EVERTON CUP TIE TICKETS
Liverpool Daily Post - Tuesday 01 March 1966
Everton announce that they cannot accept any mo0re postal applications for stand and paddock tickets for the Coventry Cup cup-tie next Saturday. Entrance to the ordinary terracing is by paying at the turnstiles. Far more applications for tickets have been received than there is stand and paddock accommodation.

NOW IT’S THE TURN OF EVERTON ‘66
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express - Tuesday 01 March 1966
By Leslie Edwards
Though I am criticised for mentioning Everton's occasional role as contributors, indirectly, to Liverpool's League title aspirations-- one chap says he just can't eat his tea because of it -things are going a great deal better at Goodison Park than most of their followers realise. Who, for example, has taken note of the fact that they have been beaten this year only once—at Blackpool? The unbeaten run now extends to ten matches with very creditable draws from matches at Tottenham, Burnley and West Ham to mix with their excellent home record. This success confirms what I wrote of the team when Young and Gabriel were brought back for the Cup game against Sunderland. I said then: "In my book the Everton manager was right to recall the old brigade. "Surely this Everton team has the right to be left undisturbed for a month at least? And if they are left to work out their football problems I think them certain to succeed in the end." In the weeks between January 22 and February 26 they have won five of their matches. drawn the other and come out of the spell with 13 goals for and only three against. Thus, what at one time seemed certain to be a most undistinguished Everton season has now become one with much in prospect. No wonder the tie on Saturday against Coventry City is creating great interest. Liverpool, of course, have great hopes of an unprecedented double—League and European Cup Winners' Cup. Everyone who can, will be listening late this afternoon to the radio story of the game at Honved. That Ian St. John was sent off at Fulham was received philosophically by at least one of their fans—Mr. S. 11. Henderson. His long memory recalls that when St. John was last sent off, at Anfield. In season 1961-62 Liverpool got promotion.
In 1962-63 when Tony Kay was ordered off. against Blackburn, Everton won the League championship and in 1963-84 when Liverpool won the championship Ronnie Yeats was sent off at Highbury in a Cup tie' Will St. John's fate at Fulham. on Saturday. prove another omen?

HAVE COVENTRY FOUND THE ANSWER?
Liverpool Daily Post - Wednesday 02 March 1966
Asks Ian Hargreaves
Merseyside, which is well known for the enthusiasm of its football supporters, may get something of a shock on Saturday when an estimated 10,000 followers of soccer’s most progressive club, Coventry City descend on the area to see the F.A. Cup-tie against Everton at Goodison Park. Spearheading the invasion will be, not a battered collection of nineteenth century, trucks,  masquerading as a football special, but two luxury trains hired from British Railways by Coventry City and organised entirely by the club. One is the famous Sky Blue Special, a 650-seater wired for sound and equipped for buffet meals and bingo; the other a brand new Pullman train which will be gliding into action for the first time. Mr. P.D.S. Oliver, the Coventry secretary, told me yesterday that the Sky Blue special had been sold out within thirty-six hours of the announcement of the Cup draw. “These excursions have proved popular in the past, but there has never been such enthusiasm about a match as there has been over this one,” be enthused. “We were inundated with demands for seats, and in the end decided to experiment with a Pullman as well and see how it went. We are charging £5 a head for what is roughly a two-and-a-half-hour journey each way, inclusive of lunch and dinner, and now have only about a dozen places left in the 250-seater train.”
SOME TROUBLE AS OTHERS
The Coventry club believe that they have found the ideal method of combating hooliganism among supporters by running the trains themselves.” We had as much trouble as anyone in the past,” said Mr. Oliver “and in the end the railways refused to run specials for us. “We could have given up, like other clubs, but instead we put our heads together and decided to organise the excursions properly. “We hire the trains from British Railways, who supply the driver and guard, sell the tickets at the club offices lay on buffet refreshments and organise bingo sessions in all but two of the carriages. The train is wired for sound, and part from playing light music and request records, we are able to send our interviews with manager and players and other items of interest on the way home. “People are warned that they must behave themselves-and that if they don’t they will be put off the train at the first convenient stop. We also operate a black list, so fans causing trouble know they will not be allowed to travel with us again.” How effective have these measures proved? “Almost 100 per cent,” claimed Mr. Oliver. “We have noted a couple of potential trouble makers and warned them about their future conduct, and this has proved quite sufficient. Since we began to run these special trains there has been no trouble at all, and as a result the trips are becoming increasingly popular.

HILL & CATTERICK DELAY CHOICE OF CUP TEAMS
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 02 March 1966
As expected, there was no immediate team announcement for Saturday's F.A. Cup-tie at Everton by Coventry City's manager Mr. Jimmy Hill, after last night's Reserve game at Highfield Road, writes NEMO.
Cup tickets
Mr. Jack Patience, secretary of Coventry City Supporters' Club, today had a surprise in store for Sky Blue fans. Everton have disposed of all 19.000 stand and paddock tickets for the tie—City's share, apart from a handful of paddock places, had gone by Monday night—but Mr. Patience was still able to announce: "Tickets are available from the Supporters' Club." He explained:  We claim tickets
for all away matches to sell to old age pensioners. They have not all been claimed for Saturday's game and we have over 100 stand tickets still on our hands. Anybody who wants one should call at the Supporters' Club office."
Wright injured
While the Everton players were undergoing full training today at the club's private ground, Bellefield, West Derby, Tommy Wright. the right-back, was under treatment for a badly sprained ankle received against Chelsea last Saturday. The injury has recurred during training and the manager, Mr. Harry Catterick, is awaiting a report on Wright's progress before he considers the team selection. All the other players are fit and in good spirits and Mr. Catterick hopes to field the team which beat Chelsea by the odd goal in three.

60,000 MAY SEE CITY’S CUP TILT AT MIGHTY EVERTON
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 02 March 1966
TREMENDOUS INTEREST
By Nemo
Interest in Coventry City's fifth-round F.A. Cup-tie at Goodison Park on Saturday is described by Everton's secretary, Mr. Bill Dickinson, as 'just tremendous.' So there is very chance that the Sky Blues will be watched by the biggest crowd to see them play since before the war. With around 10,000 singing, shouting City followers making the trip north, there is a prospect of a 60,000 crowd, the permitted capacity while alterations are being made for the World Cup. The signs of such a gate are all there. The winners will get a place in the last eight; Liverpool are out of the Cup so in Everton lies the only chance for the trophy to be kept on Merseyside; and there is quiet confidence there that this is the Goodison Cup year.
SEATING GONE
Biggest post-war crowd for a game involving City was on October 15, 1949 when 54,375 turned up at White Hart Lane to see Tottenham play them when the Londoners were blazing a promotion trail in the Second Division. Mr. Dickinson told me: The mere fact that there is a fifth round tie in Liverpool is sufficient pull for a huge crowd-whatever the opposition. With Coventry bringing a contingent of fans with them I reckon we should easily get 50,000 and probably as many as a full house. All stand accommodation-and that amounts to 16,000 at this fine arena-was snapped up at both ends by Monday mid-day. So an electric atmosphere is assured and the stage is set for a great occasion for City’s status conscious supporters. Everton will not want to leave anything to chance, such as having to come to Highbury Road for a replay the following Tuesday. In a comfortable position in the First Division they have no League worries and as these are often the sort of sides who win the Cup, one must fancy them as Wembley prospect. Can the Sky Blues pull off one of the day’s shock results and send Cup fever in Coventry sky high again? On the face of it, against Everton’s team of eight internationals who beat team-of-the-moment Chelsea on Saturday, they have no chance. By all that’s predictable in soccer, one must chalk up a “1” on the coupon for this game. But the fact that most people expect them to be put out will make the sky Blues fight all the harder. Who knows? -they could unsettle their illustrious opponents.
DEFENCE’S JOB
Obviously the onus for this sort of feat must fall on City’s defence who will have to blunt the impressive line-up of Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey and Temple. So, though my forecast must be for an Everton win, don’t discount the draw. With nothing to lose except the match, City could give Everton and Merseyside a severe shock.
Gate-note; Biggest crowd ever to watch City was 68,029 at Villa Park in a Second Division game in 1937.
HISTORY IN SKY BLUES’ FAVOUR
Recent history is certainly not against City, as on several occasions since the last war, Everton have suffered some shocks at the hands of clubs from a lower division. On no fewer than eight occasions since 1945, they have been beaten by clubs of lower status, and five times this has happened at Goodison Park, in fact, except on fairly rare occasions, Everton have not been regarded even by their most fervent supporters, as a really tough and uncompromising Cup-fighting side. The defeat which ahs always rankled most with Evertonians was when they were beaten 4-0 at Goodison Park by Liverpool- then in the Second Division-in 1955. The significant point about that reverse was that in the previous season Liverpool had won only two away matches, and at the time they met Everton in the fourth round of the Cup they had lost and drawn two of 12 away League games that winter. In addition to their eight post-war defeats by lowlier clubs, Everton have also scraped through only by the skin of their tenth on several occasions against teams from lower sections. On the basis of what they have seen recently and also in view of the Sky Blues strong bid for promotion, Everton feel that City are a cut above the Second Division are a cut above the Second Division average and possibly a side which could hold its own with the majority of First Division clubs.
HILL TAKING ‘LUCKY’ CANE
Mr. Jimmy Hill, City’s manager shows his “lucky” cane which he took to the F.A Cup-ties at Swindon and Crewe in the last two rounds, and which he hopes will bring the sky Blues more good fortune against Everton in the fifth round. The cane was a present from his father-in-law who brought it back from Lagos, Nigeria, after attending his son’s wedding.
CAUTIOUS CATTERICK
Whatever information, the Everton manager Mr. Harry Catterick and his various “spies” may have gathered from observation of Coventry City since the fifth round draw paired the Sky Blues with the Goodison Park club. Mr. Catterick is saying nothing beyond the normal platitudes. Always cautious when it comes to expressing views on the possible outcome of any game, Mer. Catterick limits himself to the statement that any side which gets to the fifth round of the F.A Cup, no matter what opposition has been met en route, must be treated with the “utmost” respect.” The fact that City are a Second Division side certainly indicates no possibility that Everton will underestimate them.
WILSON-OUTSTANDING ENGLAND FULL BACK
Full Backs Tommy Wright and England international Ray Wison -considered by many foreign writers as one of the world’s outstanding backs -will be formidable obstacle to City’s wingers. Right back Wright was formerly an inside-forward and was switched to full-back in the reserve side, before having his first senior outing in an Inter-Cities Fairs Cup-tie in October, 1964. He played so well that he has kept his place since, and Scottish international Alex Parker, from whom he took over, was transferred to Southport. A native of Liverpool, Wright signed professional forms in the summer of 1962. Aged 20 5ft 8in, 11st 4lbs.
Left Back, Wilson is one of the finest full backs of the post-war period, and has made 40 appearances for England in full internationals. Wilson comes from Shirebrook (Notts) and had 12 years with Huddersfield Town before joining Everton at a fee of £30,000 plus a player in part-exchange in the summer of 1964. Cool and thoughtful in all he is aged 30,5ft 8in, and 11st 6lb
LABONE CHOOSES SOCCER INSTEAD OF UNIVERSITY
Brian Labone, Everton’s skipper and centre half has been capped at Under-23 and full levels and is a powerful influence in defence, and given solid support by wing-halves Jimmy Gabriel and Brian Harris. Skipper of the side, Labone, a local product, gave up the chance of going to University to sign professional forms at Goodison Park in 1957. He made his senior debut at the end of the 1957-58 season, and soon gained a regular place. Has played in three full internationals. He made his 250th League appearance at the end of September. Aged 26 he is 6ft. 0 ½ and weighs 13st.
Jimmy Gabriel, (right half) is a fair-haired Scott from Dundee who was signed by Everton from his home town club for £30,000 in March, 1960. Has since gained Under-23 honours and one full Scottish cap. A tremendous worker, and one of the strongest tacklers in the side, he has also played occasionally at inside-forward and as leader of the attack. Aged 25 he is 5ft 10in, and weighs 12st 8lb.
Brian Harris (left half) is Everton’s longest-serving player, being signed as a professional in January, 1954, as a winger. He gained a regular first team place after switching to wing-half and is now on the verge of 300 League appearances. Was born across the Mersey at Bebington (Cheshire). Likes to move up in support of his forwards whenever possible. Aged 29, 5ft 8 ½ in, 11st 10lbs.
FORMIDABLE ATTACK
Alex Scott (outside-right) was born at Falkirk and has just completed three years at Goodison Park having been signed from Glasgow Rangers in February 1963, for £40,000 much to the disappointment of Tottenham, who were also bidding for him. Soon become a favourite at Goodison with his go-ahead style and strong shooting, and is much faster than he looks. Capped by Scotland 14 times, he has scored five goals in 29 League and F.A Cup games this winter. Aged 28, 5ft 12st.
Alex Young (inside right) is a talented though somewhat unpredictable player. He joined Everton from Hearts along with full-back George Thomson (now with Brentford) in November, 1960, at a combined fee of £55,000. Was a regular choice at centre-forward until the advent of Fred Pickering, and has since occupied all the other forward positions in attack. A native of Loanhead, near Edinburgh, he has played for Scotland on seven occasions. Twenty-two League and F.A Cup games this season have brought him eight goals. Aged 28, 5ft 7in., 11st 6 ½ lb.
Fred Pickering (centre-forward) was converted from a reserve full-back into an England-class centre-forward by Blackburn Rovers, his home-two club. He cost Everton a record £80,000 when signed in March, 1964. Scored 27 League goals last winter, the highest by an Everton player in the First Division side since prewar days and this season has 18 to his credit in 33 League and Cup appearances. Capped by England on three occasions, he has a tremendous shot in both feet and is very dangerous in the air. Aged 25, 5ft 11in, 12st 7 ½ lb.
HARVEY THE MIDFIELD SCHEMER
Colin Harvey (inside left) is Liverpool-born and made his senior debut against Inter-Milan in a European Cup-tie in September, 1963, 12 months after signing as a professional. He came through tat severe test excellently and after two League games towards the end of that season gained a regular place last winter. Recently reverted to the attack after a spell at right-half when Jimmy Gabriel was absent. The schemer of the side, he concentrates solely on the provision of chances for others, and has netted only once in 33 League and Cup games this season. Aged 21, 5ft 6 ½ in., 11st. 2 ½ lb.
Derek Temple (outside left) is another local-born player who has made good and won international honours as a schoolboy before he joined Everton’s professional staff in August 1956. Played only infrequently during the next two years, due to National Service abroad. Finally established himself, however, and has since filled all five forward positions. Played for the Football league last winter and once for England on the summer tour of the Continent. Fast-moving and direct, he has scored 11 times in 32 League and Cup appearances this winter. Aged 27, 5ft 7in., 11st 3 ½ lb.

WRIGHT IS EVERTON CUP DOUBT
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express - Wednesday 02 March 1966
By Leslie Edwards
Everton’s only doubtful for the Cup game against Coventry City at Goodison Park on Saturday is full back Tommy Wright. He twisted his left ankle in the match against Chelsea and although he has been having treatment, manager Harry Catterick won’t be able to say with certainly whether he will play or not until late on Friday. If he were unfit, Sandy brown is a ready-made deputy. The players relaxed by golfing at Ormskirk to-day. Mr. Catterick says of the match; “Nothing but our best is going to see them off…”

CUP-EVE SHOCK
Liverpool Daily Post - Friday 04 March 1966
COVENTRY TRANSFER HUDSON
Instead of leading the Coventry City attack against Everton at Goodison Park tomorrow, in the fifth round of the F.A Cup. George Hudson, last night joined struggling Northampton Town, in a £30,000 deal and will play for them against Leeds United. Hudson was leading scorer for Coventry this season with thirteen goals, including two scored in Cup-ties and there is little doubt that in Everton’s pre-match assessments, his qualities had come in for special consideration. To allow him to leave Coventry at all is a tremendous surprise, but to release him on the eve of such an important Cup-tie will have shocked the club’s following. It was at first reported that after the clubs had agreed terms, Northampton were unable to meet the player’s terms. Negotiations were, later reopened and his signature obtained. Everton’s only doubt, I gather is the fitness of full back Tommy Wright, and during the week Sandy Brown has been brought into all the team activities in case he should have to deputise.

HURDLE THEY WON’T STEP OVER EASILY
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express  - Friday 04 March 1966
By Leslie Edwards
Let's get one thing straight. The Cup-tie hurdle Everton face to-morrow at Goodison Park isn't going to be one they can " step over" easily. Coventry City are a useful side and a forceful one. You can forget League status differences; home advantages and the fact that most of the visiting team will be playing for the first time on the Everton pitch. My experience of Cup games at Everton has been that clubs from the Second and Third and even Fourth Divisions suddenly become aware of their importance when they step out before a capacity crowd on such a stadium, and play half as well again as they do anywhere else. Otherwise why should such teams as Crystal Palace, King's Lynn, Leyton Orient and others play with such aplomb and confidence when most people expect them to curl up and die a Cup tie death?  It almost seems as though they took impudent delight in stowing their more famous opponents that there are other temples of football science. Coventry, go-ahead in every way and managed by an astute, experienced one-time professional of not solong ego. Jimmy Hill, are just the team to make Everton "go." If I am any judge of Harry Catterick's reading of their play at Manchester he has told his team, among other things, not to make the mistake of thinking Coventry will be any easier to beat than Sunderland. Indeed, he told me: "This side plays with tremendous spirit, due to their success in the League. After all sides at the top of Division II are often much better teams than those at the foot of Division I. Nothing short of our best is going to see them of… Everton have quietly but surely found form again after one 1966 disaster--at Blackpool. They haven't lost another match but it is too early yet to talk of them as Cup winners. Their chances are good, but the luck of the draw could yet take them away to teams whose skills and power are no less than theirs. The spirit of the side has improved noticeably and was never more obvious than in the win against Sunderland. Gabriel is not only inspiring the team, but is staying the course well. Young, too, is producing the willingness to fight for the ball which his critics maintained he rarely showed.  Either Scott or Temple can win a match off their own shooting. Coventry City did themselves a great deal of good when they signed Ray Pointer, the Burnley centre forward, who played such a big part in that club's successes here and in Europe. Pointer's style and sporting attitude made him a great favourite at Goodison Park and Anfield. At one time It seemed as though injury might end his career. There is no means of assessing Coventry's skills, but we can depend on it the team will be full of fight. Jimmy Hill is one of those managers whose knowledge of present-day tactics is right up to date. It promises to be a great occasion and if, as everybody hopes, Everton find a place in the quarter-finals, this counter-shaft effort from a correspondent who must remain nameless will be on the way towards being off beam.
His answer to Everton as Wembley naps is

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SIGNATURE TUNE
A reader Who signs himself Dixie deplores the use of uncouth words by Everton followers. Far better, he thinks, if they'd get together with the rest of the fans and sing the Everton signature tune of " When You're Smiling ":
When you're smiling, when you're smiling,
The whole world smiles with you—
When you're cheering, when you're cheering,
Cheer those boys in blue.
For when you’re cheering the boys give their best,
So keep on cheering and they'll do the rest:
So when you're cheering, keep on cheering,
The boys in royal blue . . . .

WRIGHT OUT OF CUP-TIE
Liverpool Echo - Friday 04 March 1966
By Michael Charters
Everton full back Tommy Wright drops out of the team to face Coventry City in the fifth round F.A. Cup tie at Goodson Park to-morrow.  Despite intensive treatment all week, the ankle injury he suffered against Chelsea last week has not recovered in time. His place at right back will be taken by Sandy Brown. This is the first change in the team in seven games, during which they have won two Cup ties and only dropped one point from four League matches. Everton.--West; Brown, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple.
Admission to the stands and paddock is by ticket only and to the ground by cash at the turnstiles (4s). Ground season ticket holders should use their usual turnstiles and produce spare voucher No. 6, plus admission money.
Everton Res (At Leeds United)- Barnett; Curwen, Darey; Hurst, Smith, Glover, Shaw, Humphreys, Royle, Husband, Morrissey.
POINTER LEADS
Coventry will choose from 12 players with Ray Pointer at centre forward after regular first team leader George Hudson was transferred last night to Northampton Town for £30.000. Pointer had played inside right to Hudson since he joined Coventry from Bury for £20,000 on Christmas Eve.  Since then Pointer has scored seven goals to Hudson's four. It is likely that 19-years-old local Bobby Gould, will be at inside forward after a brilliant reserve match in which he scored twice. Wing half Brian Hill, who has missed 10 League matches with injuries, is also added to the list. Coventry  (from). Wesson: Kearns, Harris, Bruck, Curtis, Farmer, Hill, Rees, Machin, Gould, Pointer, Clements. McDonald Unfit For Southport As full back Terry McDonald was declared unfit this morning.

BEWARE JIMMY HILL AS A PROPHET
Liverpool Daily Post - Saturday 05 March 1966
NO-HOPE COVENTRY IS JUST A LEG-PULL NOBODY TAKES SERIOUSLY
Who does Jimmy Hill the Coventry City manager think he is kidding? “Coventry have as much chance of beating Everton as the Conservatives have of winning the election” is the comment he is reputed to have passed this week I decline to cross swords with him over the election angle but if the inference is that even their own boss is writing off Coventry then I can only say it is obviously a phrase parcelled up with words.  For export only” Certainly that will not have been the line he has plugged in the tactical discussions with his own players,  Obviously even the most cautious critic must accept view that in such a Goliath v David meeting in the FA Cup fifth round tie at Goodison Park to-day only a sling of outrageous misfortune can make a favourite of David.  That does not mean Coventry are incapable of springing a surprise but victory would be against the odds.  That was the position in which Swansea Town found themselves a recent famous Cup occasion at Anfield and yet they won.  We have all known Jimmy Hill as a most accomplished footballer a spirited and able negotiator for the Professional Footballers’ Association and more recently as an enterprising and astute football club manager.  Now apparently, he would have us believe he can lay claim to being a comedian,  No Jimmy! It simply won’t do! If there is one man in Britain to-day believes Coventry reach the sixth round he is Mr Hill.  All the smokescreens he chooses to blow up in the face of Everton will not deceive Mr Harry Catterick, or indeed, any of the Everton players for a moment.
Coventry are no sacrificial offering.  Their reputation belies the very suggestion.  Around them has been built a story of eleven players who will concede not an inch willingly men who may respect an opposition but never fear them.  Vigour holds an important place their make-up and the whole idea of an inferiority complex is utterly alien to their nature.  As is their custom with all of their opponents, Everton have had them watched more than once and the strengths and weaknesses have been underlined.  My information is that there has been a far more pronounced underlining of strength than weakness and Mr Catterick has warned Everton that to assume the Coventry hurdle is any less formidable than was Sunderland would be a grievous miscalculation.  If Sunderland had the wonderful fighting heart of these Coventry foemen the fact would be shown in a much more respectable League placing.  Come off it Jimmy! Your bluff has been called! Without knowing all the facts of the case I admit some surprise that Mr Hill has chosen to transfer his leading scorer George Hudson to Northampton Town at the very moment when his ability might have been placed to such good effect.  Wily as a fox the Coventry manager will not have acted on the spur of the moment.  Ray Pointer would never have left Burnley for Bury if some Division One Clubs had believed that he had made a complete recovery from his ankle injury.  Several clubs fancied him, but were loath to take a chance.  Bury took the chance and proved the means of introducing Pointer to a more fashionable and opulent club.  Pointer is still scoring goals he will lead the attack to-day and the lean as a hunter centre forward with the cracking kick is just one of the problems posed for Everton.  Because of the withdrawal of Tommy Wright Everton’s right back disturbs a side which has been unchanged and undefeated in six successive matches the purplest patch in the club’s achievements this season there will be some disappointment.  The injury Wright received to his ankle against Chelsea last week has not responded speedily enough to treatment to give him any real chance but which other position, I wonder could Everton have plugged effectively Sandy Brown is probably the best full back playing with any regularity in Central League football.
MORE EFFICIENT
More than that he is probably a good deal more efficient than many a back holding down a regular position in First Division sides. There need be no fear of Brown.  He will not weaken the side. Possibly not quite so fast as Wright, Sandy is every bit as reliable.  He has only played in six First Division games this season and two of those were in the role of centre half during Brian Labone’s absence.  This will be his first Cup-tie of the year.  Young’s newly found militancy has pleasantly surprised everybody and there must be no slipping back. This highly talented Scot can scale the heights when driven by the sort of spirit that took Chelsea by storm.  Pickering will undoubtedly become a much more effective leader the moment opposition forces realise that Young cannot be allowed any scope.  Considering the watch on Pickering his scoring record is not unimpressive.  Both he and Temple have scored in both Cup rounds to date and their sharpshooting will rank among Coventry’s principal worries allied of course to the inspired wing raiding of Alex Scott, playing some of the finest football of his career.  With forward power of this stature it is in no way surprising that goals and victories have begin to roll from the Everton production lines again.  It is no coincidence that the return to favour has come with the restoration of a fitter and more confident Gabriel.  The tragedy was that this player appeared to have lost faith in himself and was not long in reflecting itself in his play.  The past is happily buried and Jimmy roars on to new and greater achievements driving Everton forward by enthusiasm and ability qualities with which he is so amply blessed. Everton are welding together into a formidable Cup-fighting machine.  Maybe their best has yet to be seen and if Coventry see it to-day then Jimmy Hill may be able to say after all: “I told you so” I believe Everton will surmount this hurdle and that their greatest concern may in ensuring that Coventry do not steamroller a draw out of it. Everton; Westl Brown, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple. Coventry City (from) Wesson; Kearns, Harris, Bruck, Curtis, Farmer, Hill, Rees, Machin, Gould, Pointer, Clements.

SUPPORTERS EARLY START FOR EVERTON
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Saturday 05 March 1966
The 10,000 Coventry City F.C. supporters, who are travelling to Merseyside today for the F.A. Cup battle against Everton, were making an early start to their journey. The banner-waving Sky Blue fans were armed with trumpets and rattles to compete against the " Mersey Sound " of the 50,000 Everton followers who will cram into Goodison Park for the game. Last to leave the city were the 2000 supporters travelling in the special Pullman train on which they will be provided with lunch and dinner. An hour earlier, the Sky Blue Special, packed with a further 600 fans left Coventry Station. Coach firms in the city report " heavier than usual " bookings for the match, and coaches were leaving Pool Meadow for the round trip of almost 300 miles. To complete the Coventry contingent at the match, hundreds of private cars were heading for the M6, on the first leg of their journey north.

CITY’S SPRPTIT NOT ENOUGH
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Saturday 05 March 1966
EVERTON MAKE HARD WORK OF AN EASY TASK
EVERTON 3 COVENTRY CITY 0
By Nemo
COVENTRY CITY, putting up a brave stout-hearted fight, today bowed out of the F.A. Cup. Watched by a crowd of 60,350-  easily the biggest to see them since the war - they were conquered by a rather unimpressive Everton. With a strange-looking attack which rarely worked fluently against a tight Everton defence, City did well to keep the Merseysiders to a single goal at half-time. They had a Gould goal disallowed during their one flurry of pressure midway through the second half,  Young scored Everton's first scrambled affair (13 minutes), Temple got the second (69 minutes), and Pickering rounded it off three minutes from the end. EVERTON: West; Brown, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple. COVENTRY CITY: Wesson: Kearns, Harris; Bruck, Curtis, Hill; Machin, Farmer, Pointer, Gould, Rees. Referee: R. Tinkler (Boston). After City had kicked off facing the sun, a first minute shot on the turn by Temple bounced off Kearns and was cleared.
FINE RUN
But within a few moments, City had their fans roaring with a fine run by Rees on the left. Pointer challenged for the cross, but it was too high for him. Kearns, however, pumped the ball back into the goalmouth, and Everton gave away a corner. West made a shaky attempt at a save from Machin's inswinger, but Wilson scrambled the ball away. In the fourth minute, Harvey went down after a tackle by Hill on the far touch-line from the main stand, but it was clearly an accident and the inside-left resumed after treatment.City cleared two successive freekicks, and then Everton put in a sharp raid when Scott cut inside Harris. He laid it through for Young, who cracked the ball at goal and Wesson had to turn it round a post. Then City were under more pressure from a free-kick oy Wilson. Wesson came out to dive and smother the ball as Pickering tried to surge through.
HEADED AWAY
City were not without their own raids and Rees prompted one on the left, and Labone had to head away, to save an awkward situation. The Scott-Young pairing was already looking sharp, and it was as a result of a combined move between these two that Everton went into the lead, but it was an unlucky 13th minute for City, for the goal was a very untidy scrambled affair. Scott whipped over a quick ground centre from the right and YOUNG and Hill went for the ball together. It bounced off the inside-right's leg, and with Wesson powerless to stop it, the ball roiled slowly towards the line, hit an upright and slithered into the net. This had the huge Merseyside crowd roaring in top voice, and City faced more trouble from aPickering free-kick with Wesson grabbing a shot which flashed past the defensive wall. City tried to weave their way through, but it was an attack too slowly built up, and Everton replied with another rapier run from Scott in which he burst past two men to force Wesson into a great save. There was a howl from the crowd after 20 minutes when Curtis brought down Pickering heavily as the centre-forward tried to slip through on the outside. City cleared the free-kick from Young but Pickering had to go off for treatment. In the meantime. City were retaliating, and West had to punch clear from a fine cross by Hill. Pickering came back a few minutes later.
EASY TIME
As most of the pressing continued to be done by the First Division side, City were having to call back their forwards to help out. This was not enhancing their chances of scoring. West was having an easy time at this stage. Sheer persistence by Bobby Gould forced a corner off Labone, but the Sky Blues were not able to make use of it, and Everton came back with two lightning thrusts. First, Harvey shot Just over the top and then Temple shot wide. Half-time: Everton 1 Coventry 0
There was a good snap chance for Harvey with only three mins, of the second half gone when Young managed to wriggle past Hill and Kearns but he blazed the ball over the top. City were under pressure again when Gabriel sent a high overhead kick into the goalmouth and Wesson, with an acrobatic leap, flipped it over the top.
OFF HIS LEGS
Gould was booed for challenging West, who carried the ball over the by-line, but it looked a fair enough charge, though West had to be treated. It was a narrow thing for City after 53 minutes, when a fierce shot from Scott had Wesson groping, but the ball bounced off his legs in a packed goalmouth to be hastily cleared away. Harris had been looking unhappy for several moments after a tackle with Scott and appeared to have an ankle knock. He was treated but was certainly slowed up. City were still not able to mount any assault on the Everton goal, but there was a line move between Machin and Farmer which ended with Labone clearing for a corner. The Everton followers were getting a little heated about their team's slender lead, and without looking terribly sharp themselves. City were keeping in the hunt by sheer dogged spirit. Stoppages for injury were frequent, and there was another after a heavy collision between Farmer and Harvey. Harvey recovered quickly enough to bring down Machin within seconds, but Curtis headed over from the freekick.
LONE BATTLE
City were still really without a right-wing, and Gould was often fighting a lone battle down the middle against three or four white shirts. But there was no doubt that City were increasing in confidence and Everton increasing in edginess. After 61 minutes Everton had a lucky left-off when the Sky Blues had a Bobby Gould "goal" disallowed.  West made a complete hash of a cross from the left and as the ball bounced awkwardly It hit. Gould's hand but he quickly brought it under control and rammed It into the net. The referee disallowed the effort, but it was highly debatable whether Gould intentionally handled. At any rate it was a lucky escape for Everton.  It was completely against the run of play when Everton took a 2-0 lead after 69 minutes through their left-winger TEMPLE. City were split down the centre by a Pickering pass, and Harvey and Temple were both in a position to run through for the ball, but Temple was quickly on to it to slip it past Wesson into the left-hand corner. `
ESCAPE
No-one would deny that Everton were worth their two-goal lead but it had been a far from impressive show by the First Division side. There might have been a third a few minutes later when Wesson failed to hold a long shot from Sandy Brown and the ball slithered out of his hands and over the line for a corner. City battled away gamely, but when Ray Pointer had a chance of a run he was not sharp enough, and he was caught in possession. The second goal had perked Everton up from looking a rather ragged side. City pulled everyone but Gould back for Everton's latest corner, but Pickering slammed the ball wide with a wild shot. Three minutes from the end a terrible mix-up in City's defence presented Everton wish a third goal to round off their win. As Wesson came out, Curtis headed partially clear. With the goalkeeper stranded out of his charge, Scott whipped the ball back into the middle PICKERING slammed it home from close range. Result: Everton 3 Coventry City 0. Official attendance: 60.350. Receipts £15,701.
NOT DISGRACED SAYS HILL
AFTER the game, Mr. Jimmy Hill City's manager, said: "We were beaten but far from disgraced. On the whole I am pleased with the lads' performance. They did well to stay in it for so long, and we played some good football and got a good goal' which would have been the equaliser. Bobby Gould said that the ball bounced all wrong for him, and did hit his hand but he certainly didn't play it" Mr. Harry Catterick, Everton's manager: "They gave us a good, hard game, and there was very little in it until near the end when I think our footballing ability told."

YOUNG STARS AS EVERTON SAUNTER INTO ROUND 6
Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express - Saturday 05 March 1966
BUT SO-CASUAL GOODISON MEN SCARE THEIR FANS
EVERTON 3 COVENTRY CITY 0
By Michael Charters
Everton;- West; Brown, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Harris (B); Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple. Coventry City;- Wesson; Kearns, Harris (A); Bruck, Curtis, Hill; Machin, Farmer, Pointer, Gould, Rees. Referee; Mr. R. Tinkler (Boston).
Coventry City reshuffled their attack for the fifth round F.A Cup-tie at Goodison Park this afternoon and the emphasis seemed to be on defence before the match started. Wing-half Farmer was moved to inside-right and inside-left Machin to outside right. Rees switched from the right to the left wing and 19-years-old local boy Gould came in for his first Cup-tie. Everton of course, had Brown at right back in place of the injured Wright -the first change in seven games. Both teams had to change colours. Everton playing in white with black shorts, and Coventry in all red. The youngers behind the Gwladys street goal were swaying and moving about quite dangerously 15 minutes before the kick off and a number of them were pulled out of the crush and made to stand in other parts of the ground. Labone won the toss for Everton and it was a valuable one to win because they played in the first half with a strong sun behind them.
PICKERING HURT
The game opened at break-neck pace with Temple having a volley blocked and then the Everton defence got in difficulties with centres from either wing until Brown put the ball away for a corner. Pickering took a heavy tumble when Bruck crashed into him. Harvey had to have attention after a tackle by Hill. The referee spoke to the Coventry player before. Everton took the free kick. The pattern of Coventry’s play was very clear from the start- plenty of rugged tackling and bodily obstruction. Coventry were getting heartily booed after almost every tackle, and with only five minutes gone Everton had four free kicks. A fine angled shot by Young was well saved by Wesson. During a series of Everton attacks, Brian Harris flicked the ball through to Pickering who went very close to edging the ball past the goalkeeper. Young was showing some delightful touches in midfield where Everton had plenty of room to work. Coventry moved back massively into defence whenever Everton set up an attack. The first shot near the target came from Scott, who cut inside from the wing and put a left footed effort just over the angle. Everton had shown much more menace in attack and they deservedly went ahead after 13 minutes through Young. It stemmed initially with a misplaced ball by Machin which went across field to Scott. From Scott’s low centre Young moved in at top pace and, despite a tackle by Hill, managed to turn the ball with agonising slowness over the line. Everton were playing some beautifully controlled and skilled football at this stage. Gabriel and Brian Harris were using the ball constructively and the forwards were responding well against a nine-man Coventry defence. Pickering hit a tremendous free kick from 20 yards which hit Wesson, rather than the goalkeeper making a studied save, and Coventry were being pinned in their own half.
TREATMENT
Pickering was fouled by Curtis only a yard outside the box and had to go off for treatment. The centre forward came back after a couple of minutes. Coventry were failing to find their men with pass after pass and Everton were in control without, it seemed, much effort. Only Gould played up field for Coventry. Pointer was more a centre half than a centre-forward. This packed Coventry defence made it difficult for Everton to find a way through. But the home teams’ superior artistry was evident, particularly from Young. Wesson made a fine save from a full-blooded volley by Pickering, and when  from the corner Gabriel went up well but headed over the bar. Harvey went close with a first-class effort from Pickering’s headed pass. Harvey had to take an awkward ball on the run but swung it just over the bar with Wesson well beaten. At times Young had the Coventry defenders mesmerised and he brilliantly made room for himself to centre for Pickering to get in a header which Wesson saved with ease. Harvey, was also having a fine game and he set up an attack which had the ball swinging out to Scott and from the centre Temple was only inches wide with his first-time shot. Everton were almost too casual at times but when they did move in attack they moved like lightning and Coventry were hard pressed to hold them.
NO ATMOSPHERE
Two minutes before half-time Coventry produced their first shot of the game-from Farmer-and it went five yards wide. This indicated Everton’s dominance of the pay. The game certainly lacked the usual cup-tie atmosphere because it was so one-sided.
Half-time,- Everton 1, Coventry City nil.
Brilliant work by Young gave Harvey an ideal chance, but the youngster got his foot under the ball and sent it well over the top from 12 yards. Everton’s failing had been their poor finishing, although Wesson had made several splendid saves. Everton were finding it very difficult to get through the packed Coventry defence and much of their play was far too nonchalant for the comfort of their supporters. At times they were playing as though they were leading by three of four goals instead of only one.
GOAL DISALLOWED
Curtis came up for a free kick taken by Machin but headed the ball yards over the bar. Coventry began to play with a great deal more confidence mid-way through the second half and they came close to scoring when West mishandled a centre from the left. The keeper pushed against the bar and when it bounced down Gould put it in the net but had cleverly handled before doing so. Everton were paying the penalty for some of their over-casual play and Coventry were improving as every minute passed. The referee spoke to Brown after a foul on Farmer and suddenly Everton looked rattled and had to defend hard themselves for the first time in the game. From an Everton free kick Gabriel headed the ball across the goalmouth, where it bounced awkwardly as Temple flung himself forward. The winger finished up on the ground with the ball being cleared comfortably.
EXCITING
Wesson comfortably saved a long-range shot from Harvey and the game now was more exciting than it had bene at any stage, with Coventry coming so much into it. After 69 minutes Everton got the goal they badly needed, through Temple, Pickering headed the ball through and both Harvey and Temple had a chance to go for it, Harvey left it to the outside-left who beat Wesson from 10 yards with a slow shot which struck the upright and glanced into the net. Brown almost made it three when he went through well with Gabriel’s aid and hit a swerving shot which Wesson misfielded and the ball slipped just past the post. The shock of the near-miss by Gould had wakened Everton into the realisation that this game was far from being won but now that Temple had scored they were back pressing as hard as ever but not finishing well. Pickering missed one of the easiest chances of the game after Brian Harris had headed the ball down to him from a corner. He blazed away at full power and shot wide when a placed shot must have succeeded. Labone and Harvey had magnificent games, while in attack Young’s artistry was always the big feature. For Coventry Curtis had played hard and well but their forwards had rarely been seen except for a short spell after half time. Three minutes from the end Wesson made his first mistake of the match and it brought Everton’s third goal. He only palmed away a centre and the ball bounced loose to Scott who turned it back to Pickering and the centre forward hit an unstoppable shot from six yards. So Everton have won their three cup-ties by the same score of 3-0-and Pickering and Temple have scored in each one.
Final; Everton 3 Coventry C nil. Attendance 60,350 (Receipts £13,701).

LEEDS UNITED RES v EVERTON RES
Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express - Saturday 05 March 1966
Leeds United Res;- Stacey; Wright, Ryder; Lumsden, Smith (G), Davey; Winspear, Hawkins, Briggs, Hibbitt, Price. Everton Res;- Barnett; Curwen, Darcy; Hurst, Smith (D), Glover; Shaw, Humphreys, Royle, Husband, Morrissey. Referee; Mr. L. Birbeck (Durham). Everton went straight on to the attack and good work by Morrissey and Husband was spoiled when Glover miskicked. Continuing to harass the Leeds defence, Morrissey broke away and in the 11th minute put Everton in front. Two minutes later, with the home defence in a tangle, Royle shot inches wide. In a quick breakaway Leeds had the ball in the net but were ruled offside. Everton again went close when Shaw’s show was tipped round for a fruitless corner. Everton were awarded a penalty for hands, but Morrissey’s shot was saved. Against the run of play the home team drew level after 29 minutes, briggs netting. Eight minutes later Briggs again scored to put Leeds surprisingly in front.
Half-time; Leeds United Res 2 Everton Res 1.
Lancashire League
Everton A 1 Burnley A nil
Everton B 2 Burnley B nil.

COVENTRY NOT A GENUINE TEST BUT-
Liverpool Daily Post - Monday 07 March 1966
EVERTON CAN GO ALL THE WAY TO FINAL
EVERTON 3 COVENTRY CITY 0
By Horace Yates
For the first time since 1955-56 Everton are included among the last eight in the F.A Cup competition-and with the distinction of not having conceded a goal in three rounds, a boast shared equally with Hull City. As Liverpool advanced a stage nearer winning the Championship without so much as playing a game, due to the defeat of Leeds United, small wonder Merseyside is goggling at the idea of a stupendous monopoly of Cup and League trophies. Admittedly there is a long way yet to travel and much hard labour to be undertaken, but it is a glittering prospect that promises the most nerve-tingling finale ever known on Merseyside. Toss in, as an additional tit-bit, Liverpool’s European Cup Winners’ Cup chances and it is easy to see why it is being said that Merseyside has never had it so good. Everton, so far, have done everything asked of them and a 3-0 supremacy in every round is indication enough that now that the stiffer tests of Cup-fighting admittedly are at hand, they are adequately equipped to meet them. Everyone agrees there are tougher foes than Sunderland, Bedford Town, and Coventry City, but all the indications are that success has not only transformed confidence, but has left Everton with a sporting chance against any team yet to be met.
NO FLASH IN PAN
This Everton revival is no mere flash in the pan. Everyman now believes in himself and in each other, and against such a background it is almost difficulty not to allow optimism a free rein. Frankly by comparison with the smooth efficiency of the Everton side, Coventry bull-dozing their way maybe to promotion possibilities, were disappointing in the fifth round tie at Goodison Park on Saturday. Only their fiery enthusiasm and ruggedness registered against a side which played constructively, purposefully and attractively, I fault Everton only for a second half phase of over-confidence which suggested a belief that one goal would be ample to meet their needs- dangerous thinking indeed against almost any opposition. Only because Everton became so complacent did Coventry emerge as a threat at all and if Gould’s handling offence had passed unnoticed and these things do happen in the best regulated circles, the goal would have produced equality and probably left Everton with a fight on their hands that would have been entirely of their own creation. In this game at least, the escape taught them a lesson, but unless it is a lasting lesson it has only partially served its purpose. To be guilty of such rash miscalculation against a better team might so easily be fatal.
NOT A HILL RUSE
Those without an extensive knowledge of Coventry, suspected when the team ran out in the all-red strip sported by Liverpool, that this was one of manager Jimmy Hill’s tactical surprises. In fact it is Coventry’s normal reserve strip and if Everton so much as noticed the colour scheme they were entirely unmoved. For all the goals and glamour this was not Everton’s greatest display. They were not at their peak, of course, it was not necessary that they should be in top gear. They were still far too good for a side so lacking attacking punch that the withdrawal of Ray Pointer, their most effective forward, to a defensive role, was akin to Cup-tie suicide. How Mr. Hill could bring himself to transfer Hudson, a forward of proved scoring ability, almost immediately before this trial of unequal strength, was something that baffled most people. Patently, Coventry were in urgent need of the twin thrust of Pointer and Hudson and by a double miscalculation scarified both. I cannot recall a Coventry shot, worthy of the name, on target even though West’s fumbling of Machin’s cross might so easily have produced a goal. The goalkeeper was never seriously troubled, and perhaps it was just as well, for on at least two occasions he did not inspire confidence. If this was a case of Cup-tie nerves, it was just as well to get them out of the system now. When I say that Tommy Wright was not missed, it is not meant to be in any way disparaging, but rather a compliment to the supremely useful standby, Sandy Brown. With Wilson, they looked a formidable pair.
LABONE’S EFFICIENCY
No tribute to Labone can be too great. Possibly it was because he was so tremendously efficient, aided and abetted as he was by a mobile and industrious Harris that the Coventry attack seemed so innocuous. Labone dominated everything in the air, and anticipated everything on the ground. It must have been a heartbreaking task to confront him. The only criticism one could fairly make of Gabriel was that at times he matched the recklessness of some of the Coventry tackling, but it was the more constructive impression he left on the game that will be best remembered. Everton’s half-back line was most impressive and only teams who can boast real efficiency in this department are a worth-while fancy when the heat of battle becomes intense. There is no difficulty in finding words of praise for every member of the attack, easily it could have been six. They scored three goals. So for Pickering and Temple, scorers in every tie to-date were given chances for the taking that were not accepted.
SUPERLATIVES FLOW
They claimed their goal in the end and all was well but I had the feeling that Coventry’s second best role as in no way exaggerated by the 3-0 total. Young’s heartwarming advance continues and it was not only the opening goal he claimed that underlined his worth, for there was real class about much of his constructive endeavour. He has set the superlatives flowing again and in this mood there are no divided opinions of his worth. Scott must be as difficult a winger to subdue as there is in the game today. At least this is a statement to which I feel sure Coventry would subscribe whole-heartedly. Quite true he was off target, sometimes narrowly, with his shooting but in these days when goals from the wings are becoming something of a luxury in other camps. Scott’s drive and initiative is praiseworthy indeed. Because there is only a late mention for Colin Harvey that in no way implies that this is his spot in order of merit. Far from it. What a beaver of a worker this boy is and how I wish the crowd would leave him to play his game in his own way. Harvey’s thoughtful, calculated approach is so much more commendable than the bustling, helter-skelter reaction some people would wish on him. Harvey, for me, was one of the busiest and brightest stars in this encounter. Pickering too, deserved every credit for taking the battering that was his in his duels with the unceremonious Curtis without acrimony, and I hope he is now convinced that in this mood he is infinitely more useful to his side. Bruck, Kearns and Farmer attracted attention to themselves by their refusal to stop short at defence, but there was no disguising the gulf in class between the two sides. Everton took the lead in thirteen minutes when Young’s resolution took him to Scott’s cross a shade in front of Farmer. By direction rather than power Young shot past the goalkeeper who was vainly trying to regain his feet as the ball hit the inside of the post on its way to the net. Temple’s score in 69 minutes resulted from one of several occasions on which Pickering won a duel in the air with Curtis to send the ball invitingly into the penalty area. The winger had it under control immediately and slipped his shot wide of the advancing Wesson, just inside the post, in 69 minutes. Pickering scored the third three minutes from the end when Scott returned a clearance to the middle for the centre forward to hit the ball powerfully and precisely into goal.
Everton; West; Brown, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple. Coventry City; Wesson; Kearns, A. Harris; Bruck, Curtis, Hill; Machin, farmer, Pointer, Gould, Rees. Referee Mr. R. Tinkler (Boston). Attendance 60,350 (Receipts £15,701).

LEEDS UNITED RES 2  EVERTON RES 4
Liverpool Daily Post - Monday 07 March 1966
CENTRAL LEAGUE
Everton Reserve started off in fine style against Leeds United Res. They were a goal up in eleven minutes and were so superior that they looked all set for a runaway victory. For some unaccount-up instead of pressing home their advantage with the result that Leeds took the initiative and scored twice before the interval. Afterwards the Everton attack clicked into top gear and hammered away at the home defence with such effectiveness that it finally cracked, Everton scorers were Morrissey (11 mins), Glover (71 mins), and Humphreys (76 and 87 mins), Briggs (29 and 37) was the Leeds scorer.

EVERTON CLASS CRACKS CITY’S DEFENSIVE PLAN
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Monday 07 March 1966
GOULD LONE STIRKER ON CUP DEFEAT
EVERTON 3 COVENTRY CITY 0
By Nemo
Coventry city committing themselves to a defensive operation from the outset manfully held First Division Everton to a single goal for over two-thirds of Saturday's fifth-round tie before a packed house of 60,350 at Goodison Park, but then superior class told Its tale and the Sky Blues said goodbye to any hopes of F.A. Cup glory. So now, after the glitter of the Cup—they made over £9,000 from their four ties—City return to the Second Division race - and top priority must surely be a forward replacement before the March 16 deadline. Apart from the disturbing fact that City are finding goals difficult to get, George Hudson's departure has left a gap in experience that must be bridged if the club is to stay in the picture until the “death.” City's forward line -up on Merseyside was—one would hope -purely an expediency on the day and not the shape of things to come. It was designed to contain the Everton half-backs and in this respect it largely succeeded, but it left the striking power well short of what was desirable to bring down Everton. Any resemblance between Ernie Machin and a winger began and ended with the No. 7 on his back. He and the No. 8 Ron Farmer helped to make up a midfield cluster of defenders so that virtually City did not operate a right-wing pair, much to the satisfaction of England left-back Ray Wilson who can rarely have had a more carefree afternoon.
DISAPPOINTMENT
In a move clearly designed to throw the marking weight off Ray Pointer, Bobby Gould was "thrown in at the deep end" for his Cup debut and pitted against the tall, powerful Brian Labone. He fought gallantly against considerable odds -often he was a lone red figure upheld surrounded by three or four white-shirted defender-but this was the first game in which Pointer disappointed me. All too often he seemed to be doing the foraging instead of the striking and in any case, it was not one of his good days. Ron Rees shone only in spasms, and though City had a number of shots charged down on the edge of the box they hardly ever penetrated through to goalkeeper Gordon West.  City were robbed of the respectability of a 2-0 defeat only three minutes from time when Fred Pickering pounced on to a defensive blunder, and frankly, it was not a good performance by either side. One wonders, indeed what would have happened if the draw had been reversed and the game played at Highfield Road, for to me, the Merseysiders did not look like a side capable of winning the Cup.
Bitter blow
Strange as City looked in the system they used. the fact remains that up until 20 minutes from the end Everton clung on to a 1-0 lead and around the hour mark were looking decidedly worried. This was City's only real moment of dominance and it musthave been a bitter blow for them when Gould's 61st minute "goal" was disallowed by referee Tinkler (Boston). West dithered in trying to get to a cross from Rees, and as the ball bounced awkwardly, it struck Gould's hand just before he hammered it in. Gould said later it was not intentional, but the referee was right to cancel it out.
Everton looked relieved. They revealed a lack of team discipline in this period. Players shouted angrily at each other as City pressed them back, and the tension eased only when Derek Temple raced on to a Pickering pass and hit the second eight minutes later.
Menace
Had City pulled things level at this stage, they might well have brought off a surprise result. But no one could deny that Everton well deserved their win. With their electric right-winger Alex Scott a constant menace to City's defence they sped through enough times in the first half to have built up a commanding lead and all told, City's goal had some remarkable escapes. Bob Wesson's display was a mixed one of competence and uncertainty. He did well to stop fierce efforts from Young and Pickering in the first-half, but allowed a simple shot from right-back Brown to slip through his hands after Everton were 2-0 up —and the ball passed only a foot outside the upright!
Unobtrusive
The mix-up between he and centre-half George Curtis near time led to the third Everton goal —a sad climax after a wholehearted performance from City's defence against a talented attack in which inside-left Harvey is the engine-room, though much of his work is unobtrusive. Curtis did not stand on ceremony with Pickering. He gave him a good, old-fashioned buffeting throughout and although only one of his tackles was too zealous. Pickering gave a display of exaggerated anguish. He possesses a terrific shot in both feet, but he is not the player I believed him to be. Brian Hill was given a hectic time in the first 20 minutes by Young but subdued him afterwards, and Dietmar Bruck was a strong performer, but marred his game with some bad use of the ball. None of Everton's goals was what one could call the result of a clear-cut move, and the first two were miss-hit affairs that went into the net off an upright. Young's in the 13th' minute came out of a challenge by Hill, and everyone was helpless as the ball rolled slowly towards the line, hit a post and trickled in. Temple's which made it 2-0 was not properly hit and glanced off the base of the upright. The final one from Pickering was a gift its Scott crossed the ball back with Wesson stranded in a City defence that was all at sea. It was a hard - fought duel and Ron Farmer afterwards told me: "The Everton players did well fought' and said they hoped we could win promotion and come again next season." The experience of Saturday was invaluable. The lesson was clear: defensively, City are well set-up. But the attack is short of what is required for First Division standards.

DISALLOWED GOAL WAS THE CRUX
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express  - Monday 07 March 1966
By Leslie Edwards
The crux of Everton's tie against Coventry City came in the second half. Everton, a goal up, looked to have conceded an equaliser. West missed the flight of the ball as it came high from the left and edged it on to an upright before Gould bundled it over the line. There was an anxious wait until Referee Tinkler of Boston indicated " no goal " by awarding Everton a free-kick within a yard or two of the goal-line. Undoubtedly there was contact between ball and Gould's arm, butwhether he had time to handle intentionally is debatable. For Everton. now safely in the quarter finals, it was a valuable rub of the green since for all their superiority they were only the narrowest margin ahead and a Coventry goal at that point could have changed the course of the game. Just as well it didn't because anything less than a handsome victory would not have given the Everton team the credit their play deserved. They seized the initiative right from the start—Coventry clearly having made up their minds to play for a draw—and never surrendered it even momentarily. Admitting that Temple and Pickering missed some chances they should surely have taken one cannot forget that only fine goalkeeping and luckless Everton shots enabled Coventry to walk off only a goal down at the interval.
Goals for 9; goals against nil
Everton's cause has prospered remarkably since that ill-fated day when their manager came in for rough treatment at Blackpool. All manner of dire things could have occurred if they hadn't brought back Young and Gabriel; if those players had not helped their side to a heartening third-round victory against Sunderland. Now from being no one's friends in this city Everton are emerging as a team with a mission. I know a lot of people won't hear of them as Cup failures following their recent form, but I do think they have yet to reach the real "crunch” teams of the competition of whom Manchester United, Chelsea and Leicester are excellent examples. I wouldn't write Everton off on the evidence of the Coventry game, because a side can't do much more than win 3-0. To have won your three ties by this margin gives Everton a splendid chance of setting up a contemporary record which would be difficult to beat and going without a goal against them to Wembley triumph. The defence is the side's trump suit because West is something of a mascot: Brown is a splendid deputy for Wright and Wilson is the daddy of them all in Britain with artistry in his use of the ball in the same class as Alex Young's. Add a Gabriel rejuvenated and revitalised —he is nowadays the inspiring force of the team—and the wisdom of Brian Harris and Labone's excellence "in the air " and you have the solid basis on which Everton's hopes can be built. But they must never take a game as complacently as they did this. There were times when they gave the impression that it was just an exhibition match stroll: It could never be that until they got that third, clinching goal.
A class below
Coventry were clearly a class below their opponents. If the massive goalkeeper, Wesson, had not played brilliantly it would have been all over in less than an hour. He pulled down a fierce Pickering free-kick—how did that ball find a way through the human barrier?-- saved magnificently from Scott, from Pickering (this one one-handed) and went down to rescue his side at the feet of Temple. So at half-way Everton, though completely in command. led only by the goal Young got when he went down in a heap with Hill and the ball rolled slowly over the line after bumping the inside of a post. Scott laid on this chance as he was to lay on the chance off Which Pickering tied up the game at 3-0. Everton's second had come, again with a cannon off the upright, from Temple. West. with no other task than to act as spectator— Coventry's movements started well but never reached finality—was twice guilty of mishandling the ball but Coventry were so lethargic and so determined on defence they didn't deserve to survive. They started uncompromisingly by giving away a number of free-kicks, but the game. well controlled, was sporting enough and even Curtis got medals for neatness in his duels against Pickering. Kearns, at right-back had an excellent match and so did young Gould. It was like old times to see an Everton ground, minus the upper deck at the Stanley Park end, crammed mall 60.000 fans and the pitch rolled and looking good in the unexpectedly warm sunshine. Young, of course, was the architect of most of Everton's moves. Scott was equally outstanding for his ability to run the defence off their feet. It isn't often Harvey has played better, either.

EVERTON AT CITY-BUT WHICH ONE?
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express - Monday 07 March 1966
WAITING FOR RESULT OF MANCHESTER-LECIESTER REPLAY
By Leslie Edwards
Everton must wait until Wednesday evening before they know their F.A Cup quarter-final opponents on March 26. The probability is that it will be Leicester City, three times Finalists since the war, but never winners of the trophy. Yet one cannot be sure, Manchester City, managed by the one-time Everton and England half-back, Joe Mercer, recovered from being two goals down in Saturday’s game at Maine Road and what they have done once they can do again. Whichever way Wednesday's replay goes Everton’s task is very tough. Leicester are Cup specialists. They started the season badly, but "came good" as they say after Christmas. No side still in the competition has more Cup-tie expertise, even if their three last trips to Wembley have ended fruitlessly.
MAY REQUEST SWITCH
Everton lost their League match against Leicester atGoodison Park, last November by 2-1: the sides, oddly enough, are due to meet at Leicester in the League again the week following the quarter-final tie! Whenever Banks, the England goalkeeper, is in the Leicester side, he seems to have a field day, whether the game is at Goodison Park or Anfield but Leicester's last Anfield visit was an extremely; disappointing one. if Manchester City win the replay, then the traffic snarl between Liverpool and Manchester on March 26 is goingto be an all-time headache. The coincidence of the Grand National being on the same day and at approximately at the same time willmake careful traffic routing
Even then the possibility ofBlackburn also being at home and the certainty of Preston being at home, will make the situation more difficult than ever.
LANCASHME GAMES
Lancashire could have three of the four ties. It could be that these special circumstances might prompt at least one of the Lancashire clubs involved to ask permission ofthe F.A. to play their game on the Friday evening.Maine Road, Manchester, is venues for Everton. Theylost semi-final ties there to Liverpool and Bolton Wanderers and lost in 1956, the year in which Manchester City later came to Anfield in the snow and won a memorable victory at Anfield. But when Manchester City came to Goodison Park in 1962. Everton won 2-0. Everton Manager. Harry Catterick, thought the draw "tough." "They're all tough at this stage," he added. "but when you get an away game its harder than ever. What a club needs really, is a game at home. "Leicester City went well a season ago until Liverpool knocked them out in the sixth round. I’ve seen them play this season and Manchester City I know to be a workmanlike side who play to plan. I shall be going to Leicester to see the replay. “I know one thing, Leicester and Manchester City will both be thinking; “Well, we could have had an easier tie.” Everton have arranged their postponed League game against Nottingham Forest for the evening of a week tomorrow. “It is a pity we must play in the week prior to the “Derby” game but it is essential that our home programme must be finished before April 11 so that we can be ready for World Cup preparations.” Mr. Catterick said.
GOOD RECORD
Leicester City manager Matt Giles, said; “One of the most desirable things in the Cup is a home draw in the sixth round, and this gives us a great stimulus for Wednesday night’s replay with Manchester City. “We have a good record against Everton.” The Leicester chairman Mr. D.E. Sharp, admitted that when he had been asked for his choice, he had selected Everton as the great attraction in the next round. John Sjoberg the Leicester captain, said; “We shall certainly have something to play for on Wednesday night. We have a good record against Everton and the matches are usually well worth seeing.”
GOOD OMEN
If Everton are looking for omens they have a good one dating back to the first time their path ever crossed Leicester’s. this game in the old first round, was at Filbert Street, and Everton got home by 3-2. They went on to beat Bury, Leeds United, Luton Town, West Ham and then at Wembley, Manchester City. And the score, thanks to “Dixie” and others was the magical 3-0 by which Everton have won all three of their Cup games this season…

EVERTON AND LIVERPOOL HEADING FOR GLORY
Liverpool Daily Post - Tuesday 08 March 1966
BOTH A MATCH AWAY FROM CUP SEMI-FINAL
By Jack Rowe
Everton and Liverpool are both one match away from a Cup semi-final appearance. Liverpool have first bite to-night when they tackle Honved, the Hungarian side, in the second leg of the European Cup winners’ Cup at Anfield, while Everton wait until Match 26 when they go to either Manchester City or Leicester City in the sixth round of the F.A Cup. And I have a feeling that we shall see both of them through because from all accounts Liverpool should be too strong for Honved to-night while I am more and more convinced that Everton manager Harry Catterick is going to be right with his November view that this was going to be the Goodison Park Club’s Cup year.
Everton are certain to have representatives at Filbert Street to-morrow night when Leicester and Manchester City replay their fifth round tie after the 2-2 draw at Maine Road on Saturday.
CROSS PATH
If Leicester win, and they must be favourites now, they will cross the path of Merseyside teams in the Cup again. Three seasons ago they beat Liverpool in the semi-final at Hillsborough and the clubs met last season when Liverpool won the Cup. That also was in the sixth round with Liverpool drawing 0-0 at Filbert Street and then winning the replay at Anfield by Roher Hunt’s goal. Could be an omen for Everton here… the possibility of Leicester City being without at least two players for the replay was removed yesterday.

SOCCER STAR CAMSELL DIES AGED 63
Liverpool Echo and Evening Post- Tuesday 08 March 1966
The former Middlesbrough centre forward, George Camsell, one of the greatest pre-war international goal scorers in football, died on Monday night in Middlesbrough aged 63. A former Durham pit boy who never played serious soccer until he was 18, he was capped nine times by England between 1929 and 1936. He joined Middlesbrough from Durham City, then a Third Division club, in 1925, and in only his second season set up a goal scoring record for the Second Division which is still unbeaten. His 59 goals was at a time as record for the Football league, but it was beaten the following year by Everton’s Dixie Dean who scored 60 times. In 450 League and Cup appearances with Middlesbrough Camsell got 350 goals -another record. Dedicated to Middlesbrough F.C with whom he spent 38 years he was first an idol of the crowd, later the club coach and then chief scout and finally until three years ago the assistant secretary. He died in Middlesbrough General Hospital within 50 yards of Ayresome Park, the Middlesbrough football ground.

EVERTON’S CUP OPPONENTS
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express - Thursday 10 March 1966
By Horace Yates
Everton's task in having to visit Manchester City in the sixth round of the F.A. Cup will undoubtedly be the sternest they have so far been called upon to face, more difficult, I believe than would have been a trip to Leicester. City's 1-0 victory a Leicester last night in the fifth round replay resulted from one of the biggest blunders England goalkeeper Gordon Banks has ever made in an important game. He was beaten by a shot of no great power by winger Neil Young, solely because he misjudged the pace of the ball ad dived so late that the ball passed under his body without contact being made. City manager Mercer said after the game: " Nobody seems to rate us very highly as a Wembley proposition, but we will made a tremendous effort to get there." Mr. Mercer's is a safe prediction, for effort is something his team have in plenty.
A PROBLEM
Although in the end, Everton's was a comfortable victory over Second Division Coventry City in round five, they found the spirit and vigour of Jimmy Hill's team quite a problem. They will find Manchester City tougher still, for these seekers after First Division status have all the vigour and fire of Coventry and are better footballers as well.  They move the ball with purpose and understanding and are obviously one of the fittest and best drilled sides in the country. Without doubt, former Everton reserve centre half George Heslop is the corner stone of the defensive setup. He had a magnificent game against Leicester and snuffed centre forward Dougan almost completely out of the game. Goodison fans, I think. will be surprised at the maturity which regular first team football has brought to his play. I had thought Dougan'space would have exposed Heslop's limitations, but not so. Paying tribute to Heslop's part in the victory. Mr. Mercer acknowledged that it was Liverpool's Bill Shankly who had suggested Heslop as the best bargain at Goodison Park. Horne and Kennedy tackled with sprit and efficiency but I fancy Scott's elusiveness may expose Horne more than Sinclair was able to do. Both Scott and Temple will have to be prepared, however for some very rugged opposition. SPEARHEAD
Right half Doyle and centre forward Pardoe exchanged positions, Doyle frequently figuring as a double spearhead with winger Young. Their height and mobility gave Sjoberg an anxious time as he found himself confronted first with one and then the other. Only the sterling assistance of Cross helped to keep this problem within bounds. Inside left Connor was really an additional wing half, and City demonstrated over and over again how highly trained they are in the art of switching quickly to all out attack from positions of defence. One moment they have only Young and Summerbee in their opponents' half as the defensive spring tightens. The next moment the spring uncoils and an offensive wave sweeps up-field. They do this really well and although last night Summerbee was very quiet, I saw enough to convince me what a threat he is likely to pose. Crossan, the expensive signing from Sunderland, was near enough more than once to show finishing power to match cunning approach. Dowd stole all the honours from Banks with a first rate display of efficiency and safety which played a material part in the final victory. Four or five times during the game, and twice in the last five desperate minutes as Leicester plastered the goal, Dowd denied them brilliantly. To Everton I would say: forget City's Second Division tag. They are undoubtedly the toughest Cup foes yet to cross the Everton path. Not only are they ambitious, but they are successful, too. Everton's hour of triumph is at hand.
AT HIGHBURY
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday 11 March 1966
By Michael Charters
Everton flew off to London this afternoon for their game at Arsenal tomorrow in great heart and spirits, and they are likely to find the opposite sort of atmosphere at Highbury, where manager Billy Wright seems to be taking a bit of a tousing from the hot-headed element among the club's supporters. Arsenal's last League win was on January 29 at Stoke and a third round Cup defeat at Blackburn preceded that. They are going through a difficult time—it comes to all clubs—but perhaps the Highbury fans think their club are taking too long to pull themselves together. The shock action over established internationals Eastham and Baker showed that Mr. Wright knew what he wanted from his players, and again the phrase "lack of effort " was used. So Everton take on this rather disturbed Arsenal outfit when their own team spirit and confidence has reached the peak. Undefeated in their last seven games, including three Cup wins and seven points out of eight in League matches, their recent record puts them in the right frame of mind to tackle anyone, anywhere with belief in themselves that they are right on top of their game. Basis of this success run has been the form of the middle men in the 4-2-4 style. Gabriel and Harvey are commanding midfield and Gabriel’s return to his best has been a revelation after his early season problems. The defence is sound, with Labone having the best season of his career, and Wilson and Harris both showing experienced touches of mastery in a composed set-up. Up front, Young is not only hitting his finest form but is so obviously enjoying his game now that the club have shown their confidence in him. With temple and Scott maintaining a high level of performance, it only needs Pickering to find consistent shooting form for the team to really tick on all cylinders. I expect them to get at least a point to-morrow.

EVERTON ARE UNCHANGED AT ARSENAL
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday 11 March 1966
Everton, who flew to London this afternoon from Speke. keep an unchanged side for their visit to Arsenal tomorrow.  Tommy Wright, injured against Chelsea a fortnight ago, has made good progress towards recovery from his damaged ankle, but Sandy Brown retains his place at right-back. Arsenal make two changes. Gordon Nielson, a 19-yearsold Scot, makes his League debut on the right wing in place of injured Alan Skirton, and Scottish international Frank McLintock, who had seven stitches in a shin cut after last week's Blackpool game, is fit to return at right-half.
Arsenal; Furnell; Storey, McCullough; McLintock, Ure, Neill; Nielson, Eastham, Radford, Court, Armstrong, Sub; Simpson.
Everton; West; Brown, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple.
Everton Reserves (v Bolton, Goodison Park 3.0)- Rankin; Pearson, Darcy; Hurst, Smith, Glover; Wallace, Husband, Royle, Trebilcock, Morrissey.

FALSE ‘DERBY’ GAME TICKET BEING SOLD IN LIVERPOOL
Liverpool Echo - Friday 11 March 1966
By Michael Charters
A number of false tickets for the “Derby” game between Everton and Liverpool at Goodison Park a week to-morrow are circulating in the City. They have been stolen from the works of the Everton club’s printers before they could be disposed of as waste material. It is normal practice for spoiled or waste tickets to be guillotined to make them unusable and then packed for salvage. Before they could be salvaged on this occasion, however, a number of tickets have been taken but all have been obviously cut. Liverpool police have been informed and the Everton club warms anyone with a ticket that has been cut that special care will be taken at the turnstiles on the day of the match to watch for these. Holders of such tickets will not be allowed to enter.

EVERTON CAN WIN TODAY
Liverpool Daily Post - Saturday 12 March 1966
By Horace Yates
Mentioned of Arsenal is sufficient for Everton to see red- in more ways than one-for only once in their last seven League visits have they succeeded in avoiding defeat.  With Everton on the crest of the wave however, with six victories and a draw from their last seven Cup and League outings, an Arsenal caught up in a sequence of four successive draw games, here is a golden opportunity to snatch one of their rare London victories. I don’t believe Arsenal have improved their team by disposing of Joe Baker and his absence will be one worry removed so far as Everton are concerned, although they will find Radford quite a dashing leader. Eastham, precariously placed in the line-up, can exercise a tremendous influence on a game-if allowed latitude -but whether it is Jimmy Gabriel or Colin Harvey who is detailed to pay attention to him I cannot see Eastham releasing a Highbury roar to-day. Manager Billy Wright, under fire from his critics earlier in the week, has had the courage to change formation in an effort to remedy affairs on the field, but his 4-3-3 solution has enjoyed only limited success so far. Both he and the team would be tremendously encouraged by a win, but gone are the days when Everton were easy victims. They may have the “derby” game, following Tuesday’s home match with Nottingham Forest and the Cup-tie with Manchester City on March 26 very much on their minds but they can’t afford any slips. Their wonderfully stimulating run has built up for them a belief in their own powers of achievement and unless the mysterious London blight should afflict them again I cannot see them losing today.
SCOTT HIS HERO
Although full back Tommy Wright has recovered from his injury, manager Harry Catterick leaves well alone and retains Sandy Brown at right back Wright figuring as substitute. Whether or not this is one way of trying to ensure a further week’s rest for Wright or whether Brown is seriously in competition for a place on merit, only the future will show. Everton are fortunate indeed to have two such able players jostling each other for selection. Because Arsenal’s Alan Skirton is injured, Mr. Wright gambles on the introduction of a nineteen-year-old Scot, Gordon Neilson, for a debut game. As outside right the Glasgow boy faces Everton’s international left back, Ray Wilson, a formidable task indeed, although he can at least be assured of perfectly fair treatment. Only a few days ago Neilson stood on the terraces at Wembley and watched Wilson introduced as substitute for Blackburn’s Newton in the match with West Germany, said Neilson. “Of course, I’m nervous. Who wouldn’t be? I don’t care who I face, however. Getting into the first team is the big thing. I never dreamt I would be playing to-morrow. It is a curiosity that in the Everton side is another Glasgow boy, Alex Scott, who was Neilson’s schoolboy hero when the Everton winger was playing with Glasgow Rangers.
Arsenal; Furnell; Story, McCullough; McLintock, Ure, Neill; Neilson, Eastham, Radford, Court, Armstrong. Everton; West; Brown, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple.
ALL-TICKET TIE
EVERTON ANNOUNCE PLANS
Manchester City and Everton have agreed that their sixth round F.A Cup game at Maine Road on March 26 will be all-ticket with a ceiling attendance of 64,000. Because of the colour clash, Everton will play in white as they have done in the previous two ties and City will be in maroon. Secretary Bill Dickinson announces the following arrangements for disposal of Everton’s share of tickets.
Shareholders holding stand season tickets well be entitled to apply for one reserved stand ticket at 10/ in exchange for one spare voucher No.7. any additional season tickets held will quality to tickets on the basis of the instructions below relating to stand season ticket holders.
£10 season tickets holders may apply for one reserved stand seat at 8/-if the serial number on spare voucher No.7 ends with an odd number 1,3,5,7, or 9.
£9 season tickets holders may apply for one reserved stand seat at either 8/- or 7/6 or an unreserved stand seat at 6.- if the serial number on voucher No 7 ends with an odd number i.e. 1,3,5,7,9.
As the number of tickets available at 8/- and 7.6 well be very few postal orders in varying amount would be appreciated to facilitate sending change it more applications are received for the dearer seats than are available.
£8. 10/- and £8 season ticket holders may apply for one unreserved stand seat at 6/- if the serial number on spare voucher No.7 ends with 1,3,5,7,9 and should more applications be received than the number at tickets available covered enclosure tickets will be sent instead at 5./ each. All applications will be dealt with in rotation as received.
All stand season ticket holders who have not qualified for a seat, with paddock may apply for one enclosure ticket at 5/- or one ground ticket at 4/- in exchange for spare voucher No.7.
All applications must be made by post any received not later than Friday, March 18 enclosing spare voucher No.7 remittance and stamped addressed envelope, and as a safeguard a letter should be enclosed bearing the name and address in block letters.
Envelopes containing the application should be marked “Season Ticket City” or “Shareholder City” as the case may be.

GUNNERS FIRE BACK, BUT COOL EVERTON TAKE POINTS
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday March 12 1966
ARSENAL 0 EVERTON 1
By Jack Rowe
Arsenal.- Furnell; Storey, McCullough; McLintock, Ure, Neill; Neilson, Eastham, Radford, Court, Armstrong. Sub Simpson.
Everton.- West; Brown, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple, Sub Wright. Referee; Mr. G.D. Roper (Cambridge).
Although Tommy Wright had recovered from his injury Everton rested him for the match at Highbury this afternoon and he took the substitute spot, with Sandy Brown staying at right back. Arsenal had 18-years-old Neilson making his debut on the right wing. The ball often bounced awkwardly on a well-sanded pitch and after a series of passing mistakes by both sides Everton made the first goal threat when Furnell failed to make a clean catch from a Pickering centre from the left and Scott put the ball over the bar.
DANGER CLEARED.
Eastham was responsible for one menacing Arsenal attack by going to the corner flag and swinging over a centre which West punched out straight to McLintock. But the first-time shot was blocked. West, obviously still troubled by a thigh injury, was throwing the ball instead of kicking it, and aided by the breeze, he often landed it over the half-way line. When Eastham or Young were in possession there was a much better chance of an accurate pass and the Arsenal man made one fine run which took him to the edge of the penalty area for a shot which West dived to save.
FINE SAVE
It was Young who made the pass which led to a first class Everton move in which Temple crossed a perfect ball for Gabriel to head towards goal, Furnell throwing himself to his right and edging it beyond the post. It was a fine save. In 25 minutes Everton went ahead with a great, goal by Pickering. Brown took a pass from Harris and swung the ball right across hie Arsenal goal to Young who immediately nodded it down to Pickering. The Everton centre forward, although with his back to goal, hooked the ball up and over Ure and then hit it on thehalf - volley with such power that the ball was in the back of the net as Furnell made his dive. Eastham was trying desperately hard to get the Arsenal attack operating smoothly and the Everton defence, in spite of one or two anxious moments, was playing strongly, with Labone doing well against the tall Radford.
West did well with one catch from Storey but the ball swerved deceptively andthe goalkeeper had to take it in a crowd of players.
OVER THE BAR
There was a chance for Harvey when Harris put through a long pass but the youngster could not control the bouncing ball and put it high over.  Arsenal were awarded a free kick just outside theirown penalty area and it was taken with the intention of the ball going back to Furnell. But the goalkeeper went the wrong way and the result was that Pickering put the ballinto the net. Everton naturallyclaimed a goal but the referee said “No.”   Gabriel and Eastham had been involved in one or two clashes and the Everton man had his name taken after another incident with the Arsenal inside right. A beautiful pass from Young gave Temple a chance but he shot wide with only Furnell in front of him. Although I think he was off-side. Half-time; Arsenal Nil, Everton 1.
Arsenal began the second half with a bang. And almost from the kick off Eastham was on the left wing making a centre which Radford headed just wide. In the next minute Armstrong hit a terrific first-timer with his right foot which West pulled down and held. With the wind at their backs Arsenal gave the Everton defence a roasting for a few minutes, with Neilson shooting over and Radford twice failing to get any power behind his drives from close in.
NOT GOING FAR
Brown and Harris were having to take the goal kicks and because of the wind, they were not reaching the half-way line. Arsenal were there-fore able to keep their pressure up. With West punching away from McLintock and Wilson kicking to touch to keep Court out. Fortunately for Everton, Arsenal’s finishing was not matching the weight of their attacks and Court shot hopelessly over from a good position. For most of the early part of the second half it had been all Arsenal, and West again was in action, turning over a fine drive from Neill. It was tough going for Everton at this point, with Arsenal throwing everything into attack, even Ure coming up but the defence were playing quite coolly, even if some of their clearances were sent swirling away by the wind. West was not putting a hand wrong. He collected two dangerous swerving crosses from the right and then threw himself across goal to clutch a shot from Eastham which looked like sneaking inside the post. Everton were keeping cool, especially in the penalty area. Everton might have gone further ahead for when Pickering pushed the ball through. Harvey took it to one side of Furnell and hit it for the net, only to see Storey come across and make a vital save. Pickering came along with another shot which passed out-side, but at least Everton were finding some answer to the Arsenal pressure which was still strong. Pickering was within an ace of scoring again when he beat McCullough and Ure and was then foiled by the out-coming Furnell.
GREAT SAVE
Young Neilson nearly made it a debut to remember with a tremendous shot, but West made an equally great save, turning the ball over. Right on time Brown saved on the line from Eastham.
Final; Arsenal nil, Everton 1. Attendance 24,821.
Lancashire League
Everton B 3 Man C B nil
Central League
Everton Res 1, Bolton Res nil.

FLYING WEST STUNS UNLUCKY ARSENAL
The People - Sunday 13 March 1966
ARSENAL 0, EVERTON 1
By Dick Milford
THE only " Billy Wright must go " chants after Arsenal's unlucky defeat at Highbury yesterday came from the sick humour of Everton fans who made far more sense when they chorused " Gordon West is the greatest." And West certainly prevented Arsenal from saving—and even winning—a game they seemed destined to lose. West was not seriously In action in the first half until a minute before the interval when he made his first superb save—from greatly improved John Radford. Then in the first five minutes of the second half Arsenal made five scoring attempts. Four meant nothing, but the others-a Radford header—was just wide. This was the start of the Arsenal come-back after Everton had gone into the lead with a splendid 25th minute goal by Fred Pickering—and decided to sit on it. West pushed away a 25-yard drive by Terry Neill and then amazingly stopped a volley by transfer-listed George Eastham. And with only seconds to go, West made his best save when he courageously dived into the path of a five-yard drive by 18- year-old debut boy Neilson. West wasn't beaten until the game went into Injury time. It Holton is the hero was another Eastham shot, but Sandy Brown headed the ball up, trapped it calmly, and cleared with the defiant message; “You could go on all night- you’ll never score.” Everton tried to shut out Eastham very early, but all Jimmy Gabriel, Eastham’s main tormentor, got was a booking after a sliding tackle. Nothing could stop Eastham from working for 90 minutes as he attempted to show Wright that he could do the job required. Pickering gave Ian Ure an uncomfortable afternoon and he claimed he scored a second time in the first half when a quick Arsenal free kick was intercepted but the referee disallowed it because he had not blown for the kick to be taken.
Arsenal- Furnell 7; Story 7, McCullough 7, Neill 6, Ure 5, McLintock 5, EASTHAM * 8, Court 6; Neilson 6, Radford 7, Armstrong 6.
Everton;- WEST * 9; Brown 6, Wilson 5; Labone 6, Harris 6; Gabriel 6, Young 6, Harvey 6; Scott 6, Pickering 8. Temple 6. Referee G Roper (Cambridge) 5.

EVERTON RES v  BOLTON RES
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday March 12 1966
Everton Res; Rankin; Pearson, Darcy; Hurst, Smith, Glover; Wallace, Husband, Royle, Trebilcock, Morrissey. Bolton Wanderers; Res;- Smith; Kirkham, Marsh; Jenkins, Hulme, Beech; Domican, Greaves, Russell, G. Bromilow, Phillips. Referee Mr. F.W. Gilbert (Wolverhampton). Everton had an escape when Phillips found himself through but was tripped when about to shoot almost on the penalty area line. The free kick was cleared. Everton’s best early move came when Trebilcock put in a low ball as Royle dashed in. soon after this a Trebilcock shot hit the underside of the bar and bounced down and out. Everton were well on top but Royal packed then defence. Just before half-time Bolton broke away and forced three-consecutive corners and the most dangerous of these produced a high lob from Jenkins which landed up the roof of the net.
Half-time; Everton Reserve nil, Bolton Wanderers Reserve nil.

A DESERVED VICTORY
Liverpool Daily Post - Monday 14 March 1966
EVERTON PLACE DOUBTERS ON STICKY WICKET
ARSENAL 0 EVERTON 1
By Jack Rowe
Everton gave another answer to the doubters on the sand-packed Highbury pitch on Saturday. They showed in the second half when Arsenal, backed by a strong, swirling wind, hurled in attack after attack that they have poise and composure and rarely did they look like losing a cool and confident approach which took them to a deserved victory. Neither was it a time for shirkers and there were no shirkers, so that probably the chief message of this latest achievement in the run which started in the middle of January is one of complete team spirit. Everton knew they would have to take a hammering in the second half as Arsenal sought to pull back Pickering’s 25th minute goal and they faced up to it without panic, even when Arsenal pressure was at its highest and most desperate. It is too much to expect that a team in this situation can get by without a little luck, but what Everton had was earned by their own endeavour and only in the last few minutes was there real fear they would lose the lead. Then West made a magnificent save from a six yards volley hit with power by the young right wing debutant Neilson and right on time Brown performed an almost perfect juggling act to save the day. West was beaten by Eastham’s low shot, and Brown, on the line, although looking off balance, flicked the ball up and as Everton hearts almost stopped coolly back headed it over the bar for a corner, as two Arsenal players roared in for the kill. It was a fine piece o work, typical of Everton’s coolness and for Brown it completed a notable day, for it is not often a full back makes a goal and then stops one in the same match. One, I suppose must have sympathy with Brown because as substitute for Wright his first team place is not assured, much as this display deserves it, but at least Everton know they have a man who can do the job.
BROWN’S CROSS
His contribution to the Everton goal was vital because from near the right wing touch he had to make an accurate cross to Young, lurking near the far edge of the Arsenal penalty area. It was as accurate as any cross could be and so was Young’s immediate header, which put the ball at the feet of Pickering, who had his back to the Arsenal goal. In one movement Pickering made Ure go the wrong way, flicked the ball up and over the centre half, swivelled round and as it came down swept a right foot shot from about twelve yards into the net, with goalkeeper Furnell helpless, Pele could not have done it better. This was the best thing of the match, although there was another moment just before half time when Young laid on a perfect pass for Temple to shoot inches outside. Everton were never really bothered by Arsenal in the first half and they had the answer later on when West made two more fines saves in a competent goalkeeping show. It was not so much the saves he made as the way he took difficult swerving centres which inspired confidence and although his thigh injury made it impossible for him to kick the ball it did not impede his ability.
MASTERLY LABONE
Labone was another masterly player and so was Wilson in spite of being hurt early on, but the general picture was of a team fighting it out and fighting successfully. Each did a part with Young and Pickering coming back to help and the sight of Temple hurtling on to the shale track to suffer painful abrasions to arm and leg in stopping a right wing attack emphasised this. In the midst of all the Arsenal pressure it was Everton who could have got a couple more goals. Once Pickering got Harvey through and the youngster did the right thing in taking the ball to one side of Furnell and delivering towards what seemed a vacant net. That the ball did not go home was due to a great piece of recovery by right back Storey, who managed to get across stick out a leg to make the saving deflection. That save can be put against Brown’s in the last minute. Again Pickering produced a swerve and shot of class, which was foiled by Furnell’s body, so I reckon Arsenal could not complain at their failure to get a point. Eastham was the only Arsenal player to approach the classy touches of Young, Pickering, Wilson and Scott, and he must have despaired at the lack of support. This was due in big measure to the Everton defence and it was a pity that Gabriel once went lunging in at Eastham to climax a series of clashes between the two, which resulted in referee Roper taking Gabriel’s name. if Everton did not contend he was wrong in this instance they did so in another incident in the first half when a quickly taken Arsenal free kick intended for Furnell went away from the goalkeeper and Pickering strode in, picked it up and put in the net. It looked a good goal, but Mr. Roper ordered the kick to be retaken, clearly on the grounds that he had not authorised it to be taken in the first place. What operated I think, was that he had not seen the kick taken.
Arsenal; Furnell; Storey, McCullough; McLintock, Ure, Neill; Neilson, Eastham, Raford, Court, Armstrong. Everton; West; Brown, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Harris, Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple. Referee; Mr. G.D. Roper (Cambridge). Attendance 24,821.

MORRISSEY PENALTY WON POINTS
Liverpool Daily Post - Monday 14 March 1966
CENTRAL LEAGUE
EVERTON RES 1 BOLTON WAND RES 0
A second half Morrissey penalty at 63 minutes was sufficient for Everton Reserves to deservedly take both points from Bolton Wanderers Reserves in this Central league game on Saturday. There was little between the teams in the first half with both doing their share of attacking, although Everton found the big Bolton defence difficult to overcome. After the interval they changed their tactics and swung the ball across the field. This produced gaps in the visitors defence and it was only good goalkeeping by Smith that foiled Trebilcock and Morrissey from increasing the home margin.

EVERTON HUNG ON WELL FOR TWO HARD-EARNED POINTS
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Monday March 14, 1966
By Jack Rowe
What a terrific battle Everton had to keep up their run at Highbury on Saturday. But how brilliantly and willingly they faced up to it and their 1-0 victory was. I think, in the end deserved if only for their coolness in face of some intense second half Arsenal pressure. Everton were ahead at half time with a 25 minutes goal from Pickering, and immediately the second half startedArsenal, with the wind behind them, stormed into attackafter attack, so much so thatat times it seemed incrediblethat Everton would be able tohang on. But hang on theydid, and let it be said chieflyby their coolness anddiscipline. There were times, of course, when the ball went high into the stands, but even this was to get rid of danger and at the end one had to have admiration for the way they had stuck to their job. They were, perhaps, a little fortunate in that Arsenal, despite the never-ending promptings of Eastham andoccasional good wing run by Armstrong, could not finda finish to match their' pressure. When they were on target West was there to defy them with fine goalkeeping.
GREATNESS SET.
Not once do I recall him failing to make a catch or a punch away, whichever he intended, and there were two saves which stood out. Onewas from Eastham, who madea deliberate lob to the far corner and it says much for West's ability that not only did he get to it but he held on to it as well. Then, in the last few minutes, Neilson, youngster Arsenal brought inon the right wing, to make his debut let go a full blooded drive on the volley from somewhere near the six yard line but again West was there to leap up and turn it over. And when West was beaten—this came in the last minute by an Eastham ground shot from close in—Brown was there to flick it up with his foot on the line and then complete the saving act by heading it over for a corner. Arsenal will probably complain they did enough pressing all through to haveearned at least a point but forme they did not match thecalculated play of Everton.
STUPENDOUS MATCH
Labone had a stupendous match in every way. But so did every Everton player inthe sense that they were back defending and never hesitating to bring the ball outcoolly and calmly. It was this, probably as much as anything, which disconcerted Arsenal,for not once did they look like really shaking the Goodison Park men out of a composure which was good to see. Strangely enough Everton might have had a couple of goals in the second half, went after a Pickering through pass, dribbled round Furnell and slotted the ball towards the net only to holdhis head in disappointment as he saw full back Storey tear across, stick out a foot and divert the ball for a corner. A few minutes later Pickering put a shot against Furnell's body so despite all the Arsenal pressure Everton's contribution might easily haveearned them one if not two goals in the second half. On balance Everton had the better chances, for just before the interval Young lobbed through a wonderful pass for Temple to run on to and, although the wingman seemed to me to be offside he was allowed to go on and finish up by shooting just outside as Purnell advanced.
The goal Everton got was a beauty. It started with Harris bringing the ball out of defence, pushing it to Brown, who from half way inside the Arsenal half switched the ball to the far side of the penalty area where Young nodded it down to Pickering. The Everton centre forward had his back to the goal but somehow flicked the ball up and over Ure and as it dropped swept it into the net with a perfectly timed half volley which gave Furnell no possible chance. Wilson was another Everton player whose experience and application was invaluable while Harris was always ready to cover Labone when it was necessary, which wasn't very often. Gabriel had his name taken after a series of tussles with Eastham but there was at least one foul committed by an Arsenal player which warranted similar punishment and did not get it. Everton could be happy, with this latest victory. It was hard earned, especially in the second half but they played asa team and did the job as a team. Arsenal had Eastham, and a good game he had, but no other at to attacker measured up to him although Armstrong occasionally caused trouble by his speed and centres. On the defence McLintock and Ure weregenerally strong but Urealways found Pickering aproblem.

EVERTON DELAY CHOICE
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Monday March 14 1966
Everton due to meet Nottingham Forest at Goodison park tomorrow night, will not announce their team until just before the kick-off, said manager Harry Catterick to-day. Ray Wilson is injured, Derek Temple is with the Football League party in Newcastle and Tommy Wright is recovering from injury. Also to-morrow night Everton visit Blackburn for their Lancashire Senior Cup second-round replay.
Everton (at Blackburn)- Barnett; Pearson, Curwen; Grant, Smith, Glover; Shaw, Humphreys, McLoughlin, Royle, Maher.

FOREST -AND BAKER AT GOODISON PARK
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Tuesday, March 15 1966
By Sydney Dye
Joe Raker, who a month ago might well have imagined be would have been in the Arsenal line-up against Everton al Highbury last Saturday and in the football League team against the Scottish League in Newcastle to-morrow night, instead finds himself no longer an Arsenal player, out of the League line-up and in the Nottingham Forest team against Everton at Goodison Park to-night (7.30). Such is the pace of modern football—both on and off the field. One of the best goal-grabbers in the game to-day. Baker gave value for his big fee when making his debut for Forest at Northampton last Saturday with two goals in a 3-3 draw. Manager John Carey's team, attractive if vulnerable defensively away from their City ground, have won only once “on tour" this season and Everton,currently riding the crest, should be capable of bolstering their prospects and hopes for Saturday's derby with Liverpool at Goodison. Unfortunately Everton will be without both Ray Wilson (injured) and Derek Temple (with the football League party in Newcastle). Manager Harry Catterick will not announce his team until shortly before to-night's kick-off but it seems likely that Tommy Wright, now fit again and who was 12th man at Highbury last week, will return at right back with Sandy Brown moving over to till Wilson's place. It could be that Johnny Morrissey will take over Temple's left wing spot. Forest will be short of another of their expensive signings, ex-Leeds and Wolves player Chris Crowe, who suffered a leg injury on Saturday. Back to the side after a two months lay-off comes top scorer Colin Addison, this representing the one change la the attack. There Is another in defence where right back Peter Hindley, who named last Saturday’s game, returns to replace his deputy, John Brindley, who travels as twelfth man. Nottingham Forest; Grummitt; Hindley, Newton: Hennessey, McKinley,Whitefoot; Moore, Addison,Baker, Barnwell, Hinton.

GOODISON FANS HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE JUBILANT AND HOPEFUL
Liverpool Daily Post - Wednesday 16 March 1966
FOREST CUT DOWN BY EVERTON’ POWER DRIVE
THREE GOALS IN SECOND HALF AFTER A SPATE OF MISSED CHANCES
EVERTON 3 NOTTINGHAM FOREST 0
By Horace Yates
On and on they go nine games without defeat and indeed only a single draw to prevent the boast of nine wins in succession.  No wonder Everton supporters are jubilant and hopeful. They have a perfect right to be both for while it took some time at Goodison Park last night for Everton to unleash the mighty power at their command once they did Nottingham Forest fell apart.  Everton will not find their Cup opponents Manchester City standing off giving everybody room in which to work as Forest did.  The real danger now is complacency-  and there is no room for it.  Fortunately they have a “derby” date with Liverpool on Saturday which will provide much more of the cut and thrust procedure than did Forest.  When Alex Young had to retire twenty minutes from the end with a knee injury, sympathetic cheers greeted him all the way to the dressing room and while It may be too early to be dogmatic, appearances suggest that the Young injury is not serious.  He was substituted by John Hurst just as Forest full back Newton had been replaced by 18-year-old youth international Brindley five minutes  after the second half began, Everton caused some first half concern by a most uncharacteristic failure to convert chances into goals.  While there was any amount of action and movement the lack of the scoring crown prevented the crowd from providing the atmosphere which would have transformed this match.  The great feature of Everton’s play these days however is that the power is theirs to command and when they sweep forward on to goal they present a fearsome challenge.  Let Liverpool be warned now that not since they encountered Chelsea in the Cup, have they come up against a team of Everton’s calibre.
WING STRENGTH
Even though Morrissey was standing in for Temple who is on call for to-night’s Inter-League match at Newcastle the wing strength was obvious to all . Scott these days is simply superb.  From the start Newton was so clearly inadequate to challenge him successfully and when injury reduced his speed shortly before the interval the back became a liability. It was hardly surprising therefore that Forest should call him off and being on Brindley but what a colossal blunder they perpetrated by asking the youngster to confront Everton's most progressive player.  If the Scott danger had not occurred to them it had struck everybody else on the ground.  Yet not until the damage was done and Everton had opened the scoring did they cause Hindley and Brindley to switch positions.  Scott who can never have more consistently brilliant football in his career set the victory pattern and then followed up by playing an important part in the other two goals.  Anyone who watches Scott regularly must know that for all his feints and frolics the touch line is his best friend. It is on the outside that so much of his devastation stems.  Scott left Brindley standing as he ran towards the corner flag and lifted the high across goal bypassing Grummitt en route.  Pickering who had won almost every duel with McKinlay in the air found himself without a challenger as he headed down into goal. The goal was adequate compensation for the annoyance Everton fans a few moments earlier when a claim for a penalty kick for an offence against Young had been ignored.  Before Forest had time to realise what was hitting them Pickering was almost a scorer again.  This time he tried a spectacular overhead kick and nearly took Grummitt by surprise.  He recovered in time to throw the ball out and down to avoid the danger of carrying it over the line.
CITY THERE
Looking on were Manchester City manager Mr Joe Mercer his assistantMr. Malcolm Allison and club skipper Johnny Crossan.  How interesting it would have been to eavesdrop on their conversation.  Forest continued trying to play football. They moved the ball very attractively over and over again yet one felt it was an attack without bite and that Joe Baker must die of starvation if he is not supported better than this.  The arguments were raging last night about who scored the last two Everton goals. In 62 minutes  Everton were two up. From a Scott corner it seemed to me that the ball was helped on its way by Harvey and Hindley and Gabriel, in competition with Young applied the finishing touch.  In 72 minutes again from Scott’s cross Morrissey in front of goal hammered a tremendous drive goal-wards Brindley stuck-out a protesting leg and the ball was directed into goal. For me this was an own goal although no onecan say whether or not Morrissey’s drive would have found the target without assistance.  The club took the view that Morrissey was the marksman so this will go down in the records.  Not that it really matters.  It is the goals that count and such is the team spirit in the Everton camp just now that I am certain this will be the way they will look on the scores. That Forest finished goalless was entirely their own doing, for West presented Barnwell with a gift, when he dropped Hinton’s cross and the Forest forward lashed the ball high over the bat when only a scoring prod was required. Indeed Forest should have set the scoring pace in the opening minutes when from Hinton’s corner kick Hindley was perfectly placed to head into goal and succeeded only in clearing the bar with quite a bit to spare. From end to end the activity flowed and with Pickering and Harris crashing forward together to reach a Morrissey corner.   Harris was there first and a bullet of a header scraped the bar.
BROWN’S ABILITY
Young should have done better than drive strongly at the goalkeeper and Gabriel Scott and Pickering were also remiss while only a powerfully taken free kick by Hinton from a touch line position suggested any sign of spirited response. Another outstanding lesson of this match I thought was that manager Harry Catterick will have to think seriously before asking Sandy Brown to stand down when both Wright and Wilson are available. In everything he Brown showed an all-round ability that was completely impressive and his tackles from behind were among the finest I have ever seen.  It undoubtedly is true that Everton have fine full backs in Wright Wilson but I am not at all sure that on current form Brown is not the best of the three of them.  A winger will have to be good to shine against Brown in this mood.  Not so very long ago Everton were very worried about the adequacy of their half back line,  In fact all three have been under pressure and yet no one would credit that to see how strong and efficient the line is to-day. Harris began as a shadow centre half no doubt in view of the known ability of Joe Baker leaving Jimmy Gabriel a more adventurous role.  Labone was master of everything the air, Baker never looked likely to make a successful challenge and the story was not an awful lot different on the ground. What a contrast to the other end where McKinlay was consistently out-headed and beaten by Pickering.  The greatest round of applause which Young received throughout the game was somewhat surprisingly bestowed I thought while a cross-field dribble looked brilliant in the way men were beaten and the ball controlled, all he succeeded in doing was to allow ten men to get back in defence to cope with his end product.  He is a much more dangerous Young when he beats men as he moves forward.  Harvey was one of the reasons why Forest’s attack merely looked pretty instead of effective for he intercepted movements over and over again and showed an anticipation which is one of the hallmarks of a class player.  In my opinion Forest wing halves Hennessey and Whitefoot were their best players.  Not only was their tackling efficient but they started the ball moving forward promisingly and it was hardly their fault that so much effort ran to waste. Everton; West; Wright, Brown; Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Young (Hurst), Pickering, Harvey, Morrissey. Nottingham Forest; Grummitt; Hindley, Newton (Brindley); Hennessey, McKinlay, Whitefoot; Moore, Addison, Baker, Barnwell, Hinton. Referee Mr. V. James (York), Attendance 37,485.

LANCS SENIOR CUP
Liverpool Daily Post - Wednesday 16 March 1966
DOUGLAS SHATTERS EVERTON
BLACKBURN ROVERS 2 EVERTON 1
Bryan Douglas in his second comeback game since recovering from a knee injury, played a vital part in Blackburn’s victory last night in the replay of their Lancashire Senior Cup first round game.  Everton were outplayed for most of the match despite the fact that Blackburn had only ten men for the last twenty-five minutes losing their centre forward Anderson with a knee injury.  Everton were disappointing in attack only outside right Shaw being a consistent menace to Blackburn’s strong defence. Blackburn would have an easier win but for the solidarity of the Everton defence in which centre half Smith and left back Curwen were dominant in front of goalkeeper Barnett who  made two good saves from Shaw. Rovers went into the lead after31 minutes when right back Mulvaney took a free kick and Douglas chipped the ball forward for Shaw to nip in as three Everton defenders hesitated and beat Barnett with a low drive. Everton were level the when Royle the Everton inside left crossed for inside right Humphreys to volley the ball into the net.  Blackburn’s goalkeeper Jones made a great save from McLoughlin before Blackburn got the winner after 80 minutes when Douglas glided the ball through to Horrey who slammed ball home.

FOUR MONTHS WITHOUT DEFEAT AT GOODISON
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Wednesday March 16 1966
By Sydney Dye
Statistically Everton are rapidly climbing back to the top of the football ladder and though figures can be made to prove or disprove almost anythingthere can be no denying, on last night's Goodison evidence, the full merit of Everton's climb back to favour. The decisive 3-0 beating of Nottingham Forest means their unbeaten home run now extends over four months. They have won seven and drawn the other two of their nine League games atGoodison during this time with 18 goals for and only five against—and this excludes the Cup wins over Sunderland and Coventry. All that remains to set the seal on a glorious recovery is revenge over Liverpool in Saturday's derby for last September's 5-0 humiliation at Anfield; not forgetting the task 10 days hence in the Cup at Maine Road. Putting statistics aside,however, Everton have well and truly found their feet and form. Ask any of the 12 Forest players—Brindley substituted for Newton in the second half—who came andwere conquered last night and you will get some idea of just how powerful a combine this current Everton set-up is. Forest brought some finefootball out of their lockerparticularly in the first half but went in for the break with the score sheet goalless. After the interval they had the legs almost run off them, such was the pace and fire produced by Everton. A Pickering goal at 54minutes set Everton off on an avalanche of attacking movements and from that point on therewas never any real doubt about the outcome.
GREAT GOAL
And what a beautiful, engineered goal it was! Gabriel, the complete winghalf, started it with a great run and pass to Scott, whose high cross eluded Grummitt’s leap to be rammed home by Pickering's head. Seconds before Everton had come close to a penalty when Young, having tricked his way through after fine pass fromHarris, had the ball takenfrom him rather unceremoniously. Pickering all but made 2-0 with a fine overhead kick which saw Grummitt practically over the line as he pulled it down and then, after 62 minutes. Gabriel got his just reward, prodding the ball home in a goalmouth scramble caused by Harvey's astute back header off Scott's short corner. Pickering had the ball in the net again from a Young header, but the point was disallowed as the ball had been fractionally out of play before Young turned it into the middle, and then after 71 minutes Young went off with an ankle injury (Hurst replaced him). It made no difference to the Everton scoring machine as Brindleyunwittingly and unwillinglygot in the way of a Morrissey drive to deflect it wide of his own goalkeeper, Grummitt.
NEAR MISSES
This was at the 72nd minute and though the scoring ended there the near misses did not. Morrissey who had a splendid outing as deputy for Temple, despite an occasional lapse into individualism, might well have got a fourth but for Brindley deflecting his shot for a corner while Forest had only themselves to blame for not pulling one back in the closing stages. Barnwell, strong on the ball all through, had a moment of weakness to fire wildly over from a clearing chance after West, when challenged by Baker, hadmissed his punch of a Hintoncross, almost on the final whistle Baker seemed slow in  moving to another dangerous Hinton cross. For all that, and not forgetting a tremendous Hinton free kick in the first half which West dived on late to turn for one of Forest's many fruitless corners, the Everton defence was usually well in command. Wright, back after injury, looked as if he had never been out of the side, Brown, who gave Moore no room in the first half, came out almost as well with Hinton when Forest switched wingers, a bone never faltered against Forest's £65,000 buy from Arsenal, Joe Baker, who had to roam while Harris and Gabriel, to make any sort of headway, whether in defence or attack,proved the real thorns in this Forest. Young, before his injury, was desperately unlucky not to get on the scoresheet when the coolest of headers from a Morrissey centre just cleared the bar, and he brought the best out of Scott whose speed and crosses did so much to keep the Forest defence under pressure. Scott faced three full abcks, on the night- Newton, his replacement Brindley and then Hindley when Forest switched backs- and he had the legs of them all. Pickering, who found McKinlay a first half stumbling block, found his touch with the inspiration of that all-important first goal and if Harvey’s contribution was not stamped indelibly on this game he preserved and it paid off with the lead up to Gabriel’s goal. Forest, with only one away win to their credit this season might have been expected to close the game up, but this they never did. Instead they met attack with attack but on the night they also met their match and had Everton’s first half finishing not been rather remiss that 3-0 scoreline could have been 6-0.

EVERTON’S LANCS. CUP DEFEAT
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Wednesday March 16 1966
Everton sadly lacked power and purpose in attack at Blackburn last night when they went out of the Lancashire Senior Cup. Blackburn winning the first round replay 2-1. Blackburn’s young side had the added class of Bryan Douglas, who was making his second come back game following a knee injury in the F.A Cup Fourth Round. Douglas’s play was an example to all the young players on the field. He alone could pace the game and his intelligent use of the ball “made” both Blackburn’s goals. Everton had two strong runners, Shaw and Maher, on the wings, but there was no punch inside. The Everton defence was excellent, with Smith in fine form at centre half and Barnett making two superb saves to keep down the Blackburn score line. Shaw (31 minutes) and Horrey (80 minutes) scored for Blackburn while Everton’s goal came on the hour through inside right Humphreys.

MILNE OUT OF DERBY GAME
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express -Friday, March 18 1966
By Sydney Dye
Liverpool will be without international right half Gordon Milne for the derby game with Everton tomorrow. Milne, injured against Tottenham at Anfield last Saturday, was forced to pull out of the Football League party for the match with the Scottish League at Newcastle on Wednesday and has still not recovered sufficiently for tomorrow’s match. In his absence inside left Tommy Smith moves back to take over the vacant right half position and returning at inside left is Alf Arrowsmith for what will be only his second League match of the season. Marksman Arrowsmith, dogged by injuries the past 12 months or so made his only previous League appearance against Blackpool at Anfield on February 19. His only other first team outing this campaign was in the away leg of the European Cup Winners Cup match at Juventus last November.
EVERTON’S 13
Everton manager Harry Catterick is deferring selection until shortly before tomorrow’s kick-off. His names the team which beat Nottingham Forest 3-0 on Tuesday, plus left back Ray Wilson and outside left Derek Temple who both missed that game- Wilson through injury and Temple through being with Alf Ramsey’s Football League squad in Newcastle. Will have a fitness test in the morning, as will inside left Colin Harvey. Everton (from)-West; Wright, Brown, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Morrissey, Temple. Liverpool;- Lawrence; Lawler, Byrne; Smith, Yeats, Stevenson; Callagham, Hunt, St. John, Arrowsmith, Thompson.
The Goodison score will be announced every 15 minutes during the Central League derby clash at Anfield. Everton Res (at Liverpool); Rankin; Pearson, Darcy; Hurst, Smith, Glover; Shaw, Humphreys, Husband, Trebilcock, Maher.
That unforgettable Everton football favourite Bill (“Dixie”) Dean will be going along to-night to the Moreton (Wirral) Catholic Social Club’s party in honour of Bill’s great old friend. Father Peter Gerrard, who is celebrating the golden jubilee of his priesthood. Father Gerrard ‘phoned me to say; “I haven’t been out since Christmas, so it’s a bit of an adventure for me. But everybody is being so very kind to me that I must take the effort to be there to thank them all.

TODAY’S 94TH DERBY CLASH AT GOODISON PARK
Liverpool Daily Post - Saturday 19 March 1966
THIS ONE COULD BE THE GREATESAT OF THEM ALL
BRAIN LABONE SAYS IT WILL NOT BE 5-0 AGAIN-UNLESS EVERTON GHET THEM
By Horace Yates
The “derby” game at Goodison Park to-day could be the greatest of them all.  There is no reason why it should not be an event to remember for both sides are now so worldly wise and experienced in the tensions of modern football that even the very special atmosphere of such a meeting ought not to cause trouble to either of them. That such a neck and neck struggle could even be visualised did not seem possible until almost the end of January. Then Everton threw off their lethargy and lack of confidence in their ability suddenly to grow great again.  Now they can boast a nine-game sequence which is superior to that Liverpool who proudly lord it over everybody most handsomely at the head of the First Division.  For very different reasons this is a game both sides must win- and yet there can be only one winner.  For Everton it would send them bounding forward like lions, fighting fit to tackle Manchester City in the sixth round of the FA Cup next week.  For Liverpool two points would almost kill any hopes would-be competitors still maintain of overhauling them in the race to the title.  I rather think both sides would not be unhappy with a division of the points and ever form and fancy suggested such a possibility here it is. Yet the records show that of the 93 games between the clubs only 24 have ended all square roughly one in three.  Football form hardly ever 100 per cent predictable is notoriously fickle when Everton and Liverpool come together and logic is simply swept overboard when they come to grips.  In all honesty I must say that if it is possible to divide these teams to-day, the advantage in my opinion lies with Everton if only because they have scarcely put a foot wrong in their great fight back to fame while Liverpool have shown evidence in more than one match of being somewhat below their best.  All that is required to tear this reasoning into small pieces is for Liverpool to strike the rhythm and regain the authority which so often they have proved to be theirs to command.
ON TARGET
Everton skipper Brian Labone is probably right on target when he sums up: “This will be an epic struggle just the job to prepare us for the Cup next week.  We are not the same team now that we were on that awful day in September at Anfield.  One thing I think I can promise is that there will not be another five-goal picnic this time - unless Everton get the five.”
What Everton must remember is that Liverpool have grown great on their ability to pull out their best when the stakes are greatest.  Over and over again they have been faced with almost impossible looking programmes to emerge from them as only a magnificent side can. In recent days they have not always been impressive in the way in which they have dealt with the simplest scoring chances and to-day is no occasion for refusing gifts.  Opportunities will probably be so rare that a chance missed may never recur so that here we have a supreme test for their marksmen and their marksmanship.  Everton on the other hand, have been less embarrassed by the wealth of opportunity they have created, but their goals for chances ratio bears a more impressive appearance.  For example Pickering has given every indication that currently he is as efficient as anybody in converting chances into goals.  How otherwise could he have registered in nine of the last thirteen matches? Hunt, Liverpool’s most lethal marksman on the other hand can claim seven goals in his last seven Cup and League games but his match record shows goals only in four of the last thirteen games.  Hunt in the mood is probably every bit as lethal as Pickering but unless this clash plays tricks with form Pickering is the man on target while Hunt is struggling to recapture his scoring way.  If anyone were to claim that the four best wingers to be found in any two English clubs will be on view to-day few, I think would quarrel with the assertion.
SLOW TO LEARN
What a wonderful opportunity this would be for England team manager Alf Ramsey to come along and be converted. Probably the only manager in the country to-day who has neither time nor use for wingers might find hammered home to him a lesson he has been most disappointingly slow to learn. Liverpool have waxed fat on the superb efforts of the so consistent Callaghan and the brilliant Thompson, but Everton followers would strongly contest any claim that they are one whit better than Temple and Scott. Indeed I make no reservations when I say I have not seen a more competent progressive and defence shattering winger in a direct line of attack than Scott has been since those days in January.  The cloud over him had been a long time passing but with its passing has emerged Scott more dazzlingly efficient than at any time in his career. Of course it could happen that Temple will be at inside left and Morrissey at outside left, if Harvey this morning cannot satisfy manager Harry Catterick that he has completely recovered from the leg Injury received against Nottingham Forest.  Although Harvey is just about the nearest approach to perpetual motion in football I am not at all sure that the announcement that Morrissey was to be at out-left would ring like joy bells in Liverpool ears.  This former son of Anfield takes a fiendish delight in producing his best for Liverpool’s discomfort.  Which of Everton’s probables has scored most goals in League “derby games”? I wonder how many will provide the correct answer to that problem.  The solution is of course Morrissey a scorer in three matches.  Gabriel, Pickering and Harvey have all scored in one and Temple has been on target twice.
ARROWSMITH IN
Liverpool manager Bill Shankly has not played a tactics game by keeping Everton in the dark as to possibilities until the last minute.  He announced yesterday that Gordon Milne is out and that Smith would wear No 4 and Arrowsmith No 10.  Obviously then Arrowsmith scorer of six goals in his last two Central League games, will form the attacking spearhead with Hunt and St John will drop back to take over the responsibility of Milne.  Arrowsmith’s experience of “derby” games is somewhat limited.  He appeared as substitute for Milne this season and prior to that had played only once against Everton.  Here again if this is an Arrowsmith on top note Liverpool will not be any less dangerous for the team changes.  Everton’s international full back Ray Wilson will be called on to pass a fitness test before he can be considered, but Everton are adequately served in any event at full back.  As a matter of interest Liverpool’s scorers in “derby” meetings are Hunt 3, Callaghan 2, St John 2 Stevenson 2 (one penalty) and Smith.  The Everton team spent last night together at a Southport headquarters while Liverpool chose Lymm.  On centre half Yeats could fall a major load of responsibility.  Not only has he to contain Pickering on the ground but he may be an even greater nuisance to in the air especially as Scott is floating over so many centres of genuine precision these days.  Both teams will play it hard.  They must do so in present day football but that is not to say itwill be a rough untidy match.  On the other hand there is so much genuine ability packed into both sides that the more profitable course is to let skill be decisive.  Given this guarantee it can hardly fail to be a terrific spectacle.  There need no fear that Everton will pull their punches because of the forthcoming Cup-tie.  Everton-Liverpool meetings have a special place in the calendar of both clubs and one can hardly imagine either considering something else of superior importance.
Everton (from); West; Wright, Wilson; Brown; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple, Morrissey. Liverpool; Lawrence; Lawler, Byrne; Smith, Yeats, Stevenson; Callaghan, Hunt, St. John, Arrowsmith, Thompson. Referee; Mr. E. Crawford (Doncaster).

DEFENCES WIN THE DAY IN GOODISON “DERBY”
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday March 19, 1966
PICKERING CARRIED OFF AFTER 25 MINUTES
EVERTON 0 LIVERPOOL 0
By Jack Rowe
Everton;- West; Brown, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple, Substitute; Wright.
Liverpool.- Lawrence; Lawler, Byrne; Smith, Yeats, Stevenson; Callaghan, Hunt, St. John, Arrowsmith, Thompson, Substitute; Graham. Referee- Mr. E. Crawford (Doncaster).
The day was perfect for yet another “derby” meeting between Everton and Liverpool, this time at Goodison Park to-day. Ground spectators were in their places well before the kick-off and it seemed that most of those wearing the red of Liverpool were behind the Stanley Park goal. Sandy brown kept his place in the Everton team, with Tommy Wright reverting to substitute. The teams came out together, with Labone winning the toss and deciding to play with the sun at his back. The kick-off was held up for a couple of minutes while Tommy Smith went off, presumably for a boot adjustment. Liverpool’s opening burst was ended by Labone getting the ball back to West. When Gabriel tackled St. John the ball went loose to Pickering, out on the left wing, and the centre forward beat Yeats before Smith and Stevenson cleared.
THROWING BALL.
West was still throwing the ball out instead of kicking it, due to that thigh injury. The game suddenly warmed up when Yeats tackled Scott out on the right but the referee waved play on as Everton claimed a free kick. Hunt brought danger to Everton with a run to the line and a low cross, but Labone cleared the danger. Everton got a free kick when Mr. Crawford decided that Callaghan had obstructed Pickering on the edge of the area, but Young’s lob was headed away by Stevenson. Then Wilson and Young found an attempted link-up foiled by Lawler. Arrowsmith nearly got past Labone after a fine movement with Thompson, and a Scott run, in which he beat two men ended with a great tackle by Yeats. The first heated moment came when Smith crashed into Temple and left the Everton winger lying on the ground. Mr. Crawford had a word with the Liverpool man before Temple recovered. From the free kick, Wilson slipped the ball through to Temple, whose first-time shot flew outside. It was developing into a tense match, but at this point I thought Liverpool were making the better looking moves. Everton, however, were also providing occasional nice touches, with Scott again showing his speed and swerve, but once again Yeats made the tackle.
FIRST CHANCE
THE FIRST REAL CHANCE CAME TO Everton when Gabriel’s challenge on Smith enabled him to get the ball out to Pickering on the left wing. When it came across there was indecision in the Liverpool defence. Temple got possession and ahd he shot first time I think he would probably have scored, but he tried to take it that yard further and in the end did not get in a shot. Twice Callaghan tried to find Hunt through the middle and the second time Labone dived full-length to make the saving header. Then a Hunt flick nearly found Arrowsmith in the open space and it was the quick reaction of West which prevented a dangerous situation. This time the goalkeeper kicked the ball away, an indication that his injury was not as restrictive as it was at Arsenal last week.
JUST TOO HIGH
Tenseness is evitable on these occasions, but we were also getting entertainment and often excitement. Hunt made an excellent dribble, pulling the ball beyond three men before pushing it out to Thompson, whose centre was just too high for St. John. This was a good move, and so was one between Young and Scott, but the Liverpool defence was tackling hard and well. After 25 minutes Everton suffered a blow when Pickering was carried off on a stretcher obviously in pain. No one touched him and he seemed to twist and tear his right knee as he moved to collect a low through ball from Labone. He lay in agony as play continued and even West did not seem to appreciate what had happened because instead of putting the ball out of play he threw it down field. Wright came on as substitute. The substitute took up position in the attack with Young at centre forward.
WINNING TACKLE.
A mistake by Temple almost let in Hunt and the inside right was past Labone before Harris came across with a winning tackle near the penalty spot. Young did a great piece of work in controlling an awkward bouncing ball. He managed to get in a shot, but the Liverpool barrier was there to stop it getting through to Lawrence. Gabriel was getting through a lot of work, both in defence and attack, and one through ball from him almost left Scott in the clear, but Lawrence won the race for possession. West twice made punch-aways, first from St. John and then from Thompson, and the tempo of the match had never slackened.
SCOTS CLASH
Gabriel and Stevenson were involved in a clash which ended in a free kick for Liverpool. From this the Anfield side began an attack which ended with West making a fine save as a deflected shot from Smith came at him through a ruck of players. Half-time; Everton nil, Liverpool nil.
Liverpool had cottoned on to the menace of Scott for when the second half started Thompson was back with Byrne and Stevenson to make which sure the winger did not cash in a Harvey’s pass. Labone was another Everton player who was doing well, and generally it was a case of the defences being in charge. So tight was the defensive grip that it looked that it would need a mistake by somebody to make a goal. There was one slip by the Everton defence, but although Arrowsmith was left clear the ball was going too fast and bouncing too awkwardly for him to make a shot. Young was just out of reach of a Gabreil lob and the quick thinking of Thompson made a shooting opening for Hunt, whose left-footer was off target.
PENALTY APPEAL
Liverpool appealed for a penalty when Harris, challenged by Arrowsmith, clearly handled, but the offence was a couple of yards outside the box. After the usual deliberations over free kicks these days in this position, Stevenson chipped the high and wide. For quite a spell neither side did anything worthwhile in the attacking sense and clearly Everton were missing Pickering. Temple managed one shot from outside the penalty area, but there was never any likelihood of it beating Lawrence and for the most part now we were getting a defensive struggle. This half was certainly nothing as good as the first, and there was little, at this point anyway, for the crowd to be happy about. Hunt went chasing through from Stevenson’s pass and drove just past the foot of the post, but the chance came originally because Harvey misdirected hi attempt to find Scott and enable Thompson to make the initial burst. It was learned that Pickering had strained a muscle behind the knee but had not gone to hospital. The Everton trainer was on again, this time to Wilson, who was still limping, when Gordon Watson went off, but this did not stop the England full back from making a fine tackle on Hunt. No sooner had this happened than both trainers were on to Thompson and Brown, but both were able to continue. We were getting little entertainment now, with both sides looking happy with a point. There was one incident involving Smith and the referee took his book out, but it was difficult to say whether the Liverpool man’s name was taken. Young burst on the scene with a terrific swerving shot from outside the penalty area and it was lucky for Liverpool that no other forward was at hand because Lawrence could not maintain his grip first time and had to make a scrambling recovery. The next incident involved St. John and Scott, and there was a word for both of them from the referee, although the free kick was for Everton #.
SCRAPPY NOW
The game was scrappy now although Liverpool were spending more time in the Everton half, without really looking like making a breach. What some of the spectators through about the game was illustrated by the occasional bursts of slow handclapping but this was not sustained. Almost on time Arrowsmith had a great chance for Liverpool when a Harris clearance rebounded off Hunt and left him scarcely 12 yards from goal, but his shot was pulled yards wide. As the teams went off there were jeers and slow handclaps. Final; Everton nil, Liverpool Nil. Official attendance 62,537.
FANS ON CHURCH ROOF.
About 40 people climbed on the roof of the Church of St. Luke’s the Evangelist, in Goodison Road, this afternoon to get a bird’s eye view of the “derby” match. Police called Liverpool Fire Brigade, who brought their snorkel extending ladder to the scene but had difficulty in getting near enough. Meanwhile mounted police officers marshalled a large crowd which had gathered to watch and had closed the reads nearby. During the interval there was a loudspeaker appeal to those on the roof to come down but there was no response, and the next thing was that the telescopic ladder went up with two police officers, eventually the telescopic ladder disappeared, and one could only assume that the police had given up the unequal contest.

BLUES WIN THE ANFIELD BATTLE
Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday March 19 1966
LIVERPOOL RES 0 EVERTON RES 4
Liverpool Res;- Molyneux; Ross, Lowry; Strong, Morgan; Hall, Chisnall, Sealey, McDougall, Long. Everton Res;- Rankin; Pearson, Darcy; Hurst, Smith, Glover, Shaw, Humphreys, Husband, Trebilcock, Maher. Referee- Mr. G.W. Jones (Doncaster). There was a crowd of about 4,000 for his “junior derby” game at Anfield. Rankin had to make a good save from a first time Strong drive and then was happy to see two Chisnall blinders go over the bar. Everton were feeding Shaw on the right wing,. He seemed to have too much speed for Ross and two of his centres could have been dangerous. Liverpool had bad luck after about 10 minutes when Long, on the left, took his time and beat Rankin with a lovely angled drive. The ball seemed to be certain to enter the net, but it hit the inside of the upright and shot straight across field for a throw-in. following this Everton took the lead. The ball went down the middle to Husband who passed it to TREBILCOCK who was running in. he lifted the ball over Molyneux’s head and into the net.
ANOTHER GOAL
Liverpool were pressing for the equaliser, but with the exception of Chisnall it was the Everton forwards who seemed more likely to score, and after 29 minutes the Blues went further ahead. Husband took the ball down to the goal line, beat two  defenders, and pulled it back for TREBILCOCK standing about 20 yards out. The inside left hit the ball first time and it went like a rocket off the underside of the bar into the net. Moran forced Rankin to make a brilliant save as Liverpool began to shoot more often. Strong, playing an attacking role, put in two good drives and then Chisnall brought another good save from Rankin. Once they got the ball moving Everton were the more dangerous side in the first half and were worth their lead. Half-time.- Liverpool Res nil, Everton Res 2.
Soon after the restart Everton went further ahead. The ball went down the middle to HUMPHREYS who was completely unmarked. He had plenty of time and shot clear of Molyneux. Liverpool kept up as much pressure as they could Chisnall ballooned the ball over after a corner, from close range. Molyneux had to be sharp to deal with attempts by Husband and Humphreys. Liverpool mounted yet another attack, but the Everton defence was taking no chances and Chisnall was getting a bit of a rough passage. HUSBAND got a fourth for Everton at 71 minutes.

EVERTON A v  BURY A
Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, March 19 1966
Whittle gave Everton the lead after 15 minutes. Left back Styles made a good run, beating three men but shot straight at the Bury keeper. Wallace increased the Everton lead after 20 minutes. The home team continued to dominate and Tarbuck added two more goals.
Half-time; Everton A 4 Bury A nil.
EVERTON B v  TRANMERE B
In an evenly-matched half play fluctuated but defences were on top.
Half-time; Everton B nil, Tranmere Rover B nil.
Lancashire League
Everton A 8 Bury A nil
Everton B 3, Tranmere B nil.

NO ADVERTISEMENT FOR MERSEYSIDE FOOTBALL GREATNESS
Liverpool Daily Post - Monday 21 March 1966
DERBY GAME RUINED BY TACTICAL STRANGEHOLD
ONLY THE RESULT BROUGHT SATISFACTION TO EITHER CLUBS OR SUPPORTERS
EVERTON 0 LIVERPOOL 0
By Horace Yates
What a let down! Instead of living up to possibilities and providing the greatest “derby” match of them all Saturday’s 94th meeting at Goodison must have jockeyed for a position among the most disappointing.  Only the result provided satisfaction - for both sides -for the match was unworthy of a winner.  Why two such teams who week by week, provide praiseworthy entertainment for their fans should so ruthlessly shatter an image is difficult to understand.  When last I wonder did a “derby” game end to such a chorus of boos, catcalls and derisory whistles?
Thank goodness there are only two “derby” games for which he is noted but in a season and we have now had both! Undoubtedly a sweeping condemnation but one I think aptly justified by events! Partisan supporters will no doubt place the onus on one side or the other for the dreary and at times unedifying spectacle but I cannot find real excuse to acquit either of responsibility.  The nearest approach by way of explanation was the twenty-sixth minute injury to Fred Pickering the Everton centre forward.  To that stage the match had been tolerable, marred mainly by isolated unworthy acts, which boded nothing but ill.
BELATED ACT
Temple and Scott were savagely treated and how the referee could avoid taking severe action against Smith in this period and later booking him for a comparative triviality is puzzling indeed, Smith’s foul on Wright which produced the booking, would have been passed over ninety-nine times out of a-hundred but maybe it was the referee’s way of belatedly righting a miscalculation. Everton had given as good as they had received before Pickering became a casualty, but afterwards their intentions to limit their ambitions to a draw were patently obvious and as Liverpool’s was a make sure don’t lose attitude, how could football proper? Robbed of their centre forward be it emphasised by the purest accident for when he damaged a tendon at the back of the left knee and collapsed flat out on ground, there was not another player within ten yards, Everton’s calculations badly upset.  With Wright’s incoming as substitute they made no attempt to put their remaining resources to the greatest advantage.  If Wright had been posted to his normal full back position and Brown introduced as centre forward the pattern would have been disrupted to a far lesser extent,
WAVED BACK
Indeed, as Wright came on Brown advanced as though intent on exchanging roles but was waved back into position by Wright. That to me at least, signified Everton's sights were set no higher than a draw.  Had this been other man a ‘derby" meeting, Brown’s attacking abilities I feel sure would have been pressed into service.  To leave Young, never remotely approaching his best in clashes of this nature as almost the sole attacker was negative thinking of most disappointing magnitude.  From this moment forward the only question was whether or not Everton’s defence, often a nine or ten man affair could deny Liverpool.  In the end they did, thanks to a stupendous last minute squandering of a gift goal by the completely out of touch Arrowsmith.  Justice sometimes, is meted out in the most curious fashion, for neither side deserved victory.  Goal-less draws need not necessarily be hum-drum affairs Here was one strangled tactically for Liverpool were never slow to shut up shop at the slightest threat.  The clubs can possibly excuse the methods adopted because of the importance of the result, but I am a reluctant subscriber to that theory.  Both teams will tell you that the other began the rough stuff.  Evertonians will not budge from the claim that first Yeats and then Smith put viciousness into the match with their treatment of Scott and Temple.  Liverpool will maintain equally forcefully that it was Gabriel’s tackle on St John that set the pattern.
FOULS CHART
At one stage the fouls chart showed seven awards in favour of Everton and only one against and the match overall produced two to one in favour, of Everton although Gabriel and Brown eventually became sinners every bit as blameworthy as Liverpool’s offenders had been.  It is doubtful whether honours really were even if only because there was so little honour genuinely earned by either team.  Everton’s unbeaten run is maintained and Liverpool’s point is important to their Championship, calculations but what a price to pay for such satisfaction as these limited achievements provided.  Mercifully, by reason of Everton’s attitude to television this clash could not screened as ‘‘The match of the day.” Far better that such a disappointment should be limited to the confines of Merseyside.  This was not a true picture of abilities of either team, to which I can only add, praise be! While the football match was still worthy of such a description Everton’s best chances of producing a goal fell to Temple.  He can be forgiven the first failure for he had hardly recovered from the effects of Smith's tackle when the free kick was pushed to him so quickly that Liverpool, for once, were caught off guard.  There was less excuse when he miss-hit another shot, with Lawrence exposed. Everton came nearest to going under as half time approached.  For almost the only time in the game Hunt slipped round Labone, cut inside and centred perfectly for St John in front of goal.  Only Gabriel was alive to the danger and near enough to prevent disaster for by taking the ball almost off St John’s toe he saved Everton. Two minutes from the interval Smith took a pass from Stevenson 25 yards out and in front of goal.  He hit a tremendous drive and West reacted just in time to flick the ball over the crossbar.  These were exciting moments but the thrill ration was of starvation proportions,  Handling by Harris as he sought to ward off Arrowsmith was near enough to the penalty area to send shrieks for a penalty kick ringing round the ground.  The referee was undoubtedly correct in his ruling that two yards separated Harris from the box.  As I watched the referee struggling to make the defensive screen retire ten yards from the award, I could not help thinking that here is a rule in urgent need of amendment.  Referees should not be asked to perform a strongman act every time they make an award anywhere near the area,  If a ruling were to be introduced permitting referees to award another free-kick at the point, less than ten yards, where reluctantly retiring defenders line up, I feel certain players would very quickly learn to judge with far greater accuracy just how far ten yards are.  Thrills were running out and shots by Temple and Hunt gave little promise of success. There was far greater threat from a drive by Young from way out on the left, Lawrence dived across goal to parry the ball out and it was Liverpool’s good fortune that there was no one at hand to turn the situation into a goal.
ARROWSMITH’S MISS
With one minute left Arrowsmith on the edge of the penalty area collected a defensive rebound pushed through by Hunt, with only West in front.  He lashed out wildly at the ball and missed the target by yards.  Arrowsmith made no attempt to bring the ball under control or to place his shot and while it must have been an ordeal to be recalled to such a match for only his second League game of the season, clearly Arrowsmith at present has serious limitations.  Everton’s cause was not helped at all by having their wings clipped.  Here was where they were likely to cause most damage and Scott began as though this forecast was no miscalculation.  Liverpool replied by mounting a two and sometimes three-man guard of Byrne, Stevenson and Thompson on the danger man and Scott was lost in the unequal combat.  Four or five times Thompson raced back, Callaghan fashion to whip the ball from Scott’s feet.  Harvey, I suspect was a fitness risk thug match.  He moved around quite a lot without ever reproducing the accuracy of pass for which he is noted, but his defence was first rate. Young was almost as disappointing as Arrowsmith and it was In their half back line that Everton were best served.  Labone played splendidly throughout and Gabriel for the most part was superb.  A competent Harris dealing with Hunt or Arrowsmith, as the occasion demanded caused his side anxiety only once or twice and his credits far outweighed the debits.  With a lot to do Brown and Wilson did their jobs well and Thompson and Callaghan were forced to work hard for their limited accomplishments. If Alf Ramsey had been at the game he would have been more than ever confirmed in his opinion that wingers are a luxury.  Clearly Liverpool’s present answer to the absence of Milne is not satisfactory.  St John worked unceasingly, but while he was operating behind the broken partnership with Hunt blunted the attacking danger.  Early in the game Yeats experienced some difficulty in the air from Pickering who won several of the duels and naturally Wright was nothing like as worrying especially as his first thoughts were defensive.  Stevenson was the man who tried to introduce some degree of normality into this shadow of a game and there was nothing better than his passes.  Smith frankly has me beaten.  His troubles are almost always of his own creation.  Only he can prevent himself from becoming one of the biggest half back names in football.  The ability is there in abundance, with enough legitimate power to see him safely through any situation.  Only when he discovers where to draw the line, and it is becoming a pressing requirement, will his reputation soar to the heights.  The full backs as usual were adequate and both goalkeepers could lay claim to having been seriously tested only once.  That, I think tells the real story of this match. Everton; West; Brown, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering (Wright), Harvey, Temple. Liverpool; Lawrence; Lawler, Byrne; Smith, Yeats, Stevenson; Calloghan, Hunt, St. John, Arrowsmith, Thompson. Referee; Mr. E. Crawford (Doncaster). Attendance 62,537.

JUNIOR DERBY
Liverpool Daily Post - Monday 21 March 1966
TREBILCOCK ON TARGET AT ANFIELD
LIVERPOOL RES 0 EVERTON RES 4
This junior derby game at Anfield produced 90 minutes endeavour from both sides and Everton were worthy winners. Their defence was solid and when the Reds did break through Rankin was quick and sure much to the dismay of Chisnall and Strong. Liverpool could consider themselves a trifle unlucky for before Everton had scored Long pout in a shot which hit the inside of the post and came out again. Chisnall in the second half saw a header bounce off a post to safety. The Blues took the lead at 12 minutes when Trebilcock picking up a ball down the middle lifted it over Molyneux’s head and although Liverpool fought back, at the half hour Everton went further ahead. This time, after a neat bit of work by Husband who beat two defenders, and pulled the ball back from the line Trebilcock got his second with a bullet like shot. Everton were full of confidence and almost from the restart they increased their lead when Humphreys found himself alone with home defence spread eagled and easily slipped the ball into the net. Moran, Chisnall, and Strong worked constantly to improve things and kicking towards the Kop, Liverpool did play better, but at 71 minutes Husband headed a fourth.

PICKERING INJURY PUTS CUP HOPES IN JEOPARDY
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express, Monday March 21, 1966
By Jack Rowe
The most over-riding fear I had about the derby match at Goodison Park on Saturday was that there would be an injury which could jeopardise the prospects of Everton in their quest for the F.A Cup and those of Liverpool as they chase the League championship and European Cup Winners’ Cup double. It happened and when Fred Pickering, the Everton centre forward, was carried off on a stretcher in the 25th minute with a badly strained muscle behind the left knee there could have been few Goodison Park fans whose hearts did not quail at the thought of meeting Manchester City in the sixth round of the Cup without him. The grim face of manager Harry Catterick afterwards told its own story and one gathered from his comment. It’s pretty bad,” that it would need something of a medical miracle if the centre forward played at Maine Road. And the most ironical thing of all was that in a match where there was tackling which went beyond toughness Pickering’s injury was sustained without bodily contact with anyone. He got it moving suddenly to a long low pass from Brian Labone and there was no other player within three yards of him as he twisted and fell in agony. I would not have been surprised if one or two other players had suffered from some of the tackling- if you can call it tackling-which occasionally came from both sides, but for Pickering to go out like this was perhaps the unkindest cut of all from a game which will be remembered only because of his injury, especially if Everton do not survive the sixth round of the Cup.
TENSION TOO GREAT
One hoped we would get a great match, but frankly I was not really surprised that we did not. The tension was always too great as it was bound to be on an occasion of such importance to both teams. It was that I think which was responsible for the lunges-it’s a better word than tackles-which twice hit Temple and Stevenson because taken all round it was not an outstandingly dirty match and let’s face it a draw, even a goalless one, would not have been unacceptable to both teams before the game started. Liverpool needed at least a point to sustain their championship drive and Everton certainly did not want a home defeat to mar that fine run which has taken them to among the best four or five sides in the First Division.
DETERIORATION
The trouble was that when the draw came it was far easier to say that neither team deserved to win rather than neither team deserved to lose. This was particularly applicable to the second half, I thought the first 25 minutes was quite good in its entertainment and promise but from the moment of Pickering’s injury the deterioration set in until for the whole 90 minutes one can recollect only two shots of any note, one by Smith before the interval which was deflected in flight and made West save brilliantly and towards the end from Young which Lawrence did well to recover and grab after losing his grip.
ONE LONG BORE.
The longer the match went, the more obvious it became that neither side was prepared to risk sacrificing a point by all-out attack so that the second half was almost one long bore with defensive formations something like 1-9-1. Wingers and inside men were brought back to counter the slightest threat and I suppose in these circumstances it was remarkable that there were two clear-cut chances. Temple had the first before half-time and lost it because he scorned the first time shot and in the last minute Arrowsmith had the other, shot it outside and with it went any hope that he can be regarded as a permanent substitute for Gordon Milne.
DEFENCES SUPRREME
There was perhaps some excuse for Everton dwelling more on defence after the Pickering injury because the man who came on as substitute, Wright, was no forward replacement and for nearly all the second half Young had to pretty well take on the Liverpool defence singlehanded. This task fell to Hunt and Arrowsmith at the other end and it became more and more obvious that if we were to get a goal it would come, not as the result of any defence breaching move, but from a defensive mistake. But the chances of this were remote because this was a day on which the defences were supreme. The shots at goal and the chances tell that, but defences are bound to be dominant if thoughts are on defence as they were in the second half.
NON-STOP GABRIEL
The sweepers-up. Smith, for Liverpool, who drew the referee’s condemnation for a foul of much less severity than one committed earlier and Harris for Everton, did their job well, but for me the men who came out of it all with most merit were Gabriel and Labone. Gabriel’s work was nonstop while only once was Labone really troubled by the twin spearhead of Hunt and Arrowsmith Wilson too showed us his class and on the Liverpool side Stevenson did as well as anybody with Hunt occasionally producing that strength on the ball which threatens to take him through any defence. However, after Pickering injury this became such a defence dominated match that the forwards on both sides were eclipsed. They do not have much chance when the forwards of the other side are helping to eclipse them. It is easy to be harsh with these sort of tactics, but what must be remembered that this derby match came at a time when defeat could have been a body-blow to both sides. To me the avoidance of defeat when we think of the prizes ahead was just as important as victory in the morale department, especially if the chase for victory by all-out attack meant there was the slightest danger of losing everything. The fans probably realised, this because although there were bursts of slow-handclapping it died away rapidly. The pity though is the Pickering injury because Everton and Liverpool supporters can never really be scornful if they get a point from a derby meeting.

FRED PICKERING COMES OUT OF NURSING HOME TO-DAY
Liverpool Daily Post - Tuesday 22 March 1966
EVERTON HAVE NOT GIVEN UP HOPE
CLUB WILL HAVE REPORT FROM SPECIALIST
By Jack Rowe
Everton centre forward Fred Pickering who injured his knee in the “derby” match last Saturday comes out of a nursing home to-day after 48 hours observation and until they have had the specialist's report on the extent of the damage the Goodison Park club have not given up hope that he may be fit for Saturday’s FA Cup clash against Manchester City at Maine Road.  Manager Harry Catterick said last night: “ There has been no change in the position’’ and I gather it is almost certain that there will be no announcement to-day on whether Pickering will be fit or not.  The odds are definitely against him playing but I understand that until the full medical report is made there is the possibility that a nerve may have been affected.  This could be less serious than muscle or ligament trouble and this I should imagine, is there is still hope Goodison way that the centre forward may still make a speedy recovery and take his place for one of the most vital games the club has for a long time.
CONJECTURE
What Mr Catterick will do if Pickering is unfit must stay a matter for conjecture but in any event I would expect him to name a panel of thirteen players from whom choice will made on Saturday.
One thing certain is that the injury to Pickering could not have come at a worse time and it has come to a club which had more than its share of misfortune in this direction this season.
EVERTON CUP-TIE TICKETS
By Leslie Edwards
Manchester City v Everton Cup tickets left over from the season-ticket holders’ allocation will be sold on Wednesday evening (6 p.m.) from turnstiles in Bullens Road (Gwladys Street end). The tickets will be 5s and 4s, ground only, and will be limited in number. There are likely to be between 4,000 and 5,000. Allocation; one per person.
The Manchester United League match has been rearranged, providing neither side is involved in a Cup replay, for Tuesday March 29 at Goodison Park. Stand seats for this League game at 8s and 7s may be obtained from the club offices, Liverpool Stadium or agents’ offices (excluding Jack)

TREBILCOCK CUP DEBUT IS NO CERTAINTY
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Tuesday March 22, 1966
By Leslie Edwards.
The name of Mile Trebilcock has been mentioned as likely to be in the Everton attack at Manchester on Saturday if Fred Pickering us unfit. My guess is that whatever the circumstances it is unlikely that Trebilcock will make his Cup debut, despite the fact that he has scored so consistently for his new club. Manager Harry Catterick rightly refuses to be drawn on the subject of what will happen if Pickering cannot play. To disclose his intentions at this stage would be to give Manager Joe Mercer valuable information. Pickering must be very doubtful. No treatment could be given to him until he has rested the damaged ligament for 48 hours. Incidentally, the crowd’s treatment of the player as he went off on a stretcher was a bit unkind, to put it mildly, the feelings of the player and of his relatives and friends in these circumstances can, fortunately only be guessed. Mt notion is that Everton will go all out, if a change is necessitated, for experience and strength. Brown was kept in the defence on Saturday when Wright came on a substitute because he Wright used to be an inside forward and Mr. Catterick did not want to disturb a defence which has done wonderfully well in the past two months.
Mr. Jim McGreachin asks me to thank all who contributed to the splendid haul of £287 10s at the “Derby” game. The collection was of course, for funds for the Liverpool Association of Boys’ clubs.
DIRE “DERBY”
From all accounts what promised to be the “Derby” of all time became the most nebulous match ever seen in this city. Everyone to whom I have spoken about it says they were tired of it long before the final whistle. Allowing that both clubs were anxious to avoid injury there was really no call for the “safe” way both clubs played it. At least two followers of Liverpool (writing from Calder Street, Liverpool 5) think both clubs should be forced to admit spectators to their next home match free of charge in view of the exhibition of so-called football they witnessed on Saturday. They continue; “This was an insult to the finest supporters in the country and the people responsible should be made to pay for it.”
E. parry from Hornsby Close, Liverpool 9. Considers the match was the biggest crime since the great Train Robbery. He says; “I have followed Everton for 40 years. I also have an academic interest in Liverpool. Today I had to pay £1 for a 4s ground ticket only to see 22 players go through the motions. Liverpool and Everton help to cause absenteeism from work. They help the unemployed and lay abouts get fat off the extra we true supporters pay to see the game. Someone ought to have these spivs in court for obtaining money by false pretence.” Who has the best bet on Liverpool for the League, Everton for the Cup? Mrs. Rogers of Croxteth.
When her husband asked her at the start of the season “Who do you fancy for League and Cup” she told him the winners of both would have the letter E in the first four letters of their letters of their names. So a bet was struck at £1 to 2s 6d against such a double.
“He didn’t realise,” says Mrs. Rogers, “that half the teams in the First Division come into this category, making it even money that one would be League champions and practically evens that another would win the Cup. My husband’s saving face now by saying “I hope it’s a Liverpool double.” Mrs. Robers ends “Thanks you for your ever-topical column which does exactly as it says ‘looks at sport’- and not through tinted spectacles either!”
SCOTT-MAGICIAN
Mr. A.J. Higgins, of Haigh Avenue, Great Crosby, traces Everton’s improvement as follows;-
“The kicking of Mr. Catterick at Blackpool caused him to stop his policy of playing Hurst, Husband, Trebilcock and all the others who, to me, did not seen quite quick-witted enough for First Division football, good prospects though they may be.  “I also wrote you many times before the event saying that Scott who was off form should be dropped. Eventually he was what a tremendous transformation there has been since his return. “Mr. Catterick did not deserve cowardly treatment Scott did deserve dropping. Both things seem to have worked wonders. “Scott is like a magician now. Young has always had magic but one could not expect him to revert it when he was in and out like a yo yo.  “Finally, aren’t we lucky to still possess the most dependable of the lost. Brian Harris, who always plays a good often a brilliant game. Had Harris and Gabriel gone to other clubs to their unusual benefit I don’t think any Cup would have been on the horizon, the League position would not have been respectable and Mr. Catterick would have deserved the proverbial if figurative kick in the pants.”
HUNT AND WILSON IN ENGLAND TEAM FOR SCOTLAND GAME
Everton and Liverpool each provide a player for the England team to play Scotland at Hampden Park on April 2. Ray Wilson is at left back and Roger Hunt at inside right.
DOYLE MAY BE IN CITY SIDE
SELL-OUT FOR EVERTON TIE
Manchester City’s F.A. Cup quarter final against Everton at Maine Road on Saturday will be played before a capacity crowd of 64,000. This is the first time for eleven years that a City match has been a sell-out. City have no injury worries but will have to make a change in attack because new signing Colin Bell is Cup-tied. Utility player Mike Doyle, who has played at wing half and in attack this season, will probably be at centre forward. Manchester United are considering an approach to the Football League for permission to postponed their League game at Blackburn on April because of the England-Scotland international. This follows the selection of Stiles, Charlton and Connelly for England, plus the possibility of both Law and Crerand being chosen by Scotland. But with Blackburn in relegation trouble, the League may force the match to be put off, because of the reaction of other clubs, who are also fighting relegation.
EVERTON TICKETS
Everton F.C state that their have a limited number of Manchester City v Everton unreserved 6s stand tickets not claimed by stand season-ticket holders. They will be made available to stand season-ticket holders whose vouchers end with an even number and who did not quality for a stand ticket on the original allocation. Stand season-ticket holders should take their ground ticket for exchange together with their season ticket to the ticket office, Goodison Road to-morrow form 10 a.m. onwards.

EVERTON RES 2  HUDDERSFIELD RES 0
Liverpool Daily Post - Wednesday 23 March 1966
Everton was superior throughout, but missed many chances in the opening half, Trebilcock once hitting the bar with a terrific drive. Just on the interval Trebilcock put Everton ahead and during the second half Everton kept up a constant attack in which outside left Maher was prominent. Near the end Husband increased Everton’s lead with a fats drive.

SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT BUT-
Liverpool Daily Post - Wednesday 23 March 1966
PICKERING STILL IN HOSPITAL
By Horace Yates
Contrary to expectations Everton’s international centre forward Fred Pickering has been detained in hospital a day longer than originally scheduled. It was thought he would be discharged yesterday, but last night I was told he was not expected home until today. This however, does not mean that his prospects of being fit for Saturday’s sixth round F.A Cup match with Manchester City at Maine Road, have in any way worsened. On the contrary, manager Harry Catterick was able to tell me last night “There has been a slight improvement,” but he was unable to elaborate. Friends, who have seen him in hospital, brought out the cheering bulletin that Pickering is feeling better and that there is now less pain in the damaged knee. Obviously the question is whether or not time runs out too quickly, for even the slightest doubt on Saturday morning would be sufficient to rule him out, but such a thought is not being entertained. The fact that no decision is contemplated for a day or two is at least hopeful. All the other players are fit and spent yesterday playing golf at Southport and Ainsdale.

SPORTS SPECTACULAR
Liverpool Daily Post - Wednesday 23 March 1966
By Jack Rowe
This is one of THE  big weeks in a great sporting year for Britain. The highlights; What mat be the last grand National at Aintree; the sixth round of the F.A. Cup, with Everton facing Manchester City at Maine Road; How do men like Brian Labone, the Everton captain, prepare.
WE CAN’T LET FANS DOWN, SAY LABONE
“Match days are usually the worst,” admits Brian Labone.  Everybody gets churned up inside… but that is something you have to conquer.  “I find I can’t eat much before a game and on Saturday I shall not have breakfast.  For lunch I’ll just have steak on its own. ” Even an experienced professional like Labone feels the extra excitement before a Cup-tie.  It’s impossible to treat it as just another match.  Thousands of supporters will meet the team when the coach reaches the ground.  “That can get you a bit as well” comments Labone.  “You become conscious that you not let them down but we all know that once we get out on the pitch and have a job to do you have not time to think about anything else.” As captain of Everton it is La bone’s burning ambition to run up the steps of the box at Wembley and receive FA Cup.  Now he is only three matches away from achieving that crowning moment to a footballer’s career.  But that fact will not alter his normal of life or preparation.  There will be special training because as he says: If we are not fit at this time of the season will be” He and the other Everton players played golf at Southport yesterday as relaxation, but there will be no more golf until after Saturday.  For the rest of the week it will a case of keeping muscles warm and toned up, in bed at the usual time about 11 pm and eating the meals prepared by his mother.  On Friday he and the rest of the team will go to an overnight hotel with probably a visit to a cinema or a game of cards to fill in the last hours before match day.

DEATH OF TOM FERN
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express - Wednesday March 23 1966
By Leslie Edwards
The death has occurred in hospital of Tom Fern for many seasons Everton’s first team goalkeeper at the Sefton Arms, West Derby Village, for many years. Fern, who had huge hands, was in the Everton team in early 1920’s. he joined them from Lincoln City and after leaving Everton went to Port Vale. Fern was Everton’s goalkeeper in the famous Cup game against crystal Palace at Goodison Park where Palace won 6-0.

LAST NIGHT’S BULLETIN ON EVERTON’S CENTRE-FORWARD
Liverpool Daily Post - Thursday 24 March 1966
PICKERING HAS A 60-40 CHANCE OF MAKING IT
HE CAN NOW PUT FULL WEIGHT ON INJURED KNEE
By Horace Yates
Fred Pickering Everton's English international centre forward who damaged ligaments at the back of his knee in the “derby” game on Saturday has “Something better than a 60-40 chance of being fit enough to play in the sixth round FA Cup tie at Maine Road,  Manchester on Saturday.” This was the cheering news I received of the player following his discharge from hospital yesterday morning.  Manager Harry Catterick permitted himself almost his first smile of the week as he watched Pickering at work yesterday but with typical caution contented himself with the statement: We are certainly far more hopeful now” More hopeful I should say with very good reason for from being flat on his back in a hospital bed only a day earlier, Pickering was able to accomplish limited exercise indoors and outdoors with no apparent difficulty.  I am told there is no swelling of the knee at all and that the pain experienced earlier had now completely disappeared.  It should be emphasised that the exercises he undertook yesterday were simple, gentle affairs very much different from the rough and tumble of a game of football but from small beginnings improvement stems. Pickering after treatment at the ground was instructed to continue along the road to recovery by taking walking exercise last night, and this he did without trouble. There is no limp of any sort and apparently he can place his full body weight on the leg.
MORE RIGOROUS
To-day and tomorrow the test will be stepped up by exercise of a more rigorous nature and if all goes well that then come the final fitness test on Saturday morning.  This will necessarily be a very much more exacting affair for must show that he can withstand all the pressures likely to be imposed in the Cup match. No risk can be taken of a breakdown for substitutes are not yet allowed in Cup matches.  In a League match there would be greater margin for error for by including the substitute who would have completed the team had Pickering not been fit.  Mr Catterick would have had nothing to lose by stretching a point.  Pickering will play only if his leg answer all the demands made upon it, so that the next two days are vital in enabling Mr Catterick to make what may be the most difficult, decision he has had to take all season.  Obviously accomplished player means a tremendous lot to the side in what is certain to be the most difficult task they have so far faced in the Cup. Everton will need all the strength they can muster to succeed where Leicester City failed.

EVERTON WERE MERCER’S FANCY
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Thursday, March 24 1966
By Leslie Edwards
The linking of Everton and Manchester City in a Cup quarter-final game at Maine Road on Saturday means the Catterick men face two former dyed-in-the-wood Evertonians-Joe Mercer and City centre half-back George Heslop. Joe told me before his side had survived two Cup games against Leicester City; “I think Everton will probably win the Cup.” His own team’s successes since then may have changed his mind, but secretly, I think, he must still have wholesome regard for his friends, the enemy. Joe son of a former Nottingham Forest defender who ended his days at Tranmere just before the era of Dixie Dean, never sought to be other than an Everton player but Fate took a hand and sent him to Highbury to become the cheapest and best buy Arsenal ever made- and that includes such players as Alex James, Cliff Bastin, Ted Brake and others. Joe had his troubles when he was the subject of a rug of war between country and club in 1940. He was completely absolved by the F.A Commission which dealt with the case, but the ten chairman Mr. Ernest Green was suspended from all football management and banned from all matches on grounds of clubs affiliated to the F.A. from the end of April to the completion of season 1940-41. When Mercer was demobilised he came back to pick up the threads of his career at Goodison Park and for one reason or another fell foul of the then Everton chief. Theo Kelly, I fancy. Theo wanted Joe to accept a position in the attack and Mercer who had captained England from wing half-back felt strongly that what was good enough for England should be good enough for his club.
BREAKING POINT
This dissent between player and manager, smouldered until one evening when Mercer told me; “I’m not putting up with it any longer. I’m going to have it out with Theo first thing in the morning.” This he did. Everton offered him for transfer at a fee of £6,000. My father who was pretty close to Messrs George Allison, and Tom Whittaker, at Highbury, advised them to step in straight away and they did. But not before George Kay over at Anfield had made more than one move to discover whether Joe, like some famous Everton predecessors, would like to cross the Park. George Allison told me a few months before his death. “I spent the whole journey from Euston thinking about how I could persuade Joe to join us. I rehearsed myself perfectly for when we met and had what I considered was a good answer to any snags Joe might have had. “I got the shock of my life when Joe was ushered into my room at the Adelphi. He just walked straight over to me and said “Where are the papers- I’ll sign!”   this was one transfer we never received officially, from Everton, but George Allison’s first act, when the ink was dry was to telephone and say he’s got his man. Mercer captained Arsenal in League championships and in Cup finals before breaking a leg against Liverpool at Highbury and deciding at long last that his bowed legs would carry him no further on the football pitch. He made a success of management at Sheffield United; was frustrated by a Villa slump and endured an illness which threatened to write him off for ever as a football executive. His decision to join Manchester City set many heads wagging, unbelievingly. But he’s survived had success all along the line and looks like being back where he belongs in Div 1 next season. I’d like to see him succeed in the Cup, too, but not at our expense.
PSST! KNOW A CHURCH?
Just as well some of our fans have a sense of humour. Life would be pretty grim if they hadn’t. Mr. Dean of Raven Meols Lane, Formby, says “As I have no tickets for Maine Road on Saturday, I would be obliged if you could forward directions to the nearest church rood.”
Putting a political angle to his contribution and using one of those wonderful electric typewriters which “print” magnificently, Harold Brown no relation I take it to George? Writes;- “You’re at it again, aren’t you.” The Alex Young complex is back. Now you compare Ray Wilson’s ise of the ball in the same class as Young. Surely you mean Harold Wilson is in the same class as Young? Which other two could get away with it for so so long with so little effort?”
The answer to this is that the vast majority of Everton fans, unless I am badly mistaken, are glad the Alex Young complex is back. They haven’t come to much harm since it arrived back either.

PICKERING LATEST
Liverpool Daily Post - Friday 25 March 1966
RESONABLE CHANCE-MR. CATTERICK
By Horace Yates
“There is a marked improvement in the condition of Fred Pickering and there is a reasonable chance he will be able to play Saturday.  That is very important to us and what is more important is that Pickering himself thinks he will be fit.” That was the heartwarming message for Everton supporters passed last night by manager Harry Catterick. Whether Pickering will play is the question being debated more frequently just now than will Everton win their sixth round FA Cup-tie with Manchester City at Maine Road, Manchester to-morrow? Pickering was able to do some lapping and training yesterday, but to-day could well be “D” day.  If by to-night Mr Catterick cannot say “Pickering will play” doubts will grow.  Whether the manager will choose to say it is a different matter.  He may decide to keep the information from City until the last minute.  Everybody I feel would be much happier if there another few days before the game, for with Pickering on the mend, progress could now be rapid.  While Everton are sweating it out and hoping for the best Manchester City have no  teamworries.  Because their £45,000 signing from Bury, Colin Bell is ineligible having previously played in the competition a change becomes necessary.  Mike Doyle returns at inside-left, Neil Young probably the greatest danger to Everton’s chances being retained at centre forward.  City will therefore call on the same eleven players who their way through to the sixth round by their victory at Leicester Manchester City: Dowd; Kennedy, Horne; Pardoe, Heslop, Oakes; Summerbee, Crossan, Young, Doyle, Connor.

DEATH OF FORMER LINCOLN PLAYER
Lincolnshire Echo - Friday 25 March 1966
The death has occurred of Mr. T.G (“Tommy”) Fern, former Everton, Lincoln City and Port Vale goalkeeper who had probably the biggest hands of any goalkeeper in the game. Mr. Fern belonged to Lincoln, and left the City in the early 1920’a to join Everton. He became an automatic choice in the first team for many seasons. He ended his career with Port Vale and returned to Liverpool to become licensee of the Sefton Arms Hotel, West Derby. The funeral service took place today at Thornton cemetery near Bootle, Liverpool.

EVERTON TO BEAT CITY GROUND HOODOO
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, March 25, 1966
By Leslie Edwards
All going well- and Fred Pickering’s fitness is one of the contingencies about which we’re keeping crossed fingers -Everton will reach the semi-final of the F.A Cup at Maine Road, Manchester, tomorrow. One recalls, not with any pleasure, their previous Cup semi-final experiences at Manchester and if, as everyone hopes, they reach the last four again let us hope Manchester will not be the chosen venue for one of the semi’s. memories of Everton losing to Bolton Wanderers and Liverpool at Maine Road and to West Bromwich at Old Trafford-all in semi-final ties-make Manchester something of a hoodoo. But this is 1966 and this is a new Everton, born out of adversity maybe, but clearly one of the sides capable of shocking in the Cup either of the Manchester teams or Chelsea. What a remarkable sequence of events these has been since Mr. Catterick restored West, Gabriel and Young to their old positions. If Everton can summon again the sense of urgency and team spirit which started them off on their Cup run against Sunderland a Manchester City destined for a place again in Division 1 will not be able to hold them for long. After all three successive 3-0 wins in Cup ties (with Pickering scoring in all of them) is good enough indication that Everton have come good, as they say, at precisely the right time. They’ll play much more positively tomorrow, I imagine than they did when trying to contain and succeeding up to a point, a Liverpool side equally anxious for a point. Assuming Pickering plays, Everton will go into the tie with the settled, confident team which has scarcely put a foot wrong for the past two months. Initially it seemed impossible that Pickering could be fit in time but 48 hours’ rest in hospital followed by intense day-to-day treatment has given him an outside chance. It could be that Fred and Freddie will monopolise to-morrow evening’s headlines.
NO GAMBLE ON INEXPERIENCE
If Pickering does not play and I do not suppose we shall know this until an hour or two before the game you can be certain that Mr. Catterick will not gamble on inexperience when naming a deputy,. And he must go for someone of size and weight. City will know that the danger men in the Everton attack are Young and Scott and will plan accordingly. There is no doubt Scott has been one of the key figures in his club’s revival. If he has a good day Everton will certainly get goals. Everton’s defence has consolidated remarkably since the turn of the year. Wilson is playing brilliantly so is West in spite of the fact that he is obviously still a bit plagued by trouble in one of his thighs. I haven’t seen City except on Television, but under the joint tutorship of Joe Mercer and his aide, Allison, they will lose little tactically. Young their big forward isa Stringfellow type who can win matches single-handed. Helsop who knows Everton “form” from the inside, will be especially keen to show his old club they made a mistake when they let him go. But Heslop was one of those players too good to be kept season after season in any reserve side and Everton did the right thing I think, when they decided to let him make a senior position for himself elsewhere.

LATE TEST TO DECIDE PICKERING DOUBT
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, March 25, 1966
By Leslie Edwards
Fred Pickering has made further improvement and will probably have a fitness test to-morrow. This was the news from Goodison park today. Whether Pickering plays tomorrow in the Cup quarter-final at Maine Road, Manchester is still a very open question. And if he doesn’t, the Everton team would be a permutation from 14 named as possible, besides Everton’s regulars they include Brown, a back, and Morrissey, Trebilcock, and Hurst all forwards. My opinion is that Pickering will not be risked in a match of this importance. The 15 players from which the team would be selected were given in the following order;- West, brown, Trebilcock, Wright, Pickering, Wilson, Gabriel, Labone, Harris, Scott, Young, Harvey, Morrissey, Hurst.
REPLAY PLANS
Should a replay be necessary, it will be played on Tuesday (7.30 p.m.). this will not be an all-ticket match and tickets will only be available for the stands at 12/- 10/- and 8/- and the paddock at 5-6. No postal applications will be entertained. Stand season ticket holders will be entitled to one stand ticket each at either 12/- 10/- or 8/- and will be given tickets in their usual stand as far as possible. Paddock season ticket holders will be entitled to one paddock ticket each at 5/6. These must be applied for personally on Sunday from the turnstiles in Bullens Road between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., from Liverpool Stadium by tendering voucher No.8 from the season ticket book, or on Monday from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Tickets cannot be guaranteed for stand and paddock season ticket holders after 12 noon on Monday, Chequers cannot be accepted. Ground season ticket holders will use their usual turnstiles on the day of the match, handing in voucher No.8. and the admission money 4.6. the balance of the stand and paddock tickets will be sold to the general public from the Bullens Road turnstiles on Monday and also at the Stadium, commencing at 1 p.m. until 8 p.m. unless sold before this time. Admission to the ground will be by payment of cash at the turnstiles on the day of the match at 4/6 and 1/- for the Boys Pen.

EVERTON TO GET PUBLIC PARK
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, March 25, 1966
Planning permission for the first part of what is eventually intended to be a 100-acre public Park in Everton has been approved by the Minister of Housing and Local Government, it was reported at to-day’s meeting of Liverpool’s Development and Planning Committee. The area concerned covers nearly nine acres and is bounded by Heyworth Street, Northumberland Terrace, St. George’s Hill, and the properties to the rear of Priory Terrace, Mission Place and Cochrane Street. Eventually the park will reach from Shaw Street and Islington to Robson Street and Breckfield Road North the present site, to the west of Heyworth Street, being almost in the centre of the new park.
RARE SPACES
The park, a much needed amenity in this part of the city where any open space is a rarity, will be at its broadest where it spans Heyworth Street and in its creation many streets of small terraced houses, mostly classed as slum properties, will disappear. The acute shortage of open space in the area was one of the principal considerations of the Minister when granting the application. Alderman William H. Sefton, chairman, told the committee, but it was pointed out that approval to the present proposal did not necessarily mean the expression of any opinion on the merits of the wider open space proposal. However, the committee felt encouraged enough to set about with energy to make a start on this part of the new park. To this end they have asked the Housing Committee to let them know the earliest possible date by which the area can be cleared of houses and other buildings so that work on creating the park can be started by the parks and Recreation Committee. They have also asked the Finance Committee to agree to making the necessary funds available to the parks and Recreation Committee so that they can get on with the job.

AIR OF MYSERY SURROUNDS EVERTON HALF BACK STAR
Liverpool Daily Post - Saturday 26 March 1966
JIMMY GABRIEL NOT CERTAIN TO PLAY TO-DAY
FRED PICKERING MAY ALSO HAVE TO STAND DOWN
By Horace Yates
Although the news from Goodison Park yesterday was “Further improvement and probably a fitness test to-morrow morning” my belief is that Fred Pickering Everton’s international centre forward has lost his race against time and will not play in the sixth round FA Cup-tie against Manchester City to-day.  That may not be the end of Everton’s hard luck story, for without success was trying to confirm a story last night that Jimmy Gabriel is by no means certainto be fit. The report reaching me suggested that Gabriel had received an injury in training and did not travel with the rest of the party to their headquarters outside Manchester.  Apparently a security clamp was imposed by the club for it proved impossible to contact either manager Harry Catterick or Gabriel and against a wall of silence the air of mystery deepened.  It is possible of course that Gabriel stayed behind last night so that he could receive intensive treatment in a fight to get him fit and if this were the case the reluctance to make any statement would understandable.  Everton’s revival stemmed from the return of revitalised Gabriel ten games ago, eight of which have been won two drawn his withdrawal would be every bit as devastating as Inability of Pickering play.  He is the man of the side and his vigour and drive are infectious.  My belief is that unless Mr Catterick is deliberately attempting to hoodwink Manchester City, and of course all is fair in love and Cup-ties then it was not enough to report further improvement in Pickering’s condition yesterday.  Nothing short of ‘‘An almost certain to play” bulletin would have alleviated the anxiety of the supporters who must now be prepared for the worst so far as Pickering is concerned.
PARTY OF 15
The odds were against him all week although the improvement which followed the removal of fluid from the knee on Wednesday raised a glimmer of hope.  Now time as run out on him I am very much afraid.  Early yesterday Mr Catterick announced a party of fifteen players, the normal eleven, plus Morrissey, Wright, Trebilcock and Hurst.  Pickering and Gabriel are unable to play all Mr Catterick’s tactical planning will have been thrown into confusion and at best I can only see him ordering a holding game.  At full strength Everton might have gone all out to clinch victory at the first attempt. Depleted their aim must be to avoid defeat and if Manchester City play as well as I saw them against Leicester City that will be far from a simple affair.  Everton’s financial inducements are probably unrivalled but that in it-self is no key to the Maine Road fort.  Popular theory suggests that Everton will line up: West; Brown, Wilson; Gabriel or Hurst, Labone, Harris; Scott, Harvey, Young, Temple, Morrisey.  I hope not! Now more than ever, it is vitally important that Everton should make the most of their available resources and I suggest the way to do this is to substitute Sandy Brown for Pickering at centre forward, leaving the attack otherwise unchanged.  With the accent firmly on defence Brown’s ability as an additional defender would be priceless in any event he would be much more on terms of equality with the tough tackling George Heslop, formerly with Everton, in any trial of strength than would be the lightweight Young.  Last week’s stifling tactics earned Everton few laurels but if they were to repeat them successfully to-day this would certainly be the same with great deal of difference.  They would promptly become heroes all for in sudden death competition the first instinct is to survive.
FIVE OCCASIONS
Mr Catterick has watched City play on at least five occasions this season so that by now he must be well aware of their strengths and weaknesses have been told that against Leicester City, Manchester City raised their game by something like fifty per cent and that their standard was right above anything they had previously shown.  Maybe but having produced that form once the inference is that they can do it again. That being the case Mr Catterick will know that City’s idol Mike Summerbee is a winger who must be contained but who better than Ray Wilson to attend to that? If Summerbee is the great threat, it is winger turned centre forward Neil Young carries the killer punch.  Comforting indeed is the thought that a very much in-form Brian Labone has all the experience and guile to cope with him.  City’s half back line is tremendously sound and up against Horne, Alex Scott might be excused for thinking this is only a continuation of the “derby” game.  How many people I wonder will recall that of the City and Everton teams who clashed in the sixth round of the FA Cup at Maine Road Manchester on March 3 1956 there is only one survivor to-day? Who can name him? The answer of course is Everton’s senior professional Brian Harris, who needs only one more League game to hoist his 300 for the club.  The only other Everton players to have topped two hundred League appearances are Gabriel and Labone.  This was the match which followed City’s dramatic victory over Liverpool in the fifth round Anfield replay when the highly controversial Liddell goal shot was ruled out by the referee’s whistle.  Harris recalls only too well that on that day Everton were beaten 2-1 a result he is desperately anxious to see reversed especially as at this stage of his career the chances of reaching Wembley must be severely restricted.
NOW OR NEVER
It might even be case of NOW or NEVER and Brian is resolved to make it NOW. In the last meeting Harris was at outside right, for this was before an observation by director Jack Sharp in a Central League game caused Harris to be pulled back to the wing half position, a pretty shrewd assessment of player’s skills as events have turned out.  What then is the outlook to-day? Trying to forecast the result is almost akin to seeking put the winner of the Grand National and knowing only part of the card.  As I have Indicated, I doubt very much Everton’s ability to win at the first time of asking but if their stall is set out to bring Manchester City to Goodison Park on Tuesday evening Instead of the League game Manchester United then they can do it.  If those additional days restored Everton to full strength how much better placed they would be then to deliver the knock-out blow!
Manchester City; Dowd; Kennedy, Horne; Pardoe, Heslop, Oakes; Summerbee, Crossan, Young, Doyle, Connor. Everton (from); West; Wright, Brown, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple, Trebilcock, Morrissey, Hurst.

CITY HOLD OUT FOR A REPLAY AT GOODISON
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, March 26, 1966
EVERTON PRESS HARD BUT MISS CHANCES
MANCHESTER CITY 0 EVERTON 0
By Leslie Edwards
Manchester City.- Dowd, goal; Kennedy, and Horne, backs; Pardoe, Helsop, Oakes; Summerbee, Crossan, Young N, Doyle, Connor.
Everton;- West; Wright, Wilson; Brown, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Young (A), Temple, Harvey, Morrissey. Referee.- Mr. T.W. Davies (Norwich). Everton were without Pickering and Gabriel for their sixth round F.A Cup-tie against Manchester City at Maine Road this afternoon. The absence of Pickering had been anticipated, but not that of Gabriel, who I understand became a victim of a virus infection yesterday. Manager Harry Catterick solved the team problem by bringing back Wright at full back and moving Sandy Brown into the spot usually occupied by Gabriel. In the attack he brought in the experienced Morrissey on the left wing and switched temple to centre forward. After morning rain the pitch was heavy and treacherous. There were small pools of water down the centre. The rain was heavy as City took the field first in their all-maroon strip. Everton played in white shirts and black shorts. Crossan made a good run down the left wing in the first minute but Doyle could not pick up his through pass. A moment later Brian Harris made a timely intervention as the ball came over low from the left. Everton too rather a long time to settle down but City, although on top in the early stages, misplaced the ball too often to be really dangerous.
NO PACE
Brown appeared to be playing in the right back position, leaving Wright to play at wing-half. St strike of any description was a header by Doyle from a long through ball by Kennedy, but it carried no pace and no direction. The sun broke through as Everton’s first real attack was launched. Harris found Temple in the inside right position and the centre forward spurted through to make a low skidding centre which Dowd picked up without any trouble. Ex-Everton player Heslop made a grand tackle on Morrissey after Harris had put the ball through splendidly for the winger and as both players wend down they skidded yards on the water-logged muddy turf.
SOLO RUN
Neil Young of City made one glorious solo run but West was able to save his low medium-paced shot without difficulty. Then Alex Young surrounded by six City defenders found himself with an opportunity to shoot from just outside the penalty box, but he got under the ball and it few over the bar. Heslop was forced to put the ball for a corner when Scott picked up a down-the-line throw-in and made a dangerous centre. Dowd missed his punch completely as the ball came across from Scott and it was fortunate for City that the ball passed straight into the path of two City defenders.
DESPERATE
Temple started a lovely movement with a glorious pass to Young. Young’s good-length centre looked as though it would reach Temple’s head in front of goal, but Oakes headed away for a corner and saved a desperate situation. Everton were now coming more into the picture and were beginning to play as though the match was at Goodison and not at one of their hoodoo grounds. The first really good shot of the game came from Oakes, who cut inside Harris on the left wing and made a stunning left foot shot which swerved just wide. Both sides were misplacing the ball on the difficult surface. After West got a hand to a centre by Summerbee, Harris headed the ball for a corner.
HEADED WIDE
The City defence was rather sharper than the Everton forwards at critical moments but it was Everton who should have taken the lead when Scott with a glorious centre gave Temple a perfect chance to score with a header. He connected with the ball solidly enough but steered it wide of the target. City were now beginning to disintegrate a bit and looked indecisive, whereas in the first 10 minutes they had seemed confident. Harris was having a great game in the Everton defence. The rain came down heavily again just before half-time to make the going even more tricky than it had been earlier.
TWO CORNERS
Heslop was good in the air and was never in two minds as to whether to nod the ball for a corner when danger threatened. He did this right on the interval to produce acorner from Scott which led to another. Arising from the second, Morrissey caused Dowd to fumble his shot, although the whistle had already gone for an offside decision against Everton. Half-time.—Manchester C nil. Everton nil. During the interval Police went into the crowd behind the goal Everton had defended in the first half and where the majority of Everton fans were congregated. Several spectators were removed, after which the goal area was littered with rubbish. City continued to pass inaccurately after half time and thus enabled Everton to hold the initiative. West did well to hold high overhead a good cross shot from Doyle after Horne and Neil Young had set up a very useful left-wing City attack. Scott’s centre, after Morrissey had done the spadework on the right wing, now found Young, who connected with the ball but edged it against the goalkeeper's legs—a lucky save and one which indicated that Everton were at last putting on the pressure. The City defence got in a tangle when Kennedy attempted to back-heel to beat Morrissey, and yet again Everton won a corner. Heslop then handed off Young like a Rugby player when the Everton man was trying to pick up a pass from Morrissey, and it was just as well for City the offence took place a couple of yards outside the penalty box on the left wing. Scott crossed the ball across the face of goal dangerously when Wright found hint with a splendid pass, but the move came off so quickly there was not an Everton forward in sight to try to make contact with the ball as it flashed across. Temple threaded his way to make a low right foot shot which Dowd fielded splendidly. It wasn't great football from either side but at this stage it had become entertaining and thrilling.
FORTUNATE
Everton were fortunate to survive a free kick by Kennedy, when the ball was not cleared and came back a second time for Oakes to run on to it and make a fierce shot which was deflected wide. Connor made a very praiseworthy attempt to head a goal from a cut-back centre by Summerbee and at this stage City were doing a good deal better. Even allowing for the going, which was so slippery, it was hard to understand why the game should be so full of inaccurate passes. Crossan screwed the ball wide from close in after Doyle had created a chance.
THE ANCHOR
Labone was a strand anchor In the Everton defence and it was after he had saved a desperate situation that Everton set up the move which was to end with Dowd coming out bravely to deny Morrissey who had been found by a Young pass, after Temple had gone quickly down the right wing to create the opportunity. City seemed to have no answer to Everton's defensive depth. Scott did his gallant best to burst through alone but could not control the ball. Then Temple needed attention after a heavy clash with Neil Young. Neil Young was always dangerous but he had little in the way of support from Crossan or Doyle. Both sides were now floundering a bit in the mud. Scott had such rough treatment it was hardly surprising he was not as commanding as usual. Temple forced Heslop to concede a corner. From this Labone came up to try a header and finished sprawling with the ball over the bar. From a quick header by Harvey, following a goal kick, the way was opened up completely for Young to slip clean through the City defence, but to everyone's amazement his shot was straight at Dodd, and so Everton's best chance came to nought. A moment later Morrissey, put in possession by Temple, got clean through again, and this time Dowd palmed the ball away brilliantly for a corner.
LOST CONTROL
Young lost control on the left wing when faced by Horne a moment later and it took Everton all their time immediately afterwards to outnumber and out-general Summerbee in a corkscrew dribble on the right wing. Oakes now made a fine tackle on Temple when he had all but rounded him and then Harris came through to try and edge the ball past Dowd as he moved out of goal but found the ball cannoning against the goalkeeper's legs. Everton were mostly dangerous in the closing minutes, then City had one spell of supremacy right at the end when it was all hand on deck defensively for Everton. Official attendance: 64.000. Final.—Manchester City Nil, Everton Nil.

NEWCASTLE UNITED RES v  EVERTON RES
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, March 26, 1966
Newcastle United Reserve;- Hollins; Craggs, Finnigan; Luke, Winstanley, Young; Alderson, Bennett, Napier, Penman, Knox. Everton Reserve; Barnett; Pearson, Darcy; Grant, Smith, Glover; Shaw, Humphreys, Royle, Husband, Maher. Referee;- Mr. E.S. Bradley (Lincoln).
Newcastle should have gone ahead in the third minute but Knox shot wide when well placed. Everton, however, were much the more impressive side and after Barnett had smartly saved a Bennett header, Everton went ahead after nine minutes play. Humphreys ran on to a beautiful through pass from Husband and although his well placed shot was parried by Hollins it had sufficient pace to enter the net. Everton deservedly went further ahead on the half hour. Husband served Shaw, who made ground rapidly and his accurate cross to the far post found the unmarked Maher, who shot into the unguarded net. Half-time.- Newcastle Res nil, Everton Res 2.

THE PATH TO F.A CUP SEMI-FINAL IS NOW WIDE OPEN
Liverpool Daily Post - Monday 28 March 1966
EVERTON SHOULD MAKE NO MISTAKE TOMORROW
CITY’S VIGOUR NO SUBSTITUTE FOR SPEED AND SKILL
MANCHESTER CITY 0 EVERTON 0
By Horace Yates
Mission accomplished! Without their power players, Jimmy Gabriel and Pickering, I believe the limit of Everton’s immediate ambitions at Maine Road, Manchester on Saturday in the sixth round of the FA Cup was survival.  This they achieved with far fewer scares than they could ever have anticipated and so easily with just a little more quickness of thought and coolness in the moment of opportunity victory might well have been theirs.  That Everton will go through to the semi-final by winning replay at Goodison Park to-morrow (kick-off 730 pm) seems highly probable, unless City can raise their game substantially, as they did in their hour of need at Leicester in round five.  In any event, I believe Everton now appreciate that not only do they possess a greater all round solidity, but that their individual merit is on a considerably higher scale than that of their opponents.  The impression previously gathered that City are an over-robust side was amply confirmed.  It has often been said in condemnation of strong arm stuff that a side-kicks anything above a daisy.  City sometimes put even the daisies in a position of peril and I thought the referee extremely tardy in attempting to bring under control the fury of the Manchester full backs in particular
ENTHUSIASM
At times Everton retaliation was forthcoming but by comparison they were amateurs.  Unless City suitably amend their style there will be no enthusiasm outside Manchester for their return to the top flight.  In an untidy bruising contest, in which wingers required more than normal courage to retain concentration and dedication on the task in hand the appalling weather and ground conditions were of no assistance.  For the second successive week Everton were involved a goal-less draw and Indeed have still to concede their first goal in the Cup competition.  This was their sixth game in a row in which they have denied opponents a goal.  With all the limitations there was still far more movement, thrill and positive action than in the “derby” game of the previous Saturday.  If only Temple could be restored to his rightful position on the wing to create the havoc against Kennedy that Scott achieved against Horne with Pickering in the middle to exploit the limitations of Heslop.  Everton could rip this City side to shreds.  Even if Everton should have to face City with an unchanged team they must now be clear favourites to make further progress in the competition and morale cannot be other than very high.
“A BIT ROUGH"
I thought Brian Labone’s statement after the match- "These lads are a bit rough” -was a masterpiece of understatement.  The match provided opportunity for an interesting comparison of the ability of Labone and George Heslop his former understudy at Everton, Temple and Young both highlighted Heslop’s speed limitations from time to time and his use of the ball did not compare with Labone’s. The centre half’s judged tackles were conspicuously effective and for centre forward Neil Young this must have been one of his most unrewarding days.  In fact, when he gave up the unequal combat to concentrate on the wing he was a far more dangerous player.
SUPERB DEFENCE
The Everton defence was generally superb with not a weak link anywhere and Harris joining Labone in a central resistance which broke the spirit of the home attack.  Harvey too, cut off passes with an ease which only underlined the manner in which experience has sharpened his anticipation.  Some of the combination between Temple and Young was first class and if only there had beenfinishing to there would be no replay to-morrow.  Oakes a player for whose performance I developed the healthiest respect despite an alarming slip or two, could lay claim to best shot of the afternoon.  It was a 30 yards’ effort after only 23 minutes and with the ball swinging away from West all the way, it was full of scoring threat until  the last few yards saw it swerve narrowly outside the post.  In the end it was goalkeeper Dowd who stood between City and defeat in a late siege which had the defence wobbling and almost down.  Threetimes almost down.  Three times in the closing phase of the match, Everton failed to profit from first class opportunities.
ONE, TWO, THREE
First it was Harvey who headed forward for Young to round Heslop and faced only by Dowd who opened up great possibilities.  Young hurriedly shot straight into the arms of goalkeeper.  Morrissey showed he had profited from Young's profited from Young’s experience for when he dispossessed Oakes and took ball towards goal he attempted to lob over Dowd’s head. Only a fingertip connection foiled Morrissey’s enterprise, but he certainly showed the right idea.  Then Morrissey presented Harris with a shooting chance, which ended with the ball rapping the goalkeeper’s legs and rebounding just too far to allow Harris a second shot.  Scott’s advantage in speed over Horne was most marked and I felt rightly or wrongly that it was only the often unfair mauling to which the winger was subjected that presented Everton from utilising this weapon more frequently. Manchester City;- Dowd; Kennedy, Horne; Pardoe, Heslop, Oakes; Summerbee, Crossan, Young (N), Doyle, Connor. Everton; West; Wright, Wilson; Brown, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Young, Temple, Harvey, Morrissey. Referee; Mr. T.W. Dawes (Norwich). Attendance 63,034.

THREE SENT OFF AT NEWCASTLE
Liverpool Daily Post - Monday 28 March 1966
NEWCASTLE U RES 1 EVERTON RES 3
Three players, Cragg and Bennett of Newcastle, and Glover of Everton were sent off by the referee in this Central league game at Newcastle on Saturday. Four of Newcastle’s forwards, Bennett, Penman, Knox and Napier all cost five-figure transfer fees but they did not shine. By contrast Everton’s front line, ably generalled by former Newcastle schoolboy Husband, were so much better that they should have won by a bigger margin. Most of the small crowd had left when the incidents really started to happen in the last ninety seconds when Everton outside left Maher was grounded by Cragg. The Everton trainer ran on to field and said something to the referee, who called his linesmen together and immediately sent Craggs off. Seconds late Bennett and Glover were in a tussle on the ground and the referee came over and ordered both off. Humphreys, Maher and Glover scored for Everton and Penman for Newcastle.

EVERTON MISS THEIR CHANCES
The Liverpool Football Echo- Monday, March 28 1966
By Leslie Edwards
Unless Manchester City surprise Everton as they did Leicester City in a replay—and there seems little likelihood of this—Everton should reach the semi-final stage of the F.A. Cup to-morrow evening at Goodison Park. There would have been no replay if Everton had not missed two or three good chances in the final fifteen minutes at Maine Road. Manchester, on Saturday. Dowd brought off three good, if somewhat fortuitous saves to complete an almost faultless performance on a pitch so muddy and slippery any goalkeeper could have been excused mishandling mistakes. He saved brilliantly when Morrissey tried to lob the ball over his head: he so narrowed Young's shooting angle it was hardly surprising Young shot straight into his arms. When Harris, who kept stealing unobtrusively, menacingly into good left wing attacking positions, tried to side-foot the ball low wide of the advancing goalkeeper the shot struck Dowd's legs. Earlier Young, making contact as the ball came from the right also shot against Dowd's legs. Most of these Everton moves came from quick counter-attacks at a time when City, having been outgeneralled from the first ten minutes, were making a final, all-out effort in the games closing minutes. It wasonly then the match came alive. For the rest it was a disappointing contest between teams who found the treacherous going testing stamina and ability to control the ball. The ball skidded like a piece of wet soap. It was difficult to " kill." difficult to turn with, hard to deliver accurately, over any length of turf.
Scrambling, untidy
Though Everton produced most of the game's worthwhile moves the match, as a quarter-final, was a scrambling, untidy one. It was hard enough and exciting but after the first ten minutes City were revealed as a Second Division side with a not very considerable First Division potential. In the end they were fortunate to earn a second chance. Apart from Neil Young, who filled a roaming role from centre-forward, and a few excellent contributions from Crossan and Doyle, the attack never seemed to have the skill or guile to break down an Everton defence admirably " anchored" by Labone. It took Everton some time to get into their stride, but once they did they looked the better side and the one most likely to score. In the circumstances, I suppose, Everton could hardly have hoped for better than a chance to get their opponents to Goodison Park. Pickering, as was anticipated all week, could not play. Everton's conspiracy of silence over Gabriel lasted until about 15 minutes before kick-off when it was announced that full-back Brown would take his place, leaving Wright to return as Wilson's partner. Morrissey was wisely brought in as deputy for Temple, pressed into service as leader of the attack. With such players as Gabriel and Pickering on the side lines Everton fans must have gone to the game hoping for the best, but fearing the worst. In the event the make-shift team did them proud. If I am any judge of crowd reaction we shall be hearing a great deal this week of the way some Everton fans were manhandled out of Maine Road having been plucked from behind-goal terracing by posses of police who were clearly in no mood to stand any nonsense.
Ball was master
The “plucking" took place before the match and during the interval throughout which six mountles patrolled the running track enclosing the pitch. If rain had not fallen all morning the pitch would have given the teams a fairer chance to show their skills. From the first moment it was clear the ball was going to be master.  Everton tamed it better than City and in the end might well have come away winning by two if not three goals. City produced extraordinarily little work for West, Wilson and Summerbee duelled time and again, with the score about even and the Everton man usually pinned on the turf by his opponent's body! The game started quietly enough, with nothing to which anyone could take exception, even on a day when a tackle once started could not be withheld. Later there were some rumbustious clashes with Everton mostly on the receiving end. Scott took two shaking tackles; Morrissey and Temple were also in the wars. Wilson and Wright both suffered shoulder damage. Wright after sliding yards on to the shale running track. It could be a notably uncompromising replay to-morrow. Mr. Dawes of Norwich, the referee, who has a smile for everything and everyone, handled the game well enough so far as run-of-the-mill decisions were concerned, but he might well have been stricter on Scott's adversaries. Each of these offences was a bad foul. Everton returned with a casually list long as your arm, but I don't anticipate anyone who played on Saturday will miss the replay. if he's recurred, and my opinion is that Everton will he stronger for the second match than they were for Saturday's game. The men who did most to earn Everton's second chance were Harris, Wilson, Labone, Scott and Young. It was not a pitch on which Young could really do his stuff, but he played well and took up position intelligently. Harris, apart from his defensive qualities, two or three times went up-field to try to clinch the issue and came near to succeeding. City will need to raise their standard of play a great deal to repeat their Leicester performance, they have the will and the enthusiasm to do it, but not, I think, the expertise to undo an Everon defence which is playing exceptionally well.

EVERTON LIKELY TO FACE MANCHESTER UNITED
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Monday, March 28 1966
By Leslie Edwards
Another tough one for Everton, and however the replays go this week the possibility of an all-ManchesterCup Final is ruled out. The probability is that Everton will have to meet Manchester United, a team against which they have not had much success in the Cup in contemporary times. The venues have beendecided as follows: Preston or Manchester United v. Manchester City or Everton, at Bolton, with a replay at Blackburn. The referee willbe E. T. Jennings (Stourbridge).
LAST MEETING
Everton lost 3-0 in the League match at Old Trafford this season. The return game should have been to-morrow evening at Goodison Park, but that is now off because City are due there in a sixth round replay. Everton last met United in the Cup in 1957, at Old Trafford, when a solitary coal put United through. In 1953, before losing to Bolton in the semi-final at Maine Road, Everton had put United out at Goodison Park by 2-1 In the War - time Cup in 1941, Everton got a draw at Old Trafford and won the second leg tie 2-1.  Everton and Preston last met in the War-time cup tourney, in 1946. Preston won 2-1 at Deepdale and got a 2-2 draw in the second leg. In 1936, Preston came to Goodison Park and won 3-1. Godfrey, the Preston insideforward who learned his football in North Wales, was formerly with Everton as a winger. Preston surprised Liverpool in the Cup in a thrice-played tie when both clubs were in the Second Division.
FAVOURITES
Manchester Ltd., favourites to win the trophy, are managed by Matt Busby, the former Liverpool and Scotland wing half back. When Everton last won theLeague championship and faced United at the outset of  the following season in the customary Charity Shield tie, Everton won easily at Goodison Park. Mr. E. Holland Hughes, theEverton chairman, said: "It's a tough one. but we should have had to meet them sooner or later. 1 confess I'd rather we'd met them in the final. "If we get through this one we should every chance of winning at Wembley. And don’t forget United aren’t through yet. They’ve still to beat Preston. “If we face United it should be a great game. After all, both clubs set out to play football, and have plenty of class players.” It is a pity I suppose that all four Lancashire clubs involved have been covered by the same set of semi-final brackets.

HUNT TO NAIL A GOODISON HAZARD
Liverpool Daily Post - Tuesday 29 March 1966
A big hunt went on at Goodison Park yesterday when groundsmen made a bid to clear the pitch of a large quantity of nails before to-night’s Everton- Manchester City sixth round F.A Cup replay. The nails had apparently been scattered on the pitch during Sunday night when an entry was gained into a building behind the Bullens Road stand. By the time the groundsmen had completed their hunt to obviate a prickly time for the players tonight, more than a bucketful of nails had been recovered.

MANAGER HARRY CATTERICK THROWS OUT NEW HOPE
Liverpool Daily Post - Tuesday 29 March 1966

PICKERING MAY PLAY AFTER ALL
GABRIEL ALSO A POSSIBLE FOR F.A. CUP REPLAY
By Jack Rowe
Everton manager Harry Catterick threw out new hope last night that Fred Pickering the club’s international centre forward was injured in the “derby” match against Liverpool may, after all be able to play in the FA Cup sixth replay with Manchester City at Goodison Park tonight.
His definite statement on Sunday that neither Pickering nor Jimmy Gabriel stricken by an infection on the eve of the first game last Saturday would be available was replaced by one last night both now have a chance of playing.  As far as Pickering is conclude one can only conclude that the player hasdone all that has been asked of him in training and in work-outs he did plenty over the week-end for Mr Catterick to be so optimistic.  The trouble last week was that Pickering had so little time to get completely fit after spending three days in a nursing home, but these extra days have made a tremendous difference and I understand that Pickering himself is pretty confident he will be ready for to-night. I must confess that in Gabriel’s case the problem is whether there has been sufficient time for to make a recovery which will enable him and Mr Catterick to decide he is available for selection SOLID GROUND
However the manager must have solid ground for believing he may be. if he gives him a chance of playing but of the two and remembering that no risks can be taken in a match of this importance, I rate Pickering’s prospects the better.  From this, of course comes the interesting angle of what Mr Catterick will do if Pickering reports all clear.  The assumption is that he would want to put out his strongest team or as near as possible and his strongest team seems to have been the one which faced Liverpool.  That was chosen without any injury problems and if Mr Catterick goes back to it, one assumes that in the attack it would be Morrissey who drops out with Brown who played at half back at Maine Road moving to right back to the exclusion of Wright. But if Gabriel is not passed fit I expect Morrissey to stay on the left with Harvey dropping to half back and Brown to full back so that the line-up could read: West, Brown, Wilson, Harvey, Labone, Harris, Scott, Young, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey.  We shall see but whatever team goes on the Park pitch to-night it carries great responsibility for a victory over City, whose full back Kennedy is still doubtful means a semifinal appearance at Bolton on April 23.  Odds are of course thatit will be Manchester United they meet because the Old Trafford side must be favourites to beat Preston in their replay tomorrow night even if Best is unfit. The semi-final draw yesterday paired City of Everton against Preston or Manchester United and I can’t see the Goodison Park men letting this great chance of glory passing them by-especially in front of their huge following. There are still some tickets left for to-night. City returned a number of paddock tickets late yesterday and these will be on sale at the Bullen Road stand turnstile from 10 o’clock this morning.

CENTRAL LEAGUE
Liverpool Daily Post - Tuesday 29 March 1966
EVERTON RES RARELY IN WITH CHANCE
ASTON RES 1 EVERTON RES 0
Everton Reserves were rarely in with a chance of holding an experienced Aston Villa Reserve side in this Central League game at Villa Park and their hard pressed defence did well to restrict the home team to a one goal margin.  Goalkeeper Geoff Barnett made several fine saves when Villa dominated the first half though he was well beaten by a twenty-yard drive from right winger Dave Roberts in the thirtieth minute.  With inside right Humphreys twice going close with headers, Everton improved a little in the second half but Villa generally held the advantage in midfield.

BOTH SIDES MAY PLAY IT ‘TIGHT’
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Tuesday, March 29 1966
By Leslie Edwards
Everton and Manchester City have double incentive to-night to win their sixth round F.A. Cup tie. The ticket to the next round qualifies the winners to tackle the favourites, Manchester United, or the (on paper) easier possibility, Preston North End. But it is just on the cards that Preston, whose Cup records over the past ten seasons is excellent, will surprise United as they surprised Liverpool, in Manchester, in the Cup a few seasons ago. All Manchester is hoping, of course, for City to qualify for what might well he an all-Manchester semi-final. One can only imagine the heat, on field and off, a meeting of such rivals would generate. With or without Pickering and Gabriel, Everton should be good enough to beat City. They should have done so on Saturday in the final 15 minutes when three good chances came to them and were wasted. True, the ground could scarcely have been more treacherous, but one cannot escape the feeling that Everton in this period let their opponents off the hook. To-night's pitch should give them better opportunity to show their talent. Their defence is playing magnificently. At the same time City cannot be written off as a team without hope. They have guts and enthusiasm and skilful forwards in Young, Summerbee and Crosson. They, too, will profit by working on a pitch on which the ball can be manoeuvred with more certainty.  The reason I fancy Everton is because City, even in their two commanding spells on Saturday seemed to have no one capable of "unlocking" an Everton defence massed in depth. Maybe Everton will think it wise to try a more enterprising policy to-morrow. My own Idea is that if they played it defensively as tight as they did at Maine Road they would still be able to get goals through quick counter-attacks of the sort Young, Scott, Harris and Morrissey brought off in the first game. One thing is certain. It will be tough going with Everton perhaps not turning the other cheek as they did on Saturday when they were very much on the receiving end. City's tactical aim will be to lure Everton on to the offensive. It this "bait" is not taken we might well see another exhibition of ca' canny football of the sort which ruined the recent "Derby" match.
COMPLAINING EVERTONIANS
The decision of Everton and Manchester City not to allow their games to be Televised has caused Alan Ostrin, from Wallasey to complain. He says;-
“I must consider my disgust at the decision of theEverton board not to have any of the home matches televised. "The recent "derby" game, a 62.000 sell out before the match, could easily have been televised with no loss to the club. "There are many more than 62.000 Everton and Liverpool fans in this city. "As for Saturday's Cup-tie at Maine Road, the Manchester City decision not to allow the B.B. C. even to broadcast the match on radio, much less on TV, was even worse. What about the fans unable to see certain matches because of business commitments, ill-health or some other reason "Shop people, working on Saturdays, are able to see only evening matches. Bob Lord may have some justification in opposing TV with a Burnley population of 95.000; Everton, with their fanatical support, have none. " It would serve Everton right if fans boycotted one match as a protest. " I notice Everton have put another bit on the admission charge for to-night's replay. They did not reduce the charges by 6d when they played Northampton Town and Fulham In the League!
"As an Evertonian of long standing I will be disappointed if they do not get through to-night, but I won't be as disappointed as I would have been in other circumstances "
Mr. Michael Morley, of 14 St. Aidan's Way, Liverpool 10. writes: "Did you notice the following mistakes in Everton's programme for the "derby" match: " (1) Callaghan has not missed a game this season (according to the programme he has missed one games); "(2) Lawrence has appeared in 144 League games programme says 143). “(3) Byrne gained his England "Cap" as a right back according to the programme—Wrong again He Will at left back "(4) Byrne had made 226 League appearances up to Saturday (programme says 126) " (5) Huni has nine England "Caps' --not 10! "(6) Hunt's total of League goals is 182 not 180! "(7) St. John was signed in 1961. not 1964! "(8) Thompson has missed six League games since making his debut, not four.
Messrs. G. Woods and W. Fowlds write of their experiences in getting to the Manchester City ground on Saturday: Never again will we complain about parking facilities around Goodison Park or Anfield, or at the treatment from the Liverpool police. "Arriving on the outskirts of Manchester we were told by police the ground was four miles away, and were advised to park the car and walk. "We carried on for a further two miles in a solid queue, parked the car and started walking. " We must have gone two miles in the rain when a lady pulled up and offered us a lift. She took us right to ground two miles away, and when told by a constable that she couldn't park near the City ground she explained there was a place reserved for her as she was the manager's wife. Thank you Mrs Mercer : " Was that rough treatment of Evertors fans in the scoreboard enclosure really necessary ?"

EVERTON DELAY REPLAY CHOIUCE
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Tuesday, March 29 1966
By Leslie Edwards
Everton will not announce their team for to-night's Cup replay against Manchester City until shortly before the game. Last week it was stated Pickering's injury was much improved and that he might play at Maine Road; over the week-end it was stated that both he and Gabriel, who also missed Saturday's game, could be ruled out of to-night's match. Last night Mr. Catterick, Everton manager, said he was so pleased with these players' progress both had a chance of playing to-night. To which former Everton player, Joe Mercer, now manager of Manchester City, countered " We're not worried by all this, so long as they don't play a team of 12." Manchester City will play an unchanged side. Right back Bobby Kennedy, who had been suffering from a thigh injury, passed a fitness test this morning. Manchester City;- Dowd; Kennedy, Horne; Pardoe, Heslop, Oakes; Summerbee, Crossan, Young, Doyle, Connor. Ground patrons are asked to tender the correct admission charge of 4s 6d in order to speed up their entrance to the ground. Ground season ticket holders can go to their usual turnstiles if they tender spare voucher No. 8 and the correct admission money.

EVERTON AND MANCHESTER CITY STILL DEADLOCKED IN CUP
Liverpool Daily Post - Wednesday 30 March 1966
210 MINUTES-AND NOT A GOAL BETWEEN THEM
MAINE ROAD DEFENDERS PUT SHACKLES ON GOODISON ATTACK
EVERTON 0 MANCHESTER CITY 0
By Horace Yates
After 210 minutes of punishing football, Everton and Manchester City have still not decided which team is to go forward to the FA Cup semifinals for last night’s sixth round replay at Goodison Park like the match at Maine Road on Saturday, failed to produce a goal, even after 30 minutes of extra time.  No one in their wildest dreams would label this an attractive match.  For the most part it was far from it. The fact that four players were booked by the referee -Cheetham, Doyle and Kennedy of Manchester City and Young, of Everton -does not mean that an over-zealous referee was seizing on the half chance to caution players.  Indeed there might have been much less fouling and feuding if the referee had brandished his notebook much earlier, for it was not until the match was 52 minutes old that Cheetham was booked. If he claimed that his offence was insignificant compared with others that had been passed over.  I would not argue with him.  This City side are tremendously tough and extremely fit, while I do not applaud the manner of their accomplishments,  if the last two games are a fair sample they certainly hamstrung the Everton attack, which had opened with such great expectations.  The battle of tactics began with team selection.  Not until a quarter of an hour before the start were we told that Pickering would play and that the City team was exactly as printed in the programme. What actually happened was that Cheetham was introduced on the right wing Neil Young, and there five positional changes.  Chopped and changed numerically though they may have been, these City boys knew their jobs.  They put the brakes on the Everton attack to such purpose that apart from the beautifully judged passes with which Alex Young illuminated the game, Everton hardly possessed a forward worthy of the name.  If you rubber stamp that criticism of City’s attack substituting Summerbee for Young, some idea can be obtained as to why goals did not materialise and thrills at both ends were on the strictest ration.  The crowd roared their approval when they knew Pickering was to lead the attack.  What a let-down they got.  I have seldom seen Pickering so ineffective in any match.  Heslop, who had been extended very considerably by Temple on Saturday, became the back on which Everton’s attack broke.  What a difference a match can make.  Last night Heslop was superb in everything he did.  He out-headed Pickering in the air outthought him and outmatched him on the ground so that the centre forward’s contribution was small indeed.  Undoubtedly Heslop appreciated the slowing down in pace caused by the substitution of Pickering for Temple and at that speed former Everton centre half is a magnificent player.  A nearby spectator was heard to comment: “Do Everton have to kick the ball to Heslop?” and that was the way it seemed, so completely did he dominate the middle, and on the rare occasions he needed help.  Oakes provided it with a ready assurance.  It is easy to criticise the Everton forward line and ask were where their accomplishments, but time after time at the slightest scent of danger this City team back-pedalled around their goal until the defence was a ten-man affair.  They ran like greyhounds to get into position, and then raced forward to lead the break out.  Only a superbly fit team could have continued to do this for so long without collapse, but City not only did it for the ninety minutes but for the extra time as and anything finished the stronger side.  Horne heartily booed every time he touched the ball, no doubt an echo of his deeds at Maine rather than anything he did last night, raised a storm when he tackled Scott in the penalty area after only seven minutes.
TERRIFIC TEST
Down went Scott to shrieks for a penalty but if this was not a spectacular voluntary dive by Scott then I was just as deceived as the referee who in my opinion, rightly ruled, “Play on.” Earlier, Pickering might have put his stamp on the game and proved that any risk taken in recalling him for such a terrific test was worthwhile for when he connected a Harvey cross, his header was superbly pushed out by Dowd.  To my mind the greatest thrill came after thirty-seven minutes when Labone almost broke the scoring stalemate by beating West.  In an effort to take off pressure Labone attempted a tap back, but applied too much force, and lifted ball in the bargain, so that it was perfectly placed to pass just under the bar.  With his best bit of work of the evening West hurled himself across goal, touched the ball over and was carried five or six yards past the post by his own momentum.  The goalkeeper apparently caught a foot in the side netting which was ripped from the post.  Only just previously West had been involved in an incident with the mobile and disturbing.  Summerbee, whose enterprise placed a far greater strain on Labone than anything he had experienced at Maine Road.  On two occasions goalkeeper, who because of a leg strain throws out almost every clearance many of them reaching the half way line, only just missed connecting with Summerbee ’s head.  The third time connection took place.  West damaged his arm and Summerbee went down as though out for the count.  Fortunately both recovered and after this Summerbee kept a respectful distance when West was bringing his arm into action.
EXPLOSIVE SPELL
Cheetham, Young and Doyle were all booked in an explosive spell of two minutes and it was strange indeed to see the normally calm and controlled Young in a sparring attitude with Doyle.  Dowd distinguished himself again by deflecting a Temple header from Harris against the post and a surprise 25 yards drive by Harvey was immaculately fielded by the watchful Dowd.  I don’t think Kennedy could complain in the slightest degree for merely having his name taken following an offence on Brown.  He might easily have paid a more severe penalty.  Everton’s greatest chance came and went in the fourteenth minute of extra time.  After Scott’s shot had been safely diverted by Dowd, Wilson offered Pickering a match-winning chance, but the centre-forward headed right to the goalkeeper.  Summerbee twice threatened to win the match for City and forced West to a particularly fine save.  Yet the longer the game went, the less prospect did there seem to be of finding a winner.  This could easily develop into a real marathon for defensively both sides are tight and they are placing the emphasis firmly on the side of safety first measures.  Unless somebody takes the initiative or makes an error, such as Labone was guilty of it might well be a case of a long,long trail to the semi-final.  If ever a man deserved to haul his team over another hurdle on the way to Wembley, it was Brian Harris.  What a terrific worker he was.  Whether he was rousing the defence to new heights or lashing the attack into action, his driving force was always apparent.
TRUMP CARD
The thought occurred to me that if there is a trump card to break the impasse, it could well be provided by the return of Jimmy Gabriel for the next clash.  His enthusiasm and hostile instincts would have been most useful in alliance with Harris.  Together they could have posed problems which have caused City far more concern, for while Brown's defensive strength is never in question, he is not a Gabriel from an attacking point of view. So restless was Harris in his attempts to make this match decisive that he and Harvey exchanged positions for lengthy intervals it was Harris, with Labone, who were  closest to making corner kicks pay off.  Scott could not repeat his mastery over Horne who looked a much more composed player last night, and Temple’s' display was not one of his best.  Wilson’s class again shone through this match, although the introduction of reserve winger Cheetham made his duties far less onerous than they had been when he was face to face with Summerbee.  I don’t think there is the slightest doubt now, that Summerbee is quite an extraordinary player.  He is gifted in ball control, heads well and hits the ball like a hammer.  Once he is operating in First Division football, he will be another cog in the wheel to show England team manager Alf Ramsey how futile is his no wingers plan.  City have definitely proved more difficult foes than many a First Division side and even though their style not make them popular they gain promotion very shortly, they will be a force to respect.  Here in the making are possibly another Leeds United, although the lack of a Bremner or Collins may deny them an impact of similar proportions.  Everton, the cynics said, had little to beat in the early rounds of the competition.  That jibe must die in the throat now, for this City hurdle is just about as hard and uncompromising as any could be.  Whichever side survives this clash will probably do it on reserves of stamina for the next meeting is hardly likely to be in any degree less punishing. Everton: West; Wright, Wilson; Brown, Labone (Captain, Harris; Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple.Manchester City: Dowd; Kennedy. Horne; Doyle, Heslop, Oakes; Cheetham, Crossan, Summerbee, Connor, Pardoe. Referee: Mr T W Dawes (Norwich) Attendance: 60,349 (receipts £17900)
Second replay at Blackburn
The second replay of the Manchester City v Everton FA sixth round tie will be at Blackburn on Monday night.  The kick-off is at 745 pm.

HESLOP MAKES A GLORIOUS COME-BACK
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Wednesday, March 30, 1966
By Leslie Edwards
There's no telling where, or when, this timeless Cup-tie between Everton and Manchester will end. Or indeed if it will end. They looked as though they could have gone on playing all last night without a goal. I have rarely seen two teams so top-heavy in defence: so featherweight in attacking finality. The wonder is not going to be that they will play more than 210 minutes without getting a goal but just how long they are going to take to get a score. It could be but I suspect it won't, that England manager, Alf Ramsey, will have chosen City centre half-back, George Heslop as deputy to Jacky Charlton in his World Cup wonders before the two clubs who met for the second time last night reach a decision. He couldn't do better: I give Heslop precedence over all other players because his was the most superb one-man defensive show there has ever been since the days of Horby Roberts, the Arsenal player who invented the system which makes a half-back a third full-back. Heslop was a defence in himself. Never in his days as an Everton reserve did he ever show such mastery of the ball in the air or on the ground, or of his immediate opponent. There were two early moments when Pickering eluded him and flashed in excellent headers. Those moments apart it was Heslop. Heslop all the way and with such strength on the ball and daintiness of movement when completing a move he fairly brought down the City contingent of the house and a goodly portion of the Everton house, too.
Four booked
It wasn't a great game, but thank goodness, it, improved greatly as it unwound its fiery way. I think the good sense of Referee Dawes, who booked no fewer than four players, including Young of Everton, prevented it from becoming a shambles. In the end, after 210 minutes of frenzied, frantic endeavour from both teams, and precious little sustained movement from either, a draw was not an inequitable verdict. It was always entertaining as a spectacle, but never wholly satisfying because good shots were few and neither attack finished with conviction or method. With Pickering more often than not out-thought and out-jumped by Heslop, whose coolness was remarkable  and Young and Harvey having undistinguished games that is putting it mildly, Everton's forward line too often consisted of contribution from the hard-worked Scott and the occasional centre from Temple, supplemented by a few from the same quarter by that glutton for work, Wilson. City, after being slightly the better side In the first half, were thereafter more on the collar. Their movement out of defence started well: once it flowed to the penalty box it broke down as it had on Saturday by the absence of some player capable of producing the pass calculated to put the defence on the wrong foot. It was singular that except for the extra time, in which Summerbee at centre-forward became so dangerous, West's most menacing moment came when the ball came at him from the feet of one of his own players. Labone, harried and trying to make the sort of lob his own goalkeeper could field easily, got rather too much pace and not sufficient direction on the ball. Only a brilliant, If rather belated full-length effort by West saved his side the indignity of a classic own-goal.
Difficult for Dowd
For Dowd, who had played so brilliantly on Saturday, things were not so easy. He was hard put to it to prevent, one handed, a great header by Pickering off a centre by Harvey: put Young's cross shot away for a corner-and also Scott's fingered another delivery from Young on to an upright and so for another corner and make an equally good save from solitary" “strike” of the game- a  half-volley hit solidly, accurately. True, West reached a hard-hit inswinger from Summerbee in the extra-time and that was a telling save, but generally it was Dowd who had the difficult stuff. And not surprisingly. City. except for the opening twenty minutes or so played with only three forwards upand, until Summerbee started to unshackle himself from his shadow, Labone, one of them was kept completely out of the picture. If Everton, not for the first time, made great mystery of what their team would be they came off very second best in this respect. The public-address system statement was that City would play as per programme. One player named, Young, did not even appear! Another not named, Cheetham, did play. Additionally Summerbee, programmed at No. 7 played at centre-forward: Connor, at outside-left, was at inside- left. Pardoe, programmed at right half-back, was at outside-left and Connor, named as a winger at inside-left. And the man shown in the programme at Inside left Doyle played at right half-back. So much for the map of the Goodison Park camp!
K.O. for Summerbee s.
Even with these wholesale switches City played far better than on Saturday They finished the game strongly and were never more dangerous than in the final 30 minutes. Summerbee, completely overshadowed until then, suddenly started to show what he was capable of. It took some good rescuing by Everton defenders to prevent him from doing greater damage.  Lightly challenging West when the goalkeeper was throwing the ball clear rather than kicking it the centre forward got the goalkeeper's knuckles against the side of his head on one occasion and West, too, was " stung" by the fierceness of the contact. Mr. Dawes's quiet, but firm control, when Young and Doyle got into lumber-he booked both-helped to keep the match from boiling over. Later Cheetham was caught hacking and his name, too, went into the book. If Heslop was almost a team in himself Everton too, had their heroes. Harris, for his all-out contribution in which so much was right and so little wrong. Labone for his command of Summerbee nearly all through and Wilson and Wright for ensuring that City's three-pronged attack achieved so little penetration.

EVERTON’S CUP TICKETS
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Wednesday, March 30 1966
BLACKBURN RUSH TICKETS
The F.A. Cup sixth round second replay between Everton and Manchester City at Blackburn on Monday (7.45)will be all-ticket. Blackburn police have set a crowd limit of 52.000. Ticket prices: Ground 5s (no half. price for juveniles). enclosure 7s 6d, riverside stand 10s. Nuttall Street stand 12s 6d.  The tickets are now being printed as a rush job—the Blackburn club was only told at 11 p.m. last night that their ground had been chosen for the second replay. Everton, Manchester City and Blackburn, as the host club, will have one-third of the ticket allocation each. A house-full attendance is certain, Part of the Blackburn parking ground is unavailable, but alternative parking space is being arranged.
Wilson Out Of Big Game
Ray Wilson, the Everton left back, strained an Achilles tendon in last night's Cup replay against Manchester City and has withdrawn from the England team to meet Scotland, at Hampden Park, on Saturday. Wilson was under treatment to-day but manager Harry Catterick said it would not be possible for Wilson to play for two or three days. The F.A. were notified immediately.

EVERTON REPLAY ALL-TICKET
Liverpool Daily Post - Thursday 31 March 1966
The F.A Cup sixth round second replay between Everton and Manchester City at Blackburn on Monday (7.45) will be all-ticket. Blackburn police have set a crowd limit of 52,000 . Ticket prices; ground 5s (no half-price for juveniles), enclosure 7s 6d, riverside stand 10s, Nuttall Street stand 12s 6d. Everton, Manchester City and Blackburn, as the host club will have one-third of the ticket allocation each. Mr. Bill Dickinson the Everton secretary, said last night that tickets would not be available before Sunday. No postal applications will be accepted and the club will announce its arrangements to-day.

THIS REFEREE BOOKS ‘EM WITH A SMILE
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Thursday, March 31 1966
By Leslie Edwards
The last time Everton were involved in a Cup tie which went to three matches before a decision was in 1927. After beating Poole 3-1 at Goodison Park they went to Hull City and drew 1-1. The replay was drawn 2-2 after the extra 30 minutes and finally Everton went out, after extra-time, at Villa Park, by 3-2. Judged by the first -two games against Manchester City it would not be surprising if Monday's second replay, at Blackburn. also went to extra-time. One presupposes that Mr. T. W. Dawes, of Norwich will be in the middle again. He is a remarkable man for several reasons, not least because he smiles his way through matches—yes. even when he's booking players ! and makes a habit of giving them a fatherly pat on the bead when they've needed trainer's attention. - Not everyone at Goodison Park on Tuesday liked his smiling-through attitude, but the essence of his performance, i suppose. is "Did he do a good job?" To this there is only one answer—yes. The same can be said only more so of the former Everton reserve George Heslop, Mio had to ask twice for a transfer before Manchester City finally succeeded fretting him in September last year for £20,000. He had been signed by Everton from Newcastle—he learned his football at Wallsend—in March. 1962. as part of a deal which involved the exchange of the then Everton winger. Jimmy Fell. Ironically his League debut for Newcastle against Everton who won 8-2 at St. James' Park. Heslop had impressed Everton initially by a splendid match he played for Newcastle United against Liverpool at Anfield. At a fee of £20.000 be is proving one of the best bargains City ever made. Everton. of course. were in no potion to hold such a talented player in their reserve side.