EVERTON TAKE 13
The Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday January 1, 1966
NEW PLAYER MAY MAKE DEBUT
Mike Trebilcock, Everton’s £20,000 signing from Plymouth Argyle, may make his debut against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart lane to-day. He was among the party of thirteen players who travelled to London yesterday afternoon. Manager Harry Catterick said “Depending on the state of the pitch he may play in one of the inside forward positions.
SPURS’ PROBLEM
“I will select the side after I have seen the ground.” Tottenham’s only problem is whether Cyril Knowles or Ron Henry plays at left back. Henry, now recovered, was in the side which won at Sheffield United on Tuesday and could well get the vote. Everton have been beaten by Chelsea =, Fulham and West Ham United on their three previous visits to London. Everton 9from) Barnett; Wright, Wilson; Brown, Harvey, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Trebilcock, Hurst, Temple. Tottenham; Jennings; Beal, Knowles; or Henry, Mullery, Brown, Mackay; Robertson, Clayton, Saul, Gilzean, Jones.

SCOTT STARS AS BLUES FIND THEIR TOP FORM
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, January 1 1966
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 2 EVERTON 2
By Michael Charters

Tottenham Hotspur; Jennings; Beal, Knowles; Mullery, Brown, Mackay; Robertson, Clayton, Saul, Gilzean, Jones. Everton; Barnett; Wright, Wilson; Harvey, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Hurst, Pickering, Trebilcock, Temple. Referee; Mr. J.R. Osborne (Suffolk).
Everton’s new inside forward from Plymouth Argyle, Mike Trebilcock, was in the side against Tottenham this afternoon. He replaced Alex Young, with Hurst switching from inside-left to inside right and the new boy partnering Temple. Trebilcock, delighted with such an early chance to play for his new club, travelled down with the party, not expecting to play, but manager Harry Catterick decided to give him his chance right away. The stockily built Trebilcock played up-field in the striking role which has made him Plymouth's' top scorer in the last two seasons, and he was prominent with a couple of good passes to Temple.
TEMPLE UNLUCKY
Temple connected on the volley with a centre from Scott and was unlucky to see the ball strike Jennings. Pickering was inclined to spoil some clever midfield play by overdoing it himself and there was no doubt that Spurs were in firm command in the early stages. Barnett made a good close-range save from Jones.  The wanderings of Jones had Wright in an absolute tangle and the full-back left him unmarked for a centre from Knowles and Barnett was very lucky to find Jones's header coming straight to him. Spurs were guilty of some faulty finishing and Robertson made a hopeless mess of a shot after Gilzean had put him through with a clever overhead pass. Mackay came through with a glimpse of his old form and made a good centre from the goal line which Harvey turned away for a corner, from which Mackay moved up to the edge of the area and sent in a low shot which Barnett did well to save.
SPURS GO AHEAD
It was a fair reflection of the run of play when Spurs took the lead after 25 minutes, through a neat headed goal by Saul. Spurs started their move down the right, after Harvey had misplaced a pass and they brought the ball smoothly up-field in a series of inter passes with Gilzean finally putting over a centre which Saul headed past Barnett from no more than three yards.  Everton should have equalised immediately. When the ball came off Brown, it went straight to Harris, who saw the opening and slipped the a neat pass through to Hurst, but the youngster was slow to take what amounted to a gift chance. When Everton did get a chance to shoot, their finishing was equally poor. BLUES EQUALISE
Harvey had a chance when he worked his way through a gap, but he shot tamely, straight at Jennings. Pickering and Trebilcock could make little headway against a Spurs defence which always looked good whenever Mackay was involved. The game was inclined to be a little scrappy, with Spurs the more aggressive side in attack but not finishing well. The Everton defenders were getting through a good deal of work in solid style. Four minutes before half- time Everton equalised in a surprise move, thanks to good work by Scott, who worked the ball cleverly down field and made a perfect pass to Pickering, who was able to turn and make a shot which struck Beal, but still carried enough strength to cross the line into the net. Only a brilliant save by Jennings prevented Trebilcock scoring a dream goal on his debut. Scott, Everton's best forward, brought the ball down the left, passed to Temple, who hit the ball low into the goalmouth, and the new boy flicked it goalwards. only to see Jennings save, thanks to very fast reflex action. Half-time. Tottenham 1, Everton 1.
During half time, there appeared to be a brief fight on the terraces, where some young Everton supporters had moved behind the Spurs goal. Trebilcock showed his sharpness to move into a shooting position by running forward into the open space to take a pass from Hurst. When he made his shot he was badly angled, and in trying to place the ball inside the far post, he put it just outside. Without having as much of the ball as Spurs, Everton always looked dangerous. mainly due to the work of Scott and Temple. Scott chased a long pass by Hurst and beat Knowles brilliantly to pull back the ball for Hurst to hit a good shot only just wide. Then Pickering should certainly have put Everton in front. A mistake by Brown in failing to intercept Hurst's pass gave the centre forward an ideal chance, but in trying to drag the ball wide of the goalkeeper he delayed his chance and Mullery came across to turn the ball for a corner. Everton were playing their best football of the match at this stage, with Scott in brilliant form. He made yet another good run andsent in a low, fast shot which struck Brown and bounced right into the arms of Jennings—a lucky save if ever there was one. GREAT SPECTACLE
The match had really hotted up now into a great spectacle. Spurs fought back with a Jones inspired move which saw Wilson fling himself yards to head the ball past the post for a corner just as Clayton was getting ready to nod it into the net. A brilliant move between 'Mullery, Spurs' best player, and Clayton, gave Gilzean a first class chance of a goal, but he drove the ball past the wrong side of the post, when he should have left Barnett helpless. The game was now very exciting with both teams playing fast, first class, attacking football. Scott went close with a left foot shot after Pickering had opened the way with a perfect cross-field pass. Spurs took the lead again after 65 minutes, with a goal by full back Knowles, after a move which should never have been allowed to develop. Robertson, near the touchline, knocked Wilson to the ground, but the referee waved "play on," and the winger crossed the ball to the far side of the field. From there it was moved into the middle and bobbed about in the air until Knowles appeared from nowhere and headed it into the net.
SPURS SAVED
Mackay saved Spurs with a magnificent tackle on Pickering after the Everton centre forward had worked his way past Brown cleverly. Everton deserved their equaliser which came from Temple after 73 minutes. It stemmed from a good-lobbed pass by Pickering which Temple raced onto, took the ball in his stride and cleverly directed it past Jennings as the goalkeeper came out. Everton were well worthy of this goal for the quality of their second halt performance. They had played as well as at any time this season. Final.— Tottenham 2 Everton 2.  Official attendance; 34,634.

EVERTON RES v.  MAN CITY RES
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday January 1, 1966
Everton Res; West; Pearson, Darcy; Gabriel, Smith, Glover; Shaw, Royle, Humphreys, Husband, Morrissey. Manchester City Res; Ogley; Bacuzzi, Gomersall, Horne, Wood, Burrows, Brown, Gray, Murray, Brand, Jones. Referee Mr. J.T. Hayton (Wigan). Although for the first 20 minutes play swung from end to end, neither side really looked like scoring. Morrissey put in a good drive from the wing which hit the side netting. Brown did likewise at the other end. If anything, Everton were slightly quicker to the ball, but were passing mistakes with their passing. Husband tried a few good moves, but, apart from a shot by Glover, Ogley was not unduly worried. At 26 minutes Everton took the lead through Humphreys. A minute later they got another when Shaw having brought the ball down the wing was dispossessed, regained it and centred for Morrissey who had come inside to score. These two goals upset City who had so far been playing fair football. But at the interval approached and Everton’s pressure increased, the tended to take the man in stead of the ball. The referee spoke to Wood after a tackle on Humphreys. Half-time; Everton Res 2, Manchester City Res 0.

GREAT SCOTT!
The Liverpool Daily Post- Monday January 3, 1966
EVERTON BACK IN FORM
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 2 EVERTON 2
By Michael Charters
Everton maintained their splendid record at white Hart Lane- they have not lost there on the last four visits -with a thoroughly deserved point earned after one of the most exciting and thrilling games, I have seen this season. After a first half of ordinary quality, the game burst into life with a vengeance. Immediately the second half started and maintained its pace and excitement to the end. This was due to the fact that both teams ignored a studied defensive style and decided to throw everything into attack with the result that there was an incident a minute in each goalmouth in turn. Everton’s improved display was inspired by a great performance from Scott who had Spurs’ defence in trouble throughout the game. In fact, I can only recall one occasion when Knowles beat him when Scott had possession of the ball. The rest of the team reached their highest level for some time, with Wilson again playing splendidly, but the whole defence held out well against a Spurs bombardment which often used a good deal of strength instead of skill.
A GOAL POACHER
Labone got through a great deal of work against the lively Saul, but Wright and Wilson kept their wingers so quiet after the opening minutes that most of the Spurs threats came down the middle from the dangerous Gilzean and the hard working Clayton. It would have been nice to have been able to write that Everton’s new player Trebilcock, making his debut at inside left, played a major part in this valuable away point. This, stockily-built player will obviously need time to sharpen his pace and het used to the faster reactions of First Division football. He is obviously a goal poacher and played upfield with Pickering most of the game, but it was only natural that he lacked knowledge of the play of his colleagues and frequently lost possession as the fast tackling Spurs defenders moved in. his best contribution, however, is likely to be his positional sense in and around the goalmouth. He might well have scored twice. In the first half he was in the right spot to connect with a low, fast centre by Temple and he hit the ball instantly only for Jennings to make a brilliant save. Immediately after half-time he slipped through into an open space to accept a fine pass by Hurst but, when angled, placed his shot wide of the far post in trying to beat the goalkeeper.
CLEVER BACK-HEADER
But in time, when he adjust himself to the higher requirements of senior football, he should prove a very useful acquisition. In the first half Spurs were the better team, mainly due to touches of his old time authority by Mackay. Hurst, in direct opposition to him, could not do much against the sharp tackling of the Spurs captain but the Everton youngster improved tremendously with the rest of the team in the second half and Mackay did not look half the player he had done earlier. The first goal came after 25 minutes when Saul made a clever back-header from a centre by Gilzean and after that the game meandered along without particular incident until Pickering equalised just before half-time from a brilliant move and pass by Scott.
EXPERT GOALKEEPING
There had been no hint earlier of how the game would improve but it did and the crowd was in a fever of excitement to the end. There was some expert goalkeeping from Barnett and Jennings but it was Scott who led Everton to take command and it came something of a shock when Spurs went ahead again after 65 minutes. I thought this goal should never have been allowed because Wilson was clearly fouled by Robertson before the Spurs winger made a centre from which there was a goal-mouth scramble before full back Knowles moved up from nowhere to head the ball into the far side of the net. Temple equalised eight minutes later with a neat goal when he ran onto a pass from Pickering and cleverly steered it past Jennings. Gilzean hit the bar in one Spurs move, and he and Saul both put the ball wide from easy positions, but it was not all one way pressure on the Everton goal by any means. At the other end, Scott sent three shots narrowly wide and Pickering missed a great chance when Scott put the ball through to him in similar fashion to the first Everton goal.
Tottenham Hotspur; -Jennings; Beal, Knowles; Mullery, Brown, Mackay, Robertson, Clayton, Saul, Gilzean, Jones. Everton; Barnett; Wright, Wilson; Harvey, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Hurst, Pickering, Trebilcock, Temple. Referee; Mr. J.R. Osborne (Suffolk). Attendance; 34,634.

EVERTON AND SPURS TURN ON A CLASSIC
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Monday January 3, 1966
By Michael Charters
Everton and Tottenham Hotspur gave us a game at White Hart Lane on Saturday which was like a memory of yesteryear—when packed defensive tactics had not been heard of, when the emphasis was on attack, when players realised that the basic aim in football was to score goals. Only four were scored in the 2-2 draw, but had the finishing of both sets of forwards been on a par with their midfield skills, the score-line could have read something like 6-6. In addition, of course, there, was some splendid goalkeeping by Barnett and Jennings tokeep down the goals , and it all added up to a thrilling, fascinating game, with a memorable second half. This was 45 minutes of high-class attacking football as good as anything I've seen this season, which showed Everton in a particularly good light after some of their recent displays. There was much more movement and rhythm about the team, more intelligent running into the open spaces on a heavy pitch which sapped their stamina, and much quicker use of the first-time pass. With Spurs to the responding to the challenge as Everton took control in the second half, the game flowed nonstop with much brilliant individual play and excellent, team-work. Defences were severely tested as each attack moved into top gear. There was a constant succession of thrills and near misses at each end. Everton have a splendid record at White Hart Lane, having won two and drawn two of their last four games there. But there was early indication that this run was going to end as Spurs, prodded on by Mackay and Mullery from wing half, took command for the first half hour or so.
HELD ON WELL
Everton's defence held one well however, but there was some poor shooting by Gilzean, Jones and Saul to help Everton's hopes, with Temple showing them all how to volley a ball when he thundered in a shot which struck Jennings rather than the goalkeeper making a save. This was an isolated Everton attack at this stage because Spurs were dictating matters in midfield. When Saul headed Spurs into the lead after 25 minutes, it was a fair reflection of the run of play, but from then on Everton came more and more into the game. Hurst and Harvey could have scored, and Jennings made a fine save from Trebilcock. Pickering equalised just before half-time from a brilliant run and pass by Scott, and Everton came out afterwards to plaster Spurs with a series of accurate, fastmoving attacks which made look like the side of their championship year. Inspired by a superb display from Scott, the outstanding player of the day, with Temple little behind him on the other wing. Everton looked very good. There were near misses by Trebilcock, Hurst and Scott, with Pickering missing the best chance of all when he tried to dribble around Jennings. Spurs' defence, with Brown good in the air and Mulleryexpert in every way, was hard pressed and it was a complete shock when full back Knowles headed them back into the lead after 65 minutes. This move should not have been allowed to develop as it seen seemed to me that Robertson fouled Wilson before making the centre which led to the goal. Everton did not collapse, however, and Temple scored best goal of the four shortly afterwards when he moved on to a fine pass by Pickering to neatly steer the ball away from the advancing Jennings. Perhaps the success of this pass will help to persuade the Everton centre forward to part with the ball more often when a colleague is better placed. Pickering tended to spoil some excellent play with his reluctance to pass: he tried to do far too much himself. After Temple's goal, Gilzean hit the crossbar, shot outside and was robbed of an open goal by a brilliant and daring save from Barnett. Saul, too, headed wide when it seemed easier to score, while Scott three times shot narrowly wide, with Hurst and Pickering also failing with half chances. It was all go everybody - a classic 45 minutes, with a draw the right result. Everton's was essentially a team effort with everyone playing their part but Scott and Temple were outstanding, with Barnett, Labone and Wilson excellent when the pressure was greatest. Harvey and Harris worked non-stop at swing half, with Wright settling down after early uncertainty to play Jones out of the game. Hurst was nonplussed by the experience of Mackay in In the first half but fought back to play a big part in Everton’s second half dominance. Altogether it was a healthy sign of return to form by all the Everton players. And what of new boy Trebilcock? This stockily-built young man is essentially a striker and showed that he has the inbuilt sense of right position to be in for the scoring chance. He might have scored twice, beaten once by a fine save and then just slipping the ball wide as Jennings moved out to narrow the angle. He will need time to adjust himself to the faster pace and higher tactical requirements of the First Division. But considering that this was the first time he had even seen his team-mates, let alone play with them, he had a very satisfactory game. Given a few weeks of sharpening-up training, he should prove a very useful acquisition.

LABONE JOINS ENGLAND TRAINING
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, January 3, 1966
MATCH WITH POLAND
GODOISON GAME
By Leslie Edwards
Brian Labone, of Everton, was called in to-day to join the England party training in Liverpool for Wednesday’s match against Poland at Goodison Park. Labone replaces Ron Flowers, who has not been playing in the Wolves side since injuring a chest muscle while playing against Ipswich on December 11. Labone has played three times for England-in 1962-63 against Ireland, Wales and France.
MELWOOD TRAINING
Among the England party in Liverpool Milne, Thompson and Hunt of Liverpool and Everton full-back Wilson. The players will train under lights at Melwood, West Derby, this evening. England manager Alf Ramsey, is expected to name his team-and it had better be good from the Liverton standard -to-morrow.

TONIGHT’S TEAMS AT GOODISON
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, January 5, 1966
England- Banks (Leicester City); Cohen (Fulham), Wilson (Everton); Stiles (Manchester United), Charlton (Leeds United), Moore Capt, (West Ham United), Ball (Blackpool), Hunt (Liverpool), Baker (Arsenal), Eastham (Arsenal), Harris (Burnley). Reserves- Tony Waiters (Blackpool), goalkeeper; Paul Reaney (Leeds United) full back; Gordon Milne (Liverpool), half-back; Geoff Hurst (West Ham United), forward. Poland;- Szeja; Gmoch, Oilzlo; Rewilak, Brejza, Susld; Galeczka, Schmidt, Saeek, Willim, Kowalik. A goalkeeper may be substituted at any time and one other player up to half time.

MR. CATTERICK AND THE SIGNINGS THAT AREN’T
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Wednesday, January 5, 1966
By Leslie Edwards
What's wrong with Everton? "Mainly," says one of their followers, Edward Small, "lack of confidence." He goes on: " Can you wonder at It? The whole Everton staff, including the inside-forwards, have been reading for weeks now of the Probable signing of an inside-forward. Now it’sthe turn of wing half-backs to read of their club's interest in wing half-backs of other clubs. Come now, Mr. Catterick, what about a bit of tact?" My correspondent, and many others I suspect, has got Harry Catterick all wrong. To my knowledge he has never said, for publication, one word about which players he would like to sign. He is happily the essence of tact in many ways. No, if all players reported as likely to sign for Everton in the last 18 months were laid end to end they'd reach from here to John o' Groats and back.in 99 "mentions " in 100 there is no basis for suggesting Everton will sign this or that player—or even that they are interested. Everton's scouting staff is probably larger than most other clubs. The club must be represented at hundreds of matches, some of them quite unimportant, to see“what's cooking," but for a thousand or more matches watched In the last 18 months the only tangible result was last week's signing of Mike Trebilcock. Professional footballers, unhappily, must remain a breed of men always liable to be worried by the possibility of newcomers coming to take their places. It is one of the penalties of a profession which produced from to £60 to £100 per week for individual performers. If Mr. Small thinks Mr. Catterick inspires all the stories of this or that player coming to Goodison Park ha's misjudging the Everton chief disastrously. It is not his doing….

POLAND JOLT ENGLAND’S WORLD CUP PROSPECTS
Liverpool Daily Post- Thursday January 6 1966
RAMSEY’S IDEA OF A TEAM WITHOUT WINGERS PROVES TO BE A COMPLETE FLOP
ENGLAND 1 POLAND 1
By Horace Yates
Being held to a draw by Poland at Goodison Park in the first international meeting between the two countries, does not necessarily imply that England will not win the World Cup, but the failure to beat a team which has not even qualified for the finals must at least provide food for thought. The worry becomes the more acute because England monopolised the attack and yet failed to punch holes in a resistance that was at times made to appear heroic. Sprinkled freely with so called link-men, England had not sufficient finishing power and it was not until ace defender Bobby Moore exchanged reins with Stiles, that England were able to get on terms and approach closely to final victory. The idea of manager Alf Ramsey that he can manage successfully without wingers was exploded beyond question.  A more orthodox England formation might have gone closer to exposing defensive flaws, for only when the full backs or half backs raced into the wingers positions was there any sort of progress on the flanks.
BUNCHING FORWARDS
Generally the England forwards, all five of them, were to be seen hanging about the goalmouth like a bunch of grapes. This concentration of power simply played into the hands of the fast tackling, quick willed Poles and instead of stretching them to breaking point England allowed them to marshal their power in a goal front resistance that was strikingly successful. As the game wore on the heavy going took a toll of players like Eastham, who had shown brilliant constructive play in the first half, and Harris whose introduction to international football did not sustain its early promise. Merseyside football followers responded nobly to their first opportunity for thirteen years to see an international match in home territory for with so many reasons why the attendance might have been disappointing, nearly 48,000 never matched at Wembley. All the fears and thinly-veiling threats that Merseyside was on trial so far as international football was concerned, looked strangely out of place as the fans celebrated their appreciation of a game that was at all times highly entertaining. Most of England’s half chances fell in the first half to Roger Hunt but this was not his night. He strove manfully as usual but should have had something better to show for Baker’s fine centre than a misdirected header just before half time. Without doubt this was England’s greatest miss of all, but Hunt was almost equally remiss when he failed to breast down the ball in a most inviting shooting position.
MOORE’S SLIP
Just when it seemed that England would never score and that Poland were not unduly concerned at the prospect of a blank score sheet, the Poles took advantage of the substitute rule to introduce Banas for Willim after 37 minutes. It did not take very long to form the impression that Poland had materially strengthened their attack by this move and after five minutes of warming up Banas produced the first goal. Moore shared the England superiority complex, which a near monopoly had encouraged, and a dilatory approach found him well beaten by Banas out on the right wing. Banas centred perfectly to the foot of centre forward Sadek, perhaps the most dangerous attackers in this match. A strangely dilatory Charlton waited for the players to control the ball but instead this Polish fireball shot on the turn and Banks was beaten. What a surprise this was for the few raids the Poles had mounted were tentative affairs, although Charlton once saved a threatened score when he interposed brilliantly to prevent Galeczka from converting a cross from the dangerous Sadek. Hunt’s miss minute before half time was tremendously disappointing for England, who for all their fight, desperately needed a score to give them heart against opponents gathering confidence all the time because of their ability to take all England could offer and still survive. Brilliant defensive play by Brejza and Oslizlo in the goal area, and powerful support from competent Gmoch celebrated the lack of offensive design from the wings by concentrating on bolting up the middle. Stiles, hard though he tried, and ably though he defended, was not the man to help the England forwards in their perplexity and Poland’s troubles began in earnest when the upstanding Moore took a hand in attack. A powerful shot must have gone close to a goal had not Baker intervened with his head to send the ball soaring harmlessly over the crossbar. Then in 74 minutes England were on terms and it was the militant Moore who breached the defence. All the glory for the lead up belonged to Cohen who had frequently shone with sorties up the wing. This time he beat two men superbly as he approached the edge of the penalty area and his centre was admirably placed for Moore to head down. Although goalkeeper Szeja appeared to touch the ball and take some of the pace from it, there was still just enough to carry the header over the line. Three minutes later inches prevented Moore from becoming the match winner, for he headed Ball’s cross firmly against the cross-bar. Three minutes later inches prevented Moore from becoming the match winner, for he headed Ball’s cross firmly against the cross-bar. Of course, Moore owed these efforts to the side, for it was his lapse that had plunged his side into arrears. England enjoyed their share of luck when Kowalik struck the post and the ball rebounded obligingly into Banks’ hands.
CHANT FOR PICKERING
The Everton section of the crowd stirred by the inability of Baker to break free from his warders, set up a “Pick-er-ing” chant. I thought it was trifle unfair for not a lot of opportunity came the way of the Arsenal player, whose introductory play had been bright enough. The longer the game went however, the more firmly did he come under the dominance of the defence. I would be prepared to keep Baker. It was not his fault that team formation did not contribute to a centre forwardparadise. The goal real success of the England line was Alan Ball of Blackpool. A busy hustling, clever player, he could not be blamed for the fact that England fell so completely into the hands of the opposition, but he suggest his accomplishments were as a winger would be absurd. Alf Ramsey’s strength to prove that a team can manage without wingers should now come to an end, and I hope to see more normality. In team selection after his next deliberations. England may still have need of the constructive ability of Gordon Milne and if Ramsey admits this, it will be so much easier to settle for fewer links and more bite in the attack. I may be wrong but this f=game seemed made to measure for the wing raiding of Liverpool Callaghan. He might so easily have turned a lateral defence with the most dangerous consequences. Banks was very seldom troubled, but both Cohen and Wilson acquitted themselves magnificently. Not only did they accomplish everything that was expected of them defensively, but they never lost an opportunity to attack. They simply had to be prepared to run themselves into the ground in England’s cause, as for the most part they were the nearest approach their team had to wingers. The boos and jeers that greeted Stiles were most unsporting, directed at him I believe for his Manchester United associations rather than for his play. Fouls he did commit, but so did others, who did not share his reception. Although some of Eastham’s sparkle was a tribute to his cleverness the conditions were against him. A slow mover by any standards, the mud reduced him to walking pace, with subsequently disappointing results. There certainly is not room in an England team for Harris and Eastham. England; Banks; Cohen, Wilson; Stiles, Charlton, Moore, Ball, Hunt, Baker, Eastham, Harris. Poland;- Szela; Gmoch, Oslizlo; Rewilk, Brejza, Suskl; Galeczka, Schmidt, Sadek, Willim (Banas), Kowalik. Referee; M. Joseph Hannet (Belgium). Attendance; 47,839.

GOODISON BETTER FOR ENGLAND!
The Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, January 7, 1966
MERSEYSIDE ROAR AND LUCK OF DRAW WOULD HAVE EASED PATH TO SEMI-FINAL
Group 1
At Wembley
England v Uruguay July 11 (7.30)
France v Mexico July 13 (7.30)
Mexico v England July 16 (7.30)
Mexico v Uruguay July 19 (4.30)
France v England July 20 (7.30)
At White City
Uruguay v France July 15 (7.30)
Group 2
At Hillsborough
W. Germany v Switzerland July 12 (7.30)
Switzerland v Spain July 15 (7.30)
Argentina v Switzerland July 19 (7.30)
At villa Park
Spain v Argentine July 13 (7.30)
Argentina v W. Germany July 16 (3.0)
Spain v W. Germany July 20 (7.30)
Group 3
At Goodison Park
Bulgaria v Brazil July 12 (7.30)
Brazil v Hungary July 15 (7.30)
Portugal v Brazil July 19 (7.30)
At Old Trafford
Hungary v Portugal July 13 (7.30)
Portugal v Bulgaria July 16 (3.0)
Hungary v Bulgaria July 20 (7.30)
Group 4
At Middlesbrough
USSR v N. Korea July 12 (7.30)
N. Korea v Chile July 15 (7.30)
Italy v N. Korea July 19 (7.30)
At Sunderland
Chile v Italy July 13 (7.30)
Italy v USSR July 16 (3.0)
Chile v USSR July 20 (7.30)
By Horace Yates
Brazil the World Cup holders, Hungary, Portugal and Bulgaria are to play at Goodison Park in July, with a quarter final to follow between the winner of this group and the second team in group Four (Chile, Russia, Italy, and North Korea), crowned by a semi-final on July 25. This is a football banquet, the like of which has never previously been set before the Merseyside public, and despite increased prices of admission public response is certain to be on an unprecedented scale. Unlike Old Trafford, which shares the staging of this group of games, Goodison Park will see the Brazilians in all their qualifying games, a tit-bit denied the Manchester spectators. The quarter-finals are at Wembley, Roker Park, Goodison Park and Hillsborough and will be played on July 23 (3 p.m.) as follows; Winners of Group One v Second in group Two; Winners of Group Two v Second in Group One; Winners of Group Three v Second in Group Four; Winners of Group Four v Second in Group Three.
The semi-finals are at Goodison Park on July 25 (7.30) and Wembley July 24 (7.30). the play-off for third and fourth places takes place at Wembley on July 28 (7.30), with the final on July 30 (three o’clock), also at Wembley. I know it seems positively ridiculous in face of such handsome treatment from the draw, to offer the slightest whimper of criticism. In doing so, with full knowledge that nothing can be done now even if the spirit were willing, I cannot resist the feeling that if England and Brazil had exchanged places as the resident team at Goodison, her prospects of soaring through to the final could only have been enhanced. London will be horror at the very idea, but unless Wembley can produce for the occasion an atmosphere worthy of the challenge, the funeral air so often prevalent there can do nothing to bring the best out of the England players. In this scathing denunciation of Wembley of course, I speak comparatively. For atmosphere there is nothing in England to compare with Merseyside. The continentals can certainly rival it for their big occasions but for some strange reason the placid English regard their sport fanatically.
THE BARRAGE MERSEYSIDE
The crowd at Goodison Park on Wednesday for England’s with Poland must have encouraged England as they have not been uplifted before, and while it did no more than produce a draw, without it even this satisfaction could so easily have been denied. Merseyside with its incessant barrage of sound credited with giving Liverpool and Everton the equivalent of a goal start before a match begins could so easily have been harnessed to England’s advantage in her greatest hour of need. Every Briton will hope that with all the team faults and failings and the vagaries of selections, England will lay the football world at her feet in her greatest triumph since the world’s pupils took over from the original teachers. If the tonic of the Mersey sound could not accomplish that then nothing else would. It could have been the final push to help England over fences as formidable to footballers as ever the Grand National obstacles have proved in the racing world. Alas, it cannot be, and because this is so I believe England have already made their greatest error. True enough, Goodison’s maximum capacity is around the 64,000 mark; compared with Wembley’s 100,000 but I think I know which crowd will be the more vociferous. For England’s sake I hope I am wrong and that Wembley sweeps England forward on a tidal wave of sound never equally in this country before. It remains a fact that Londoners had never experienced vocal support at any Wembley event remotely to compare with that when Liverpool won the F.A Cup last season. If World Cup betting is to be taken as a reliable guide to events, Brazil (5-2), England (9-2), Argentina (7-1), Italy (8-1), and U.S.S.R (8-1) will supply the semi-finalists. Over the last two months Brazil and England have been the most heavily-backed teams. The rank outsiders are North Korea (300-1) and Bulgaria (100-1). London, Birmingham, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester, Sunderland, and Middlesbrough will be the venues and this taste of summer football, always a topic when matches are being frozen off in mid-winter, might easily serve to show whether summer football has a future in Britain. An Englishman, Sir, Stanley Rous, 7-years-old president of F.I.F.A conducted the draw in London yesterday, assisted by Mr. Harry Cavan (Northern Ireland) and Senor Murdy Maduro whose countries are not included in the last sixteen.
KIND DRAW
Certainly the draw proved extremely kind to England. They start on the night of the opening ceremony (July 11) at Wembley in opposition to Uruguay, twice winners of the World Cup, but who are hardly the force to-day that they formerly were. England first took part in the competition in 1950 and have still to make their bow in the semi-final stage. Compared with 1962 England have an entirely new set of opponents, for then they met Hungary, Argentina, and Bulgaria. They won only one game and were ousted in the quarter final by Brazil. Brazil, like Uruguay and Italy have each won the Cup twice and the solid gold trophy, with £2,500, will become the property of any of the three who can triumph in the final at Wembley this year. Along range forecast suggests that England, France, Argentina, West Germany, Brazil, Hungary, U.S.S.R and Italy will constitute the last eight survivors. Past results are sometimes notoriously misleading, but if any of them can provide a fillip then England have every reason for satisfaction. They are at home and have never lost in this country to any of the rivals currently in their group. Uruguay were beaten 2-1 at Wembley in 1964 and the Mexicans by eight clear goals in 1961. France were trouped 4-0 in 1958, but it should not be forgotten that it was France who knocked England out of the European Nations Cup by holding them to a 1-1 draw on October 1962, and winning 5-2 in Paris four months later. Ten years ago, Uruguay would have presented England with formidable opposition, but times have changed. England skipper, Bobby Moore (West Ham) commented after the draw; “They are going to be hard matches, but I think everybody will be pleased with the draw.
HAYNES FORECASTS SOME SUCCESS
Former England team manager Walter Winterbottom forecast that England would finish first and France second in their group, a view shared by Moore. Russia and Italy were favoured by the two commentators to survive the trials of Group Four, with Brazil and Portugal from group Three. Argentina, West Germany and Spain were considered to be the teams to watch in group Two. Former England player Johnny Haynes said; England have a very good side. I think they will do well and with this draw I make them certainties for the quarter-finals.” Mr. Winterbottom was more cautious. “I think they want confidence and success on their tour (England meet Finland, Norway, Denmark and Poland during June and July) if we can win our first match convincingly we shall do well.” Mr. Silvio Passcheko (Brazil) said; “It is a good draw for Brazil. We do not fear any of the team in our group, but I feel Portugal are our strongest opponents.”
THE TEMPTATION OF EXPERIMENTS
The comment of Senior Fabbri (Italy) was; “We feared Brazil, but have now steered clear of them and they have been drawn in the most difficult group. I feel Italy should make progress beyond the group stage.” The pairing of Chile and Italy at Sunderland recalls their meeting in Santiago four years ago when English referee Ken Aston sent off two Italian players. Now that the chips are down one can only hope that Mr. Ramsey, the England team manager, will avoid the temptation to makecombination. People whose task it is to select national teams are invariably on a hiding to nothing. Always there are so many who believe they could make a better job of it, but Mr. Ramsey has undoubtedly provided plenty of ammunition in this respect.

WORLD CUP TICKETS OFFICE BOOM
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, January 7, 1966
FAN’S INTEREST SOARS FOR GOODISON MATCHES
BRAZIL IS MAJOR ATTRACTION IN LOCAL GROUP
The draw for the World Cup with Brazil the holders, due to play three games at Goodison Park has quickened interest in the event here remarkably. The special World Cup booking office set up at Goodison Park did brisk business. An official said: "People seem to have money to burn. We've had a steady stream of applicants here this morning and it looks as though the demand will not let up all day."
IN FIRST TWO HOURS
More than 2,000 application forms for tickets were givenout in the first two hours ofopening this morning at Liverpool's World Cup Information Centre in Cases'Street. Liverpool.Mr. Sid Rudd, hon. general secretary of the LiverpoolWorld Cup Committee, said that inquires at the centre, which he and one assistant  are running, had not ceased since it opened on Wednesday. He said: "We have already heard that 8,000 tickets have been sold to Brazilian supporters alone, so that gives some idea of the number of visitors we can expect In Liverpool." Mr. Rudd said that arrangements were going ahead for providing entertainment facilities or Liverpool's visitors.. "Reece's are giving over the whole of their fourth floor to provide an overseas lounge- a Government requirement— where there will be rest rooms, television lounges, a Post Office suite for handling mail and an information desk with interpreters on duty. "We feel this is a time when we can sell the city," he said. Four-match season tickets are available for games at Goodison Park, not including Semi-final. Semi-final and final ticketswill be balloted for among all purchasers of World Cup season tickets. Prices of four-match season tickets for the first fourgames at Goodison Park are:
At Grade 1 (seating) £8 16 0
Grade 2 (seating) £4 14 0
Grade 3 (standing) £2 12 6
Grade 4 (standing) £1 10 0
Postage and registration fee of 3s 6d is required witheach application. All applications must on made on the official application form which can beobtained from the World Cup Office, Goodison Park, Liverpool 4 on receipt of astamped addressed envelope. A brochure will also be enclosed giving all information regarding the purchase of ten-match and seven-matchseason tickets.

EVERTON NEW BOY MAKES HIS BOW
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday January 7 1966
By Leslie Edwards
Everton who are having to get through as many home fixtures as possible so that their ground and pitch may be made ready for five World Cup ties next summer, play Aston Villa at Goodison Park to-morrow and West Ham at home on Tuesday. If they can pick up the points from these games they will move to the top half of the table where they belong. Let us hope there will be no further rain to turn the Everton pitch into an even deeper quagmire. it surprises at least one former League player that acceptable football can be produced so often on such unresponsive pitch. The turf was leaden heavy when England and Poland played in mid-week. If what has happened this and previous season, is due, in any respect, to the soil-warming wiring system it would be best, I submit. to tear up the installation and start afresh. Forking difficulties when the pitch is heavy make it virtually  impossible for the whole area to be covered. Everton beat Villa twice last season and should be good enough to win again tomorrow. Particularly as Trebilcock, from Plymouth Argyle, will be in the attack. I am told he has not attuned himself fully to the exceptional speed of thought and movement in the First Division, but he is a quick mover of the sort who may profit from such passes as Scott, Temple and Pickering may provide. He had a satisfactory debut at Tottenham, where his side, after weathering a first half-hour storm of attacks, battled valiantly to take a deserved point.
HEADSTRONGF HATELY
One takes it for granted that the team which played at Tottenham will get a further chance to-morrow. Hurst is a strong, young player at an advantage in ploughing through the thick of the going at Goodison Park. Everton's hopes in the Cup depend, largely, on the return to form of Scott; the excellence of the defence and the way the team as a whole have been playing their home matches  suggests that the season may end more triumphantly than it began. The danger man to Everton to-morrow is Hateley, probably the best attacking header of the ball in Britain at the present lime. Like Dean he usually rises good and early when he's striking for goal. Like Dean, he seems to get well above the ball and have the propensity for the downward-directed headers goalkeepers find difficult to take. Though Villa's fame is traditional it has escaped many that their last League in Division 1 was as far back as before the FirstWorld War. What one wonders, would their fans say of Everton or Liverpool if either of them had gone so long without chalking up a "first " in Division 1? And would such comments be printable?
DEATH OF TRAINER
Everton have just lost, through the death of George Thompson, aged 70, an assistant trainer and general back-room boy who had been with them since the 1936-37 season. His home was in Goodison Avenue. He had been ill only a short time.

EVERTON NAME THE SAME TEAM
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, January 7 1966
HOME DEBUT BY TREBILCOCK #
VILLA GAME
Mike Trebilcock, Everton’s new £20,000 signing from Plymouth Argyle,  makes his home debut against Aston Villa at Goodison Park to-morrow. He will be at inside left in an unchanged Everton team which played so well at Tottenham last Saturday. Trebilcock passed a test today on an ankle which he injured playing for Plymouth and which has troubled him slightly this week. Aston Villa will be without centre half John Sleeuweshoek , who received a bad gashed leg during the victory over Newcastle United last Saturday. Former youth international Lew Chatterley deputises at centre half. Everton; Barnett; Wright, Wilson; Harvey, Labone, Harris; Scott, Hurst, Pickering, Trebilcock, Temple. Aston Villa; Wither; Aright, Aitken; Parker, Chatterley, Pountney, MacLeod, Hamilton, Hateley, Woosnam, Scott, Substitute Park.
Everton Res (at Leeds United); Rankin; Pearson, Brown; Gabriel, Smith, Glover; Shaw, Royle, Young, Humphreys, Morrissey.

RUSH FOR APPLICATION FORMS IN THIS CAPITAL OF SOCCER
The Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, January 8, 1966
THEY’RE WORLD CUP CRAZY!
S.O.S TO LONDON FOR MORE TICKETS
By a Daily Post Reporter
Liverpool’s claim to be the soccer capital of Britain is complete. Yesterday- first day that application forms for World Cup seats were available -saw an inundation of the World Cup Information Centre in Cases Street. Throughout the day fans flocked to the office -enthusiasm was such that before the doors closed at 5 p.m. an urgent order had to be sent to London for a further supply of application forms. IT HAD BEEN A SELL-OUT.  The office gave out more than 2,000 application form for tickets before selling out- and the applications are for three, four, seven and ten match tickets. It was the same story at Goodison Park. The telephone switchboard was jammed all day with applications -and Everton officials had to send a supply of 1,000 forms to the Cases Street office when they ran out early in the day. A fresh supply of forms should reach Liverpool in time for the office to reopen at 9 a.m. on Monday. The information Centre will eb closed to-day-because the girl assistant loaned by Liverpool Corporation is on a five day week. Mr. Sid Rudd, honorary secretary of the Liverpool World Cup committee, who is in charge of the Centre said last night; “We can only open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday, at present. Perhaps later on we can come to some other arrangements. The centre dealt with more than 2,500 personal applications and a further 300 came by post.

VILLA CLASH COULD BE SOCCER TREAT
The Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday January 8, 1966
TREBILCOCK COMES UNDER CRITICAL VIEW OF GOODISON FANS
By Horace Yates
The pronounced signs of revival shown by Everton last Saturday at White Hart Lane, where it is never easy to earn a point, have made it possible to look with some degree of confidence to the outcome of to-day’s home game, with Aston Villa. Great interest will be centred under the critical view of the home crowd for the first time. To jump a division, as Trebilcock has done on transfer from Plymouth Argyle is never easy for any player, and to expect to see him in a leading role so soon would be unwise, I think the crowd will be happy if he shows signs of introducing a note of hostility into the attack, just as Vernon used to do so ably.
SCOTT INSPIRIES
If Villa play an attractively as they did against Everton on December 11 when scoring three goals in a tearaway first half display, this clash could turn out to be a football treat. Everton on that occasion buckled before the storm, but rallied to gain complete control, without being able to overhaul their rivals. This time it may be Everton who will be doing the dictating and I shall be surprised if their entitlement to two points is not emphatic. From being a man completely out of touch, Scott has never looked back since regaining his place in the League side and his inspiration through some of the finest form he has shown joining the club has contributed considerably to the brightening of the Everton picture. Once Temple follows suit and Pickering is given the chance to become a finisher instead of a forager Everton could easily become a force again.
A TREBLE?
While Everton have won two League games in succession this season, they have not won so far on successive Saturdays. What a boost to their Cup hopes it would be to beat Aston Villa today and with at Blackpool next Saturday, with a mid-week triumph over West ham on Tuesday thrown in for good measure! This may not be too much to ask and such a treble would surely bring a lot of their supporters out of hiding. This is the type of consistency that is called for if a revivalist run in the Cup competition is to become anything more than a pious hope. Goodison Park has been anything but a happy hunting ground for Aston Villa in recent seasons, for not since 1960-61 have they won a league game there. They showed there fangs in 1962-63 with a 1-1 draw but I think the advantage definitely lies with Everton to-day. Aston Villa will be without centre half John Sleeuvenhoek, who received a baldly gashed leg during the 4-1 victory over Newcastle United last Saturday. Former youth international Lew Chatterley deputises at centre half. Everton; Barnett; wright, Wilson; Harvey, Labone, Harris; Scott, Hurst, Pickering, Trebilcock, Temple. Aston Villa; Withers; Aright, Aitkens; Parker, Chatterley, Pountney, MacLeod, Hamilton, Hateley, Woosnam, Scott. Substitute; Park.

TREBILCOCK SCORES IN GOODISON DEBUT
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday January 8, 1966
PICKERING REACHES AN EVERTON HALF CENTIRY
EVERTON 2 ASTON VILLA 0
By Michael Charters

Everton; Barnett; Wright (T), Wilson; Harvey, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott (A), Hurst, Pickering, Trebilcock, Temple, Substitute Husband. Aston Villa; Withers; Wright (M), Aitken; Parker, Chatterley, Pountney; MacLeod, Hamilton, Hateley (Captain), Woosnam, Scott (T), Substitute; Park. Referee; Mr. P. Baldwin (Middlesbrough).
The pitch looked much drier than it did for the international on Wednesday. There was a fair gate, with particular interest in the home debut of Mike Trebilcock, the £20.000 signing from Plymouth Argyle. Woosnam had a shooting chance in the first minute thanks to a good headed pass by Hateley, but the Villa skipper hit it well wide. A great bit of work between Alex Scott and Hurst should have brought Everton a goal when Hurst's pass put the winger clean through, but Scott shot against Wither's body. Villa did not clear properly, however, and Harvey was fouled just outside the penalty box, with Pickering hitting a tremendous free kick which Withers turned around the post.
MORE DANGEROUS
Everton did not settle down in attack, however, and it was Villa, swinging the ball about first time, who looked the more dangerous at this stage. Everton's defence looked quite resistant at times, although Villa were unable to make a clear-cut shooting chance. The game was mainly in Everton's half. Harris got himself in the way of a fierce shot from Hamilton which looked right on target and Everton's display so far was disappointing their fans. Woosnam should have done better from a fine through pass by Pountney but he allowed himself to be crowded off the ball. Everton's first attack for some minutes came from a centre by Alex Scott, which Pickering headed down for Withers to make a simple save.
60-YARD RUN
Temple enlivened the game! with a 60-yard run in which he weaved his way past three defenders but spoiled it by misplacing his final pass to Pickering. From a free kick taken by Aitken, Hateley went inches higher than Labone to make a strong header which flashed over the bar before Barnett could move. A blunder by Wilson should have given Villa a goal. The Everton defence was wrongfooted by Hamilton's pass and Hateley was clean throughwhen he lost possession as Barnett came out. Wilson tried to dribble his way out of the penalty box, lost possession and McLeod's shot flashed just wide.
PARKER HURT
There was a long delay while Parker had attention for an injury and the crowd, already chilled by the weather and not warmed up by the quality of the play, became very restive. Parker went off, helped by the trainer. This was after 30 minutes. Everton took the lead after 31 minutes with a freak penalty. The award was clear enough as Mick Wright dived full length to save a shot from Trebilcock, which was deflected away from Withers by Chatterley. Pickering took the kick and Withers saved at full-stretch, pushing the ball out to Alex Scott, who turned it back into the middle for Pickering to stick out a foot and divert the ball Into the corner of the net. This was Pickering's 50th League goal for Everton. Everton were fortunate totake the lead for their display had been unconvincing. It was remarkable that Trebilcock's shot had led to Everton's goal for the newcomer was hardly in the game at all and seemed lost by the pace of it. Villa were still playing with 10 men, making no attempt to bring a substitute for the injured Parker. Villa finally brought on Park five minutes before half time, which meant they had played for 10 minutes with 10 men. Only Harris and Temple, were in anything like theirnormal form for Everton and many mistakes were being made in midfield, although Villa were unable to take advantage of them. Half-time. Everton 1, Aston Villa nil.
Harris, Alex Scott and Temple worked an Intricate move down the left on the restart and although Temple put the ball in the net he was clearly offside.
OUT OF LUCK
Pickering had desperately hard luck with the best individual effort of the game. He broke through on the right from a move started by Alex Scott, and hit a shot straight at Withers. The ball rebounded off Withers, only for Pickering to put a second shot against the goalkeeper and from there Villa cleared. The referee had words withAitken after blatant foul on Alex Scott—one of many which the full back had used to stop the Everton winger. Everton's display showed little improvement, although they were playing with more drive than in the first half. Even after making every allowance possible it had to be said that Trebilcock's home debut had been most disappointing. Alex Scott was leading a minor revival for Everton. Brilliant work by him near the corner flag enabled Trebilcock to make a shot which was blocked and then Scott himself had a shot intercepted. The ball finally went out to Harvey, who put it high over the bar.
DISALLOWED
Hateley got the ball in the net but was flagged offside. From the free kick the ball was worked up to Pickering who was clean through, but in trying to work his way around Withers the centre forward himself an impossible shooting angle.
INACCURATE
A foul by Aitken on Tommy Wright incensed the crowd and from the free kick Harris moved up to make a header which went yards over the bar. Although Everton were doing much more of the attacking now, their finishing was inaccurate. Everton were as poor to-day as they had been good last week. Pass after pass was off the mark. Withers made a magnificent save from Hurst, who had a fine shooting chance when Scott's shot bounced off Chatterley straight to him. Withers an exceptionally tall man, flung himself full-length to push the ball away near the foot of the post. From the corner, Temple tried a volley but pulled the ball wide. In another Everton attack. Hurst made a shot but Withers was there again to save well. Tony Scott and Park both put shots over the bar in isolated Villa attacks and although Everton had much more of the ball their display was one of the most unconvincing this season.
FINE EFFORT
Temple and Alex Scott continued to be Everton's best with Harris also doing well. Temple made a fine effort from one difficult chance and got a corner when the ball glanced off Chatterley. Little had been seen of MacLeod but he did well to avoid Harris' tackle and make a centre which Woosnam prodded straight at Barnett. The referee booked Aitken for the most blatant foul of all on Alex Scott. After all the disappointment Trebilcock delighted the crowd with a brilliant goal 10 minutes from the end. From a long through pass by Alex Scott, Trebilcock ran into the open space to take a headed pass from Pickering and hammer the ball past Withers from 12 yards.
AMAZLNG SCENES
There were amazing scenes shortly after this goal when Harris was flattened by Hateley. The referee blew for a foul, but the incident so incensed some of the Everton players that one moved on to the scene and had a brush with Hateley before they were separated. A spectator ran on but was stopped by Chatterley. Chatterley fouled Pickering and other players had to separate the pair. When the ball was being placed for another Everton free kick. Hamilton kicked it away and had has name taken.  The game had been simmering for some time, mainly because of the vigorous tactics of Villa, but these explosions so near the end of the game had the crowd roaring and throwing articles on to the pitch when a Villa player came near the touchline. Final; Everton 2, Aston Villa 0. Official attendance 34,641.

EVERTON A v.  ROCHDALE RES
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, January 8, 1966
In a fast flowing half Everton took command and Grant gave them the lead after 20 minutes. McLaughlin added a second goal 10 minutes later, quickly followed by another from Rutherford. Half-time; Everton A 3, Rochdale Res nil. Full time Everton A 5 Rochdale Res nil
Everton B 3, Rochdale A nil.
MATCH OFF
CENTRAL LEAGUE
Leeds United Reserves v Everton Reserves

P.F.A. BACKS MOVE TO LIFT LIFE BAN
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, January 8, 1966
By Malcolm Musgrove, chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association
In this boom season for soccer, with its glittering promise of World Cup and European success for England, three former star personalities of the home scene continue to wait and wonder whether they will ever be part of the glamour of professional soccer again. They are Peter Swan, David Layne (Sheffield Wednesday) and Tony Kay (Everton), who were barred from the game for life after the sensational bribery and corruption storm. Now they are back in the news, for recently there has been a growing campaign-led by Manchester United's manager Matt Busby -for the F.A. to lift this ban and allow them to come back into professional soccer. As chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association, I commend this move. Make no mistake. They have fully deserved their punishment. But even the "knockers" and pessimists in the game cannot deny that they have already suffered enough for their foolishness by not only being kept from pursuing the livelihoods they love, but also suffering the of shame and indignity of jail sentences. The recent campaign to reinstate these players is not an official one. It is designed to publicise their cause, and to eventually bring in enough supporters of the idea both in and out of the game, to persuade the F.A. to meet and reconsider their decision. It seems that soccer is the only profession whereby once a life ban has been imposed on an " employee," that person seemingly has no chance of having his punishment lessened. Even if a doctor or a lawyer offends the code of his profession, he has the right to appeal to his particular governing committee, and is often able to return to his profession after a few years. There Is no reason why this should not be the case as far as these players are concerned, and I will continue to give them all my support. So, too, will the committee of the Professional Footballers' Association. Of course, there are one or two vital problems that could arise, should the F.A. lift this ban. Problems, for example, like the possible adverse reactions of other players . . . and the fans.
FRUSTRATION
Firstly, I am certain that while there was a great feeling of resentment and embarrassment among professional footballers at the time of the bribery allegations, they would accept Swan, Kay and Layne back in the game to-day as if nothing had happened! The reason is simple. Every player has experienced spells out of the game at one time or another. Maybe they have been dropped from the first team —or they have been injured. But whatever the reason, no one outside professional football can fully appreciate the frustration and disappointments a player feels when he is not taking part in the game. I have been luckier than most players, for the longest I have been out of the game was for three weeks. due to a leg injury. But during that time. I cannot describe my feelings as I lay on the treatment table. It must be much more depressing for Swan, Layne and Kay. For them, League soccer is remote, and at the same time they are surrounded by a stigma that will probably be withthem and their families for the rest of their lives. This leads me to my second point. It is not just the players who have suffered from the unhappy events of two years ago. Their families have done so just as much with the publicity that engulfed the trials and the shame of the jail terms. I think the man in the street is generally sympathetic towards these players and their families. After all, many people must have faced similar problems at one time or another. This is why I doubt whether the players in question would be the subject of abuse and barracking from football crowds. Even the most unruly soccer fans in the country and I believe that there are far fewer of these than most critics would have us believe appreciate that every player has a bad game at some time, and would not draw the obvious conclusion if players like Swan had an off day. Being sticklers for tradition, the F.A. and Football League are unlikely to call emergency meetings now to discuss the problem. But the move to lift the life-ban of Swan. Ray and Layne must come—and come it will I'm sure. I would hate to see the day when our soccer authorities spurned sentiment and a sense of fair play for the insistence of getting their pound of flesh.

GOAL FOR NEWCOMER BUT-
The Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, January 10, 1966
TREBILCOCK HAS STILL TO PROVE HIMSELF
EVERTON 2 ASTON VILLA 0
By Jack Rowe
One of the most interesting features of this match, which became so rumbustious in the fifteen minutes at Goodison Park on Saturday, was the reaction of referee P. Baldwin (Middlesbrough) to handling offences committed by the left backs of each side, with the same object in view both achieving the same result yet earning different punishment. Everton fans howled their disapproval in the second half when Villa’s Aitken blatantly pulled back Alex Scott to stop the winger going clear and there was no sympathy with the player when Mr. Baldwin took the offender’s name. I don’t disagree with the referee’s action because Aitken was guilty of unfair conduct, but I wonder what Everton fans thought about the incident in the first half when Ray Wilson was involved.
PULLED BALL DOWN
Wilson did not go near a Villa player, but when a pass was going over his head to the unmarked right winger MacLeod he jumped up and pulled the ball down with his hands. He had no chance of reaching it with his head and if the ball had gone beyond him MacLeod could have been just as dangerous as Scott in his advance on goal, but all that happened was a free kick to Villa and no admonition at all to Wilson. Were the offences any different in their intent? I cannot see anything which makes one worse than the other, which makes Aitken unlucky to receive the punishment he did. From what I saw there were at least three other occasions when the taking of names would have been much more justified. Villa centre forward Hateley for example, was fortunate to escape notice after an on the ground contact with Harris, while centre half Chatterley roused Pickering so much with a touch line tackle that we had the spectacle of the Everton man advancing towards his opponents in a manner which left no doubt what he thought about it all. That, fortunately was as far as it got but the referee let the incident go without any remonstration. One must accept that he had not seen what had happened, but one must also say that here was a match in which the referee seemed too remote from what was going on and that the application of the big stick would have done good. Villa played it hard from the start. No one can really grumble about that, but where they went wrong was in making it too hard when the ball was not the target in the later stages when they were on the way to defeat. It was this which caused all the boiling up towards the end and Villa must take most of the blame because only once did I see an Everton man do anything really questionable-and that was under provocation. Everton won deservedly and if Withers had not been in such good form they would have won more handsomely. He made two great saves from Pickering in the second half and was there again to foil Hurst when it looked as though nothing could prevent a score.
TREBILCOCK SCORERS
Chief interest was centred on new man Trebilcock. I am glad he scored in the 80th minute when he positioned himself well to take Pickering’s glorious headed flick and hammer it home because this must have made his day. Apart from this his display did not do a lot to convince Everton followers that he is better than Young. However, a first match at Goodison park, before a critical crowd must have been an ordeal, and if he can score goals he has a pretty good answer. It was his shot which led to the first goal in thirty-one minutes, a minute after Villa right half Parker had to go off with  a face injury to be replaced, rather belatedly it seemed, by park some ten minutes afterwards. Trebilcock’s chip had gone beyond Withers when full back Wright a magnificent dive and two-handed catch by the post. Pickering’s attempt to place the spot kick failed for Withers had anticipated it, but could not hold the ball. From the rebound Scott pushed it back into the middle and Pickering is credited with turning it into the net although it looked to me as if Wright also got a touch. I thought Harris Pickering and Labone the most consistent Everton players with Wilson not far behind and Scott and Temple showing up well in spells. The side still lacks driving force, but in the end they were the stronger team and this success, plus the point at Tottenham, will have done them a lot of good. Villa had plenty of ideas in midfield, especially when Woosnam and Hamilton were able to get together, but there was no finality. This was poor reward for left half Pountney, who played excellently all through. Everton; Barnett; Wright (T), Wilson; Harvey, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Hurst, Pickering, Trebilcock, Temple. Aston Villa; Withers; Wright (M), Aitken; Parker, (Park ), Chatterley, Pountney; MacLeod, Hamilton, Hateley, Woosnam, Scott (T). Referee; Mr. P Baldwin (Middlesbrough) Attendance 34,641.

MIXED DEBUT FOR TREBILOCK
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Monday January 10, 1966
By Leslie Edwards
There can have been few more extraordinary home League debuts than that of Mike Trebilcock, the forward Everton signed from Plymouth Argyle. He failed completely to get into the game for much of the first half and then, when Pickering had mistimed an attempt at a big shot, the new boy stuck out his right foot and volleyed the ball gently towards the far upright. There, Wright, a full-back, brought off a one-handed save that would have done justice to any goalkeeper. Referee Baldwin, of Middlesbrough, later to earn much opprobrium, gave the penalty: Withers saved brilliantly, but could not prevent Pickering scoring at the second attempt Villa protested that when Scott turned the ball across goal off Withers' initial save Pickering was in an offside position. Their anger and protestations got them nowhere. A match which got less and less distinguished and which ended with two scenes, with a spectator on theplaying pitch following one of them, was finally clinched when Trebilcock, picking up a through pass by Pickering strode on a few yards and then hit a stunning shot for a goal on his first home appearance. This joyous score, plus the fact that only a full-back's handling prevented him fromgetting two goals, made his bow at Goodison Park notable: yet apart from this and from one clever flicked shot which rattle close to getting a goal from an impossible angle. Trebilcock was rarely seen. He hasn't the expertise at the moment to look a good First Division proposition, but to be fair one must give him his chance to settle down.
Ugly scenes
Villa lost their good wing half-back, Parker, after a clash of heads with Hurst before the game was very old. They made the mistake of not bringing on the substitute. Park. for 15 minutes and during this time Evertors got the first goal. -- Maybe it was the frustration of not being able to wipe out this goal which caused Villa to lose their heads. Aitken started it all by a Rugby tackle on Scott who threatened to leave him yards behind. Hamilton tended to court trouble everywhere and a too tolerant referee allowed much to pass without comment. Finally Harris was kicked on the head when he and Hateley went down together shortly before the end. This was an ugly moment and there was another to follow when Pickering advanced menacingly along the touch-line towards Chatterley after that player had fouled him. Villa left the field to a storm of shouting and whistling. It was an unhappy finish to a game which had begun promisingly. And there were times early on when Villa gave indication of how they had taken a 3-0 lead against the same opponents at Villa Park only a few weeks ago. If there is anything to be said for Villa it is that when Hateley scored what appeared to me to be a perfectly good goal the referee, working by the linesman's flag. ruled it out for offside. It wasn't one of Everton's most distinguished home victories this season, but it was an important one. They tackle West Ham on Tuesday and can climb appreciably in the table if they make sure of two more points.
Defence absolved.
Whatever their position. Everton's defence can scarcely be blamed. The two goals Leicester City got here on November 6 are the only ones the Everton defence has conceded at home in League matches since as far back as October 9 when Tottenham scored. Undoubtedly the excellence of Wright and Wilson has had a great deal to do with this feat. Wilson's sharpness In possession: his fast reactions in all situations and his air of confidence must give the rest of the defence a boost in morale. My apologies to him, by the way. for involving him and not the culprit. Moore in the incident which led to the goal by Poland last week. The Everton player who caught the eye most on Saturday was Hurst. True, he misplaced some passes on a pitch which was better than the mud-pack on which the International was played, but in general he was very good and it took a miraculous save by Withers to deny him a second-half goal. He is big, strong. determined and a great prospect. His duet with Scott which ended in the winger's shot striking the goalkeeper was as good a move as we saw all day Villa could thank Withers for having a chance of a point until Trebilcock got his goal. He was all but knocked flat by the force of a free kick from Pickering —somehow he got the ball round an upright—and that was merely the start of a long. hard stint of endeavour. Pickering, twice denied within a few seconds. was the man who must have thought him unbeatable. Normally I don't subscribe to the idea that when a game becomes rough a referee is inevitably to blame. but in this case I think the players and the referee must share the blame. What happened In those last 13 minutes was anything but edifying.

EVERTON DELAY CHOUCE, BUT-
The Liverpool Daily Post- Tuesday, January 11, 1966
TREBILCOCK MAY BE RESTED IN FAVOUR OF YOUNG
By Ian Hargreaves
Everton have the chance to pick up a couple of valuable points to-night, when they entertain the reigning European Cup Winners’ Cup holders, West Ham United. The London side have recently shown few flashes of the form that won them international fame, and so far have won only one of fourteen away matches, their most recent set-back being at Newcastle on Saturday. Everton manager Harry Catterick said last night that several of his players had received knocks during their match with Aston Villa, and one or two were extremely doubtful. “I shall not name the side until shortly before the game,” he added. In view of the fact that new signing Mike Trebilcock seems to be taking a little time to acclimatise himself to the extra speed of First Division football, it is possible he will be rested for this game in favour of Alex Young, whose delicate style is not likely to be destroyed by West Ham’s defensive methods. West ham generally play clever, constructive football without relying overmuch on physical power, which means that Young’s reluctance to be involved in fiery scrimmages will not impose a crippling handicap.
YOUNGSTERS ARE SETTLING DOWN
West Ham have given several players to England recently, notably their captain and half back Bobby Moore, who played at Goodison against Poland last Wednesday. Geoff Hurst, easily their most dangerous marksman and a man who could edge Roger Hunt out of the England team, John Sissons, one of the youngest players ever to feature in a Wembley final, and that fine cricketing goalkeeper, Jim Standen are other notable personalities. Everton’s recent improvement has been marked if not spectacular, however, and with youngsters like Barnett and Hurst gradually settling down to play a vital part, they should soon establish the kind of secure League position that could act as backing for a successful run in the Cup.

MERCURIAL WEST HAM AT EVERTON
The Liverpool Evening Express- Tuesday, January 11, 1966
By Leslie Edwards
West Ham, who held the Cup before Liverpool relieved them of it, come to Goodison Park to-night in one of the several Everton home fixtures brought forward to enable the ground to be prepared for the World Cup. Bobby Moore, the West Ham and England half-back, will be on parade at the place where he had such a notable part in the draw against Poland, and Everton will be wise to keep an eye on him whenever he moves into the attack. He heads a ball at goal as well as Jack Charlton. It wasn't his fault England didn't win. Everton took three points from West Ham last season, but failed to win the game at Goodison Park. The London side can be very good indeed on their day, but they are mercurial. Byrne, at best, is a great player, but one anticipates that the heaviness of the Everton pitch will not suit his style. Everton's win against Villa did not, I gather, please many of their loyalists because they allege "the football was aimless." I saw it as a reasonably good performance though we must with-hold judgment on the newcomer. Trebilcock until he has become attuned to the pace and movement of football in the top class. There are in this city a great number of acting, unpaid comedians whose humour is better, more genuine, than all the pro, scousers now on the boards. One of them, Bob Powell, whose business consists of being good at figures (" and especially Bardot's") was telling me about his next door Liverpudlian neighbour on the night Liverpool won the Cup. "He came round to my house rubbing his hands delightedly and observing: "And after all Everton haven't won the Cup since the war . . ." "I told him," said Bob "that he hadn't to forget that his lot hadn't won it since the Boer War." He doesn't like attending Anfield and wouldn't do so except that there's only one thing slightly less tiresome than hanging wallpaper . . .
Such patently biased followers of football get my blessing because their partisan spirits are blessed with good humour. You can have the others who read into innocent remarks in this column some imagined leaning to one or other of our seniors!
WELL OBSERVED
From young Brian Thomas, of Buckley, Flintshire comes this remarkable word-picture of his fortnightly trip to Goodison Park. The thousands of other soccer pilgrims from over the water cannot but be impressed by Mr. Thomas’ keen sense of observation. He says;-
Match buses start from Roe Street, the sign reads, so you make your way from murky Central across the bustling Saturday one-way thoroughfare, passing the large, grey Christmas-decked stores and 'cutting' your way through the smell of rotting vegetable waste, avoiding the entreaties' of two Eliza Doolittles huddled in the market doorway. The buses, two of the off-green variety, are waiting, with their would-be occupants placing last minute wagers on Echo-listed horses. Rain has begun to fall from metallic skies and you hurry aboard and climb into an aroma of cigarette smoke and disinfectant. Loud nasal comments about the mid-week ' massacre' at Manchester come from optimistic away match supporters. The rest either read tightly-folded papers or just sit gloomily waiting for the bus to fill. Three bells. We ease into the flow of Tunnel-bound traffic. cross the axis of the city and crawl up scruffy Scotland Road with its prison block tenements and steps of Victorian terraces hiding behind them. Scotland Road becomes Kirkdale, Kirkdale becomes Walton without any visible change of colour in the charcoal-stained landscape. Then, towering above the rooftops and defying the foggy drizzle to envelope them, the four floodlight pylons. The journey now has a purpose. For the faithful blue-and-white clad pilgrims the goal is in sight. The magnetism of the pylons attracts passengers out of their top deck seats: newspapers are concealed in overcoats or ragged oil-stained jackets. The fanatics are leaving the slowing bus and ignoring or dodging traffic in a headlong rush across the road and up a side street dominated by its tall red-brick wall of the main stand at its end. The atmosphere now has changed from gloom. There is irritation when the elderly programme seller (his hand shaking but not from excitement) fails to find change in his oversize tweed coat packet. People are elbowing past. "Keep the change!" It was only sixpence anyway. You select your queue—it hardly seems to move. Suddenly you're inside and pushing and running up the steps to the terraces. The green of the playing area with its cinder rack border unfold before you: the players are waiting, a whistle, movement on the pitch, and you become part of the roaring, swaying, swearing, worshippers of Everton.

YOUNG RETURNS FOR EVERTON
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Tuesday, January 11, 1966
TREBILCOCK INJURED
TO-NIGHT’S GAME
By Leslie Edwards
Alex Young returns to the Everton team to-night against West Ham in place of newly-signed Mike Trebilcock, who scored on his home debut against Villa on Saturday. Announcing the change, Manager Catterick said; “Trebilcock was troubled last week with an ankle injury and it has re-occurred this week. He did not training yesterday.” Everton; Barnett; Wright, Wilson; Harvey, Labone, Harris; Scott, Hurst, Pickering, Young, Temple.
West Ham manager Ron Greenwood has sprung four team surprises. The biggest surprise is his decision to rest centre forward Johnnie Byrne and bring in Martin britt for his first game since November 2. Out too, goes left winger John Sissons, Brian Dear coming in for only his second game of the season. Also out are full backs Joe Kirkup and John Charles. Dennis Burnett and Jack Burkett are preferred. Said a West Ham official “As far as I know, they are all dropped. No one is injured.” West Ham’s last league win was on December 12. West ham; Standen; Burnett, Burkett; Bovington, Brown, Moore; Brabrook, Peters, Britt, Hurst, Dear.

WORLD CUP
The Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, January 12, 1966
GOODISON CALL FOR 20,000 MORE FORMS
World Cup officials in Liverpool hope to clear the backlog of ticket application forms this afternoon. An official at the information centre in Cases Street last night said forms would be sent in the post this morning to people who had applied in the last two days. “By lunchtime, we hope to be in a position to hand out forms as the people come into the office,” he said. The 1,500 forms received at Cases Street yesterday were used to help clear the backlog. About 1,000 were posted last night and the remainder will go to applicants this morning. The box office at Goodison Park, where the ticket staff has been increased from three to five have asked World Cup headquarters in London for another 20,000 forms to add to the 5,000 they received yesterday. The fresh supply is expected to arrive from London by train to-day. Successful applicants will have to wait until April before they get their hands on the actual admission tickets.
CAPACITY FIXED AT 62,000
Ground capacity has been fixed at about 62,000. There will be 22,500 tickets at £2 12 6d and a further 22,500 at 30s for places behind the goals. Mr. Bill Dickinson, Everton, F.C secretary, said club shareholders and season-ticket holders could not now have priority in the allocation of tickets. “Their priority expired when the box office was opened to the general public,” he said. An official at World Cup headquarters in London said the demand for tickets on Merseyside was heavier than anywhere else in the country.
TUNNEL TAKES RUSH SMOOTHLY
Football fans bound for Goodison Park for the Everton-West Ham United match added to rush-hour traffic in Birkenhead last night, but the Tunnel peak period passed smoothly- and no delays were reported after as the fans drove home.

DRILLING ON THE NEW MERSEY TUNNEL STARTS TODAY
The Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday January 12, 1966
CEREMONIES AT LIVERPOOL AND WALLASEY
It is now just over forty years since the late Princess Royal switched on the power to start the pneumatic drills on a site at George’s Dock, Liverpool, for the first of two vertical working shafts, each 200-free deep for the present Mersey Tunnel. Today those events will be repeated when at 11.30 a.m. the Lord Major of Liverpool (Alderman David Cowley) starts the drills at the now derelict Waterloo goods depot in Waterloo Road- inaugurating the work on Liverpool’s second river crossing. Less than an hour later, his actions will be repeated by the Mayor of Wallasey (Alderman C.G . Tomkins) at Denman Grove, near the Seacombe Ferry-and the first act in the big dig for the second Mersey Tunnel will be completed. It is hoped to complete work on the new pilot tunnel for the new crossing in twelve months. The pilot tunnel to be about 12ft high and 12ft across, will be driven out from the base of the two vertical shafts to be sunk at the Waterloo and Seacombe sites. The work now being started is on these two shafts.
FIVE-LANE APPROACH ROADS
When completed the new tunnel will have two 12ft carriageways, approached by five-lane approach roads. The length from portal to portal will be approximately one-and-a-half miles but the total length including the approach roads will be more than five miles. Traffic will enter on the Liverpool side from a large junction to be constructed on lard already partly cleared in the Scotland Road-Cazneau Street area. Traffic will pass under Scotland Road and through a deep cutting, entering the tunnel itself at a portal adjacent to Charters Street. In Wallasey, the portal will be in the disused railway cutting behind the recreation ground in St. Paul’s Road. Traffic will enter Wallasey through a large junction at Gorsey Lane Bridge and other traffic will flow under the bridge along the course of the old Seacombe-Wrexham railway track to connect eventually with the proposed mid-Wirral motorway.
£741,000 PILOT TUNNEL CONTRACT
The contract for the pilot tunnel, worth £741,000 has been awarded to Marples Ridgway Ltd, of London Consulting engineers for the project are Messrs Mott Hay and Anderson, of London and Liverpool, who were consulting engineers for the first tunnel. When the Princess Royal started the work off on the present Tunnel on December 16, 1925, nearly nine years were to elapse before the first motorists made the under-river journey from Liverpool to Birkenhead. This time. It is hoped that the tunnel will be ready in just under four years -by the autumn of 1970. There’s a difference, too, in the cost; The existing four-lane Mersey Tunnel cost about £7,000,000 the new one with its approach roads is expected to work out nearer £20,000,000. By the time King George V and queen Mary came to Liverpool to open the Tunnel in 1934, 1.200.000 tons of rock, gravel and clay had been excavated; 560.000 lbs of explosives had been used; 82,000 tons of cast iron had been put in place to line it; and 7.482.000.000 tons of water had been pumped from the workings. At the height of the construction period, 1.700 men were working on the Tunnel. Nearly 600 miles of electric cable were used and about 1.000.000 bolts for the cast-iron lining. Rock excavated from the Liverpool side of the Tunnel was used to fill the Otterspool Promenade site and a site at Dingle being reclaimed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. On the Birkenhead side, rock was deposited in a worked-out quarry at Storeton. 

EVERTON TWICE HIT BACK TO DRAW WITH WEST HAM
The Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday January 12, 1966
PICKERING PENALTY FAILURE COSTS A POINT
A SECOND HALF REVIVAL ASTOUNDS THE LONDONERS
EVERTON 2 WEST HAM UNITED 2
By Horace Yates
The verbal lashing Everton must have received, and certainly deserved, at half-time worked wonders for it transformed a hesitant, complacent, and dispirited side into what must have appeared like a plague of hornets to an astounded West Ham. The great revival did not produce victory, but only a missed penalty by Pickering saved the Londoners. Twice West Ham without a League win since December 22 and with a reshuffled side to mark their manager’s displeasure, took the lead and not until five minutes from the end did Goodison Park ring to a Pickering equaliser. In the end I think it fair to say Everton deserved a point and had it not been forthcoming they could have blamed only their own inadequate finishing. West Ham must find something strangely invigorating in the Merseyside air, for no matter what they may or may not be accomplishing elsewhere, they are invariably tough to beat in Liverpool. When hurst swept the ball into goal to give West Ham a thirteenth minute lead it was the first goal conceded by Everton in a home League game since Leicester scored twice on November 6 and judging by the way West Ham were playing it was not hard to think in terms of yet another reverse. Indeed, so composed and fluent was their combination that it was hard, to realise that in this most disappointing season for them they are still bracketed among the clubs involved in the bottom of the table struggle. Of course, it was Everton’s lethargy and inability to find the man with the pass that contributed to the impression that the worries were with Everton rather than West Ham.
CROWD KEEP BALL
Possibly it was a reflection of the frustration the crowd felt when they refused to return the ball until they had been badgered for several minutes by police officers. “Ee, aye addeo,” they chanted. “We’ve got the ball, but after another one had been thrown on, the original trickled back onto the field. If West Ham had visions of scoring their second away victory, who could blame them? They were ahead worthily and convincingly, but like everyone else they were shattered by the venom of Everton’s retaliation on the resumption. In the first minute Pickering almost headed in and John Hurst was only denied by the alert Standen. Everton’s assault was continuous until Dear, from way out on the touch line, lofted the ball over Barnett’s head to thump the bar. Still this was only a passing phrase, a reminder that West Ham were still a force. An equaliser seemed inevitable and it duly matured after fifty minutes. West Ham probably thought they had escaped when Harris back-headed the ball across goal and Brown beat Pickering in a leap to head the ball out. Scott had different ideas. He swooped on it and before the West Ham defence could regroup to meet this new threat, Scott had hammered a great drive into the net. Everton’s come-back seemed complete. Gone was the West Ham confidence and tackles that had seemed unerring, now began to miss. Pickering put the ball into the net, only to be ruled off-side and Everton vainly claimed a penalty kick for a handling offence by Moore.

TEN CORNERS
Some indication of the way in which the pendulum had swung could be gathered from the fact that in twenty second-half minutes Everton had forced ten corners compared with one in the whole of the first half. A relieved Wilson could only have been delighted with West ham strategy which completely ignored the attacking menace of Brabrook, for the winger had threatened to tear the international full back apart as I have not seen any other opponent do for a long time. It was Brabrook’s  mastery of Wilson in a zig-zag run that had produced the scoring chance so brilliantly turned to account by Hurst. Wilson was in trouble whenever they clashed and for West Ham to leave their ace raider out in the cold was inexcusable, even though the emphasis may have shifted to defence. Wright, on the other hand, was scarcely troubled by Dear, so much so that he lost no opportunity to lend his weight to attack. It was from one of his raids that he fell in a tackle by Burkitt inside the penalty area. Immediately the referee pointed for a penalty kick with a decisiveness which, I must admit was not universally shared. Pickering who had a penalty kick saved on Saturday, but scored from the rebound crashed the ball high over the bat. What a disappointment for the Everton pressure deserved and demanded a goal. Young, a very different player after an indifferent beginning was looking for goals and striving to provide them. He should have done better than head wide from a Scott centre and in 77 minutes from one of their spasmodic breaks, West Ham scored again. From the touch line Barnett crossed the ball and Britt dislodged the ball from Barnett’s hands. The ever-ready Peters turned the ball into goal, so that in 77 minutes defeat was again staring Everton in the face. Shaken out of their stride by this unexpected jolt, Everton needed some minutes to recover, but with Temple raiding brilliantly on the left and Harvey thrusting away expertly, Scott gave Young another heading chance which ended comfortably in the hands of the goalkeeper. Again West Ham knew their moments of panic in crowded goalmouth scenes but desperate defence came out on top until Temple put the ball high into the goal area where Labone headed forward for Pickering to score with a scissors kick in 85 minutes. At last Everton had saved a match they could so easily have won and yet might well have lost. Why they should inflict the lackadaisical show with which they opened, on the long-suffering supporters is something of a mystery. They could not claim that it was the opposing defence that tied them in knots for Everton made the task easy by a ready submission that was frankly disturbing. Harris worked tremendously hard throughout but it was an example only tardily followed. Pickering on the occasions he did succeeded in out-heading a leech-like Brown, found support non-existent. It was a different story when Hurst and Young slotted into the picture. The penalty kick problem is becoming alarming. Goodison fans, so accustomed by Vernon’s seemingly automatic successes from the spot, are not relishing this new uncertainty. Pickering may still be the best man available for the job if only he will learn that power alone is not always sufficient.
MOORE’S EFFICIENCY
Manager Ron Greenwood is in a position to know best, bit if Byrne and Sissons are not emphatically more accomplished performers than a strangely ill at ease-Britt and a lack lustre Dear, then the two better known players are indeed under a cloud just now. The half back line of Bovington, brown and of the weight of Moore took a lot of the weight of the Everton assault on their shoulders and born it extremely well. Some of Moore’s tackles may not have pleased the crowd, but his efficiency and class could seldom be faulted. Everton experienced a narrow escape of their own creation and only if it has taught them the error of their ways will value be extracted from it. The road back to success is hard enough without adding to the difficulties. Everton; Barnett; Wright, Wilson; Harvey, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Hurst, J. Pickering, Young, Temple. West Ham United; Standen; Burnett, Burkitt; Bovington, Brown, Moore; Brabrook, Peters, britt, Hurst, G. Dear. Referee; Mr. R. Harper (Sheffield) Attendance 29,915.

END OF LIVERPOOL’S SCOTLAND DIVISION RECOMMENDED BY COMMISSION
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Wednesday January 12 1966
REMOVAL OF KIRKBY FROM PREMIER’S HUYTON CONSTITUENCY PROPOSED
OTHER BIG MERSEYSIDE CHANGES
Proposed changes in the boundaries of Parliamentary constituencies, announced to-day by the Boundary Commission for England, will mean the end of Liverpool's Scotland Division and the loss of a good many Labourvotes for Mr. HaroldWilson, with the removalfrom his Huyton constituency of the Kirkbyhousing estates. Other changes re commendedby the Commission affect theboundaries of the Ormskirk, Crosby, Bootle, Birkenhead, Bebington and Wirral constituencies and, if accepted, will lead to the enlargementof the Edge Hill. Exchange,Kirkdale and Toxteth divisions in the city. Garston, Walton, Wavertreeand West Derby, it ischanged.The Prime Minister's constituency loses 25.000 voters in Kirkby. which is transferred to Ormskirk. Mr. Wilson had a majority of 19.273 in 1964, when the electorate totalled 66,052.
ORMSKIRK CHANGE
The new Ormskirk constituency will take in Kirkby, but lose Formby and Rainford urban districts and the Altcar, Ince Blundell, Maghull, Sefton and Thornton parishes of West Lancashire rural district. Sir Douglas Glover (Con.) had a majority of 13.518 in 1964, when the electorate was 71.050. Bootle, it is proposed, should take in Litherland urban district from Crosby, which is to gain Formby, Altcar, Ince Blundell, Maghull, Sefton and Thornton parishes of West Lancashire rural district. In 1964 Alderman Simon Mahon (Lab) had a majority of 8.392 in Bootle, when the electorate was 65.079, and Mr. Congestion Graham Page (C.)a majority of 7,380 in Crosby, the electorate then being 57.771.
WIRRAL
Some quite radical changes are proposed to the composition of the constituencies in Wirral, Birkenhead is to take in the municipal wards of Bebington, Devonshire, Egerton and Mersey—at present in the Bebington constituency—and will lose Upton. Mr. Edmund Dell (Lab ) had a majority of 5,861 in 1964, when the electorate was 56.594. The Wirral constituency, it is recommended, should take in the Prenton and Upton wards of Birkenhead, but lose Ellesmere Port municipal borough. Mr. Selwyn Lloyd (Con.) had a majority of 14,639 in 1964. The electorate was 181,087. BEBINGTON
Bebington is to take in the municipal borough of Ellesmere Port, but will lose the Birkenhead municipal wards of Bebington, Devonshire, Egerton, Mersey and Prenton —nearly 50 per cent. of the present total electorate. Mr. Geoffrey Howe (Con.) had a majority of 2,209 in 1964, when the electorate was 74.047. The Commission recommend no changes for the Wallasey Constituency. The general review of parliamentary constituency boundaries was started in February of last year. A number of recommendations have already been published. Others are still to come. Revision of . constituency boundaries is governed by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Acts of 1949 and 1958. These limit the total number of constituencies and provide that local government boundaries are followed as far as is practicable without causing excessive disparities between electorates.
LOCAL TIES
The intention is that electorates of constituencies are to be as nearly equal as practicable. Under the 1956 Act the Boundaries Commission are relieved of the obligation to give full effect of the rules in all circumstances - for example if the changes proposed would break local ties. The Commission must have regard to the electorate quota—the total electorate of just over 30.000.000 divided by the 511 existing seats. The 1965 quota which the Commission are using in the general review is 58.759. Representations about the Commission's representations may be lodged within the next month. Where representations are made by an interested local authority or by a body of more than 100 electors, the Commission cannot proceed with their final recommendations to the Home Secretary until a local inquiry has been held.

EVERTON WORTH MORE THAN A DRAW
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Wednesday, January 12, 1966
By Leslie Edwards
Impossible not to feel great sympathy for an Everton who should have won comfortably, but who, in fact, survived with only a point through a late goal by Pickering. There was no lack of effort; no lack of encouragement from their followers. Yet West Ham came perilously close to winning and this despite the absence of such fine players as Byrne and Sissons. The crux came mid-way through the second half when Everton's long, frustrating labours to discount their opponent's early goal had succeeded. It seemed only a matter of time before Everton's newfound spirit brought the winning goal. When Burkitt brought down full-back Wright, as that player was speeding for goal from the inside-right position. Mr. Harper of Sheffield gave the penalty and only necessity for Wright to be attended delayed what everyone thought would be the winning goal. Pickering placed the ball on the spot; replaced it to make certain it lay exactly to his liking and then off quite a short run-up hit a big shot clean over the bar! It was then all too late to talk of his having missed a penalty, at the other end and as recently as Saturday. To miss this criticalchance at such a stage and after so much pressure was damning, but not so damning as the goal West Ham got immediately afterwards when Britt, challenging Barnett as the ball came in from the right, caused the goalkeeper to lose his grip. Peters swept the ball over the line before Barnett had any chance of rescuing himself.
LOST THEIR STREAM
Much of Everton's steam—and nearly all the crowd's enthusiasm—was dispelled by this misfortune which came off West Ham's second worth-while attack in a half in which they were constantly at work trying to keep out Everton forwards. It looked for some time as though the Gods would not forgive Everton for missing a penalty and other hardly more difficult chances, but Pickering volleyed the ball in from a pass by Harris following a corner on the left and a 2-2 draw gave the game a more equitable result, though on the basis of attacks made and pressure exerted this was the sort of game Everton should have had no difficulty in winning with something to spare. True, their opening 30 minutes had the crowduncertain as to which way the game might go and especially so when Brabrook, a player Everton once came close to signing. played an important part in helping to give his side the lead. Wilson. who took an early knock and limped his way through much of the match, was almost mesmerised by the feinting dribble Brabrook made down the wing before edging forward a lovely pass off which Hurst turned the ball over the line (despite the fine angle) as Barnett advanced towards him. Pickering, rising to head the ball better than ever before, looked as though he would have a specially good match, with Young perhaps, benefiting from some of his flicked passes, but West Ham's well-devised defence defied penetration and Standen. the Worcestershire fast bowler. in goal. was left to chalk up long-distance wides from Hurst, Pickering, Young and others.
SIGNS OF REVIVAL
He did well to get there first when a flicked header by Pickering all but put Young through; he survived injury when Pickering, jabbing at the ball near an upright, caught him on the body and caused him to have attention. Everton themselves had been fortunate no to go two goals down when left back Burnett almost caught Barnett napping with a deceptive lob and when Britt, from lethal range. scooped his shot over the bar. The signs of Everton revival had come before the interval, but not until after the break did it mature. Scott, who had got through an enormous amount of work, drilled a fierce shot down a fine angle to level the scores; Young all but back-heeled the ball over the goal-line and then found Temple with one of a series of inch-perfect passes, only for the centre to elude everyone as it passed across the goal-face. When Wright, like Wilson. adding full-back weight to attack, was brought down the penalty conversion and victory seemed a formality. It was a crucial miss. Before West Ham had gone ahead again, Barnett, collecting a header from Dear, somersaulted and almost carried the ball over the goal-line. West Ham's second goal then struck near panic into a team which had done everything to deserve victory, but which stood a goal down and with little time remaining. Pickering's "saver" only half atoned for his penalty miss. He did get the ball in the net again in a hectic finish in which Everton sought to pile on greater pressure, but this, patently, was a score which could not stand. One thing about Everton struck me forcibly last night. They carry through to a point good mid-field movements and then disdain anything further of the kind in favour of the thumped ball into the middle. It is not as though they have towering inside men who can always get first to the ball in the air. This blasting of the ball, almost haphazard, contrasted sharply with the accuracy of Moore's long passing, some along the turf, others carefully lofted. Young. undoubtedly, is the best passer of the ball Everton have. Surely movements begun well should be carried through to their conclusion without change of method, if with occasional change of pace?

YOUNG -OR TREBILCOCK
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, January 14, 1966
By Leslie Edwards
Everton go to Blackpool. At the moment it has not disclosed whether Young or newcomer Trebilcock will occupy the inside-left position. Everton were rather luckless (and maybe at times feckless) when losing a point to West Ham.  Blackpool shared two draws with Everton a season ago and seem capable of getting another point to-morrow. With so many away fixtures to come Everton can look only to a pretty bleak ending to the season unless they suddenly find form in time for the Cup tournament. J. E. Reade. of 5 Edgar Road, writes about what he describes as the "fiddle" which has been worked on the long-suffering supporter by allocating the Goodison Road terrace for "paddock" tickets for World Cup games. “Like many others," he continues, "I have sent my application in for a four game ticket at £1 10s, presuming that this entitled me to my usual place under the main stand, but I now find that this is not the case . “I think quite a few people will be disappointed as this information was not being revealed to the general public prior to the issuing of forms. "I think 13s a bit much for what is normally ground accommodation." It doesn't matter much that the F.A. have made this new arrangement. People who wanted paddock accommodation should have been advised of the change long ago.
F Meredew, Ettington Road, Liverpool 4, brings it to my attention that footballers of the future, namely the schoolboys, have not been catered for in respect of World Cup matches at Goodison Park and presumably elsewhere. "I have been informed." he says, "that there will be no boys pen for the series (no fault of Everton F.C, which I think is a blot on the organisation, and not a fair way to treat the lads who support both local clubs week after week."

EVERTON SELECT BOY OF 16
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, January 14 1966
JOE ROYLE AT INSIDE RIGHT
YOUNG OUT
By Leslie Edwards
Everton have taken bold steps over their team to play at Blackpool to-morrow. Out goes Alex Young and is comes 16-years-old apprentice professional, Joe Boyle, from Bootle, who has been in the Central League side only for a couple of months. Hurst is moved to inside left. An ankle damaged early In the match against West Ham keeps out England full back, Ray Wilson, Sandy Brown is the deputy. Trebilcock, the newcomer from Plymouth Argyle. is given a run in the reserves because his damaged ankle has prevented him from getting himself 100 per cent. fit.
FINE HEADER
Royle is a huge boy—he stands nearly 6ft. lin. and weighs 13 stones. "He has two good feet and is a fine header of the ball," says manager Harry Catterick. Royle joined Everton after impressing their scouts when playing for Quarry Bank Grammar School. Everton; Barnett; Wright, Brown; Harvey, Labone, Harris; Scott,Royle, Pickering, Hurst, Temple.
Everton Res (v. Wolves);  Rankin: Pearson,Darcy; Gabriel, Smith, Glover, Shaw, Husband, Young,Trebilcock, Maher.
THREE CHANGES
Blackpool make three changes. Hugh Fisher, Les Lea and Bobby Waddell are all recalled. Fisher takes over from Neil Turner, who injured his back in training yesterday. Lea displaces Ian Moir on the right wing and Waddell is preferred to Jimmy Robson at inside left. Blackpool; Walters: Armfield, Thompson; Fisher, James, Green; Lea, Ball, Charnley, Waddell, Horne, Substitute: McPhee.

EVERTON’S YOUNGEST LEAGUE PLAUYER
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday January 15, 1966
ROYLE DEBUT AT 16
By Horace Yates
Joe Royle, at aged 16, the youngest Liverpool boy ever to play in a League fixture for Everton, steps out at Blackpool to-day for a debut at inside right. Another youngster, Hurst crosses to inside left to accommodate him, ex-Scottish international Alex Young, being omitted. Royle, who will be 17 in April, is a remarkable youngster in many ways. He will certainly be at no physical disparity, for he is 6ft 1in, in height and weighs 13st. his skill first marked him down for observation when playing with a secondary modern school side. Normally, transfer to Quarry Bank Grammar School, his eligibility to play for Liverpool Schoolboys would have ceased. Such an exceptional proposition was he considered however, that an approach was made to the headmaster to make Royle available for the schoolboys’ team. With co-operation forth-coming, Royle continued to make progress and on leaving school went to Goodison Park. This is his first season there and he gains promotion after 14 Central League matches, in which he has scored five goals. He is regarded at Everton as an exceptional prospect with an ability to kick with both feet and has heading accuracy above average. In Everton’s transition stage, manager Harry Catterick last night commented. “This boy must be given a chance to make the grade now.”
DELIGHTED
Hen told of his selection for the League side, Royle said, “I am delighted to get this chance, but I would never have had it without the assistance of Mr. Catterick and the coaching staff. They have all helped me tremendously.” Andy Penman played for Everton when only 15, but not in a League game. He returned to his home in Dundee in January, 1959. The kick on his ankle against West Ham, which slowed him down considerably, has proved serious enough to necessitate the withdrawal of England full back Ray Wilson, Sandy Brown is the deputy. I had been looking forward to seeing Mike Trebilcock, the former Plymouth forward, for the first time, but with recurring ankle trouble, it has been considered safer to let him prove his fitness with the reserves. Everton stand in need of a convincing performance to-day and if they can defeat mental formation confidence Blackpool with this experience must be boosted. Their record at Blackpool could hardly be more encouraging. They have not been beaten there for nine years, the last two visits ending in a goal-less draws. This season will probably be marked down as Alex Young’s most disappointing since coming to Goodison Park. I don’t think he can complain at his omission, for with the opportunity to fight back and retain his place, Young’s response for a player who has almost all the qualities to make a star, has been very disappointing. The fact that Everton are prepared to go to Blackpool with two youngsters in the vital inside forward positions when Young is fit, is an indication of the loss of faith in the Scot.
DRASTIC REDUCTION
With the introduction of youngster after youngster the average age of the Everton team has been reduced dramatically and now nearly had the side- Barnett, Wright, Harvey, Royle and Hurst-seek to show that even in a club of Everton’s standing the road to the top is wide and inviting for lads of potential. Maybe too much should not be expected too quickly, but the promise of Mr. Catterick before the season began that merit would be recognised could hardly have been more spectacularly fulfilled. Alan Ball, the Blackpool star for whom a place would willingly be found in any club in the land, will be leading the assault on Everton. He is a player rapidly improving, and much better for the control he has been exercising over his temperament in recent months. With Turner injured Fisher is at right half, Lea is preferred to Moir at outside right and Robson stands down for Waddell at inside left. Blackpool; Waiters; Armfield, Thompson; Fisher, James, Green; Lea, Ball, Charnley, Waddell, Horne, Substitute McPhee. Everton; Barnett; Wright, Brown; Harvey, Labone, Harris; Scott, Royle, Pickering, Hurst, Temple.

BARNETT BLUNDERS-AND BLACKPOOL TAKE THE GIFT
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, January 15 1966
BLACKPOOL 2 EVERTON 0
By Horace Yates

Blackpool.- Waiters; Armfield, Thompson; Fisher, James, Green; Lee, Ball, Charnley, Waddell, Horne, Substitute; McPhee. Everton; Barnett; Wright, Brown; Harvey, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Royle, Pickering, Hurst, Temple, Substitute; Morrissey. Referee; Mr. J.E. Carr (Sheffield).
The Introduction of Joe Royle, the 16 -years- old former Liverpool schoolboy, brought height to the Everton forward line. He is the youngest player to have appeared for Everton in a League game. Everton's first threat was through a free kick from Scott, but Fisher was first to the ball. From a free kick, Hurst headed on to Pickering right in front of goal, butcentre, at full stretch, missed the ball. Everton had an escape in nine minutes when Armfield pushed the ball through to Charnley, but he was badly angled and Barnett, perfectly positioned, saved easily. Royle nearly created a surprise when Green sauntered up to a ball thrown to him by Waiters. The youngster swooped, but shooting on the turn, lifted the ball over the bar.
CORNER
James was fully extended to prevent Pickering fastening on to Brown's pass, and conceded a corner. At the other end Green floated the ball across goal, and when Wright, who had just had attention for a leg injury, deflected it with his head, he was lucky to see it pass wide. The game had so far rather by-passed Ball, who was being closely shadowed by Harvey. As impressive as any one for Blackpool was the former Tranmere player Green, who almost took Barnett by surprise with a shot from outside the penalty area. Everton had not settled, and Blackpool looked more dangerous. Armfield never lost an opportunity of getting an attack in motionand from one of his efforts Brown obstructed Lea as the winger was threatening to round him. A sustained attack on the Everton goal from the free kick ended with a Waddell shot being deflected, but still within range of the alert Barnett. Harris rescued his side when a Ball-Lea link-up threatened danger. Blackpool's policy was plainly to pump the high ball into the middle and rely on Charnley's height to do the rest. It was a welcome change to see Hurst fighting his way through, but with a shooting chance at the edge of the area he lofted the ball too high. Brown twice got Everton out of tight corners, but Everton's' role was distinctly secondbest. Labone twice beat Ball, but Charnley should have done better with a through pass from the Blackpool inside-forward than to lose the ball.
BEWILDERED
In a struggling side, Royle's task was not easy, and sometimes it looked as though he was finding the Pace a little bewildering. A long throw by Brown produced Everton's most promising moment as Pickering headed across goal for Hurst to hit a shot which Waiters covered. Everton were not using their wingers. Hurst cut in from the touchline, but Royle shot over. Royle's ability to get to the ball in the air started an Everton movement which ended with Scott crossing almost from the corner flag but drooping the ball on to the roof of the net. Everton's best move so far should have put them in the lead six minutes from the Interval, Pickering sent Temple away and his square passfound Pickering in front of goal. But he shot a yard wide. Both James and Pickering were spoken to for an incident near the goal-line which[resulted in a free kick to Everton—without result. If this had not been an inspiring first half, the difficulties of the pitch had to be taken into account. Scott ran with the ball almost the entire length of the field, then won a corner. This went straight to Harris, whose mis-kick found Pickering, but the centre forward missed a chance in a million.
Half-time. Blackpool nil, Everton nil.
Some Everton spectators trying to switch ends during the interval engaged a running competition with the police. Everybody got through except one, who was taken out of the ground. Everton's goal fell five minutes after the interval when, after Armfield had kicked high downfield, Harvey brought the ball under control, turned and passed back to Barnett. It was a simple affair, but everybody was astounded to see the ball pass through the goalkeeper's legs for a gift goal. Wright, who had been limping, left the field, and Morrissey came on as substitute. He was on the left wing, with Hurst at right back and Temple at inside right, and Royle inside left.
WORTHY EFFORT
the Scott tried a shot from the corner of the box—a worthy effort which sent Waiters diving across goal. But the ball just cleared the bar. Ball usually got the better of Harvey, but Harvey once put Scott through cleverly, only to find the centre headed away. Blackpool went further ahead in 58 minutes, after Ball's victory over Harvey in another tussle. The international passed to Waddell, who flicked the ball sideways for Ball to hit a tremendous drive. Barnett almost retrieved his earlier failure with a great save at full stretch. He tipped the ball against the post, but it rebounded to Charnley,  who scored easily. The Everton goal had an escape from a corner by Green, Charnley headed the ball for Waddell, who tried to connect with an overhead kick and missed—right in front of goal. Royle again shot wide, but it was commendable to find him so much alive to the half-chance. Then Royle, from an impossible angle, made a workmanlike effort, only to send his shot across the face ofgoal. Temple and Pickering combined effectively in a midfield movement, but Waiters smothered the ball at Pickering's feet.
SUPERB
Ball's footwork was superb. It was a mark of sheer class that he could beat man after man in the minimum space, with the ball always under perfect control. Morrissey was infusing more life into the Everton attack, but a long run by him ended with the ball skidding over the by-line. Brown was alive to another back-heeled effort from Ball that might easily have sent Lea away. From a chance created by Temple, Pickering shot a foot or so too high. This was another disappointing show by Everton. Scott was awarded a free kick for obstruction inside the penalty area, and from his short pass Pickering cracked a tremendous drive towards the angle of the goal. Waiters saved brilliantly, then with a ground shot from Royle. Two shots in a minute gave Waiters his busiest period of the game. Final; Blackpool 2 Everton 0. Official Attendance 14,588.

EVERTON RES v.  WOLVES RES    
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, January 15 1966
Everton Res;- Rankin; Pearson, Darcy; Gabriel, Smith, Glover; Shaw, Husband, Young, Trebilcock, Maher. Wolves Res; Davies; Taylor, Ross; Wilson (L), Hawkins, Knighton; Thompson, Evans, Hatton, Carrick, Buckley. Referee; Mr. W.J. Hall (Preston).
Everton dominated the Play from the start. Within the first few minutes both Husband and Young had fired just wide, then Shaw put in a lovely centre which just missed the bar. Wolves' only danger was coming from their right wing pair, Evans and Thompson, but the home defence was sound. Everton were doing everything but score, with Young showing some useful touches. A neat header from him went just over. Goalkeeper Davies was lucky when Trebilcock put in a terrific drive which shook the post but rebounded to safety. As so often happens in a one-sided match, it was the Wolves who nearly scored. In two isolated breakaways Rankin had to make saves from Hatton and Carrick. Everton were still on top but could just not get the ball in the net. Wolves could consider themselves lucky to be on equal terms at the interval Half-time.—Everton Res. nil, Wolves Res. nil.

NO TIME TO REST, SAYS BATTERED CATTERICK
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, January 17, 1966
By Horace Yates
Everton F.C., manager Mr. Harry Catterick, assaulted and kicked by a hooligan element of his own club’s supporters on Saturday, expects to be back at his desk to-day. He told me last night “The doctor has told me to take things as easily as possible and to get as much rest as I can manage. This is going to be difficult however, because it’s F.A. Cup week and already I have two problems-Ray Wilson missed Saturday’s game with an ankle injury and Tommy Wright had to leave the field with an ankle injury.” Mr. Catterick still not fully recovered from an operation he had three months ago, was knocked down as he walked towards the team coach after Saturday’s game. About fifty shouting people mobbed him and the Everton manager suffered a sprained ankle and was severely bruised on the shin. Mr. George Baily chairman of the Everton Supporters Federation, dissociated members of his organisation from the outrage. “This was the action of louts football would be better without,” he said. “They are youngsters with plenty of money, out for a good time, and I only wish we could think of some way of keeping them out of grounds, for they are doing football a grave injury.” “Football League president, Mr. Joe Richards, commented; “I can’t find words strong enough to condemn them. I can remember several incidents in the past, but nothing to compare with this.” League secretary, Mr. Alan Hardaker, said “It isn’t really a football problem in that sense. It is a problem for people, who want to consider law and order generally.” Mr. Stanley Parr (Chief Constable of Blackpool) said last night. “Two officers escorted Mr. Catterick towards the waiting team coach because a section of the crowd were showing some animosity and hostility. Someone came up from behind and tripped him and the officers carried on helping him into the coach. “No trouble had been anticipated beforehand because it appeared those waiting outside were just a normal crowd of youthful fans who always wait for autographs. The incident was very quickly over.”

HOOLIGAN ASSAULT ON EVERTON MANAGER AFTER BLACKPOOL GAME
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, January 17, 1966
LEAGUE MUST SAFEGUARD OFFICIALS AND PLAYERS
MR. CATTERICK BACK AT HIS DESK TODAY TO ATCKLE CLUB’S CUP WEEK PLANS
By Horace Yates
The hooligan element among the Everton supporters really plumbed the depths on Saturday with an outrageous assault on unsuspecting manager Harry Catterick, as he was boarding the team coach after the Football League match at Blackpool. Kicked, hacked and knocked to the ground he received a sprained ankle and numerous bruises. Fortunately last night he was able to tell me “I don’t feel too bad now.” This is no way mitigates the despicable conduct, the first time any set of supporters have attacked their own club manager with physical force. My first reaction to Mr. Catterick’s statement that he contemplated taking no action against the culprits, was one of blank disbelief. If ever rowdies deserved to be hounded by the full weight of the law this was it. I gather, however, that it is not reluctance on the part of the club, but rather a lack of evidence, despite the presenceof about nine police officers in range of the fracas, that dictates official reaction. But this should not stop Everton from placing the facts before the Football League. What can they do? In my view, they can take steps to prevent anything of a similar nature from ever happening again. That to my mind is important. The League must rule that at all times it is the responsibility of the home club to ensure by adequate police protection, that fans are kept at a respectable distance when players and officials are making their way to their coach. The police could have formed a passage-way, as clubs like Arsenal do so effectively. Managers, like the players are not thin-skinned so far as verbal broadsides are concerned, but if this Everton fringe have set a new fashion in unruliness then they must be prevented by physical force if necessary from further degrading the name of football sportsmanship.
BLACK SLEEP
In the past we have had railway carriages wrecked, bottles, darts and various weapons thrown on to the field of play, fights in the crowd, mass invasion of pitches and windows in club premises smashed, but a concerned attack on a club official makes one wonder if there is any limit to which this lawless mob will not descend. A descent on players as they have been entering or leaving grounds has been commonplace for years, but these have generally been the most rabid enthusiasts eager only to back-slap their heroes and wish them well. Indeed, on this occasion, the players received nothing but adulation until the irresponsibles struck. I am certain their actions will be deprecated as much by those who stand side by side with them at matches, as by those with far looser associations but unfortunately a club’s supporters are judged by the black sheep rather than the good-as-gold average fan. What do they hope to achieve? Personally, I do not believe for one moment that they stop to consider what will be the effects of their misconduct. It is simply hare-brained misbehaviour on a wholly irresponsible scale.
REMARKABLE ESCAPE
That Mr. Catterick has been spared anything worse than a sprained ankle and severe shock is remarkable. After a day of relaxation at his parents’ home yesterday, the Everton manager was back at his home last night. Mr. Catterick does not seek immunity from normal healthy criticism and his efforts to pilot Everton back to greatness must be heaping on to his shoulders the biggest ordeal of his sporting life. Surely common sense dictates that if there were any easy way put- signing cheques for example- no ideas of accumulating wealth for the club would prevent him from seizing it. Those people who are now making unwholesome exhibitions of themselves by a failure to keep their emotions in check would be among the most vociferous in acclaiming the success of a youth policy. Their trouble is that patience has no part in their make-up. They have grown to expect success as a right and have not the intelligence to appreciate how elusive it can be. For a first hand account of what happened at Blackpool, I turn to the club chairman, Mr. E. Holland Hughes. He told me; “Mr. Catterick and I left the entrance to the Blackpool ground together. “When we were within a few yards of the Everton coach, in which the players were already seated, we were met by what was obviously a hostile crowd numbering anything from 40 to 50 chanting Catterick, Catterick. “Mr. Catterick was just ahead of me in the crowd when he appeared to be swept off his feet. The next thing I saw was him staggering into the coach. I boarded the coach without any great difficulty. “After seeing how Mr. Catterick was I inquired for witnesses. By the time the crowd had, in the main, dispersed. This attack on Mr. Catterick, who was in no position to defend himself, was a cowardly and brutal action, which all lovers of the game will condemn and deplore. “If it were the action of alleged supporters of Everton then it is a disgrace to the high reputation and traditions of a great club. It was a demonstration of rowdyism run riot. “Were it not that I realise that it represents the unbridled conduct of no more than an irresponsible fragment it would make me ashamed for the sake of the club.” During the game the only trouble given to the police by the Everton supporters was a migration in some numbers at half time from one end of the ground to the other. Only one man was caught -by a Rugby tackle- and escorted off the premises.

EVERTON RES HAD CHANCES
The Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, January 17, 1966
EVERTON RES 0 WOLVERHAMPTON RES 2
Everton reserves should have had this Central League game won long before the interval. Instead Wolverhampton Wanderers Reserves reduced to ten men, took the second half chances for a 2-0 victory. Everton were perhaps a little unlucky. They hit the post three times, but with complete domination in the first half luck should not have been necessary. Wolves could do nothing right until 65 minutes had gone when they lost Carrick with an ankle injury. This seemed to be a challenge. They re-organised themselves and swept through the Everton defence. Evans converted a Hatton corner at 75 minutes and Buckley got a second goal at 84 minutes. Trebilcock showed he had shooting power, and Shaw put through some neat passes, but Young’s failure to hold the ball when tackled weakened the line.

EVERTON’S COLTS CANNOT BE HURRIED
The Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, January 17, 1966
BLACKPOOL 2 EVERTON 0
By Horace Yates
While Everton is noy exactly a rags to riches story in reverse the inevitable team construction, undertaken at a time when ready made replacements simply do not exist-at any price- a undoubtedly a policy demanding patience and tolerance. This is a trial which had beset all clubs in turn. Even the mighty Manchester United escaped Division Two by a fractionally superior goal average in recent times. The swing of the football pendulum is no respecter of teams or personalities and the inescapable fact must be faced that nobody but a dolt can believe Everton can hope to be an exception. Today, the youngsters thrust in to premature responsibilities because of circumstances in which the club have bene caught up, cannot hurry their progress, no matter how willing may be the spirit. Defeat at Blackpool on Saturday was at least predictable, and yet only a lapse which Geoff Barnett may never repeat, probably cost Everton what could only be described as a meritorious point.
OUT OF THE CLOUDS
Even the leading clubs will tell you how happy they are to snatch an away point, no matter on which ground it may be won. Everton were shaping as though they would at least earn this satisfaction, when out of the clouds, with no hint of danger they conceded the goal that knocked the bottom out of their schemes. Barnett, one of the three of the latest colts to be tossed in at the deep end of First Division football, had merely to collect the most innocent of back passes, directed at him from no more than fifteen yards by Harvey. Instead of taking the ball that would have been childs play to him 999 times out of every thousand, he looked up at the vital moment, lost sight of the ball, which could only trickle over the line. Blackpool were given new heart, while the nightmare lived on with the young goalkeeper and the innocent Harvey was visibly upset by his unwitting contribution to the afternoon’s tragedy. Only five minutes of the second half had gone and the one incident turned the game inside out. Blackpool manager, Ron Suart, after the match, could only offer commiserations. To think, he said “of the way we have built up movements and made goals that were deserved and simply refused to come and here we get a score like this, I give up? Manager Harry Catterick has a heavy enough cross to bear these days and yet with the realism born of experience, he was able to accept it as; “Just one of those things; the sort of blow that always seems to come when you can least withstand it.” As though this in itself were not sufficient for one afternoon, Wright had to retire with an ankle injury two minutes later to be substituted by Morrissey. This meant that Everton were operating without both regular full backs, and while I rate deputy Sandy Brown one of the team’s heroes in repelling the goal front assaults, these were blows serious enough to have wounded any team. In eight vital minutes then, Everton had given away a goal, lost Wright and conceded a second goal to Charnley. Here again, the score was just another chapter in the heartless way in which fate mocks a team down on its luck. Barnett, shaken but not shattered, might well have gone as far as any goalkeeper possibly could to atone for his grievous error. Ball’s shot would have beaten almost anyone yet this youngster leapt across his goal and fantastically punched the ball away at full stretch. A diversion of another two inches and the ground would have been ringing to the save of a lifetime. Instead the ball struck the outside edge of the post and rebounded straight to Charnley, who had only to side-foot it into the net. This was rubbing salt into the Everton wounds with a vengeance. I am not going out of my way to make excuses but merely reciting the facts as I saw them. Not by any stretch of the imagination was this Everton display one of the best we have seen from them even in this disappointing season. It was galling to see their utter neglect of what could have been their most potent weapons- the wingers. There is no telling just what the speed and incisiveness of two of the more experienced members of the side could have achieved, given the opportunity, but the wingers Temple and Scott, were distressingly ignored. Whether the weight they massed to the inside forward positions was responsible for a misplaced confidence in the ability to break through here I don’t know, but not to have recognised the folly in time was disappointing in the extreme. Pickering had two outstanding chances and failed to become the hero of the hour by hitting shots narrowly wide, and on another occasion missed the ball with the goal wide open. Criticism him if you must but shots taken on the instant, as these were either go in or out and in Everton’s present plight they appear to go out with a monotonises severity.
WHAT OF ROYLE?
What of the sixteen year old Royle, Everton’s youngest introduction to first class football. Nobody expected him to be a sensation -and in he wasn’t. I think the skating rink of a pitch added to his trials, for it exaggerated his struggle to match the new speed at which he must now operate if he is to succeed. “I was just beginning to get used to it when the match ended” he said. On the credit side he fared well in the air and probably aimed more shots at goal than any other player in the match. His willingness to shoot at every opportunity was encouraging. Labone was a sheet anchor. He handled the rangy Charnley extremely well, and after an uncomfortable start out-headed the Blackpool leader. There were times too, when Harris lent his weight effectively to defence, but like the industrious Harvey, this was not a player at his best. Too often their passes went astray and Harvey faking on the responsibility of trying to curb the brillaint Ball, found him the most elusive he has ever faced. In a better side than Blackpool Ball’s efficiency would be even more pronounced, but one of the points to impress me most about the home team was the tremendous improvement in the play of John Green, the former Tranmere Rovers player. His constructive efforts were superb. Surely this is an example of the success of a policy of allowing a youngster the opportunity to gather the experience which converts him into a first class player. Are Everton’s critics too impatient to give their colts similar breathing space. I admit that Hurst has not shown the response I had expected, but for all that he is still very much in the novice stage. Blackpool.- Waiters; Armfield, Thompson; Fisher, James, Green; Lee, Ball, Charnley, Waddell, Horne, Substitute; McPhee. Everton; Barnett; Wright, Brown; Harvey, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Royle, Pickering, Hurst, Temple, Substitute; Morrissey. Referee; Mr. J.E. Carr (Sheffield). Attendance 14,000. 

MESSAGES OF GOOD WISHES FOR MR. CATTERICK
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Monday January 17, 1966
MANAGERS AND FANS CONDEMN HOOLIGANS
MANY CALLS
By Leslie Edwards
Mr. Harry Catterick, the Everton manager who was attacked after his team's defeat by 2-0 at Blackpool, on Saturday, has received a great number of written and telephoned messages of good wishes and disgust at what occurred. He said this morning at Goodison Park: " I have been surprised at the number of people who have written or telephoned. At least a dozen Football League managers have been in touch with me. Most of them think it incredible that such a thing could happen.
CONDEMNED
"Many of the fans who have written or phoned say that don't always see eye to eye with me over the selection of the team or team policy, but they are all unanimous in condemning theaction of a few hooligans. "The trouble is that the good name of the club is damaged by these few. I feel a bit sore this morning in more ways than one. But I'm all right. I am more concerned at the distress it caused my wife, who had heard it on the radio before I arrived home."

NO SHORT CUT TO TEAM BUILDING PLANS
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Monday, January 17 1966
By Horace Yates
Everton’s 2-0 defeat at Blackpool on Saturday merely emphasised that there is no short cut to their team building plans, founded on a policy of youth. As worrying as the less of two points was the ankle injury suffered by right back Tommy Wright early in the match, which caused his retirement just after Blackpool had taken the lead five minutes after the re-start. With left back Ray Wilson
Missing training last week following an ankle injury suffered against West Ham, it was hardly surprising that manager Harry Catterick should express concern, I gather however, that there is at least a 50-50 chance of both players being fit for Saturday’s F.C Cup-tie with Sunderland. Tit was a remarkable error by one of the season’s newcomers, goalkeeper Geoff Barnett, that set Everton sliding towards defeat, after they had made and missed at least as many chances as Blackpool. When Harvey, as a purely precautionary move, passed back to Barnett from 15 yards, there was no threat or danger of any kind. To everybody’s consternation the normally safe-handling goalkeeper allowed the ball to roll slowly through his hands and his legs into the net. He had made the elementary mistake of taking his eye off the ball.
GIFT OFFERING
Then came Wright's retirement, with John Morrissey substituting, and before Everton had regained their composure goal No. 2 was in their net. Again Barnett featured prominently in the score, but with a difference. Ball's shot seemed certain to score when Barnett leapt across goal and with fingertips touched the ball outwards, only to see it strike the outside edge of the post and rebound to the unmarked Charnley, who accepted the gift offering with alacrity. This was sheer bad luck, especially as it marked the end of any chance Everton may have had of saving the same. Pickering, up against a formidable defender in centre half James, narrowly missed with two first time shots and failed to connect with a goal front chance when the merest connection must have produced a goal.
WILLING TO SHOOT
The 16-years-old Joe Royle, a formidable figure physically, found the slippery pitch almost as big a test as the additional pace of League football, but marked his debut with a willingness to shoot at every opportunity that could be more rewarding on another day. “I enjoyed the game very much,” he said, “but I was just getting inti it when the whistle sounded.” He will be more at home on softer going, but too much must not be expected of him too quickly. The experience of John Hurst will be an example to him of not being deterred by a failure to make an immediate impact. Labone played splendidly throughout, his worst moments being at the beginning of the game when Blackpool and Armfield in particular, sought to make the head of Charnley a match-winner. Long before the end Labone’s mastery had spread from ground control to command in the air as well.
BOX OF TRICKS
He was splendidly supported by stand-in full back Sandy brown and while Brian Harris doubled effectively for Labone on several occasions, this was not a game in which his pass was stamped with its normal authority. These days the Ball box of tricks must be a problem for any opponent and he was all of that for Colin Harvey. Although the young half-back never relaxed his vigilance, success for him was only in fleeting measure. Both Temple and Scott suggested that had they been adequately supplied with opportunity earlier in the game, they might well have made a vital contribution, but Everton placed their trust in thrust down the middle and it was rewarding only up to a points. Armfield is still a very useful full back, but the man who caught my was John Green, the former Tranmere player, who has advanced remarkably, particularly with his constructive work. Fisher completed a workmanlike half back line, which not only held Blackpool together but drove them forward effectively time after time. The life infused by Morrissey’s incoming left one wondering whether Mr. Catterick will have to fall back on his experience with the arrival of the F.A. Cup and all its problems. Although his inclusion would mean uprooting Temple, which I never look on happily, in the particular circumstances the temptation is all too obvious.

STANDING ROOM ONLY
Liverpool Daily Post- Tuesday, January 18, 1966
Everton F.C announced yesterday, that they have bow disposed of every grade-one ticket for the five World Cup matches to be played at Goodison Park, in July. These cover the highest priced seats. Mr. Bill Dickinson, the club secretary, said; “All we have left are grade-3 tickets, which cover four games in the best standing accommodation.”
Everton’s manager Harry Catterick returned to Goodison Park yesterday after his ordeal at Blackpool with the knowledge that both his full abcks, Ray Wilson and Tommy Wright, are injured.
CONSTANT TREATEMENT
Both have ankle injuries and are under constant treatment in an all-out effort to get them fit for Saturday’s third round tie against Sunderland at Goodison Park, where the kick-off is 2.30 p.m. chances are I think, that one, if not both players, will be ready for Saturday. Wilson was hurst against West Ham last week and has had longer to recover for Wright received his injury at Blackpool last Saturday. Everton have agreed to release Ambrose Clarke, a nineteen-year-old wing half, and he is expected to sign for Southport to-day. Clarke joined Everton as a junior and has played in their youth side.

MERSEYSIDE WELCOMES NEW GOVT. AID PLAN
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Tuesday January 18, 1966
DEVELOPMENT AREA IS TO BE EXTENDED
CASH GRANTS
An extension of the Merseyside Development area is one of the provisions made in yesterday's White Paper on Investment and Industry. The present area, it is Proposed should be enlarged to include the employment exchange areas of St. Helens, Runcorn, Ellesmere Port, Neston, and Hoylake. Substantially increased Government aid is planned for the development areas under a new scheme for cash hand-outs for industrial incentives. The existing initial and investment allowances will be replaced by cash grants of 20 per cent of the cost of plant and machinery in manufacturing and extractive industries, and in development areas the cash grant will be 40 per cent. The changes have been generally welcomed on Merseyside.Mr. Eric Allen, a director of the Lancashire and Merseyside Industrial Development Association said: "This is virtually a change in method of payment as far as Merseyside is concerned.
NO GUESSWORK
"Already a priority development area, it now means that local manufacturers and industrialists will know in advance just how much money they are to get, I whereas before it was dependent on taxation claims afterwards." Mr. Allen said it was obviously a good thing and would certainly give encouragement to developers. He was glad to see the inclusion of St. Helens and Ellesmere Port in the development area. Unlike the other places mentioned, they had always had strong ties with Merseyside, but had never been actually part of it. Mr. Charles Carter, chair-' man of the North-West Economic Planning Council. commented that the new proposals gave an area like Merseyside, as well as existing advantages, some extra advantages. "It fits in with that part of the National Plan which envisages that investments and manufacturing should be very substantially increased over the next few years, as part of getting the country on a higher rate of economic . growth." he added.

SKELMERSDALE
Skelmersdale New Town with a population drawn largely from Merseyside. will also qualify for benefits available within the development area. The Welsh development area will consist of the whole of Wales and Monmouthshire, with the exception of small areas of North Wales and South-East Wales. The exceptions In North Wales will be the employment exchange areas of the Shotton group and Rhyl, Colwyn Bay and Llandudno. Within the next week or so. the investment incentives White Paper will be followed up by another announcing the formation of an industrial reconstruction commission which seems likely to be equipped with considerable power and resources to follow up the proposals in yesterday's White Paper. Legislation will be required. The Government intend to introduce the necessary Bill before the Budget, presumably sometime in March. The new system takes effect as from yesterday. This means that capital expenditure up to and including January 16 will attract investment allowances and initial allowances at the old rates and free depreciation as appropriate. The changes in tax allowances will in general apply to capital expenditure after that date. All investment allowances are discontinued with effect from midnight last Sunday. Free depreciation in development districts is also discontinued. As from yesterday investment in new plant and machinery apart from certain excluded items in the manufacturing and extractive industries outside the development areas, will be eligible for a cash grant of 20 per cent.  This will replace the present 30 per cent, investment allowance and the 10 per cent, initial allowance.
VEHICLES EXCLUDED
Among the excluded items are vehicles, office equipment loose tools and other small items. The main activities of the nationalised industries will also be excluded, but certain ancillary manufacturing activities will be eligible. There will be special arrangements for ships and computers. Ships will qualify for the 20 per cent., investment, grant and last year's special, arrangement of free depreciation will continue. There will be a 20 per cent., grant for computers, used for all commercial and industrial purposes. The rate of grant for ships and computers will be 20 per cent., throughout Britain and will not be affected by the differential rate of grant for development areas. Mr. Robert Johnson, chairman of Cammell Laird & Co. (Shipbuilders and Engineers) Ltd. of Birkenhead, said his initial reaction was that any proposal to help British shipowners should in the long run help British shipbuilders. "From our point of view It is bound to be helpful, in that British owners should be attracted to build in this country." said Mr. Johnson. "To some extent it put them in an equable position to that of foreign owners. who in coming to British yards are offered long-term finance." he said.

EVERTON NEWS
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, January 19, 1966
Not for the first time this season Mr. Catterick finds himself in an unenviable position regarding team selection. He certainly does not lack advice from fireside critics, several of whom have written to suggest teams. The remarkable thing is that they are all different! One thing is certain, Mr. Catterick will pick the team he considers best, uninfluenced by gratuitous advice. That is his responsibility. Many alternatives arise, but if youth, in some extent, takes a back seat in this ordeal by knockout, no one can be surprised. Will Barnett’s Blackpool blunder facilitate the return to goal of Gordon West? I hardly think so, Mr Catterick is unlikely to condemn for one slip the like of which this boy may never repeat. I don’t think he will disturb the half back line, but if Jimmy Gabriel is really fit he could be considered for a forward position. Only if he can fully answer fitness requirements will be become a possible.
INFREQUENT DOSES
Joe Royle has had his first taste of senior football and it seems likely that his future in the League side will come in infrequent doses, at least for a start. With Royle out can Hurst expect to stay? What are the alternatives? Morrissey could easily be given the outside left position, with Temple inside and in that event Gabriel, Young and Trebilcock would be lining up for nomination as inside right. It is not the happiest of positions to be faced with so many alternatives while others have a more of less settled formation. Everybody realises how vitally important it is for Everton to win this tie. Defeat can only lower the temperature of Goodison enthusiasm even further. In Cup-ties of the sudden death variety experience has much to commend it and I am inclined to the view that Mr. Catterick will range all he biggest guns he has available in an all-out attempt to shatter Sunderland at the first meeting.

AMBROSE CLARKE
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Wednesday, January 19, 1966
Southport today secured the transfer from Everton of 19-years-old Ambrose Clarke, a wing half or inside forward. Clarke has been with Everton since his schooldays and progressed through their youth side. He has joined Southport as a part-time professional.

EX-EVERTON PLAYER
The Liverpool Daily Post- Thursday, January 20, 1966
DUNLOP GETS RHYL JOB
Albert Dunlop, thirty-three-tear-old former Everton, and Wrexham goalkeeper, was yesterday appointed team manager of Cheshire League club Rhyl. Dunlop who joined Rhyl earlier in the season, has been player-coach for some weeks. Club chairman Mr. graham Roberts said Dunlop did not wish to be given a contract and his position would be reviewed before the end of the season. “I know the hard work he has put in to help us find new players and is content to rely on his own abilities to get results.  “I am confident the side we have now recruited will be good enough to get us away from the danger area,” he added. Dunlop will have full control of coaching and training and will also advise on team selections and signings.

BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR HARRY
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express -Thursday, January 20, 1966
By George Harrison
Although he has had both legs amputated and has been in Newsham General Hospital for two years, that grand old man of Goodison Park, Harry Cooke, for 58 years a loyal servant of Everton Football Club, is still sure to be the life and soul of his own party to-morrow, when he celebrates his 88th birthday. I have heard from Male Charge Nurse Tom A. Nicholls, of '''E" Ward, where Harry is a patient, that there's to be a bit of a "do" for the old boy for an hour during the afternoon. " I'm hoping, and I know that Harry is, too, that Bill ("Dixie") Dean and a few more of his contemporaries. will pop in to see him," says Tom. Harry Cooke joined Everton as an outside left in 1904 and he was there in various capacities on the staff, until he retired through ill-health in 1961—when he was 83 years old. He was trainer for the club for 27 years and all of Everton's greatest players from 1926 were in his care, including the Cup-winning team of 1933. He was an expert at diagnosing and treating injuries. As each generation of new Players came up, they looked on Harry Cooke as their guide and friend. His happy disposition and inherent kindness, Particularly to the youngsters starting on their careers, made him one of the best-liked men in football. Nobody ever heard him grumble, and he still doesn't. After he left the job of trainer, Harry continued with the club as general handyman, looking after playing and training equipment until his failing health finally forced him to give it up. Of all the footballers he handled, Harry says: " Dixie was the king. There'll never be another Dean." Harry's grandson, also a Harry Cooke, is keeping the family association with Everton. He is the club's chief scout. You may be wondering, perhaps, why coming in a day early with the news of Harry's 88th birthday. I thought that if I gave them a bit of advance notice, some of his old pals would call on him tomorrow and join the 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. party at his bedside. It would thrill him no end.

400 ‘PHONE LINES FROM GOODISON
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Thursday, January 20, 1966
FOR WORLD CUP REPORTS
BIG OPERATION
General Post office engineers in Liverpool are to start work next month on an elaborate telephone and telegraphic communications system which will enable Press, television and radio reporters to send out on-the-spot stories of the World Cup Games to be played at Goodison Park this summer. A G.P.O, spokesman said last night; “The operations which is now in the final stages of planning, is one of the most complex we have ever undertaken in the Liverpool area for a single event.” A four-hundred fine cable is to be laid from Goodison Park to a point in Everton Vale- about half a mile away- where it will be linked into the main cable running into Lancaster House, nerve centre of the telephone service in Liverpool. About 150 of the lines at Goodison Park are being allocated to the B.B.C and other television and radio networks for transmissions throughout the world, and the other 250 will be available to the great body of sports writers representing newspapers and agencies in many different countries.
150 PHONES
“We cannot do much of the work at Goodison Park itself until the end of the present season, when new seating accommodation for the Press is to be installed,” said the G.P.O spokesman. “Once this has been done we will be able to get on with the wiring up of 150 seats each with its own individual telephones. These are being provided specially for the people who have to give a running commentary on the matches.” Part of the Supporters’ Club premises in City Road are to be converted into a Press working room from which correspondents will be able to file their after-the-match stories. This will be equipped with 30 telephones , eight teleprinters and four machines for the transmission of pictures by wire. A Press centre is also to be established in the Students Union building in the City for the use of correspondents over the whole period of the World Cup games. It is envisaged that this will be used largely for the transmission of between match and back-ground stories and a special 50-line cable is being linked up to Lancaster House. This will accommodate five teleprinters as well as telephones. It was appreciated that when the matches were on, practically all the lines at Goodison Park would be in use simultaneously. It was to cope with this load that they would be strengthening the number of lines between Liverpool and London and Manchester, through which most of the services would be routed, the spokesman added.

LEAFLET PLAN TO AVOID CUP-DAY ROAD CHAOS
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, January 21, 1966
To avoid a giant traffic tangle as cars and coaches pour into the north end of the city, for the F.A Cup ties between Liverpool and Chelsea and Everton and Sunderland, the City Council have distributed more than 18,000 special parking leaflets. About 6,000 of the blue and red pamphlets containing plans of where cars and coaches can eb parked, have been sent to 285 garages throughout Merseyside. The corporation are hoping that petrol pump attendants will give them to motorists who stop for fuel before heading for the two grounds. On the big day a team of 150 Boy Scouts will slip another 5,000 blue and white leaflets under the windscreen wipers of parked cars at Goodison and a similar number of red and white hand-outs on cars outside Anfield. Said a corporation spokesman; “We have gone all out to try to inform as many of the public as possible about parking facilities bear the two grounds. “we thought this Saturday would provide a golden opportunity for a blanket campaign with these leaflets. We brough out the leaflets in time for this and they will be given as wide a distribution as possible from now on,” he said. Leaflets were also sent to Sunderland and Chelsea. In time, all supporters clubs will receive them before clubs visit the city.
RADIO WILL HELP BUS SERVICES
In addition to car parks already mapped there will be room for 1,250 cars in Stanley park using the Priory Road- Utting Avenue entrance. Another 800 vehicles will be found room at Lower Breck Road, using the entrance in Clarendon Road off Townsend Avenue, and Walton hall car park off Walton Hall Avenue will provide a spot for another 300 vehicles.
Liverpool Passenger Transport Department already stricken by a shortage of bus crews, will use radio patrol vehicles and inspectors equipped with walkie-talkie radios to keep additional and normal services running smoothly. A spokesman warned; “We are very short of staff and we will have difficulty in producing the number of buses we would wish. “It may even be necessary to withdraw buses from ordinary services to operate services to the football grounds, if only to ensure that the normal passengers travelling in the direction of Anfield and Goodison get some sort of service.” Three major changes will be made to the usual after-match football special service on Saturday.
COLOURED LABELS FOR BUSES
At Goodison Park, buses for Old Swan, which normally lead alongside Anfield Cemetery in priory Road, will take on passengers round the corner in Walton Lane, facing Spellow Lane. At Anfield buses heading for the same destination will load in Priory Road at the corner of Beechdene Road facing Old Swan, instead of in Arkles Lane facing the ground. For this Saturday only, buses from Anfield to Bankhall Station will load in Arkles Lane, where the Old swan buses normally take on passengers. Special services before the two matches will be brought forward to suit the earlier demand. Separate services to both grounds will operate from the city from 12.30 p.m. onwards. Buses from Garston, Low Park, Prescot, Leyfield Road, Page Moss, and Old Swan will serve both grounds. But from Bankhall Station buses for the two grounds. Separate services to each ground will also run from Bootle and Lodge lane Buses will carry suitable coloured labels indicating the ground to which they are heading.
POLICE ADVISE ON ROUTES
Liverpool City police advise that traffic approaching the grounds should doso far as possible as follows. From the Mersey Tunnel to Goodison-via Byrom Street, Scotland Road, Kirkdale Road and Walton Road. To Anfield-via William Brown Street, Islington, Brunswick Road, Everton Road, Breck Road, and Oakfield Road.
From the East Lancashire Road- to Everton ground, straight along Walton Hall Avenue. To Liverpool’s ground -via Townsend Avenue and Utting Avenue.
From East Prescot Road- A57- To Everton’s ground, via Queen’s Drive and Walton Hall Avenue. To Liverpool’s ground-via Queen’s Drive and Utting Avenue.
From The A59 (Preston)- to Everton’s ground, via Rice Lane and County Road. To Liverpool’s ground -via Rice Lane, Queen’s Drive and Utting Avenue.
South Bound Through Traffic to the city and Tunnel should use Hornby Road, Aintree Road, hawthorn Road, Melrose Road, Commercial Road and Vauxhall Road, coming in from the A59.
North Bound Through Traffic leaving city on A59 via Byrom Street, Scotland Road, Stanley Road, Melrose Road, Hawthorn Road and Hornby Road to keep clear of football traffic.

EVERTON -MATCH CERTAIN
The Liverpool Daily Post- Friday January 21, 1966
by Horace Yates
Manager Harry Catterick was cheered yesterday by the obvious improvement in the conditions of the two full backs, Ray Wilson and Tommy Wright, I don’t think it is stretching optimising too far to suggest that both will play.
ROYLE MUST WAIT
Joe Royle, in my view, will have to wait for his Cup debut and it may be that Mike Trebilcock and Jimmy Gabriel have most to hope for when the team is announced. Secretary Bill Dickinson, who offers a reminder that the Everton game will start at 2.30 p.m. announces there are still some stand tickets available. These will be on sale until 5 p.m. today and then at the ticket office in Goodison Road on Saturday until the time of kick-off, or until they have all been sold. Sunderland’s fear that time would be against them in getting Charlie Hurley their international centre half, fit after his ankle injury, proved well founded, for yesterday he failed his test. McNabb will play in a team which was named for last Saturday’s postponed fixture with Sheffield Wednesday. Sunderland; Montgomery; Parks, Ashurst; Harvey, McNab, Baxter; Herd, Elliott, Moore, Martin, Mulhall.
At Everton attendances are down from 608,617 to 500,752 a total reduction of 107,865 the average falling from 43,472 to 35,768. 

GOODISON AND ANFIELD GET GOOD REPORTS
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, January 21, 1966
CONDITIONS OF PITCHES
By Leslie Edwards
There were good reports this morning of the pitches at Anfield and Goodison, where Cup-ties against Chelsea and Sunderland are due to beplayed tomorrow. Secretary Bill Dickinson at Everton said: "The turf warming wires have been on every night: the pitch is in perfect condition. It is probably the best pitch in the country." Secretary Peter Robinson, of Liverpool, reported: “About 50 tons of sand has been spread over the ground. This should form a nice cushion and make the pitch better than it was when West Bromwich were here last Saturday. Forecasts indicate there will not be a great deal of change in weather conditions during the next 24 hours. Any snow which falls will be  negligible. Temperatures will probably stay just over freezing point.
PARKING PROBLEM
The proximity of the two big grounds In the city makes it certain that between 15,000 and 20,000 drivers will attempt to park in the square mile area centred on Stanley Park. Everton fans will have first "bite" at parking accommodation as their match starts at 2.30—half-an-hour before the start at Anfield. Liverpool open their gates at 12.30 p.m.
LORD MAYOR AT BOTH
Liverpool Town Hall's "Operation Cup-Ties" will swing into operation at 2.30 p.m. to-morrow to allow the Lord Mayor. Alderman David Cowley, demonstrate his civic impartiality—and support his favourite team. Alderman Cowley - " I'm impartial this year but you can say I've always had a Liverpool season ticket "- was faced with a clash of loyalties. Everton's early kick-off solved the problem. Now the Lord Mayor's civic Rolls- Royce will take him to Goodison where he will watch the first 30 minutes of the Everton game. Then it will whisk him to Anfield so he can take his seat shortly after the start of Liverpool's game. " I hope that by the time I leave Goodison, Everton will be one or two goals up—and if Liverpool have scored before I get there I won't mind that either." he said.

GABRIEL, YOUNG, WEST RETURN
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, January 22, 1966
EVERTON STAKE EVERYTHING ON EXPERIENCE
Forward the old brigade! For one week at least, Everton have put back the clock, scrapped their “youth will be served2 policy and staked all on experience in their F.A. cup third round tie with Sunderland at Goodison Park to-day. Jim Gabriel, who has played only once in the last 13 games is at right half, Alex Young plays inside right, with Colin Harvey switching to inside left, and Gordon West takes over in goal for the first time since his injury last October. Does this mean a confession of defeat for manager Harry Catterick’s ideas of seeking a revival through encouragement of the youngsters? Not at all! Like the wise man he is the manager realises as well as anyone that there may be something in the theory of “Horses for courses.” Experience is an all-the-way winner when there are set objectives, such as progress in the F.A. Cup, the sternest test of them all. This is no pandering to public opinion, no flag of surrender in face of criticism I don’t think we would have seen these changes if Sunderland had been visiting Goodison Park in a League game instead of a Cup-tie. If he has surprised me at all, Mr. Catterick has done it by taking Harvey from right half to play with a forward number, with Jimmy Gabriel wearing No.4 I may be wrong, but my view is that this is purely eyewash, an attempt to hoodwink the enemy. Numbers have become meaningless except for recognition purposes;in many teams this season and it could be that it will still be Gabriel who will be threatening the Sunderland goal rather than Harvey. It was because of doubts about Gabriel’s complete fitness more than anything else that caused him to have such a prolonged acquaintance with Central League football. Gabriel at his best, is a bulwark in any side.
DEPENDS ON PLAYERS
If he cannot stay the pace for any reason, then obviously his effectiveness is impaired. Whether Gabriel is a make-shift selection, or whether this is the beginning of another long and useful membership of the side, depends entirely on the player. Alex Young is one of the greatest enigmas Goodison has known in years. There are few more accomplished players. He can do everything. He has an outstanding shot in both feet, heads the ball superbly, can beat a man with considerable ease, and his passes sometimes approach perfection. If only these virtues were in evidence regularly what a player Young would be. They were all there in abundant measure on that memorable evening game with Sheffield Wednesday at the end of August. The result was three goals from Young, five from the team, and the great display the Scot has ever given in Everton colours. Lack of consistent hostility is his worst enemy. If he clicks, Everton will rejoice and Sunderland will be confounded. Joe Royle, of course, must have expected demotion, not for anything he may have done wrong at Blackpool, as the fact that he cannot be sufficiently worldly wise for a tie in which there can only be winners and losers. John Hurst is a different proposition. He goes out after a run of nine consecutive League games, which should have been enough for him to have shown signs of finding his feet. Barnett leapt by giant strides from the youth to the League side- and he must have noticed the yawning gap that exists between the two. Undoubtedly he lost face by the tragic mistake he made to concede Blackpool their opening goal last week and following, as it did, some degree of responsibility for the second of the West Ham goals in the previous match, out he goes. This team has played together so often that there is no danger of late switches falling through strangeness. Moreover, they will not have forgotten that it was Sunderland who ousted them from the Cup competition two seasons ago. The opportunity for revenge is here. I don’t think there is any great danger of Everton failing to take it. Everton; West; Wright, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple. Sunderland; Montgomery; Parke, Ashurst; Harvey, McNab, Baxter; Herd, Elliott, Moore, Martin, Mulhall.

OLD BRIGADE SEES EVERTON THROUGH
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, January 22 1966
EVERTON 3 SUNDERLAND 0
By Leslie Edwards

Everton; West; Wright, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey (C.), Temple. Sunderland;- Montgomery; Parke, Ashurst; Harvey (M.), McNab, Baxter, Herd, Elliott, Moore, Martin, Mulhall. Referee; Mr. K.H. Burns (Dudley, Worcs).
McNab fouled Pickering near the touchline and from the free kick Harris delivered a long-range shot which Montgomery dealt with comfortably. A good, tackle by Martin Harvey on Scott, who had-been put through by Gabriel, produced a corner for Everton. From this Harris found Scott on the right again and Montgomery had to make a good punch away when he was challenged by Young. Pickering almost dispossessed Montgomery at the edge of the penalty box, but the 'keeper recovered the ball at the second attempt. Everton got a free kick against Ashurst, who pushed Scott from behind, and they were desperately unlucky not to score. Scott's kick eluded the 'keeper and Temple had a first rate scoring chance. Temple hit a fierce shot, but the ball struck McNab standing afew yards from the goal-line. Young had made a succession of fine passes to Scott and Everton were much the better of the game. Temple, coming in fast to nod a fine centre by Scott, got enormous force on the ball, only for Montgomery to make a great save.
Sunderland were given little opportunity to settle down but some of their moves looked promising.  The best so far was down the centre, starting with McNab and finishing with Moore hitting a fierce shot wide. Wilson, who was having a great game, survived three scything tackles before finally being brought down for yet another free kick to Everton.
SHOT STRUCK KEEPER
The succession of free kicks to Everton continued with a foul by McNab on Pickering. A great pass by Harvey created a race between Scott and Montgomery, and although Scott got there first his shot struck the 'keeper and rebounded away. Wright was injured after a gallant tackle on Baxter, who looked a scorer until the full back's intervention. Harvey, taking a quick throw from Scott, beat Baxter but centred the ball straight into the hands of Montgomery. It was far from being a great game and Everton survived a penalty appeal when Gabriel appeared to bring down Ashurst in the penalty box. Baxter's presence however, was making Sunderland a vastly different team fromwhat they werein the League match here last December. A fine move between Young and Scott ended with Scott making a good centre which just eluded Temple. The ball was breaking for the Everton forwards at critical times, and maybe their own over-eagerness to be in the right spot at the right time, caused them to make some mistakes.  Everton were not playing so impressively as earlier, but there was no lack of effort. West's only work so far was to collect a free kick from Baxter high overhead. Rarely can there have been a game with so many free kicks, but few were for serious fouls. Montgomery did well to get a centre by Young around the post for a corner, and from this Gabriel headed the ball into the goalkeeper's hands. Everton went ahead after 33 minutes through Temple. Scott made the goal with a superb weaving dribble on the right, Temple getting up magnificently to nod the ball down and beyond Montgomery's left hand. It struck the inside of the far upright before crossing the line. A moment later Scott made another run down his wing and turned the ball across the face of goal. Neither Pickering nor Temple time able to make contact with the ball as it flew past. Pickering quickly killed pass from Gabriel and hitting a shot which dipped only a foot or two over the bar.
FIGHTING HARD
I never saw a ball so impishly determined to elude Alex Young at crucial moments and have rarely seen Everton fight so hard for possession ofthe ball. Young dribbled from the touchline near the  half way to make a magnificent right foot shot which just missed the far goal angle. The crowd rose to him for this artistry, and if that ball had found the net it would have been the goal of the season. 
Half-time. Everton 1, Sunderland nil.
Everton were desperately unlucky not to score in the ,opening minutes of the second half. From the kickoff the ball went out to Temple, who danced his way down the wing and centred the ball perfectly to Young, who smasheda right foot shot towards goal from almost point blank range. Montgomery, however, advanced from the line and took the full farce of the shot onhis body. Itwas tremendous save. When Gabriel brought down Mulhall Baxter used the free kicks judiciously but left back Ashurst was given offside as he moved in to make a header. A great pass by Colin Harvey to Pickering opened the way for the centre forward but he put the ball straight into the goalkeeper’s hands. A moment later Montgomery flicked a centre by Harvey for a corner, and immediately afterwards Pickering headed wide from a good pass by Wilson. Temple had a close-in shot charged down after Young had found Pickering on the left with a lovely pass. Everton were doing well enough without getting the goal they deserved. Sunderland were now playing with more method and their defence was closing more effectively than it had in the first half. Everton playing some lovely football, Harvey and Young delighting the crowd with the sharpness of their forward play. Nevertheless, it took the united efforts of three Everton defenders to dispossess Moore at the edge of penalty area.
FINE YOUNG PASSES
Young was making a great number of telling passes, but some were missing the target by hairsbreadth margins. When Young found Pickering with a superb pass, the centre forward mistimed his attempt at the shot and almost hit the corner flag with it. Wright was accidentally kickedin the face by Mulhall, and while the full back was being attended to, Everton's defenders seemed to be having more than a mild tactical discussionamongst themselves. Gabriel, with acentre from near the touchline, caused Montgomery to edge the ball over the bar, and then from Scott’s corner Gabriel’s header was touched on to the top of the bar for a further flag kick. Wright no rescued his side with a sliding tackle on Moore then flick by Gabriel might well have passed over the head of West, but happily the goalkeeper was alive to the situation and took the ball safely. Pickering swung his foot tentatively at the ball after Young and Wilson had worked the ball to him quickly from a free kick and Montgomery could have stood there saving shots of that sort all day. Ashurst had his name taken when obstructing Scott in full cry, then there was a clash between Martin and West. An enormous punt by Wright found Pickering, but the movement ended when Temple hit a shot just over the bar. Scott, in full flight, was brought down by Elliott and the referee took the Sunderland player's name. The game was stopped while Scott received attention. The free kick proved fatal to Sunderland. Scott took it, Gabriel edged the ball sideways and Pickering from 20 yards out, took it on the half volley and steered it just under the bar with a truly great drive. This goal came six minutes from the end. The enthusiasm which greeted the score could not have been greater if this had been a match in a semi-final. It was a hard won victory and there was little to spare for an Everton, who pulled all the stops from the first minute to the last. Young made it 3-0 two minutes from the end off a left wing corner which Montgomery turned away to his left and into the track of Young, who did extraordinarily well to hammer the ball in from such a difficult angle. This was certainly a triumph for the Everton old brigade. Gabriel finished the game injured and with the referee apparently not prepared to call on the trainer. Only when the final whistle went did Tom Eggleston get a signal to run on the pitch and attend the Everton half back. Final: Final; Everton 3, Sunderland nil. Official attendance; 47,893 (receipts £13,216).
Lancashire League

EVERTON A v  BLACKPOOL A
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, January 22, 1966
Blackpool had most of the early play, but lost their left back Shelliker for the last 25 minutes of the half. Towards the interval Everton took on an offensive role, but a solid Blackpool defence had no trouble in holding them. Half-time- Everton A nil, Blackpool A nil.
Full time; Everton A nil, Blackpool A nil

EVERTON A v  BLACKPOOL B
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, January 22, 1966
Everton took the lead after eight minutes with a brilliant long-range shot from over 35 yards by Grant that save the Blackpool keeper no chance. Everton continued to dominate, limiting the Blackpool attack to spasmodic raids. Half-time Everton B 1, Blackpool B nil.
Final; Everton B 2, Blackpool B 1

WEST BROM RES v.  WEST BROM RES
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, January 22 1966
West Bromwich Res; Taviner; Crawford, Williams; Simpson, Campbell, Cullard, Krzywicki, Stephens, Treacy, Fudge, Wilson. Everton res; Rankin; Darcy, Brown; Hurst, Smith, Glover; Shaw, Husband, Royle, Trebilcock, Morrissey. Referee; Mr. E.B. Bradley (Lincoln). Both teams found it tricky going on the icy Hawthorns pitch. Goalkeeper Rankin came to Everton’s rescue early on when Fudge almost forced the ball home, Rankin saving at the second attempt. Darcy twice cleared off his line when Rankin failed to hold crosses from Albion right wing, and at the other end Morrissey and then full back Brown were only just off target. Everton went ahead on the half-hour through Trebilcock. Morrissey paved the way when he sprinted past Crawford and centred for Trebilcock to head home past Taviner. Morrissey almost made it two before half-time, but lobbed the ball over the top from a few yards out after Royle had set up the chance. Half-time.- West Bromwich Res nil, Everton Res 1.

EVERTON RECALL WEST, YOUNG AND GABRIEL
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, January 23, 1966
YOUNGSTERS GO OUT FOR SUNDERLAND CUP-TIE
HARVEY SWITCHED
By Leslie Edwards
Everton sound a recall to tried-and-trusted, experienced players for their Cup game against Sunderland at Goodison Park to-morrow. Back to goal comes Gordon West, in place of young Geoff Barnett; back to right half comes Jimmy Gabriel, injured earlier this season but left out of the senior side for many weeks; back comes Alex Young in place of 16-years-old Joe Royle, given an unhappy debut in Division 1 at Blackpool last week. And in place of Hurst at inside-left, Harvey, the man who has been occupying the right half position nearly all season, comes in to link up with Derek Temple. This is a team which will please Everton fans. Many of them have wanted Gabriel's return: many of them felt that Young should never have been dropped after appearing in successful home matches. NO TREBILCOCR
Mr. Harry Catterick, the Everton manager, was not available for comment on the side chosen. It had been felt that a place might be found for Trebilcock, the club's £20,000 signing from Plymouth Argyle, but obviously the team chosen to face Sunderland had to be one of men who have proved themselves as top class performers. Gordon West, who broke a shoulder early in the season, had as deputy first Rankin and later the third choice, Barnett. The return to the first choice could not come more opportunely. Everton; West; Wright, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple.

EVERTON SUPPORTERS PUT THEIR CUP JOY TO MUSIC
The Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, January 24, 1966

TEAM MUST BE RETAINED
EVERTON KNOW NOW-EXPERIENCE IS BEST
EVERTON 3 SUNDERLAND 0
By Jack Rowe
When the Saints go marching out, and the Skies come marching in, we’re going to be at Wembley when the Blues come marching in.” They were singing this in Liverpool on Saturday night, Everton fans that is, as they grabbed their first real moment of celebration after more than two seasons of suffering in the shadow of the Anfield triumphs.  Probably they were being a little optimistic about the Wembley bit, but they did see their team -Gordon West, Jimmy Gabriel, Alex Young and all-gain such a clear-cut victory over Sunderland that they can be forgiven for thinking that with a share of luck they are capable of fulfilling that dream.
KEEP THEM TOGETHER
What it did prove was that manager Harry Catterick was right in relying on his experienced men to see the club over one of its most vital hurdles in recent history, and one must conclude that if this team were good enough to win one Cup-tie they are good enough to tackle the rest. Providing there are no injuries they must be kept together. This, I think is the best side Everton can put out and the only fault was that it took them so long to emphasise their superiority over Sunderland. Until five minutes from the finish they were only one goal ahead and although it looked beyond the realms of possibility that Sunderland could score, I can appreciate the heart-burnings of Everton fans as they contemplated the prospect of Sunderland defying the impossible. Four minutes before the end Pickering hit such a great first time shot from about 20 yards when Gabriel nodded Scott’s free kick down to him, that it was in the net before Montgomery could move and safety was achieved. To make the result more realistic Young scored another beauty with a minute left, with a control and shot which illustrated what a fine player he can be. I don’t suppose Young would want to pretend that the set Goodison Park alight, but the undeniable fact is that when he is in the forward line there is a touch of class and Young showed it, not once, but half a dozen times.
SWERVE AND DRIBBLE
There was that moment in the first half when he brought the ball from near the touch line with a wonderful swerve and dribble and finished it with a shot which missed the angle by inches. It is moments like this which delight Everton fans and I have no doubt the majority went home more satisfied than they have been for a long time. They had seen Gabriel return and if he seemed a little match rusty early on there was no doubting his contribution or his power in the tackle and those up-field excursions which help to add menace to the attack. West was the only one of the three recalled who had no chance of imposing himself on the scene. It was not his fault that this was the first match I have seen when I cannot recall a single occasion when a goalkeeper had a shot to save. That was due to Everton’s defensive work. Harris was played better, but he was part of a set-up which was far too good for Sunderland and Wilson and Labone also did wonderfully well. Baxter went through and yet even he could not deliver the final thrust because Wright at the cost of an injury, made a glorious tackle and came away with the ball before he went down. This was typical of Everton’s spirit, which Sunderland could never equal. They occasionally provided some nice looking midfield movements, especially when Baxter was able to make his footwork count, but when it came to finishing they just hadn’t got it. Everton controlled so much of the play and delivered so many thrusts at goal that it was remarkable they were only ahead by Temple’s goal in 36 minutes for so long. Sunderland, survived because McNab once kicked off the line and Montgomery made some fine saves, although he could have known about the shot from Young, which hit him immediately the second half had started.
TWO BOOKINGS
Scott and Temple were other Everton players who did some scintillating things. Scott, in particular, had a rampant afternoon and twice in the second half was stopped by Ashurst and Elliott in such a way that the referee took the names of both Sunderland men. Scott did the work and made the centre from which Temple headed in off the post for the first goal and all through was the man who worried the Sunderland defence. He was helped by the passes Young and Pickering laid on but the symbolic effect was how much better this Everton side looked. Sunderland were not a true test of course, but I do not think there is any doubt that if this season’s cup run is to culminate in a Wembley appearance this is the side which can do it. I was sorry Ashurst came in for censure because he was one of Sunderland’s best players, in spite of having to face Scott, McNab and Harvey also fought hard, but except for occasional glimpses from martin, the forwards were inept. Everton; West; Wright, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple. Sunderland; Montgomery; Parke, Ashurst; Harvey (M.), McNab, Baxter; Herd, Elliott, Moore, Martin, Mulhall. Referee Mr. K. M. Burns (Dudley) Attendance 47,430. Receipts £13,216.

A CLEAR CUT VICTORY FOR EVERTON RES
The Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, January 24, 1966
WEST BROMWICH RES 0 EVERTON RES 2
Everton Reserves quickly adapted themselves to the icy conditions on the hawthorns pitch and once they had settled down fully deserved their clear-cut win in this Central League game. Starring in the success were left wing pair Mike Trebilcock and Johnny Morrissey who continually cracked the home defence. It was Trebilcock who put Everton ahead after half-an-hour when he headed home Morrissey’s cross, and three minutes from the end Morrissey hit the second goal from a pass by Husband. In a tight Everton defence Brown and Smith stood out and Rankin was sound in goal when tested.

EVERTON TO VISIT BEDFORD IN FOURTH ROUND
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Monday, January 24, 1966
By Leslie Edwards
Bedford, the only non-League club left in the competition, at Bedford…. That was the good news the draw brought for Everton today.
Ironically, the man who takes over the managerialchair at Bedford on Wednesday is the former Spurs and Welsh international half back Ron Burgess. The change in management at Bedford is due to the promotion of Basil Hayward. He is taking up a better position with Gillingham. Bedford beat fellowSouthern League club. Hereford United, by 2-1 on Saturday. Earlier they had drawn 1-1 at Brighton. winning the replay 2-1 and had won 2-1 at Exeter. This is the second time in three seasons Bedford havereached the fourth round. Bedford are giant-killers. Two seasons ago they went to St. James's Park, Newcastle, and won 2-1. They have four part-time professionals—goalkeeper Collier (a gardener); Skinn, a back, who works in the building trade; Benning, a right winger, who is a printer; and Cooley, a local man, who works as a draughtsman.
" GREAT DRAW "
Ronnie Burgess said when told of the draw: "Home to Everton. Well done, that's a great draw. I've got a bit of time to sort things out and get to know the players a bit more before the match. I watched them beat Hereford and was very impressed with them." Bedford's top attendance is 18.000 for the tie against Carlisle two seasons ago. It is said that the limit for the game against Everton is 'likely to be raised to 20.000. There will be a clash of 'colours, so both teams are likely to have to change their normal strips. I Bedford have in their boardroom the framed cheque for £4,000 they received when they met Arsenal, at Highbury, in 1956. Everton's luck in the Cup has been almost consistently out in the past five or six seasons. They have beendrawn at home only twice— against Sunderland on Saturday and Sheffield Wednesday in 1965. since 1962.

YOUNG SHOWS HIS ARTISTRY AGAIN
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Monday January 24, 1966
By Leslie Edwards
There was an extraordinary sequel to the match at Goodison Park, where Everton beat Sunderland by three goals to nil. The final whistle had gone and a public announcement had been made to the effect that the final score at Anfield would not be given because of the half-hour later kick-off when pandemonium broke out. The home-going 48.000, delighted with Everton's victory, suddenly found something else to interest them. Only later when one discovered that the Liverpool v. Chelsea game had been the subject of a running commentary on radio was the thing explained. Someone on the terraces had clearly heard Chelsea had scored a second time and hadn't been slow to pass on the news. The fall of Cup-holders is always sad and particularly when it happens in the first round. No matter. Liverpool still have plenty on their plate. The two-legged tie against Honved; the business of maintaining their place at the head of the League table—these will keep them occupied long after thoughts of this Chelsea victory have passed. I don't suppose there are many Evertonians who see their side as likely to carry to Wembley the Cup torch, which has been dropped by their neighbours. But who knows. If this Everton is kept intact and allowed to show it is the best team the club have we could find them Playing more and more confidently and confirming a widely-held view that if they had been kept together throughout the season instead of being chopped and changed everyone would have been much happier. I have come to one conclusion. That Alex Young, dainty in the football sense, must be near to having a hide like a rhino's.
Right, yet wrong
In my book the Everton manager was right to recall the old brigade: wrong to state the outgoing of young players was due to events which occurred at Blackpool. During Mr. Catterick's long and painful sojourn in hospital Gabriel was the inspiration of an Everton team which did rather better than it has done recently. Despite his lone "sentence" to the reserves. he played splendidly in this heartening win against Sunderland. The same is true of the other exile. Young. who cracked in one of the clinching goals—and they were badly needed—and desperately unlucky not to have done it nearly 45 minutes earlier. I give Gabriel and Young. to name two men recalled in a moment of crisis, top marks for their loyalty and enthusiasm to what must have seemed to both, last midweek, as a rather soured cause. This was a shaking match for Everton. for their management, for their supporters. It was a make-or-break business and, mercifully, the pointer swung.to, and stayed. on "make." I recall a similar matte in the Britton regime whenvictory meant all was well and defeat would almost have produced a serious cleavage. These Everton players, on Saturday. played as though they were playing for their lives. Their anxiety led to errors, especially at critical moments in early attacks. Even when they had taken the lead one felt they still had the "What happens if we lose" spectre at their shoulders. On a heavy, greasy pitch it was never a game to compare with the 6-4 classic, but it was a good, hard. honest stuff and there were times in the second-half when Everton's attack played better than ever before this season.
One for good measure
As I saw it, Everton got one goal and should have had others to sew the thing up long before the end. But it was still an open issue some six minutes from the finish, and Sunderland were tending to get the other defence a bit panicked. when Pickering fired in the halfvolley which finally wrote Sunderland off. Then, for good measure, Young, from an unpromising position at inside right, made it 3-0 and a match which might well have gone either way was given a rather one-sided ticket into the football history books. It was in these final few minutes that Mr. Burns of Dudley spoiled what had been a fairly-fought and sporting match. despite the noting in his book of the names of Ashurst and Elliott. He allowed a barging match, minus the ball, between Temple and Martin to go unchecked: he refused to stop the game in its final seconds when it was clear Gabriel was injured and needed attention. These were refereeing weaknesses which should not have occurred. For West. freshly back after injury it was not a testing match; for Montgomery, at the other end, it was a very testing match indeed and never more so than when he came out and crowded out with his body the shot from Young which must otherwise have put Everton 2-0 in the 46th minute. Of all the defenders none was more courageous. more resolute than Wilson. The way he stiffened the defence in the game's critical moments left one in no doubt that he is the best, in his position, in England.
It wasn't Baxter's fault that Sunderland lost. He strolled through the game angling his passes brilliantly and with unexpected direction. The trouble was Sunderland up front' were no more impressive than they had been in the League match in December. Young very nearly produced a goal that must have been ‘heard' at Anfield above the din of the great game there. He took the ball from the touchline, near the halfway line, beat the mud, the freak bounces of the ball and the defence and then fired a splendid right foot shot which heat Montgomery and the far goal angle by inches! If he had scored I doubt whether any dire warning to encroachers on the field would have kept a thousand hands from trying to clench his ….
Harvey, at inside-forward, was excellent: sharp and better than at half-back; Scott 'made' the line and un-made the Sunderland defence. one of whom had to fall back on fouling or obstructing to stop his gallop. Temple. too, had a fine match and apart from nodding a goal from a centre by Scott—the ball passed over the line by a foot or two after striking the inside of the far post—laid on more than one chance off which Everton Four might well have scored. The ball ran unkindly for Pickering and Young in many of their early moves, but Pickering's great scoring shot and the one from Young soon afterwards were more than compensation for the way the ball escaped them in the first half. Surely this Everton team has right to expect to be left undisturbed for a month a least? And if they are left to work out their own football problems I think them certain to succeed in the end.

NO POSSIBILITY OF SWITCHING EVERTON TIE TO GOODISON PARK
Liverpool Daily Post- Tuesday January 25, 1966
WE STAY AT HOME, SAYS BEDFORD CHAIRMAN
By Jack Rowe
Any hope that Bedford Town, the Southern League club with an average gate of less than 3,000, would consider the possibility of transferring their F.A. Cup fourth round tie against Everton on February 12 from their own ground to Goodison Park, with its 60,000 capacity were dashed last night. Mr. George senior, the chairman of the Bedford club, said; “The only time we will go to Everton is for a replay. This is the sort of draw we have never had at Bedford. When Arsenal came here in 1956 it was after we had held them to a draw at Highbury.” Everton have to tackle a club who have had their share of Cup glory for apart from holding Arsenal ten years ago, Bedford went to Newcastle in 1964 and brought off the shock of the round by beating the Geordies 2-1. The Bedford officials got down to business quickly yesterday when they knew the draw, and last night, it was announced that the tie will be all-ticket with an 18,000 limit, although I understand that the police are considering the prospect of raising it to 20,000.
950 STAND TICKETS
For the time being though Everton ticket allocation announced by Bedford is 950 for the stand and 3,735 for the ground. There is covered accommodation for 12,000 of the 18,000, a record for the ground set up two years ago when Carlisle went to Bedford also in a fourth round tie. When Everton manager Mr. Harry Catterick heard the draw his reaction was brisk and to the point. “We shall treat this tie very seriously,” he said. There is no such thing as an easy tie and any club capable of reaching this stage in the F.A Cup command respect and we are treating them with respect.” Bedford’s progress to the fourth round this season has been at the expense of the Third Division clubs, Exeter City, and Brighton, whilst last Saturday, in the third round they beat another Southern League club, Hereford United. Until tomorrow they are managed by Basil Hayward. He leaves them to take up another appointment and his successor and the man who will have to plan the tie against Everton, is Ron Burgess, the famous Spurs and Wales player.
POOR LUCK
Everton’s luck in the Cup has been poor over the past few seasons. They have been drawn at home only twice, against Sheffield Wednesday last season and Sunderland this, since 1962, but allowing for all the spirit and endeavour Bedford are certain to put in, I think the Goodison Park men will go through to the fifth round.

CORPORATION PLANS NEW LOOK AND NEW LEASE OF LIFE FOR TOXTETH
The Liverpool Echo and Evening express- Tuesday January 25 1966
BETTER USE OF LAND AND TRANSPORT
MORE PLAYFIELDS AND OPEN SPACES
DRAFT SCHEME
A new look for Toxteth, a part of Liverpool containing many houses over 90 years old, many of which are now slums, is contained in a draft district plan for the area approved in principle by the city's Development and Planning Committee. Features of the new look will be more open spaces, toddler's playgrounds within 200 yards of every home, school playgrounds used for recreational purposes other than school uses, complete segregation of vehicles and pedestrians, and a new District Centre in Park Road. "The main objectives of the plan must be to raise the quality of the environment of Toxteth, to make the district a better place to live in, not simply by the replacement of old houses with new, but by the creation of a new town to replace the old." said Mr. Walter Bor, City Planning Officer, creator of the plan, in introducing a comprehensive report on it to his Committee. "In realising this objective it is inevitable that there' should occur a radical reorganisation of land uses and transport, incorporating those elements of present day Toxteth that have a character or use worthy of conservation or development."
UNIQUE
On the other hand it Is recognised that this part of the city, once the home of merchant princes, contains much that is unique and characteristic. Because of this the redevelopment will not be left entirely to the council. "The City Council will obviously carry out most redevelopment, but there is a great need to inject social and architectural variety into the district, by encouraging private enterprise to build houses for sale and letting, and to carry out rehabilitation in certain Instances." stated Mr. Bor. “The building of houses for sale by the council, and by housing societies, to let at cost rents, or for co-operative ownership, should be investigated and encouraged int suitable circumstances." The Toxteth district. extending from Upper Parliament Street to Dingle, including the two great parks of Sefton and Princes, as well as some of the city's worst slums, at the 1961 Census had a population of 76.000, the equivalent of the population of some of the New Towns being built in various parts of the country. Due to redevelopment and other factors this population is expected to have dropped to 56.000 by 1985.
Centre As Focal Point
The plan envisages the breaking up of the district Into a number of areas, but with the main focal point, the District Centre, in Park Road, which for some years before becoming the district distributor road will remain the primary route through the district. With this in mind the elimination of pedestrians will be essential and this is likely to involve the removal of a large proportion of the existing frontages, as, in its present form, it is totally unsuited to future requirements. An Important first step would be the Improvement of the intersection between Park Road, Ullet Road and Aigburth Road.
IN TEN YEARS
It is thought that much of the district will be cleared for redevelopment within the next 10 years, as shown on the accompanying map.  In connection with re- housing, the report urges comprehensive redevelopment in the widest sense. with large building contracts which would speed up the rate of building. In addition, if thedesigner had the opportunity of integrating schools, playgrounds, local shops and housing into a single comprehensive design, considerable economies could be effected. Of the 20,000 dwellings in the district in 1961 about 7,000 date from before 1875, most of them in areas already, or soon to be, represented for clearance by the Medical Officer.
To Be Given New Life
Another 8.500 dwellings, mainly situated between Park Road and Huntington Road, will be partly rehabilitated to continue in use for about another 15 years, while for a further 4,500 dwellings, including the large houses in Princes Park, Princes Boulevard and Croxteth Road areas rehabilitation would be encouraged over the next 20 years. During the next ten years the report envisages the redevelopment of the South Street, Menzies Street and Park Road areas, the Tennyson Street, Thames Street, and Toxteth Street clearance areas, the Selborne Street, Brunswick Street and Mill Street areas. Although blessed with having two of the city's finest parks 'within its boundaries. Toxteth is otherwise very badly off for open spaces, especially children's playgrounds, and the plan makes provision for this, as well as for the provision of footpaths through the district to achieve complete segregation of traffic and pedestrians.
PLAY SPACE
One interesting suggestion, and one which could well be adopted in other parts of the city as quickly as possible, is that recreational open space should be supplemented by the dual use of school playing areas. Under the plan, the maze of narrow streets which make up present day Toxteth would be replaced by clearly defined district distributor, primary, local distributor and secondary roads. Principal roads would be the rehabilitated Park Road and the Middle North-South Primary linking the north end of the city with the Third Mersey Crossing, which, for the purposes of the report is conceived as being a little north of Dingle. The location of this crossing would materially affect road developments within the district, but this must remain uncertain until the results of the pending Merseyside Land- Use Transportation Survey in three years' time. Another important roadway would be the Aigburth Primary which would link the Inner Motorway, the third river crossing, the Middle North-South Primary and Aigburth Road. This would follow a route through the south docks and the southern residential parts of Toxteth. Then there would be the South Lancashire Primary which would link the city with the M6 Motorway, and which would form the northern boundary of the Toxteth district.

BEDFORD TICKET ARRNAGEMENTS
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Tuesday, January 25 1966
By Leslie Edwards
The Bedford v. Everton tie (3 p.m.) will be all-ticket, with the following prices: centre stand 12s, wing stand 8s. ground 6s. As the number of tickets available will be insufficient to meet demands, applications can be considered only from shareholders and season ticket holders. Shareholders and £10 season ticket holders may apply for one ticket at 12s; £9 season ticket holders may apply for one ticket at 8s: £8 10s and £8 season ticket holders, along with ground and paddock season ticket holders, may apply for one ground ticket at 6s. It is not anticipated that there will be sufficient tickets available to meet requirements, and these will be dealt with in strict rotation as received. All applications must be made by post, enclosing spare voucher No. 5, which will be returned for use in case of a replay, together with remittance and stamped addressed envelope. The top left-hand corner of the envelope containing the application should be marked " Shareholder" or "Season Ticket Holder,' as the case may be, and " Bedford." If the application is received in time to quality for a ticket and the price grade is sold out, a cheaper ticket will be allocated, together with a refund. If any tickets remain available after season ticket holders' requirements have been met, a further announcement will be made.
EVERTON AND UNITED NEW DATE
Providing Everton and Manchester United are not still in the F.A. Cup, the clubs have agreed to bring forward by one day their League match on March 26 at Goodison Park.

CUP COLOURS CLASH
Liverpool Echo- Wednesday, January 26, 1966
BEDOFRD MANAGER SPIES ON EVERTON AT NORTHAMPTON
By Horace Yates
The best selling line in Bedford shops just now I am told, are blue and white hats and scarves. While Everton supporters may be there in force on Saturday before their team’s League game with Northampton, in an attempt to obtain tickets for the tie, they are unlikely to join the queue for hats or scarves! The point that does arise is the colour clash! Unless the clubs agree mutually, both sides must change, but the point has still to be discussed. In recent years it has become common practice for an arrangement to be made whereby the home club wears normal colours, a rule which applies similarly in the event of a replay. Everton followers will be interested to know that Bedford became members of the Southern League in 1945, and have not been champions since 1958-59. This season they are in a challenging position.
NEW BOSS WATCHES
Their new manager, Ronnie Burgess who takes over this week from Basil Hayward, saw Bedford’s triumph on Saturday. He told me last night; “I did not go into the dressing room after the game because the triumph was all theirs I will be meeting them on Thursday.” He is losing no time in preparing for Everton’s Cup visit on February 12, for he intends to go to Northampton on Saturday to gain some idea of the task that confronts Bedford. Burgess, who was formerly Fulham’s coach, added; “I missed Everton match at Fulham earlier in the season because I was with Wales that day for their match with England.” Among the members of the Bedford team with League experience are goalkeeper Alan Collier (Luton), right back Peter Morgan (Queen’s Park Rangers), right half Alan Wright (Walsall), right winger Mike Benning (Watford), inside right Danny Paton (Oxford), centre forward Bill Brown (Charlton) and inside left Peter Hall (Bournemouth). Products of Bedford junior football are; Left back David Skinn, left half Ray Bailey and left winger Cooley.
EXPERIENCED PLAYERS
The most experienced men are Patron and Benning, Paton was with Hearts and in 1962 was a member of the side which won the Scottish League Cup, with a victory over Kilmarnock. Benning had 100 first team appearance with Walford to his name, and when he joined Cambridge City a fee of £7,500 was being asked for him. Southern League gates at Bedford are usually around the three thousand mark. This is the second time Bedford have progressed to the fourth round of the F.A Cup in three years. Chairman George Senior said last night; “We regard this as yet another chance of pressing home our claim for League status.”
NEW DATE
Everton and Manchester United have agreed to play their League game at Goodison Park on March 25 (kick-off 7.30 p.m.) instead of the following afternoon, which would have clashed with the Grand national. This is, of course, conditional on neither side having F.A Cup commitments, the sixth round of which is also scheduled for March 26. One way and another I shall be surprised if the clubs do not find it necessary to change the date again.

SPECIAL PURCAHSING PERMITS HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED
Liverpool Daily Post- Thursday, January 27, 1966
BEDFORD TICKET PLAN FOILS EVERTON SUPPORTERS
WASTE OF TIME TO VISIT GROUND ON SATURDSY SAYS CLUB CHAIRMAN
By Horace Yates
Everton supporters have lost the first round of their Cup battle with Bedford! Non-League club they may be, but they are obviously wide awake to the cunning of League team supporters. Bedford went to work quickly after the F.A Cup fourth round draw was made to ensure that Everton’s fans are restricted in number to the official allocation. Letters, telephone calls and even personal appearance at Bedford’s home game on Saturday will all be in vain. There will be no extra tickets for outsiders! Bedford chairman Mr. George Senior, told me last night; “Our share of the tickets is 14,000, and we will have 14,000 of our own supporters at the match. Everton will get their official allocation and not a ticket more. As soon as we knew Everton were to visit us we recalled other occasions-elsewhere on which astute football fans from Merseyside found ways and means of obtaining tickets from the opposing club. “we have taken jolly good care to see they don’t do it with us. They will be wasting their time if they come to our game on Saturday, hoping to grab a ticket and then dash over to Northampton to see Everton play there.
WELCOME BUT-
“They are welcome to come and watch us if they like, but definitely there will be no tickets for them. This week we have had special passes printed almost impossible to copy! And these have been issued to supporters from different distributing centres in Bedford. “One plan is that these passes must be presented when out followers come to the match on Saturday and in return they can purchase a Cup-tie ticket. No pass- no ticket. We cannot see any flaws to this scheme. “Without a doubt the tie will be a sell-out and I don’t think I am exaggerating when I say that if there were twice the number of tickets available we could see them-in Bedford. “It is the main topic of conversation here- a regular tit-bit for the fans. Everton are a tremendous attraction. “we feel we had to adopt this ticket plan in fairness to our followers. We would have been failing in our duty if we had allowed tickets to leave the town while there were still fans of the club wanting them and unable to get them. “if Everton should by any chance have tickets left on their hands we will gladly dispose of them.” “I think everybody here believes we have a fifty-fifty chance against Everton as a result of the home draw. It is already a wonderful feat for us to have reached the last 32, considering the number of clubs originally entered, but out ambitions do not end there. “There have been a few shocks in the Cup already. We would dearly like to provide another on February 12! “our new manager, Ronnie Burgess, takes over to-morrow and we will then get down to the job of deciding colours. “Ours is an all-blue strip, including shorts and stockings. Supporters get used to seeing their team in their own colours and if possible we would like to keep them for this tie. When we played Brighton, we arranged that they should wear their colours at home and in the replay we had the same privilege. “that ideas worked very well and we are hoping we can come to a similar agreement with Everton.” This announcement will undoubtedly be a tremendous disappointment to those Everton fans who, knowing how slim were their chances of obtaining a ticket from their own club’s allocation, had decided to call in at Bedford before going on to Saturday’s match with Northampton Town. That triumph over Sunderland has boosted enthusiasm for Everton’s cause as nothing, apart possibly from a derby victory could have done.

EVERTON GET VOTE OF CONFIDENCE
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Thursday, January 27 1966
By Leslie Edwards
If spectators noticed on Saturday a new spirit of urgency and enthusiasm about the play of Everton—and I don't mind confessing that I did-part of the explanation may well have been the talk the Chairman of the club, Mr. Holland Hughes, had with the players a few days before the tie against Sunderland. He told them "The incidents at Blackpool last Saturday have in no way affected the confidence of the Board in Mr. Catterick. You have the talent and capacity to do as well as any other club in the League. You may have had an unfortunate succession of matches, but you must go into all your games with the full confidence of being able to win them." I don't doubt that Mr. Catterick took as much solace as his players from this vote of confidence at a time when they needed something to bolster their morale. No team ever put more into their game than Everton players did against Sunderland. It is almost needless to add that the players received from chairman and manager a heartfelt " Well done when they had scored their victory. Mr. Catterick, who still does not see eye-to-eye with me on all my football assessments, at least sees the future of the club as a happy one. "Never in all my years with the club" he told me yesterday. "has the first team been backed by such a fine reserve of talent in the reserve teams. I am confident that sooner or later several of these young players ' make topgrade football."

EVERTON AT NORTHAMPTON
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, January 28 1966
By Leslie Edwards
Everton, too face the team which helped them to start the season - Northampton. Whether Mr. Catterick will take advantage of the nearness of Bedford Town to see his side's next Cup opponents is anyone's guess. Mine is that he would be foolish to miss the opportunity. There has been no hint from the Everton manager as to what his team will be at Northampton. Admitting his belief that no one knows the strengths and weaknesses of individual players like the manager, I maintain that the side which pulled out all the stops against Sunderland is surely worth its chance for several weeks to come. True, this long-term en bloc selection of sides is a system few managers favour, but I think of the psycho-logical effect on the morale of eleven men when they are told that, injuries excepted, they are good for their places for the following three or four weeks.  The more I see of football the more I marvel at the loyalty of players. Say what you will of present-day footballers; their materialism, their greed for the last penny you are still left admiring them for putting in 100 per cent. effort no matter how cavalierly they may have been treated. Northampton were a poor side when last I saw them but lam told they are pretty hard to beat on their own ground. A glimpse at the televised match against Blackburn recently more than confirmed this opinion. It could be that Everton are at the start of a run of successes in the Cup and maybe in the League also. They have suffered much because their neighbours success has made comparisons more odious than ever.
I trust Mr. Catterick will leave undisturbed the side which did so well against Sunderland. I am sure if he does they will repay his confidence.

EVERTON KEEP SAME TEAM
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, January 28 1966
NORTHAMPTON MAKE ONE CHANGE
By Leslie Edwards
To the certain satisfaction of many of their fans Everton announce an unchanged team for their unchanged team for their match to-morrow at Northampton. This means the players brought back for the Cup game against Sunderland, Young, Gabriel and West retain their places, Husband is named as substitute. Northampton make one change. Right back and captain, Theo Toley, is out with an ankle injury and Vic Cockroft takes his place. Foley has only missed one other game in the last two years. Cockcroft who was developed by Wolves is a former Youth International. Extra spectators are anticipated to-morrow from near by Bedford because of Everton’s Cup-tie there. Former Welsh international Ron Burgess, who this week became Bedford’s manager, said he will be present to assess his Cup opponents. Northampton Town;- Coe; Cockcroft, Everitt; Carr, Branston, Kiernan; Broadfoot, Moore, Brown, Hall, Lines, Substitute; Martin.
Everton; West; Wright, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple.
Everton Reserves (v. Preston Res at Goodison Park 3 p.m.) Barnett; Darcy, brown; Hurst, Smith, Glover; Wallace, Humphreys, Royle, Trebilcock, Morrissey.
IN YOUTH PARY
Everton forward Jimmy husband is in the party of 16 players for the England youth team against Bristol City Under-19 at Bristol on February 8.

EVERTON AIM
The Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, January 29, 1966
FIRST LEAGUE DOUBLE?
One result does not produce a team, but all Everton supporters will hope that the Cup triumph over Sunderland last Saturday is the stepping stone to greater, more rewarding accomplishments. What a difference a bit of success can make! The first reward probably, is the number of supporters suddenly to have come out of hiding! The difference is apparent in conversations in offices and clubs and I trust to-day’s visit to Northampton will serve to add fuel to the fire of enthusiasm. Given their chance by restoration against Sunderland, Gabriel, Young and West, these men of experience, although far removed from the veteran stage, can make it impossible for them to be overlooked again by the quality of their play.
PERILOUS FLIGHT
Northampton, not the most formidable of rivals, could become Everton’s second victims away from Goodison Park. Their perilous plight in the relegation zone must rouse them to a new militancy, for time is short if they are to retain their top-class standing. For all that I expect Everton to win and add a second stage to their revival. That the manager of Bedford Town, their next F.A. Cup opponents, will be among the crowd to assess the sort of task facing the non-leaguers on February 12, will not make the slightest difference to the Everton plans. Even if they wished, they have too much at stake themselves, to think beyond immediate victory. What a pleasant change for Mr. Harry Catterick, not only to want to keep the same side, but to be able to do so, free from injury upsets. Like every side, Everton need a bit of luck- and they need it now. The Cup draw smiled on them by offering one of the less exacting tasks, even though it involves a trip to Bedford, so that a new era of overdue good fortune may now be dawning. Everton were first to encounter Northampton in the season’s opening fixture, beating them handsomely by 5-2 so that it may not be too much to expect them to register their first League double to-day. Northampton Town; Coe; Cockcroft, Everitt; Carr, Branston, Kiernan; Broadfoot, Moore, Brown, Hall, Lines, Substitute Martin. Everton; West; Wright, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple, Substitute; Husband.

BLUES CRUSIE TO EASY WIN AGAINST LEAGUE BABES
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday January 29 1966
NORTHAMPTON 0, EVERTON 2
By Michael Charters

Northampton;- Coe; Cockcroft, Everitt; Carr, Branston, Kiernan; Broadfoot, Moore, Brown, Hall, Lines, Substitutes; Martin. Everton’ West; Wright, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple, Substitute; Husband. Referee Mr. K. Styles, of Barnsley.
Everton manager Harry Catterick, with coach Ron Lewin, missed the game at Northampton Town to-day to go on a Cup spying mission at Bedford. whom Everton meet in the fourth round of the F.A. Cup a fortnight to-day. The Bedford manager, Ron Burgess, who only took over on Thursday, was at Northampton on a similar mission. Everton were playing their first competitive match on this ground, though they came in 1939 for a testimonial match. Evertor took a sensational lead after two minutes, direct from a goal kick by West. It bounced over Branston's head as Pickering dummied and Temple moved down the middle and put the ball into the empty net as Coe came out. Temple was switching with Young, which seemed to unsettle the Northampton defence, who were in trouble against Temple's dribbling skill.
NO NONSENSE
Northampton quickly showed themselves a direct, no nonsense side, and shots from Hall and Everitt went wide from long range. Mistake were made by both sides on the muddy ground. From another clearance by West, Branston missed his kick and Young broke clear and pushed the ball to the unmarked Scott, who shot over from eight yards—a glorious chance missed. Everton's superior class was evident: a fine move between Wilson and Temple gave Harris an opening, but the ball struck a Northampton defender. Wright moved up the wing to a pass from Gabriel, but Scott's centre went astray. The Everton forwards werefinding plenty of gaps, and Pickering shot left-footed after wheeling around Cockcroft. Coe pushed the ball down and completed the save at the second attempt.
SOARED OVER
Pickering brought the ball the up the left wing and along goal line, but Temple's first-time shot, soared over. From a left Wing corner, the  ball was flicked by Temple toScott, whose shot was cleared off the line by Branston. Pickering was spoiling someexcellent work by selfishness. On one occasion, with Scott and Young better placed, he shot straight at Coe from 20 yards. Northampton’s first dangerous attack-after half an hour- came when the speedy Broadfoot went past Wilson but Gabriel intercepted his low centre. The home team’s best shot so far came from Everitt, a volley which went only just wide. Northampton had plenty of power in the inside forward old positions, with two big men in Brown and Hall. Brown once shot through a crowded, goalmouth, but West saved well.
CASUAL
Everton were inclined to be too casual. Brown was dangerous in the air, and made a good header from a centre by Broadfoot, West saved well After 41 minutes, Scott made the score more In keeping with Everton’s superiority. It was a splendid move, starting with a fine pass by Young to Harvey, and then an even better one to Scott, who had moved into the middle. He took the ball to the left and beat Coe with a beautifully-placed shot. Northampton rallied, and their best shot so far came from Kiernan who took a rebound from Labone and hit a great shot which West saved magnificently, pushing the ball over the bar. Coe was lucky to find Young’s glancing header from a corner going straight to him. Northampton went downfield and Kiernan ran onto a pass from Everitt, but shot over.
Half-time; Northampton nil, Everton 2.
Everton’s defence was at fault in not clearing when Lines shot from close range, but West saved well at full stretch. Hall broke away after Gabriel had missed a tackle and the position looked dangerous until Young came from nowhere to turn the ball for a corner. From it Lines shot, but West saved easily. Everton, who were falling back on defence too much, wasted yet another glorious opening after a move between Harris, temple and Harvey. Scott badly slicked the final shot. Branston cleared a shot from Scott from near the post, the ball bouncing to Young, whose header went straight at Coe. On the whole Northampton, though spirited, looked out of their class. The game had done quite dead, Everton were just going through the motions, and found they could hold on to their lead without trouble.
LITTLE HELP
Moore, the former Welsh international with Chelsea and Manchester United, was the one home forward to show any idea of how to break through Everton’s defence, but he got little help. Young came close with a header from temple’s corner, but possible scoring chances were few and far between as this drab half dragged wearily on. In a moment of slackness by Everton’s defence, Hall gave Brown a chance but he shot wide. This must have been Everton’s easiest game of the season. If they had really turned on the pressure they could have trebled the score. Final; Northampton o, Everton 2. Official attendance 16,309.

EVERTON RES v.  PRESTON RES
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday January 29 1966
Everton Res; Barnett; Darcy, Brown; Hurst, Smith, Glover; Wallace, Humphreys, Royle, Trebilcock, Morrissey. Preston N.E; Barton; Patrick, Donnelly; Selway, Cranston, Lapot; Lea, Johnston, McDonald, Hope, West. Referee; J.C. Cafferty (Runcorn). Barnett was tested in the first minute by Branston, but Everton soon settled and Barton had a busy time. He saved a couple of good drives from Trebilcock and was lucky to see Donnelly kick off the line from Morrissey. After 20 minutes Everton took the lead with a fairly easy goal. A Preston attack had been foiled and the ball booted up field it fell at the feet of TREBILCOCK, who rounded Donnelly easily and cracked the ball past the out-coming Barton. Everton kept pressing and at 32 minutes increased their lead. They were awarded a penalty and SMITH made no mistake. The ball hit Barton on its way in, but there was little he could have done about it. Right winger Lea was keeping Brown on his toes, but the home defence kept most of the Preston danger away from Barnett. He did, however, make one good save just before the interval, from Hope. Half-time; Everton reserves 2, Preston Reserves nil.

EVERTON PICK UP THEIR ESIEST POINTS
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday January 31, 1966
NORTHAMPTON TOWN 0, EVERTON 2
By Michael Charters
Everton had no difficulty in scoring their second away win of the season. Northampton Town, promoted last season and struggling all this to gain a respectable place in the First Division were no match for Everton, who were able to play well within themselves, and dictated the run of the game as they liked. After Everton had scored twice in the first half they used the second half as a practice session. They fell back on defence, which would have been a mistaken policy against a stronger team, but were never in real danger of losing their lead and indeed always looked as though they could have restored it had Northampton scored.
VICTORY STROLL
As a result the game became drab in the extreme and although Northampton played with a good deal of power and enthusiasm they were not in the same class as Everton, who strolled to victory. Only Moore had any idea of how to break down the Everton defence, in which Gabriel, playing deep throughout, Wilson, Wright, West and Harris, were outstanding, although the opposition played into their hands. Twice Moore with good midfield work created openings when the Everton defence, slackened for Brown to get in shots, but the centre forward seemed bemused with the opportunity of having a clear sight of the Everton goal and shot wide and high. The only other time Everton were in the slightest danger came when Kieran, Northampton’s only really constructive player, stormed into attack to volley a clearance by Labone and the shot looked on target until West made the save of the match to turn the ball over the top. West had more practice than he had against Sunderland a week earlier and got through his work with the utmost competence but the whole Everton team had too much pace, skill and method for struggling Northampton.
BRILLIANT HARVEY
Harvey had a particularly brilliant game while Temple weaved his dribbling runs through the Northampton defence until they didn’t know which way he was going. In the first half when Everton attacked almost throughout, only poor finishing and a rather casual approach prevented them scoring half a dozen. Pickering in particular, did much excellent work in midfield and in bringing the ball through but tended to spoil it by selfishness on the ball. There was one particular occasion when he brought the ball downfield and with both Temple and Scott unmarked and crying for the ball, Pickering tried a shot and put it straight at Coe. Northampton really lost their chance in the opening minutes. From a goal-kick by West two minutes after the start Pickering dummied and Branston missed the ball for Temple to go through on his own evade the outcoming Coe and put the ball in the net. For the next half hour, the Northampton defenders were in a whirl, Scott missed a glorious chance presented by Young and shot over from close range, but later he beat Coe, for Branston clear off the line. Temple also shot over the bar with a good chance, and Pickering had an angled shot well saved. It took Everton forty-one minutes to get the second goal, which was more in keeping with their general command. It started with a beautifully chipped pass by Young to Harvey, who veered out to the right as Scott moved inside and put a fine pass to the winger’s feet. Scott took the ball slightly to the left and placed a left foot shot past Coe. Some of Young’s passing from the midfield region was inch perfect, and if Everton had so wanted, the second half could have been as one-way as the first. It was all too easy and Everton couldn’t be blamed for closing up the game, going through the motions, and picking up their easiest points of the season. Northampton; Coe; Cockcroft, Everitt; Carr, Branston, Kiernan; Broadfoot, Moore, Brown, Hall, Lines, Substitutes; Martin. Everton; West; Wright, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple, Substitutes; Husband. Referee Mr. K. Styles (Barnsley) Attendance 16,309.

EVERTON RES 2  PRESTON N.E. RES 0
The Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, January 31, 1966
Everton Reserves deservedly won this game at Goodison Park, but had it not been for a grand display late on by goalkeeper Barnett, the score line might easily have been different. There was little between the teams for the first twenty minutes with both doing their share of attacking. Then Trebilcock was presented with a simple goal when a long ball up field caught the visiting defence napping and he beat goalkeeper Burton. At 32 minutes centre half Smith added a second goal from a penalty and Everton dominated the rest of the half. After the interval Preston regained their poise and when Everton lost Morrissey with leg muscle trouble at 72 minutes the visitors put on the pressure. Everton fell back on defence and only Barnett’s agility kept their goal intact.

EVERTON PICK UP THEIR EASIEST POINTS OF THE SEASON
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Monday January 31, 1966
By Michael Charters
Class will always tell and, in sport, it is liable to about out loud. So it was at Northampton on Saturday when Everton cruised leisurely to a 2-0 win, their second away victory of the season, and confirmed that the current team line-up is the one best fitted to sterner tasks which lie immediately ahead. Northampton were workmen; Everton craftsmen. The gulf between the top spheres in football and the lower echelons can rarely have been more clearly illustrated than on this odd little Northampton ground, where the football pitch is part of the county cricket ground, but the atmosphere is pleasantly relaxed and free of the tensions of the success-at-all-costs feeling in the leading clubs. Everton played casual, skilful football at their own pace and well within themselves. Northampton ranlike fury all over the field and when they found they could not succeed with endeavour many of them just stood there, watching the ball instead of moving to get it. Northampton's style was elementary. They have two big, striking inside forwards in Hall and Brown, who are prepared to tackle a brick wall as the rest of the team fling the ball high into the middle. They hope to unsettle opposing defences by the power and drive they can generate. That type of play has paid off in the Second Division because they gained promotion. It usually succeeds in the, Third and Fourth Divisions, but it just isn't good enough for the First. There is no substitute for skill in these games. Once Northampton found they could not unsettle Everton's defence, in which Labone and Gabriel played superbly, they had no other ideas.
DOMINATED
They had two skilful players in Kiernan, a constructive wing half but inadequate defensively, and Moore, the former Chelsea and Manchester United Welsh international. They both tried to rally their team but they didn't have a chance as Everton dominated the game from start to finish. Everton turned on almost exhibition stuff in a fascinating first half of fluent, facile football. They scored both their goals in this time, should have doubled the score at least with the chances they created, and could hardly believe the freedom they were getting to carve up the opposition. The only criticism one could make was that they were altogether too casual at times—understandable perhaps in the circumstances, but a dangerous frame of mind had Northampton been able to score. Everton closed up the second half, played defensively at half pace but still were able to strike out when they wanted. The should have won 6-0 in their easiest game of the season. The whole team played of course, some exceptionally well.  I thought Harvey had a brilliant game, dominating thee , midfield, with Temple weaving his magical, dribbling runs through the Northampton defence almost as he liked.
GABRIEL'S PART
Feature of the defence was the display of Gabriel, who played deep to orders and proved that this is where he can serve the team best. He, never put a foot wrong and only twice did Northampton' manage to break through the twin barrier in the middle , which he and Labone established. Everton were getting a little careless late on and it was then that Brown had a couple of shooting chances but missed both, shooting high and then wide. The only other time West was in trouble was just before half time when Kiernan lashed a speculative volley at goal which turned out to be a stunning shot but West saved expertly. West was extremely competent in everything he did and had the personal, satisfaction of laying on the pass for the first goal! From his goal-kick, the only other player to touch the ball before it reached the net at the other end was Temple. As the ball bounced over' the half-way line, Pickering "dummied" Branston out of the way and Temple snapped it up, beat off a couple oftackles and slotted the ball past Coe as the goalkeepercame out. This, after only two minutes, was a killing blow to Northampton. Everton's other goal, four minutes before the interval. was a classic. Young clipped the ball forward to Harvey, who veered right as Scott cut inside, slipped the ball through a gap to the winger, and Scott took the ball further to the left before placing a near shot put Coe.
PASSING SKILL
It was Everton's high skill in passing which baffled Northampton, who can only stay in the First Division on the inadequacies of other teams in distress. On this form, they are out of their class. Everton manager Harry Catterick, who had been to Bedford to see his team's Cup opponents win 3-1 in a Southern League fixture. met the team on the journey home. He reported Bedford as a " good, lively side" but reserved more extensive comments for his players at a later date. Both teams will change strips in the fourth round on February 12. Bedford, won usually play in a Chelsea-style outfit, will wear red and Everton white.