the attack- and Jimmy Gabriel too at centre forward! He selects this combination for the spring treble -Mill House for Cheltenham Gold Cup Carracking for the National and Everton for the Cup!
From the scout responsible for Vernon being signed by Blackburn Rovers years ago Mr. G.E. Morris of Holywell Flintshire comes this reasoning for Vernon’s failure this season ton shine as brilliantly as he did 12 months ago. “I wonder if you dare print this letter? Over the past few months, I’ve read in the Everton match reports that the sparkle has gone out of Roy Vernon’s play and because of this the line has lost its shooting power. I was very disappointed at these reports because have known Roy very well since he was a small boy. It was me who took him along to Blackburn for trials in the first place, as I am a talent scout for Blackburn Rovers, I know what a great player he can be, as I have watched him develop over the years into one of the greatest inside forwards in Europe. I hadn’t seen Everton play for almost two years and so last week I went a long to see the replay against Hull City. I saw very soon why Everton are not scoring goals this season. It seems to me that managers have found out who to watch in the Everton forward line. Stop Vernon and you stop them all. “On Tuesday he was so closely guarded that on only about six occasions was he able to elude the right half and each time he made positive contributions to the scoring efforts. It was he who made the two goals scored. Also, in the first few minutes one lamentable miss came from his perfect cross. Another time in the second half the inside right was out through with a ball running to his feet on the goal side and he looked for the ball the other way. Vernon’s magic can still sparkle, if the rest of the forward line could seize their chance in the same way that Vernon used to seize them when he was getting support and before all the other managers were alive to his scoring menace. “This problem is now in the Everton manager’s lap. How to exploit the Vernon magic so that someone else can finish off his through passes. After all, you can’t expect a man who is watched so closely to do it all, but he is still a match winner if the rest of the forwards sink as quickly as he does?

£25 BONUS THIS WEEK FOR EACH EVERTON RESERVE
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 14 January 1964
BECAUSE VERNON AND YOUNG DREW 8,000 ATTENDANCE
PAY PACKET BOOST
By Leslie Edwards
Nine Everton players, none of them first-teamers, are anxious to play alongside the dropped first-team internationals Roy Vernon and Alex Young, every week in the Central League. Their extra reward, on the crowd bonus scheme operating for the reserves amounted this week to an average of £25. More than 8,000 spectators went to Goodison Park on Saturday to see Vernon and Young in the Central League side which faced Burnley. Normal Central League gates are about 2,000. Though Everton will not disclose the exact terms of the crowd bonus scheme for second team games, manager Catterick agreed to-day that all Everton reserves boosted their pay packets by an average of £25 as a result of Saturday's improved attendance.
NOWHERE ELSE
He said: "Burnley reserve players were envious when they were told what our players would get as a result of the big crowd. There is nowhere else in the country where second teamers can get this sort of money." Itis understood that the bonus is based on something like 10s per 100 over a stipulated attendance. If such crowds were to continue and the two stars remained in the Central League side the financial hardship of being dropped would be comparatively mild.

GOODISON BREAK-IN
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 14 January 1964
FOUR KIRKBY BOYS REMANDED
Three 14-years-old boys and one 15-years-old all from Southdene, Kirkby, and who are alleged to have admitted being concerned in the breaking at Everton Football Club, appeared on remand at Liverpool County Juvenile Court yesterday and were further remanded on bail until February 6. The 15-years-old and one of the 14-years-olds are accused of breaking and entering the store of the Twelve-Five Club in Rusland Road, Southdene, on December 30, and stealing £70, 21 cigars, and 1,600 cigarettes to the total value of £89 11s 6d. all three 14-years-olds are accused of breaking and entering St. Chad’s Parish Hall at Kirkby, on December 31 / January1 and stealing sweets and mineral water to the total value of £6 5s 6d.

NO REQUEST FOR MOVE FORTHCOMING
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, January 15, 1964
VERNON, YOUNG WILL SEE IT THROUGH
MANAGER’S ACTION HAS MNOT LED TO GOODISON SPLIT
By Horace Yates
One way or another the impression has got around that the dropping of skipper Roy Vernon and Alex Young for last Saturday’s match at Burnley indicates a serious split at Goodison Park. It has been further suggested that the stage has now been reached at which it is extremely difficult to bridge the gap and that Vernon will probably ask to go. I do not subscribe to that theory for an instant. Unless there are further sensational developments within the next few days, I think it can be taken quite safely that not only has manager Harry Catterick not received a request for a move from either player, but neither will he. In my opinion both forwards will accept their demotion like good club men should and try to play their way back to the senior side as quickly as possible. Moreover, nobody would be happier than Mr. Catterick to find the evidence available to justify a restoration. They have everything to gain and little to lose by faithfully fulfilling the terms of their contract until the picture becomes clearer. Obviously Mr. Catterick is feeling his way. If he considers the present attack is more potent without the two internationals, then he will keep the line intact for as long as the players merit his confidence.
NO SUSPENSE.
If he should decide that Everton have no further use for one or other of the internationals and her goes into the market for replacement, then I don’t believe the players would be kept in suspense for a moment longer than is necessary. If no new crisis precipitates inflammatory action, the sensation will peter out as a seven-day wonder and the players will simply await development. My feeling is that if Everton cannot sign a big name it expedient to see whether or not the medicine has produced a cure. Nobody pretends there is no place in the side for either of these tried and accomplished players, when at his best. Both men, no doubt would be able to paint a much more favourable picture for themselves by telling their side of the story, but I would be surprised if either sought to pretend that this has been their most successful season. Actually, I doubt if either was as shattered by the decision as many have assumed. It is well known fact that experienced players seldom
Improve in a reserve side. A match or two can be used effectively as a sharp reminder of failure, but it is all too easy to drop into the new tempo and less fluent style found in central League games. That is Mr. Catterick’s problem. His reaction to it will point the way.
STORM WILL PASS
My forecast is that the storm will pass and that both players will still be members of the Everton staff at the end of the season. The novelty of finding a team of First Division experience representing Everton reserves last Saturday drew an attendance of 8,887 to Goodison, which meant a crowd bonus of nearly 330 for each player. Financially then, demotion carried no financial penalty to Young or Vernon, but such a novelty will quickly wear off. In any event, players of their calibre seek first team pay, be it larger or smaller, as a matter of honour. One point which may have emerged from this domestic upset is that Everton might have found themselves a new captain! Jimmy Gabriel took over so successfully at Turf Moor that he may well be asked to continue. Such a development would not bother Vernon in the least. The Everton players returned from Llandudno yesterday, Meagan, Kay, and Parker are still under treatment.

YOUTH CUP
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, January 15, 1964
EVERTON HIT WIGAN WITH GOAL RIOT
EVERTON 12, WIGAN ATHLETIC 1
An Everton side containing eight former schoolboys’ internationals and half-a-dozen players who have had experience in Central League football proved far too strong for wigan Athletic, the last non-League club in the competition, in the F.A. youth Cup third round tie at Goodison Park last night. Outstanding players in this overwhelming Everton success was former Liverpool school left winger, Aiden Maher, who scored two of Everton’s goals, one in each half, and supplied passes in the moves which brought another half dozen. It was Maher who sent Everton in the victory trial after six minutes when he lobbed the ball over goalkeeper Gaskell’s head from the touch-line and within a minute Welsh inside right Humphreys had added a second.
FINE HEADER
It was a Maher corner which led to Everton’s third goal through Hurst after 12 minutes and at the fourteenth minute the outside left centred again for Humphreys to head a fine fourth goal. A 20-yard ground shot by centre forward Hurst, which went in off an upright to give Everton their fifth score at the 20th minute and two minutes before half time Hurst made the tally six when he followed up to head home. At the start of the second half Boon, the only Wigan forward to threaten any danger, lobbed the ball over Barnett’s head and saw it hit the inside of the far post. Left winger Bowen was on hand to push the ball into the net.
PRETTY FOOTBALL.
Everton soon regained their composure and played some pretty football. At the 52nd minute Husband scored number seven and Gaskell had pushed away a fine centre by Maher, and eight minutes later another Maher centre led to Everton’s eight goal, and again the scorer was Husband. Hurst scored his fourth goal a minute later and Humphreys (67 minutes) Maher (77 minutes) and Husband (85 minutes) completed the Everton scoring. Wigan’s game centre half Ashcroft stood out in the Wigan side, and on a number of occasions got his body or head in the way of shots or centres which would have caused Gaskell difficulty. Attendance 4,001.

MAHER PLAYS BIG PART IN EVERTON WIN
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express, Wednesday, January 15, 1964
By Paul O’Brien
Outside left Aiden Mather scored two goals and played a major role in making another six when Everton trounced Wigan Athletic 12-1 in the third round of the F.A. Youth Cup at Goodison Park last night. Mather an old boy of St. Teresa’s, Norris Green the school which produced Liverpool Phil Ferns and Chris Lawler, had to much speed for wigan tall right back John Dickinson and made full use of the splendid service he received from inside forwards Humphreys and Husband and left half Phillips. Everton, playing exceptionally well won as convincingly as the score line suggests, and they might have had half a dozen more goals but for some courageous work by Wigan’s centre half Alan Ashcroft. After scoring four times in the opening 14 minutes Everton leased off sightly and Wigan stemmed the tide by bringing their inside -left Jimmy Cadman back into the left half position, where he did quite well. Everton, however, were so much on top that goalkeeper Barnes was never really troubled in the first 45 minutes and it was half an hour before Wigan forced their first corner. Leading 6-0 at the interval through Maher centre forward Hurst 93), and inside right Humphreys (2). Everton took things a little too easily at the beginning of the second half and at the 47th minute right winger David Boon the only Wigan forward to threaten danger, made his sides only goal. Boon cleverly took the ball almost up to the goalline before lobbing over Barnett and on to the far post where left winger Ernie Bowen was on hand to push it into goal. Everton soon regained complete command, however, and clever approach play, sometimes in the exhibition class, saw Husband (3), Hurst, Humphreys, and Maher add further goals. Although outclassed Wigan kept on trying and they almost got a second goal when Everton’s right back Geoff Harcombe tackled Bowen and sent the ball only inches outside of his own upright. Any progress which Wigan made was usually on the wings for their inside forward too were completely subdued by the clever Everton half back line of Clark, Smith, and Phillips. Alec Wallace a 16-years-old Holt High schoolboy, got a chance on Everton right wing because regular Tommy Roberts is injured, and possible deputy Gerry Glover has just had a cartilage operation. Wallace did not receive anything like the service Maher did, but he is a clever ball player and showed great promise.

EX-EVERTON TRAINER ILL
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 15 January 1964
SERVED CLUB FOR 58 YEARS
By Leslie Edwards
Mr. Harry Cooke, trainer of Everton F.C. for many years with the club for 58 years when he retired in July, 1961, is ill in Walton Hospital. He is aged 86. Mr. Cooke, a Wallasey man, played for Everton for many years and became trainer in succession to Jack Elliott in 1926. He served the club with skill and loyalty in the days if Dean, Cresswell, and other famous players. He was extremely well liked by Everton teams of successive eras. He accompanied them on their many close season tours and was expert in diagnosing and treating every type of football injury. When his active days as trainer ended he was kept on at Goodison Park as a generalfactotum, looking after playing and training equipment. After the war Mr. Cooke went to live at a house in Goodison Avenue—within a few yards of the Everton main stand. Since his retirement he has taken little interest in football and seemed reluctant to discuss it. He had been for many years before retiring the doyen among Football League club trainers.

BOTTLES CAME FLYING AT US, KIRKBY MINER TELLS COURT
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 15 January 1964
GLASGOW RANGERS’ MFAN ACCUSED OF ASSAULT
AFTER FOOTBALL MATCH AT GOODISON PARK
SENT FOR TRAIL
“Bottles came flying at us for no reason at all,” a Kirkby miner told Liverpool City Magistrates Court to-day when a young supporter of Rangers F.C., was alleged to have struck the miner with a chrome bar. James Wark, aged 21, joiner, 19 Drakemire Avenue, Glasgow was accused of causing grievous bodily harm to Kenneth Pallett, with intent. Kenneth Pallett, 89 Whitefield Drive, Westvale, Kirkby, told the court that after the Everton- Rangers match at Goodison Park on December 2, he went with some friends to a public house. “I was talking to two of my friends near Milman Road and saw a crowd of Rangers supporters near a private coach parked there.
SMASHED
“While we were talking beer bottles came flying at us and smashed at our feet,” he said. “My two friends ran away and I turned round and saw Wark standing behind me. “He was holding a bar and suddenly struck me on the back of the head with it. I managed to run a few yards, but tripped and fell, said Pallett. Wark ran after me, hit me again on the head with the bar and kicked my arm. I remember being taken into a shop and by ambulance to hospital. In answer to Mr. Bryan Green, prosecuting, Pallett said he was detained in hospital for a week, and was still attending as an out-patient.
BROEKN ARM
Medical evidence was that Pallett had two lacerations to the back of the head, one behind the ear and a broken left arm. Police Sergeant G. Parry said that with Constable J. Robertson, he went at 10.55 p.m. to City Road and saw Wark with other Rangers supporters going towards the private coach. Wark was waving a chrome bar above his head and shouting to the other supporters; “Come on, they have been using bottles.” The Sergeant added; “We took the bar from him, and when Wark was asked about it, he replied; “what about the bottles that were thrown then? “When Wark was told he would be charged he said; “I was only carrying the bar,” Wark, committed for trial at the next Liverpool Crown Court, pleaded not guilty and reserved his defence. He was allowed bail and granted legal aid.

THE CATTERICKS
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 15 January 1964
BEST GROUP NAMED AFTER EVERTON F.C. MANAGER
A new beat group has been formed at Aughton and has been called The Cattericks, after Mr. Harry Catterick the Everton F.C manager. The best trio, Chris Fahey, aged 18, of Granville Park, Aughton, Roger Venn, aged 16, of County Road, Ormskirk and Geoff Doran, aged 19, of Middlewood Road, Aughton have been in operation as a group for five months but they want a bass guitarist to join them. The boys practice three or four nights a week, either at the home of their leader, Chris Fahey, or in a building behind a local public house. They arrange their own numbers and have offers to play in surrounding towns.

LEEDS CUP-TIE
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 15 January 1964
EVERTON PLANS FOR SALE OF GROUND TICKETS
Everton announce that ground tickets (at 3s 6d, and 3s) for the Cup-tie at Leeds United on Saturday week will be available, personal application at the Everton ground and Liverpool Stadium from 9.15 a.m. to-morrow, Boys tickets at 2s 6d, 2s and 1s 6d will also be on sale. Providing tickets are still available the selling will continue until 5 p.m. to-morrow and if necessary on subsequent days.

F.A. TAKING NO ACTION ON THROWING REPORTS
Liverpool Daily Post -Thursday, January 16, 1964
GOODISON PARK WILL NOT BE CLOSED
SIMILAR OUTCOME AFTER INCIDENTS AT FULHAM
By Horace Yates
Everton supporters can relax. Providing there are no further untoward incidents involving crowd behaviour, the fear that Goodison Park may be closed for a period by the Football Association is groundless. The F.A notified the club yesterday that it has been decided to take no action on the report of stone throwing at the Chelsea game on December 7. On that occasion it was reported that Chelsea manager Mr. Tom Docherty had been struck in the face by a missile at the close of the match as he was standing on the touch-line, ready to follow his players into the dressing-room. As warning notices for previous misconduct were already exhibited on the ground at the time, there seemed reason to fear drastic action by the F.A. Now the fear has gone and the tremendous improvement in crowd behaviour which has been apparent in the last month or so, encourages the hope that all will be well in future. Everton have also learned that no actions is being taken regarding the complaint raised by them of missile throwing during their game with Fulham at Craven Cottage on December 14. Then it was alleged that Derek Temple and George Heslop had been struck, one with a metal staple and the other with a stone. Everton reported the incidents as a matter of duty rather than in any spirit of animosity and will be perfectly happy that it has been found possible to take this course.
TRAINING SQUAD
I WAS SURPRISED TO READ THAT AT THIS STAGE Tony Kay of Everton had withdrawn from the England training squad at Matlock from February 10 for three days on account of injury. Kay is absent from the League team just now but played in the reserves last week and may be ready to resume at any time. Certainly, by February 10 he should be completely fit. The mystery was cleared up when I contracted Mr. Bill Dickinson, the Everton secretary. He said “When we were told that Kay was in the party, we thought it our duty to notify the F.A that Kay was at the moment injured. There was no question of the with-drawal of Kay from the party, however. “When I heard yesterday of his supposed withdrawal, I immediately telephoned the Football Association and pointed out that my letter had been misinterpreted. “The position is now accepted that Kay is still in the party and I understand that no substitute will now be named.
Ground tickets at 36 6d and 3s for Everton’s Cup-tie at Leeds United on Saturday week, will be available on personal application at the Everton ground and Liverpool Stadium from 9.15 a.m. to-day. Boys tickets at 2s 6d, 2s and 1s 6d will also be obtainable. If tickets are still available selling will continue until 5 p.m., and similarly on subsequent days.

RECURRING TOPIC…
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 16 January 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Mr. R. Benson, of Melling, says: "How right is your correspondent, Mr. G. E. Morris, of Holywell, Vernon took the ball to the by-line twice within the first eight minutes. Both chances were missed. 'Where Everton fell down was through the forward line not interchanging positions. Had Vernon wandered out to either wing, and both Scott and Temple interchanged the leech-like half-back line of Hull would have been more confounded. "That right-half certainly never left Vernon. Apart from Vernon, Harris and Gabriel, in the first half, there was not one good belt at goal. The second half did produce more shots. I did, however, go home with the thought that we only barley won."
Mr. Bernd Heerwagen, of "Priory Lodge", Upton Road, Noctorum. Birkenhead, writes: "I do not agree with you regarding Alex Young's and Roy Vernon's dropping from the first team. "There is a big fuss being made about this on Merseyside, just because these two well-known players have been dropped. What would happen, for instance, if Sandy Brown were dropped? Nothing! "In football you can only be successful when the team play well together. And Alex Young, much as I liked him last season, is off form. The same applies to Vernon. "Everton must get cracking if they want to get back on top again. One cannot condemn Harry Catterick for his action. Every other manager would have had to do the same thing in the same circumstances."
THE IDEAS MAD
Philip de Basil, 5 The Crescent. Rhyl, says: "I was interested to see that someone phoned you giving his idea of a spring treble. I disagree with all of his forecasts and give Liverpool for the League. Chelsea for the Cup, Basler for the National and Arkle for the Cheltenham Gold Cup. "After seeing Chelsea on Saturday. I am convinced that they have the fighting enthusiasm it takes to win the Cup. Liverpool, too, must have a great chance, but their inability to win convincingly at home (not counting the Stoke and Derby matches, of course) must weigh against them. However the League is a different story and their terrific consistency lately must make them firm favourites. "As for Everton, without Young or Vernon how can they possibly succeed in any competition this season? Even with the talented twosome I cannot see them getting past the Leeds obstacle and I consider their chances in the League are finished. "Some time ago I wrote you saying that St. John should move to inside-forward for Liverpool and a scoring centre-forward should be bought or Arrowsmith should be played in the centre. As this move has now proved to be so successful I am making another suggestion, this time to solve the full back problem, if problem it is. "My suggestion is to play Gerry Byrne at right-back and Billy Stevenson at left-back and in Billy's place, namely left half, play either Chris Lawler or Phil Ferns or buy a new wing half."
AN ANFIELD COMPLAINT
Liverpool's rather erratic system of giving their crowd news of team changes and other games (incidentally were the many programme changes last Saturday put over the public address system ?) has not passed unnoticed by Fred Smith, of 12a Douglas Place, Bootle. He complains: "Will you please ask Liverpool F.C. how it is that they could announce Everton's half-time score so easily over their broadcasting system in the Cup game at Hull when Everton were being beaten but could not do it when Everton won at Burnley?"
Here's a woman's point of view on Everton. It comes from Mrs. N. Bayliss of Broadwood Avenue, Maghull: - “After weeks, even months, of frustration. I must write to protest against almost daily comments by Mr. Catterick about injuries on the reserve defence. 'These are not the reason for the sad showing of our team, who, every week should be at least three goals up, but find themselves struggling. As far back as the Milan game, the team played brilliantly, apart from one man. The moans about the reserve' defence are getting monotonous. Brown is excellent, almost as good as Parker; Meagan is not a reserve nor is Rankin or Heslop. Kay's defensive work is good, but not better than Harris. No, Mr. Catterick, it is not the defence but the Forward line, or one member of it that is faulty."
DUNLOP AND MYERSCOUGH
By Michael Charters
Wrexham received a double blow to-day with the news that both goalkeeper Albert Dunlop and inside forward Billy Myerscough are to have cartilage operations. Dunlop, the former Everton player, was hurt in the first round F.A Cup tie at Altrincham on November 16 and has not played since. It was feared some time ago that an operation would be necessary.

EVERTON’S ROY VERNON SAYS…
Liverpool Daily Post, Friday, January 17, 1964
THE STRIKER IS ON A HIDING TO NOTHING!
Just in case there should still be any doubt, let me say I have not asked for a transfer and, under existing circumstances I have no intention of doing so. From the day I first came here, Everton have been very good to me. I have no hesitation in saying they are a fine club. If I can say that to-day, no one should doubt my sincerity. With the memory of three and a half happy and successful years behind me I aim to finish my contract which runs until the end of May. There has been a tension, something to fight for, ever since I came to Liverpool from Blackburn and there was a glorious climax lasts season. There has hardly been the same atmosphere about this season for me. I started badly because of a knee injury. Circumstances dictated my return at a time when I was still playing myself in. It took time before I began to regain confidence in my knee. I was making mistakes and the crowd did not appreciate that I was waging a battle of confidence within myself. They look for peak performances and when they don’t get such a stage in a player’s development that can be fatal.
AFRAID TO MISS
There is a lot of glamour about being a striker but believe me he is on a hiding to nothing! If you are a deep lying forward you can run yourself out of trouble and gradually your form comes back. If you a striker and the ball doesn’t come you are struggling. Every chance offered must be turned into a goal. You reach the stage at which you are afraid to miss and when the opportunity comes along, so does a little panic as well. From the club’s point of view, I know I haven’t always been the Roy Vernon they are entitled to expect. There is no atmosphere in reserve team football. It is like playing in a practice match and anybody will tell you I am never at my best in practice spins. I like the noise and the excitement. I revel in the atmosphere. The sharper it is the better I like it. I am not alone in this respect. Other players who have lost their place tell me of a similar reaction. That is probably one of the reasons why some players become unrecognisable in the reserves, and yet when they join another club and make the first team again, they are like different men. I delight in those 30 or 40 yards dashes. As soon as I begin, I can feel the crowd urging me on and I don’t think there is any thrill to compare with the excitement of the chase and a successful conclusion. When I scored with a penalty kick against Burnley reserves on Saturday, the young goalkeeper Thomson, Alex Young cousin by the way, got his fingers to the ball but couldn’t hold it. Coming off at half-time, Alex said to him, “Hard Luck! You nearly got the ball.” The goalkeeper replied, Yes, I know where he puts them.”
CHANGED MY MIND
Consequently, when we were awarded a second penalty later, I did what I have only done once previously, I changed my mind about placing the kick. I did it against Manchester United after all, the commotion and scored. On Saturday I missed. There must be something in this superstition lark after all, for I think that was my thirteen penalty. Still, better to miss it in the reserves than on a day when a goal might be of greater importance. I’ll be seeing you- I hope!

NEW-LOOK EVERTON ATTACK IN TRIAL AGAIN
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Friday, January 17, 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Everton’s frost-dispelling wires have been working again and whatever the overnight conditions the pitch should be in good order for the game against Ipswich Town tomorrow. The one-time champions have had a tough time since they won the trophy unexpectedly. They’ve been battling against relegation almost continually. I fear they won’t be much of a test for a changed Everton team fighting desperately to stay within challenging distance of their championship rivals, but if Birmingham city can surprise Manchester United, in Manchester, it is not beyond Ipswich to surprise Everton at Goodison Park. All these matches against so-called “easy” teams have to be won the hard way- Glasgow Rangers fans please note! If by chance Everton win comfortably, they will welcome the game as one which provides less tension that the one against Leeds a week to-morrow. Whether the new look Everton attack goes into that he or not depends on how the forward lines faces against Ipswich, it could be that success for Everton will mean that Roy Vernon and Alex Young have a very though time winning back their places.
From the numbers of letters, I have received on Mr. Catterick’s action fans would seem to be fairly divided on the case for and against the dropping of these players.
Mr. H. Gibbens of Edinburgh Road, Kensington recalls that Everton players as famous as Vernon and Young have suffered the jolt of personal relegation in the past. He writes; -
“I admire Mr. Catterick for dropping the players who are out of form, but why do all the players talk of the possibility of their asking for transfer? “I have seen Britton play in the reserves and also the daddy of them all, Dean but neither of them asked to leave. “I agree with your correspondent, Mr. Morris that Vernon is getting shadowed too much. A big thrusting centre-forward might be the answer and I think Gabriel would fit the bill. He likes to be up with the forwards having a go. If he went to the centre it would certainly take the weight off the inside men.”
Len Griffiths (17 Castle Street, Birkenhead) is tired of reading every day that Young and Vernon are not going. “Let us have a rest from it,” he says, “Everton are not the only club in Britain?
Mr. Griffiths disagrees that Vernon’s among the best forwards in Europe. “Where,” he asks, “do you draw the line between one of the best and just one of the rest?” His parting shot is a waspish one. “Vernon to my mind has hit the headlines only when he has been dropped, sent off or sent home from America.
Has Mr. Griffiths forgotten so soon Vernon’s remarkable contributions to Everton’s triumph last season? Surely not.

YOUNG AND VERNON STILL IN RESERVES
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express -Friday, January 17, 1964
KAY BACK AT LEFT HALF
MEAGAN OUT
By Leslie Edwards
Roy Vernon and Alex Young, Everton’s axed forwards are still out of the first team. The play to-morrow at Chesterfield in a reserve eleven which contains eight players under 21. When the news reaches Derbyshire, Chesterfield seem likely to have their biggest Central League attendance for seasons- but if the Everton players there be no crowd bonus. The Everton team to face Ipswich Town when they follow as Football League champions shows two changes -Brian Harris taking the place of Mick Meagan at left back and Tony Kay returning to his usual spot at left half. Meagan has been under treatment for injury and rested. Manager Harry Catterick was in Scotland on Wednesday he stressed that his visit was merely to take a look at men Everton scouts have mentioned. The report that the Everton reserve team beat the first team in a match at the club’s Bellefield training ground this was confirmed by the manager. He had “The odd trail in that the Central League have never been beaten I n the few matches of this we’ve had this season. Mr. Catterick described the “going” at Goodison as perfect although the training pitch was rock hard. The soil-warming system has been in use and there should be a nice hold for the teams at Goodison Park tomorrow. Everton; Rankin; Brown, Harris; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Temple, Hill, Morrissey. Everton Reserves; West; Harcombe, Parnell; Rees, Smith, Sharples; Shaw, Harvey, Young, Vernon, Veall.

BIG OFFER FOR BLACKBURN PLAYERS
Liverpool Echo - Friday 17 January 1964
LEEDS BID OF £120,000
VEALL DEAL
By Leslie Edwards
Leeds United, Everton’s opponents in the fourth round F.A Cup a week to-morrow, are reported to have made a bid of £120,000 for two famous Blackburn Rovers players centre forward Fred Pickering and centre half Mike England, a Welsh International. Pickering, a converted full-back, has taken a long time to developed as a centre forward but he is now on the verge of English international honours.
Everton and Oxford United to-day agreed terms for the transfer of Everton reserve left winger, Ray Veall, but the player does not want to leave Goodison Park. Oxford United manager, Mr. Arthur Turner, visited the Everton ground to negotiate with Everton and see the player. The fee offered, I understand, was a five figured one. Everton paid £10,000 to Doncaster when Veall was transferred early in Mr. Catterick’s regime at Goodison Park. He has played many times for the first team and has usually done very well.

EMPHATIC VICTORY TO-DAY, AND…
Liverpool Daily Post, Saturday, January 18, 1964
THIS COULD BE EVERTON’S CUP TEAM
KAY RETURNS TO WING-HALF WITH HARRIS AT BACK
By Horace Yates
What a difference a week -and a victory -make! Last week-end Merseyside was buzzing with the sensational relegation by Everton manager Harry Catterick of international forward Roy Vernon and Alec Young. This week he underlined just how seriously he means business by repeating the demotion for the visit of Ipswich Town. So Evertonians become reconciled, as do the players, that there is no automatic way back. If this team scores the emphatic victory expected to-day, it will almost certainly carry the Everton banner in next week’s F.A Cup fourth round tie with Leeds. The recovery from injury of a player of the calibre of Tony Kay can hardly be an embarrassment for he has so much to give to a side. yet his return put in jeopardy the claims of Brian Harris to a place. In the champions’ time of crisis through ill-luck and injury, Harris’ stock as the great-hearted, play anywhere, clubman has soared. I think there would have been more genuine grief had Mr. Catterick found it impossible to include Harris in to-day’s team than there was over the omission of either Vernon or Young. The fans appreciate 100 per cent, endeavour, especially when it is accompanied by the talented play of which Harris has shown himself to be so capable. Correspondents in recent days have left me in no doubt of their desire to see Harris retained in one position or another. He has been proposed by some as centre forward, inside left, inside right, or full back. What a tribute to the man that so many should regard him as first choice in such a variety of positions in a club of the resources of Everton. Some at least have got their way for Mr. Catterick nominates Harris to take over at left back from Mick Meagan who is not fit. Only a miracle can prevent Ipswich from painting company with First division football at the end of this season. When centre forward Crawford left them for Wolves, I regarded that at the beginning of the end for them. I admit to having been a trifle disappointed that Everton did not consider him as an answer to their prayers even on a short-term basis. If Temple makers good in his new role, worries in that direction may be over. If not, where can Everton turn for help in a most restricted field? That is the million-dollar question. Of little use is it admiring an established player who will not released but Everton think so highly of Aston Villa’s Hatley that I wonder how long Mr. Joe Mercer would be able to say “no” to offers. It is just a passing thought even if it does linger somewhat longer than most.
IN EVERY GAME.
Ipswich have fared uncommonly well in plugging the Crawford gap for their signing of Gerry Baker is the most comforting event in their calendar this season. Since signing, Baker has played four times for Ipswich in league games and in one Cup tie. He has scored in every game and his eight goals hoist him to top position among Town’s marksmen. Point of interest to-day then, is whether or not Baker can maintain his proud sequence against the improving Brian Labone. No Everton player has hit three goals in a match this season. What price Derek Temple to-day? He has done it once previously against Ipswich from inside left. Even one goal will make Temple winner of Everton’s race, into double figures. Everton; Rankin; brown, Harris; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Temple, Hill, Morrissey. Ipswich Town; Bailey; Davin, Compton; Baxter, Nelson, Bolton; Broadfoot, Regan, Baker, Blackwood, Leadbetter.

CHAMPIONS MUST BEAT EX-CHAMPIONS
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express, Saturday, January 18, 1964
KAY BACK BUT NEW LOOK ATTACK CONTINUES
By Leslie Edwards
The champions against the ex-champions. That is the way of it at Goodison Park to-day, where Ipswich Town, the side formerly manged by the present England chief, Alf Ramsey, hope to pick up a point or two to help them stave off, for the second successive year the drop to division Two. Though they spent money on Gerry Baker, centre forward brother of the more famous Arsenal man, their results have not improved much. It’s not so long since Fulham put ten past the Ipswich goalkeeper, ironically the next meeting of the same teams ended in victory for Ipswich. Everton have two changes compared with the side which won so gallantly a Burnley. Kay now fit is accommodated in his usual position at left half-back Brian Harris surely one of the best club players anyone ever had on their books moves back take the place of Mick Meagan who has been treated for injury all week.
NEW ROLE
Those who read how well Derek Temple played at centre-forward at Burnley will want to see this grand local player in his new role. He played in the inside position with conspicuous success (and with many a fine goal) before his National service took him out of the country and out of the ken of Merseyside football fans for all too long. This will be Johnny Morrissey’s first senior home fame this season. He has been adept in the past at popping in a goal be two when it had been most needed and with him Temple, Veall and Maher (said to be a very good one indeed) all rivalling each other for the outside left position it is no surprise that Everton were prepared to let Veall go to Oxford United. Unhappily for them, Veall preferred to stay on at Goodison Park -and I don’t blame him. To-day’s is a match Everton must win in order to keep their morale bright for the more testing match at Leeds a week hence. It will be strange to see the Everton attack without its two acknowledged big boys, but handsome is as handsome does. The fans does not expect more than all-out effort and if possible,a deserved victory. Ipswich, I fear are not the most attractive of opponents -especially at a time when Everton are minus two of their stars- but while their side are still in the Cup the fans’ injuries in their team remains. The certainly that the pitch will be playable despite what frost there was overnight makes attendance at Goodison the more compelling. Everton; Rankin; Brown, Harris; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Hill, Morrisey, Temple. Ipswich Town; Bailey; Davin, Compton; Baxter, Nelson, Bolton; Broadfoot, Hegan, Baker, Blackwood, Leadbetter.

IPSWICH “BLANKET” TOO WARM FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express -Saturday, January 18, 1964
SCOTT’S LATE PENALTY SAVES A POINT
EVERTON 1, IPWICH TOWN 1
By Michael Charters

Everton; Rankin; Brown, Harris; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Temple, Hill, Morrissey. Ipswich Town; Bailey; Davin, Compton; Baxter, Nelson, Bolton; Broadfoot, Hegan, Baker, Blackwood, Leadbetter. Referee; Mr. R.T.L. Langdale (Darlington). Half an hour before the kick-off on this bitterly cold afternoon tow board near the corner flags warned spectators to keep off the pitch as the electric underground heating system was in operation. The wires had been used all night and this morning but were turned off, of course, some half an hour before the game started. Temple had to have attention for a knock on his left thigh within a couple of minutes but quickly resumed to take part in several Everton attacks. These broke down within shooting distance.
MIDJUDGED FLIGHT
A shot from Hill was blocked and then another from Morrissey struck Nelson and bounced away to safety. In their first attack Ipswich gained a right-wing corner from which Rankin misjudged the flight of the ball, and Everton were luckily to get away with it as Hegan was brushed off the way when about to shoot. Bailey made a fine save to keep out a lobbed shot from Morrissey after the goalkeeper had initially punched out a cross from Scott. Everton were monopolising play in midfield, mainly because Ipswich allowed them to do so. The Ipswich play for forming a defensive wall similar to the Leicester tactics was working effectively.
BAKER’S MISS
Baker cleverly slipped Labone in midfield and was able to race on unmarked Rankin came out well and took the full force of Baker’s shot with both hands but could not retain the ball, Baker went round him and when angled, sent the ball high over the bar with a gaping goal in front of him. Nelson was in commanding form in the middle for Ipswich and Everton could do little when they kept the ball in the air. They were still having all the play but attack after attack broke down near the Ipswich penalty area. Broadfoot showed tremendous speed to take the ball past Harris and Kay. When he centred low, good positional play by Brown took him to the right spot to turn the ball away from Baker. Considering the extent to which Everton were dominating play it was remarkable that Bailey had so little to do. He made a simple catch from a volleyed shot by Scott which went straight to him and from easily picked up an attempted centre from Hill. Broadfoot again shook Kay by his speed and turned the ball back from the goal-line from Brown to flick it away for a corner when it looked odds on Ipswich taking the lead.
STRONG AS LEICESTER
The Everton forwards were not playing anything near as well as they did at Burnley last week. Ipswich were playing some good football and this defence of theirs’s looked as strong as the Leicester one. Temple was hurt again but played on although limping. Stevens sent Morrissey away and when the winger cut in slipped a fine pass to Ellis whose shot was blocked in Bolton. From the corner, Hill made a back header which bailey saved brilliantly. Everton had their share of fortune when Baker a lively thrustful leader, went past Labone and took the ball back from the by line Kay turned it away straight to Blackwood who was unlucky to see his shot go straight into Rankin’s arm. Two minutes before half-time Ipswich took the lead with a goal very similar to the one scored by Hull in the Cup replay, Blackwood, who was playing on the left wing, got the ball from Hegan cut inside Brown and from fully 25 yards hit a perfect shot over Rankin and just under the crossbar. This goal stunned the Everton supporters, but the writing had been on the wall for the previous 15 minutes as Ipswich came more and more into the game. Half-time; Everton nil, Ipswich Town 1.
First incident of the second half came as Brown moved up to join the attack and from a pass by Scott hit a left foot shot a yard over the bar. Morrissey took a rebound off the corner flag stick to centre to Gabriel who hit the bar.
TEMPLE FOULED
Everton gained a free kick just outside the Ipswich penalty area when Temple was fouled, and from Scott’s kick Morrissey side-footed the ball wide. In their anxiety to get a goal, Everton were trying to do things too quickly. Although the Ipswich defence was under constant pressure, the Everton attack did not impress at all. After several attempted shots had bounced off the Ipswich wall the ball eventually came to Gabriel whose first time shot went straight to Bailey. Scott managed to get a low shot through the defensive screen, but Bailey dived full-length and turned it away for a corner. Everton were rarely out of the Ipswich half, but their finishing was very poor, Kay volleyed a shot high over the barb and the Ipswich defence with nelson and Baxter particularly good, were masters in the air. Ipswich brought everyone except Baker back in defence as Everton put on tremendous pressure. So little was coming from these incessant. Everton attacks however, and Bailey had only had a couple of difficult saves to make. The cover he had in front of him could hardly have been more effective.
GABRIEL’S SHOT
Everton’s most consistent shooter was Gabriel who was constantly “up” with the forwards and he tried another shot which went just over the bar. The frustration of the crowd was illustrated when Kay got a volleyed shot almost into the stand and there was a burst of derisive whistling and booing. Scot had been Everton’s best forward, but the rest of the team had been off form. Full credit had to be given to Ipswich who had played will after the opening ten minutes. They had contained Everton, whose forwards can rarely have had such an indifferent game. Although this desperate plan of the visitors may have displeased Everton and their supporters its effectiveness was pronounced.
“WE WANY YOUNG”
At this stage there was a burst of slow handicapping followed by a tremendous chant of “we want Alex Young.” This alone indicated the feeling of the crowd at one of the worst Everton displays of the season. Fifteen minutes from the end the crowds were streaming out in their hundreds. Twelve minutes from the end Scott put Everton back in the game with a penalty awarded for handling by Leadbetter. Temple had made a break down the left and when he centred nelson headed the ball out to Scott whose quick shot must have been going in near the upright when Leadbetter knocked it away with his hand. In the closing minutes, Gabriel moved to the centre forward as Temple was limping a little. Final; Everton 1, Ipswich Town 1. Official attendance 38,242.

COLLINS THE DANGER MAN IN THE CUP TIE
The Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express- Saturday, January 18, 1964
By Alex Young
Have you ever thought what a chaotic stare football would be in if every player dropped from the first team because the edge had gone off him form asked for a transfer? That is my answer to the many fans who have been popping up during the week and asking me that 64,000-dollar transfer question. Naturally, I felt disappointed when I was told that I would not be playing in the first team at Burnley, but almost every footballer, suffers the indignity of being “dropped” at some time of “other during his career, and one just accepts these things as part and parcel of the game. Inevitably a player loses the edge off his form at some time for we are not supermen, and it is not the first time I have been dropped from a team for this reason. It probably will not be the last either. A rest from the first team has been prescribed as the “doze” to help me recover lost form, so now I am in the process of taking my “medicine” and settling down to try and win a first team place again…in the royal blue and white colours of Everton.
SEE-SAW GAME
Last Saturday, I played for the Central league side against Burnley Reserves before a crowd of nearly 9,000 at Goodison Park, and what a see-saw match it turned out to be. Burnley led 2-1 at half time, but we fought back to lead 3-2 before finally going down 5-3. I thought we were unlucky to lose and with Roy Vernon, Tony Kay, Alex Parker and myself in the Everton side that result seems to have surprised quite a few people, Burnley however also fielded an unexpected side, included tow internationals -Ray Pointer England and Willie Irvine (Northern Ireland). Also in the Burnley team were Waiter Joyce and Jimmy Robson both of whom have much experience of first-time football, so it was obvious before the kick-off that we were not in for an easy time. Playing in the Burnley goal was my cousin Harry Thomson, who attended the same school as me in Loanhead, Edinburgh. It was the first time Harry and I have opposed each other in English football. Harry is a very good goalkeeper (and I’m not just saying that because he is a relative of mine but Adam Blacklaw, another Scot, is so consistent that Harry does not get much chance to show what he can do against top-class opposition. It was nice to see Alex Parker and Tony Kay make a comeback in this match after injury. Alex’s luck is skill out, however, for he received another setback when he sustained a slight muscle injury during training this week. While we were playing at Goodison, the first team was winning at Burnley. My congratulations to them on their success for fighting back from 2-0 down to win 3-2 against the Turf Moor men on their own pitch is quite a performance. It’s the Cup again next Saturday, and whatever the side chosen to represent us at Leeds I am confident of an Everton victory. Yes, I am well aware that Leeds are riding high in the Second Division and have a defence which gives little, if anything away, but given a reasonable run of the ball I am sure Everton can make Wembley this year. Certainly, the early dismissal of Tottenham and Leicester seems to have made the road a little easier. Last week I mentioned a friendly match we played against Leeds at Elland Road in January 1961 and looking back at the teams for the game it is interesting to observe how much things can change at a football club during three years. Here are the teams so that you can see for yourselves.
CLOSE ONE
Everton; Albert Dunlop; Tommy Jones, George Thomson; Jimmy Gabriel, Brian Labone, Brian Harris, John Bentley, Bobby Collins, Myself, Roy Vernon, Derek Temple. Leeds. - Humphreys, Jones, Hair; Cameron, McCugan, Goodwin; Francis, Smith, McCole, Bremner, Grainger. On this occasion Bobby Collins will be working for the opposition, but if we can cut off those accurate passes from him before they can get through and really do damage, then we should be halfway home. The match is likely to be a close one and may well be won beforehand -at the tactical talks both teams will be having next week. After last Saturday’s game a party of 14 Everton players including yours truly went off to Llandudno for a couple of days relaxation under the supervision of trainer Tom Egglestone. This was a most welcome and enjoyable break from the usual training routine. The weather was chilly, of course, but we missed the show which fell in Liverpool on Monday evening. Our seaside trip included a six-a-side practice game on the beach and several walks -one of them to the top of the Great Orm. On a cold Sunday morning four brave men -Tom Egglestone, Brian Harris, Brian Labone, and Dennis Stevens ventured out for a round of golf but I am informed by a usually reliable source that they packed in after nine holds. Congratulations to our Youth team in their impressive 12-1 victory over Wigan Athletic on Tuesday evening. I was not able to be at the game, but I know what a talented bunch they are through watching them in training and the score line did not surprise me in the least. The draw for the next stage of the F.A Youth Cup competition is likely to be announced next week.

CHESTERFIELD RES V EVERTON RES
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Saturday, January 18, 1964
Chesterfield Res; - Flint; Whitham, Beresford (J); Frost, Phelan, Brunfield, Scott, Blackburn, Beresford (P), McQuarrie, Armstrong. Everton Res; West; Harcombe, Parnell; Rees, Smith, Sharples; Shaw, Harvey, Young, Vernon, Veall. Referee. - Mr. W. Davies (Sutton Coldfield). Everton, with Alex Young and Roy Vernon in attack quickly had the young home defence in trouble and Young tested the home goalkeeper, Flint with a brisk first-time drive. Young was in the picture again when he intercepted a bad luck back pass, and again the goalkeeper did well to save. Everton forced a succession of corners but did little with them Shaw split the shaky home defence with a good run on the right wing, but his centre was well cleared by centre half Phelan. Vernon tried a shot from the edge of the penalty area but was well wide. Everton took the lead in the 25th minute, when Veall scored with a good shot from a Young pass. Chesterfield hit back and got an unexpected equaliser ten minutes later, when John Beresford scored from a penalty which was hotly disputed by the visiting defence. Everton’s finishing was often erratic. Half-time. - Chesterfield Reserves 1, Everton Reserves 1.

ROOM NOW FOR VERNON AND ALEX YOUNG
Liverpool Daily Post – Monday, January 20, 1964
EVERTON 1, IPSWICH TOWN 1
Says Jack Rowe
The one certainty to emerge from Goodison Park was that the majority of Everton fans will not be too happy about the Cup chances at Leeds unless there are forward changes. Those who felt at Burnley, there was still room for Vernon OR Young, may now think there must be room for Vernon AND Young. Hill has had his opportunity to become a permanent replacement without really placement without really convincing anyone, while the disappointing performance of Morrissey must inevitably lead to the conclusion that for be best. This depends on there being no injuries and I suspect most Everton fans are hoping there are not because the disappointments of the Ipswich game prompted many to express their views vocally on what the attack should be. To eb fair the forwards did not play as well as at Burnley, but the trouble was that while Temple had some scope at Turf Moor to general the line he had much less against Ipswich and with no one else supplying it, the attack rarely looked capable of getting a goal. Another reason for the poor showing may be that Kay, back at left half had an indifferent afternoon and will have to improve to compare with the way Harris has been playing there recently. Harris at full back, was not as effective as at wing half and in the first half had a sticky time against the speed of Broadfoot. He nailed his man later and became one of the few successes of the side. Not until he Brown and Gabriel went up into the attack was any hope of a score generated. These three, plus Labone, alone did their reputations any good for even Rankin was at fault with the Ipswich goal, advancing too far for a shot which obviously could not be delivered from less than 18 yards.
UNLUCKY IPSWICH?
The Ipswich view was that they were unlucky to be foiled of victory by Scott’s 78th minute penalty goal, and they would have support in that contention, because all through they were quicker to the ball and looked the better side. They made more chances and if Baker had scored in the 15th minute when a Lovely pass from Bolton enabled him to swoop through on his own, I believe Ipswich would have won. Even at that point it was obvious that the visitors were realising that they were just as good as the champions. Baker’s miss was inexplicable, for although Rankin pushed up his first shot the centre forward had a second bite, but with the goalkeeper helpless and Labone still well away, he put the ball over instead of into the empty net. Everton took so much time to bring the ball from defence that Ipswich were able to fall back and erect the barrier unhurriedly. Nelson was the hinge of the Ipswich defence and had a fine match, as did Leadbetter, who ranged all over the field and in the second half, particularly, lined himself alongside Nelson, so that the route down the middle was blocked. Everton did not help their cause by desperate second half tactics of banging the ball in the air in the hope that something would happen. It didn’t happen and the longer the match went the more obvious it became that with scheming lacking and no real drive on the wings there was little sign that Everton could break through. Their second half pressure was intense, but it had no penetration and Ipswich goalkeeper Bailey’s only real save of difficulty was from a first half header by Stevens. Bailey had much more to do than Rankin, but it was easy stuff and the only time he was beaten it brought the equaliser. Probably Everton deserved a point for their second half command, but there was little satisfaction for their supporters, hundreds of whom left long before the finish. The Ipswich goal was scored two minutes before half-time when Blackwood, on the left wing, took up a pass, slipped the ball between Brown’s legs, and made his shot from near the edge of the penalty area.
RANKIN’S ERROR
Rankin was almost on the six yards line as the ball flew into the net over him and beyond his reach, and so Ipswich were one up when they might have been three, because apart from Baker’s miss, twice centres from Blackwood had crossed the face of the goal with the centre forward only inches away from the touch, which must have produced goals. The equaliser came when Temple, from the left wing, hit a centre which Scott met and drove goalwards. It seemed that bailey was beaten and that Leadbetter used his hand. Referee Langdale promptly awarded a penalty which Scott side footed away from Bailey. If Everton had won, it was still possible to consider them with an outside chance of the championship. That hardly seems likely now, which leaves the Cup and makes next Saturday one of the most important games in the club’s recent history. Everton; Rankin; Brown, Harris; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Temple, Hill, Morrissey. Ipswich Town; Bailey; Davin, Compton; Baxter, Nelson, Bolton, Broadfoot, Hegan, Baker, Blackwood, Leadbetter. Referee Mr. R.T.E Langdale (Darlington). Attendance 38,242.

CHESTERFIELD RES 1 EVERTON RES 1
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, January 20, 1964
Even making the fullest allowance for the difficult conditions created by the frost-bound pitch, this was a poor show by Everton Reserves. They paid the penalty for underestimating the opposition and trying to take the game too casually. Young and Vernon in the Everton reserves attack for the second week running generally had a quiet game- and like their forward line colleagues were often guilty of erratic finishing. Chesterfield with a young side which included three amateurs and three part-timers, refused to be overawed by Everton’s array of stars. They set out to match Everton’s class and experience with enthusiasm and determination and in the end well deserved their point. Everton’s best period was at the beginning of the game and led to winger Ray Veall -their most industrious forward -getting a 25th minute goal. The home side’s equaliser came from a disputed penalty ten minutes later taken by Beresford. The attendance was 971- average for a Central league game at Chesterfield.

NO SOLUTION BY INSTALMENTS FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, January 20, 1964
By Horace Yates
GILT RUBS OFF
Mr. Catterick on the other hand sorely needed a resounding victory over Ipswich Town to boost club confidence. He did not get it and accordingly much of the gilt was rubbed off that impressive Burnley performance of a week ago. Can Mr. Catterick afford to give another run to his experimental attack in the Cup-tie at Leeds, failure in which, would be disastrous to hopes for this season? Apparently, Vernon and Young were little more successful at Chesterfield than were their first team replacements at Goodison, but then reserve team football so rarely brings out the best in seasoned campaigners. Having decided that changes were necessary, has Mr. Catterick collected sufficient evidence to persuade him that the remedy is sores than the malady he sought to cure? He will tackle the problem with the customary thoroughness, but time is not on his side. It does not help matters that chief coach Tom Eggleston had to be sent home immediately after Saturday’s match to cope with an attack of tonsilitis. Absence during cup week could hardly ease Everton’s troubles. I don’t pretend to know how Mr. Catterick will tackle his team selection problems, although there is no lack of unsolicited advice from all sorts of quarters.
ALTERNATIVES
What are the alternatives upon to him? He can simply restore Young and Vernon with the hope that a fortnight improves his line. Goodison knows there were plenty of room for improvement. That his solution has been short-lived is unfortunate. Possibly, his approach may have been a trifle too enthusiastic. Instead of the double change, might not one have been more enlightening? Now it seems the occasion is against solution by instalments. For that reason, I believe it will not be a case of restoring Vernon or Young, but rather of calling up both. We shall see! Mr. Catterick will not be panicked into a decision. His solution will be that which he genuinely believes will best serve Everton, I can only wish him luck in hitting on a solution.

NEVER MORE CRUELLY THAN ON A SOCCER PITCH
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Monday, January 20, 1964
By Leslie Edwards
John Osborne and the rest of his gang of angry young men have nothing on the angry young men on Goodison Park. Most of them stood on the terraces a few of them played on the warmed turf which made good football possible- if there was anyone to play it. Angriest, perhaps, would be Everton half-back Tony Kay whose nonchalance when things come off is accepted. Kay’s “crime” was that he had two shooting chances of the sort which must be hit quickly. If the timing is right these chances often produce goals; if the timing is wrong the ball can finish anywhere. Kay mistimed both. His shots flew high wide and anything but handsomely. The crowd jeered and whistled they booed. The thoughts of a man trying whole-heartedly to do his best; to get goals where the attack couldn’t can only be imagined. I know what mine would be, but I dare not disclose them- for fear of lynching! Kay was smartly off the field at the finish of this miserable 1-1 draw against Ipswich Town, whose record makes them the least worthy footballing side in the division Man’s inhumantly to man shows in many facts of life but never more cruelly than on a football pitch. Everton their most dynamic forwards far away at Chesterfield hardly deserved a point. They had not the wit to begin to penetrate an Ipswich defensive wall which continually forced the ball put to the wings. The Everton defence in the first half alone was fortunate not to be beaten three times, much less once. When Blackwood’s goal came Rankin had advanced from his line. The shooter hit the ball truly but not fiercely, straight over his head, just under the bar.
BLATANT MISS
This goal stood good and might well have been supplemented Gerry Baker, seizing a lovely through pass was clear through and forced Rankin to a great half-save the ball running on towards the line before Baker following up blasted it high and wide in one of the most blatant of missed. Full back brown denied Baker a goal by a rescuing tackle in the left back position. Harris at back in place of Meagan was wide so out speeded by Broadfoot is more appropriate name might be Fleetfoot without any goal coming from the danger-laden centres. From this it might be supposed that Ipswich were on top in the first half. They weren’t. But they created from half-a-dozen chances more real danger to Rankin that the rampaging Everton line created for Bailey off three times the opportunities Bailey a big man used a long right arm, fist clenched, to good effect. He positions himself well, too, and later, after the interval, when Gabriel tried to show his own forwards how to shoot, brought off save after save. It was only when the roaming veteran, Leadbetter, ostensibly a left winger, but in the event always found in the half back line, handled Scott cross shot as it was about to pass over the line that Bailey ever looked likely to be beaten. Mr. R.T.E. Langdale, who refereed the match magnificently, awarded the penalty from which Scott scored to Bailey’s left after the goalkeeper had gone the other way. The crowd stamping their feet to keep warm in intense cold and figuratively stamping their feet in rage at Everton’s almost complete ineffectiveness were not slow to tell authority what they thought. There were “We want Young?” chants. The penalty goal silenced some of them, but the general feeling, if I am any judge, was that poorly as they may have been playing. Young and Vernon must have done better than some of these.
COMPARISONS, CONCLUSIONS
Impossible I suppose not to draw comparisons to say nothing of conclusions, between players dropped and players promoted. Temple, at centre forward, tried hard, but centre is not his best role. Hill is a god footballer, but at the moment not one with sufficient zip to improve the current Everton attack. The inside three lacking inches, were always on the losing end when the ball came high from the wings. Nelson’s forehead must have been sore from contact with the ball he had good suppose from the busy B’s Bolton and Baxter, and Leadbetter, wandering here there and everywhere to good effect was a fine additional side. was its surprising Everton began to look like a team in the lower half of the table and Ipswich like champions snatching away point? The most damaging aspect of the thing is not that Everton lost a point, but that the other side was made a look such a good one, where the record of performance proves them to be one of the weakest sides in the First Division. If Harris was left behind by Broadfoot’s speed in the first half, he took care not to be beaten after the interval. He had a great second half; so, did Gabriel, whose inspired leadership when he went up to try to take a goal should have produced better results from the five up front. Stevens had one good header held in the first half, but the record of strikes by him and the other two throughout the match was negligible. Full back Brown tried to walk his way through against all comes, and nearly did so, but his long punts towards goal found the hands of Bailey oftener than the heads of his own forwards. What now? Do Young and Vernon come back? And if they do so and Everton fall at Leeds, what then? There are questions the crowd and the players concerned are asking. Only Harry Catterick and Fate can provide the answers.

CUP-TIE TICKETS
Liverpool Echo - Monday 20 January 1964
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST A PLAYER
By Leslie Edwards
An Everton footballer, accused by someone outside the club of selling an enhanced prices tickets for the Cup-tie against Leeds United, has not only convincing authority that the allegations are false, but is seeking to take further action in the matter. Manager Harry Catterick is waiting until Wednesday until he begins to make up his mind on the selection of the Everton side for the tie.

EXPERIMENT BY EVERTON
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express, Tuesday, January 21, 1964
JIMMY HILL LEADS RESERVES’ ATTACK
By Leslie Edwards
Everton are experimenting with Jimmy Hill at centre forward in their Central League match against Derby County at Derby to-morrow afternoon. Hill has played in this position in emergency once or twice before and has usually done well if he were a great success Hill should certainly come up for consideration for the Everton first team on Saturday when they meet Leeds in a fourth round Cup game. Hill an Irish international was at inside left in the Everton team against Ipswich at Goodison Park on Saturday. Everton Reserves; West; Harcombe, Parnell; Rees, Smith, Sharples; Shaw, Harvey, Hill, Humphreys, Veall.

ALEX YOUNG HAS LITTLE CHANCE OF CUP RECALL
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, January 22, 1964
DEREK TEMPLE AND BRIAN HARRIS ARE NOW SAID TO BE DOUBTFUL STARTERS
By Horace Yates
Alex Young will not play for Everton in the F.A Cup fourth round tie at Leeds on Saturday! That seems to be the only possible conclusion to be drawn from events at Goodison Park yesterday, where manager Harry Catterick reported that the Scottish international centre forward has burst a blister on a toe. Septic poisoning has followed, and he is receiving a course of penicillin treatment. With this revelation Mr. Catterick’s decision to play Jimmy Hill at centre forward in the Central League game at derby to-day immediately assumes great significance. After supervising training at Bellefield this morning, the club manager will travel to the Baseball Ground to see how Hill reacts to his new responsibilities and opportunity. I don’t believe Mr. Catterick would have staged this experiment had he not been seriously considering the prospect of asking Hill to lead the attack at Leeds. This would release Temple to revert to outside left, providing he is fit. Temple was one of the casualties under constant treatment yesterday. He suffered two leg injuries in Saturday’s League game with Ipswich and at present is restricted to light training.
NOT A LOST CAUSE
He was unable to participate in practice games yesterday, and Mr. Catterick’s rating is “doubtful.” There is still plenty of time for further treatment and improvement before Saturday and I gathered that Temple is by no means a lost cause. It is imperative for Everton’s welfare that they should have Temple in the line, whether at centre forward or outside left, and no effort will be spared to ensure his fitness. With Mick Meagan listed as extremely doubtful the revelation that Brian Harris is also receiving treatment is also receiving treatment and could do only light training yesterday is an additional worry. As with temple the odds are in favour of Harris being available. Parker who last played in mid-November, has no chance whatever of meriting inclusion to quote Mr. Catterick – “Alex is almost back where he started with his injury. The mishap to Young seems likely ton relieve Mr. Catterick of the necessity and responsibility of considering whether or not the centre forward should be recalled. This season will go down in the records as Everton’s unluckiest from an injury viewpoint and if, for such an important stage in the programme Mr. Catterick’s range of choice is further restricted, he can lay claim to being the unluckiest manager in 1963-64.
FORWARD FORMATION
Assuming that Young cannot be considered, let us take his chair for a few moments and contemplate what forward formation he is likely to field. Hill has figured in six League matches since joining Everton from Norwich City this season. Five of his appearances have been at inside left and one at inside right. Unless Hill reveals unsuspected qualities as leader of the attack this afternoon, I would say Mr. Catterick’s forwards would be Scott, Stevens, Temple, Vernon, Morrissey. If the hunch about Hill is confirmed then an alternative line could well be; Scott, Stevens, Hill, Vernon, Temple, but my preference, without seeing Hill to-day, would be for the former line.
Following his attack of tonsillitis, chief coach Tom Eggleston is back in action. Of the 12,500 tickets received for the Leeds tie, Everton have disposed of all except 200 ground tickets, so that a substantial following is assured. The team will not travel until Saturday morning, when they will use their new £10,000 luxury coach for the first time. Here is just one further example of the consideration and thought that goes into the arrangements for the player’s comfort. In the club colours of royal blue with carpets to match, the coach has accommodation only for twenty-seven passengers, each of whom will have an individual table and reclining chairs. It has radio and is wired for television.
A BED
In one respect the fittings will be unique -an idea of Mr. Catterick’s. A bed will be included. In view of the experience he has gained, especially since coming to Everton, Mr. Catterick considers a bed is an essential part of the equipment. “Such provision could considerably reduce the effect of some injuries,” said Mr. Catterick. “For instance, a player with a leg injury could lie with his leg in a horizontal position all the way home. Anybody suffering from concussion or affected by hard knocks will have a standard of comfort available to him which we have never had before.”
Because of the roominess of the coach, Tom Eggleston will be able to give emergency treatment to injuries on the journey home. These are reserve teams Mr. Catterick will watch at Derby today.
Derby County; Oxford; Richardson, McAndrew; Webster, Saxton, Hopkinson; Manisfield, Durhan, Buxton, Cullen, Bowers. Everton; West; Harcombe, Parnell; Rees, Smith, Sharples; Shaw, Harvey, Hill, Humphreys, Veall.

THE LONELY ONE
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Wednesday, January 22, 1964
By Leslie Edwards
The loneliest man in the world of football is Harry Catterick of Everton. Alone he axed Roy Vernon and Alex Young, alone he must make up his mind whether to bring one or both of them back to his senior team for the Cup game at Leeds on Saturday. I gather that reports on the relegated players’ performances at chesterfield varied. It is clear that Everton need at Leeds, all the power, all the experience they can muster. Alex Young is essentially an artistic centre, best when the going is not tough. Temple brilliant at Burnley was not nearly so good against towering Ipswich defenders. Clearly in is of more use to the team in his accustomed outside left position than when leading the line. So where if one is required is the best strong bullocking centre -won might make his impact on an uncompromising Leeds defence?
Echo readers answer with one voice; Jimmy Gabriel who has power in his feet and in his headed thrusts. But manager Catterick might well think that someone like Brian Harris, someone who can move the ball around effectively in the centre of the line might be ever better for the job. That is assuming Harris can be spared from his task as the inevitable deputy to Mick Meagan whose back damaged in a match against West Bromwich Albion season’s ago, gives him trouble to this day. Assuming Everton produce what most of their fans consider is their strongest team other contingencies weigh against them. The main one is that little Bobby Collins, who left Goodison Park in somewhat unhappy circumstances is playing as well as ever. He is bound to want to show his old club that far from being finished when they let him go, he hadn’t even started. Mr. Catterick, a man of experience, is weighing all these circumstances and must do a deal of heart-searching if not head scratching, before he comes up with his eleven for a tie that is doubly vital in that it will point the way towards the shape of things to come at Goodison Park and defat could bring repercussion. Everton could not have been drawn to go to a tougher venue.

£10,000 COACH FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Wednesday, January 22, 1964
IS FITTED WITH TREATMEN COUCH
Everton F.C will speed over motorways at 70 m.p.h when travelling to their away matches in their new £10,000 coach. The usual design, 27 seats instead of 51, provides for a couch, with an adjustable head rest, for players who might need treatment before or after a match. Manager Harry Catterick said to-day “this facility should be very useful. Often we have needed on return journeys suitable accommodation for say, concussed players. The roominess of the coach is excellent; there is radio from several points and four tables where we used to have only two.” A director of the firm which has brought the new coach especially for their contract with the Everton club, said he anticipated the club would be travelling more by road than rail now that the main motorways are so advanced. “I estimate that the club could travel to London in little more than three hours when M1 is completed.” he added.
CLUB CREST
The coach is 36ft long and bears the Everton crest “Nil Satis Nisi Optimum” on its side. Next year the same coach firm is hoping to provide for the club an even more modern coach, with an air suspension system guaranteeing smooth riding whatever the surface of the road. Hands as the garage where the coach was demonstrated to-day are, ironically, mostly followers of Everton’s football rivals across the park. They pointed to Everton’s new coach and its “Nothing but the best” motto and said smilingly; “Now all they want is a team to go with it.”

HILL IS TAKEN OUT OF RESERVE TEAM
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Wednesday, January 22, 1964
TEMPLE AND YOUNG DOUBTS
By Leslie Edwards
Everton made an unexpected move when they pulled Irish international centre forward Jimmy Hill out of the reserve team playing Derby county reserves at Derby to-day. Manager Harry Catterick wanted to give Hill a run at centre forward as an experience but with Alex Young and Derek Temple now extremely doubtful, playing Hill to-day would be not to wise.
SEPTIC BLISTER
Young’s feet often give trouble and a blister which has gone septic means that he cannot train at all and must have pencil in treatment. Temple got a kick in the game against Ipswich, but the injury is menacing slowly. He extremely doubtful. Revie who was to have travelled to Derby to-day to see how Hill shaped, changed his plan when he learned that he would not be playing. Leeds United v Everton’s Cup opponents on Saturday played golf to-day. Their manager freed from his Derby trip joined them.

DERBY HIT THREE IN 9 MINUTES
Liverpool Daily Post, Thursday, January 23, 1964
DERBY COUNTY RES 5, EVERTON RES 1
Although they fought back well for a time during the second half, Everton were convincingly beaten at the Baseball Ground yesterday. Derby scoring three times during the last nine minutes. It might have been even bigger for County’s lively forwards created many chances. Durham missing two easy ones, and Cullen hitting the post from a penalty. Hurst, aged 16, who took over from Hill at centre forward for Everton did well enough in an attack in which only wingers Shaw and Veall made any real impression. Buxton (seven minutes) put Derby ahead, McAndrew (penalty) scoring the second in the 51st minute. Shaw (54 minutes) scored for Everton then Mansfield (80), Hopkinson (85) and Cullen (88) completed the scoring.

“LACK METHOD”
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Thursday, January 23, 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Mr. C. K. Summer (78 Moughland Lane, Runcorn) writes; - “Like many Evertonians, I was dismayed at the team’s lack of urgency against Ipswich after their commendable victory at Turf Moor. Perhaps what was most apparent was the lack of method in the forward line, and a complete lack of bite. “Scott that long suffering wingman, a treated to a wonderful view of the game, and little else, so much so, that one wonders is he in quarantine, for at present the whole team seems to suffer from left-wing mania. “While Mr. Catterick might be justified in dropping Young and Vernon after their display of the past, few weeks culminating in the replay with Hull, I do not feel that the present forward line will solve any problems. “I have accordingly chosen a team myself which will no doubt cause a storm of protest from all sides. Rankin; brown, Harris; Stevens, Labone, Kay; Scott, Young, Gabriel, Vernon, Temple. My conclusion of Gabriel at centre forward is based on the fact that he is a tireless worker and forager, a good header of the ball and possessor of a very good shot, as was apparent only too often last Saturday when the only player who looked capable of scoring for Everton were brown and Gabriel. “Alex Young has an abundance of neutral footballing ability and would not suffer from being put in the No.8 shirt. Stevens is a player who gives his all for 90 minutes and is an asset both at inside forward or wing-half, and an excellent man to put the brake on Bobby Collins. “There then are my criticisms. I hope I have been constructive, though some might consider me insane. However, is experiments seem to be in the vogue, I see no reason why this one of it is tried should not succeed, and whilst we may have lost our chance of retaining the League it could win us the Cup.”
“L.G. of 240 Strand Road, Bootle, 20, Lancashire says;
“Will you please help to do something to save Everton’s face at Leeds before it is too late? I can’t recall seeing such a shambling inept display as Everton’s against Ipswich. Temple is wasted at centre-forward. He’s one of the finest left-wingers, in the country and that’s where Everton need him most. Young and Vernon must come back at once. Even off form they’re street’s ahead of possible replacements. “Could the following forward line be bettered? Scott, Young, Gabriel, Vernon, Temple. Gabriel up front would help take the pressure off the other inside forwards; Scott would benefit from the service of Young. “Tony Kay has lost much fire. His casual approach to the game nowadays is out of character. Let’s see him fighting for the ball and using it to more advantage. “But that present forward line gave me the creeps”

GOODISON IS NUMBER TWO ENGLISH GROUND
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 23 January 1964
Brazil May Play There
WORLD CUP
By Michael Charters
A conference was held at Everton's ground today to discuss arrangements for the staging of five games in the World Cup at Goodison Park in 1966. Mr. Denis Follows, secretary of the Football Association, led the F.A. deputation, together with some 30 representatives of television and radio. They met the Everton directors and talks went on for several hours. Everton, which is regarded by the F.A. as the No. 2 ground in the country after Wembley, will be the venue for three ties, a quarter-final ) and a semi-final. Televising and broadcasting requirements will necessitate a good deal of special accommodation being provided. Mr. Follows told me afterwards that much work had been done to-day in preparing plane for the structural work needed at Goodison Park to provide vastly increased Press, radio and television' facilities.
THIRD VISIT
He said: "This is our third visit to the ground and as we regard it as second only to Wembley in the country, this preliminary work is of the greatest importance. England. If they reach the semi-final stage, will play that game here at Goodison. "The other semi-final will be played at Wembley to allow those teams a pre-final game on the pitch. Because Everton's ground has the best potential and crowd accommodation outside Wembley, we will probably put world champions Brazil into the quarter playing in the North-West. "It follows therefore that Goodison Park could feature a semi-final between England and Brazil." Mr. Follows added: "The F.A. is pleased with the work we have been able to do at the ground here to-day and we have had the utmost cooperation from the Everton club."

RANKIN IS OUT OF EVERTON SIDE
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 23 January 1964
Injured In Training
14 NAMED
By Leslie Edwards
Andy Rankin, the young Everton keeper who deposed Gordon West early in the season, will not play in Cup game at Leeds on Saturday. He damaged a shoulder in going down for a ball at the Bellefield training ground yesterday. It was thought that heat treatment might cure the injury, but this was not so. Rankin saw the club specialist later and to-day has an arm in a frame so that the shoulder is immobilised. West will deputise. Alex Young trained this morning, but was limping slightly. The toe blister which became septic earlier in the week is obviously still bothering him. Derek Temple's leg injury still requires treatment. In addition, Mick Meagan is doubtful but these three are in a party of 14 whom manager Harry Catterick named this afternoon as travelling to Leeds, and from whom the side will be selected shortly before the kick-off.
FITNESS TEST
Young, Temple and Meagan will have intensive treatment to-morrow and Saturday morning before the team leaves by road for Leeds. Fitness tests will follow later, and Mr. Catterick will decide on his team after that. The 14 to travel are: West Brown, Meagan, Harris, Gabriel, Labone, Kay: Scott, Stevens, Young, Temple Vernon, Hill, Morrissey. A further blow to the club is a ligament injury to young Gerald Humphreys, the son of the old Everton pivot. This will keep him out of football for a few weeks at least. Leeds have had their Elland Road pitch covered with straw as a precautionary measure against frost. It will be removed on Saturday morning and the club are postponing a youth team match that day so that their juniors can be employed on the pitch in helping the ground staff to clear the straw. The three doubtful Leeds players—Sprake, Weston and Johanneson were all declared fit to-day.
BELL MAY SWITCH
Manager Don Revie will not be naming his side until to-morrow, as he is toying with the idea of moving regular left back Bell to centre half in place of the youthful Madeley, who was brought into the team when Goodwin broke a leg. If Bell is switched, youth international Wright will be at left back. LEEDS.—Sprake: Reaney, Bell or Wright; Bremner, Madeley or Bell, Hunter: Giles, Weston, Lawson, Collins, Johanneson.

ANYONE GUESS
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express -Friday, January 24, 1964
By Leslie Edwards
The game at Leeds may well be the toughest of all- for both sides. Leeds are potential Division II champions on the way up; Everton are champions on the way down at the moment owing to a phenomenal list of injured and other less tangible circumstances. The Everton team, so far as the attack is concerned, has been anyone’s guess all week. Now it is inevitable that a change must be made in the goalkeeping position, where West will surely return in place of Rankin, who injured himself in training on Wednesday. Leeds bristle with personalities. Captain Bobby Collins is an old boy from Goodison park who will be out to show he has none of his expertise or courage; Sprake, the Welsh goalkeeper was born in the same South Wales street as Arsenal’s famous Kelsey, one of his predecessors in the Welsh goal. Bremner is a forward-turned half back who is a terror when he gets moving. Behind the team is the astute tactician Don Revie, the game’s first deep-lying centres forward who used to spray his passes with the power and accuracy of a Tosh Johnson. Everything that has happened over the past few weeks has tended to show Everton as potential losers of this tie, but the same thing might well have been said of them before their League game at Burnley and they pulled back then from 0-2 to 3-2. Unhappily, most of the Everton following saw for themselves the rather grim performance against Ipswich Town. If Everton won to-morrow they will have to do it the hard way. Leeds United, enterprising on and off field, have advised me to tell travelling Evertonians to be in their places on the early side. And not to tear up their ticket stubs until the game begins, because if fog prevents a start the tickets issued for to-morrow will hold good for any postponement. For those supporting the team, here is the advice of an exiled Evertonian, whose home is now at Victoria Road, Leeds 6, Mr. Ian Stewart says;
“May I offer some advice to those coming on Saturday, probably more in resigned amusement than with any fanatical belief if last Saturday is to be taken seriously. It is that Elland Road is a very small ground situated well out of the city. This means two things; first that the packing into the ground means that latecomers probably won’t even see the pitch; 45,000 is very uncomfortable and the 48,000 capacity is optimistic. Three-shilling tickets will see O.K but they are only two entrances A and K on the tickets, the A tickets climbing behind the back and entering a narrow gate through the railings. “If the Blues want to get behind the goal, they would be advised to get to the ground by 2.15 and so be able to push through to their places. For 3s 6d ticketholders it is more difficult still. The goal end for this price is covered but very, very shallow, so any wanting to go there would definitely have to be early. “Otherwise, could you advice those other 3s 6d holders to get on early all the same since only two “gaps” allow fans on in the big side terrace one end next to the bank being bad, since the stand blocks the view. The paddock and stands are simple. “Probably most important packing space and roads get very congested even for their normal games (36,000 for Middlesbrough) produced chaos on Wednesday night. So, the best thing would probably be a park in or near the city centre and take a bus 5d from the City square. This is an excellent service and gets one to the ground quite easily!”

EVERTON PITCH TOO SHORT
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Friday, January 24, 1964
TO BE LENGTHENED FOR WORLD CUP
By Leslie Edwards
The Everton pitch does not come within the minimum measurements for World Cup football. As the ground has been chosen for important matches in the World Cup series in 1966 it will be necessary for the pitch to be lengthened by a yard or two at each end. This should pose no special difficulties. The fate of the barricades behind each goal is not yet settled, it could be that they could become permanencies though in a more solid form. If East German qualified for the World Cup it is possible that there might not be any World Cup matches in Britain in 1966. Visas are not granted to sportsmen representing counties inside the Iron Curtain. A change in the position situation between now and then- of even the non-qualification of East Germany- would solve a pressing problem.

EVERTON CUP DOUBTFULS ARE IMPROVING
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Friday, January 24, 1964
TEAM CHOICE DELAYED
LEEDS’ INJUIRIES
By Leslie Edwards
The three Everton doubtful -Temple, Meagan and Young -all trained to-day and pulled up sound. Manager Catterick must know what reaction there could be before be names his side for Leeds. He will choice the team when he is on route to Elland Road and after hearing reports on the state of the pitch. All three men showed decided improvement when they trained to-day. The Everton team and officials are starting off for Leeds 15 minutes earlier than had bene arranged owing to the possibility of being delayed by fog. Injured goalkeeper Rankin will not see the match. He has an arm in a splint. There is no break of the shoulder, indeed the injury is a rather mysterious one. The nerves of the shoulder are affected.
TOUGH TASK
Manager Catterick and to-day of his side’s chances at Leeds. “It is a very tough task, but we shall do our best.” Leeds United ate still troubled by injuries and after another training stint this morning manager Don Revie was still unable to make a definite choice. The three players causing concern are Welsh international goalkeeper Sprake (ankle), inside right Weston (ankle), and outside left Johannsson (leg strain). United plan to give all three a further check a few hours before the tie and in case of withdrawal have called up Hawsby, Lorimer, Wright. Henderson and goalkeeper Williamson to stand by.
GOING TO LEEDS
Everton’s allocation of tickets for to-morrow’s F.A. Cup-tie at Leeds have been sold and touts are now offering tickets at double the price. Between 7,000 and 8,000 supporters are expected to make the journey, more than a thousand of them in two special trains from Lime Street at 10.15 a.m. and 11.1 a.m. Special buses will be available in Leeds to take fans from Infirmary Street, next to the station, to the ground. Plain-clothes police of British Railways will be travelling on the trains. For those travelling to Leeds by car the above map shows car-parking facilities.

YOUNG’S FITNESS IS KEY
Liverpool Daily Post-Saturday, January 25, 1964
Mr. Harry Catterick, the Everton manager, keeps his Cup secrets to himself. Only he can say with any certainly what Everton’s line-up at Leeds to-day will be, although he would be the first to claim that names, he has pencilled in might well be changed following morning fitness tests. Under query are Alex Young, Derek Temple, and Mick Meagan. Fourteen players will travel to Elland Road and only when they are in the security of their dressing room will Mr. Catterick announce the side,only once previously in Mr. Catterick’s period at Goodison can I recall such a last minute choice. That was in a game at Hillsborough, where it was not until the teams paraded that we know for certain what the line up was.
ROUND YOUNG.
The problem with which the manager grapples I would say, revolves mainly round Young. If he is fit enough then his recall to the side would coincide with that of Vernon, and temple would return to outside left. With Young ruled out, temple would lead the attack, Morrissey completing the line. Whether or not Meagan wins his fitness battle, Brian Harris may have planned the message that he is too good to be left out, with the resultant retention of the left back role. West in goal has conceded only two goals in the three F.A Cup games he played for Everton. The ways of Leeds and Everton have crossed once previously in the Cup, Everton winning 2-0. Leeds, therefore, have not yet scored a Cup goal against the Blues.
SCORE CORRECT
They will, I think, remedy that position to-day. Not only was I on target with my forecast of an Everton draw at Hull in the last round, but the score, too, was correct. I hope to be way off target with to-day’s effort for if I am right again, Everton are out of the Cup. My forecast is that Leeds will win, let us say 2-1. If Everton do better than that they will have richly earned our congratulations. Like Everton, Leeds United are not declaring their side until to-day, although their side until to-day, although it is expected that goalkeeper Sprake, outside left Johanneson and inside right Weston (the former Wrexham boy) will be fit to play.

VERNON PENALTY EARNS EVERTON A REPLAY
The Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express, Saturday, January 25, 1964
LEEDS UNITED 1, EVERTON 1
By Michael Charters

Leeds United; Sprake; Reaney, Bell; Bremner, Madeley, Hunter, Henderson, Giles, Lawson, Collins, Johanneson. Everton; West; Brown, Harris; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple. Referee. - Mr. R.T. E. Langdale (Darlington). Everton brought back Young and Vernon, moving Temple to his regular spot on the wing, for the full-house Cup-tie at Leeds. Leeds switched Giles to inside right as Weston, former Wrexham forward, failed a fitness test this morning. Henderson came in at outside right. Sprake made a splendid catch from a centred by Scott in Everton’s first raid. Then West made a similar effort from a cross by Henderson.
FIRST TIME SHOT
Stevens produced a first time shot but Sprake went down low to save. Then Stevens produced another 20 yarders from a mistake by Bremner and put his first time shot wide. Everton were the more impressive in the opening 15 minutes and West had only touched the ball once in this period. Leeds were lucky to escape a penalty when Bremner pulled down Stevens. It looked a yard inside the box to me, but the free kick was given a yard outside. From this Gabriel’s header was saved easily. Everton were all over Leeds and playing they best football for some time. Temple raced away from a throw-in and hammered a terrific shot which Sprake did well to save at full-length. The ball ran lose and Bell cleared as Stevens came in for the kill.
ROUGH AND TOUGH
Bremner was rough and tough in his tackling of Vernon, but Everton maintained their pressure with Kay trying a shot from 20 yards which went wide. Henderson was guilty of a bad foul on Harris and Leeds were becoming very annoyed in their fritless attempts to make some headway. Bremner’s foul on Vernon brought another free kick which yielded nothing. Leeds were showing themselves to be the most rugged tackling side I’ve seen for age and Stevens had to have attention after another vicious tackle by Giles. Giles fouled West heavily as the goalkeeper want up for a simple catch and then Bremner and Bell were penalised to tackles on Vernon and Stevens respectively Vernon headed the second free kick just wide of the post. In one of Leed’s very rare attack, Lawson put the ball in the net but Bell, who had joined in the attack was well offside.
OFF TARGET
Vernon, Young and Stevens had the Leeds defence in a tangle with a clever passing move until Stevens put his shot wide -Everton just could not get the ball on target at all. Collins was trying hand to produce some football from his team and at last he sent Johanneson away a great pass. From the winger’s centre Henderson headed wide after it looked to me, he had fouled Kay. Decision a goal kick! Leeds were now coming into the game for first time and Bremner once broke through but was barged off the ball by a perfect shoulder charge for Labone. Key sent Young away perfectly on the left and from the cross Vernon’s leader beat Sparke but hit the crossbar, the goalkeeper recovering to save. Everton went behind four minutes, before half time with the luckiest goal Leeds must have scored for ages. Giles chipped the ball into the middle, and it bounced off Labone to Harris who kicked it away, but the ball hit Lawson on the body and rebounded past West into the net. Shortly afterwards Lawson broke away and it West came out to the edge of the penalty are. He took the ball round the goalkeeper and with an open goal in front of him sent his shot wide.
ISOLATED ATTACKS
Everton had dominated the first half except for isolated Leeds attacks. Half-time; Leeds United 1, Everton nil. The lights came on for the second half which opened with Lawson shooting wide. Young way carried off the pitch after he had slid into a tackle with Madeley, who had played well, Young was back again after a minute. Temple cleverly beat Reaney and gained a corner from which Vernon chipped the ball over Sprake but Bremner cleared of the line. There followed a goalmouth scramble and when the ball finally was moved upfield, it could be seen that back in the penalty area Scotland and Collins were squaring up to each other. They were separated by other players.
NAMES TAKEN
Then the referee took the names of Gabriel and Bremner and a flare up between them with the ball out of play. The red-headed Bremner was mixed up in all the incidents and the ratio of free kicks was very in Everton’s favour. Leeds were playing much better now, and Collins made a splendid centre from the right which drew West out and beat him with the goalkeeper out of position Lawson made a terrible blunder and put the ball against West with the goal wide open. Temple Everton’s best forward made a fine run and pulled the ball back for Young to try a first tome shot, which flew inches past the post. Had Everton’s shooting been more accurate they must have been in front by this time for they had made six shots to each one by Leeds. Young was limping and the Everton attacks lacked thrust in the middle for Vernon could rarely break away from Brenmer’s iron-hard tackling. Leeds looked far more dangerous in attack, but it was Everton who kept up a steady pressure without causing Sprake much concern. Young had now gone to the left wing with Temple at centre forward.
DELAYED SHOT
Henderson and Giles linked neatly to make an opening on the right but Labone came across to clear. Then Lawson was given a chance by Collins but delayed his shot until it was cleared by Harris. Harris was being tantalised by the skill of Henderson and Giles so that Leeds were making some progress down the right. Everton had lost their first half drive although Scott and Temple kept on trying to find a way through. The referee spoke to Lawson after another foul on Brown and immediately afterwards Lawson missed a half-chance when Harris failed to clear first time. With 11 minutes to go Scott was fouled viciously by Bremner in the penalty area and took the resultant penalty himself Sprake dived and saved the shot from the spot but the referee ordered the penalty to be taken again, as the goalkeeper had moved. Vernon took the kick the second time, and out the ball to Sprake’s left as the goalkeeper dived to the right. Everton certainly deserved this equaliser. Leeds were going all out to take the lead again, and West knocked himself out when he leant for a shot from Giles. West resumed after treatment. Final; Leeds United 1, Everton 1.
LANCASHIRE LEAGUE
Everton A 2 Preston A 2
Everton B 6 Preston B nil.

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS FOR YOUNG PLAYERS
The Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express, Saturday, January 25, 1964
By Alex Young
This has not been the happiest of weeks at Goodison park unfortunately nearly all the news has been about injuries, Derek Temple and Brian Harris were hurt during the League match against Ipswich last Saturday, I aggravated a toe injury during a practice game at Bellefield on Tuesday then on Wednesday our young goalkeeper Andy Rankin had the misfortune to injure a shoulder during training, and youth team inside forward Gerry Humphreys damaged a ligament while playing for the Reserves at Derby. Mick Meagan who missed the Ipswich match through injury Derek and myself did not know until this morning whether we would be fit enough to play at Leeds or not. My trouble started when I stubborn my toe on the bone hard Chesterfield pitch during the Central League match there last weekend. The toe was bruised, but it did not cause me any real trouble until I played in the practice game on Tuesday morning. I felt some discomfort then and dropped out of the match, and by the time we had got back to Goodison Park the pain had increased considerably. It was found that the bruising had turned septic, so I was given some penicillin injections. On Tuesday evening I could hardly walk at all and thought my chances of playing in the Cup-tie were absolutely nil, but by Wednesday morning I was feeling more optimistic, although my toes was much too sore to think about kicking a ball.
FROZEN PITCH
The pitch at Chesterfield was frozen and I must have been touch and go whether the game was played or not. On the whole I found the facilities at the small Chesterfield ground extremely good. They have quite a nice stand and it seems a pity that the local people do not rally round and give the club more support. There is not much to be said about the match, which was drawn 1-1 except to admit that the Chesterfield youngsters gave us several anxious moments. However, I thought they were inclined to take more fisks than a more experienced side would on the hard surface, but as the game finished without serious injury all was well in the end. Those people who think that British soccer is going backwards instead of making progress should take a closer look at the chances young players are given these days. When I was in my mid ‘teens -not so very long ago – there were very few opportunities for a young player to pit hit wits against more experienced men on the field, and consequently on the few occasions I found myself in this situation I must confess to having something of an inferiority complex.
OPPORTUNITY
To see how things have changed one has but to look at the opportunities which Everton’s young professionals and apprentices are getting this season. There are nine members of the Everton Youth team in the side which tackled the first team the other morning, and none of them appeared to have any thoughts of inferiority. In the old days, young footballers could learn very little from playing against teams of the same standard, now they get the chance to learn a great deal from the occasional tilt against more experienced opponents. The senior Everton professionals certainly enjoy their part in this far-sighted Goodison team-building plan, for it provides to welcome change from the usual training routine. There is a bright side to our never-ending injury story too for the absence of so many senior players at various times this season last given quite a few of the Everton youngsters the opportunity to play in a higher grade of football than they normally would. In fact, I think all but two or three members of the Everton side which has reached the last 15 in the F.A Youth Cup have made an appearance in the Central League team at some time or other. They are a very talented bunch but only one of them wing half John Phillips is a Scot John comes from Glasgow and as I mentioned some weeks ago is a Celtic fan. His idols is another Scottish wing half, Pat Crerand and when Manchester United visited Goodison just before Christmas I took the opportunity introduce Pat to his Goodison Park fans.
NEW COACH
The arrival of the club’s new motor coat caused quite a bit of excitement at Goodison this week. It is in the club’s colours has the Everton crest on the side and as far as I am concerned is as good as any I have seen. The coach has 27 seats and four tables in addition to a couch which can be used for treating injured players on our journeys. This couch will be of great benefit when a player suffers a leg injury, for he will be able to sit back and stretch his limbs in comfort. In the usual type of coach, a player with this type of injury quite often has a most uncomfortable trip.

LIVERPOOL’S WEMBLEY TRIP ENDS IN DEFEAT
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 25 January 1964
RELEGATION FOR EVERTON
FOOTBALL IN MERSEYSIDE
By Percy M. Young
In the third round of the F.A. Cup in season 1949-50 Liverpool needed to replay in order to defeat Blackburn Rovers, while Everton—desperate for League points were disposing of Queen's Park Rangers. In the next round Everton had the harder task in visiting West Ham, while Liverpool could stay comfortably at home to entertain Exeter City. Everton claimed all the credit for winning a thrilling match at Upton Park by the narrowest margin. The outstanding player was Eddie Wainwright, from Southport, at inside right: the marksman was Harry Catterick, who scored both Everton's goals. Liverpool led Exeter by a single goal at half-time, from inside right Baron, like Fagan an ex-Preston player, and further late goals by Fagan and Payne made Exeter's solitary goal look more compensatory than it was. When Tottenham Hotspur came to Goodison Park on February 11, for the fifth round, excitement was running high. Although in the Second Division, the Spurs were as formidable, and as attractive, as any team in the country, and were so clearly ahead of all in their own class that in the League it was merely an academic question as to who would accompany them to Division I when the season should end.
LUCK OF DRAW
The Cup-tie, watched by 75,000, was a disappointment, for the issue was settled after only four minutes. Clarke, the Spurs centre half, inadvertently brushed the ball with his hand and a penalty was given. Wainwright made no mistake and the match was over. At Anfield, Stockport County, with Alex Herd atcentre forward, were making Liverpool work hard, and it took all the coolness and calculation of the First Division club to break through the resistance of the County defence. By now well used to the luck of the draw, Liverpool took heart from the fact that they could stay at Anfield, before their own capacious support, to take on Blackpool. Everton, contrariwise, were once again committed to travelling: this time to Derby. This was another tough outing, for Derby, with Stamps and Steel in exuberant form, were a fine side. Stamps, indeed, worried the life out of Everton in the first half, but was neither able to score nor to assist any of his colleagues to score. In the second half, however, Derby took the lead. Undeterred, Everton threw everything into attack, and Wainwright, later injured and carried off the field, equalised. A final goal came to Everton by way of an unexpected dividend in rising stock. Buckle scored direct from a corner. At Anfield, meanwhile, Liverpool were being fully extended by Blackpool, for whom Farm was in great form in goal and Mortensen an incisory force in the forward line. It was the industrious Fagan who put Liverpool ahead when he dived through a scrimmage of players to head the first goal. But then Laurie Hughes, at centre half, pestered by Mortensen, handled the ball in the penalty area. Mortensen therefore equalised. Finally Payne and Liddell changed wings for the latter to score the winning goal.
'DERBY' PAIRING
Everton and Liverpool were in the semi-final: and so also were Arsenal and Chelsea. An all-Merseyside finals would have suited everyone's fancy in the north, but the pairing ensured that it would be Merseyside v. London. The Arsenal-Chelsea tie was in two instalments. Arsenal winning at the second attempt. Everton and Liverpool met at Maine Road on March 25, the teams being as follows: Everton: Burnett; Moore, Hedley; Grant. Falder, Farrell; Buckle, Wainwright, Catterick, Fielding, Eglington. Llverpool: Sidlow; Lambert, Spicer; Taylor, Jones, Paisley; Payne, Baron, Stubbing, Fagan, Liddell. Liverpool were without Hughes, his place being taken by the versatile Jones. In the semi-final the two teams gave a display of sportsmanship that transcended the game itself. Liverpool, more determined in attack and faultless in defence, were the winners. Paisley scored in the first half, and Liddell- helped by Wainwright, who saved a corner but fed the ball to his opponent- in the second. The match was thus summarised in the Liverpool Post: "Because it is so much more difficult to lose than to win with grace, Everton, beaten surely as they were, will never lose with greater credit. If there had been a gentleman's agreement to decide the issue purely on football it could not have been kept more strictly. Because this was so, and because so much was at stake. I rate the game as the finest of all City inter-club matches. There was one change in the Liverpool team for the final. Hughes, now being fit again, took over at centre-half and Jones moved over to left half to the exclusion of Paisley. A near-casualty was George Kay, the manager, who was taken ill on the way to Wembley but recovered sufficiently to attend the great occasion. By now, since intervening matches had destroyed any chance of League honours, there was but a single purpose; and the same went for Arsenal. When the teams cameout the Wembley turf glistened dangerously after early rain, and after Taylor had won the toss it was clear that the going was not easy. Sliding tackles, and these came mostly from Arsenal, left long black marks on the ground. The Arsenal were ruthless, and aimed at confining Stubbins. He, Herculean in endeavour, was surrounded wherever in possession and on one occasion it took four men to do the work of one and prevent his escapes. Among the Arsenal half-backs Forbes was a commanding figure, while Mercer was rarely out of action. But the half-backs were constructive and provocative and the liaison with the forwards developed meaningfully. After 17 minutes one of Logie's passes found Lewis who scored. A moment later a cross from Liddell just missed Stubbins in a goal-scoring position. Then Swindin lost another centre by Liddell, but recovered balance to beat, out a consequent shot from Payne. A goal at that juncture might have reverted the flow of the tide. The chances are that it would not have done so for Arsenal were the more composed side: and in the second half they put the issue beyond doubt. Mercer sent the ball to Denis Compton. He passed to Cox, and Cox moved the ball across to Lewis, whose brilliant shot left Sidlow helpless. From that point Arsenal successfully placed the emphasis on defence. Liverpool remained the only one of the more famous clubs never to have won the F.A. Cup. The teams in the final were: Liverpool: Sidlow: Lambert, Spicer: Taylor, Hughes, Jones: Payne, Baron, Stubbing, Fagan, Liddell. Arsenal: Swindin; Scott, Barnes; Forbes, Compton L. Mercer; Cox, Logie, Goring, Lewis, Compton. D.
Everton, meanwhile, were safe for another season. And here we retrace our steps somewhat. A dominant influence on Everton football for many years had been W. C. Cuff, chairman for a period of 17 years until 1938, and currently president of the Football League. A year before his death, on February 6, 1949, at the age of 80, Cuff stated his intention not to seek re-election as an Everton director, and his place was taken by Norman Coffey, son of a former chairman. It was at this juncture that Theo Kelly explained a provoking lack of consistency in the team by referring to the board's magnanimity in retaining players who had helped during the war years (when it was not possible to pay bonuses). It was, he said, "partly out of recognition of that loyal service." In 1948 Cliff Britton, who had successfully managed Burnley since 1945, was brought back to Everton to manage the club in succession to Kelly, with William Dickinson as secretary. Britton found the team not without its personalities. Ted Sagar—and this in part symbolises the pressure he was frequently under—"this season has been the king of goalkeepers. His great displays have been as regular as clockwork." T. G. Jones, tall, dark, handsome captain of Wales, was a princely centre half, adept with his head, pungent with free kicks, and ever ready to come into attack when corner kicks were taken. There were also Humphreys, another Welsh international; Farrell, late of Shamrock Rovers: Johnny Mcllhatton, once of Albion Rovers; Fielding, the former Charlton amateur described as being “in the Matthews class:" and Alex Stevenson, who with Coulter had made the best Everton wing since the days of Hardman and George Wilson. In April, 1949, Everton, often slow and dispirited, were on the relegation line. There was, however, no suggestion that anything radical was necessary. Once again it was, the directors believed, a matter of finding the right blend. Britton spoke their mind when he declared that the club had no intention of laying out £20,000 for players who were no better than those they had on their books. In 1950, when Everton "kept their place for another year." Britton did expend £20,000 on Harry Potts from Burnley, and in the next season £8,000 went to Rangers for Jock Lindsay who, however, broke his leg soon after signing. Other players to come in, less expensively, but more successfully, were Donovan, from Cork, and J. W. Parker. But the promise of the autumn of 1950 turned to disaster in the following spring. For six matches the team played on without scoring, and when this sequence was broken by a I-0 win over Derby County relegation depended on the ability of the team to at least force a draw with Sheffield Wednesday, at Hillsborough, on the last day of the season. The result was a shattering defeat by 6-0, three of the gaols (Sagar was absent and Burnett in his place), coming in the space of eight minutes in the first half. Everton, it had rightly been said that season, did not stay the course.
STORMY
The annual general meeting that year was a stormy affair and when R.E. Searle a director up for re-election, lost his seat on the board there was a good deal of applause. Present at the meeting was Joe Mercer, who, although an Arsenal player, was an Everton shareholder. He attempted to sheer the meeting away from acrimony. “The greatest thing in football,” he said, “is loyalty. The best thing is to rally round the club once more. We are all part of a big family and success in football is brought about by everyone pulling together. “During that season there had been a change at Anfield. At the end of January George Kay, who had discovered Liddell, Jones, paisley, Jimmy Payne, Eddie Spicer, Russell Crossley and Charlie Ashcroft, and had helped the later development of Laurie Hughes and Ray Lambert, retired through ill-health. He, notable for the wisdom with which he treated his players and his reluctance to part with them, was sadly missed. Kay died on April 18, 1954, aged 66. In his place Liverpool appointed Don Welsh, the former Charlton player, who had appeared with Liverpool as a war-time guest and had left his mark. This year 1951 was the effective dividing line between one era and another.

ICE-COOL PENALTY KING VERNON RESCUES EVERTON FROM SHOCK CUP K.O.
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, January 27, 1964
JOHN MOORES; WE WERE LUCKY IN THER END
LEEDS UNITED 1, EVERTON 1
By Horace Yates
What a heady brew there was in the F.A. Cup on Saturday! Among all the surprises Everton passed closer to defeat than many will care to admit. As we approached the final stages at Elland Road no tremendous psychic powers were necessary to decide that only a penalty goal could rescue a tottering side. Moreover, from the first stages it was equally apparent that if Everton were to be awarded a spot kick, it was odds on that Bremner would concede it. He had lived dangerous throughout with tackles that teetered perilously on the borderline of fair play. Dicing with fortune once too often he incurred retribution on his side that could only have left him with a deep sense of guilt. That the only decision possible when he felled Scott was a penalty kick was beyond doubt. In the moments of tension-charged drama which followed, only Bremner can really say what torments he passed through. Was it without significance, I wonder that during the week goalkeeper Sprake had specialised in penalty saving. Whatever he achieved in these preparatory days did nothing for his composure, for as Scott shaped to take the kick Sprake was dancing like a cat on red hot tiles. The linesman’s flag was raised before Scott moved.
APOLOGY OF A KICK.
Had Sprake been less excited the penalty kick would have availed Everton nought. Scott’s kick was only an apology, dependent entirely on placing and devoid of pace. Sprake smothered it readily and gratefully, before penance in the shape of a re-taken kick shattered Leeds. “Why,” I asked Roy Vernon, “did you give the kick to Scott, when you are the acknowledged shot?”
“Alex was in the groove,” said Vernon. “He had scored in the last four games, two of them penalties, while I was coming back into the side after a fortnight out, I thought he was the man. With commendable courage and judgement, when the kick had to be re-taken Vernon stepped into the nerve-wracking situation with apparent composure. Sprake gambled that as Scott had shot to the right, Vernon would try the other side, and Vernon’s action encouraged that line of thought. The result was that Sprake dived one way and the ball hit the net on the other side. in his moment of greatest trial ice-cool Vernon had proved himself a true captain.
HEART-BREAKING GOAL
The goal which had sent Everton into arrears was of the heart-breaking variety. With 42 minutes gone and the pendulum swinging Leeds way, Harris raced to the rescue of a hard-pressed West, and tried to hook the ball clear. It cannoned into Lawson’s shoulder and shot into the net. Lawson was being congratulated by delighted colleagues before he fully realised how great had been his slice of good fortune =. Never has a scorer been a more innocent party. How deceptive were the opening stages of what was to develop into a tempestuously exciting affairs! Everton’s attack, re-shaped to more familiar pattern, played like a line belonging to a different world from that of Leeds. They monopolised everything for thirty minutes. It all looked so pretty as they weaved their spell, but, in fact, it was very much a Dresden china affair, too easily fractured to assume substantial shape. Still, there is no evidence of lethal shot or militant hearing to prompt the belief that Everton are poised to come bounding back to greatness. Hounded, shadowed, and pressed as Vernon was by Bremner, he was able to show that his, at least, was a timely merited return. How desperately unlucky he was to send a flying header, from Young’s beautiful centre, smacking against the crossbar before Leeds had so much as looked like scoring. Even more unfortunate was he later when he flick of a master craftsman, he directed the ball past Sprake to the goal-line, where Bremner headed out.
ANOTHER STORY.
Unlucky Everton then? No! Such a claim would entail the ignoring of desperately close escapes at the Everton end. Everton should and could have had the tie won before Leeds recovered from an outside attack of jitters. In these uneasy minutes they were as ragged as the tattered edges of an urchin’s trouser bottoms. Anything less like potential First division members of next season was difficult to imagine. Once they had weathered the storm, Collins and Giles in particular with willing co-operation from Henderson, Hunter, and Bremner, for all his temperamental outbursts, redrafted the scene. Lawson, who had all the dash Everton’s forwards lacked, but none of their artistry, shot wide at an empty goal and then, just as Bremner had done, previously, hit West with the ball when scoring was child’s play by comparison. Nothing will convince Leeds that only a penalty would have adequately punished a tackle by Labone on Bremner and had it been awarded few would have labelled it an injustice. Without a doubt Temple was Everton’s man with a mission, who knew where he was going all the time and often threatened to get there. Labone’s problems were entirely physical in his tilts with Lawson and there could be little criticism of Kay, or for that matter Harris and Brown, even though Gabriel never quite got on top of his task. Collins has slowed since those magical days which so often highlighted Goodison, but instead we found danger almost as great as half pace from a players still able to strike terror into opposing defences. Gabriel, Scott, and Bremner all had their names taken by the referee. Leeds United; Sparke; Reaney, Bell; Bremner, Madeley, Hunter; Henderson, Giles, Lawson, Collins (captain), Johanesson. Everton; West; Brown, Harris; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon (Captain), Temple. Referee; Mr. R.T.E Langdale (Darlington). Attendance 48,286

NO MORE SOCCER SPECIAL TRAINS
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Monday, January 27, 1964
B.R. ACTS AFTER HOOLIGANISM BY EVERTON FANS
STOKE EXCURSION TO-NIGHT WILL BE LAST
British Railways will not run any more special football excursions from Merseyside –because so many have been wrecked or damaged by fans travelling at cheap fares. The latest example of hooliganism occurred on Saturday evening as Everton supporters returned from Leeds. On three excursion trains 60 electric lights bulbs and 12 shades were missing and the trains were hailed five times after the communication cords had been pulled. “This is final” said a British Railway spokesman to Liverpool this afternoon. It will not be reconsidered, and anyone wishing to go away to football matches by train in future will have to go by the normal services and pay the full fare.”
“MERSEYSIDE VANDALS”
The full statement from British Railways said “British Railways can no longer tolerate the disgraceful behaviour of Merseyside vandals calling themselves football supporters who make use of special football excursions. “After the trains scheduled to go to Stoke this evening no more special football excursions will be run from Liverpool. Similar actions at other places in the North West will be taken promptly if vandalism does not cease.
GREAT REGRET
British Railways greatly regret the necessity for this action has bene taken only after repeated appeals and winning. To-night special trains to take supporters to the replay between Liverpool and Port Vale in the Potteries were leaving Lime Street at 3.40 p.m., for Burslem 4.17 p.m., for Longport 4.42 p.m., for Longport with an optional fourth train due to leave at 4.51 p.m., for Burslem. They are due to return at 11.15 p.m. and 11.32 p.m. with the optional fourth train returning at 11.42 p.m. If extra time is played these trains will leave approximately 30 minutes later. A British Railway official said this afternoon that people using the special football excursions did so at a cut fare usually about half rate. Travelling by the normal service trains mean that they would have to pay the full fare.
B.R. CONFERENCE ON EVERTON FOOTBALL TRAIN DAMAGE AND DISORDER
WAS HELD UP FIVE TIMES
LIGHT BULBS SMASHED
The three special trains bringing Everton supporters back from Leeds on Saturday evening were halted five times when communication cords were pulled. All three arrived at Lime Street more than an hour late. British Railways officials in Liverpool discussed the situation at a private conference to-day. About 2,000 people travelled to Leeds from Liverpool. Of these 1,500 took the special excursion trains the remainder paying full fare on scheduled services. All was quiet when the trains left Leeds, but the trouble is reported to have begun at Huddersfield where the communication cords on the first train was pulled, delaying the two following trains.
EMERGENCY SIGNALS
This happened five times when the communication cords were pulled, and guards had to leave the trains and set up emergency signals on the line. The first train reached Liverpool at 8.56 p.m., 61 minutes late, the second at 9.12 p.m., 62 minutes late, the third at 9.55 p.m., 90 minutes late. British railways officials immediately boarded the trains and found 60 electric light bulbs and twelve light shades missing and the windows of a corridor door smashed. Passengers said bulbs were thrown out of the windows at passing stations and abusive language addressed to women.
DETERRENT
A British railway spokesman in Liverpool said last night that two or three plain clothes police were on the three specials trains and had acted as a deterrent in many cases. “But it is impossible for them to be everywhere a once. And it seems that the communication cords were pulled in the toilets where the police would obviously not be, he added.
CAN’T BE DONE
A British Railway spokesman said that if they were to remove communication cords from football excursion trains it would be contrary to Ministry of Transport regulations. “There might be a real emergency one day,” he declared. British railway had been using older rolling stock for these excursions for some time depending on availability he added.

PENALTY LAW ‘LOOPHOLE’ HELPED EVERTON
The Liverpool Echo &Evening Express- Monday, January 27, 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Everton’s twice-taken penalty at Leeds -Scott failed with the first because the goalkeeper moved, Vernon succeeded with the second raised an interesting point of law. Why should teams be able to nominate another taker? Mr. Langdale, the referee told me; “Because if a penalty-taker stubbed his foot or injured himself in any other way it would be manifestly unfair not to give the side an alternative for the second shot from the spot. All I want to know, before a penalty is taken, is who is going to do the job. I must advise the goalkeeper which man is otherwise half-a-dozen forwards could line up and he wouldn’t know which of them was going to take the award.” I wished Mr. Langdale luck when he steps out at Goodison Park tomorrow for the replay. His reaction was illuminating. “Why do you think I shall need it.” From all accounts he’ll need more co-operation from teams than he got at Leeds!

EVERTON-LEEDS BATTLE MOVES TOWARDS SECOND FRONT
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Monday, January 27, 1964
By Michael Charters
Everton’s Cup replay with Leeds United to-morrow night is likely to be one of the most memorable games seen at Goodison Park for years. All the evidence from Saturday’s nerve-jingling battle- and that word is an under-statement for many -points to a continuation of a duel which put vigour first and footballs second. Some thought the Elland Road game was just a typical Cup-tie in its intensity; I thought at times it went beyond reasonable limits. Alex Scott, the Everton winger summed it up afterwards as the dirtiest game I’ve ever played in. As Scott is the most experienced player in the team with his career studded with many European cup-ties, Rangers-Celtic matches and famous Scottish games, his viewpoint carries great weight. For the first 35 minutes, Everton gave Leeds a football lesson. In this time, West handled the ball twice, and Leeds were penalised 10 times for fouls which sent Everton players sprawling. I thought Everton played sensibly in that they did not retaliate. When they did in the second half, the game was full of incident with the referee taking the name of Gabriel, Scott and Bremner, the Leeds right half. The atmosphere was electric after Leeds had taken the lead just before half-time with a fluke goal and it was a miracle that there was not a major explosion on the pitch. The crowd of nearly 50,000 was in a feverish state of excitement with the rival supporters demanding “off, off” as foul, followed foul.
DIPLOMACY
On Merseyside this season we only know of Leeds by reputation. Their manager, Don Revie as described his team’s play as “we play the game hard.” That is managerial diplomacy others use stronger, much stronger, descriptions. Their star performer in every sense is Bremner. This red-haired Scot is quite obviously a footballer of high class, but his merits are liable to be obscured by the fantastic drive and urgency he shows. He is only slim and slightly built but he has an inner fire which makes him go in with everything. There are others in the team who follow his example. Centre forward Lawson lacks the football skills, but he is a tremendous worker who believes that the goalkeeper is there to be charged. He was penalised five times for fouls on West. In a phrase, they can all “dish it out.” Everton’s smooth play in the first half provided some of the most attractive football we have seen from them since the Manchester United game. But their shooting invariably off target was usually from long range and the only time the capable Sprake was extended was when temple, Everton’s best forward, raced through and hit a fine shot which was saved at full length.
OUTPLAYED
The Everton defence, with Gabriel and Kay mopping up everything which came their way, hardly allowed the Leeds forwards more than nodding acquaintance with the ball. Leeds were outplayed in this period, but slowly Collins still a masterly user of the ball came more into the game. They took heart as their attacks began to make some headway. Lawson had the ball in the net but back Bell, who gave him the pass was clearly offside. Then Vernon, who made Everton’s best scoring efforts, hit the bar with a header from Youngs cross and Leeds went away to take the lead four minutes from half-time. From a centre by Collins, the ball slid off Labone and Harris aimed to clear with a first-time kick, but the ball struck Lawson on the back and rebounded into the net. Later Lawson explained that he felt a thump on the back, turned round to see which Everton player had hit him and found that it was a colleague congratulating him on his goal. That was how much he knew about it. After the interval, the game built up in excitement incidents and non-stop thrills Vernon beat Sprake with a neat flick shot but Bremner headed away (the Everton players thought the ball was over the line; Lawson who had missed an open goal immediately after he had scored, failed again with an even simpler chance and from then on, neither side made a clear-out opening.
INTENSE
The tackling was too rugged too intense to permit of any ball jugglery. The ball had to be moved first time or else. With the ball out to play Scot and Collins were seen squaring up to each other and then Bremner and Gabriel had their private duel. Scott had his name taken for a foul on Bremner -the first time the winger had been penalised -and the game moved into its closing minutes with Leeds looking set for victory as Everton with Young limping, could not find any penetration in attack. The old-time weakness in finish in the middle was still there. Gabriel went up to a centre forward, but it was obvious that the switch was a waste of a great wing half. He cannot be expected to make a success of such a role although he tried hard. It was fitting in a way that Bremner who had been involved in so many fouls, by him and against him, should be the cause of Everton gaining the equaliser which gave them a second chance. He brought Scott down with a crunching tackle, sending the Everton player rolling or yards and referee Langdale, who handled this difficult game and with courage, was in no doubt that it was a penalty.
THEN DRAMA
Drama tense drama as Scott shaped to take the spot kick. He did not hit the ball well and Sprake dived to his left and saved. Even greater drama as the referee ordered the kick to be retaken as Sprake had moved- it needed a brave man to take this decision with the Leeds fans howling their anger. Vernon took the second kick and made no mistake, sending Sprake one way and putting the ball in the opposite corner. A fantastic finish to a fantastic match, but Everton showed with their first half dominance that if they can find some shooting punch in the middle, they have the class to go through to the next round.

YOUNG HAS ANKLE INJURY
Liverpool Echo & Evening express- Monday, January 27, 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Alex Young the Everton centre forward has a fifty-fifty chance of playing in the replay against Leeds United at Goodison Park to-morrow night. He suffered an ankle injury on Saturday and was under treatment to-day. The Everton team will not be disclosed until shortly before the start. Choice will be made from the eleven of Saturday plus Morrissey, Meagan and Hill. Leeds United are to make a choice from the 11 which played on Saturday and inside forward Don Weston, the one-time Wrexham player. It would seen that if there is a change Lawson at centre forward will give way to Weston, left out of the first game owing to a bruised ankle.
CUT ON ANKLE
Bobby Collins the Leeds Unitec captain and former Everton captain has a cut on an ankle but is confident he will be fit. Referee of the game at Leeds on Saturday, Mr. R.T. E. Langdale of Darlington, had a police escort when he left the ground to go ton his car. He had spent an hour in his dressing room after the match listening to reports on the radio of other games. A Leeds official said to-day; Mr. Langdale did not ask for an escort but it was considered best that he should have one. In the event the escort was shown not to be necessary.” Everton F.C announce that admission to the ground and paddock will be on payment at the turnstiles. Season ticket holders will use their customary turnstiles, handling in the fourth round Cup voucher and cash. Leeds United; Sprake; Reaney, Bell; Bremner, Madeley, Hunter, from Henderson, Giles, Lawson, Collins, Johannsson, Weston.

MOORES HITS AT SOCCER SPECIALS RULINGS
Liverpool Daily Post, Tuesday, January 28, 1964
Mr. John Moores, chairman of Everton Football club last night claimed that British railways decision not to run any more Merseyside football specials was a cowardly way out. “I think British Railways should have taken stronger action through the courts first” he said. He thought there might have been more prosecutions made on those people who caused the damage. He deplored the use of the phrase Merseyside Maniacs in British Railway official statement on the decision. “Sooner or later, they will went them back for their custom and they will have stood a far better chance if they hadn’t used these words,” he said, although he thought some supporters would still travel by train, he considered that British Railways would be dragging more and more people on to the buses.
TOP-LEVEL TALKS IN LIVERPOOL
After a top-level conference in Liverpool Mr. George Lambert line manager responsible for the area from Crewe to Carlisle, issued a statement saying; “British Railways can no longer tolerate the disgraceful behaviour of Merseyside maniacs calling themselves football supporters who make use of special football excursions. “After the trains scheduled to Stoke this evening, no more special football excursions will be run from Liverpool. “Similar action at other places in the North West will be taken promptly of vandalism does not cease.” Mr. Lambert told Press conference last Saturday’s vandalism on trains bringing Everton supporters back from Leeds had been the last straw.
THOUSANDS OF POUNDS
The damage would run into thousands of pounds. It was a simple matter to estimate ordinary damage, but not the cost of rolling stock out of action and the use of police and extra staff. British Railways was a great public institution and had its dignity and standards to maintain, he said, “I am not willing to let British Railways become a music hall joke in this matter.” Without vandalism, football specials were profitable, Mr. Lambert said,one of their difficulties was to get people to come forward as witnesses to anything that happened. Asked about next season Mr. Lambert said they would wait to see what happened on other trains this season. Cup Final specials would not be affected. There would be Cup Final specials from the North West whether Merseyside were in the Cup Final or not.

CATTERICK TO SELECT FROM FOURTEEN
Liverpool Daily Post, Tuesday, January 28, 1964
Everton manager Mr. Harry Catterick will not name his
Side for to-night’s F.A Cup fourth round replay against Leeds United at Goodison Park until shortly before the kick-off. He has listed fourteen players from whom he will select, adding Morrissey, Meagan and Hill to the eleven who played in the 1-1 draw at Elland Road last Saturday. The big doubt is centre forward Alex Young, who damaged an ankle at Leeds, and will have more treatment to-day. Young’s chances of playing were put at no higher than 50-50 last night, but the injury is improving, and to-day’s treatment could sway the balance in his favour. Leeds united are also uncertain about their side for they include the former Wrexham player, Don Weston among the twelve from whom Manager Don Revie will choose. If Mr. Revie does make a change it is likely to be at centre forward with Weston replacing Lawson. Bobby Collins, the former Everton player, and now captain of Leeds, has a cut on the ankle, but is confident he will be re-appearing at Goodison Park. Leeds United have returned some 8s stand tickets for to-night’s game and there will be on sale at Goodison Park (Goodison-road inquiry window) from 10 a.m. to-day. Everton (from); West; Brown, Harris; Meagan, Gabriel, Labone, Kay, Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple, Morrissey, Hill. Leeds United; (from) Sprake; Reaney, Bell; Bremner, Madeley, Hunter, Henderson, Giles, Lawson, Collins, Johanneson, Weston.

SOCCERS WORKING LIFE OF THE CITY
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Tuesday, January 28, 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Two big Cup replays in as many days gives fans on Merseyside plenty to see plenty to talk about. The effect of the games on the masses is of some importance industrially. I know of one large pharmaceutical firm at Speke where “it’s difficult to do anything with them if Liverpool have lost” and another big factor factory, not far from Goodison Park, where bosses are driven “crackers” when the verdict has gone the wrong way against Everton. My informant at the second firm has not lived down his classic gaffe “And in what position for Liverpool does Harry Catterick play?” It is said that life goes smoothly when our clubs are winning that when the factory-hand fan is disgruntled and doesn’t want to talk football he finds other things to complain about. Managers don’t go as far as to say that productivity suffers after a dew defeats, but it is clear that when things are going well at Anfield and Goodison Park there is liable to be less friction on the floor than when things are going badly. I always knew that the most rabid of our fans went home after defeat without an appetite for their evening meal, but I never imagined their standard of work (indeed almost the will to work was affected by a defeat or two. Just as well it doesn’t affect me that way…. Let us hope that to-night’s replay at Goodison Park puts Everton and the rest of the City in good humour. Everton’s team remains a secret until shortly before kick-off. It is possible that we shall see the former Wrexham flier, Don Weston in the Leeds attack, also Bobby Collins who should get a special welcome from his many old friends despite the fiery nature of the game on Saturday at Leeds. If Everton win at the second attempt, we shall begin to think that every seven successive away ties cannot stop their Wembley gallop…
GOODISON’S TERRACING
Mr. W. Quayle, of 18 Liddell Avenue Melling, says “To say that Everton F.C posses the finest club ground in the country is, I feel a false representation of the conditions there. “Surely this description depends entirely on the convenience of seeing the match for the spectators on the terraces these people being in the majority. “The terracing on the Goodison Roadside leaves a lot to be desired. It is built on a definite slope and the step risers are extremely low and, in many cases, broken. These conditions tend to affect the view of a large percentage of spectators. If one moves to the old goal stand end one is no better off, as the terracing there is of a double width, and this had obvious disadvantage. (I am referring to the bottom half only). The two blocks of terraces mentioned from nearly three-quarters of the standing accommodation at Goodison and taken all round I feel there is room for a great deal of improvement for the three-shilling spectators before it can be truthfully called the finest club ground in the country. “I suggest that the people who glibly refer to this ground as the second Wembley should spend a few Saturday afternoons in the places I have mentioned instead of in the comparative comfort of the Press box and stands. I doubt if they would still hold so firm an opinion. A Wembley it might be but only in stand accommodation and such like facilities.
Mr B. Doyle, 95 Priory Road, Anfield comments; - “I attended the Leeds Cup-tie and after seeing the TV film, which I am convinced was edited by the gloating Kenneth Wolstenholme’s, I cannot believe that I attended it al all. “The Sunday papers are not much better. The Lucky Everton tag was freely used. Not once have I seen a reference to Leeds tactics.
“Now Mr. Edwards, I am certainly not saying that Everton are angels, but anyone who was at the match must have gone home knowing that Leeds fully deserved the tag that has been pinned on them this year. “The Football Echo” gave a very true and accurate account of the game. “Many who were well placed (I wasn’t claim that Bremner headed a Vernon flick out from a yard inside the net. “Seriously I would like to take this opportunity to praise Everton for the following reason: - “They began by playing football and they continued to try and play football under intense provocation. “Even with ten men, they fought for the equaliser through good football. They did not lose their heads as at West Ham. “When they justly equalised, it was a tribute to their spirt. Come what may in the replay, I was proud to be an Everton supporter on Saturday.”

EVERTON MAY SPRING SURPRISE
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express, Tuesday, January 28, 1964
CHOICE FROM FOURTEEN
BROWN RUMOUR
By Leslie Edwards
An attendance of up to 65,000 is expected this evening at Goodison Park for the replay fourth round F.A Cup-tie between Everton and Leeds United. Leeds captain by the former Everton player, Bobby Collins, and bringing about 5,000 spectators. The one doubt in the Leeds team concerns the centre forward position. It won’t be decided until just before the match whether Lawson who played in the first match between the teams will get the job again or Weston formerly of Wrexham, who is now fit. There was still doubt at midday about the fitness of Alex Young the Everton centre forward who received a knock in the match on Saturday.
BROWN SWITCH
A strong rumour about the city this morning was that manager Catterick would move full back Sandy brown to head the line if Young was not available. When I asked the Everton manager about it, he said; the team isn’t selected. It will be selected from the 14 plays I have named. If Brown did make the move from full back to leader of the attack Meagan now in full training should easily find a place again at full back.

GABRIEL STEPS IN AS CENTRE FORWARD AND WHAM…HE’S A WINNER
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, January 29, 1964
EVERTON SECRET WEAPON SHOCK
By a “Daily Post” Reporter
Everton tried out a secret weapon against Leeds United in their F.A. Cup fourth round replay at Goodison Park last night -and it proved a resounding success. Manager Harry Catterick startled the 66,197 crowd, Everton’s biggest of the season by naming Scottish international wing half-back Jimmy Gabriel as centre forward ten minutes before the kick-off. And Gabriel, who had never played in that position before scored a great goal that inspired his team to a 2-0 victory. After the match Mr. Catterick revealed that the man Gabriel replaced, Scottish international Alec Young, has torn ligaments in his ankle and will be out of the game for at least a month. Mr. Catterick added “Jimmy’s such a great half back I hate to move him. But what can I do? “He’s a wonderful player. Took his goal like a veteran and really enjoyed himself. “Will I keep him at centre forward? We’ll have to see how it goes. It certainly shows he can do the job while he has to. “Perhaps I’ve done Ian McColl (Scotland’s team manager) a good turn by accident. I understand Scotland are looking for a centre forward.”
FIFTY TURNED OUT- FOR SAFELY
More than 50 people, most of them youths were turned out from Goodison during last night’s game for their own safety after sections of the tightly-packed crowd started swaying behind the goals. Several hundred holders of ten shillings tickets were still queuing a quarter of an hour after the kick-off. There were angry shouts about the delay, but all got in. There was some build-up of traffic at the Birkenhead mouth of the Mersey Tunnel shortly after 6 p.m., but police said there was no interference with cross-town traffic or with the homeward flow from Liverpool.

LOOK OUT WEMBLEY…HERE WE COME
Liverpool Daily Post Wednesday, January 29, 1964
EVERTON’S MESSAGE FROM CUP REPLAY TRIUMPH
GABRIEL SWITCH BRINGS THREAT, PUNCH TO ATATCK
EVERTON 2, LEEDS UNITED 0
By Horace Yates
In qualifying to visit Sunderland in round five of the F.A. Cup, Everton, at Goodison Park last night, were not only emphatic winners of a gruelling game in which kicks far outnumbered compliments, but they broadcast the message… “Look out Wembley. Here we come,” They were a team transformed from that which stumbled to a precarious draw at Leeds on Saturday. As much because of injury to Young as inspiration, manager Harry Catterick pulled off a major strategic triumph in team selection. With one move he solved two pressing problems. He pushed Gabriel up to centre forward, which means there was a ready-made place at right half for Brian Harris, undoubtedly Everton’s most consistent wing half this season. Gabriel’s response was brilliant. He played in the manner born in his first outing as leader of the attack. The roar from the crowd which greeted the announcement of the change showed what Everton thought to-day they had been thinking for weeks and merely confirmed the many letters I have received pressing for just such an experiment. Gabriel looked anything but a makeshift leader. If ever there was a football cat among the pigeons it was Gabriel. He brought the line to life as it has not prospered this season. Indeed, on this one showing he was almost the complete centre forward. It may be wrong to jump to conclusions from first appearances, but what a rosy outlook he has opened up. Madeley face an entirely different problem last night compared with that at Leeds, when he was face-to-face with Young. There was thrust, punch and threat every time the converted half back moved the ball. His goal, brilliantly taken in thirty minutes was merely the glittering crown his entire display merited. If he ran continue as he has begun. Everton may well forget their urgent search for a new leader.
EFFECT ON VERNON.
Whether he was shooting, heading or distributing, he was equally impressive, and Everton responded so convincingly that at once their prospect have been transformed. Look, for example, at the effect which this new burst of activity produced with Vernon. Here without a doubt, was Vernon’s hour of the season. Those flashing runs were back again. He was the eager beaver looking not only for chances to shoot himself, but ready and willing to give others better placed the opportunity to profit from his wiles. The one blot was that in a match in which there were as many fouls as there are to be found in many a chicken run, he was the only one to have his name taken. It was the alert Welshman who spotted the opportunity to send a long ball almost from the centre circle streaking into the penalty area. Madeley was completely deceived by the flight and Gabriel pounced like a seasoned hunter hungry for prey. He hit his shot superbly with his left foot to give Sparke no sort of chance. To their credit Leeds were stubborn foes, fighters all. Courage and militant spirit of the highest order were required to keep them at bay, but this was a new Everton, and the qualities were there in abundance.
HAMMERED AWAY
Once they were ahead Everton did not make any mistake of sitting back content to make that the match winner. They hammered away relentlessly and although their only subsequently reward was a Vernon goal in 78 minutes there might well have been others to go with it. It was not Everton all the time for no one will forget that palpitating moment just after the interval when Giles seemed certain to score. His header was a tremendous effort pushed well wide of West. For me, the goalkeeper accomplished the finest diving save he has ever performed in an Everton jersey. No one could have blamed him in the slightest had he been beaten. That escape however was no closer than that which Leeds enjoyed brilliant bit of goalkeeping by Sprake. A solo run by Vernon took him right through and he hit a terrific, angled shot which Sprake somehow or other succeeded in pushing over the bar. Those who believe in coincidence have a most inspiring example on which to look back for these teams have only met in one previous F.A Cup competition. Everton won 2-0 at Goodison Park -and then went on to win the Cup. Will history repeat itself? Believe me on this showing there are more unlikely possibilities. Suddenly Everton and the crowd have come to life and the way in which every player was cheered off the field at the end of the game showed that they are revelling in this rebirth of promise.
BATTLE CRY
I never expected there would be any opportunity last night for the crowd to chant the battle cry they have copied from Rangers. “Easy, easy, easy,” but they did, and they did it only in the full knowledge that there was little or no danger of them being forced to eat their words. Not until they were two goals down did Leeds betray any suggestion that they were deflated. With narrow misses by Vernon and Gabriel, Everton’s winning margin could have been greater without misrepresenting their superiority. Still, it was a typical Cup game with vigour reigning supreme, doubtful tackles without number, but fortunately there was also a tremendous amount of fast open football to complete the crowd’s enjoyment. The firebrand of Elland Road, Bremner, played with quenched flames and still managed a creditable show. Still, it was not difficult to look to Collins as the man who was pulling his heart out to try to worry his former colleagues. There were visitors from Sunderland present to weigh up their fifth round opposition. One of them said to me; “What an intriguing situation. Sunderland drew 1-1 at Leeds and beat them 2-0 at Roker. Everton’s tussle have produced an exactly similar result. What a battle this is going to be.” Although it was difficult on this happy evening to point a finger of serious criticism at any Everton player, it would not be unfair to single out Brian Harris for another wonderful show at half back. How right Everton were not even to think of allowing him to move elsewhere, Kay, remarkably cool in the hottest situation, drew dividends from his refusal to be thrown out of his stride. The Everton defence, in general were most impressive and full backs Brown and Meagan never gave cause for the slightest alarms. Temple like Scott often sent the Leeds defence scurrying back in deep anxiety. Everton; West; Brown, Meagan; Harris, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Gabriel, Vernon (Captain), Temple. Leeds United; Sprake; Reaney, Bell; Bremner, Madeley, Hunter, Henderson, Giles, Lawson, Collins (Captain), Hawksby. Referee; Mr. R.T.E Langsdale of Darlington. Attendance 66,197 (£15,580).

GABRIEL GAMBIT WAS A WINNER
The Liverpool Echo & Evening express, Wednesday, January 29, 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Everton, seeking for weeks more power, more shots from the centre of their attack discovered last night that the man they wanted was under their noses all the time- if they’d looked that far. When last I spoke to Manager Harry Catterick about the chance of Gabriel, a half-back, making good in the position from which Young was dropped, he said, sadly; “No we’ve given them all a run. It is no use. Now the one who could move the ball around a bit there would be Brian Harris, I might consider him.” Yesterday the City buzzled with the story that full back Brown, was going to be given his chance in the attack; the well-kept secret that Gabriel had been chosen was kept until a few minutes before the kick-off in the replay against Leeds United. When Gabriel name came over the public-address system as the No.9 for the night, the crowd cheered. I don’t wonder. If my postbag for three weeks is any criterion, they knew that he could scarcely fail to give the line the punch it has lacked. After all John Charles was as good a centre as he was a centre half back. And isn’t the potential leader of the England forward, Pickering, of Blackburn, a man who became a great forward after being just another full back? Gabriel made a great success of his new job. He got the goal which really mattered-the first he might well have had two, three, or even four. Two of his hooked shots, made acrobatically, beat the goalkeeper, but flew just wide. He moved the ball around well, he positioned himself splendidly. If he is kept there, forecast a big tally of goals for Everton and for him. His heading alone in a line so small makes his height in the goal area an absolute necessity.
EXPLOSIVE CHARGE
He may not have all the expertise of the ready-made centre, but his play is inspiring. He challenges with strength for possession. He’s not easily knocked off the ball or out of his stride. I don’t say he is a brilliant centre forward but he’s the most effective one Everton have had for a long time. And I say that as one of the few people who maintain that there should be a place, always, for a player of genius like Alex Young. Thousands won’t go to Goodison Park to see Gabriel beating three defenders in sixpenny piece dribbles; they will go to see this earnest sizeable man out on explosive charge into Everton attacks which have too often fizzed out goallessly soullessly. Gabriel earned his ovation at the interval and at the end. And Everton, as a team well deserved their chance to go to Sunderland in the fifth round. They won readily, thought none could be certain of victory until that Vernon goal went in not long before the end. For 20 minutes Leeds showed they had ideas and skill. Then the Everton half backs “found” themselves and imposed their will and it was very nearly one-way traffic once Everton broke though. Yet, as I have said, while there was only a goal in it the possibility of an equaliser and if extra time remained in our minds. The second goal was from the ruck, an untidy thing, hardly describable. The first after 30 minutes was a corker. Bell, a back inadvertently started it all by presenting Vernon with the ball in midfield. Vernon delivered a telling through pass to where young Medeley and Gabriel were waiting to tussle for possession. Gabriel won, rounded his man, and then, when he could have been excused foozling his first real chance, rammed the ball home hard in such a way Sprake was left sprawling.
SIX TO ONE IN CHANCES
The difference between the sides was that Everton’s attack, despite the fact that Temple and Stevens were less good than usual, moved as a line and in good order. For every chance Leeds created Everton made six. Little Bobby Collins put on a superb show of impudent expertise, making some of his old colleagues look foolish, but much of his ammunition never reached the firing line. At centre Lawson looked more like a Leeds Rugby League three-quarter certainly he seemed to be trying to handle the ball as often and elsewhere, though there was always promise there was never fulfilment indeed Lawson was left too much on his own to hope to link the two flanks and make them work as a fivesome. There was much to like about Leeds, nevertheless. They are a grand side and a tough one. Both teams needed that quality last night. The referee Mr. Langdale, handled what might easily have been a difficult situation with firmness. He booked the Everton captain Vernon, who had his best game for months and might well have written down the names of some others. He will surely remember the three successive matches in which he handed Everton in 1964, starting of course, with the League game against Ipswich a fortnight ago. If Gabriel was a success because he was always making bold, full-blooded efforts, he was not the only man on whom Everton placed great dependence last night. I liked Meagan for his studious, quiet but commanding work, Harris was the man who helped Everton win the initiative after a rather shaky start; Scott, with his inevitable wanderings and sure control posed great difficulty for the defence. It was a better Everton performance, all round than we have seen at Goodison for a long time.
ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS
No one I think, would rate the match a classic but had the essential ingredients of a good cup-tie -some needle, toughness drama speed and openness until Vernon finally clinched it. Even then few of the 66,000 present (when last did so many youngsters have to leave the terraces for their own safety and comfort?) elected not to stay to the end. Collins started and though determined to get a goal against his old club. West saved his first shot near the foot of an upright before Gabriel took the first of his acrobatic volleys right footed, to show the crowd and Sprake he meant business. Everton escaped by hairs-breath when a Collins shot was deflected wide when it might just as easily have been deflected inside a post. The luck was levelled when Vernon with Sprake “not at home” returned the ball fast towards goal and found it hitting young Madeley and not the back of the net. Gabriel’s goal at the half-hour had the crowd frenzied. There would have been some pretty glum faces if West after making a faulty clearance had not got back on his line in time to stop the shot the quick-thinking Giles hit straight back when he knew the goalkeeper was struggling.” Sprake’s save of Vernon’s cross shot, fairly close in was the final moment of drama before the interval. Bremner free kick nodded fast at goal by Giles gave West his best moment. He flung himself at the ball to make an outstandingly good save. The referee struck by the ball had his part in a move which led to temple hitting the goalkeeper from fairly close range. Brown, then Vernon shot wide and next West held fine shot -this time from Lawson. Gabriel with another hook, from his left foot, was close and was closer still possibly, when trying to lob the ball over Sprake’s outstretched hands. But the Welshman anticipated the danger. Vernon goal, and the one which really settled it came soon later. The rest was almost formality…

FOOTBALL FANS HURT AT GOODISON APRK
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 29 January 1964
THOUSANDS LOCKED OUT, MISS EVERON CUP WIN
SPECTATORS CRUSHED
Thousands of fans were locked out of a neat-capacity attendance at Goodison Park last night, when 66,197 people who paid 15,500 pounds in gate money saw Everton beat Leeds United in a fourth round F.A Cup replay. Many turnstiles were closed soon after the game began at 7.30 and ticket-holders found difficulty in getting through to take their places in the stands. Many missed the first 15 minutes play. Some hundreds of crushed spectators, most of them boys, were taken from the crowded terracing behind the barriers at the Gwladys Street goal. Police escorted them out of the ground.
50 CASUALTIES
All told St. John Ambulance men dealt with more than 50 casualties. A man and a girl were taken to hospital for X-ray examination. Eighteen-year-old Margaret Orr, of Salisbury Road, Liverpool, was taken to Stanley Hospital with a suspected broken arm., and Mr. Joseph Davies, aged 43, of Thorncliffe Street, Everton, whose arm was badly bruised, was examined at Walton Hospital. Both were allowed home. First aid treatment was given to a number of others on the touchline, but a senior police spokesman said to-day that most of those who climbed over the barriers were uninjured.
NOISY SCENE
Outside the ground there were noisy scenes for a while after the game started because a queue of 10s ticket-holders at one turnstile in Bullens Road were unable to get through in time. Some had been queueing for three-quarters of an hour. A club official said the queue was not caused by a bottleneck inside the ground. There were more than the usual number of Stewards on duty, he said. Traffic leaving the game flowed smoothly through the Mersey Tunnell, although there were some queues at the Birkenhead entrance earlier as match traffic lashed with the normal flow of traffic leaving Liverpool, these were soon cleared after the authorities were able to open three lanes in the Birkenhead-Liverpool direction for a while.
2 pounds gesture of disgust
Football fans “Raided” Shop
A pleasant echo from the Leeds United –Everton Cup-tie at Leeds last Saturday, came from an Everton supporter to-da. A grocer’s shot at 257 Elland Road, near the Leeds United ground received attention from aging of men and the proprietor Mr. A. Beck, reckons he lost about 5 pounds worth of goods after his shop had been “packed” after the game. But in the shop on honest business were a Liverpool baker’s son and his friend. They saw what happened. Wiring anonymously the baker has sent Leeds United 2 pound o gibe to the grocer; “To express the disgust at the incident.” Mr. Beck said to-day, it was one of the nicest gestures he had ever heard of. He added, “However, I really would like to return the money to the very decent donor. I can stand my losses luckily and I would be very much obliged if he would write to me.”

HOW’S THIS FOR GOOD TEAM SPIRIT?
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express, Thursday, January 30
By Leslie Edwards
Much has been said of Everton’s allegedly failing team spirit this season, yet in their last six matches they have been a goal down in five and have not lost a game. Another remarkable side to Everton is that of the fourteen League games they have to play before now and the end of the season they won only four of the corresponding fixtures last season when taking the title. If Everton were to reach Wembley and win their Cup win could be the most remunerative ever. They had big gates for the ties, at Hull and Leeds and 56,000, and 66,000 for the replay. The possibility exists that the Sunderland tie may be a two-match one, in which case Everton would have had receipts from six tremendous attendances before reaching the last eight. A safe capacity for the Everton accommodation nowadays would seem to be about 66,000, where in the old days it was nearly 76,000. The conversion of part of the paddock terracing to seating accommodation and the loss of some hundreds of terrace spectators behind the goals (and the safety barricades accounts for the discrepancy between the old full-house figures and the present one. Had there been room thousands more would have entered the ground for the Leeds replay. There were some irate holders of 10s stand tickets trying with no success to make their way to their placers, through hordes of terraces fans who had been locked out long after the game had started. Some I am told missed the first 30 minutes play. The trouble with evening mid-week matches is that everyone tends to arrive in the fifteen minutes before kick-off. Transport which already has a heavy load of home-goers to cope with cannot deal quickly enough with the masses who want to be taken to Anfield or Goodison Park.

WHAT A WEEK FOR JIMMY GABRIEL
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, January 31, 1964
EVERTON’S SCOT LEADS UNDER-23 TEAM
JOINS YEATS AND SCOTT IN INTERNATIONMAL SQUAD
By Horace Yates
What a week this has been for Everton’s Jimmy Gabriel! Last night he was not only named as skipper of Scotland’s Under-23 team to oppose England at Newcastle on February 5, but he was also included in the select seventeen nominated by Scotland for special training at Largs on February 9 and 10. From that party their full international side to play England at Hampden Park is likely to be chosen. Following as they do Gabriel’s sensational success in the emergency role of centre forward in the Cup battle against Leeds on Tuesday, these announcements make this a week for Gabriel to remember. Gabriel will have as travelling companions to Largs, teammate Alex Scott and Liverpool’s skipper Ron Yeats, who threaten to burst onto the international scene for the first time. It would worry Gabriel not at all that the Scots are asking him to prove his mettle as a left half. He is a vastly more experienced and accomplished player to-day than he was when collecting his only full cap against wales at Cardiff in season 1960-61. The trip to Scotland follows immediately after the “derby” game in which it seems highly probable Gabriel will again lead the Everton attack and so come face to face with Yeats in a terrific battle of strength. Both Gabriel and Yeats have won their recognition the hard way, for those who say it is very much more difficult to gain entry into the Scottish side than to stay there, have any amount of evidence to support their theory. Of course, neither Gabriel nor Yeats have yet smashed through the barrier, but at least they are on the fringe. Gabriel played in the Scottish side on one occasion this season, but only as second half substitute. The recent improvement in Scott’s form has been seized on gratefully by the Scottish selectors to help them out of one of their most pressing difficulties.

EVERTON’S ROY VERNON SAYS…
Liverpool Daily Post, Friday, January 31, 1964
MY WARNING NOW DOUBLY UNDERLINED
Tuesday night was a tonic to Everton. I believe it will mark the turning point in our fortunes and, while we may have lost some ground in the League competition, my warning last week that it was too soon to write us out of the honours race in one direction or another has been doubly underlined. Tough as it was, this Cup game was a real pleasure to play in, for there was a completely different feeling in the air. It was almost as though one could feel the surge of power there was fore and aft. That can only do one thing- boost our confidence, and that is all we require to make Everton great again. Everyone will sympathise with Alex Young in the nasty ankle injury he received at Leeds but that does not prevent us from giving every credit for the grand manner in which Jimmy Gabriel stepped into the breach. Although Jimmy is a favourite to take over in the Scottish national side from the injured Dave Mackay at right half, I think he almost welcomed Mr. Catterick’s instruction to lead the attack.
ROOM TO WORK
It may have been the first time he has worn the No.9 jersey for Everton, but we have seen him play centre forward in practice games more than once. Believe me, it was obvious then that it is easier to play with him than against him. Leeds set out to drive us from the Cup with some instance close marking, to prevent it from opening up the game and we all knew we might find difficulty in shaking off these tactics. Surprising to relate then, I cannot remember any recent games in which I have had so much room in which to work. The credit for that, I say without doubt, was the threat which Gabriel was making in the middle. He certainly took a load off my shoulders and if we carry on as we have begun, I am hoping it will not be long before I begin to show something more approaching my real form. If my fade-out has worried Everton and their supporters what do you think it has done to me? I don’t deny I like the limelight. I love the thrill of doing well and at last, I feel I can say, “Happy days are here again.” Let us hope it stays that way.
SEEKING “DERBY” TIPS
All the Liverpool players were sitting in the stand watching our Cup replay. No doubt they were there to pick up tips for the “derby” game as much as anything else. They will have something to think about now. One game, I know, does not make a season but the difference this time is that this one good game is going to be followed by others. Of that I feel sure. My, how good it is to be able to write in this strain, after a season that must have had us all worried to death at one time of another. It is no joke being asked to travel away for the third time in the next round of the Cup, and even less amusing to have to go to Sunderland. Still, we are in the groove and in the mood now and I reckon it will be Sunderland who will be doing the worrying.
LAST STRAW.
I dare say there have been unluckier teams than Everton in regard to away draws, but off hand I find it terribly difficult to name one. On the day of the draw the winners of our tie with Leeds and Sunderland were the last two teams in the hat. It was an even money chance of our Cup luck changing, and that it should still stay sour and just about the last straw. The consolation is that the longest of long runs must end sooner or later. One reward for winning at Sunderland then, or at Goodison if we maintain our Cup habit of drawing away from home, must surely be a home tie. Against Liverpool? No, not just yet. Save them for us to beat at Wembley! It is rather remarkable that with two ties completed by both clubs, neither has clashed with a First Division side. That sequence is broken in the next round when Liverpool travel to Highbury.

EVERTON’S TICKET CUP-TIE
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, January 31, 1964
Everton will not find much difficulty over the Sunderland players in the F.A. Cup fifth round for Sunderland last night announced an unchanged team for the League game with Swindon for the tenth successive match. The Sunderland v Everton Cup tie at Sunderland on February 15 will be all-ticket with an agreed attendance ceiling of 63,000. Applications for stand tickets can only be considered from stand season ticket holders. Prices are 10s, 2s, 9s and 8s 6d each -the majority 8s 6d. As these are limited there is no guarantee that there will be sufficient for all applications (who will be returned for use in the event of a replay remittance and stamped addressed envelope should be marked “Sunderland (S.T)” When all stand tickets are exhausted, paddock tickets will be sent in lieu. Paddock tickets are 4/6 and ground tickets are 3/- each. Priority for these will be given to paddock and ground season ticket holders who must apply by post enclosing fifth round Cup tie voucher, remittance and stamped addressed envelope. The outside of the envelope should be marked “Sunderland (S.T)” a further announcement will be made where ground and paddock tickets are available for sale personally.

THE GUIDING STAR THAT SHONE O’VER EVERTON
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, January 31, 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Did Everton and Jimmy Gabriel have a guiding star shinning and watching over them when they faced Leeds United, at Goodison Park on Tuesday? I know one man is certain they did, though the brilliant moving light he saw in the sky while waiting in the Bullens Road queue was obviously coincidental.
My observer Mr. Dee, of Wirral, wrote; “I am seeking confirmation by fellow-members of the queue for the paddock for the Leeds match or indeed of anybody else who witnessed the very bright object which hovered at a very great height for approximately 10 minutes before eventually moving away and disappointing from sight. “Most of us, I think took it at first for a bright star. Then we realised it was actually moving and the other two stars in the vicinity remained in the same position. “I am convinced it was not an ordinary aircraft, mainly by the apparent lack of movement in that first few minutes compared with its speed when it eventually moved off, also from the brightness which came from it. “I have mentioned the incident to one or two friends, but I am afraid they were rather sceptical -as I might have been if I had not seen it. “If by chance, it was a piloted craft the flood-lit ground must have looked interesting from that height.” A hard-bitten colleague dismissed this story contemptuously; “Must have been drunk,” but football and astronomical fact is often stranger than fiction. Yet I confess that when I tackled Mr. F.C. Duckworth, a research student in Metallurgy at Liverpool University about the phenomenon I began to wish I hadn’t.
THIRD DEGREE…
What is your question? How did you come to get my name? Why didn’t you try Bidston Observatory? Is this a joke? Were some of the quick-fire questions I was made to answer before the matter could be taken further. It turned out in the end, that Mr. Duckworth was a keen follower of Liverpool F.C; and that it was not unknown practical jokers at the University to take astronomical rises out of each other! Finally, as always, the University came up with the answer, as illuminating as the object which set inquiries in train; -
“Members of the University Observatory department were watching and photographing the moon on Tuesday when they noticed an object which was new to them. They identified it as the new American Telecommunications Satellite, Echo II, an aluminium balloon 200 feet across which sends radio messages back to the base and which was put into orbit earlier in the week. “The object is visible every ninety minutes but is overhead only once every day owing to its changing orbit. The stars in the vicinity when it was sighted were Jupiter and another bright star.
I am grateful to Mr. Duckworth and to Mr. Dee for disclosing these facts and for confirmation of my personal belief that Mr. Dee was strictly sober when he began to see things.
GABRIEL AT CENTRE AGAIN
The inter-city soccer battle against Sheffield is completed by Everton’s game at Hillsborough, Sheffield against Wednesday side the Everton manager used to control. Not so long ago the names of “Bronco” Layne, the Wednesday centre-forward and Everton were linked by rumour of possible transfer, but nothing materialised. Study of the rival centre-forwards should be interesting. Everton have scarcely any option but to play Jimmy Gabriel as their spearhead after his successful debut in that position against Leeds United on Tuesday. Not much is lost from the half-back line and his transference to the attack at least gives the club opportunity to fit into their side Harris, Meagan, and Kay- all men who have deserved regular places. Everton have not yet set the Mersey on fire in recent weeks, but they have warmed their followers by their ability to stave off defeat. In five of their last six games, they have been a goal down; they have not lost any of these matches. Too, often in the past to get Everton a goal behind was virtually to write them off…
I think Gabriel, while never likely to be a centre-forward in the classic mould, will more than justify his club’s faith in his ability to get goals. After all, a great player- and Gabriel is, often that- can perform in any position. His size and weight; this shooting and heading enable him to let defences know he’s around. He is much more likely to unsettle them than Young, though that injured player can tangle backs and half backs in another way when he’s fit and demonstrating his unquestioned genius. Everton want at least a point from this one to stay with their rivals from over the park. The “Derby” game of a week hence could scarcely be more exciting in prospect. The result of it could indicate clearly which of our sides is most likely to win Cup or League this season.

GABRIEL KEEPS CENTRE FORWARD BERTH
Liverpool Echo - Friday 31 January 1964
NO CHANGE BY EVERTON
By Leslie Edwards
Jimmy Gabriel, named yesterday as captain of the Scottish Under-23 side, continues as leader of the Everton attack at Hillsborough, Sheffield, tomorrow. The three doubtfuls, West Stevens and Temple, have all recovered. The team is the same as that beat Leeds United in the Cup on Tuesday. Former England goalkeeper Ron Sprigett who has missed seven games because of a groin injury, is back in the Wednesday line-up. Also back is right half Tom McAnearney, who replaces Robin Hardy. Sheffield Wednesday; Springett; Hill, Megson; McAnearny, Swan, Young; Finney, Wilkinson, Layne, Pearson, Dobson. Everton; West; Brown, Meagan; Harris, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Gabriel, Vernon, Temple.
The draw for the semi-final of the Lancashire Senior Cup is; Manchester United v Everton (referee, J. W. Bullough, Bolton); Blackburn Rovers v Manchester City (referee L.J. Hamer, Horwich). Both matches to be completed on or before March 21.