LESSON OF DEFEAT WILL NOT BE LOST ON EVERTON
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express Monday September 2 1963
By Horace Yates
As the heights of the humiliation at Old Trafford on Saturday, Everton salvaged what honour was left to them by a sporting acceptance of Manchester United’s superiority and with a stunning 5-1 reverse recorded against them, applauded their conquerors off the field, after the ground had resounded to the cheers of the United followers, for whom the match could only have brought back memories of their team’s greatest days.  They wiped clean the slate from the Charity Shield disaster of a fortnight ago, with goals and more goals, and a tit-for-tat exploration of the Continental inter-passing with which Everton had riled them at Goodison Park. Stunned Everton may have been by the sensational turn of events, but Alex Young, I thought, struck the right note when he said.  “I don’t see any reason why this should throw us out of our stride.  There was nothing wrong that we cannot put right, I didn’t think we played too badly.  It was just that they played better.”  There is a lot of truth in what Alex says but he is undoubtedly kind to the defensive shortcomings, particularly at wing half and left back.  Meagan could not have done more.  He was simply outpaced by young Moir who could give him yards start and a beating at will. 
DEFENSIVE GAPS
Gabriel and Kay, however, mistakenly took the view that what the team required to boost a fight was an attacking display from them for in following such a policy they left the most outrageous defensive gaps against a forward line ideally equipped to exploit them.  Before the transformation, which began in 24 minutes with Chisnall’s opportunist equaliser, Everton came close through Young and Stevens to taking a second goal which might well have destroyed any United hopes of a comeback.  Once the Everton floodgates were open there was no one alive enough to the situation to close them and United swept on in a relentless tide of aggression.  It was brilliant from a United point of view, but unless there is an inquest at Goodison and some very straight talking from manager Harry Catterick before the next game I shall be very surprised.  Once Chisnall had scored the second in 31 minutes with the Everton defence all at sea.  United were a team transformed, and it will probably be a long time before any other side subject the champions to such indignities as were heaped on them before the end.  Law, shackled and subdued in the early stages was suddenly allowed to break loose and allowed a attitude which can only be an invitation to disaster and with Charlton rearing back into top gear, here were the old hands ready to ease the path of the younger members of the line.  Nothing can take from United the joy of their accomplishment, but the lessen will not be lost on Everton, Vernon whose leg stood up to its first serious test, told me after the game that his leading goal in eight minutes was helped on its way by Dunne, “but I don’t think it made any difference really,” he said. 
OUT OF CHARACTER
A repetition of these Everton tactics tactics would be the most certain method of guaranteeing their elimination from the European Cup at the first fence, but the lesson, properly digested, has come just in time to ensure that they will not again fall into a trap of their down making.  For both wing halves to move up into attack together, as Everton’s did, is fraught with disastrous possibilities and it was so out of character with the normal Everton pattern that it will be accepted as too expensive a luxury to be repeated.  Had Parker and Meagan been in complete command of Charlton and Moir they might have got away with it, but such was far from being the case.
DIFFERENT PICTURE
Despite Temple suffering from a leg injured twice in the same place on the shin bone the Everton forwards, hardly at their best, persisted with their attack whenever possible, but what a different picture it was at the United end, with a solid defence blanketing most approaches to goal.  England team manager Mr. Alf Ramsey was among the crowd which should ensure retention of his England place for Charlton and at least a kindly word for Brian Labone far from being one of Everton’s most disappointing performers.  What Mr. Ramsey thought about the time-wasting ball retaining passing in which United delighted and their supporters revelled when victory was assuredly won, we do not know. 
SOARED TO STARDOM
All he would say was; “I think the respective managers are in a better position to comment.  Everton did it at Goodison and United did it to-day.  England also used it in Czechoslovakia and all I will say is that I thought they all did it uncommonly well.”  Although Everton had surrendered their lead before half-time at which they were trailing 2-1 there was no hint then that United had the power to turn the tables as effectively as they did.  Yet with Everton aiding and abetting, United soared to stardom And a convincing 5-1 triumph (Sadler and Law 2, completed the havoc) that must have been beyond their wildest dreams.  Everton chairman John Moores, manager Harry Catterick and trainer Tom Eggleston must have had plenty to discuss as they flew to Milan to watch their European rivals in action, but if they reached the conclusion that this was not more than a nasty scar on a season of hope I don’t think they will be proved far wrong.  Asked for his comments after the game, Mr. Catterick said; I never criticise my own team -except in the right places.” 

EVERTON’S PARTY WATCH INTER-MILAN
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Monday September 2, 1963
THEY WERE NOT IMPRESSED
HOTEL PLAN
Everton chairman John Moores manager Harry Catterick and trainer Tommy Eggleston saw Inter-Milan beaten 2-0 by Milan yesterday.  Mr. Moores said afterwards; “I expected to see Inter-Milan play much better.  They did not impress me a great deal.  Their ideas were strictly defensive and they did very little attacking.  “Their great Spanish inside forwards, Suarez had a very poor game.”  He added; “I really cannot say whether Inter-Milan are more in form than Everton.  After all, we lost heavily at Manchester.  The best men in the Inter-Milan line-up for Mr. Moores were left back Facchetti, centre half Guarnier, centre forward Milan and German left winger Szymarilak.  He said “Szymaniak played more as a wing half aiding the forward line.  But he is very strong, and has good constructive play.  The centre forward is also a man of great strength.” 
INFERIOR
Manager Catterick, who flies back to Liverpool to-day “to spank Everton with the pants down” in the words of his chairman, was more impressed by European champions Milan than by Everton’s European Cup opponents.  He said; “The Milan team is well knit and has stars who can really play brilliant soccer.  I liked particularly San Mora and Amarido Inter-Milan were clearly inferior on this show, though they have a tight defence.”  Trainer Eggleston said “Milan certainly gave Inter-Milan a lesson in craft and tactical moves.  Inter-Milan just couldn’t get going as they were too bust buildng up a defensive wall in their own half.”  Mr. Moores did an eight hour stint in teeming ram yesterday scouring the Milan countryside for a suitable hotel for Everton’s training headquarters for the European Cup tie on September 24.  They settled for a quiet hotel at Monza facing the huge park formerly owned by Italy’s former Royal family.  Mr. Moores said; “It is only eight miles from Milan and is very quite and has good facilities nearby for the right sort of training.”  Fifty yards from the hotel is a park with an 18-hole golf course, a racecourse and the famous car racetrack. 

DATES FOR EVERTON TIES WITH MILAN
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Monday September 2 1963
LEAGUE GAMES RE-ARRNAGED
PRICES UP
By Leslie Edwards
Everton received notification this morning of the dates of their two-legged European Cup-tie against International of Milan.  The first match will be at Goodison Park on Wednesday, September 18, the second in Milan on the following Tuesday September 24.  There had been talk that the games would take place on September 18 and 25, Everton Secretary, Mr. W. Dickinson said to-day.  “We have heard today from U.E.F.A that September 18 and 24 are the dates. W e are now in negotiation with other League clubs to clear up the fixture problem which has arisen through Milan’s visit.  Everton who were to have gone to Highbury on the Tuesday prior to the Milan game here, have agreed to postpone the match and play it later.  This date will be fixed when the Everton manager Catterick , returns this afternoon from his spying mission yesterday on Internationale. 
CO-OPERTATIVE
Both Wolves and Arsenal were very co-operative over the change in their programme Mr. J. Howley, the Wolves secretary, said; Now that clubs are getting more and more competition in Europe, it is up to us to help whenever we can.  Mr. Eric Howarth, assistant secretary of the Football League, said “The arrangements, have been made mutually and I am very glad if there had been any difficulty it might have meant that Everton would have had to withdraw from the European Cup and no one
Wanted that.”  Prices for the Internationale match at Goodison Park will be much greater that for League matches.  The club ask fans not to apply for tickets until prices and methods of application have been announced. 
BOLTON-CHANGES
Pointless Bolton Wanderers make three changes at half back and in the forwards for Wednesday’s home game with Everton, Lennard, Birch and Deakin take the places of Scanley (ankle injuries Russell (leg injury) and Lee who is dropped.  Bolton; Hopkinson; Hartle, Farrimond; Rimmer, Edwards, Lenard; Birch, Deakin, Davies, Hill, Pilkington.  Bolton’s reserve team to meet Everton Reserves at Goodison to-night is Smile; Goulden, Marsh; Wilkinson, Hulme, Hatton; Lee, Taylor, Shuttleworth, Brumley, Butler. 

ANOTHER DOUBLE- BUT OF THE WRONG KIND
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, September 2, 1963
EVERTON PAY BIG PRICE FOR THAT CHAIRTY SHIELD
MANCHESTER UNITED 5, EVERTON 1
By Horace Yates
Frankly, I never thought there was a team in the land capable of administering such a thrashing to the present power-packed Everton side or that its normally supremely capable defence could be reduced in such rags and tatters.  United did it and in a grand master.  All credit to them, for as ample a revenge for their Charity Shield trouncing as any side could have wished to have.  Yes, if there are not some guilty consciences in the ranks of the defeated, then plainly they have not profited from an experience, which must have shattered their tremendous following.
OPEN INVITATION
Not since Everton emerged from the shadows in their build up to greatness has the defence fallen down so completely on its job.  Admittedly, the United side, in the mood, are a brilliant devastating combination, but surely that is all the more reason for denying them any encouragement, instead of inviting them to become rampant, as Everton certainly did.  We can only have sympathy for Mick Meagan in the unequal battle he had to fight against the speedy clever raiding Moir, for he not the pace to put him on terms.   Parker made Charlton fight for the success he enjoyed and without Labone, Everton could have been reduced to an even sorrier rabble.  West was not blameless either in anticipation or execution, but the biggest sinners as I saw it were wing halves Gabriel and Kay, on whom so much praise had quite legitimately been heaped in match after match.  They failed only because they were too enthusiastic, too venturesome, too keen to triumph.  Times without number they deserted the defensive roles, which experience surely should have taught them were abundantly necessary against quick -silver attackers able to profit from any latitude allowed them.  It is difficult to recall an occasion when it was possible to push the ball through and find Everton as exposed as they were at Old Trafford.  There were wide open spaces, where we are accustomed to finding stifling efficiency and United exploited them brilliantly.
LITTLE GLORY
The forwards hardly covered themselves with glory.  Nothing was more apparent than that Vernon was paying the price for his enforced lay off from training.  Scott was almost criminally neglected until United were so much on the crest of the wave that only a superman could have shaken them out of their stride, and Temple twice injured in the second half, was hardly the force he could have been earlier in the game if only his shooting had been as accurate as it has been.  Stevens was within inches of being the match winner, but this was hardly his most satisfying game, so that Young remained as the forward, if not at the peak of his efficiently deserving a better response for his endeavours.  Everton were given all the encouragement a side of their ability required when Vernon opened the scoring after only eight minutes.  There was some conjecture as to whether this was a Vernon goal or a Dunne own goal, but I agree with the view of the referee Kevin Howley, who said; “Vernon’s shot would have scored anyway.  Dunne merely helped it on its way.”  Everton were riding high hereabouts.  Gregg accomplished his best work of the afternoon when he pulled down a Young header at the second attempt and Stevens flashed the ball only inches over the bar with the goalkeeper beaten.  Inches only stood between Everton and a clinching second goal and with United flagging a second Everton goal might easily have denied the United supporters the football treat which was to follow from heroes, who were revitalised by Chrisnall’s first score (24 minutes).  Even at that stage and allowing for the remarkably quick and accurate reaction by Chisnall, there was a nasty gaping hole in front of goal that invited disaster. 
INEXCUSABLE GAP
Moir again found an inexcusable gap, to enable Chisnall to blaze away for his second (31 minutes).  The picture was transformed, and complete and utter humiliation was on the way.  United prospered on success.  They dominated and revelled in as rewarding a fling as they are ever likely to enjoy against reigning champions.  Manager Matt Busby’s faith in his “Babes” -Moir, Chisnall and Sadler -was amply vindicated and with the more experienced hands like Law and Charlton showing an artistry and fire, which, on the day, Everton could not match in any way, it only required a mistaken defence strategy to leave them to weak their destruction at will.  They paid back Everton in their own coin with the Continental ball-retaining passing, which United had to endure at Everton’s hands a fortnight ago- and the crowd wallowed in it.  Well done United!  This must have been the most cheering show they have put on at Old Trafford for years.  They completed the scoring with goals by Sadler (his first in League football) and Law (2).  Les we forget.  It was Manchester United in the closing fixture of 1959-60 season who last put five goals past an Everton goalkeeper at Old Trafford.  Manchester United; Gregg; Dunne, Cantwell; Creland, Foulkes, Stiles, Moir, Chisnall, Sadler, Law, Charlton.  Everton; West; Parker, Meagan; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon (captain), Temple. 

HILL SHINES AS A GOAL SCORER
Liverpool Daily Post -Monday, September 2, 1963
HILL SHINES AS A GOAL SCORER
EVERTON RES 4, MANCHESTER UNITED RES 1
Everton’s recent signing from Norwich, twenty-six-years old inside left Jimmy Hill playing his second game for the club, got three goals and made the fourth for a reserve side who beat a first team- favoured Manchester United Reserves in this Central League game at Goodison park on Saturday.  The first half fluctuated, both teams scoring against the run of play at the time- United at the eight minute when McMillian headed in a Rankin- parried shot, and Hill at 48 minutes when with only Gaskell to beat, he quietly netted, after a good move by the ever-dangerous Shaw.  Quixall, McMillan and Herd showed considerable artistry throughout, but the Everton defence gave nothing away and after Hill got his second from a penalty when Gaskell dived at his legs at 58 minutes.  United gradually faded.  Morrissey got the third goal at 73 minutes from a Hill rebound, and Hill the fourth two minutes later. 

PETITION TO LORD MAJOR
Liverpool Echo-Tuesday, September 3 1963
CAR PARKING AT GOODISON
Councillor R.B. Flude, Conservative representative for County Ward in Liverpool City Council called at Liverpool Town Hall today to hand to the Lord Major (Alderman J. McMillan) a petition from people who live in the vicinity of Goodison Park.  He was accompanied by Sir Kenneth Thomson, M.P. for Walton.  After presenting the petition Sir Kenneth and Councillor Flude made a statement in which they said that people living in the neighbourhood of Goodison Park had been gravely inconvenienced by cars parked in the streets on match days and by the behaviour of a majority of spectators who misused the entries.  “It is essential that steps are taken at once to reduce the nuisance,” they said, “Street parking should be limited to accord with the Lord Major’s order and strict police supervision should be exercised to apprehend those who commit offences. 
OFF-STREET PARKING
“The Liverpool City Council should consider providing off-street parking facilities, perhaps in the little used areas of Stanley Park.  “The City police have brought about some improvement by stricter control, and we hope motorists will co-operate to minimise the hardship inflicted on residents and that Everton Football Club will co-operate with the authorities whenever it may be possible for them to help.” 

CONFERENCE
Liverpool Daily Post- Tuesday, September 3, 1963
Although it was announced yesterday by the European F.A. that Everton’s European Cup tie with Inter-Milan would be played on September 18 at Goodison Park and on September 24 in Milan, there was a development last night which may lead to the Milan date being changed.
After a conference between the two clubs another approach has been made to the European authorities asking them to agree to the Milan date on September 25, a Wednesday which is more convenient for the Milan soccer public.  The first match at Goodison Park means that Everton’s League fixture with Arsenal due the night before, has been postponed to a date to be arranged while Liverpool scheduled to meet Wolves at Anfield on September 18, are likely to play the match the night before.  Everton chairman Mr. John Moores, manager Harry Catterick and trainer Tom Eggleston saw Inter-Milan beaten 2-0 in a friendly by Milan on Sunday.  All three thought Inter-Milan showed concentration on defence which would be difficult to break down. 
MONZA HOTEL
While in Milan a hotel at Monza about eight miles away was chosen for the Everton headquarters before the second leg.  Prices for the first let at Goodison park will be increased and these with methods of application for tickets will be announced soon.  But before they tackle Inter-Milan, Everton have to rub out the memory of Saturday’s thrashing at Old Trafford and they are at Bolton to-morrow night.  In the Bolton team outside right Lee is dropped and injuries bring in Deakin (inside right) and Lennard (left half) for Russell and Stanley.  Birch replaces Lee on the right wing. 

EVERTON RES CRASH AT GOODISON
Liverpool Daily Post- Tuesday, September 3, 1963
EVERTON RES 0 BOLTON WANDERERS RES 4
Everton lost after continually attacking in the first half when Smith in the Bolton goal saved terrific drives from Morrissey and Hill.  Against the run of the play Taylor scored for Bolton on half-time.  After the interval Bolton improved and Butler scored three quick goals.  A shot from Sharples, Everton’s right half was kicked off the line by left back Golden with Smith out of goal. 

EUROPEAN CUP-TIE WILL BE ALL-TICKET
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Wednesday, September 4, 1963
INTER-MILAN AT GOODISON
PRICES FIXED
Everton’s European-Cup first leg preliminary round match with Inter-Milan at Goodison on September 18 will be all-ticket with the exception of the boys can.  Ti9cket prices are ground 5s, paddock 7s 6d, centre stand Bullens Road and Goodison Road) £2 side stands (Bullen Road and Goodison Road) £1 10.  Gwladys Street and goal-stand £1 5s.  stand season tickets holders can apply for one stand ticket each paddock season ticket holders can apply for one paddock ticket each and ground season ticket holders can apply for one ground ticket each.  These must be applied for by post, enclosing spare coupan No 44 correct remittance and stamped addressed envelope, before September 13.  The outside of the envelope should be marked “Season ticket- Milan.”  All other postal applications must contain correct remittance stamped address and envelope and should be marked “Milan.”  A further announcement will be made when the tickets are available for general sale.
INTER COACH’S VISIT
Helenio Kerrera, Inter-Milan’s £25,000-a-year coach flies to Liverpool on Saturday to spy on Everton’s moves against Burnley at Goodison Park.  He is replaying Harry Catterick for his study of Everton’s European Cup opponents in Milan last Sunday.  Herners will also look around for a suitable training headquarters for his team is readiness for the Goodison Park match.  Herrons may decide on Southport. 
PUNCHED NEEDED
Inter-Milan must find their speed and punch against Roma in a friendly in Milan tonight.  Heresa insists on sprint-paced soccer, in defence.  Inter-Milan have conceded two goals in each of the three friendlies played as far- losing 2-1 to Varon away, winning 3-2 at Mod before flopping badly in a 2-0 defeat at home against Milan last Sunday. 
VICS SIGN GORRIE
Former Everton and Stockport County centre half David Gorrie has signed for Northwich Victoria.  Gorrie aged 22, is to play centre forward for Northwich, a position he occupied several times last season in Stockport’s Fourth Division team. 

ACCOMMODATING WEATHER
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, September 4, 1963
The Everton representatives checked up on the size of the Inter-Milan pitch and found it measured 120 yards by 74 and the turf could hardly have been better.  Even the weather may prove accommodating to Everton for the second leg, as rain is frequently encountered in September and it is not expected that the temperature will exceed 75 Fehr.  The ground has a capacity of 90,000.  Chairman John Moores and Mr. Catterick would have liked to stay behind to see Inter Milan play Romain, a friendly match, but business commitments denied them the opportunity.  Among the big incentives facing Everton is that of being the first British club to win a European tournament game on the Milan ground. 

JIM HILL IN, VERNON OUT, AT BOLTON
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, September 4, 1963
By Horace Yates
When Everton set out on their attempt at Bolton tonight, to redeem themselves for their disappointment failure at Old Trafford, Jimmy Hill will be making his debut at inside left in place of the injured Roy Vernon.  It is unfortunate for Everton that Vernon has to drop out, although it will afford an opportunity to see how Hill measures up the challenge of Division One football.  Manager Harry Catterick told me last night.  “There is not a lot wrong with Vernon, but he does not feel quite right and rather than take any changes with a long programme ahead, it has been considered advisable to rest him.  Complete rest is the only answer.”  Tony Kay will take over the captaincy.  Everton; West; Parker, Meagan; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Hill, Temple.  Mr. Catterick said his trip to Italy had served to underline what he had already suspected- that Inter Milan will provide terribly tough opposition.  “They are a very one side,” he said.  “They are a really big club.  They talk in thousands of pounds where other clubs talk in hundreds, and of course, it does tend to make a difference.  It is going to be an extremely hard test for Everton.  In fact, we could not have had a harder tie.” 

EVERTON GROUND PARKING PETITION
Liverpool Daily Post -Wednesday, September 4, 1963
A petition from people living near Everton football ground about parking on match afternoons and the behaviour of a minority of spectators was handed to the Lord Mayor (Alderman J. McMillan) at the Town Hall yesterday.  It was presented by Councillor R.B. Flude, Conservative representative for County Ward in Liverpool City Council who was accompanied by Sir Kenneth Thompson, M.P. for Walton.  After presenting the position, Sir Kenneth and Councillor Flude made a statement in which they said that people living in the neighbourhood of Goodison Park had been gravely inconvenienced by cars parked in the streets on match days and by the behaviour of a minority of spectators who misused the entries.  “It is essential that steps are taken at once to reduce the nuisance,” they said.  “Street parking should be limited to accord with the Lord Mayor’s Order and strict police supervision should be exercised to apprehend those who commit offences. 
BEFORE CITY COUNCIL TO-DAY
The Liverpool City Council should consider providing off-street parking facilities perhaps in the little used areas of Stanley Park.  “The City Police have brought about some improvement by stricter control, and we hope motorists will co-operate to minimise the hardship inflicted on residents and we hope the Everton Football Club will co-operate with the authorities whenever it may be possible for them to help.”  The matter will come before Liverpool City Council to-day probably under the heading of Lord Mayor’s consideration. 

HILL DEBUT FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Wednesday, September 5 1963
REPLACES VERNON AT BOLTON
By Michael Charters
Jimmy Hill, Everton’s close season signing from Norwich City, makes his debut for the club at Bolton tonight, replacing the injured Roy Vernon at inside left.  Hill was brought for just such an emergency and would have played in the opening game of the season against Fulham -which Vernon missed -but was injured.  He has been playing impressively in the reserves and now takes over from Vernon who had a recurrence of his knee injury at Old Trafford last Saturday.  Everton; West; Parker, Meagan; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Hill, Temple.

THREE INJURED THE COST OF WIN BY EVERTON
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Thursday, September 5 1963
By Michael Charters
There was a good deal of critic.  Last Mallon of Everton’s toughness at times.  In the course direction I think there should be a good deal of praise for the way they behaved at Bolton last night in the face of provocation by some of the Bolton defenders who outplayed in a football sense, of ruthless tackling in an attempt to bring Everton down their level, Irive full marks to the whole Everton team for their pose and maturity keeping their tempers and their refusal to “mix-it.” Too play more stamp of authority; their demand could not be faulted.  Everton earned their two points with easy their superiority football, but the hard from the injury point of view.  The casualty list reads Kay badly bruised across the chest, sore to (caused by two tackles or right back Hartle); Meagan (wrenched knee tackle by Hartle); Temple bruised leg (tackle by Hartle).  Kay and Meagan are extremely doubtful for Saturday’s game against Burnley, which Vernon also likely to miss.  In addition I thought it miracle that Scott came through unscathed the other Bolton back Farrimiond, could only stop the flying wing with a series of scything tackles which brought many free kicks.  I though Bolton were extremely lucky that one if not both of their full backs finished the game without a least being censured by the referee or sent off.  “I was surprised at the legiency shown to them by referee Arthur Holland, rated one of the top officials,  in particular the fact that Hartle on Kay who hears the imprint of Hartle’s boot on his chest and was allowed to pass without a word of caution.  Bolton are still pointless after two games and the writing is large and clear on the wall for them.  Their defence is just rugged their wing failed their forwards without punch.  They are truly struggling and after inside right Deakin pulled a leg muscle after 20 minutes last night their forward line came along in fits and starts.  Freddy Hill did a lot of wandering in midfield, centre forward Davies succeeded Labone frequently that his support was no-exist, the wingers were held calmly by Parker and Meagan.  By contrast Everton played within themselves for their 3-1 victory.  There seemed no after-effects of their Old Trafford defeat as they moved with the inevitability of the passing of time to their success, I don’t think they were ever in danger of defeat and although there were moments early on when indecision in the centre of Everton defence gave Bolton some half-chances which they ignored, the longer the game went the more sure Everton’s hold on the points became.  The nearest Bolton came to scoring was when Deakin’s shot through a crowded goalmouth was cleared off the line by Labone and when West saved comfortably from a back header by Davies.  After that, West did not have a difficult save to make.  Everton began with Young and Scott tearing great holes in the Bolton defence-Young with his fitness, Scott with his fire and speed.  Scott ran Farrimond ragged throughout the game and gave another splendid display, while Young’s deft dabs and touches were out of another world so far as Bolton were concerned.  Early shots by Temple and Stevens went close but the whole team’s superiority was so marked it was only a question of time before a goal arrived.  The wing half play of Gabriel, and Kay was so commanding at this stage -and continued to be -that the pressure on the Bolton defence was bound to cause cracks,  centre half Edwards almost turned Scott’s centre into his own net and it was from the corner which followed.  (15 minutes) that Everton went ahead.  Temple’s cross to the near post seemed to be going straight into Hopkinson’s arms until Young dashed in, leapt high, and headed a lovely goal. 
THE GAME TEMPLE
The whole Everton line was working well with the services from their half-back and backs with both wingers in grand form.  Stevens, who had a fine match against his old side, was giving Scott plenty of the ball and the winger always made good of it.  His speed left Farrimond toiling, and from one cross Young headed the ball down past Hopkinson, only for Hartle to clear from the line.  Stevens laid one on a plate for Temple which was mis-hit wide, but despite the ruthless tackling of Hartle, Temple was game enough to keep on beating the back with skill instead of parting hurriedly with the ball- he could have been forgiven for doing so.  Just before half-time, Temple beat five men with that deceptive drifting, long-striding style of his, and hit a terrific shot which Hopkinson turned onto the bar and over with the save of the match.  Everton took complete control of the game and the points within five minutes of the second half by scoring twice Jimmy Hill, Vernon’s deputy who had looked short of pace in the first half in the extra sharpness of the First Division played a major part in Everton’s second goal (48 minutes).  He does not have dash of Vernon, but his improved display after the interval as he worked the ball cleverly and took a greater part in the game, showed his qualities.  He slipped the ball forward, and as Edwards mishandled it towards his own goal, Hill accelerated, burst through to collect the ball and dribble around Hopkinson, who floored him with a Rugby-style tackle.  While a penalty looked certain the ball ran loose and Young moved forward to turn it easily into the net.  The fact that Mr. Holland appreciated Young’s quickness in sixing up the situation and allowed the centre forward to carry on was one of the referee’s better decisions.  Two minutes later came a memorable goal from Temple, Scott passed the ball square across the face of the penalty area and Kay wrong-footed Hartle by the dummy allowing the ball to run to Temple.  The winger moved in a few paces and then hit a terrific right foot shot into the far top corner of the net from 20 yards. Gabriel also had the ball in the net from Scott’s indirect free kick, which the referee ordered to be taken again and both Temple and Young had shots charged down with Hopkinson out of goal.  It was very one-sided at this stage, with Everton playing it calmly and coolly and it came as a surprise when Bolton scored (70 minutes) from a right wing corner Davies headed the ball down, if bounced off Gabriel’s body to Rimmer Bolton’s best player, and the wing half scored.  The measure of Everton’s win must be viewed in the light of the strength of the opposition, but there was no  doubting the command they showed at all stages of the game.  It was an excellent team performance. 

EVERTON HIT BY SERIES OF INJURIES
Thursday, September 5 1963 The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express
TOUGH SPELL OF ELEVEN MATCVHES IN 33 DAYS
MEAGAN BLOW
By Leslie Edwards
With 11 matches to play in the next 33 days (including two European Cup-tie for which they cannot sign a new player Everton are injury-wrecked.  The worst case is Mick Meagan’s kicked on the right knee in the game at Bolton last night his injury is considered so serious he is to see fine club’s orthopaedic specialist to-day.  At best he will be out or football for weeks.  Meagan suffered an injury which set back his career seriously against West Bromwich Albion two or three seasons ago. 
IN PLASTER
Thomson Everton’s other left back injured in the first Central League game of the season will have ankle ligament trouble in plaster for five weeks.  Vernon who aggravated on Saturday the knee injury he sustained against Manchester United in the Charity Shield game, will not be fit for the match against Burnley at Goodison Park on Saturday.  Half-back Kay (Business on ankle and chest), Temple (knee injury) and Jimmy Hill (Knee injury) are all doubtful for Saturday.  Because Kay is specially tough his chances are rated 50-50.  It is 60-40 against the other two being fit in time says manager Harry Catterick. 
BEYOND REASON
“It looks as though we shall have to find 11 fit man and play them,” Mr. Catterick added.  “We have tried to anticipate accidents to our players but the casually list is beyond reason.  I am most concerned about Mick Meagan.” Ironically, Everton celebrate to-night with a dinner, their League championship success last season.  The celebration will be clouded by the spectre of unfit-players at a time when the club have an average of a match every three days for the next five weeks.  Everton’s second leg European Cup game in Milan is now fixed for Wednesday, September 25. 

CHAMPIONS SURGE BACK TO LIFE
Liverpool Daily Post- Thursday, September 5, 1963
EVERTON WILL BE FIGHTING FOR LEAD AGAIN
ALEX YOUNG NETS TWICE IN GREAT PERFORMANCE
BOLTON WANDERERS 1, EVERTON 3
By Horace Yates
The medicine prescribed by football doctor Matt Busby and administered by Manager Harry Catterick has brought Everton surging back to life and last night, at Burnden Park they appeared what they are -champions.  Maybe Bolton have yet to secure their first point of the season, but Everton could do no more than outplay, out-think and outshine them.  This was Everton’s opening victory away from home but cleverly many others will flow from their spectacular, exciting brand of play.  Bolton may have had their chances to have made a more impressive mark on remember that Everton had many more.  Bolton’s rugged defence tired manfully to keep their side in the game, but without a goal until three had been lost, to aid their cause it was so obviously a forlorn battle.  This victory will be remembered for one of the best displays given by Alex Young since he came to Everton.  Faced by the rangy and determined Edwards he will contrived to win a good share of the ball in the air and his individual artistry with the ball at his feet allied with superb distribution made him a joy to watch
HE WAS LETHAL
The cheering thought is that Young was not merely pretty to watch.  More important still he was lethal.  For example, in 15 minutes Young went up to a corner kick and jumped a clear head above Edwards and the ball rocketed into the net from as good a header as we are ever likely to see from him.  This was Young at his most glittering best and his success and his goals (he scored again later) must be the tonic he needs to lead Everton to their ambitious objective.  That this win in a canter was earned without the drive and opportunism of Vernon makes it the more noteworthy.  Bolton could legitimately claim that luck was not with them in that Deakin pulled a thigh muscle after half an hour and with a leg heavily bandaged spent the rest of the match as a limping passenger on the wing, but there was far too much wrong with this Bolton side for even a fit Deakin to allow them to challenge Everton with any sort of equal chance.  I shall look back on this game also as the night on which the Everton wingers, Scott and Temple, really found their feet.  Scott was truly the Flying Scot.  I have never seen pace like this from him before and he reduced Farrimond to a series of desperate fouls in an effort to contain him.
SWITCHED POSITIONS
The winger switched positions repeatedly with Jimmy Hill and his desire to take a greater part in the game was most encouraging.  Temple, too, worried Hartle more than a little with his pace and control and if he had claimed a goal in the first half after beating three men in little space, one after the other and ending with a magnificent shot which Hopkinson spectacularly finger-tipped over the bar, it would have been a fitting crown.  Jimmy Hill’s was not a sensational debut, but he could claim to have played his part effectively in a line which carried too many sees for Bolton.  Everton’s second goal came three minutes after half-time and it could hardly have been better timed to knock the bottom clean out of any show of fight of which Bolton may have been capable.  Hill could claim much of the credit for the score.  When he tried to chip the ball over Edwards the centre half headed back towards his own goal.  On went Hill to regain possession and came down in a tangle with Hopkinson just short of the goal line.  While Everton were excitedly claiming a penalty kick and Bolton equally vigorously disputing it, has ball ran clear and Young swooped to bring it under control and place it coolly and accurately into the net.  Kay and Gabriel had obviously learned their Old Trafford lesson well for while they never neglected the opportunity to promote and take part in attack, they first saw to their job of taking any bite out of the Bolton attack. 
WITHOUT TRACE
Box of tricks Kay who likes his bit of fun even in the heat of the battle, pulled one out of his box had the Bolton defence sunk without trace.  He moved to take a pass opened his legs and let the ball go through to Temple.  Hartle was completely non plussed and there was Temple with a clear sight of goal and the ball simply flew to its target in 51 minutes.  The game was clearly won, but Everton might have found the clinching easier had they not applied the brakes.  It gave Bolton a breathing space which they celebrated by taking a goal by Rimmer, one of their really satisfying players in 71 minutes.  Davies, who consistently out headed Labone in the air, but was never in the picture when the ball was on the ground, nodded a high pass down to Rimmer who scored with a first time drive, but Everton were still ahead and shoulders over a Bolton side which may not find it easy to remain in top class company without reinforcements.  Freddie Hill was easily their most accomplished forward and there were times when Birch linked up with him promisingly.  Pilkington sometimes contributed dangerous looking centres but he was unlucky in that this was the night on which Everton effectively plugged the open spaces in front of goal.  Clearly Everton are on their way back and should be fighting for the lead again long before this month is out.  Parker and Meagan may mot have had the fire shown by Farrimond and Hartle, more important control and competence which stood Everton in good stead when it was required.  Bolton Wanderers; Hokinson; Hartle, Farrimond; Rimmer, Edwards, Lennard; Bitch, Deakin, Hill (F.), Pilkington.  Everton; West; Parker, Meagan; Gabriel, Labone, Kay (captain); Scott, Stevens, Young, Hill (J.), Temple. Referee Mr. A. Holland (Barnsley).  Attendance 33, 848. 

EVERTON SIGN SCOTS FULL BACK
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Friday September 6, 1963
SANDY BROWN OF PATRICK
£25,000 FEE
By Leslie Edwards
Everton manager Harry Catterick, wining and dining in Liverpool at 11.30 p.m last night his club’s celebration banquet trawled through the night to announced just 12 hours later the signing today of Patrick Thistle and Scottish Under-23 left back, Sandy Brown.  Fee is about £25,000, Brown is 25, plays tomorrow against Burnley at Goodison Park.  He partners Alex Parker.  The Everton manager last night journey was made necessary by injuries to left backs Mick Meagan (out for weeks with knee trouble) and George Thomson who is on crutches following injury in the first Central league game of the season.  Brown’s signing comes too late for him to be angible for Everton’s two-legged European Cup tie against Milan Internationale, but his presence in league football will be most valuable. 
TIPPED FOR CAP
The new boy, who will travel down to Merseyside today with Mr. Catterick’s 5ft 10in tall and weighs about 11 ½ stones.  He joined Patrick Thistle who are managed by Willie Lothian junior team.  But in these days he was a left half.  When Patrick transferred left back Duggie Baird to Nottingham Forest three years ago, they gave Brown his chance at full back and he took it so well he’s been there ever since.  Brown is a Patrick boy like Parker.  He played Under-23 football for England and now Calow is injured and out of the national eleven he is tipped for a full cap- against Ireland in Belfast next month.  Everton’s were impressed with Brown’s play for the Scottish League against the Irish League on Wednesday.  The feeling in Patrick is that the Scottish club have gained a good fee, but that they have lost the best player on the books.  Brown asked for a transfer a season ago, but it was refused.  With Everton he has every chance of gaining the full cry he has been so near in the past. 
BROWN’S SHOCK
“I got the shock of my life when I was called in from training and introduced to Mr. Catterick” said Brown later “I never dreamed for a minute that Everton were interested in me.  The charge to join them was too good to be missed.  “I know most of the Scots boys at Goodison Park and he looking forward to meeting them all.”  Brown is marry with two children and after signing he dashed off to his home in Falkirk to let his wife know. 

EVERTON VETERANS LED THE CELEBRATIONS
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Friday September 6, 1963
NOTABLE REUNION FOR STARS OF THE PAST
CHAMPIONS’ NIGHT
By Leslie Edwards
Liveliest table at the dinner in Liverpool last night to celebrate Everton’s League championship win last season was the one compared of players who helped the club to win the same trophy in 1939.  The celebrated a notable reunion and were received with great enthusiasm when they were introduced.  They were inundated with requests for autographs during the interval between the meal and the speeches.  Among them were Torry Gillick, Joe Mercer, Norman Greenhalgh, Alex Stevenson, Ted Sagar, Jock Thomson, Billy Cook, Gordon Watson, and the fabulous William Ralph Dean.  Thomson looked scarcely a day older.  Other guests were intrigued by something said at their table which had them rocking with laughter.  I asked; “What was the big joke which so amused you?” 
SPEECHLESS
Norman Greenhalgh had been telling Stevenson that Bunny Bell, the former Tranmere and Everton centre-forward, had visited him recently and had looked as slim and young as when he was a player.  Cracked wee Alec, with a deadpan expression; “Ah, now there was a centre-forward!” Dixie Dean and Tom Lawton, the greatest Everton and England centre-forwards in history, sitting next to Stevenson were speechless.  Responding to the Lord Mayor’s toast to the club, chairman John Moores talked of the difficulties of running a club.  “The difference between getting a pat on the back and a kick in the pants is only a matter of inches,” he said.  It was a wonderful occasion for Everton to be celebrating and he thanked players, directors and officials for their part in the success.  Referring to the work of the League management Committee he said it gave clubs three freedoms –freedom of speech, freedom of action, and the prudence to exercise neither.  He welcomed the players of the 1939 team.  “We shall never forget the day W.R. Dean scored his 60th goal in a season,,” he added. 
CUP HOPES
There had been many reasons put forward for Everton’s success.  The true one was in the performance of the players who had been splendidly managed by Mr. Catterick.  “But old laurels die and new ones have to be earned,” he said.  He wished the team and manager all success in attempting to bring the European Cup to Britain for the first time.  He saw enough of Internationale on Saturday to show that Everton would have very tough opposition.  If Manchester United played as well in the Cup Winners’ competition as they did against Everton, they would win it.  Everton’s best wishes went with them.  The Lord Mayor (Alderman John McMillan), proposing the toast to the club, said fans in the city were hoping Everton would take steps at Goodison Park to ensure further progress in the European Cup, one of Everton’s two main objectives.  Mr. Joe Richards, president of the Football League, who presented mementoes to Mr. Catterick and the players, paid tribute to Everton in response to Mr. Holland Hughes’s toast to the League, and disclosed that fresh evidence on football corruption was continuing to arrive at the F.A offices and would be placed in the hands of the police.  “It is as import,” said Mr. Richards, “to prove the innocent as it is to punish the guilty.” 

KAY FIT FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express -Friday September 6, 1963
BROWN AND HILL FACE BURNLEY
By Leslie Edwards
Two newly signed Everton players make the debuts at Goodison Park tomorrow against Burnley. Brown signed today from Patrick Thistle will be at left back.  Hill signed from Norwich City just before the season started goes in at inside left again in place of Roy Vernon, injured at Old Trafford a week ago.  Everton; West; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Hill, Temple
Burnley are worse off than their opponents in the matter of injury.  Captain Jimmy Adamson is doubtful owing to stomach trouble.  The club’s three international centre forwards, Lochhead (Scotland); Pointer (England) and Irvine (Ireland) are all doubtful.  Lochhead and Irvine were both injured today in training.  Burnley will not name a team until just before the side leave for Goodison Park tomorrow morning. 

DIXIE DEAN BACL TO AN OLD-TIME EVERTON OVATION
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, September 6, 1963
By Horace Yates
In their hour of celebration to mark the winning of the Football League Championship, Everton Football Club, at their dinner at the Adelphi Hotel last night, did not forget those who last brought them League honours in 1939, for nine of that side- Dixie Dean, Ted Sagar, Billy Cook, Norman Greenhlagh, Jock Thomson, Tom Lawton, Joe Mercer, Alex Stevenson, Torry Gillick, and Gordon Watson- were present to congratulate their successors.  “A wonderful team,”  was the way chairman John Moores described the old boys; “We were very proud of them,”  and there was a terrific reception when Dixie Dean stood up to acknowledge the chairman’s tribute-  “The incomparable Dixie.  None will forget the day he broke the League record by scoring his sixtieth goal.”  The Lord Mayor (Alderman John McMillan), proposing the pass of Everton, said football fans within the next dew days Everton at Goodison Park would take steps to ensure progress in the European Cup Competition, one of two objectives.  The other was to retain the League title.  Mr. Moores said “Apart from bouquets, and occasional cushions, there have been many reasons advanced for the success of Everton.  Tonight, I am able to give you the true reason -our wonderful team, the present League champions.
SPLENDIDLY MANAGED
“The team has been splendidly managed by Mr. Catterick.  He has done a wonderful job,” the chairman added.  “The last time Everton won the championship was in 1939 and they held it for seven years, which must be an all-time record.  Subject to this honourably we manage to try to equal that again.  “Everton have the numerous tasks of representing England in the European Cup with the object of winning the trophy to England for the first time “In Milan the referee took seven names and sent one player off the field.  No wonder someone suggested he would need a bigger book.”  “They have an intricate system of defence and could prove a very difficult team to beat.  “Manchester United represented this country in the European Cup Winners Cup,” Mr. Moores went on.  “If they play as they did against us, they will win it.  I thought it was rather disgraceful that they should have thrashed us champions.  All our best wishes go with them.”  After Everton director Mr. E. Holland Hughes had paid tribute to Mr. Richards, the League president in congratulating Everton on becoming Centenary Year champions, said it was becoming harder every year to gain success in the Football league and he thought it fitting that Everton should be England’s representatives in the European Cup. 
HONOURS DESERVED
They also richly deserved the honour of staging some of the game sin the World Cup in 1966.  “The deserving spectators at Goodison will revel in the opportunity of seeing some of the greatest players in the world,” he said.  The following players and officials were presented with Championship medals.  Roy Vernon, Billy Bingham, Jimmy Gabriel, Brian Labone, Mick Meagan, John Morrissey, Alex Parker, Alex Scott, Dennis Stevens, George Thomson, Gordon West, Alex Young, Mr. Harry Catterick, (manager) Tom Eggleston (chief coach) and Bill Dickenson (secretary). 

RACE AGAINST TIME FOR BURNLEY TEST
Liverpool Daily Post – Friday, September 6, 1963
EVERTON WRACKED BY NEW INJURY SOURGE
MASCOT PARNELL DEPUTISE FOR MICK MEAGAN
By Horace Yates
Everton’s celebration over their encouraging victory of Bolton were short-lived because of the worrying injury list requiring treatment at the ground yesterday.  Meagan, kay, West, Hill, Temple, and Parker are all affected in varying degrees and with Vernon a definite non-starter for tomorrow’s home game with Burnley, it is a race against time to have as many of the others as possible available for selection.  Last night’s roll call suggested that Mick Meagan (knee injury), like Vernon will be a  spectator, although there is cheering news that the damage may not be as serious as was at first feared and possibly in a fortnight’s time he may be well enough to consider resuming.  It would be cruel indeed, on Everton were skipper Tony Kay to be forced to take a rest, for his influence on the side in considerable.  My personal opinion is that Kay will be available, I have known occasions when it has been considered impossible for him to turn out, but the tough little battler has merely said; “Pass me my jersey.”  With no bones broken, bruising is not likely to deter him, have complete confidence in Kay’ powers of recovery.  A smaller hearted individual might find aches and pains an excuse to make certain, but not Kay.  He lives for his football, and when the teams file out at Goodison the familiar ginger head will be leading them, unless I am terribly mistaken. 
VLAUE OF DAY’S REST
Temple’s kick on the knee was disturbing but another day’s treatment from Norman Borrowdale is likely to make all the difference.  These are worrying moments for manager Harry Catterick but for his and Everton’s sake I hope I am right in suggesting that replacements will have to be found only for Vernon and Meagan.  Hill is obvious man to be given another chance at inside left, and as things stand, Mr. Catterick will probably have to call on the club mascot, Roy Parnell who in his reserve capacity has invariably seen Everton win.  Although he is a right back, with only two League games to his name-at Fulham, and Wolves-both of which were lost, he may be the man Mr. Catterick will turn to in his hour of need.  On Saturday I was talking to George Thompson, still on crutches with his ankle injury, and all he had to look forward to be a period of at least two months watching other play.  He will be the saddest man on the Goodison register that he is not available for the chance to prove his first team standing.  Although Meagan may have been given the run around by Moir at Old Trafford on Saturday, he has improved by leaps and bounds since he was pressed into service as an emergency left back, and his great experience and thoughtful reading of a game has made light of any handicap which lack of pace may have impressed.  He will be terribly difficult to replace.  The news of Vernon yesterday was also improved for off came the back splint, which has been keeping his knee rigid, and the improvement expected from the treatment appears to have been fulfilled.  Still, Everton have played two games in his absence – and won both -which is a cheering sign of Everton’s ability these days to improvise successfully.  Everton are not alone in their troubles, for Burnley manager Harry Potts has much to ponder over before announcing his teams.  Their visit to Chelsea, where they were defeated 2-0, was marred by an injury to centre forward Ray Pointer.  He was a limping leader for all but the first few minutes -apparently with a bruised leg.  Burnley are already handicapped by the fact that key defender Jimmy Adamson and Alex Elder are on the casualty list.  Elder, that grand young Irish international full back who was officially stated to be in line for a place in the Rest of the World side which next month plays England, will not play until November at the earliest, because of a fractured ankle sustained in pre-season training.  Walter Joyce, normally a wing half has made it capable job of deputising for him.  Adamson, skipper and right half, has missed two games because of a stomach upset but may be fit for tomorrow’s match at Goodison.  With Elder a definite non-starter, the only defence question is whether Adamson will resume in place of David Walker, a twenty-year-old local-born player who has done quite well as deputy in two games.
ATTACKS PROBLEMS
Burnley’s attack formation gives rise to further considerations.  Pointer could be fit but if not, Scottish under-23 international Andy Lochhead is the likely deputy.  Burnley have another international centre forward in Irish leader Willy’s Irvine.  In the last two games Burnley have experienced with Gordon Harris at inside left, John Connelly at outside left and eighteen-year-old Willie Morgan on the right wing.  In view of the fact that they have so far picked up only three points from four games, it will be interesting to see if this formation is retained for a third outing.

THANK GOODNESS FOR BOLTON!
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, September 6, 1963
ALL IS WELL- AND I THINK WE PROVED IT
Says Roy Vernon
Thank goodness for Bolton, Wednesday night gave us an opportunity to prove that whatever went wrong with the Everton works at Old Trafford on Saturday, was nothing that could not be put right and that the constitution of that patient is as sound as ever.  Some of you may have noticed what United did to Ipswich at Ipswich on Tuesday night, and while this may not excuse our disappointing show, at least it helps to illustrate just what power in that United side when the machine is ticking over properly.  We have no way of proving it, of course, but all the lads believe that if we had to visit United a dozen times more they would not heap on us the indignities of last week.  It was a shock to us to find five goals in our net, for not since those early days when I first joined Everton, before the big build-up really took shape, have I seen us so open to savagery by the opposition. 
NO AWAY PHOBIA
Some with less faith than others will promptly say, “It’s that away match phobia catching up with them again,” but that is just as wide of the mark as it is possible to be.  We lived down our dismal away record last season and I don’t think you will find us having to go through the process all over again.  Take it from me, there are no away-match jitters now and this season we aim to go one better than last, when you may recall we equalled our best record on opponents’ grounds.  We have turned that United match apart in conferences.  We believe the finger was firmly placed on the cause or our failures and I shall be surprised if we fail easily into the mare again.  Even when we went 2-1 down, I was full of confidence that we could come back fighting successfully, but it was the third goal that opened the gates to disaster.  As you know I had to stand down from the match at Bolton.  Although my leg stood up splendidly to all the trials  I could give it, there is no substitutes for a genuine match to prove fitness conclusively, and it was because I weas not happy with my leg that it was decided that discretion is the better part of valour.  Far better one or two matches missed now, than possibly an aggravation of the trouble and a prolonged lay off.
ON CRUTCHES
The last thing I want is an enforced idleness of any duration, for this is the most important part of the season in attaining peak fitness.  Anyone who has seen me this week hobbling about on crutches would be sure to draw the wrong impression.  I have had a back splint put on the knee to restrict movement.  Not that there is no movement, but the prescription is that I should avoid bending.  Between the splint and the crutches there is not much danger of my disobeying instructions to keep the leg straight.  I should say the prospects of my being fit for to-morrow are remote, but even the thought of missing the great battle against Burnley fades into insignificance when one thinks of the European Cup struggle with Inter Milan, which is not very far away now, and I, like the rest of the boys, am looking forward to gaining a place in that epic encounter.  If ever we were in doubt as to the effect of the United reverse on our supporters, they were quickly dispelled at Bolton, for not only did we at Bolton, for not only did we receive a wonderful welcome on arrival at the ground, but the roar which greeted the appearance of the team on the pitch swept away any remaining cobwebs.  They have faith in us and that is all we ask.  We hope to repay it in ample measure throughout the season. 
ENVIABLE GATES
Our gate at Goodison Park have long been the envy of every club in the League and I don’t think there is any doubt that we are far and away the most popular visitors to any ground especially those within reach of Liverpool, for there is no argument against the fact that our wonderful followers invariably provide the bulk of the gate on all the neighbouring grounds.  Some of our trips are long distance affairs, yet I know it is true to say that no matter how long or difficult the trip we are never left without support.  That is loyalty that demands reward, I make and sincere promise here and now -they will get it, if it lies within our power to give it.  Even for the visit to Inter-Milan, now arranged for September 25 we know already there will be sufficient Evertonian there to make the Ev-er-ton chant ring round that vast stadium.  I hope they have plenty of opportunity to let the Italians see that they have no monopoly of enthusiasm. 

A BIT STEEP? NOT REALLY
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Friday, September 1963
By Leslie Edwards
Some Everton shareholders and fans think the prices for the International Cup-tie a bit steep.  They feel that 25s 30s and £2 a time for tickets is more than they should be asked to pay.  But when you consider the matter they seem reasonable enough.  It is not as though Everton’s opponents are travelling from London or Scotland or the Midlands.  They must come hundreds of miles by air, and must arrive a day or two before the game.  Compared with run-of-the-mill visiting.  League teams the expense and duration of their visit is four or five times greater.  After all, these are the champions teams of their countries.  They are playing in a minor competition.  Surely they are entitled to ask patrons to pay a good deal more for the privilege of seeing their skill?  By world standards the charges are reasonable.  It remains to be seen whether 70,000 other people in this city share this view.  Tomorrow, at Goodison Park the Burnley side, whose path has crossed ours in League and Cup so often in the past few seasons come to Goodison Park to try to improve their rather undistinguished (three points from four matches) position.  Everton may well find themselves handicapped by injuries sustained in winning at Bolton but the effectiveness of their treatment room is such that much of the damage may be put right before kick-off time tomorrow.  Everton won both matches against the side now managed by their old forwards Harry Potts last season the score was 3-1 home and away.  It is ironic that Burnley, one of the teams which developed the safety first defences in depth gambit in this country should now find themselves on the receiving end of the same tactics.  Good judges of football reckon that League soccer will strange itself to Health if many more teams favour all out defence following a snatched goal.  The argument that the policy would not be damaging to the sports entertainment if employed only in away matches in condense.  Every game has an away team. 
ALWAYS A COUNTER
My opinion is that there is a counter to every tactic every employed on a soccer ground or on, a battlefield but that brainy managers have not yet thought hard enough about it to find the answer.  No one seems to appreciate that if the one side pulls back every player in defence there must be opportunity to every member of the attacking side to go on to the offensive.  It is a long time since I played draughts, but the similarity between defence in depth in that the inevitability that a few stray attackers will fall in a valid comparison.  Defence in depth could be countered I think, by offence in depth.  It would be a well-ordered defence on the collar for minutes on end, who would survive.  The inevitable occasional break-out would call for the ball to be carried three parts of the length of the field- and everyone knows what difficulties arise on route especially as defenders can move a deal faster, minus the ball than the man or men in possession.  It is no use wailing that defensive soccer will ruin football.  The thing to do is to evolve some enterprising breath-taking counter to it.  The calls for courage and boldness the quicker the constricting hold of defensive football is broken the sooner we shall revert to the old system of interesting, open play, marred only by the third-back plan Arsenal introduced with little disadvantage to the spectator more than twenty years ago.  Whether Burnley will hide under their defensive shell against Everton tomorrow if they have the luck to score first is anyone’s guess.  There is no need for a team of Everton’s calibre to play other than orthodoxfootball and go out for as-many goals as they can get.  It would be a waste or taken to employ forwards such as theirs as defenders- and not many of them anyway would fill the role successfully. 

SANDY BROWN IN LINE FOR FULL-CAP
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Saturday September 7, 1963
SCOTTISH SIGNING MAKES HIS GOODISON DEBUT
By Leslie Edwards                              
A spate of injuries on Wednesday, when they played Bolton Wanderers, has affected Everton’s chances of putting it over Burnley again as they did twice last year.  The injury to Meagan, following one which put the club’s other left-back, George Thomson on crutches is a serious blow and it was no wonder the Everton manager moved off on a midnight mission to take Patrick Thistle left-back, Sandy Brown at a £25,000 fee before Everton “missed the boat” through injuries.  Brown a stable player makes his debut to-day and partners another Falkirk born defender, Alex Parker.  As fellow townees they should suit each other very well.  The pity is Brown signing does not come within the dead-line for signings for the European Cup games against Milan.  But he will be a useful man to have about the place for Everton’s bid to retain their title.  He’s two-footed and strong and they say in Patrick that Scotland will probably honour him with a full cap this season, Eric Caldow having not yet recovered from his serious injury at Wembley last May.  Everton’s last Brown, Billy, was also a Scot.  If his name-sake does as well for the club at the larrel-chested half-back who figured in the side in the between-Wars years, he will be a success. 
SWITCH SUCCESS
Brown played in the Scottish League team which beat the Irish this week, and further impressed the club who have bene watching his play for some weeks.  He asked for a transfer last season, but one was not granted.  Now he has got his wish.  Like Bobby Collins, his trade, before full-time football, claimed him, was the cobbler’s.he was seven seasons with Patrick after apprenticeship with the West Locthian junior side.  Broxburn and once he will switched from wing half-back to full back he developed quickly into one of the best in Scotland.  As Jimmy Hill signed from Norwich just before the start of the season, also makes his home debut in Roy Vernon’s place the game today is all-compelling Kay has recovered from the knocks and bruises he suffered in the game at Bolton.  
UNLUCKY START
Burnley too, have started unluckily in the matter of injury.  Elder, their fine back, will be out of the team for weeks following injury, sustained in training.  Jimmy Adamson the team’s captain has been bothered by stomach trouble and Ray Pointer always a useful man to have on your side suffered an injury in mid-week at Chelsea.  It was Chelsea’s players defence at Turf Moor which prompted Chairman Bob Lord to make criticism of sure tactics.  Chelsea promptly beat Burnley at Stamford Bridge to show that their performance at Burnley was no fluke.  Manager Harry Potts an old Everton player, is lucky to have as deputy got Pointer a player of the calibre of Lochhead whose form against Liverpool in Cup-ties last season showed him as capable of getting Scottish caps but he also is a doubtful.  With Burnley plainly not committed these days in the safely first tactics which characterised their play against continental teams and Everton never having fancied anything but orthodox policy to-day’s patch should be open and attractive.  The evidence of Everton’s win at Bolton suggests that they mean to make a determined effort to stay champions.  Only that 5-1 defeat at Old Trafford last Saturday (following victory by 4-0 against the same opponents in the Charity Shields leaves any doubt in the minds of their followers.Everton; West; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Hill, Temple.

BURNLEY END CHAMPIONS’ UNBEATEN HOME RUN
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Saturday, September 7, 1963
SECOND HALF RALLY FAILS TO SAVE DAY
EVERTON 3, BURNLEY 4
By Michael Charters

Everton; West; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Hill, Temple.Burnley; Blacklaw; Angus, Joyce; Adamson, Talbut, Miller; Meredith, Bellamy, Robson, Harris, Connelly.Referee; Mr. J. Finney (Heresford).Despite the drizzling rain there was a crowd to about 40,000 at Everton to-day with the principal interest being the first appearance of Scottish full back, Sandy Brown who was signed for £25,000 from Patrick Thistle yesterday to replace the injured Meagan.  After three minutes Burnley took a shock lead with a good goal in their first attack of the match.  A long clearance by Angus was headed on by Robson to find Bellamy unmarked on the edge of the penalty area.  Bellamy moved forwards to beat West, comfortably with a low shot into the corner of the net.  The tall Burnley defenders were masters of the Everton forwards in the air and their defensive over generally was good at Everton tired to fight backs. 
SCRAMBLED
Burnley survived a desperate goalmouth scramble following a corner by Scot’ Young headed the ball down and Stevens managed to touch it back to him, but the centre forward shot wide from only six yards.  Everton won their equaliser after 10 minutes.  An attack down the right wing ended with Parker moving up and hitting a a strong low cross into the goalmouth, where Hill stuck out his foot and deflected the ball at great speed into the roof of the net.  This was a joyous moment for Everton and Hill who had scored on his first appearance at Goodison. 
WINGER’S SWITCH
Burnley where wingers had switched positions, generally speaking were having more of the play.  The Everton forwards at this stage, were now working smoothly with Young unable to make much progress against Talbut.  Brown put himself in everybody’s good books by saving a certain goal.  Kay mistimed his back header to West and Connelly was able to nip in and intercept, turning the ball towards the empty goal only for Brown to run across at a kick the ball away.  Young, with a brilliant midfield dribble, opened the way before sending a perfect pass through for him to chase.  With only the goalkeeper in front of him Hill did not have the speed to make a clear opening and Blacklaw and Hill arrived at the same time to the ball with Hill’s shot, rebounding high over the goalkeeper of the bar.  There was a anxious moment in the Burnley goalmouth when Young and Blacklaw both went up to the ball with the goalkeeper dropping it, but the referee quite rightly awarded a foul against the Everton player.  These team, were well matched, but Burnley’s general play was united them taking a lead after (33 minutes) through a goal by Miller.  Miller started the move in midfield with a pass to Meredith on the left wing and amazingly was up in the centre forward position to take the pass by the winger and volley it past West with great ease and simplicity.  Miller them dash into the centre forward position was completely unmarked when the ball came of him and generally the Everton defence did not look terrifying good.  The Everton defence was sadly at fault three minutes later, when scored Burnley’s third goal- another Burnley’s third go -another simple affair.  A long clearance by Talbut bounced and Labone completely missed his attempted header so that the ball went behind him and although Labone seemed to clutch at the body of Bellamy in an attempt to stop him, the inside forward  was able to get his feet to the ball and divert it into the net.  Had Bellamy’s shot not counted I feel sure that the decision would have been a penalty against Labone.  Everton were getting frantic with their efforts now after the numbering shock of Burnley’s two quick goals.  The Everton defence certainly was not playing well and Labone was lacking the command he had last season. 
VERNON MISSED
Everton were certainly missing the dash of Vernon, for Hill although working the ball well, tended to be slow and held up the progress of the line.  Temple had received a poor service but when he did get the ball he made good use of it.  He moved into pass to Stevens, who turned the ball back for Hill to get in a good shot which Blacklaw turned round the post for a corner.  A minute before half-time Burnley scored their fourth with a goal similar in many respects be two of their previous efforts and the result was another bad mistake by Labone who was having a nightmare match. A long clearance by Blacklaw bounded and Labone again missed his header, the ball skidding through for Bellamy to score his third goal with a shot from 10 yards.  Even if Everton were having their worst match for years at Goodison Park, it was a good day for young Bellemy, playing in his first game of the season for Burnley.  Half-time; Everton 1, Burnley 4.
Everton had a long uphill struggle this half if they were going to keep their fine home record.  The last lost in a League game at home exactly two years ago to Manchester City.  Since then, and not including today, they had played 39 League games, winning 30 of them and drawing the other nine.  Everton threw a tremendous barrage at the Burnley goal in the first few minutes of the second half but the Burnley defenders keep cool.  Labone could do nothing right in the air and he had made more mistakes in this match than he had in the last two seasons, I should think.  Unfortunately for Everton Burnley had taken full advantage of them.  Everton got a goal back five minutes after half time.  It was from a free kick awarded for a foul on Stevens just outside the penalty area which Gabriel took and with a strong, low shot he beat Blacklaw, although the goalkeeper got his hands to the ball. 
FLAT POUT
The crowd was wild with excitement as Everton went flat out for a goal.  Parker, Young and Gabriel all had shots charged down on the edge of the penalty area and then a fine pass by Kay to Temple saw the winger cut in and hit a tremendous drive which Blacklaw saved brilliantly.  Everton climbed to 4-3 with a goal by Scott after 64 minutes.  It was Young who passed the ball square across the face of the penalty area to Scott, whose low shot hit Joyce’s leg and was deflected past Blacklaw.  With all those goals and the excitement of Everton’s flight back from a seemingly impossible position the match was becoming memorable in every sense.  In this half it had been all Everton but the Burnley defence had stood up well to a considerable battering. 
ONLY FOUR SHOTS
One of the fantastic features of course had been the fact that Burnley had scored four times with their only four shots of the match.  At this stage their forwards were not in the game at all.  Blacklaw saved well at the feet of Young after Stevens had nodded the ball down to him and you had to give full marks for the way Everton were maintaining their speed and pressure.  The Burnley defensive cover was in good shape, Everton were not able to get in many shot’s despite the way they were playing.
NAME TAKEN
The fiery impact of the game continued and Harris had his name taken four a foul.  Everton never gave up the struggle for an equaliser and their second half recovery had been remarkable and must praiseworthy in view of the first half defensive errors which had given them such a handicap against.  Final; Everton 3, Burnley 4.  Attendance 54,409

HILL DEBUT PLEASED EVERYONE
The Liverpool Echo – Saturday, September 7, 1963
By Alex Young
Last Saturday was a black one for supporters in this city with both Liverpool and ourselves beaten both shock returns.  As far as we are concerned, there are no alibis, and we just give Manchester United’s newly arranged team full credit for the sweetrevenge they took.  They struck form in a big way and we were unfortunately, in the receiving enc
D of their performance.  If they can retain this form than every side they meet will work awfully hard against them.  When form is upset to the extent of eight goals, as it was when the results of the two games between ourselves and United are compared it makes you wonder whether there really such a thing as form in football.  Naturally, we approached this fixture with the confidence which any team would have done with a clear cut win to their credit only a fortnight earlier but the changes which have been made transformed.  United completely, so that to all intents and purposes, we were playing a new club.  We found this out as the game progressed.  When a team wins as well as they did, nobody on the side is doing anything wrong, but if I had to pick out anybody for special mention, then it might be Sadler, their centre forward, who led his line exceptionally well when one considers that he is still in his teens.  United played again during the week and showed by the result of their game against Ipswich that the way they played against us was no flash in the pan.  I know that Ipswich were struggling a bit last season, and I do not know just now weak or strong they are this year, but either way, seven is a lot of goals to score against any side and I regard it as another indication of United’s revival. 
SUBSTITUTES
One other match last Saturday merits attention and that is the thrashing handful out to Arsenal by Leicester.  There was no glory in a win at this magnitude against a team which had lost its goalkeeper with a fractured shoulder and there can have been precious little entertainment for the spectators in seeing a team battling on but quite over-run.  After time when the cry is for more entertaining play then surely there is room for legislation which will allow a substitute to be brought up to give the depleted side a chance.  I make no apology for offering my views on this old subject, because nobody has yet put forward one argument in favour of the present system which as far as I am concerned, carries any weigh.  The only are sent in fact which and he every brings up, is that of abuse of the “privilege put if substitution were allowed only after a dock had certified that a play was unfit to continue, when this argument immediately falls to the ground.  This week Mr. Catterick has paid as flying visit to Milan to have I look at our opponents in the European Cup, something which brings home to us that this eagerly anticipated fixture is only just a turn a corner.  As well as this I was interested to read that Inter-Milan have signs a German, left had name Szymaniak.  I have been trying to work out the logic of this move, because in the account which I had of the transfer the reason given was to offer the defence against the inside forwards.  This does not make a lot of sent to me, because I play’s against Scymaniak when we were in New York a couple of years ago I played inside right off the occasion and I remember him as more of a footballer than a hard-tackling half.  It was a fixture against a team made up of Germans and although it contained one or two reasonable players, we won comfortable win (5-2) and I was not very impressed with Scymaniak.  Even at that time was a player of very considerable experience “that it is difficult to imagine that he was matured to any marked extent in the time which has elapsed.
HILL DEBUT
Our match at Bolton marked Jimmy baptism in First Division football.  He took a little time to get used to the quicker speed of the game even though he knew I impractical what to expect but he had a game which would have pleased me, I had been in his shot for a “first timer.” I have seen a second goal described as a lucky break, and I do want this because when you “follow up” anticipating something of the sort which happened, it is part of the job, if that was lucky, then, I must be dead unlucky in it number of timer I have followed up “uselessly.” Finally greeting to the chaps working on the East Lancashire Road and thanks for a big laugh.  We were travelling to Bolton by coach and came to a part of the road where work was being carried out by four experts with road drills.  Traffic was allowed and as our coach slid by them they stood quite still, shouting K” Ev-er-ton” followed by three burst on their drills.  Nice work; if the act had been rehearsed it could not have been bettered.

1890 FORWARD LINE WAS SMARTEST IN COUNTRY
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Saturday, September 7 1963
FOOTBALL ON MERSEYSIDE
By Percy M. Young
Preston North End were champions in the first two seasons of the Football League but in 1889-90 the difference between them and other clubs was much less than in the previous year, and William McGregor’s idea that the League system should guarantee contests between well-matched sides was seen to be working out.  In the next season of 1890-91, it worked out to Everton’s advantage they became champions of the League, this year two points ahead or rather than behind Preston.  On September 6 1890 Everton went to West Bromwich and beat the Albion 4-1; a week later Wolves took the challenge of the Midlands to Anfield Road- the result a 5-0 thrashing and the rueful acknowledge that the Everton forward quintet was the smartest in the country and trained to perfection.  What caught the eye especially was the “pretty pasting play” of Latta and Brady and the scientific calculations of Geary whose express runs, were terminated by shots of considered speed and attitude.  The question was could they keep it up.” Bolton Wanderers found that they could and conceded five goals without reply.  During that season, Bolton played Everton four times in the first three encounters they found it impossible ton score but on the fourth occasion -a Lancashire Cup fixture- they turned the tables winning by 6-0 whereupon Everton immediately went to Scotland and brought Lockhead and McFarlane from Third Lanark.  After Bolton’s first League match with Everton the latter visited Derby where the County by now well used to such immolation, lost by 7-0.  Everton it seemed were unbeatable.  But Aston Villa held them to a draw and temporarily shook their confidence for in the last match of October the Albion beat them for the first time that season.
THUNDEROUS
A close thunderous match in which after Geary and Doyle had brought the team within striking distance of the Albion- leading through goals by Dryer, Nicholls, and Burns -Everton brought on all their reserves of power for a climatic last ten minutes.  The defeat preluded two others, by Notts County (3-1) and Blackburn Rovers (2-1) and on November 8 Wolves took over the leadership in the Championship A victory over Sunderland – the gate was 15,000 at Anfield Road – reversed the position at the head of the table, but that it was anybody’s race was shown when, after a defeat by Preston North End by 2-0 -when the first goal was scored the Everton goalkeeper and backs “were literally rolled through the goal” – Everton dropped to third place.  During the remainder of the season, however, Everton lost only three more matches and drew-none.  Of these defeats one, at Sunderland, who were third from the bottom, exactly and unexpectedly anticipated the outcome of the first- round tie in the F.A. Cup, in which, it must be admitted.  Everton had, as yet, made very little impression.  Another defeat which caused considerable anxiety until the results of other significant matches came through in the evening, was against Burnley in the last fixture in the programme.  Nearly a thousand supporters went to Turf Moor and in driving know and sleet saw a thrilling match which was Everton’s until four minutes from the end, when Howie, scoring for Burnley brought the score level at 2-2.  Almost immediately Stewart scored again thus taking Burnley into an unassailable lead.  Thereafter came a miscellany of matches- a benefit for Dick Farmer, and Joliffe against Darwen a friendly against Ardwick at Ardwick under “Well’s lights”  and a match against Vale of Leven, in which the changing Everton team showed Jardine, McLean, Hammond; Lockhead, Campbell, Kirkwood, Wylie, Gordon, Geary, Chadwick, Milward. 
LEVELLERD
T.G. Wyllie, three years with Glasgow Rangers made his mark on Merseyside both with Everton and Liverpool, and then went to Bristol City.  He won seven “city” (Glasgow) caps and one internationals, in a useful career.  That the teams in the League were being levelled up or down was shown by the fact that in the first season Preston won with 40 points in the second they were reduced to 33 points while Everton in their Championship year were first with only 29 points from 22 matches and the first team to defeat them was West Bromwich Albion who finished bottom -three points worse off then Derby County against whom Everton scored 13 goals in 2 matches.  Recognition of Everton’s claim to be primus inter pares was, however, shown by the selection of Holt, Geary and Chadwick for the North v. South fixture, and by Holt (who had gained his first international cap a year earlier), Chadwick and Milward for England against Wales, and Scotland, Geary, who appeared in the previous year’s national side against Ireland and played in the Scottish match.  The cultivation of Holt by the national selectors was a tribute to one of the greatest- and most temperamental -of Everton’s players.  Holt was a genius -any centre half, whose height is no more than 5ft 5in, and who achieves success must be- and an unruly one.  Sometimes he got entangled with referees, but more often, single he was a past-master at perpetrating the smaller illegalities when the referee was looking elsewhere, he avoided this sort of indignity.  He stood up for his rights before the Everton com-committee, more than once threatening resignation when he took his talents to be undervalued. A tactician in defence, with a beautiful sense of timing that enabled him (like Billy Wright of modern times to out-head, and outwit taller opponents and the willing originator of attack, he was boundies in energy and devotion to the game in hand.  Always prepared to go on for ever if need be, he was always the full ninth minutes player.  Such was the mainspring of Everton in those important years of establishment. A native of Blackburn (born in 1865) he played for Church, “Blackpool” and Bootle before arriving at Everton. 
UNDER A CLOUD
In the course of his career Holt played 10 times for England, and on each of the five occasions in which he was in the Lancashire team that body was undefeated.  As the 1891-2 season opened Johnny Holt was (as they said at the time) “on strike.”  The team went to West Bromwich and lost to the Albion by 4-1.  It was therefore under something of a cloud when it departed for Scotland to play King’s Park in Stirling a frequent source of talent) and Queen’s Park in Glasgow.  But the acrimony caused by a dissident half-back and by an unpromising start to the playing record was soon swallowed up in a larger dissension. 

BURNLEY RES V EVERTON RES
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Saturday, September 7 1963
Burnley Res;-Thomson; Paynton, Buxton; Walker, Todd; Morgan, Coates, O’Neill, Price.  Everton Res;- Rankin; Harcombe. Parnell; Sharples, Heslop, Harris; Shaw, Harvey, Hurst, Rees, Morrissey.  At the out sets Everton attacked, but with out Thomson having anything difficult to deal with.  Shaw and Morrissey were Everton’s chief danger, and from a short corner carelessly conceded by Walker, Hurst he led over.  O’Neill made a neat effort for Burnley and from the corner that followed Walker scored a great goal in 14 minutes.  Rees headed well over when well place for Shaw’s centre.  Everton were finding trouble from Price and were lucky to escape when he put Buxton through Rankin missing a centre as did two Burnley forwards.  Everton had a penalty kick when Morrissey was brought down, but Thomson saved Harris’s shot.  Then on the half hour a great chance and a brilliant shot by Price brought Burnley a second goal.  Sharples reduced the lead with a tremendous volley after 41 minutes.  Half-time Burnley Res 2, Everton Res 1.

EVERTON SWOOP FOR SCOTTISH FULL-BACK
Liverpool Daily Post -Saturday, September 7, 1963
SANDY BROWN GOES STRAIGHT INTO BATTLE
TAKES OVER FROM MICK MEAGAN V. BURNLEY TODAY
By Horace Yates
Everton’s ability to rise to an emergency was in evidence again yesterday when fresh from his club’s Championship celebrations manager Harry Catterick with the knowledge that left back Mick Meagan will be out of action for a least a fortnight shed dinner suit for lounge suit and dashed up to Glasgow to sign Under-23 Scottish international left back Alec “Sandy” Brown, of Patrick Thistle for £30,000.  He makes his debut against Burnley at Goodison Park to-day although the signing comes too late to make him eligible for the European Cup first round game with Milan on September 18.  The incoming Brown is another example of the Catterick card index system at work for the Everton manager has a complete list of men he would like in time of need to cover almost every position in the team.  Open the card at left back and the name Sandy brown was top of the list.  Everton checked on him as recently as last Saturday and the news of the splendid game for the Scottish League at Belfast, in mid-week underlined the name.
STURDILY BUILT
Brown is 5fy, 10 ½ ins and 12 stone, is sturdily built and has plenty of experience for I believe he has not missed a game fir Thistle during the last three seasons.  When Meagan recovery from his knee strain there must be healthy competition between the two for the first team place, and this will be intensified even further when George Thomson recovers from his fractured ankle.  In the event Everton will have succeeded in ensuring a duplication to bolster their theory that not until there is a good man standing behind every player in possession of a first team place will they be satisfied.  As I suggested yesterday Everton’s injury troubles have not proved quite as devastating as was at first thought for with Kay and Temple passing fitness tests the team which won at Bolton, with the exception of the substitution of Brown for Meagan, will do duty.  Brown was one of the most surprised individuals in Scotland when he learned of Everton’s interest yesterday for while the club have been associated publicly with an interest in Henderson, Brown’s name cropped up far less frequently in speculations.
COLONY GROWS
Everton’s Scottish colony grows a pace and the end is not yet in sight, for with Parker, Thomson, Gabriel, Scott, Young and now Brown sighted the club will soon be qualifying for the title -McEverton.  Everton as least know their team formation, which is more than can be said for Burnley.  They bring with them 15 players from whom to make the final selection and their chief worry concerns Ray Pointer, on his day the most dangerous finisher on their register.  Burnley come to Goodison with as fine a record as any visiting team can boast at the ground, for only once in the last six visits have, they been beaten.  That came last season when Everton accompanied a double and if Everton to-day make it a hat-trick, I shall not be at all surprised, despite the continued absence of sharp-shooter Roy Vernon.  Everton; West; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Hill, Temple. 

NOTHING BY HALVES AT EVERTON…
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Monday, September 9, 1963
By Leslie Edwards
Everton don’t believe doing things by halves.  Beaten 5-1 at Old Trafford; they had a win at Bolton on Wednesday and banquet on Thursday before losing at home for the first time since September 1961- a run of 39 games at Goodison Park without defeat.  Add the fact that Jimmy Hill and newly spread full back Sandy Brown were taking their bow at Goodison Park; that Burnley were 4-1 at the interval and that the boss of Everton’s European Cup-rivals internazional of Milan present to see the fun, and it was quite a day yes, even for Bob Lord who ;left his seat in the stand to the accompaniment of many farewell’s and irate fans below.  There may have been shocks for Everton on their own ground -the Cup wins of Crystal Palace and Leyton Orient are good examples but these can have been no match in the part producing so many freakish goals in a total of seven.  Everton may have deserved a point for their fight back from 1-4 to 3-4 but you didn’t always get what you deserve and considering Burnley could not name a team until a few hours before kick-off they emerged from this testing match with great credit.  As a spectacle it was satisfying.  With Burnley’s early goal wiped out the stage was set for Everton to put on a classic exhibition.  Some of their earlier moves had the crowd purring delighted.  Then came three further Burnley goals which shattered morale and left the home team struggling for a draw much less victory.
MEREDITH THE SECOND
Meredith as small and stocky as his illustrious Welsh namesake was tall and lathy produced the first of these jolting scores.  From outside left he drifted the ball into the region of the Everton six-yard area, where the raw-boned Milley, unchallenged, slotted the ball home on the volley?  Burnley’s third and fourth both came from clearances from hand by their goalkeeper!  The bound of the ball beat Labone in the first case and Bellamy, judging the bounced he better was on to it with admirable quickness to score with a job.  If he hadn’t Referee Finney, of Heresford must have given Burnley a penalty because Labone tried and half successful in pulling Bellamy back once he was beaten.  Before the interval Meredith in similar circumstances got his head to Blacklaw long clearance and again Bellamy gobbed up the chance.  The interval atmosphere in the Everton dressing room cannot have been “electric” that the atmosphere on the terraces and in the stands.  Bellamy had been virtually unchallenged when he scored his side’s first Hill stretching out a long leg to a shot from full-back Parker had done well to convert a fairly innocuous looking shot into an equalising goal.  If Burnley imagined Everton would lie down to defeat by 4-1 they were mistaken.  Gabriel hit a free kick shot which passed through the goalkeeper’s hands to the back of the net (2-4 and Scott getting a valuable deflection from the legs of full back Joyce left Blacklaw gripping fresh all after having the shot well covered (3-4).  The question then was whether Everton would go to 4-4 or whether Burnley could clinch it at 5-3.  In the event neither of these things happened. 
HELLO HELENIO
And undoubtedly Everton went closer to getting a draw than their opponents did to confirming their first half command.  Helenio Herrara guide and counsellor of Everton’s Milaness opponents said he was not impressed with the team, but was vastly impressed with their supporters, I don’t greed with him entirely but I maintain he “had something when he said that some things done on the field would not have been permitted in Italy.  Obviously he is chary as I am of the two-footed tackle which is always liable to take the ball and equally liable to “take” an opponent’s ankle.  But it was not a foul match it was hard entertaining, exciting and better to watch than many home games we have had in the past two or three seasons- and that is high-praise.  Hill and Brown may be wondering why Fate should choose them to have their home baptism at such an inopportune moments.  Brown, who has size and weight and whose heading, for a back, is specially good made the occasional mistake -who wouldn’t in such tempestuous conditions? -but showed power of shot and allowing for strangeness in his surrounding did well enough.  Hill seemed a bit out of his depth at times and as though at a loss to know what his next move should be but he got a goal; gave Blacklaw his hottest shot and played his part in the revival which all but came off.  If Everton had not allowed Burnley those disturbing straight-down-the-middle openings the two debutants would probably have drawn win bonus. 
PAISE AGAINST THE STORM
Burnley’s poise even when they faced the probability drawing after leading 4-1 was one of their best qualities.  They defended well when Everton stormed after what would have been their fourth goal.  Stevens was cleanly “legged” by Talbut and a penalty might have come, but Mr. Finney (whom I criticise only for leniency to one offender said no, and that was that.  Burnley did better than try to take the mickey.  They continued to play orthodox football and look for a fifth goal.  Meredith it is true cleverly won two or three throws (and time towards the end, but that is what one would expect of any Everton player in an away match in which his side was hanging on desperately, a goal in front, with a few minutes time remaining.  Everton’s faults were few in the sense that only two players were involved despite the four goals against them, Labone for once seemed mesmerised by the flight of the ball.  Kay, captain for the day, flicked the ball about the field nonchalantly but too often to the feet of opponents.  For Everton it was “one of those days” For Burnley whose captain Adamson is still a great performer and a great tactician it was day and half.  Burnley went away knowing that they had lived up to their record here, and that Everton’s programme tribute to their (“Well-known throughout the country for their brand of good sporting and welcome visitors to any ground”) was well deserved. 

PLENTY OF CUP TICKETS LEFT
Liverpool Echo - Monday 09 September 1963
NO GREAT RUSH FOR EVERTON GAME
Between 14,000 and 15,000 tickets were sold at Goodison Park and Liverpool Stadium yesterday for Everton’s home match against Inter-Milan on Wednesday, September 18 in the first round first leg of the European Cup.  A spokesman at the ground said this morning, that there was a plentiful supply of tickets left, mainly for the ground and stands, and they would be on sale on Wednesday night at the Everton Bolton match.  Nine men and youths were the first arrivals who started the queue outside Goodison Park, at 12.45 a.m. yesterday.  At 3 p.m. the ticket office was opened, by which time the queue stretched down Gwladys Street and Bullens Road into Walton Lane.  Mr. L. Irwin, aged 27, of 2 Coleshill Road, Norris Green, one of the first arrivals said; “The weather was terrible.  It poured with rain during the night, but we sat on some sacks and sheltered under a large sheet of canvas which we had brought with us.  We had sandwiches and some bottles of beer.”  The second leg of the Everton-Milan tie will be in Milan on September 24. 
GABRIEL MISSES BOLTON GAME
Everton wing half Jimmy Gabriel has reported muscle strain following the game with Burnley on Saturday and will miss the match at Goodison Park on Wednesday against Bolton Wanderers.  He then joins Everton’s growing list of injured players, which includes Roy Vernon and Mick Meagan.  Manager Harry Catterick says Meagan will definitely miss the European Cup tie against inter Milan a week on Wednesday at Goodison and it seems certain that Vernon will be still unfit by that time. 

FIGHTING COME-BACK FAILS TO SAVE EVERTON
Liverpool Daily Post, Monday, September 9, 1963
EVERTON 3, BURNLEY 4
By Jack Rowe
Helenio Herrera, coach of Inter-Milan, Everton’s European Cup opponents, saw this match on Saturday.  Afterwards, he expressed respect for the Goodison Park side and the support they will have on September 18, but he thought the game was rough and that a Continental referee would not permit such hard tackling.  This surprised me because not by any stretch of imagination could it be described as rough.  Hard and tough at times, but the disturbing thought is that if a Continental referee takes the same view as Herrera normal strong tackling may become an offence, with a lessening of Everton’s chances. 
CHANCES TAKEN
Signor Herrera saw an entertaining match in which the two-year-old undefeated Goodison Park record was smashed by a Burnley side, which seized their chances, although for most of the game they were under heavy pressure.  The 4-1 halt-time score was almost unbelievable, since five shots produced four winners, three resulting from defensive errors, two by Labone, who had his worst match.  Little went right for him and his failure to cut out long kicks from Blacklaw, brought two goals each taken by the young inside-right Bellamy, to add to the one he scored after four minutes.  Labone played so many fine matches for Everton when others have failed that it is difficult to be too critical.  I hardly think he will play so poorly again.  Everton were really in an impossible position at half-time, but to their great credit they fought back to within a goal of their opponents with about 25 minutes left. 
GOAL SIEGE
It seemed that Everton could complete a great come-back and Goodison Park seethed with expectation.  For five minutes Everton surged round the Burnley goal.  Shots hit defenders, a penalty appeal was rejected and Blacklaw made a stunning save from temple; but Burnley weathered the storm and finished with composure and coolness, without looking like scoring again.  I think Everton did enough during the whole of the game, and especially when one considers the business of Blacklaw compared with West, to have earned a point.  Their supporters can look more kindly on the defeat because of the grand match and the way the team pulled itself off the floor in the second half.  Everton’s new man, brown, had quite a reasonable game.  He always tried to be constructive and when Connelly switched to outside-right was not beaten with the ease so many feared likely on his debut.  Everton’s defence stood still when Miller amazingly came through to score Burnley’s second goal in 33 minutes and with Labone’s errors, must take the main burden of criticism.  Kay was not an commanding as usual, but Gabriel and Parker strove mightily while West scarcely had a shot to save.  Young’s touches were delightful and Hill, also making his home debut, scored the equaliser to Burnley’s first goal in 10 minutes when he flashed home Parker’s low ball.  Blacklaw made a brilliant save from another shot and he did fairly well without the trip of Vernon with the half-chance.  Gabriel, from a free kick in 51 minutes and Scott (64 minutes) were the scores in the second half, which did a lot to wipe out the memory of those fatal defensive blunders.  Bellamy for his goal, was Burnley’s forward star, particularly for converting Labone slips into goal in 35 and 44 minutes.  Each time Labone lost Blacklaw’s long kicks up the middle.  Burnley’s defensive covering was good with Miller strong and active.  The difference between Burnley and Everton was that for the Turf Moor men the ball ran more kindly.  Still you have to have the breaks to beat Everton at Goodison Park and Burnley had them.  Everton; West; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Kay (captain); Scott, Stevens, Young, Hill, Temple.  Burnley; Blacklaw; Angus, Joyce; Adamson (captain), Talbut, Miller; Meredith, Bellemy, Robson, Harris, Connelly.  Referee; Mr. J. Finney.  Attendance 54,409. 

BURNLEY RESERVES 2 EVERTON RES 1
Liverpool Daily Post, Monday 9, 1963
A strong second half assault failed to save Everton Reserves from defeat at Burnley.  Goalkeeper Thomson made three outstanding saves two of them from Harvey, in this period when an Everton score seemed certain and Rees had a header rebound from the crossbar.  In between these incidents the Everton defenders had occasional alarms, but the second half ran in Everton’s favour.  Burnley however, met this barrage with all-out determination and Everton and Brian Harris in particular, were left to regret his failure to beat Thomson from the penalty shot after 34 minutes when they were one goal down.  Walker had put Burnley ahead with a great shot (14 minutes) and Price made it 2-0 with a brilliant effort on the half-hour.  Sharples getting Everton’s goal with a superb twenty-five yards drive after 41 minutes. 

GOODISON STAND TICKETS GO SLOWLY
Liverpool Echo – Tuesday, September 10 1963
EUROPEAN CUP-TIE
EVENING SALE
By Leslie Edwards
Stan tickets for Everton’s first-leg, first round European Cup-tie against internazionale of Milan at Goodison Park a week tomorrow are hanging fire.  Many people, if seems, are not keen to pay the increase charges of 23s, 25s and £2.  There was a ticket sale at Goodison Park on Sunday but the queues were soon satisfied.  The club announced to-day that their Goodison Park ticket office would be open tonight and on Thursday and Friday evening for the sale of tickets another selling point, at the Stadium, will be open to-night and every night white tickets remain.  Youths snatched 200 ground tickets (5s) from the Stadium ticket office last Sunday.  More than 30 were recovered by a man to whom a small boy offered to sell tickets.  The boy was asked where he obtained the tickets and eventually ran away leaving the man with the tickets.  He returned them to Goodison Park next day. 
SECOND TEAM HERE
Young Reserves in Bolton First Team
Bolton will play six reserves against Everton to-morrow, five of them members of the side which defeated Everton Reserves 4-0 on the same ground a week ago.  Former Accrington Stanley goalkeeper, Alex Smith, deputises for the injured Eddie Hopkinson and along with left back David Hatton will be the only change in the Bolton team beaten 4-3 by Arsenal last Saturday.  Hatton, a 19-years-old local boy, comes in for Syd Farrimond, who is dropped.  The other second team men in the Bolton line up are Hulme and Lennard, two 18-years-old half-backs and the right wing pair Butler (19) and Bromley (17).  Bolton; Smith; Hartle, Hatton; Rimmer, Hulme, Lennard; Butler, Bromley, Davies, Hill (F), Pilkington. 

EVERTON TROUBLES
Liverpool Daily Post, Tuesday, September 10, 1963
GABRIEL NOW CUP DOUBT
By Horace Yates
Fortune seems to be conspiring against Everton to their first European Cup venture, for yesterday manager Harry Catterick announced that an injury received to Jimmy Gabriel in Saturday League game against Burnley puts a question mark against his name for September 18 when Inter-Milan are at Goodison Park.  He has strained a muscle in his left thigh, and Vernon and Meagan do not recover from their injuries in time for inclusion in the side at Ipswich on Saturday it would obviously be to great a risk to play them against the Italians, so an the next few days could be decisive in shaping the Everton side. 
A SOLUTION
All three are out of to-morrow’s return game with Bolton Wanderers at Goodison, but a half back solution could be the introduction of Brian Harris to left half with Tony Kay crossing over to the right half, a position in which he is not inexperienced.  It will be interesting to see whether or not Mr. Catterick gives Parnell a game either tomorrow or on Saturday in appearances suggest that Meagan will not be fit in time. Parnell must be given his chance to get a feel in football in topflight.  This is terrible,” said Mr. Catterick “injuries” is always unwelcome, but this could hardly have come at a worse time for us.”

EVERTON MUST HIT THEIR STRIDE AGAIN….
By Leslie Edwards
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express, Wednesday September 11 1963
Tonight game at Goodison Park is likely to be tough and unrelenting.  I didn’t see the corresponding game at Bolton a week ago?  As they say it was pretty fierce.  Bolton are desperate for points and Everton, waiting to wipe out the memory of the Burnley win, will be anxious to hit their stride again in preparation for their games against Ipswich on Saturday and Internationale of Milan next Wednesday.  I don’t doubt that whatever the length of their injury list that will have sufficient class to repeat the win they got at Bolton.  Bill Riding side will be minus the goalkeeper Eddie Hopkinson, injured the Arsenal on Saturday.  His deputy will be young, Alex Young Alex Smith, a Lancashire lad Bolton took cheaply when Accrington Stanley folded up.  He has been playing well enough in the reserves to justify gaining his big chance.  Also in the Bolton side will be W. Rimmer, nephew of the old England winger, Ellis Rimmer and a Birkenhead boy who made good at both football codes, before he finally settled for a career with the round ball.  Ellis Rimmer was telling me a few days ago he thought the boy would have benefited them a longer apprenticeship with a Third or Second Division club, but in 1963 pitch-forking youngsters into First Division football is fashionable (if not always a good think and Warwick has certainly developed well enough to impress more than one obvious manager).  Baxter at outside right, is a relative of that other dainty forward who used to grace the Bolton line in the days when Bolton Wanderers and the F.A Cup seemed to have ,magnetic effect on each other.  At centre is Davies the tall Welshman, from Wrexham whose career, so far, has scarcely been what Bolton expected when they signed him.  But he’s the best they have and in the air can be quite menacing. 
PLAYING IT SAFE
That Everton cannot call on Meagan, Thomson Vernon and Gabriel at such an important stage of the season is particularly unfortunate.  If there had been no Milan commitment next week Manager Catterick might have taken a chance on some of his nearly fit injured but the imminence of the Internationale visit means that he can take no changes indeed he must play safe.  Hill and Pilkington make a very good Bolton left-wing pair, but the inside man of England class on his day, is not always dependably consistent.  Nevertheless Alex Parker, who seems to have come back to his up-top beat, will have quite a testing evening. 
Writing from 3 Warburton Street Low Hill, Mr. Ralph Hamer says; as a keen Evertonian, may I express my deep appreciation of the efforts of the team in the last two games.  I’m sure only those who were at Bolton last week can fully apricate just how well the team did on Saturday -even allowing for the weakened Burnley sides.  After the most severe buffering Bolton dished out I was absolutely amazed that Kay, Scott and Temple (in particularly) and others where able to turn out against Burnley. I’m all present appreciated that several Everton players were handicapped from the start.  As I see the situation the Everton following has never before been so much behind their favourites as they are lately.  In these injury stricken times the team badly needs vocal encouragement -Wednesday’s game for me ranks close to the famous 0-4, 3-4 Bolton semi-final.  “As it now seems, we must face Inter-Milan without Roy Vernon is it necessary for me to request from all present at this game a 90-minute EV-ER-TON chant?  Let us prove to everyone once and for all which city possesses the finest supporters in the world.  “Nothing has pleased me more this season than Everton’s refusal to be provoked into rough play.  My thanks to you for giving this matter lengthy approval in your column.” 

EVERTON’S ONE CHANGE FOR GOODISON GAME
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Wednesday September 11 1963
BRIAN HARRIS RETURNS
GABRIEL INJURED
By Leslie Edwards
Everton will be without Roy Vernon and Jimmy Gabriel for their match tonight against Bolton Wanderers, at Goodison Park.  Gabriel strained a muscle against Burnley; Vernon massed that game through injury sustained at Old Trafford a fortnight ago.  Brian Harris displaced last season when the club bought Kay from Sheffield Wednesday, comes in at right half.  Bolton Wanderers have five players under the age of 20 in their makeshift eleven.  Everton; West; Parker, Brown; Harris, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Hill, Temple.  Bolton Wanderers;- Smith; Hartle, Hatton; Rimmer, Hulme, Lennard; Butler, Bromley, Davies, Hill, Pilkington. 

IF IPSWICH TOWN AGREE TO REQUEST
Liverpool daily Posy- Wednesday, September 11, 1963
EVERTON WILL SWOOP TO SIGN RAY CRAWFORD
SCORING LEADER SEEKS A MOVE ON PURELY PERSONAL GROUNDS
By Horace Yates
Will Everton’s next big signing be England international centre forward, Ray Crawford, of Ipswich Town?  Crawford yesterday made a verbal request to his club chairman Mr. John Cobbold, for a transfer, a request which he said was on purely personal grounds.  He states that he has no quarrel with the club and is grateful for all the help they have given him since he signed for them from Portsmouth in 1958.  I feel certain that Everton manager Harry Catterick will watch the developments of the next few days with the utmost interest, for Mr. Cobbold has promised to hold an emergency meeting of his board to consider the position.  Clearly from a playing strength viewpoint, Ipswich cannot afford to part, but he is their greatest single financial asset.  If the player, who was capped against Ireland and Austria in season 1961-62, gets his wish the fee will almost certainly be high enough to scare off many of the clubs who would like to see him leading their attack.  The fee will not scarce Everton! 
TOP OF LIST1
Naturally Everton will not discuss possibilities which may never become facts, and unless and until Crawford is listed, they can make no move.  If the opportunity does arise for Everton to step in, I believe they will swoop with the speed and secrecy which has marked most of their more recent excursions in the transfer market.  I would and be in the least surprised if Mr. Catterick does not have Crawford’s name at the top of his centre forward list of players he would like to sign in the event of their becoming available.  It is betraying no secret to state that early last season Everton made an approach to Ipswich to query whether or not Crawford was available for transfer.  He was not and there the matter ended.  By a curious coincidence Everton travel to Ipswich this weekend (by air) for their League fixture.  What an attraction it would be if Crawford led the Everton attack against his present colleagues.  The signing of Crawford would permit Alex Young although now showing this most brilliant form, to move to an inside position give him greater freedom to use his constructive endeavour for the improvement of the attack.
173 GOALS
Since joining he scored 173 goals- and with colleagues of Everton’s calibre to prompt him, he could soon send that total soaring.  Last season he scored 25 goals in 42 League games, although in match after match Ipswich were fighting their way out of the threat of relegation.  I may be wrong, but I believe that if Ipswich flash the green light, Everton will be among the first to move in with an inquiry.  Because of his injury problems Mr. Catterick has not made any attempt to announce a team to receives Bolton Wanderers this evening (kick-off 7.30 p.m.) and he may leave a decision as late as possible.  The injury position with regard to Vernon, Gabriel, and Meagan is unchanged and I would think we may see last Saturday’s side in action again, except for the substitution of Brian Harris for Gabriel.  Only team in the First Division without a point to their name, nobody will accuse Bolton Wanderers of lack of courage in giving free rein to youth the average age of the side being reduced to twenty-two.  Regular left back Syd Farrimond who was given the run around by Alex Scott last Wednesday, is spared the ordeal of a likely repeat, for he loses his place to David Hatton a nineteen-year-old former wing half.  The defence includes four reserves, three of them under twenty.  Alex Smith, formerly of Accrington takes over in goal from Eddie Hokinson who is still under observations in a London Hospital, following a kidney injury received at Highbury on Saturday.  This will be Smith’s debut.  At inside right is Brian Bromley, who is 17, is one of the youngest ever to play for Wanderers senior side and at centre-half is John Hulme, who has ousted experienced Brian Edwards.  Bolton’s teenage parade is; Hatton (19), Hulme (19), Dave Lennard (18), Dennis Butler (19), and Bromley (17).  Bolton Wanderers; Smith; Hartle, Hatton; Rimmer, Hulme, Lennard; Butler, Bromley, Davies, Hill, Pilkington. 

POINTS FOR EVERTON – THE “BIRD” FOR HARTLE
The Liverpool Echo – Evening Express – Thursday, September 12 1963
By Michael Charters
Two brilliant goals and an amazing crowd vendetta against the Bolton captain; right back Hartle, were the only features to “member of last night game at Goodison Park, Hartle was jeered and booed every time he went near the ball- incredible crowd reaction as it was prolonged for the 90 minutes.  The Everton fans remembered his display the seven days earlier and never let him forget it but it didn’t take to ruffle.  Hartle one of the few Bolton plays who made any contribution for a poor performance by their team in what was a very ordinary man.  Although Hartle was pulled for some five fouls, his display had nothing like the rugged temporal the previous match.  He was baffled at times by the even and jinking of Temple and Temple and every time the wing beat him the crowd loved it.  Hartle took it all very well through.  Everton made hard work of what should have been an easy game.  Bolton are still pointless after five game and look de-destined on the two games I have seen to stay at or near the bottom.  Their defence without pounding well but the forward except for “occasion midfield flashes by Freddie Hill and the excellent making ability of Davies were rarely seen.  In than they did in winning 2-0. 
Another headache to add to the Cushing Goodison injury sequence which kept) Vernon, Caskie and Meagan out last night came when Vernon deputy Jimmy Hill, limped through most of the second half removed out to the wing.  It looked like a pulled muscle that most frustrating of footballer’s injuries -another was on the treatment (able today taking in the queue. 
BURT WITHOUT CONVICTION
In many ways the game was similar in the first match at Bolton a week ago Everton were allowed on top without playing with conviction and it seem for the later stages of the game, that they were well intent to hold on to the edge two great first half goals were given them.  Everton licked drive that fire and dash with Vernon and Gabriel ran usually give them.  Kay does not look 100 per cent fit at a failed to provide his usual dynamic contribution.  I think he would return like his old self if he could be rested -but manager Catterick can’t afford with the injury problems being what they are.  Harris deputising for Gabriel although in his old position at left half, had a splendid match and it was he, not Kay who made the opening.  He went near scoring twice early on and invariably delivered the ball to the right spot at the right time.  He provided the right sort of service for the forwards, and although the young Bolton team half of them reserves, played with spirit they could not hope to hold out against the sort of pressure Everton exerted in the first half.  But the Everton forwards were only dreaming half chances, there was little clear cut about their play although their dominance was so pronounced. 
HIGH SKILL OF YOUNG
The best thing in the first 20 minutes was a brilliant touch by Davies, usually beating Labone in the air with out anything coming of it.  The lanky centre forward nodded the ball down moved inside and hit a fine shot but straight at West had he scored with this it might have helped to convince the rest of his side that they had a chance.  As it was they performed as though they knew they were on a hiding before they started.  It took the high skill of Young to produce something extraordinary out of the ordinary.  When Hill on the right wing, slipped the ball across, Stevens made a first time shot which struck Smith on the knee, and rebounded high towards the penalty spot.  There, Young first controlled the ball by heading it straight up, then headed down and cracked an unstoppable shot into the net.  This was control of the highest class.  Shortly afterwards Temple weaved his way through a crowd of players moving steadily inside all the time, and when delight of numbers seemed to have hailed his progress he produced the perfect pass through the narrowest of gaps for Stevens to fasten on to and hit a fine left foot shot past Smith.  The game was over really from that moment Everton strolled around always in control and command but the nearest they came of scoring in the second half was a hat-trick of efforts from Young to which within the space of five minutes, he sent the ball inches wide of the same upright.  First a shot on the turn then a header directed down, and finally a fierce 30-yarders which whistled past when they didn’t go in, the curtains were drawn and the match descended to a half-pace midfield saunter which produced yawns rather than excitement. 
BROWN THE BEST
Of course, Young’s artistry was entertainment as always and the wing play of Scott and Temple was excellent fed.  But there was no Vernon with his deadly finishing ability, although full marks to Stevens for a fine game in which he passed the ball well and never stopped working for a moment.  Labone showed signs that he has recovered from the nightmare of Burnley, and although Parker also played strong and well, I thought the best defenders was Sandy Brown who withstood a couple of K.O blows to the body and kicked with rare precision.  The double over Bolton is now behind Everton.  There is not tremendous credit in that – I think most of the leading teams in the First Division will do the same.  The trouble is that Everton are not playing at their best with the great European Cup clash against Inter-Milan so near.  The loss of Vernon is the great blow, assuming Gabriel is fit to resume next week, for Young is carrying the major portions of Everton’s scouting efforts and his greatest role for Everton is a provider of those pinpoint passes for Vernon to collect and cash in for goals.  Until Vernon does get back into the game, I should think Everton will be a shade below their best.  He meaning all the difference between a championship side and a good side. 

EVERTON’S INJURY LIST GROWS
Thursday, September 12 1963 Liverpool Echo & Evening Express
BOLTON GAME CASUALTIES
TRAINER HURT
By Leslie Edwards
Everton’s European Cup of bitterness they play Milan here next Wednesday in the first round.  Even the transfer is injured Tom Eggleston who has been working full time with physiotherapist Norman Borrowdale trying to get half-a-dozen players lit, damaged an ankle at a training lesson this week and could not take a usual place for the game last night against Bolton, Gordon Watson deputised.  This morning Eggleston lined up with the rest of the walking wounded at Goodison Park.  The list included full back George Thomson and Mick Meagan half backs Jimmy Gabriel and Tony Kay and forward Roy Vernon and Jimmy Hill.  Which of these will be available for the League match at Ipswich on Saturday, much less for the Milan game is anyone guess. 
MINOR KNOCKS
Stevens and Young also had minor knocks last night.  Thomson whose injured foot is in a surgical boot, was home in Scotland last night watching Dundee and Hibs.  He said, to be a reporter there- I should still like a move from Everton but I’m not making a fuss about it.  There doesn’t seem to be much of a future for me at Goodison not that Sandy Brown has been signed and Mick Meagan is getting fit again I’d prefer a move to Scotland but which club there could pay the fee Everton would want. 

FIRST DOUBLE OF THE SEASON
Liverpool Daily Post – Thursday, September 12, 1963
EVERTON WIN SPOTLIGHTS BOLTON TROUBLES
YOUNG AND SCOTT OF CROWD AT GOODISON PARK
EVERTON 2, BOLTON WANDERERS 0
By introducing five teenagers into their side, Bolton produced the enthusiasm of youth, but unfortunately there was not the accompanying skill that comes with experience and Everton, not surprisingly, were always the more mature, competent and methodical side, winning not exactly as they pleased, but with a sufficiently ample measure of superiority to deserve the points and their opening double of the season.  Everton may have their injury troubles to worry them, and it was not a pleasant sight to find Vernon’s  stand-in, Jimmy Hill limping his way through the closing stages of the match, but they know that one day all should be well, and in the meantime no mortal damage is being done.  There are so much pleasant thoughts for Bolton.  They have now played five games without a single point to their name, and while the season may be in its infancy, a bad start of this nature is always something of a millstone when a club’s resource are limited as are those of the Wanderers. 
UNPOPULAR HARTLE
The crowd made a dead set against Hartle from the start, no doubt a legacy from last week’s game at Burnden Park.  Every time he touched the ball, the fans whistled derisively, and at times the row they created was really deadening.  Outwardly at least, the demonstration made no impression on the seasoned Hartle, but they were hardly the best conditions under which to do himself justice.  Another addition to the Everton injured list is trainer Tommy Eggleston, who has a sprained ankle and last night Gordon Watson took over the duties from the touch line.  For Bolton to have made any real challenge to Everton they needed a leading goal, and it was not because the chance was not created that they did not get it.  In twenty-one minutes, Rimmer and Bromley combined to push the ball through for Davies, who steered away from Labone and had all the goal at which to shoot and only West to guard it.  Davies hit a attacking drive -straight at West.  Even a goal at this stage would not have produced anything like equality for Bolton, for Everton’s strength and purpose were too plainly apparent, but it would have given them greater fighting heart.  Yet except on the odd occasion, it was only Bolton’s spirit that kept them going.  Not by any standards was it a great match.  How could it be with opposition of such limited resourced?  Freddy Hill’s class was apparent from time to time, and while a more determined Labone competed strongly for every ball with Davies, the centre forward was generally superior in the air.
ACCURATE NODS
Bolton play to him by crossing the ball high into the goalmouth, but why they do not complete the strategy by having someone lying handy to collect his accurate nods, which are such open invitations to shots, is not easy to follow.  For much of the time, the Everton forward line moved as sweetly as a well-tuned machine.  Although the delightful attack of the speedy Scott excited admiration and enthusiasm from the crowd, it was Young who really won their hearts with ball control, combination shooting and heading that placed him on a pedestal apart.  With just a little more accuracy during a second half assault, he would have collected two goals, from head and foot, by superb football and the crowd chanted his name in unison as their tribute to the entertaining gifts he possesses so abundantly.  Like Alex Scott, Temple made progress almost at will, in spite of the barrier the harassed Hartle strove to erect and with Stevens so obviously intent on enjoying himself at the expense of his old club, Bolton had their hands full in defence.  Yet, twenty-eight minutes had gone before Everton were able to open the score, it was Kay, who did not have matters all his own way in his exchanges with Freddy Hill, who flicked wide to Jimmy Hill,  seeing Stevens in the clear, Hill let the ball go through to him.  The shot hit Smith amidships and rebounded to Young in front of goal.  The centre forward strove to bring the high ball under control right away, for the defences was scurrying back into position for a shot, Young hit the ball and scored.  Stevens was the scorer of the second, his opening goal of the season, so that every member of the forward line has now put his name on the score sheet.  Much of the credit for the goal belongs to Temple, for he danced his way down the left wing, beat Butler and then Hartle, to place the ball ideally for Stevens to hit a really fine shot beyond Smith.  Bolton almost got the encouragement of a goal when West had to make a great save from Rimmer and again when Parker headed a Hill in swinger off the line, but escapes were not all at one end.  On several occasions the Bolton goal wobbled without falling.  Considering that Brian Harris’s last taste of senior football was in April, he slotted into the left half position commendably.  ‘True, his lack was not too tremendous because of the limited skill of the opposition, but his defence was adequate and his attacking contributions, too, did him credit.  My first impression of Sandy brown could hardly have been more favourable.  Cool and confident he tackled well and some of his interceptions were first class.  On occasions he took a page out of the Parker copybook by going up into attack, and there is little doubt that these forays by the backs can so easily put a defence on the wrong foot.  More and more teams are using their backs nowadays in an effort to breach the packed defence.  It is too early to say whether or not Everton have got the Burnley defeat out of their system, but they appeared to me to be in good heart for the tasks that lie ahead.  Everton; West; Parker, Brown; Kay (captain), Labone, Harris; Scott, Temple, Young, Hill (J), Temple.  Bolton Wanderers; Smith; Hartle, Hatton; Rimmer, Hulme, Lennard; Butler, Bromley, Davies, Hill (F.), Pilkington.  Referee; Mr. E. Crawford (Doncaster).  Attendance 47,931

MOMENTOUS TIMES
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Friday, September 13, 1963
By Leslie Edwards
Everton face the most momentous fortnight in their history, ironically, they hardly know who will be available for the Ipswich match tomorrow, much less for the first game against Milan Internationale next Wednesday.  One can only hope that Vernon, Meagan, Gabriel and company will have the luck to be ready for both matches.  The wisdom of having a half-back like Brian Harris “waiting the wings” as it were and the good sense of that quick signing of full back Sandy is now clear.  How much worse off the club would have been if they had left Harris go and failed to get a full back quickly.  True, Brown is not qualified for the game next Wednesday but to hold their League title is Everton’s second priority and you can’t hold a trophy if you lose too many easy points at a season’s start.  In the past Everton have usually found a reasonable team despite injuries early in the week, I think the one they field against Ipswich to-morrow will be good enough to escape defeat, if not win.  The real danger to Everton is that they may suffer the further injuries which would make their chances against Milan slimmer than ever.  That tickets for the game are not going as quickly as one mainted they would is due I think to the fact that many people have seen, on Television Continental safely first football.  No one wants to pay to see all-out attack faced by all-out defence.  And Manager Harry Catterick has already said that pure defence must be the policy of any European Cup team drawn to play the first leg away from home.  Alan Robinson (11 Marchwell Road, Ellesmere Port says apropos of Everton’s European Cup prices, “How can Everton justify the prices for the stand seats?  As a long term supporter I would go along with a smaller increase but surely these fantastical highly-priced stand seats will penalise the many people who just cannot afford the money?  “I for one think Everton’s management are trying to cash in on their supporters well-known fanaticism.  “I hope you will throw some light on why these prices were fixed and your opinion on the moral aspect of the situation, i.e., wrong for the spiv to sell tickets at inflated prices, but right for the club to raise charges.  I have done so, Mr. Robinson, I consider the prices reasonable.  Glasgow asks more, including 10s for a place on the terracing. 

VERNON READY FOR A GAME TO-MORROW?
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, September 13, 1963
EVERTON’S WORRIES WILL BE IN DEFENCE
WILL MR. CATTERICK GIVE ROY PARNERLL OUTING AT LEFT-BACK?
By Horace Yates
For a few minutes let us try to put ourselves in Everton’s managerial chair and try to sort out some of the problems with Mr. Harry Catterick must have on his mind this morning, as he gets to grips with the task, not only of naming his team to travel to Ipswich, but with thoughts of next Wednesday’s European Cup battle with Inter Milan very much in mind.  When Mr. Catterick calls for the fitness reports, he is unlikely to find very much to cheer him on his way.  In view of the type of injury they have suffered, I cannot see much likelihood of Meagan, Kay, or Gabriel figuring on the available list for to-days choice, and with no more than an outside prospect of being ready even for next Wednesday.  On the brighter side we know that Roy Vernon has been training during the week, stepping up the pace day by day.  The fact that no halt has been called to the exercise, suggests that Vernon is working up to an outing to-morrow. 
BORDERLINE CASE.
Mr. Catterick could ask Vernon to play in the reserves, where there would be less fear of the consequence of a breakdown and if Jimmy Hill could be considered a certain starter, that idea would have obvious appeal.  Hill, however, may be one of the borderline fitness cases and if he is ruled out, the temptation to Mr. Catterick to call on Vernon for the Ipswich trip is obvious.  It is essential that Vernon should play in one or other team if he is to be considered for next Wednesday’s battle, preferably the League team. I don’t think the injuries to either Young or Stevens are likely to cause the withdrawal of either player, so that of Vernon can turn out with the seniors, the attack at least will be at full strength.
LABONE ONLY
Labone is almost certain to be the only regular half back available and while no side could look with equanimity on the absence of wing halves like Kay and Gabriel, at least there is Brian Harris available for one spot.  The wisdom of Mr. Catterick in helping Harris to see that there will still a job for him to do at Goodison Park, despite any temporary disappointment, is now abundantly clear, for Harris proved against Bolton on Wednesday that only a man like Kay could keep him out of the reckoning.  George Sharples must have high hopes of renewing acquaintance with the first team, almost twelve months to the day since he last played -at Leyton Orient -in a 3-0 defeat.  Harris, too, was in that side.  the last of the thorny problems concerns left back – and Sandy Brown and Roy Parnell.  If Brown were eligible for the European Cup there would be no difficulty but he is not, and because I have heard no one seriously given Meagan a chance of being ready for next Wednesday, it rather looks as though Parnell will be the deputy.  Everton, however, have not won the League championship to release their hold on the title lightly, and if Mr. Catterick decided that his first responsibility was to try to take the points at Ipswich then Brown could still get the vote.  It could hardly be a more worrying time for the Everton manager, but realising how thorough he is in making the best of tough situations.  I know that his solution will be the result of the most careful consideration.  I can afford to go ahead without any worries and name the team I expect to be chosen, Mr. Catterick’s choice is a very different responsibility.  This, then would be my side; West; Parker, Parnell; Sharples, Labone, Harris; Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple. 

EVERTON’S ROY VERNON SAYS…
Liverpool Daily Post, Friday, September 13, 1963
CROWD CAN HELP US BEAT INTER MILAN
What a wonderful thing it would be for Everton to win the European Cup, but would it be any more satisfying to our supporters for us to carry off the Football League Championship a second time?  We would like to do both, and I hope we will, but I cannot help thinking that if the end of the season, with honours newly won and League game complications out of the way, it would be a far better arrangement.  Ley me give a hearty put on the back of our supporters at the Burnley match on Saturday last.  Although we were 4-1 down at half time with defeat starring us in the face, I am convinced it was their encouragement which helped to fire the great fight-back the boys put up.  If, as I have noticed on other grounds, the fans had allowed disappointment to get out of bounds and turn into reproach of their own side, I don’t think they could have enjoyed such a thrilling finish.  I appeal to them to give us all their backing against Inter Milan.  The more they can frighten the Italians with their enthusiasm the more we will aggravated and while it is a Italian mountain to climb but fairly and squarely when we get, to Milan at least let us bask in the sunshine of your encouragement at Goodison Park.  I am not exaggerating when I say the home crowd can play as big a part in the winning of the match as can the players.  It was a shock to find our greatly cherished home record being ground into the dust by Burnley, but someone had to put an end to it sooner or later.  All it means is that instead of carrying on, we will now open up a new, and I hope, better one. If any club beats Everton there is always someone willing to label them prospective champions.  Frankly, I would he surprised if Burnley were to contest the final placings this season.  Rather would I plump for Liverpool.  Any team which can take seven points out of eight from four away games is entitled to respect.  One of the points which struck me on Saturday was the change in style of the Burnley team.  In former years we have come to expect a football build-up and ball-playing skill, but with the transfer of McIIroy, their attack is fashioned on more direct, but possibly less satisfying lines.  Still, so long as it continues to produce results like last week’s plenty of justification can be found for it.  The concession of ten goals by Everton in their last three games is most unlike our club, for last season it was the most difficult of all defences to penetrate, I think our manager, Mr. Catterick has put his finger on the spot in the privacy of our team discussion room, and, like you we hope to see a tightening up from now on.
FINGERS CROSSED
For me these have been days of torment, having to sit it out while my mates were carrying on the flight.  I am keeping my fingers crossed that all will go well so that I may be considered for selection to-day for to-morrow’s Ipswich Town.  It I can’t play in this game, then the European Cup tie next Wednesday will definitely be out of the question.  Without a League match to get thoroughly run in it would not be fair to the rest of the team to risk me in such an important game.  One thing I was giant about, I was able to shed my crutches in time for last Thursday’s banquet with which we celebrated the winning of the Championship.  It was a most rewarding celebration in true Everton tradition.  In fact, the players enjoyed it all so much that they decided to encourage the club to stage a repeat next year by taking the League title again.  I would like to welcome Sandy Brown to Goodison Park.  We were as surprised as the rest when we know he was joining forces with us.  I wish him a very happy stay.  There is one feature about Goodison Park not found at many clubs.  No Scotsman ever feels anything but thoroughly at home when he steps through the door, for one way or another they all seem to know each other.  No wonder I am being accused of losing my Welsh accent! 

WE WILL SET PROBLEM TO SNR. HERRERA TOO
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Saturday, September 14 1963
Says Harry Catterick the Everton Manager
Goodison Park will be no place for the faint-hearted on Wednesday night.  For in meeting internazionals of Milan, Everton are facing one of the finest sides in Europe and one which is likely to start favourites to win the European Cup this season.  I hope our supporters will give them as regal a welcome as we intend to do as a club.  For I believe I am right in saying that this is their first visit to this country and we couldn’t have had tougher opponents in our first venture into Europe.  When I went to Milan a couple of weeks ago to assess our opponents, was tremendously impressed with their skill, their pattern of play and their well-drilled approach to the game. 
TERRIFIC GAMES
Long before the draw was made, when I was glearing information about some of the teams we were likely to meet several of my friends told me that internazionals were genuinely considered to be a better team than the current holders of the European Cup.  “That’s one team to stay away from,” were my thoughts.  But here we are matched against them in the first round!  I am sure that we are in for two terrific games with them and if we can secure a lead in the first leg I am sure it will be necessary.  They pose distinct problems of tactics quite different from those we normally have to contend with in our home competition. 
TACTICS DELAYED
For instance their centre half plays loose behind four defenders strung across the field in a line, a quite different formation from the 4-2-4 pattern with which we have become familiar in rent years.  Of course, we too will be posing problems, I hope for Senor Herrera but, in my own case, tactics have had to be delayed because of the number of injuries which have hit the team since the opening of the season. I’m not complaining as this is all in the game, but at the moment of writing I haven’t a nation what our line-up is likely to be on Wednesday night.  I’m not looking for excuses, and I don’t intend making them, but I do feel that with our full championship winning side we would have been a match, maybe more than a match, for internazionale.  Now we must hope that our injured players respond to treatment and equally important, are able to catch up on some training to fit themselves for a strenuous 90 minutes.  Two of the stars of the Milan side are Suarez and Jairi, two brilliant forwards capable of swinging any match against any opponents; whilst they also have a left back who occasionally nares up the field to take a crack at goal.  This is all part of a set plan or campaign, thoroughly vetted, industriously adopted and conscientiously believed in by this swift-moving and compact side.  The left back, incidentally, was their leading goal-scorer last season! 
THE NEW IDEAS
We hope that Alex Scott will give him so much to think about that attack will be pushed out of his mind!  But it’s refreshing to see new sides with new ideas.  One is constantly on the lookout for something different and think our supporters are going to be well pleased with the polished Italian side.  Our confidence has in no way been lessened by our two defeats by Manchester United and Burnley.  Indeed it has been a spur to work harder in training to right faults that have appeared.  Better this than enter into such an important match with a feeling of complacency.  We are well aware that we are carrying the banner of English football and all of us are determined to give our very best.  That fighting spirit which was so apparent in the second half against Burnley last Saturday left a very great impression on the Internationale team manager who watched the game.  Any team that can fight as our boys did must have a chance against any apposition under any circumstances.  And we must realise that there is the message that Herrera will have carried back with him to his club.  We have pour League commitments to meet in preparation for these two import games, but it is significant that Internazionale have been allowed to cancel their League game before they meet us in the return match in Milan. 
AN ADVANTAGE
Obviously, that must give there some advantage.  But we won’t let this worry us unduly.  Every match has to be played on its merits as well European cup tie is no exception.  Internazionaleleft a very deep impression to me.  We are proud that we should have the opportunity to match skill, with one tactic such brilliant opponents.  I’m sure all Goodison will give them the welcome the quality of the football progress.  We look forward to two strong games free from incident and the team which goes forward to the next round will fully have deserved the honour.  We all hope that team will be Everton. 

CONTINENTAL BATTLE I HAVE PLAYED IN
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Saturday, September 14 1963
ANYTHING GOES TO AVOID DEFEAT SAYS EVERTON WINGER ALEX SCOTT
I have been asked to give an assessment of our chances in the European Cup-tie against Inter-Milan and this is not particularly easy.  “It would be difficult even if I knew the composition of our team but with the ill-luck which has dogged us in the last week or so in the matter of injury, I do not suppose that we shall know who will, but to play until the day of the match.  That is the side of the problem.  The other is that we do not know Milan side.  However I do know that any side which comes from Italy is one with which to be respected and this particularly one, whatever its constitution, will be a very tough not to crack.  Reverting to the question of the number of injuries which have been sustained recently to most clubs an outlook such as our before a European Cup match would be black indeed.  However at Goodison, it seems to be the policy to duplicate each position in such a way that every man has to play for his place and this means that the “reserves” are very good indeed.  The fortnight which has prompted this policy, must have cost the club many thousands of pounds, but the money-spend begins to show divideneds at a time such as now when the injury list is so-long.  Furthermore if we happen to field a team somewhat weaker than we would with and it does come through them it will not only be a feather in the caps of the players but will more than justify the money which has been laid but to cover just such a situation as the one in which we find ourselves to-day.  I am going to lift up our chances this was although we shall probably be at full strength to stand-in will be first rates were who will play themselves into the ground to justice the responsibility which he will carry and their be if the side will be battling them in every way.  Add to this the incomparable band of supporters whose voice will be really shake this Milan team and you give up a draw as the worst.  For the second leg maybe we shall be at full strength and extra experience of such players as Roy Vernon will tip the scale in our favour so that we shall be able to approach the second round without handicap.  This European Cup-tie brings back “flood of memories because I have been extremely fortunate in the number of times in which I have played in it.  I suppose that the coming match will bring my appearances to something near the 30 mark, which for a Britisher must be a record or very near to it.  The number of matches in which I have figured in this competition is something which could hardly be matched by a player in England because there is no club with anything like the record which Rangers have in Scotland and in view of the intense competition in the English First Division it is difficult to see how there could be.  I therefore count myself lucky to come to such a club as Everton and find that once more I shall have a chance of playing in this great competition.  When anybody managers to get in so many games, naturally a few years must slip by and to consequence memories became a bit mixed but there are some matches which will always stay in my memory. 
SUNSHINE
The first one for instance was against Nice and we won the first leg 2-1 at home.  We were eagerly looking forward to a bit of Mediterranean sunshine particularly as Renfrew was so foggy that there was some doubt whether the plane could tale off.  It did, however and we landed in Nice to find the father and mother of all rain storms in progress.  The pitch became a lake and we had to return home with the game unplayed and come back a fortnight later.  This journey was rewarded by our losing 1-2 and I shall remember it by the referee who dropped the clanger of a life-time.  The unfortunate man was the great Arthur Ellis and he blew the whistle for full time just eight minutes too early.  The players trooped off the pitch and stripped and one was just getting into the bath when Mr. Ellis was convinced of his blunder.  We therefore had to dress once more and go out and play for another eight minutes.  It was definitely not our year because after all this we played off in Paris and were beaten 3-1.  These were all very wonderful experience for a boy still in his teens.  The following year found us drawn against St. Etienne again at home and 85,000 people turned up to watch this game under floodlights, at that time a world record for an evening game.  In this match I got a goal and the papers gave me a fair write-up I remember one of the French officials being reported as saying something to the effect that “Aleece Scott…so skeelful…so queek …I hate him” It’s nice to be hated sometimes!  Of the opposition players I have only vague memories but one was certainly Black Flash NJO-Lee but he did not live up to his reputation that evening.  The two goal-lead we built up saw us through to the second round but this proved to be as far as we were to go that year as Milan put us out at this stage.  The following year we were drawn again under-leent and travelling to Belgium with a 5-2 lead under our belts.  The game I am using that for sake of a general description, only was one watch a shall never forget.  Whether we had a bad press as a result of the first leg or whether there was some other reason which nobody could fathom, I do not know, but as we took the field we were greeted with boos, catcalls and whistlers which went on through the game, and our keeper was the target for a constant shower of misses including stones.  Round the pitch was a concrete wall about three yards from it and a couple of feet high which I have reason to remember well.  The game “quickly developed onto a bout of all-in stuff by the Belgians….kicking, punching, body-checking with us being implored to keep our heart which we did although it was lucky to keep mine.  My opposition number their left back was a character named “Colot.  He was the muscle-man of the team, strong but on the slow side and therefore not giving me a lot of trouble.  But he evidently decided that he had had enough of me, because mid-way through the first half he ignored the ball and concentrated on bringing off a whale of a tackle.  He succeeded. 
HIT THE WALL
The first part of me to hit the wall was my head; the marks are still on the wall to prove it, and I recovered consciousness in the dressing room some time later.  Nobody can knock lumps off a wall with their head without feeling more than a bit shaky but after I had been bandaged up so that I looked as though I was wearing a turban managed to finished the game and had a few stitches put in afterwards.  It was worth it for we finished with a four goal with an aggregate, and I had the satisfaction of providing the cross from which the only goal was scored.  The unfortunate thing about trying to recollect games and details of games is that those which are the best forgotten are the ones which are most vividly imprinted on your mind.  An ease in point is the one in which we met Red Star Bratislava, at Ibrox.  In front of a full house of 85,000 the match started cleanly enough but tempers became frayed when we equalled just before half-time.  Hlayaty, Red Star’s keeper was involved in a heavy Collison with Sam Baird and while he was still on the ground (injured, as it transpired) I scored.  Red Star had scooped playing awaiting a free-kick which was never given, a disputed what was after all, a perfectly good goal.  The excitement argument and Milling ground which took place gave us the impressed that the Czeelis, might walk off the field.  However, it did not quite come to this.  They restarted with their centre forward Cimra, replacing the injured Hiavaty in goal but almost immediately it became apparent that the Czechs were hunting for Baird.  There was a melee in which Sam was hit and Matlax was immediately sent off. 
PLEASANT
In the second half Hlavaty resumed with a bandaged head I felt for him) and played awfully well so that it was not until the last few seconds of the game that we got the winner, 4-3.  Another game in another country this time Holland when we met Sparta.  All the experts said that we could give them half a dozen goals start and lick them, but it didn’t turn out this way.  The Rangers team played a bit below, its best form and we only managed to win 3-2.  However, for me the match has pleasant memories because of the encouragement which I got -from the Dutch.  They might have guessed that it was being played on the fifth anniversary of my debut with Rangers and wished me to do well, they were so unstinting with their acknowledgement of my efforts.  This was surprising because they had two very good wing halves in Villerius and De Koning who were playing so well that one would have thought that the encouragement would have been for their own players.  Another match I remember is that against Eintracht, I have a programme of this game and the opposition side reads.  Loy, Luts, Holfer, Wellbacher, Eigenbrodt, Stinka; Kress Lindner, stein, Pfaff and Meter. Nobody gave us any chance whatever of winning even one of the legs and for once the experts were right.  We lost in Germany 6-1 and while we went on to the field at Ibrox determined to wipe out this defeat our defence went to pieces and form was confirmed with a 3-6 loss.  When you have gone down by 12 goals to four in a pair of games this is something you do not forget easily.  I recollect a match against Munchen Gladbach for about the same reason as I remember for one against Red Star, but this time I was not injured, but I came off the field thankful the game was over.  There was dynamite in every tackle delivered by the opposition after we had taken a comfortable lead of two goals by Jimmy Miller and myself after about 20 minutes.  Until then we had been allowed to play football but afterwards they gave the impression that they were trying to retrieve the situation, by intimidation. 
THANKFUL
Their two wing halves, Mulhausen and Brougells particularly distinguished themselves in this way and we finished the game thankful that no serious injuries had been sustained.  The same sort of thing happened when we went to Dusseldorf to meet Borussia.  For the first half we were permitted to play football and scored twice without reply and then the pattern of München Gladbach was repeated culminating in a free-for-all after Wilson was deliberately kicked by Mulhusser.  There was a crowd of players and photographers and players mulling around on the pitch with the referee unable to assert his authority.  Somebody knocked down Bedurzig who was taken to hospital to have some teeth straightened out.  After the vast crowd at Ibrox and some of the larger Continental stadia, it was extraordinary to meet Monaco on a ground which held perhaps 7,000.  We had been tipped as easy winners but the tipsters had not reckoned on the temperature which affected our play on the second half.  After a half time lead of 2-0 we were pegged back up two-all and time was fast running out when David Wilson gave me the perfect chances (which I took) to nod in the winning goal.  The second leg we won by the same margin and qualified to meet East Germany’s A1 Army team Vorwaerts in the second round.  This I shall never forget because it took place in berlin the city divided by the Communist wall, which must be seen to be understood.  We had in fact, to travel through the notorious.  Check Point Charlie to get to the ground and in order to pass through we were taken by bus, disembarked on the Western side, escorted through in pouring rain to broad another but on the Eastern side.  In the course of this match I received an injury to my back which was a bit slow in responding to treatment.  However we won 2-1.  Because the East Germany team could not get visas for Scotland it had been agreed that the second leg should be played at Malmo Stadium in Sweden as an evening fixture, but on account of my back injury I was a spectator.  The game started but after about half an hour’s play had to be abandoned because of fog and was rearranged for the following morning.  Once again I was a spectator in fact I was practically THE spectator for this must surely be an all-time record for a small gate for a first-class match; I do not think that it exceeded 250; Rangers won 4-1.  Reading the article may be something like reading an account of a series of battles in medieval history and if this is so, then I am sorry.  However the events which I have mentioned really happened and I have written my recollection of them.” 
EXCEPTION
They were, however, the exception rather than the rule for the ties in which I have played but because of the heat generated during these games they stick in the memory while the details of the pleasanter matches are forgotten.  However there does appear to be something in the make up of some of these Continental players which makes them go to any length to prevent defeat and this something cannot be solely the money involved.  Some of the actions which I have seen not only do a great disservice to the game and bring the clubs involved into bad, repute, but also must make even the most ardent fan ashamed of the actions of players he supports.  If I had to make a selection as to the best team against which I have played in these Cup ties, without hesitated I would put the Bratislava side, Red Star.  Because of the trouble which I have mentioned which resulted to Matlak being sent off they had to play with 10 men of whom was their injured goalkeeper and yet they kept us at full stretch throughout the second half.  Their stamina fitness and knowledge of each other’s play was such that it sometimes seemed as though we were playing against 15 and not only 10 men.  It was only in the dying seconds of the game that we managed to get the winner.  Unquestionably Red Star get three red stars.  I was delighted to have the opportunity of constructing because apart from any other consideration it gives me an opportunity to thanking everybody for his kindness which I particularly and my family have experience since we came to Merseyside.  For my own part I am more than grateful, for the wonderful band of supporters who come to Goodison for the encouragement which I have had from them and I want them to do that I shall do every thing in my power to received it Thank everybody.

THE NAPOLEON OF MILAN
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express, Saturday September 14 1963
HERRERA SAYS; WE WILL BANK ON DEFENCE IN GAME AT GOODISON
£25,000-A-YEAR COACH SUMS UP EVERTON TEAM
Helenio Herrera £25,000 a year coach in Inter-Milan’s race to the Italian League Championship, is reaching for his vocal whip.  He will lash his team from the touchline at Goodison Park on Wednesday, sparing neither invention or inactive to hold Everton in the match of the season- the European Cup first leg clash.  Argentina-born Herrera said; “It will be a hell of an ordeal, for us at Goodison, for I have seen just what a din the local crowd kicks up.  They are tireless and sometimes turbulent -quite an effective 12th man for a very strong team.  “Therefore, I demand every ounce of effort from my men every inch in the straining for speed every residue of courage they can muster from their boots upwards.  “Believe me; I’ll be happy in settle for a draw there.  The second leg in Milan on September 25 is easier by my reckoning -we should get home by at least two clear goals.”  Herrera went on; “We are at a disadvantage right now.  Everton have the tremendous aid of seven League games behind them before the Cup game.  “That means they will be fully wound up.  We will have had only one League game -home to Modena on Sunday.” 
NO MOTTO
Inter-Milan rather surprisingly have no Latin motto as their crest.  The fans in Milan say about Herrera, “In hoc signo vinces, Dix!  It means simply “Win with this sign, I have spoken.”  The sign of course being H.H. as Herrera is known from Bilbao to Bolzano with an imminent extension to Bootle.  What does Herrera think about Everton after seeing them against Burnley last Saturday.  “I did not place much importance in the result as being without key man Vernon, they were rather like my team without.  Suarez,” he says.  “I noticed that they started off with a defensive line-up keeping the wing halves well back.  However, when some goals slipped past them they abandoned their ideals in favour off all-out attack.  “I had to admire the courage and determination as well as skill in the team, the way they fought back to and two goals to almost square the result in Milan. I am certain they will play with a 4-2-4 classic line-up keeping a free man alongside their backs and centre half.  “The Goodison game will depend so much on who scores first “Obviously, I will give strict orders to my team to take no chances and close all avenue to goal as tightly as possible.  We may get a chance to score with a quick counter-attack, particularly if Corso gets Army leave to play.” 
OWN OIL
Herrera added “I have made several decision one being the hotel accommodation.  We will stay at the Adelphi, arriving on the Monday before the game.  “The food, cooked in Italian style, seems excellent but we will bring over own olive all to be on the safeside.”  He cracked “Oil is important in our soccer machine.”  Fast moving Herrera bustles about in a sports car when he is not flying by jet.  His traffic language can very like his gears- Spanish, French and Italian.  Last comment from the coach who is idolised to Milan (he gets more publicity than Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida put together); “I  am just a little troubled by the energetic bustling type of power play one meets in English soccer.  “English referees tend to let many very hard tackles go.  But I am glad we will have a Continental referee for Goodison to keep things as we believe they should be.” 

LUCKY HOTEL
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Saturday September 14 1963
Logistic luck in Everton’s choice of the hotel De La Ville in Monza for their Italian headquarters for the second leg European Cup game against Inter-Milan on September 25?  By several international sports standards -yes.  Jim Clark stayed there and won the racing drivers world championship, Geoff Duke also played them regularly when running up a string of world motorcycle championship wins.  It could help Everton too along the hard road to the European soccer championship. 
BIG SUPPORTERS CLUB
Inter-Milan have a giant supporters club with 39,000 members and a suite of offices on the seventh-marble-floor of a 22-storey skyscraper.  They have club branch offices in 435 Italian towns and also two in neighbouring Switzerland. 

EVERTON ATTACK FOILED BY MILAN-STYLE REARGUARD
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Saturday, September 14 1963
IPSWICH TOWN 0 EVERTON 0
By Horace Yates

Ipswich Town; Bailey; Carberry, Crompton; Baxter, Nelson, Elsworthy, Stephenson, Colran, Crawford, Phillips, Blackwood.  Everton;- West; Parker, Parnell; Sharples, Labone, Harris, Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple.  Referee; Mr. N.A.S. Matthews, Bicester.
Among the crowd gathered in shirt sleeve order in brilliant sunshine a Portman Road today was Mr. Stan Cullis, the Wolves manager, no doubt have to watch the performance of transferisfied Ray Crawford.  Before the game chairman Mr. John Moores and manager Harry Catterick both denied any interest in the centre forward.  Inter Milan concern in Everton activities was in evidence by the appearance at the game or an Italian journalist who was checking up on performance and was most interest in team changes.  West was soon called into action when Blackwood cut inside and hit a terrific drive.  Only by diving full length was West able to push the ball round the post.  The Ipswich defence fell back on the goal but almost fell to a surprise shot from Stevens after Young had given him the chance.  Everton were unlucky not to be a goal ahead in nine minutes when Nelson nodded out a cross and the ball fell a Vernon’s feet Vernon shot hard but the ball hit the of the crossbar. 
CHARGED DOWN
Everton owed much to the courage and daring of West for still being on teams Ellsworthy sent the ball through to Crawford who beat Labone.  He pulled the ball back to Stephenson and had the winger hit the ball first time West could have had the chance.  Stephenson strove for perfection of position and in that fleeting second West hurled himself in front of him and changed the ball down.  Ipswich were exerting strong pressure on the Everton goal and a Blackwood-Colrain link-up produced a troublesome shot from the winger which West cleared with the laid of Labone.  The offside trap twice caught Young in a matter of minutes and produced the slow handclap from the Everton followers.  Only a desperate dive by West kept one of Blackwood’s shots of target and the goalkeeper had to fist a 30-yard drive from Phillips over the crossbar before Everton could gain any relief.  Vernon missed the chance of a lifetime in 28 minutes.  It was his combination with Scott which created the opportunity and when the winger placed the ball in front of goal Vernon had a clear view.  He hit the ball possibly a shade too quickly when he could have steadied himself and the shot flashed outside the post. 
YOUNG’S MISS
Parker ventured up into the attack and Ipswich three times had Bailey to thank for not going into arrears.  First he turned a shot round the post then pushed another out to Young who saw the goalkeeper knock down the third effort at goal.  Two misses in a matter of minute were the sort of luxury the Everton could not afford.  Everton were surely troubled by the Ipswich offside tactics.  The home side drew a straight line nearly 20 yards from goal and this became a no man’s land in which Everton’s aspirations often finished.  The shooting venom of Phillips was in evidence a minute before the interval when a cracked a mighty drive from 30 yards and West had to fling himself across goal to keep the ball out.  Half-time Ipswich Town nil, Everton nil. 
During the interval i spotted Aston Villa manager Joe Mercer in the stand, so that the battle for Crawford’s signature could be fought out by two former Ellesmere Port schoolmates.  I wonder if Everton realised that the tactics adopted by Ipswich were the ideal rehearsal for Wednesday’s might’s European cup game.  The Italian are certain to play a packed defence and it was worrying to find Everton making such heavy-weather of trying to played it.  With second half opened with the mixture as before with Temple whistled up for offside.  A tactical switch saw Everton employ Vernon at centre forward; Scott inside right and Young outside right.
PRAISEWORTHY
It was not long before Young was in action and his praise-worth shot only just defeated the bar.  Harris was going up time after time andalso helped himself in a shot without worrying Bailey.  Temple was tripped on the edge of the penalty area and with the defence massed in front of goal.  Vernon pulled the ball back to Temple, who also straight at Barley.  Harris provided Stevens with a great opportunity only for the inside forward to clear the bar.  Then when Young invited Vernon to open the scoring the skipper unbalanced could only lob the ball into Bailey’s hands.  With sharp shooter of the calibre if Phillips around.  West never knew from what distance the ball would come flying in his direction.  He made one magnificent save with a ball that seemed to be streaking towards is objective.  Parker repaid the compliment at the other end and cleared the crossbar only by inches but still the elusive goal refused to materialise.
SCOTT NEGLECTED
The man who might have been most successful at beating the offside traps was Scott, who had the beating of Compton and yet Everton were strangely reluctant to give him the opportunity to try.  At last Everton put Scott in employment and from his centre Stevens went very close with a header.  The venturesome Parker took the ball right up to the penalty area only to have his shot saved by a surprised Bailey.  Play was halted while Parnell received attention for a leg injury.  From a short corner kick by Scott, Stevens raced up quickly and his shot struck the past.  When Scott crossed the by Young headed to Temple whose shot was charged down by a defender but even so went very near goal.  Everton I thought were desperately unlucky when Vernon brought the ball from his own goal and sent forward to Scott. In went the linesman’s flag for offside although as I saw it Scott must have been two or three yards on side when the pass was made Scott was completely clear.  Parnell Everton’s only available left back for the European cup-tie went down with an injury and his team mates clustered round anxiously as trained Eggleston gave attention, Parnell was able to resume obviously in great pain, but a moment later had to “Imp off.”  In the last minute Crawford headed just wide.  Parnell later returned.  Final; Ipswich Town nil, Everton nil.  Attendance 20,099. 
EVERTON F.C MILESTONE
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WILL INJURIES CLEAR FOR MILAN CUP TIE?
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Saturday September 14 1963
By Alex Young
With Everton due to take their first step into Europe by entertaining the Italian champions, internationale Milan on Wednesday evening, the injury bug could not have picked a worse time to settle at Goodison Park.  We are keeping four finger crossed and hoping that most who missed today’s wait to Ipswich will be all right for Wednesday, but if we do have to go into this important cup-tie without one or two of our regulars ten I hope we can rely on our 12th man the Goodison crowd – to play a real blunder.  Our fans have never let us down aid I know they will not mind me appealing for a special effort during the vital first leg against Milan.  We need to build up at least a two goal lead to give us a chance in the seconds leg and this will not be easy, for we all know that if the trend of the European competition in recent years is any guide then Milan will arrive here in a defensive frame of mind.  However, from my limited European Cup experience -playing for Hearts twice if against Benfica and sitting on the side-lines through injury and watching my former club play standard Leige – I rate our chances of further progress as good.
TACTICAL THICK
We have done no special training but that does not mean there is not a tactical trick or two bidden up Manager Catterick’s sleeve for Wednesday night.  Whether Milan decide to play a defensively or not I hope we are able to provide spectators with a game worthy of Merseyside first big European Cup occasions.  Last Saturday our proud unbeaten run, which has stretched over, two years came to an end and while there was naturally some disappointing at Goodison Park let me congratulate Burnley or their 4-3 victory.  Maybe this is a game we should not have lost but it is not use trying over split milk and the best king to do now is to settle down and start another two year run of home success.  Fans I have spoken to since Saturday tell me that from the terrace this was a most exciting match.  Down on the playing pitch the pace certainly appeared to be terrific. 
CHEERFUL SANDY
I felt particularly sorry for new full back Sandy Brown, for after the slower tempo of Scottish football he must have felt that he had stepped straight into the jet age.  A cheerful character Sandy took no time at all to settle down at Everton.  He has a grand sense of humour and will certainly help to ease away any pre-match tensions.  A remarkable feature of Burnley’s victory was that they scored four times during six attacks in the first half and might have had a fifth goal if Sandy had not been in position to kick off the goal-line.  Thoughts that we were suffering from the after-effects, of that grant championship celebration the previous Thursday were soon dispelled when the second half started.  True our flight back did not come off, but it was one of those occasions when we were so near and get so far from success.  Thursday’s dinner incidentally and the cabaret which followed provided a most memorable evening and it was a great thrill to meet such personalities, as Dixie Dean and Tommy Lawton, Dixie certainly helped to keep the party going with his never-ending supply of first class stories. 
BOLTON DOUBLE
This Wednesday evening we were able to get back on winning path by completing a double over Bolton I found this an enjoyable same but looking back think that we won it with a little in hand.  Bolton’s young team certainly played with great determination however, and did not give up until the final whistle.  Sometimes a side of youngsters like this all obviously trying to impress can prove harder to beat than a more experienced team.  I thought Alex Parker who is in top form this season had yet another grand match, while it is nice to see par winger Alex Scott and Derek Temple doing so well.  Their speed may be just the thing we used to carry us through the Milan defensive wall.  There was a pleasant surprised for Ernie Horrigan the man two drives the Everton work this week.  The news quickly spread aroused Goodison Ernie turned up in a new blazer to take as for training on Tuesday morning and Manager Harry Catterick took the opportunity to present Ernie with an Everton badge and to go with.  A rabid Evertonian Ernie (quite seriously) days a grand job. 

GOODISON PARK AND THE BIRTH OF A NEW CLUB
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Saturday, September 14, 1963
FOOTBALL ON MERSEYSIDE
By Percy M. Young
Lord Action, had felt so inclined, might have looked at the affairs of the Everton Football Club in the early nineties and reflected again on his celebrated concerning power and corruption.  The villain of the piece was their characteristic, self-made Victorian, John Houlding.  Alternatively he could considered also as the hero of the piece.  Either way, in 1892 we see in the climax of Houlding’s discomfiture the perfect example of the Ahistorical figure of tragedy brought down by unseen agents which inverted his qualities so that they became defects, but, beyond that was a neat reversal of fortune which quickly how Houlding re-established and once more at east a local hero.  Everton at has been seen were doing very nicely and their coffers were relatively full.  Despite internal dissensions they had through the possession of a fine set of players of proved loyalty risen to the heights and could be expected to do so again.  In an age in which money talked Houlding believed Everton and himself to be synonymous -hence the image of “King John”   Accordingly he became increasingly proprietorial, and as a patron worthy to be set beside the most aggressive of those who stood over the arts in the 18th century.  He put the club’s rent up, charged a higher rate of interest on his loans, and generally insisted on having his own way as the same time he appointed to the majority of Liverpool and the Conservative nomination to the Everton and Kirkdale Division – to which he considered his record of public service and his standing in the increasingly important would of football entitled him.  What he lacked was finesse and Houlding’s brusque approach and patent egoism brought him to disaster.  The effective start to open hostilities at Everton was he receipt in September 1891 of a letter from Orrell the owed of the site, who asked for certain alterations to be undertaken and threatening to withdraw the tenancy if this was not done. 
SHREWD
Houlding came to a special meeting of the club with the matter tied up- or so he thought A Limited Liability Company would be formed with the invention of purchasing the site.  Orrell was prepared to sell at 7s, 6d a square yard and the area in Orrell’s name comprised 13,000 square yards.  Further Orrell would agree to a mortgage at the reasonable rate of 4 per cent.  But this was but a beginning.  Houlding himself owned 15,000 square yards at joining Orrell’s plot a shrewd purchase on his part) which he offered it £8,000 of which £3,000 should be left on mortgage also a 4 per cent.  Two hundred and seventy nine members attended the meeting from which the Press was excluded -and refused to countenance what some bitterly referred to as a “policy of Shylock.”  That Houlding injudiciously threatened to dispossess the club and found a new one merely stiffened resistance while the exclusion of the Press served only to ensure the maximum of publicity.  Under the cloud of uncertainly the team did no more than moderately finding itself half -way down the League table.  On the other hand the reserved in the combination went from strength to strength winning 33 out of the first 25 matches and scoring 104 goals against 14.  While those who talked about a second senior club in Liverpool glanced a little uneasily at the Liverpool Caldonians, a recent formation mostly of expatriate Scotsman which drew reasonable gates to entertaining matches of some quality -often against teams such as Cowlairs and Airdrieonians from the motherland.  On January 25, 1892, a large majority at Everton (while the club was occupied in a High Court action in Glasgow concerning Dan Doyle’s breaking of contract during the previous season threw out Houlding’s proposition whereupon the club use given notice to quite and Houlding registered his Everton football Club and Athletic Ground Company Limited, with himself R.E Berry William Houlding, A. Nisbet, J.J. Ramsay, J. Derwent; W.F. Evans and John McKenna as sponsors.  At this juncture it seemed that before long Liverpool would be blessed with two football teams, each styled Everton.  Murmurings of discontent grew to thunder as the “King” began to assert his power, his subject broke out in open rebellion.  Very spot in became a war to the knife.  On one side were the “King” the shrews of war and a small and chosen bang on the other side were a big army of malcontents fighting armistices and stratagems, first on the part of the “King” and then on the part of the rebels followed alternatively.  Finally the King has been kicked and the victorious host have elected to migrate to a fresh field and pastures new, where a heavy rental will cease from troubling and the footballers be at rest.” The Liverpool Review and the rest of the Press enjoyed the sensation thus created and the article in the Review, which signified Houlding’s defeat was a gleeful and lyrical exploitation of a situation tailor-made so far as avid journalism was concerned.  On March 15 meeting of the club which thus stimulated the Review was held and the opposition to Houlding ably led by Malons and W.R. Clayton, carried with them all but 18 who included however one or two men of outstanding qualities of the 500 or so present in their determination to leave Anfield Road rather than submit to what I was described as tyranny.  The meeting was grandly dramatic Houlding being apparently about Mahon took the chair however Houlding appeared and before a hushed and packed house Mahon courteously offered to relinquish his authority,  I am here on trial” said Houlding and a criminal never takes the chair he stops in the dock.”  (Cries of “oh” and a voice “Best place for him.”  After the heroics the business was expeditiously concluded and an Everton guarantee fund augurated which quickly accumulated £1, 517.  And after this the team found the form that had earlier eluded them, to finish fifth in the League.  It should be said that the Mahon group had been by no means unprepared to arrive at a compromise, having according to the Liverpool Post of March 21, expressed their “willingness to continue (Houldings) tenants upon certain and not unreasonable terms but he never thought it worthwhile to even reply to these overtures so far as the majority the members were concerned the negotiation were at an end.”  Previously agents had inspected possible alternative sites and of these a piece of land at the north side of Stanley Park appeared as the most promising.  After the crisis had passed the loyalists in the club formed a limited liability company (this had been envisaged at a committee meeting as far back as May 22, 1889) and engaged to purchase what is now Goodison Park for £8,000. 
INVESTMENT
There area being almost 30,000 square yards, it can be seen, in view of present values what arriving investment this was.  Spurred on by a crescendo of enthusiasm (Baxter, who had not £200 into the original guarantee, now made a loan of £1,000 requiring no security and asking no interest preparations went ahead and on August 24 a dinner was given at the Adelphi to celebrate the opening of Goodison Park.  Lord Kinnaird flanked by Dr. Morley, J.J. Bentley of the League and F.J. Wall of the Football Association and hearted by the band of the 3rd Liverpool Regiment directed of the celebrated T. Rimmer was the official consecrator.  He and his friends stayed for the athletic sports and firework display in the evening.  On September 2 the first match took place on the new ground against Bolton Wanderers.  The home team was; Jardine; Howarth, Dewar; Boyle, Holt, Robertson; Latta, Maxwell, Geary, Chadwick, Milward, (Kelso was a reserve) Although Bolton sprang into a two goal lead.  Everton seeing that victory was required went into top gear to win by 4-2.  Giving away two goals in the past match, against Nottingham Forest proved a biggest hazard and the team had to be content with a draw.  But at Villa Park defeat by 4-1 was accompanied by an injury to Jardine so serious that he was out for the rest of the season and a state of insecurity ensued.  A number of goalkeepers were tried until on January 14, the Bromborough boy R. Williams, was put in charge again.  Thereafter came eight successive victories renewed confidence and a final satisfactory placing of third. 
OLD RIVALS
The outstanding match of the season was that on February 11, against Preston -their first appearance at Goodison.  Only once had Everton won a League match against these old rivals in 1889-90 and never in Liverpool.  In the most recent contest, in December, Preston won by 5-0 bit now at Goodison, Preston (Nick Ross, being injured acted as linesman) fell apart and conceding six goals without reply sustained their heaviest defeat in any League match.  Defeated by democratic processes, Houlding proved a bad loser.  He was reported to have hindered the Everton officials in removing their properly from Anfield Road- an office turnstiles and a length of hosepipe, to be precise-and to have laid claim to a challenge shield won by the club and intended by them as a trophy to be competed for at the projected athletic at the projected athletic meeting.  Houlding complain was that all the criticisms of his behaviour were part of a sinister plot on the part of the radicals to unseat him from power.  As not unnaturally the left-wing Press took advantage of Houldings proclamations and actions the Conservative organs weighted in on the other side.  Between the two a more radical tune was introduced by the Reviews.  “Here,” it comments on May 28, 1892 “it is time to pause.  How Mr. Houlding can spare the time in the round of his multifarious public duties to attend to these weighty matters of football passes comprehension.  What a lot his constituents must lose by these football demands.  Really, it is a matter of congratulation that Everton’s conservative King’ did not precede Mr. John Wilcox as M.P for Everton and Kirkdale in that even the division must have sunk into chaos.  Everton and Kirkdale Division in particular and Liverpool in general have much to be thankful for.  “No man can serve a football crowd and an electoral constituency at one and the game time.  Criticism and turnstiles and hosepipe and rent and things are bound to queer him in the long run in most sensible men were Mr. John Houlding they would shake the duties of football management from their feet.  Probably too they would have less truck with football scribes Mr. John Houlding may feel that way by this time Who knows?”  the answer to that was -Mr. John Houlding.  Once he had looked at the prospective emptiness of Anfield Road and calculated that if one football club was an asses to the city two- with sufficient backing – would be even better the Liverpool Football Club was in being with W.E Barclay -late of the Everton faction -as secretary and a loan of £500 from Houlding, president to underpin their early efforts.  It was a brave even fool-hardy gesture.  The F.A looked askance at the proposed Liverpool Association Football Club and took some time in giving dejure recognition, the League was lukewarm and the local Rugby Union organisation protested -unsuccessfully as it happened – against what they considered a usurpation of title.  And the Liverpool Post pointed out that although Anfield Road was the most popular ground in the country it was not the enclosure itself but the high-class quality of the football detailed out to the patrons that has made it a favourite rendezvous.  At this juncture one of the greatest names in football appears -that of John McKenna an Irishman (and therefore typifying another aspect of Liverpool life whose inherited characteristics came out most strongly in a vivid imagination which adherence to English standards of social order did nothing to suppress.  Mckenna a native of County Monaghan where he was born in 1855 came as a grocer’s errand-boy to Liverpool in 1873.  From grocery he proceeded to vaccination clerking in the West Derby Union Vaccination Office.  His early leisure was partly consecrated to military affairs and he became a sergeant major in the South Lancashire Artillery Volunteer.  A gamesman by gravitated first to Rugby football and in 1885 was chairman of the battery team and also a member of the West Lancashire Rugby Union.  But occasional visits to Anfield Road developed into regular engagement as Everton showed him the merits of Association football and by 1892 he was a perfervid supporters of the game.  McKenna was a director of the Liverpool club for 30 years in 1905 he became a member of the F.A Council in 1911 President of the Football League and in 1928 a vice-president of the Football Association. 

EVERTON RES V CHESTERFIELD RES
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Saturday, September 14 1963
Everton Res; Dunlop; Brown, Morrissey; Jarvis, Heslop, Rees; Shaw, Harvey, Hurst, Russell, Veall.  Chesterfield Res;- Powell; Clarke, Poole; Witham, Minton, Beresford; Armstrong, Blackburn, Scott, McQuarrie, Purell.  Referee; Mr. D.W. Goddard (Preston).  Everton Reserves were a goal up in the first minute.  This came from splendid movement on the right between Harvey and Russell which completely bamboozled the Chesterfield defence Harvey’s shot into the corner of the net was unstoppable.  Chesterfield were trying to play good football but the Everton class was obvious even in the early stages.  They got a second goal at 12 minutes when Shaw put across a centre which went into a ruck of players and finished in the net, skidding off a Chesterfield defender.  Ten minutes later Everton went three up when Russell headed in a shaw centre. 

EVERTON TO WIN FIRST LEG
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Saturday 14 1963
INTER ARE THIRD BEST TEAM IN WORLD
By Leslie Edwards
Everton were among the first British clubs to pioneer soccer on the Continent.  That was less than 50 years ago.  Now the students showing the way to the one-time professors.  Has far the students have progressed we shall see at Goodison Park when Internazionale of Milan come there in the first round of the European Cup an show us their wages.  The last famous club from “outside” to play at the same ground, Bangu, a very unfavourable impression in spite of the fact that they came with an enormous reputation.  Whether Everton survive the tie or not depends almost wholly on whether star players who are injured can be got fit in time to play in this first leg match at the moment the prospects are not hopeful.  But I think that on the night it will be found that only the left-back position gives cause for concerns.  With George Thomson and Mick Meagan damaged Everton have tried, desperately to find someone in fill the bill at left half.  Brian Harris, Rees and Sharples, of the reserves are men who have been considered.  The choice of Meagan cannot play, will almost certainly be Parnell the Central League man who has had only rare appearance in the first team.  Mr. Catterick could have switched more experienced players to 11 the role, but he wants a few changes as possible and so Parnell may het his big chance in the first European Cup game ever played in this city. 
PUBLIC RIGHT SHY
No match for years has had such advance publicity.  Yet ticket at increased prices have gone, badly.  Do fans think that the visitors committed to all-out defence in the first leg tie will not play sufficiently attractively.  Do they considered that an Everton player with injury will not be good enough to establish an advantage in readiness for the second game, in Milan next week?  Are the increased changes responsible for the luke-warm attitude if football lovers towards that should be one of the best notable matches ever seen this city?  All or some of these reasons could be valid, it could be that we will be a capacity be to on the night.  Whatever the attention one will be sure everyone present will be giving Everton their unstinted support.  Helenio Herrare, Argentinian-born manager of Internazionale they say he received £25,000 a year to do the job as already seen and hear an Everton crowd in action have it as his opinion that they were worth a great deal to the team they worship.  Herrera has made some points about the manliness of the game he watched – the Burnley match.  He say the thought some of the matches would not go unpunished in Italy I am with him there.  But the policy that the tie will be controlled by a Hungarian referee.  His standard may be different from ours and Italy’s.  it is always a disadvantage to a referee when he cannot speak the language in this case, it seems, he will understand neither language and will have to consent himself with the language of football signs.  Not having seen Internazionale it is difficult to assess them, but Manager Harry Catterick rates them as one of the three leading clubs sides in the world much less Europe.  And as he made a trip recently especially to see them play he is not working on collateral form, but on the evidence of his eye.  Many people think Everton will not survived the first leg much less the second, but this is not my view. 
TREMENDOUS INCENTIVE
It would not surprise me if Everton took a substantial lead at Goodison Park.  They are all out to justify themselves in International competition, the incentive, monetarily is tremendous and they have the players, the team spirit and the a skill to get goals against any team.  They will not find competition against foreigners strange because they were well blooded in the New York international tournament two years ago.  At outside-right they have in Alex Scott the most experienced player in Britain and one of the most experienced players in the world in European Cup contests.  Elsewhere in this issue he gives his idea of what may happened in the tie and reminiscences on some of the many games he played in the same competition for Glasgow Rangers.  He will certainly have given Manager Catterick and the rest of the team a first hand insight into the way things go when teams of differing styles and techniques complete against each other.  The European Cup was instituted in Season 1955-56 to be played for by the champions of the Football League of Europe.  Real Madrid won each of the first five tournaments, but their stranglehold was broken when another Spanish club Barcelona beat them in the second round in 1960-61.  Each round except in the final is decided by the home and away goal aggregate.  Everton; West; Parker, Meagan; (Or Parnell); Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple.Internazionale of Milan;Sarti; Burgnich, Fachetti; Sysmaniak, Guareri, Picchi; Lair, Mazzola, Milani, Suarex, Corso.

EVERTON’S THREE KEY CHANGES
Liverpool Daily Post -Saturday, September 14, 1963
RESERVES CAN STAKE CLAIM TO CUP PLACE
WHILE Everton’s injury position is not quite as black as it might have been, goodness knows it to too bad for comfort.  To have to make three key defensive changes for a visit to Ipswich is hardly the ideal preliminary, but this may help to prove the point Everton have been making for a long time- that a team is only as good as its reserves.  The double banking system they have tried to follow is obviously highly desirable for any club of Everton’s aspirations and it may well be that reserve strength will be good enough to see them through at Ipswich.  If Everton are harbouring any idea of adding centre-forward Ray Crawford to their strength to-day will give them a first-class opportunity of seeing him at work at close quarters.  He has not scored since the season’s opening game, but his understanding with Phillips is normally deadly in its accuracy.  Labone will have to be at his most competent to-day to cope with this goal-front menace. 
NO REASON
A popular theory is that you have only to look at a team’s half back line to decide its strength.  Anyone can look at Gabriel, Labone and Kay for as long as they like, without discovering any reason why Everton should not remain a great force.  Unfortunately, that line is not there to-day, but I don’t think Brian Harris will be found waiting.  After all the only reason he was demoted was that Kay was a superman among wing halves, and not because of any obvious Harris weakness.  Sharples may not be as mobile as the goal-seeking Gabriel but where a solid defensive job is wanted, Sharples can usually measure up to it, and Parnell will be battling hard.  Everton won 3-0 at Ipswich last season and while there may not be such a margin to-day, I am hoping to see what advantage there is, going Everton’s way, especially as Vernon is back to added to the striking force.  No one can yet say what team Everton will field against Inter-Milan, so that every man playing to-day will have the incentive of striking his claim for a place in the European Cup battle next Wednesday.  Ipswich Town; Bailey; Carberry, Compton; Baxter, Nelson, Elsworthy, Stephenson, Colrain, Crawford, Phillips, Blackwood.  Everton; West; Parker, Parnell; Sharples, Labone, Harris, Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple. 
CRAWFORD CAN GO
Ipswich Town directors could scarcely have timed better their announcement that they had agreed to a request by their English international centre forward Ray Crawford to be placed on the transfer list -providing Everton were interested.  The announcement was made as Everton arrived in Ipswich, accompanied by chairman John Moores, director Holland Hughes, C. Baimforth and manager Harry Catterick so that they were perfectly placed to see Crawford in action to-day.  I asked manager Catterick last night whether or not they were interested in Crawford and he repelled “Not at all.  Two years ago, the position was different, but we do not intend taking any action now.” 

VERNON, GABREIL AND KAY ALL TO PLAY
Liverpool Daily Post, Monday 14, 1963
ONLY MICK MEAGAN IS MISSING
HARRIS AT LEFT BACK AGAINSTR INTER-MILAN
By Horace Yates
Everton supporters can breathe again! After all the doubts and fears about the likely composition of their team to receive Inter-Milan in the first leg of the European Cup match at Goodison Park on Wednesday, manager Harry Catterick states that it will be a full strength Everton- apart from Mick Meagan, the left back, who is a non-starter.  The team reported at the ground yesterday and after an examination by the club physiotherapist, Norman Borrowdale, it was announced that Vernon, Kay and Gabriel were all fit and would definitely play.  There are no other injuries to worry about, so that Everton’s position is very much happier to-day that had seemed possible.  How Mr. Catterick will tackle the task of filling the left back position is a puzzle only he can solve, and the only clue he will offer is that the players will be named from Morrissey, Parnell, and Harris.  “It is fair to say that during the last twelve months Heslop, Harris, Rees, Heslop, Morrissey and Parnell have all played at one time or another at left back.” Mr. Catterick told me.  As the Everton manager can invariably provide a logical explanation for his decisions, it is helpful to remember this in trying to forecast what he will do.  Inevitably, with the players at his disposal, the filling of the position is a gamble.  Because Parnell played at Ipswich it is reasonable to assume that he must be very much in the running and as he did nothing at all in that match to undermine any confidence the manager may have had in him, he must go on the short list.  We might have had a more pointed indication if Parnell had still been chosen, and Kay and Gabriel had been in the side.  they had been in the side.  they could not play at Ipswich, so that Brian Harris had to take up his customary half back position.  I wonder if, in other circumstances, Mr. Catterick would have revealed his hand by playing Harris at N0.5.
TOO RECENT
Morrissey, I would say, is too recent an introduction to full back play to be very seriously considered, and I believe Mr. Catterick will find himself deciding between Parnell and Harris, with Harris getting the vote eventually because of his vastly greater experience of first team football, which must be a decisive consideration in a situation such as this.  He made his senior debut in 1955 and has proved himself a most useful utility player.  Because Inter-Milan, who arrive in Liverpool today, play in blue and black stripes Everton will have to change their dress, according to the rules of the competition, and an all-white strip in which they played at Ipswich has been decided on.  The Lord Mayor (Alderman J. McMillan) will receive the Italians at the Town Hall at 11 a., on Wednesday.  Inter-Milan are entirely dedicated to the task confronting them.  When they were asked if any entertainment should be arranged for them, the offer was firmly turned down.  Chairman John Moores, who has been very active in a sort of public relations role for this match, tells me that Inter-Milan are charging £3 10s 0d.  £1 15s 0d and £1 3s 0d for stand tickets for the second leg on Wednesday week and that they expect to take about £80,000 in gate money.  All his can do however, is to turn Everton slightly green with envy for the competing clubs retain their own gate receipts only hotel charges having to be met by the home club.  Everton’s estimated is that they will have at least a 600 strong following when they visit Milan and the home club have agreed to retain up to 800 stand tickets for Everton supporters use, until the strength of the travelling party is known.  Everton’s reading of the rule is that no substitutes will be allowed, and that this bar extends to goalkeepers.

INADEQUATE FINISHING COST EVERTON A POINT
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Monday, September 16 1963
By Horace Yates
Naturally, Everton would have been happier had they taken two goals at Ipswich, but one point and a freedom from injury, was not an unsatisfactory haul, in view of Wednesday’s European Cup clash with Inter-Milan at Goodison Park.  So clearly the better side, I was disappointed not to see Everton score at least one goal to break the stalement and bring success.  That this one-sided match should leave Everton without a goal was an indictment of their attack, for chances of the most inviting nature were created and lost through inadequate finishing.  The men from whom we expect the most satisfying finish -Vernon and Young – were the chief culprits, but this was not their day just as Stephenson and Phillips will swear that they would not fall again from the type of chance they spurned on Saturday.  It was necessary for Ipswich to make the most of their opportunities for they were nothing like so prolific as those Everton created, and in the second half when the home team hardily escaped from their own half, the champions failure to breach the defence completely packed though it was in their honour was hardly inspiring.
MISCALCULATION
When a team is staking all on its defensive blanket it is more than ever essential for linesmen to be especially alert for so often an attacking player may seem to be in an offside position when he gains possession, and yet have been perfectly in order at the time the pass was made.  Everton I am convinced were a victim of such a miscalculation in the closing stages when Vernon at last caught the defence on the top and put the flying Scott through, faced only by the goalkeeper Scott as I saw it, was yards onside when Vernon made the pass, but in my opinion the linesman was deceived by the speed of Scott’s swoop and the fact that he was so completely in the clear.  If defences are to be given the benefit of decisions such as that the task of the attack becomes particularly thankless. 
TIMELY WARNING
I believe the match showed quite clearly that Vernon needed a game of this type to equip him for Wednesday’s battle.  He did enough to prove that his leg is sound again and with the increased confidence that this is bound to give him, I look for a more incisive role against Inter-Milan.  With Young switching positions repeatedly, the attack did not flow with its usual smoothness and Scott in particularly suffered from lack of adequate service.  It was all to the advantage of Ipswich that the outside right should be neglected for if Everton had a player capable of turning that defence in my view it was Scott.  Temple tried hard enough without being able to obtain a true mastery over Carberry.  Actually their experience in this game could be a timely warning to Everton for Inter-Milan’s defensive screen is certain to be more efficient and uncompromising than that of Ipswich. 
DISINTEGRATED
Much of the coaching to-day and to-morrow, I expect will be devoted to overcoming tactics which everyone knows will be adopted.  I know Everton have their plans, but whether by accident or design and in the knowledge that Italian reporters were present at Ipswich possibly to “spy” on Everton the master strokes may have been kept in reserves.  Let us hope so.  In view of the certainty that Mick Meagan will not play on Wednesday the display of Roy Parnell became of paramount importance.  The fact that his winger Stephenson hardly ever accomplished anything of note could be pointed out in Parnell favour, but such a tribute has to his qualified because the Ipswich attack almost completely disintegrated.  So obviously was this that Brian Harris decided he could afford to ignore debutant Colrain and adopt a foraging forward role.  In the circumstances Parnell could have done no more than he did, but whether manager Harry Catterick will consider it wise to bank on a player of such limited experiences remains to be seen.  Inter Milan will be a vastly different proposition from Ipswich.  I don’t think Stevens could taken a match easily if he tried it in contrary to his nature, and his fetching and carrying work was at prodigious as even.  Sharples also did his job effectively and looked very good in the air where Labone was supreme in his tussles with Crawford and Phillips.  Labone with confidence apparently restored only gave Crawford one fleeting chance to impress managers.  Joe Mercer (Aston Villa) and Stan Culls (Wolves) who were there to watch him.  Both Parker for his persistent and dangerous attack and West, when Ipswich took a share of the attacking picture earlier in the game did their job well. 

EVERTON’S ONLY DOUBT IS AT LEFT BACK
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Monday, September 16 1963
VERNON, KAY AND GABRIEL FIT FOR CUP-TIE
MILAN TEAM CHOICE
By Michael Charters
While the Inter-Milan team was flying from Italy today Everton were taking stock of their injury position before Wednesday night’s European Cup tie at Goodison Park.  And the news was good from Goodison.  The only doubt in the Everton side will be at left back -the rest of the team will be the regular line-up.  Vernon, Kay, and Gabriel (the last two missed Saturday’s match at Ipswich are fit again with Vernon coming through his League test with out any recurrence of his knee injury.  Meagan is not yet fit, and this leaves the left back position between Parnell who did well there at Ipswich and wing half Harris who has deputised by the injured Gabriel in the last two matches.  There is the chance also that winger Morrissey, left back for the reserves on Saturday will come into the reckoning. 
TEAM DELAYED
Manager Harry Catterick is delaying his choice between these although it seems he will probably name either Harris or Parnell for the problem position.  Harris may get the vote because of his much greater experience -Parnell had only had three League games in his life.  The Inter-Milan party including 75 players, left Milan this morning and arrived at Manchester Airport this afternoon.  From there they went by road to their Birkdale hotel which will be their headquarters this week.  It was originally planned that they should stay at the Adelphi Hotel in the city, but changed this so that the players could train on the beach at Southport, which is within waiting distance of their hotel.  At Manchester airport they asked; “Are Vernon, Gabriel and Kay fit?  We regard them as Everton’s chief danger men.  Coach Helenio Herrera added; We do not have any injury problems.  We will be happy within a draw at Goodison Park.  Than we will aim for a win in the second leg in Milan.
LIKELY SIDE
I understand from Milan that, the team’s line-up has been decided.  It will be the same team which defeated Modena 2-1 in the opening game of the Italian League season yesterday with the exception of outside left Corso, who cannot obtain leave from the Army.  He will be replacing by the German with half, Szymaniak who will play a defensive rule although, wearing the No. 11 jersey.  The team is likely to be; Sarti; Burgnich, Fachetti; Sysmaniak, Guareri, Picchi; Lair, Mazzola, Milani, Suarex, Corso.   They do not play well yesterday and the forwards missed many chances against the modern Modens.  Afterwards their coach, Helenio Herrera said; “I’m satisfied.  Two points were all I wanted and none of my players was hurt.  We will improve against Everton and we needed this League game to pep us up for the big test at Goodison.  Three plane loads of Inter-Milan supporters are coming on Wednesday to see the game.  The millionaire president of the club, Angelo Morrall will arrive in his private plane. 

VEALL, SHAW STAR FOR EVERTON
Liverpool daily Post, Monday, September 16, 1963
EVERTON RES 6 CHESTERFIELD RES 0
Although a vastly superior Everton reserves soundly beat Chesterfield Reserves in this Central League game at Goodison Park, the visitors deserved praise for their clean constructive football which came to naught against a cast-iron home defence.  Chesterfield had no answer to wingers Veall and Shaw who dominated the game following a first-minute goal after a splendid inter-passing movement between Harvey and Russell.  Ably supported by their respective half backs the two-defence wide open and only a magnificent display by goalkeeper Powell kept the score to six.  All the home forwards scored, Harvey, Hurst and Russell, in the first half and Hurst, Shaw and Veall in the second. 

ITALIANS TRAIN AT SOUTHPORT
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Tuesday, September 17 1963
WING HALF IS INJURED
LATE CHANGE
By Michael Charters
Inter-Milan, setting down well in their Birkdale headquarters may be forced to make a late change in their side to face, Everton in the European Cup tie at Goodison Park tomorrow night.  Right half Boichi who looks remarkably like Dixie Dean of 30 years ago, is suffering from a leg injury received in their Italian League game on Sunday.  He is likely to be replaced by Tagnin, one of five reserves with the party, who played only one League game last season.  The Italian players trained by the Liverpool School for the Partially Deaf.  The players had on their navy and blue strip for the long loosener.  After some quick passing practice the team spilt up for a seven-a-side match.  I understand they had plans for visiting Goodison Park later today, but officials at the club said they had no knowledge of it.  It was expected that the Milan party would look around the ground tomorrow. 
BUT NO OIL
Helenio Herrera, the Inter-Milan coach is said to be pleased with his team’s location -and the weather -but the only compliant so far is that part of their baggage containing some playing kit, and the consignment of olive oil they wanted to be used is the preparation of their food did not arrive yesterday.  Apparently some of the luggage went astray when the party changed places in Paris yesterday, but they have been told that it will arrive to-day.  Meanwhile at Everton, all the players with the exception of the injured Mick Meagan had their normal training stint at Bellefield.  Manager Harry Catterick delays naming his team until to-morrow but the only doubt, as already known is who will be at left back. 
WALTON MOVE
MEETING ON SOCCER MATCH PARKING IS URGED
A meeting of Liverpool and Everton F.C, and City Council representatives to discuss car-parking outside football grounds is urged by Walton Labour Party.  “We believe that the football clubs hav an equal responsibility with the council  in resolving this problem,” says a resolution. 

HERE'S HOPING EVERTON HIT PURPLE PATCH
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Wednesday, September 18 1963
By Michael Charters
The famous Argentine-born coach of Inter-Milan, Helenio Herrera, saw Everton play Burnley recently and made the usual tongue in check comments about the team’s opponents in the European Cup to-night at Goodison Park (7-30) But he also said, with feeling that he was deeply impressed by the Goodison crowd whom be described as a magnificent twelfth man, Everton’s fans conscious of the importance of this show-piece game in Everton’s first appearances in this competition, will be in tremendous voice to-night appreciating the necessity of Everton winning clearly to have an advantage for the return match a week to-day.  The Italian team are used to crowd noise and the defeating whistling of their supporters when something displeases them.  But I think they must be affected by the anger volume of sound that a near-capacity Goodison attendance can produce I have news for Senior Herrera in that he regular  Evertonians are going to be joined by plenty of people from the Anfield Kop, if the sentiments in the following letter are anything to go by Mr. Duggie Williams of 23 Albemarie Road, Kirkby writes.
“As a rabid Red for the past 28 years I am looking forward to the game to-night across the back with a certain amount of excitement.  Seeing that Liverpool cannot win the European Cup this season I know that won’t be the only Liverpool supporters giving Everton the benefit of their lung power to helm them to a Merseyside victory.  At a time like this we can forget our partisanship but only 90 minutes) and show these Continentals that Blue and Red mixed make a purple patch.  Well said, Mr. Williams Everton will need and appreciate all the encouragement the crowd can give them.
STANDARD PROCEDURE
It is recognised now that Inter-Milan will adopt the retreating, defence in depth tactics which have become standard procedure in away teams in the European Cup.  It will be an all-out Everton attack against all-out Milan defence-as the reverse will probably apply next Wednesday night in the San Siro Stadium.  These conditions make for an explosive atmosphere in which “incidents” can flare up into scenes -we have seen them at Goodison Park in the past few years when Everton played Bangu and the Hungary Under-23 side faced England Under-23.  With a Hungarian referee in charge tonight much will depend on his handing of affairs.  There is prestige and national pride at stake in these games and we have seen the type of “battles” which these European cup-ties can become in television sessions of near-mayhem.  Body-checking jersey-tugging and general niggling tactics are to be expected.  It is to be hoped that Everton cap maintain the poise in what will surely be a cauldron of noise and excitement.  We can only wish that this will be one of the really great occasions in football history in the city with the emphasis on football.  Fortunately the Everton injury position so serious in the past fortnight, has sorted itself in time so that they will be at full strength in every position bar left back, where the choice rests between Brian Harris and Roy Parnell with the chance that John Morrissey is also lurking in the wings for what would be shock selection.  Roy Vernon, Tony Kay and Jimmy Gabriel are fit again.  Manager Harry Catterick will have devised plans to beat the Inter-Milan defensive scheme which is similar to that used by West Ham at Anfield last Saturday.  Senior Herrera has made his tactics quite plain with his statement “We am to close every avenue to our goal.  We will be happy with a draw, or even a one-goal defeat.  We are not likely to see much flowing football in that case as the very nature of the competition produces negation of attractive football, but maybe Everton will do the entertaining to-night with a few goals thrown in to shock the Italians. 
WELL-DRILELD COMBINATION
Full details of the Italian players have been given in the Echo souvenir edition which has been on sale for the past few days, so I don’t propose to repeat them in the column.  It is sufficient to say that we can anticipate a well drilled combination playing the strict orders and with style like-Suarez the great Spanish inside-left, and Jair, the Brazilian flyer on the right-wing, there is no reason why their attacking play should not be spectacular-if they reveal it.  They have a big defence, based around six-footer centre-half Guarneri, very strong in the air with another big man the German Szymaniak at outside left on the programme but apparently never playing in the forward line.  He is purely a defender, dropping back from the opening whistle.  The captain is left half Pirchi, who operates behind the four-man wall in the 4-3-3 set up.  Youngest performer is inside-right Mazzola, aged 20, who scored 10 goals in 23 games last season.  Inter-Milan will not be at full strength in that their centre-forward Milan has refused to sign terms because of some disagreement over transfer terms from another Italian club.  In addition outside-left Corso is missing because he cannot get leave from the Army and there may be a chance at right half.  The probable teams will be;- Everton; West; Parker, Harris or Parnell; Gabriel, Labone, Key, Scott; Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple.  Inter-Milan;- Sarti; Burgnich, Fachetti; Sysmaniak; Bolchi, or Tagnin, Guareri, Picchi; Jair, Mazzola, Di Glacomo, Suarez, Szymaniak.  Let us hope the display to-night comes up to the pre-match build-up and being plainly partisan that Everton win by three goals. 

CATTERICK RELIES ON EXPERIENCE
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Wednesday, September 18 1963
HARRIS AT LEFT BACK
MILAN TEAM
By Michael Charters
Everton have named the man who is to fill the problem spot of left back in their team against Inter-Milan in the European Cup-tie at Goodison Park tonight -wing half Brian Harris.  It was expected that Harris the most experienced of the three players -Parnell, Morrissey and himself- would be chosen, but manager Harry Catterick delayed naming the final choice until this afternoon.  The rest of the team will be at full strength, which means that Kay and Gabriel will return direct after injury without the benefit of having had a League game to restore them to match fitness.  Inter-Milan will have reserve Tagnin at right half in place of the injured Bolchi. Everton; West; Parker, Harris; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple.Inter-Milan; Sarti; Burgnich; Tagnin, Guarneri, Picchi; Jair, Mazzola, Giacomo, Suarez, Szymaniak.
GEOMETRY NOW
The Inter-Milan president millionaire oil-man Angelo Moratti flew from Milan this morning in his private plane from Manchester en route to Goodison Park.  Before leaving, he made the following comments on how he thinks to-night’s game will go.  “Defence is more a matter of geometry than fear.  We hope to encourage Everton to attack for much of the game so that we will have more room for our raiders to operate in a counter thrust.”  As the Milan chief set off two plane loads of supporters also flew from Milan Airport.  They were carrying huge black and blue banners and some of them had bugles.  They have a block booking in “A” stand, Bullens Road.  Under the rules of the competition the home team must change if there is a clash of colours.  Everton will play in their all-white strip.  Inter-Milan in black and blue vertical stripes.  Substitutes are not allowed at any time of the match. 

INTER-MILAN’S £300 A MAN INCENTIVE
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, September 18, 1963
EVERTON MUST WIN BY TWO CLEAR GOALS
MR. CATTERICK WILL NAME HARRIS FOR LEFT BACK VACANCY
By Horace Yates
Everton are face to face with the biggest challenge in their history, for when they extend boundaries by embarking on competition European soccer for the first time, as they do to-night against Inter-Milan at Goodison Park in the first leg of their European Cup tie, they open up the first leg of their European Cup tie, they open up a vast new field, with wealth and fame almost beyond dream, the reward of success.  While it is still possible to obtain a handful of 25s stand tickets and something like 4,000 of the 30s and £2 seats about 68,000 tickets have already gone, which means that receipts will approach £50,000, to establish a new English record for a club match in England, other than an F.A Cup final.  Indeed, if there is the expected late run on tickets, which will be available right up to the time of kick-off at some turnstiles and the club officers in Goodison Road and Gwladys Street, the existing record (£27,500), set up by Tottenham Hotspur and Rangers at white Hart lane last December for their European cup game, might well be doubled. This is just one indication of the new world into which Everton have plunged as a result of winning the championship. 
SPEED ON WINGS
Inter-Milan have a reputation for speed, but I think Everton wings, temple and Scott may shake them more than a little.  The return of Kay and Gabriel is, of course, of paramount importance to Everton.  To Gabriel will fail the task of subduing Suarez surely one of the greatest forwards in the world and the No.1 danger man in Inter-Milan’s break-out movements.  Da Costa is another key player.  It is said that the Internationals players will receive £300 a man for a win at Goodison. A staggering forward?  Certainly, but only a drop in the ocean compared with the money the club will collect if progress is made.  It is just a gift covered sprat to catch a golden mackerel. Everton and Inter-Milan are agreed on one point- that they could win the competition without meeting sterner opposition than is provided at the first fence!  Roared on by the tremendous crowd this in the moment for Everton to give all they have.  It will be a vastly different proposition at Milan, when nearly 100,000 fanatical supporters range themselves behind Internazionale.  My belief is that Everton can establish a one-goal lead, but an advantage of two may be asking too much.  The players know, however that difficult though, however that difficult though it is certain to be, scoring at Goodison must be very much easier than it will be with venues reversed.  Suarez has played in England previously when a member of the Barcelona side, and those who have chosen to label Everton the “Bank of England” team must be stumped to find a phrase for Inter-Milan, for their outlay on Suarez alone was £204,000!  Everton (probable team); West; Parker, Harris; Gabriel, Labone, kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple.  Inter-Milan. Sarti; Burbuich, Fachetti; Tagnin, Guirneri, Pacchi; Da Coasta, Glacomo, Mazzola, Suarez, Srymaniak.  Referee Mr. Gere (Hungary). 

EVERTON’S CHANCES IN MILAN MUST BE SLIM
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Thursday, September 19 1963
By Michael Charters
The Milan Maestros duty took back with them the goalless draw they had hoped for from the first leg of the European Cup qualify round at Goodison Park last night.  And, on the evidence of the thrilling entertaining game Everton’s chances of achieving anything at Milan next Wednesday are very slim indeed.  The Inter-Milan coach, Helenio Herrera, pulled one of the confidence tricks of the age when he said, pre-match, that his intention would be to play a defensive game.  Instead, the 62,000 crowd saw some superb attacking play from the Italians, particularly in the first half.  They parked their defence when they had to, but their who play was so fluid, so slick in turning defence to attack, that they were much the netter team.  The essence of the difference in the sides was the will-drilled execution of the Italians in everything they did.  Their defensive covering was superb, the obviously worked to a set plan, and when they moved into attack they went like lightning.  Everton were never allowed to take command for a moment and although they went all out the game, they could not make any impression.  In the centre half Garneri, Inter had a magnificent player who blotted out Young and the Everton inside forwards generally, helped by left half Picchi, who played deep.  The rest of the defence- numbers on their backs meant nothing- moved around fluently with No 11 Szymaniak all over the field to help any ere, never at outside left.  They plugged all the gaps moved the ball out of trouble with the minimum of effort and the maximum of skill.  Altogether it was a highly impressive display.  In front of them was the legendary Suarez at inside left, picking up short clearances form his defenders and sending great, accurate passes cutting through Everton’s defence.  This smooth-moving player was in the tradition of all top-class inside men, stamping his authority on everything he did.  Most danger to Everton came from the dusky flyer on the right wing, Jair, who hit more shots than any other player, and I thought Harris did very well to contain him as much as he did.  Give full marks to Everton for trying their hardest and best, and after that there is not a great deal one can find to commend them.  The forwards could not break through the Inter defence, which was particularly strong in the air.  Vernon was rarely seen and his impact on the game was practically nil.  Shadowed by right half Tagnin, he could not get going, and Young too, was never able to get to shooting distance.  Wingers Scott and Temple were never the raiding force everyone had hoped for because Faccetti and Burgnich positioned perfectly and tackled strongly.  Stevens worked full out as ever, but did not have the speed or control to set up an opening.  Everton’s successes were in defence, where Labone and Parker both played very well.  Parker with no outside left to mark, had the freedom of his side of the field and was mainly at outside right.  In addition he was Everton’s best shot -which does not say much for the contributions of the forwards. 
KAY’S NAME TAKEN
Gabriel moved into the attack for most of the second half, but even his heading ability and thrust achieve-little.  Kay who had his name taken for apparently treading of Suarez’s hand, was full of fire- in fact, he almost exploded at times and you could almost feel the force of his tackles in the stand.  There were incidents of course.  It is expected in this football.  But the Italians were not to blame Everton, trying so desperately hard for the goals they needed, often put more spirit into their tackling than necessary.  It was good to hear the Italians get an ovation from the crowd when they left at the end; there was no doubt the spectators appreciated the high skill of these performers.  They moved the ball about with precision and control that one rarely sees in League football these days.  Everton did best in the second half the first belonged entirely to the Italians.  I counted four Everton shots in this period- two from parker, one from Harris, and the other from a Vernon free kick.  Sarti the Inter goalkeeper, hardly had anything to do.  There was one explosive moment when, after Kay had fouled Suarez and the referee had stopped play the ball went on into the penalty area when Young and Stevens were engaged in a few discourteous words and arm-waving with Guarner and Picchi.  Inter-Milan, moving with rare speed and drive in attack in this half saw three shots by Jair go narrowly wide and then a superb 40-yard pass by Suarez sent the winger racing through again.  Nit was only the last-second intervention by Harris, who struck out his foot, which saved a certain goal. 
CONSTANT DANGER
There was much greater determination by Everton after the interval.  Stevens headed just over from Gabriel’s headed pass, Vernon did the same, and in Everton’s best attack of the game, Harris swung the ball over to Gabriel, who headed it on for Young to make another headed which Sarti saved.  At this time, Inter were back in defence, not as a solid wall, but as a constantly changing and switching formation which held back everything Everton tried.  But there was ever constant danger from Jair.  West made a fine save from him in a quick counter-thrust by Inter-Milan and then a 30-yard shot by Suarez was deflected off Labone for West to make a great save at full strength.  Ten minutes from the end, Vernon did get the ball in the net when Stevens pushed it forward but was offside and from the free kick Jair went away again to close in and hit a terrific angled shot which West did well to push round the post.  It was practically all over and although Gabriel now at centre forward, did head over the bar, Inter-Milan were in control as they had been for the whole of the game.  The spectators were able to savour the class of this Italian club and appreciate how advanced this higher echelon of Continental football really is.  Inter-Milan played strictly to orders and they were too good for Everton, hard though they tried. 

EUROPEAN CUP GAME WITHOUT GOALS
Liverpool Daily Post – Thursday, September 19, 1963
EVERTON DRAW DOES NOT LOOK GOOD ENOUGH
ROY VERNON’S DISALLOWED GOAL- WAS HE REALLY IN OFFSIDE POSITION?
EVERTON 0, INTERN AZIONALE MILAN 0
By Horace Yates
Everton’s European Cup hoes, I am afraid, were smashed at Goodison last night, for while the second leg of the preliminary round of the competition remains to be played in Milan on Wednesday next.  Everton showed nothing to encourage a belief that they can accomplish in Italy what they failed to achieve on their own ground.  It was generally conceded that Everton had to take with their a lead of two goals in Milan to put them in the second leg with a chance but having seen Inter-Milan in action, I am not at all sure that two would have been sufficient.  The Italians were happy with the draw, for quite rightly they took the view that it really amounted to victory for having me and held Everton once, I would not at all be surprised to see them unleash an attack of speed, fury and finishing power to blast Everton right out of the competition with some degree.  The great talking point of the match was Vernon’s disallowed goal in 80 minutes.  Was it a goal? My view was not good enough for me to be dogmatic, it seemed near enough to raise hopes of it being allowed to stand.  One reader after seeing the incident on TV rang me up to say that the cameras proved beyond doubt the legality of the goal.  It is a matter of history now and the referee’s decision, right or wrong, must stand.  Now what it is worth my opinion is that even had the goal been allowed it would have been no Everton passport to the next round.  Everton up against tactics which were sufficient effective only fleetingly appeared to have necessary ability to tear it asunder.    For the most part of course it seemed that nothing short of a charge of dynamite would achieve a breakthrough. 
COMPACT SIDE
Internazionate have a fine, compact side, blessed with football artistry and a composure under pressure that can only be described as enviable.  Most disappointing from Everton’s point of view was the complete subjugation of their attack.  This was just the night when they needed a show to remember from their skipper and so often their inspiration.  Roy Vernon, and yet with the stage set for him this must have been one of the most ineffective shows he has ever given.  It was apparent that the Numbers Tens, Suarez for Inter-Milan, and Vernon for Everton, could be the key attacking forwards, able to sway the verdict one way or the other.  Neither did, but Suarez, at least, gave a display that will be talked about for a long time, and some of his efforts came very near to producing a goal.  The effortless ease with which he was able to glide past opponents, one after the other, with the ball seemingly glued to his foot and willed to do as he chose, was one of the brightest memories of a game, which was entertaining fiery, and now and again furious.  Not until the closing stages had been reached did Vernon make his presence felt in any way.  He first came into the limelight when he headed over the bar, and then produced the roar of the evening, in eighty minutes, by putting the ball into the net.
BY A YARD
Parker had centred from the wing to the industrious and tireless Stevens, who headed forward to Vernon, and with the goalkeeper advancing, Vernon swept the ball past him into goal.  The referee’s whistle cut short the celebrations and so Everton were denied a lead by a hair-breath decision.  Just about this stage, Everton were nearer taking command than at any other.  Almost as though stung by this narrow escape from what they might have interpreted as disaster, Inter-Milan went straight into the attack and from a Suarez prompting, Jair forced West to make the save of the night in keeping the ball out from a fierce drive at close range.  What a player is this winger Jair, Brazilian international by the way.  Tall, lithe, speedy and strong of shot, he combined all the essentials that make up a class footballer, Suarez did much of his prompting from behind and the spearhead of the attack was formed by Jair, Marzola and Di Giacomo.  Everyone else had a defensive part to play, but while Labone kept a tight hold on Giacomo and Kay muzzled Marzola, Jair was a recurring problem, even allowing for the fact that deputy left back Brian Harris played splendidly.  I believe Jair is so good that he would still have looked an international against any opposition, and Everton can congratulate themselves that he had nothing tangible to show for his endeavours.  The distress signals started flying midway through the first half, when Everton apparently in admitting the fact that they could not hope to get near enough to goal to wreak havoc, began to shoot hopefully from 25 or 30 yards with little or no chance of succeeding.
CHANCE MISSED
The game open promisingly enough with Kay passing to Harris and the left back centring across goal to Stevens.  Had Stevens reacted more quickly, there must have been a great chance of a sensational opening goal, but, as Everton were to learn later to their cost, delay of any sort was fatal against men who seemed to move as though on springs.  Young worked hard enough, but in Guarneri he caught a Tartar, for the tall centre half cared nothing for sleight of foot moves and was a very determined tackler.  In the air, all Young’s ability to rise higher than most, availed him nothing for here was one man at least who could give a start and a real beating.  The further the game progressed the more completely did the defence apply the shackles to Scott and Temple and just when Everton were acquiring a genuine helpless appearance, a brainwave sent Gabriel into the forwards.  He took over leadership of the attack and at once there was an infusion of devil and drive that had previously been absent.  While he got no nearer than heading over the bar and forcing Sarti to a magnificent save in the angle of the goal, this half-back turned forward for the occasion, was more dangerous than any of the acknowledged forwards on his side.  another player who attacked on every conceivable occasion was Parker.  Because his winger enjoyed a roving commission and was defending more than attacking.  Parker had a freedom from defensive responsibility not generally his and two of the best Everton shooting contributions of the first half came from the Scot.  A third was credited to the other full-back, Harris and probably the only other was from a Vernon free kick.
LIKE A TANK
No player in the match put more wholehearted endeavour into his work than Tony Kay, so recently on the injured list and a doubtful starter until Sunday.  He went into his tackles with all the uncompromising force of a tank, and more than once his tactics carried a suggestion of dangerous play.  A double-footed tackle on Suarez, ending in the Inter Milan player’s hand being injured, caused Kay’s name to go into the referee’s notebook.  Kay did not like it a little bit but watching dispassionately from the stand I thought the referee could have chosen any of several incidents to thus rebuke Everton’s human dynamo.  Had the game got really out of hand, and there were times when it was in danger of erupting, the blame could only have been squarely laid at the feet of the much too tolerant referee.  Just as if some humourist believed there were not sufficient fireworks on the field, an explosive cracker landed alongside Sarti in the goalmouth, fortunately without interfering with play.  Now Everton have been given a sight of what they can expect when they go competing with the European giants and the obvious conclusion is that they have still very much to learn before they can complete on equal terms. Internazionale had the edge almost throughout the piece in terms of skill and they devised tactics for the occasion which always threatened to tie Everton into knots.  I cannot see any genuine ray of hope for Everton to turn the tables
STILL A CHANCE?
Maybe it was Everton’s misfortune to run full tilt into such a skilled and competent side for their introduction to the European Cup.  Given an easier round or two to get acclimatised they might have been better prepared, but if there are stronger and more fluent sides in the competition than Inter-Milan then some Continental football fans must be extremely fortunate.  I saw enough last night to persuade me that when they tap wide open at Milan, then the football flow will be an abundant as it will be refreshing.  Everton may maintain that while they are still on level terms.  Everton; West; Parker, Harris; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon (captain), Temple.  Internazionale-Milan; Sarti; Burgnuch, Faccetti; Tagnin, Guarner, Di. Giacomo, Suarez, Saymaniak.  Referee; Mr. Cyula Gere (Hungary).  Attendance 62,408 (receipts £31,450). 
HERRERA SAYS-
2-0 IN MILAN FOR US
Everton’s manager, Mr. Harry Catterick, had no complaints after it was all over.  He said, “Of course, we are disappointed-we always are when we don’t win, but I thought the team played quite well and might easily have grabbed the odd goal.  “We suffered from not being able to play together regularly in recent weeks due to injuries and Vernon might have been a little sharper with more recent match practice.”  Asked if he had any complaints about the disallowed Vernon goal, he said; “Not really.  The referee is in charge and you can’t see properly from the stand.  I thought he was a very good referee and handled the game well.”  Mr. Catterick said he thought the European Cup posed a number of interesting new problems.  “Our forwards in particular have a lot to learn from this kind of football.” He said.  The Internazionals manager, Mr. Helenio Herrera, was cheerfully evasive.  “Yes, it was a good game and we played quite well,” he said, “Everton?  They played very hard, but I think they still have something to learn.  “We were very happy to get a draw, though I think we could easily have won, I am confident we shall do much better in Milan and reach the next round.  The score in Milan?  I don’t know -perhaps 2-0.”  The internazionale right winger Jair, popularly known as the Jaguar, said with the aid of an interpreter,  “It was a hard game, I think we could have won and I am sure we will do so in Milan.  “Everton’s crowd were very noise to begin with, but it didn’t bother me.  They will find our’s just as noise in Milan…” 

EVERTON MUST RETRIEVE LEEWAY IN THE LEAGUE
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Friday, September 20, 1963
By Michael Charters
Coming back to League football after the excitement of the European Cup is a minor anti-climax.  The Inter-Milan team showed Merseyside supporters a new conception of the game – a highly skilled, well disciplined combination which showed how advanced is the top class of Continental football .British clubs have much to earn in this imaginative approach to the game and until they can measure up to them, I can’t see a British team or country achieving much either in the European or World Cups at club or International level.  Everton did well enough to have beaten most English clubs but it was not enough for them to take a lead with them to Milan next Wednesday. 
The following letter was such a small protest at the prices Everton charged for the stands.  Who are Inter-Milan anyway?  Any good Third Division side could beat them -J.M. Bootle.  Some Third Division side!
TICKETS FOR MILAN GAME
Everton will be receiving today their allocation of stand tickets for the return European Cup tie in Milan next Wednesday.  The price is 25s and personal applications in the club is advised quickly.  Any tickets unsold will be taken back to Milan on Monday evening when the team fly to Italy from Manchester airport, leaving at 8.45 p.m. 

EVERTON MAKE ONE CHANGE
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Friday, September 20, 1963
BROWN AT LEFT BACK
GOODISON GAMNE
Scottish left back Sandy Brown, who is ineligible for the European Cup games, returns to the Everton team for the visit of Sheffield Wednesday tomorrow.  To make way for Brown, utility player Brian Harris filled the left back position against Inter-Milan stands down.  This is the only change from the team which drew with the Italians on Wednesday.  John Fantham who has missed the last two games through injury passed a fitness today and returned to the Sheffield Wednesday team at inside left.  Everton; West; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple.  Sheffield Wed;- Springett; Hill, Megson; McAnerney, swan, Young; Finney, Quinn, Layne, Fantham, Dobson. 

JIMMY ARMFIELD ASKS FOR A MOVE
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, September 20, 1963
By Horace Yates
England’s skipper and right back, Jimmy Armfield of Blackpool will not be joining Everton, supposing his club grant his written request for a move.  Who says so?  Everton chairman John Moores!  This does not in any sense imply that it is Mr. Moores who is against the idea and that his manager, Harry Catterick, may have other views.  Chairman and manager are in perfect harmony over signings, not only in regard to Armfield, but with everyone else whose name comes up for review.  Only the other day, when I was discussing Ray Crawford, of Ipswich with the chairman, Mr. Moores said; “If Harry wants him, he can go for him.  He knows that, but he tells me that he is not interested in him.”  For Crawford read Armfield and you have an identical story.  Few of the knowledgeable men of football will be taken by surprise by the announcements, that Armfield wants a change, for it is a report which has been cropping up here and there for weeks.
FINE PLAYER
Mr. Catterick and his chairman certainly discussed their intentions in the event of the rumour becoming fact, so that when Armfield’s decision was announced yesterday.  Mr. Moores was able to state; “We got a whisper that eh wanted a more about three weeks ago.  We have not discussed it since.  “Armfield is a very fine player but I think it is unlikely that he would fit in with Everton’s style.”  Mr. Moores added that Everton would not be bidding.  The chairman was caught at London Airport last night where he was waiting to board a plane for Italy.  He is going on ahead of the main party, which is likely to include directors Holland Hughes and Cyril Balmforth, to Milan.  Mr. Catterick will almost certainly follow the example of Inter-Milan and take with him about sixteen players. 
Although Everton have no injury worries following the European Cup game ion Wednesday, Mr. Catterick is delaying the announcement of his team to receive Sheffield Wednesday until today.  One point he has to decide is whether or not to restore Alex Brown at left back or leave Brian Harris there to gain further experience for the second leg game. 

WE AIM TO DRAW IN MILAN AND WIN THE REPLAY
Liverpool Daily Post, Friday, September 20, 1963
By Roy Vernon
Even though some of the critics have written Everton off as a European Cup prospect this season, I can tell you that the players do not share the pessimism.  Why should we?  It would have been very comforting to have gone to Milan with a goal or two lead, but we are at least on level terms and I think we have learned a lot from this meeting.  Some people may not have noticed that we were completely on top in the closing stages, I don’t think this was because Inter-Milan were tiring, but rather that we had taken their measure to such an extent that we were better able to do ourselves justice.  How if we can only resume now if we can only resume where we left off, next Wednesday’s second leg should certainly be interesting and nothing satisfaction than to rout the pessimists, who give us no chance.
GOAL THAT WASN’T
You will all want to know my version of that goal that wasn’t.  it could have made such a tremendous difference had it counted.  I thought it was in order but the player moving on to the ball may not always be best placed to decide.  Some say that because Everton did not create a scene when the referee ruled against us, that we could not have been very confident about it all.  That is not so.  We have been instructed not to make nuisances of ourselves on the field by going around disputing decisions made by referees.  Although this particular decision went against us, I don’t think anyone is in any doubt about the remarkably fair way the referee handled the game as a whole.  Maybe, the fact that nobody could converse with him because of the language difference helped him to get on with the game without interruption.  The spirit in which this game was fought I thought reflected credit on the sportsmanship of both sides.  Hard knocks and tough tackles were delivered by both teams and yet there was no ill-feeling of any sort.  It was all accepted as part of a tight cup struggle.  There is nothing much wrong with football when bumps are taken with a smile -and often a handshake.
SOMETHING NEW
We all thoroughly enjoyed playing in this match.  Because we have played against them over and over again, we have become familiar with the style and performance of almost all the players in league football in this country, but Inter-Milan was something new- and I thought exciting.  They have some splendid players.  I think men like Suarez and Jair would be a wonderful attraction if they were able to play regularly in this country.  It may be a good thing for we home-bred players that we do not have to face rivalry for places from these stars from different parts of the world, and because of the cost involved I doubt whether any club could really afford to go into the competition of the open market, for these star names even if League rules permitted it, but there is no doubting what a shot in the arm the appearance of some of these stars in our League football would give to the game.  I admit I found their close marking and defence in duplicate something of a problem and with their height in the air they scarcely missed anything, but their break-outs were so speedily and cleverly done that it must have bene very attractive to the great crowd.
TIT-FOR-TAT
Our big aim next Wednesday must be to do to Internazionale in Milan what they did to us at Goodison -hold them to a draw.  It we succeed in doing that I would really fancy our chances in a third meeting on neutral ground.  It has been said the winners of this tie could win the competition.  I am not going to argue with that.  It could quite easily prove correct. 

EVERTON MUST NOT LET POINTS SLIP
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Saturday, September 21, 1963
WEDNESDAY’S LAYNE WILL SET PROBLEMS
By Michael Charters
The atmosphere and excitement of the European Cup will still be very much with the Everton players when they came out against Sheffield Wednesday at Goodison Park this afternoon.  The after-effects of the very hard game against Milan-Milan last Wednesday coupled to the thoughts of going to Milan next week for the return game, are bound to make a difference to their approach.  But the team cannot afford to let any more League points slip away from them- their first aim must be to retain the League Championship, and they have not made a particularly good start.    Although it is generally felt that their chances of beating Inter-Milan next Wednesday are not very good, the team will give everything they’ve got in an attempt to preserve their reputation.  They may be so conscious of this determination that it could affect their paly today.  Wednesday are always difficult to beat, with players of the quality of Layne, Fantham, Swan and Springett.  The last time I saw them was at Anfield late last season when they played superbly and won comfortably.  That was a most impressive display and I anticipated them making a great effort this season to become one of the leading clubs.  They have not done well so far, but I’m sure they will make Everton go all out this afternoon.  Last Wednesday’s match will have helped Vernon and Gabriel to get back to match fitness.  They looked as though they had lost their edge after injury.  If these two strike their known from Everton should win handsomely enough, but if the team does not look as good as they did last season owing to the loss of pace and fire from these two vital members of the side. 
SAME EFFORT
Kay’s appearance against his old side is another notable feature and he will have primed his colleagues on will there is to know about Wednesday.  Centre forward Layne invariably does well against Everton.  His powerful heading ability and bustling style presents Brian Labone with problems he does not face most of the other leaders of the day.  But if Everton put in the same effort there showed against inter-Milan they should march on with two more points.  Their display against the Italian team was good enough to beat most First division teams, for it is recognised that the inter stars were so brilliant that they would have been a match for the full England side.  On Wednesday night’s performance, I don’t think any English club could beat them by two or three goals which is what Everton needed to have a chance next week.  Everton; West; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Steven, Young, Vernon, Temple.  Sheffield Wednesday;- Springett; Hill, Megson; McAnearney, Swan, Young (G); Finney, Quinn, Layne, Fantham, Dobson. 

EVERTON VICTORY, BUT LITTLE TO CHEER
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- September 21, 1963
GREAT RUN BY SCOTT MAKES GAME SAFE
EVERTON 3, SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 2
By Michael Charters

Everton; West; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young (A.), Vernon, Temple.Sheffield Wednesday; Springett; Hill, Megson; McAnearney, Swan, Young (G.); Finney, Quinn, Layne, Fantham, Dobson.Referee; Mr. L. Callaghan (Merthyr Tydfil).  Wednesday looked the sharper team in the opening stages and Everton played as though they were suffering from some reaction from their battle against inter-Milan.  Alex Young should certainly have scored, however, in Everton’s best move to-date.  From a quick breakaway the ball went out to the unmarked Vernon on the right, who crossed it quickly to the equally unmarked Young, but the centre forward did not take control of the ball and Springett was able to move out quickly and save. 
DOBSON A DANGER
Everton were not moving well at all and Dobson was a constant danger to them.  He made a fine run before pushing the ball through to Fantham whose quick back heel flick found Layne unmarked.  The centre forward hammered the ball over the bar- a let off for Everton.  Everton took the lead rather against the run of play after 13 minutes thanks to the speed of Scott.  The winger chased a long pass by Parker, beat Megson close to the goal line, and with Springett drawn out of goal Stevens was unmarked when Scott, put the ball across to him, Stevens had no difficulty scoring from close range.  Immediately afterwards Alex Young had another chance but after cleverly beating Swan he mishit his left foot shot straight at Springett.  Everton were now playing better, Young made a fine through pass for Vernon, but it was plain to see, that the Everton, skipper still lacked his speed and thrust of last season and he was unable to collect the ball. 
GOOD HEADER
Fantham made a perfectcentre to Layne, who out-jumped the Everton defence and made a good header which West saved well, injuring his hand in turning the ball over the bar.  West carried on without attention although the trainer had come on, and he saw a shot by Quinn roll past the post.  There was plenty of excitement in the game now, particularly when kay was responsible for a crashing tackle on Quinn which flattered the Wednesday forward.  The finishing by both sides was poor.  After 35 minutes Wednesday equalised with a deserved goal by Fantham.  It stemmed from a centre by Finney, and Layne beat Labone in the air to head the ball down for the inrushing Fantham to send it over the line from no more than three yards range.  It was no surprise for Wednesday they had been sharper than Everton, whose display generally was far below the form of which we know they are capable.  Vernon missed a great chance to put Everton ahead again when Stevens made a fine back header to him.  Everton gained a corner and from it Young hit the ball deliberately from 10 yards, but it struck Springett on the knees and bounced away. 
FANTHAM SHINES
Everton had no forward of the quality of Fantham and he sent Dobson away with a perfect Crossfield pass, the winger hit a fine shot which West did well to turn for a corner. 
Half-time;- Everton 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1. 
Everton resumed on the attack with parker forcing Springett to give away a corner and when Young and Vernon just failing to create openings.  Scott and Stevens were the only Everton forwards playing anything like near to their known form I have rarely seen Young so completely dominated by a centre-half and Vernon lacked completely his old snap and fire.  Vernon’s off day was well illustrated when Gabriel chipped the ball forward and it struck McAnearney to put Vernon on side.  With a clear run to goal he went on and then shot straight at Springett from 12 yards range. 
SPLENDID SAVE
At the other end West made a splendid save.  When the ball came over both Layne and Labone missed it and Finney running in to headed it down hard so that the bounce almost deceived West, who recovered at the last second and turned the ball over the bar.  Eight minutes after half time the Young-Vernon combination excited for the first time in the match.  From a free kick floated in by Parker-Vernon headed the ball down and across the goalmouth to Alex Young, who turned it last Springett as the goalkeeper came out.  In the next minute Wednesday might well have been in terms but Layne completely miskicked from a good chance, and Kay calmly put the ball away for a corner.  The two goals by Everton had been isolated features which the crowd could applaud.  Generally they were quiet in the knowledge that their team were well below form. Everton were doing more of the attacking now, although their finishing tended to be accurate.  Temple made a splendid run and then slowed up and enabled Megson to rob him of the ball easily.  Wednesday were always dangerous when they got way.  From a left wing thrust the ball came over and escaped everybody except Finney who unmarked took deliberate aim and sent the ball five yards wide of the post.  Everton’s success had undoubtedly been their defence.  Parker had an outstanding game and Labone and Brown were little behind him.  Temple and Swan had to have attention when they slided heavily, but both played on.  A good shot by Gerry Young was only just wide and here was always the danger at Wednesday would equalise in one of their more rare attacks.  After 77 minutes Everton scored their third goal through Vernon but major credit goes to Scott.  The winger made a magnificent 50 yard run, beating two Wednesday players en route drew Springett out of goal and turned the ball inside.  He was following up himself when Vernon came running in and put the ball into the net practically off Scott’s toes.  With only a minute to go West missed his attempted catch from a left-wing corner and Layne’s header was going in the net when Parker punched it out McAnearney scored from the penalty.Final; Everton 3, Sheffield Wednesday 2.

WE HAVE NOT THROWN IN THE TOWEL
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express, Saturday 21 1963
By Alex Young
Milan next Wednesday; Liverpool, at Anfield on Saturday.  Add this week’s first-leg match against Inter-Milan and this afternoon’s game with Sheffield Wednesday and I think you will agree that these are pretty hectic days for Everton.  Many seen to have written off our chances of further progress in this year’s European Cup competition, but you can take it from me that Everton have not thrown in the towel.  Internazionale are a great side- in fact, on Wednesday evening’s form I would rate them as better than Benfica- but they must have some weakness.  They are obviously very confident about their chances after holding us to a goalless draw, but you cannot trust the form book in football and if we can stop Inter during the first half on their home ground, then they might become over anxious and give us the chance we are looking for.  Certainly they will not be able to pull back extra men into defence.  Last Wednesday, each Milan defender followed his opposing Everton forward like a shadow and when we did manage to break through there was always a man hanging back to “mop up.”  I do not think Everton played badly, we played as well as this fine Milan side allowed us to. 
GREAT VOICE
I doubt if any English First Division team could have contained us a well as the Italians did for we were moving about looking for openings all the time.  Had Sarti been keeping goal behind any English club defence, then I think we would have given him a busy evening.  My thanks to the Goodison fans, who were in great voice, but nothing could unsettle these mature footballers from Milan in right winger Jiar da Costa they have one of the fastest players I have ever seen and in the circumstances Brian Harris played an exceptionally good game against him.  We were out of luck when Roy Vernon had a “goal” disallowed and again when Denis Stevens was brought down in the penalty area, but that is all ever now and we must concentrate our efforts on next Wednesday’s second meeting.  We could hardly have found a more difficult League fixture for next Saturday them visit to Anfield.  These “derby” clashes demand a all-out 90-minutes effort, but even so I don’t think the Milan trip will affect our performance.  If however, we do feel a little travel weary, then I can think of no better tonic than the roar one hears from the crowd, as the players run out to the field for a “derby” match.
CONFIDENT
Liverpool always seem to do well when I visit Anfield as a spectator, and I paid my first visit of the season on Monday to see them beat Wolves 6-0.  They played very well, but I’m still confident of an Everton win next week-end.  Incidentally may I pass on the congratulations of the Everton team to Gordon Milne, Ian Callaghan, Roger Hunt and Jimmy Melia on their selection for the Football League against the League of Ireland; in Dublin next month.Last week- end there was a unanimous voice of approval from the players over the club’s decision to take us by all for the match at Ipswich.  Usually this is a long tiring trip, but by flying both ways it became a most enjoyable one.  It is the first time since my arrival at Goodison that I can remember flying to a League match although we did go by air to Scotland last season for the second leg of our Inter-Cities fairs tie with Dunfermline.  With a bit of luck we might have returned from East Anglia with two points instead of one, for we missed a couple of reasonable chances.  The day’s bouquet however I gave to the Everton defence.  Throughout the whole 90 minutes I recall the Ipswich attack working only one clear cut opening.  This in itself is a tremendous feat in a First Division fixture on an opponent’s ground.  Roy Parnell and George Sharples deserve special mention but the whole rear-guard was in top form, with Gordon West capably dealing with some good long-distance shots during the first half.  On the way home we had to wait half an hour or so for our plane at Ipswich Airport but this turned out to be something of a blessing in disguise for we were able to watch part of a most interesting air display by the East Anglian Flying Club.  The members were most hospitable as we watched the small planes going through their paces, and one even treated us to a private display of parachute jumping.  There was also an invitation to take a flip in one of the planes, but only trainer Tom Eggleston accepted.  The rest of us had our minds on the busy soccer programme ahead- that is the story we agreed to, and we are sticking to it. 

DEFEAT FOR EVERTON IN FIRST CUP FINAL
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Saturday, September 21, 1963
FOOTBALL ON MERSEYSIDE
By Percy M. Young.
On the original committee of the Liverpool club, John McKenna appeared as the one person capable of executing the first essential duty -to get a team together.  This was done in a not unusual way by tapping the seemingly endless reserves of Scottish talent.  Under the captaincy of Andrew Hannah- a veteran of 28 and late of Everton- the first Liverpool team included Ross, of Cambuslang, in goal; McLean, like his partner Hannah, of Renton and Everton at left back, McCartney, of Paisley St. Mirren, M. McQueen, of Leith Athletic and Scotland, and McBride, of Renton and the Scottish League at half-back and Wyllie, of Glasgow Rangers and Everton, Smith of Kilmarnock and Sunderland Miller of Dumbarton, McVean of Third Lanark and H. McQueen of Leith Athletic as forwards.  McQue of Celtic, was also on the club’s strength.  Of these players Hannah was the oldest and Jimmy McBride, at 19 the youngest -and also, at 5ft 4in, the smallest. 
CHAMPIONS
Unable to gain admission to the new Second Division of the Football League, Liverpool were obliged to complete in the Lancashire League of which the other members were Liverpool Caledonians (who dropped out in December, 1892 their record being expunged), Bury, Blackpool, Heywood Central, South Shore, Rossendale, Fairfield, West Manchester, Higher Walton, Southport Central, Fleetwood Rangers, and Nelson.  In the competition Liverpool, Blackpool and Bury were the outstanding teams and Liverpool went through the season doggedly, winning the championship by a narrow margin.  The crucial match was against Bury, where 8,000 spectators (Liverpool drew excellent away but meagre home gates) saw the home team beaten 3-0.  Three points behind Bury, but with a match in hand, Liverpool defeated Nelson twice, Southport Central, Fairfield, South Shore and drew with Southport Central (which match was held up by the non-arrival of the referee) to find the table looking thus;-
Liverpool p22, w17, lost 2, draw 3, for 66, against 19, points 36
Blackpool p22, won 17, lost 2, draw 3, for 82, against 31, points 36
Bury played 22, won 17, lost 1, draw 4, for 83, against 24, points 35.
The rest of the field was nowhere there being after Bury a 10-points gap.  Liverpool also won the Liverpool F.A Cup without a goal being scored against them.  In the semi-final of this competition they met Bootle who had beaten them in the second round of the Lancashire Cup and won by 1-0.  Thus they qualified to meet Everton- a “mixed” team for reasons of prestige and because they were playing Renton on the same day- on the Bootle ground.  Liverpool turned out with McOwen, Hannah, McLean, McCartney, McQue, McBride, Wyllie, McVean, McQueen, H. McQueen.  Everton with Williams; A. Chadwick, Collins; Boyle, Holt, Coyle; Gordon, Murray, Hartley, McMillian, Elliott.
A goal by Wyllie settled a roughish match to which free (and unfree) kicks were frequent, McQue was cautioned and a penalty disallowed to Everton.  They lodged is protest against the general incompetence of the referee and the Cup was not prevented at the end of the match.” Because of their attitude Everton forfeited a measure of sympathy among a public whose fickleness of temperament is legendary.  Liverpool’s season ended with a defeat by the Rest of the Lancashire League, a draw with Bolton Wanderers, another draw with Stockton and a victory over Corinthians, these last matches being planned to show the worthiness of the new club’s aspirations.  Despite such initial success their were disappointments and difficulties some in fact, being occasioned by success.  Money was tight for gates were sparse, often not covering the expenses of visiting teams, and at the end of the season both the trophies were stolen and had to be replaced by the club at a cost of £127. 
ELECTED
It was at this point that Mckenna now acting as honorary secretary, allowed his hidden Irish impulses to carry him away.  Accrington Stanley having resigned from Division 11, (not the first resignation from that ill-fated town, and Bootle (who had collapsed through financial anaemia) having failed to secure re-election and the management intending to extend the division to 15 clubs, an advertisement for aspirants thereto appeared.  Although his fellow committee men were keen on staying in the Lancashire League, Mckenna blithely sent off a telegram to London.  “Liverpool make application to the Second Division of the League.”  The telegram was signed “Barclay.”  None was more surprised than Barclay to receive an answering telegram, that read “Liverpool elected Come to London meeting at three o’clock tomorrow to arrange fixtures.  In fact Mckenna went.  And so Liverpool got within striking distance of Everton.  But by now Everton had stretched the wings of ambition further and in the spring of 1893 were regretfully proud of their achievement in having reached the final of the F.A Cup for the first time.  Liverpool having failed in the third qualifying round against Northwich Victoria.  On January 21, five famous Midland teams went into Lancashire to try conclusions with the only peers they recognised in English football.  Everton entertained the Albion, Accrington, Stoke, Bolton, the Wolves, Darwen, the Villa and Burnley, Small heath.  The only Midland survivors were the Wolves who drew at Bolton and won the replay.  Everton crushed their opponent’s current holders of the Cup by 4-1 and two weeks later eliminated Nottingham Forest, also at Goodison by a powerful display that drew admiration from the losers.  “The Forest” wrote a Nottingham correspondent “were in no sense disgraced.  They played finely, but the better team won on the days play, and we console ourselves with sharing the splendid gate.”  A League match in which Everton went to Olive Grove and beat the Wednesday by 2-0 (even though an “own goal” from Tom Brandon and a second goal tainted with offside encouraged Sheffield supporters proved an incentive for the third round, and Everton, defeating the Wednesday by 3-0 found themselves in the semi-final.  Their opponents on March 4 were Preston North End.  Everton relied on the team which had lately submerged the North End in the League, which meant that Maxwell was at centre forward, Gordon at inside right and Geary was omitted.  At Bramell Lane the attendance being 28,000 the two sides were so evenly matched -the result being a 2-2 draw-that it was suggested with a neat illusion to Tennyson, that the series might go on for ever.” 
DURABILITY
Before, the replay on March 16 in which Preston hoped to be at full strength the two players played a Lancashire Cup-tie at Deepdale.  Although Everton lost by 3-0 the connoisseurs who had last seen Everton lose their League match by a margin of five goals on that ground stated that they had given the home team a harder game than any other during the season.  It would not do, they concluded, to be complacent.  The replayed semi-final -30,000 people going to Blackburn for the occasion was a goal-less draw, and in the third meeting at Nottingham Everton showed more durability were relatively lucky, and knocked Preston out by the odd goal in three, the winning goal being headed by Gordon from Chadwick’s corner five minutes from time.  Everton looked forward to the final, to be played in Lancashire at Fallowfield with optimism.  Having defeated Preston they surely could not fail against the much-less fancied Wolves team an all English team, which went down well with the neutrals, who in any case had met nothing like the same strength of opposition in their progress.  Moreover, in a League match played two days before the last part of the semi-final and a week before the final, a largely reserve Everton team most of which had succumbed to injury during the first two chapters of the Preston sage had gone to Molineux and gained an easy victory.  At full strength Everton six Scots and five English mustered six internationals -Kelso and Latta for Scotland and Holt, Howarth, Chadwick and Milward for England.  The teams for the final were;- Everton; B. Williams; R. Kelso, R,H, Howarth, R. Boyle, J. Holt, A Stewart, A. Latta, P, Gordon, A. Maxwell, E. Chadwick, A. Milward.  Wolves;- W.C. Rose; R. Baugh, G. Swift, W. Malpass, H. Allen, G. Kinsey, R. Topham, D. Wykes, J. Butcher, H. Wood, E. Griffin.  Wolves won this famous final, by a single fortuitous goal. 

THE DAY I KNEW PELE WAS THE GREATEST
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 21 September 1963
By Roy Vernon
Join the navy and see the world, that was the saying.  To-day you need not sail the seven seas to visit far- distant places.  Just join the ranks of the professional footballer, and there’s every chance you’ll make the trip to most of the places you are keen to see.  Amercia, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Holland, Hungary, Israel, Mexico and Sweden- they are countries I have visited on tours with Blackburn Rovers, Everton, and Wales, and already in my short Soccer life-time football has given me many happy travel memories.  Memories filled with happiness and disappointment.  For though I have had some wonderful trips in good company, it is a fact that I have yet to be on a winning Welsh side in a foreign land.  And yet, strangely enough, it was against world champions Brazil that Wales came so close to handing out the shock of the year when we tackled Pele and company in Sao Paula just prior to the 1962 Wold Cup finals.  Just five days before in Rio the bouncing Brazilians had beaten Wales 3-1.  Pele was the mastermind making two goals and scoring one as Wales wilted, and it was expected that the world king-pins would repeat their performance in the second game. 
SHUTTERS UP
On the face of it they did- beating us 3-1 for the second time.  But that score line does not do justice to the gallant fight of Wales.  For over an hour we matched Brazil in team play, and when Ken Leek equalised the Champions’ first half goal the game was wide open.  Even the majestic Pele was made to look just another player as Wales put up the shutters.  But the last laugh was with the Brazilians- and Pele.  The ebony artist showed in two flashes just why he is tagged the greatest player in the world.  First, he put Brazil ahead following a perfectly-placed swerving free-kick by Garrincha.  The Prince of Soccer artist was on the spot to hook the ball home past the helpless Dave Hollins.  Before Wales had time to recover Pele struck again.  This time he rose above John Charles –and that’s saying something – to head home a Garrrincha corner.  In those two magical moments Pele proved to me and the rest of the Welsh side, that he has no equal in the game to-day.  And, without doubt, the Brazilians are out on their own when I rate the foreign teams Wales have met during the past few years.  What’s more, you haven’t to look for the reason.  Just out of your bedroom window in Rio, when we were rising for breakfast already there were hundreds of Soccer crazy youngsters kicking a ball around on the beaches. 
DEDICATION
From dawn till dusk these games go on, and nowhere have I seen more dedication to the game.  The way the kids spend their leisure time in learning everything they can about football augurs well for Brazil’s Soccer future.  On the same trip Wales met defeat No.3 at the hands of Mexico.  This is one game we should have won, but playing thousands of feet up in Mexico City is not easy.  Breathing is difficult, and your speed and stamina are reduced.  Conditions such as these plus unusual food bringing tummy troubles, and bone-hard grounds add to the hardships on foreign tours.  But it isn’t all hard work.  There’s plenty of fun, too.  Like the time in Sweden just after Wales had held Hungary to a draw in the World Cup series.  On this occasion Tottenham winger Cliff Jones narrowly escaped a ducking.  It all happened on our way back from a celebration drink at one of the night spots.  We were in high spirits, and as we were passing an impressive line-up of yachts tied up by the shore Cliff jumped aboard one of the spick-and-span sailing boats.  As he stood there, one of the party moved quickly away to unfasten the rope holding the yacht, and Cliff was left stranded as the boat moved quietly away from the shore.  Seeing the danger, Cliff’s first impulse was to jump for dry land.  But he hesitated for a moment, and the chance was lost.  Indeed, everything pointed to Cliff jumping overboard-until John Charles came to the rescue.  He grabbed the rope just as it was slipping into the water, and with a few hefty hauled back the yacht and saved Cliff from a ducking.  It was all in good fun –and just one of the many laughs in my Soccer tours round the world. 

SHEFF WED RES V EVERTON RES
Liverpool Football Echo- Saturday, September 21 1963
Sheffield Wed Res; Read; Noble, Birks; Hardy, Mobley, Smith, Holliday, Ford, Hickson, Wilkinson (D), Barrowclough.  Everton Res;- Dunlop; Parnell, Sharples; Jarvis, Heslop, Ree; Shaw, Harvey, Hurst, Hill, Morrissey.  Referee; Mr. G. Hartley.  Everton were yard faster on the ball and they took a three minute lead.  A harmless centre from Morrissey floated over the Wednesday defenders and as Shaw challenged Birks the full-back appeared to put the ball into his own net.  Feeling was running high as ex-Wednesday manager Catterick’s boys did as they liked and Shaw, Helsop, Everton and Wilkinson and Mobley Wednesday were cautioned.  Hurst nearly put Everton two up but Read turned the ball on to his own post and it went out for a corner.  Everton were the better side.  Half-time; Sheff Wed nil, Everton 1. 

CHAMPIONSHIP REMAINS EVERTON’S MAIN GOAL
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, September 21, 1963
MANAGER CATTERICK PLAYS SANDY BROWN FOR HARRIS AGAINST WEDNESDAY
By Horace Yates
The football story to-day is a tale of two cities -Liverpool and Sheffield – with Wednesday at Goodison and United receiving Liverpool.  Although it would require boldness to forecast total dominance by the Merseyside teams three points from the four at stake do not seem an unrealistic expectation.  Everton have a trip to Milan facing them on Monday, with the second leg of the preliminary round of the European Cup coming up on Wednesday, but by their team selection I believe they have indicated an outlook of “If we win against Inter Milan well and good, but our main objective remains the Football League championship.”  Why do I say that?  Simply because manager Harry Catterick has taken the first opportunity to field what he considers his strongest team against the challenge of his former club by including Sandy brown at left back for Brian Harris, who played last Wednesday against Inter Milan.  Had the European Cup been foremost in the manager’s mind I believe his Cup side would have been nominated to-day, for Brown remains ineligible do not bring with them a formidable record, for six points from seven games is no sort of recommendation for a tilt with the champions.  Because of the former association of Mr. Catterick and Tony Kay with the Sheffield club these clashes have developed a particularly competitive atmosphere and to-day’s game will be no exception. 
LAYNE THE MENACE
Only recently the name of Wednesday’s centre forward Bronco Layne was unofficially associated with Everton, in rumour which appears to have died a natural death, but for all that he will be an attraction and a menace.  He has scored only three goals this season but is still club top scorer.  If Kay does not play the game of his life it will not be for lack of effort, but equally Wednesday will be striving to subdue a powerhouse which they well know could generate sufficient drive to short-circuit their winning ambitions.  With seven games played last season, Everton were top of the table challenged by Wolves.  Both clubs have slipped a bit since then, but Everton have two matches in hand of most and four points from these games could transform the position.  I consider they will come bounding back today with a zest that will be all the greater because their ambitions and enterprises were not completely negative by the all-consuming defence of Inter-Milan.  Wednesday may have to pay for that frustration for they are hardly capable of emulating such a hold and Everton’s chastened attack will size their first opportunity to re-establish themselves.  My tip, them, is Everton to win, with something to spare.  Everton; West; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple.  Sheffield Wednesday; Springett; Hill, Megson; McAnearney, Swan, Young; Finney, Quinn, Layne, Fantham, Dobson. 

EUROPEAN CUP ‘BLUES’ AFFECT THE BLUES
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Monday, September 23, 1963
By Michael Charters
Everton and their supporters had many anxious moments before the final whistle signalled the 3-2 win over Sheffield Wednesday at Goodison Park on Saturday, particularly when the referee allowed a couple of minutes extra time for injury immediately after McAnearney had brought the score so close with a penalty.  Much of the anxiety was caused by the team’s unhappy and uncertain display and the ever-present fear that Wednesday would do what they had threatened to do several times in the closing minutes- score a couple more goals.  It all turned out well so far as points were concerned, but this was not a victory which pleased.  There are two ways of looking at it, however.  The first is that Everton deserves great credit, for winning even though patently below their best form., secondly, that unless they regain their zest of last season, their dismissal from the European Cup on Wednesday night is a formality and they will also find it very difficult to retain their championship.  I prefer the first viewpoint, with the addendum that defeat at Milan, might hurt the pride of some, and certainly be a blow to the club’s finances, but it would be a good thing in the long run for the team and their ambition to stay as champions.  The spectre of the European Cup was plain to see on Saturday, with reaction from the previous Inter-Milan game and the problems ahead affecting the players’ performances. 
THEY DESERVED A DRAW
Everton were probably a shade lucky to take both points from Sheffield Wednesday who played well enough to have earned a draw.  But yet, again, they were desperately unlucky with injuries.  Very early in the game, it transpired Gabriel lore a hamstring muscle and although he played on, he had his knee bandaged in the second half and was so obviously unlike the usual powerhouse Gabriel that it was difficult to recognise him.  In addition, Young had trouble with his blistered feet, and West suffered a painful crack on an ankle when he was fouled by Dobson.  I have no doubt Young and West will be fit for Milan on Wednesday night, but Gabriel will be out on the game for a few weeks.  Everton successes on Saturday were few- but they won.  Parker, Labone and Scott were the only players who touched their known form- but they won.  West also did well, except that he made two glaring mistakes late in the gamer which brought Wednesday one goal and would have caused another only that Brown saved a certain goal on the line.  Add the usual 100 per cent display from Stevens, working hard and courageously in defence and attack, and that just about sums up the finer points- but still they won.  The great Everton weakness was in the forward line.  Vernon is way below his best.  He has lost the edge of his speed, the clever, almost impudent, dribbling ability which enabled him to turn half chances into goals.  Several times there were openings which the Vernon of last season would have snapped up but he was too easily brushed off the ball.  He lacks the confidence to make a challenge and his habit of running away from an opponent expecting that he will make an error tends to look rather foolish.  First Division players don’t make these sort of mistakes. 
SCOTT WAS BRILLIANT
With Young just a show of his former self, unable to make anything of the quick-tackling Swan it was left to Scott and Stevens to provide most of the Everton threat.  Scott despite being starved of a decent pass for the first half hour was brilliant.  His pace and tenacity on the ball enabled him to make two goals.  Temple had one of his queer days, promising much but finishing badly.  Kay looks as though he could do with a week’s rest with strict orders, not to kick a ball in that time.  Like Vernon he has lost temporarily I’m sure, that quickness of thought and movement which puts him in the top class.  He did many good things but there were times when he was struggling which is most unusual for him.  Parker and Brown were outstanding at full back.  Parker has never been in better form in his life and the more I see of Brown, the more I like him.  His positional play has improved from his initial game against Burnley and he is a definite acquisition.  Much of Wednesday’s play was attractive Fantham’s passing particularly the Crossfield ball, was better than anything Everton showed and Layne was a thrustful dangerous leader brilliant in the air but not so good when the ball was on the ground.  He was directly responsible for his side’s two goals with headers had another saved by brown on the line, another punched over the top by West for the save of the match.  Yet he missed three times with reasonable shooting chances. 
COMBINATION JUST ONCE
It was against the run of play when Everton opened the scoring.  Scott made a good run from Gabriel’s pass, twice retaining his balance after being tackled before he centred for Stevens to turn the ball over the line.  Wednesday equalised before half-time when Layne made one of his great headers, directing the ball down to Fantham who scored easily.  The Vernon-Young combination responsible for so many Everton goals last season, worked just once to put Everton into the lead shortly after half-time.  From Parker’s free-kick, Vernon headed the ball across the goalmouth for Young to direct it away from Springett, Everton’s third was the individual highlight of the match, with Scott snaking away in a 50-yards run, beating off two tackles and drawing Springett out before turning the ball inside.  Springett was beaten and Scott was following up to apply the finishing touch when Vernon ran through and shot into the net almost off Scott’s toes.  The game was poised to go either way before this, and Wednesday had their unlucky break when West dashed out to take Dobson’s corner kick, missed completely and Layne headed the ball towards the net for Brown to save the day.  With only two minutes to go.  West repeated his error and Layne’s header was punched off the line by Parker, McAnearney scoring from the penalty. 

EVERTON TAKE 14 FOR GAME IN MILAN
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Monday, September 23 1963
REES AND HARVEY JOIN PARTY LEAVING TO-NIGHT
YOUNG RESERVES
By Michael Charters
Everton are taking a party of 14 players for their return European Cup tie against Inter-Milan in Milan on Wednesday night.  They are the team which played last Saturday minus Jimmy Gabriel (injured) and Sandy Brown (Ineligible) plus Brian Harris, Barry Rees, Albert Dunlop, Roy Parnell and Colin Harvey.  The inclusion of Rhyl-born Barry Rees 19, who has not yet played in a League game is of particularly interest.  The injury last Saturday to wing half Jimmy Gabriel has upset Everton’s plan for Brian Harris who would normally take over in that position will probably be required to stay at left backs where he played last Wednesday.  Rees has bene doing well in the reserves at both wing half and inside forward, but Parnell is another possibly at full back. 
LEAVE TO-NIGHT
The Everton party leave Goodison park at 6.30 p.m. to-night by coach for Manchester Airport where their plane leaves at 8.45 p.m.  they are due to arrive at Milan shortly after midnight and they will then go to their hotel at Monza.  There are excellent training facilities near the hotel which has a racecourse and the famous car racing track nearby.  They will make an early start on the return trip home on Thursday leaving the hotel at 7.p.m.  their plane leaves at 8.50 a.m. and, after a change at Paris, they are due at Manchester Airport just after 11 a.m.  they will come back to Goodison Park by coach.  It is possible the Inter-Milan beaten 1-0 in an Italian League yesterday by Lanerossal, will field the same side on Wednesday night that played at Goodison.  Yesterday they had regulars Corso on the left wing and Bolchi at right half.  Both failed to impress and their deputises at Goodison, Szymaniak and Tagnin respectively are considered to be favourites to regain their places.  The team attacked to ragged style against Lanerossal.  They were never in command at any time and the result was a shock to them. 
AT THE SPA
Coach Helenio Herrera said “My team missed first half chances and that was fatal.  They will do better against Everton.”  The Inter team have not been in Milan since their return from England.  On arrival in Italy last Thursday they went straight to a mountain resort for some secluded training and night moved to San Grino, a watering spa in Alpine foothills for training.  They will drive straight from there on Wednesday to the San Siro stadium in Milan for the game, which starts at 8 p.m. 
NO SOCCER CARS ON SCHOOL PLAYGROUNDS
COMMITTEE’S DECISION
NOT SUITABLE
Liverpool Education Committee to-day decided not to allow school play-grounds in the vicinity of Liverpool and Everton Football Clubs to be used for car parking. 
TONY’S WIFE GOES TYPING
I GET BORED, SAYS MRS KAY
While Everton and England left-half Tony Kay lives in his Liverpool digs, his 27-years-old wife works for an employment agency 90 miles away in Sheffield.  Mrs. Marina Kay, carter Knowle Avenue, Sheffield, has four children, but gets bored when her husband is away from home.  Since he was transferred to Everton for 55,000 pound last winter Tony has been living in Liverpool.  Said his wife to-day; “When Tony was transferred, we had only just brought our house and decided we didn’t want to move to soon.  “I have a nurse to look after the children and sometimes I get a bit lonely.  I thought that by going back to work I would have more interests, and Tony agreed.  But he does not like the publicity, as people may get the wrong idea.  “Tony earns about 100 pounds a week, so naturally I don’t need to go out to work.  He gives me plenty of housekeeping money.”  Already Marina has done one spell of work as a typist and earned about 8 pounds at 4s 6d an hour. 

DREAM DEBUT POSSIBLE FOR YOUNG BARRY RESS
Liverpool Daily Post -Monday, September 23, 1963
GABRIEL’S CRIPPLING INJURY BLOW
HARRY CATTERICK PROMISES INTER-MILAN VERY HARD GAME IN THE SECOND LEG
By Horace Yates
Before Everton leave for Milan to-day, manager Harry Catterick will have produced his solution to the problem posed by the crippling team building injury suffered on Saturday when Jimmy Gabriel, key man in the team’s defensive set-up for the European Cup second leg tie with Inter Milan, so severely tore a hamstring in his right leg that the most optimistic forecast is that he may not be ready for action again in three weeks.  His answer could be to give a dream debut to Rhyl-born Barry Rees, nineteen-year-old professional, busy making a name for himself at Goodison Park as a most enthusiastic Jack of all positions, and probably the fittest player on the register.  Already ranked as outsiders following their 0-0 draw in the first leg at home, Everton’s chances in the neutral world opinion must now slump to zero, but Mr. Catterick is not taking such a pessimistic attitude by any means.  “We will give them a hard game, he told me.  “It is one thing to devise an attacking scheme that works against the tightest defence, but a pattern and see them do it.  “There are very few forwards in this country, who, denied a yard or so in which to decide what to do can make anything of a truly stifling defence.  Run the rule over the players at home who can have a man breathing down his neck and can still get away and open up an attack. 
SOARS AND SOARS
“You will find it anything but easy to pick out, and this is not a difficulty restricted merely to players in Great Britain.  Men of such talent as I have outlined are very few and far between.  One might almost say there is such a world shortage of them that when one is found the price demanded for his transfer just soars and soars to astronomical limits.  “Take Inter-Milan as an erase in point.  Apparently, they cannot find home grown products to satisfy their needs, so, because their regulations are more elastic and co-operative than ours, they are able to tour the world and spend to the limit of their purse.”  Mr. Catterick did not say it, but I could not help thinking that if we could have read his thoughts he too, might have been dreaming of players like Suarez and Jair, to name two of the players who measure up to the standards the Everton manager had been outlining.  Take them out of the Italian side and the odds would come tumbling down.  Of course, Mr. Catterick is right on target with his views, for while we are always loudest in our squeals at the way Continental teams are able to blot us out of the game by defences which never seem to break, in fact it is really our inability our lack of talent to crack them that builds around them the legend of invincibility. 
ACHES AND PAINS
I was told that well trained and fit through they are, the Everton players could hardly understand why they were feeling aches, strains and pains on Thursday and Friday that are normally reserved for the early days in a season when muscles are hardly attuned to the new demands.  Again Mr. Catterick was able to put his finger on the trouble spot when he said, “When a youngster comes up from the Central League to Division One football, he can hardly fail to notice the jump.  He has to play so much faster, harder and strenuously, and it tells a tale, even on the fittest of them.  “For our lads, playing against Inter-Milan, the leap was very similar to that to which I have referred.  They found themselves having to do m ore and at a greater pace.”  I don’t believe Mr. Catterick would argue with those who would rank Internazionale among the top six clubs in the world, although I have an idea that he believes Milan are one of the sides who would quality for a place above them.  Now, Everton’s ambition I would think, would be to hold Inter-Milan to another, draw, which would mean a replay, probably on October 15 in Paris or Brussels, but this is the sort of possibility that will not be discussed further until results make it necessary.  On occasion in the past Everton have had a worrying injury position shortly before a big game, but concentrated endeavour by the back-room boys in the treatment quarters have produced highly satisfactory results.  With Gabriel, however, time alone can supply a solution.  There is no point in hoping for a miracle, for it simply will not happen. 
MINOR RIPPLES
There are other minor ripples on the surface, with a knock on the ankle suffered by West and a suspicion of blistering on Young’s feet, but these troubles carry no really worrying threat, West and Young will play.  Everton will take with them 15 or 16 players and I think in addition to the nine fit and eligible survivors of Saturday’s match (Brown is still banned) seats on the plane will be Dunlop, John Morrissey, Brian Harris, Roy Parnell, George Sharples, and Barry Rees, in which case Rees would be the only player without First Division experience.  Mr. Catterick can decide to bring back Harris as substitute for Brown and use Sharples or Rees at half-back, of he can give Harris the left half spot to which he is more accustomed and use Parnell or Rees at left back.  Improvisation is clearly necessary because of the injury-a game blight which has struck Everton this season.  I have every faith in Mr. Catterick’s ability to deploy his forces to the greatest possible advantage. 
WHAT VICENZA CAN DO,
Inter Milan, Everton’s opponents in the European Cup on Wednesday were beaten 2-0 by Vicenza in an Italian League match at Vicenza yesterday. 

WEDNESDAY GO DOWN TO TEN FIT MEN
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, September 23, 1963
EVERTON 3, SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 2
By Horace Yates
“They’ll never beat Inter-Milan on this form,” said the Everton supporters at Goodison Park on Saturday, when they retired thankful enough to have seen their team collect two hard won points from Sheffield Wednesday’s visit, but sufficiently concerned to realise that this was hardly the side which swept to the League Championship last season.  If, however, before the game began anyone had suggested that Everton, with only ten men, could beat Wednesday not even loyalty or optimism would have prompted many to agree.  Yet, in effect, that is what happened, to give a very different sort to give a very different sort of gloss to the finishing picture.
HANDICAP CONCEALED
Jimmy Gabriel, one of the most powerful and most consistent players, one who keeps going when others stop, was a passenger, to whom even hobbling was torture after six minutes, and for the rest of the match Everton had to attempt to conceal their handicap from the opposition.  Gabriel fell to get back to perk form.  Harris so completely master of his craft at times like this, so assured in his undertakings and so stylish in accomplishment, that he moves right into the top bracket of full backs.
DOMINANT PARKER
Moreover, if Springett had not anticipated possibilities quite so accurately, parker would have produced a leading goal of tremendous value, just after the opening of the second half.  Small wonder, with Parker so dominant, that Everton can afford to ignore possibilities in the direction of Jimmy Armfield.   This Wednesday side may not have much to show for their endeavours to date, but I make bold to suggest that their best days lie ahead.  It was all against the run pf play, for example, when Stevens gave Everton their lead in 15 minutes, after Scott, a very much more able raider then he proved to be against the Italians, took full advantage of a tragic slip by Megson.  Over went the ball to the exposed Stevens and scoring was child’s play.  When Fantham put a cross from Hill into the net, with the aid of the crossbar in 35 minutes, the goal was neither unexpected nor undeserved for with more steadiness, accuracy and possibly a little luck, Layne should have boosted Wednesday’s prospects before this.  I thought it all to Everton advantage when Wednesday stopped using Finney and concentrated on Dobson, and in fifty-three minutes the champions were ahead again.  Vernon headed Parkers free kick across to Young whom immediate reaction foils Springett.  Vernon must have been delighted to have made some positive contribution to the goal, for this had hardly been his day.  He simply could not get into the act, And the rankled with some of the supporters. Little did they known that this was a case of Vernon worst fears being confirmed for when he went down with an injury against Manchester United before the season opened, he dreaded then that a lay-off at such a vital fitness period would leave him handicapped for weeks.  Patience is needed with Vernon.  Fortunately, the second half signs suggested that he may now have weathered the worse of the storm, for he hit Scott a pass to score the third goal in seventy-seven minutes, just like the old Vernon.  Seldom has a non-score looked more dangerous then Layne.  It seemed he my score when he headed a Dobson corner kick to line, only to find the ball striking Brown’s knee and coming out.  Then with minutes left he again headed to the line at the only way in which Parker could prevent a score was to turn goalkeeper and fist the ball out.  Layne’s one consolation was to see McAnearney score from the spot kick in 88 minutes.  Everton; West; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon (captain), Temple.  Sheffield Wednesday; Springett; Megson, Hill; McAnearney, Swan, Young; Finney, Quinn, Layne, Fantham, Dobson.  Referee. Mr. L. Callaghan.  Attendance 48,894. 

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY RES 1, EVERTON RES 1
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, September 23, 1963
Everton Reserves failed to press home their football superiority in this match at Hillsborough and after taking command for three parts of the game they allowed Wednesday to come more into the picture and equalise.  Shaw gave Everton the lead in the third minute, and perfect defensive covering kept the home side out until the 73rd minute when Ford equalised.  So superior were Everton that Dunlop never had a difficult shot to save throughout, and he had no chance with the shot which beat him. 

THIS TURNING POINT IN BRITISH FOOTBALL
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express – Tuesday, September 24, 1963
By Michael Charter
Tomorrow is a unique day in British football history.  Never before have so many teams been engaged in games against continental opponents in the European Cup, European Cup Winners Cup and the Inter-City Fair’s Cup.  There are 10 clubs from England, Scotland, and Ireland involved and this gradual broadening of our soccer horizons could well lead to the formation of a Continental Super League some day.  British clubs have been so insular in their outlook, with the League programme paramount and the rest nowhere, that tomorrow’s fixture list would have been laughed at 10 year’s ago.  But the pioneering work of clubs like Wolves and Manchester United in tackling the best Europe can offer is having its effect on the game at last.  Here, of course, our major interest is on Everton’s European Cup tie against Inter-Milan to-morrow night.  Leslie Edwards is with the Everton party in Italy and he reports to-day from the team’s training head-quarters at Monza.  He will be commenting again to-morrow, and his report of the match will appear on Thursday.  There are no League games in England as to-morrow is the day for the second round of the Football league Cup, in which we have Tranmere Rovers, Wrexham and Southport. 
THOUGHTS ON MILAN GAME
Letters continue to pour in about the Everton-Inter Milan match last Wednesday.  Here is a selection;-
Mr. J.F. McCarthy, of 33 Marie Curie Avenue, Netherton, writes;- “Who’s kidding who?  A team is instructed to play for a goalless draw, and when they do that they are described as brilliant.  They are very good technically but if they employed similar tactics in all away games, they have no claim to be labelled brilliant alongside the greatest club side of all time.  Real Madrid, Inter-Milan are a very good side but I prefer to wait for results and not the brain-washing from Mr. Herrera.” 
Mr. W. H. Partridge, of 118 Hanley Road, Ilford, Essex.  “I cannot help thinking about the similarities between this game and the Sours-Benfica match two seasons ago.  The over-anxiety of the home players left them almost devoid of ideas.  Everton had little to offer bar long centres from Parker, coupled with frantic efforts to outleap the Milan defenders.  Everton were a bundle of nerves; they lacked experience of this type of emotion charged football.  The question of the players’ state of mind is the difference between success and failure and is crucial.  Players must be in control of themselves before they can control others.  Why, not, instead of impressing on players the importance of the occasion, demand a five-minute dressing silence prior to the match to allow them to relax?  Better still, get the whole matter analysed by psychologists to produce the ideal blueprint in pep-talk.” 
Mr. A.N. Shannon of 11 Longborough Road, Knowsley;  “As one who contributed 5s towards the £30,000 gate at Goodison may I congratulate the Everton club administration?  Profit-motive is the prime driving force in business and here we see an example of almost maximum profit and minimum expense.  The entertainment provided over the loudspeakers served all but morons with violent headaches.  The Police Band, and for instance, the Liverpool Youth Trampoline team would have cost about £80 and this would have made terrific inroads into the £30,000 gate, but it would have been a pleasant change.” 

EVERTON BREAKFAST, THEN SLEEP
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Tuesday September 24 1963
4-30 a.m. ARRIVAL IN MILAN AFTER FLIGHT DELAY
TRAINING SESSION PLANNED FOR THIS EVENING
By Leslie Edwards
The Everton players and officials arrived at Milan Airport at 4.32 this morning, tired from their flight to Milan via Manchester and London last night.  They sat down to a dawn breakfast at the Monza headquarters and then Manager Catterick sent his players to bed until lunchtime.  Today’s programme was strictly business.  The players were forbidden to go into Milan; they lunched at midday and were taken for light training with the ball.  They had hoped to use the local Monza club pitch, but the stipulation was made that they could only wear plimsolls owing to the risk of studs damaging the pitch.  The players will train this evening between six and seven and are likely to visit the San Stadium tomorrow.  Rain fell all morning in Milan but I am told that the pitch will still be hard by English standards. 
SELECTION IS DELAYED
Everton’s existence in the European Cup is just one predicament after another.  They have 15 players with them for the return game against Internationale tomorrow night (receipts will be 60,000 pounds) but manager Catterick, like the rest of his team after a prolonged flight from Manchester, hasn’t the foggiest idea which 11 he will choose.  The Everton party started their journey from Goodison Park at 6.30 last night. 
CHAIRMAN THERE
It was at first reported in Milan last night that the storm over the Continent had forced Everton to land in Paris; the truth of the matter was that the storm over Paris caused the original flight from Manchester to be cancelled.  The party got away on another plane to London at 11.30 and there a Comet brought them on belatedly.  Chairman John Moores, who had gone on ahead of the party, greeted the players at their airport and took them to their headquarters.  This was not the happiest start to the game against International at the San Siro stadium to-morrow evening but Mr. Moores said; “You cannot make arrangements taking into account storms like this and we shall have to do the best we can.”  To-morrow night could be a momentous occasion for one of three young Everton plyers, none of whom is yet 21.  They are Roy Parnell, the full back; Barry Rees, utility man; and Colin Harvey, an inside forward fans of the club have scarcely even heard of.
HARRIS PLAYS
The one definite thing is that Brian harries will play but whether at left back, where Mr. Catterick is so badly off for talent, or at right half in place of Jimmy Gabriel, is an open question.  Gabriel had all sorts of intense treatment and injections yesterday to test his fitness and in the end it was found impossible for him to play.  Harris might play at right half back with Parnell or Rees, a young Welshman, at left back.  Alternatively Harvey might come in for Stevens, allowing that player to drop back to right half back and releasing Harris for the left back position.  Jimmy Hill and goalkeeper Albert Dunlop are also among the Everton party.  I doubt very uch whether Everton will name their team much before mid-day tomorrow. 
INDENTITY CHECK
One remarkable thing about Everton’s game to-morrow evening is that they will all have to take their passports with them.  By European Cup rules referees must examine passport identities of both teams before the match.  It would be idle to suggest that the touring party’s unfortunate experience in losing a complete night’s sleep so close to the game will not be harmful.  But there is still confidence that the Inter defence can be pierced at the second attempt the main reason being that the Italian club must go all out on their own ground for the goal or goals which will take them through to the next round.
MILAN TEAM
THE Italian champions will play an attacking game with the following team; Sarti; Burgnich, Facehetti; Tagnin, Guarnert, Picchi; Jair, Mazola, Di Gilacomo, Suarez, Corso.  The only change from the side that performed so brilliantly in holding Everton to a goalless draw at Goodison Park is ball playing International left winger Mario Corso for the more defensive minded German Horst Szymaniak.  Sixty thousand pounds centre forward Aurelio Milani is still out-he has refused terms offered by Inter until he gets a back payment due to him from his former club, Florentine. 

EVERTON TEAM ARE HELD UP BY STORMS
Liverpool Daily Post, Tuesday, September 24, 1963
Everton Football Club already plagued by injuries for the return match against Internazionale of Milan to-morrow were in further trouble last night.  They were held up at Manchester Airport when their British European Airways flight, was cancelled because of storms en route.  They left on the 11.20 p.m. plane for London, to catch a Comet due to leave at 2.30 a.m. for Milan.  The Comet flies higher than the Viscount, which was scheduled to fly from Manchester and is equipped with storm-warning radar.  The Comet left London Airport at 2.46 a.m. to technical trouble.  It was due to arrive at Milan Airport at 4.25 a.m., but a report of local fog made it impossible that the plane would be diverted to Malpensa some distance away.  The team manager, Mr. Harry Catterick, said the airline warned him that the weather forecast was bad for London Airport this morning and that stopping overnight in Manchester would risk further delay.  “The team will have almost two days to rest before their tie-on Wednesday,” he said.  The club chairman, Mr. John Moores, learned of the delay only when he arrived at Milan Airport to meet the team.  He said “We have got off to a terrible start but there is nothing one can do about it.  “I am hoping the team will rest in bed all to-morrow and maybe they will be able to do a little light training at the San Siro Stadium to-morrow evening round 6 p.m., when the weather is a bit cooler.”  The temperature in Milan yesterday was near to the eighty mark.

FANS GIVE EVERTON SEND-OFF
Liverpool Daily Post – Tuesday, September 24, 1963
There were about 100 supporters outside Goodison Park last night to cheer the Everton players as they set off for Italy and the second leg of their European Cup-tie with Inter-Milan to-morrow night.  The fourteen players in the party included nine of the men who played against Sheffield Wednesday last Saturday plus Brian Harris, Albert Dunlop, Barry Rees, Roy Parnell, and Colin Harvey, reserve inside forward, who like Rees has not played in the first team.  Staying behind are Jimmy Gabriel the Scottish international wing-half who is ineligible.  Manager Harry Catterick said before the coach left for Manchester Airport, that the final line-up would not be settled until shortly before the kick-off. 
UPHOLD PRESTIGE
“I can’t say anything about team selection at the moment.  What I can say is that whichever players are selected they will go out there determined to uphold the prestige of the Everton club and the Football League.  “Quite obviously we would have been more optimistic about the outcome had all the recognised first-team men been available.  The party are staying at Monza where there are excellent training facilities near the hotel, which has a racecourse and the famous car racing circuit nearby. 

EVERTON RES 0, HUDDERSFIELD TOWN RES 1
Liverpool Daily Post, Tuesday, September 24, 1963
Huddersfield were lucky to hold on to a one goal lead, the goal came from Hewitt at the 29th minute.  Everton attacked persistently and Veall hit the crossbar, while Huddersfield defenders blocked many shots from Morrissey and Russell.  Everton’s most dangerous forward was Shaw, who made many openings. 

EVERTON FANS IN TWO PLANES
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Wednesday, September 25 1963
More than 130 Everton supporters flew out of Liverpool Airport this morning on two flights to Italy to see the European Cup game with Inter-Milan to-night.  First party to leave were 72 members of the Everton Supporters Club who paid £20 each for the flight, a hotel and a ticket for the match.  Before they left at 11 a.m. in a Starways D.C. 4 the club’s spokesman, Mr. Gerry Thompson, said; “We are hoping for a win, but we would be satisfied with a draw.”  He said that many friends who wanted to go on the trip had been disappointed because they had been unable to charter another aircraft.  The second flight- a Starways Viscount with 65 passengers- left at 11.30.  The organiser, Mr. Ronald Fairclough, said; “We were so confident at the beginning of last season that Everton would win the League we made a tentative booking for the plane.  Now we are planning a champagne party in Milan to celebrate a win to-night.”  He added that they had received inquires for the flight from friends in London.  Burnley and Glasgow.  Both parties are due to return to Liverpool to-morrow.  And shortly after they left Speke, Southampton F.C flew in a Heron aircraft for their league cup match tonight with Tranmere Rovers.

COLIN HARVEY LIKELY TO MAKE SENIOR DEBUT IN MILAN CUP GAME
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Wednesday, September 25 1963
ANNOUNCEMENT OF EVERTON TEAM DEPLAYED
STEVENS BETTER
By Leslie Edwards (Milan, Wednesday)
Everton manager Harry Catterick will not announce his team to play Inter-Milan in the return European Cup-tie here to-night until just before the kick-off.  But it is likely that he will play Colin Harvey at wing half, keeping Brian Harris at left back.  Denis Stevens, who arrived yesterday with a stomach upset, is now fit after treatment by trainer Tom Eggleston, and the players had a rest day to-day, apart from visiting the San Siro Stadium this morning.  The ground is 15 miles from the team’s headquarters at Monza. 
REMARKABLE
If this forecast is correct, Harvey a Liverpool boy, who is only 18 will be getting a most remarkable baptism in big time soccer.  I have never seen him play but I am told he is a tremendous worker.  Signed by Everton two years ago, he was one of a number of local youths invited to play trials.  He and Stevens are likely to be employed mostly in a defensive role because the Everton manager feels that with Inter-Milan likely to go out for goals it is more than ever necessary for Everton to play it tight.  In effect the tactics of last Wednesday’s match will be reversed.  This time it will be Everton’s job to hold the fact and chance getting the odd goal.  Everton’s makeshift eleven, are almost certain, I think to include a young man who has never played for the first team before.  They have gone far out in the betting, but that is not to say they will not create a surprise. 
ENORMOUS TASK
Everton’s task seems an enormous one.  No British Cup team has ever beaten an Italian one in the European Cup or the European Cup Winners Cup.  Harry Catterick said last night; “Herrera is entitled to dismiss us as nothing, but I have my own opinion and it is that we are a good side and will be hard to beat, I am not despondent.  “My problem, part from injuries is to get my players to fulfil special rules I demand of them.  They can do it.  “Inter are a wonderful side.  Corso on the left -the only change made from the side we met at Goodison Park – will help the attack to become more offensive.  So our boys are not downhearted despite our big disadvantage through injured players.” 
EXPERTS VIEWS
All the experts except a few, give Everton no chance.  One of the exceptions is Bill Nicholson of Tottenham, a man who knows more about European Cup football than any other.  He said; “They can be a great side and they are by no means out of the competition.”  If Everton lost there would be compensation for them.  A surprise victory for them, allied to the League commitments and the probability of international calls on the club within the next few weeks, would make the immediate future a nightmare in views of the number of players inactive through injury. 

WHY NOT BOTH EVERTON BACKS FOR SCOTLAND?
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Wednesday, September 25, 1963
By Michael Charters
Everton’s new left back from Patrick Thistle Alex (Sandy) Brown is regarded as a certainty to play for Scotland against Ireland in Belfast on October 12.  He is playing like an international and the injury to the Scottish captain Eric Caldow gives him this chance of his first cap.  He is well worthy of it and it would be no surprise if his partner in Belfast was his Goodison colleague, Alex Parker who has never played better in his life than at present.  Parker faces strong opposition from the man in possession.  Hamilton, but Everton have been watched several times this season by the Scottish team manager Ian McColl who must have been favourably impressed with Parker.  On current form there is no better might back in Britain.  It would be a great asset to Scotland to play a club pair at full back for Parker and Brown have established quickly a happy partnership which is helped by having similar football ideas as well, as well as ascent.  It could be therefore that Everton manager Harry Catterick will have full backs problems of a happier, but next week when the Scottish team is announced -he may be asked to release both his first teamers.  If that happens, of course, Everton will be able to have their League match against Sheffield United postponed on the day.  As Wales play England in Cardiff also on October 12, it seems reasonable to assume that neither Everton or Liverpool will play their fixture-Liverpool are due at Birmingham.  Parker, brown, Labone, Kay, Young and Vernon, of Everton, with Lawrence, Milne, Yeats, Hunt, St. John and Melia, of Liverpool, must all have chances of playing internationally on that day.  The League ruling is that a club providing two or more players for an International can have their League fixture postponed.  Everton and Liverpool must qualify from this round dozen possible.  It will be interesting to see just how many this city provide in international double-decker. 
Before Everton play Inter-Milan to-night, it is only fair to refer to readers like G. Berrigan, of 187 Strand Road, Bootle, Mr. R. Pritchard, of 25 Portland Street, Birkenhead and Mr. W. laird of 119 Eastborne Road, Southport, who have written to complain of the attitude that Everton stand no chance in Milan.  They are disgusted at the general trend of writing off Everton’s chance before they kick the ball to-night. 

MR. CATTERICK HAS NO ILLUSION
COLIN HARVEY COULD BE HALF BACK CHOICE
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, September 25, 1963
MR. BILL NICHOLSON SAYS –
EVERTON ARE BY NO MEANS OUT OF EUROPEAN CUP
With Leslie Edwards from Milan
A worried and puzzled Mr. Harry Catterick will make known his Everton team for the return European Cup tie against Inter-Milan only an hour or two before kick-off time to-night.  He will do so after much heart searching, I think Brian Harris will be kept at left full back, although he would be much appreciated also in the half back line, with Denis Stevens and Harvey sharing the double role as inside right and right half.  If this forecast is correct, Harvey, a Liverpool boy, who is only eighteen, will be getting a most remarkable baptism in big time soccer.  I have never seen him play but I am told he is a tremendous worker.  Signed by Everton two years ago, he was one of a number of local youths invited to play trials.  He and Stevens are likely to be employed mostly in a defensive role because the Everton manager feels that with Inter-Milan likely to go out for goals it is more than ever necessary for Everton to play it tight.  In effect the tactics of last Wednesday’s match will be reversed.  This time it will be Everton’s job to hold the fort and chance getting the odd goal.  Their hopes would have been much higher if Gabriel were only available.  His pulled hamstring has resolutely refused to yield to treatment.  Everton’s makeshift eleven, are almost certain, I think to include a young man who has never played for the first team before.  They have gone far out in the betting, but that is not to say they will not create a surprised.  Everton’s task seems an enormous one.  No British Cup team has ever beaten an Italian one in the European Cup or the European Cup winners cup.  Harry Catterick said last night, “Herrera is entitled to dismiss us as nothing, but I have my own opinion and it is that we are a good side and will be hard to beat, I am not despondent.  “My problem, apart from injuries, is to get my players to fulfil special roles I demand of them.  They can do it. 
NOT DOWNHEARTED
“Inter are a wonderful side, Corso on the left -the only change made from the side we met at Goodison park- will help the attack to become more offensive.  So, our boys are not downhearted despite our big disadvantage through injured players.”  Everton did an hour’s work at the well-equipped junior ground in Monza last night.  Their Milan opponents loaned their club to us.  Fewer than 100 people saw Everton loosen up and get rid of a little of their tiredness.  If Harvey plays, he will go into the records as having the most fantastic debut of any 18 years old in the history of football.  All the experts, except a few, give Everton no chance.  One of the exceptions is Bill Nicholson of Tottenham, a man who knows more about European Cup football than any other.  He said, “They can be a great side and they are by no means out of the competition.  If Everton lost there would be compensation for them.  A surprise victory for them, allied to their League commitments and the probability of international calls on the club within the next few weeks would make the immediate future a nightmare, in view of the number of players inactive through injury. 

IF KAY FAILS EVERTON WILL TUMBLE DOWN
Liverpool Daily Post, Wednesday, September 25, 1963
By Horace Yates
What a difference a chance of venue can make.  Those disappointed thousands who waited at Everton’s inability to do better than a 0-0 draw against Inter-Milan at Goodison Park last Wednesday in the first leg of the preliminary round of the European Cup, would quite justifiably whoop for joy if there were similar tidings from Italy to-night, where the second leg game starts at 8 p.m.  Everton have gone resolved to achieve just that.  I believe it would be a remarkable goal if they succeed, even though I realise that no English team has so far failed at the first round fence of the European Cup competition, but then, not all previous representatives have encountered such a formidable obstacle as Inter-Milan.  Everton’s experience in the last day or so have been sufficiently alarming to turn any self-respecting manager grey with worry.  To reach Milan, tired hungry and at least mentally disturbed with their mentally disturbed with their travel experiences, at 4.30 on the morning prior to the most important match in their history, is certainly not the way clubs like to arrange their programmes in this country.
POWERS OF RECOVERY
If the players shake off the effects in time to turn out fit and fresh this evening it will be a fine tribute to their powers of recovery.  In Milan last night Mr. Harry Catterick was either unable or strategically unwilling to reveal the players on whom the club pin their hopes.  No-one can blame him if he keeps the information from the opposition right to the last moment, although they probably know so little of the probable replacements that they will simply be names on a sheet of paper.  It has been suggested that with the remarkable recovery of Jimmy Hill in time to become a last-minute addition to the passenger list, that Mr. Catterick might find a place in the forward line for him.  Obviously, there is no comment on such speculation, but if the inclusion of Hill means the exclusive of Vernon, then I have Mr. Catterick considers the position very seriously before falling in with the idea.  Nobody needs to tell me that Vernon just now is nothing more substantial than a shadow of himself, I realise to the full that it is a risk, playing him in such form, but at the same time I consider it to be a calculated risk that Everton cannot afford to reject.  For ten minutes or so against Sheffield Wednesday there were belated signs that the Vernon touch was returning.  If that was face rather than wishful thinking Vernon could have a decisive role to play today.  He alone of the Everton inside-forwards possesses both the speed and fire power to destroy these ambitious Inter-Milan fees.  It is a popular fallacy that because Internazionale are almost certainly committed to all-out attack in an effort to ensure their survival, this means wide open spaces left in their defence.  Tom Finney, who has as much experience of playing against the Continentals as any team in the game was telling be on Saturday that while the Italians will attack far most at Milan than they did at Goodison, they will scuttle back like frightened hens at the slightest sign of danger, so that Everton may be tainted to count the number of their opponents.  They play a shuttle service and a Vernon in form is just the man to lead the bridgehead into the opposition camp, which could produce an Everton assault in strength.  Remember, with Corse on the left wing, parker will not be able to spend his time as an extra (and very formidable) forward, as he was at Goodison.  Everton must mark every attacker so closely that room for manoeuvre is negligible for players like Suarez and Jair are the great names they represent today because they receive so much less time than the general run of competitors.  It may be that Kay or Stevens will have the double role of defender and line man, with Vernon and Young out in front waiting for the chance to make the critical break
TEAM PROBLEMS
How will Mr. Catterick tackle his team problems?  I can only guess, but this is the solution I would not be surprised to see him employ; Leave well alone by allowing Brian Harris to continue the battle he joined with Jair at Goodison.  Although the Brazilian was one of the stars of the evening that was not because Harris was a failure.  Brian has much more to his credit than many of his colleagues in the final reckoning.  Let Tony Kay switch to right half, of which he has experience to permit Barry Rees, the 19-years-old Rhyl boy to have some semblance of familiarity with the august role he has to assume, with 90,000 people (£60,000 receipts) looking on.  They hard-tackling, fear might Kay is obviously to deal with the might, menace and magic.  If Kay cannot cope with Suarez, Everton have nobody else for the job.  Let Kay fall down, and I am afraid the Everton edifice will come tumbling with him, to mark the end of a mission. 

LESLIE EDWARDS REPORTS FROM MILAN
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Thursday, September 26 1963
A REALLY GOOD SHOW BY EVERTON
Everton very nearly brought off what could have been a sensational performance in Milan last night.  They came within an ace of forcing Internationale of Milan to a replay in the European Cup.  Milan won by a goal to nil and must have been glad to get away with it against a largely makeshift Everton team whose tactics laid down by Manager Catterick were proved effective all through except for the 46th minute when Jair got the goal which put Everton out.  Thus it was a great show by Everton in a most contentious game, the continuity of which was completely ruined by the number of incidents between varying factions.  But the small Everton contingent who flew to the game and made their Everton chant heard above the din of a huge crowd in the famous San Sira Stadium could fly home content that their team had put up a really good courageous show.  Harry Catterick said afterwards that his men had carried out their tactical instructions admirably.  He praised them for holding Inter to one goal in 118 minutes of hard going.  He was right to point out that the Hungarian referee, Mr. Horvath had added no extra time for the countless stoppages which occurred and which really ruined the match as a spectacle between champions of there respective counties.  What the Everton manager as too modest to say was that the tactics he laid down were really the basis of Everton’s nearness to take there opponents to a further game.  Young Harvey making first appearance as an Everton senior was set then the game got going to play at right back with Stevens dropping back to Parker’s position and Parker having a roving commission which took him to all part of the field. 
THE MANY BATTLES
The plan certainly worked otherwise the inter manager Herrera would never admitted “Everton were bound to play this game defensively as we did at Goodison Park and until the interval I wasn’t sure whether they were going to succeed or not.”  The Inter manager also confessed that when Jair and Harris got at cross purposes in one of the game’s many battle he had warned his player to cool down because he feared that if he didn’t he might not take part in Inter’s next be in the same competition. Neither side was blameless once the match started to erupt and the referee must accept a good deal of blame for not ruling out without delay the foul tackling and worse when occurred from time to time almost from the start.  The trouble’s that wat is allowed in Britain is not inevitably allowed in Italy and vice versa and while the rewards in a tournament of this kind are so enormous every game must come close to being something of a pitched battle.  It was a great pity what would have been such a great game was so ruined.  It was a great pity that Everton’s tactical plan failed so narrowly after succeeding for 89 minutes of the 90 minutes.  One could not help sensing the apprehension of the crowd once Everton settled down.  There were times when they clearly held the initiative and if only their finishing had been good the story most have been so much different.  The valuable of playing Harvey was an enormous one but it deadly paid and this young Liverpool but will look back upon his first senior game with some pride since he fought hard, played at times with veteran coolness and could well have been a scorer with either of two overhead flips when standing with his back to goal.  He had one sharp chance from a fast centre by Temple but before he could bring the ball under control and ram it in he was pounced on and tackled.  Everton’s best chance however was created all alone by the brilliant corkscrew run of Scott in the second half.  He started 40 yards out from goal and weaved and wheeled his way through the entire defence until he found himself no more than 12 yards out with the goal at his mercy.  As with so many chances, some of them enjoyed by the Milan side the gift thrown to the winds.  He hit his shot wide.  An even blatant miss was the Di Giacomo failed with in the first half.  Harvey trying to play it cool had turned the ball back inwards his own goal from a distance some 23 yards not knowing the centre forward was lying yards offside.  The ball went straight to D. Giacomo who seemed so surprised it being presented with the chance to shot nastily and wide when he could have gone on unopposed to almost walk the ball in.  The shooting on either side was poor if one accept some remarkable swerving free kicks from the Milan left winger Corso.  We have heard much about the way he could flight his shots from a dead ball but few of us could have been prepared for the swerve he got on two or three of his efforts which had West anxious until he actually laid hands on the ball and caused him to midfield on at least one occasion.  West did and so did Sarti on occasions Everton’s best attack was one the referee pulled up eventually on the score that Vernon was offside but it didn’t look that way to me and as the striker of the line last night he was unfortunate to shoot the ball against the legs of Sarti collect the rebound and still find the goalkeeper in position to make a second save. 
FLYING FEET AND FISTS
It was a game ruined by flying feet and fists and one could not help believing that firmer handling would have improved things from the outset and but a general warning to both sides or to two captains would have borne fruit.  Young lying deep never had opportunity to show the Italians the brand of mesmerism which delighted people at Goodison Park.  There were times when Temple showed fire and speed and Scott’s contribution was remarkable if only for that one classic sinuating dribble which deserved a goal for its very artistry and impudence.  Considering he was played out of position Brian Harris filled the bill well enough with the firm Labone adding his quota to the defensive plan which often had Inter so flummoxed the home crowd were inclined to be derisive.  That Milan spectators demand football all the time was proved by the fear-some whistling of their own team in the final two or three minutes when Inter were playing for time and were indulging in time-wasting strategies which have been known to passed unnoticed when employed by Everton on their own ground.  Everton will have learned much from this first excursion into international at the highest level.  Defeat has compensations because their injury list is so long and their commitments so severe a further game in this cup competition would have been nothing short of an embarrassment.  That they have held a team like Inter to one goal in two matches should boost their morale enormously.  It was a first rate effort from them in most difficult circumstances and with the odds stacked high against them but looking at the match in retrospect one wished that it had been a better exhibition of football as it should be played rather than breakneck competition with no punches pulled from two teams who are champions of their respective countries. 
TALENTED AND VOLATILE
The Italian variation in place and their quickfire inter-passing in down-the-centre moves was sometimes we rarely see in England.  They have any amount of talent but they are tremendous volatile in temperament too and are more than a little given in play-acting when brought down.  The number of times hordes of Press photographers (in the pitch during the many stoppages for injury or other reasons should at least ensure that the pictorial record of this remarkable match who be one of the most dramatic ever published.  This match could easily have gone either way and remembering how Everton had been written off by nearly everyone before a ball was kicked one trembles to think what the fate of Herrera might have been if by chance Everton had snatched the only goal.  I will confess that Jair’s score came from one of the finest and most incisive attacks of the even me when Tagnin eventually put the ball out to him on the right his chance was pretty slim but he fairly lashed the ball under the bar off a difficult chance and the relief of the team mates and the scorer’s own delight in leaping about the field indicated quite clearly what importance the home team attached to this vital leading goal after so much effort without one.  Young got a bad cut on the thing to say nothing of being on the receiving end of some tackling from behind.  It was never great football by either team but from Everton’s point of view it was a remarkable feat in come to such a stronghold as San Sira and move off beaten by the only goal after missing two or three chances of the sort they don’t often fail with in league games in England.

ROUGH EUROPEAN CUP ADVENTURE
Liverpool Daily Post, Thursday, September 26, 1963
ONE JAIR GOAL ENDS EVERTON CHALLENGE
IF ONLY THAT DISALLOED VERNON GOAL AT GOODISON PARK HAD COUNTED
INTERNAZIONALE MILAN 1, EVERTON 0
By Leslie Edwards
Everton found themselves out of the European Cup in Milan last night, when Internazionale beat them by a goal to nil in one of the most tempestuous games I have seen for years.  The goal which did the trick was scored by J. Jair, a minute after the interval, from one of the few good moves in a match punctuated by foul tackling, flying feet and fists.  There would be some severe knocks and bruises to attend to in both dressing-rooms at the finish.  The crowd, not a capacity one, estimated at 65,000, left in thousands long before the finish, apparently convinced that Inter would hold their lead and that what remained would not be worth watching.  And they were not far wrong.  Several names went into the book, of referee Horvath- not the man who controlled the first game at Goodison Park.  Certainly, his grip on the match, if grip it could be called, was much to relaxed, and the game as a spectacle had very little value. 
HARVEY’S MOMENTS
Everton did extraordinarily well to keep the margin to a goal in view of the fact that they were giving debut to the eighteen-year-old Colin Harvey.  He had his moments and was far from a failure.  Everton might well have survived.  They had some good chances and made nothing of them.  When Vernon, in the first half, did strike with venom and accuracy, the Inter goalkeeper Sarti was the luckiest man in the world not to concede a goal, getting his legs in the way of Vernon’s first in the way of Vernon’s first shot and making an astonishing save when Vernon picked up the rebound, and fired the ball in a second time.  Everton had a novel tactical plan with Stevens more often at full back and Harvey at right half and with Parker roaming the field doing useful work in all sorts of roles.  Everton certainly had spells when the field the initiative and one could sense the home crowd’s surprise at their command of the game at times though Inter moved sweetly on occasions, with variations of pace, which one rarely gets in football in Britain.   It was a most undistinguished match by any standards.  If it had been played in Britain, I think the referee must have called both teams before him at some stage and warned them that the next offence would be for the dressing room.  Everton have learned valuable lessons from this defeat and maybe, in view of their immediate commitments and the fact that they have so many injured defeats has some compensation.  Doubtless there will be some casualties to deal with before the big game at Anfield on Saturday.  West did his job without fault and with much courage.  Kay had his momenta and so did Scott and Temple.  It was Scott who enlivened the game and Everton’s hope by a tremendous second half dribble in which he beat man after man then, when finding himself in front of goal at almost point-blank range, shot wide.
FOUR BOOKED
Harvey could scarcely have done more for a youngster pitched into the cauldron the Inter stadium was last night.  The referee took the names of four players -Harris and Stevens (Everton) and Suarez and Jair (Inter).  One last thought -if only Vernon’s goal at Goodison Park last week had not been disallowed for offside!  A cool wind must have made conditions quite difficult in the huge bowl-like stadium.  The pace from the start was tremendous, with Everton doing extraordinarily well, then having to suffer three tremendous minutes of pressure in which Inter all but scored three times.  Oddly the first scoring chance went to Everton, Vernon won a clinch for possession, shot just wide and although a defender appeared to deflect the ball, no corner was forthcoming.  West saved from a Mazzola header and Parker delivered a bumper so that Sarti fielded only with difficulty.  Jair shot high over the bar after bursting through and Everton had those desperate escapes, first when Corso a great swerver of the ball shot wide, after a quick return from Suarez and next when Mazzola hit the foot of the post with West beaten.  The ball rebounded back into play and then Jair swerved a long distance shot from 25 yards, just over the bar, with West clearly anxious at the way the ball drifted in dangerously.  The game got rather ill-tempered for a moment or two, but there was a sensational moment in which Harvey figured 20 minutes after the start.  The boy, standing outside the penalty box, screwed the ball back in what was intended to be a reverse pass to West, but Di Glascomo standing in what in other circumstances was yards outside, picked up the ball, and absolutely unopposed, took two strides and smashed the ball wide.  This was a tremendous blunder and the crowd were frantic in their disappointment.  Temple made one very good run and produced a pass for Vernon, who was doing the line’s striking, but the Inter defence was on to every Everton move like lightning and all Vernon got was a corner.  From this Harvey made a creditable shot at goal with an overhead screw kick which might well have surprised Sarti.
MAKING MISTAKES
Young Harvey was making mistakes, but there were times when he was playing with great phlegm for a lad so young, pitch-forked into such a tremendous occasion.  The crowd were not happy at the failure of some Inter passes and Everton took command in a spell where Harris came far upfield to help prise a way through with Vernon.  Everton had their best moments when temple and Vernon went clean through the defence, the crux of the thing being whether Temple could get to the final pass before Sarti.  The goalkeeper courageously won the race by a matter of inches and with a save at Temple’s feet saved the Inter the indignity of being a goal down.  Everton’s inter-change of positions and offensive outlook meant that the backs were occasionally found upfield and on one occasion Parker was figuring at outside left.  Young played very deep leaving Vernon at the spearhead Everton were doing better than anyone could have anticipated, and young Harvey was doing miraculously well in the circumstances. 
GREAT ESCAPE
A glorious Everton left wing move started by Kay ended most frustratingly with the greatest escape Inter will have as long as they are Inter.  Kay speeded up when he found he was unopposed and from his pass Temple put Vernon through at almost point-blank range.  Vernon’s first shot struck Sarti on the legs and rebounded to the shooter.  The Welshman picked the ball up immediately and fired in a second shot, and how Sarti saved this one, no one will ever know.  Nor could anyone imagine why referee Horvath should give Vernon offside.  The game became tempestuous after Stevens had been injured and got completely out of hand with fists raised and the referee seemingly able to do little to stop the eruption of foul tackles and kicking.  Mazzola went close with a magnificent left-foot shot taken on the left-foot shot, taken on the half turn, and then a shot by Jair missed the post by an equally narrow margin, it was a pity the match should have erupted in such a fantastic way.  Inter’s best move for some time was one in which full back Faccbetti went far into the Everton half to pick up a long ball and fire narrowly wide.  West saved at the feet of Jair and took a blow for his pains, and one way or another this match was becoming a display of rough stuff rather than football skills.  Half-time; Inter Milan 0, Everton 0.
During the interval groundsmen replaced the divots.  West picked up a long through ball just before Jair arrived on the scene. 
JAIR’S GOAL
Mazzola made a possible chance for himself, but turned the ball to Tagnin who, in turn laid on a difficult chance for outside right Jair.  The winger hooked this one beautifully, hitting his shot into the roof of the net after 46 minutes.  A moment later Corse took a free kick and swerved it so markedly that West seemed fortunate to fall on the ball, literally on the goal line.  Everton’s tactical plan was for Stevens to play at right backs, leaving Parker and Harvey to take on the job of looking after Suarez.  Inter were very sharp and incisive near goal and plainly all out to put the game safe with a big lead.  With West out of goal, Mazzola with an overhead hook shot had the ball on the top netting, with Everton tormented by the possibility of a great scoring effort succeeding instead of just failing.  There were jeers when Temple, picking up a headed clearance from his own corner kick, shot yards wide.  Harvey picking up a fast centre from Temple just failed to bring the ball under control when he might well have got the equaliser.  Harvey was so uprooted that the referee could do no other than give a free kick.  A moment later Sarti came out amid a dozen flash bulbs to make a good catch from a lob by Harvey on the right wing.  There was another scene when Harris and Jair went down together and in the same incident Temple was injured and had to receive attentions.  The referee awarded Inter a free kick just outside the penalty area.  From the free kick, Corso made another swerving shot which West did well to reach.  Then Corso forced a corner and from this Jair swerved the ball in so fast and low that West could only fumble it at full stretch towards the post.  He could not regain possession and Inter completed the move with a huge shot by full back Facchetti, which soared fifteen yards over the top.
BIG CHANCE GOES
Scott put everyone’s heart in his mouth with a tremendous dribble starting half-way in the Inter half to a point where he got clean through, then fired wide from absolutely point-blank range.  It seemed to be that this was Everton’s big chance gone west, and ironically it was created purely by an individual effort of the Scotsman.  Harvey once more produced a surprise overhead strike, which Sarti collected unchallenged, and Everton started to look a little more impressive.  Inter were always dangerous but like Everton lacked punch and often made the pass too many.  They might well have gone two up over speculatively and West not able to hold it.  He pushed it to his left, straight to the feet of Jair, who promptly shot wildly and high.  The referee was not taking firm enough steps and this half, like the first, was punctuated by all manner of ill-tempered incidents in which players of both sides were concerned.
FEET AND FISTS
It was a match on which one could scarcely comment on the performance of any individual because play was continually punctuated by foul tackles, flying feet and fists.  On one occasion, Young was held back by the arm, but still contrived to produce a first-class pass.  Kay, with a reverse pass all but put Di Giacomo through, just as Harvey had blundered with a reverse pass in the first half, but the result fortunately for Everton was nil.  As a clogging match, this wanted some beating, and thousands of the crowd were leaving long before the finish, and none could blame them.  Inter slowed the game up and did a little mickey taking in the final minutes, but the going was still as fast as ever, and Everton plugged away in the hope of pulling a draw out of the fire.  All things considered, Everton’s fight had been a game one, but you can’t win games against Inter if you miss the chances Everton missed, though it must be said that Vernon was particularly luckless.  Facchetti picked up on the goal line a fast ball from Temple and earned a bonus in this one spilt second of retrieving when Everton might have snatched the goal that would have made all the difference,  a dismay rather disgracing match for both teams finished with handshakes all round.  Everton; West; Parker, Harris; Stevens, Labone, Kay; Scott, Harvey, Young, Vernon, Temple.  Inter-Milan; Sarti; Burgnich, Facchett; Tagnin, Guarner, Picchi, Jair, Mazzola, D. Gascomo, Suarez, Corso.  Referee M. Horvath (Hungary)

HARRY CATTERICK
Liverpool Daily Post, Thursday, September 26, 1863
TACTICS NEARLY WORKED
Mr. Harry Catterick, Everton manager, said; “This was a wonderful show, considering we had a makeshift eleven.  To hold Inter to one goal on three hours of football is something Merseyside can be proud of. “Everything I asked of the lads they did and the tactics we employed almost came off.  “Parker, who had such a tremendous first half, pulled a muscle in the right thigh and played under severe handicap all through the game from that point.  “Young finished the match with a badly cut left thigh.  The referee told me at the interval when the score was goalless, that our players must not waste time.  He made no allowance in time for the many stoppages for injuries.  Herrera said,“Everton played it defensively, as we had at Goodison Park, and at the interval I was not sure whether they were going to pulled it off or not.  “After trouble between Jair and Harris, in one of the many incidents, I warned Jair to cool down because I felt there was a risk of him getting into trouble and possibly missing the next round tie.” 

AND NOW FOR THRILLS OF ‘DERBY’ MATCH
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Friday, September 27 1963
By Michael Charters
Although Liverpool have had the week free to prepare for the “Derby” game at Aintree tomorrow, compared with Everton’s exhausting travels to and from Milan and the gruelling European Cup-tie in mid-week, it would take a brave man to suggest that Liverpool have an advantage.  It is unfortunate for Everton that the oddities of, fixture-making pitches them straight from Milan into the excitement and crowd-compelling intensity of what will be automatically, one of the hardest League games of the second for both teams.  Tomorrow’s clash has not had the same pre-match fervour of the “Derby” game last season last season when the clubs were meeting for the first League fixture for 11 years, but now the European Cup interest is over, the game has taken its rightful place as the most exciting of the League season.  Naturally, it will be a capacity crowd at Anfield with 52,000 tickets sold by early this week.  Both clubs have their injury problems and at the time of writing team selection has not been announced.  The Liverpool doubt centre around centre forward Ian St. John, whose damaged ankle is responding slowly to treatment.  If he does not play, it will complete an unhappy hat-trick for him, for the only two games he missed last season were those against Everton. 
Everton have enough injury worries to last them the season.  With Meagan, Thomson and Gabriel definitely out, Vernon troubled by the nagging worry of his suspect knee, and the aftermath of Wednesday night’s game in Milan to be sorted out on the transfer table to-day.  Everton manager Harry Catterick has major problems.
THEIR FIRST EXPERIENCE
At least two will be facing the first “Derby” thrills and spills- Liverpool’s Peter Thompson and Everton’s Sandy brown.  They are due for something of an eye-opener when they get out in the whit-hot atmosphere of Anfield for these traditional games.  Neither team is playing as well as last season, Everton’s run of bad luck over injuries to key players and the strain of the European Cup competition, have taken the edge off their game.  Liverpool’s poor home start, losing the first three games, and their mediocre display at Sheffield United last Saturday, indicates that they are still struggling to strike their happiest blend.  But if to-morrow game compares with the keen, hard-fought and sporting matches between them last season, there will be no complaints.  They drew twice then and it would be no surprise if they shared the points again.  It will be a pity if the teams are not at full strength, but if there, is a loser, then their fans will have an excuse quickly available. 
WHAT YOU SAY
More points from the post-bag this week.
“Admission to “Derby” games should be pay at the gate.  It would stop the exorbitant prices charged by ticket spivs.  It may also stop the wrong people sending the game- the people who always manage to boast a ticket for the only matches they see during the season.  It is high time both Liverpool and Everton gave their true supporters a break over the two seasonal matches.  Let them pay at the gate as they have done in the past the real supporters will turn up early just the same” 0K.G. Anderson, 65 Oakwood Road, Halewood. 
The decision by both clubs to make these games all-ticket was taken after long experience of the trouble caused by paying at the gate and no police advice.  If it was all-ticket, extra thousands would turn up hopefully causing tremendous congestion and chaos when the gates had to closed which would be inevitable.  “Why didn’t Everton postpone last Saturday’s game against Sheffield Wednesday, even if they had to pay compensation in view of their Cup tie in Milan on Wednesday night?  Inter-Milan didn’t play on Sunday, leaving them fresh and injury free-another example of Continental shrewdness or cunning.  It’s all very well to talk about football being a sport.  The Continentals hate us and will stoop to anything to beat us- S. Waterman, 186 Tunnel Road, Liverpool 7. 
TAKEN TO TASK
“I have agreed with your honest criticism before and said so but I must take you to task for your viewpoint that it is better for Everton to concentrate on winning the is to be able to complete in the European Cup.  If it is of what? The main purpose of winning the championship is to be able to complete in the European Cup.  If it is our desire to make a quick exit with loss of prestige for club and country, I would be better to make way for other clubs such as Spurs and Manchester United who desire above all to win the European Cup.  I would prefer to see football as displayed by Inter-Milan and Real Madrid than mediocre opposition we have to tolerate from time to time Sam Baskin, 45 Avondale Road, Liverpool 15. 
Several factors led to my view- the abnormal number of Everton injuries, the fact that they are playing below form and the most obvious one of all that they were not good enough on the evidence of the first game to beat Inter Milan.  I felt, therefore it would be better from the long-term of view if they were able to concentrate on the League.  Naturally it was never the club’s desire to make a quick exit from the Cup- and I did not say it was Everton’s oft stated ambition is to be a world-class club.  Perhaps, one day they will win the European Cup and prove it to the world but my view, when I wrote on Monday, was that they would not do it this season so they would be well advised to put first things first- the League.  “As an existed Evertonian the summer soccer season in Canada has been brightened by the magnificent job done by Tommy Jones, the former Everton centre-half who has successfully coached Toronto Italia to a runaway League title and also completed the double by beating Montreal in the Cup Final last week.  The teams here are composed of British Italian German, Dutch and South American player which result in clashes of temperament on and off the field.  But the Italia players have bene guilty of fewer incidents which is a tribute to the control maintained by Tommy Jones over his team.  I understand he is returning to England as a player manager and the soccer fans in this city wish him all success in the future -Bryn Lloyd, 31 Charles Street, West Toronto, Canada. 

ALEX YOUNG MISSES “ANFIELD “MATCH
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Friday, September 27, 1963
TEMPLE LEADS ATATCK, MORRISSEY RECALLED
LIVERPOOL NAME 13
By Leslie Edwards
Everton go into their “derby” game against Liverpool to-morrow minus their star centre-forward Alex Young.  Liverpool name thirteen players and hope that their leader of attack St. John will be fit.  Young suffered a badly cut thigh in the match at Milan on Wednesday; Temple, who was at outside left that night now leads the attack.  Harris reverts to right half-back, brown returns at left-back Stevens moves to his normal place at inside right and Morrissey, once a Liverpool player comes on the left wing to fill the gap created by Temple transference to the centre.  It had been though that full-back Alex Parker would not have recovered from his knock he received in the Milan game, but fortunately he has recovered.  Liverpool are more hopeful about Ian St. John ankle injury after the player had trained a little to-day.  Arrowsmith is the alternative choice.  At left-back Liverpool will choose from Ronnie Moran or Phil Ferns.  All tickets have been sold, with the exception of about 200 for the boys pen.  There will be available at the club office until noon tomorrow, and afterwards at the turnstiles.  A ground turnstile will be open at each corner of the ground at 12.30 and the remaining turnstiles will be opened at 1.15.  Spectators entering the ground are requested to move away from the entrances in order to leave room for later arrivals and stand ticket holders are asked to be in their seats at least five minutes before the kick-off.  Liverpool; Lawrence; Byrne, Moran or Ferns; Milne, Yeats, Stevenson, Callaghan, Hunt, St. John, Arrowsmith, Melia, Thompson.  Everton; West; Parker, Brown; Harris, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Temple, Vernon, Morrissey. 

EVERTON PLAYERS LICK THEIR WOUNDS
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, September 27, 1963
YOUNG AND ST. JOHN MAY MISS DERBY
BLISTERED FEET ARE BIG RECURRING WORRY AT GOODISON
By Horace Yates
Everton and Liverpool may both have to play without their regular centre forwards in the first of the season’s “Derby” game at Anfield to-morrow.  Alex Young returned from Milan with a cut knee and blistered feet, while St. John’s ankle injury is responding so slowly to treatment that his chances of playing in his first Division One “Derby” are not so good.  Everton manager Mr. Harry Catterick, will decide to-day after receiving a fitness report on several players who received knocks and bruises against Internazionale, whether or not to delay a final selection until just before the game, and Liverpool manager, Mr. Bill Shankly talked of selecting from 13 or 14 players.  Denis Stevens has a decided limp and Alex Parker is being treated for a bruised thigh muscle.  I understand there are high hopes that Parker and Stevens will be able to turn out but the query against Young’s name is only slightly less worrying than that against St. John’s.  Mr. Shankly told me last night, St. John did a bit of training to-day did a bit of training to-day did a bit of training to-day and has had treatment all week.  Everything that could be done to hasten his recovery has been done, but I am not very optimistic about his chances.  “Alf Arrowsmith will be standing by, and with both reserve teams at home, last minute calls could be made on them, of considered necessary.”  St. John has missed two successive League games.  Young’s blisters are a recurring worry at Goodison Park.  During the busiest parts of the season it is a weekly problem, but with so little time between the European Cup game and the “derby” match recovery action is severely restricted.  Not for lack of effort does Young’s problem persist, for he has had the best advice and attentions during his stay with Everton and if spectators had possessed a remedy Young would have had it long ago, for many of them have written to the club and player suggesting how this handicap might be overcome without having hit on a genuine solution.  I am told that not many people saw Young collect his knee injury on Wednesday, for the simple reason that he received it when he and the ball were many yards apart. 
IMPROVISATION
Mr. Catterick is having plenty of exercise in team improvisation and if Young has to stand down his worries will start anew.  He could play Vernon at centre forward, with either Hill or Harvey at inside left, but at least he is comforted by the thought that Brown will be available for left back, so that half back line, assuming that Gabriel will still be unfit.  How disappointing that neither side is likely to have full strength available for such an occasion, for while it is said that it is necessary only to put two teams in the field wearing blue and red shirts to produce the “derby” atmosphere, it is obviously far better when there can be a real battle of strength, especially with two such formidable sides concerned.  If Young, Gabriel and St. John mark the full limit of the casualties, and I don’t think this is an over-optimistic assessment we could still see a great game, with little or nothing between the teams at the close.  Should the opportunity bee taken by Mr. Catterick to “blood” Harvey in League football his will have been a truly remarkable week.  Last Saturday he was a reserve with no possible idea how long he might have to wait before stepping up into the all-star ranks.  Yet, on Wednesday, he was plunged into European Cup football.  From reports which have reached me, his was a wonderfully creditable show, and his colleagues at least, cannot speak too highly of the great effort he made.  In face of a recommendation such as that, Mr. Catterick, if need be, having shown supreme confidence in the boy on Wednesday, could justifiably provide an encore to-morrow.  Asked on his return to Liverpool yesterday, how it felt to have played against the Italians, he said;  “It was a wonderful experience, but I was awfully disappointed when the final whistle sounded -and we had lost!” 
NO LEAGUE CUP
Imagine the plight in which Everton might have found themselves if they had been involved in additional League Cup commitments!  Their resources are sufficiently stretched in existing circumstances to impose a real strain.  I hope if ever my question arises of making participation in this competition compulsory that heed will be paid to situations in which clubs with European commitments of any kind, may find themselves involved.  Both Everton and Liverpool, in my opinion, show great wisdom in having nothing whatever to do with the competition.  No club ever willingly turns down the opportunity to collect additional revenue, without a compelling cause, and I can hardly imagine a more justifiable reason than the already overcrowded list of fixtures inflicted on all English League clubs. 

ROY VERNON SAYS-
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, September 27, 1963
GIVE US ANOTHER CHANCE NEXT YEAR AND THEN- LOOK OUT
To our great band of loyal supporters, I would say -We did our best in Milan and only by the merest fraction did it fall short of being good enough to set us through to a replay.  I know it is easy to say it in the circumstances, because there is no chance of being proved wrong, but I honestly believe that if we could have had a third game against inter-Milan and had not been beset with team worries of any sort, we could have whipped them.  Everton proved to everybody’s satisfaction that blanket defence is no copy-fight of the Continental sides and that when we are forced into such a role, we can play it equally well, despite lack of acquaintance with it.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE
The fact that Inter scored one goal, while we were goal-less belies my statement, but we had just as good scoring chances as the Italians, without registering once.  They managed a single bull’s eye- and that made the difference.  And what a difference!  Few reports have done credit to that goal in my estimation, for it was one of the most remarkable I have ever seen scored.  Only because he was such a speed see, was Jair able to score at all, and the way in which he beat Gordon West almost made the eyes boggle.  I could not believe at first that the ball was in the net, but the elation of the Italians soon convinced me.  Jair, a terrific player this took the ball almost to the by-line, and certainly into an impossible shooting position and yet somehow, he managed to screw the ball back into play and under the bar.  If I live to be a hundred, I may never see it equal again.  We have all seen inswingers from corner kicks, but that is from a dead ball.  Jair swerved the ball in full action.  I made sure it could only land on top of the goal netting, but I was wrong.  It was bitterly disappointing to go out, for while it may have been our first experience of European competition I think we learned quickly enough to worry these Italians and if we go there again next year there is no doubt we will all be wiser and tougher to beat,
MAJOR BATTLE
These games are like a major battle.  There has to be a plan of campaign discussed and tried out over and over again, before being launched in earnest.  The Italians are encouraged to make this competition the peak of the season’s ambitions.  To us in England, it is just another fixture cluttering up the card.  The sooner we are able to devote the attention to the competition that our rivals give to it, the sooner will we begin to produce worthwhile results.  What would have happened for example if we had rested two or three key players from last Saturday’s League game?  No one can anticipate what action the League might have taken, but there is no doubt whatever that it would not have been compliments we would have received.  I have played in few harder of tougher games than this.  It is better perhaps to draw a veil over some of the incidents but all I will say is that I don’t think for one moment an English League football would have permitted some of the goings on.
HIGH FENCES
There is a curious feeling, playing behind high fences.  It is almost as though we are the caged lions, except that I suppose the fences are there for our protection.  We occasionally have odd crowd incidents in England, but I hope the day never dawns when we are fenced in as the Continentals are. 
Apart from the result, probably the greatest disappointment I suffered was to see the conditions of the pitch.  One might have expected that the home of clubs able to pay signing fees of £200,000 and more, and to enjoy splendid facilities in a huge stadium facilities in a huge stadium capable of holding about 90,000 people, that at least the pitch would be to match.  It wasn’t and that is putting it mildly.  The ground was full of bumps and dips, by comparison with which Goodison Park is a bowling green.  That apart, all we want now is the chance to have another crack at this European Cup and I give a guarantee that we will give a much better account of ourselves.  It was reassuring afterwards to find the small body of supporters who followed us, expressing their satisfaction with our efforts.  In a foreign city, in the midst of defeat, you have no idea of what it means to find someone lining up behind you and saying simply “Well done lads.  We are proud of you.”  What is more, we like to believe they meant it.  We did our best and I hope we made them feel their trip had been worthwhile. 

“DERBY” WITH A DIFFERENCE
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Saturday, September 28 1963
LIVERPOOL’S ADVANTAGE AGAINST TRAVEL-WEARY RIVALS
By Leslie Edwards
This is the “Derby” with a difference.  Never before have Everton faced their neighbours and rivals three days after an eventful (and physically painful) European Cup-tie; never before have Liverpool players walked on the field to meet Everton having had their minds read by a naturopathic expert.  It is a strange world and a stranger world of football.  Having watch the Milan match I would say that Everton would be lucky to get their team on the field without feeling laded.  To have a night sleep of European Cup-tie and your star centre forward all in the space of a few days is no panic for Manager Harry Catterick.  I would say that Liverpool start with an enormous advantage whether Ian St. John plays or not because their week of preparation for the match has been ideal compared with Everton.  Yet Everton’s experience in Milan expectedly in the tactical sense, may proved more valuable than anything they have experience in run-of-the-mill English football.  Compared with the fierce time of the game in Italy this afternoon’s will be mild.  The refereeing will probably be a good deal stronger too, and so I hope will be the standard of entertainment. 
PITCHED BATTLES
The game as played here for nearly hundred years now is immeasurably more watchable than safety first stuff which passes to soccer on the Continental.  The trouble is that rewards for players have become so great club matches, Internationally have become almost pitched battles even our “Derby” that enough at in the past will never deteriorated to this point.  Liverpool named 13 with Moran or Ferns as alternatives for the left-back position and St. John and Arrowsmith for the centre-forward place.  There are good hopes that St. John will be fit.  If he isn’t Manager Shankly will put the local boy in with confidence. He won’t let the side down.  From the days when I first saw him in the Central League side Arrowsmith always impressed me as a youngster who would make it.” 
EVERTON RESHUFFLE
Everton have had to reshuffle their forces made than somewhat.  Young’s cut thigh means that Temple, who cracked some good goals when the first got into the senior side, comes back hearer to his original inside forward position.  Brian Harris will welcome the move back to his wing half-back berth leaving the way clear for the new signing Brown to get back to duty after being ineligible for the match in Milan. 
FACE OLD SIDE
The Scottish selectors are bound to be present to see Brown and others in readiness for their choice against Ireland in Belfast next month.  St. John, Lawrence, Yeats and Scott are other Anglo-Scots whose performances will be carefully reviewed.  For Morrissey the game will be yet another tilt against his old side.  He usually does well on such occasions he certainly used to create embarrassment in the Everton defence when he wore the red of Liverpool.in ordinary circumstances it would be difficult to make an view of Everton’s lack of Young and the other certainty that they will be travel-weary and sore from their Italian journey one cannot help thinking that Liverpool have had the way made clear for a victory which would put a margin of points between them and the champions who have another tough commitment against Arsenal next Wednesday. 

WHEN LIVERPOOL WERE THE BLUES
The Liverpool Echo & Evening express- Saturday, September 28 1963
By George Harrison
With this afternoon “Derby” match at Anfield between Liverpool “The Reds” and Everton “The Blues” stirring things up with merit, I reckon we couldn’t appreciate moments to settle the problem
Sydney Stevens of 47 Avenue Market Woolton Liverpool.  For many years a memory has been ticking away in my mind of some thing that has puzzled me he told me.  At the beginning of the century I recollect seeing a framed lithograph on our living-room at home entitled Liverpool Football Club.  “Nothing unusual about that you will say.  But as I recall it, that print showed the players wearing blue and white quartered shirts.  Now, what I want to know is this Did Liverpool ever play in any colour other than red.  My father was an employ of the late William Houlding who was prominent in the formation of the Liverpool club, and it is possible that my father brought the lithograph because of that association.  “But is my memory correct after 60 years”.  Did those old-time Liverpool players wear blue?”  Your memory is bang on the target.  Sydney.  For a few seasons after they broke away from Everton in 1892 and started up on their own account, Liverpool F.C played in blue-and-white quartered shirts and royal navy blue shorts. 

THRILLING FINISH TO GREAT ANFIELD CLASH
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Saturday, September 28, 1963
EVERTON HIT BACK AFTER DOUBLE BLOW
LIVERPOOL 2, EVERTON 1
By Michael Charters
Liverpool; Lawrence; Byrne, Farns; Milne, Yeats, Stevenson, Callaghan, Hunt, St. John, Milne, Thompson.  Everton; West; Parker, Brown; Kay, Labone, Harris; Scott, Stevens, Temple, Vernon, Morrissey.  Referee- Mr. W. Clements, of West Bromwich.  Ian St. John, passed fitness this morning and resumed at centre forward for Liverpool in the great Derby match, Liverpool also tried Ferns at left-back, in place of Moran.  Everton had Temple at centre forward in place of the injured Young, with Morrissey coming in to play against his former team.  The teams came out in their traditional side by side fashion with Vernon winning the toss for Everton and making Liverpool attack the Kop goal in the first half.  In an early Liverpool attack Vernon lost possession to Hunt who broke through cleverly but shot straight at West.  Then Temple going out to the right, for a pass by Harris, beat Yeats with a body swerve but from his centre, Lawrence came out to intercept.  Then Scott beat ferns for speed and from his centre Stevens headed in but Yeats cleared.  In these early stages both teams were playing at breakneck speed.  With the defences of both teams being exceptionally sharp the forwards chances were limited, but a good Liverpool move with Callaghan moving into the middle ended with Thompson hitting a strong angled shot straight at West.  Callaghan was in the centre forward position again to received the ball from Milne but hit his ground shot well wide.  Among the full house was Mr. Willie Terris, the chairman of the Scottish selectors who was watching the many Scots in the game, in view of Scotland’s game against Ireland a fortnight to-day. 
DEEP DEFENCE
Stevens was playing very deep for Everton, almost as an additional wing half and Stevenson was also dropping back for Liverpool.  Scott’s speed was an constant danger to Liverpool and he sped past Ferns in great style before hitting a powerful cross which hit the upright and went behind.  Yeats made a splendid tackle when brown raced through to temple who just failed to get in his shot before the Liverpool captain saved a dangerous situation.  The first real escape of the match came for Everton.  From a free kick by Byrne Kay headed the ball down but straight to Melia, who was closing in and made his shot only for West to save the day by getting his body in the way.  The referee had a word with Byrne after a particularly vicious tackle had floored Scott.  The referee used the advantage rule for Morrissey after the Everton winger had been fouled by Byrne allowing Morrissey to recover and go on before hitting a shot over the top.  There was some pretty rugged tackling from both sides, and the intensive of the marking and general defensive cover was so great that few attacks were being developed at all. 
PLAYING IT TOUGH
The referee allowed to go on without a penalty, an incident in which Yeats when tackled by Stevens plainly kicked at the Everton forward.  There was very little sustained football of any quality -it was just hard tough going’ for both teams with the crowd alternatively booing and cheering the various incidents and free kicks.  Goalmouth incidents were rare as defences dominated the game.  But Stevenson produced a good shot from 25 yards again straight at West, Vernon was mainly acting as Everton’s spearhead, but he could get nowhere against the strong tackling Yeats.  All Everton attacks of any danger were coming from Scott, whose speed was too much for Ferns.  He went round the full back again and from his centre Vernon headed wide.  Morrissey went through well to push the ball inside for Temple to turn it on for Vernon who was yards off-side.  Everton were unable to create any clear openings but pretty much the same could be said for Liverpool whose shots had mostly come from long range.  The first stoppage came when Milne over-stretched himself in making a pass, and it was second-team trainer Joe Fagan who came on to help him in plate of Both Paisley.  Presumably Bob must be ill.  Everton brought all their players back into their own penalty area for a free kick by Stevenson, but Labone cleared comfortably.  Then when Stevens was fouled by Ferns, parker sent over a dangerous centre, which Lawrence took well in the air as the Everton forwards charged in.  This game was far from being a great one.  The tackling and defensive cover was so tight that it was remarkable that there was any open play at all.  Generally the game was based in midfield with neither side getting on top.  Everton’s best effort for half an hour came when Morrissey made a good run past Byrne and from his centre Temple just failed to make a decisive header, the ball beating Lawrence but being retrieved by Stevenson.  Stevens was doing a tremendous amount of work for Everton in his role as additional half back but he went through once from a pass by Morrissey and made a shot which was five yards wide.  St. John and Hunt linked together in one of the better moves we had seen and Hunt final thrust deceived Labone but he hammered his shot high and wide. 
GALLAGHAN’S GOAL
Three minutes before half-time Harris tried to clear with an overhead kick but sent the ball straight to St. John whose quick shot hit the crossbar and bounced down and out with West beaten.  Milne deserved the applause he received for a clever piece of work as Temple and Vernon tried to break through down the middle.  A minute before half-time Callaghan put Liverpool in the lead with a wonderful shot from 25 yards.  He received the ball from Melia and with no one to pass to he hit this right foot shot which was in the corner of the net as West was moving across for it.  In the seconds to go before half-time Scott was severely shaker when he fell over Ferns in a mid-air collision but he recovered after attention.  Half-time; Liverpool 1, Everton nil.
Two minutes after half-time Callaghan scored his second goal to put Liverpool two up.  St. John made a fine pass to Melia on the left wing and Melia went on to cross the ball low on the edge of the penalty area to Callaghan.  The winger swung his left foot at the ball, didn’t connect properly and sent it bouncing along the ground.  Where West, instead of going down for it, tried to kick it clear and completely missed, the ball rolling quite slowly into the net.  Everton nearly got a goal back as Vernon pushed the ball through to Temple, whose first-time shot went wide. 
DERSERVED LEAD
This is the first time Callaghan has scored two goals in a League match.  Liverpool had shown more thrust than Everton and they certainly deserved to be in the lead.  Everton’s forwards with the exception of Scott and Stevens the latter mainly at wing half had not shown the same penetration at the home attack.  Lawrence had to make his first difficult save from a header by temple after Vernon’s free kick and bounced off a defender Lawrence ‘flung himself to his left and picked the ball cleanly out of the air.  The tackling and marking continued to be as light as ever but the pace had slowed some-what and this was all for the good of the game.  Although there were far too many hold-up with free kicks, there now was more open football than we had seen in the first half hour.  The Liverpool defenders among whom Yeats had been our standing were too fast in the tackle for the Everton forwards now Vernon had been kept very quiet and hardly anything of note.  Everton’s best players had been Stevens, Harris, Labone and Parker.  Liverpool were now playing calmly and well- the best football we had seen in the whole match.  Thompson fired a shot right across the face of the Everton goal with no other Liverpool forward to give it the finishing touch.  Everton seemed unable to capture any sort of drive in the forward line although their defence generally had played.
SCOTT IS DAZED
Liverpool looked the faster team altogether now.  Hunt almost got their third goal after Melia had put the ball across to him, shot just going wide of the far post.  At this stage Scott came off and had attention from the trainer.  He was obviously dazed from the collision he had with Ferns just before half time and was anything but his normal self.  Scott was fouled just out kick was cleared comfortably by Byrne.  Everton kept plugging away for a goal but the Liverpool defence were their masters Everton were keeping the ball far too close down in the middle where Vernon could do little right whereas Liverpool’s more open play was looking much more effective.  There was no doubt that Liverpool had now taken command in every sense of the moment, cheered every time he touched the ball. 
VERNON’S GOAL
Hunt produced a surprise shot which forced West to make a full length save.  From the clearance, Byrne was penalised yet again for a head high tackle on Morrissey.  The game had gone rather dead for a while with Liverpool toasting along on their lead but suddenly it was brought to life again as Vernon scored for Everton after 74 minutes.  The move started with a Scott centre which Temple headed down, and Vernon moved in and shot past Lawrence from close range.  Liverpool appealed for off-side against Vernon and they must have had some grounds for their appeal.  Everton threw everything now into their bid for an equalising goal.  The Liverpool defenders were inclined to clear anywhere and they pulled every man back to defence in an attempt to hold on to their lead.  Morrissey cut inside to try a right foot shot, which went straight to Lawrence and Everton were maintaining their pressure in these closing stages.  In a lone breakaway however, Hunt cleverly held off Kay’s tackle and produced a strong left foot shot, which went wide with West diving across to it. 
NAMES TAKEN
There was an explosive moment when Kay tackled Yeats who had taken the ball far upfield and the referee took both their names, before awarding Everton a free kick for a foul by Yeats.  Both players had a tangle together with their legs flying.  Vernon tried to volley of ball home from the edge of the penalty area when Morrissey put the ball across to him but his direction was poor and the ball went yards off target.  Lawrence did well to come out and save from a header by Temple, which was heading in Vernon’s direction before the goalkeeper dived down and intercepted.  A brilliant pass by Harris to Scott opened the Liverpool defence and Scott centred first time for Vernon to run in and put the ball only inches wide.  All the Liverpool forwards came back to help the defence in the exciting closing minutes with Liverpool hanging on the lead which they had deserved on the general run of play.  Final; Liverpool 2, Everton 1.  Official attendance 51,973.

WE HAVE LEARNED MUCH FROM OUR MILAN TIES
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Saturday, September 28, 1963
By Alex Young
Crash! There go our European Cup hopes this season, but it is same consolation to know that we lost to one of the best sides in Europe and I think the whole Everton team learned much from our encounters with Internazional Milan.  As I promised last week Everton did not give up without a flight and in my opinion we were worth a draw at least in Milan on Wednesday evening.  Having knocked our heads against a defensive wall at Goodison Park we had no option but to try and play the Italians at their own game.  Despite playing a defensive game, however, we were able to carve three good openings in the Milan rear-guard during the first half.  Unfortunately, we did not score but the fact that we made such clear chances- they were much better than we had done at Goodison -shows that the tactics used were sound.  There was a period towards the end of the first half when Milan seemed to become upset because they could not break through our solid defence and they became a little careless.  Had we been able to snatch a goal there might have been a different story to tell.  As it was a goal by that streak of Brazilian lightning.  Jair da Coastal, sealed our fate during the second half.  It took all of the wingers fantastic speed to run in at a sharp single and convert the chance, and this was a goal I feel few other footballer would have scored. 
PAT FOR HARVEY
Our defence played brilliantly, but I would like to reserve a special pat on the back for local boy Colin Harvey, who came through one of the toughest debuts imaginable with the greatest credit.  Colin is no stranger to readers of this column, for I have mentioned him a number of times when discussing the promising youngster members of the Everton staff.  Perhaps unfortunate not to gain youth international recognition last season.  Collin is bigger and stronger this term- and a better player for it.  Looking back over the whole 180 minutes of our European tie, there was not a tremendous difference between Internazionale and ourselved.  My feeling are that if we had been drawn away in the first leg and played the return at Goodison, then things could easily have gone the other way.  I am not a great lover of the type of football played by Italian teams, perhaps because defensive methods make things so difficult for the attack, but if this kind of game were the regular thing I am sure we would reach a point where forwards retired at the age of 30 and defenders went on until about 45. 
NEGATIVE
Blanket defence is something the average British fan might endure just occasionally, but give it him week by week, and I feel sure he’ll find something else to do with his Saturday afternoon.  Defensive football could have the same effect on attendance as negative bowling and the consequent defensive battling did on first-class cricket not many years ago, I hope soccer’s administrators can see the red light.  Our trip to Milan, incidentally was purely a business one and there was no chance to go slight-seeing.  After our arrival at 4.30 on Tuesday morning, it was bed until 1 p.m., training, then relaxation at our Monza headquarters.  On Wednesday morning we took our first look at the fine San Siro Stadium, home of A.C Milan as well as Internazionale then returned to our hotel for lunch and a rest.  We left early on Thursday morning and were home in Liverpool for tea, despite a delay in Paris.  The Milan match, however, ever added to the Everton injury list and to-day I joined Jimmy Gabriel and Mick Meagan among the spectators at Anfield.  With four League games in 10 days -Liverpool, Arsenal, Wednesday, Birmingham Saturday and Aston Villa Monday week- injuries are something we can do without. 
NOT OUR BEST
I know many fans were disappointed with our performance against Sheffield Wednesday last week-end and I’ll admit this was not our best form.  The reason for our lapse I think was not the fact that we had our thought’s on the second leg of the European Cup in Milan but that we were feeling some after effects from the strenuous home tie with Internazionale three days previously.  Sheffield Wednesday are difficult to beat with a full strength side, but Jimmy Gabriel’s injury forced us into a more defensive game than we would normally have played.  In the second half Dennis Stevens played very deep, while I also dropped back a little and left Roy Vernon as the spearhead.  From this defensive formation, however, we were able to produce two goals.  I thought Alex Scott played very well, laying on the passes for two of our goals and putting across three centres in the first half which really deserved to be turned into goals.  We were all sorry to hear about Wednesday’s winger Colin Dobson being taken to hospital after receiving a purely accidental kick on the head.  Colin was soon discharged and although he missed the Inter City Fairs Cup-tie on Wednesday I am told he is making a satisfactory recovery.  May I end with a sincere thank you to the Everton fans who made the journey to Italy to support us on Wednesday and also, to many others who sent messages of good wishes.  One of the telegrams Roy Vernon received on behalf of the team was from Dirk Bogarde and the rest of the British film unit at present on location in Italy. 

CLIMAX TO ENDEAVOUR- “DERBY” SERIES BEGINS
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express, Saturday, September 28 1963
FOOTBALL ON MERSEYSIDE
By Percy M. Young
So far as 1893-94 was concerned Everton fell at the first hurdle, and Liverpool, by now making their name in no uncertain manner in Division 11, were gaining all the Cup glory by reaching the third round, after fine wins over Grimsby Town and Preston North End.  Everton were honoured however, by the use of Goodison Park for the Cup Final on March 31; in the event a smaller crowd 20,000 than anticipated came and the erection of extra stands had been superfluous labour.  But it was the League record of Liverpool, whose players, it was said, were offered special rewards if they should reach the top class, that was really remarkable.  In the plainest terms it ready.  Middlesbrough Ironopolis 0, Liverpool 2; Liverpool 4, Lincoln City 0; Ardwick 0, Liverpool 1; Liverpool 3, Small heath 1.Notts County 1, Liverpool 1, Liverpool 6, Middlesbrough Ironopolis 0; Small Heath 3, Liverpool 4; Burton Swifts 1, Liverpool 1.  Royal Arsenal 0 Liverpool 5; Liverpool 5, Newcastle United 1; Walsall Town Swifts 1, Liverpool 1.  Liverpool 2, Notts County 0; Newcastle United 1, Liverpool 1; Walsall Town Swifts 0, Liverpool 3; Liverpool 3, Ardwick 0; Crewe 0, Liverpool 5; Liverpool 2, Grimsby Town 0; Liverpool 2, Royal Arsenal 0; Rotherham Town 1, Liverpool 4; Liverpool 5, Rotherham Town 1; Liverpool 4, Northwich Victoria 0; Liverpool 3, Burton Swifts 1; Lincoln City 1, Liverpool 1; Liverpool 2, Crewe Alexandra 0; Northwich Victoria 2, Liverpool 3; Grimsby Town 0, Liverpool 1; Burslem Port Vale 2, Liverpool 2; Liverpool 2, Port Vale 1. 
The League programme having been thus brilliantly executed Liverpool had no automatic pass to Division 1 but were compelled to pass the further ordeal of a Test Match with Newton Heath against whom a benefit match for Stewart had already been played and lost.  This concluded 2-0 in Liverpool’s favour, Liverpool and Newton Heath changed places a just arrangement on the relative merits of the teams, observed an impartial Manchester Guardian.  Having arriving in the highest circle -not without difficulty, for funds had been low and staunch Evertonians had pledged themselves to abstain from attendance at Liverpool matches- the committee embarked on ground improvements and a new stand and added to the playing staff.  McCann from Paisley Abercon and a late candidate for international honours, took over in goal Abe Hughes of Rhos and Wales, supplemented the former Evertonian Hannah and McLean at full back an additional half-back was Cameron from Rangers while among the forwards were now to be found Drummond famous with Preston North End and well primed with Sheffield United in the art of making a flew team comfortable in Division 1 and Neil Kerr whose talents as a centre-forward had suffered from disagreement with his former employee at Ibrox Park.  The big capture however, was Jimmy Ross, for whose services Liverpool had sent a deputation to Preston at the end of June.  In the distant 1890’s aristocracy was a quality still believed in, and its virtues were vigorously upheld -by the aristocrats.  The generally quality was applied to particular departments of English life and the consequent transposition of a class-consciousness led to the acceptance of Everton as among the upper 20 of football clubs. 
SCIENTIFIC
Everton justified themselves in two ways; They were exponents of scientific football and they were rich.  Thus it was that they were able to induce one of the greatest of footballers, Jack Southworth to join them in 1893.  Among footballers he enjoyed a princely reputation, and of centre forwards he was the principal of his era.  In other marches of society, Eto and Christ Church court in Southworth’s million it was more important to have been educated in Blackburn, first with the Olympic and then with the Rovers.  Having joined the former in 1883 as a professional -and a goalkeeper -Southworth went to the neighbouring club where his attacking genius assisted the Rovers to two success in the English Cup Final and to four appearances in the East Lancashire Charity Cup Final.  Something of an eider statesman after a decade of vigorous football, Southworth (who other talents enabled him to substitute a bow for a boot and to find a place in a professional orchestra at the end of his football career1 was welcomed by Everton for his strategic value, and at the beginning of the 1894-5 season was appointed captain.  His deputy -then a person of some importance- was James Adams, who had been a Hearts player for nine years, was regarded at that time as the best full back in Scotland, and had been a Scottish international since 1892.  Liverpool led by Hannah had won their way out of Division 11 with a type of football even then designated as “Second Division” or more contumeliously “kick-and-rush.”  Now they were in Division 1, an event whose occurrence some were prepared to detest, and others to greet as a fitting climax to endeavour, was bound to take place; the first League match between Everton and Liverpool. 
HAUTEUR
Since the spilt of 1892 Everton had treated the newcomers with the hauteur shown by some counties to others which are led by unrecognised government and had carefully avoided ever putting more than a “mixed” side into the field with Liverpool.  The first League match between the two was arranged for October 13, 1894 -which left a nice preludial period in which the merits of the rival organisations could be demonstrated.  Liverpool in the “blue and white shirts (quartered) and royal navy blue knickers” – sartorial vestiges of pre-partition days-which they then wore, and with the Ross business settled made a not inauspicious start to the season by unexpectedly taking a point from Ewood Park.  This was followed by a meritorious draw with Burnley, Gordon, Bradshaw, and McQueen scoring the goals that neutralised the three scored by Burnley.  A few days later Aston Villa came to Anfield Road and the gate of 20,000 (the same as at Goodison Park the previous week) was taken as evidence that the city of Liverpool really could support two First Division teams.  What is more Villa partisans, seeing sublime football from their own team, were generous in acknowledging that Liverpool, who drew again, were worthy members of the Division.  “The famous Liverpool defence,” observed the Birmingham Daily Post gas rarely been subjected to such an ordeal and the wonder is that it came out of the struggle so well it was, therefore a blow when Liverpool’s appearance at Stoney Lane, the home of West Bromwich Albion, gave rise to some subsequent derision.  The Albion defenders effectively shacked the Liverpool dangerman Ross and Gordon while their own forwards went to town in a characteristic Albion burst of ruthlessness and Joie de vivre.  The Albion won by 7-1.  This was a shock to morale from which Liverpool did not recover.  Before meeting Everton, then, they played eight matches of which four were drawn, the rest lost.  This melancholy record -which was better than only those of Stoke and Derby County -was made to seem all the worse when set beside Everton’s imperious sweep of victory, seven matches out of seven having been won.  In the week proceeding October 13, conversation on Merseyside centred on two axioms the first “that class will tell” the second “that anything can happen in a local derby.” To see which of the two would prevail about 44,000 spectators receipts being £1,026 12s 10d, assembled at Goodison Park, and in so doing established a League record. 
DISAPPROVAL
It was a gripping game in which each side maintained its belief in its own methods Liverpool tore into their task with the will that had discomfited the Rovers, Burnley, and the Villa.  Everton taken somewhat aback by such abrasive tactics were shaken by an early onslaught and still more by a severe and unnecessary injury to Bell.  Liverpool stood on no ceremony and gained a good deal of disapproval from the pursuit as foul successful foul.  The untidiness of which this was symptonally led to Hannah’s handling the ball whereupon Everton beautifully showed the expertise of the free kick.  Stewart lifted the ball cunningly and McInnes timed his connection perfectly to head Everton into the lead.  Before half-time both goals had narrow escapes but Liverpool were more than unlucky to be denied success after dangerous and daring rush by Bradshaw and Adams.  At the beginning of the second half it was all Liverpool for a quarter of an hour, but the Everton defence withstood pressure and when this eased counter-attacked.  So Latta was able to score the decisive goal. The return match at Anfield Road November 17 ended in a 2-2 draw, which was applauded as a just result by 26,000 spectators.

BLUEDS ON TOP IN RESERVES “DERBY”
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Saturday, September 28 1963
HARVEY FIRST TO SCORE
VEALL’S GOAL
Everton Reserves; Rankin; Parnell, Sharples; Jarvis, Heslop, Rees; Shaw, Harvey, Hurst, Hill, Veall.Liverpool Reserves; Furnell; Thomson, Molyneux; Graham, Lawler, Smith; Finney, Scott, Arrowsmith, Wallasey, A’Court.Referee; Mr. Whittaker (Baucup).  Everton reserves went straight into the attack in this junior “Derby” and in the first minute veal put in a pile driver which just went wide.  Although A’Court switched wings in an attempt to evade the close marking of the Everton defence.  Rankin did not have a serious shot from any of the Liverpool forwards in the first 15 minutes.  Everton kept up the pressure with Shaw and Veall prominent and the pressure was finally rewarded.  Their first score came at 15 minutes when Harvey beat Furnell with a low shot after a pass from Hurst.  Four minutes later Shaw centred and Veall made no mistake.  The Liverpool defence was becoming a little rugged against the fast moving Everton wingers.  At the 32nd minute Everton went three up following a foul by Smith on Hill. Referee Whittaker had a few words with the Liverpool man before Sharples took the kick.  He shot straight at goal and the ball went in off a defender.  Another foul in the next minute saw Sharples try the same thing but this time the ball went to safely.  Tinney went through on his own in one of the few dangerous Liverpool attacks but Arrowsmith’s final shot had little power.  Half-time; Everton Res 3, Liverpool Res nil.

TODAY’S BATTLE MAY BE 25TH DRAWN GAME
Liverpool Daily Post, Saturday, September 28, 1963
A FEAR OF ALEC SCOTT’S SPEED CAN PUT PHIL FERNS IN PLACE OF RINNIE MORAN
By Horace Yates
Call it ant-climax if you like, following the great expectations engendered by Everton’s European Cup adventure, but the fact remains that the first of the season’s “Derby” clashes at Anfield to-day has so far failed to raise the temperature by so much as a single degree.  Everybody’s feet are firmly on the ground.  Maybe it will be different once the two sets of supporters are penned up together inside Anfield, but the pre-match atmosphere has seldom been calmer.  From a competitive point of view the position is even enough to fan any lingering flame, for the teams are nestling alongside each other in the League table, both on nine points, although Evertonians will not be slow to point out that their total is the result of two fewer games played.  If there is a factual explanation for this “Derby” serenity, it probably lies in the failure of the contestants to live up to high hopes with which the season opened and to produce form worthy of becoming excited about.  From both sides there have been flashes of encouraging brilliance, but flicker has never proved strops enough to become flame.  Not always of course, when we have expected most from clashes between the two, have hopes been fulfilled and while both teams will almost certainly field sub-standard sides, this is not to say that there is no chance of seeing a display to remember.
VICTIM OF MILAN
Alex Young as brilliant a ball-playing centre forward as there is in the business, is definitely out of action, with a gashed leg and blistered feet, a victim of the battle of Milan, and although Ian St. John has not yet been struck out of the Liverpool side, I have failed to detest any optimism by manager Bill Shankly about the Scottish international’s chances of ending a fortnight’s chance of ending a fortnight’s intensive treatment on a completely successful note.  Progress has certainly been made, but if I know Mr. Shankly he is hardly likely to play St. John, while there is the slightest risk of any premature breakdown.  Mr. Shankly told me that St. John will have a try-out this morning.  “He has improved, and once improvement begins it is continuing rapidly,” the manager added.  “There has been a remarkable change in the last day or so, and now we shall just have to wait and see.”  Manager Harry Catterick’s answer to his problem is to transfer Derek Temple from outside left to centre forward, a position in which he has had considerable experience and success in his younger days, knowing quite well that by introducing Johnny Morrissey against his former clubmates he can rely on the most wholehearted response.  The last time Byrne and Morrissey clashed, it was a battle in itself, for here we have two men who are the best of friends off the field, put while the game is on they regard it almost as a matter of personal honour not to allow the other to achieve anything that might be interpreted as success.  For Temple this will be his First Division One “derby” game, but it will not be the first run he has had as leader of the attack, for I recollect seeing him lead the line at Sheffield against United in March, 1962.  Sandy brown, chosen at left back to permit Harris to deputise for the injured Gabriel at right half, is also now to these clashes. 
FERNS OR MORAN
While most people are prepared to fine Arrowsmith as Liverpool’s centre forward, Mr. Shankly has introduced some speculation by linking Phil Ferns with Tom Moran at left back.  In the four senior games he has played this season Ferns has shown a decided advance in maturity and he dropped out of the sides, not because of any dissatisfaction with his play, but rather because Stevenson must be just about one of the most difficult left halves in the game to depose.  Ferns had two outings at right back last season, without being hailed as the heaven-sent answer to prolonged prayer, but that was last season, and Ferns, in his new frame of mind, could be a very different proposition.  In pondering the problem, Mr. Shankly no doubt recognises the speed which Alex Scott can bring to hear on Everton’s right wing and asks himself, will ferns be better able to cope with such pace than Moran? On the answer he supplies to the query will depend whether or not Ferns like Peter Thompson, is given his “derby” baptism.  Ask me to name the winner of this, the eighty-ninth League clash between the sides, and in honesty I can only take refuge in the solution which was applied to the last two meetings, when both ended in drawn games.  The teams appear as well matched now as ever they were, for if I were to admit to acknowledging some sneaking suggestion of the finesse of fine attacking advantage in Everton’s favour, it is promptly cancelled out by a faith in Liverpool’s defence.  Roger Hunt generally enjoys himself against Everton, and perhaps that is why Tony Kay remains in his normal left half position, instead of accommodating Harris by moving over.
HISTORY FAVOURS EVERTON
History is in favour of Everton, for they have 36 victories against Liverpool’s 28, with 24 games drawn, but if Liverpool supporters insist on taking a more up-to-date, post-war view of the situation, then Everton take a back seat.  In the twelve clashes Liverpool can claim five victories with only two to Everton, and five drawn.  Yes, I rather think this will be yet another division of the spoils.  For those who find it difficult to recall the last occasion Everton won a League match at Anfield, I can help them, for it was on January 20, 1951, when they succeeded by two clear goals.  This was one of the few crumbs of comfort for Evertonians that season for it ended in relegation!  I think they can risk breaking the spell to-day, without undue concern about history repeating the other part of the parallel.  While Ian St. John must be wondering when if ever, he will be allowed to sample Liverpool’s “derby” football, Alex Young gas far less substantial ground for complaint, for to-day’s absence means that he is breaking a sequence of 62 successive League matches.
LUCKY LADS
Liverpool secretary Jimmy McInnes asks me to announce that the only tickets available are for the boys’ pen and these can be purchased at the club offices until noon, after which the residue will be available at the turnstile.  Mr. McInnes adds that for the convenience of those who intend getting to the ground early, one turnstile at each corner at 12.30 p.m., the remainder following at 1.15 p.m.  so that those who are unable to reach the ground early may be better able to gain admission, it is requested that early arrivals should move away from the entrances and that ticket-holders should be seated at least five minutes before the kick-off.  Those people who make a habit of leaving their seats in the stand ten minutes or so before the end, and then are troubled by second thoughts on reaching the exits, are asked not to do this as the view of many other spectators is obstructed.  I hope that 52,000 crowd will see a fast, interesting and sporting spectacle.  That it will be keen brooks of no argument and we would not have it otherwise, but I appeal to the good sense of the players to keep a firm check on any temptation to exceed bounds.  Liverpool; Lawrence; Byrne, Moran; or Ferns; Milne, Yeats, Stevenson; Callaghan, Hunt, St. John, Melia, Thompson.  Everton; West; Parker, Brown; Harris, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Temple, Vernon, Morrissey. 

EVERTON FALL FOR CONFIDENCE TRICKSTER
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, September 29, 1963
CALLAGHAN EQUALS A SEASON’S TOTAL IN ONE MATCH
LIVERPOOL 2, EVERTON 1
By Horace Yates
The greatest confidence trick ever perpetuated in the history of the Everton-Liverpool “derby” games decided Saturday’s epic battle at Anfield, and Everton, bursting with the additional knowledge they have collected from their brief skirmish with European football, retired feeling that here, almost on their own doorstep, there is still much for them to learn, for renowned shot-shy twenty-one-year-old Ian Callaghan, with fewer goals to his name than any forward in the match, spread-eagled them with two bull’s eyes that decided the match.  Almost as though Everton had decided to sink their rivals with tactics which had proved almost entirely invincible against the might of Inter-Milan, they paraded Denis Stevens as an extra half back, and detailed Brian Harris to do any sweeping up required if Ian St. John pulled Brian Labone out of the centre of the field, strategy that might so easily have worked, but for the man they forgot- Ian Callaghan.  In assessing the perils which might beset them, Everton had taken care of every scoring possibility.  If Callaghan had been considered he was no doubt discarded, he was no doubt consequence in the scoring line.  Why should they think otherwise?  History was full of his condemnation as a marksman
FORGOTTEN MAN
Last season he struggled to a haul of two goals, and his reputation as a non-scorer was cemented, so much to that three goals in one matches this term had not flashed the red light in Everton eyes, and so it was that while every other man with any sort of shot in his locker was hounded, shadowed and generally protected from any scoring risk, Callaghan was the forgotten man.  To-day Callaghan is in the proud position of being Liverpool’s joint top-scorer with Roger Hunt?  In a cheerful bit of by-play after the battle, Everton’s Brian Labone equipped; “I thought you didn’t score goals, Ian?  With a face-splitting grin, that laid bare the greatest day in his life.  Callaghan replied; “I forgot to tell, you, I’m saving them for derby games, and other big occasions.”  Curiously enough the first Callaghan bombshell exploded within seconds of what would have been the talking point of the match had the game been goalless, but as goals followed and excitement multiplied it was forgotten.  Less than two minutes from the interval St. John had hit a cross shot at the Everton goal.  West was completely beaten, and the ball rattled against the underside of the bar, to come down at such an angle that nothing will ever convince me that a goal was not scored.  I fail to see, judging purely on the angle of descent for the goal line was too far away to be adamant! How the ball could fail to cross the line.
BACK SPIN
True enough, out it came to meet West, purely from the result of the backspin imparted from the shot and contact with the bar.  The referee looked long and inquiringly at the linesman for a signal, but he was placed in just about the worse possible spot to be judge and jury, and not surprisingly none was forth coming.  Certainly, the referee played safe and allowed the game to continue.  Almost as though by way of justice Callaghan hit the first of his goals immediately following.  Indeed, if the St. John goal had counted, I don’t believe Callaghan’s would ever have arisen.  Yeats stopped Temple in full cry, switched defence into attack and when Melia found as much open space confronting him as there is usually to be found around 5 o’clock at the entrance to the Mersey Tunnel, he turned his back on goal and passed to the incoming Callaghan.  Smashing a first time drive from fully 25 yards, Callaghan completely beat West with an overhead shot, which probably ranks as the most devastating this young man has ever released- in public, although legend credits him with some devastating feats in training.  What had gathered an increasingly assured appearance of a drawn game, in the ebb and flow of equal combat, had now seen the scales tilted and the Kop refused to allow anyone to forget it.  How came Callaghan to attain such convincing maturity in the spilt second of opportunity?  Let him tell.  Only one other item of any real occurred before half-time although incidents there had been which reflected on credit on the performance.  It was that in which Alex Scott was knocked out in an aerial leap with Ferns, a clash entirely without fire and yet the damage to Scott was such that Everton’s prospects of storming back to victory were seriously under-mined as a direct consequence.  Both Scott and Morrissey had done almost as they liked with Ferns and Byrne, so much so that Moran must have considered this a good match to miss.  They were the heart and soul of the Everton thrust, always ready to erupt.  After the interval Everton studiously ignored their right wing and, on the occasions, when the ball flawed that way it was with Alex Parker up in support.  He was a development bristling with suspicion.  Anyone with half an eye to possibilities could see that Scott’s contribution was limited in the extreme.  After it was all over, I sought him out to seek the explanation.  This is what he told me threequarters of an hour after the match was over.  “I have just heard the score.  I don’t know what happened to me after the first half, but apart from a vagueness about being on the field the rest is a blank,  if I did anything it was from sheer force of habit, but I am all right now, apart from a damaged ankle.”  The mystery which must have puzzled thousands is thereby solved.  Only three minutes after the resumption Callaghan had written his name ideally among the heroes by scoring a second.  Brian Harris must take the initial and vital responsibility for this nerve-shattering set-back for he was far too casual as he allowed St. John to take the ball from him and send Melia scampering down the exposed touch line.
BEST RIGHT BACK
For once in a way, Parker who in my rating at least, is without peer among right backs in the Football League when he hits form such as he has shown over the last half dozen games or so, was held off sufficiently for Melia to cross the ball most precisely to the feet of Callaghan in the centre forward position, in front of goal.  The winger swept the ball on the full along the ground and into goal.  None could accuse him of undue ferocity this time, but West’s apparently inadequate response resulted from a late deflection off Brown’s leg.  For a long time, the game went off the boil.  What had been almost non-stop exchange of furious and frequently skilled endeavour providing red-blooded and often spectacular entertainment, palled as the depleted the inevitable and Liverpool were quite content to allow them to do so.  It was Parker’s free kick headed on by Temple, which allowed Vernon to score that made the match tingle anew.  Liverpool insisted that Vernon was yards offside and Yeats name almost went into the referee’s book for the enthusiasm which he showed for his view.  Vernon however had no doubt.  “I passed three men on the way to the ball.  There was never any question of offside” he said.  still playing b y instinct Scott laid on a game-saving chance for Vernon, but this time the skipper pulled the ball narrowly wide.  There were only four minutes left and in effect that was already the end.
DEFENSIVE LOOK
Whether Everton can continue to wear an adapted European defensive look in League games and still maintain the attractiveness and deadliness of attack essential to maintain them in something which will have to be proved but while Stevens was operating As a half back he did it magnificent, and as an impromptu sweeper Harris really had only one disagreeable moment to recall.  I doubt if Morrissey had ever enjoyed such a complete dominance over Byrne, who never willingly conceded him an inch and too often employed tactics for which the all-embracing “Derby” excuse was hardly adequate.  He was not the only sinner but in an open two-man battle his every action was exposed to full view.  In spite of it all these great friends were full of handshakes and good wishes for each other at the end.  By comparison with some of the activities which were laughed off by the referee, Kay (Everton) and Yeats (Liverpool) had occasion to count themselves singularly unfortunate to have their names taken for one momentary blow-up.  The closely spotted to have any home of breaking out, his side for the way in which he darted into position to flick at goal was eloquent testimony to his football alertness.  While Everton were sounder and better served at full-back I don’t think there is much doubt that Liverpool half back line was the more impressive for all three could boast a magnificent job in cutting down to size the threat of the Everton advance party.  Lawrence enjoyed the good fortune of finding a Seat centre-cum-shot strike the bar after beating him, while West was compelled to pick Callaghan’s shot out of the net, but for me West was a not too convincing second to Lawrence on this showing.  Moreover, Liverpool’s inside forward trio clearly had the edge, over their counterparts -and it showed.  Hunt may have scored more regularly than he is doing now, but has he, I wonder ever played better?  Maybe Everton’s tactics were for the occasion in view of the injury worries with which they have to contend rather than as a cleverly defined pattern for the future, for it is no joke to engage in a battle with your nearest and dearest enemy without players like Alex Young and Jimmy Gabriel and with Alex Scott winged in the bargain.  Liverpool; Lawrence; Byrne, Ferns; Milne, Yeats, Stevensons; Callaghan, Hunt, St. John, Melia, Thompson. Everton; West; Parker, Brown; Kay, Labone, Harris; Scott, Stevens, Temple, Vernon, Morrissey.  Referee Mr. W. Clements (West Bromwich) Attendance 51,973. 

EVERTON RES HAD THE RHYTHM
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, September 29, 1963
EVERTON RES 3, LIVERPOOL RES 0
An immaculate display in the first half gave Everton Reserves a three-goal lead over Liverpool Reserves in this junior Derby game at Goodison Park and that was sufficient for victory.  From the start when Veall tested Furnell in the first minute, Everton’s rhythm was unbroken.  The wing men ably supported by cool half backs gave the rugged Liverpool defence no rest.  Hardly ever out of the visitor’s area Everton went into the lead at the 15th minute when Harvey put the ball from a Hurst pass into the net.  Three minutes later Veall got a second goal after good work by Shaw and Sharples the third at 32 minutes from a free kick outside the penalty area, the ball being deflected by a defender past Furnell.  Liverpool showed more fight after the interval and kept Rankin busy for a while.  A’Court roamed all over the field trying to break through but for Arrowsmith and his inside men nothing would go right.  Once Lawler and company clamped down the game deteriorated. 

CALL-AGAIN CALLAGHAN SCORES OFF BOTH FEET
The Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Monday, September 30 1963
By Leslie Edwards
Not an outstanding “Derby” but a good one with much fine football, a goal in a thousand from Callaghan and a 2-1 victory for Liverpool against opponents who must have bene affected more than somewhat by their Milan meanderings.  Those who thought it too tough (I didn’t) should have seen the San Sira battle compared with which it was a Sunday School picnic.  What fouls there were not vicious; Mr. Clements from West Bromwich rightly punished everything questionable in the early stages and thus we had a free kick count which gave the impression that there had been more fouls than football.  The contrary was truer.  I thought both teams set out from the start to give us football artistry, speed, courage and sustained entertainment.  They succeeded.  Obviously in a meeting of such close rivals there had to be incidents.  They were of minor character and compared with the vast amount of first-class of first-class football from both sides were of little consequence.  The only names to go into the book were those of Yeats and Kay, yet ironically when these players clashed in the second half it was the intent rather than the commission of bodily harm which caused the referee to take their names.  Yeats has gone forward, as he had once before, to link with the attack, by giant strides and the semblance of a feinting dribble- a most unusual and refreshing contribution from him of which we get all too little.  I thought Liverpool just about deserved victory though they were hard run in the end by an Everton who fought valiantly to wipe out a two goals lead.  Everton played with aplomb and confidence; Liverpool were more workmanlike.  Their two goals both to Callaghan, left them sailing serenely until Vernon nipped in (was he offside when Temple’s flicked header found him,”) and put them on the collar again from then until the final whistle. 
NO FORMALITY
At the end when 31,000 saw the players shake each other by the hand is gesture that was no formality) the curtain went down on a “Derby” which will be remembered as Callaghan’s because he got both his side’s goals and the first was from a shot as hard as any Liddell ever delivered.  Callaghan had drifted into centre-field to allow Melia travelling the other way to take the ball from his feet.  Melia then found Callaghan at inside-left with a pass which left the recipient all the time he needed to tee up his shot.  One could sense him gathering all the force at his command as he bit that shot from every inch of 25 yards.  The ball flew like a bullet to West’s left and found the net just under the angle bar and post.  If he plays at Anfield for 30 seasons Callaghan will surely never hit one with such power and such lethal direction.  His second was more worthy in the making than the taking St. John, with an overhead flick to Melia on the left wing started it all.  Melia with Harris to beat gave that half-back the dummy and then pointed the ball back quietly but most effectively for Callaghan to hit it through the ruck West might overwise have covered it with his left foot.  Thus West and Everton felt the weight of both Callaghan’s feet.  He had scored with his right now he did it again but with his left.  Only when Vernon jabbed the ball home after Temple had flicked Parker’s centre from the right into the yard area were Liverpool jolted out of confidence been of their long lead.  It was well for them that Lawrence remained faultless though he did not in the later stages have to make any big “saves.” 
WOOD PECKERS
Both goalkeepers had their moments of fortune Lawrence when Scott flew not for the first time past Ferns and cracked a shot against the upright.  West when St. John’s drive hit the underside of the bar and rebounded back to play.  Both sides endured hand caps.  Liverpool through the obvious unfitness from almost the first five minutes of the doubtful St. John and Everton through having Scott cared and dirty as the wings at the second half after being concerned just on the interval.  Except for a notable exaction in the endeavour as both sides to play the ball and the man was always there.  It is a match which never dragged.  It was hard fought fast fought.  And I included a good deal of artistry and sportsmanlike not least Temple’s jump when travelling at top speed to avoid injured Lawrence.  Everton missed they link man Young but Temple did a good and might easy have had a goal or two if Lawrence had been a less yielding mood.  For Vernon the match was one long frustration.  Scott until his knock could well have been the man to help Everton to complete their recovery.  The Everton half-backs, particularly Kay in these final twenty minutes often had a grip on the game, but so earlier had Liverpool’s middle line and it was the ebb and flow of the initiative which made the game interesting.  Were times in the first half when Everton seemed likely to win.  Callaghan’s bullet followed by his second goal swung the game to Liverpool who became so much better than before they were given the boost of a two goals lead. 
ANFIELD MEDALS
There was a lot to admire about Liverpool Lawrence’s invulnerability; Ferns use the ball -so different to the slavish long punt on the other flank- Milne’s tenacity even when they were attempting to bring him down he still got through with his passes.  Year’s captaincy over the air-strip in the goal area Stevenson’s quite efficiency and that fine volleyed shot which West saved so brilliantly.  Callaghan’s striking power of shot.  Thompson’s propensity for doing something useful for Liverpool and menacing to Everton every time he was given possession.And a fine effervescent show by Hunt, Liverpool’s most unlucky a Melia contribution which was in minor key except for his most important part in both goals, and you have a Liverpool with scarcely a weakness.  I give Everton full marks for putting up such a bold showing after such a travel-weary week.  Kay’s generalship of the side in the match’s final phases was outstanding so was Parker’s play all through, I doubt if he has ever played better.  Labone can at least console himself that no centre half could do much about shots such as those with which Callaghan scored.  I don’t blame West for being beaten by the slower scored one because I doubt if he even saw the ball until it was more than half-way to the back of the net.  A “Derby” which contained much that everyone liked and only a few things we could have done without- the pretty inching of the ball from as appointed free-kick spot a little dangerous play in the shape of feet raised head-high, some below-the-belt, under-the-arm chanting, but on the whole a match which showed both teams to be expert and willing to make the issue a test of football rather than brute strength. 

EVERTON’S CASULATIES IMPROVING
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express -Monday, September 30 1963
GABRIEL MAY BE FIT
ARSENAL GAME
By Leslie Edwards
Everton have good news of some of their casualties, Gabriel who had a manipulative operation on the hamstring he damaged has made very good progress and is likely to be fit for the game at Goodison Park on Wednesday against Arsenal.  Young whose tender feet says Manager Harry Catterick have been in a terrible state must have a fair chance of playing Hill the reserve forward damaged on Saturday will be available for selection.  The two injured defenders Meagan and Thomson both of whom have been out of the game for weeks are improving but it will be about a fortnight before they can have a trial run in the reserve side.  Scott, concussed in the Derby game at Anfield recovered from that trouble but in the second half he received an ankle injury which makes him doubtful for Wednesday.  Arsenal too have a doubtful Strong their inside forward damaged an ankle at Burnley on Saturday.  He is expected to be fit.  After an bad start Arsenal have won their last six games.  Mr. Catterick thinks there most formidable opponents especially he says as the game has been so re-shuffled recently through injury And the Cup game in Milan.