SOFTENED THAT ANFIELD BLOW
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, October 1, 1965
Say Everton’s Tommy Wright
If anyone had told me a couple of years ago that I would feel so miserable and so happy over a game of football in the space of four days I would probably have told them to take a jump in the Mersey. Yet it has happened and when I woke up in our Nuremburg hotel on Wednesday morning I never felt more like singing “To-day I feel so happy, so happy, so happy….”
I know we didn’t win in Nuremburg, but gosh we didn’t lose as nearby everybody in Liverpool must have thought we would have done after the whipping we took from Liverpool last Saturday. It was after the Derby match that I felt so miserable, not only for myself but also for my team mates and everybody else in the club and also our supporters. You have to learn to love, I suppose, but don’t kid yourselfs that footballers like losing. We don’t, but it would have been much better if we had gone down by a goal or so instead of the 5-0 defeat inflicted on us.
THOMPSON IN FORM
Liverpool deserved to win. They were the better side on the day, but all this does not alter the situation that when we went into the dressing room at the end of Saturday’s match we knew we had failed in one of the most important matches of the season-a Derby meeting with Liverpool at Anfield. It’s not easy to smile in those kind of situations and it was particularly disappointing for me because it was my first Derby match on the Anfield pitch. I don’t think an Everton team has played so badly as we did but let me say that peter Thompson played well and I shall put my tussles with him in the book of experience. I enjoyed marking him and I tried to make him go on the outside. It was this which led to the free kick against me from which Tommy Smith headed in Liverpool’s first goal. Peter tried to take the ball across and in front of me and I tried to stop him. I think he was pushing me as much as I was pushing him, but I was the unlucky one and the referee gave the free kick against me. Still, that’s how it goes in football, but I didn’t think that the goal would be the first of five. But maybe it was a good thing in a way because it has given us the chance to show that we can come back and also to show out supporters that we can still make a hit this season. When we went to Nuremburg we were the underdogs. No-one gave us much chance-except ourselves and our manager who told us to forget all about Anfield. Our 1-1 draw against the Germans put us on top of the world because we have a fine chance now of going into the next round.
ASLL FORGOTTEN NOW
It was a tough battle at Nuremburg but I think it was they who started the rough stuff it is easy to say you should not retaliate but all the same time it’s not easy to take things without showing some reactions. That is how it was at Nuremburg in my opinion. They were determined to win and were not going to be too fussy about how they did it. We were equally determined that they were not going to win and whatever faults there may have been on our side, they were provoked. Anyway, as far as I am concerned it is all forgotten now. All that matters is that we came off the floor and it has done our confidence a lot of good. Do you wonder why I felt so happy….? 

GIANT TOWERS FLATS REPLACE TERRACE HOUSES OF OLD EVERTON
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, October 1, 1965
EXAMPLE FOR WORLD OF TO-MORROW
PLAYGROUNDS, PARKS
SAFE WALKING
Liverpool Corporation is replacing the old Everton with the giant towers of 20th century domestic architecture. Long rows of terrace houses have already been demolished. Everton is one of the areas were the change is daring, drastic and sometimes painful. There are many of Its old residents who are sad and often bitter at the thought of leaving the rosy companionship of its streets. ADVANTAGES
But the City Council decided that Everton Heights and the surrounding areas should set an example for the world of to-morrow. They planned 68 acres of public parks and half that area again for playgrounds, with safe pedestrian ways connecting homes with shops and other amenities. So far there is little evidence of the greenery. Much of the old has still to be removed to make way for the new, but the promises of tomorrow are already in the making. Tenants of the new skyscraper blocks of flats are discovering the advantages their homes offer and there are few who would wish to come down to earth again. The blocks in Conway Street are well established and those in Robert Street long since began to look down upon the crumbling cottages below. Now the people of Everton watch the Corporation's plans being put into effect by gang; of workmen; their watch and wit for their turn to slip out of the gas-lit era of the 19th century into the light of the new Liverpool.

NO INTEREST IN KINNELL
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, October 1, 1965
EVERTON MANAGER DENIES RUMOURS
By Leslie Edwards
Everton have no interest whatever in signing Stoke centre half-back, George Kinnell, whose transfer request has been granted. Manager Harry Catterick said today “There is no foundation for the story that we have considered signing Kinnell or that we have considered exchanging him for Alex Young. “Our position is that we are in the market for any first class experienced player who is available. We have never thought about transferring Young, nor have we had offers for him.”

EVERTON RES v  NEWCASTLE RES
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, October 2, 1965
Everton Res; Barnett; Curwen, D’Arcy; Hurst, Smith, Grant; Shaw, Glover, Hill, Husband, Maher. Newcastle Res; Swinburn; Finnigan, Dalton; Luke, Winstanley, Young; Robson, Novel, McGarry, Penman, Allen. Referee Mr. G. Hartley (Outwood Yorks). Everton went straight into the attack and in the third minute before Newcastle could settled down, had taken the lead. Shaw picked up the ball on the right, swung it across field to Maher, whose centre Glover easily converted. Everton kept up the pressure, but a much bigger and heavier United side were able to stop them without much trouble. McGarry and then Allen shot wide, but Everton were soon back on the offensive and Shaw had a good chance but shot wide. Right after this Glover hit the side netting. Everton got a second goal at 38 minutes with a grand solo effort by Husband. He picked the ball up near the centre circle outstripped two defenders and shot clear of the advancing Swinburn. United reduced the arrears just on the interval when McGarry headed in an Allen corner kick. Final; Everton Res 3, Newcastle United Res 1.
EVERTON A v  MAN U A
After 20 minutes Whitehead originated a move up the right wing which lead to McLoughlin heading the ball into the Manchester goal from Tarbuck’s centre. Seven minutes later McLoughlin put Everton further ahead. Half-time Everton A 2, Manchester Utd A nil.

WALES 0 ENGLAND 0
Liverpool Daily Post – Monday, October 4, 1965
By Horace Yates
Wales World Cup ambitions are over, but her players revolted to such purpose against the role of whipping boys for England at Ninian Park, Cardiff on Saturday that England at Ninian Park, Cardiff, on Saturday that England team manager Alf Ramsey’s dreams of world conquest looked as far from realisation as ever. Some furious rethinking must be done and done quickly to give England the punch she needs. If Wales had won this match nobody could have shrieked of injustice and even if Reece had saved a matchwinner to the last minute, for he only just failed. England would have looked around vainly for sympathy. Almost all the satisfaction from this clash was grabbed by the Welshmen, whose last defeat of England stretches back to season 1955-56. Now worrying it all must be for Mr. Ramsey if he began by believing he had firmly had his foundations, leaving only the touching up process to complete his task, how grievously he had miscalculated. When Mr. Ramsey names the England side to oppose Austria later this month he may content himself by making just one change. Thompson of Liverpool for Paine (Southampton) and hoping the Ninian Park experience was simply too had to be true. Shocking game though he had against Colin Green, there were failures every bit as great as Paine. On the question of merit I would say that four of the attack should be superseded and a more constructive alternative round for Nobby Stiles. Mr. Ramsey could not have failed to notice how much better were the Welsh links Allchurch and Hole, than Charlton and Stiles or for that matter what a wonderful half back line Hennessey, England and Hole constituted. The wag who afterwards commented that the best thing about England was the Welsh centre half, may have been a little cruel, but he was generally heading in the right direction. The World Cup competition is still too far away to say with any conviction that the role of also runs will be reserved for England. But we must accept the theory that England struck a bad day together or that several changes are essential. In a goalless game, one naturally focuses attention on the attack. If Ramsey wielded the axe as he would be justified in doing, not one man among them could be confident of seeing his name in the next attack. Only once has Paine impressed me as England material and if Green did not finally lay bare. Paine’s limitations at Cardiff, then I can only express my surprise. Connelly was more impressive only because he showed more fight. Time after time he pushed the ball past Rodrigues most promisingly, only to find the full back recovering too quickly for advantage to be gained. If either Paine or Connelly stay it is a cruel reflection of the standard of wing play in English football. Not many centre forwards are at their best in opposition to Mike England, who could well be the greatest centre half in English football. Yet Peacock never showed his tail feathers at all. There was so little to justify any exhibition of pride in this display. Second best all the way through there was just one fleeting moment when glory beckoned him invitingly. With only Sprake to beat he hit the goalkeeper.
GREAVES FAILINGS
Greaves is in the England side because reputation suggests he is the greatest goal-snatcher of them all. Once Greaves ceases to rate at all in international class. Four times the Spurs man was face to face with opportunity without beating Sprake once. His greatest second half miss was when Charlton gave him an unopposed heading chance. With all the goal at which to aim. Greaves headed against the bar. A near miss? Of course, but it was a miss England and Greaves could not afford. Roger Hunt has been dropped by England like hot coals because he has not made his mark on far less pressing invitations than these. Greaves stance was urgent need of some first class shows before the next team is chosen to warrant further consideration. Because Charlton at least showed the right idea from time to time his expectancy to further calls is probably greater than that of any other forward. How England missed the versatile play of Milne, Ramsey just cannot afford to ignore a fit and in form Milne. Fighters are needed in every team and it was not the fact that the crowd made Stiles the villain of the piece that caused me to query his exuberance. If it is true that Ball’s temperament has caused him to be passed over. Stiles has cause to ponder. Stiles looks better as an attacker than as a creator and while he may be more tenacious than Milne, this display hardly put him in the same class as a link.
FIRST DAVIES
The fiery Davies is a guarantee of a hectic afternoon for any centre half. Charlton never completely mastered him. For in the air the Bolton leader is dynamite. It is perhaps as well for opposing defences that he does not pose the same threat on the ground. At least Charlton prevented Davies from running riot. Cohen is not the first full back to be given the run-around by the elusive Reece and there will be others, but Cohen is England’s full-back and he was cut up badly over and over again by this debutant Welshman. Wilson too, had his problems early on from Rees, but stayed on to win the battle. The frequency with which Reece was brought into action was eloquent testimony to the Welsh belief that Cohen was struggling and the arrival of Moore to boost the full back’s resistance was often timely. Springett like Sprake, did nothing wrong, even though both should have been beaten. Vernon’s impact came late and his best work was in trying to make scorers of Davies and Reece. Frankly this Welsh side was a revelation. The Red Dragon meant something to them again. Whether they would have looked quite so good had England grabbed the goals that were there for the taking, I don’t know, but it is equally true that the England goal underwent some remarkable escapes. This Welsh dragon was certainly full of fire and fury-as well as football. Wales; Sprake; Rodrigues; Green, Hennessey; England, Hole; Rees, Vernon, Davies, Allchurch, Reece. England; Springett; Cohen, Wilson; Stiles, J. Charlton, Moore; Paine, Greaves, Peacock, B. Charlton, Connelly. Referee; Mr. A.F.J. Webster (Scotland). Attendance 30,000. 

EVERTON RESERVE 3 NEWCASTLE UNITED RESERVES 1
The Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, October 4, 1965
Everton reserves inside left Husband excelled himself in this Central League game against Newcastle United Reserves at Goodison Park. After Glover had put the home side ahead at three minutes and the Everton forwards had realised victory lay in keeping clear of the heavier United side. Husband came into his own. His speed and quick thinking had the United defence in a tangle and at the 38th minute he outstripped two defenders to score. With another solo run at 59 minutes and after a neat left wing move, he drew the United defence out of position for Shaw to net easily. Just on the interval McGarry got a goal for United for Everton, goalkeeper Barnett generally had little to worry over.

EVERTON DELAY TEAM CHOICE
Liverpool Daily Post- Tuesday, October 5, 1965
Everton manager Harry Catterick is delaying selection of his team to meet Blackburn Rovers at Goodison Park tonight until later to-day. Although Brian Labone injured in the derby game with Liverpool is improving, he is unlikely to be fit. There are better hopes of Tommy Wright and Johnny Morrissey injured at Nuremburg last week, and Mr. Catterick is waiting to see how they are to-day. Mr. Bill Dickinson, the Everton secretary announces that for Saturday’s home game with Tottenham all stand seats can be booked. Side stands are 8s, and Gwladys street stand 7s Tickets may be obtained from the club offices on the usual agents.

ENGLAND INJURED
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Tuesday, October 5, 1965
UNCHANGED BLACKBURN SIDE TO VISIT EVERTON
Mike England, Blackburn Rovers and Wales centre half is out of the team to meet Everton at Goodison Park tonight. England, who played an outstanding game while captaining Wales in their goalless draw against England at Cardiff on Saturday, got a foot injury which puts him out of action. He had a fitness test at Ewood Park this morning but found he could not kick the ball property. Blackburn keep the team which held top-of-the-table Sheffield United to a goalless draw on Saturday. With 21 years-old Dick Mulvaney again deputising for England. Blackburn Rovers; Else; Newton, Wilson; Clayton, Mulvaney, Sharples; Ferguson, McEvoy, Byrom, Douglas, Harrison.

OPERATION LAST NIGHT
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, October 6, 1965
CATTERICK RUSHED TO HOSPITAL
Mr. Harry Catterick manager of Everton Football club, went into Park Home Nursing Home, Waterloo, for an emergency abdominal operation while his team were playing Blackburn Rovers at Goodison Park last night. Shortly after 10 o’clock last night it was reported that the operation had been successful. An hospital spokesman and Mr. Catterick’s condition was quite satisfactory. Mr. Catterick felt ill during the morning and when he became worse in the afternoon, a specialist was called in. he ordered an immediate operation. Just before the match, which was drawn, 2-2 the crowd were told that Mr. Catterick was in hospital.

BLACKBURN DEFENCE TAKES THE STRAIN
The Liverpool Daily Post-Wednesday, October 6, 1965
EVERTON SUPERB FIGHT-BACK
WIN POINT AFTER TWICE BEING IN ARREARS
EVERTON 2, BLACKBURN ROVERS 2
By Horace Yates
Those who came to criticise surely stayed on to applaud, for Everton’s fight back against Blackburn Rovers and adversity combined was magnificent. This was not so much a point lost as a point well earned. It is one thing to look at the Blackburn record and observe not a single point from four away games. It was quite another to see how the battled to open their account. Typical of the refusal to go down was the superhuman effort of McEvoy which carried a header from Pickering of the Blackburn line with Else beaten. Any team which pounds away and grinds down a defence as courageous as Blackburn’s, as Everton did, can claim hard luck in being deprived of total reward. Yet Blackburn deserved a share in the honours for their bulldog refusal to release a grip. What a game it was. Wonderfully exciting with thrills in profusion as Everton hurled everything into attack in 45 minutes that must have seemed unending for Rovers. Not all of it was quality football, but some of itb was and the result was an absorbing tussle. Little is going right for Everton these days. The players learned before going out that their manager, Mr. Harry Catterick had been admitted to a nursing home during the day and had under gone an abdominal operation. In the team reconstruction process Everton were without both full backs, Wright and Wilson. Young was again left out, and Husband was promoted for his second game.
HARRIS INJURED
After 26 minutes Brian Harris pulled a thigh muscle and his retirement brought Hurst into the game. Of course, Blackburn had started without their international centre half Mike England, always regarded as an outsize part of the Rovers’ scheme of things. Fortunately for Blackburn the other part Bryan Douglas, was very much with us. Although the exhibition of his skill and enterprise was strictly rationed, we saw enough to show that a player who has been one of the cleverest in the game for years, is still an artist in his own right. Twice he swooped with surprising speed and twice Blackburn collected goals. Possibly it was coincidental, but from the time Harvey took over as half back and Gabriel moved up into the attack, Douglas made less contribution.  Harvey is a grifted player almost anywhere, but this match did nothing to alter my view that the sooner Harvey becomes a half back, the sooner will he reach a new peak of efficiency. Admittedly, he may lack inches but smaller players than Harvey have made a great success of wing half and I believe Harvey could add to the number. Both before and during the match there were chants from the same part of the ground. “Alex Young, Alex Young,” but they were not taken up elsewhere. Some brave Liverpool supporters raised three or four standards with just the figure.
SCOTT’S RESURGENCE
I was delighted to see the resurgence of Scott, on the right wing. He caused Blackburn as much trouble as anybody and twice in a minute fired narrowly wide and ran the ball along the bar. He was in at the death when Everton equalised and a Scott in form can make a big contribution to Everton’s recovery. Everton found themselves a goal down in 14 minutes and the manner of it was like a bolt from the blue. From the Blackburn penalty area the ball was pushed out to Douglas who sprinted to within a few yards of the Everton box. As Gabriel moved into the tackle from behind; Douglas pushed the ball to the right and Ferguson crashed a great shot past West. Not until four minutes from the interval, after Blackburn had several times threatened to tear Everton apart, did the equaliser materialise. This was a historic goal if only for the fact that it was scored by Brian Labone in his 249th League game for Everton and it was the first time he has never found the net. I thought the referee strangely benevolent to award two corner kicks to Everton when goal kicks seemed to be the obvious decision but there was no doubting the genuineness of the third. Up came Labone for Temple’s corner kick and with a downward header of some power beat Else completely. If Everton thought this goal was to take them in at half time on terms, they miscalculated for another touch of the Douglas service restored Rovers’ lead in 44 minutes. From a quick kick by Else, newton took over and pushed the ball to Douglas. Away he went and with the full back chasing in support, Douglas let the ball go at the precise moment and there was Newton driving home his team’s second goal.
STILL ROLLING
How many, I wonder realised that this award should never have been allowed to stand? When Else took the goal kick in the first place, the ball was still rolling! Labone became more and more goal conscious as Everton monopolised the attack and lifted a shot over the bar after Temple had misjudged an effort by no more than a yard. Everton’s pressure seemed irresistible and yet Blackburn held out. In the heat of battle Douglas had his name taken for a foul on Harvey, a fate which was to befall Pickering later on in an incident with Wilson. Between times Gabriel produced the score for which justice shrieked. Again it was the new edition of Scott who made it possible. A flying wing excursion a cut inside, and he was hopelessly obstructed inside the penalty area. Scott took the kick and lobbed the ball perfectly to the head of Gabriel. It is common knowledge that Gabriel rather fancies the idea of playing forward, but because his usefulness to Everton has been considered greatest at half back the opportunity is not frequently afforded him. The way in which he put this ball into goal showed heading ability of a high order. Only in the rare break-aways did Rovers threaten further danger and although Pickering had one header kicked off the line by Clayton and saw another sail less than a yard wide. Everton’s recovery stopped short at a draw. The Blackburn half backs Clayton, Mulvaney and ex-Evertonian Sharples were in magnificent form. Everton; West; Stevens, Brown; Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Husband, Temple. Blackburn Rovers; Else; Newton, Wilson; Clayton, Mulvaney, Sharples, Ferguson, McEvoy, Byrom, Douglas, Harrison. Referee Mr. F. Cowan (Oldham). Attendance 34,794.

GABRIEL INSPIRES AN EVERTON RECOVERY
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Wednesday, October 6, 1965
By Leslie Edwards
Everton and Blackburn Rovers fought a hard and, on the whole, equitable draw at Goodison Pork last night. Blackburn had the edge most of the time and especially in the first half in which they led 2-1; indeed they held the lead twice and it took two headed goals, by Everton half backs, to get a point for their team at 2-2. Fred Pickering, the Everton centre-forward, except for one or two moment of inspiration had a rather undistinguished match against his old side. He was given few chances by the sizeable Mulvaney who was deputising for the injured England. Sharpies, the former Everton half-back who now wears the red of Blackburn, was also able to tilt against old colleagues (and, it seemed, Gabriel in particular). He played much as he did when he was at Goodison Park, with some fine long accurate passes to offset the few he presented to his opponents. Two players' names went into the notebook of Referee Cowen of Oldham. who handled these teams, I believe, in at least one of their more contentious meetings in the past. First Douglas, weaving about without the ball to escape the attention of Harvey. inadvertently brought the Everton player down and was booked; later Pickering's name went into the same book for an offence much more heinous; indeed one most referees would not have treated with such lenience. Yet on the whole it was a most entertaining match and the crowd, in the first half at least, showed unusual non-partisanship by recognising all Blackburn's artistry.
Fighting second half
Blackburn are nothing without Douglas. His absence this season through injury has led them to defeat after defeat. Last night they were a very useful side and, until Gabriel went into the Everton attack after the interval, one much more likely to take the score to 3-1 than to yield a goal and a point to Everton. It was Everton's fighting second-half prompted by Gabriel up front which turned the game. And even then. West with a series of fine courageous saves, some tinged with the little bit of luck good goalkeeping deserves had to deny Blackburn more than once in desperate situations in order to allow Everton to remain in the game with the chance of a point. Everton started on the wrong foot in that neither of their backs, Wright and Wilson, were available. Stevens was pressed into service for Wright and Brown did duty for Wilson. At close quarters against the fast, tall Blackburn wingers. Ferguson and Harrison, they did reasonably well, but once these Blackburn forwards used their speed there could be only one result. With Douglas completely back to form in the first half it was scarcely any wonder the Everton defence found the going as humid as the unexpected October heat-wave. That Brian Harris left the field with a pulled muscle after 27 minutes with the substitute Hurst stripped and running on-field before the injured man had left suggested that Harris was extremely doubtful from the time the ball was first kicked. In the circumstances Everton did well to salvage a point.
Running for Blackburn
There were other extenuating circumstances for them. I never saw a match in which the run of the ball from clinches for possession or even deflection went so much one way—Blackburn's. My belief that Everton are losing their way because their inside forwards offer such scant resistance to opponents coming through with the ball was borne out here, as at Anfield, until Gabriel moved from half-back to the attack to revitalise it and give it some life. It would have done the heart of Manager Harry Catterick good—he is laid low in hospital with stomach trouble—to see the way Gabriel transformed an out-of-sorts attack.  Byrom hit the underside of the bar with a fine shot and was unlucky not to get a goal before Douglas taking the ball half the length of the field from his goalkeeper's rolled clearance laid on the pass from which Ferguson stretched out a long right leg to beat the tackle and goalkeeper West and put Blackburn ahead. Everton's luck, or ill-luck, was well typified when Scott's swerving shot veered just outside the far post. Blackburn were lucky too when Husband's lob over Else was hooked away near the line by Mulvaney and when Pickering, with Else "elsewhere," lobbed the ball over goalkeeper and bar. Temple's second attempt at a shot after completely kicking round the ball initially was another worthy effort which deserves a better fate. After a series of corners Labone at 40 minutes got his forehead full on to the ball to head it downwards into the net for the equaliser. Within a few seconds he had almost scored at the other end, too, with a miscued header which almost beat his own goalkeeper! Everton were soon on the collar again with a full-back, Newton now taking the outside right berth temporarily and accepting Douglas' through pass to score with a good cross shot. The second-half, not so good in football Content, gave Temple opportunity to drive the ball with all his power off a pass kicked overhead by Pickering. It swerved inches wide of an upright. West survived, at the cost of some bodily punishment, two searing drives at dose range from Ferguson before Gabriel from an indirect free kick in the penalty box headed Everton's second goal. Else got a hand to the ball but could not prevent it crossing the line. Clayton headed off the line when Pickering's flick header from Stevens' free kick had him well beaten.

CATTERICK HAS EMERGENCY OPERATION
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Wednesday, October 6, 1965
SATISFACTORY PROGRESS
Mr. H. Catterick, the Everton F.C. manager, who was rushed to a Waterloo nursing home last night for an emergency stomach operation was stated today to be progressing satisfactorily (write s Leslie Edwards). Mr. Catterick was taken ill yesterday morning and went to his Ainsdale home. When his condition became worse a specialist was called in. He ordered an immediate operation. The crowd at Goodison Park last night where Everton drew 2-2 with Blackburn Rovers were told of Mr. Catterick's illness before the game began. During Mr. Catterick's, absence from Goodison Park, trainer Tom Eggleston will act for him, aided by coach, Ron Lewin. Within the past 12 months, Mr. Catterick's wife has had a severe operation and, not long recovered from that, broke an, ankle.

LETTERS FROM THE PAST
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Wednesday, October 6, 1965
Here is the first of two Letters From The Past that George Cregeen has written after delving deeply into a Guide to Liverpool published in 1799. To set the scene, Cregeen has imagined himself as a Liverpool merchant with an office in the city and a country house in the village of Everton. He writes of the life and times at the end of the 1700's. Change was in the air as much then as now. The town was growing rapidly, new influences were abroad and Liverpool was already leading the way in many spheres of civic endeavour. The letters are addressed, with due respect, to the first citizen.
Castle Street, Liverpool, August, 1799.
My Dear Lord Mayor. Perhaps I should begin this letter to you by describing the bounds of the town so that you will be aware of its vast extent and the manner in which plans are afoot to develop it. I am making but one concession to your generation and that is by refraining from using the letter if as an s, which is in some cases our custom, the better for you to understand my writings. The town is bounded by the River Mersey on one side, by Parliament Street to the south, Hope Street and Soho Street to the east and more or less by the fields which run inland from Liverpool Fort at the foot of Denison Street in a north-easterly direction. Our town is, without doubt, the first in the kingdom in point of size and commercial importance, the metropolis of course excepted. The advantages that Liverpool possesses in its near connexion and ready communication by internal rivers and canals with extensive manufacturing towns and the neighbourhoods of Manchester, the coal country of Wigan, the unrivalled potteries of Staffordshire, the exclusive export of salt, its central situation on the western coast and its goodness of harbour, have all conspired to form it into a vortex that has nearly swallowed the foreign trade of Bristol and other western ports. Wealth being the result of commerce, the flourishing state of the town hasenabled it to make efforts for its internal improvement, and which it has recently done in a manner not a little extraordinary. All of this, together with the pleasant and salubrious situation of the town, the convenience of sea bathings, its amusements and the lively cheerful air which regularly pervades it, have of late years made it the resort of strangers of all descriptions for the purpose of health and amusement.  As an indication of the town's offerings one might refer to the inns and taverns which are numerous and equally variable in their accommodations. My favourite and incidentally the largest inn is The Hotel at the bottom of Lord Street, where are accommodations for families of the first rank, their retinues and carriages and horses. Also welcome there is every other description of traveller who might wish to be well accommodated. There is also the King's Arms in Water Street near the Exchange, which was formerly the residence of some of the most distinguished merchants in Liverpool. But the old order gives way to new and many of these have now moved out of the town and into establishments in the directions of Toxteth, Everton and St. Domingo. Though the journey into the city is somewhat tiresome the scenery is pleasant.
MAIL COACHES
Immediately adjoining is the Talbot Inn and London Tavern, where the mail and other London coaches put up. It is much frequented by travellers to and from Dublin. London coaches also go from the Crown Inn in Redcross Street, and coaches for Warrington and Manchester leave from the Golden Lion and the Angel Inn in Dale Street. The town is well filled at most times with travellers, there being several packets to Dublin, all of which are very commodious and sail almost daily when the wind permits. There are a few packets also the Isle of Man. There has been considerable talk of late of the possibility of having a tunnel under the river, but I do not think It would be likely to come to pass in my lifetime. It would, indeed, be a blessing and would remove the need to wait for ferries or to be subject to the abuses practised by the ferryman. It is regretted that the charge for ferries hare not yet been fixed by law as this would prevent the impositions that are daily practised, especially upon strangers. Ease of getting about the town is of prime importance and the streets are of sufficient width to avoid confusion. Charges for hackney coaches are reasonable with a basic charge of one shilling per mile,although if hiring for the day it is the coachman's option to charge by time or distance. Liverpool's streets are kept tolerably clean in general, yet a slovenly custom prevails of suffering the dirt to remain in large heaps for some days after it is collected, which even the most wary will occasionally stumble into at night in crossing the street. I can vouchsafe from my own experience that thrills not a pleasant happening. The general layout of the streets and squares do not possess all the regularity and elegance that might be expected in a town of this importance. The builders, who were mostly born on the spot, had no opportunities, from the former sequestered situation of the town, of improving their style, by which the streets, even the more modern were laid out in a confined, and somewhat parsimonious way. There is talk of inviting men of experience from the metropolis to assist in the future planning of the town.
A copy of A Guide To Liverpool, from which these articles were compiled, was published by W. Jones, Bookseller, of Castle Street, Liverpool, and printed by J. McCreery, in 1799. Written by W. Moss, its full title was " The Liverpool Guide, including a sketch of the environs with a map of the town and directions for Sea Bathing." It was dedicated to " His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, whose unremitted efforts have been so generously exerted in the preservation of the commercial rights and interests the British Empire and in which those of His Majesty's loyal and flourishing town of Liverpool are so much involved." The copy was purchased from the shelves of a bookseller in Vienna.

TEAM CHOICE WORRIES
Liverpool Daily Post- Thursday, October 7, 1965
EVERTON PLAYERS STILL LICKING THEIR WOUNDS
Everton with a clash against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday and the second leg of their Inter-Cities fairs Cup battle with Nuremberg next Tuesday looming before them, are still licking their wounds and last night trainer tom Eggleston could give no real guide as to team selection possibilities for Saturday. The prompt withdrawal of Brian Harris made possible by the substitute rule, as soon as he felt the injury at the back of his thing, against Blackburn Rovers on Tuesday, may pay dividends in an early return. Mr. Eggleston said; “He showed a great improvement to-day. He was able to touch his toes, which is one of the tests for this type of damage. His is a similar injury to that of Liverpool’s Gordon Milne.
FIBRES TORN
“There has been some tearing of the fibres and these take time to heal, I would say there is a very big doubt about him being able to play on Saturday, but Tuesday is absence and immediately strike true form. There is no certainty that either Tommy wright or Ray Wilson will be available against Spurs. Wright has damaged his right ankle and Wilson his left and at full back is normally the strongest part of Everton’s defensive set up, any extension of their absence can be very worrying. While they are both nearing the fitness stage, there is an obvious temptation to guard against rakes with a view to ensuring that the strongest possible side is fielded against the Germans on Tuesday. Labone, too, is still under treatment for his ankle injury, which troubled him in the closing stages of the Blackburn game. His display becomes the more creditable against a background of a week without training. Another Tuesday casualty was Pickering, who reported a painful knee yesterday morning. There is every prospect. There is every prospect in his case that this will yield to treatment.
WHAT OF YOUNG?
What of Alex Young? He was left out at Nuremburg and against Blackburn, but he is perfectly fit and the question now must be whether to restore him on Saturday or give Husband more experience of first team football, again with one eye on the Inter Cities match. In view of Everton’s experience in Germany it would be rash to conclude that Tuesday’s impact will be less severe, a situation in which it might be imprudent to toss Young. These are difficult days for Everton. Even with full strength available the road would be rough so that to expect miracles from them now is some what unreasonable.
MANAGER’S PROGRESS
Last night Mr. Harry Catterick, the Everton manager, was reported to be “Quite comfortable” from the Waterloo nursing home, in which he underwent an abdominal operation on Tuesday evening. A spokesman told me Mr. Catterick was likely to be detained for about ten days.

LETTER FROM THE PAST
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, October 8, 1965
CONCLUDING HIS LETTERS FROM THE PAST, GEORGE CREGEEN DEALS IN THIS ARTICLE WITH THE BUSINESS AND CIVIC LIFE OF LIVERPOOL IN THE YEAR 1799 AND TELLS OF AN EXCURION INTO THE SURROUNDING COUNTRYSIDE
FAMED INDIVIDUALITY OF LIVERPOOL
Liverpool, from its sequestered situation. was not formerly much the resort of strangers for any purpose other than commerce and, as the inhabitants were all embarked in business they necessarily formed a society among themselves. This present society, if not refined by the grimace and ostentation of modern manners, is proportionately uncontaminated by their influence. The commercial intercourse of the inhabitants has, over the years, induced a general harmony and sociability, unclouded by those ceremonies and affectations that are met with in more polished life. Hence the freedom and animation which the town has always been observed to possess and which has produced that medium of equality so ratIonal, grateful and desirable in society. I feel that there can be little doubt that in the future this individuality of Liverpool will become famed throughout the world. The wealth, which of late has flowed into the town with its extended commerce has, however, introduced with it some of the more glaring luxuries of our times which form a menace to the boasted harmony of the whole. In this town a man in the middle walk of life, while embracing its comforts and true elegances, will studiously avoid its ostentation for his own sake, as it invariably subjects him to many embarrassments You will forgive me, know. if I quote from a recent copy of The Spectator. which says : "The truth is that the ridiculous chase after imaginary pleasure cannot be sufficiently exposed, as it is the great source of those evils which generally undo a nation." Perhaps this may even be true in your own day and age. The inhabitants of Liverpool are chiefly in three
classes, the merchant, the tradesman, and the labourer or working mechanic. Charity is a predominant feature in the town, where every call of distress is answered. As nearly all the inferior orders are employed under the constant eye of the merchant, they are sure of his immediate indulgence and protection in their various necessities. The police of the town are of the highest order and of the most modern practices. The nightly watch is well attended and is doubled in the winter season when it goes half-hourly and the inhabitants are as secure in their beds as in the most retired village. A street assault and robbery is seldom. or never,heard of. The government of the town is vested in the Common Council in the person of the Mayor, who is elected annually on St. Luke's Day, the 18th of October, by the Burgesses, he has a personal allowance of £800 per year for private contingencies. Tolls and town dues provide a revenue for the Corporation of £25,000 per year. Surrounding parts of the countryside are much frequented by all orders in the summer. Living on the heights of Everton. I find that the north shore never fails being a pleasant ride, either in carnage, or on horseback if the weather be fine. It is very refreshing and free from the dust which frequently makes the south shore impassable. It is advisable to keep close to the shore, or else pursue some wheel tracks to avoid the soft beds of clay. Immediately passing the fort in a northerly direction are public houses and bathing machines. These latter, in the season, are filled with the families of manufacturers from the interior. The remaining dwellings are fishing houses with nearby boats. Out this way recently with a mixed party including some ladies I was reminded of the need to be wary in this area for we found this part of the shore covered at high water with a promiscuous throng of sexes and ages in the water that bade as great defiance to decency as it did to the calculation of numbers.
Bootle Mills
To the credit of the town it must be recorded that Liverpool inhabitants contribute very little to this spectacle, most of those concerned being visitors from inland. About a mile along the shore a sandy road turns off round a neat house named Sand Hills, and crossing the road, leads to the village of Kirkdale. The village of Walton is on the left along the Great North Road with St. Domingo and Everton now in front. About three miles along the shore from Liverpool are Bootle Mills, and two coffee houses, where company of a more genteel kind resort for sea bathing and sea air. The road from here, after crossing the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, leads to Bootle village and on to Walton Church, under which parish Liverpool was once subjected. The left road goes to Ormskirk, where it is said there originated a formerly celebrated medicine for the bite of the mad dog and about a mile beyond Bootle Mills is the road to the village of Crosby. Nearby lies Ince, the residence of a Mr. Blundell, where is a very fine selection of paintings a n d ancient statuary. They may, through the liberty of that gentleman, be viewed every Monday by an order previously obtained. A few miles farther along the shore is Formby, remarkable for the best potatoes in the county. It is known that potatoes were first introduced into England from Ireland and tradition says that a vessel from Ireland with potatoes for London was driven on shore at Formby and by that means they became first planted there. It is very remarkable that this so very valuable a vegetable, should thus be cast upon the spot in England best calculated for its cultivation. Inland is Sefton Church, the inside of which possesses much of the granduer of ancient workmanship. The turnpike road adjoining leads back to Liverpool. Everton provides apleasant outlet towards the village of Derby and beyond to Knowsley. This is a ride I sometimes take, returning via the villages of Childwall (pronounced Childa) and Woolton (Wooton), where a pleasant dinner may be had at Mrs. Denton's, from where the prospect across the valley towards Runcorn gap may be advantageously enjoyed.
Contrast
Wavertree. (Wa’tree) is a pleasant village on the return and forms an agreeable contrast to the sea prospects nearer Liverpool. Here is also a good inn and tavern where regular assembles are supported in the summer season. Toxteth Park forms an eminence on the south end of the town and a carriage road facing the High Park Coffee Houses leads down to the pottery. The shore here is not passable in a carriage, but a friend who is interested in the wonders of nature has told me that he finds a haven, where the rocks, having become exposed by the washing of the sea, afford a fine display of the operation of the Creator in the formation of the world.

EVERTON HAVE WILSON BACK
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, October 8, 1965
HARRIS IS UNFIT
SPURS UNCHANGED
Everton have Ray Wilson back in their line-up for to-morrow’s clash with Tottenham Hotspur at Goodison Park- but will be without Brian Harris. Wilson has recovered from the ankle injury he sustained when playing for England against Wales last week-end and which kept him out of the match with Blackburn in midweek. He returns at left back, with Brown switching from that position to right back to the exclusion of Stevens who is named as substitute. Harris, who went off against Blackburn with a pulled muscle has not recovered and Hurst, the mid-week substitute, keeps his place. Tottenham will be unchanged. Everton; West; Brown, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone, Hurst; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Husband, Temple, Sub; Stevens. Tottenham Hotspur; Brown (W.); Norman, Knowles; Mullery, Brown (L.), Mackay; Johnson, Clayton, Gilzean, Greaves, Robertson.

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR SEEK TO IMPROVE POOR GOODISON PARK RECORD
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, October 9, 1965
EVERTON STILL CAN’T FIND PLACE FOR ALEX YOUNG
By Horace Yates
Although neither Goodison Park nor Anfield have proved the happiest of hunting grounds for Tottenham Hotspur in recent years, there is no guarantee that the Londoners will not improve the record to-day. Because of injuries Everton make further changes but still cannot find a place for Alex Young, who has now missed three successive games. It seems to me that Everton are looking ahead to the renewal of battle with Nuremburg on Tuesday, the type of match which is hardly likely to be regarded as Young’s ideal. If young Husband is to play against the Germans it is logical that eh should have to-day’s additional experience. Husband has been a fluent scorer for the reserves but it is unfortunate for him and the club that the situation should demand his introduction at such a punishing time as this. One of the most consistent of Everton performers has been Brian Harris. He stands down today because of a pulled thigh muscle and is replaced by Hurst. Because Ray Wilson is fit again after his ankle injury Sandy Brown moves over to fight back. Dennis Stevens becoming substitutes. Tottenham are unchanged a further chance being given to eighteen year old outside right Neil Johnson who made his debut in mid-week. Spurs’ away form last season was abysmal, winning only one game on an opponent’s ground (Nottingham Forest) but they did snatch a point at Anfield. Everton thrashed them 4-1 at Goodison and drew at White Hart Lane. In fact Spurs have not beaten Everton since 1961-62 season. Depleted as they were against Blackburn Rovers Everton still showed commendable fight, and if their courage is as great today that elusive Spurs victory may still pass by Billy Nicholson’s men. Everton; West; Brown, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone, Hurst; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Husband, Temple, Substitute Stevens. Tottenham Hotspur; Brown (W); Norman, Knowles; Mullery, Brown (L), Mackay; Johnston, Clayton, Gilzean, Greaves, Robertson.

EARLY GOAL WAS SPUR THAT EVERTON NEEDED
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express, Saturday, October 9, 1965
GABRIEL SCORES TWICE IN WIN OVER TOTTENHAM
EVERTON 3, TOTTENHAM 1

Everton; West; Brown (A.), Wilson; Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Hurst; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Husband, Temple. Substitute; Stevens. Tottenham Hotspur; Brown (W); Norman, Knowles; Mullery, Brown (L), Mackay; Johnson, Clayton, Gilzean, Greaves, Robertson, Substitute; Kinnear.
Referee; Mr. W. Clements (West Bromwich).
Everton lost the toss and Tottenham played the first half with the advantage of a strong sun behind them. From the kick-off Gabriel moved into the Everton forward line with Harvey at wing half, and the Scot put Everton ahead with a sensational goal in the first minute From a left wing corner Bill Brown mishandled the ball and Pickering's header was turned off the line by Laurie Brown. The ball was pushedright out to the right, where Scott returned it and Husband headed the ball down for Gabriel to ram it over the line from close range. This early success put the crowd in a good mood and Husband worked his way through cleverly to hit a good shot which was saved by Brown. It looked as though Everton had gone two up when Husband smashed the ball into the net after Brown had mishandled again but the referee right on the spot, ruled that Scott's centre had gone out of play before reaching Husband. Everton, in really lively form, often had the Spurs' defence in a tangle and Husband made a header from a free kick by Wilson which Brown saved. It took Spurs some time to get in their first shot, but Gilzean put the ball well wide.
FINE PLAY
Some fine play by the Everton wingers, with Temple coming through fast and getting the ball across to Scott, saw the ball switched inside to Gabriel, who hit a first-time shot well over the bar. Pickering made a fine attempt after Labone had headed the ball across to him from a left wing corner. He flung himself through the air and put the ball just past the post. Spurs were beginning to settle down, but Everton looked the more dangerous. Pickering cleverly beat Laurie Brown and thumped a powerful right foot shot just wide from 20 yards. Harvey was shadowing Greaves wherever the Tottenham man went. Greaves fouled Harvey on one occasion and Hurst, from the free kick, put onto the head of Pickering, but Bill Brown saved. Temple took the ball 60 yards up the left touchline and he pulled it back from the goal-line, but goalkeeper Brown anticipated the move. Gabriel made a fine pass to Scott and from the centre Pickering got in his header which Brown saved.
BRILLIANT TOUCHES
There were some brilliant individual touches from both sides, notably by Temple and Knowles, and the game was exciting and fast, with Spurs now recovered from Everton's shock opening. In Everton's defence, Labone, Hurst and Brown were playing well. A glorious pass by Temple set Pickering of along the left wing. Pickering cut inside Laurie Brown, but his shot was blocked by Norman. When the ball rebounded to Pickering he sent it high over the bar. Harvey made a brilliant interception in his own penalty area when Gilzean looked dangerous, then Gabriel and Brown went through in brilliant style to put the ball to Scott, but Knowles saved at the expense of a corner. From this the ball bounced out to Hurst, whose shot was going well wide when Gabriel somehow managed to deflect it with his head only inches outside the upright. From a corner on the left Scott hit the ball with immense power and knocked Knowles flat before going over the bar for another corner.
WEST IDLE
With half an hour gone West had not had a save to make and all the exciting action had been in the Sours' goalmouth. After 36 minutes. Everton went further ahead when Gabriel scored from a penalty given for a foul by Mullery on Husband. The inside left, taking a pass from Hurst, cleverly beat Laurie Brown and brought the ball along the goal-line until Mullerybrought him down inches inside the area. Mr. Clements, last season's Cup Final referee, was right on the spot and awarded the penalty although Spurs protested.  Mullery made a fine tackle on Husband, again just inside the penalty area, but there was nothing wrong with this one and it got his side out of real trouble. A bad mistake by Mackay in an attempting to pass back to his goalkeeper let in Pickering, Bill Brown slipped over coming out and Pickering tried to score from a fantastic angle instead of switching the ball into the middle—so a glorious chance was wasted. Scott hit a terrific drive with his left foot only inches over the bar, and the first moment of danger to West came when Gilzean's good shot from well out flashed across the goalmouth for Robertson to touch forward. West, however, made a good save. Everton fully deserved their half-time lead after the best display I have seen from them this season. Half-time. Everton 2, Tottenham nil.
Everton were lucky not to concede a penalty immediately on the restart when Harvey appeared to foul Greaves Just inside the area, but the Spurs man broke through and got in his shot which was straight at West.
TEMPLE IN FORM
Temple was in his top form. He brought the ball away out of defence and made a great pass to Pickering whose attempted centre was badly-placed and it struck Knowles to go away for yet another corner. Seven minutes after half-time Spurs put themselves right back in the game with a simple goal by Mullery. Knowles started this move deep in his own half. He put the ball out to Robertson on the right and from the centre Greaves headed the ball down and Mullery had a simple job to score from 10 yards. Labone got his side out of danger with a fine tackle on Gilzean after Brown had made a mistake, but Spurs, now looked a much betterteam. The wing halves were beginning to get a grip and it was Spurs who were commanding matters in the centre of the field. The sudden change in the game's fortunes had the crowd apprehensive as Tottenham began to play well. Gabriel brought down Greaves Inches outside the area with Spurs protesting that the foul had taken place inside. Greaves beat Harvey and Labone with some brilliant footwork then shot straight at West. The inexperience of Hurst and Husband was beginning to tell as Spurs turned on the pressure. Both had started so well but were beginning to find the pace and standard a little high now.
REBOUND OFF KEEPER
Gilzean made a shot from 30 yards which bounced awkwardly and struck West on the chest and Everton were fortunate there was no Spurs man up to accept the rebound. Spurs' control was now so strong that Norman was able to come up several times to join his forwards and a tackle by Harvey on him in the area was dangerously close to being a penalty award. Much of Everton's ineffectiveness at this point stemmed from the fact that Gabriel seemed to have lost his earlier fire and the forward line was nothing like as good as it had been. Pickering put Everton back in the crowd's good books with a splendid individual goal after 71 minutes. Temple started the move and Gabriel sent a long pass up the middle which caught Laurie Brown off balance and Pickering was able to race forward on to it. As Bill Brown came out Pickering steered the ball past him. This goal, against the run of play in the second half gave Everton fresh heart. Husband made a magnificent 40-yard run and from Temple's centre Gabriel made a clever overhead kick which Husband somehow got to and put over the bar.
SAVE OF THE MATCH
Brown made the best save of the match when he went full-length to a Pickering shot, then Temple, who had been Everton's best player, went through in the inside right position and hit a good shot just wide. Temple gave Husband a beautiful chance of scoring, but the youngster delayed his shot and Mullery recovered to deflect the ball. Everton had pulled back well after it had looked as though Spurs were going to take control In the second half, but Pickering's goal had shaken Spurs and they had never recovered. Final. Everton 3, Tottenham Hotspur 1.  Official attendance : 40,022.
LANCASHIRE LEAGUE
Liverpool A 2, Everton A 1
Liverpool B 2, Everton B 2
CENTRAL LEAGUE
Manchester City Res nil, Everton Reserves 3

MAN CITY RES v  EVERTON RES
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, October 9, 1965
Manchester City Res; Ogley; Bacuzzi, Gomersall; Horne, Wood, Burrows; Brown, Clay, Jones, Gray, Connor. Everton Res; Rankin; Curwen, Darcy; Glover, Smith, Clarke; Shaw, Young, McLoughlin, Hill, Morrissey. Referee; Mr. J.T. Hayton (Wigan).
There was nothing between the teams in the early minutes but Everton seemed the more dangerous near goal. Rankin saved well from Wood and Burrows. Everton scored in the 10th minute, McLOUGHLIN getting possession in midfield and racing clear of all opposition. Although Ogley ran out, the centre forward drove the ball well out of his reach. Rankin then made great saves from Gray and Brown. Everton went further in front with two goals in the 34th minute. Both were the result of fine play by Morrissey. From his first centre, Young beat Ogley from close range, then McLoughlin did likewise with another cross. Half-time. Manchester City Res. nil, Everton Res. 3.

NO TROPHIES BUT PLENTY OF FRIENDS
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, October 11, 1965
EVERTON 3, TOTTENHAM HOTSPURS 1
By Ian Hargreaves
Everton are unlikely to win either the League or the Cup with a team that includes teenagers in three vital positions, but if they continue to play as entertainingly as they did against Tottenham they will certainly win plenty of friends. Though it took an opportunist goal by Pickering to settle matters after Spurs had come dangerously close to equalising the home side were full value for a victory carved out by superior speed, and above all by superior determination.
DIFFERENT TEAM
Tottenham are a very different team these days from the one that strode so proudly over all opposition a few seasons ago. For all the skill and inventiveness of Gilzean, who made Labone look painfully clumsy on occasion and the spasmodic menace of Greaves, they lack consistent inspiration and seen hypnotised by dreams of past glory. With Norman lumbering clumsily at right back and Mackay a gallant but insubstantial shadow of his former self, they were all but run off their feet by Everton’s opening assault, which could have easily have settled the match in the first ten minutes. Yet it must be said in their favour that they maintained the Tottenham traditions of clean, open play and this coupled with Mr. Clements’ firm but sympathetic control, enabled a most enjoyable afternoon in marked contrast to some recent fracas masquerading under the name of football. Moreover, after being outrun and outplayed for most of the first half, they still retained enough spirit to mount a highly dangerous counter-offensive in the second, which had Everton’s followers in palpitation, until Pickering unexpectedly applied to coup de grace. The emergency which was made it necessary to plunge youngsters like Hurst and Husband into the furnace of First Division football has at least emphasised the value of the club’s youth policy in recent years. Only six months ago I was watching these two lead Everton to victory in the final of the Youth Cup. Yet now both have matured sufficiently to hold their own with their seniors at least for comparatively lengthy periods.
DISCIPLINED POWER
On Saturday Hurst started off with the disciplined power of a Duncan Edwards attracting the ball as though with a magnet, and despatching it on its way with a confident assurance that owed much to the reassuring presence of Wilson at his elbow. Later as his energy flagged and as the more experienced Spurs players began to use their heads to save their legs, he was occasionally hustled into error, occasionally pulled out of position. The difference in class began to tell and he found himself struggling to hold his own. Husband, who will be eligible to play for the youth team again this season, also started off with a rare flourish. His header helped Gabriel snap up a goal within a minute of the kick-off, and before the interval he had twice tested goalkeeper Brown with well-placed shots and had a “goal” disallowed as well as forcing Mullery to concede a penalty from which Gabriel doubled the total. Then, he too, found the pace beginning to tell. His sudden sinuous dribbles began to carry him into defenders instead of past them; his long passes to the wings started to drop at the feet of waiting interceptors. And when Temple teed up a choice opportunity to grab a goal he delayed fractionally-and was thwarted. Soon perhaps within the next year, both Husband and Hurst will have earned a permanent place on sheer-merit. Meanwhile they must continue to serve their apprenticeship and delight us with their precocious progress. Harvey, another young man with his way to make, played an even more prominent part in Everton’s success. Shadowing Greaves like a long-lost brother, he still found time to prompt his forwards from behind, while Gabriel surged goal-wards to lend the weight -and heights-they often needed. Temple, too, had an excellent game, wandering with telling effect and putting Pickering away sufficientlyfrequently to have produced a rare crop of goals had the latter’s shooting been as accurate as it was powerful. Scott, on the other flank was less effective, but will doubtless recall one ferocious pile-driver that laid out Knowles that laid out Knowles, Tottenham’s outstanding defender, while seemingly on its way into the back of the net.
GABRIEL’S GOAL
Everton’s first goal came within a minute of the start. Temple’s corner kick was headed in by Pickering, kicked off the line by Mackay, returned by Scott, headed in by Husband by Scott, headed by Brown and finally smashed into the net by Gabriel. A second goal might well have followed almost immediately. Temple’s centre again had Brown in difficulties, and when Scott flashed the ball across from the right. Husband headed it into the net-only to find that Scott had in fact crossed the line before centring. This was heady stuff, and it continued for a good twenty minutes Husband beat four men before shooting at Brown. Pickering hurled himself full length to head a centre inches wide, and Scott produced his aforementioned blockbuster before Mullery’s foul on Husband brought the second goal in the 35th minute. All this time Spurs had been utterly subdued, with only Gilzean threatening the slightest danger. But on the resumption they attacked with starting intensity, and Greaves might well have scored at least twice before Mullery eventually reduced the deficit in the 53rd minute. Now for a brief spell, it was all Tottenham, and but for two grand saves by West, from Greaves and Gilzean, the scores would have been level before Gabriel wrong-footed centre half Brown with a lovely through pass and gave Pickering a chance to settle the issue. Everton; West; Brown, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Hurst; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Husband, Temple. Tottenham Hotspur; Brown (W); Norman, Knowles; Mullery, Brown (L), Mackay; Johnson, Clayton, Gilzean, Greaves, Robertson. Referee Mr. W. Clements (West Bromwich). Attendance 40,022.

MANCHESTER CITY RES 0 EVERTON RES 3
The Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, October 11, 1965
Everton Reserves gained an easy victory over the City. Manchester had no answer to the swift-moving Everton front line that with more steadiness would have increased their goal tally. The first goal came when McLoughlin raced through on his own in the tenth minute and the second and third goals by Young and McLoughlin were the result of two perfect centres by Morrissey, who always had the measure of the Manchester defence. The only time the visiting defence was really tested was in the latter part of the second half when Curwen and Darcy defended well and Rankin made some brilliant saves as Manchester made a desperate effort to break through.

GABREIL’S VITAL ROLE AS EVERTON FIND FORM
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Monday, October 11, 1965
By Michael Charters
Everton's 3-1 success on Saturday over Tottenham not-so-Hotspur was linked closely with Jimmy Gabriel. From the kick-off he moved up into the forward line, scored two goals, and Everton played some of their best football of the season in the first half as he brought method, fire and purpose into their attacking style. He faded after the interval as Spurs took control for 20 minutes, but blossomed again to make the pass from which Pickering scored the third and decisive goal
As the American golfers would say, from " there-on- in" the Gabriel-inspired Everton had this match firmly in their grip and Spurs finished a well-beaten team, as they have done frequently in recent years at both Goodison and Anfield. Obviously, from a look at their position in the League table, Tottenham are getting over their mediocre spell of the last couple of years. On Saturday's display, however, they have a long, long way to go before they approach the glory of the days when they were the best team in England. They were shattered by Everton's whirlwind start in which goalkeeper Brown was very suspect with his handling, and centre half Brown qualified to be bracketed with Arsenal's Ure as the poorest centre half in the First Division. It was Brown's mistake in failing to clear a corner kick in the first minute which led to Gabriel joyously ramming the ball over the line for the opening goal. Gabriel enjoys himself most in the role of the flamboyant, tearaway forward, cracking in shots from all angles, and he proceeded to rip Spurs' defence into tatters for the rest of the first half with his enthusiastic play.
REVELATION
The rest of the team followed his example and their play up to the interval was a revelation. They deserved to score more than second goal, a penalty by Gabriel awarded when Mullery fouled Husband. Temple, the outstanding player of the day to my mind despite the importance of Gabriel's work to the Everton victory, fairly roasted Norman, the former England centre half now playing at right back. His penetrating runs and excellent passing were of the shooting was off target. Young Husband showed his football brain by getting into good striking positions even though his reactions were not quite quick enough to turn his chance into shots. He will gain this with experience which is all he needs to make his mark in a big way. His clever run and ball control which took him into the penalty area before he was brought down by Mullery was one of the best things of a game boiling over with many brilliant individual touches. Pickering always troubled Laurie Brown, although he tried to do much himself - he wasted one glorious opening when he hit the side netting with Gabriel and Husband calling for a short centre with thegoalkeeper grounded yards out of goal.
HARVEY'S PART
Harvey had been given the job of marking Greaves and this he did to such effect that only once did the England sharpshooter make any worthwhile contribution to the game. This came when Spurs were having their spell of command, and Greaves headed down a centre by Robertson to the incoming Mullery, who scored a neat yet simple goal which put Spurs in temporary command with the equaliser seemingly only a matter of time in coming. Instead, when Everton had slumped unbelievably after their first half excellence, it took a grand solo goal out of the "blue" to restore Everton's spirit. Greaves and Gilzean had shot blocked in a hectic goalmouth scramble before Temple brought the ball away, passed to Gabriel whose long through pass caught Laurie Brown off balance. The centre half slipped and Pickering was able to swerve around him to collect the ball. It looked as though Pickering had pushed the ball too far ahead as Bill Brown came out of goal but the Everton leader just reached it a split second before the goalkeeper and directed it into the net.  For the closing 20 minutes. Everton regained their hold on the game and Spurs slipped dispiritedly out of it. They had nothing on the wings, not much more at wing half where Mackey tried hard but without the dynamic effectiveness of old, and a defence weak in the centre. Only Knowles would have been worthy of a place in the Spur's side of three years ago. He gave a cultured, polished exhibition of full back play equalled by Wilson for Everton.
HIGH PROMISE
The only other Spur to impress me was centre forward Gilzean. For a big man, he is surprisingly a delicate and clever on the ground, in the Stubbins mould, and although Labone was his master in the air, and had a fine game, Gilzean was a constant problem without any support from the rest of forwards. Hurst, deputising for theinjured Harris had a particularly good first half but struggled later when Spurs had their dominating spell. Like Husband, however, his promise is very high and every senior match he has helps to give him the experience he needs. This was a highly entertaining, often thrilling match, with Everton playing much better than they had done against Blackburn. Two clear pointers emerged-Harvey must be played at wing half and Gabriel should be given a permanent move into attack.

EVERTON DELAY TEAM SELECTION
Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Monday, October 11, 1965
FAIRS CUP-TIE TO-MORROW
TRAINING
By Leslie Edwards
Everton players to-day trained at Bellefield, and their German opponents Nurnberg at Southport, in preparation for the second-leg Inter Cities Fairs Cup tie at Goodison park to-morrow night. The first leg was drawn 1-1. The Germans have brought with them their own doctor, physiotherapist and administrative chief. Before the Everton team is chosen- there were no serious knocks among the eleven which beat Spurs on Saturday-trainer Tom Eggleston will consult manager Harry Catterick who is recovering from a stomach operation in a Waterloo nursing home. He was said today to be “doing very nicely.” The French referee, M. Bois, and his two linesmen, were due to arrive at Speke late this afternoon.
PROGRESSING
Wright and Harris who missed Saturday’s game through injury are progressing favourably and may be available for selection. It is unlikely that the Everton team will be announced before midday tomorrow. Ground and paddock season-ticket holders can use their usual turnstiles for the game on production of spare coupon No.1. and the appropriate admission charge. Any unsold stand seats will be made available tomorrow at the stand turnstiles.

LET THEM SEE THIS A SQUARE-DEAL CITY!
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Tuesday, October 12 1965
By Leslie Edwards
To give credit where it is due that is the creed of the non-partisan follower of football. Let us hope the sensible majority of Everton fans, who know good football when they see it, show the world to-night when their team faces Nurnberg at Goodison Park, that whatever crowd misdemeanours there may be elsewhere the visiting club, be it British or Continental, gets a square deal in this city. We all know who won the War; what is more pertinent, and less impertinent, is who is going to win this second-leg Fairs Cup game, the first leg having finished 1.1 ? On their Tottenham form it should be Everton. But if events prove otherwise, there is no reason to get crotchety. Show me the crowd which gets angry in face of defeat and I will show you, nine times in ten, spectators who cannot take it. And that, I submit, is much the bigger crime than losing a game. Fortunately for both clubs, EUFA have produced in Mons. Bois of France a strong referee well able to keep the game below boiling point. Give him a square deal, too, in his difficult task. Here are pen pictures of some of the players Everton will face :
ROLAND WABRA (Goalkeeper).—Age 29. Automatic choice for the past seven seasons and considered unlucky not to get a cap for West Germany. Strong. well built, he is safe rather than spectacular. A member of the side which won the German championship in 1961 and finished runners-up the following year.
HELMUT HILPERD (Right Rack).—Age 28. Another experienced defender: can play on either flank. Lost place through injury at the start of this season, but is now At again. Good positional player, strong in the tackle. One of six players still on the Nurnberg staff who had European Cup experience in 1961.
HORST LEITPOLD (Left Back).—Age 23. Acts as defensive wing half when Nurnberg employ the 4-2-4 system; covers the centre half well. Strong, fast in tackle and recovery. On fringe of representative selection.
FERDINAND WENAUER (Centre Half).—Age 26. German international with four full caps, the last of them in 1962. Powerfully built, yet very mobile. One of West Germany's best defenders. Few centre forwards score against him.
STEFAN REISCH (Left Half).—Age 23. One of Nurnberg's most respected players. Stocky and powerful. Plays a similar type of game to Nobby Stiles. of Manchester United. A fine defensive player more than useful as link man with the attack. Eight international appearances for West Germany, two last season.
HEINZ STREHL (Centre Forward).—Age 27. Clever and versatile forward in any of the three inside positions. Fine distributor of the ball, creates many openings and has strong shot. Four German caps and is member of current World Cup squad. Scored four goals in two European Cup-ties against Drumcondra. Corning back to form after a pre-season Injury.
FRANZ BRUNGS (Inside Forward).—Age 28. Nurnberg's chief striker, Brungs was transferred in the summer from another Bundesliga club, Borussia Dortmund, for whom he played against Manchester United in last year's Fairs Cup competition. Strong, bustling player, with powerful shot. Plays in any of the three inside positions.
RUDI BAST (Inside Forward).—Age 28. Signed last June from Mannheim, a German Second Division club. He is built on similar lines to Brungs, and sometimes Joins with him in dual-spearhead role. GUSTAV FLACHENECHER (Inside Forward).—Age 24. Lost his place last season, but has had a good deal of senior experience. Played in the 1981 championship team and later in two European Cup-ties.
TASSO WILD (Inside Left or Wing Half).—Age 24. A useful ball player. Of Italian extraction. Came into Nurnberg team a year ago, and, for Gordon West's information, has scored several goals with long-range shots.
MANFRED GREIF (Outside Left).—Age 25. Fast, direct winger with a useful shot. Another locally-produced player.

YOUNG AT INIDE LEFT FOR EVERTON
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Tuesday, October 12, 1965
WRIGHT, HARRIS ARE FIT
FAIRS CUP
By Michael Charters
Alex Young is back in the Everton team for the Inter- Cities Fairs Cup-tie against Nurnberg at Goodison Park to-night (7.30). After being dropped following the "Derby” match at Anfield he has missed three games including the first leg tie in Germany, which was drawn 1-1. He will be at inside left in a side which can be called the " old-look " Everton—the team which started the season. Both Tommy Wright and Brian Harris have recovered from injured which has kept them out of recent games. while Fred Pickering and Brian Labone are fit after having ankle knocks against ,Spurs on Saturday. EVERTON.—West; Wright. Wilson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris: Scott, Harvey,Pickering, Young, Temple. Only one substitute a goalkeeper, is permitted in Fairs cup-ties, and Rankin is named as the Everton substitute.
Temple has been choose as reserve for England against Austria at Wembley on October 20.
Ray Wilson plays.

MINISTER’S REQUEST ON CLEARANCE ORDER
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Tuesday, October 12, 1965
SPECIAL CONSIDERATION FOR BUSINESS PROPERTIES
OPEN SPACE FOR EVERTON
Industrial and business properties disturbed when nearly 3 ½ acres of land in the Cochrane Street area of Everton are cleared to make room for a public open space must receive special consideration, according to the Minister of Housing and Local Government. Confirming the Cochrane Street compulsory purchaseorder, in respect of which a public inquiry was held on July 27, the Minister has told the Liverpool Corporation; It is clear that the disturbance and replacement of industrial and business concerns will give rise to difficulties in a number of cases. and the Minister looks to the council to do all they can to minimise these difficulties and to avoid unnecessary inconvenience. He hopes they will not disturb the occupants until it is necessary, and that in the meantime they will do their best to find alternative accommodation or sites in appropriate cases." Confirming the order, which affects 232 houses scheduled as unfit for human habitation, as well as other properties required to enable adequate redevelopment to take place, the Minister excludes one house in Northumberland Terrace from the classification of unfit and orders its transfer to another category, although its demolition is approved. It is the intention of the city council to redevelop the areas as a public open space in accordance with the plan for a new Everton, approved by them a few months ago, which eventually will contain up to 300 acres of open land.

FRENCH REFEREE KEEPS THE PEACE IN FAIRS’ CUP-TIE
The Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, October 13, 1965
GABRIEL’S GOAL PUTS EVERTON INTO NEXT ROUND
WEST BREAKS A COLLAR BONE IN FIRST HALF
EVERTON 1 NUREMBURG 0 (Aggregate 2-1)
By Horace Yates
It takes a Frenchman to keep the peace between the excitable British and German footballers in search of the Inter-Cities fairs cup, for after the highly explosive first leg in Germany, last night’s affair at Goodison Park might easily have passed off for an English First division game. One goal scored by Jimmy Gabriel after 63 minutes, settled the issue. The French referee who stamped on the slightest show of waywardness, might have erred on the side of caution several times by declaring fouls where none existed but at least erred on the right side. While this match never exploded it simmered and bubbled. Weakness by them in the middle could have produced a repeat performance of the Nuremberg fiasco. I saw fists drawn and feet raised in moments of temper, and yet with the odd exception or two control reasserted itself in time to avoid a flare-up. Probably the nearest we approached for genuine trouble was just before the interval when the Everton bomb and tank on one. Jimmy Gabriel appeared to kick Leupold. Down went the German, and goalkeeper Wabra ran forward to protest at this breach of the truce. The interval prolonged to twenty minutes, produced a cooling breeze and the worst had passed. That Everton deserved to win, I have no doubt. Always they appeared to have the edge, to be the more dangerous side, and yet the match fell to the Germans and was squandered. Those who forecast an easy Everton victory on their own ground were completely wide of the mark. Nuremburg are a fine, big side playing along British lines.
GREAT FILLIP
They do not shirk physical contact and some of their football was really delightful. That, Everton could triumph over a side at resolute and efficient, as were Nuremberg must be a great fillip to them as they struggle to recapture more rewarding days. Everton’s one stroke of luck arose out of terribly bad luck. West, momentarily deserted by his defensive cover, had to run out of goal and leap high into the air after 33 minutes to keep the ball from the raiding centre forward Bast. As he grabbed at the ball he lost balance and crashed to the ground with Bast. Cleanly he was badly injured but a stretcher was waved aside as he walked from the field, with a broken right collar bone. The only substitute allowed in this competition are goalkeepers-at any period of the game. On came Andy Rankin, the goalkeeper who lost his place because of injury and has been kept in the shadows ever since. An injury in any other position and Everton’s forces would have been depleted. The story book ending of course, follows for after showing his courage by diving to take the ball from the flying feet of Leupold. Rankin made a brilliant save from the same player, which would have done credit to the German goalkeeper, Wabra who was magnificent. Only five minutes remained when Rankin beat out that crashing drive from the German half-back. The crowd, which showed a massive persistence to the increased prices asked for stand seats were elated at this power show from Everton and the part played in it by Gabriel.
FELL INTO TRAP
Already there were those who were saying after an hour’s display that a replay would be necessary to decide who should oppose the Budapest side. The Germans hardly deserve any sympathy for falling into the trap set them by Everton. Just previously Wright had come roaring up from the right back position to take a short Scott corner kick, but because nothing came of it they probably gave no second thought to such possibilities. Everton were more persistent. When Scott was left with another corner kick the pattern was repeated. This time Wright crossed the ball to Harris in front of goal, and his header rebounded from the post. The goalkeeper who had covered ground fantastically to reach balls which seemed bound to elude him, amazingly stood stork still while the drama unfolded. Not so Gabriel. He was quickest to react to the situation, raced in and crashed the ball into goal. This was his fourth goal in three matches, all within a period of eight days and if that does not shriek to high heaven his qualities as a scoring forward, then what can. I was delighted to see from the outset that it was Harvey who was to be wing half and Gabriel inside forward and howe completely this switch worked out. Admittedly it hook Harvey a tremendous, long time to place and judge his passes with the necessary degree of accuracy but the defensive stint he did spoke eloquently of his possibilities in this role. The only criticism I make of Gabriel was the difficulty he found in keeping emotions sufficiently in check. In his new position which gives him boundless opportunity to release his strength and drive, it is, more than ever imperative to keep a tight grip on himself.

KICKING HIMSELF
He must still be kicking himself for the miss in front of goal ten minutes from the end when he had only to touch Temple’s flying cross to beat Wabra. The speed beat him. How serious is the price Everton had to pay for victory they may not know until to-day for Harris took a knock on the face in an incident in which Leupold was also injured. It is suspected he may have a fractured cheek bone and there will be an X-ray examination to-day. Labone has damaged one of his toes how badly remains to be seen, and Ray Wilson limped his way through the last twenty minutes. It was victory, rewarding and thrilling and it was the sweeter because of the amount of effort that had to be put into the task of achieving it. Trainer Tom Eggleston was delighted with the display of the team. He considered it a much better game than that in Germany. Tom, it may be remembered was ordered off the touchline by the referee in Nuremburg. He took no chances last night starting the match in a Press seat and after West’s injury sat it out from the trainer’s box but with Gordon Watson attending to the injured. Because the Germans seemed to be content to gave Young the freedom of Goodison he had all the room he required to spray passes around and only a truly great save from a Young header by goalkeeper Wabra prevented him from crowning his return with a goal. The ball seemed about to cross the line when Wabra thumped it back into play with a superably timed one-armed punch. Over and over again the terrifically mobile Wabra stood between Everton and goals and if he could be accused of contributory negligence when the one goal did go in, he could justly point to a series of saves when only his vigilance kept the ball out.
SHOT OVER
The Germans great opportunity came and went in the twenty-eight minute. Labone and Wilson crashed in trying to check the powerful Strehl and the ball ran loose to Bast. There he was posed in the penalty area with only West to beat. There was all the time anybody required to hit the ball to his liking and all he could do was put his shot over. Labone may have allowed himself to be drawn out of position too often for the comfort of many, but the watch he kept on Bast was completely unrelenting. He destroyed the Germans menace. Wright had a thankless tasks against the speedy, clever ball playing Greif, but for the most part was equal to it and I thought Wilson was splendid. Harris is rapidly becoming the marshal of this side. It is a tribute to his energy that he can accomplish so much defensively and still be in front of his opponents goal in vital moments. Once again I thought Scott showed real signs of coming back to form, and two of his shots carried real power. It was only later that Temple emerged as a threat and Pickering, hard though he tried, found the task of losing the formidable Wenauer extremely difficult. These Continentals do concede their goals most grudgingly and it was a matter of considerable satisfaction that Everton were able to open up the defence often enough to have produced more than the single goal. Everton; West; Wright, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Young, Temple. Nuremburg; Wabra; Hilpert, Heishe; Wild, Wenauer, Leupold; Brungs, Flachehecker, Bast, Stretl, Greif. Referee M. Bois (France) Attendance 39,033. Receipts £13,704.

REFEREE TOOK CREDIT -AND THE CROWD, TOO
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Wednesday, October 13, 1965
By Michael Charters
What a pleasure It was to see the manner in which last night's Inter-Cities Fairs Cup-tie was played at Goodison. To appreciate the difference between the two legs of the tie you would have had to be at Nuremberg for the first " battle," but Everton, Nuremberg and the Goodison Park supporters earned themselves bouquets for confounding those doubters who expected another hot- blooded skirmish.
The German team had said they would change their ways for the return game in England. They did indeed- and full marks to them-but major credit must go to the French referee, M. Marcel Bois. His work was described by Evertors chairman, Mr. Holland Hughes, at the banquet after the game, as 'a model of how a referee should control a match of this international character. M. Bois was firm, decisive and quick. Nothing was allowed to develop and had he been in charge at Nuremburg the situation there wouldprobably have been very different. If he had a fault it  was that he was overtolerant towards Everton whose players had only to raise a questioning eyebrow and they were given a free kick for obstruction. lt was this feature of his control that was responsible for a large number of the 40 free kicks. This game was never rough but sporting and that’s how it should be.
It took Evertors good deal of hard work to get through to the next round by a 2-1 aggregate, Gabriel’s s goal midway through the second half being sufficient to settle it last night. Their poor finishing allied to brilliant goalkeeping by Warba kept the score down, and one could sense by the comparative quietness of the 39,000 crowd that they were not pleased with Everton’s performance. UNCONVINCING
Against a side which played six men in defence the - German wing halves never moved far out of their own penalty area -- Everton had 85 per cent, of the play, but unconvincing despite that. Nuremberg were hard, direct and played an English type of game in a spoiling sort of way. It was difficult to overcome and Everton had to struggle harder than they need to have done with their obvious superiority in skill because of the way the forwards, particularly Pickering wasted their shooting chances. In addition to this disappointment they had to pay a big injury toll for victory Gordon West who fell awkwardly over the German centre forward Bast to break his right collar bone, is reported to be making good progress in Gateacre Hospital, where he was taken while the game was still in progress. Brian Harris has visited hospital to-day for X-ray on a damaged cheek-bone: Brian Labone also had an X-ray on an injured toe. All were caused by accidents. Rankin substituted for West after 31 minutes, and was a keen spectator of Everton's dominance until he was suddenly called into action as left half Wild, near the end, unleased the best shot of the I game from 20 yards out, as surprising to Everton as it was to their supporters because the Germans had been outplayed to such an extent.  Rankin got a touch of the ball, however, and deflected it onto the bar and away to safety. Had he not saved that one, what a travesty of a result it could have been.
GABRIEL SWITCH
Everton deployed again their tactic of switching Gabriel and Harvey from the start. Gabriel's bustle and drive immediately set the team into top gear and they knocked the Germans right out of their stride. Gabriel had a shot brilliantly saved by Wabra, one of the finest Continental goalkeepers we have seen in this city. The rebound came back to him and his second shot hit Wabra on the foot. The goalkeeper went on in his sure, confident manner to make another brilliant save from Pickering, pick off a, flow of centres from Scott and Temple, and generally look as though he was prepared to take on Everton single-handed. But, the tone of the game suddenly changed, as Everton grew ragged, inaccurate with their passing and generally untidy even though the Germans were rarely there with a chance of scoring themselves, apart from a miss by Bast as he cracked a shot over the bar when the Everton defence got in a rare tangle. There were a couple of fouls by Gabriel which would have brought instant retaliation by the Germans in the atmosphere of Nuremberg. They passed off without further incident and the Everton player was fortunate to escape censure by the referee. Everton tightened up theirgame in the second half but that winning goal seemed a long time coming. Gabriel put a header against the bar and over just before it looked as though Young, on his return to the team, would put his side in front. He made a firm header just under the bar from Scott's centre but somehow Wabra uncoiled his long body to divert the ball away in fantastic fashion. Temple lashed a hook shot just over and Everton's dominance was overwhelming. The decider, in 63 minutes, was a neatly worked goal as Scott pushed a short corner toWright, whose centre was headed onto a upright byHarris and Gabriel was in theright spot to dart forward and hit the rebound into the net.
RESIGNED TO IT
This was the wing half's fourth goal in three games and it did the trick, because more superb saves by Wabra from Scott (twice). Temple and Pickering, kept out Everton. Apart from Wabra, the German full backs Hilpert and Fershe did best, with winger. Greif their best forward. But they were no match for Everton in skill, tactics or speed and they played at times in a resigned sort of way as though they had known that from the start. Everton's defence was on top of the German attack, with Labone, Wright, Harris and Wilson giving very little away, but there was too much inaccuracy in attack build-up. Everton presented the German club with a silver cigarette box at the post-match dinner, and each Nuremburg player received a silver teaspoon.

FIREWORKS-BUT NO TROUBLE
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Wednesday, October 13, 1965
BIG MATCH CROWD WELL BEHAVED
Everton supporters were on their best behaviour last night when their team met Nuremburg in the second leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup at Goodison Park. Special police were on duty at the ground, but there were no major Incidents during the match which Everton won 1-0, carrying them through to the next round with an aggregate score of 2-1. Although a few fireworks were thrown into the German goalmouth, and a handful of spectators ran on to the field at the end of the match to congratulate the winning Everton team, the 39,033 spectators were generally well behaved and stood in silence before the game for the German National Anthem.
At the end of the game the crowd dispersed quickly and quietly and the police reported no incidents outside the ground. Supporters travelling to the match from the Cheshire side of the Mersey caused some congestion in the Mersey Tunnel an hour before the start of the game. A third lane was opened to traffic from Birkenhead and kept in operation for three-quarters of an hour to prevent any jams. The behaviour of Merseyside soccer fans will come under the spotlight again tonight when Liverpool meet Juventus at Anfield In the second leg of the European Cup-Winners' Cup .

NO CUT IN SOCCER CAR PARK CHARGE
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Thursday, October 14 1965
COMMITTEE TURNS DOWN M.P’S SUGGESTION
Liverpool supporters use the hard surfaced area in Stanley Park as a car park during football matches much more than do Everton supporters, according to figures submitted to the city's Parks and Recreation Committee yesterday. The figures showed that on September 25, the day of the Liverpool Everton derby game. 1.219 cars used the temporary park, while on other dates when Liverpool -were at home the figures were 695 on September 11. 827 on September 15, and 842 on October 2. Highest usage on the occasion of an Everton home fixture was 362 cars on September 4. and the lowest 218 last Saturday. Total income from the park at the rate of 2s6d per car per match, was £6.846 so far this season, the committee were told.
HIGH FEE
The committee were considering a letter from Councillor Eric Heifer (Lab), M.P. for Walton, claiming that full use was not being made of the car parking area, and that the 2s 6d parking fee be reduced. The committee thought there were other reasons than cost why supporters did not use the car park. Many Everton supporters, for example, came from the north and east of the city, and would, have to drive some distance past the ground at Goodison Park, a thing which most people would consider psychologically undesirable. The car park was also nearer the Anfield ground than Goodison Park. They decided not to reduce charges at this stage, but to review the situation at the end of the current season.

HARRIS PLAYS AT FULHAM
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, October 15, 1965
BUT LABONE IS UNFIT
By Leslie Edwards
There is good news of Brian Harris, the Everton wing half, who was feared to have fractured a cheek bone against Nurnberg on Tuesday. Examination has shown there is no break and he plays to-morrow at Fulham. The story of Brian Labone the centre half is not so happy. He knocked up a big toe in the match against the Germans. Although the toe is not broken it is still very painful and he will miss tomorrow’s game. Gordon West, who broke a collar bone on Tuesday is back home after his spell in hospital. It will be a few weeks before he can even train again. Everton manager, Harry Catterick convalescing, after an emergency stomach operation, is due to leave the nursing home over the weekend. He is progressing well. Everton select their side tomorrow from the following twelve. Rankin; Wright, Wilson; Gabriel, Harris, Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Young, Temple, Brown, Morrissey. John Dempsey leads the Fulham attack again. Moved from centre half to centre forward for the first time last Wednesday, he scored a hat-trick in the 5-0 League Cup win over Northampton Town. Fulham; Macedo; Cohen, Nicholls; Pearson, Keetch, Robson; Key, Marsh, Dempsey, Haynes, Dyson, Substitute; O’Connell.

AT CRAVEN COTTAGE
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, October 16, 1963
WILSON SKIPPERS EVERTON
Everton travelled to London yesterday without their skipper Brian Labone who has not recovered from the toe injury received against Nuremburg on Tuesday. Although there is no fracture, his toe is still very sore. He also withdrew from the England shadow team chosed to oppose the England side in training on Monday and Tuesday. He will be replaced at Fulham to-day by Sandy Brown and Ray Wilson becomes skipper. Although Everton included in their party for the first time fifteen-year-old Alan Whittle former England international schoolboy forward, I gather there is no intention of any sensational launching into League football today.
ATMOSPHERE
He has been taken to London to give him an early insight into the first team atmosphere. The side will not be announced finally until just before the game. Everton (from) Rankin; Wright, Wilson; Gabriel, Brown, Harris, Scott, Young, Pickering, Harvey, Temple, Morrisey.
Everton have beaten Fulham at Craven Cottage only once in their last six league visits but the last two games there have been drawn. I hope to see them go one better for the confidence which took such a severe beating must haver recovered completely after those inspiring victories over Tottenham and Nuremberg.
GABRIEL’S ROLE
Under the present circumstances no matter what numbers the players may wear on their jerseys, I expect Everton to continue with what is generally conceded to have been a very successful experiment of giving Gabriel his head in attack and leaving Harvey to demonstrate just how well suited he is to half back duties. The bounce and vigour (kept within bounds I hope) of Gabriel will do much to destroy the illusion that Pickering is almost the only forward with teeth. Nobody can afford to ignore Gabriel anywhere near goal. It has been said so often and yet completely justifiably in recent seasons that Everton’s ill-luck with injuries has been crippling. The statement was never more accurate than today and trainer Tom Eggleston has had to leave team selection to the last minute.

DEMPSEY K.O’S EVERTON;
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, October 16 1965
HARVEY SENT OFF AT FULHAM
FULHAM 3, EVERTON 2
By Horace Yates

Fulham; Macedo; Cohen, Nicholas; Pearson, Keetch, Robson; Key, Marsh, Dempsey, Haynes, Dyson, Substitute; O’Connell. Everton; Rankin; Wright, Wilson (Captain); Gabriel, Brown, Harris; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey, Substitute; Young. Referee Mr. D. J. Lydon, Warwickshire. The Everton supporters who set up a pre-match chant of “Alex Young” were surprised to find he had been superseded by Temple, with Morrissey at outside left and Young substitute. Fulham had the burly Jack Dempsey at centre forward for his first league game. He scored three from that position in a mid-week League Cup-tie. Everton flashed into a two minutes lead when Haynes blundered and Morrissey lofted the ball over Macedo’s head. A goal seemed certain, but the ball struck the bar and rebounded to Pickering. Macedo mistimed Pickering’s shot and was going down as the centre forward lifted the ball comfortably into the net. Wilson was lucky to get away with a miskick near the goal line, and luckier still to find Everton awarded a goal kick. Everton had another escape when Harvey was penalised for a foul on Haynes and Key shot wide. But the Blues’ closest escape so far came when Dyson centred and Key’s header shaved the post. After 17 minutes Harris swept the feet from under Marsh just inside the penalty area, and Dyson equalised from the penalty spot. Haynes may have lost some of his speed, but little of his precision. He sent Dempsey away, but he shot over -a bad miss.
DOMINATING
Fulham had settled to a dominating role and Brown was not looking comfortable at centre half for Everton. Morrissey rounded Cohen effortlessly- but there was no one to take advantage of his centre. Everton went a goal in arrears in 29 minutes when Dempsey pushed the ball back to Pearson. From more than 20 yards he fired into the corner of the net, over Rankin’s head. Gabriel had now to drop back to reinforce the Everton defence and Harris intercepted a high cross by Marsh.
CHARGED DOWN
Everton almost equalised in 36 minutes when Harris’s header from Morrissey’s corner was kicked off the line by Nicholls with Macedo beaten. In a goal-front grand slam, Morrissey’s shot was charged down. Keetch was the master of Pickering but when Robson mis-headed to Temple the inside left cracked his shot wide. Fulham should have increased their lead three minutes from the interval. A Dyson cross flashed across goal, by-passing Marsh, Dempsey and Key. Rankin brought off a tremendous diving save from a Key ground shot, and Dyson shot wide from the rebound.
Half-time; Fulham 2, Everton 1
When Pearson scythed the legs from under Temple, he was about a yard outside the penalty area-luckily for Fulham.
TEMPLE HURT
For once in a way Pickering beat Keetch in a heading duel and Temple fastened on to the ball. He had only Macedo to beat when Nichols tripped him -again a foot outside the box. Temple was injured but resumed and the free kick came to nothing. Everton drew level in 52 minutes when Harris crashed a fierce drive, Macedo beat the ball out, Pickering pushed it back, and Nicholas on the line, could only help the shot into the roof of the net. One heading duel won by Brown saved a goal for Everton for he kept the ball from the head of Dempsey. It was a score delayed however, for from the corner Dempsey scored (59 minutes) after Marsh’s overhead kick had rebounded from Rankin. Cohen and Temple crashed heads as they went up to a Scott cross. Everton gained a corner from the incident, and Gabriel got the ball into the net after Pickering headed on Wilson’s pass. But the referee decided Gabriel was offside.
TAME LOB
Scott in a determined run, beat Keetch and Nichols, but ended with a tame lob into Macedo’s hands. Then the goalkeeper had to dive desperately as Temple’s feet. Temple and Pearson squared up to each other after Pearson had brought down the Everton player from behind. This was an incident not seen by at least one Everton supporter, who was keeping three policemen busy as they escorted him from the ground. Pickering had his name taken for what the referee considered an unfair charge on Macedo. I thought that Pickering was a shade unfortunate. Immediately afterwards, Keetch was spoken to for a foul on Pickering. The referee again reached for his notebook when Harris fouled Pearson, but thought better of it, and contented himself with the award of a free kick from which Dempsey shot over.
TEMPER
Ten minutes from the end Colin Harvey of Everton, was sent off. This was the first time I have ever seen this youngster show his temper- and even on this occasion he was more sinned against than sinning. Dempsey hacked at Harvey quite blatantly from behind and Harvey’s instantaneous reaction was to swing his arm. Dismissal seemed utterly outrageous and out of all proportion for the offence. Immediately afterwards Brown was felled in midfield, and the referee contented himself with booking Dempsey. Final; Fulham 3, Everton 2.

EVERTON A v  CREW RES
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, October 16, 1965
Crewe’s right winger Baker made several good moves but his centres were wasted. After 25 minutes Tarbuck put Everton ahead. Half-time; Everton A 1, Crewe Res nil.

EVERTON RES v  ASTON VILLA RES
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, October 16, 1965
Everton Res; Barnett; Curwen, Darcy; Stevens, Smith, Hurst; Shaw, Glover, Hill, Husband, Maher. Aston Villa Res; Gavan; Bradley, Briggs; McEwan, Chatterley, Bloomfield; Roberts, Inglis, Stobbart, Martin (L), Martin (J). Referee; Mr. G.W. Jones (Lancaster).  In the first minute a drive by Husband was deflected by a defender and Govan was lucky to reach it. Everton kept up constant pressure and Govan had a busy time. After Maher had taken the ball down the wing and slipped it through, Govan stopped a point-blank shot from Husband, but Maher put the rebound outside. At 23 minutes. Evertontook the lead through GLOVER after a similar episode. Again Govan brought off a good save from a Husband short-range drive, this time it went to the other inside man, who made no mistake. Villa showed their danger with three long drives from A. Roberts, L. Martin and J. Martin all of which Barnett tipped over the bar. Villa now had more of the game, and at 42 minutes equalled through STOBART. It followed a three-cornered move between the centre-forward and the two Martins, and Barnett could do little about Stobart's neat flick. Half-time. Everton Res. 1. Aston Villa Res. 1.

EVERTON’S TENTH DISMISSAL IN POST-WAR LEAGUE FOOTBALL
The Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, October 18, 1965
I JUST COULDN’T BELIEVE IT-SAYS COLIN HARVEY
PLAYER MAY ASK FOR A PERSONAL HEARING
FULHAM 3, EVERTON 2
By Horace Yates
“I was amazed. I just couldn’t believe it,” was the comment of Everton’s Colin Harvey after being sent off the field ten minutes from the end of the match at Craven Cottage on Saturday. While it is east to stretch sympathy for a likeable youngster, who has never remotely been involved in any trouble before. I honestly believe Harvey was terribly unfortunate. As faithfully as I can recall the circumstances, this was what happened. Coming away with the ball up the right wing, Harvey was chased by Dempsey, who chopped him down from behind, with not the slightest chance of reaching the ball. As they got up Harvey swept out his arm at full stretch-with fingers also fully extended. If he had been aiming a punch it is most unlikely the fist would not have been cleared. In the circumstances Harvey’s explanation rings true. His view is that Dempsey still held him by the jersey and Harvey flung out an arm in an effort to pull himself clear. There was no damage done, but the referee told Harvey he was being sent off for striking. Later in the dressing room trainer Tom Eggleston was told by the referee that the dismissal was for attempting to strike.” It was a sad and sorry affair, for no matter which players may have caused the referee trouble during the match. Harvey was certainly not one of them. He has never had his name taken by any referee, and I venture to suggest that such an indignity should have been the absolute limit of any expression of the referee’s displeasure on this occasion. Harvey becomes the tenth Everton player to have been dismissed in post-war League football. What makes the affair even more inexplicable is that immediately afterwards, with Brown and Dempsey standing together in midfield, with the ball nowhere near, Brown suddenly went down, claiming to have been kicked. Over went the referee to his linesman and Dempsey was booked. If Dempsey had kicked Brown, why such a show of clemency where there had been none for Harvey? 
PERSONAL HEARING
Consideration will be given this week to the question of a personal hearing for Harvey. While these are frequently unproductive I think honour demands that the youngster’s claims should be heard. Fred Pickering also had his name taken when he tried to shoulder charge Macedo as the goalkeeper was running with the ball. Here again the offence was more short-sighted than damaging, but I could not see what Pickering hoped to gain by his challenge. This game flared up without rhyme or reason and merely illustrated how from the smallest beginnings, disasters can grow. It is true that Everton lost a goal after 17 minutes for a Harris foul on Marsh which enabled Dyson to score from the penalty spot and that Temple was twice brought down within a yard of the box, first by Pearson and then by Nichols. These were not the only fouls, but until the closing scenes nobody could have termed it a dirty game. Everton still seeking their first away victory of the season, allowed this match to slip from their grasp. They will seldom have a more encouraging start than a goal lead in two minutes, Pickering scoring from a rebound after Morrissey’s lob had  rebounded from the cross bar. Their promising start was not maintained and Fulham probably surprised themselves at the ease with which they were allowed to take over.
SPORADIC ATTACKS
Where was the Everton team work the surging attacking spirit with which they felled Nuremburg only a few days, earlier? Their attacks were sporadic, easily terminated affairs. Scott and Morrissey were not brought into play often enough. After half time it appeared that this was a failure Everton intended to remedy, but their good intentions did not last. It was a pity for I thought Morrissey had the ability to cause England back Cohen a deal of trouble. Harris and Wilson sought to set things moving in the right direction, but the failure of Pickering to shake off the determined Keetch did nothing to improve the Everton outlook. I( don’t think Everton erred in omitting Young for this match, even though Temple despite two or three promising raids, hardly looks the man in an inside berth that he is on the wing. He is twice the menace coming in from the outside. To Pickering’s credit were the two goals he snatched in two minutes and 52 minutes simply by being on hand to convert trifles into scores. There were times when Harris and Gabriel were Everton’s most dangerous attackers and the only suggestion of critic in against Rankin’s was in his being caught too far out of goal by Pearson’s high shot from over twenty yards range, to be able to reach it. Nobody could possibly have put greater effort into his work than Sandy Brown, but against the lofty and dangerous Dempsey, whose first League outing this was at centre forward he was often stretched to the limit. This specialised stopper role is not one to be mastered in five minutes and I think Labone’s presence would have had a more disruptive effect on the Fulham approach. Despite the wellness of Dyson both Wright and Wilson were adequate for their responsibilities. After Dyson’s penalty had equalised Pickering’s opening goal Pearson put Fulham ahead in 29 minutes only for Pickering to grab an equaliser when Macedo pushed the ball out to him. The decider came from Dempsey in 59 minutes a goal which brought fierce protestations from the Everton defenders. At the time I could not see what complaint they could possibly have, but afterwards they told me that to push the ball into goal, Dempsey first brought its across his body with a hand movement. All things considered this was hardly Everton’s lucky day, neither was it one of their most impressive. Fulham; Macedo; Cohen, Nichols; Pearson, Keetch, Robson; Key, Marsh, Dempsey, Haynes, Dyson. Everton; Rankin; Wright, Wilson (Captain), Gabriel, Brown, Harris; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey. Referee; Mr. D. J. Lyden, (Warwickshire) Attendance 18,110.

CENTRAL LEAGUE
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, October 18, 1965
LAST MINUTE PENALTY WON BOTH POINTS
EVERTON RES 2, ASTON VILLA RES 1
A last minute Smith penalty after Hill had been brought down gave Everton Reserves both points against Aston Villa Reserves in this Central League game at Goodison Park on Saturday. Everton should have had the game won long before this, but Husband, ever dangerous near goal, found Gavan in great form. The goalkeeper stopped at least four full-blooded shots from the inside man at short range, although it was the rebound from one of these which Glover netted after 24 minutes to put Everton in front. Villa’s football was good but with the exception of a beautiful triangular move which brought their equaliser after 42 minutes from Stobbart, they relied mainly on the long drive for their goal scoring efforts.

SENDING OFF OF HARVEY LOOKED A HARSH DECISION
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Monday, October 18, 1965
By Horace Yates
Colin Harvey at Fulham on Saturday became the tenth Everton player to be sent off the field in League football In the post-war period—and I guarantee not one of them received his marching orders on flimsier evidence than that against young Harvey. Whether or not he will ask for a personal bearing to present his defence will be decided this week. The club now possess the
unenviable record of having only Swansea Town (12) and Halifax Town (11) in League football with Beyond any shadow of doubt there were far worseoffences in the Fulham game than Harvey's. He was the unfortunate one who had to go when the referee decided with temperatures rising, to take drastic action—anddrastic this certainly was. Everton might have had less cause for complaint if the referee had shown consistency, but immediately after being involved in theHarvey incident, Dempsey was booked after an incident with Brown. The lead up to the Harvey dismissal was a foul committed from behind by Dempsey. Harvey's version was that as he regained his feet. Dempsey held him by the jersey and it was in attempting to push himself clear that the damage was done. The referee told Harvey he was being sent off for striking an opponent.
NO PREVIOUS TROUBLE
In the dressing room later he told Trainer Tom Eggleston that the offence was "attempting to strike an opponent." As I saw it the Harvey's was a push rather than a blow and as he had been in no sort of trouble before dismissal was a harshpenalty. Harvey told me he had never been so much as booked by a referee in any previous game. That this game should flare up at all was completely ridiculous, for most of it had been played competitively but keenly, with quite a fair measure of good entertainment. Pickering was the first to have his name recorded in the referee's book for an entirely unnecessary foul on goalkeeper Macedo. There was nothing in it but a charge on a goalkeeper these days is very much the red rag to a bull stage. Harvey was completing a personal run of some distance for in consecutive League games he has been called on to face Bryan Douglas. Jimmy Greaves and Johnny Haynes.  He had fared quite well in his exchanges with Haynes, without succeeding entirely in preventing the Fulham favourite from demonstrating some inch-perfect passing.
ADVANTAGE SLIPPED
When Everton were a goal up in two minutes as Pickering scored from a Morrissey shot which rebounded from the crossbar, the chances of scoring the elusive first away victory seemed quite bright. The advantage was allowed to slip and instead of calling the tune Everton struggled more courageously than convincingly and lost 3-2. If Everton could point to missed chances Fulham were at least equally remiss in finishing. Whether Fulham have made a centre forward discovery time alone will tell, but this tall, powerful youngster extended Brown far more than the more experienced Pickering worried the clam-like Keetch. On one of the few occasions when Pickering won a duel in the air with Keetch, Temple would probably have scored had he not been felled a yard outside the penalty area. He had earlier been brought down closer to the box, but while Everton received unproductive free kicks, Fulham were luckier. Harris’s foul on Marsh was clearly inside the area and Dyson’s penalty goal put his team on terms.
DID DEMPSEY HANDLE?
Pearson succeeded in lobbing the ball over Rankin’s head from more than 20 yards range for Fulham’s second goal and the third was one which really roused Everton. The players were unanimous that before shooting into goal Dempsey brought the ball across his body with a hand movement. I must confess that from the stand this escaped me, as it did also the referee, but too many players saw it for it to have been a mistaken view. Neither Scott nor Morrissey was utilised as they should have been, which as a pity for I thought Morrissey was in dangerous mood. Temple’s effectiveness is clearly greater as a winger and I thought Everton missed Labone’s experience in the middle. Brian Harris could hardly be blamed for any lack of Everton cohesion. He did his work effectively in both defence and attack and while Gabriel contributed several raids on goal, Robson made him work hard for his a achievements. Neither Wilson nor Wright could be seriously faulted and if Rankin erred at all it was only in his positional error when Pearson scored. Robson and Keetch were Fulham’s defensive sheet anchors. 

EVERTON MANAGER
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Tuesday, October 19, 1965
MR. CATTERICK PROGRESISNG
By Leslie Edwards
Mr. Harry Catterick, the Everton Manager who is recovering at home from a stomach operation is progressing nicely but is not expected to be on duty again at the club inside the next three weeks. The post-operation treatment includes much rest.
Everton Reserves meet Barnsley in a Central League match to-night at Goodison Park (7.0). Everton Res; Barnett; Curwen, Darcy; Stevens, Smith, Hurst; Shaw, Glover, McLachlan, Husband, Maher.

HURST GOALS STARTED A ROUT
Liverpool Daily Post- Wednesday, October 20, 1965
EVERTON RES 6 BARNSLEY RES 1
Two fine drives by left-half Hurst at 15 and 31 minutes gave Everton Reserves a comfortable lead over Barnsley Reserves last night. From then on there was only one team in it, and McLoughlin (35) and Stevens (38) gave then a 4-0 interval lead. The Everton defence were well able to deal with a rather weakish Barnsley forward line, and two more goals came from McLoughlin at the 68th minute and Shaw at the 86th minute. Everton then eased up and right on the whistle the visitors got a goal through Haynes.

AUSTRIANS INFLICT INDIGNITY ON ENGLAND AT WEMBLEY
Liverpool Daily Post -Thursday, October 21, 1965
THIS DEFEAT MUST END RAMSEY’S REPREIEVE
CHANCES MISSED DURING FIRST HALF GRIP
ENGLAND 2, AUSTRIA 3
By Horace Yates
The World Cup is just much pie in the sky so far as England are concerned unless they can pull themselves together in the intervening months. The draw at Cardiff was nothing compared with the indignity which the unrated Austrians inflicted at Wembley. Austria have not even qualified for the Cup competition and yet they were able to terminate a sequence of 10 England games without defeat. The provisional reprieve which England team manager Alf Ramsey bestowed on the side after the Cardiff failure must surely have expired now. Defeat was all the more stunning because England took such a firm grip on the first half that Austria appeared to be virtual novices by comparison with the accomplished play of the home team. The only real criticism in this period of total ascendancy was not the failure to create opportunity, but to convert it into goals. England should have been four of five up at the interval.
SUPERB ARTIST
The crowd revelled in the delightful play of Charlton. What a bobby-dazzler he was the superb artist in distribution and intelligent in attack. He gave point to his claim for all-round accomplishment when he slipped England into the lead in three minutes. It was Paine who pushed the ball through and Charlton ran on to it and shot from an angled position. England were almost two up when Jack Charlton’s header from a corner kick rebound from the bar to Greaves who nodded down for the ball to be kicked off the line. Indeed such a stranglehold did England have on this game that it looked as though Cohen’s back pass which almost fell over the head of Springett might be England’s most dangerous moment. Mr. Ramsey must have been as dismayed as the crowd when he saw first one forward and then another crash the ball at the industrious and capable Fraydl in the Austrian goal. For Greaves it was a night of misery. In match after match we have been told that his luck must turn and his marksmanship must come into its own. Yet here we were again last night with another failure from the one-time shooting star. It is a matter for Mr. Ramsey in decide how long England can continue hoping for the Greaves magic to return. But I suggest that for any other player patience by now would have run out. Mr. Ramsey could legitimately point to Bridge’s failure and excuse it by saying he was merely a substitute. For all that Bridges was a failure.
SLICED SHOT
Even thought England pulled themselves together with a lovely move, Paine pushed the ball onto the penalty box for Cohen to centre for Connelly to side foot into goal in 58 minutes. Minutes. Then Connelly gave Greaves all the goal to shoot at, but it wasn’t enough and Greaves still shot wide. A quarter of an hour from the end Austria drew level when Buzek hammered a free kick through the defensive screen. Springett, who had acquitted himself nobly in the England goal, made his only mistake of the match when he pushed the ball out to Fritsch to shoot home. Greaves almost threw the game away by passing back to Springett with Floegel on top of him, but from the next move the Austrians had got the goal which gave them victory. Stiles was, dispossessed by Fritsch who shot over Springett’s head with 11 minutes left. If only England had shown as much determination for the last forty-five minutes as they did in the last ten disaster would not only have been averted but they might easily have scored a resounding victory. For Stiles too, this was a night of tragedy. No linger can he lay claim to a place on past performances for the hare truth is that his current displays are simply not good enough to put him into an England shirt. Connelly was one who strengthened his claims to retention. He ran the legs off Sars and why England did not keen Connelly and Bobby Charlton as directors of strategy I don’t know. Between them these two could and at times did cut the Austrians to ribbons. 
PAINE BETTER
This in the first half at least, was probably the best display Charlton has given for England for many a match. Paine was better than at Cardiff but still he did not look to be England’s best outside right. Stiles apart the defence can lay claim to retention. The England team was composed of players who boasted a total of 276 caps, but the time has come. Obviously to end abruptly for the time being at any rate. At times there was the slow hand-clap in the second half. It is not a cheering thought that there are only two more games at Wembley before the curtain rises on the 1966 world Cup competition, although of course, England have engagements elsewhere. Austria are entitled to credit for the way in which they dragged themselves off the ground a seemingly dispirited beaten side, to come roaring back and inflict this indignity on England. They were always willing to play football and even before their shots started to go home it was apparent that every member of their attack knew how to shoot hard and straight and did not hesitate to do so when the occasion arose. The Austrians substituted Dirnberger for the injured Frank at centre half in the first half. England; Springett (Sheffield Wednesday); Cohen (Fulham), Wilson (Everton); Stiles (Manchester United), Charlton (J) (Leeds United), Moore (West Ham United) (Captain); Paine (Southampton), Greaves (Tottenham Hotspur), Bridges (Chelsea), Charlton (R.) (Manchester United), Connelly (Manchester United). Austria;- Fraydl (Wacker F.C Innsbruck); Sara (Austria Vienna), Stamm (Admira); Ullman (Sportclub Rapid), Frank (Schwechater); Ludescher (Wacker F.C Innsbruck), Fritsch (Rapid), Buzek (Austria Vienna) (Captain), Hasil (Sportclub Rapid), Floegel (Sportclub Rapid), Macek (Austria Salzburg). Referee P. Schwinte (France).

PATIENT VIGIL FOR HARRY CATTERICK
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Thursday, October 21, 1922
By Leslie Edwards
Harry Catterick, the Everton manager cannot wait to get back to his team and desk at Goodison Park, but until he recovers strength after his stomach operation he is fated to have to sit patiently. His Saturday afternoons are spent getting, from radio or TV, such scraps of information as he can find about his team. The news of Colin Harvey's sending-off at Fulham disturbed him because he has campaigned all season for Everton players to improve their public image. Players had taken his advice so well the club had not even had a man booked, much less sent off. He told me: " I thought I had buttoned them up so far as the question of retaliation was concerned, but apparently this is not so. As I am not able to see any games I thought it best that I should leave team matters, including selection of the side to Tom Eggleston. So except for advice on the question of Fairs Cup fixtures, I am playing no part in the club's affairs. I fear it may be another fortnight before I am fit for work." Reader H. Jones (Alderson Road, Liverpool) thinks it would be a good idea for English clubs to pull out of Europe. He says: "To begin with the rules of these games are so stupid. They must make them as they go along. "First. the European Cup. It is possible to win this trophy without winning a game so long as the referee has a coin. Then there are Continental referees who bow to the home supporters after the match. "Next the Cup Winners' Cup. Have you ever heard of anything more stupid that in the event of a draw after extra-time all goals scored on the opponents' ground .to count double to decide who goes into the next round. "Now we come to the Inter Cities Fairs Cup. The only thing we can expect out of this competition, and my own team is at the moment taking part, are rough-house games which have no part in football and a chance of injuries to a star player or players on top of which we have to pay extra money to watch. "In these days of too many games going to Europe involving days of travelling, coming home tired and with injuries and dropping League points which could have been won. Keep out of Europe and enter the League Cup. "The biggest laugh of all is that we go into Europe for experience. What they are teaching us is how to brawl."

JIMMY HILL JOINS PORT VALE
Liverpool Daily Post- Friday, October 22, 1965
By Horace Yates
A quick-fire transfer deal yesterday took Irish international forward Jimmy Hill from First division Everton on Fourth Division Port Vale in exchange of a £5,000 fee. Negotiations were opened shortly before noon, terms agreed and over went Hill to the Potteries, where the move was completed. Hill joined Everton from Norwich City at the start of season 1963-64 and he made six appearances, scoring one goal in that season. He has not played in the League team since. He has represented his country however, while figuring in Everton’s reserves and has been capped five times. He was brought to Everton as an insurance against injury and now that the club’s youngsters are becoming more experienced it was decided there was no point to denying Hill the chance of a move and first team football.

JIMMY HUSBAND NOMINATED SUBSTITUTE AGAINST BLACKPOOL
The Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, October 22, 1965
STILL NO EVERTON PLACE FOR ALEX YOUNG
BRINGING DEREK TEMPLE INSIDE IN NOT IDEAL REMEDY
By Horace Yates
These days international selection and club popularity do not always go hand in hand. Look at the experience of Chelsea’s Barry Bridges. On Wednesday he led the England attack against Austria. Today he is omitted from his club side. Brian Labone’s experience is somewhat different. He has reached the international fringe after being omitted a few weeks ago by Everton. Today, I suspect Everton would be delighted to see Labone in his usual position in their side for if ever a player has pulled himself together after the early warning signal, it is Brian. The injury he received to his big toe in the second Nuremberg match still keeps him inactive and Sandy Brown continues as deputy for to-day’s visit of Blackpool to Goodison Park. Everton have still not been able to find a place in their attack for Alex Young, which brings his successive League omissions to four and Jimmy Husband is nominated substitute. To bring Temple inside as they have done is not the ideal remedy, for while I agree wholeheartedly with the retention of the industrious Morrissey at outside left. Temple generally sheds so much of his effectiveness when operating from within instead of the wing.
FLASHES OF FORM
This realisation might be calculated to bring an extra special effort from Scott, whose form his been in flashes this season I expect to see Harvey again operating at half back with Gabriel holstering the attack, an arrangement which works well. Outstanding names in football these days are few but when an offer of £70,000 is made by Newcastle for Bolton’s Wyn Davies it might be fair to ask what the starting price would be for Blackpool Alan ball on view to-day. I have seen £100,000 mentioned but even in these days of inflated prices that does seem a tremendous sum. Perhaps after today it may be easier to reconcile such a valuation but if it is Everton will be in trouble for when Ball fells to spark neither do Blackpool as a general rule. After their atrocious start, in which five successive matches were lost, Blackpool have swept away part of the cloud of pessimism by losing only one of their last five fixtures and taking five points from the three latest away games. In fact Blackpool’s away record is just as good as that at home. If Brown settles to an impressive job of work against Ray Charnley, scorer of nine goals. I fancy Everton to prevented Blackpool polishing up that away lustre further.
NOT THE HAPPIEST
Goodison is not the happiest of Blackpool hunting grounds for they have not won there since that 3-2 win of 1956-57. International goalkeeper Waiters who might so easily have come to Goodison instead of Gordon West, after appearing to be the complete goalkeeper last season, has not hit his most assured form in the ebb and flow of this season’s games. So much so that when England sought a deputy for Alan Banks this season they turned to Ron Springett. Waiters is too good to remain down for long and a return to his peak today can only make Everton’s task the more difficult. Everton; Rankin; Wright, Wilson; Gabriel, Brown, Harris; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey, Substitute; Husband. Blackpool; Waiters; Armfield, Thompson; Turner, James, Green; Moir, Ball, Charnley, Robson, Oates.

EVERTON MUST BE ‘ON THE BALL’ v. BLACKPOOL
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, October 22, 1965
By Leslie Edwards
Blackpool who come to Goodison Park to-morrow are more mercurial this season than Everton. They won at Chelsea recently and last Saturday beat Arsenal 5-3, but in between was sandwiched a home defeat in the League Cup by Darlington, of all sides ! Mr. Ronnie Suart, who must be one of the best managers in the game— Blackpool's average home gate is something under 20,000 and this despite influxes of visitors during the illumination weeks—has been without rangy half-back Rowe for some time but still contrives to be able to field a side which can shock the best. I confess that when I have seen him these past few seasons centre-forward Charnley has looked the part without playing impressively. but he got three goals a meek ago and must therefore be one of the forwards to whom the Everton defence must pay special attention. Last season both games between the teams were
drawn. it was 0-0 at Goodison Park and 1-1 at Blackpool. Whatever their limitations, Blackpool certainly have strength in goal (Waiters) power and experience at back (Armfield) and tremendous potential in the attack (Ball and Charnley). Ball, son of the former Southport player, is one of the most wanted" men in the game. They say Leeds United, denuded as they are of Bobby Collins, are likely to be the side to get him if he is ever transferred.  My information is that if and when he leaves the buying club will have to find £100,000 or its equivalent in football exchange material. Everton's defeat at Fulham, plus the sending off late in the game of Harvey, was a disappointment following their win against Spurs. There must be no slips to-morrow against a Blackpool whose half-backs include Green. once of Tranmere Rovers, and James a big, capable centre halfback recruited from the Wrexham area.

LABONE NOT YET FIT
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, October 22, 1965
EVERTON ETAM UNCHANGED
Everton captain Brian Labone is still not fit from the toe injury he received in the game against Nuremburg and misses to-morrow’s match against Blackpool at Goodison Park. The team will be unchanged from that which lost at Fulham last Saturday, with Sandy Brown at centre half, Derek Temple at inside left and John Morrissey on the left wing, Alex Young is still out of the side. Blackpool will also be unchanged from the team which defeated Arsenal 5-2 last week. Everton; Rankin; Wright, Wilson; Gabriel, Brown, Harris; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey. Blackpool; Waiters; Armfield, Thompson; Turner, James, Green; Moir, Ball, Charnley, Robson, Oates.

WAITERS IS BLACKPOOL TOWER OF STRENGTH
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, October 23, 1965
EVERTON MISS CHANCES GALORE-THEN FADE
EVERTON 0, BLACKPOOL 0
By Ian Hargreaves

Everton; Rankin; Wright, Wilson (Captain); Gabriel, Brown, Harris; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey, Substitute Husband. Blackpool; Waiters; Armfield, Thompson; Turner, James, Green; Moir, Charnley, Robson, Oates, Substitute McPhee. Referee Mr. K. Howley (Billingham-on-Tees).
Everton went into the attack straight from the kick-off and it was soon evident that Gabriel was again to play the role of extra attacker. Within a minute he came surging up-field and found Morrissey unmarked on the left wing, but the latter's centre was easily held by Waiters. Everton were doing most of the attacking and the first genuine shot came from Temple, who tested Waiters with a stinging drive from 15 yards. A moment later Waiters was again In action when Scott cut down the touchline and put a low centre in front of the advancing Pickering. Waiters dived full length and, though unable to hold the ball, managed to clear the danger. Waiters was again in action when Morrissey shot from an acute angle and forced him to knock the ball down before saving. Yet another save was to follow. Pickering broke through in midfield from a pass by Gabriel and hit a tremendous left foot drive, but Waiters just managed to tip this over the bar. Already Waiters had been called on to make half a dozen difficult saves in as many minutes and the only wonder was that the score sheet remained blank. Blackpool broke away and almost took the lead. Harvey, back helping his defence, conceded a corner and Ball's kick deceived Rankin completely and went straight to the unmarked Moir. whose header missed the target by inches.
OFFSIDE TACTICS
Blackpool made frequent use of the offside trap and on one occasion at least four Everton players were caught. The crowd booed and started a slow handclap. Blackpool had a miraculous escape in the 13th minute when Pickering for once got the better of James in the air. He nodded the ball down to Harvey, who slid it forward to Temple. From point-blank range Temple beat Waiters all ends up—only to hit the post. Everton continued to be desperately unlucky. A magnificent run by Pickering. who flicked the ball round James and then weaved past two more defenders, opened up a half-chance for Gabriel. but the wing half slid the ball wide of the post. Some of Everton's football was delightful, but they hada narrow escape in the 20th minute when a long ball out of defence put Charnley away in midfield. He appeared to be yards offside, but referee Howley waved play on and it was only a desperate tackle by Brown that prevented the Blackpool leader giving his side an undeserved lead.
NEARLY A GOAL
As usual Gabriel proved one of Everton's most dangerous attackers and he almost got his name on the scoring sheet after 25 minutes. Fine work by Harris enabled Scott to cross the ball into a crowded goalmouth and Gabriel's header looked a certain scorer until it was scrambled away for a corner. Temple showed some brilliant touches at inside left and combined well with centre forward Pickering. He failed by inches to reach one through ball by the centre forward and then in turn set up a chance for Pickering, whose hard shot brought out yet another save from Waiters. So far it had been a clean and entertaining game almost free from incident, but a heavy foul on Scott annoyed some of the crowd. Scott took the free kick himself and this time it was Harris's turn to test Waiters, easily the busiest man on the field, with a fine header. A point-blank header by Gabriel beat Waiters but was headed off the line by Robson and less than a minute later Pickering hit a tremendous shot first time from Morrissey's low centre, only to see it strike the diving Waiters and rebound to safety.
MAGNIFICENT RUN
Scott's roused the crowd's enthusiasm with a magnificent run of 60 yards in which he held off four defenders and drew Waiters only to strike the goalkeeper's boot with its final flick. Everton could now well have been leading by six or seven goals. Right on the interval Pickering hit Waiters in the face with a shot from barely five yards, then flicked the rebound apparently into an open goal only to find Armfield booting it off the line. Half-time. Everton nil, Blackpool nil.
Blackpool most did most of the attacking for the first five minutes or so after the resumption. Rankin had to punch out a lob from Thompson, and then right half Turner put a shot high over the bar. A moment later Moir bad an even better chance when a slip by Wilson let him through. But, in a perfect, position to find the unmarked Charnley, he miskicked the ball.
SCRAMBLED AWAY
A foul by Harris on Ball earned Blackpool a free kick which Green sent narrowly past the post, then Rankin, who had already had more to do in 10 minutes than in the whole of the first half, failed to hold a cross by Oates and Brown had to scramble the ball away. When Everton did eventually attack, Pickering failed to control the ball in a good position, then Scott, put away by Gabriel, was unable to round Thompson. Gabriel was playing further back now and this may have had something to do with Everton's lack of inspiration. It was left to Morrissey tosupply a touch of attacking inspiration and after he had given Pickering a chance which was not accepted, he tested Waiters with a clever lob which nearly dropped under the bar. Charnley screwed one fast shot across an open goalmouth but in general the Blackpool attacks broke down short of the penalty area. A bad foul by Gabriel on Ball earned Blackpool a free kick which was wasted, and then Rankin almost gave away a goal by rolling the ball to Charnley, who hit it straight back over the crossbar.
OFF THE BOIL
The match had now gone right off the boil, but Temple sparked off fresh enthusiasm with a well-placed header that Waiters did well to reach. There was a sudden flare of excitement as both goals enjoyed escapes In quick succession. First Ball Just failed to beat Harvey in a race for a long through pass into the Everton penalty area, then Temple streaked upheld and hit a terrific shot narrowly past an upright. A moment later Temple nodded a long through ball wide of the advancing Waiters, only to find the goalkeeper knock it way with an amazing reflex kick. Time was beginning to run out now for Everton after their great efforts earlier on. Only Temple and Morrissey had retained their first half urgency and one piece of lightning-fast thinking by Temple would have produced a goal had Pickering's deliberate chip shot not sailed six inches too high. Nothing would go right for Everton now, as Gabriel missed with a point-blank header which he seemed to mistime completely with only the goalkeeper to beat. The crowd were becoming to get restive and there was a sporadic outbreak of slow handclapping.
SPECTATORS LEAVE
Spectators were leaving the ground long before the end - a commentary on the way in which this game had died down after such a lively start. Final:— Everton 0, Blackpool 0 Official attendance: 33,766.

EVERTON A v BOLTON W A
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, October 23, 1965
Dobson put Bolton ahead with a lob after 5 minutes. A header by Wallace from Clark's corner put Everton on equal terms within 5 minutes. With fine constructive football Everton were now dominating. and Lord in the Bolton goal made many fine saves. Half-time. Everton A 1, Bolton Wanderers A 1.

WOLVES RES v  EVERTON RES
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, October 23, 1965
Wolverhampton Reserves; Davies; Taylor, Harris; Woodruff, Hawkins, Miller; Thompson (D), Evans, Gaston, Kirkham, Carrick. Everton Res; Barnett; Pearson, Darcy; Stevens, Smith, Hurst; Shaw, Glover, McLoughlin, Young, Maher. Referee; Mr. R. Barker (Crewe).
Woodruff and Miller, whose transfer requests have been agreed to by the club, were in the Wolves half back line to-day. Wolves got off to a fine start, and almost got a second minute goal when right winger Dave Thompson cracked a loose ball goal-wards, but 'keeper Barnett pushed it over the bar. For Everton left half Hurst had an open goal, but headed wide. Wolves Kent ahead in the 25th minute when left-half MILLER ran onto a high ball and headed it into the bottom Id the net. Fine goalkeeping by Barnett kept the score down, but 16-years-old Alun Evans was causing Everton a lot of trouble. Things worsened when in the 40th minute Everton's most enterprising player, left half Hurst, was taken off injured. Half -time.—Wolverhampton Reserves 1, Everton Reserves nil.

YOUTH TEAM
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, October 23, 1965
EVERTON AND LIVERPOOL PLAYERS IN ENGLAND SQUAD
Two Everton players, forwards Jimmy Husband and Joe Royle, along with Liverpool half-back Roy Evans, are included in the squad from which selection will be made for the England Youth team's match against Arsenal Under-19 at Highbury on November 9. The England Youth team will be seen at Goodison Park on December 7 against an Everton Under-19 team.

NOT A GOAL TO CHEER MERSYSIDE’S BIG TWO
Liverpool Daily Post- Monday, October 25, 1965
BLACKPOOL ROCK BUT TONY WAITERS STANDS FIRM
HARVEY A POUND FOR POUND MATCH FOR ALAN BALL
EVERTON 0, BLACKPOOL 0
By Horace Yates
“It’s not funny being an Everton supporter these days,” said one disconsolate fan after the latest Blackpool upset of Merseyside calculations at Goodison Park on Saturday. The fact that the smallest attendance so far was recorded for this match suggests that he is not alone in his grief. Yet only the flimsiest margins, the smallest miscalculations prevented the Blackpool visit from being converted into a revivalist meeting. All the brilliance of waiters in the Blackpool goal, and he certainly was brilliant, would have counted for nought with fractionally greater accuracy in finishing. I was not depressed by it unduly. They may play worse than this against better teams than Blackpool and still win. Whatever charge might have been laid against Everton, they could not be accused of falling to play football constructively attractively or efficiently in a first half which had Blackpool struggling from emergency to emergency. I doubt if Blackpool can recall being stretched so frequently to breaking point without disintegrating. Give them all due credit for courage, an unflagging determination to hold out and a willingness to work to their last stride, but this was the day on which their imperfections were exposed without being capitalised. Blackpool took courage from their escapes and screwed confidence from every let-off. So much so that after the interval Everton’s overwhelming superiority was cut to manageable proportions, but never to the extent of making a Blackpool victory feasible except from an isolated raid. This was the day Temple chose to disprove the criticism that as an inside forward he is just another player, as distinct from one of the country’s best wingers. Pickering helped to create and in return receive outstanding scoring offerings. Had he accepted three or four of them as he might well have done, his display would have been hailed as warranting his inclusion in the next England side. Like every member of the Everton attack he approached the scoring borderline and never once crossed it, but on one occasion should have had a penalty after a Waiters tackle Gabriel, Morrissey, Harris and on one occasion Scott swelled the list of thwarted scorers and before the end when apparently persistent failure had produced an acceptance of the seemingly inevitable only Temple really maintained a dangerous persistency. If Everton were to have a match winner Temple seemed certain to be the man. In the first three minutes Waiters set the pattern with three highly creditable saves from Temple, Morrissey and Pickering.
FAMILIAR PATTERN
It was a pattern which was to become all too familiar as events unfolded I am not superstitious but 13 minutes Temple rapped a post with Waiters beaten and Gabriel was just inches further adrift in his scoring calculations. Once and once only did Waiters a goalkeeper completely out of form in so many of his earlier games really err. He failed to come out far enough to cut off a Scott centre and Gabriel headed in only for Armfield to put the ball over the bar. When Morrissey pulled the ball back to the incoming Pickering right in front of goal, nothing it seemed could gave Blackpool, as Pickering lashed a shot as hard as anybody in present day football to capable of doing towards goal. Waiters had barely time to move but inevitably he moved the right way and the ball crashed straight into his body. A Pickering tap was kicked off the line by Armfield and Waiters stuck out a despairing foot to deny Scott. All these desperately narrow failures occurred in the first half. While it would be erroneous to give the impression that Blackpool were attacking ideas. Everton’s raid must have been in a ratio of four or five to due. Charnley twice found himself as the hope of his side without having either the speed or resource to beat Brown, who was very much more the master of his role than at Fulham, last week. Harris was simply tireless in his efforts to create a gap and the pity was that he, like Gabriel on two occasions was guilty of fouls on Ball, that were impossible to recuse.
WITHOUT VIOLENCE
Robbery by Blackpool this may have been, but it was robbery entirely without violence. To Ball tribute is due for the control he maintained on himself in fact of provocation of this sort. Flashes of genuine ability came from him, but hardly in a float confirming any £100,000 image. Indeed I honestly believe that in value Everton’s Harvey at least matched Ball pound for pound. What a talented performer this youngster is, were than ever as a half back. In almost all the head on that in value Everton’s Harvey who took the honours and even Ball could not make Harvey’s watchdog rule a full-time job. In successive weeks, Harvey has taken on the policing of Douglas, Greaves, Haynes and Ball -a trial enough for most -and not once has he been found wanting. If Harvey has not now settled beyond any doubt his true role in the Everton set-up, then he really is up against hard task masters. The Moir in the opening might fell Blackpool’s greatest scoring chance. He headed wide when Standing only a couple of yards wide of the post. Apart from the wonderful waiters it was easiest to bestow credit ratings on a workmanlike half back line. None of them were entirely foot-proof, but defeat was the last thing any were prepared to admit while Armfield tested and tried far more frequently and dangerously than Thompson, suggested that much of his international talent and skill remain. Everton; Rankin; Wright, Wilson (captain); Gabriel, Brown, Harris; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey. Blackpool; Waiters; Armfield, Thompson; Turner, James, Green; Moir, Ball, Charnley, Robson, Oates. Referee Mr. K. Howley (Billingham on-Tees). Attendance 33,766

CENTRAL LEAGUE
The Liverpool Daily Post -Monday, January 25, 1965
BARNETT WAS OUTSTANDING FOR EVERTON
WOLVES RES 1, EVERTON RES 0
It was only Everton goalkeeper Barnett who was responsible for the score-line being so slight in Wolves’ favour in this Central League game on Saturday for the home team with transfer-listed Bobby Woodruff and George Miller both first team regulars until recently, in the half back line could have made his final line could have made the final score 5-0 but for Barnett who was supreme in goal. Wolves made attack after attack through an almost non-existent Everton defence and won the match with a 25th minute goal from left half Miller who ran on to a high ball and headed it home. Everton never really found their form and were without the services of left half Hurst for a large part of the second half after he was injured in a tackle.

LIFEGUARD GOALKEEPER SAVES HIS SIDE
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, October 25, 1965
By Ian Hargreaves
The commanding figure of former lifeguard Tony Waiters alone stood between Everton and the Roman holiday anticipated by 33,766 frustrated Mersey football fans on Saturday. Waiters who guards the Blackpool goal as securely as once he guarded Southport beach, saved his side from a slaughter that seemed inevitable as the blue-shirted gladiators of Goodison thrust inrelentlessly for the kill. Unperturbed by the baying multitude around him, he defied the bull-like onslaughts of Fred Pickering, the captain rapier-swift thrusts of Derek Temple, and the insidious infiltration of Johnny Morrissey with equal confidence. And at the end, the angry jeers that greeted Everton's failure to command expected victory, told an unmistakable story of his individual triumph. If all this sounds rather like an unsolicited eulogy to a great player-it is intended to. For without Waiters there would have been no excitement, no entertainment, indeed virtually no contest. Outpaced and out-manoeuvred, for all the experience of Armfield and all the impish precocity of Ball , Blackpool were virtually overrun during the first 45 minutes. And if they came more into the game after the interval, when Everton’s efforts seemed paralysed by consciousnessof their own impotence, they were still on the receiving end, still all too often caught struggling. Within the first live minutes, Waiters had made as many saves; by the intervention of half time one had lost count of the number. Some shots he tipped over the bar or deflected past an upright, some he clutched to him as though rescuing a child from drowning, and some he stopped by rather less orthodox methods.
NEAR MISS ON NEAR MISS
There was the 15 yard pile-driver from Pickering, hit first time from Scott’s quick centre, which hit the goalkeeper’s diving body. There was the close-range snap shot from the same player which struck him in the face  And there was the finely-timed flick by Scott, that should have rounded off a wonderful 60 yard run with a goal, but rebounded to safety o ff his foot. On the rare occasion when he was beaten another defender invariably managed to come to the rescue. Robson headed out a point blank header from Gabriel. Armfield twice kicked off the line. Once even a goal post stepped in to foil Temple! That there was so much activity at one end, speaks volumes for the effectiveness of Everton's attack, though it faded out badly for part of the second half.  Temple, possibly more effective on the wing, looked a very good player indeed at inside left, and displayed a superb sense of timing in addition to his known power of shot. Often, he combined brilliantly with Pickering, whose bulk conceals surprising lightness of touch on occasion and who did not seem to me to deserve many of the harsh criticisms hurled at him.  Pickering's control of the ball and strength on It can be most deceptive, and there was nothing better in a match which contained many splendid moments, than the fluent way in which the Everton leader flicked the ball over James to open up a possible opportunity for Gabriel. Morrissey, a picture of business-like efficiency as he bustled down the wing with sleeves rolled up above the elbows, had more of the ball in the second half, when he quite outshone Scott on the other flank. He soon realised he had the legs of Armfield a scrupulously fair opponent of the old school and he might well have schemed a way to victory had Pickering been as effective in the air as on the ground or had Gabriel surged up with the alacrity he had shown earlier. Unfortunately, Gabriel has still to work out the details of the dual role which he is operating with the aid of Harvey, a role which certainly has its uses but is also responsible for Everton's occasional fall from grace.
FORTE IS STRENGTH
The burly Scot, who wears a Number 4 on his back but plays as a kind of second centre forward, is more effective when surging through from midfield: less effective when already up front, or when called upon to manoeuvre swiftly in a confined space. Like Pickering his forte is strength (occasionally misapplied) rather than subtlety. The consequence is that too much responsibility for creating openings now rests with Harvey a young man of undoubted talent but who at present suffers from a tendency to overdo the obvious. This cannot be said of the red-headed Ball, that dynamic little bundle of energy whom so many managers would like to include in their side, and who undoubtedly possesses the occasional ability to open up a defence with a single unexpected thrust. During the later stages of this game, when Blackpool had recovered sufficiently to attempt one or two attacks of their own, he grew more and more dangerous and seemed ever-likely to scheme a goal that really would have put the men in blue in the dumps. Considering the provocation he suffered from both Harris and Gabriel , who were obviously intent on deflating his ego. Ball’s conduct was impeccable. It was good to see this young man of such talent now showing the greatest skill of all-that of self-control. Robson and Oates also showed flashes of ability on occasion, while the former Tranmere Rover Green had an impressive game at wing half. Had he and Turner been able to spare more time for offensive operations, things might have been very different. As it was. this was only a good match in parts, and somewhat infuriating to the large contingent of supporters only interested in seeing their team win. Without Young or a genuine schemer I fear Everton will continue to make heavy weather of relatively easy missions. But then without Waiters , Blackpool would have sunk to the bottom. You can't have everything.

PERSONAL HEARING
Liverpool Daily Post -Wednesday, October 27, 1965
COLIN HARVEY’S REQUEST
Colin Harvey, the young Everton player, who was ordered off the field at Fulham on October 16, will exercise his option to make a personal appearance before the Disciplinary Committee, which considers his case. No date for the hearing has yet been fixed. The decision was taken yesterday and the Football Association have been advised. Harvey, who made his League debut on March 21 last year at Blackburn, has played in 48 First Division games and prior to the Fulham game had not been involved in the slightest trouble. I saw the match at Fulham in which Harvey was dismissed and was appalled at the severity of the referee’s decision. Some of the Fulham officials afterwards expressed the opinion that the penalty was “Harsh.” Fulham centre forward Dempsey was the other player involved in the incident.

INTER LEAGUE GAME HINTS FOR NEXT ENGLAND TEAM
The Liverpool Daily Post – Thursday, October 28, 1965
ENGLISH LEAGUE 5 LEAGUE OF IRELAND 0
By Horace Yates
In ten second half minutes which produced four goals England team manager Alf Ramsey saw a nightmare disintegrate. Until Ball opened the scoring in 62 minutes to break the drought, Mr. Ramsey must have wondered what on earth had to be done to turn England players into marksmen. This potential England side in Inter-League clothing at Hull last night hammered the League of Ireland as everyone knew they would but the trouble was that in so doing they had shown themselves for most of the time, almost as adept as their seniors against Austria in making chances and squandering them. Just when the Irishmen were all poised to hold if not to slay, the giants the floodgates were opened and down they went. The goal that rocked them was a somewhat fortunate affair. If D’Arcy had held Charlton’s header from Thomson’s corner kick, the League side would still have been struggling. Instead he put the ball to Ball’s feet and the scoring was opened in 62 minutes.
UPFIELD INTRUSION
Kaye added a second five minutes later, Charlton was again instrumental in prising open the defence when his upfield intrusion was almost unnoticed by the Irish until he put the ball out to Kaye, on the left wing. The incoming centre forward beat Bonham on the run in and crashed the ball into goal. Ball accepted another gift offering in seventy-one minutes, when he took advantage of D’Arcy’s mishandling of O’Neill’s shot. Charlton notched a fourth, a minute later, with one of the shots of the match, from five yards outside the penalty area. The fifth was Kaye’s, in eighty minutes. Harris gave Charlton the gift of a lifetime, in front of goal, but the ball passed between the skipper’s legs. There was Kaye, ready and waiting to add to his reputation as a snapper-up of trifles, when he lashed the ball past D’Arcy. The luck of the Irish last night was all bad luck for Dixon and Lynch hit the post with brillaint shots and they really deserved some reward for their labours even though their attack was a most intermittent affair. Liverpool’s Peter Thompson was the darling of Boothferry Road- but with feet of clay. He was positively brilliant in almost everything he did. He gave Mulligan a nightmare evening for he went pass him with the minimum of trouble on the inside and the outside. When his chances came to crown his evening’s work with a display that would have defied Ramsey to leave him out of the full England side he muffed two wonderful scoring chances. First he hit the side netting and then the bar from positions from which there should have been no mistake. One of the Hull people said afterwards; “Give Hull City Peter Thompson and we would be in the Second Division next season. With a man like that putting the ball across we wouldn’t need a defence.”
FAR SUPERIOR
Ball turned on a tremendous display for superior to anything he showed at Goodison on Saturday and looked a really classy player in the first half in everything but scoring finish. Afterwards he was not nearly so dominating but he picked up the goals. That is football. I admired the play of the England League side. They were all go, go, go. They just didn’t come in fits and starts, they were hammering away all the time. There was much more movement, thrust and menace about their build-up than the full England side showed at Wembley. Derek Temple did not do his reputation justice. He can play much better than this and even his finishing was not of the usual high standard. Nobody expects Mr. Ramsey to substitute the entire League side and call it England against Northern Ireland in the next match at Wembley, but he could with justification include a number of them. In the attack I would be prepared to see Thompson, Ball and Kaye selected. The half back line too was good and Charlton is obviously a certainty. A word of advice that should be offered to Hunter the Leeds wing half is “careful.” Unless he does take more care with his tackling the criticism that has already bedevilled one wearer of the English jersey this season could similarly be his. For all that Hunter could make the next England party.
FORCEFUL LYNCH
Many of the leading clubs were represented and obviously they were looking to see, not what was in the Football League side, but if there was anything worthy of a follow-up among the Irishmen. I think they would see in centre forward Lynch a dangerous and forceful player. He gave Charlton quite a bit of trouble in the air and with sheer strength. Lynch is something of a sporting curiosity. In Ireland he has played Gaelic football, first class Rugby and football for half a dozen clubs. In turn he has figured in goal, full back and every forward position and last night was his first Inter-League honour. At 5ft 11ins, and 12st 5lb the prospect seems inviting enough for anyone. The one snag-he is twenty-seven. Winger Fitzgerald and inside forward Ronnie Whelan were also players with some ability, but generally speaking the Irishmen were easy meat for a ravenous team of English hunters.
English League; Banks (Leicester City); Cohen (Fulham), Newton (Blackburn Rovers); O’Neill (Burnley), J. Charlton (Leeds United) (Captain), Hunter (Leeds United); Thompson (Liverpool), Ball (Blackpool), Kaye (West Bromwich Albion), Harris (Burnley), Temple (Everton).
League of Ireland; D’Arcy; Bonham, Mulligan; Finucane, McGrath, Fullam; Fitzgerald, Dixon, Lynch, Whelan, Toulay. Referee Mr. E. Crawford (Doncaster).

LABONE BACK FOR EVERTON
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, October 29, 1965
ONE CHANGE FOR BLACKBURN GAME
By Leslie Edwards
Brian Labone returns to the Everton side at Blackburn tomorrow. This is the only change from the side which drew with Blackpool. Labone, who has recovered from injury, takes the place of Brown at centre half. Blackburn continue the experiment of playing Mike England the Welsh centre half and captain at centre forward. England has played three games in this position and scored two goals. Rovers field the team which held Arsenal to 2-2 at Highbury last Saturday. Blackburn Rovers;- Else; Newton, Wilson (W); Clayton, Mulvaney, Sharples; Ferguson, McEvoy, England, Byrom, Harrison. Sub; McGrath. Everton; Rankin; Wright, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey.

CAST IRON CHURCH HAS STOOD TEST OF TIME
The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express- Friday, October 29, 1965
ST. GEORGE’S, EVERTON, IS 150 YEARS OLD
One of the most remarkable churches in Britain, let alone Liverpool, celebrates 150 years of service this week-end, when the Lord Mayor, Alderman David Cowley, pays an official civic visit to St. George's, Everton. The brainchild of Thomas Rickman, a man of many talents, who dabbled in chemistry ; clerking and accountancy as well as architecture, it is one of two city churches built from cast iron, the other being St. Michael's, Aigburth. Rickman's friend, Thomas Cragg, proprietor of the Mersey Iron Foundry, supplied the metal for the interior structure, which was encased in stone to meet the provisions of an original bequest of £12,000 by a local philanthropist, Mr. Atherton. Constructed on the site of the old Everton lighthouse, St. George's Church represented (in the terms of a contemporary critic) "A marked advance upon anything previously attempted in Liverpool—the tone, character and motif of every part being derived from a careful study of ancient principles."
PREFABRICATED
Prefabricated column a, panels and window tracery were all transported from the foundry and bolted together inside the church a unique system of construction which has stood the test of time. In those days Everton was an attractive district with fine gardens and expensive houses surrounding the church. But urbanisation gradually destroyed the beauty If not the character of the area, and by the middle of the century it was regarded as one of the worst slum districts in Britain. Successive vicars have fought a grim battle against poverty and suffering as well as religious intolerance, and it is only comparatively recently that peace and modest prosperity have returned. Now St. George's remains as lively and as vigorous as ever, and shows its ability to keep up with modern tastes by launching a youth club in the Vicarage cellars, in the lamented absence of a church hall. Its vicar, the Rev. N. Moorhouse, is a man of his times,' who takes a keen interest in Soccer -though his duties prevent him watching Everton on Saturdays—and who has urged parishioners from the pulpit to support ,the newly-formed Everyman Theatre.
THE PARISHIONERS
Nor can he speak too highly of his parishioners. "Two days before my institution (last November) a group of teenagers at Mere Lane hailed me. 'Hi-ya, are you our new vicar?'" he recalls with pleasure. "And when I had to go to hospital for an operation. I found all sorts of people I had never met before inquiring after my health after I came out again. "Liverpool is a grand and exciting place, with young people, boys and girls, all ready to speak to The Vigger'." Another thing which has impressed the Rev. Moorhouse is the amount of religious toleration. "I was told to beware violent feeling between Protestants and Catholics." he remembers. "but this has hardly ever materialised. Indeed, quite often, when I have sat at my church gate to ask for gifts for a church charity. I have been given money by friendly folk who have said. Quite openly, they are Catholics."

THAT AWAY WIN
Liverpool Daily Post- Saturday, October 30, 1965
EVERTON MAY DO IT…
Everton travel to Blackburn to-day as one of five First division teams in search of an away victory. These may be early days to start recalling season 1959-60 when they went through the entire campaign without a single win away from Goodison, but the sooner the parallel ends, the better. I would not be surprised to find Everton adding to Blackburn’s difficulties by depriving them of both points. There is nothing very thrilling in a study of Blackburn’s Ewood Park figures for they have lost four and drawn one of their six home fixtures. The loss of Bryan Douglas with a recurring knee injury is grievous and the advance of Mike England from centre half to centre forward could play into Everton’s hands for England usually keeps Pickering in subjection. Mulvaney could find such a task beyond him, although he is not the least competent of centre halves by any means.
LABONE RETURNS
Everton will welcome back skipper Brian Labone, who has missed three League games and last appeared against the German side Nuremberg in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup match at Goodison. It will be a tough return against England for he is an extremely dangerous goal-front player with the ball in the air. Gabriel’s industry has not only been of service to his side, but it has caused him to be noted by the Scottish selectors if Jimmy keeps a cool head he will aid his claim to further recognition. It is a curiosity that these clubs have made a habit recently of faring better on their opponents’ grounds. Everton have won three of their last five games at Blackburn, the one reverse resulting from a last minute penalty in 1962-63 season. Blackburn at Goodison have lost only one of their last five visits. These are troublous times indeed for the Rovers. They have grimly hung on to England’s services as a sort of life line, but the threat to their continued presence in the top flight is real. Alex Young, who last played in the League side on September 25, is at centre forward in the Central League team at home to Leeds United. Everton introduce in this game 17 year-old local goalkeeper Roy Nevison in place of Barnett, who has been earmarked for the trip to Budapest.
Blackburn Rovers; Else; Newton, Wilson; Clayton, Mulvaney, Sharples; Ferguson, McEvoy, England, Byrom, Harrison. Everton; Rankin; Wright, Wilson; Gabriel, Labone, Harris; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey.
FAIRS CUP TICKETS
Everton stand tickets for the second leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup v Ujpest, on November 16, will be on sale from Monday (10 a.m. until 2 p.m.) except on Thursday and Fridays when the ticket office will remain open until 7 a.m. prices are; 25s, 20s, 15s, and 10s. admission to the terraces will be by cash at the turnstiles. Prices will be Ground 5s, Paddock 7s 6d, boys pens’ pen 2s 6d.

REF. WARNS BLUES’ FANS;
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, October 30, 1965
EVERTON HOLD ON FOR EWOOD WIN
BLACKBURN 1, EVERTON 2
By Jack Rowe

Blackburn Rovers; Else; Newton, Wilson (W); Clayton, Mulvaney, Sharples; Ferguson, McEvoy, England, Byrom, Harrison, Substitute; McGrath. Everton; Rankin; Wright, Wilson (R.); Gabriel, Labone (Captain), Harris; Scott, Harvey, Pickering, Temple, Morrissey, Substitute Brown. Referee.- Mr. W.M. Holian, of Chesterfield.
The skidding pitch probably saved Everton in the first minute or so, because England's through-ball was just right for McEvoy. But it gathered pace just out of reach of the Blackburn man, so that Rankin was able to dive on the ball.
MORRISSEY SHOT
An excellent piece of work by Hamis and Gabriel, plus some slackness in the Blackburn defence, carved out a shooting chance for Morrissey and his first-timer sped just past the far post, with Else stranded. Despite the difficulties underfoot, there was some entertaining football from both sides, and in nine minutes Blackburn got a leading goal. The ball was chipped over by Harrison, and Rankin and England went for it. The goalkeeper lost it and McEvoy flicked it into net. In the next minute Everton were near to scoring again, this time when Scott made his own opening. When his shot was blocked and ran loose, Temple struck it first time, with great power. only inches over. This set Blackburn off on a series of attacks, and for some minutes the Everton defence was under much pressure, with Labone twice making good clearances against England. Harris set up two attacks with long passes. but Pickering was adjudged to have , fouled Mulvaney. and on the second occasion Temple found the ball running awkwardly. There was much more danger for Blackburn from a Scott centre which Pickering reached over Mulvaney , and headed just past the angle—a fine try.
GABRIELHURT
Gabriel was hurt and carried off in a goalmouth scramble for a corner, and while he was off, Everton got an equaliser in 20 minutes. Temple and Morrissey began it all on the left, after the Blackburn defence had got itself into a tangle, and Temple went on to flick the ball across, where Morrissey kicked round it. Fortunately for Everton. Pickering was behind him and with his left foot beat Else with a low drive. Everton deserved to be level and straightaway they 'were near to going ahead, but this time Pickering could not get his shot through. Gabriel returned after a few minutes with a bandage on his right boot, but soon! went off again. Brown coming on as substitute. This was tough on Gabriel because the Scottish selectors were watching. Everton's Wilson was the next to be hurt, but he made, a fine interception to prevent Harrison coming through. For a second or two it looked as though his injury might be ,serious, but after attention he carried on. Brown's role was defensive• with Harris moving more up field, and at times Everton made surprisingly easy progress. Rankin dived well to a Harrison centre, and, though, he did not hold the ball, he prevented it going through to McEvoy who was ideally placed. A great run by Pickering took him from the left wing to the Blackburn goal area. When he shot. Else dived to make a dramatic save. From the corner. Blackburn conceded another, and from this Everton went in front in 31 minutes. The ball came out from the ruck to Scott, near the edge of the penalty area. He it first time with his left foot, just under the bar, with Else making no effort to get to it. There was an invasion of young Everton supporters in celebration. They almost had cause for more joy when Pickering and dribble and then saw his shot blocked by Mulvaney. Everton’s defence was tackling quickly and well, so that apart from one shot by Harrison, which flew wide. Rankin was not being troubled.
Half-time; Blackburn Rovers 1, Everton 2.
During the interval there was a loudspeaker warning from the referee that if there were any more encroachments on the pitch he would take action.
SCARE FOR BLUES
The second half began with Blackburn on the attack and there was a scare for Everton, when Rankin left his goal without getting the ball. When Byrom made a quick cross, Wright saved the day by heading away from England. Blackburn did not have Everton's finesse and relied a lot on rush. They failed to give enough support to England. Blackburn did not have Everton’s finesse and relied a lot on rush. They failed to give enough support to England. Harris was operating in attack and he and Temple made inroads into the Blackburn defence, with Harris just failing to make contact with the final pass. Then Harris, took over from Scott, and made a centre which Else caught with comfort. Of the two sides. Everton certainly looked the more secure.  Everton had two free kicks just outside the area. From the first—by Scott—Harris leapt but could get only a graze. From the second. Pickering lashed a mighty drive just over. Some of the referee's decisions were a little strange, especially one when he gave a free-kick against an Everton player when, as far as I could see. no contact was made at all. Then England waved his arms in disbelief when he was penalised.
SPOKEN TO
This was shortly after he had been spoked to for a tackle on Harvey, the Everton man needing attention. When Newton crossed a high ball into the Everton goalmouth, the advantage of England's height was seen, for he made a fine header, which Rankin turned over equally well. Blackburn were doing most of the attacking, and there were one or two hectic moments in Everton's goalmouth. Blackburn were putting on a lot of pressure, and Rankin went full-length to save from Newton, while England was only just too high. Everton had not made a really worthwhile attack this half, but Blackburn were showing little method. Rankin saved well at the foot of the post from another England header. Blackburn should have got on terms, when, from Harrison's centre, the ball went loose, but Ferguson shot, high and wide. Final.— Blackburn 1, Everton 2.  Official attendance. 15,096.

EVERTON RES v  LEEDS RES
The Liverpool Football Echo and Evening Express- Saturday, October 30, 1965
Everton res; Nevison; Pearson, Darcy; Glover, Smith (D), Stevens; Wallace, Royle, Young, Husband, Maher. Leeds United Res; Williamson (R.); Sibbald, Ryder; Bates, Smith (G), Johnson, Wright, Price, Belfitt, Johanneson, Hibbitt. Referee- Mr. J. Whittaker (Bacup). For the first 20 minutes there was little between the two teams. Everton looked slightly the more dangerous. Everton’s newcomer Nevison, still on amateur terms, had little to do. The constant aimless kicking of both sets of forwards made the game boring, first Royle shot wide from well out then Bates did the same thing for Leeds, the ball finishing in the stand. The Everton full-backs, Darcy and Pearson, were both playing a half back role feeding their wing men from well up. A goalless first half was just about what the game was worth. Half-time; Everton Res nil, Leeds Res nil.