FOREST POSE A SPECIAL TEST FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Echo& Evening Express - Tuesday 01 September 1964
By Leslie Edwards
For Everton, top of the League and determined to stay there, this evening's match at Nottingham against Forest offers a special test. When the Carey side played at Goodison Park last week, and were beaten unluckily 1-0, there were times when their play looked almost too good to be true. One could not escape the conclusion that Everton’s rather lethargic half-back play contributed something to Forest's supremacy, but when Forest went to West Ham, a team we know to be far above average and won there last Friday, the Everton performance, in retrospect, looked uncommonly good.  Their fine showing against Tottenham, despite the absence of Kay. Gabriel and Wilson, indicated that they have the team and the reserves to go a long way towards the title, if not actually taking it.  To-night's match on a ground where Everton have had mixed luck can tell the tale of what the future holds.  The play of wingers, Crowe and Hinton, plus the excellence of Forest's wing half-backs, Whitefoot and Newton, pose problems which Tottenham could not produce.  The Forest propensity for working the offside trap at home is much more marked and players who implement it, and spectators who delight in it have no qualms at its use!  It remains to be seen where Jimmy Gabriel, coming back after suspension, is accommodated and how the rest of the available strength is to be redeployed.  Disturbing a winning side is always dangerous: distributing an eleven that have won all their games with a goals tally of seven for and only one against: is even more provocative.  Pickering had not had much success against the tall, experienced McKinlay, the Forest centre half-back, until  his debut day at Goodison Park last season, but his three goals then and the one he got last week shows that he has beaten one of his " hoodoo” opponents.  From what we saw of the game between the teams a week ago Everton will do well to take a point from a Forest leant which seems their best since their Cup-winning, side.  To -night's match marks the two hundredth appearance for Everton in the First Division of Brian Labone. As a reader points out he has given splendid service to his club and country and has never been a ha'porth of trouble to either, on or off field.  Everton might fittingly choose him to lead them out at Nottingham. Where, oddly enough, he had his unluckiest game ever two seasons ago when catching" it from the referee and the crowd.  But in the vast majority of his 200 games for his club he has done his job splendidly, modestly and without fuss, so what is one failure among so many successes? 

EVERTON DELAY CHOICE FOR FOREST GAME
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Tuesday 01 September 1964
GABRIEL IS IN PARTY
RECORD EXPECTED
Nottingham Forest secretary, Ken Smales, said to-day there has bene an unprecedented demand for tickets for to-night’s game with Everton. The Forest club expert the record attendances for flood-lit football at the City Ground, to be broken.  The standing records are 38,580 in an F.A. third round Cup-tie in January, 1962 and in a League match, 32,506 in September 1961.  In both cases, Wolves were the visitors. Forest who are having a successful run to start the new campaign, have an enforced change with one time Busby-babe Jeff Whitefoot out with a strained groin.  They bring in local product John Winfield, who was a regular member of the side early last season, at left half. Everton are delaying selection until shortly before the kick-off.  Twelve players have made the trip- the team which beat Tottenham on Saturday plus wing half Jimmy Gabriel, whose suspension has now ended. Nottingham Forest.- Grummitt; Wilson, Grant; Newton, McKinlay, Winsfield; Crowe, Addison, Wignall, Barnwell, Hinton.

PICKERING SLIGHTLY IMPROVED
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Wednesday 02 September 1964
INJURY AT NOTTINGHAM
MUSCLE STRAIN
By Michael Charters
Everton centre forward Fred Pickering, injured at Nottingham Forest last night, felt a little easier after a night's rest, but it is too early to say whether he will be fit in time for Saturday's game at Burnley.  His injury is peculiar in that although he is walking with a pronounced limp, he can run fairly freely. He has strained a muscle high in his left thigh and apparently can-not feel the strain when he is running but is in immediate difficulty when he walks and put his full weight on to the leg.  The Everton party returned to Goodison Park this morning after an overnight stop, and the rest of the players came through a hard game without injury.
FLEW HOME 
Manager Harry Catterick flew back with his chairman, Mr. John Moores, last night immediately after the game.  He invariably travels with the team, of course, but as Mrs. Catterick has only just come out of a nursing home after a serious operation he was anxious to get home as soon as possible.  Mr. Moores had flown a from Woodvale to Nottingham, and Mr. Catterick was able to join him on the return trip, touching down  only a couple of miles from his Birkdale home almost before the Everton party had left the ground for their hotel at Bakewell. 

INJURY-HIT EVERTON GO DOWN IN GREAT GAME
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Wednesday 02 September 1964
By Michael Charters
Everton must regard Nottingham Forest’s ground as their hoodoo for injuries. A year ago there they had Labone and Parker injured when they were leading 10 minutes from the end; last night, within a few minutes of the start of a magnificent match, Pickering strained a muscle in his left thigh in landing awkwardly after heading the ball. This left him limping badly' standing skill of that other left wing for the rest of the game so that when this fact is taken into account it makes Everton’s 3-1 defeat the more understandable. But, at the same time, that must not detract from the value of Forest’s performance in a game which was the type to have the crowd’s shouting for more.  It had great forward play, fast, thrilling, full of intensity and fire, and sufficiently well balanced so that a goal from Everton in the second half could have turned the result upside down.
RECORD GATE
A record gate for a night match at Forest of over 40,000 paid full tribute to the quality of two fine teams, with the certain knowledge that Forest are obviously going to prove one of the leading teams in the land this season. John Carey has produced a side of quality- we saw that in a match at Goodison a week earlier-and on this form they will be one of the surprise outfits of them all. Forest dominated the first half with high-powered play.  They lacked the subtle touches of that polished performer.  Whitefoot, who could not play because of injury, but winger Crowe and Hinton, backed by that grand young wing half Newton, combined with the rest of the team to always do something useful and effective. They fully deserved to be ahead after 30 minutes through headed goals from Hinton and Wignall, and Everton could hardly muster a shot worthy of the name as they were kept persistently on defence. Hinton, a fine winger with great power of shot, had a superb match and had it not been for the equally outstanding skill of that other youngster Rankin, Everton would have found the game utterly out of their control by half time.
REMARKABLE GOAL
As it was, they were given a chance of recovery despite the weakened forward line by a remarkable goal from Brown.  The full back had been tantalized by the trickery of Crowe, the man whose dribbles are spoiled by over-elaboration, but shortly before half time Crowe tried to dazzle once too often.  He lost possession to Brown in Forest’s half of the field and the full back set off immediately for goal.  He raced his way into the penalty area, held off a tackle by right back Wilson and prodded the ball past Grummitt just inside the upright.  It was the first and only time before the interval that Grummitt had been in the slightest danger- so complete was Forest’s mastery.  The effect of his goal carried over the second half for Everton for they suddenly started to play well.  Temple and Scott, with great skill and tenacity, opened the gaps in the Forest defence with an ease and fluency which they had been unable to find earlier. Pickering, whose limp seemed to ease when he ran, also came into the game a little more and two fine efforts from temple- one shot, one header- deserved to succeed.  Had Everton equalized in this good spell, Forest might well have cracked for there were all the sings of panic s they sensed the danger of their lead suddenly disappearing.
HINTON SETTLES
But Hinton settled the game for them with 20 minutes to go, with a brilliant individual goal.  There was some hesitancy by Everton’s defence which enabled the winger to move in for a ball which should have been cleared, lob it over Parker’s head with the nearest of flicks and then volley home his shot as the ball dropped. Hard though Everton fought, though they should great spirit to come again, and again their lop-sided attack could not find accurate shooting form. Rankin was Everton’s great performer.  He is in brilliant form at the moment and some of his first half saves were break-taking. There had been something of a surprise before the game when Everton left out Stevens for the first time since he joined the club. Gabriel came in at right half and had a good game but I thought Stevens’ endeavor would have been a considerable asset elsewhere in the team, particularly when Forest were so dominating in the first half.  Brown also did well, with his goal particularly notable, but apart from Temple and Scott, the remainder of the side were struggling apart from that 20 minutes or so after the interval when they all began to play well.  So Everton failed for the first time this season but many other teams are going to experience a similar shaking at the hands, or feet, of this very effective Forest team.

INJURED FRED PICKERING AT HALF PACE FOR EIGHTY MINUTES
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, September 2, 1964
HANDICAPPED EVERTON DOWN AFTER GREAT FIGHT
RANKIN IN GRAND FORM AS FOREST TURN ON FIRST HALF HEAT
NOTTINGHAM FOREST 3, EVERTON 1
By Michael Charters
Everton failed for the first time this season last night to a team which is obviously going to be a power in the football world.  Notts Forest played great football in a first half before a record gate, 40,382 for a night game on this ground and Everton were under the same sort of pressure as they had in the game at Goodison Park a week earlier.  With the return of Gabriel to right half Everton dropped Stevens for the first time since he joined the club from Bolton, and Young kept his place at inside right.  Forest brilliant wingers with Hinton outstanding and Newton a magnificent wing half, kept Everton’s defence at full pressure and with Everton handicapped through an injury to Pickering there was only one team in it up to the interval.  But Everton fought back with great spirit and energy in the second half and were the better team for most of the time.  They were back to 2-1 then but a great individual goal from Hinton sealed the game for Forest.  Everton’s best were Scott and Temple, who fought hard and excellently in a weakened attack, with Gabriel and Brown also good.  Rankin maintained his superb form and some of his first half saves, when Forest were rampant, could not have been better. Forest had most of the early play with Rankin making a fine catch from a dangerous centre by Wilson.  Everton’s first attack took ten minutes to arrive with Scott making a low centre which Grummitt saved.  Everton’s defence did not look happy as Crowe and Hinton with Newton the driving force behind them, led a series of raids. Pickering hurt his left leg after twisting awkwardly to make a header and the Everton injury hoodoo at this ground had struck again after only ten minutes. A year ago, Parker and Labone were injured when they were leading ten minutes from the end.  It was no surprise when Forest took the lead after fifteen minutes with a great headed goal from Hinton.  Wilson swung across a long centre which the Everton defence ignored, and Hinton flung himself full length to direct the ball away from Rankin. After the goal, Pickering had attention from the trainer and then moved on to the left wing with Temple in the middle. Rankin saved well from Crowe and Everton’s only dangerous attack in this half followed a good pass from Harris to Scott who beat Grant and his centre was nearly turned over his own line by McKinlay.
FIERCE SHOT
Rankin saved from close range from Wignall, followed by Crowe hitting a fierce shot just wide-it was all Forest.  It was fortunate for Everton that Rankin was in superb form, but he had no chance when Wignall put Forest further ahead after 29 minutes with another fine headed goal.  Rankin made a brilliant save from Addison’s shot, touching the ball over the bar and from the corner Wignall went up higher than anyone else to head the ball into the net. Immediately afterwards Wignall should have scored when Labone slipped and then Rankin dived full length to save from Newton.  Forest’s wingers were so devastating that they turned the Everton defence time and again and the only consolation for Everton was that they were being outplayed at this point by a team playing top class football in all departments. After 38 minutes Everton got a goal back with a surprise effort from full back Brown.  Crowe had possession in his own half when brown robbed him and raced through before the Forest defence realised what was happening.  He took the ball into the penalty area, cleverly evaded a tackle by Wilson and prodded the ball just inside the post. After this goal Pickering went to the dressing rooms and considering his injury and the manner in which Forest had played, Everton had done reasonably well to hold the score to 2-1. 
LIMPING BADLY
Pickering resumed after half-time, playing on the left wing and took part in one of Everton’s best moves.  From a pass by Brown, he beat Wilson although limping badly and from his centre Temple made a great header which Grummitt turned round the post. Pickering seemed to be moving with a little more ease although still on the left wing and he and Temple had Forest’s defence troubled for the first time in the game.  Parker taking a goal kick, hit the ball against Labone on the edge of the penalty area and Wignall was able to take a shot at his leisure, but Rankin turned the ball away brilliantly.  The change in the game was remarkable for Everton were playing as well as Forest had done earlier.  Temple was only inches away with a great shot and then Everton defence were playing more tightly.  But they went further behind after 70 minutes with a brilliant goal from Hinton-Forest best player.  Hinton -Forest’s best player.  There was a little uncertainty on Everton’s right defensive flank and Hinton stepped in to flick the ball delicately over Parker’s head and hit his shot as the ball dropped, Rankin had no chance.  Young made a fine header from a Vernon free kick and Everton’s spirit was worthy of the highest praise.  Gabriel was coming up into attack and his fine shot from temple’s pass was inches wide. Nottingham Forest; Grummitt; Wilson, Grant; Newton, McKinlay, Winfield; Crowe, Addison, Wignall, Barnwell, Hinton. Everton; Rankin; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Vernon, Temple. Referee; Mr. P.G. Brandwood (Walsall). 
PICKERING HAS MUSCLE STRAIN
Pickering has a strained thigh muscle and must be considered doubtful for Everton’s game at Burnley on Saturday.

EVERTON AT BURNLEY
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Friday 04 September 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Everton's chances at Burnley may well hinge on whether Fred Pickering is lit or not. At the time of writing he was given only a 50-50 chance of recovering from the thigh injury he received at Forest on Tuesday.  He has improved considerably with rest during the week.  The centre-forward had such fine games against Forest and Spurs at Goodison, and tried so hard despite his injury this week, that his absence would be a heavy blow.  Parker and Temple have also been receiving treatment for knocks, but should be all right for to-morrow.  Burnley are still seeking their opening win and the critics are saying that the old Burnley machine of the Adamson-Mcllroy era has fallen apart. Unless Burnley improve greatly. Everton should take at least a point. If they play as they did in the second half at Forest, they will take both points.   Gabriel's return for Everton at right-half produced additional zest and penetration and if the forwards can recapture their rhythm—at present I would say they are  only showing 75 per cent, of their true form—I think  Burnley will be in for more trouble.
An interesting letter from an Everton supporter, of Hough Green, Widnes, who gives his name but asks to be regarded as "Ulster Scot." It was written before Everton's team selection at Nottingham on Tuesday and is all the more pertinent because of that selection. He writes:  "Now that Gabriel has ended his suspension, the choice the manager has to make is whether to play Stevens or Gabriel at right-half. I cannot see how Young can be left out of the forward line. He has a football brain far above the average and is the one player who can bring out the best in Scott. I am sure Young can prove himself a most useful and purposeful link between Scott and Pickering.  "Stevens is a great club man, a hard worker and a tenacious tackler but I have never regarded him as a good inside-forward. He makes an excellent wing -half. Gabriel can rise to great heights if he can cut out his wandering habits, keeps the left wing in subjection and pushes the through pass to bring his own right wing more into the game."  Well, manager Harry Catterick did keep Young at inside right at Nottingham and dropped Stevens for the first time. If Pickering is unfit to-morrow, Young will be switched to lead the line and Stevens will be back at inside-right, so it would be impossible to say whether Mr. Catterick would have persevered with last Tuesday's  line-up over the Young or Stevens issue at inside-forward. 

PICKERING IS FIT AGAIN
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Friday 04 September 1964
EVERTON SAME FOR BURNLEY
By Michael Charters
Everton centre forward Fred Pickering has recovered from the thigh strain he received at Nottingham Forest on Tuesday and the team will be unchanged at Burnley tomorrow. Rest and treatment this week have done the trick again have Young on his right.  Everton; Rankin; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Vernon, Temple.
Burnley make no changes despite the fact that they have not yet won a game this season and went down 4-1 to Tottenham at White Hart Lane on Wednesday.  Burnley’s team has something of a new look about it since they last met Everton.  With left back Alex Elder out of action since the first day of the season, wing half Brian Miller has been switched to take over.  Willie Irvine is now leading the attack in place of Ray Pointer, who has been dogged with an ankle injury for over a year, and Scottish Under-23 international Andy Loch-head is now operating at inside right. Burnley.- Blacklaw; Angus, Miller; Walker, Talbut, O’Neill; Morgan, Lochhead, Irvine, Harris, Towers.
Elder, who has had a tough time trying to recover from his leg injury, will be left back in the Burnley Reserves at Goodison Park.

EVERTON TAKE A POINT FROM TOUGH BURNLEY DUEL
Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express - Saturday 05 September 1964
BURNLEY 1, EVERTON 1
By Horace Yates

Burnley; Blacklaw; Angus, Miller; Walker, Talbut, O’Neill; Morgan, Lochhead, Irvine, Harris, Towers. Everton; Rankin; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Harris, Scott, Young, Pickering, Vernon, Temple.  Referee; Mr. E. Crawford (Doncaster).
Despite the great crowd of Everton supporters, who must have outnumbered the home contingent the attendance at Burnley today was well below the peak of recent years.  Everton were almost a goal up in three minutes when Vernon pushed the ball through for Temple, Temple could only back-heel the ball to keep it in play but this he did most effectively and with Pickering beating Angus the centre forward shot narrowly wide of goal with Blacklaw yards out. For a spell Burnley took charge and it was a relief to Everton to find Irvine’s header clearing the crossbar.  Both Labone and Parker were kept busy yet it was Everton who had the out-standing opportunities. 
SCOTT’S SHOT
Scott looked Everton’s danger man.  He whipped round Miller, had him beaten for speed, and finding no one better placed than himself, elected to go in and shoot.  It was as much as Blacklaw could do to keep the ball out and he was fortunate to find the rebound passing harmlessly to a Burnley defender.  Luck seemed against Burnley in the 13th minute when a Lochhead shot seemed to go through Gabriel’s legs. He recovered the ball on the line and kicked across goal.  All the way there seemed to be a danger that it would cross the line. Irvine raced up in an effort to apply the finishing touch, but his shot was blocked, and then Morgan tamely passed the ball across goal with not a Burnley man in sight. Harris narrowly failed with a great shot before Young, at the other end, struck the post with a tremendous drive.  In a quarter of an hour there might have been four or five goals. The diminutive Morgan was causing Brown no end of trouble, and an astute pass to O’Neill only just failed to put the Everton defence in a tangle. It was surprising Everton were not exploiting the advantage which Scott so clearly had over Miller.
MILLER INJURED
I have seen penalty kicks awarded for less innocuous tackles than that by which Walker felled Scott as the winger was racing on to a Pickering pass directly in front of goal.  The referee, however, was completely unimpressed by Everton’s appeal and the game was held up while Miller received attention.  Although limping badly he refused to leave the field and went to centre-forward with O’Neill at left back, and Harris at left half.  The Everton goal underwent a miracle escape in 29 minutes when Irvine cleared the defence with a centre and Towers, racing in, hit the ball over the bar.  Almost immediately Towers crashed the ball against the crossbar and out.  The referee decided that an Everton player had handled in clearing the ball and from the penalty award O’Neill put Burnley a goal ahead in 30 minutes. Vernon was plainly disgusted when brought down by Talbut to find the referee awarding a free kick to Burnley for a prior offence instead of a penalty to Everton. Brown made a splendid tackle on Morgan inside and penalty area to end a dangerous-looking raid but the winger went down with a knee injury and in midfield Irvine clashed with Scott and also had to receive attention.  With the Burnley trainer fully occupied, Everton’s Tom Eggleston had to lend a handwith treatment of the injured.Both players were able to resume but Morgan limped noticeably. 
TALBUT HURT
The Burnley men were
Really in the wars for Talbut was next to go down in a clash with Pickering which ended with the referee speaking to the centre forward after consulting a linesman.  Despite the string of injustice this could not be said to be a dirty game.  It certainty was keen with competition so intense first time tacking was the order. Angus beat out a Temple shot from a corner kick with his legs but without a doubt Everton were finding in this Burnley side a much tougher handful than they had expected.
Half-time.- Burnley 1, Everton nil.
Miller continued to occupy the centre forward position on the resumption.  Everton, obviously meaning business, attacked from the start through a well-directed pass from Young to Scott. The referee had a word with Walker after he had brought down Vernon.  A free kick proved fatal for Burnley.  With everybody expecting Harris to lob the ball into the congested goalmouth he merely tapped it two yards to his right and there was Brown to hit a great drive over Blacklaw into the back of the net only one minute after the restart.  Everton might easily have gone a goal down in 55 minutes when a shot from Irvine struck Parker’s leg and was deflected right away from Rankin, but also wide of the post.
TYPICAL EFFORT
A Labone header set Templeracing away from inside the Everton half. It was a typical effort from the winger for he ran through to the edge of the penalty area before hitting a great shot which Blacklaw just succeeded in saving.  The exchanges had become too keenly contested to allow much emphasis on classical football and Labone was next in the wars.In a spell of territorial supremacy Burnley attacked consistently, but seldom placed the Everton goal in real danger. The exception was when Morgan brought Rankin to his knees to save a hard drive. There was little excuse for Everton not taking the lead in 71 minutes.  Brian Harris opened up possibilities for Temple, who saw Pickering unmarked in front of goal.  Over went the ball, but the centre forward pushed the ball against Blacklaw’s body when a hearty response must have produced a goal.  A minor flare-up between Gordon Harris and Vernon resulted in a word from the referee and a hand-shake between the players. The injured Miller got the ball into the Everton net and leapt to his feet for the hero’s welcome only to find the referee having previously awarded a free kick for a foul on Gabriel.
NOT A CLASSIC
Not by any stretch of the imagination could this have been called a classic encounter but for sheer endeavor both teams earned full marks.  Irvine fell to the ground in the middle of the field and over went the referee to Scott to book the Everton winger.  Irvine had been very much luckier only a moment before when a blatant offence on Brown had gone completely undetected.  Final;- Burnley 1, Everton 1.
Official Attendance 23,737.
Lancashire League
Everton A 10, Blackburn Rovers A nil
Everton B 2, Blackburn B nil

EVERTON RES V BURNLEY RES
Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express - Saturday 05 September 1964
Everton Res;- West; Darcy, Curwen; Sharples, Heslop, Rees; Shaw, Harvey, Hill, Hurst, Morrissey.  Burnley Res; Thomson; Latcham, Elder; Adamson, Merrington, Kinsella; Ternan, Coates, Robson, Bellamy, Price.  Referee; Mr. L. Meadows (Redcar).  Everton Reserves look as if they have their work cut out to beat a strong Burnley Reserves side, and for the first five minutes or so they saw little of the ball.  However, at the eighth minute Coates was helped off with an ankle injury, and Burnley were left with 10 men.  They went on the defensive, using just three forwards but Everton gradually gained the upper hand.  One header from Hill from a Rees cross had goal all over it when Thomson dived and managed to knock the ball against the upright and pick up the rebound. Burnley were not giving in and were fighting back.  West had to pull the best out of himself twice- once from a low Bellamy shot and then Price saw the goalkeeper push a 20-yard drive just over the bar.  Everton kept pressing and at 36 minutes scored.  Rees drew Thompson out and slipped the ball to Hill.  The centre forward only had to lap the ball into the net. Little was seen of Burnley attack with the exception of two break-away shots by Bellamy and Robson.  Coates had pulled a ligament in his right leg and Burnley were faced with a 10-man side for the rest of the game. Half-time Everton Res 1, Burnley Res nil.

PICKERING FIT
Liverpool Daily Post-Saturday, September 5, 1964
By Horace Yates
The fact that Mr. Harry Catterick the Everton manager, was able to announce the inclusion of a fit Pickering, and with it an unchanged side for the visit to Burnley, was cheering news indeed. It was for the corresponding game last season that Mr. Catterick dropped a bombshell by omitting both Vernon and Young, and yet the team scored a thrilling 3-2 triumph.  Both are restored for this visit, and I expect to see this lively Everton attack add to Burnley’s defensive worries by increasing that ten goals debit.  Burnley are away to their worst start in post-war football, with only two points from four games, and with familiar names like Adamson, Elder, Pointer and Connelly missing from their line-up their worries are obvious. Elder and possibly Pointer will be with the reserves at Goodison, the full back having a run-out after recovering from a pulled muscle.  Pointer has had a worrying time for the last sixteen months with a leg injury, and Connelly is now with Manchester United. Burnley fill the vacant spaces in their forward line with nineteen-year-old Scot Willie Morgan, twenty-year-old centre forward Willie Irvine.  Harris continues to operate as an inside forward with Ian Towers outside him.  Wing half Miller takes over for Elder and in the absence of Adamson skippers the team.  Manager Harry Potts is not dismayed by the club’s poor start.  He says; “The breaks have been going against us and our first win cannot be far away.  I have certainly not lost any confidence in my boys.”  My view is that the elusive opening victory will be still further delayed, and this game will serve to hoist Everton back to the leading place in the League table. Burnley; Blacklaw; Angus, Miller; Walker, Talbut, O’Neill; Morgan, Lochhead, Irvine, Harris, Towers.  Everton; Rankin; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Vernon, Temple.

OUT-OF-SORT EVERTON NEVER LACKED DETERMIANTION
Liverpool Echo& Evening Express- Monday 07 September 1964
By Horace Yates
That Everton did not bring back two points from Burnley, who have yet to win a League match this season, was as much due to their own failings as to any improvement by the Turf Moor side and because both teams were way below the highest standards expected from them, a 1-1 draw was a just verdict. In their efforts to compensate for loss of some of their star names, gifted players in real arts of football, Burnley are using enthusiasm as the substitute for skill, and as Everton's skill bore no relation to their known ability it was hardly surprising the match flopped as a spectacle.  It was no fault of either Derek Temple or Alex Scott that Everton did not worryBurnley to the point of collapse, for hardly ever didthey fail to make attractiveprogress. Both men had thebeating of the Burnley backs, particularly before an injured Miller forsook his post to hand over to the faster and more resourceful O'Neill, for the half back caused Scott more trouble than the sluggish Miller was ever likely to do. Vernon and Pickering might answer criticism of their afternoon's endeavoursby pointing to the inadequacy of the service which reached them. Certainly Gabriel has yet to throw off the effectsof his absence from the gameand while Harris could claim a more rewarding game, neither half back remotely approached the standard we expect from them.
SHADE SLOW 
If Vernon had scored froma perfect Scott offering in 12 minutes and Pickering had followed suit from equally tempting bait in 71 minutes all might have been forgiven. Vernon failed miserably in his effort to head a goal and Pickering side-footed againstBlacklaw's body when only four or five yards out of goal. Give credit to Blacklaw for a desperate pounce in an equally desperate situation, but I considered Pickering was just that shade slow in movement. Otherwise allBlacklaw's dive would have been in vain. In a disappointing attack Young had more to show for his efforts than some of theothers. At least there was an obvious thought and measured accuracy about some of his passes and twice he camenear enough to goals to cause a gasp. Young at this juncture is more adequate than dominating but without his constructive effort Everton’s attack would have looked even less attractive.  If Everton had their nearmisses so to had Burnleybut they possibly felt moreaggrieved at the loss of a point than Everton becausetheir neglected chance was alast minute affair. 
PENALTY PROTEST
Like Everton, Burnleyshone brightly on the wings and in Towers and Morganhave youngsters of immense promise. Possibly the man ofthe match was Gordon Harris, who played brilliantly afterfalling back to a half backposition. Everton felt aggrieved over the scoring of Burnley's goal, from a penalty kick awarded against Brian Harris. Harris contends that the ball never went nearer to becoming a hand ball than contact with his neck and shoulder.  “I couldn't believe the kick had been awarded against me," he said. Similarly they considered Scott, a model of fair play, desperately unlucky to be booked following a clash with a Burnley forward. Clearly in my view Scott was kicked first and as usual it was the act of retaliation that was spotted. In their criticism of Everton. Burnley were inclined to overlook the part played in the spate of free kicks and minor injuries, by their own players. 
RANKIN'S TOUGHNESS 
Andy Rankin, in making one of the most courageous dives of the afternoon at the feet of Towers, was badly scarred about the neck. It speaks much for his toughness and willingness to get on with the game, that he made light of his disability when others were going down for trivialities. Neither Parker nor Brown effectively mastered Morgan or Towers, but the great thing about an out-of-sorts Everton was the wonderful determination.  They never looked like giving up, even when Burnley threatened to get right on top.  Labone I thought, a splendid game and as a result of cuts on each side of the head finished with his head and chest covered with blood. Apparently appearances were more serious looking than the facts for I am assured Labone is ready for action again. 
NEAR COLLAPSE 
If the attendance was disappointing by previous Burnley-Everton standards, no one can complain of the Merseysiders' following. Obviously at least half of the crowd were Everton supporters, whichmight point a revealing finger, for this Burnley outfit are nothing like as attractive as were their predecessors. There is plenty of leeway to be made up.  Defensively they will undoubtedly be better Elder returns for in his claims as a utility player. Miller cannot justifiably include full back among them, Talbut was aided in his masteryofPickering by an inadequate service to the centre forward,but his central control had a steadying influence in the middle.  The Burnley defence, itseemed to me, at times approached dangerously near a state of collapse. One might heave such as Everton at their best would have administered, and the wholestructure could have tumbled down.  Everton's consolation was that at least they won a point, as the result of a goal immediately after the interval from Sandy Brown, who rocketed a short pass by Harris from a free kick out of reach of Blacklaw. With two goals in three games Brown is second only to Pickering among Everton marksmen, an unusual claim for a full back, unaided by the penalty goal route. 
EVERTOR TEAM 
Everton announce no change in their side to meet Manchester United, at Goodison Park, to-morrow night.  EVERTON.—Rankin; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone,Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Vernon, Temple.

EVERTON DENIALS OF PEP PILLS AND SIGNINGS
Liverpool Daily Post -Monday, September 7, 1964
By Horace Yates
Allegations in Sunday newspapers that members of the Everton team took pep pills during their Championship winning season, created more discussion than concern in Merseyside football circles.  Last night the only official comment from the club came from Mr. Harry Catterick.  “I know nothing at all about it,” was Mr. Catterick’s reply.  Mr. Alan Hardtaker, secretary of the Football League, referred to the stories, but said they had not been discussed by the management Committee at their meeting yesterday.  “I can assure you that no club in the Football League would deliberately insist that its players took stimulants of any sort,” he said. 
MONKEY GLAND
There is no reference in the rules to players taking stimulants.  Individually some players do suck such things as glucose tablets and before the war Wolverhampton Wanderers had their monkey gland treatment.  “A whiff of oxygen has also been taken by players at half time on occasion.  “It must be remembered that every club has its medical officer and if he was aware that the club were forcing players to take stimulants then he would report the matter.”  Mr. Catterick firmly disposed of suggestions that Everton were poised to make efforts to sign Leicester City half back Frank McLintock, who is playing only on a monthly contrast with his club. Everton have no interest whatever in McLintock Mr. Catterick told me.  I know that Mr. Catterick watched last week’s match between Wolves and Leicester, but no interpret his appearance at any league game as an interest in an individual would be highly speculative. 
NOT SELLING
The Everton manager makes a point of seeing as many first team games as he can possibly fit into his programme especially when his club are involved in clashes with the teams in the comparatively near future as is the case with both Wolves and Leicester. Mr. Catterick also assured me that no club had made any direct offer for Johnny Morrissey.  Everton’s reserve outside left, who like Helsop and Sharples operates on a monthly contract.  “In any event,” he said, “I think it highly unlikely that any offer for Morrissey would be considered at the present moment.” 

DRAWN GAMES LEAVE MUCH TO BE DESIRED IN BOTH CAMPS
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, September 7, 1964
EVERTON HAVE NOT RECAPTURED THEIR RHYTHM
A SUBSTITUTE FOR KAY REMAINS MAJOR PROBLEM
BURNLEY 1, EVERTON 1
By Horace Yates
Everton draw a match at Turf Moor they might easily have won and just as easily have lost, for scoring chances were created and neglected equally by both sides.  Against this background I find it difficult to quarrel with the verdict.  For easier is it to be stampeded into an acceptance of the claim that nine players treated, and a host of free kicks awarded, inevitably add up to a storm-tossed, ill-tempered exhibition.  Let us try to put the facts into the proper perspective.  This was a tease, desperately contested clash, but until the last twenty minutes or so was almost entirely devoid of real ill-will.  That there was ill-will in the end was hardly surprising.
DELIVBERATE KICKS
How can you have one man quite deliberately kicking two opponents within a matter of minutes and escaping observation by referee or linesmen, without producing some kind of retaliation?  Brown to his great credit, merely looked appealingly at the referee, expressed his disgust and carried on with the game.  Scott in no sort of trouble throughout the match, was sufficiently roused to retaliate instantly and as so often happens, it was the retaliate and not the aggressor who was caught, Scott was booked, and the instigator of the trouble was left to gloat over his unpunished misdemeanours.  None of the outraged Burnley followers who found criticism of Everton so easy to voice, would admit that either kicking incident had taken place. This can only suggest that club followers will see what they wish to see. Burnley in one way, were unlucky to have Miller damaged so painfully that for most of the match he was an emergency centre forward, instead of occupying the left back position for which he was chosen.  Yet this injury originated in the most innocent of blocked balls as Miller and Young sought possession simultaneously.  Not all the players who went down were in honest need of the trainer’s administration and a not unimportant lesson to be learned from this clash was that gamesmanship contributes as little to a side’s welfare as to the spectacle.
FULL BACK MISFIT
Before his injury Miller was so much of a misfit at left back, where Scott was patently tearing his defensive motions to shreds, that he was a liability which was only removed when the more mobile O’Neil took over as Miller moved forward into the attack.  It was while Miller was struggling so unequally in his attempts to contain Scott hat Everton should have taken the lead with a Vernon goal from a Scott cross in twelve minutes. Vernon has long maintained a belief that his head is for nobler tasks than nodding a ball and the disastrous effort he made to put the ball beyond Blacklaw tended to confirm his conclusion.  With 19 minutes to go Pickering side-footed Temple’s centre against Blacklaw’s body from the shortest range.  Clearly Pickering was right to attempt accuracy rather than a spectacular blaze at goal, but I thought his reaction was just that bit delayed to make a save possible, no matter how innocent may have been Blacklaw’s part.  Similarly, Burnley were unluckily denied a goal when Lochhead shot through Gabriel’s legs and the ball ran along the goal line without crossing.  Again, in the last minute Morgan, who with Gordon Harris, was the Burnley player most worthy of superlatives, provided the perfect chance for Miller to snatch a dramatic winner.  Inexplicably Miller contrived to take the ball with his back to goal.
PROTEST FROM HARRIS
The scoring of the goals helps to illustrate the sort of game this was.  First, Burnley went ahead through an O’Neill penalty, awarded when the referee decided that Harris had handled a Tower’s shot as it came down from the cross bar (30 minutes). I found it difficult from the stand to decide who had made the award justifiable.  Apparently, the players on the field were equally puzzled.  Harris told me; “I think he must have given it against me.  The ball struck me on the side of the head and shoulder, and it then rolled down my body. I never handled, and I looked round to see who had offended.  “There was nothing to be gained by handling, I could hardly believe it.” Everton’s retaliation (46 minutes) came when Harris tapped a free kick to one side and Brown hit a terrific shot into the net. Rankin, who took an outsize headache home with him as the result of collecting Towers’ boot on the side of the neck, when making the most courageous of saves, was again flawless.
LABONE’S CUTS
Labone suffered cuts on both sides of the head, which resulted in his leaving the field with face and chest coated with blood.  Happily, they are superficial wounds and should be no bar on his availability against Manchester United to-morrow.  With Rankin and the two wingers, Labone completed Everton’s most successful quarters, although Young’s contribution was sometimes noteworthy.  With neither Gabriel nor Harris remotely approaching true form, especially in distribution, Young’s efforts to set the forwards in motion were the more apparent. One shot from Young hit the crossbar and another was less than a yard too lofted to count, but the Scot had no cause to be concerned with his contribution.  If Everton could gain a point with a distinctly below par display, although defensive resolution was praiseworthy, especially with the backs so often extended, obviously there will be more agreeable results when form returns. Both Gabriel and Harris have a lot of leeway to make up if the absence of Kay is to be minimised.  Everton badly needed Kay to lend authority to their efforts. Burnley; Blacklaw; Angus, Miller; Walker, Talbut, O’Neil; Morgan, Lockhead, Irvine, Harris G, Towers. Everton; Rankin; Parker (Captain), Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Harris B; Scott, Young, Pickering, Vernon, Temple. Referee; Mr. E. Crawford (Doncaster) Attendance 23,737. 

DEPLETED BURNLEY NO MATCH
Liverpool Daily Post-Monday, September 7, 1964
EVERTON RESERVES 4, BURNLEY RESERVES 0
Everton reserves had an easy win over Burnley Reserves who had only ten men for most of the game.  They lost their inside right, Coates, with a pulled ligament after eight minutes. Burnley’s covering was good and a brilliant display by goalkeeper Thomson kept the score down, particularly after the interval, when the Blues were hardly ever off the attack. Hill got the first goal at 36 minutes and Rees had brought the ball almost to the goal line.  Harvey got one at 62 minutes and Hurst the other two at 52 and 89 minutes. 

OFF-BEAT FOOTBALL AIDS CHAIRTY
Liverpool Echo& Evening Express -Monday, September 7, 1964
Liverpool beat music gave the Oxfam and Freedom From Hunger campaigns a helping hand yesterday afternoon, when a team of Liverpool beat group stars took on a team of their female fans in a challenge football match at Aintree. About 500 people, mostly teenagers, turned up at the Long Lane Sports ground of W. and R. Jacobs, Ltd., the biscult manufacturers, to see the game- officially labelled as the Cavern Kickers’ X1 v. the Mersey Beat X1.  Mrs. Elizabeth Braddock, M.P. for Liverpool Exchange, and comedian Ken Dodd managed the kick-off between them, and the match was referred by Everton wing half Tony Kay, seen here (centre) with Rory Storm and Norma Reade, two captains.

TONIGHT’S BIG GAME
Liverpool Daily Post-Tuesday, September 8, 1964
EVERTON CAN GO TOP AGAIN
Everton will top the First division again if they beat Manchester United at Goodison Park to-night. They are third to Chelsea and Blackpool with seven points from five games, one behind the two clubs. Manager Harry Catterick yesterday announced an unchanged side for to-night. Everton; Rankin; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Vernon, Temple.

THE ANSWER; “JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS’
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Tuesday 08 September 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Just one of those things, as the song says, is the answer, to-day, to questions which have puzzled readers of this column: (a) why does the blue stripe on Everton players' shorts stop one-inch from the waist band and (b) why are Liverpool and Everton this season being asked to play two matches at home and two away, week by week, in the early part of the season?  The man who seeks his own shorts report says the inch gap looks so ridiculous,maybe it does, but the makers say that it is not unusual to incorporate the stripe into the elastic strands of the waist band. Not bridging the gap is "just one of those things."  So is the coincidence or Everton being at home to-night to Manchester United and home again on Saturday, to Sheffield United. It's just a freak of fixture making by Mr. Sutcliffe, son of the man who "invented" the system of Football League fixtures.  Normally when Everton or Liverpool have been at home in mid-week they have played the following match away.  Everton will look with much expectation to successive home matches because these fixtures can provide them with points that could give them a clear lead at the top. And despite what you may have heard to the contrary, the season is well under way and sides with points in the bag are going to take a lot of catching.  United's three tilts against Everton, one in the Charity Shield last season, ended in two defeats, one victory.  They lost the Shield; won 5-1 at Old Trafford not long afterwards and then were beaten 4-0 at Goodison Park in the return League game.  Any game that brings Denis Law here compels everyone's attention. He had a pretty rough time from Fulham spectators on Saturday and is continuing it seems, his propensity for being one of the stormy petrels of football.  There is no question of his ability as a player but how much more attractive his play would be if his temperament were equable? 
Hard, but hardly satisfying 
Everton have chosen a team which got a point at Burnley. I understand from those who travelled for this match that it was always hard, but hardly satisfying. Maybe there is something in the thought, expressed by at least one follower of Everton that they are playing too defensively, though their record so far this season gives little room for criticism. 
Peter Brogan of Anfield, is the man who wants more positive football with an all-out, all-up front line instead of three ' lurkers.' He writes: 
"After leaving the Nottingham Forest ground last week I was kidding myself with vows of ' never again' having seen Everton attack for ten minutes out of the ninety. Like a fool I went to Burnley and never have I seen such a performance.  It is clear that Everton have the players—but players whose natural instincts are completely against negative defensive football. Even our full backs, Parker and Brown enjoy attacking sorties.' Everton simply cannot play the out-and-out blanket defence style they now seem to operate."
"Derby" day ticket critics 
"Never before have I had cause to complain about Liverpool F.C., but they might as well put the tickets for the "Derby" match on sale at the labour exchange instead of at Anfield at 10 a.m. on a working morning when the average supporter who is in employment is unable to queue without losing pay and or holiday leave.  "Could this be a new scheme for reducing the national assistance claim of the average ticket tout ?"  M. A. Harrison, Campbell Drive. Liverpool 14. 
"Why make the "Derby" game all ticket? The sale of tickets at 10 a.m. on the Friday means that spivs will be at their tricks again, selling tickets at excessive prices to those who follow the club match after match, but who cannot -leave their jobs to queue at such an inconvenient hour. I am sure most fans would prefer the pay-at-the turnstiles system."—.J. C., Westhead Avenue, Northwood, Kirkby. 
"Once more the all-ticket season is with us! While agreeing that certain matches during the season must be all ticket to protect the public from overcrowding, I deplore the latest decision on the sale of tickets.  "Surely one simple method is to issue slips of paper to people entering the ground at a home match which could be posted to the club. Or even sell tickets at the turnstiles on a match day."—L. Boyne, 91 Elmhouse Road, Liverpool 13. 
The news that tickets for the "Derby" game are on sale on a Friday morning will make any working person shudder and the spivs jump for joy! "Surely clubs realize that this is playing into the hands of the spivs. Obviously, except for holidaymakers, &c., they are the only people NOT working at such a time.  "Let our clubs have commonsense, or surely one day long-suffering fans will say: 'That's enough!’—and no one will want any tickets.—J. C. Wall, 47 Newsham Drive, Liverpool 6.

TRANMERE AT EVERTON
Liverpool Echo& Evening Express -Tuesday, September 8, 1964
LIVERPOOL SENIOR CUP DRAW
The draw for the Liverpool Senior Cup resulted as follows;
Everton v Tranmere, Southport v Liverpool.  The dates of the games have still to be arranged. The Reykjavik players will attend the Everton v. Sheffield United match at Goodison Park on Saturday.

UNITED DROP GASKELL AND SADLER
Liverpool Echo-& Evening Express Tuesday, September 8, 1964
DUNNE DEBUT IN GOAL
Manchester United have two shock changes for to-night’s league match with Everton at Goodison Park. Dave Gaskel and David Sadler are dropped and closed season signing from Shamrock Rovers Pat Dunne, who spent some seasons at Everton before moving to Ireland, makes his debut in goal, David Herd, who gave way to Sadler after the opening game of the season, is recalled at centre forward after showing good form in the reserves. Manchester United; Dunne (P); Brennan, Dunne (A.); Crerrand, Foulkes, Stiles; Connolly, Charlton, Herd, Law, Best. 

EVERTON, TWO DOWN, STORM BACK TO FOIL UNITED
Liverpool Daily Post-Wednesday, September 9, 1964
SEASON’S BIGGEST CROWD SEES THRILLER AT GOODISON PARK
EVERTON 3, MANCHESTER UNITED 3
By Horace Yates
There is still magic in the name of Manchester United.  At Goodison Park last night they joined with Everton in producing as thrilling a spectacle as we are likely to see all season. Six goals were scored and there could quite easily have been twice as many.  Even in the dying minutes it seemed the players were reluctant to allow the game to die on anything but a screamingly exciting note.  Charlton almost headed his team to defeat.  Gabriel put the ball into the net, but the whistle had already sounded for a free kick and after a Brown run and shot Pickering missed what appeared to be the easiest of chances, but again after the referee had blown.  Maybe Merseyside crowds are luckier than most in the standard of football they see, for here anyone could speak of soccer losing its appeal in face of nerve-tingling play such as this, does not make sense. Anyone who left before the end must have had a bus to catch, for such was the tempo and build-up that at any moment pressure could have reached explosion point. Mind you, the rabid Evertonian will have little to say about the first half, when they were two goals down by Law and Connelly for in truth there was little, they could have said that would have been complimentary to their side. one began to think back to the 5-1 drubbing of last season, but that was at Old Trafford.  Here were United putting Everton through the hoop and all the accompanying indignities before their own supporters. Not easy was it to imagine what Everton could do to reserve the flow, running so heavily against them, and yet almost from the first kick after the resumption, it was a different Everton.  All United’s composure vanished in a wave of Everton enthusiasm and drive.
WORST EXHIBITION
From what was easily their worst exhibition of the season, Everton soared to peaks of splendour they have not exceeded since the first kick-off.  What we wondered, was wrong with Vernon.  Nothing would go right for him.  He was either too slow, caught in possession or lacking any of his customary accuracy in passing.  Brown was struggling anxiously against Connelly and making the costly error of trying to beat men in the vicinity of his goal, with defensive cover almost nil.  Gabriel was as poor as he had been at Burnley and no matter how hard they tried nothing would go right.  Temple attempted too much on his own and usually perished in the wake of his greed.  All this and 2-0 down was indeed a sorry looing prospect.  If United expected to coast through this apparition of an Everton side, how soon were they to be dumbfounded. Within two minutes Pat Dunne formerly an amateur with Everton, was forced to his greatest save of the night to prevent Pickering from registering. A minute later Young sent a rasping drive only barely wide of the post and Pickering almost immediately followed suit with a header. With the team rolling over United like a mighty ocean wave, the roar of the crowd became a battle cry that refused to be silenced.  The combination was too much for United.  They kicked almost anywhere to keep the ball from the foot of an Everton player.  There was desperation in all they did.  Clearly, they saw the danger of an Everton break-through but were powerless to prevent it.  In 50 minutes, Harris stole possession at half-way and Vernon rebounded to Pickering, who gleefully demonstrated how deadly he can be.  Try as they would United could do nothing to halt this revitalised opposition and again their goal fell, in 58 minutes.  Again, it was a charged down shot this time by temple that led to the score. 
LIKE LIGHTNING
Pickering, lurking menacingly in the middle, swooped like lightning, pulled the ball away from Foulkes, repeated the feat when Pat Dunne challenged and crashed the ball into goal.  Everton on level terms.  It was almost unbelievable in view of what had gone before. Now we settled down to see United hammered into the ground, but their subjection was only temporary.  As they struck back Best forced Rankin to a fine overhead save and both law and Charlton should have done better with tempting opportunity.  It was almost as though Everton were running out of steam, and back came United to go into the lead again, Brennan pushed the ball out to Best and back it came to Herd in the middle.  This centre forward, who had accomplished almost nothing of note, seized the opportunity brilliantly to beat Rankin in 74 minutes. Everton refused to be down-cast, although that Herd goal was a stunner.  They got on terms again in 84 minutes.  It was an overhead hook from Gabriel that set the scoring machine in motion. Foulkes attempted to bustle Pickering out of connection, failed, and Pickering, recovering quickly, ran the ball and almost as he was poised for a shot, spotted the incoming Young and stopped in his tracks. Young hit a great shot, Dunne was beaten, and the game saved. The players must have been as breathless as the crowd. It was Law who had put Everton on the wrong foot after four minutes when he headed a goal from Connelly’s cross with the ease and assurance that seemed to say, “That’s why Law cost £100,000.  Law, it was who spotted Connelly out on his own. The winger was tripped by Brown, recovered, and wisely the referee gave him his chance. In and on went Connelly and crashed a shot into goal off the underside of the crossbar (31 minutes). Everton’s spectacular retaliation raises hopes that at last they may have thrown off the indolence and uncertainty that has been undermining suggestions that this could be their year of triumph.  The Everton of the second half, could make the dream come true, but what a load of tribulation they heaped on themselves by that first half casualness. If United are rubbing their hands in glee at the sorcery of Law, and rightly so, Everton have just as much cause for delight in the way Pickering is responding at a time when the attack generally is below par. From time to time the crowd demonstrated against Law, but there was nothing wrong with his play that a change to a blue jersey would not promptly put right.  It was not so much how much work law did that put him into the top drawer of football craftsmen, so much as the way he did it when called upon.  So nearly was he, at one time, an Everton player.  Imagine the havoc his partnership with Pickering would be creating now! Pickering goes better and better.  All through he was threatening to beat Foulkes and one or two of his shots after he had succeeded were no mean affairs. There may be daintier, trickier centre forward than the former Blackburn player, but is there, I wonder, a more menacing dangerous thruster anywhere.  Those who see in him only power and shot simply close their eyes to his other qualities. This boy Pickering looks like being the most sensational capture Everton have made for many a long year.  How easy it was to direct a pointing finger in several directions when seeking out the cause of Everton’s early failings, but none could be levelled at Young.  He is settling down more and more into the requirements of an inside forward and he, as much as anybody, has no doubt of Pickering’s value.  Harris was much better than at Burnley and Gabriel improved also.  Temple was not always effective against a clean, keen tackling Brennan but Scott caused Tony Dunne considerably more trouble. If we can forget one or two moments when Labone’s hesitancy looked dangerous, he coped safely, but the Everton backs were sometimes extended to dangerous limits by the youthful Best and the more experienced Connelly.  Although beaten three times, Rankin was again superb, especially in his save from the Charlton pile-driver.  Everton; Rankin; Parker (Captain), Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Vernon, Temple. Manchester United; Dunne P; Brennan, Dunne A; Crerand, Foulkes, Stiles; Connelly, Charlton, Herd, Law, Best. Referee; Mr. K. Howley (Co. Durham). Attendance 63,024.

STEVENS ON MARK AT BARNSLEY
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, September 9, 1964
BARNSLEY RES 0, EVERTON RES 3
Everton Res were vastly superior at Oakwell last night against a side which lacked experience. Everton moved well in the midfield with the wing halves Sharples and Rees splendid link men.  The ball was kept moving along the forward line, but there was a lack of finishing power. Hill’s goal in the ninth minute and Stevens in the 16th were good shots and the third, again from Stevens, was a magnificent header in the 66th minute.  Shaw, closely marked by Murphy Barnsley’s best defender, always looked dangerous on the right wing and he laid on some well placed crosses. All round there was a balance about the Everton play which kept them attacking for most of the game. 

EVERTON PLAYER’S ROMANCE
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Wednesday 09 September 1964
Brian Labone, the Everton F.C. and England centre-half, and Miss Patricia Lynam, of 41a Sandymount Drive, Wallasey, the winner of the Miss Liverpool beauty title five years ago, whose engagement was revealed last night.  A keen Everton supporter, and a regular attender at home games, Miss Lynam,who was 22-years-old yesterday, is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Lynam. She is a secretary with a firm of solicitors.  She met Brian, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Labone, of 1 Silverbirch Way, Lydiate, at a social club three years ago.  The engagement was still a closely guarded secret until last night. Said Brian after the game: "The Everton boys still don't know about it."  Brian, who is a director of the West Lancashire Builders and Plumbers Merchants, of Maghull, added: "It's a pity the result to-night was not a little better . . . it's the only thing which has spoilt an otherwise perfect day."  Everton drew 3-3 with Manchester United at Goodison before a crowd of 63,024. 

THE STRANGE CASE OF DENNIS THE MENACE
Liverpool Echo& Evening Express  - Wednesday 09 September 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Let's forget for the moment that stirring, wonderful hard-fought 3-3 match between Everton and Manchester United at Goodison Park and concentrate on that remarkable figure of fun (for spectators, but never for defences), Dennis Law.  The crowd was chanting, his name 'under de arm' long before he appeared on the pitch. It took some astute passes and some characteristic pieces of football genius for them to forget, for the moment, that he was Dennis the menace.  But as a stirring game progressed and as Everton's position became more and more desperate—they were two down at the interval and 3-2 down at three-quarter time-so Dennis, whose act is not so much mime as pantomime, got under the crowd's skin by his propensity for not wanting to play the game, but to referee it.  Finally, be finished with a crack on the shin at outside-right, nobody's friend, occasionally not even the friend of his own team-mates.  One may ask with good reason "What makes him do it?" The answer is natural volatility. If he weren't so volatile and temperamental with referees and opponents the chances are he wouldn't be half the player he is.  A pity but there it is. You just can't change nature and if you could Dennis the Lawless would become just another footballer and not the brilliant ball juggler he is.  All told a draw was a good result for both clubs-for United because the chances were that Everton, not they would go to 3-2 after coming from 0-2 down and being, early in the second half, as dominant as United had been before the interval; for Everton because getting a point after being 0-2 and 3-2 down is quite a performance by any standards.
“BREAKS” AGAINST THEM
As I saw it Everton, except for some half-back lethargy and continual 'break of the ball' against them, did nothing seriously wrong in that deceptive first-half which promised nothing but United dominance for the remainder of the game.  Twice Connelly had struck against Brown, first to produce the centre from which Law scored; then to take the ball in and score off his right foot to give his side what seemed an unassailable lead.  It was a pretty forlorn Everton team that trooped off and a pretty forlorn following among the 63,000 present that watched them disappear down the subway.  What sparked Everton's tremendous resurgence is anyone's guess. Mine is that United tended to sit back and play for keeps. The initiative suddenly went to Everton and of all the team two men. Harris and Scott, seemed to revel most in holding it. Neither could have given more. Pickering brought down the house with a goal conjured from the instant capitalization of a Vernon shot crowded out. He took the chance beautifully.
His second goal which came initially from a movement created by Harris's through pass, was even more spectacular.  The big man, pushed for space and closed in by defenders, jinked his way daintily with many a feint and having created his opening took his shooting chance perfectly. No wonder the crowd rose to him.  It would have been fitting if when Harris threw himself headlong in an effort to put Everton into the lead young Dunne, once a junior with Everton, had not made the save he did. If anyone deserved the credit of sealing Everton's revival with a goal it was the Everton half-back.  Despite Everton's all-out fight back and the imminence of yet another goal it was United, against the grain, who succeeded. 
JUSTICE SERVED
Herd, from a cross-field pass seemed to have all too much time in which to bring the ball home and shoot it beyond Rankin.  Then, when Fate and time were against Everton getting the point they deserved, Young, seizing the ball as it came from United’s untidy efforts to clear it, rammed it home for 3-3 and football justice was served.  People went home vowing they would not see a better or more sustained entertainment this season.  Certainly both sides have profited from their new-found desire to play football and leave the niggling to those who can afford cautions and inevitable suspensions.  There was a lot of good sense from players of both sides, Law expected, and though both teams would know they had been in a hard contest there were no injuries of consequence.  United’s two inside-forwards, law and Charlton, put them in a winning position.  The attack also possesses two splendid wingers.  I would say the line’s only lack is in the centre where Herd does not move with the efficiency of the others. A pity Law spoils his artistry by too many protestations and worse. United’s defence was good only while the attack was in command of the game.  Once on the collar they looked rather ragged and panicked.  It was Everton then who seemed by far the better side. Rankin’s most superb save was his catch from Charlton’s free-kick.  This drive flew like a bullet, but it was not too fast for handy Andy Rankin.  Parker removed from the vicinity of the goal line a shot from Connelly that Rankin had half-saved, but United’s defence also had their share of escapes, notably from an acrobatic shot by Temple; a left foot Pickering shot which Dunne edged beyond the far post and an even better save by the Irishman after Young with the night’s most glorious through pass had cleaved a chance for the on-running Vernon, still a little out of touch with his real game. 

STANLEY PARK SCHEME FOR HOME MATCH CAR PARKING FACILITIES
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Wednesday 09 September 1964
HARD SURFACE PLAYING AREA SUGGESTED
ROOM FOR 1,100
Plans to provide a hard surface playing area at Liverpool’s Stanley Park which could be used for temporary car parking when matches were being played at the city’s two main football grounds at Goodison Park and Anfield were recommended for approval by Liverpool City Council’s Parks and Gardens Committee to-day.  They agreed to tell the Finance and General Purposes Committee that they had no objections to this proposal provided the cost was met by the Finance Committee or the Development and Planning Committee.  The Committee decided that they favoured a plan prepared by Mr. P.W. H. Conn, director of the Parks and Gardens Department. In a report to the committee Mr. Conn said it was suggested that an area at the south-east portion of Stanley Park parallel with Utting Avenue, should be developed as a hard surface area with facilities for football.  this area could be used for temporary car parking facilities to partially meet car parking requirements for Anfield and Goodison matches.
FLOODLIGHTING
The area could also be floodlit for evening activities, if required.  It was recommended that there should be a tree and shrub plant at on screen on the south-west boundary, and that every endeavor should be made to retain the existing character of the park surrounds.  About 1,000 cars could be accommodated, it was estimated. Mr. Conn pointed out that the facilities which could be provided on this hard play area would be available throughout the year, immediately after development weather and on winter evenings and to serve this functional purpose it would be necessary to prove a dressing pavilion. 
COST £37,000
The total cost of the Stanley Park scheme would be about £37,245, out of which £21,750 would be for the hard surface area and £5,000 for the pavilion.  The recommended car parking charge on the area was 2s 6d, giving an income of £140 a match.  Staffing costs would be about £36 a match.  In addition to the Stanley Park scheme, the Parks and Gardens Committee sent two other plans for car parking, involving land at Lower Breck Recreation Ground and Walton Hall Park, to the Finance Committee, with their approval.  At Lower Breck Recreation Ground, Mr. Conn reported an rea of about 2 ¾ acres had already been constructed as a hard surface play area, and this was eminently suitable for car parking.  Accommodation here could be provided for about 600 cars.
ROADS NEEDED
Additional works would be necessary to this site to provide this accommodation, including approach roads and exit crossing on to Lower Breck Road.  This estimated cost was £2,890.  The distance from the site to the Anfield ground was seven-tenths of a mile. Staffing cost here was estimated at £25 a match, with an income of £75 a match.  The area available for car parking at Walton Hall Park was to the cost of the park with an entrance from Walton Hall Avenue.  The exisiting surface would require to be resurfaced at a cost of £300 top accommodate about 260 cars.  Income would be £26 a match.  Councilor E.S. Heffer said they were helping to solve this car park problem for the football clubs.  This was just as much the club’s responsibility as it was the council’s.  He thought this should, be considered.
PAYMENT QUESTION
Alderman J. Leslie Hughes Parks Committee chairman raised the question of whether the motorists would pay the 2s 6d parking charge.  It was not the car owners who had asked for the parks, but people who lived in the streets near the grounds.  Cars were double and even treble, parked in these streets when there was a match on.  “The most important thing is, will the car owners use these parks?” he asked.  Mr. Conn pointed out that if the car parking facilities were available they would be able to tighten up on the Lord Major’s Proclamation with the exception of buses which would be allowed to park in Priory Road. 
NOT FAVOURED
The committee decided they did not favour a suggestion by Mr. Walter G. Bor, the City Planning Officer, that the requirements at Stanley park could best be met by two smaller sites, one midway along Priory Road and the other neat the junction of Arkles Lane and Priory Road.  But Mr. Bor said that whichever proposal was adopted –the large area suggested by Mr. Conn or the two smaller areas- careful landscaping and planting of trees and shrubs must be arranged so that the scheme can be visually absorbed in the overall scene of Stanley Park. 

August 18th 2021

RESIDENTS WELCOME DECISION TO USE PARKS FOR SOCCER CARS
Liverpool Echo& Evening Express  - Thursday 10 September 1964
STREETS WILL BE MADE SAFE FOR CHILDREN
CLUBS WILL BENEFIT
Hundreds of residents near Goodison and Anfield football grounds welcomed the news in the Echo last night that car parking facilities are to be provided by the Corporation at Stanley Park, Lower Breck and Walton Hall Parks.  When the Echo reporter visited streets near both grounds today the general consensus or opinion was that the Corporation were doing the right thing. A number of housewives said they did not resent their streets being used for parking at football matches, but nevertheless thought it was a good idea for the safely of children that the streets should be kept clear of football traffic.  Some parents regretted the change because they frankly admitted their children would be deprived of pocket money for looking after the cars of visitors.  On the other hand, there was criticism by some elderly housewives of parents who allowed their children to stay out of bed at nights to collect money from drivers.
UNDER GRASS
A spokesman for the Parks and Gardens Department of Liverpool Corporation said to-day that so far as Stanley Park was concerned the area that was to be used as a car park was at present under grass. Lower Breck Park was laid out as a playing ground with a hard surface, and all that would require to be done there would be the installation of new entrances.  Nothing else was being disturbed.  At Walton Hall Park the area to be taken over was the site normally used for fairs and had an ash surface.  Commencing on the parking proposals, Mr. W. Dickenson, secretary of Everton F.C., said; “Anything likely to alleviate the car parking problem of fans on match days is of benefit to the club and to householders in the area of our ground.  It won’t solve all parking difficulties, but it will help a good deal.  It is an excellent idea and we are all in favour of it.” 
HELPFUL
A Liverpool F.C, spokesman said; “This suggestion has been pressed for a long time.  The park will be helpful to us on match days or nights.  It will be a big relief to parking problems.  The beauty of it is that the space can be utlised for recreation when it is not needed for parking, in particular in the winter when the weather precludes the possibility of play on grass.” Mr. Harry Tootill, aged 71, a retired engineer, of 70 Oakdene Road, where he has lived for 43 years, is one householder who gets cars parked outside his door at all home matches at both football grounds.  He said; “I object to cars being parked in the streets and I object to them using the parks.  In the streets they are a danger to children and a nuisance to householders because of smell of fumes continually enters the houses.  I think that to put the cars in the Parks is robbing the district of an amenity. 
“USE BUSES”
: I do think that people who visit football matches should use public transport.  My son, who lives in Aigburth has a car, and when he visits us on a Saturday or during a week night when there is a football match in Liverpool he cannot get anywhere near our door.  We suffer all the time from home matches.” Mrs. Sybill Jones, aged 43, of 8 Langham Street, about a quarter of a mile from Goodison Park said; “I have three children of my own plus four foster children and we cannot let them out on the street on a Saturday afternoon.  We are repeatedly getting bottle-necks here and although only one side of the street is supposed to be used on a Saturday for cars, we get interlopers coming in immediately the policeman goes away and they are a menace.  “The housewives here welcome the news of cars parking being provided in the parks.  The street is hardly fit for children playing during the week because of the vehicles continually passing through, but on Saturdays it is dreadful.”
MENACED
“We have a car of our own and fortunately a garage at the rear, otherwise my husband would never get near the house on a Saturday afternoon or during home matches.”  Mrs. Julia Cocoran, of 11 Langham Street, said she had lived there for 40 years “During all that time we have been menaced by car parking during home football matches and the decision to take the cars to the parks is long overdue.”  Another who supports the removal of cars from the streets is Mr. Andy Pucker, of 28 Goodison Avenue, who was an assistant trainer to Everton F.C for ten years until he retired in 1939. 
“PLAYERS ONLY”
He lives in a cul-de-sec with a main exit from Goodison football ground and he complained that his daughter could not get parking at his door on Saturday because the road was reserved for the cars of football players.  Mr. John Bourne, of 29 Diana Street, not far from Goodison Park, said a lot of his neighbours had chalked the street at their front doors “No Parking” because they were so much annoyed during home games.  He personally did not mind people parking in the street, but he thought if they went top the parks it would be a good thing for all. Mrs. Margaret Brennan, of 5 Cuningsby Road, said she had four children and when the cars were parked there some of her children made some pocket money by looking after them.  Two housewives who have dreaded home matches at Anfield Park are Mrs. Marcella Laing, of 61 Rockfield Road, mother of two children, and Mrs Susan McCarney, of 57 Rockfield Road, mother of five children.  Both agreed that their children had to be kept inside on Saturday afternoons during home matches and they themselves could not do any shopping for an hour before and until an hour after a home game.  “It is unsafe for us to try crossing the roads,” both commented,” and we dare not send the children on any messages on a Saturday afternoon.” 

EX-EVERTON YOUNGSTERS ARE MAKING TO-DAY’S HEADLINES.
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, September 11, 1964
WEBBER FOR WREXHAM; UNDER-23 CAP FOR GRIFFITHS?
RELEASE OF GOALKEEPER GAVE RANKIN CHANCE TO BREAK THROUGH
By Horace Yates
Two former Everton youngsters, centre forward Keith Webber, and goalkeeper Graham Griffiths, were in the news last night.  Wrexham have come to terms with Brighton for the transfer of Webber, who has been supplanted in the team by the signing of Bobby Smith, former Tottenham Hotspur leader.  Subject to a satisfactory meeting with Wrexham manager Ken Barnes to-day, Webber is expected to sign and play against Crewe Alexandra to-morrow. My good friend Tom Jones, now manager of Bangor City and former skipper of Everton, tells me that Griffiths who like Webber, became surplus to requirements at Goodison Park, is playing so well in the Bangor goal these days that there are more unlikely things than that he may go close to winning a Welsh Under-23 international cap this season.  Webber will be remembered as the all-action centre forward from South Wales, who at one time promised to make a speedy bid for a place in the Everton League team.  He played in four Division One matches, three of them in 1961-62, without undertaking his challenge and was allowed to move.
HAILED WITH DELIGHT
Similarly with Griffiths.  There was a time when his performances were hailed with delight, but always there was the nagging doubt about lack of height.  It is not unknown of course, for small goalkeepers to become stars.  We have the example of Bolton’s Hopkinson and Sheffield United Hodgkinson to lend weight to the point.  Griffiths is 5ft 8in, is as tall as either.  Although it was never said that Griffiths lack of inches has played any part in Everton’s decision not to keep him. I always felt this must have been the deciding factor, for his goalkeeping, even in his very early days was magnificent.  Let us praise Everton rather than criticise them for the way they play the game with youngsters for whom they feel there is not immediately likelihood of a first team future with the club.  At least they have the opportunity to move elsewhere and try their fortune in less well stocked clubs.  There is a limit to the number they can keep, and it is good that no monopoly can be set up.  Look what has happened for example since Griffiths left.  Along came Andy Rankin and if there is any truth in Tom Jones claim that Griffiths is the best goalkeeper in Wales, there are those willing to swear that Rankin must be almost the best in a more competitive England.
LAWRENCE TOO
Had Griffiths stayed, possibly Rankin’s progress to the top would have been delayed. It is a similar sort of thing at Anfield, where Lawrence was rusting away in the reserves until Slater was transferred and Furnell was injured. Not always is it safe to judge a youngster’s promise by what he does in the reserves. Some players will never be any better than useful reserves while others do not show their true qualities until they have the incentive of first team encouragement.  Lawrence immediately became twice as good with the seniors as he had appeared to be in the Central League. Rankin was promising with the reserves but not until his promotion did it become apparent to everybody that he was something right out of the ordinary.  Even if Griffiths goes on to collect his young Wales cap, and I sincerely hope he does, it will be no reflection on Everton’s judgement.  Obviously, manager Harry Catterick can only be delighted with the choice he made. As a matter of fact, Mr. Catterick very recently told me how pleased he was with the reserves he now has at his disposal.  “I have never been better fixed for good young reserve players than we are at Goodison to-day,” he said. “The competition for places is intense and they are improving all the time. I feel very optimistic that some of them will make the grade.” What has happened to good young wing halves, however, is a puzzle, I would say this is proving one of the most difficult problems in modern football.

REYKJAVIK MEN’S GOODISON TREAT
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Friday 11 September 1964
By Leslie Edwards
Considering they are still without the services of Tony Kay and Ramon Wilson, Everton's progress this season has been far better than one could have anticipated. It says something for the club's pool of reserves that they can withstandthese losses and still climb to a place at the top of the table. The news about Wilson is not good.  The strain he suffered when making his League debut for his new club is deep-seated and even now he is only able to do light exercise.  To-morrow, at Goodison Park, Everton hope to repeat their 4-1win of last season against Sheffield United.  Assuming they can produce again the form of the second-half against Manchester United this is the sort of result they are likely to get. But Everton have a tendency to be rather mercurial. If their mood was that of earlier in that Manchester United game their opponents might shock them—and us.  A warning that Sheffield United will be no easier to beat than Manchester United or. Tottenham comes from their record away, so far—two of their three games won.  This suggests they are a much better side than they were a year ago. Everton's more positive approach to the game (and to the ball) when making their recovery against Manchester United is what is needed from the outset.  With Pickering taking his chances brilliantly and Young lending his unhurried, well-calculated touches to the line the Everton attack can be very menacing. It seems to me that Brian Harris's new inspiration in the half-back line and Scott's refreshing directness can be other factors in Everton's attempt to take the League title twice in three seasons.
Shawfield United 
Sheffield United—they might just as well call themselves Shawfield United,since their two Shaws have been pillars of the club for so long—have at least two young players. Badger, at back and Jones at centre-forward, who are likely to make names for themselves.  Kettleborough, too, is playing, well.  The attack consisting of Docherty, Kettleborough, Jones. Birchenall and Hartle is a comparatively "unknown” one, but will test the Everton defence fully.  At the Goodison game will be the Reykjavik players who meet Liverpool, at Anfield, on Monday night. They are arriving at Speke at mid-day to-morrow and are likely to train at Melwood on Sunday and on Monday morning.  They are making their visit to Britain something of a holiday and their trip to Goodison Park is their first treat. 

OVER 5,000 WAIT FOR DERBY MATCH TICKETS
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Friday 11 September 1964
SOME START QUEUEING AT 4 A.M AT ANFIELD
When the turnstiles opened at Anfield at 10 a.m., to-day for the sale of tickets for the Derby game between Liverpool and Everton a week tomorrow, a queue of more than 5,000 snaked round the ground and lined both sides of Anfield Road.  Detachments of mounted and foot police were on duty, and as hundreds of vehicles converged on the scene the streets surrounding the ground soon became packed with cars.  Some fans who had queued since 4 a.m., took sandwiches and flasks of tea and coffee with them.  They included many workers coming off night shifts. 
NO DELAYS
Among early arrivals was Mr. George Roberts, aged 57, of Huyton who has been an ardent Liverpool fan since he was a schoolboy of 12, and remembers the ground when there were wooden failings round it.  Despite the size of the crowd there were no hold-ups to be seen anywhere, and, shepherded by police, the fans moved through at a steady pace. In the queue were many mothers and grandmothers, some of whom were buying tickets for their sons who were at work.  Mrs. Pat Walsh, aged 34, of Roby, said; “My husband is at work and my son, aged 11 is at school, so I have the job of collecting the tickets I am very glad things are so well organized that one doesn’t have to wait half as long as I expected. “ 

FAIRS CUP-TIE DATE
Liverpool Echo& Evening Express  - Friday 11 September 1964
OCTOBER 14 IS UNBLIKELY
By Leslie Edwards
I Understand that the second leg of the Everton v. Valerengen (Oslo) Inter-Cities’ Fairs Cup-tie will not now take place at Goodison Park on Wednesday, October 14. The reason for the postponement until a later date of the Everton v. Valerengen is due, I believe, to the fact that the visitors cannot fit in the trip to Britain owing to pressure of their own League fixtures.

EVERTON TEAM IS UNCHANGED
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Friday 11 September 1964
WILSON BACK IN TRAINING
GOODISON GAME
Everton have chosen an unchanged team for the match against Sheffield United at Goodison Park tomorrow. Everton; Rankin; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Vernon, Temple. Wilson, the club’s close season signing from Huddersfield Town, who was injured against Nottingham Forest in the second match of the season, is now in light training.  Sheffield United goalkeeper Alan Hodgkinson is unfit following an injury received in the midweek match against Fulham.  His place will be taken by reserve keeper Bob Widdowson.  Sheffield United; Widdowson; Badger, Shaw (G); Richardson, Shaw (J), Mattewson; Docherty, Kettleborough, Jones, Birchenhall, Hartle.

BOARD STATEMENT FOLLOWS INVESTIGATION AT GOODISON
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, September 12, 1964
EVERTON HIT BACK AT DRUG CLAIM
BRIDE STORIES DESCRIBED AS FANTASTIC
By Horace Yates
Everton’s answer to allegations of drug-taking and bribery in their championship season, 1962-63 came in an official statement issued statement issued by the club-last night, after a private investigation at Goodison.  Rumours of the use of pep drugs and purple heart tablets, an alleged offer of money by chief coach Tom Eggleston to Fulham centre forward Maurice Cook to lose the game which won Everton the title, and a rumour of a collection in the Everton coach in bride an opponent are dealt with in the statement.  The club made their investigations following the announcement of a Sunday newspaper of its intention to publish a story by a former Everton player, accruing some of the club’s leading players of taking pep drugs during the championship season. There was also the promise that a four-month probe would produce the most sensational sports story of all time. Everton’s statement says that some years ago, prior to the 1962-63 season and unknown to the Everton board, any player who wanted it could, before a match obtain a single pill containing a mild stimulant, which in the quantities taken, could not possibly have had any harmful effect on any player. Firmly denied, however, is any suggestion of a wide-spread taking of purple heart tablets and an assurance that allegations of wholesale drug-taking are without foundation.  The statement issued by Mr. E. Holland Hughes, a club director and lawyer, dismisses as a sort of jest an allegation that Tom Eggleston had offered money to Fulham’s Maurice Cook to lose a match and adds that Mr. Eggleston cannot remember the suggested reference.  Everton did in fact win the match with Fulham by four goals to one and as Tottenham Hotspur lost 1-0 at Manchester City on the same day they were hailed as champions the moment the result from Maine Road was announced.  There followed the most enthusiastic scenes ever witnessed at Goodison Park.  Everton’s superiority over Fulham in that game was overwhelming.  Club skipper Roy Vernon scored three goals and Scottish winger Alex Scott scored the order. The club dismiss the allegation of a colleagues in their motor coach for the purpose of bribing a player as “fantastic.”
QUITE SURE THERE WAS NO BRIBERY
“We are quite sure there was no bribery the statement adds. The full text of the statement is -
“It has been known for some time that rumours have been going around concerning Everton and some Everton players and the chairman gave instructions that inquiries should be made into the truth of these rumours. “It was also known that investigations of a Sunday newspaper were using their own methods to obtain information and that, according to the principal investigator, they have brought the story of a former Everton player.  “As to the so-called pep drugs rumours our inquiries have shown that, unknown to the Everton board some years ago, prior to the 1962-63 football season any player who wanted it could, before a match obtain a single pill containing a mild stimulant. 
NO WHOLESALE DRUG-TAKING SAYS EVERTON F.C.
It was entirely a matter of personal choice and medically, we are told, these pills, in the quantities taken, could not possibly have had any harmful effect on any player.  “The investigator of the Sunday newspaper has said to An Everton player that they have obtained in subpoena the medical records of drugs being prescribed from the National Health Executive Council for Liverpool offices in Refuse House Lord Street. “We are quite unable to reconcile this statement with the information available to us.
WHAT ANY FOUNDATION
“The same investigator has suggested to certain players that they and others have been supplied -not by the Everton club or any of its officials -with purple heart tablets, described by the investigator as “only little stimulant tablets.” The club cannot and will not attempt to supervise or control the private activities of its players, unless it becomes apparent that playing ability is being impaired by such activities but of course, we have made inquiries. “We know what source of supply is suggested and that it is also suggested that the supply was illegal.  “Whatever odd personal indulgence may have taken place, if any did take place, we are quite satisfied that there was no widespread taking of purple heart tablets and we are also satisfied that allegations of wholesale drug taking are without foundation.
SAID JOKINGLY-AND TAKEN AS A JOKE
“Another matter to which the newspaper’s investigator has repeatedly referred is a suggestion that, a few minutes before the Fulham match at Goodison Park in the 1962-63 season, which was Everton’s last match in their championship year, the Everton trainer, Tom Eggleston in the presence and hearing of several players offered Maurice Cook, the Fulham centre-forward, money to lose the match.  “We know that in a conversation about tickets, and other matters of personal interest, Tom Eggleston jokingly made some reference which he himself cannot remember to a payment for losing the game.  The figure of £10 was mentioned. “Every one of the persons known to have been present except a former Everton player has been seen on our behalf and it is quite clear to us that whatever may have been said was said jokingly and was taken as a joke by Maurice Cook. “of course, nothing more happened, and it now seems that the sort of jest that is often made before a match has been interpreted as a sinister incident.
MAGNIFIED OUT OF ALL PROPORTION
“The board are quite satisfied that an idle remark by Tom Eggleston, taking to his old friend Maurice Cook, in the presence and in the hearing of quite a number of other people, has been magnified out of all proportion.  “The last subject of rumour is a suggestion about another match in the 1962-63 season.  According to the newspaper investigator a collection is supposed to have been made in the Everton motor coach on the journey to the match, for the purpose of bribing one particular player of the opposing team. “The same investigator has himself described the story as fantastic.  “We have investigated the story ourselves with Everton players and with the opposing player alleged to have been concerned and we agree that it is fantastic.  We are quite sure that there was no bribery or attempted bribery.  “We are placing all information available to us before the Football Association and the Football League.”

GOAL-A-GAME FRED PICKERING IS EVERTON ACE
Liverpool Daily Post-Saturday, September 12, 1964
MORE AWAY POINTS
Everton, with an unchanged side are a point better off than Sheffield United, but it is worth while noting that the Yorkshire team have scored more points away than at home. In their last two visits to Sheffield Wednesday and Stoke, United were twice victorious without conceding a goal. That is a warning, even though John Harris’ side can take no sort of encouragement from their previous record at Goodison Park.  Not only are they pointless there, but when Wagstaffe scored in their 4-1 defeat last season, it was the first goal they had registered at Everton. There is no Wagstaffe in their side to-day.  Too much optimism should not be read into the announcement that Wilson has started light training, for pulled muscles are notoriously slow to mend, and it would be unwise to consider that another week of training will definitely equip him for a return in the “derby” game. In view of Everton’s heart-warming second half rally against Manchester United it is hardly surprising that Mr. Catterick put the same team into action, but I should be surprised if the manager was not watching more than one position a little anxiously to-day. 
SLOW TO CLICK
Key players are proving slow to click into gear.  When they do Everton will look far more impressive and it is a great consolation just now to find that whatever fallings there may be elsewhere at least the scorer in chief, Fred Pickering, with six goals from as many games, has set himself a standard which he might well sustain throughout the season always assuming freedom from injury, of course. If Pickering does live up to that goal-a-game promise.  Everton cannot finish very far from the leading place. I believe Everton will win but I am prepared to see United give them a testing of great severity.  They will certainly miss goalkeeper Hodgkinson who was hurt against Fulham. Sheffield’s defence has conceded only four goals in six games, and that represents the best achievement of any side. jack Widdowson is Hodgkinson’s deputy. Everton; Rankin; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Vernon, Temple. Sheffield United; Widdowson; Badger, G. Shaw; Richardson, J. Shaw, Matthewson; Docherty, Kettleborough, Jones, Birchenall, Hartle.

EVERTON REPLY TO DRUG ALLEGATIONS
Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express  - Saturday 12 September 1964
Everton have known for some months that a Sunday newspaper was gathering information about the club and its players but it was only this week that their own inquiries were stepped up in order to  answer specific allegations of drug taking by players during the championship season of 1962-3. Mr. E. Holland Hughes, one of the club's senior directors, and a well-known Liverpool solicitor, has been in charge of compiling Everton's reply. It must be unique in football history—and very rare in other circles—for allegations to be answered before they are made public. I do know, however, that the Everton directors have been conscious for some considerable time that the public image of the club is not as high as they would like it to be. Directors and officials have told me that they feel there is what amounts to a vendetta against the club.
PEP DRUGS
Everton's answer came in an official statement issued by the club last night. Rumours of the use of pep' drugs and purple heart tablets,  an alleged offer of money by chief coach Tom Eggleston to Fulham centre forward Maurice Cook to lose the game which won Everton title and a rumour of a collection in the Everton coach to bribe an opponent are dealt with in the statement. The club made their investigations following the announcement of a Sunday newspaper of its intention to publish a story by a former Everton player, accusing some of the club's players of taking pep drugs during the championship season.
THE STATEMENT
The full test of the statement is;-
“It has been known for some time that rumours have been going around concerning Everton and some Everton players and the chairman gave instructions that inquiries should be made into the truth of these rumours.  “It was also known that investigators of a Sunday newspaper were using their own methods to obtain information and that according to the principal investigator, they have brought the story of a former Everton player.  “As to the so-called pep drugs rumours our inquiries have shown that unknown to the Everton board, some years ago, prior to the 1962-63 football season, any player who wanted it could, before a match obtain a single pill containing a mild stimulant.  It was entirely a matter of personal choice and medically we are told, these pills in the quantities taken, could not possibly have had any harmful effect on any player. “The investigator of the Sunday newspaper has said to an Everton player that they have obtained in subpoena the medical records of drugs being prescribed from the National Health Executive Council for Liverpool offices in Refuge House, Lord Street.  “We are quite unable to reconcile this statement with the information available to us.  “The same investigator has suggested to certain players that they and other have been supplied –not by the Everton club or any of its officials-with purple heart tablets, described by the investigator as “only little stimulant tablets.” The club cannot and will not attempt to supervise or control the private activities of its players, unless it becomes apparent that playing ability is being impaired by such activities, but, of course, we have made inquiries.  “We know what source of supply is suggested and that it is also suggested that the supply was illegal.  “Whatever odd personal indulgence may have taken place, if any did take place, we are quite satisfied that allegation of wholesale drug taking are without foundation.  “Another matter to which the newspaper’s investigator has repeatedly referred is a suggestion that a few minutes before the Fulham match at Goodison park in the 1962-63 season, which was Everton’s last match in their championship year, the Everton trainer, Tom Eggleston in the presence and hearing of several players, offered Maurice Cook the Fulham centre forward, money to lose the match. 
EGGLESTON JOKE
“We know that in a conversation about tickets and other matters of personal interest, Tom Eggleston jokingly made some reference which he himself cannot remember to a payment for losing the game.  The figure of 10 pounds was mentioned. “Every one of the persons known to have been present, except a former Everton player, has been seen on our behalf, and it is quite clear to us that whatever may have been said was said jokingly, and was taken as a joke by Maurice Cook.  “Of course, nothing more happened and it now seems that the sort of jest that is often made before a match has been interpreted as a sinister incident.  “The board are quite satisfied that an idle remark by Tom Eggleston, talking to his old friend Maurice Cook, in the presence and in the hearing of quite a number of other people, has been magnified out of all proportion.  “The last subject of rumour is a suggestion about another match in the 1962-63 season.  According to the newspaper investigator a collection is supposed to have been made in the Everton motor coach on the journey to the match, for the purpose of bribing one particular player if the opposing team.  “The game investigator has himself described the story as fantastic. “We have investigated the story ourselves with Everton players and with the opposing player alleged to have been concerned and we agree that it is fantastic.  We are quite sure that there was no bribery or attempted bribery.  “We are placing all information available to us before the Football Association and the Football League.”  

EVERTON CAPABLE OF GREAT THINGS
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Saturday 12 September 1964
PROMISING NEWCOMERS IN SHEEFIELD UNITED TEAM THIS SEASON
By Leslie Edwards
Everton normally do well at home against Sheffield United—though there was one notable Cup occasion recently when they did not—and if they strike form to-day as they did late in the game against Manchester United they may well consolidate a position at the top of the table.  But United, who have been a mixed middling side in recent seasons, are a better team to-day than since when they were promoted. They have won two of their three away games; have introduced some very promising young newcomers—full back Badger and centre forward Jones among them—and have found that mysterious quality of blend that is essential to all successful sides.  Incidentally, it would seem this season that instead of two or three really good sides in Division I we are likely to have some half -dozen all capable of taking the title, Nottingham Forest, Chelsea, yes, and even Blackpool among them.  The emergence, slowly and almost unnoticed of a Stoke City side which is more often than not minus Stanley Matthews, is another indication that the battle for top place is going to affect more clubs than usual. 
DRAMATIC GOALS 
Everton's success is likely to be bound up this season with the success of Fred Pickering, a centre forward who has had to live down the big fee paid for him and also the fact that he displaced one of the most popular Everton players since William Ralph Dean. There were signs in the midweek match that the crowdhad been won over to the big man in the centre, whose dramatic goals at GoodisonPark this season have been among the best ever scored there. That Young has performed well enough to maintain his place in a new role please all his fans and proves what they always maintained-that room should be found for him somewhere, irrespective of who else lost his place.  Everton are inclined to be mercurial.  They were not “in” the Manchester United game until they found themselves two goals down at the interval. Their recovery from that point showed that they are still capable of great things.
SPARKED REVIVAL
The men who sparked that blistering revival were Harris and Scott.  Admitting that the Everton defence is sometimes a little indecisive, the team as a whole has done remarkably well in view of the absence at one time or another of Gabriel, Kay and Wilson. Only the super-optimist could have anticipated that the club would have so much success early in the season in spite of their several handicaps. A pity Wilson is still only in light training; his experience and speed or recovery at full back would be very helpful to his club against wingers who are fast and clever, like Forest’s and Manchester United’s. 

BROWN SHOWS THE WAY AS FORWARDS FALTER
Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express - Saturday 12 September 1964
UNITED SNATCH EQUALISER IN LAST MINUTE
EVERTON 1, SHEFFIELD UNITED 1
By Michael Charters

Everton; Rankin; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Vernon, Temple. Sheffield United; Widdowson; Badger, Shaw (G); Richardson, Shaw (J), Matthewson; Docherty, Kettleborough, Jones, Birchenall, Hartle. Referee.- Mr. D.H. Hartle (Birmingham).
The party of 30 official players and wives of the Reykjavik club, who play Liverpool in the European Cup on Monday night, werethe guests of the Everton club this afternoon.  They were in the directors’ box and must have been astounded at the spectacle the ground presented in the sunshine with a crowd of over 40,000.  Everton did most of the early attacking, and Joe Shaw prevented a certain goal with a fantastic goal line clearance. The move started with a great pass from Brown to Pickering, and the centre forward took the ball to the goal line before crossing it past Widdowson.  As Young moved in Shaw managed to divert the ball high over the bar.  At the other end Rankin did well to turn the ball away from Burchinall after Labone had slipped up.  From a corner, Kettleborough hit a fine shot which beat Rankin, but Brown stopped the ball on the line.  Harris was only just over with a fine hook shot and then Pickering sent Scott away but the winger shot wide. From another good Everton attack Pickering connected first time with Scott’s centre and his shot was diverted for a corner when it looked to be right there.
EXCELLENT SUPPORT
Everton were playing some great football in midfield, with Pickering leading the line well, and fine support from Young and Harris.  Rankin came out to anticipate a shot from Docherty and collected the ball comfortably.  Both teams were putting on a fine exhibition with Everton having most of the play at this point. Joe Shaw again saved his side, with a timely interception, after Scott had weaved his way through and from the corner.  Matthewson headed away for another corner. Gabriel took a chance when he stepped over the ball in his own penalty area and he was lucky that Labone was behind him.  United, although mainly on defence, looked very good when they attacked.  Jones and Kettleborough combined well.  The Everton defence looked a bit panicky at times as the United forwards switched positions and moved quickly towards goal.  Pickering was moving a good deal to the left wing in the hope perhaps that he could draw Joe Shaw out there, but the Sheffield veteran stuck to his feet.
FOUL ON RANKIN
Rankin dropped the ball from a centre by Docherty, and the situation looked grim until it was seen that the referee had awarded Everton a free kick for a foul on the goalkeeper.  There was a lovely move between Vernon, Young and Pickering, but the centre forward did not time his shot properly, and sent the ball wide. Young's distribution and general use of the ball could hardly have been better. Pickering tried to take onthree United men, by himself, beat two, but failed at the third. Despite this, he was having a fine game.  After half an hour Joe Shaw had to have attention to his right knee, after he had intercepted.  When the game resumed Pickering from Young, hit, the inside of the upright with his shot, and Badger came across to hook the ball away.   The excitement was in vain for Pickering was flagged offside.
SPLENDID SAVE
Pickering was the next casualty. He fell awkwardlyafter jumping high to a ball, but resumed after attention.  Play w3as inclined to be scrappy at this stage.  It had become a rather indifferent midfield clash with neither side troubling the goalkeepers and defences generally in command. Pickering enlivened the proceedings, however, when from Vernon’s headed pass he hit the ball just right, but Widdowson turned his shot round the post with a splendid save.  A few minutes before half-time Vernon had the ball in the net, but was yards off-side when he took Young’s pass. Young’s first mistake with a pass sent the ball to Birchinall who passed to Hartle, but the winger’s centre was cut off by Parker for a corner. It had been a rather disappointing first half, after starting off so well.  Neither team at this point were making any real headway. 
Half-time; Everton nil, Sheffield United nil
There was a fantastic mix on the restart.  Initially, Joe Shaw was at fault with a bad back-pass and the ball came out to Scott whose centre was headed towards the empty goal by Temple but Richardson tipped it high in up in the United goalmouth the air for Pickering to completely miskick with a wonderful chance. The ball was scrambled away for a corner to complete the excitement.  But following this, Everton took the lead through a goal by Brown-his third in four matches and one almost identical to the goal he scored at Burnley a week ago.  It came from a free kick five yards outside the penalty area, which Harris touched to one side, for Brown to make his usual powerful shot, the ball swerving away from Widdowson into the corner of the net.  It might well have been that the ball was slightly deflected by a defender, to further trouble the goalkeeper.
OFFSIDE TRAP
This was after 49 minutes, and United tried a similar ruse when they got a free kick, but Kettleborough shot well wide.  Three Everton forwards moved into offside position when United worked their well orgainised trap.  This didn’t please the crowd but with Everton's attack putting on considerable pressure now, United were entitled to try anything.  In this half Vernon had moved to the left wing, and seemed to be moving at little more than half pace. But he took part in a good move with Temple, which saw Pickering fire in one of his blockbusters and Widdowson saved at the second attempt. 
VERNON INJURED 
Vernon had a bandage on his right knee, and was in considerable pain as showed when he blocked the ball. Despite this, the rest of the Everton forwards were playing well, particularly Young and Scott.  Young had a shot turned away for a corner, but apart from occasional sorties, from Pickering, there was not much fire power in the Everton line and Temple seemed a little lost inside. But immediately said that Temple went through from a fine pass from Harris, and hitan equally good shot when Widdowson turned away for yet another corner.  Joe Shaw put his head to a fast centre from Templewas very lucky to see the balldiverted at great pace straight into the goalkeeper's arms. 
LABONE'S CLEARANCE 
Harris, who had played a fine constructive game through to try a shot himself, but sent it straight to the goalkeeper, and all this Everton pressure had brought little trouble to the United goalkeeper.  Jones missed the first chance Labone had given him. Hartle made a good run, and from his centre the centre - forward miskicked feebly and Labone was able to clear with comfort. 
PENALTY CLAIM 
Harris went down the left top Scott, Young made a gallant effort to connect with his head, but Widdowson was there first. Everton seemed to have genuine grounds for a penalty when Scott's shot beat Widdowson, but Graham Shaw, standing on the line, turned it away and it certainly seemed to me he had used his arms to do so. The referee said no, and all Everton won a corner.  Widowson made his third great save of the game from Scott's powerful shot, and there was no doubt that the Everton winger had given Graham an unhappy afternoon.  Even apart from his goal, Brown had been Everton's best defender, keeping, Docherty under control, while, Labone had also been very, strong in the middle.  Young wasted one of the few clear-cut chances Everton had, when he ran into trouble with both Temple and Pickering perfectly placed for a quick centre.  Everton's principal fault in attack was that the forwards were delaying the shot and time and again, United were able to recover and block the ball away.  Everton were hanging on to their lead grimly, and the crowd were not pleased with their general performance.  United, however, who have the best defensive record in the First Division, were certainly living up to it.  Whenever Everton looked like breaking away, the offside trap stopped them.  With only seconds to go, Jones equalised for United, with a scrambled goal which the Everton defence should have cleared long before the scorer had the chance to put the ball in the net.  Final:—  Everton 1, Sheffield United 1.
LANCASHIRE LEAGUE
Everton A 2, Rochdale Res nil
Everton B 1, Rochdale A nil

SHEFFIELD UTD RES V EVERTON RES
Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express- Saturday, September 12, 1964
Sheffield United Res; Arblaster; Coldwell, Shaw (B); Monks, Mallinder, Wagstaff (B), Wagstaff (T), Parks, Finnegan, Simpson, Bishop.  Everton Res; West; Darcy, Curwen; Sharples, Helsop, Rees; Shaw, Stevens, Hurst, Harvey, Morrissey.  Referee.- Mr. C.S. Allatt (Birmingham). Everton fielded a strong side against Sheffield United, including four men with first team experience.  They were first into attack but fell into United’s offside trap.  United then made a good move with Bishop putting Parks through who fired straight at the goalkeeper, the ball slipping out of his hands but full-back Darcy clearing the line.  United kept on the attack but poor finishing let them down.  Another United attack, Simpson put Bishop through who shot straight into the side netting.  From a good bit of work from Bishop on the wing he beat the full back and then centred the ball straight on to Finnegan’s head, who put the ball into the net.  Parks then had a shot, making West dive full length to play the ball out.  United kept up this pressure but resolute defensive tactics by Everton kept them out. Sheffield United Reserves 1, Everton Reserves nil. 

THOSE DRUG ALLEGATIONS
Liverpool Daily Post-Monday, September 14, 1964
EVERTON: WE WOULDN’T HARM OUR PLAYERS
By Horace Yates
Sensation follows sensation in what has been termed the “Everton drug scandal” but last night when I asked Everton director Mr. Holland Hughes, who is also the club’s lawyer, whether he had been shocked by any of the statements which appeared in a Sunday newspaper yesterday, he said “They have not said anything that came as a surprise to us.  We have covered all the ground in our own club investigations. “In our statement in the Daily Post on Saturday we hinted that we knew it would be alleged that a person outside the club was supplying Purple Hearts tablets.  “We knew the source alleged to have supplied them. We knew if there was any truth in that allegation the supply was illegal so that we were not taken aback at all. “Everton have been unable to find any evidence that there has ever been any general use of a pill, as has been alleged.  “I did not think anyone would go as far as that. I know that this simply is not true.  The impression given is that the mild stimulant tablets were there for the asking.  They were only available immediately before a first team and only then if a player asked for them. “I have seen George Thomson, a former player of ours, who has been named, and he told me that if he wanted a pill, he would ask for one, but often he forgot all about them. “Generally speaking, the story that has been published about these pep pills follows the lines of which we were aware. “We know from medical advice we have been given that there was no harmful effect of any kind.  In answer to the suggestion that we were giving our players something that might be detrimental to their health, I need only say such a thing would be ridiculous. Our players are far too valuable to give them anything that would be harmful in any way.  This team has been assembled at considerable cost. How absurd to do anything to undermine it. The stimulants are mild and were originally prescribed by our doctor.  If there is any suggestion, they were given in unlimited quantities it is quite contrary to the evidence I have.”
STIMULANT AVAILABLE LONG AGO
Mr. Hughes went on “To-day’s article can be interpreted that the use of a mild stimulant was an innovation introduced about 1960. The fact is that the availability of a mild stimulant before a match to players who wanted it began long before the arrival at Goodison Park of our present manager Mr. Harry Catterick, and present chief trainer, Mr. Tom Eggleston. “It must now be clear that Everton have been aware of the nature of the allegations to be made and that I have made the fullest investigation, the result of which are being placed before the appropriate football authorities. “I prefer to make the further detailed comment, save to observe that the investigator says that they failed to discover who had prescribed.  “As is quite clear from the Everton statement, the investigator had plainly and definitely told one of the Everton players that they had obtained on subpoena the medical records of drugs prescribed from the National health executive Council for Liverpool offices in Refuge House, Lord Street.  This appears to me to be a manifest inconsistency. Referring to the fact that the homes of four of the club’s players-Jimmy Gabriel, Alex Parker, Alex Young and Roy Vernon -were wired so that any interview could be recorded at the instigation of a player’s wife from another room, Mr. Hughes said the step was taken because the club were aware that statements were being requested from players. Everton also knew that a tape recorder was being used. Not surprisingly, therefore, they considered that what was good for the goose was good for the gander, and they sought to protect themselves by recourse to similar aids. “We had reason to expect there might by further interviews,” said Mr. Hughes.  “We wanted to be sure that of ever we had to prove the manner in which our players were being interviewed and the methods that were being adopted, that we would have that proof on tape. “We wanted to get at the truth of the matter and know exactly what it was these players were being confronted with.  Now we know. “It was not enough for us to be told what the players said they were confronted with.  We wanted to have evidence beyond all doubt.  Whenever questions were asked by the newspaper concerned, they always had two representatives present.” Mr. Harry Catterick, the Everton manager, said yesterday; “My business and my concern is the success and playing ability of a great and honourable club.  As far as other matters are concerned, they are in the hands of the Everton club’s solicitors. 

UNITED DEFENCE A SURPRISE PACKET FOR LUCKLESS EVERTON
Liverpool Daily Post-Monday, September 14, 1964
ROY VERNON AND RAY WILSON TO MISS DERBY GAME
FRED PICKERING HOOK IS A HIT AND MISS AFFAIR
EVERTON 1, SHEFFIELD UNITED 1
By Horace Yates
Everton left the field to an outburst of the slow hand clap, I wonder why! Against Manchester United on Tuesday, they were lionised by the crowd and yet the reward in both games was identical -one point.  The United from Manchester are still very much the glamour side. The United from Sheffield considerably less so.  Possibly victory was always considered problematical against the Busby boys and regarded with near certainly against Sheffield. Surely the team should not be held responsible for crowd miscalculations on such a scale.  If the fans had stopped for a moment to consider Everton’s task, they would have discovered that not only had Sheffield won their last two away games, but possibly just as important in assessing possibilities, they came to Goodison, and incidentally left it, with the best defensive record in the League.
WORTHY GOALKEEPER
True, they had to substitute twenty-three-year-old Widdowson in goal for his fourth League game in place of the highly experienced and accomplished Hodgkinson and that raised a query.  It was Widdowson who answered the query very quickly with a highly commendable display that Hodgkinson might have been proud to own.  Twice he saved superbly from Pickering and was equally efficient when tested by Temple and Scott. It was no means feat getting through this United defence, for they covered superbly with a speed that left no time for the slightest hesitation.  For all this Everton proved themselves superior in attack and in so doing produced some entertaining and attractive football, as also did United when they switched defence into attack with the same speed and efficiency with which they marshalled their defence. I found much to admire in the play, but crowds want to see goals and are never happy if the ration is unduly restricted.  Here we had to be content with a single success by Sandy Brown, his third in four games, following a free kick by Harris until the last minute when Jones snatched an equaliser that had been threatened for a while. If that last ditch score had gone into the Sheffield net instead there would have been no slow hand clap which seems to suggest that fans want victory rather than justice.
VERNON INJURED
How many I wonder, paused to consider that Everton were at full strength only for eighty of the ninety minutes? Vernon pulled a knee ligament very early in the game so that we had a player, who is still fighting for form, courageously attempting to overcome a painful affliction.  After half-time, with his knee strapped Vernon retreated to the wing, with Temple inside, and although everything he did was at half pace or less, he was responsible for some very thoughtful and intelligent passes. The tragedy from Everton’s point of view is that the injury rules out Vernon from Wednesday’s return with Manchester United and the “derby” game next Saturday.  If manager Harry Catterick’s forecast is on target “Vernon may be out for two or three weeks.” Wilson too, is almost certain to be a non-starter.  One would think from the crowd’s reaction it would be easy to condemn any number of players for a below par display.  Yet what are the facts? Pickering, in my view, goalless as he was, underlined his accomplishments.  He played splendidly, distributed the ball well, and was clearly the most dangerous attacker on the field. If England can ignore his claims for the match with Ireland in Belfast on October 3, then they are indeed well off the centre forward talent-and from my observations, at least, such is not the case.
TRAGIC MISS
The centre forward deserved a goal, and it was tragic that from the only real chance that came his way, he was guilty of his only blunder.  The hook shot is a Pickering favourite.  It has brought him many goals, but equally it has debited him with many failures. Three minutes after half-time Pickering had a goal for the taking from temple’s header with Widdowson away from his line, but he completely failed to connect with his hook. Pickering had not been an Everton performer for more than minutes when he did just the same sort of thing in his debut game. He had done it before joining Everton and has done it since, but even so Pickering is clearly blossoming into a great player. Young grafted well defensively and distributed superbly.  Scott was the best winger in the match, so that only Temple of the fit forwards found his normal form elusive.  Labone was magnificent.  He mastered an industrious Jones almost to the point of obliteration.  Only when that fortuitous rebound in the last minute dropped at Jones’ feet for the centre forward to drive the equaliser home coolly and expertly was the centre half in trouble. C
COMPACT DEFENCE
Harris gave his best display of the season and Gabriel was much improved.  Both Brown and Parker experienced some difficulty with the wingers but coped satisfactorily. Rankin picked balls out of the air with the easy assurance that points the way to prospects of a career of real accomplishment.” Why then, did Everton fail won win? Apparently, it is easier to be critical than factual, for to condemn Everton (apart from the Pickering miss) is to overlook the most compact defence I have seen this season.  Gordon Shaw and Joe Shaw were stretched nearer to breaking point by Scott and Pickering than anybody, but they never cracked.  The full back can point to that miracle save of his in the first five minutes, when he lifted the ball from Young’s toe only three or four yards out, with a goal apparently certain. For sheer industry and efficiency Richardson’s superior would be hard to find, Matthewson was almost equally dominating and in Badger.  United have one of the brightest young full back prospects in football. Kettleborough, with a fine deep lying display, broke up attacks and started them with equal efficiently.  More teams than Everton will find this enthusiastic Sheffield defence a testing problem.  They will not easily be beaten. I think Mr. Catterick summed up the situation adequately in his farewell to John Harris, the Sheffield United manager, when he said; A good point, John.” A good point it was! Everton; Rankin; Parker, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Vernon, Temple. Sheffield United; Widdowson; Badger, Shaw G; Richardson, Shaw J, Matthewson; Docherty, Kettleborough, Jones, Birchenall, Hartle. Referee; Mr. H.D. Howell (Birmingham). Attendance 47,765. 

SHEFFIELD UNITED RESERVES 2 EVERTON RESERVES 1
Liverpool Daily Post -Monday, September 14, 1964
West, the Everton goalkeeper, played a brilliant game and it was he who kept United at bay.  United’s defence was always on top of the Everton forwards, especially Wagstaff (B), scorer of the second half.  Scorers for United were Finnigan (25 minutes), Wagstaff (B) (52 minutes), while for Everton Hurst netted in 74 minutes.

EVERTON PLACED TAPE RECORDERS IN HOMES OF FEW PLAYERS
Liverpool Echo - Monday 14 September 1964
OBTAINING EVIDENCE OVER DRUG ALLEGATIONS
CLUB STATEMENT
By Michael Charters
Everton F.C aware that their players were being interviewed over drug taking and bribery allegations had the players’ permission to have tape recorders wired in the players’ homes to obtain their own evidence. This was revealed last night by Mr. E. Holland Hughes, a senior director of the club, who has been in charge of Everton’s inquiries for several weeks into allegations made by a Sunday newspaper.  On Saturday he issued a statement which was published in the Echo.  It was known that the investigator for the Sunday newspaper always used a portable tape recorder when interviewing players, either at their homes or elsewhere.  Everton therefore arranged for their own recorders to be wired into the homes of four of their players—Roy Vernon, Jimmy Gabriel, Alex Parker and Alex Young. These recorders were switched increase on the by the players' wives in another room. 
INTERVIEWS 
"We had reason to expect there might be further interviews," said Mr. Hughes. "We wanted to be sure that if ever we had to prove the manner in which our players were being interviewed and the methods that were being adopted, that we would have that proof on tape.  "We wanted to get at the truth of the matter and know exactly what it was these players were being confronted with. Now we know.  It was not enough for us to be told what the players said they were confronted with. We wanted to have evidence beyond all doubt.  Whenever questions were asked by the newspaper concerned they always had two representatives present. 
NO SURPRISE 
Mr. Hughes said that the allegations made yesterday in the Sunday newspaper did not come as a surprise to the club. They had covered all the ground in their own club investigations.  In the statement you published on Saturday, we hinted that we knew it would be alleged that a person outside the club was supplying Purple Heart tablets.  "We knew the source alleged to have supplied them. We knew if there was any truth in that allegation the supply was illegal, so that we were not taken aback at all.  "Everton have been unable to find any evidence that there has ever been any general use of a pill, as has been alleged.  "I did not think anyone would go as far as that. I know that this simply is not true. The impression given is that the mild stimulant tablets were there for the asking. They were only available immediately before a first team match and only then if a player asked for them. 
PEP PILLS 
"I have seen George Thomson, a former player of ours, who has been named, and he told me that if he wanted a pill he would ask for one, but often he forgot all about them.  "Generally speaking, the story that has been published about these pep pills follows the lines of which we were aware. “We know from medical advice we have been given that there was no harmful effect of any kind. In answer to the suggestion that we were giving our players something that might be detrimental to their health. I need only say such a thing would be ridiculous.  Our players are far too valuable to give them anything that would be harmful in any way. This team has been assembled at considerable cost. How absurd to do anything to undermine it.  "The stimulants are mild and were originally prescribed by our doctor. If there is any suggestion they were given in unlimited quantities it is quite contrary to the evidence I have. 
MILD STIMULANT 
Mr. Hughes went on: "To-day's article can be interpreted that the use of a mild stimulant was an innovation introduced about 1960.  The fact is that the availability of a mild stimulant before a match to players who wanted it began long before the arrival at Goodison Park of our Present manager. Mr. Harry Catterick, and present chief trainer. Mr. Tom Eggleston.  "lt must now be clear that Everton have been aware of the nature of the allegations to be made and that I have made the fullest investigation, the results of which are being placed before the appropriate football authorities.  I prefer to make no further detailed comment save to observe that the investigator says that they failed to discover who had prescribed.  "As is quite clear from the Everton statement. The investigator had plainly and definitely told one of the Everton players that they had obtained on subpoena the medical records of drugs prescribed from the National Health Executive Council for Liverpool offices in Refuge House, Lord Street. This appears to me to be a manifest inconsistency."  Mr. Harry Catterick, the Everton manager, said yesterday:  "My business and my concern is the success and playing ability of a great and honorable club. As far as other matters are concerned they are in the hands of the Everton club's solicitors." 

EVERTON’S TEAM WORK LACKING
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Monday 14 September 1964
By Leslie Edwards
A disappointing game and a disappointing end for Everton on Saturday. Their 1-1 draw with Sheffield United was without pattern or rhythm in which many players shone as individuals but there was a notable lack of team work. When United equalised with only seconds to play, after considerable disorder in the Everton goalmouth, one could sense the crowd's acceptance of the fact that the team had hardly deserved to win although they had had much more of the play. A pity that the game fell in standard after a bright opening in which Joe Show cleared off the line in Everton'sopening attack, and Brown followed by saving. Gradually the game degenerated into a rather scrappy midfield duel, with individual flashes of excellent, but little sustained football. United showed why they hold the best defensive record in the First Division with their well-drilled cover, their offside trap, and willingness to chase everything. That polished veteran, Joe Shaw, strolled around in his usual facile fashion, rarely moving out of a trot, but reading the game so well that his interceptions were always timely. Around him, his wing halves, Matthewson and Richardson, with aid when needed by reserve goalkeeper Widdowson, took their cue from their master mind. Although the Everton forwards looked menacing so often, many of their shots and final passes-delayed too long in most cases- were blocked or turned away before Widdiwson was extended. The goalkeeper made three excellent saves, from Pickering, Temple and Scott, but there was a lack of finish from the Everton line which enabled the United defence to appear better than they probably are. 
BROWN’S FINE FORM
Pickering was the only forward who looked really dangerous although both Scott and Young played well in other directions. Young's passing and general use of the ball were first-class. He started the move which brought the most controversial point of the game as Scott, from a left wing cross, beat Widdowson, but Graham Shaw, standing on the line, blocked the shot . I thought he usedhis forearm to do so, but referee Howell refused Everton's appeals for a penalty. This could have made it 2-0 and settled it.  Brown, Harris and Labone also had excellent games.  Brown, in fact, is playing better now than he has done since he joined the club. Having scored the goal at Burnley the week previously which brought them a point, he produced an almost identical one shortly after the interval which turned out, in the end, to earn another point. Harris touched a free kick a yard to his right and Brown, who has one of the most powerful shots in the game to-day, hit a swerving shot from 25 yards which beat Widdowson as it came through the defensive wall, possibly being slightly deflected on its way. This was Brown's third goal in four games, a remarkable record for a full back and one which pays tribute to his attacking spirit and drive.  Rankin was never called upon to exert himself as much as Widdowson. His reactions around his goal are so fast and sure that he covers more ground than most goalkeepers, and he was desperately unlucky to concede that late goal by centre forward Jones, who had a miserable game against the commanding Labone.
GUILDING HAND NEEDED
There was a skirmish in the penalty area and the ball should certainly have been cleared before Kettleborough hit a shot against Labone, the ball rebounding straight to Jones, who put it past Rankin, the goalkeeper having gone down in anticipation of the original shot. It was a scrambling effort in keeping with much of general play. Everton fans who remembered the high class of the Goodison match between these teams last season must have reflected, particularly, how much their side was missing a guiding hand, the sort of composure that a man like Kay could bring to the side. For the whole of the second half, Vernon played on the left wing, limping slightly with a damaged right knee.  But even before this, Vernon had not shown any signs of a return to form-he has not had a really good game this season-and his inability to regain that thrusting, powerful touch of his must be worrying to the player himself and the club. The Everton club are having such a disturbing time off field at present that it is a pity the team has not found its best form, although perhaps one should not quibble when they continue to hold such a high place in the League. A top-class performance on Saturday, with a convincing win, would have helped in every way, however.

EVERTON PLACED TAPE RECORDERS IN HOMES OF FEW PLAYERS
Liverpool Echo - Monday 14 September 1964
OBTAINING EVIDENCE OVER DRUG ALLEGATIONS
CLUB STATEMENT
By Michael Charters
Everton F.C aware that their players were being interviewed over drug taking and bribery allegations had the players’ permission to have tape recorders wired in the players’ homes to obtain their own evidence. This was revealed last night by Mr. E. Holland Hughes, a senior director of the club, who has been in charge of Everton’s inquiries for several weeks into allegations made by a Sunday newspaper.  On Saturday he issued a statement which was published in the Echo.  It was known that the investigator for the Sunday newspaper always used a portable tape recorder when interviewing players, either at their homes or elsewhere.  Everton therefore arranged for their own recorders to be wired into the homes of four of their players—Roy Vernon, Jimmy Gabriel, Alex Parker and Alex Young. These recorders were switched increase on the by the players' wives in another room. 
INTERVIEWS 
"We had reason to expect there might be further interviews," said Mr. Hughes. "We wanted to be sure that if ever we had to prove the manner in which our players were being interviewed and the methods that were being adopted, that we would have that proof on tape.  "We wanted to get at the truth of the matter and know exactly what it was these players were being confronted with. Now we know.  It was not enough for us to be told what the players said they were confronted with. We wanted to have evidence beyond all doubt.  Whenever questions were asked by the newspaper concerned they always had two representatives present. 
NO SURPRISE 
Mr. Hughes said that the allegations made yesterday in the Sunday newspaper did not come as a surprise to the club. They had covered all the ground in their own club investigations.  In the statement you published on Saturday, we hinted that we knew it would be alleged that a person outside the club was supplying Purple Heart tablets.  "We knew the source alleged to have supplied them. We knew if there was any truth in that allegation the supply was illegal, so that we were not taken aback at all.  "Everton have been unable to find any evidence that there has ever been any general use of a pill, as has been alleged.  "I did not think anyone would go as far as that. I know that this simply is not true. The impression given is that the mild stimulant tablets were there for the asking. They were only available immediately before a first team match and only then if a player asked for them. 
PEP PILLS 
"I have seen George Thomson, a former player of ours, who has been named, and he told me that if he wanted a pill he would ask for one, but often he forgot all about them.  "Generally speaking, the story that has been published about these pep pills follows the lines of which we were aware. “We know from medical advice we have been given that there was no harmful effect of any kind. In answer to the suggestion that we were giving our players something that might be detrimental to their health. I need only say such a thing would be ridiculous.  Our players are far too valuable to give them anything that would be harmful in any way. This team has been assembled at considerable cost. How absurd to do anything to undermine it.  "The stimulants are mild and were originally prescribed by our doctor. If there is any suggestion they were given in unlimited quantities it is quite contrary to the evidence I have. 
MILD STIMULANT 
Mr. Hughes went on: "To-day's article can be interpreted that the use of a mild stimulant was an innovation introduced about 1960.  The fact is that the availability of a mild stimulant before a match to players who wanted it began long before the arrival at Goodison Park of our Present manager. Mr. Harry Catterick, and present chief trainer. Mr. Tom Eggleston.  "It must now be clear that Everton have been aware of the nature of the allegations to be made and that I have made the fullest investigation, the results of which are being placed before the appropriate football authorities.  I prefer to make no further detailed comment save to observe that the investigator says that they failed to discover who had prescribed.  "As is quite clear from the Everton statement. The investigator had plainly and definitely told one of the Everton players that they had obtained on subpoena the medical records of drugs prescribed from the National Health Executive Council for Liverpool offices in Refuge House, Lord Street. This appears to me to be a manifest inconsistency."  Mr. Harry Catterick, the Everton manager, said yesterday:  "My business and my concern is the success and playing ability of a great and honorable club. As far as other matters are concerned they are in the hands of the Everton club's solicitors." 

LAW DOUBTFUL
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Monday 14 September 1964
Denis Law, who missed Manchester United's win against Nottingham Forest on Saturday is also likely to be out of action when United meet Everton at Old Trafford on Wednesday.  Law's injured ankle is still causing some concern and he will continue to have treatment until the team is named on Wednesday.  There is also a slight doubt about right winger John Connelly, who has a bruised calf. Both players will have fitness tests on Wednesday.

DRUG ALLEGATIONS
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Tuesday 15 September 1964
By Michael Charters
A salient feature of the drug allegations made against Everton is inclined to be forgotten. It is that nowhere in laws of English football is anything laid down by authority about what constitutes a drug or stimulant, nor is it against the laws of the game for players to take a mild pick-me-up. It is common practice in professional football, and in other sports, in this country for players to take a mild stimulant, or tranquilliser to relieve tension, before matches. Where does one draw the line between drug-taking and having a mild stimulant? If you have a hard day 's work at the office and are looking forward to a game of golf or cricket in the evening, are you drugging yourself if you have a couple of aspirin to remove tension and pep you up. Are the hundreds of thousands of people in this country who take a mild tranquillizer drugging themselves’? Of course, they are not.  A colleague of mine who served in the Guards during the war made a pertinent point. He said: "We used to be given stimulants to keep us awake during sentry duty.  Are we going to complain to the War Office 20 years later that we were being drugged? In the football world, pre-match tension affects all players. Suppose a player was notoriously nervous in the opening minutes. Obviously his club would try to help him over this spell by a mild tranquillizer. Some players take a small glass of sherry, others take pills which can be bought openly at any chemist without prescription and are consumed in their millions by people to help them in this tension-ridden world.
IN THEIR DEFENCE
I think it is time something was said in defence of Everton officials and players over these allegations. In my view, what amounts to a vendetta is being conducted against the club. Manager Harry Catterick tells that made statements about stimulants. Among them is Brian Harris, the longest-serving player on the books, and second team trainer Gordon Watson, who has been with the club as player and trainer for 30 years. They both say that a mild stimulant has been available to Everton players during all the years they have been at Goodison. Any inference that they have only been used since the arrival of Mr. Catterick and chief trainer Tom Eggleston is obviously wrong.  Mr. Catterick added: "To say that these stimulants have been laid out as part of the players ' equipment before a match is complete nonsense. And to further say that they have been given out before training sessions is rubbish. "He said that during his playing days at Everton, he knew of players who took this mild stimulant to help them before a match. He went on: - "Here at Everton our principal concern is to have our players as fit as it is possible to make them. Players are willing to undergo an impartial medical examination of the most rigorous order if need be to prove their fitness in every way.” Before the war, everyone who followed football knew that the Wolverhampton players, famed for their stamina and the fast pace of their game, were having regularly what was known as "monkey-gland treatment.” Nothing was said by football authority to stop them. In fact, it was regarded as something of a joke and that is how these allegations against Everton are being considered by many people.

CAR PARK GAME SPITCH PLAN
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Tuesday 15 September 1964
WILL IT REALLY WORK?
It seems from your report that the Parks and Gardens Committee is prepared to back a scheme to desecrate Stanley Park.  Opinions have been expressed in favour—possibly many would like to have the opportunity of expressing dismay at the whittling away of what should be good green grass.  On reading the committee proceedings, one is struck by the absence of any criticism of a plan to provide a hard surface to accommodate 1,100 cars and to use the same hard surface for ball games. Let us hope that when the scheme is before the full council, our city fathers will want to know how it is proposed to remove the sump oil which the 1,100 cars will have deposited on the playing surface.  Perhaps Alderman Hughes Is not far off the mark when he suggests that motorists will not pay the 2.s 6d parking fee.  What will we have left to show for the 37,000 pounds?  If we are going to provide a car park at the expense of recreation space let us leave it at that, but it smacks of a sop to the conscience to mix the two.  Can anybody suggest that an oil-bespattered surface is a fit place for games? Or will motorists, in addition to the 2s 6d fee, be expected to ensure that their cars do not foul the surface.— C. L. HILL, 265 Walton Breck Road, Liverpool 4. 
Thank you for the statement in the Echo of Thursday last suggesting that the car parking arrangements that are to be made available in Stanley Park for football match spectators are long overdue, and are not as advantageous as the plan which I put to the Liverpool City Council last year.  I feel that the Parks and Gardens plan for Stanley Park will only solve a small amount of the problem because it allows for only 1,100 cars against the 4,000 cars which my scheme allowed for, which Is a true comparison to the number of motorists who attend our local football matches. My scheme for a municipal car park not only allowed for some 4,000 cars, but also provided a first aid post, a police control centre, a fire brigade point and kiosks to supply sweets and tobaccos, etc., which were to be tenanted by local shopkeepers who now supply football crowds.  Parking wardens were to be police trained and recruited from the various Corporation employees who were seeking some form of overtime. This would lift a heavy burden from the police department, who are at present doing a magnificent job in controlling the traffic but I am sure would welcome this relief in duties.  Suggesting that Everton and Liverpool play some 50 home matches per year between them, the amount of revenue from this scheme would be quite a substantial monetary gain for the Corporation.  This municipal car parkcould be used during non-football match periods as a smaller car park to accommodate visiting traffic to the city. Motorists could park their cars quite safely in this area and then proceed to the city centre by public transport without the worry of finding parking space, which will be considerably reduced when the parking meter system comes into operation.  It could also be used by Liverpool Education Committee as a hard surface playground for school children for such games as baseball, rounders, cricket, etc. REGINALD B. FLUDE, 5 Church Road, Liverpool 4.

WEBBER SIGNS FOR WREXHAM
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Tuesday 15 September 1964
PLAYS AGAINST DONCASTER
Keith Webber, the Brighton and former Everton centre forward, signed to-day for Wrexham and will play against Doncaster, at the Racecourse to-night. Cardiff born Webber, now 21, played for Barry Town as an amateur while he was at grammar school.  He joined Everton when he was 17, after having a month’s trial at Goodison.  In April, 1963, he was transferred to Brighton.  Webber made 29 League appearances last season and scored 14 goals.  Selection of Wrexham’s forward line has been deferred for fitness report to-morrow. 

PARKER AND VERNON UNFIT
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Tuesday 15 September 1964
FULL BACK PROBLEM
UNITED MATCH
By Michael Charters
Both Roy Vernon and Alex Parker are out of Everton’s team to play Manchester United at Old Trafford to-morrow night.  They were injured on Saturday.  Vernon with a damaged tendon of his right knee and Parker with groin strain.  Manager Harry Catterick delays selection of team until to-morrow, with the biggest problem being a replacement for Parker.  Left back Ramon Wilson is still only in light training after being injured in the second match of the season.  Manchester United also have injury problems, with both Denis Law and outside right John Connelly having treatment.  Law missed last Saturday’s match and there is a feeling he may be fit, but Connelly is more doubtful.

17-YEAR-OLD MAY PLAY AT OLD TRAFFORD
Liverpool Daily Post-Wednesday, September 16, 1964
By Horace Yates
Will Everton plunge a seventeen-year-old youngster, Frank D’Arcy, into his first League game within a month of becoming a full time professional, in to-night’s clash with Manchester United at Old Trafford, one of the show-piece games of the season? That seems a distinct possibility in view of the fact that ray Wilson and Alex Parker are unavailable because of injury.  Manager Harry Catterick last night would give no clue to his intentions, but there was one available for digestion in the fact that D’Arcy, who appeared in the last six central League games last season and the first six this season, was marked absent from last night’s match with Barnsley at Goodison Park. Pointedly, this is D’Arcy’s first rest.  There are other alternatives of course, Brian Harris could step in at left back, with Sandy Brown crossing to the right, for this Harris switch was employed successfully on eleven occasions last season.
NO GAMBLING
With his half-back line already disrupted by the absence of Kay, I do not imagine Mr. Catterick will gamble with this vital department of the side, especially as the man to be kept in subjection is Bobby Charlton.  No matter how inconsistent Charlton may be these days no one can tell when he may pull out one of those games which makes him one of the game’s most adventurous attackers.  Harris, I think, will be shadowing Charlton at Old Trafford, with Jimmy Gabriel trying to keep Denis Law, providing he is fit, in subjection.  If, however, I am wrong, and Harris is moved this would be the opportunity to introduce Barry Rees in his true position of left-half.  It is a fact that he has never figured in that position in the first team but this nineteen-year-old player has had three outings as a centre-forward.  He, too, sat out the Barnsley game. The keen tackling Denis Stevens has had experience of half back play this term, but with Vernon out of the reckoning, Stevens, who has missed the last four senior matches would appear to be the automatic selection.
JIMMY HILL?
Another possible alternative would to be introduce Jimmy Hill, who last appeared with the seniors in February.  He is now Everton’s leading scorer in the Central League with six goals in six games. Appearances are against the Irish international, for he played last night and while there is nothing to prevent a man appearing in two matches on successive days, I imagine Mr. Catterick would not have risked him had there been the slightest chance of Hill appearing at Old Trafford.  Moreover, knowing what a shrewd and careful thinker Mr. Catterick is, I believe he will not make more changes than are necessary. D’Arcy is young but has earned rave notices for his displays with the reserves and physically would match up to requirements. He will be remembered as the former Liverpool school-boy centre half of 1961-62 season.  It was Mr. Catterick’s brainwave to convert him into a full back and the hunch has began to pay off handsomely, far more quickly than anyone had a right to expect. More and more club managers are adopting the policy of not naming their teams until just before a game whenever youngsters are likely to be brought into the side.  this is done not so much to keep the opposition in a state of suspense, but to guard inexperienced players against an overnight attack of nerves, which the knowledge of a first team game, especially a debut, might cause.
PROBABLE TEAM
The last occasion I can recall Everton introducing a seventeen-year-old to league football were Alan Tyrer in January 1960 when he was in the team defeated 2-0 at Fulham and Keith Webber, who yesterday signed for Wrexham (from Bournemouth) Webber played against Chelsea at Goodison Park in February 1961. This is what I think the Everton team will be; Rankin; Brown, D’Arcy; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Stevens, Temple. Manchester United have problems, both Law and Connelly scorers in last week’s meeting at Goodison Park are both under treatment.  Last night’s report was that law had a better chance of reporting fit then Connelly. 

HUSBAND’S THREE FOR EVERTON RES
Liverpool Daily Post-Wednesday, September 16, 1964
EVERTON RES 5 BARNSLEY RES 0
A hat trick by Jimmy Husband was the highlight of a dull Central League game in which a weakened Everton res won easily. Barnsley res did their best but had little chance once Shaw scored at 28 minutes and Morrissey increased the lead with a forty yard drive at 37 minutes.  Husband made it three two minutes before the interval and after he had tapped in a Hill rebound at 48 minutes the Everton forwards either hit the woodwork or laid on passes until he got his hat-trick at 65 minutes. 

LAW FIT FOR EVERTON MATCH
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Wednesday 16 September 1964
CONNELLY ALSO PLAYS
AT OLD TRAFFORD
Denis Law plays for Manchester United against Everton at Old Trafford to-night. The Scot passed a fitness test this morning on the injured ankle that caused him to miss Saturday’s home win against Nottingham Forest, and he resumes at inside-left releasing Norbert Stiles to revert to left half to the exclusion of Maurice Setters.  Right winger John Connelly, who has been under treatment for a strained leg muscle, is also fit.  Manchester United; Dunne (P); Brennan, Dunne (A); Crerand, Foulkes, Stiles; Connelly, Charltron, Herd, Law, Best. Everton will select their side just before the match from 12 players.

UNITED FINDING THEIR BRIGHTEST FORM NOW
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express - Wednesday 16 September 1964
By Michael Charters
From the quality of the last two Manchester United performances in drawing at Everton and then defeating Nottingham Forest, without Dennis Law, it seems as though at last they are beginning to settle down into the powerful combination so many critics tipped for honours this season. Last Tuesday ' s game at Goodison was so good that itmakes to-night's return at Old Trafford a " must,”  and even though both teams will be below full strength, there should be a near capacity attendance for what has become , for our local supporters, the most important fixture after the “Derby.” With both Vernon and Parker unfit, Everton manager Harry Catterick delays selection of his side until shortly before the kick off. He has added the names of Dennis Stevens, Barry Rees and Colin Harvey to the other nine first teamers. The interest will be as to who replaces Parker at full back.  It may be that he will switch Brown to right back, moving Brian Harris to left back where he  played several games last season and have either Rees or Harvey at wing half.  Old Trafford has an atmosphere akin to Anfield and Goodison for games against leading sides. I am looking forward to a fine match and if Everton can recapture their storming form of the second half last Tuesday, they must have a chance of ending their run of drawn games.
A LONDONER’S VIEW
Interesting comments on supporters of Everton and Liverpool-particularly in view of the nearness of Saturday's "Derby " match-come from Londoner J. Lindsay, who writes from 27 Hughes Street, Liverpool 6, after spending a fortnight ' s holiday in the city. He says “Ibelieve that Everton supporters are the most loyal, based on figures shown to me for the past 12 years. They are worth their weight in gold because they roar and shout for their team even when they are losing. Against Manchester United, they had to be heard to be believed; they made Everton players pull back that 2-0 deficit.
"At Anfield, where I watched Liverpool play Leeds and Blackpool, the Kop were silent when their team were losing. They should remember that anyone can shout when their team is winning. For wit, the Kop leave their Everton friends trailing, but please cut out those unprintable songs.  "Coming from London. I expected all sorts of trouble at both grounds, but I found both sets of supporters well behaved. The police on Merseyside certainly have an easy time. I thank that some of tile trouble away from home must be provoked and exaggerated."

YOUNG OUT OF “DERBY” MATCH
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 17 September 1964
TORN STOMACH MUSCLE
TEAMS DELAYED 
By Michael Charters
Everton forward Alex Young has joined the long line of first teamers on the injured list at Goodison Park.  After he had reported a strain at half-time last night at Old Trafford, it was found to-day that he had a torn stomach muscle.  This means that Everton will be without Young, Vernon, Parker and Wilson for the derby against Liverpool, at Anfield on Saturday.  Adding Kay to that unavailable list, it adds up to five internationals out of the side.  On the Liverpool front, it is expected that Thompson and Wallace will be fit, but Arrowsmith is unlikely to berecalled as it is felt that he needs another game in the reserves before he is fully match fit.  Team selection by both clubs will be delayed until to-morrow. Everton will have several reserves out, for there is no chance of Parker, Wilson, Young and Vernon being fit in time.

17-YEAR-OLD MAY PLAY AT OLD TRAFFORD
Liverpool Daily Post-Wednesday, September 16, 1964
By Horace Yates
Will Everton plunge a seventeen-year-old youngster, Frank D’Arcy, into his first League game within a month of becoming a full time professional, in to-night’s clash with Manchester United at Old Trafford, one of the show-piece games of the season? That seems a distinct possibility in view of the fact that ray Wilson and Alex Parker are unavailable because of injury.  Manager Harry Catterick last night would give no clue to his intentions, but there was one available for digestion in the fact that D’Arcy, who appeared in the last six central League games last season and the first six this season, was marked absent from last night’s match with Barnsley at Goodison Park. Pointedly, this is D’Arcy’s first rest.  There are other alternatives of course, Brian Harris could step in at left back, with Sandy Brown crossing to the right, for this Harris switch was employed successfully on eleven occasions last season.
NO GAMBLING
With his half-back line already disrupted by the absence of Kay, I do not imagine Mr. Catterick will gamble with this vital department of the side, especially as the man to be kept in subjection is Bobby Charlton.  No matter how inconsistent Charlton may be these days no one can tell when he may pull out one of those games which makes him one of the game’s most adventurous attackers.  Harris, I think, will be shadowing Charlton at Old Trafford, with Jimmy Gabriel trying to keep Denis Law, providing he is fit, in subjection.  If, however, I am wrong, and Harris is moved this would be the opportunity to introduce Barry Rees in his true position of left-half.  It is a fact that he has never figured in that position in the first team but this nineteen-year-old player has had three outings as a centre-forward.  He, too, sat out the Barnsley game. The keen tackling Denis Stevens has had experience of half back play this term, but with Vernon out of the reckoning, Stevens, who has missed the last four senior matches would appear to be the automatic selection.
JIMMY HILL?
Another possible alternative would to be introduce Jimmy Hill, who last appeared with the seniors in February.  He is now Everton’s leading scorer in the Central League with six goals in six games. Appearances are against the Irish international, for he played last night and while there is nothing to prevent a man appearing in two matches on successive days, I imagine Mr. Catterick would not have risked him had there been the slightest chance of Hill appearing at Old Trafford.  Moreover, knowing what a shrewd and careful thinker Mr. Catterick is, I believe he will not make more changes than are necessary. D’Arcy is young but has earned rave notices for his displays with the reserves and physically would match up to requirements. He will be remembered as the former Liverpool school-boy centre half of 1961-62 season.  It was Mr. Catterick’s brainwave to convert him into a full back and the hunch has began to pay off handsomely, far more quickly than anyone had a right to expect. More and more club managers are adopting the policy of not naming their teams until just before a game whenever youngsters are likely to be brought into the side.  this is done not so much to keep the opposition in a state of suspense, but to guard inexperienced players against an overnight attack of nerves, which the knowledge of a first team game, especially a debut, might cause.
PROBABLE TEAM
The last occasion I can recall Everton introducing a seventeen-year-old to league football were Alan Tyrer in January 1960 when he was in the team defeated 2-0 at Fulham and Keith Webber, who yesterday signed for Wrexham (from Bournemouth) Webber played against Chelsea at Goodison Park in February 1961. This is what I think the Everton team will be; Rankin; Brown, D’Arcy; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Stevens, Temple. Manchester United have problems, both Law and Connelly scorers in last week’s meeting at Goodison Park are both under treatment.  Last night’s report was that law had a better chance of reporting fit then Connelly. 

HUSBAND’S THREE FOR EVERTON RES
Liverpool Daily Post-Wednesday, September 16, 1964
EVERTON RES 5 BARNSLEY RES 0
A hat trick by Jimmy Husband was the highlight of a dull Central League game in which a weakened Everton res won easily. Barnsley res did their best but had little chance once Shaw scored at 28 minutes and Morrissey increased the lead with a forty yard drive at 37 minutes.  Husband made it three two minutes before the interval and after he had tapped in a Hill rebound at 48 minutes the Everton forwards either hit the woodwork or laid on passes until he got his hat-trick at 65 minutes. 

STERNER ACTION NEEDED BY REFEREE
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 17 September 1964
By Michael Charters
What looked like being a great match at Old Trafford last night was spoiled, in my view, by weak refereeing from Mr. J. E. Carr, of Sheffield.  No doubt, this Manchester United-Everton game will be called "the battle of Manchester," and if it deserves that title, Mr. Carr must take a major share of the blame. Four names were taken, there were flare-ups between players, and the crowning touch came ten minutes from the end when Mr. Carr stopped the game and called all the players except the goalkeepers around him to lay down the law and demand peace. I have never seen anything like it before in League football.  The referee had the power to stop it all-by sending a player or players off—and he did not take it. There were outbursts of violence and petulance which should have no place on a football field. The pity of it was that it was all so unnecessary: it could have been prevented. Going through the game from the start.  United played some great football for the first half hour or so. Everton, with Harris at right back, Stevens at left half and Harvey inside left, were on desperate defence and looked very shaky. Harris was inclined to play out of position. Gabriel was just a shadow of the player of last season, and Stevens was struggling to find his form.  Had it not been for Brown and Labone, who both played brilliantly all through, with Rankin's aid as the last line, United might have been four up in no time.  As it was, a mistake by Harris let in Best to score after 13 minutes and there were shocks galore for the Everton defence as the United forwards, with Charlton spraying around the most accurate long passes ripped their way through. Everton's forwards were not seen.  Young had the most ineffective game I've ever seen from him, and only Pickering, trying to take on the whole United defence himself, looked dangerous in the first half.  Law put United two up with a fine individual goal with a 30-yard run and shot after Young had lost possession in midfield. The game looked all over and it took Everton 37 minutes to gain their first corner—it had been so one-sided. Then United showed they too could make mistakes when goalkeeper Dunne dropped the ball from Everton's second corner five minutes before half-time.  Harvey slipped the ball forward and Pickering had it in the net in a twinkling. That was the end of the scoring—and the end of the football with United winning by that 2-1.
THEN THE ROUGH STUFF
The rough stuff then started with Stiles hitting Temple across the face in a race for the ball down the line. Temple retaliated and sent Stiles sprawling. Mr. Carr warned Temple but gave Everton a free kick. Stiles should have had his name taken at least. A minute later, Pickering, trying to challenge for the ball, was plainly obstructed by Crerand and tried to force his way around the United wing half.  Crerand kicked Pickering across the body for one of the most blatant fouls I've ever seen. Both Crerand and Pickering had their names taken, Pickering for "charging the goalkeeper," according to the referee. He was nowhere near the goalkeeper.  Had Crerand been sent off for this vicious kicking, I think all might have simmered down.  On the stroke of half-time, Brown collided with Herd and Law, flattening both of them in an amazing one-two crash. So tempers boiled all through the interval, with boos and jeers from the crowd greeting Everton on their return. The second half, from a football sense, was a complete anti-climax for one could sense that the crowd were waiting for the explosion.  It came, 12 minutes from the end, when Law, who had niggled and annoyed with his petulance and his antics, fouled Brown, hurling him bodily out of play.  When the referee spoke to him, Law wandered around, waving his arms dramatically. He then attempted to kick the ball as Brown was about to take the free kick, and Law's name duly went in that little overworked book of the referee's.  A minute later, Gabriel made a very late tackle on Best and was also booked. But before the free kick was taken. Mr. Carr had his summit conference with advertise the players. An amazing sight and a very poor advertisement for professional football and the standard of refereeing.  Everton, in the midst of all this second half tension, had every chance of at least earning a point. They had as much of the game as United had in the first half, but there was no finish, although there was much improved play from Harris, Stevens and Harvey, who were excellent after the interval. Pickering, Temple and Scott tried to find a way to goal where the shaky Dunne was an obvious target, but the game had ceased to be a contest of skill. It must have been a dreadful match in which to play, and I hope I don't see another one like it. 

LIVERPOOL FAVOURITIES TO REPEAT ‘DERBY’ WIN
Liverpool Echo - Friday 18 September 1964
By Michael Charters
Although nothing can detract from the fervour and intense rivalry of the "Derby" games in this city, the fact that Everton will have several reserves in their team for to-morrow's match at Anfield must obviously colour pre-kick off views.  As last season, the injury list at Goodison Park has grown again to proportions which make Harry Catterick's team selection job a nightmare. Four first team regulars—Parker, Wilson, Vernon and Young—are out of the reckoning and the unavailable Kay must also be added to that list.  Everton will have wing half Brian Harris at right back, inside forward Dennis Stevens at left half and outside left Derek Temple at inside left. John Morrisseyis on the left wing for his first senior game of the season —against his old club!—with Brian Harvey moving to inside right. At Old Trafford on Wednesday, Harris, who was made captain for the first time in his Everton career, played out of position for a good deal of the first half, but an interval talk from his manager saw him fill the full back role much more capably afterwards.  Liverpool's injured first teamers, Peter Thompson and Gordon Wallace, have recovered from the knocks they received at Hillsborough. Only Alf Arrowsmith will be missing from last season's championship line-up, as it is felt another game in the reserves will help to get him fully match fit. 
A makeshift side 
It is a pity that Everton have been forced to field this makeshift side, for these great matches should be a full strength test to provide the right background—and give the rival supporters little excuse when things go wrong either way! All-out endeavour can be expected from every player, however, and I hope to see, above all, a fair and sporting game which would go a long way towards taking away the acrid taste which Wednesday's match at Old Trafford left in my mouth.  Last season, the two "Derby" games ended one-all with victory going to the home side in each case. Liverpool must start favourites to-morrow to repeat that Anfield success.  Scottish manager Ian McColl will be at the game, obviously watching Yeats and St. John with a view to Scotland's game against Wales on October 3. He was also at Old Trafford on Wednesday, and Law's general performance must have disappointed him, apart from the goal he scored. LIVERPOOL.—Lawrence; Byrne. Moran; Milne, Yeats, Stevenson; Callaghan, Hunt, St. John, Wallace, Thompson.  EVERTON.—Rankin; Harris, Brown: Gabriel, Labone, Stevens; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey.
Best sort of "spy" 
It is common practice for clubs to have their opponents "scouted" in advance—nothing is left to chance if possible in this hard world. It becomes particularly important when opponents are from another country and Everton, in meeting the Oslo club Valerengen next Wednesday in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round, were able to send the best possible "spy" to find out the strengths and weaknesses of this Norwegian club. He is their club coach, Ron Lewin, and his qualifications for vetting Valerengen could hardly have been better, for he spent several years coaching in Norway, including two years as coach to their national team, before joining Everton.  He went to Oslo a fortnight ago and his report on all aspects of next week's visit, including the playing strength of Valerengen, the pitch, hotel accommodation and other details, has been of vital importance to manager Harry Catterick in planning for this game.  Mr. Lewin, who speaks Norwegian, tells ire that Norway is very pro-British and the Oslo football officials and clubs, with whom he has maintained a close and personal touch, are looking forward to Everton's visit.  The game will be played in the Olympic Stadium, at night under floodlights, with the playing surface of excellent turf. It won't be long now before the winter sets in over there, and then the pitch is flooded to a depth of a couple of inches, allowed to freeze naturally, and used for ice skating throughout the winter.  Around the playing area is an international-standard running track, with long jump pits, discus throwing areas &c. There is no division between the grass and the track.  They are flush in height and this could be a distraction to wingers as the touch-line is alongside the cinders.
All-amateur team 
The Valerengen club is one of four based in Oslo.  All use the Olympic Stadium for big matches. One Oslo side is in the European Cup, another in the European Cup Winners Cup, and Valerengen, as third best on playing performances last season, are in the Fairs Cup.  Their players are all amateurs, with nine of them having played for Norway several times during their careers, but the average age of the team is rather high. There are no famous stars, but some of the younger players are breaking into the international scene.  Norway have been drawn in a tough World Cup section which includes Yugosalvia and France, and the national selectors have a list of the 18 best players from which the team is likely to be drawn. Valerengen supply three—full back or half back Jack Kramer, a 24-years-old, who made his international debut last year: inside forward.  Einar Larsen, another 24-years-old, who has three caps, and 23-years-old outside left Leif Eriksen.  Valerengen's current form is not impressive. With the Norwegian League season well past the half-way stage, they are seventh in a 10-club division, but last year the competition was made much tougher by the creation of a small "elite" league.  Everton should attract a good crowd in Oslo, where gates of 20,000 are usual for the more attractive league games. This will be the Norweigian fans' first experience of a Fairs Cup tie, but judging from past performances in the European Cup, the Oslo supporters will not be optimistic. Last season, Norway's champions, Lyn, went out on a 7-3 aggregate to Borussia Dortmund, of West Germany, and in 1962-3. Fredrikstad crashed 11-1 in two preliminary-round games against Vasas, of Hungary.  Everton confirm that the return game will be at Goodison Park on Wednesday, October 14. 

WITHOUT FIVE INTERNATIONAL EVERTON STILL COMMAND RESPECT
Liverpool Daily Post-Saturday, September 19, 1964
VICTORY FOR LIVERPOOL BY THE ODD GOAL
CLASH BETWEEN PICKERING AND YEATS COULD DECIDE 91ST DERBY MEETING
By Horace Yates
Let no one assume that because Everton’s team includes a reserve in every department with the exception of goal, that Liverpool’s task in to-day’s 91st game between the two, will be simplified to the point at which victory becomes certain.  Far from it! With the exception of Colin Harvey, every player in the Everton side is experience-hardened, capable of making the supreme effort in the challenge of challenges.  As in other matches success carries a maximum of only two points, but no other points are ever considered as rewarding by the fanatical following of both clubs. This meeting tosses four players into their first Liverton “derby” -Gordon Wallace of Liverpool; Andy Rankin, Colin Harvey and Fred Pickering of Everton.  It is remarkable fact that compared with the team which gained a 3-1 victory for Everton in the last meeting, only Labone and Scott will occupy the positions in which they played on February 8, although seven members of that side are still in the team.  To prevent arguments on these grounds, here is the side fielded by Everton; West; Brown, Meagan; Harris, Labone, Kay; Scott, Stevens, Gabriel; Vernon, and Temple.
ARROWSMITH -NEAR MISS
By comparison how much happier are Liverpool, at full strength with the exception of centre forward Alf Arrowsmith who might have been available to-day had he not damaged his calf while shooting in during practice, after recovering from his knee injury. It is problematical whether or not Arrowsmith will be fit enough to play in the junior “derby” at Goodison.  Only the substitution of Wallace for Arrowsmith prevents manager Bill Shankly from being able to announce yesterday.  “Same again.” A fortnight ago I would have thought that Everton must have started favourites to-day to score their first victory at Anfield in League football since 1951. Once again, injuries on a grand scale have upset the rhythm so that they go into battle without a win in their last five games, but with three draws to prevent a real slump in their points column.

MUTAL NEED
Liverpool, on the other hand, can point to only one win and draw from their last six engagements so that the teams come together at a time of mutual need for a boost in confidence. Everton boast eight more successes in this series of meetings with 37 wins against Liverpool’s 29, with 24 drawn, but in post-war football the pendulum has taken a decided swing in the Anfield team’s favour.  They claim six wins to Everton’s three, with five drawn.  Beyond saying that he anticipated the usual hard game Mr. Shankly would not be drawn into making any sort of forecast, but he did add that he expected to see St. John improve with every game, now that he is feeling so much better following recovery from his appendix operation.  Plainly Liverpool must rest their hopes heavily on the ability of the Scot to infuse a measured clam and penetration into an attack which has found scoring anything but easy so far.  Apart from the Reykjavik canter they failed to score both at Leicester and Hillsborough and the defence has not managed to keep a clean sheet in any of their League fixtures.
Against that however, they are unbeaten at Anfield. Everton have scored in every match, a feat for which they have much to thank Fred Pickering, their top scorer with seven goals.

BEST SELECTION
I think Mr. Harry Catterick, the Everton manager, has made the best of a difficult task in his team selection.  Harvey is lively and progressive, while Morrissey can hardly be regarded as a reserve, especially when the opposition happens to be his old team. He is still on a monthly contract, but anyone desiring his services would have to be particularly persuasive to succeed in their quest. The duel between Morrissey and Byrne, firm friends when not in different coloured jerseys is likely to provide one of the high spots of the afternoon.  The wingers on both sides appear destined to play a very important part.  Scott’s speed will trouble Moran as much as Thompson’s will test Harris.  Callaghan, a match winner in the corresponding game of last season with two goals, will be most anxious to repeat the feat, for in the twelve months which have passed since then his scoring total is only four. St. John generally does well against Labone, but Brian is playing in peak form, which is all the more creditable when others around him are struggling to produce their best.  If Labone is due to experience a busy day, the same must be equally true of Yeats in his tussle with Pickering, a duel which will be watched with interest by Scottish team manager Ian McColl who has ideas of measuring up Yeats for his first cap.  This is one game in which members of the Liverpool defence in general can expect no assistance for them from the centre-half. He will be far away too busily engaged in trying to keep Pickering in cheek, a whole time task by any standards.  If Everton are to have a match winner, and I do not regard such a possibility as in any way inconceivable, Pickering can be the man.
FINEST FINISHERS
He is a genuine artist in creating a shooting position especially in face-to-face competition with the centre half, and his finishing I have not seen surpassed by any centre forward this season.  Roger Hunt has been so much below par as a marksman so far that by the law of averages he should break the spell shortly, and nothing would be more appropriate for him to do it against Everton and in his 200th League game as well. I expect to see Milne and Stevenson outshine Gabriel and Stevens in the art of distribution, but unless there is a much improved forward response this Everton defence will not readily be found wanting.  If the odds are not in Liverpool’s favour, what a tribute this must be to the reserve power of Everton, deprived as they are of the services of internationals Alex Parker, Ray Wilson, Tony Kay, Alex Young and Roy Vernon. I am certain Everton will put up a worthy fight.  However, with the possibility of a draw obvious, I think Liverpool should gain victory by possibly an odd goal.  The result is of tremendous importance to both sides, but the manner of the attainment is of equal consequence to both clubs and the game. Let the accent be on football, so that with the spotlight’s glare on Merseyside this afternoon it will be possible to say, “Well done both teams.” Liverpool; Lawrence; Byrne, Moran; Milne, Yeats, Stevenson; Callaghan, Hunt, St. John, Wallace, Thompson.  Everton; Rankin; Harris, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Stevens; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey. 

REPEAT FOR LIVERPOOL?
Liverpool Echo& Evening Express - Saturday 19 September 1964
EVERTON’S INJURIES PUT RESERVES INTO MAKESHIFT TEAM
By Michael Charters
Four new boys ore pitched into the fervour of a great "Derby" game at Anfield this afternoon -three Everton and one Liverpool. From across the Park come goalkeeper Andy Rankin, inside right Colin Harvey and centre forward Fred Pickering. Liverpool provide the busy young Scot, Gordon Wallace. There is nothing like the atmosphere of one of these games, although unfortunately some of the cream is lost because Everton have been forced, by injury, to turn out what con only be called a makeshift side.  You can't be without internationals of the calibre of Alex Parker, Roy Vernon, Alex Young and Ramon Wilson, plus the absence of Tony Kay, and then go into a "Derby” happy over prospects.  The replacements will give their all—the excitement of the crowd lifts everyone—but it is a great pity that this cannot be a test of full strength between the clubs.  Everton bring Johnny Morrissy on the left wing for his first senior game of the season, with Derek Temple switching inside.  Morrissey revels in these matches and can be relied upon to reproduce the sparkling form he usually shows when he is brought into the first team. He will be facing his old friend and former club-mate, Gerry Byrne, and this should be one of the highlights of the day. 
HARRIS CAPTAIN 
Colin Harvey, who played, at Old Trafford on Wednesday night and did splendidly when he settled down, is at inside right, with Dennis Stevens at left half because Brian Harris has to move to full back in the absence of Parker and Wilson.  Harris incidentally, will no doubt captain Everton a he did on Wednesday. Liverpool only have Alf Arrowamith missing from the championship side of last season. There is every hope that another game in the reserves will see him match fit again. Wallace is at inside left after missing the Reykjavik match, with Peter Thompson recovered from the knock he received a week ago to resume on the left wing. Liverpool, who won 2-1 in the corresponding game last year, must be favourites to win again.  Although they are nothing like the best at present, the same criticism applies to their opponents, but Liverpool must surely be regaining their form with the return of St. John and the team generally settling down with their strongest formation.
THE DIFFERENCE
Disregarding Monday's European Cup tie as a pointerbecause it was so one-sided, Liverpool have failed tofind that title-winning rhythm so far.  There has been lack of thrust by the forwards— except when Thompson moves  into the middle—and the wing  halves too ,have not known the command everyone knows they possess. But I believe an in form St. John makes all the difference to this team.  He had a quiet game at Hillsborough a week ago on his return to the side, but he showed all the signs of complete fitness against the Icelandic boys. Here is the man who makes Liverpool tick who can start moves in midfield, pick up the chance of an attack more q1uickly than anyone else and who magically, can get up into the firing line having started it all 40 yards away.  Wallace will be a better player with St. John alongside him. Milne, too, has obviously missed the close link he has with St. John in midfield.
PERSONAL DUEL 
What can one say of Everton's hopes? The defence looked very shaky in the first half against Manchester United although half of that department—Rankin, Brown and Labone-had excellent games individually.  They seem to be taking too long these day to settle into their stride although with an inside forward at wing half, and a wing half at full back, criticism may seem rather harsh, one of the most interesting personal duels should be the Yeats-Pickering clash. What price this being a forerunner of the set-un when England Play Scotland this season?  Scottish team manager Ian McColl will be at Anfield this afternoon, and although his main mission is to vet Yeats and St. John for the international against Wales on October 3. I know he was very impressed with Everton's Sandy Brown at Old Trafford.  Brown is in great form just now, and will again be closely watched to-day by Mr. McColl.  As our teams come out side by side, our hopes go with them that they will provide, above all, a fair and sporting game. This is more important than results in my view. Liverpool; Lawrence; Byrne, Moran; Milne, Yeats, Stevenson; Callaghan, Hunt, St. John, Wallace, Thompson.  Everton; Rankin; Harris, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Stevens; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey.

EVERTON GET A FLYER AND ROMP TO VICTORY
Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express - Saturday 19 September 1964
TOP CLASS FINISHING BY GOODISON ATTACK
LIVERPOOL 0 EVERTON 4
By Michael Charters

Liverpool; Lawrence; Byrne, Moran; Milne, Yeats, Stevenson; Callaghan, Hunt, St. John, Wallace, Thompson.  Everton; Rankin; Harris (Captain), Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Stevens; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey.  Referee; Mr. J. Finney (Heresford).  The Kop supporters who reached heights with fine reception for the Reykiavik team on Monday night touched the depths of bad sportsmanship before the great derby at Anfield this afternoon.  When the young lady dressed as Mother Noblett who walks round the ground before Everton matches, dispensing toffees to the crowd, appeared she was greeted when she walked in front of the Kop, with a barrage of abuse, orange peel, and rolled up pieces of paper.  Apart from that they were in great voice, and waving red and white banners.  The players came out side by side in traditional fashion.  Harris won the toss of Everton and defended the Kop goal in the first half.  There was a sensational opening with Everton taking the lead though Temple in the first minute.  After Brown had cleared a Liverpool raid, Temple got Morrissey away on the left and from his centre, Yeats miskicked with his right foot, and sent the ball only a few yards to Temple, who hit it instantly into the corner of the net.  Liverpool retaliated immediately, and gained a corner on the left from which Hunt’s header hit the bar with Rankin beaten.  Everton cleared with a good deal of difficulty. 
PLAY STOPPED
Wallace was hurt when he fell awkwardly after going up for a high ball and the referee stopped play after St. John had gained a corner.  After Wallace had recovered the corner was taken and Temple and Gabriel crashed heavily in trying to clear the ball.  The game was stopped once again while the Everton trainer, Tom Eggleston, brought Temple round and Liverpool’s Bob Paisley looked after Gabriel.  Both players were able to carry on. Thompson made a brilliant run to beat Harris, and from his low centre, Hunt turned the ball towards the line, where Brown managed to deflect it high over the bar. These Liverpool forwards were playing very well.  St. John started a fine move which ended with Wallace trying a shot from just outside the area, and Rankin made a superb save to push the ball over the bar as it was slightly deflected off Labone. Thompson was tantalizing Harris with his cleverness.  He and St. John found their way through, but Gabriel made a fine interception to save Everton.  Rankin made a brilliant save from St. John’s header after Harris had come over to the right and got in Brown’s way as he tried to clear.  Harvey made a fine 30 yards’ pass to Temple, but Lawrence came quickly out of goal and intercepted.  With only 20 minutes gone there had been as much excitement in this game as one sees in 90 minutes of many others.
INCHES AWAY
Thompson was very much Liverpool’s danger man.  So far Harris had not been able to stop him, but with the help of Labone, Everton got the ball away from a Liverpool attack.  Pickering tried to weave his way through half Liverpool’s defence when he might have done better to pass to a colleague.  Yeats was coming up for every Liverpool corner and he almost brought an equalizer when he made a great header across the face of goal and St. John, flinging himself forward was only inches away from turning the ball into the net.  Brown managed to get it away for a corner.  From this Stevenson hit a great shot just wide and there was no doubt that on the ratio of chances made Liverpool had been on top so far. The best feature, however, was that the game up to now had been a fair and sporting one.  Labone and Harris were both very shaky in Everton’s defence.  In this terrific pace there was little time for anyone to recover from a miss take, but the Everton defenders were trying to dribble the ball too much, and playing into Liverpool’s hands by so doing.  Pickering cleverly sent Morrissey racing down the middle but Stevenson turned the ball away for a corner as the winger was about to shoot.  From the corner Pickering made a header but straight at Lawrence. After 34 minutes, Everton increased their lead through a fine individual effort by Pickering.  It was Steven’s fine pass initially which started the move and Pickering got the ball under control, beat Stevenson and Yeats with a clever side-step and then sent his shot past Lawrence into the corner of the net.  It looked from my position as though Lawrence had come too far out of goal. 
NUMBER THREE
From this corner, Everton increased their lead to three with a delightful goal from Harvey.  Morrissey pushed the ball back to Brown, whose long centre went across to Scott.  The winger returned the ball into the middle, where Garvey brought it down cleverly and, with the utmost coolness, lobbed it into the top corner of the net away from Lawrence-a first-class piece of work from this 19-years-old.  Liverpool players looked thunderstruck to be three goals down after them had so much of the play. 
Half-time; Liverpool nil, Everton 3.
On the restart, Harvey made a fine hook shot which struck Stevenson and bounced away for a corner.  Labone gave away a corner in preventing Hunt from picking up a pass by St. John, and the game was just as fast and exciting as it had been before the interval.  Everton started a fine move through Pickering’s good work down by the corner flag, but when the ball came over, Scott trying to work the ball to a shooting position lost possession.  Everton had a free kick when Byrne brought down Pickering and from it Yeats headed the ball out but straight to Harvey, who put a fine shot just over the bar. 
GOAL-LINE SAVE
Then followed yet another goal-line save for Everton, this time by Gabriel.  Thompson took deliberate aim for the corner of the net but Gabriel was there to head away.  Then it was Liverpool’s turn for a let off.  From Scott’s corner, Yeats headed the ball away, but Harris came up with a clever back heel flick and returned the ball into the middle where Yeats missed it.  Pickering shot struck Lawrence and bounced away for a corner.  The Liverpool forwards were now tending to bunch in the middle, where Thompson made his usual switch in an attempt to bring some finish to the line.  Thompson and Stevenson got in a rare tangle in front of the Everton penalty area and enabled Harvey to step in between them and clear.  Everton were stroking the ball about in great style now, but at times they looked too causal in defence.  Yeats, with no Everton man within yards to challenge, almost headed past his own goalkeeper and it took a fine save from Lawrence to collect the ball.  Thompson was wandering all over the field in an attempt to get Liverpool’s line moving.  When he went out onto the right wing, he was brought down by Stevens with what could be called the first dangerous tackle of the match.

RAN ON TO PITCH
While the referee was speaking to both players, in front of the Kemlyn Road, stand close to the touchline, a spectator ran on to the pitch and appeared to aim a punch, presumably at Stevens.  It missed and several policeman went into the stand after the man, who disappeared smartly down a subway.  Liverpool’s display so far this half had been nothing like as good as earlier.  They were guilty of their old habit of lateral passing and bunching in the middle and Everton’s defence now was having an easier time than at any time in the game.  Yeats came up for a free kick and made a good header which sent the ball like a rocket just past the post.  After 64 minutes Morrissey, the former Liverpool player, hit a magnificent goal against his old club, to put Everton four up.  Cutting in from the wing he took deliberate aim from 20 yards, and Lawrence was beaten by sheer power of the shot.  Liverpool looked demoralized and well they might for Everton’s chance-taking so far had bene top class.  Temple beat off two tackles to work his way close to goal, but Lawrence saved low down, and then Yeats, going up to the other end, for a corner kick, landed with all his 14 stone, on top of Rankin.  The game continued and when it was held up at the other end for offside, it was seen that Rankin had collapsed on the goalline.  Rankin had attention for a couple of minutes but recovered. 
CRUISING HOME
Liverpool could hardly do anything right now and with 20 minutes left, Everton were cruising along comfortably.  Stevens almost gave the Everton fans heart failure by dribbling the ball in his own penalty area, and Everton were lucky to get away from it from one of Liverpool’s best moves of the match.  Pickering and Morrissey had splendid games in Everton’s attack, with the other three giving expect support.  Liverpool had two chances in quick succession, first to Hunt and then to Wallace.  In the first place, Hunt was slow to gather the ball and Harris came across to clear, and then Wallace delayed his shot so long that Rankin came far out and gathered the ball.  Then came the best opening of the game to St. John.  He was played onside by the ball striking Labone, but when he made his shot Rankin turned the ball away with a brilliant save.  There was one moment of joy for Liverpool when Rankin collected the ball from St. John’s header, and then was challenged by Stevenson.  The ball fell out of the goalkeeper’s grasp over the line, but the referee said no goal and gave Everton a free kick for a foul by Stevenson.  Pickering in a superb 40 yards run down the left touchline, beat man after man.  But when he turned the ball inside, there was not a blue shirt in sight. Even so Moran, in turning the ball back to Lawrence, almost put it inside the post, the goalkeeper having to dive backwards to save.
CLASS DISPLAY
Pickering had given an international class performance, and in direct opposition I’m afraid Yeats had not.  Tho9mpson cut inside Harris to make a shot without power which Rankin saved comfortably.  This had been a magnificent win by Everton-one of the clearest cut in the history of Derby games and more meritorious considering the weakened team they had out.  But those who had come in under the name of reserves had played excellently and none better than Morrissey and Harvey.  Still the best feature of all was undoubtedly the fair and sporting way in which this game had been played. 
Final; Liverpool nil, Everton 4. Official attendance 52,619

RESERVES COMPLETE DOUBLE AT GOODISON
Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express- Saturday, September 19, 1964
Everton Res; West; Wright, Curwen; Sharples, Helsop, Rees; Shaw, Hurst, Husband, Veall.  Liverpool Res; Roberts, Molyneux, Hignett, Fearns, McCullogh, Chisnall, Graham, Scott, A’Court. Referee. Mr. M.D. Pritchard. There were quite a good Crowd for this junior derby match at Goodison and both teams made it plain in the early stages that they were going to give very little away.  Good and accurate football was sacrificed for possession of the ball, and mistakes were numerous.  Liverpool got first blood at nine minutes when the Everton defence were unable to clear the ball. It bobbed about on the edge of the penalty area until Fearns found himself in a good position, and he drove the ball into the top right-hand corner of the net.  West not having an earthly.  This gave Liverpool some incentive and they continued to attack.  It was some while before Everton came back into the picture.  Wright had to kick off the goal line from a McCullogh centre, and West was lucky to be able to dispose of another centre which came from the winger.
FACE IN THE WAY
Everton came back again but Molynuex’s face got in the way of a real pile-driver and the ball was cleared to safely.  The game was stopped for a few seconds until the full back recovered.  Everton had another chancer when Hurst headed over the bar, but at this stage Liverpool were having the best of it.  Shaw was getting little change out of Hignett, and the Everton forward line as a whole was out of cohesion Liverpool were much more dangerous on the attack, and Helsop was not having a very happy time against the fast little forwards Graham and Scott.  Graham got through on his own and West had to make a good ground save, and then the goalkeeper had to kick out a dangerous Scott centre a moment later.
BACK INTO PLAY
At the interval approached the Blues were having a little more of the game, and Shaw put in a nice centre but it was easy for Roberts to clear.  Hurst got Veall through but the outside left put the ball back to Sharples, whose rising shot beat Roberts but hit the bar and went back into play.  Shaw’s return, however, was wide. The game had bene clean but the tackling of both sides was hard with little quarter given.
Half-time. Everton Res nil, Liverpool Res 1.
Liverpool continued to be just that little bit faster and deservedly got a second goal at 51 minutes. A McCullogh corner was only half cleared by West and the ball went to CHISNALL, who belted it straight into the back of the net. 
SIMPLE
Everton could not get a proper rhythm, but at 61 minutes they reduced the arrears through SHAW. It was a simple goal, Veall had been obstructed on the goal-line well away from any danger and referee Pritchard gave a free kick outside the box. Veall put the ball along the ground and the whole Liverpool defence plus Roberts stood and watched it.  Shaw completely unhindered ran in and scored. This goal put some life into Everton and they were now forcing Liverpool on to the defensive, Heslop, when Liverpool did get free still could not hold Graham and Scott.  It was not one of his best days.  HUSBAND equalized for Everton at 88 minutes and VEALL put Everton in front a minute later.
Final- Everton Res 3, Liverpool Res 2.

EVERTON B v. BLACKPOOL B
Liverpool Football Echo& Evening Express  - Saturday 19 September 1964
Blackpool dominated the first hour.  After 10 minutes Treasure gave them the lead from a corner by Brannigan.  Twelve minutes later a header from Reid put Blackpool two-up.  Everton fought back hard and after 42 minutes Royle reduced the arrears. Half-time.- Everton B 1, Blackpool B 2. 
Final- Everton B 2, Blackpool B 2
Everton A 5, Blackpool A 1.

LATE GOALS GIVE EVERTON VICTORY
Liverpool Daily Post-Monday, September 21, 1964
EVERTON RES 3, LIVERPOOL RES 2
Two goals in the last minutes gave Everton Reserves an underserved victory after they had lagged behind Liverpool Reserves for the whole of this junior derby game at Goodison Park.  Liverpool were much faster with the ball and only some good saves by West, particularly two just before the interval from Graham and Scott, kept the first half lead to a ninth minute Ferns goal. The Everton defence was often suspect under pressure and Liverpool’s second goal came from a badly cleared McCulloch corner, Chisnall shooting straight back into the net at 51 minutes. Heslop at centre half was lost against the terrier-like tactics of Graham and Scott, while Shaw, who got Everton’s first goal at 61 minutes when the Liverpool defence were mesmerised, rarely got out of Hignett’s clutches.  Everton took heart from Shaw’s goal but never really looked like scoring.  Even the home crowd were surprised when Husband equalised at 88 minutes and Veall got the winner a minute later, his quick shot at goal finding Roberts out of position.

BAY SIGN EX-EVERTON STAR
Liverpool Daily Post-Monday, September 21, 1964
Former Everton centre half and captain Tommy Jones has joined Welsh Jones has joined Welsh League leaders Colwyn Bay.  Jones, who has also operated at full-back, was signed from Burscough, the club he joined lasts season following his return from Canada.  Aged 30 Jones was playing with Everton up to three years ago and his registration with Colwyn Bay was not completed in time for him to play in Saturday’s match at Caernarvon. 

ANFIELD-BUSTERS TURN FORECASTS INSIDE OUT
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, September 21, 1964
THERE ARE NO SHOCKS TO EQUAL DERBY SHOCKS
RANKIN PUTS ON ACE SHOW TO BLAST LIVERPOOL AND WOO RAMSEY
LIVERPOOL 0, EVERTON 4
By Horace Yates
“What a fantastic match! Surely there wasn’t four goals between the sides.” The words are not mine, but those of the sporting Everton chairman, Mr. John Moores, who, even in his moment of supreme and unexpected triumph, kept his feet firmly on the ground and his judgement finely balanced, when there must have been every temptation to celebrate a staggering turn-up.  First, congratulations are due all round for the splendid sporting way, in which this ninety-first “derby” was played at Anfield, with no more than a single foul worthy of the name.  in these days when the good name of sport is being hammered and undermined, to be able to pay such a handsome tribute to twenty-two players, locked in as tense a battle as they may encounter in a season’s programme, is like a rush of fresh air through a suffocating atmosphere.  That Everton, depleted to the extent of five internationals though they were, deservedly triumphed, there can be no doubt.  Even the most partisan follower, I feel sure, would concede that fact, Everton’s play, particularly after the limitations exposed at Old Trafford last Wednesday, was indeed a revelation. 
DEADLY FINISHING
I cannot recall any occasion to rival this for the deadly efficiency of their finishing power.  If they could carry forward this bull’s-eye accuracy into all their games no team in the land would live with them, and even Europe could look out!  Here they were, a team without a chance in most eyes, rising magnificently to a supposedly unequal challenge and smashing all the odds with a finality that brooked of no argument.  When a team can score three times as Everton did, from the first four opportunities created, this is marksmanship on an almost unprecedented plane. If I had kept a scorecard as boxing referees must, I am sure I would have shaded Liverpool slightly ahead on points after 40 minutes play.  Yet the scoreboard read; - Liverpool 0, Everton 2.
Without Harvey, a “derby” debutant, adding a third three minutes from the interval, breasting down a ball from Harris and firing over Lawrence with all the studied calm of a player with much greater experience, even the outside possibilities of a miraculous rally vanished. When Morrissey from about 28 yards beat Lawrence with a terrific drive in 64 minutes, it merely served to disrupt any remaining rhythm Liverpool may have had left and introduced a desperation which never gave them a hope of succeeding.
OPENING GOALS
Of course, it was the opening goal by temple and Pickering that had served notice to quit on Liverpool.  The first before the opening minute had passed, followed a somewhat speculative centre by Morrissey from the left wing, Yeats with leg out-stretched attempted to stop the ball.  If only he realised that he could safely have allowed the ball to go through, Everton would never have had the inspiration of the sensational opening goal.  Yeats merely propelled the ball forward to the incoming Temple, who deserves the utmost credit for his score.  The angle available to him was narrow indeed and yet he crashed into goal a simply unstoppable shot.  Pickering’s goal after 35 minutes was a possibility from the moment, he collected Stevens’ tailor-made pass.  Confronted only by Yeats, this was the sort of opening from which Pickering will score almost every time.  Apart from his old colleagues, England of Blackburn Rovers, I have seen no centre half measure up adequately to Pickering in such a situation.  I thought Lawrence could not avoid criticisms for the score. Pickering only half hit the shot and it merely trickled over the line.  The explanation came later from the goalkeeper when he said, “We all thought it was going wide.” With the team managers of England (Alf Ramsey) and Scotland (Ian McColl) looking on, I can only think that Pickering’s skill and drive make him as much a certainty for the next England team, as Yeats’ subjection undermines the possibility of his first cap.  Yeats only needed an average sort of game to clinch his opportunity but, in fact, seldom have his limitations been more cruelly exposed.  Where he almost made amends was in his attacking qualities, for never has he directed headers from corner kicks and free kicks more strongly or accurately at goal.
AN APOLOGY TO RANKIN
I think I owe an apology to Everton’s Andy Rankin.  In the last few weeks, I have suggested that he must be a formidable candidate for the next Young England team. I should have omitted the “Young” for if there is a better goalkeeper in England than Rankin on the form, he has so consistently shown this season, then I have neither seen nor heard of the claimant. He was outstandingly my man of the match. Rankin’s reactions are remarkably quick, his handling near flawless and his out-coming judgement, for which he has been criticised more than once, a model for any goalkeeper. Labone, too, is back to international standards.  He is delivering his tackles more confidently and energetically than ever, while his positional play and mastery in the air show the hall mark of a class player. Mr. Ramsey must surely have noted these facts.  No one would have suspected that Everton were minus two international full backs, for Brown played the game of his life, and with both Gabriel and Stevens reaching heights neither have attained previously this season, it is not difficult to imagine the problems which beset the Liverpool attack.  Yet the defence was not so watertight that chances did not come to Liverpool.  They did, especially in the first half hour, and in ample measure.  Not only was it thrill-a-minute football, there were times when it looked like chance-a-minute football as well. Within a minute, for example, of Temple’s goal, Hunt crashed the ball against the crossbar from a header.  In eight minutes, the Liverpool players were prematurely leaping in the air for the equaliser, again from Hunt. It was Thompson, easily Liverpool’s most consistent raider, who found Hunt in front of goal, Hunt side-footed the ball into what seemed a gaping goal with Rankin out. Undoubtedly, he did the right thing.  Had he slashed at the ball and connected accurately he must have scored but might have dangerously created a margin of error.  As it was, brown slipped into the scene and kicked off the line, with the odds formidably stacked against him.
WALLACE BROADSIDE
These Rankin pushed the ball over the bar from a Wallace broadside.  St. John headed over Rankin only to see the goalkeeper, with the most amazing backwards leap, grab the ball at the last split second. Hunt almost shaved the crossbar with another drive.  After the interval Thompson smashed the ball at goal only to find Gabriel heading off the line. I recalled also a shot among several by Stevenson to match the power and intent of Temple’s scorer.  It whistled narrowly pass the wrong side of the post. It is true Everton also approached closely several times and were somewhat unlucky not to be awarded a penalty kick, but at least they had four successes to render their near misses comparatively unimportant. What of Liverpool, however? This was the third successive League game in which they had not scored a goal.  Therein lies the explanation for their slide to within a place of the bottom of the table, I should think during that time they must have made and lost at least 25 scoring chances. What a difference a one-in-three acceptance would have made to their position and outlook! The absence of Arrowsmith has relegated them to a position not unknown to them. 
ENOUGH TALENT
Opposing sides are finding it too easy to make a misery of Hunt’s goal-front life with an attention they could not afford to lavish on him, if an opportunist of Arrowsmith’s calibre was also around. Their position must be desperately uneasy so long as the goals still refuse to come, but once this defect is remedied, I cannot believe there is not enough talent in the side to bring them storming back. How long must it be, I wonder, since the battle-tested Liverpool half back line of Milne, Yeats and Stevenson looked so ordinary in any match? Contrast it with the performance of Everton’s middle line and the difference is almost frightening.  Surely that state of affairs is too bad to be true!  Was it sour grapes that caused Ron Moran to comment after the match.  “Four nothing, and this was the easiest ‘derby’ in which I have every played!” “I think not. I am sure he meant it.  Liverpool were spared the indignity of having Everton equal their highest victory over them (5-0) but it was one of the few crumbs of consolation available for collection.  Just one clash between Stevens and Thompson blotted the fair-play state, but with players behaving so immaculately how completely uncalled for was the intrusion of a spectator from the back of the Kemlyn Road stand to aim a punch at one of the players. How can crowds expect players to keep their heads if a member of the public losers his to this extent? Fortunately, a general good sense prevailed, and it remained an isolated act of unworthiness. Liverpool; Lawrence; Byrne, Moran; Milne, Yeats, Stevenson; Callaghan, Hunt, St. John, Wallace, Thompson.  Everton; Rankin; Harris, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Stevens; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey.  Referee; Mr. Finney (Heresford). Attendance 52,619. 
EVERTON READY FOR OSLO
Everton will to-day announce their party to travel to Oslo, for the Inter Cities fairs Cup meeting, first leg, on Wednesday, but Mr. Harry Catterick, the club manager, last night made it clear that it would include the eleven who defeated Liverpool, with two or three additions. Until he had received fitness reports after the week-end games, he said, he could not make a final decision.  The team leave Liverpool to-morrow morning and return on Thursday afternoon. 

TAPE RECORDING
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, September 21, 1964
EVERTON ASK TO HEAR THEM
The board of the Everton Football Club last night called on a Sunday newspaper to let the club’s solicitor hear tape recordings which the paper says contain damaging admissions. A statement issued by Mr. E. Holland Hughes, a director of the club and its solicitor, says of yesterday’s report concerning the match against West Bromwich Albion in May of last year.  “The Everton board remains of the same opinion as before, namely that there was no bribery or attempted bribery.”  It goes on; “In view of the statement that there are tape recordings containing damaging admissions upon which the newspaper rely, the Everton board has considered it to be its duty to ask the newspaper to let me hear those recordings and to see the statements in their possession.”
BUS ALLEGATION
The article alleges that an unsuccessful bribery plot was “hatched” on the bus taking the Everton players to the game. The club’s statement said that last Sunday the newspaper had referred to Everton with a headline- “Champions after a match was “fixed2 and had stated that next week (yesterday) they would print the result of their investigations into a match in which bribery was used by certain Everton players. The Everton statement continues.  “This week the allegation of a match being ‘fixed’ is not maintained.  The allegations of actual bribery are not maintained. The suggestion had been reduced to one of a “bribery plot,” and was based in the main, on hearsay, indirect evidence and the newspaper’s interpretation of statements said to have been recorded.  Mr. Hughes said he had seen all but one of the players and there was a complete denial of any suggestion of bribery or attempted bribery, “or any collection for bribery or anything to do with bribery.” He had also seen the West Bromwich Albion player “who was specifically named by the newspaper.” The player had completely denied that there was any truth in the suggestion being made about him. 

EVERTON TAKING COUNSEL’S OPINION
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Monday 21 September 1964
ASK TO HEAR RECORDINGS
STATEMENT
By Leslie Edwards
Everton Football Club are taking counsel's opinion on allegations in a newspaper that some of their players unsuccessfully attempted to bribe their opponents. West Bromwich Albion, in the match at West Bromwich, in May last year- Everton's championship season.  The club have called on the newspaper making the allegations to allow them to hear tape recordings which, the paper submits contain damaging admissions.  The article claims that the alleged bribery plot was hatched in the coach taking Everton players to the game.  Everton F.C. maintain that the allegation printed in the newspaper a week last Sunday  —"Champions after a match was 'fixed'" was not substantiated by the 'evident  printed in the same paper yesterday. 
COMPLETE DENIAL 
Mr. Holland Hughes in Everton director and club solicitor, said in a statement yesterday that he had seen all but one of the players alleged to be concerned and there was a complete denial of any suggestion of bribery "or anything to do with bribery.' He had also seen the West Bromwich player specifically named in the allegations and player had completely denied there was any truth in suggestion being made about him.  Horace Yates, Daily Post sports editor, who travelled in the players' coach to West Bromwich, said to -day "At no stage of the journey did I see Roy Vernon leave his seat and visit other players. After we had stopped for a meal at Market Drayton Roy Vernon sat by me for quarter of an hour or so, after which he rejoined the players again. I certainly did not see any player give money to Vernon." 

LITTLE RESERVED ABOUT THESE RESERVES
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Monday, September 21, 1964
By Michael Charters
Nine years ago Liverpool went to Goodison Park and thrashed Everton 4-0 in a famous Cup tie when they were given no chance. Two days ago Everton went to Anfield and thrashed Liverpool 4-0 when few people had given them any chance because of the reserves they had brought in, plus positional switches, through injuries to four first teamers, internationals all. And in this fascinating, turning upside down of form and predictions lies the very heart of the glamour, the excitement and the attraction of "Derby" games in this city.  What sank Liverpool on Saturday was that these so-called Everton reserves played so well that they made a mockery of the description. The man who said, after the game, that this was Everton's best team may not have been far off the mark. Indeed. who could possibly rate Morrissey, Harvey, Brown and Stevens—all of whom have been in the reserves this season—as anything other than players of First Division quality? In the case of Brown, it would be no surprise if he won a Scottish cap soon, for he is at the very peak of his form.  Everton's great victory was so complete in the end that it is easy to forget, in retrospect, that first half-hour or so when Liverpool played some of their best football of the season, made several clear-cut openings and might easily have taken the lead themselves.  They recovered well from the shock of Everton going ahead in the first minute as Temple rammed home a fine shot when Yeats failed to clear. In trying to steer away Morrissey's low centre, Yeats' suspect right foot only pushed the ball a few yards into Temple's path. Temple saw the chance and took it instantly, brilliantly. 
Brown saves on line 
Immediately, Liverpool rallied. Hunt beat Rankin with a good header from Thompson's cross, but the ball hit the crossbar; Thompson again created an opening with a stop-go-stop-go dribble, passed square to Hunt, who turned the ball towards goal only for Brown to deflect it high over the bar. Brown said later the ball was only inches from the line when he connected.  Rankin, who had a superb game once more, saved in breath -taking style from Wallace and St. John, and this sort of Liverpool pressure continued for half an hour, with Lawrence comparatively unemployed at the other end of the pitch. During that time, Everton's defence did not look all that sound in places.  Both Harris and Labone started slowly, both looked nervous—being locals they might have been more affected by the importance of the occasion than others. But, all credit to them, they recovered from their nerves and the longer the game went the better they played. Labone blotted St. John out of the game and Harris took a much tighter grip on the dangerous Thompson.  Slowly but surely, Liverpool began to lose their edge as the Everton defence held out. The home forwards threatened so much but actually achieved little. The turning point came, I thought, when Pickering increased Everton's lead after 34 minutes. This was the Everton leader's first chance, created by himself.  He took a fine pass by Stevens, on the left, and worked his way into the middle with neat side-steps to beat both Yeats and Stevenson in quick succession. He made his shot from 20 yards, did not hit it too well and the ball bounced a few times, but it beat Lawrence, who said later that he thought the ball was going wide. This was a crucial error by the Liverpool goalkeeper.  From that moment, Liverpool went from bad to worse. Everton better and better until, for most of the second half, they were complete masters of the situation, playing lovely football at their own pace and in their owntime, with Liverpool unable to find any rhythm, composure or method.  Harvey rubbed it home, four minutes before halftime, with a beautifully-taken goal. When Harris crossed the ball from the right, Haney breasted it down and then, with the assurance of a veteran, lobbed it neatly and accurately into the top of the net. This young man, who works so hard so unceasingly, showed immaturity at times through parting with the ball too quickly, but what a great prospect he is.  It would have taken a miraculous recovery if Liverpool could have made anything out of this game when they were three down at half-lime. They had two chances in the second half of emerging with sonic credit. Thompson's shot was headed off the line by Gabriel, and St. John, played onside by the ball striking Labone, had a clear path for goal, but Rankin, quick as a cat around his goal, was out like lightning to save. 
It made his day 
Morrissey made this a day to remember, and particularly for himself, when he scored a great individual goal midway through the second half. He took the ball inside, beating Byrne and Milne on the way, steadied himself and took aim with his right foot to deliver a wonderful shot  past Lawrence from 25 yards. His joy at scoring against his old side was obvious and understandable.  The great difference between the sides was at halfback.  Milne and Stevenson are a shadow of the players they were last season, while Gabriel and Stevens mopped up everything in midfield and their constructive play could not have been better. It was heartening to see Gabriel, particularly, producing his best game so far this season, more like the powerful, commanding wing half we know he is.  Yeats did his international chances no good at all, for he could make nothing of Pickering when the ball was on the ground. In fact, the Everton leader continued his current impressive vein, making those critics who say he is clumsy eat their words.  Everton provided an object lesson in chance taking four goals from no more than six real openings. Every Everton player did well, most of them were excellent, and the whole side worked, chased and dove-tailed into teamwork winch Liverpool lacked. It would be hard to pick out one Liverpool player for special mention, with the possible exception of Thompson. He was at his best early one, but once Harris tightened his game, Thompson had to switch and change positions, but nothing came of it. It was a complete triumph for this makeshift Everton side.  Now Liverpool are second from bottom, with only five points from eight games, having failed to score in their last three League matches. Something urgent and drastic is required if they are to regain their championship touch of last season.  For me, the best feature of all on Saturday was the fair and sporting way in which the game was played. In this respect, it was the best "Derby" game I've seen.  Every player deserves full marks for keeping it this way and there was only one contentious moment. That came when Stevens tackled Thompson far too late and Thompson made a mild retaliation. When referee Finney, whose  task was made easy by the immaculate performance of all players, was speaking to Stevens and Thompson, a large, irate fan emerged from the Kemlyn Road stand and swung a hefty fist at Stevens.  He connected slightly on the back of Stevens' head.  The police chased and caught the man in the stand, took his name and address, and an inspector subsequently asked Stevens it he wished to prosecute. Stevens declined, and on that felicitous note ended one of the most memorable games ever between the clubs. 

EVERTON’S 14 PLAYERS FOR OSLO
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Monday 21 September 1964
FITNESS TESTS
FAIRS CUP
By Leslie Edwards
Everton are to take 14 players to Oslo for the Inter City Fairs Cup game against Valerengen on Wednesday. The party fly from Speke, via London, to-morrow.  The eleven which won 4-0 at Anfield on Saturday are being taken plus reserve team goalkeeper West and two others. Manager Catterick is giving Vernon. Young and Parker fitness tests this afternoon.  It seems likely that Vernon and Parker will complete the playing party of 14. 
COACH'S VIEW 
Ron Lewin, the Everton coach used to be the national coach in Norway. He rates Valerengen as quivalent to a reasonable Second Division side in Britain. Everton will return on Thursday. They play Birmingham, away, on Saturday. 

MERSEY BEAT MATCH 
Liverpool Echo& Evening Express - Monday 21 September 1964
More than 700 people attended a football match between the Mersey Beat all-star team and the Pepper-mint Lounge at the Prescot Town ground, Hope Street, Prescot, on Saturday, and over £20 was raised for charity.  The Mersey Beat team, which Included pop stars Rory Storm, Chic Graham and Mike  Gregory, won 9- 6. Everton's Jimmy Gabriel refereed the match. 

FAIRS CUP IN OSLO
Liverpool Daily Post- Tuesday, September 22, 1934
EVERTON TAKING 14
Everton are taking fourteen players to Oslo to-day for their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup-tie against Valerengen to-morrow night. Tommy Wright, a nineteen-year-old full back who has yet to make his first team debut, Gordon West (goalkeeper) and Jimmy Hill (forward), join the side that beat Liverpool last Saturday. Valerengen are rated about the equal of a Second Division side here. The Everton party flies from Speke to-day and pick up their Oslo plane at London Airport. They are due to return on Thursday and on Saturday travel to Birmingham for a League game. Everton (from) Rankin, West, Harris, Brown, Wright, Gabriel, Labone, Stevens, Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey, Hill.

EVERTON RESERVES SIDE NEVER HEALTHIER
Liverpool Echo& Evening Express  - Tuesday 22 September 1964
By Leslie Edwards
"Our reserve strength has never been healthier. We've got some good youngsters coming along. After all, to find and develop your own players is something every club aims at." Thus Manager Catterick, of Everton, and no wonder after the excellent service his second teamers gave him at Anfield on Saturday.  I did not see the shock "Derby" which seems to have been magnificently-fought, but I did have this to say of Everton reserves after their public trial against the first team at Goodison Park on the eve of the Charity Shield match:  The best thing about this two-games-in-one trial was the showing of the reserves. Most of them would get places in any other First Division side, except Everton or Liverpool. Having only 45 minutes to play they made an all-out effort. I doubt if any stranger not knowing, the composition of the teams could have differentiated between first and second team. Normally public trials are misleading. This one, I think, showed that most of the Everton first team men will need to fight hard to keep their places."  How was that 4-0 surprise win created ? Manager Catterick says it was a matter of tactics. "We set out to play it tight, very tight, defensively and strike when Liverpool's attacking broke down. The players followed instructions extremely well. From the breakdown of attacks we were able to swing the game the other way and score four times."  An appropriate moment, perhaps, to pose the question asked by D. White of Mackets Close, Wootton: "Why does Mr. Catterick persist in making Everton play a defensive game. Surely it was proved wrong against Manchester United?" 
Well. Mr. White, what was proved wrong at Old Trafford was undoubtedly proved right at Anfield. You cannot do more, when weakened through injury, than win four-nil on your opponent's ground. 
Deeply perturbed 
N L. Redon, of Crosby, says: “I am deeply perturbed, as a Liverpool fan that a team can sink to such depths as a playing unit in so short a time after winning the Football League championship in such an inspiring season.  "Their much-publicized stamina and team spirit is now unheard of. The complacency of obviously weak positions is not good enough. If Everton have any position to be strengthened they take positive action."  Another follower of Liverpool (and there's no sour grapes about him, because he gives all credit to Everton for their well-merited wiry takes exception to the language he and his girlfriendcould not avoid hearing at the Anfield Road end from a section of the Everton contingent.  "They have acquired a new form of an old chant, with rhythmic handclapping accompanied by the repeated bawling of one of the strongest four-letter words," says F. Higham, of 125 St. Christopher Avenue, Ford.  "Happy as their supporters had right to be “he adds. "There is never need for such behaviour. Merseyside wit, which is unparalleled anywhere, is spoiled by a few people who indulge themselves in foul language." 
J. A. piney. Of Collins Street, Liverpool 8, anticipated events remarkably, when he pleaded, before them "Derby" game for the Everton manager to fit into the first team some of the good reserves who are kept waiting too long for a first team place. These reserves, he says, never suffer pulled muscles, which some star players, he maintains, get through carrying round their super heavy pay-packets! 

EVERTON RES FAIL
Liverpool Daily Post-Wednesday, September 23, 1964
EVERTON RES 1, SHEFF WED RES 2
There was little to choose between the teams in the early stages, but after 21 minutes Wednesday were ahead when centre half Hickson netted after goalkeeper Barnett had pushed away a Holliday drive. Everton Reserves kept up their attacks, even after Brookes had scored an easy goal due to a misunderstanding in 48 minutes but the bigger Wednesday defence proved sound. Eventually the home side’s perseverance paid off, McLoughlin converting a Veall pass after 74 minutes but Wednesday, who were more direct, ran out worthy winners.

FAIRS CUP-TIE IN OSLO
Liverpool Daily Post-Wednesday, September 23, 1964
20,000 CROWD EXPECTED TO SEE EVERTON
By Michael Charters
Interest in Oslo, for Everton’s Inter-Cities Fairs Cup tie with Valerengen has been heightened by the fact that Everton are the first English team to play in the city for the past ten years and it is expected that a near-capacity gate of over 20,000 will see the match in the Olympic Stadium to-night. The Norwegian people are looking forward to seeing a club they know by reputation as one of the most famous in England, and although they do not anticipate their team being able to hold Everton, they believe they will provide stiff opposition on their own ground. The Everton party arrived on time after a three-hour flight from London.  They were greeted at Oslo Airport by officials of the Valerengen club who drove with them through the streets of this, lovely capital to their hotel headquarters. 
OUTSTANDING PROSPECT
Manager Harry Catterick has fourteen players with him- the team which beat Liverpool on Saturday plus reserve goalkeeper Gordon West, forward Jimmy Hill and full back Tommy wright. Wright, a Liverpool boy who played for the city boys team four years ago, has only played in central League football so far, but is rated an outstanding prospect by Mr. Catterick. It is almost certain that West, Hill and Wright will not be playing and that the team will be; Rankin; Harris, brown; Gabriel, Labone, Stevens, Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey.  This morning the players will have a brief training session at the Olympic Stadium to get the travel stiffness out of their limbs and also have the opportunity of asserting the pitch. The feelings is that Valerengen, an all-amateur team play a cultured type of game but lack the speed and tactical skill of a professional outfit like an English League club. Their average age is rather high but nine of their players are internationals, several of them doubling up as ice hockey international in the winter.
FINE TURF
The Olympic stadium pitch which was used for the Winter Olympic Games of 1952, and fine turf and as there has been considerable rain recently the going will be a change from the hard grounds we have had at home since the start of the season. Valerengen are seventh in the ten-club premier division of Norway football, but they have reached the semi-final of the Norwegian Cup and have a great chance of winning it. 

ALEX SCOTT DOUBTFUL FOR EVERTON OSLO MATCH
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 23 September 1964
TEMPLE MAY SWITCH TO RIGHT WING
TEAM CHOICE DELAYED
By Michael Charters
OSLO, Wednesday, Winger Ales Scott is doubtful for Everton's Inter-Cities Fair: Cup-tie against Valerengen here to-night. He has an upset stomach and manager Harry Catterick is delaying final choice of his team to see how Scott feels later in the day.  Scott took part in a brisk training session with the rest of the Everton players this morning on the training ground of the Valerengen club in the suburbs of Oslo. It was intended to train on the Olympic Stadium pitch where the match will be staged, but heavy rain over the past few days has made the ground heavy and Stadium officials did not wish the pitch to be used this morning.  If Scott does not play, Mr. Catterick told me that he may switch the versatile Derek Temple to the right wing and bring in Irish international Jimmy Hill at inside left.  Another alternative is to play 19-years-old Tommy Wright at right back, put Brian Harris in his normal position of left half, and Dennis Stevens at inside forward.  If Wright plays it will be his senior debut, for this former Liverpool schoolboy has only figured previously in Central League matches.  After training this morning the Everton party went on to see the Olympic Stadium. It has a fine turf pitch with accommodation for about 30,000, and a near capacity gate is anticipated this evening if the weather is fine.  There is very little cover at the stadium and if it does rain to-night the attendance is bound to suffer, although interest in Everton's visit is great among local football fan.
RREPUTATION
Everton are the first English team to play in Oslo for 10 years, but they are known by reputation as one of the most famous clubs in England.  In addition, the Norwegian football follower knows all about English form because the Norwegian government run a pool on our League results each Saturday.  The dividends are pegged with the prize being £5.000, and the State takes 50,000,000 kroner—£2,000,000—from the pool each year.  This is used to build sports grounds and a large proportion of it also goes to schools for use academically as well as for sport.  The Everton party arrived last night after a three-hour flight from London Airport, and they were greeted at Oslo Airport by officials of the Valerengen club, who drove with them through the neat and clean streets of this lovely capital to their hotel headquarters.  The feeling is that Valerengen, an all-amateur team, play a cultured type of game, but lack the speed and tactical skill of a professional outfit like an English League club. 
INTERNATIONALS 
Their average age is rather high but nine of their players are internationals, several of them doubling up as ice hockey internationals in the winter.  Valerengen are seventh in the ten-club premier division of Norway football, but they have reached the semi-final of the Norwegian Cup and have a great chance of winning it.

VALERENGEN AMATEURS LEVEL UNTIL TWELVE MINUTES FROM END
Liverpool Daily Post-Thursday, September 24, 1964
EVERTON MADE TO WORK HARD FOR OSLO VICTORY
GO INTO SECOND LEG WITH THREE GOAL LEAD
VALERGENGEN 2, EVERTON 5
By Michael Charters
Everton take a three-goal lead into the second leg of this Inter-Cities fairs Cup first round tie, but they were not impressive in gaining it in Oslo last night.  If the object of this match was to establish a comfortable rather than an outstanding advantage in goals, they were made to work hard for it, for it was not until 12 minutes from the end that they went ahead for the first time.  They added two more goals in the closing minutes when the Valerengen amateurs who had done far better than their supporters believed possible, were very tired. The Norwegian fans had hoped to see an exhibition of the best English football from Everton, for they see our clubs very rarely.  They were disappointed and the general verdict was that Everton had not played anything near as well as everyone had hoped. Certainly, the side- unchanged from last Saturday struggled a good deal and never found any rhythm until near the end.  The pitch, although soft, was very bumpy and the Everton players had great difficulty in controlling the lively ball.
SUPERB SAVES
Pickering and Morrissey were Everton’s best performers.  Pickering gave a great display of shooting, although a good deal of it was off target, but Sorlie made several superb saves from him. Morrissey was excellent in his direct approach, but many of the openings he created were wasted. Valerengen are a big, strong team, but play in true amateur fashion, building up moves so slowly.  They were pinned on defence for fully 90 per cent, of the game and although they scored twice Rankin had to make only one save of any note. In effect it was just a practice run for Everton, but it was a pity they did not turn on the style more than they did.  Their passing was too inaccurate and their shotting too wild to make a lasting impression to these Norwegian football lovers.  After Sorlie, Valerengen’s best players was Bruce Larsen a tall, clever inside forward, and very much the crowd’s favourite.  He is an accurate passer of the ball but in his own time and pace, which is far too slow by our standards.  The same criticism applies to the rest of the team but they played above themselves and, defensively, came out with much credit. Pickering showed the pattern of what was to come in the first minute by hitting a great shot at Sorlie and repeated it in the next few seconds but this time the ball hit the post. Everton took a good deal of time to settle and many of their close passing moves broke down as the ball bounced and broke unevenly off the pitch.  When Everton did hit their stride the Valerengen defence was easily beaten, and Scott took the ball to the line to lay on a chance for Gabriel whose quick shot hit the goalkeeper and bounced all along the line to be cleared near the far post. Pickering hit another couple of hot shots just wide and this was the only feature to bring a murmur from the crowd.  The game was all Pickering-he headed over from a corner by Morrissey and every time he went near the ball there was a buzz of anticipation.  But, in the first half hour, the game was so dull that there would have been roars of “Get on with it” from an English crowd but these Norwegians stood and sat in silence in a form of resigned patience. They became very excited, however, when Valerengen took the lead after 27 minutes, Labone brought down Eriksen and there was no doubt about the penalty from which Bruno Larsen scored. There was a brief glimpse of Everton at their best when Harvey and Morrisey combined neatly with Harvey producing a fine shot which hit the post. Generally, however, the Everton forwards were dribbling themselves into trouble time and again and only Morrissey had the directness required.
SHOT ON TARGET
Then after 36 minutes, Pickering achieved what he had been threatening for some time to do- get a shot on target.  Taking a pass from Temple to his right foot shot and then produced the goods by sending the ball into the far corner of the net to put Everton level.  Morrissey shot wide, Scott shot over, and it was one-way traffic, but Valerengen went off level at half-time for an achievement few here had expected. Within a minute of the restart Everton received another shock when Labone lost possession as the ball bounced away from him and Bruno Larsen passed to the unmarked Eriksen who beat Rankin from ten yards. The impetus of this leading goal produced their best football from the Norwegians, but only for a few minutes, Rankin saved well from Eriksen, and Harvey replied by heading the ball into Sorlie’s hands when he had plenty of time to direct the ball away.  Sorlie dived full length to save from Pickering and Gabriel moved up to head over the bar.  Everton were struggling hard to put on a show, but this, it seemed was not their night. Pickering pleased the crowd as few of the other Everton players had done with two fine shots which Sorlie saved superbly.  All the Valerengen defenders played soundly at this stage against the most persistent pressure.
COLLAPSED COMPLETELY
After 70 minutes a fine header by Pickering from Scott’s centre, gave Everton their second equaliser and from that moment the amateurs collapsed completely. Everton took the lead for the first time after 78 minutes when Hansen, who had played very well, failed to clear a centre by Brown and the ball bounced out to Harvey who scored with a quick shot. Everton’s superior stamina and speed was now beginning to tell in these closing minutes and six minutes from the end Temple hammered a fine shot past Sorlie who must have been very tried with the amount of work he had to do.  Scott scored the fifth goal with only seconds to go and there seems little doubt that when they play the second leg at Goodison Park on October 14, Everton should run up something near the double figures margin. Valerengen; Sorlie; Eggen, Kramer; T. Larsen, Hansen, Jacobsen, Knudsen, B. Larsen, Eriksen, Lauvnes, Sorensen.  Everton; Rankin; Harris, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Stevens; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey. Referee; Mr. E. Bostrum (Sweden) Attendance 17,952.

I WAS DRAGGED UNDER LORRY, RUN OVER, SAYS EVERTON FAN 
Liverpool Echo& Evening Express - Thursday 24 September 1964
HE GIVES EVIDENCE FROM STRETCHER IN COURT 
MAN ACCUSED OF WANTON OF FURIOUS DRIVING
STOKE MATCH INCIDENT
An Everton football club supporter was taken by stretcher from hospital to court at Stoke-on-Trent to-day to tell how he was knocked down and ran over after the Stoke City v. Everton match by a lorry and caravan trailer. After the alleged running-down incident, which occurred near the Everton club’s coach near the official entrance to the Stoke City ground the prosecution claimed that a crowd of other match spectators became very aggressive to the lorry driver.  “A police officer thought it adviceable, in the circumstances to take the lorry driver into a nearby shop. Mr. J. Picken prosecuting told the court. In Stoke-on-Trent Magistrates’ court Elias Stanley, aged 27 of no fixed address was accused of having charge of a motor lorry and caravan by wanton or furious driving caused bodily harm to James Campbell.” Stanley faced an alternative charge of dangerous driving.  He was further summoned for driving a lorry and caravan trailer when not insured; failing to stop after an accident; and failing to have a registration duplicate attached to the Canavan trailer.  He was represented by Mr. M. J. Hand.
SERIOUSLYY INJURED
Prosecuting Mr. Pickin asked for Stanley to be sent for trail at Wolverhampton Quarters Sessions.  The case, he said, arose out of an accident after the Stoke City and Everton match on Saturday afternoon, August 22, which resulted in serious injury to James Campbell, a labourer, of Carsington Road, Liverpool, and Everton supporter. The injuries to Campbell, the prosecution alleged, were caused by Stanley’s wanton of furious driving of his lorry and trailer caravan in Boothen Old Road, Stoke, near the official entrance to Stoke City’s ground.  The road at the time was thronged with people from the match, and outside the official entrance was the Everton team’s coach.  Police were regulating the traffic, said Mr. Pickin, owing to the narrowness of the road and a street lamp opposite the Everton coach. 
TOLD HIM TO WAIT
When Stanley’s vehicles arriver a police officer signaled him to halt, and told him; “You will have to wait until we get the Everton footballers aboard.  Stanley, however, edged his lorry and caravan on to the pavement.  As he was in danger to colliding with the street lamp, Stanley was again told to wait. Stanley continued to edge forward along the pavement, however, and again was told by a police officer; “Hang on until there is room.” “The police advice was ignored,” said Mr. Picken, and Stanley drove on with his off-side wheels on the pavement.  Then the police officer heard Stanley say; “I’ll shirt the-“
BOUNCED ALONG 
He went on: Stanley drove forward rather quickly and bounced along the pavement at a crowd of people who had to get out of the way. Campbell, standing on the pavement, was knocked down by the lorry, dragged along the road, and the caravan wheels ran over his body." The prosecution alleged the lorry and caravan did not stop after the accident. Mr. Pickin said people had been banging on the side of the lorry and shouting at Stanley, but he ignored them and drove quickly along other side streets.  A police motor-cyclist followed the lorry and caravan, which was later halted by traffic. Stanley was then taken by the police into a shop because a very aggressive crowd was approaching from the scene of the accident.  Stanley later stated, it was alleged: "I would not hurt anyone. The policeman backed the coach so I could get through. Then he waved me on. I never saw anyone."  From a stretcher on the courtroom floor, Campbell gave evidence for 20 minutes. 
Tried To Get Out Of Way 
After leaving the soccer match, he said, he was on the pavement near the Everton coach with a crowd of other supporters at about 5.30 p.m.  He saw the coach being reversed, and then a lorry towing a caravan arrived on the scene.  Campbell went on: "I was on the footpath, in the path of the lorry. I was at the side of the vehicle and tried to get out of its way when it drove forward. It went more quickly however, and I was dragged under the lorry or the caravan.  "My injuries were a fractured pelvis and left arm, and severed leg muscles."  Cross-examined. Mr. Campbell said people were pushing him about at the time.  Mr. James Cannon, of Branthwaite Close, Liverpool, who was standing near Campbell on the pavement, said the lorry hit him in the chest. Then he saw Campbell being turned over by the wheel; of the lorry.  PUT ON SPEED 
Mr. John Murray a transport foreman of Leyburn Close, Southdene, Kirkby, told the court that at first the lorry and caravan nosed its way through the crowd and people got of its way.  Then it put on speed, he said; “The driver put his foot down and shouted through the windscreen at people as he passed them. The driver looked as though he was infuriated."  Mr. Murray said the lorry bonnet pushed him out of the way. He also saw Mr. Cannon pushed aside by the lorry. Mr. Campbell then fell at his feet.  The lorry put on more speed, and went away.
FANATICAL
The driver of the Everton F.C coach, Mr. Norman Robinson, of Grenfell Road, Liverpool, described the speed of the lorry as fanatical.  Mr. Robinson said; “After I had reversed the Everton coach the lorry driver opened up and drove full belt.  Some of the nearby crowd were pushed out of the way by the lorry bonnet.” He told Mr. Hand he estimated Stanley burst of speed at 15 to 20 m.p.h. (Proceeding).

NOT EVERTON’S BEST, BUT GOOD ENOUGH
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 24 September 1964
By Michael Charters
Oslo, Thursday. As expected, Everton beat Valerengen here last night in the first leg of their Inter-Cities Fair Cup tie, but the manner of their 5-2 victory was not quite as impressive as the score would indicate.  Although Everton dominated these gallant amateurs for 90 per cent, of the game, they did not provide the exhibition touches which the Norwegian supporters had hoped to see. Although Everton were never in danger of losing, they were made to work hard for their win and only took the lead for the first time 12 minutes from the end.  They attacked incessantly they shot frequently, but the general pattern of their play was not as high as the Norwegians anticipated.
AMATEUR STYLE
Valerengen undoubtedly played well above themselves in holding Everton until so near the end.  They play a typical amateur style of football, building attacks slowly, but they were pinned on defence for so much of the game that we saw very little of their forwards.  The fact that they scored two goals must be set against the fact that Rankin had only one save to make of any note. In effect it was just a practice game for Everton, who were unchanged from last Saturday, as Alex Scott recovered from the stomach upset which made him doubtful earlier.  Outstanding performers for Everton were Pickering and Morrissey, with Stevens doing best of those behind them.  Pickering gave the Norwegians a non-stop demonstration of power shooting, a good deal of it off target but nevertheless the highlight of the game.  Morrissey showed a neat blend of cleverness and a direct approach which might have been copied to advantage by other Everton players.  He made numerous openings with his accurate centres.
GOALKEEPER STARS
After goalkeeper Sorlie, Valerengen’s best player was Bruno Larsen, a tall, clever inside forward and very much the crowd’s favourite.  Pickering showed the pattern of what was to come in the first minute by hitting a great shot at Sorlie and repeated it in the next few seconds but this time the ball hit the post.  But in the first half hour, the game was so dull that there would have been roars of “Get on with it” from an English crowd but these Norwegians stood and sat in silence in a form of resigned patience. They became very excited, however, when Valerengen took the lead after 27 minutes, Labone brought down Eriksen and there was no doubt about the penalty from which Bruno Larsen scored.  Then, after 36 minutes, Pickering achieved what he had been threatening for some time to do- get a shot on target.  Taking a pass from Temple, he stepped to his right to make an opening for his right foot shot and then produced the goods by sending the ball into the far corner of the net to put Everton level.  Within a minute of the restart Everton received another shock when Labone lost possession as the ball bounced away from him and Bruno Larsen passed to the unmarked Eriksen, who beat Rankin from 10 yards.  The impetus of this leading goal produced their best football from the Norweigians, but only for a few minutes, Rankin saved well from Eriksen and Harvey replied by heading the ball into Sorlie’s hand when he had plenty of time to direct the ball away.
COLLAPSED COMPLETELY
After 70 minutes a fine header by Pickering, from Scott’s centre, gave Everton their second equalizer and from that moment the amateurs collapsed completely.  Everton took the lead for the first time after 78 minutes when Hansen, who had played very well, failed to clear a centre by Brown and the ball bounced out to Harvey who scored with a quick shot.  Everton’s superior stamina and speed was now beginning to tell in these closing minutes and six minutes from the end Temple hammered a fine shot past Sorlie.  Scott scored the fifth goal with only seconds to go and there seems little doubt that when they play the second leg at Goodison Park on October 14, Everton should run up something near the double figure margin.  The game was played in a very sporting and fair fashion, and when these Norwegians come to Everton they will entertain the crowd. I rate them as better than Reykjavik –indeed within the last 18 months they beat the Icelandic team 5-1 in a match here.  Valerengen.- Sorlie; Foggen, Kramer; T. Larsen, Hensen, Jacobsen; Knudsen, B. Larson, Eriksen, Lauvsnes, Sorensen.  Everton; Rankin; Harris (Captain), Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Stevens; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey. Referee; Mr. E. Bostrum (Sweden).  Attendance 17,952.

DERBY GAME MEMORIES
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Thursday, September 24 1964
That Liverpool - Everton derby match has started off some of the old-timers on reminiscences.  From Glen Auldyn in the Isle of Man. 82-years-old Mr. W. H. Dean recalls days when decorated horses paraded through the Liverpool streets to the football ground and when there were fields around Everton's ground.  "Amateur football club were allowed pitches in the parks," he writes, "but to claim them you had to be at the park gates when they opened at 6 a.m. on September 1.  "The best runners got the best pitches. But there was so much cheating that the Parks Department withdrew the arrangements."  Asking how many old-timers remember Orwell Athletic playing on waste ground In Fountains Road near Stanley Road, Mr. Dean writes:  " The team changed in the Orwell Hotel," he says. "And a few house windows were broken on each side of the street, but they were replaced on the Monday.”
Mr. A. Pitcher, of 15 Ling Street, off Holt Road, Liverpool, writes to tell me that, while looking through some things belonging to her husband, who is a patient in Newsham General Hospital, she came across a football supporter’s rosette with badge attached and a photograph of the Everton team.  The date? 1907. And she adds; “It would be interesting to know if anyone else has one or if all the members of that team are still living? 

DRAGGED UNDER LORRY, COURT TOLD
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, September 25, 1964
EVERTON FAN GIVES EVIDENCE ON STRETCHER
After an Everton F.C supporter had been knocked down and run over by a lorry and trailer caravan outside Stoke City Soccer Club’s ground an angry mob struck blows at the driver of the lorry, a court was told at Stoke-on-Trent yesterday.  A police officer said the lorry driver, Elias Stanley, aged 27, of no fixed address, was taken into a shop near the football ground for his own protection.  The soccer fan who was injured, James Campbell, thirty-five-year-old labourer of Carwington Road, Liverpool 11, was brought from hospital to court on a stretcher to give evidence for twenty minutes, when Stanley was sent for trial on bail at Wolverhampton Quarter Sessions, accused of causing bodily harm by wanton or furious driving and alternatively of dangerous driving. Mr. J. Pickin, prosecuting, said that, after the Stoke City v. Everton match on August 22, Campbell and a crowd of other soccer fans were standing near the Everton team’s bus by the Stoke City Club’s official entrance, when Stanley, ignoring police advice to wait, drove his lorry and caravan near the crowd with his offside wheels on the pavement.  Campbell was knocked down and had his pelvis and left arm fractured and leg muscles severed.  Stanley drove away with out stopping and was chased and overtaken in side streets by a police officer on a commandeered motorcycle.
COMMANDEERED MOTOR-CYCLE
Campbell gave his evidence from a stretcher placed on the courtroom floor.  He saw the coach being reversed and then a lorry towing a caravan arrived on the scene.  Campbell went on; “I was on the footpath in the path of the lorry, I was at the side of the vehicle and tried to get out of its way, when it drove forward.  It went more quickly, however, and I was dragged under the lorry or the caravan.  My injuries were a fractured pelvis and left arm and several leg muscles.  Cross-examined by Mr. M.F. Hand, representing Stanley Campbell said people were pushing him about at the time. John Murray, transport foreman, of Leyburn Close, Southdene, Kirkby, told the court that at first the lorry and caravan nosed its way through the crowd and people got out of the way of the vehicle. “Then it put on speed,” he said.  “The driver put his foot down and shouted through the windscreen at people as he passed them.  “The driver looked as though he was infuriated.” Police Constable J. Bryan, of Stoke-on-Trent told the court that Campbell’s clothing appeared to hook on to something on the caravan.  He was dragged under the caravan, run over and then thrown into the gutter.  Police Constable C. Chatterton, said several members of an angry mob struck blows at Stanley before the defendant could be taken by the police into a shop for his own protection. In court Stanley pleaded not guilty to the two charges and reserved his defence.

LETTERS
Liverpool Echo - Friday 25 September 1964
By Leslie Edwards
“When is a reserve not a reserve?” I ask because the word reserve has loomed a lot in these and other columns since you know who won 4-0 at Anfield. Two followers of Liverpool are sure that too much has been made or the reserve tag as applied to men who have frequently appeared in the first team.  They unburden themselves this way.
David Darley; “I’m a little tired of hearing about those fine reserve players that Everton fielded.  With the exception of Harvey the men concerned were all well tried and experienced campaigners.  One of them is, at the time of writing acting captain, an honour not usually given to an inexperienced newcomer.  “If the team reserve refers to a player who at some time or other has figured in the Central league side I have news for my Evertonian friends, Liverpool had nine out that day-Lawrence, Byrne, Moran, Stevenson, Milne, Hunt, Wallace, and Callaghan.  And, of course, the newly promoted St. John!
“Seriously, the truth of the matter is that managers these days aim at having a pool of about sixteen players of more or less equal status who can be called upon as varying circumstances decree. 
“The term reserve is now a bit archaic and is less complimentary to the very able players so described. 
R.J. Wilcox, of Bourne Road, Liverpool, 9; “While congratulations are due to Everton for a worthy win in a very sporting Derby game, I feel that this Everton reserve business has been blown up too much.  Brown’s goal-scoring and goal-line saving feats have been a regular feature of Everton’s recent first team games.  He was also a regular in the senior side nearly all last season.  “Harris is no stranger to the first team and though he is perhaps more at home as a wing half back, has played at full-back on several occasions, and has always played well there.  Dennis Stevens name “rings a bell” as both wing half-back and inside forward.  “Morrissey must be regarded as a reserve despite having played for both clubs first teams in the past.  That makes Everton having played with two true reserves Morrissey and Harvey, while Liverpool used one reserve.”
HARVEY AGAIN?
Everton’s busy week includes the tiring trip to Oslo and the shock of finding themselves down twice to a team of amateurs and a visit to-morrow to Birmingham, where that curious Scot Auld usually has a warm welcome to give to the back who oppose him.  Last season Everton won both games against Birmingham and scored five goals against nil in doing so.  But they know as all past Everton teams did that any trip to Brum is likely to be a tough one.  Obviously, selection of the Everton team must come late, I imagine Harvey who has had goals in his two first-team games, may well get a further chance in the attack.  It is difficult when a team has won 4-0 away from home to leave out the up-and-coming young men who have helped to produce that remarkable result. Considering that Everton, as a club, have been playing “under a cloud” for some weeks their position in the table is remarkable.  Almost as remarkable as Liverpool’s since except for the absence of St. John and Arrowsmith there has been nothing at Anfield to disturb the confidence of players or officials. 

ALEX PARKER FIT AGAIN
Liverpool Echo& Evening Express- Friday 25 September 1964
EVERTON SELECT FROM 12 PLAYERS
By Leslie Edwards
Everton are taking 12 players from which to make choice of their team at Birmingham tomorrow-the 11 which won 5-2 in Oslo, on Wednesday, plus full back, Alex Parker, who is now fit. Despite their 3-0 League Cup defeat by Chelsea, Birmingham name an unchanged side.  Included in the team is Welsh international Terry Hennessey, who is reported to want a transfer.  The club would not comment to-day because his request did not arrive in this morning’s post. Birmingham City.- Scholfield; Lynn, Martin, Hennessey, Foster, Beard; Hellawell, Jackson, Thomson, Leek, Auld. Everton; (from); Rankin; Parker, Harris, Brown, Gabriel, Labone, Stevens, Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey. 

IF EVERTON PLAY PARKER AT BIRMINGAM WILL DROP OUT?
Liverpool Daily Post -Saturday, September 26, 1964
By Horace yates
ONE NAME BUT…
Although Everton (at Birmingham) add only the name of their skipper Alex Parker to the triumphant “derby” team formation, it is difficult to forecast with confidence what the elven will be.  Harris could displace Stevens at left half.  If Parker does not play the team could remain undisturbed.  Alternatively, Harvey could be the man to drop out if Parker plays right back Harris left half and Stevens inside right. Manager Harry Catterick offers no clubs. Compared with the apparent enormity of their task at Anfield last week, Everton should be able to approach the Birmingham game with confidence, for the home team have won only one of their four matches at St. Andrew’s Moreover a defence that has conceded 20 goals in nine fixtures hardly looks sufficiently watertight to deny an Everton attack which has registered nine times in a week.  Everton will be able to obtain a close-up view of Hennessey Birmingham’s Welsh international half back, who has submitted an application for transfer.  The Welshmen’s defensive achievements will stand comparison with those of most half backs. Hallawell, too would like to leave St. Andrew’s and on his day, as Everton know well, he is a winger whose speed and directness make him a dangerous raider.  Birmingham began the season disastrously with one point from the first five games.  The last four results have been much more impressive, with a yield of five points, and defeated only at Sheffield United, who held Everton to a draw at Goodison earlier in the month.  At the risk of being proved wrong (not for the first time) I believe to-day can be a day of double rejoicings on Merseyside. Birmingham City; Schofield; Lynn, Martin; Hennessey, Foster, Beard; Hellawell, Jackson, Thomson, Leek, Auld. Everton; (from); Rankin; Parker, Harris, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Stevens; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey.

RUNAWAY EVERT ON, THREN FIGHT BACK BY BIRMINGHAM
Liverpool Football Echo& Evening Express - Saturday 26 September 1964
By Jack Rowe
Birmingham.- Scholfield; Lynn, Martin; Hennessey, Foster, Beard; Hellawell, Jackson, Thomson, Leek, Auld. Everton; Rankin; Harris (Captain), Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Stevens; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey.  Referee; Mr. G. McCabe (Sheffield).  Although Harry Catterick took Alex Parker to St. Andrews to-day he made no team change for Everton’s game against Birmingham.  Everton had an early free-kick when Lynn up-ended Morrissey, but Pickering’s headed attempt to provide a shooting chance for Harvey failed because Foster nipped in quickly.  A fine tackle by Labone stopped Hellewell and when Birmingham raided again on the right Jackson had a clear run to goal, but took so long in shooting that Rankin was able to dive and smother the attempt.  Morrissey’s pass and Pickering’s footwork were both brilliant and the England centre forward finally veered to his left to smack in a shot which Scholfield caught. 
EVERTON ESCAPE
Both teams were playing some fast stuff and Everton had an escape when Stevens misplaced a pass so that Auld was able to take over and run in, but the winger, after beating Harris, only half hit his shot and Rankin had a much more comfortable task than had seemed likely.  Auld’s speed and swerve again had Everton in trouble but once more Rankin was called on to save what proved to be only a poor shot.  Scholfield was much more burdened to save a header from Harvey when Morrissey flung across a fine centre, and straight away Pickering beat three men without being able to make the vital shooting opening.  For several minutes Everton could make little headway but then Scott suddenly appeared on the scene with a fine run and the movement did not end until Schofield and Martin knocked each other out in going for Morrissey’s eventual centre.
PICKERING HEADERS
Pickering produced several delightful headed flicks and from one of them Temple almost beat Schofield. Everton went ahead in 26 minutes with a goal from Scott, Harvey began it with a pass which the winger took in his stride to beat Beard and Martin and then with his left foot, Schofield knocked the ball up and it bounced over the line just as Pickering raced in to make certain.  It was Scott’s goal all right and within a minute or so, as Everton kept up the pressure, he almost made it two with another inside run and shot, but this time Schofield got a secure hold on the ball. Thomson, the Birmingham centre-forward, was spoken to by the referee after an offence on Brown and after another incident which left Labone injured, Mr. McCabe this time took out his book and one assumes he took the Birmingham’s leader’s name. At this point Everton were playing with plenty of verve and the 33rd minute brought them another goal, Pickering being the scorer.  Stevens laid on the ball for Scott to go racing past Martin and this time the winger, instead of shooting, saw Pickering ideally placed in front of goal, when he squared the ball, the Everton leader turned it into the net off the post.
BLUE’S CONFIDENCE
Everton were playing with a lot of confidence, using the ball well, with the speed of the wingers a constant trouble to the Birmingham defence.  Temple once hit a first-timer from just outside the area which struck the front of the post and rebounded away, with Schofield well beaten.  A minute before half-time Everton made it 3-0, in keeping with their superiority, and it was a cracker from Pickering.  Temple swept the ball on to him on the edge of the penalty area and side-stepping a tackle by Foster, Pickering crashed the ball into the top corner of the net with a beautifully-taken right foot shot.
Half-time.- Birmingham City nil, Everton 3.
No sooner had the second half started than Morrissey was haring down the wing making Schofield drive to catch his cross, but in 47 minutes the winger scored. He took over from Harvey, made another good run and his chip sailed into the far corner of the net beyond Schofield and Foster who seemed undecided as to who should go for it. A minute later Birmingham got a goal back when Auld slipped the ball through to find Leek on his own.  The inside left just beat Rankin to it and was able to slot the ball into the net. Scott scored Everton’s fifth goal in 52 minutes- the result of a clever link-up with Pickering, after Harvey had made the initial pass. Once more Scott’s speed took him past the defence, and as Schofield came out, the winger shot under his body into the far corner.
WORKMANLIKE SHOW
This was a tremendous workmanlike performance by Everton with every man playing hard and often producing brilliant ideas. The fantastic scoring spell continued in the 55th minute with Hellawell scoring again for Birmingham.  He took the ball to the line and then hit it hard and low.  Apparently Rankin got a touch, because the next we saw was the ball in the net and Rankin sprawled full length towards his own line.  This made it four goals in ten minutes, and Birmingham had done well to hit back as they had against superior opposition.
NEARLY A SIXTH
Harvey nearly made it six when he darted in to beat Foster and then took the ball to one side of Schofield, but the angle in the finish was too acute and although he screwed the ball back, Martin had recovered to turn it to safety.  This amazing match continued with another Birmingham goal in the 72nd minute so that Everton were getting more and more on the collar.  It came following a free kick near the right corner post.  When the ball came over low, it evaded everybody in the crowded area and passed on to Hennessey who smacked it into the roof of the net. Everton’s pose had definitely taken a shaking but, at least, the Birmingham rally had given is a second half full of incident and interest.  How Jackson did not make it 5-4 was remarkable because he was on his own, in front of goal, when Hellawell’s centre came to him.  Somehow he put the ball straight at Rankin.  Towards the end, Everton had to contain more heavy Birmingham pressure, but they did it competently.  Final; Birmingham 3, Everton 5

PRESTON NORTH END B V EVERTON B
Liverpool Football Echo & Evening Express- Saturday, September 26, 1964
Everton opened in an attacking mood and after eight minutes Grant scored following a defensive slip-up.  In the 37th minute Preston equalized when Mullen scored a fine header. Mullen scored with a fine header. Half-time; Preston North End B 1, Everton B 1.

ALL CREDIT TO EVERTON ON VICTORY
Liverpool Football Echo & Evening express- Saturday, September 26, 1964
By Ron Yeats
Writing this column, when Liverpool were winning, was a pleasure and easy. Writing them at a time when things are not going right is still a pleasure, but it is not at all easy to explain our loss of form. Indeed, I am not going to attempt to do so, because any attempt at explanation could be read as an attempt to offer excuses for our shortcomings. The last thing I want is for these notes to become a hard luck story. However, in fairness to ourselves and our supporters, it is worth remembering that, although we are at low ebb at the moment, we are virtually the same side which won the League title last season.  One or two of us may not be playing to the standard we would wish and this upsets efforts to re-capture last season's rhythm. When we do, we expect to move into a respectable position in the table: propping up the whole of the division except Wolves is not our idea of a good time.  Although half the crowd at last week's match against Everton must have been bitterly disappointed at the result and the other half delighted. I hope they found agreement on the quality of the game.  All the players enjoyed it even if, like the spectators, only half of them enjoyed the result and this is usually an accurate test of the appeal of any game.
SOME COMFORT 
We started favourtes because of Everton's enforced changes, but the favorites were fairly and squarely beaten, so we must give full credit to Everton and congratulate them on their performance.  We try to derive some comfort from what might have happened if Roger Hunt's header had gone in and not the bar and if a shot had not been kicked of the line, but these things are part of football.  Various account have been written about Everton's first goal, none of which are entirely accurate.  With the ball out on the left wing, I was moving backwards covering Fred Pickering in anticipation of the cross, with the result that when it came I was off-balance.  I was therefore unable to bring the ball under control so that Derek Temple was able to take the fullest advantage of the situation… and how well he took it.
SPECIAL MENTION 
One or two are worthy of special mention. Andy Rankin, for instance. Here surely is a boy with a future: his name must be note book in the England selectors'  Mr. McColl watched the match on behalf of Scotland and I am sure that he must have been impressed with the show put up by Sandy Brown.  Then there is Fred Pickering. To be capped for England is an honour which he fully deserves and he carries the best wishes of all at Anfield.  With him will be Liverpool players Gordon Milne and Peter Thompson who, I am delighted to see, have retained their places.  This brings to the Scottish team and after having been told that I was on the fringe of the team for so long, could hardly believe it when I saw that I had been selected.  This is a great honour and one which I will do my utmost to justify, because not only has it been my ambition to play for my country, but also to make the centre half position my own for as long as can. 

EVERTON RES V BOLTON RES
Liverpool Football Echo& Evening Express - Saturday 26 September 1964
Everton Reserves; West; Wright, Curwen; Sharples, Helsop, Rees; Shaw, Young, Hill, Hurst, Veall. Bolton Reserves; Smith; Stanley, Cooper; Beech, Hulme, Lennard; Butler, Fry, Redrobe, Russell, Dumican. Referee; Mr. G. Hartley (Wakefield) Everton got away to a good start against Bolton, taking the lead at five minutes.  Veall picked up a loose ball on the left and after beating two Bolton defenders, gave Hill a pass.  All the centre forward had to do was hit it.  Smith had not an earthly.  Alex Young was having a quiet game but produced some football artistry with accurate placing of forward passes. The game was not inspiring with play being mainly in midfield.  Occasionally Veall broke through on the left but found little support as also did his opposite number Dumican.  In one Everton raid Young was knocked unconscious in a collision in the Bolton goal area at 38 minutes and later walked off with blood pouring from a gash in his hand.  Half-time; Everton Res 1, Bolton Res nil. 

PICKERING IS CONFOUNDING HIS CRITICS
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, September 28, 1964
BIRMINGHAM 3, EVERTON 5
By Jack Rowe

The player with the Margot Fonteyn balance and lightness of touch and the Joe Louis punch.  This, for me, is the best way of describing Fred Pickering, the Everton centre forward, and the man who has confounded the views of those, mine among them, that when he came to Goodison Park last season he was cumbersome, with one asset of being able to hit the ball hard. In the “derby” game last week Pickering surprised me with the ball control, ability to beat not only one man but two or three in short spare and sense of positional play.
COULD NOT HOLD HIM
He did not surprise me as much at St. Andrews because I felt what he could do one week he could do the next.  And he did it, so much so that it is a long time since I saw a better centre forward. There was no-one in the Birmingham side who could hold him and with all that trickiness and class there is finish, as we saw when he scored his second goal and Everton’s third just before half-time.  I reckon he beat two men, one of them twice, on the edge of the penalty area before getting the ball to his liking and when he did the right foot shot flew into the top corner of the net with such speed that Schofield scarcely had time to move. A centre forward only has to do this once in a game for most people to consider he has done his job, but Pickering lays the ball about with precision and accuracy and when Alex Scott scored his second and Everton’s fifth, he would pay tribute to the finely judged pass from Pickering, which enabled him to hammer the ball home.
CLASS MEN
Pickering, Scott and Morrissey were the class men in an Everton victory produced by a solid, workmanlike side, in which no man let up for an instant.  It might be said that there was an easing up when they were 4-0 ahead so that Birmingham were able to hit back to a point where they dented the Everton composure. I didn’t see it entirely that way.  Birmingham, if anything, took inspiration from Leek’s goal in 48 minutes and lifted themselves off the floor to make a fight of it.  I’m glad they did from an entertainment angle because when a team leads 4-0 with 43 minutes left; the rest can often become boring.  In this case it was not so because Birmingham’s second half goals gave the game zest and life and if the Everton camp had several flutters of doubt while it was on at least the spectators had something worthwhile.  Everton won as they deserved to and if the defence lost some of its grip in the second half, they retained a situation in which they were never behind. That, especially in an away match when the home side is always going to find all-out effort and fire at some time of another, is the most important angle and Everton emerged as a good solid team, quite capable of winning the championship. I liked the way Harvey foraged and battled while behind we had Stevens, with his 110 per cent, effort, and Gabriel doing so well in the defensive role. Harris found Auld, Birmingham’s best forward, a trouble, but the measure of Everton’s fight is found in the fact that Harvey and Scott were often back lending a hand.  Brown lost a little poise in the second half under Helliwell’s assault, but he never lost complete control and Everton finally broke the Birmingham rally and in last few minutes were back in the goal hunt. Brown came roaring up to crash a shot against the bar, while Harvey had one kicked off the line, so the score line could have been even more emphatic. Birmingham were made to look a poor outfit in the first half when Everton were so dominant.  Only Auld could match the class of Pickering, Scott and Morrisey, but the St. Andrew’s men earned a lot of credit for their fight back.  Scott hit the first goal in 26 minutes, ending a fine run with a shot which Schofield pushed up, the ball bouncing over the line just before Pickering get a boot to it. Seven minutes later it was Scott again beating his man and middling a ball which Pickering nudged into the net off the post. Two minutes after half-time Morrissey saw his lobbed cross drift into the net past hesitant defenders and was entitled to be joyful because it difficult to see how he can be replaced.
WELL, TAKEN GOAL
Leek’s goal, a minute later, was well taken although I suspected he might have been offside and the 52nd minute brought the Pickering-Scott link-up and Everton’s fifth.  Rankin seemed to be caught out of position when Hellawell drove an angled ball between him and post in 55 minutes, but this was the only semblance of a goalkeeping error. A free kick yielded Hennessey’s goal in 72 minutes and if Jackson had scored shortly afterwards, what a finish it would have been.  Still eight goals in a game tells its own story.  As a Birmingham fan said; “We lost, but it’s the first game I’ve really enjoyed this season.” Birmingham City.- Schofield; Lynn, Martin; Hennessary, Foster, Beard; Hallawell, Jackson, Thomson, Leeks, Auld. Everton; Rankin; Harris, Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Stevens; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey.  Referee.- Mr. G. McCabe (Sheffield).  Attendance; 21,000. 

CENTRAL LEAGUE
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, September 28, 1964
INJURY-HIT EVERTON RES, SAVE POINT
EVERTON RES 2, BOLTON RES 2
With goalkeeper West at centre forward after dislocating his thumb in the second half and Scottish international forward Young nursing a head injury for most of the game, Everton Reserves were thankful to get a point from an uninspiring central League match against Bolton forced two corners, at 53 and 62 minutes, which were converted by Russell and Redrobe when West’s thumb let him down. Sharples then went in goal and with only eight fully effective men Everton were lucky when goalkeeper Smith let a long Veall shot go through his arms into the net with only seconds to go. 

HALLMARK OF A CLASS PLAYER 
Liverpool Echo& Evening Express - Monday 28 September 1964
By Jack Rowe
When Everton came off at half-time at St. Andrews on Saturday leading Birmingham City 3-0 you could have had all Lombard Street to an orange that they would never experience any anxiety about an ultimate victory deservedly and competently earned. They had played that well in the first half, and when Morrissey put them four up two minutes after the second half had started prospects of a Birmingham revival looked so remote that one did not give them any consideration. But a minute later Leek supped one past Rankin and what a difference that goal made.  It did not matter from Birmingham's point of view that Scott made it 5-1 four minutes later because Leek's goal served the rallying point forthe Birmingham side which had shown itself badly in need of one. From then onthey played with great courage and gave Everton a lot of anxious moments and with them further goals in the55th minute and 72nd minutefrom Hellawell and Hennesey. For several minutes Everton's calm and composure was ruffled under these attacksand Birmingham went so near to other goals later that it was incredible that Everton faced such a fight to hang on to what had looked to be an unassailable position. NEVER LOST POISE
That they deserved victory in the end no one could dispute for they gave a workmanlike and solid performance in the first half and even when Birmingham were striving  so hard they did not lose their poise completely so that towards the end they themselves had come right back into the game as a menace.  Whatever Everton fans may have suffered in the second half the fact remains that those Birmingham goals made an entertainment of a matchwhich had looked like developing into such a one-sided business that all interest would have gone.  To surrender three goals after leading so handsomely might point a finger of blame to the defence, but I prefer to give the chief credit to Birmingham for fighting back so magnificently against pretty well hopeless odds. 
MORE MATURE 
True, the Everton defence did look shaky in the second half yet taking the match overall one must pay tribute to the wholehearted team endeavour linked with some brilliant ball play by Pickering and the swerve and ability of wingers Scott and Morrissey. Pickering got two good goals in the first half and there were suggestions that he also scored the first in 26 minutes, but I think Scott's shot had crossed the line before the centre forward added his touch. However, apart from his goals Pickering looked the class player. He was always working the ball, always ready to move to the wings, and for me looks a much more complete and mature player than he did when he first arrived at Goodison Park.  Scott and Morrissey also had a fine match. They had speed and directness and young Harvey, as he had been at Anfield a week before was non-stop all the time. He looked a very good prospect especially in the first half and his passing had a part in at least two of the goals. Temple was not as potent as he can be but I recall one cracking shot against the foot of the post which beat Birmingham goalkeeper Schofield completely.  Defensively Everton had to cope with some early Birmingham flourish led by left winger Auld. They did it so well that at half time it was the most difficult thing inthe world to visualize that they could ever lose their grip. But lose it they did for that spell in the second half. Rankin might have been at fault with Birmingham's second goal because thee low cross from Hellawell seemed to pass behind him but apart from this he did well. Stevens also, I thought, illustrated what a great worker he is. 
OFTEN BRILLIANT. 
But no matter the feelings of those who don't like to see their side lose three goals in this manner the verdict must be that we had a game full of entertainment and second half incident and Everton came away with a win produced by a side which is hardworking and willing and often brilliant.  Birmingham had Auld as their best forward Hennessey, who has asked for transfer, was not all that impressive although when the Everton attack got going Birmingham's defence, as others will find, were never happy against them. 

SOCCER STARS ON FRAUD CHARGES
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Monday 28 September 1964
DEFENCES LAWYERS CALL FOR SEPARATE HEARINGS
TONY KAY CASE ADJOURNED FOR FORTNIGHT
Before the start of the football charges at Mansfield (Notts) to-day, a legal argument developed between the prosecution and the defence whether the cases against the 10 accused should be taken separately.  Mr. Harry Skinner, for the Director of Public Prosecution, said that the cases should all be heard together. They covered a period from April, 1960, to April. 1963, and the common denominator in each of the 14charges, was James Gauld, he said.  Mr. Kenneth Arnold, for Peter Swan, the Sheffield Wednesday player, maintained that there should be a separate trial in each case. He disagreed with Mr. Skinner that the hearing would take longer if evidence against each defendant was taken separately, and said that if the cases were heard separately each witness would not have to be cross-examined by so many defence solicitors. 
In Six Groups 
All the players' representatives, with the exception of Mr. H. Clegg for Gauld objected to the magistrates hearing all the ease together.   The magistrates, after a short retirement, agreed to hear the cases in six separate groups, dealing first with a group of four summonse,  The summons involving Gauld, Layne, Swan and Kay was adjourned until Tuesday, October 13, and Kay, Swan  and Layne were all remanded to that date on £50 bail each. 
FORTNIGHT CHARGES COVER 
The ten men, all professional or ex-professional footballers are accused of conspiring together and with other persons unknown to defraud such persons as should be induced to accept bets made by or on behalf of themselves in certain football matches played in Britain bet ten April 1960 and April 1963. 
THE ACCUSED 
Gauld former Everton and Mansfield Town inside forward, of Berry Hill Road, Mansfield, is named in all 14 summonses. The other nine men are:  John Fountain, of White Cross Road,York: Richard Scott Beattie, of Ralston Avenue, Crookston, Glasgow: Samuel Edward Campbell, Chapman, of Mablethorpe Road, Cosham, Portsmouth: David Richard Layne, of Middlewood Road, Sheffield: Peter Swan, of Butler Road, Sheffield: Anthony Herbert Kay, of Kendal Drive, Maghull,Liverpool:  Brian John Phillips, of Clipstone Road West, Forest Town, near Mansfield: Kenneth Gordon Thomson, of Whitby Road, Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough: and Ronald Howells, of Bee Lane, Ford houses, Wolverhampton.  The first summons alleges that Gauld and Fountain conspired together and with others unknown to defraud such persons as should be indeed to accept bets made by or on behalf of themselves on the match between Swindon Town and PortVale at Port Vale oh April 30, 1960, by agreeing to cause that Swindon lost.  Tranmere Mentioned 
Three similar summonses against these players allege agreement to ensure York City to lose at home to Tranmere Rovers: Mansfield Town to lose at home to Bradford City on October 21, 1961: York City to lose away Stockport County on April 21, 1962: and York City to lose away to Oldham Athletic on December 1, 1962.  A fifth summons against Gauld, Beattie and Chapman, alleges Portsmouth to lose at home against Peterborough United on April 21, 1962.  A sixth against Gauld, Fountain, Beattie and Chapman, alleges York City to lose against Stockport County at Stockport and Portsmouth against Peterborough United at Portsmouth on April 21. 1962. 
KAY NAMED 
A seventh against Gauld and Beattie alleges Peterborough to lose against Queen's Park Rangers at Peterborough on September 8, 1962.  An eighth against Gauld, Layne. Swan and Kay alleges Sheffield Wednesday to lose against Ipswich Town at Ipswich on December 1, 1962.  Two more summonses against Gauld, Phillips and Thompson alleges HartlepoolsUnited to lose against Exeter City at Exeter on March 9, 1963, and Hartlepool to lose against Stockport County on April 6, 1963, at Stockport.   An eleventh, against Gauld, Chapman and Howells, alleges Scunthorpe to lose against Derby County at Derby on April 6, 1963.
Matches in Scotland 
A twelfth against Gauld and Beattie alleges St. Mirren to lose against Dundee at Dundee on April 13, 1963: a thirteenth against Gauld and Chapman alleges Mansfield Town to lose against Darlington at Darlington on April 13, 1963, and the fourteenth against Gauld, Phillips and Thompson alleges Hartlepools United to lose against Crewe Alexandra at Crewe on April 20,1963.  The hearing is expected to last three days.  When the hearing opened.  Mr. Skinner, arguing for a collective hearing, said the essence of each of the charges was that in each a number of professional footballers, two or more, first of all wagered on their team to lose. Their own team did in fact lose and the players in question received the winnings from their bets.  "The prosecution case is that Gauld inspired each of these agreements." he added.  Mr. Skinner said that on most occasions Gauld chose two or sometimes three matches on which to matches on which to wager, and several of the charges were therefore “tied up.” 
Two matches--Stockport v. York and Portsmouth v. Peterborough -on April 21, 1962 has been "doubled." In other words, the winnings were received after both forecasts were correct. Another case, he said, concerned a "treble."  The majority of the evidence, he said, would be evidence of confession. These were the connecting link between the cases. 
BET AGAINST OWN TEAM
The magistrates began by hearing the first four summonses which involved Gauld and Fountain.  Mr. Skinner spoke of four separate agreements between Gauld and Fountain, where by Fountain wagered on his own team to lose.  "Gauld seems to have been the fountain head of the agreement although Fountain, too, seems to have been deeply involved."  The story, he said, began in 1960 when both men wereplaying for Swindon Town.  The first summons relating to Port Vale arose, he said, as a result of Gauld apparently hearing that the Mansfield team were going to allow Tranmere to beat them on April 20, so that Tranmere could avoid relegation from Division Three to Division Four. 
FIXED ODDS 
"He had a word with Fountain. It seems that on the same day Swindon Town were playing Port Vale. There was nothing at stake in that match and therefore Gauld agreed with Fountain and other people to lose the match. Swindon did lose the match.  "The two men bet on the double with a fixed odds bet with a bookmaker. None of the bets was on pools but all on fixed odds."  Both teams, said Mr. Skinner, did lose and Gauld and Fountain won about £40.  At the end of that season Gauld and Fountain were transferred, Gauld going originally to Scotland, but very quickly coming down to England again.
BROKE LEG
By December, 1960, he was playing for Mansfield Town and Fountain was playing for York. Soon after his transfer Gauld broke his leg and though he remained on the books for two or three seasons it was virtually the end of his playing career and he had also virtually been out of football since. In October 1961, Fountain asked Gauld to meet him in Doncaster. They then arranged that Fountain should engineer York to lose to Tranmere and that Gauld would engineer Mansfield to lose at Bradford.  "A considerable amount of money was placed with bookmakers by a man named Wynne who was a friend of Fountain. The odds on the double were 10 to 1.  Gauld placed £100, Fountain placed £100and Wynne £100 and all that money was put on with bookmakers in the names of various friends and relatives of his.  "It was not put on in one name because that would arouse suspicion. Even so, suspicion was aroused several bets were refused and several others disputed." 
MADE £200
Mr. Skinner said there was certainly some conflict between Gauld and Fountain on the one hand, and Wynne on the other as to how much was due to them.  Gauld said he made £200 plus his £100 stake out of that bet. Wynne said he paid £320. "After that, Gauld became more ambitious and began to get in touch with other players he had known and to couple matches, in which other acquaintances of his were involved, with matches in which Fountain was involved." 
Winnings In Three Figures 
One such match, said Mr. Skinner, was the Stockport versus York which was coupled with the Portsmouth versus Peterborough game.  Fountain and Gauld met and talked about that, and also met with two other people. Gauld laid the money on with a friend, now dead, who ran a bookmaking business, and each staked about £50. "The winnings on that occasion were certainly in three figures for each of the conspirators."  The prosecution alleged that three different games were involved in December, 1962. One of these was the Oldham versus York match.  Fountain was still playing for York.  INQUIRIES 
The money was split up between the people involved in the conspiracy, and Fountain, at York, was sent his share to divide up as he thought right.  Mr. Skinner said inquiries were made into the case in August, 1963, by newspaper reporters and the police, and statements were taken.  On November 21, 1963, Gauld got in touch with Mr. Garrett, a journalist employed by The People and told him he was prepared to sell his story. Gauld was advised by a solicitor at this time, and by December 4 last year he had decided to sell his story and signed an agreement with The People. 
Players He Had Met 
Gauld got in touch with the people playing in the other two games.  Mr. Skinner said all Gauld's contacts were people he had met in his playing career or people transferred to Mansfield from another club and who knew someone else.  He alleged that Fountain was the man who "engineered" the Oldham v. York, game. This time the bets were placed by or in the name of a man called Parry, a licensee and friend of Gauld.  "Again some bets were refused and some disputed, and eventually Parry was paid out certain sums. He consulted solicitors in order to obtain part of his winnings and was eventually paid £2,452.  STATEMENT 
Mr. Garrett took a very full statement from Gauld—"a very long document indeed,” said Mr. Skimmer-and on February 21 this year Gauld swore the truth of that statement before a Commissioner for Oaths.  The document was a sworn admission of Gauld's part in the four summonses now before the magistrates and also revealed that he had been involved in a number of other similar cases over quite a long period.  After the statement had been taken, Mr. Garrett and Mr. Campling, another journalist employed by The People went round the country with Gauld and, in particular, visited Fountain. 
HIDDEN TAPE RECORDER
"Gould had a tape recorder in the seat of his car with a concealed microphone in the dashboard, and he engaged Fountain in a conversation which was recorded on tape."  At this point, Mr. L. Collins for, Fountain, objected. Until the court had ruled that the tape recording was admissible in evidence it was improper to refer to it.  Mr. Skinner said he was not intending to say any more.  In March and April, 1964, Mr. Garrett and Mr. Campling visited various people, and on April 1 saw Fountain, armed with Gauld's affidavit. One them noted Fountain's observations in shorthand and, said Mr. Skinner, they were in the nature of an admission. 
"RIGGED MATCH" 
Fountain was seen by the directors of his club afterpublication of an article in "The People". At first he denied being concerned in a conspiracy to defraud anyone, but then said, it was alleged.  I will tell the truth. I admit to rigging the match against Tranmere” Mr. Collins objected to the reference to, “what appeared to be in the nature of a domestic judicial proceeding."  The defendants had already been prejudiced by a series of Press articles, he said. Mr. Skinner said Gauld made three affidavits, the first dealing with the whole story, the second verifying transcripts of certain recordings, and the third dealing with a minor point of detail. 
"WHAT LAW?" 
Mr. Collins said: "The defendant is entitled to know what law he is supposed to have broken before any evidence can be called.  "The defendants are entitled to know what they are supposed to have done that is wrong and if my friend says something is wrong he must show in what way my client was in error either by statute or common law."  Mr. Collins told the magistrates that unless they were directed on what law was supposed to apply to the prosecution it would be very difficult to consider the case.  After hearing the submission, the chairman said the bench would decide at the conclusion whether or not to commit for trial and on what charges would be heard.  (Proceeding) 

YOUNG HAS STITCHES IN HEAD WOUND
Liverpool Echo& Evening Express - Monday 28 September 1964
WEST ALSO INJURED
VERNON FIT
By Leslie Edwards
Everton manager Harry Catterick confesses to being relieved that his team can revert to a match-a-week basis after the glut of fixtures of the outset of the season. His injured included Alex Young, concussed in the Central league match against Bolton on Saturday and having two stitches put in a head wound; reserve goalkeeper Gordon West, whose dislocated thumb may keep him out of action for a fortnight, and England international back, Ramon Wilson, whose groin injury in the second League match of the season is proving very stubborn.  Alex Parker and Roy Vernon are both likely to be fit for selection against Cup-holders, West Ham, who come to Goodison Park on Saturday. 

FAIRS CUP-TIE 
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 29 September 1964
Ticket Plans For Goodison Game 
For the Inter Cities Fairs Cup tie, Everton v. Valerengen I.F. (Oslo) on Wednesday,' October 14 (7.30 p.m.). stand tickets will be available as follows: Centre Stand A and B, Bullens Road, Goodison Road Blocks D and F, and Lower Stand (centre) Bullens Road, first six rows, 10s: rear of stand, 9s. Lower Stand, Bullens Road (sides) and Blocks A, B, C and  G,H,K Goodison Road, first six rows, 9s; rear of stand, 8s.  All
Other parts of the ground will be available for cash at the turnstiles on the day of the match.  Stand season ticket holders and shareholders will be givenpriority if they enclose spare voucher No. 1 from the season book, together with correct remittance and stamped addressed envelope.  The outside of their envelope should be marked season, ticket or shareholder as the case may be, in the top left hand corner. All applications should be addressed to Secretary, Everton F.C., Goodison Park, Liverpool 4.  A further announcement will be made when the tickets are available for personal application.