IT’S  ANOTHER TOUGH ONE!
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 01 October 1970
….BUT THE FIGHT IS ONLY STARTING FOR THE BLUES
By Mike Charters
EVERTON now await next Tuesday's draw for the second round of the European Cup realising that the real battle in Europe starts then. Having casually brushed aside the lukewarm challenge of the Icelandic champions Keflavik by a 9-2 aggregate, the major test comes on October 21 when the second round will be played. But before anticipating the harder chores ahead, the Everton manager, Harry Catterick, looked back on last night's game in Reykjavik, and said; “I can't -recall a more difficult playing surface. " There was not only a lot of water on top, but also a layer of water under the turf. This made the pitch loose and very difficult for a player to maintain his balance. “Under the conditions, I thought our boys played some great football.” I was worried before the game that we could have had some nasty injuries with players falling and grazing their skin on the lava grit which had been used to absorb some of the water. Fortunately, they all came through without injury. “We could have scored a dozen—we let them off very lightly. But I'm glad we entertained the spectators with the quality of our play. They were very appreciative and the Keflavik officials were full of praise for our attractive brand of football." The unhappiest member of the Everton party was Gary Jones, the 18-years-old reserve winger, who missed the chance of making his first team debut in European football—as Colin Harvey did, seven Years ago. Jones was in line for a place instead of Alan Whittle, but he fell ill the night before the game, shortly after the party reached Keflavik. A doctor saw him several times and it was found he was running a high temperature due to the after-effects of a smallpox vaccination, which he had a fortnight ago. It was thought he might have to stay in Iceland, but the doctor gave him the all-clear and he was able to return with the others—but feeling pretty groggy.

EVERTON MUCH TOO HOT FOR ICELANDIC CHAMPIONS
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 01 October 1970
BY Mike Charters
Everton completed the first comfortable stage of their journey into Europe by casually dismissing the Icelandic champions Keflavik in Reykjavik last night. They won 3-0 to take the first round tie on a 9- 2 aggregate, and the major feature to emerge from the two games was to wonder how long teams like these amateurs can continue to figure in European football. Frankly, Keflavik were so outclassed that last night's match, under dreadful playing conditions, was little more than an exercise gallop for Everton. Fortunately, no one was injured on a pitch where pulled muscles could have been expected. It was touch and go whether Northern Ireland referee Malcolm Wright would allow the game to go on. When he made his first pitch inspection yesterday morning, the ground looked so waterlogged, with large areas of mud, that everyone in the Everton party expected the game to be postponed.
Credit
But the ground staff worked hard in the hours before the kick-off and, in the end, it was as well in every way that the game went on. A postponement could have meant that the game would never have been played—not in Iceland, anyway. The conditions were so difficult—with players slipping and falling with the ball nowhere near them—that both teams deserve great credit for displaying physical endurance of a high level. Everton scored their three goals in 46 minutes and played great football in the process. They entertained the 9,500 crowd and that was their ambition.
Good saves
In the second half, Ball and Harvey came off, purely to rest them, for substitutes Jackson and Brown to take over. Everton slowed down the pace to a saunter and, in effect, a Bellefield practice could have extended them more severely. The game was not as exciting as the first leg at Goodison for two reasons. Keflavik, with an unchanged side, were well below was probably an inspired display at Everton: and the state of the pitch was also critical.  Keflavik goalkeeper Olafsson again played well without reaching the heights of his Goodison spectacular. He made good saves from all the Everton forwards, with Harvey also coming through brilliantly to test him three times. But Keflavik looked just what they are—a bunch of amateurs out of their depth against the pace and vastly superior skill of Everton. Whittle and Morrissey showed the appreciative spectators what wing play is all about, Ball and Harvey were brilliant in midfield, Royle strong up Joe Royle front.  The defence had a picnic, with Rankin never in a moment's danger, spending most of the game pacing through the goalmouth mire trying to keep warm.
Atrocious
Wright and Newton were so free of normal defensive chores that they moved up into attack without Keflavik being able to offer any real challenge. Newton was unlucky not to score.  The goals came from Whittle and Royle (2).  Whittle’s was a neat header from Morrissey’s cross, and Royle’s first was a remarkable penalty after Gudnarsson had handled.  Olafsson made a fine save from Royle’s penalty kick, pushing the ball in the air, but Royle followed up quickly to nod the ball into the net from a narrow angle.  His second was a well-taken shot from Wright’s centre-a 46th minute effort which gave Everton the signal to shut up shop and relax.  Keflavik never looked like scoring. They did not have the basic skill to master the atrocious conditions. The difference in class was made even more marked by the pitch.  Everton conquered it; Keflavik were out-classed by vastly superior opponents and beaten by the mud as well. 

JIMMY HUSBAND MAY RETURN AT COVENTRY
Liverpool Echo - Friday 02 October 1970
By Mike Charters
 EVERTON winger Jimmy Husband, who did not travel to Iceland in mid-week, so that he could have treatment for his hamstring muscle injury, has recovered sufficiently to have a good chance of playing at Coventry City to-morrow. He is included in a party of 14, with Alan Whittle also in the squad if Husband cannot make it.  But manager Harry Catterick said:  “The week's rest and treatment has done Husband a lot of good. He had a test this morning and it was so favourable that it is likely he will be all right. We will see how he is tomorrow." Husband suffered a hamstring muscle injury at Blackpool a fortnight ago, and missed last Saturday's match against Crystal Palace. Roger Kenyon will be back at centre half after missing the European Cup tie because of a cut near his right eye. His task to-morrow has been eased somewhat because he will not have to face the dangerous Neil Martin, the Coventry centre forward and captain, who had an ankle in plaster after being injured a week ago.
Injury crisis
In addition to Martin, Coventry have run into an injury crisis. Brian Joicey, who deputised for Martin in their Fairs Cup tie in mid-week, received a rib injury in that game, and the club doctor ordered him to rest in bed yesterday. He is rated very doubtful.  Midfield player Ernie Machin, who was booked and later sent off at Newcastle last Saturday, has a knee strain, and their £100,000 full back Wilf Smith has also been having treatment for an ankle injury. They are to have fitness tests later to-day. Coventry have not scored in their last four League games, losing to Chelsea and Manchester United, with draws against Newcastle and Huddersfield. Everton are in commanding form now, having regained their rhythm and championship-winning style. They should pick up their fifth successive League win against a Coventry below full strength.  Everton; Rankin; Wright, Newton; Kendall, Kenyon, Harvey (from) Husband, Whittle, Ball, Royle, Hurst, Morrissey, Brown, Jackson.
Coventry manager Noel Cantwell named 17 players, and will give tests to Machine, Joicey and Smith tomorrow. Even Martin is included, but as he only had the plaster removed from his ankle today, and then had an injection, he only has a remote chance of being able to play.

BLUES SEEK FIFTH LEAGUE WIN IN A ROW
Liverpool Echo - Friday 02 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Everton's major attention this week has been centred on to-morrow's game at Coventry City, with the midweek trip to Iceland for the European Cup being treated more or less as a break from routine training. That is why Alan Ball and Colin Harvey were pulled off in the second half of the Reykjavik match and why Roger Kenyon and Jimmy Husband stayed at Bellefield for treatment.   Manager Harry Catterick did not want Ball themselves unnecessarily in the Reykjavik mud. Ball Is still feeling his groin strain slightly but it is not sufficient to keep him out of action. Kenyon, with three stitches in a cut near his right eye, could have played in mid-week had it been essential. He will have benefited from the rest but Husband still needs more time to recover from his hamstring muscle injury.
Work-rate
Everton will be seeking their fifth successive League win and they'll need their strongest possible side to get it. Coventry are a tough, hard-tackling side, very difficult to beat. They have the high footballing skill of Willie Carr to make them tick; the others provide the work-rate and the power. Skipper Neil Martin has an ankle injury and cannot play so much will rest on former Ipswich forward John O'Rourke as the main striker At the back, Jeff Blockley and Ernie Machin are rugged tacklers ... and Everton will certainly know they've been in a game by 4.45 p m. to-morrow. Yet Highfield Road has been a good ground for Everton. Since Coventry came up from the Second Division three years ago, Everton have won twice and drawn the other game there. Coventry manager Noel Cantwell has spent around 400,000 in creaiting his side and although they are only 16th in the table, they are a formidable proposition on their day. But Tranmere tested them to their limits in the recent League Cup clash, and Everton in glowing form at the moment, should be able to continue their victory sequence. Coventry could be concentrating most of their efforts on Europe this season. Like Everton, they had a comfortable first round jaunt, beating the Bulgarian side Trakia Plovdiv by a 6-1 aggregate in the Fairs Cup. Coventry will probably be content to maintain a reasonable place in the League and raise their game for major Cup ties. Managers don't like this sort of thing to happen but players have habit of doing so, irrespective of managerial pressure. I expect to see a tough, relentless struggle tomorrow.  But with the skill of Everton a decisive factor, they could clinch the points if they maintain their composure, refuse to be rattled and take command in midfield as they usually do.

MARTIN CASHES IN ON MISTAKE BY KENDALL
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 03 October 1970
Coventry City 3, Everton 1
By Mike Charters
Coventry City; Glasier; Coop, Bruck; Clements, Blockley, Strong; Hunt, Carr, Martin, O’Rourke, Alderman, Sub; Joicey.  Everton; Rankin; Wright, Newton; Kendall, Kenyon, Harvey, Whittle, Ball, Royle, Hurst, Morrissey, Sub; Brown.  Referee; Mr. T.W. Dawes (Norwich). 
A STRONG gusting wind made conditions difficult at Coventry to-day and errors of passing judgment could be excused. Just when Everton looked like getting control, a mistake by Kendall led to a goal by Martin for Coventry only their second at home in a League game this season- but nine minutes later Hurst got an equalizer. Everton had the same team which beat Crystal Palace a week ago. Husband was not 100 per cent, fit from his hamstring muscle injury and Whittle kept his place on the wing. Some of Coventry's injury problems were sorted out after fitness tests this morning, the math one being that their captain Martin played after having an ankle in plaster all week. The strong wind was in Coventry's favour and when three high crosses into the Everton goalmouth swirled badly. Rankin caught two and missed one. A great cross field pass by Carr to Coop set up a Coventry attack, with Clement’s moving through to drive the ball over the bar from the edge of the area.  Ball finally got Everton moving with a great pass to Harvey, but Blocky turned it away for corner. 
Interception
Whittle broke past Bruck cleverly and burst Into the penalty area but Strong made a fine interception.  But from the corner Royle was only inches away from connecting with Ball's kick. Everton were playing some attractive football now and Royle was unfortunate not to score. From Ball's free kick he stopped low to make a superb header under pressure and the ball just cleared the bar.
Harvey was moving through to link up with the attack and made three shots in the opening stages—all off target. Alderson hit a shot from 20 yards winch was deflected off Kenyon, and Rankin's save had extra merit as the ball moved away from him. Coventry went ahead after 18 minutes--only their second League goal at home this season.  It stemmed from Kendall failing to control a chip into the middle by Hunt. He allowed the ball to run right away from him and Martin moved on to it and put a good angled shot just inside the far post. Alderson, only 18, was doing well on Coventry left wing.  Twice he got across centres after beating Wright—one was cleared by Kenyon the other was too high There was an incredible goalmouth skirmish with a header by Morrissey and shots from Royle, Whittle and Kendall finally being blocked, the last on for a corner. From the corner, Everton equalised, after 27 minutes, through Hurst. Whittle cleverly back-headed Ball's corner kick and Hurst, standing right on the line. headed it into the net. This was just the goal Everton needed after the shock of Coventry's opening score.
Superior skill
Everton were playing well, creating some fine-looking moves from midfield and by keeping the ball down were cheating the effects of the wind. Hurst and Newton between them failed to head clear a free kick by Strong and the ball ran through to Martin, who was just about to shoot when Kenyon made a last ditch tackle. From the corner the ball swirled away from Rankin and he just got his fingertips to it, with Wright putting the ball away for another corner. There was no shortage of action with Everton showing superior skill, particularly in mid-field and some good wing play Morrissey and Whittle. 
The ball had to be changed before Ball took a free kick which was punched away by Glazier. Whittle was a real live wire, causing Bruck plenty of headaches.  In this exciting game, it needed a trip by Hurst on Martin to prevent the Coventry leader going through for another goal. The chance stemmed initially from Harvey putting the ball straight to Clements, whose quick through pass sent Martin away.   Rankin made a splendid last ditch save as Strong drove the ball into a packed goalmouth, with the shot being deflected away from the goalkeeper.  Rankin was under more pressure than at any time since he came into the first team a fortnight ago . The wind was the problem, of course, as Coventry drove centres Into the goalmouth.  He just failed to make a dean catch from Carr's centre, but got possession at the second attempt. In the 10 minutes or so before half time Coventry had been putting on a lot of pressure with Clements working hard in midfield. Half-time Coventry City 1, Everton 1.
There was a sensational restart a s O'Rourke chased a through pass from Hunt, with Hurst just turning the ball past the post as Rankin dived desperately. It was near an own goal as you could see. Everton continued to play in their traditional manner—the ball on the ground. Royle took a neat pass from Kendall to cut inside Strong and hit a fierce shot which Glazier turned away for a corner. From this Hurst almost scored his second with Glazier scrambling the ball away once more. This was a game full of hard rugged tackling, as expected and several players were obviously feeling the effects of extreme physical contact. A fine run by Clements, after he had dispossessed Hurst, set up a Coventry attack which saw them taking the lead after 57 minutes. Despite Wright's tackle—Wright was injured in the process— Clements regained possession, fired the ball into the middle with Kendall failing to make an effective clearance. The ball went to Alderson who drove it low past Rankin, striking the foot of the upright and bouncing out for Hunt to score against his old team. With 10 minutes to go Hunt put Coventry 3-1 in the lead. Final: COVENTRY 3 EVERTON Attendance: 28,563

KELLY ON TARGET FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 03 October 1970
Everton pressed hard but were too methodical in their build-up, giving Blackburn too much time to cover. Lyons, playing deep, was putting the ball through well, as was Styles who found Lyons with a free kick which he headed just wide. West was lucky when beaten to the ball by Dunning, whose chip shot went just behind, then Dunning was narrowly wide with a fine drive. Blackburn took the lead after 29 minutes when DUNNING picked up a pass from Kelly and gave West no chance. Everton equalised ten minutes later, Darracott put the ball across to KELLY who headed it over Barton. The ball hit the underside of the bar dropped down and out. Only frantic flag-waving by the linesman confirmed a goal as the referee had let play continue. Half-time.—Everton Res. 1, Blackburn Res. 1.
Everton Reserves; West; Westburg, Styles; Scott, Labone, Darracott; Kenny, Wilson, Melledew, Lyons, Smith, Sub; Seargreant.  Blackburn Rovers Reserves; Bartons; Rossendale, Kopell; Atherton, Eccles, Fazackerley; O’Neill, Dunning, Whalley, Bradford, Kelly, Sub; McDonald. 

ENGLAND NEEDS NATIONAL STADIUM
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 03 October 1970
THE HARRY CATTERICK COLUMN
ENGLISH soccer needs a new home, and one of the first moves, I would like to see when the league clubs get a greater degree of autonomy, would be to build a national soccer stadium capable of housing 200,000 people in comfort. This is net just pie in the sky philosophy on my part.  We have had soccer in this country for over 110 years, but we are still - playing at it." By that I mean there is a great need for national overall planning. The Football Association have done a magnificent job over the years, but now the professional game, with its huge sponsorships and many side promotions, want to have a greater say in their own affairs. This was hammered home at the last annual meeting, and now most clubs welcome the setting up of the committee to rationalize the special relationship between the Football Associations and the Football League
Scientific
It is no longer possible tor nice, well-meaning –“amateurs" to set out a policy to control the professional game which is getting bigger every year. This question of soccer's own national stadium is one of the big issues which has been shelved for far too many years. Wembley has been wonderful centre for the game, but it is not, of course, exclusively reserved for soccer.  It seems to me, with so much money pouring into the professional game, that in the next decade the whole question of soccer stadiums will be revolutionized The fan of the future will demand more and better seats, improved playing surfaces, properly staffed cafes and bars In the national stadium I envisage could be housed the most modern equipment for coaching and training and facilities for research into the scientific aspects of the game. This is something that needs the real professional touch. It is true to say Alan Hardaker, secretary of the Football League and myself have not always seen eye to eye on all matters affecting football.  It would be remarkable if we did. But I believe he is a strong, forthright character who is doing a great deal of good for football.  The soccer fan may dismiss all this maneuvering as football politics, but there is no doubt that in the ultimate, all these moves between the F A and League will have a far reaching effect on the football supporters' comfort and the way the game to be run on the years ahead.  The problems I see then, are 1, disciplinary matters. 2. Finance: 3. international and representative calls on league players.  I am convinced that within the next decade disciplinary commissions will be chaired by a lawyer to make sure everything is conducted in a proper businesslike and legal way. It was all right in days gone by for the professional footballer to appear without any sort of defence before F A councilors when he had been sent off. In the modern game, there are so many side factors and not the least of these are the startling discrepancies in the punishments meted out to players who are charged with the same offence. Alan Ball, for instance, was booked for setting up a defensive wall in an Everton match.  He had done the same thing previously for Everton and England without trouble. After his booking, he still set up defensive walls for England, again without being punished. Yet the caution he received in our match was added to previous cautions and he was suspended. That meant a loss to Everton of a very vital player, on an “offence" which most people in the professional game would adjudge to be normal tactical procedure.  The point is that if it is wrong, then all players should be punished.  Then there is the question of swearing I don't condone it, but after all, men running at speed, involved in tense situations, often give vent to their feelings.  If a player uses foul language directly at a referee, he should be sent off ... but there is a difference between punishing a man for this and punishing him for an explosive outburst which is not directed at the referee or his linesmen.
Investigate
There is another very important question which this new F.A.-League committee should investigate—the rising number of representative fixtures. At the recent Football League v. Irish League fixture at Norwich, Sir Alf Ramsey had to make seven changes. He was reported as saying afterwards that players, when selected for these representative matches, should insist on playing.  If Sir Alf is suggesting that clubs are pulling players out of these games, then he should name clubs and players.  Here again, a professional and rational approach is needed.  League managers have to fit in 42 League matches, F.A Cup-ties and perhaps European fixtures as well.  If successful, they will have almost sixty first class matches to play in the season with a first team pool of, say 16 players.  Some of these are also wanted for England matches and this must create new problems.  The international programme can be so planned that it does not interfere in any way with the normal demands of the League clubs, the player’s employers. 

EVERTON READY FOR EUOPEAN CUP RUSH
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 03 October 1970
EVERTON director Alan Waterworth and secretary Bill Dickinson will be in Amsterdam on Tuesday to represent the club at the draw for the second round of the European Cup…and they will start some hectic administrative work as soon as they know their opponents and the venue for the first leg. They have only a fortnight to prepare match arrangements. They are hoping to liaise with their opponents on dates and travel plans. And the pressure will really be on if they are drawn away in the first leg. Travel and hotel arrangements have to be made, and the home club may be able to help with this.   
If drawn at home, on October 21, they will have to make ticket plans for quick release to the public Personal contact in Amsterdam with officials of the opposing club will be invaluable in sorting nut problems which are bound to occur. A fortnight is not a long time to get them sorted out
CHARLIE GEE, Everton international centre half of the thirties, is a familiar figure in St. Asaph where he lives in retirement after 27 years as a teacher. His sporting leisure is now spent on the green of the local bowls club, but he also uses his football knowhow during the winter season in helping run a team of St. Asaph schoolboys.

YOUNG FANS TAKE HEEL
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 03 October 1970
EVERTON are delighted with the response to their appeal—and the article in the Echo a fortnight ago—for young fans to keep off the pitch before, during and after games at Goodison. Promotions manager David Exall said: "We emphasized the problem in our programme notes last Saturday. Coupled with the Echo article, we think the point has got home with the youngsters. “It is not good for a club to have these kids running all over the pitch and the minority who were at fault seem to have realised that they too should show a sense of responsibility. " I am pleased to record the club's appreciation publicly, and we hope they'll continue to keep it up. The young fans behaved splendidly for the game against Palace.

 

SOCCERSCOPE
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 03 October 1970
Everton manager Harry Catterick is experimenting with an interesting switch in his reserve team by playing six-footer Mick Lyons, normally a centre forward, at centre half. Lyons (19) was not eligible for city schools honours because he was educated at De La Salle Grammar School, but he joined Everton from school and has spent most of his time in the junior sides. Mr. Catterick said: “This is one of many positional changes we make from time to time among our junior players. Lyons is a particularly good header of the ball, and may not be mobile enough to play as a striker. He has done well so far at centre half." The Lyons switch Is understandable because Everton have highly promising young centre forward, coming through at the moment-17-yearsold Alan Wilson and the year older David Johnson. Both are former Liverpool Schoolboys
JIMMY GOURLAY
A Scottish wing half who was with Everton in the seasons immediately after the First World War, has died at his home in Greenock. Veteran Everton supporters will remember - his stylish Play. After his playing days were over, he was trainer for many years with Morton, the club with which he was best known as a player.

£700 BILL –FOR MATCH OFFICIALS
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 03 October 1970
By Mike Charters
When Everton compile the balance sheet for their first round European Cup tie against the Icelandic champions, Keflavik, there will be a remarkable item which reads: "To match officials… £700." That is the amount they have paid to cover the travel and hotel costs or the three Cypriot officials who handled the first match at Goodison on September 16. The home team pays the match officials. Everton vice chairman Jim Hacking told me. "We were staggered by the bill. Apparently, they had to break their journey from Cyprus in London, both corning to and from Liverpool." European football is big business. Costs are equally big. Everton won't have much change out of £3,500 when they pay for their charter flight and hotel costs. Prices are sky high In Iceland. As manager Harry Catterick studied the menu in the Hotel Saga, the party's overnight headquarters, he remarked dryly to the amusement of his dinner companions. "We'll have to sell Alan Ball to pay for this."
In pocket
Heavy European costs are routine and every club hopes that they will have sufficient from their home tie to cover the bills for their away game, and make a profit. Everton took around £11,000 from the Goodison tie (attendance: 28,424), so they will be handsomely in pocket. Mr. Hacking said. "As the competition becomes keener, and we can anticipate more attractive opponents, the income from Europe should rise." But little Keflavik were worried that they would not be able to cover the cost of their visit to England they spent a few days in London after playing at Goodison. And their worries increased noticeably when it looked as though Northern Ireland referee Malcolm Wright would postpone the game in Reykjavik on Wednesday. Their concern was that if the game was postponed through weather conditions, it might never be played in Iceland at all.
Shoestring
That would have been a tremendous blow to them. They struggle along on a shoestring budget at the best of times, and to lose the cash from a European home time would have been catastrophic to their finances. The 9,500 attendance was sufficient to cover Keflavik's costs and give them a profit as well. The stand was full with 3,500 spectators paying 19s, a seat. Terrace prices were 9s. children 2s ... and youngsters made up at least 80 per cent of the crowd.  Out of the takings, Keflavik had to pay a substantial rental fee to the Reykjavik municipal authority, who own the stadium. So the final profit was small ... but sufficient. Everton took the precaution of bringing back a sample of the lava grit which was spread liberally on the pitch to absorb some of the surface water. Everton felt that if they had a player Injured by failing in the grit, and possibly suffering infection afterwards, they should have evidence of the sort of material used on the pitch.

‘KEEP IT UP, JOE!-A CRITIC’S TRIBUTE
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 03 October 1970
I have been a severe critic of Joe Royle and other younger players in the Everton team, though I have always tried to be fair in my judgment. But after watching last Saturday's game, I was delighted with the improvement in Royle's play, and I pay my tribute to him. It is obvious to me a change in advice and training methods have been adopted, for there to be such a marked improvement. Of course there is still much to be done, and the easy chances of last Saturday should not be missed. I wish, also, to express my pleasure at seeing Johnny Morrissey -he has set a high standard of play this year. Let us hope the many chances he provides will be accepted. Keep it up, Everton, and you will soon be in your rightful place as champions.—A. Champion, Letland Road, Southport.
It's nice to have someone admit they were half-wrong.
RUNNING INTO TROUBLE
THE current disturbing trend of children running on the pitch before and during the game should be eliminated, before it becomes commonplace everywhere. The solution seems to be for adults who stand immediately adjacent to the playing area to close ranks, after the children have gone on the pitch, and refuse to allow them to enter the crowd again. The police could then collect the trespassers and escort them from the ground. If this occurred on two occasions I believe it would be a deterrent to other children harbouring similar ideas.—N. Boote, 14b Tiverton Close, Huyton
 Some adults behave like kids, too, at times.
FULL MARKS TO CATTERICK
AFTER all the alarm at Everton's start to the season: it may interest our Anfield neighbours to observe that we have now won more games than they have. Now could anyone doubt the ability of the team, after last season' Full marks to Mr. Catterick for remaining calm and insisting that the team continue to play their own brand of attacking football. L. Robinson. 37 Crofton Crescent. Liverpool 13
Plenty of so-called Everton fans were critical, early on. But the complaints have dwindled down.
FIRST CLASS
ANDY RANKIN has proved himself a first-class stand-in for Gordon West. Against Crystal Palace, the Blues played with more confidence. A first-class show all round. —R. Gadd, 28 Sunlight Street, Liverpool L 8 4AQ.
West will certainly have to fight for his place again.

WRIGHT MAY BE OUT FOR MONTHS, SAYS CATTERICK
Liverpool Echo - Monday 05 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Everton's international full-back, Tommy Wright, could be out of the game for anything “from three weeks to three months," said manager Harry Catterick,  after Wright had limped out of the match at Coventry on Saturday. Wright joins team-mate Jimmy Husband on the treatment table with the same pulled hamstring type of injury--one of the most difficult to heal. Wright was kicked behind the right knee in the incident which led to Coventry's second goal. Within a few minutes, he over-stretched his right leg in turning the ball out of play, and this caused the hamstring injury. As soon as the Everton party returned to Liverpool on Saturday night, Mr. Catterick ordered Wright into a nursing home for a complete rest over the week-end. Wright was in bed with in 20 minutes of the coach returning to Bellefield.  Mr. Catterick said: “It is impossible to give a firm date when Wright will be fit again. “We thought Husband had a chance of playing at Coventry—it was a fortnight since he was injury at Blackpool—but he will need more time. "But I don't think Wright has any chance of playing in our European Cup-ties this month. This is a bad injury." The second-leg - tie of the second round is on November 4. Everton have Sandy Brown as the natural replacement, coming in at No. 3, with Keith Newton probably switching to the -right flank.

EVERTON LEARN CUP FATE TOMORROW
Liverpool Echo - Monday 05 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Europe's major club soccer competition reaches a decisive stage at The Hague to-morrow, when the second-round draw is made in the European Cup. Everton are now in the last 16, but they know that at some stage they may have to meet and beat Glasgow Celtic, the 1967 winners or Cagliari, who have deposed Inter-Milan as Italy's soccer kings. Everton will also be wary of Unizale Textile, Arad, of Rumania, who loom as dangerous challengers after their shock victory over Feyenoord, reigning world and European champions. But Cagliari, Celtic, Everton and former finalists Ajax look capable of maintaining Western Europe's grip on the trophy. Teams in the drag: Standard Leige, Ajax, Basle, Borussia Moenchen- Gladbach, Jena, Legia Slovan, Bratislava, Red Star, U. T. Arad, Panathinaikos. Cagliari, Sporting Lisbon, Athletic Madrid, Everton, Waterford, Celtic.

MIDFIELD CONTROL WAS LOST, AND DETERMINED COVENTRY TOOK TOLL
Liverpool Echo - Monday 05 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Everton's great strength is in the skill of Ball, Harvey and Kendall, the best midfield trio In England. The game at Coventry on Saturday, comprehensively won by Coventry, 3-1, showed what can happen when these brilliant players have an off day collectively. If one of them is below par, the other two can usually pull out something extra to remedy the weakness: on this occasion they were all some way below their best. So Everton's football gloss, the flair and ingenuity with which they take midfield control and dominate opponents, spluttered and finally vanished against the strong-running, determined Coventry players, who took advantage of Everton's below-form display for their finest win of the season.
Flattering
For about 20 minutes in the first half, Everton played well. Ball was creating good-looking attacks, despite the over-physical attentions of Clements.  Whittle and Morrissey looked good on the wings, and Royle made a couple of determined strikes. It looked as though they would take control once Hurst had headed an equaliser after Martin's opening goal, "gifted" to him by a defensive error from Kendall. But it was a flattering spell. Admittedly, a boisterous wind made conditions difficult, swirling the ball around and making judgment of passes a major problem. Yet Coventry used it wisely, hurling the ball into the goalmouth for the dangerous Martin and O'Rourke to chase and force Everton defenders into errors. Still, the game was neatly and properly balanced at 1-1 by half-time. Everton's slump in the second half was as unexpected as it was out of character, and Rankin cannot be blamed for any of the goals. They allowed Coventry to take control with a surprising lack of challenge. The longer the game went, the more confident. Coventry became and it added up to Everton's poorest performance for a couple of seasons. The forwards were rarely seen, the midfield men could not get a grip on the game, making inaccurate passes, and the defence was hustled into indecision a few times as well. Although Rankin, Kenyon and Hurst played well, 18-years-old Alderson on Coventry's left wing caused a lot of trouble, with Hunt and Carr showing the sort of midfield mastery which Harvey and Co. usually produce. It was clear that Coventry, getting stronger and more determined all the time, would score from all the pressure they were exerting. The goal came from former Everton player Hunt after Alderson's shot had struck an upright, but here again failure to clear quickly by Kendall presented Alderson with the ball and his shooting chance. Wright was injured in this incident and went off shortly afterwards. Coventry's third goal was a fantasy piece. The clever Carr, taking a free kick, stood over the ball. He gripped it between both heels, leapt in the air to flick it high behind him, dived out of the way and Hunt hit a superb volley into the top corner. The shot was magnificent, the Carr flick unbelievable—but they have rehearsed the move in training. It would go down well in a circus and they might try it a thousand times without succeeding again. Disallowed Ball scored three minutes from the end but the referee disallowed it for hands. As referee Dawes was behind Ball, it was difficult to under- stand how he could see what Ball did as Royle's header came across—a linesman signalled a goal. Echo photographer Nigel Wigglesvorth was yards from Ball, with a fronton view. He said Ball chested the ball down before scoring; my view was similar to the referee's and all I could see was Ball's back.

EVERTON FACE GERMANY CHAMPIONS
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 06 October 1970
By Mike Charters
TOUGH DRAW IN THE EUROPEAN CUP
Everton go to Germany for their second round clash in the European Cup. They play German champions Borussia Muenchen Gladbach in Germany on October 21, with the second leg at Goodison on November 4. The draw made in Amsterdam to-day, was not seeded and some fascinating ties emerged. But Celtic were the lucky ones with a draw against the Eire side, Waterford. Everton face a side with ten internationals, including the Danish star, Le Fevre, who has played 26 times for Denmark.  Managed by Hennes Weisweiler, they have the famous defender Voghts (30 caps) as their top personality and I understand that they are a young and ever improving side, who have surged to the forefront of German football in the past three years. Everton manager Harry Catterick told me: "These German sides are always a tough proposition. With so many internationals in their team, they will obviously provide us with a real test.  “Muenchan Gladbach is a smallish town near Dusseldoff.  Their stadium only holds 32,000 and I understand they are considering switching the game to one of the larger grounds in Dusseldorf.”  Everton will be assured of big English support as Muenchen Gladbach is the headquarters of the British Army stationed on the Rhine. The fact that Everton were drawn away in the first leg brought a sigh of relief to officials of the Liverpool club…and Liverpool police.  With Liverpool now committed to playing their Fairs Cup tie against Dinamo Bucharest at Anfield on October 21, there would have been a direct clash had Everton been drawn at home.  It would have meant that both big clubs played at home in a mid-week game for the first time and that would have brought hugh problems in the crowd handling.  The last time Everton played in Germany was five years ago when they met Nuremberg in the Fairs Cup, winning 2-1 on aggregate after drawing in Nuremberg. After hearing today's draw, Mr. Catterick immediately made arrangements to send a representative to watch Muenchen Gladbach next Saturday in their league match. In Amsterdam, Everton director Alan Waterworth and secretary Bill Dickinson liaised with the German club officials on match arrangements. Everton promotions manager David Exall said the Everton Development Association and the Supporters Club would organise a joint trip to Germany for their agents and members. Inquiries should be made to the Promotions Department at Goodison Park. 

TOMMY WRIGHT STARTS THE LONG HAUL BACK
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 06 October 1970
By Mike Charters
EVERTON'S injured full back Tommy Wright come out of a nursing home today and started the long haul back to fitness. The fact that he spent nearly three days having maximum rest indicates the severity of the injury. Normally a player ordered to rest after a Saturday match injury conies out of nursing home on the Monday . Manager Harr Catterick estimated that Wright's injury was a bad one within minutes of the end of the game at Coventry on Saturday. Now Wright will begin remedial exercises at Bellefield, plus more rest, designed to cure the hamstring muscle strain. Winger Jimmy Husband, who suffered a similar injury at Blackpool on Septmeber 19, has already missed three games but may be all right for the home match against Derby County next Saturday.  Mr. Catterick explained that in cases like this a player can feel fine until he extends himself in competition. The problem is to judge how long to keep him out when he reports no strain after normal training. I cannot visualize Wright being able to play until the end of the month at the earliest, but another week 's rest should put Husband in line for a return against Derby.

BLUES BID FOR SCOT IS DENIED
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 06 October 1970
Despite reports from London that Everton had joined Spurs in a move to sign St. Johnstone centre forward John Connolly, St. Johnstone manager Willie Ormond to-day denied any approach for his outstanding player (writes Mike Charters). Ormond said: “I have not had an approach or an offer from either Spurs or Everton." Connolly, at 21 rated the best young striker in Scottish football, has recovered from a cartilage operation last summer to become the target of English club scouts. He played a leading part in St. Johnstone's 4-1 win against Ayr last Saturday, when both Everton and Spurs had representatives checking on him. St. Johnstone have poor support, despite being second in the First Division of the Scottish League. They have to sell to live, and it is estimated in Scotland that Connolly would bring around £80,000 if he moved to an English club. Everton manager Harry Catterick told me: “I know nothing about any approach for Connolly."

EVERTON LIKELY TO REPEAT JET CHARTER PLAN
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 07 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Everton look certain to follow the successful travel pattern of their European Cup-tie in Iceland by chartering a jet for their second round match in Germany against Borussia Moenchen Gladbach a fortnight to-day. Secretary Bill Dickinson way busy to-day making travel and hotel plans. He was in Amsterdam yesterday for the draw, but found that the only clubs not represented were Celtic and Moenchen Gladbach. The game in Germany will have a 7.30 p.m. kick-off, but Everton will probably fly back immediately after the game from Dusseldorf, some 12 miles from the ground and the nearest major airport. This gives them all Thursday and Friday of that week to treat injuries and prepare for their home game against Newcastle on the Saturday. Major clubs are finding that it is worth the high cost of hiring their own aircraft to have the facility of making travel plans to suit their own tight fixture schedule. Reliance on normal service flights can mean many hours of waiting wasting time which can be best employed at home getting ready for the next match. At Bellefield to-day, full back Tommy Wright and winger Jimmy Husband continued their exercises in the fight to recover from their ham- string muscle injuries. The rest of the players are all fit as they prepare for the home game against Derby County on Saturday. Derby play Millwall at home to-night in the League Cup, and Everton will probably have a representative there to check on them.

BLUES STEP UP SEARCH FOR PLAYERS
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 08 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Everton scouts have checked on 86 of the 92 Football League clubs already this season as manager Harry Catterick steps up his drive for new players. In addition, the never-ending search has taken in countless non - League amateur and schoolboy matches. I believe it won't be long before the Everton chief moves into the transfer market again. He told me: I would like a couple of players to strengthen my first team pool. But trying to get players of the quality I would like is becoming increasingly difficult. "I have instructed the scouting staff to intensify their efforts, and so far we have seen every League club in action except six. “Every source of talent has been checked, and will continue to be. More and more the development of our talent from schoolboy level is becoming the principal means of finding players…all the major clubs are finding this to be a fact of football life.  Our record in this is second to none but, at the same time, there must always be the transfer market as the other means of recruiting staff. “I was interested in the Preston midfield player Archie Gemmill. He would have suited us, but I put a price on him which I thought to be right and I would not go above that when Derby County signed him a fortnight ago. “Transfer fees must be regarded in the light of the needs of the buying and selling clubs at the time of the transfer. “With players like Ball, Harvey and Kendall, our need for another midfield performer was not as urgent as, say, Derby County's was. "Derby paid around £65,000 for Gemmill—l was not prepared to go as high as that. But that does not mean Derby paid too much for him. They needed him, so the price was right FOR THEM.  "If I had wanted another midlield player urgently, I would have gone far higher. But it was not necessary, and that is why I dropped out of the Gemmill transfer." It is Mr. Catterick's invariable practice to talk about transfers AFTER the deal has been completed. There is never ah int BEFORE he makes his now famous secret swoops into the market. His reiteration of his search for more players is the best clue that something could be in the offing. I think his priority is for a defender and another midfield man. But he won't be hurried. Yet I feel that one day fairly soon hell telephone me to say:  “I’ve just signed . . . That’s the way he does business. It has paid off so handsomely with the incoming of Ball, Kendall, Newton and others of lesser fame who have developed into valuable members of the playing staff.

HENNESSEY SET TO PLAY AGAINST EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 08 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Welsh international defender Tern Hennessey is likely to return to Derby County's side against Everton at Goodison on Saturday.   He has made a speedy recovery from a cartilage operation six weeks ago. Derby will also be strengthened by the reappearance of Liverpool-born Roy McFarland, former Tranmere centre-half, who has been out of League action for a month with a hamstring muscle strain. Hennessey bought for more than 90,000 from Forest last season, played in the reserves last Saturday and was also substitute for the League Cup-tie against Millwall last night. He did not play but Derby assistant manager Peter Taylor told me. "Hennessey is fit and we hope he will be all right return on Saturday for a game which we rate as one of the really big ones the season.  “We are on the upgrade after a disappointing spell caused mainly by the injuries to Hennessey and McFarland." Counts have come out of their injury crisis so well now that only Welsh international wing half Alan Durban is unfit with an ankle strain. McFarland played last night and came through without any reaction from his injury. So Derby could be near full strength to tackle Everton, with only Durban missing, while Everton will be short of Tommy Wright certainly and Jimmy Husband probably.

BIG TWO MAY BATTLE OVER NEWTON
Liverpool Echo - Friday 09 October 1970
By Chris James
MERSEYSIDE managers Liverpool's Bill Shankly and Everton's Harry Catterick may become close rivals for the signature of Nottingham Forest s £150,000 midfield star, Henry Newton--but they could face competition from Derby, Arsenal and West Ham. Harry Catterick has been watching the Newton situation closely for some time and yesterday, I understand. Shankly telephoned Forest manager Matt Gillies to inquire about Newton. Shankly's call came at almost the same time as West Ham's Ron Greenwood and Derby Couunty's Brian Clough rang to ask about Newton. Like Catterick, Arsenal manager Bertie Mee has been keeping a close check on activities surrounding Newton. And now Gillies is planning showdown talks with the player on Monday which could lead to the race for his signature reaching a climax next week. Gillies said to-day: "Five clubs telephoned me yesterday and Liverpool were one of them. I shall be having a heart to heart talk with Newton on Monday to sort this thing out once and for all. "He's a decent sort of lad but all this speculation and talk of transfers has been just too much for him." Newton has been unsettled at Forest ever since he was not included in the England World Cup squad in Mexico. He is believed to feel that, had he been with a more fashionable club, he would have been a certainty for Mexico. But Shankly to-day vigorously denied making any approach to Forest for Newton. He said: "I am not interested in Newton. We have had two of the sharpest blows any team has had this season with the injuries to Callaghan and Graham. “If we are going into the transfer market it will be to replace one of these —not for a defender." Newton has played both as a mid-field player and as a back-four man for Forest and could do the sort of busy mid-field job for Liverpool that Ian Callaghan does. Callaghan, however, has been out for three weeks with a knee injury that has not yet been diagnosed and which could turn out to be cartilage trouble enforcing a long lay-off.

BALL OUT OF BLUES’ LINE-UP TOMORROW
Liverpool Echo - Friday 09 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Everton captain Alan Ball is out of the game against Derby County at Goodison tomorrow because of a stomach strain which has been troubling him all week. It will be the first game he has missed since last February when he ended a five-week suspension. With full-back Tommy Wright and winger Jimmy Husband also out of action with hamstring muscle strain, Everton are well below full strength for one of the big games of the season against the strong Derby side. Manager Harry Callerick said: "Alan has been feeling this pain all week. We gave him a really searching test this morning and afterwards he declared himself unfit. "With Wright and Husband also unfit, Ball's injury is a big blow to us." Mr. Catterick said he would choose from 13 to-morrow, but it looks as though Irish international Tommy Jackson will deputise for Ball, as he did last season when Ball was out through suspension. Sandy Brown is the automatic replacement for Wright, and I think we will see him at No. 3 with Keith Newton switching to his England position at right back. Defender Frank Darcy and reserve winger Bill Kenny join the squad. Everton: Rankin; Newton, Brown; Kendall, Kenyon, Harvey; (from) Whittle, Jackson, Royle, Hurst, Morrissey, Darcy, Kenny.   Derby County, first cup winners of the season they beat Manchester United, 4-I, to become the first holders of the Watney Cup —will be determined to end a League slump in which they have picked up only three points from the last six games.
Raid Recovery
Derby have decided not to recall their Welsh international defender Terry Hennessey, who has made remarkably quick recovery from a cartilage operation only six weeks ago.  Derby's 65.000 buy from Preston, Archie Gemmill, will play in midfield, and Everton fans will be able to get an early look at the man whom manager Harry Catterick was interested in before Derby signed him a fortnight ago.
DERBY: Green: Webster, Robson: McGovern, McFarland. Mackay, Gemmill, Carlin, O’Hare, Hector, Hinton. Sub: Wignall.

BLUES AIM TO REGAIN BEST FORM
Liverpool Echo - Friday 09 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Blues aim to Everton's players will have been left in no doubt by manager Harry Catterick just where they went wrong at Coventry last Saturday. Talks and full-scale practice games have been aimed at ensuring there will be no repeat against Derby County at Goodison to-morrow. Derby have slumped from fifth to 13th place, just below Everton, in a six-week spell during which they have only won one League game. This disastrous run came when they had Terry Hennessey, that great back-four man, recovering from a cartilage operation and, for the past four weeks, centre half Roy McFarland out of action with a hamstring muscle strain. McFarland is back now but Hennesey is being given another run in the reserves tomorrow. The only Derby regular still on the injured list is Welsh international wing half Alan Durban.
Calibre
I expect to see Derby opening out the game more than recent Goodison visitors like Crystal Palace and Ipswich, packed their defence and had little attacking ambitions can be a dominating figure, but if he is hustled out of his stride, he can lose the fine edge in his game. Everton can get back into winning form if they pressurize this Derby defence. It will need Ball, Harvey and Kendall to get over their very rare, and collective, drop in form of last Saturday, building up constructive moves from midfield to give Royle, Morrissey and Whittle plenty of the ball to maintain consistent attacks. This could prove one of the best games of the season at Goodison . . . if Derby stick to their usual pattern and do not go into a defensive shell. Everton will be smarting over criticism of their below-par show at Coventry, and will be anxious to get back into their brightest form. Derby's attractive reputation could ensure the biggest gate so far at Goodison, topping the 50,724 for the Manchester City match. The fans should see football of high class, and it could be as close as the corresponding game last season. when Alan Ball's goal was sufficient to give Everton both points after Derby had been the first team to beat the eventual champions that season—at Derby.

EVERTON BEWARE! DERBY ARE READY
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 10 October 1970
Everton beware! Derby County, their opponents at Goodison Park this afternoon will be near full strength for the first time in six weeks.  And assistant manager Peter Taylor told me.” We are on the upgrade.  We are looking forward to the game and with injury problems behind us now, we aim to do well.  To us, this is one of the big games of the season and we are ready for it.”  The injury problems involved Welsh International defender Terry Hennessey and England Under-23 centre half Roy McFarland, the Liverpool born lad formerly with Tranmnere Rovers.  Taylor said; “Hennessey has been out for six weeks after a cartilage operation but played in the reserves last Saturday.  We are giving him another reserves game today.  “McFarland missed four League games with a hamstring muscle strain, but he’s fit again now.  “We have been slipping a bit while these two have been out of action.  No team in the land can be short of players of their quality and not fell the difference.  “But now we have McFarland back.  We enjoying playing at Goodison; so we rate this one of the big games we all look forward to, and we reckon it could be the start of a surge which could shoot us up the table.”  While Hennessey has been missing, Derby only won one League match- at home to Burnley.  They lost at home to Coventry and Newcastle, away to Albion and Southampton.  This slump sent them from 5th to 13th place in the table, immediately below Everton. 
Great Job
With McFarland also out for a month, Derby have been struggling understandably.  Now their bad days could be behind them, and Everton with their injury problems affecting Tommy wright and Jimmy Husband, will have to be at their best to win today.  That other Liverpool born star in the Derby side, inside forward Willie Carlin, once on the books at Anfield is playing as well as ever.  Taylor said; “What can you say about Willie that has not been said before?  He is doing a great job for us, probably having his best ever season, and he has worked so hard and well while we have been below strength.”  The latest new boy to Derby is former Preston midfield star, Archie Gemmill, who cost them 65,000 a fortnight ago with Everton also interested in the little Scot.  Gemmill moved straight into the Derby side, wearing the No.7 shirt but playing in midfield with Carlin and John McGovern.  He is in the position McGovern used to occupy with McGovern now at No. 4 in place of the injured Welsh international wing half Alan Durban.  Durban has an ankle injury which could keep him out for some weeks, but McGoven, a much under-rated player, is well used to the role and, in effect, has just changed the number on his jersey since Gemmill joined them from Preston.  Derby have three talented front runners in Scots international John O’Hare, Kevin Hector and Alan Hinton.  They are exciting thrustful players who can upset the most competent of defeces.  And of course, there is the great veteran controlling it all from the sweeper position-Dave Mackay.  The years sit lightly on his shoulders, and if opponents give him plenty of time to gather the ball and send it accurately on its way, Mackay can still be a dominating figure.  But if he is hustled and stretched around, Mackay’s game can lose its edge.  Opponents can’t always succeed in this tactic because Mackay has McFarland and Hennessey cutting off the problems before they reach him in his role between the back four and the goalkeeper. 
Talented
Given time to control the ball and assess the situation, Mackay can switch defence into attack so quickly with adroit passes to O’Hare and Hector that Derby’s attacking threats start from him.  Derby are a talented attractive side, I don’t think they will defend to the same extent as Crystal Palace and Ipswich did in the last two League games at Goodison.  This should make for an entertaining match and I go along with the Derby assistant manager in his judgement that this should be one of the big games of the season.  Last season Derby were the first team to beat Everton-on their own ground.  They gave the champions a terrific test before Everton managed to win by the only goal at Goodison in December.  I think it could be just as close today, and Everton will have to improve on their display at Coventry a week ago to master this Derby outfit. 

TOUGH FOR BLUES
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 10 October 1970
MORRISSEY ON TARGET, THEN DERBY LEVEL
EVERTON 1, DERBY COUNTY 1
By Mike Charters
Line-up;- Everton; Rankin; Brown, Newton; Kendall, Kenyon, Harvey; Whittle, Jackson, Royle, Hurst, Morrissey, Sub; Darcy.  Derby County; Green; Webster, Robson; McGovern, McFarland, Mackay; Gemmill, Carlin, O’Hare, Hector, Hinton, Sub; Wignall.  Referee; Mr. P. Baldwin (Middlesbrough). 
IN A HARD tough game at Goodison this afternoon with referee Baldwin not checking a number of incidents, Everton clearly missed the class of the injured Ball. The game was full of free kicks with the defences having a number of narrow escapes. Harvey was Everton's captain for the day in the absence of Alan Ball who was replaced as expected by Jackson, making his first League appearance of the season. Brown operated at left back, again as expected and was quickly in action halting a move down his wing. Everton's defence was under pressure when Kenyon and Newton blocked shots from Carlin and Hector, with Newton finally clearing with neat bit of work. Everton scrambled away a free kick from Hinton, with Newton finally clearing with a neat bit of work.  Everton scrambled away a free kick from Hinton, with Newton and Kenyon just managing between them to get the ball away from O'Hare. In the opening stages, Derby looked the more composed and settled team, doing most of the attacking. Everton's defence did not look too happy. From a free kick by Mackay, Hector headed the ball back to O'Hare who mistimed his shot to send it a yard wide.
Menacing
Everton produced a menacing attack when Royle got the ball across to Kendall who also mistimed his attempted shot and the ball bounced so awkwardly for Whittle that he could not make effective contact. McFarland was hurt in this incident and left the pitch to get treatment to his forehead. Carlin missed a great chance for Derby. Hinton collected the ball near the touchline and had an unchallenged run to put a centre to the far side of goal where Carlin, trying to place his header, sent the ball wide. Everton's defence continued to live dangerously. From a corner by Hinton, McFarland headed the ball back into the middle, where Carlin's hook shot struck Harvey and bounced away, with Rankin in no position to save.
Plays It Cools
Everton were beginning in have more of the play after Derby's initial pressure and they went ahead after 18 minutes through Morrissey. Jackson's corner missed the heads of Roy le and McFarland as they went up and Morrissey, standing behind them, side-footed the ball into the net as coolly as you like.  
The game was rough at times, the tackling raw in the extreme. One of the worst was by Webster on Morrissey with the Derby full back receiving a severe telling off from the referee as Morrissey received treatment for an injury.  Derby broke clear with Hinton being unchecked for what looked like a foul on Morrissey and finally hitting a close range shot from Hinton's cross which Rankin saved brilliantly.
Rankin reproduced the splendour of his save a couple of minutes later. O'Hare sent Hector through with the neatest of head flicks, but Rankin came out to save as Hector drove in a fierce shot. The referee finally spotted McFarland's push on Royle—the first he had checked—and from the free kick, Royle just got his head to the ball but it went wide. Green looked altogether too casual in moving to a 40 yards free kick from Brown. He turned the ball on to the bar and was lucky to see it bounce over for a corner. Everton had done much more of the attacking in the spell leading up to half-time, mainly due to the grip Kendall and Harvey were getting in mid-field. With Morrissey and Whittle doing well in the face of some fierce tackling, they had Derby pinned on defence and rarely able to make an effective attack themselves. Half time: Everton 1, Derby County 0.
Great Saves
Rankin made his third great save of the day immediately on the restart. From Webster's cross, Hinton made a fine header which was deflected off Kenyon's body to make Rankin’s s job even more difficult. But he got to the ball and turned it round the post. Three minutes after half-time. Derby equalised through McGovern. It came from a corner taken by Hinton with Rankin yet again making a splendid save from Hector's header but the ball came out and McGovern drove it low through a crowd of players into the net. Within a couple of minutes, Jackson had put a header in the net from Morrissey's cross but was just offside. In this exciting if sometimes over-rough match. Kendall missed a great chance of putting Everton back in front. Royle and McFarland went up for the ball with the Derby centre-half not making effective contact. The ball went behind him for Kendall to volley it well wide. The score was a fair reflection of the play at this stage. Everton missed another golden chance when Jackson volleyed high over the bar from Royle's neatly-headed pass. The game went into a long spell of midfield clashes. There was a great deal of excessive physical contact with the referee not doing much to check it. Everton looked the more skilled side but Derby stayed calm in defence and built up well out of it.
Rejected
Everton had their third penalty claim turned down—and I thought of all of them this should have brought a spot kick. Whittle made a long dazzling run into the penalty area and was brought down heavily by Mackay but the referee waved play on amid a storm of boos and cheers from the Everton spectators. Whittle turned the crowds jeers into cheers with a great piece of work when he took a pass from Morrissey, cut inside and bit the best shot of the game wide of the far post. Mackay was now being booed every time he went near the ball and I don't think the crowd will forget in a hurry his tackle on Whittle. After Everton had had much more of the play this half, Derby were beginning to make an attacking impression again. Mackay was picking up everything at the back and trying to get his forwards away. Hinton fired a shot wide but Rankin had only been troubled seriously once this half whereas Kendall and Jackson had missed great openings for Everton. Final: Everton 1. Derby County 1. Official attendance: 46,214.
The Verdict
Referee Baldwin handling of the game was the big talking point at Goodison this afternoon. Although he gave more than 30 free-kicks, he still allowed a number of over-physical incidents to go unchecked and turned down three claims by Everton for penalties. Everton clearly missed Alan Ball's midfield command and never reached their best form, but Hurst, Whittle and Morrissey were the outstanding players.

BRING BACK THE SHOULDER CHARGE
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 10 October 1970
The Harry Catterick Soccer Column
BRING back the shoulder charge in professional soccer . . . that's my reaction to Jack Charlton's outspoken comments this week on the seamier side of British soccer.  The Leeds United, and England centre half revealed: “I have a little book with two players in it, and if I get the chance to do them I will.. If I was chasing a yard behind a player in an, international, and thought I could not catch him, then I would flatten him." Charlton merely stated in public what others will only say in the privacy of the dressing room. Sadly, I consider Charlton goes a long way towards providing a true picture of the modern game. There have always been cases of players feeling they have been harshly treated by opponents, and vowing to get their own back the next time they meet. Vendettas are not as common as many might believe, but at the same time, it would be foolish to pretend they do not exist. I have lost count of the number of times I have seen two fellows kicking hell out of each other on the pitch, and yet share a drink and a joke afterwards.
Philosophy
A number of players adopt the philosophy. Someone is bound to give him a dose of his own medicine someday “But at the same time it is becoming increasingly more difficult for the games stars to turn a blind eye to provocation.  This leads me back to the point I made about the traditional shoulder charge. This is one way players could get their own back on over-robust opponents -within the rules. Unfortunately, shoulder charging has virtually disappeared from the modern game due to the experiences of our clubs in the European Cup tournaments. Continental referees and players frown on
physical contact of any kind, and British clubs have got into the habit of eliminating this from their play. In the process, they have picked up the more dubious tactics so prevalent in the League nowadays…like niggling intimidation behind the ref's back. During my playing career, I always found that a hard, but fair shoulder charge provided an outlet for any frustration I might have experienced against a rugged opponent. I remember my clash with John Harris during an F.A. Cup tie between Chelsea and Everton at Stamford Bridge. Harris, now manager of Sheffield United, was Chelsea's centre half in those days. Before the match I was told he was suffering from a boil on the arm. I didn't pay much heed to that until Harris, one of the most rugged defenders in the game at the time, winded me with a tough shoulder charge in the first half. I was determined to pay him back. Unfortunately for Harris. I caught his bad arm, and he has since told me it was one of the most painful experiences he ever encountered on a football field. Professional football is no tougher than it was in my day, but the difference is that it is now being played in a bitter atmosphere.
Players resent the fact that opponents are being allowed to get away with dangerous and illegal tackles, and feel they must protest themselves. The Everton players have received more than their fair share of rough treatment in recent years, and none more so than our key midfield players Alan Ball and Colin Harvey.
Retaliation
I frequently impress upon them the importance of avoiding retaliation, and fortunately they have managed to keep out of trouble so far. At the same time, I realize that footballers are only human, and each has his breaking point. For this reason, I cannot praise Ball enough for the self-control he has displayed in the face of intimidation this season. Alan is excitable by nature, and therefore the obvious target for those who base their approach to the game on the cleverly concealed dig in the ribs, or tug an opponents jersey. It is significant that Alan has calmed down since being awarded the club captaincy. This has given him a new sense of responsibility as he is conscious of setting a good example to his colleagues. The same is true of Leeds United's Billy Bremner, who has also managed to live down his fiery reputation in the Fast few seasons.

EVERTON PLAN A 1971 SUMMER TOUR, AND THE WORLD’S THEIR OYSTER
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 10 October 1970
EVERTON will make a summer tour next year for the first time for five years, because they have been told that none of their players will be needed for representative games at either full or Under-23 level. Manager Harry Catterick said. " We receive dozens of invitations every year to tour -from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa South, America and the Middle East " I have had to turn them down since 1966 because we have always had players away with England tour parties . Naturally, the tour organisers want to see the full Everton team, not a squad short of its international stairs "We toured in the Near and Middle East in 1966 after we had won the F.A. Cup. Now the F.A. has given us early notice that they are not arranging England tours next summer which gives us the all-clear for a tour of our own. “Our boys deserve this holiday with football. I shall be considering the various offers and settling on the one I think most suitable in terms of time and the number of matches we would have to play. "We have lost a good deal of money from having to refuse tour offers in the past. It's not before time that the FA. have said they won't need our player.
Everton trainer Wilf Dixon, who had been on the spot treating Rankin and Hurst, revealed this in passing conversation.  It would be fairer to all concerned if the referee or club official could be empowered to tell reporters WHY a player has been booked. 
Everton have just signed as apprentice professional, a 16-years- old Kirkby boy who had a notable career as an athletic at school as well as playing in the town football team.  He is winger Paul McEwan , who won the A.A.A under-17 national long championship this year.  McEwan is the third local boy to join Everton this season on apprentice pro terms.  The others are George Telfer, from Huyton, and Jimmy Burns, another Kirkby boy. 

VACCINATION HITS GOODISON TRIO
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 10 October 1970
EVERTON reserve winger Gary Jones, who missed the chance of playing in the European Cup tie in Iceland through falling ill with the after effects of small-pox injection, is the players to be ill in this way. The others were forwards David Johnson and Alan Wilson, and Johnson had to have a spell in a nursing home to recover. Manager Harry Catterick said “We checked through our junior players to see if any had not been vaccinated as children. We were advised that those who hadn't should have it done right away. "Jones, Johnson and Wilson have been the three unlucky ones, but they are all right now."

STYLES NETS A PENALTY
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 10 October 1970
After five minutes United took the lead when Holmes broke down the right, centred, and the alert Buckley was on hand to prod the ball home from close range.  Everton hit back immediately and Crawford was forced to make saves from Melledew and Jones before Cliff, put through by Stanniforth, had a hard shot well saved by West.  Although doing most of the attacking, United were unfortunate not to concede a goal when with Crawford well beaten, Wilson hit the bar.  After 43 minutes a defensive error by Flynn allowed Everton back in the game when he failed to control a cross from Westburgh and pulled Wilson down to concede a penalty, Styles sent Crawford the wrong way to score easily from the spot.  Half-time; Sheffield U Res 1, Everton Res 1.  Sheffield United Res; Crawford; Harmston, Hallan; Heaton, Mackezie, Flynn, Holmes, Barnwell, Stanniforthm Cliff, Buckley, Sub; Welsh.  Everton Res; West; Westburgh; Styles, Smith, Labone, Lyons; Scott, Wilson, Melledew, Dararcott, Jones.  Sub Seargeant.  Referee; Mr. A.R. Jordon.  (Middlesbrough). 
NEWTON TRANSFER; DEAL IS ON
Liverpool Echo - Monday 12 October 1970
STAN LIVERSEDGE SUMS UP SHOWDOWN TALKS, AS EVERTON ARE TIPPED TO LAND STAR
Midfield star Henry Newton is set to leave Nottingham Forest in a £150.000 deal -and Everton are being tipped as favourites to land him. Forest manager Matt' Gillies admitted, after a showdown meeting with Newton to-day, that a transfer was on the cards. A further meeting between player and manager to-morrow is planned—with the likely outcome being negotiations leading to a move. Though Derby County, West Ham and Arsenal are said to be keenly interested, speculation in Nottingham to-day centred upon the chances of Newton landing at Everton. Tomorrow looks like being the dad of decision for Newton and Everton. Nottingham Forest had their assistant manager. Bill Anderson, at Goochson on Saturday, weighing up the worth of Everton's Tommy Jackson. Clearly, this visit was linked with the possible departure of Newton. Liverpool manager Bill Shankly, mulling over the problems presented by injuries to Ian Callaghan and Bobby Graham, must decide whether to go into the transfer market, or retain faith in his young and largely inexperienced attack. Liverpool vice-chairman Sidney Reakes saw, the St. Johnstone-Celtic game on Saturday, and the magnet was said to be Saints' young forward, John Connolly - Tottenham manager Bill Nicholson. But it seems Saints will have to wait a while, before they pocket a fat fee for Connolly, for he was not impressive. Nicholson offered between £60.000 and £70,000 for him last season . . . and the price is now likely to be £100.000. Neither Liverpool nor Spurs can be expected to venture so much, because they have not seen sufficient to make them feel Connolly is worth anything like this sum. Indeed, Liverpool's interest at this stage is negligible. Liverpool

TOO MUCH PHYSICAL CONTACT AS BLUES DROP A POINT TO DEFENSIVE DERBY
Liverpool Echo - Monday 12 October 1970
By Mike Charter
The slow handclap and jeers which ushered referee Peter Baldwin off the Goodison pitch on Saturday summed it all up. The spectators had seen a rough, raw, untidy game with Mr. Baldwin, although awarding more than 30 free-kicks, allowing over excessive physical contact to dominate. The 1-1 draw was about right on the run of play, with Everton clearly missing Alan Ball's dominating presence and Derby content to play for a point after they had levelled the score three minutes after half-time. But the major talking point was the referee's handling of the game. He allowed many incidents to go unchecked while he penalised fouls which were not so blatant. The result was that players were more intent on getting the man rather than the ball, and it was a sorry advertisement for a game between two of the top teams in England. Mr. Baldwin, of course, could do nothing right in the eyes of the Everton fans when he turned down three appeals for penalties by Everton. The most obvious, I thought, was when McKay crashed into Whittle after the winger had made a dazzling 60-yard run. Mr. Baldwin was unmoved appeals bounced off him as though he had never heard them. There were many exciting moments because both defences survived some near-misses. Everton were under a lot of pressure early on, scrambling the ball away and Derby had their share of escapes later on. But generally the game was a tangle of over physical play, a midfield struggle for control punctuated by free-kicks and incidents. Everton never captured their usual flair and flow of attack building up from midfield command. At least, the game served to show how important Ball is to Everton s style end without him, there was no one to whip them along when they lost their lead. Morrissey scored in the first half with a side-footed shot after a corner, and Everton looked as though they could go on to win. But once McGovern had equalised just after half-time, again following a corner. Everton lost what cohesion they had shown earlier.  Yet they managed two great chances, with Kendall and Jackson volleying the ball wide and high. At the other end, Rankin was in great form, making three stunning saves from Carlin, Hector and Hinton.  He. with Morrissey and Whittle, emerged out of this struggle with most credit, Royle was pushed around by McFarland, with the referee only occasionally spotting the fouls, and there was a lack of finish by Everton in the Second half, although they had much more of the play. Derby's best feature was their coolness in defence, and the way they brought the ball out of trouble with neat, short passes There were moments early on, when Hector and 'H a r e threatened to cause a lot of trouble but they faded from the game as it settled down into an untidy midfield jostle for possession. Not a game to remember. Derby would be pleased with their point, but Everton's drop in general form was disappointing, even taking into account they were short of Ball, Husband and Wright.
Monday’s MAN . . . John Morrissey, withstanding a good deal of tough tackling, just about took the edge as Everton's top player in the untidy, disappointing game against Derby County on Saturday. Alan Whittle was little behind him in merit, and it was the work of both wingers which provided Everton with most of their chances.  Morrissey continued to show the consistent form which makes him Everton's most effective forward of the season.

NEWTON HEADS FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 13 October 1970
By Chris James
Everton were all set to sign Henry Newton this afternoon at a secret rendezvous, somewhere between Merseyside and the Midlands. After a further two hours of talks with Newton this morning, Nottingham Forest manager Matt Gillies agreed to let the player go, and Forest and Everton immediately agreed terms of £150,000. After the deal had been agreed on the phone, Gillies and Newton left to meet Everton manager Harry Catterick at a secret rendezvous, where the player would be offered terms. If Newton signs, as he seems certain to, he will become the third most expensive player in British transfer history-behind Martin Peters (Spurs £200,000) and Allan Clarke (Leeds £165,000). Everton have led the race for Newton ever since the player first said he wanted to leave Forest at the end of last season.  When Forest finally agreed to sell Newton to-day, Everton promptly met Forest's terms, beating
Derby, Weal Ham and Arsenal, who had also been interested in the 26 years-old midfield player.
Gillies said, after the talks with Newton; “We have accepted the Everton offer and Newton and myself are to meet the Everton manager “Newton has been anxious to leave Forest ever since he was left out of the England World Cup squad in Mexico. The wrangle went on throughout the summer.  Newton would be a valuable addition to the Everton first team pool and while it is difficult to see an immediate place for him in the Goodison line-up his presence would give manager Harry Catterick greater confidence in being able to replace Kendall, Ball or Harvey, should they be injured.  The need for such cover was, I understand, only too evident on Saturday when Alan Ball was unable to play against Derby and Everton had to settle for a draw.

IT’S HIGH -SPEED CATTERICK
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 14 October 1970
…TOM’S DREAM ABOUT TO COME TRUE
By Chris James
WITH ALL the speed and precision for which he is noted in his transfer dealings. Everton manager Harry Catterick swooped into the market yesterday to complete the signing of Henry Newton from Nottingham Forest in less than three hours. The whirlwind swoop became apparent to-day as the timetable of yesterday's dramatic events in the Derbyshire countryside became known. Catterick's speed left his rivals for Newton's signature, Derby County and West Ham, gasping. The day began normally enough, with Newton and Everton's Tommy Jackson, who was to be involved in the move, both training at their clubs. After training, Newton had a short talk with Forest manager Matt Gillies and, shortly after 1 p.m., came the news that Forest had accepted Everton's terms. Gillies, with assistant manager Bill Anderson and Newton, left Nottingham as Catterick, Tommy Jackson and secretary Bill Dickinson left Liverpool for a secret meeting at the Bill i'th' Thorn pub, near Buxton.
Medical check
In a little more than an hour Catterick and Newton, and Gillies and Jackson had thrashed out the final details of the deal and by mid-afternoon the six months of speculation about Newton's future was over. Both Newton and Catterick were surprised at the speed with which the deal was completed with so few snags . Newton will come to Bellefield to-morrow to start his Everton career while Jackson is doing the same with Forest. The only formality remaining before the deal is rubber-stamped is the usual medical check on the players. After a summer of speculation and talks with Gillies, events moved to a climax last weekend when on Sunday. Forest finally agreed to let Newton go.  Everton continued their bid and said Gillies today. “We considered it with those of Derby County and another club who wish to remain anonymous, and Everton s offer was the best.
Early debut
“We felt that, in the interests of all parties, it was best for Henry to move." I understand that the £150,000 deal was made up of £100,000 cash plus Tommy Jackson whom Everton valued at £50,000. Now Newton stands by to make his debut for Everton at Arsenal on Saturday—and the question is who he will replace. If Alan Ball is still unfit, the problem seems to solve itself but should all Everton's midfield trio be fit then the man most commonly tipped to stand down is former England Under-23 international Howard Kendall, who joined Everton from Preston almost four years ago for £70,000.
TOM’S  DREAM
A dream will come true on Saturday for Tommy Jackson, the dark haired, tenacious Irish international wing half, as he steps up to get a regular place in the First Division, writes Chris James. The ink on the transfer forms had hardly dried when Nottingham Forest manager Matt Gillies who yesterday signed Jackson from Everton in part-exchange for Henry Newton, said. - Tommy will play in the first team at Coventry on Saturday. He will probably take over Henry's No. 6 shirt.  For two and a half years, since Everton paid Glentoran £9,000 for him, Jackson has been yearning for a regular first team place. But with the brilliant midfield partnership of Kendall, Ball and Harvey at Goodison, Jackson's League outings have been limited. He has appeared only 34 times in the Everton first team, 30 times in the League, three times in the F.A. Cup and once in the League Cup, without scoring a goal.
Regulars
He had to be content with a place only when one of the regular trio was injured and he made his only appearance this season in last Saturday's 1-1 draw with Derby as replacement for Alan Ball. Ironically, it was at Nottingham Forest that he made his Everton and First Division debut on April 22. 1968. Five days later he was Everton's F A. Cup semi - final line up as replacement for the suspended Alan Ball and played a major part in helping Everton beat Leeds and go on to Wembley. Just because he was mostly in the reserves at Goodison, his progress was not ignored and the Irish selectors have called him up several times, including all three matches in the Home International Championship in 1969. Said his new manager: “A player who can come in and take over from players of the calibre of Kendall, Ball and Harvey must be more than useful." He will now line-up with his new colleagues on Saturday as the new, promising world of Tommy Jackson starts. 

HENRY NEWTON SET TO TAKE OVER BALL’S JOB AGAINST ARSENAL
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 15 October 1970
By Mike Charters 
Arsenal Henry Newton, Everton's record-priced buy from Nottingham Forest at £150,000, is likely to take over Alan Ball's job for the game at Arsenal on Saturday. Newton reported to Bellefield to-day for his first stint with his new team-mates, but spent most of the day going through the medical and X-ray tests which every new player undergoes.  Manager Harry Catterick, clearly delighted at signing an experienced man of near-England class who can fill such a variety of roles, reported that skipper Ball was still feeling the stomach strain which kept him out of last Saturday's game.   He said: “Ball has had little training for the best part of a fortnight so it is touch-and-go whether he will be right for the Highbury match. “We will give him a severe fitness test tomorrow, but Newton is here now in case Ball cannot make it." So the question of who drops out of a full strength Everton side for the incoming of Newton must wait until the injury list is cleared. Everton's other injured men -full back Tommy Wright and winger Jimmy Husband -are in line for a game this week-end. Both have had hamstring muscle strains.
Recovery
Husband, injured a month ago at Blackpool, will probably play in Saturday's Central League match at Goodison against Blackpool. Wright, who was hurt at Coventry a fortnight ago, has made a remarkably quick recovery and could also get a game In this match, or even return immediately to the first team. Mr. Catterick said: "Team selection must wait until I see how Ball feels tomorrow. “I won't decide about Wright either until then, but the great thing now is that with Henry New- ton strengthening the first team pool, I have a man available who can play both in the back four and in midfield." 

LLOYD GIVES BLUES EUROPE TIP-OFF
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 15 October 1970
By Horace Yates  
MERSEY STARS SHINE IN UNDER-23 VICTORY
Liverpool's Larry Lloyd last night alerted Everton to the task they will face against - Munchen Gladbach in the European Cup next Wednesday. Both he and Everton's Joe Royle had played leading parts in England's 3-1 victory over West Germany in the Under- 23 international at Leicester last night. Without knowing that Horst Koeppel, the German outside right, played for Everton's opponents, Lloyd said: “I found things were moving very quickly in this game. The Germans were extremely nippy and if you were not on top of them they were away. "Number seven (Koeppel) was particularly dangerous. He was very sharp and controlled the ball expertly." When I told him Koeppell was a member of Munchen Gladbach’s
side. Lloyd said: “If they are all like him, it will be hard going for Everton." Koeppel was one of three full internationals in the German side.   Both Royle and Lloyd could be well pleased with their attempts to engrave their names on Sir Alf Ramsey's memory for future reference. Royle, like Kidd of Manchester United, was dominant in the air and on the ground often had the defence at full stretch. The Everton star scored England's first goal with a beautiful example of control in bringing down the ball and shooting accurately on the turn. Kidd, who often threatened to score, got the third, with Derby County full back Robson sandwiching a 25-yards rocket of a goal between the two.
Tribute
Royle's goal brought a tribute from Sir Alf Ramsey who said: "Royle took the first goal beautifully." Weist, generally blotted out by Lloyd, snatched at a moment of first half freedom to score for Germany. Royle was as quick moving after the game as he had been on the field for by the time I reached the England dressing room he had gone—on his way home by car. Lloyd told me: "I was very pleased with my game but it is a big help having good players around you. Lads like Cohn Todd, sweeping up. "I had every confidence in him when I went into my tackles just as I have with Tommy Smith at Liverpool.
Assured
"If you can feel like this, it makes you so much more assured.” What a gulf there is 'between my football at Bristol and in one of these games. "My immediate aim, with fewer than 20 league games played fur Liverpool, to establish myself in the first team. "Then of course, my ultimate ambition is to go on and play for England. I am not looking so far ahead at the moment. I am not thinking about it at all." Lloyd may not be but 1 guarantee that others connected with his future are. If he continues to improve as he has so far, it is difficult to see who will keep him out of England’s senior team.

BALL, HUSBAND, AND WRIGHT INCLUDED IN BLUES’ SQUAD
Liverpool Echo - Friday 16 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Everton take a full strength Squad of 14 for the game at Arsenal to- morrow, and manager Harry Catterick will spend tomorrow morning in London pondering on who to leave out.  Skipper Alan Ball passed a stiff fitness test this morning, Tommy Wright and Jimmy Husband were also ruled fit after hamstring muscle strains which have kept them out for a fortnight and a month respectively, and they are all in the party to travel.  Mr. Catterick has changed his mind about giving Husband a run in the reserve tomorrow and he comes into the reckoning to take over again from Alan Whittle on the right wing.  But, as I understand the position, the Everton chief’s team selection will be based on next week’s European Cup-tie against Moenchen Gladbach as well as the immediate task at Highbury.  He may decide that one, two, or all three of the men just back from injury could be rested for a few more days to keep them right for the big match in Europe.
Not Eligible
He now has £150,000 new boy Henry Newton to fit into the team pattern as well, but what role Newton will play tomorrow will not be settled until the decision has been reached about the others. Newton, of course, is not eligible to play in Europe for three months after his signing day.   Newton will definitely play tomorrow, Mr. Catterick may settle for a more defensive approach against the powerful Arsenal and so Newton could be used to bolster the back four positions- a job he has done with conspicuous success for his old club, Nottingham Forest.  Team selection will be left until shortly before the kick-off, with Mr. Catterick keeping his decision a secret until he hands in the team-sheet to the referee at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow.  Everton; Rankin; (from) Wright, Newton (K.), Brown, Kendall, Newton (H.), Kenyon, Harvey, Husband, Whittle, Ball, Royle, Hurst, Morrissey. 
Arsenal will be unchanged for the ninth successive game, and their only change from side which drew at Goodison Park in the opening match of the season will be 19-years-old Ray Kennedy in attack in place of the injured Charlie George. They were last beaten at home on January 17,  and expect to have their three casualties-George, Jon Sammels and Peter Simpson. –all back in action by next week to add further strength to a squad which looks like going places this season.    Arsenal; Wilson; Rice, McNab, Kelly; McLintock, Roberts, Armstrong, Storey, Radford, Kennedy, Graham, Sub; Marinello.

HENRY NEWTON WILL FACE HARD BAPTISM
Liverpool Echo - Friday 16 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Henry Newton's first game for Everton could hardly be tougher—a visit to formidable Arsenal, unbeaten at Highbury and at last re-establishing themselves as one of the top clubs. But his £150,000 price tag, allied to being the most expensive buy in Everton history, should sit reasonably lightly on the broad shoulders of this stockily-built player.  He has the experience of a mature, seasoned performer to tackle his Everton role without excessive concern. He has played more than 300 league games For Nottingham Forest but it is still an ordeal to slip into a new job with a new team, so too much must not be expected of him.   He also comes into a team struggling to find its flair and rhythm. Everton's last two games have been Indifferent performances by their standards- with Alan Ball they lost at Coventry: without Ball they dropped a home point to Derby County last Saturday. With injuries to Ball, Tommy Wright and Jimmy Husband making team selection a matter of conjecture at this stage. Newton's role could switch from game to game depending on availability of first teamers. 
Transaction
It is for just such an injury emergency as Everton are experiencing at present that manager Harry Catterick plunged into the 150,000 deal which brought Newton to Goodison and took Tommy Jackson to Forest as part of the transaction.  He needed quality cover for midfield and defence ... and Newton has the attributes to provide that. But all Blues' fans will be waiting for the moment when Everton have no injury problems. Then it is a matter of who goes out to make room for Newton, and the word is that Howard Kendall's position could be the one Newton will be called upon to fill.
Errors
Kendall is also a class player with ability certainly as high as Newton when on form.  Yet he has not been at his best for a few weeks and will appreciate that the fight for a regular place has crown more intense with the incoming of Newton. Everton's immediate need, however, is to snap out of the mediocre displays of the past fortnight and get back into their stride. Highbury is hardly the place these days for any team to be fighting to regain their touch. Arsenal were fortunate to get a point at Goodison in the opening game of the season when Everton played great football but paid dearly for defensive errors. The Gunners have moved strongly from then and, apart from the shock 3-0 defeat at Stoke three weeks ago, give the impression of a side which will be in the honours battle this season.  That crash at Stoke was out of character with the current Arsenal scene. It was their only defeat in their last six games, having beaten Spurs, Burnley, West Brom and Forest and drawn at Newcastle in the other five. Everton would have to be at their strongest and best to achieve anything at Highbury. With Husband certainly missing, and Ball and Wright probably out of action as well, the cards are stacked against them. Much interest will centre on Newton, of course. But the team generally is below par at present and it will require a tremendous effort for them to find their rhythm against this very rood Arsenal side. 

RAY HEADS ARSENAL IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 17 October 1970
By Mike Charters
ARSENAL 4, EVERTON 0
Line-up; Arsenal; Wilson; Rice, McNab; Kelly, McLintock, Roberts, Armstrong, Storey, Radford, Kennedy, Graham, Sub; Mainello.  Everton; Rankin; Wright, Newton (K.); Kendall, Kenyon, Harvey; Whittle, Ball, Royle, Newton (H.), Morrissey, Sub Hurst.  Referee; Mr. K.A. Wynn (Wolverhampton). 
Two headed goals by Arsenal’s 19-years-old forward Ray Kennedy in less than 20 minutes at Highbury this afternoon put Everton right up against it.  Everton’s defence was in constant trouble against the tall Arsenal forwards, Radford, Kenendy, and Graham, who were masters in the air.  It was John Hurst who dropped out of Everton’s team to make way for Henry Newton.  Hurst was substitute- for the first time since he became a member of the first team squad.  But Newton did not take over Hurst’s role.  It was Kendall who moved into the back four, with Newton in midfield.  Everton opened briskly and well, Henry Newton’s first impact on the game was to collect Ball’s headed pass and drive a shot from 25 yards high over.  Kendall made a fine tackle to dispossesses Kennedy as the Arsenal youngster was about to shoot, and from the subsequently corner Rice moved up to crack a shot five yards wide.  Everton’s midfield build up was very skillful and soon had the crowd applauding.  From a free kick Rankin had to go full length to hold the ball from Radford’s header, but the ball had gone behind.  This led to a corner from which Arsenal took the lead, after 13 minutes.  Armstrong’s corner was headed on by Graham and Kennedy unchallenged only a yard from the goal line, headed a simple goal.  This gave Arsenal the impetus they needed and within a couple of minutes Rankin had to go full length to turn away a good shot from Radford. 
Big Menace
Everton continued to play classy football but the menace of the big Arsenal forwards was always clear.  Whenever the ball was put in the air into the Everton penalty area there was trouble.  The danger to Everton’s defence when the ball was in the air was made even more evident when another header put Arsenal two up after 19 minutes.  From Rice’s free-kick on the right, Kennedy moved well into position to make a powerful header as Rankin moved out of goal, hesitated, and then was lost as the header went behind him into the far corner of the net.  Armstrong wasted a good chance of increasing Arsenal’s lead by shooting straight at Rankin when he ample time to pick his spot.  Everton’s best reply came from Whittle with a neat run down the left, but Wilson made an excellent save as Whittle tried to place a shot into the far corner.  Roberts had to kick clear from a corner when Wilson failed to catch Ball’s kick.  But this match had been very much Arsenal-dominated after the opening 10 minutes when Everton had looked so good in midfield.  Everton were trying very hard to get back into the game after the shock of those two quick goals.  But at times they looked over-anxious and had lost the accuracy in their passing.  Royle was spoken to for a foul on Storey who needed attention before Arsenal’s free kick was headed away by Keith Newton.  Henry Newton was finding it difficult to fit into Everton’s midfield pattern and with Harvey also out of touch; it was Arsenal now in commanding form and coasting along comfortably.  Wilson turned a Ball shot around the post.  From the corner Whittle made a back header from Ball’s kick and Royle under challenge, turned the ball over the bar.  This was Everton’s best chance so far.  Rankin made a spectacular save from a powerful Radford shot following a right wing corner.  Everton were struggling to regain composure they had shown in the opening spell, but Arsenal looked strong and powerful.  Half-time; Arsenal 2, Everton 0.
Arsenal were soon back on the path which had brought them their goals –driving the ball high into the Everton goalmouth for Radford and Kennedy.  This time Kennedy and Wright headed clear.  A quickly taken corner by Kennedy almost brought Arsenal a third.  He pushed the ball back to Kelly, whose cross was headed by Graham just over the bar, with Rankin well beaten. 
Under Pressure
Rankin was under a lot pf physical pressure from Arsenal free kicks and corners and he did well to make a clean catch from Armstrong’s corner.  Ball was fighting hard and putting everything he knew into his game to get Everton back with a chance.  But although they moved the ball around well in midfield with some delightful passes, the Arsenal defence stood firm.  Kelly missed a good shooting chance when a misplaced pass by Ball reached him 20 yards out.  He mistimed his shot completely and it went yards wide.  Whittle was putting a lot of effort and energy into his wing dashes but although he beat one man there was always an Arsenal defender in position to make the interception. 
Arsenal increased their lead after 64 minutes with a great shot from Kelly. Again an accurate header by Graham led up to the goal. He headed on a long throw by Radford and Kelly, from the edge of the area, smashed a great shot past Rankin, the ball being deflected even further away as it just touched Kendall. Wilson was forced into direct action for the first time in the second half when he dived forward to clutch Morrissey's centre. Wilson made  two more good catches from Morrissey centres but Everton, although working hard in midfield, were unable to cause the Arsenal defence much trouble. Understandably Henry Newton had not been seen much. He had been unable to link with Ball and Harvey and had bad a very quiet game. Everton's  best effort came from Ball's corner with Morrissey chipping the ball over Wilson's head, the shot striking an upright and bouncing out. Wright tried to turn it over the line but the ball struck Graham and enabled Wilson to recover. With 12 minutes to go Arsenal made it Everton's heaviest defeat of the season when Storey scored from a penalty awarded when Kenyon handled. Arsenal had given the impression of being a team without a weakness —strong in defence, powerful in attack, and with enough effort in midfield to create scoring chances. For Everton it had been a sad day with many of their players out of touch. With five minutes to go Royle was booked when he ironically applauded the referees decision awarding Everton a free kick for a push by Roberts on himself. But for Rankin, Everton's defeat would have been even heavier. Attendance: 50,012.
THE VERDICT
With Kendall in the back four and Henry Newton making his debut in midfield, Everton struggled against the very good Arsenal team. Arsenal's big and powerful forwards, Radford, Kennedy and Graham were always dangerous in the air as the Everton defence found it difficult to gain possession from corners and high centres. The danger to Everton was pinpointed by two headed goals from Arsenal and although Everton's football in midfield was most attractive at times the finish was poor.

HUSBAND BOOST BLUES
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 17 October 1970
Everton quickly found their rhythm against Blackpool and apart from two good moves by Coleman they did all the attacking.  Johnson was taking every opportunity to shoot and brought a couple of good saves from Taylor, as did Husband, Scott and Darcy were moving the ball up-field well and it as a mistake by Darcy that put Everton ahead.  The ball ran loose but Blackpool could not clear and it went to Husband after 17 minutes who gave Taylor no chance.  Then Blackpool were unlucky not to get on even terms after Murphy and Hughes hammered about six shots.  Everton had an escape after this when a Hughes corner was dropped by Williams, and Suddaby put the ball over the bar. 
Half-time; Everton 1, Blackpool 0.
Everton Res; Williams; Darcy, Styles; Scott, Lyons, Seargreant; Husband, Melledew, Johnson, Smith, Jones, Sub; Kenny.  Blackpool Res; Taylor; Brown, Harrison; Rowe, Suddaby, Coleman; McGrotty, Nattress, Murphy, Hughes, Wann. Sub; Ainscow. 

THE HARRY CATTERICK COLUMN
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 17 October 1970
STARS CAN BLOSSOM AGAIN AT THIRTY
ONE of the biggest problems which confronts a football manager is when, or whether, to sell an established club star approaching the end of his career. There have been many of these type of players who have left clubs for whom they have given great service, and then proved stars in rival or better teams. The latest of this band is Freddie Hill, the former England inside forward. He joined Bolton from school and made his League debut in 1938. His career as a top-class player seemed over when Bolton sold him to Halifax last season. Yet in May this year, the 32-years-old Hill was transferred to Manchester City and from all accounts has played a big part in helping City maintain their championship challenge. All of which shows that Bolton and Halifax might have made a mistake in letting him go or does it?
Major force
I have also suffered the embarrassment of selling an experienced player and then seeing him make a considerable impact at another club. That was Bobby Collins, whom Everton sold to Leeds United in 1962 for £30.000. Collins 31 was made captain of Leeds and under his influence the Yorkshire club won the Second Division championship the following season and established themselves as a major force in the premier division. Scotland recalled Collins after a six years absence from the international scene, and he won the coveted Footballer of the Year" trophy in 1965. Despite all this, however, I have never considered I made a mistake in releasing this pugnacious little character. Leeds were in an early stage of their development at that time, and needed someone of Collins' stature to provide Inspiration for the youngsters in the club. In contrast, Everton didn't need this quality because they already possessed a number of star internationals.  The decision to sell Collins was one of the hardest I have ever had to make as a manager, as he had been a wonderful servant to the club. Yet I had to face facts ... Collins was no longer good enough to hold his place in our side. Luckily for me, the Everton crowd were appeased by our championship triumph the following season in 1963. In contrast, Tottenham manager Bill Nicholson came under severe pressure from the club's supporters after selling their Idol Dave Mackay to Derby County two seasons ago. While Spurs continued to struggle. Mackay led County out of the Second Division and to fourth place in the first.  It has taken the Spurs fans a long time to "forgive" Nicholson and realise Mackay could no longer make a valuable contribution to Spurs' playing system. He has done well at Derby through being cast in a sweeper role which makes comparatively little demands on his stamina. This position utilizes his experience and personality and is not so technically demanding.  What is good for one club is not the same for another. At this point, it is appropriate to come back to Hill. He is an excellent ball player, but has always tended to be inconsistent. Manchester City accepted this because they have obviously not signed him as a regular first team player. I think they see him as the type of player who can help the development of the youngsters in the reserves, and who can come into the first team occasionally in the event of injuries.
Favourites
City will need all their experienced players this season. Apart from the championship and F.A. Cup, they are involved in the European Cup Winners' Cup competition. Talking of European combat, I consider England can become the first nation to hold all three major trophies at the same time.  At Everton we are confident of our chances of winning the Champions Cup: City and Chelsea must be rated among the favourites in the Cup Winners Cup, and the same applies to Leeds, Liverpool, Coventry, Arsenal, and Newcastle in the Fairs Cup.  One warning I hope British’s European success at club level during the past seasons will not lure us into a false sense of security. It would be foolish to underestimate the challenge from other count tries. This was, perhaps, the error Celtic made in last season's European Cup final, when the Scots were beaten by Feyenoord, of Holland. Feyenoord, who went on to become world club champions, have already been eliminated from this season's European Cup, which gives you some idea of the standard of these tournaments. Everton's signing of Henry Newton from Notts Forest ended a two-year vigil as far as I was concerned. I bid for Newton two years ago, and was promised first option on him in the event of Forest changing their minds about letting him go. They kept their word this week—and the result is that Everton have acquired a player who I believe can play a big part in maintaining our ascendancy. Newton has all the attributes to fit in perfectly at Goodison Park, his determination, expert reading of the game and ball control. 

EVERTON’S CUP RIVALS ARE RIDING HIGH IN GERMANY
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 17 October 1970
While Everton, the champions of England are struggling in the middle of the table to try to get in touch with the leaders, their European Cup opponents, Moenchen Gladbach, the champions of West Germany are confirming their reputation as the finest team in Germany by leading the first division of the Germany League.  They are unbeaten after 11 games and lead the Bundesliga with 16 points, having won five and drawn six. Two Everton representatives saw them beat Eintracht Brunswick 3-1 last Saturday, since when the Germans have been preparing for the first leg of their second round European Cup tie next Wednesday in Moenchen Gladbach. Everton chief Harry Catterick has had a comprehensive dossier compiled on his opponents and they are prepared for one of their most difficult games in Europe since they lost to Inter Milan seven years ago in the European Cup. The Germans sent their coach, Hennes Weisweiler to Highbury today to watch Everton play Arsenal. But Everton will have at least two changes from this afternoon team—Jimmy Husband is expected to be back in first team action after a month out through injury, and new boy Henry Newton is not eligible for European games for three months. The probable German line-up is: Kieft: Voghts, Mueller: Sieloff, Wittman. Dietrich; Wimmer, Laumen, Koeppel, Netzer, Heynckes. Sub: Le Fevre. Voghts. Sieloff and Dietrich are World Cup men, with Voghts being rated the finest defender in Germany. Sieloff and Koeppel were bought from Stuttgart during the summer—Koeppel was the German forward star in the Under-23 match against England at Leicester on Wednesday.
A BAN on jet flights after 10 p.m. at Dusseldorf Airport means that the Everton party will not return to Liverpool until the early hours of Thursday, after their European Cup-tie against Moenchen Gladbach, next Wednesday. They fly by chartered jet to Dusseldorf, on Tuesday, and hoped to return the same way immediately after the game—Dusseldorf is only half an hour's coach drive from the ground. But now they will have to fly from Cologne, which adds more than an hour to their return trip.

MANY ROLES FOR NEWTON, BUT KENDALL IS TOO GOOD TOO LOSE
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 17 October 1970
I WAS surprised to see that Everton had signed Henry Newton from Forest—l was horrified to see that Howard Kendall could be the one to be left out of the team for Newton. I feel Kendall is one of the best wing halves in the country. Newton will be used in many roles—playing as a stopper alongside the centre half: playing in European matches wearing No. 7 and closely marking a dangerous opponent: helping in midfield. At the moment, the defence needs strengthening and I hope that Newton will stiffen the middle. But Kendall is too valuable a player to lose.—P. Lewis. 16 Saxonia Road, Liverpool 4
Newton won't be wearing ANY shirt in Europe for the next three months. Under European Cup rules, a player has to be on the books for three months before he can play.
HASTY BUY?
 IT IS generally agreed that when a player reaches the age of 30 in the First Dvision, he is usually past his best. So at £150.000 for four years top service, Henry Newton could prove a not too wise investment Catterick's buys in the past have been rarely criticized, but I feel he may have been hasty in buying a player who may prove to be no better than whoever he may replace.—L. Jones. 12 Mond Road, Liverpool L10 7LJ
FIRST HALF TEAM
AFTER watching Everton play Derby County, anyone can understand why Alan Ball is paid well above the average. And I hope we will hear the last of manager Catterick’s request for protection for his players. Everton committed first four fouls against Derby, which started all the nasty business. Everton are not built to receive retaliation. Many fans have noticed that Everton appear to be a first half team. They always seem to be struggling in the second half- G.F., Betters, Beechwood, Apsley Road, Liverpool 12.
90 MINUTES OF TERROR
I WITNESSED crowd behavior at Goodison last Saturday which I never imagined could exist in this country. The language by grownup men in the presence of women supporters was sheer filth. Some of it was hurled at a policeman who walked along the touch line unconcerned about what these animals wanted to do with the linesman. One young Derby fan could not bear to be among these maniacs for the full 90 minutes, so he left early. Some Everton fans followed him, gave him a going over, stole his gloves, scarf and money—while a policeman was in view. After my 90 minutes of terror I believe Everton fans would have preferred broken legs instead of goals. Neither I nor my son will ever visit the cesspit again. — Ramsway (Derby supporter. name and address supplied).
A panic buy? The real need is tall forwards
IT APPEARS to me that the signing of Henry Newton was a panic buy. How else can it be explained' Catterick may claim that it strengthens his first team pool, but isn't £150,000 a high price to pay for a player who may not even command a regular first team place?  Most Evertonians would agree that Everton's need is for a tall strike forward who can find the net consistently, not another mid-field player when there is Kendall, Harvey and Ball. Catterick, however, may decide to play Newton regularly, but it another established player who was considered championship material last season, steps down, this will only accentuate the existing problem of uncertainties over team selection.
Everton's problem, besides uncertainty at the back, is a lack of height in the forward line (Liverpool suffer also in this respect). Tall, skilled forwards capable of breaking down “catenaccio " type defensive systems, which are being employed increasingly in English football, are the only answer.—M. R. Birce (Merseyside soccer fan).
WHY DROP KENDALL?
I WAS shocked to read that Kendall is the most likely player to be left out of Everton's team now that Henry Newton has arrived. It is well known that John Hurst has been below form this season, so why drop Kendall, who is the most dangerous Everton player in the opposition penalty area' —A. Melia. Burbo Bank Road South, Blundell. sands.
 BALL AS STRIKER
Now that Henry Newton has bene signed, it appears to me that a full strength Everton team would read, in 4-3-3 formation; Wright, Kendall, Hurst, Newton (K.); Kendall, Newton (H.), Harvey; Ball, Royle, Morrissey.   Ball should be given the role of going forward more as a striker to assist Royle- M.C Lees, 23 Parkstone Road, Birkenhead. 

SIX-MONTHS’ WAIT ENDED IN SIGNING
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 17 October 1970
By Mike Charters
EVERTONS signing of Henry Newton in a £150,000 deal this week came at the end of six months waiting by manager Harry Catterick for the moment to strike. Newton has been on Everton's list as the type of quality player who interested them for longer than that. But it was only last summer, when Newton failed to make England's World Cup squad after being in England training sessions that their interest became much stronger. Then Newton announced that he was unsettled at Nottingham Forest, that he felt his career would be improved if he was with a more successful club Everton heard –and watched closet. Although Newton, after weeks of rumour and apparent discontent, settled again with Forest, following talks with manager Matt Gillies. Everton did not write "finish" to the Newton dossier in their files. When the Newton issue flared again ten days ago, Mr. Catterirk was ready to step into the transfer bargaining stage. The Forest chief, renolumed throughout the game as one of the Derby, as well as Everton, to pass on the Newton news.  The deal quickly became a straight clash between Everton and Derby.  And with Mr. Catterick having lost out to Derby manager Brian Clough over the signing of Preston midfield man Archie Gemmill four weeks ago, he was determined that there was going to be no repetition this time The fee was settled in a matter of minutes, and then it became a matter of Newton's views and also whether Tommy Jackson, the Irish international wing half, would be prepared to go to Forest as part of the deal.   When the word came that Forest and Newton were ready for pens put on paper, Catteriek was at starting gate with Jackson alongside him The deal was quickly and slickly completed… and Derby were outpaced by the speed with which it went through.  Everton believe that Newton, a man on the fringe of England class, will suit them in a variety of roles. He is regarded as the ideal type to strengthen the first team squad. Everton fans will watch his career with close interest in the next few weeks, to see how he is employed, and I'm sure they will quickly appreciate Newton's qualities as an all-round player if high ability.

EVERTON'S ARMY!
Liverpool Echo - Monday 19 October 1970
They Have 5,000 Cheers For Cup Clash
Five thousand British soldiers will be cheering Everton, when they play Moenchen Gladbach in Germany in the second round of the European Cup. This clash between the English and German champions has roused tremendous enthusiasm in the garrison town, and a capacity crowd of more than 30,000 is certain. Tickets are as scarce as their Wembley counterparts. I understand the allocation to the troops in the big British Army base was snapped up overnight. Everton will be grateful for the soldiers' support. They are struggling to regain their form, after a poor run in the League—and they know they are facing one of the best teams in Europe. Manager Harry Catterick told me: “This will be our hardest game in Europe since we went out to Inter-Milan in our last European Cup-tie. Moenchen Gladbach won the title impressively last season . . . but they are playing even better now. "They are unbeaten—and the reports I have received from the two representatives, I sent to see them 10 days ago makes it clear what a fine side they are.  “An Army Colonel, stationed in the town, has written to tell me how keen the soldiers are to see us play. He has also tried to help with an assessment of the German team's players, but I have a comprehensive report on them from my own scouts. "My impression is that their team-work is on a high level, technically, with a particularly firm defence. Their captain, Netzer, is a midfield player whose strong point is accurate, long passes to the front runners. “We shall be fully prepared—but this is going to be a really stiff test for us." Netzer saw Everton crash 4-0 at Arsenal on Saturday—Everton s biggest defeat since they lost 5-0 at Liverpool in September, 1965. He was accompanied by Moenchen Gladbach coach Hennes Weisweiler, and they saw Everton's defence crumble before the heading power of the Arsenal forwards. Everton have prepared for the Cup-tie as they did for the game in Iceland against Keflavik. They had a full training session to-day, and are having a lighter stint to-morrow morning, before flying to Dusseldorf in the afternoon. There were no injuries from the Highbury game, and with Henry Newton ineligible. John Hurst will return to his defensive role, and Howard Kendall will be in midfield again. Hurst was dropped on Saturday, with Newton in midfield and Kendall in the back four. As Newton struggled to get into the game, Everton's teamwork suffered.  Jimmy Husband, back after a month's lay-off through injury, scored for the reserves on Saturday, in the 3-2 win over Blackpool. He will travel to Germany and is likely to play, although Alan Whittle was one of the few Everton successes at Highbury. Everton will play a defensive game, in the usual pattern of European matches, trying to contain the Germans so that they can go all out at home in the second leg on November 4. They have dropped so far behind in the League now that it looks as if their ambitions this season must be centred on the European and F.A. Cups. They are 13th in the table, and have conceded 21 goals in 13 games, compared to only 34 in the whole of last season. The acid European test will be on Wednesday. Everton will have to be at their best to keep the score to a position which gives them a chance in the second leg. They are far from that best, on current evidence.

BLUES SO TOUGH, SAY GERMANS
Liverpool Echo - Monday 19 October 1970
By Mie Charters
Everton manager Harry Catterick is disturbed over the image of his team which the German Press have projected to the German football public on the eve of the European Cup tie against Moenchen Gladbach on Wednesday night. He said: "I have been given a run-down on reports in German newspapers who have sent men to watch us in recent. They have described us as being tough and physical. "I regard this as part of the war of words and nerves which starts with these European clubs within a few minutes of the draw being made. “The German people who will watch us on Wednesday have been given this false impression of our play.  It is something we have to accept and ignore.” 

NEWTON MISSES GERMAN TRIP
Liverpool Echo - Monday 19 October 1970
By Stan Liversedge
Everton’s £150,000 signing, Henry Newton, will be training while his new team-mates are travelling to play their European Cup tie against Moenchen Gladbach in Germany on Wednesday.  Newton who is ineligible for the European Cup until the semi-finals will not go along for the ride—he will stay home and train. Everton's 16 strong is Ball, Brown, Darcy, Harvey, Hurst. Husband, Kendall, Kenyon, Labone, Morrissey. Newton (K), Rankin, Royle, West, Whittle, Wright.
Jimmy Husband who came through a reserve test on Saturday, after having been out through injury, is available for the European tie, but although manager Harry Catterick would not reveal his hand to-day. I doubt if Husband will be plunged into such a vital game after only one 90 minutes outing. Catterick explained about the omission of Henry Newton: "The more training he gets the better. Moving from Nottingham Forest where he has been for 11 years has been a big change for him." Catterick admitted he was considering keeping Newton in "cold storage" between the two European Cup ties. He also confirmed that Everton were likely to play a defensive game "It is never easy to get adjusted to being satisfied with a draw, in Europe, but in this sort of competition a draw is accepted as being a success." he said. One of the problems Everton face is to play a containing role instead of trying to score goals, as they are naturally an attacking team.

ARSENAL OUT-GUN OFF-KEY BLUES
Liverpool Echo - Monday 19 October 1970
By Mike Charters
The German "spies” who saw Everton crushed 4-0 by Arsenal on Saturday must have returned home quietly confident, as they say, that Wednesday's European Cup tie is a walk-over for the German champions. But I can't believe that so many Everton players will be off form together again, that team-work will be so much off key as it was in the Highbury game.  Moenchen Gladbach, Everton's opponents on Wednesday night, sent their coach Hennes Weisweiler, and captain, Gunter Netzer, to check on Everton. They, with more than 50,000 other spectators saw Everton slump to a four-goal defeat because of defensive inability to cope with the heading power and physical strength of the Arsenal forwards. Arsenal's tactics are geared, naturally, to using their greatest assets -the power in the air of Radford,
Kennedy and Graham. They have an equally strong defence, with McLintock doing a "Dave Mackay" in quiet control, and Roberts a dominating centre half figure. They by-pass midfield. They don't bring the ball out of defence as Everton do, with neat, intricate passing moves. Their play is all direct action defenders hitting long to the big three up front.  It is not as attractive as Everton, whose approach is based on the midfield men skillfully slipping the ball around. But on the score of effectiveness,
Arsenal held all the aces on Saturday—Everton's attacking moves were feeble by comparison. They created only two real chances. Royle flicked the ball over the bar from close range. Morrissey's clever chip shot hit a post, and Wright's shot on the rebound was blocked on the line. Royle could not recapture his form of the Under-23 game last week, and a game of frustration for him against the rugged tackling of Roberta ended with him being booked for his ironic gesture in applauding the referee's decision to award him a free kick in midfield. Ball tried as hard as he could but is not at his best at the moment. Harvey rarely won possession and was out of touch, while new boy Henry Newton looked completely lost as he tried to work out how he fitted into the scheme of things. With so many other Everton players around him below form, it was a might tough debut for him. He cannot be judged on this display. Keith Newton and Wright never took a grip of the powerful Arsenal attack, while Kenyon struggled in the air without someone of comparable size to help him contain the threat of Radford and Kennedy. Kendall, given a defensive role for the first time at Everton -a job he used to do at Preston -did many clever things but they were isolated touches. The whole defensive set-up gave the impression of individuals trying to find a common purpose -and failing. Had It not been for Rankin's fine work in goal, Arsenal would have won even more easily .He might have been able to cut off the cross which led to the second goal, but he had no chance with the others and more than compensated by his clean, competent handling at other times when under considerable physical pressure Kennedy showed his high promise at 19 with two headed goals. Kelly hit the third with a great shot which Rankin had covered until it was deflected off Keith Newton's knee, and Storey scored the fourth from a penalty after Kenyon had handled needlessly.

CATTERICK PINS FAITH ON OLD FIRM
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 20 October 1970
By Stan Liversedge
Everton will rely upon the "old firm." as they try to prize a draw against Moenchen Gladbach in their European Cup-tie in Germany tomorrow. I believe manager Harry Catterick -who will not name his team until Just before kick-off time -has decided he must pin his faith on the must pin his faith on midfield triangle of Ball, Harvey and Kendall, and that John Hurst must return to the back four for this vital match. Hurst, dropped last Saturday at Highbury, to make way for £150,000 new boy Henry Newton, should find himself reinstated to-morrow night. And Kendall, switched to back-four duty at Highbury is set to return to his midfield role. After a 90-minute stint in the reserve, last Saturday, right-winger Jimmy Husband was among the 16-strong parts which flew from Speke this afternoon ... but I doubt if he will play. I expect to see goalkeeper Gordon West, centre-half Brian Labone, defender Sandy Brown and Husband on the substitutes' bench.
Thoroughness
Catterick ha prepared for this game with clinical thoroughness-right down to giving the players practice with a German-type football.  Catterick says: “The footballs the Germans use seem to be lighter than the type we use . . . and they tend to swerve and dip. Everton are bent on gaining a draw from this game—but they will not neglect the chance to score a quick goal. If they do, they could well try to close up the game by substituting an extra defender. This is how I think Everton will line up Rankin; Wright, Newton (K); Kendall, Kenyon, Harvey: Whittle, Ball, Royle, Hurst, Morrissey.  Catterick concedes that the game against Moenchen Gladbach is one of the stiffest hurdles his side has ever been asked to overcome. And he has had the opposition checked out, so that he can brief his own men right down to the slightest detail. Catterick does not entirely admit that Everton are out of the League race—but he is realist enough to concede that success in Europe has become the priority, over the next couple of weeks.

UNBEATEN RECORD IS POINTER TO STRENGTH OF MOENCHEN GLADBACH
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 20 October 1970
By Mike Charters
High-flying Borussia Moenchen Gladbach point to an unbeaten record in the German Bundesliga this season as the logic behind their claim that they are going to K.O. Everton in the battle for a European Cup quarter - final place which starts in Germany to-morrow night. While Everton, their form in tatters at the moment, struggle to keep in touch with the leading group in the First Division, their German opponents stride on with an impressive display of technical skill, apparently without a weakness in their line-up. They have won five and drawn six of their 11 league games, scoring 24 goals and only conceding seven. Their tightly-knit defence revolves around World Cup star Bertl Vogts. This aggressive, hard-tackling full back is their best known player. He played an important role for West Germany when they took third place in this year's World Cup. His tireless running and clever reading of the game make him one of the greatest full backs in the world. Vogts, now 24, has played in every league match (176) for Moenthen Gladbach since they were promoted five years ago -a German record.
Injury
His partners in defence are Luggi Mueller, a former international who came to Moenchen Gladbach after winning championship honours; beefy sweeper Klaus-Dieter Sleloff, one of Germany's travelling reserves in Mexico, and Hedwig Bleldick, an amateur international whose biting tackle has a distinctly English flavour. Mastermind of the side is Guenther Netzer, idol of the home fans and eleven times an international. Many Germans rate Netzer higher than Bayern Munich's Franz Beckenbauer, and he would have played in Mexico had it not been for injury in a pre-World Cup international. Netzer combines his midfield duties with prompting the front runners, and is an expert at turning dead-ball situations to devastating advantage. Since joining them as a 19-years-old in 1965, Netzer's ability and consistency have played a large part in piloting the club from obscurity to the pinnacle of German soccer. Peter Dietrich, a canny player in his mid-twenties, is Netzer's midfield partner. His subtle probing won him a place in the Mexico squad, though like Sieloff, he took no active part.
Academy
Moenchen Gladblieh's shrewd manager, Hennes Welsweller—now in his seventh season at the helm—has built up such a wealth of talent at his soccer academy that he has five International forwards from whom to choose his four front runners. The usual system is to have two speedy wingers, occasionally assisted by overlapping defender: pumping balls into the middle for the strikers. The wingers are usually Herbert Wimmer, a 26-years-old local product, and Ulrik le Fevre, a Danish import with 28 caps, who has pace plus the ability to make shots from unexpected angles. In the middle, Horst Koeppel shows the artistic dribbling ability which persuaded Borussia to part with £25,000 (still a German transfer record) to obtain his services from VFB Stuttgart two years ago. English fans saw him in action in last week's Under-23 game at Leicester.
Bustling
Striker in chief is twice - capped Herbert Laumen, a stocky 27- years-old who joined Borussia on his tenth birthday! He is a bustling centre forward who can take knocks and operates in the Joe Royle mould. He has been the leading scorer in each of the past five seasons. Two other big bustling forwards who might play are Jupp Heynekes, an experienced player whom Borussia sold to Hanover 96 three years ago and then bought back during the close season, and Erler Bonhoff, a teenager who recently made a successful debut. It adds up to a tailor made battle of the giants, and the fans in Gladbach and Goodison should see a feast of football.

GO FOR YOUR GUNS EVERTON!
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 21 October 1970
From Stan Liversedge in Moenchen Gladbach
To-night Everton will be fighting to avoid being gunned down—and out of the European Cup—by a salvo from “The Colts “of Moenchen Gladbach.”The Colts - have earned their nickname because of their all-action style-and their readiness to shoot on sight at goal. They have 10 Internationals: in the last four seasons they have scored 70, 77, 61, and 71 goals respectively: they are unbeaten in 11 games this season: and they last lost at home in December, 1969.  And yet ... they admit to being apprehensive about tackling the English champions.  Skipper Gunter fietzer says: "Our players are a little afraid of Everton.  They are a fine footballing team and a hard side" Assistant coach Rudi Schlott echoes: “We are a little afraid of this game." But he adds: “We shall be marking Everton closely—and we shall try to get a quick goal "I shall be happy if we win 1-0." Coach Hennes Weisweller wants more than one goal. "We are wary of Everton." he says, and I believe we need TWO goals and THEN we can get through on aggregate.” Weisweller, Schlott and Netzer are unanimous about one thing—Everton are the one team they did NOT want to meet so early in the competition. Weisweiler has a victory plan and he was briefing hip players on it this afternoon at their hideout at Suchteln, 10 miles from Moenchen Gladbach.  One of the things he will impress upon his men. "Stop Alan Ball" Weisweller, who with skipper Netzer saw Everton lose 4-0 at Highbury last Saturday, say: “Ball was impressive and he is a danger man to us."
Hard Battle
Moenchen Gladbach are prepared for a hard battle—and Rudi Schlott says: "We have had a good preparation for this tie because in our last few League games we have come up against some pretty rough teams.” We know Everton are a fine footballing team-but they will be hard." Moenchen Gladbach, a club with a first team pool of 16 professionals and one amateur go into action without knowing the reward for success. But if they do win they will find they are on a victory bonus of about £75 a man.  A player who appeared in all Moenchen Gladbach’s championship games last season finished up collecting a £1,200 bonus. But to-night "The Colts” won't be worrying about cash—they will be fighting to keep that unbeaten record. And they will be ready to shoot on sight.

ARMY PROTECT THE CHAMPS
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 21 October 1970
EVERTON’S players today were given army protection—against sightseers.   As they trained at a B.A.0.R. sports stadium troops made sure there were no distractions from fans because the training session was behind locked gates. Everton have their first view of the compact Moenchen Gladbach stadium within minutes of their arrival in the town yesterday when their coach stopped off on route to the team hotel. In pouring rain the players trooped up to the ground—where the spectators will be virtually breathing down their necks to-night—and saw for themselves how close the fans will be to the on field action. But if Everton feel uncomfortable about the proximity of the fans they have the consolation of knowing that about 5,000 of the 32,000 crowd will he British Army troops doing a one night stand as cheerleaders for the Blues. Everton's lineup is almost certain to be Rankin: Wright, Newton (K.); Kendall, Kenyon, Harvey, Whittle, Ball, Royle, Hurst, Morrissey. Moenchen will choose from 12 players. Koppel, who played on the right wing in West German'', Under-23 game against England last week will be at cente forward tonight.

HURST AND GOAL-HERO KENDALL INSPIRE BLUES
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 22 October 1970
By Stan Liversedge
Everton manager Harry Catterick summed up the Goodison situation as we flew home from Cologne in the early hours of today, after Everton's 1-1 draw against Moenchen Gladbach in the European Cup. "Kendall had a tremendous game, apart from his goal; and John Hurst gave a powerfully impressive performance, too." Which boils down to the fact that Kendall and Hurst were not just playing in a big game-with the advent of £150,000 Henry Newton, they were fighting for their first team futures. Kendall and Hurst, in fact, typified a terrific Everton performance in the face of seeming defeat. A goal down, at half-time, through Vogts, Everton had taken a battering, from a team which had poise, power and bore down on goal with real purpose. Two minutes after halftime, and Kendall—my man of the match rammed home a 25-yard killer goal. Germary goalkeeper Kieff was still busy clearing rolls of paper-thrown, claimed the Germans, afterwards, by British fans, Kieft looked up to see the rocket shot from Kendall homing on target. And he could do little about it. That equaliser seemed to knock the heart out of Moenchen Gladbach. And I served as a Spur to Everton. Instead of massing 10 men in defence, they became a team intent on attack. Everton, their hopes reborn, took the initiative; and even Netzer, the Moenchen Gladbach skipper, who had sprayed passes around with telling authority in the first half, seemed to lose his fire. Both sides could have scored two goals—but Everton were well satisfied with the 1-1 score line. Catterick, cautious as ever, underlined: "We still have to win the Goodison return." But Moenchen Gladbach know they are the team now under pressure. The overall impression remains that Everton, a team full of spirit and courage, had not a weak link in their side. As Brian Labone observed: "How the hell can you expect to get your place back, after a team performance like this?"

TRIO SHOULD BE FIT
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 22 October 1970
By Stan Liversedge
Everton have three casualties, after their European Cup-tie against Moenchen Gladbach. Alan Ball, Colin Harvey and Johnny Morrissey all received knocks.  But I believe they are likely to be fit for Saturday's game against Newcastle. And if so, the jackpot question will be whether £150,000 Henry Newton will be sitting it out, after a 90-minute introduction against Arsenal. Everton's impressive display in Germany cries out for manager Harry Catterick to say "No change." on Saturday.  Catteriek admitted before the European Cup-tie that his mind was working along these lines, at least until Everton's fate in Europe had been decided. Everton last night achieved the blend of strength and skill which took them to the title: and they are favourites to win the return against Moenchen Gladbach in a fortnight. Catterick must decide if he can afford to risk disrupting the combination . . . if league points are still at least as vital as progress in the European Cup. To-day, he was eager about his intentions for Saturday. “I haven't even started to think about the team yet," he said. If anyone drops out and I believe Ball could be the likeliest to need more time to recover— then my guess is that Newton will be in.

I’M GOING TO GIVE THE LOT
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 22 October 1970
By Henry Newton
I’m under no Illusions about the challenge which faces me at Everton. But I’m bound to say —and I'm absolutely sincere about this -that I am ready to give everything I've got to be a success at Goodison Park. I don't think any professional footballer can do more than give of his best: and Everton will get the best that I can give. I owe it to the club I consider to be the greatest in the land; and I owe it to myself. Everton manager Harry Catterick summed it all up, when he said that I was ambitious, and that I wanted to play for the best club in England. Well, now I've got my way—and I know that I have to prove myself. The game at Highbury on Saturday was just the start…and after that, I’m not kidding myself that it is going to be easy. Yet if I HADNT believed I could keep company with the best players in the land, I would never have taken the plunge and left Nottingham Forest. I know I did a great deal of heart-searching, before I finally decided that it was make or break. If I hadn't left Forest when I did, I think I would have stayed there until the end of my career in football. My wife, Hazel, is a Nottingham girl, and my mother, who is a widow, lives in Nottingham. So all my ties have been there, all my life.
Hours Mulling Things Over
Professional football is a Job where you have to be prepared to move around. If the occasion demands.  But I will confess that during the past week or so, I have spent hours mulling things over.  This business of a transfer cost me a few hour’s sleep, I can tell you, last week.  On the Monday, I had a long chat with Forest manager Matt Gillies and at the end of it all, he indicated that the club was likely to let me go.  I’ll admit that I felt mixed emotions, as I left the Forest manager’s office.  For I knew that if I DID leave, I would be taking a big step… an irrevocable step.  There would be no turning back, once; I’d signed the forms which made me a player with another club.  At this stage, I knew only what I had read about the various clubs which were reported to be interested in me.  Everton, Derby, West Ham, Arsenal…these were said to be the rivals for my signature. Naturally, I pondered a great deal as to which club I might finally join. Because even when I had that long talk with Matt Gillies last Monday, there was no real indication of who was going to reach agreement first with Forest. I have business interests in Nottingham, and I realized that a move to nearby Derby would allow me to live on the doorstep and retain my business connections.
Prepared for Anything
On the other hand, Everton -if they came along were the League champions, and from the way I looked at it, they had a young team which could only get better. I reckoned that over the next few seasons, Everton were capable of winning the lot- and, as manager Harry to Catterick said, I WAS ambitious. I went down to the Forest ground on the Tuesday feeling like a Boy Scout -prepared for anything. As I drove up to the ground, and walked in through the players' entrance ready to do some training I wondered what would happen.  Well, I did my training stint, then had a chat with the manager.  Instead of the long walk I had envisaged, it turned out to be brief, and to the point.  Matt Gillies simply said.  “We’re ready to transfer you.  In fact we’ve agreed terms with Everton -and Harry Catterick wants to meet you this afternoon, for a chat." The photographers and reporters were waiting outside. But they didn't get to talk to me. It was all cloak-and-dagger stuff. With the manager, his No. 2. Bill Anderson, and the club chairman, I walked out to a waiting Rover car—appropriately enough, it was finished in the blue of Everton —and Bill Anderson drone us straight out of the ground and headed for Buxton. “On the way to the meeting with Harry Catterick, I pondered again on one or two points. My wife was out at work, and didn't know what was happening: and I had decided that I wasn't going to be rushed into anything by anyone. Thirty minutes after meeting Harry Catterick I had signed on the dotted line. I gather that HE expressed surprise at the speed with which the deal had gone through, for there had also been the query as to whether Tommy Jackson would be prepared to leave Everton for Forest. 
Absolutely Stunned
If my new boss was surprised I was absolutely stunned at the ease with which you can become a £150,000 footballer, stunned, too, by the way all my ideas about sleeping on things and inspecting Mersey had gone by the board.  Frankly, Harry Catterick told me simply and clearly what joining Everton would mean.  And the concise way he put things made me realise, even as he was talking, that I would be a fool NOT to jump at the chance of signing for a club which has such tremendous plans for the future. If I was ambitious, so were Everton. It didn't take long for this to sink in. And so I signed…then I went back to Nottingham to tell my wife. Of course, she knew before she saw me—it was in the evening papers. Now, no matter how you try to disregard a £150,000 fee—and this seems to be the generally accepted estimate of the player-cash deal which took me to Everton—you are bound to wonder if you will live up to such a rating.
Weighing me up critically
And when I awoke the morning after I had signed. I thought a lot about the price upon my head. For I knew that the fans on the terraces would be weighing me up critically, in the next few weeks. I was determined that I would TRY not to think about that price tag when I went out to play against Arsenal at Highbury on Saturday. And I aim to stick to this resolution is right from the start. I am determined that the defeat at Highbury will not linger in my mind and upset my game. I hope the fans will remember that I didn't fix the fee, and that I'm trying to play as a member of a TEAM.  I’m not asking favours: just a fair, crack of the whip—and a chance to be allowed to settle down and serve up some good football as my contribution to the team effort. point. I know what it's like to play AGAINST Everton—now I want the chance to show what I can do in the cause of Everton. And this much can already say: I have been made to feel welcome at the club.
One Real Regret
I’ve only one real regret, at this moment –that a story which began two years ago had just been concluded.  I’m told that Everton’s first inquiry for me was made as long ago as that; I only wish they had been successful at the time.  In the meantime, I’ve come to one decision- I’ll have to change my car.  After all, no self-respecting Everton player would arrive at Bellefield in a bright RED car, would he?”

£150,000 HENRY WILL MISS HOME GAME
Liverpool Echo - Friday 23 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Everton's £150,000 buy, Henry Newton, will not make his home debut against Newcastle United at Goodison tomorrow, confirming manager Harry Catterick's statement earlier this week that he did not want to disturb the team which played in the European Cup. Newton is included in a party of 14, but Mr. Catterick told me: “I hope to be able to play the same side which did so well in Germany.  Newton is in the squad as insurance against the faint possibility of a late change. Alan Ball returned from Germany with a slight knock, but it seems certain he will be all right.  Jimmy Husband, fit again after his month's lay-off through injury, is also in the party, but with Alan Whittle in brilliant form in the last two games, Husband won't be playing against his hometown club. Newton's problem is that he has had no chance to play with his new team-mates even in practice games. He stepped into the side at Arsenal last week after having had little more time than to shake hands with his colleagues. Because he is ineligible to play in European games yet, he took no part in the team's preparations for their match in Germany. So he has spent most of this week training with the reserves because the first team were away for two days as well. This is not the sort of preparation Mr. Catterick would have liked for his new player before he makes his home debut. It has been Impossible for Newton to settle in as quickly as he would have done in other circumstances. This is why the Everton chief would like to keep Newton under wraps for the moment until the cup-tie with Moenchen Gladbach is completed EVERTON. Rankin, Wright, Newton (K.)(From) Kendall, Kenyon. Harvey; Whittle, Ball, Royle, Hurst, Morrissey, Brown, Husband, Newton (H.).  Newcastle play the same team which beat Pecsi Dozsa in the Fairs Cup-tie this week. First choice centre half Ollie Burton is out for a month with strained ankle ligaments, and second choice John McNamee has a run in the reserves after injury, so manager Joe Harvey has called on 25- years-old David Young. Despite having had four stitches in a forehead cut, between scoring both goals with headers against the Hungarians. Welsh international centre forward Wyn Davies is fit.  Newcastle; - McFaul; Craig, Clarke; Gibb, Young; Moncur; Robson, Dyson, Davies, Smith, Ford, Sub; Arentoft. 

EVERTON NEED A CUP REPEAT
Liverpool Echo - Friday 23 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Everton need Everton's performance in Germany against Moenchen Gladbach was worth far more than the face value of a 1.1 draw to give them a great chance of reaching the quarter-finals of the European Cup. Their w e teamwork in holding the German champions—and going very close to beating them on their own ground--should be the boost they needed after three poor displays in the League. We could look back this week as being the turning point for Everton They needed the reassurance of a competent show to restore their confidence and a looks as though their all-round quality in Germany went beyond the bounds of competence. Tt was the old Everton again. Manager Harry Catteriek was realistic enough this week to take a clinical look at his team's 13th position in the table and say: “is logical to assume that our chances of winning the title are remote. We haven't given up all hope and we will continue to challenge, but it is hardly likely that six or seven teams above us at present will fail.” 
That challenge could be shown to-morrow afternoon against Newcastle United at Goodison. It will be tough going for Everton, for Newcastle have done better away than at St. James' Park. They have only won once at home in the League but have picked up three Away victories. Before losing at Wolves last Saturday, they had won three and drawn one of their previous four away games.
Powerful Trio
They have, in centre-forward Wyn Davies, the type of player who can prove most disturbing to the Everton defence. The heading power of the Arsenal trio, John Radford, Ray Kennedy and George Graham, destroyed the Blues at Highbury last Saturday and now Davies will be there with a solo threat just as menacing. But Everton's performance in Germany will have done them so much good mentally that they should be able to cope with Davies and the shooting power of that ace finisher, Pop Robson. Davies scored both goals in his side's Fairs Cup win over the Hungarians, Pearl Dozsa, in mid-week. He is in top form and Newcastle, although not consistent in the League, do so well in Europe that they are a test for the best when in the mood. Defensively, they have one of the finest players in the game in captain Bobby Moncur. He is a commanding personality who holds his co-defenders together in a screen which can be as strong and dominant as any in the business. Full-backs Frank Clark and Dave Craig, with David Young in the middle, make up a back four of formidable Power. Everton will need to add Penetrating finish up front to their midfield skill to make an impression on United's defensive wall Newcastle have drawn on their last two visits to Goodison. On the evidence of Everton's displays against Coventry, Derby and Arsenal-only one point from those games, conceding eight goals in the process —I would not be too confident of an Everton victory . Since the Highbury crash, however, Everton have pulled themselves together. They realise that they cannot go on dropping points if they are to fight themselves into a leading position which could gave them the chance of Europe again next season.

AERIAL MENACE!
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 24 October 1970
ANOTHER SEARCHING TEST FOR THE BLUES
By Mike Charters
THE heading power of Arsenal forwards John Radford, Ray Kennedy and George Graham destroyed Everton at Highbury a week ago. To - day at Goodison Park come up against another master in the air, the Newcastle United and Welsh centre-forward Wyn Davies, who will inevitably gave them another searching test along the airbourne route.  But whereas the Arsenal forwards provided a triple threat to Kenyon and Co, at Highbury, Davies is on his own so far as danger in the air is concerned.  His co-striker is the ace finisher, Pop Robson, who scores most of the goals with his accurate power of shot rather than heading.  Davies is such an expert at laying on chances with deft headed flicks that Everton must concentrate on blotting out his menace, and much will rest on how they cope with the Welsh star if they are to snap out of their mediocre run in the League.  Davies proved that he is in top form with his two headed goals against Pecs' Duzsa in the Fairs, Cup tie this week. The menace is clear -keep him quiet and Everton should go on their way rejoicing.  One point from the last three games against Arsenal, Derby and Coventry have put them in 13th place, eight points behind leaders Leeds United. Whether they can ever close that gap to make a sustained bid to retain their championship title is problematical.
Flair Lost
Few people could have imagined that Everton would have lost so many points already after the way they ran away with the title last season.  Team changes involving Brian Labone, Alan Whittle, Gordon West and John Hurst have not produced the expected results.  They have lost their champions’ flair the touches of skill allied to finish which made them such an attractive and successful team last season. But they showed in they could be finding their form again. Admittedly, the ball has not run kindly for them. They could do little right at Highbury up front or in defence, although there were flashes of midfield genius which had the Arsenal fans applauding their skill. Without attack penetration, however, it meant little.  This afternoon they come up against a Newcastle side which has done better away than at St. James Park. They have only won once at home in the League, but have picked up three away victories.  Before losing at Wolves last Saturday, they had won three and drawn one of their previous four away fixtures.  They won at Derby County, West Ham and West Bromwich, with a draw at Manchester City as one of their best performances of the season. Apart from Robson and Davies to provide the scoring touches, they have a clever winger in Alan Foggon, a skilled performer on the ball. Defensively they are very strong with skipper Bobby Moncur, David Young and full backs Frank Clark and Dave Craig presenting an uncompromising tackling screen which few teams can open.  They have drawn their last two games at Goodison Park and it could be a similar result today.  Moncur is the great figure in the side-a commanding captain, a magnificent defender who can snuff out dangerous opponents and still find the ability to come through on occasions to snatch vital goals.  At the back Irishman Ian McFaul is one of the most capable goalkeepers in the First Division. Although Newcastle are usually content to maintain a mid-table position in the League, their prowess in Europe is so consistently good that it is obvious what a good side they are on their day. 
Realistic
Manager Harry Catterick said before the season started that the major bid would be to retain the championship- the most difficult of their aims.  Now he is realistic enough to say: "It is logical to assume that our chances of the title are remote.  We haven’t given up all hope and we will continue to challenge.  “It is not beyond us.  But it is hardly likely that six or seven teams will all fail.  “It is still important to get points, because even if we cannot win the championship again we want to finish high enough to get a place in European competition next season.  “Our defensive record is as bad as I can remember in my time at the club.  “We have always been an attacking team, and we won the championship last season playing attacking football.  But we didn’t give many goals away either.  “This season we have scored as many goals as Manchester City, who are up with the leading contenders, but we have let too many in.”  So it looks certain that our success will be their main target for the rest of this season.  They took a convincing step along the European trial with their 1-1 draw in Germany this week- probably their best performance of the season-and must be favourites now to get to the quarter finals by winning at Goodison on November 4.  But the boost of their workmanlike display in Moenchen Gladbach could help them to pick up in the League as well. This afternoon would be a good time to start.

BLUES FIND THAT OLD SPARKLE
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 24 October 1970
EVERTON 3 NEWCASTLE UNITED 1
By Mike Charters
Line-up;- Everton; Rankin; Wright, Newton; Kendall, Kenyon, Harvey; Whittle, Ball, Royle, Hurst, Morrissey, Sub, Brown.  Newcastle United; McFaul; Craig, Clark; Gibb, Young, Moncur; Robson, Dyson, Davies, Smith, Ford, Sub; Arentoft.  Referee; Mr. R. Kirkpatrick (Leicester).
Inspired by their fine performance in Germany in mid-week, Everton turned on a scintillating display against Newcastle at Goodison Park this afternoon. They were back to their championship best and goals by Royle, Whittle and Kendall put them ahead before Wright gave Newcastle a glimmer of hope with Everton's first own-goal of the season. There were escapes at both ends in the opening couple of minutes. First, Whittle cleverly beat Clark, but Young cut off the winger's dangerous centre. Then Gibb broke through from Robson's neat pass, but took the ball too far and as Rankin came out the shot went into the side netting. Immediately after that the referee ordered the ball to be changed. The referee, who had stamped his personality on the game very quickly, spoke to Davies after a foul on Ball. Everton were moving quickly and well. Clearly, they were in much more confident mood after their fine performance in the European Cup this week.
Tremendous speed
Everton were building up attacks at tremendous speed. Harvey intercepted a clearance to bring the ball inside and hit a shot of such power that McFaul couldn't handle it. But he recovered and held the ball at the second attempt. At the other end. Rankin had to scramble to make contact with a header by Robson, and from the rebound, Gibb shot against the goalkeeper. There was no lack of incident. The game was full of good football, being played at an incredible pace.  United also looked impressive in attack with Davies spreading the ball about well and Robson clever on the ball. This was one of the best games seen on the ground this season. It was full of individual skill, and there was nothing better than Royle's 60 yard dribble, in which he slipped past man after man. His initial shot was blocked, the ball rebounded to Ball, who gave it back to Royle, and this time a first-time shot of great power just went wide. Ball, Harvey and Kendall were making first time passes of such accuracy that the Newcastle defence was in constant trouble trying to work out where the next thrust was coming from. Everton swept downfield to take the lead deservedly with a first-class goal by Royle. A neat build-up between Whittle and Kendall ended with Kendall making a perfectly placed centre. Royle went up to head the ball well away from McFaul.
Brilliant move
The goal came just before the half-hour and within a minute another brilliant move, this time down the left, saw Kendall run well to make headed contact with Morrisseys centre, but he placed the ball wide. Wright almost scored with a fast centre which McFaul misjudged, the ball landing on the top of the netting. This was Everton back to their best. Whittle had delighted the crowd with his fine running and effort, and he crowned it with a glorious goal, after 35 minutes—his second League goal of the season.  From Rankin s clearance, Whittle collected the ball, 45 yards out, set off in a straight line down the middle, and with t h e Newcastle defenders holding off in anticipation of a pass to Royle, he let fly a tremendous shot, from 20 yards, which left McFaul helpless. This was the Everton the fans had been hoping to see as Ball, an outstanding midfield figure, drove on his men to a classic display.
Half -time —Everton 2. Newcastle United 0.
Newcastle made their first attempt at a goal for half an hour when Dyson volleyed the ball wide from Davies's headed pass.  Then Everton were back in action again. Kendall dispossessed Young, raced on and passed to Royle, whose shot was blocked by Moncur for a corner. From it, Royle tried to direct his header just inside the post, but McFaul had it covered. Everton went on their highly-skilled way with their third goal after 53 minutes. A long clearance by Kenyon was beautifully headed inside by Royle to Kendall, whose first time shot beat McFaul as it bounced once and skipped just inside the post.  A minute later Everton's defence slipped for the first time with right putting through his own goal to achieve what the Newcastle forwards had been unable to do. A free kick by Clark was going into the arms of Rankin as the goalkeeper came out. Wright went up in an attempt to head the ball away, but it went off the top of his head, over the helpless Rankin and into the net.
.Tighter defence
Everton fought off the shock of the own-goal and maintained a steady attack. But with Newcastle having tightened their defence, Everton were not finding it as easy to get through as they had done in the first half. Rankin, who had not had much to do, made a splendid save from a Craig centre. Hurst collided with him as he went up for his catch, causing the ball to run loose, but Rankin recovered quickly and completed the clearance.    There was high excitement in the Everton goalmouth when a swirling centre deceived the defence and Gibb made a fine shot which Rankin beat out. The ball went to Robson, whose quick return was blocked by Kendall and then finally Dyson fired it high over the bar.  Everton had ' not recaptured their penetrating skill and thrust of the first half, due I think, to the way Newcastle had tightened their defence and played with more purpose in mid-field. Referee Kirkpatrick had contributed to the entertainment of this excellent game. His antics may have amused the crowd, but his control was first-class. Moncur was the fourth Newcastle player to be spoken to by the referee, after he had fouled Royle, who had a magnificent match. Official attendance: 43,135.
THE VERDICT
Everton’s  first half display against Newcastle was up to their highest standard. With brilliant play from Ball and Kendall in midfield, the team moved like clockwork and took a three goal lead. Newcastle's fading hopes were raised with an own-goal by Wright and they rallied to such purpose that Everton could not recapture their first half splendour. But nothing could detract from their brilliant first half play. 

THE HARRY CATTERICK COLUMN
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 24 October 1970
BANQUETS NO PREPARATION FOR LEAGUE MATCHES
IN RECENT years, Everton have released more players for international duty at various levels than any club in the country, but we are still criticized. This time. It is for not allowing our 21-years-old centre- forward, Joe Royle, to attend an F A banquet following the Under -23 international between England and West Germany at Leicester 10 days ago.  Royle scored a brilliant goal in England's 3-0 victory and then returned to Liverpool immediately after the match. A London sportswriter suggested this might hamper Royle's chances of future honours. He wrote “His club's niggardly attitude is depriving him of involvement which is essential to his progress. It is rubbing shoulders with his colleagues and talking over the game, especially immediately afterwards, that teamwork is developed both on and off the field. After Roy le had played for Everton against Derby County on Saturday. October 10, I did not see him again until the following Thursday because of international duty. Had he attended that F.A. function on the Wednesday night, he would not have been back in Liverpool and rested sufficiently to train with the rest of the club team on Thursday morning. This would hardly be an ideal way to prepare a player for a match against Arsenal.
Drinking
I am sure Sir Alf Ramsey would not wish any of his players drinking and dining three days before that dash against West Germany. Why should Everton, or any club for that matter?  Royle didn't mind missing the dinner, as he doesn't like this type of affair any way. Every other international footballer I have spoken to feels the same. I am always thrilled when one of my players is chosen for a representative match, but let's not lose sight of the fact that a player's first responsibility is to his club.  It is wrong for anyone outside that club to make excessive demands on a player's time. Royle's display against the Germans was rated one of the most exciting individual performances of the season. It cannot be long before he gains promotion to the full England team. We signed Royle from school at the age of 15 ½ and since then our training ground has been virtually his second home. He has always been good in the air, but has now improved his ball control beyond recognition due to countless hours of intensive coaching. The mind boggles at the thought of what he might achieve in the future. He has already emerged as one of the leading strikers in Britain—and yet he is still at least three years short of his peak. I don't normally like to give too much praise to young players, as so many have failed to live up to their “golden boy” potential.
Understudy
Yet having once served as understudy to the great Tommy Lawton at Everton. I think I know enough about centre-forwards to predict Joe Royle will be one of the exceptions. He is now finding much more space in front of goal than in previous years, because he realises it is no longer imperative to stand by the far post for every cross! In that respect, West Ham's Geoff Hurst has done more than anyone to change the traditional image of centre-forwards. He has worked tirelessly on his technique to acquire remarkable skill and mobility for a fellow of his size. Hurst can head goals at the near post as well as the far post: shield the ball brilliantly, and take opponents on in confined areas, Royle is working towards the same technical perfection.

SOCCERSCOPE
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 24 October 1970
EVERTON youngsters David Johnson and Mick Lyons continue to make a big impression in Central League matches. Although manager Harry Catterick is always cautious in his assessment of young potential, there is no disguising his satisfaction at the progress these 17-years-olds are making.  Lyons. switched this season from centre forward to centre half, is doing well in his new position, while Johnson, in the role of a fast moving striker, looks like making the grade.

NEWTON SIGNING; CATTERICK ANSWERS HIS CRITICS
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 24 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Why did Everton manager Harry Catterick sign Henry Newton in a 150,000 deal which strengthened the department in the side—midfield—which was already  regarded by most people of the game as the best in the Football League".
Many readers have asked this question and the Everton chief answered it—in advance —in a talk with me a few hours before Newton made his debut at Arsenal.  He said; “Players of Newton's quality are in such short supply on the transfer market that when one becomes available, you have to move fast to get him. “It is no use saying that, at the moment. I didn't need him.  You’d took a fool if, in a few week time, I had Ball, Kendall or Harvey off injured for a spell and did not have Newton available as a class replacement "Then people would say “Why didn't you sign Newton when he was available"' You just can’t afford to miss the chance of getting a man of his ability. If you wait, hoping that you're not going to suffer from injuries, sure enough you'd be kicking yourself that you hadn't signed him when injuries cropped up. “In any case, I regard midfield players as so important in a first team squad that you can't have too many The only specialist players left in the game are down the middle—goalkeeper centre half and centre forward These players cannot he switched around in emergency. “But a player like Newton can move back into defence, or up into attack.  He can do a job for me anywhere but in the specialist positions I've mentioned “Newton's arrival has given me the chance of all sorts of permutations in team selection and tactics I could play him midfield with Ball,  Kendall and Harvey in a 4-4-2 set-up. He has the ability to play a role where he deputed to mark one particular opponent—the destroying job “I want to create the situation at Everton which Jock Stein has established at Celtic with such success.  He selects teams and players for particular matches, depending on the strength and weaknesses of the opposition. "A player who has had a blinder one week may be out of the side in the next match because Jock has a man in his squad whom he considers can do a better job against the opponents of that week "To be able to do this with confidence, you must have a strong first team pool of players. Newton has strengthened my squad. I am moving nearer to the position where I can do what Celtic do, with players accepting the fact that team changes will be made regularly for a PARTICULAR purpose." I think that should answer his critics on the Newton signing.

YOU’RE TELLING US
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 24 October 1970
I  WONDER with some apprehension what the arrival of Henry Newton is going to mean at Everton.  I have no doubts about the player's ability —he has always been an outstandingly accomplished player in what has been an average team. My concern is more with what convulsions the team will have to undergo to accommodate him. As primarily a midfield player, the obvious place to put him would be in the middle line, but it is unbelievable that he should displace Harvey, the most consistently brilliant player on the books, or Ball.  I'm sure that not many Evertonians would want to see the sweeping and vigorous football of Kendall missing from the team. The first attempt to fit in Newton was disastrous at Arsenal. The dropping of Hurst was surely an error, particularly against a side as physically strong as Arsenal. An established and proved formation was upset. Not long ago, an Everton team progressing satisfactorily tried to assimilate a good player, Ernie Hunt, and took about 12 months to recover from the consequent disruptions, returning incidentally to the original formation. Will something similar happen in the case of Henry Newton'—David Cottee, 7 Wergate Way. St. Boswells, Roxburghshire
GIVE US THE ANSWER
With the defence creaking like an old barn door, and crying out for the return of Brian Labone, Everton buy another midfield player. Everton now have two right backs and four top-class midfield players. Why? I hope Mr. Catterick comes up with a good answer.—Jack Lambert. 4 Rhobesmor Road, Kirkby. TACTICAL BLUNDER
EVERTON'S tactical blunder in playing Kendall in defence at Arsenal stood out for all to see. Everton's problem is deeper than this…brilliant midfield football again with nothing up front and not much more behind, despite the good work of Keith Newton and Rankin, who could not be faulted. - What's wrong with a 4- 2-4 formation I think this formation is worth a try Rankin; Wright, Newton (K), Hurst, Kenyon or Labone: Harvey, Husband. Ball, Hoyle, Whittle, Morrissey. Kendall or Henry Newton?  Catterick seems to have made his choice with a £150,000 deal, so let Kendall go and use the money in a giant bid for Woodward or Marsh. —F. R. Little. 10 Old Beit Hall, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7.
BOILING POINT
My frustration with Everton has reached boiling point. After seeing Everton lose at Arsenal, the team's weakness was there for all to see.  The first two goals came with the defence left hopelessly by the crossed ball -why didn't Catterick spot this danger and bring Hurst on? Now that Labone is in the reserves. Hurst is the only defender with the height to clear the high cross, yet he is dropped in favour of Henry Newton, who is no bigger than Kendall and Harvey. I am a great admirer of Catterick but f must fault him for the signing of Henry Newton. He seems to be obsessed with wanting midfield cover all the time, when it is big strong forwards who are needed.—D. Hudson. Flat 5. Linosa Close, Shed Park, Liverpool 6.
BRING BACK LABONE
LET'S NOT call Henry Newton a bad buy until he settles down. Everton's problem is at left back where Keith Newton is out of position. Bring back Labone to help Kenyon in his first full season and then we'll see Everton moving with this team: Rankin; Wright or K. Newton, Kendall, Labone, Kenyon, Harvey, Husband, Ball, Royle, H. Newton, and Morrissey. Sub: Hurst.—J. Blackhurst, 8 Park Close, Formby.
GO-AHEAD FORWARDS
ALTHOUGH Kendall has been out of touch recently, I cannot see the sense in buying another wing half in Henry Newton. Hurst may have been needed to cover Labone, but this is not so with Kenyon. The team is crying out for go-ahead forwards like Coates, Conroy and MacDonald.—L. J. Tague, 22 Princesway, Wallasey.
NO EXCUSE
Can you find out what happened when Catterick named his team to play Arsenal? Labone and Hurst would not have let in four goals. Going out to play attacking football is no excuse.—B. J. Hough. 8 Wirral View, Connahs Quay.
THE MAN TO GO
I think Catterick made a mistake at Arsenal in putting Kendall in the back four to cope with the big Arsenal forwards. I admit Hurst has not been brilliant this season, but surely the man to go out should have been Keith Newton, who has not had a great game since he joined Everton.—P. Higgins, 34 Wernbrook Road, Liverpool 4.
NEW STRIP WANTED
When I watch Everton, I notice that the other team invariably looks the smarter. Other teams are using a more modern and classier looking strip- Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea, etc. Let Everton keep their blue, but in a classier strip to match their classier play .—D. W. Connor. 5 Masefield Crescent, Bootle 21.
HARD SEASON AHEAD FOR MEDIOCRE EVERTON TEAM
We Everton fans are not getting the team we deserve. The players do not come up to the high standard we have a right to expect from an Everton team. There is a lack of class from back to front; the whole team smasks of mediocrity.   It lacks character and personality.  The trouble goes back quite a bit. It was unfortunate that a successor was not found for Labone two seasons ago-we have still not got one.  A captain in the first rank should have been appointed. Ball is a non-stop player but…I remember the days when Everton had men like Dean, Williams, Cresswell, Sagar, Gee, White, T. G. Jones, Mercer, Britton —men of personality and Everton's fine name was never besmirched by anything unworthy on the field.
We think Everton are in for a hard season.—J. Sainsbury, N. Grant. H. Johnson, Linden. 171 Queens Drive, Liverpool.

YOUNG BLUES BOUNCE BACK
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 24 October 1970
EVERTON RESERVES could have taken an early lead in the Central League match at Newcastle when a poor clearance by McNamee in the third minute was returned into the penalty area but D'Arcy shot over the bar. Three minutes later Johnson got his head to a Sergeant free kick but Burleigh tipped the ball over the bar. Newcastle took the lead after 35 minutes when a through ball from Elliott was turned square across goal by Cassidy to McNAMEE, who scored from close range. But a minute before half time Everton drew level when a long free kick by Sergeant eluded the defence for LYONS to stab the ball home from close range. Half time: Newcastle Res. 1, Everton Res. 1
Newcastle Res; Burleighs; Craggs, Ellison; Elliott, McNamess, Natress, Barrowclough, Hindson, Cassidy, Thomson, McGoven, Subs Johnson (T).  Everton Res; West; Seargeant, Styles; Darracott, Labone, Lyons; Kenny, Wilson, Johnson (D), D’Arcy, Jones, Sub; Melledrew.  Referee; Mr. R.A.  Armstrong (Ilkley). 

BLUES BACK IN CHAMPION STYLE
Liverpool Echo - Monday 26 October 1970
By Mike Charters
The Incoming of £150,000 Henry Newton to Everton has made little Impact yet on the field. But I believe his Influence has been most marked behind the scenes. It is surely not just coincidence that Everton's best performances for months have been against Newcastle, added Saturdan and In Germany in midweek—with Newton on the sidelines as a big money reminder to other players that he will be fighting for a regular place soon. The skill and combination Everton showed against Newcastle, added to high-developed teamwork and determination, reminded me of how they played in their run-in to the championship last season.
Instinctive
Their first-half display, in which they took a two goal lead with a fine header by Royle and a great shot from Whittle, was magnificent. The ball was moved around at top pace and with an instinctive touch which could not hate been better. Had it not been for the commanding figure of Moncur in their defence. Newcastle could have gone off at half-time trailing by half a dozen goals. They must have thought they were battling against a hurricane force of soccer sorcery. They just didn't know which way the attack next was coming. As Ball and Kendall, with Harvey only a little behind them, linked in those reflex passes which put them in such complete harmony with each other's play, the Goodison fans reveled in the exhibition and gave them a standing ovation at halftime. Royle was magnificent, Whittle and Morrissey tireless and brave, adding their skill to the all-round picture of a team enjoying their ability and almost cheeky in their variation of tactics. That Everton did not maintain this level in the second half was due, I think, to the fact that Newcastle pulled themselves together commendably, and tried to take the game to Everton instead of just standing back and struggling in defence. Although Kendall put Everton three up shortly after half time, thanks to Royle's neatly headed pass. Newcastle were given a chance to fight their way back with the shock of Wright's own goal for them a minute later.
Smith, an artist on the ball, looked a good midfield player, and Robson and Dyson made some threatening raids. Urged from the back by the drive of Moncur, Newcastle made a game of it and took the edge off Everton's earlier dominance.
Fluent passing
Everton lost a little of their pace, a little of their fluency in passing Newcastle moved more quickly into the tackle, looked more confident, and the game became less one-sided but all the more entertaining because of it. But Newcastle could not manage to score, themselves, because Rankin was safe in goal, and Hurst and Kenyon sound the middle against the heading threat of Davies. Everton went close several times before the end, to round off a match as spectacular and good to watch as we've seen at Goodison for some time. Referee Kirkpatrick should take some of the credit for this. He may have amused spectators with his antics. but his command of play and players was first class. It's rare to hear a referee applauded at the end, but Mr. Kirkpatrick earned and received this appreciation. Everton's improvement from their ineffective display at Arsenal a week earlier was quite remarkable. They looked a different team in the truest sense of teamwork. This was the old Everton, with skill power and quality, mixed in effective combination.
MONDAY’S MAN
Joe Royle forces his way into this feature for the first time, with superb exhibition of centre-forward play at its best against Newcastle United. His powerful and accurate heading brought him one goal, and laid another for Howard Kendall. But it was his skill on the ground—he has such a delicate touch for a big man—which stamped his class on this match. He made several weaving runs through the Newcastle defence, which would have done credit to Tom Finney. This was Joe's day, all right on this form, he looks a sure bet for his first full cap this season. 

THE MATCH I’LL NEVER FORGET
Liverpool Echo - Monday 26 October 1970
By Henry Newton
I've often admired Everton's brand of football, whenever I've seen them on television—but there was one occasion when I was little more than a bemused spectator—even though I was playing against them. It's going back a few years now, but I reckon that I’ll never forget that match —and neither will another player, who is now with Blackpool. His name: Fred Pickering. – “Pick “was the man whom Everton signed from Blackburn Rovers for around £80,000: full back who had been converted with startling success by Blackburn into a scoring centre-forward . Fred Pickering must have been wondering, as I have done, just what it would be like making his debut before the Goodison crowd. When he did, it was against Nottingham Forest—and I was playing for the opposition. I've got to admit it—Everton ran rings round us, that day. Pickering scored a hat-trick as Everton simply threw everything at us. As I said, I was little more than a bemused spectator—like the rest of my team-mates. We did manage to score a goal, ourselves —but Everton ran up six. I have other memories of playing against Everton, though—and much happier ones, at that. It all happened the year we finished runners-up in the League to Manchester United. The year, also, that Forest reached the semi-finals of the F.A. Cup—and Everton were one of Forest's victims. Indeed, we really bad the Indian sign on Everton, that season—it was 1966-67—for we beat them in both League games as well.  But Forest hadn’t quite finished with Everton, even then-the FA. Cup pairings ensured that we clashed again, in the sixth round. Everton, who had won the Cup the previous season, must have had visions of repeating their Wembley triumph. By then, their line-up had changed once more, although the Forest team was the same as in the previous two matches. Everton had Andy Rankin in goal, Ray Wilson at left-back, and John Hurst at left-half. The forward line read: Young, Ball, Husband, Brown, Morrissey, and Derek Temple was the substitute. The eight teams in the sixth round that day were Birmingham, who met Tottenham, Chelsea, who played Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds United, who clashed with Manchester City, and Everton and ourselves. I suppose Everton must have been the hot favourites to get to the semi-finals again, after their Wembley victory of the previous May.
winger
But everyone had reckoned without a young winger who was 'destined to destroy the Blues in this sixth-round tie. At half-time, it was still anyone's game, although Everton supporters were jubilant, after Jimmy Husband had shot his team into the lead. Jimmy scored another goal in the second half, too—but it was Ian Storey-Moore who stole the headlines. For he came along with three cracking goals, to demolish Everton and see Forest into the semi-finals. Unhappily for us, our visions of Wembley were shattered by Tottenham, while Chelsea beat Leeds to make it an all-London final. Oddly enough, the goal which sank Leeds was scored by a fellow who, later, became a big-money player with Liverpool -Tony Hateley.
VIVID
I can still vividly remember the pictures of the then Chelsea manager, Tommy Docherty, hugging big Tony for joy and exclaiming: "That’s what we paid £100,000 for—the pay-off goal which takes us to Wembley!" To-day, “The Doc " is managing in Portugal, big Tony has travelled on from Liverpool and is now ready to leave Birmingham: and I’ve arrived at Everton. It's funny how Soccer's wheel of fortune can spin… But there's one thing I've decided since I came to Everton—l'm going to forget all about those superstitions which footballers tend to have. I've decided that I've got to make my own luck with Everton, and the best way to justify myself is to prove my value to the team through my performances on the field. And I'm to try to ensure that. "Enery's 'Ammer" scores quite a few goals for Everton, in the process. I scored seven goals for Forest last season, but I had managed only one this term, up to the time of my transfer. I want to add to my tally, because I like scoring goals. I've had good games and bad games, like every other player—l remember one match when Coventry beat Forest 2-0, and couldn't put a foot right. I even dropped the coin when I was spinning it at the kick, off. But I 'v e some pleasant memories of goals that I've scored perhaps the best to date was one I got against Manchester City. Forest were struggling to avoid relegation at the time and we were desperate for points.
BEST GOAL
At half-time it was no-score, and with the minutes ticking away towards full time, it looked very much although we would have to settle for a point.  Then I collected the ball about 25 yards from goal, I looked up spotted a gap in the City defence and hammered the ball for goal. It went like a rocket straight into the top corner of the net. If that was the best goal I've scored, so far, perhaps the best game I've ever played was against the Wolves, at Molineux. We were losing 3-0 at half time and when you go into the dressing room trailing so far, you don't exactly feel you're walking on air. But what a fighting comeback we staged in the second half I moved up front and we began to harry the Wolves' defence. Finally we cracked it and pulled back one, two, three goals and I scored two of them. And before I've finished at Goodison, I'm hoping to show the Everton crowd that I still pack a shot.
TO-MORROW: Those days of waiting.

SITTING AND SWEATING IT OUT
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 27 October 1970
AT A CLUB LIKE EVERTON EVERY MAN HAS TO WIN A PLACE-AND KEEP IT’
By Keith Newton
One of the things I had to face, when I decided to join Everton, was that there was such a wealth of first-team talent at Goodison—which meant that no player could ever be certain of his place. And that would include me. Indeed, as things have turned out, Everton's preoccupation with the European Cup-tie against Moenchen Gladbach became an immediate example of the problems which can beset a manager. For I was ineligible to play in the second-round tie. Frankly, I doubt if manager Harry Catterick would have plunged me into the fray, in any case, after just 90 minutes' play against Arsenal. I had really had too short an acquaintance with my new teammates, for the manager to take such a gamble. And it would have been a gamble, let's face it. Had I been eligible, and had Everton already held a commanding first-leg lead, it would have been different. But, of course, the first leg was away, and the main consideration was that Everton should not lose. It was clear to me, when I went out to play against Arsenal, that this was a 90-minute stint. It was also clear to me that I might not yet get another first-team game for a couple of weeks. So much depended upon what happened in Germany. Had Everton been thrashed, and had virtually no hope of saving the tie in the Goodison return, then there would have been little to lose in switching back to a formation which included me, for League games.
Blinder
But in German, Howard Kendall, restored to his familiar midfield position, not only scored the equalizing goal: he played a blinder. And John Hurst, the back-four man who made way for me in the game against Arsenal played with impressive authority. I wasn't there, but I read the reports and I heard all about the game when the lads returned from Germany. So how did I feel, knowing that I might be on the sidelines for a couple of weeks, until after Everton's return game in the European Cup?  I’ll be frank: NO player likes to be out of the action. And this is not the way I would have chosen. My ambition is to get down to the task of fitting into the Everton scheme of things as soon as possible. But, at the same time, I accepted that the overall demands of the situation dictated matters. I decided that if I found myself sitting a couple of games out, that was that.
No complaints
There would be no complaints from me just as there were no complaints from John Hunt, when I took his place at Highbury. And this is a vital concept of modern-day football, which even £150,000 players have to acknowledge. Just because you're a big- money man, you cannot bank on First Division football every week. These days, there are no reserve players, in the old, accepted sense of the word. There is a first-team pool of players, and every man has a key role to play, at some time or other. Tactical considerations come into it, a winger may be chosen for a game against a full-back whom he has "roasted" on previous occasions.
Extra attacker
A centre-forward can be pulled off, and replaced by a defender, if it's a case of being a goal ahead and then buttoning up the defence, you're two goals down, a defender can be replaced by an extra attacker, as the team concentrates on throwing everything into trying to get goals. This is all part and parcel of football today: and, as I say. I knew such a situation might arise when I joined Everton. Perhaps I didn't anticipate it arising so soon!  But, as Brian Labone said after the game in Germany, how can you really expect to be chosen when the team gave such a fine display against Moenchen Gladbach? Everton have an international goalkeeper waiting in the wings to regain his place: they have an England man waiting to reclaim the centre-half spot. They have Sandy Brown—a player capable of coming in almost anywhere, and making a success of the job. They have Jimmy Husband waiting to regain the right-wing spot.
Competition
Obviously, every one of these players wants to be taking part in First Division football every week, and in European Cup-ties. But the competition for places is fierce; and the men in possession have demonstrated that they don't intend to yield without a struggle. That's how it should be, from a managers point of view -and from the players' point of view as well. There’s nothing like knowing someone is breathing down your neck for making you conscious of the need to play consistently well! I would rather feel that feel that I’ve GOT to be on top form, in such high-class company, than go out knowing I'm an automatic first-team choice because there is no real contender for my place. It's a matter of personal pride, of course—personal pride and professional pride. I regard myself as a dedicated professional footballer. You may have read this phrase before, and you may think its pay-lip service to the game of soccer. But, believe me, you won't get to the top in this game by trying to kid people along. Performances on the field are what win you your place—and I recognise that I've got to play consistently well to win and keep my place at Everton. Of course, money comes into it. But it's far from being the be all and end all. You can be well paid as a member of the first team pool. But you gain the real satisfaction from knowing that you're IN the side week after week. At a club like Everton, you've got to EARN your cash …and your place.
Cynicism
There is plenty of cynicism about professional football: but it remains true that the REAL professional is also truly an amateur, spirit, because he LOVES the game.  You have only to look at the situation in which Manchester City goalkeepers Ken Millhearn and Harry Dowd have found themselves. They want to be PLAYING football, as well as making money from the game. City manager, Joe Mercer, sympathized with them, and said he knew exactly how they felt, so does every other player and manager in the game. At Everton, there are players just itching to get back their first team Jobs—and determined that, if they do, they will take some displacing: Believe me, when I've got two or three games behind me. I intend to make sure that any rival will have to go some, to win the place I hold. But if it works out, in the meantime, that I'm one of those on the sidelines, because of Everton's European Cup commitments, then I accept the situation. But I'll be training as hard and often as possible, to ensure that when I DO step in, I’ll be there to stay.
Quiet life
I'm not one for the bright lights, and I lead a pretty quiet life. I believe a professional footballer has to make sacrifices socially, to keep fully tuned up for the demands of Soccer. I enjoy going out for a meal with my wife, and that's about it. I don't regard Soccer as an excuse for becoming a so-called glamour boy. My relaxation away from Soccer has been golf—l'm down to a handicap of eight, and I've won one or two local tournaments. But it looks as if I may not get too much time for golf until the light nights come again. Everton maintain a busy training schedule, and the players are kept occupied in what is regarded as a fulltime career. Rightly so. In fact, the lads have jokingly told me that I'd better sell my golf clubs—that I won't have time to go knocking the small ball around the course. Well, even if my golf has to suffer, it will be in a good cause- because, above all. I want to win my spurs with Everton, and help them to reap further success as I'm sure they will.

INURIES BLOW TO BLUE PLAN
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 29 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Injuries to three players which have been slow to clear this week could change Everton manager Harry Catterick's plan to keep his European Cup team intact between the two matches against the German champions, Moenchen Gladbach. Colin Harvey, Tommy Wright and Alan Whittle are the doubts for the game at West Bromwich on Saturday. Harvey has been playing with a bruised foot for some time, and aggravated it against Newcastle last Saturday. Wright has a thigh strain and Whittle took a series of heavy tackles which left him in some pain. Catterick told me: “They were the type of Injuries which we expected to clear up by now with normal training and treatment. They haven't . . . and at this stage they must be rated doubtful for Saturday. "It could a late selection decision; I’ll know more tomorrow when I name a party to travel. “Sandy Brown and Jimmy Husband, who both played at Blackpool last night in the Lancashire Senoir Cup tie, will be standing by for Wright and Whittle respectively. "Henry Newton, who is getting acclimatized steadily to our way of training, has taken part in three full practice games this week with the first team squad. “I will play him of Harvey is not fit-although I would like to keep the same team together in view of our match with the Germans next Wednesday." If Harvey comes through a fitness test tomorrow, Newton will probably spend Saturday morning training at Bellefield. The Everton chief said: "It would do him more good than travelling to Albion with us. But I cannot decide until I know how Harvey is tomorrow. “Newton is settling in, but he is having to travel between here and Nottingham regularly. It is not the easiest of journeys and I will be happier when he has found a house here and does not have to travel so much." Catterick has put first things first by not disturbing the eleven who played in Germany, the team he wants to be unchanged for the return match. If Newton had played against Newcastle last Saturday and at Albion this week, he would have had to drop out next Wednesday.

GROUND CONDITIONS WILL SWAY BLUES’ CHOICE
Liverpool Echo - Friday 30 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Ground conditions at The Hawthorns to-morrow will play an important part in Everton's team selection against West Bromwich. Manager Harry Catterick said: “I am taking 14 players and will not name a side until I have checked on the pitch." The inclusion of Colin Harvey, Tommy Wright and Alan Whittle in the squad yesterday -they were rated as doubts through injury—indicates that they emerged successfully from tests at Bellefield this morning. Harvey is the one who could drop out if he is still feeling any reaction from his bruised foot. Henry Newton, the £150,000 buy from Forest, is also in the party and would replace Harvey if necessary. But I think Everton will be able to field an unchanged side -the manager's plan a few days before their European Cup-tie against Muenchen Gladbach. With Sandy Brown and Jimmy Husband named in the party to travel, they will be cover for Wright and Whittle. Albion also had a series of fitness tests to-day, and they resulted in midfield star Bobby Hope and full back Alan Merrick having to drop out of the reckoning. Graham Lovett is likely to play his first full game of the season after recovering from a car accident. He has only been substitute so far. Albion; Cumbes; Fraser, Minton; Lovett or Cantello, Talbut, Kaye; McVitie, Brown, Astle, Suggest, Hartford.  Everton; Rankin; (from) Wright, Newton (K.), Berown; Kendall, Kenyon, Harvey, Newton (H.); Whittle, Husband, Ball, Royle, Hurst, Morrissey. 

BUOYANT EVERTON SHOULD BE TOO HOT FOR ALBION DEFENCE
Liverpool Echo - Friday 30 October 1970
By Mike Charters
Everton are in buoyant mood. They go to West Bromwich to-morrow boosted by top-class performances against Moenchen Gladbach and Newcastle which reaffirmed their class after the shock 4-0 defeat at Arsenal a fortnight ago. The Albion game may be regarded as just a curtain-raiser to the BIG one against Gladbach next Wednesday and the chance of further progress in the European Cup. But it is a match where two points look on the cards for Everton with a repetition of their dominating form in the Newcastle fixture. Albion have the oddest record in the First Division this season. They have conceded more goals (32) than anyone else, but only Arsenal and Wolves have scored more (23). They give the impression of a side with a leaking defence but a fluent attack which can get goals with a regularity which most of the clubs above them in the table would envy
Devastating
They have only won one of their last six League games, but have scored nine goals in the process, they crashed 5-0 to all-conquering Spurs in the League Cup in mid-week, when former Tranmere 'keeper Jimmy Cumbes had a magnificent hour and a devastating half hour during which Spurs rammed four goals past him. Cumbes has been playing well, I understand. Albion's sorry defensive record cannot be blamed on him, but there is a chance that John Osborne, the man in possession earlier this season, could fight his way back into League action soon. It looks as though an attack of Everton's sharpness, with Royle, Morrissey and Whittle in such brisk form just now, should be capable of causing Albion's creaking defence more problems to-morrow. Kaye and Talbut, the middle men in the Albion defensive line, could have quite a job on their hands if Royle continues the form of last Saturday.
Quality
Manager Harry Catterick praising the quality of his young centre forward’s display against Newcastle, said, he was even better against the Germans three days earlier.  Royle did not score then but he was called on to do a job of selfness running and hard work which he did wonderfully well,” said Catterick.  So Royle is in the groove with Morrissey and Whittle as aides on the wings, to make Albion's defensive record look even more sick. But Albion have their own attacking answer in Astle, the man who invariably does well against Everton at the Hawthorns, and has been mainly responsible for the fact that the Blues have only won there once in the last six years.
Approach
That was the day when Whittle made his debut, three years ago, and Ball scored four in a staggering 6-2 success. But Everton have lost three and drawn two of their other visits there during that time. This could be a game of quite a few goals. Everton want to improve their goal average; Albion are prepared to concede goals if they can score just one more themselves Everton are always prepared to open up in attack in away games, given the slightest chance. Theirs is not a defensive-minded approach -apart from European away ties -and there should be a fair ration of open attacking play to-morrow, with Everton good enough in current mood to take both points.

ASTLE SHOOTS ALBION INTO HALF TIME LEAD
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 31 October 1970
By Michael Charters
Line-Up;- West Brom; Cumbes; Fraser, Cantello; Lovett, Talbut, Kaye; McVitie, Brown (Tony), Astle, Suggett, Hartford, Sub, Minton.  Everton; Rankin; Wright, Newton (K); Kendall, Kenyon, Harvey; Whittle, Ball, Royle, Hurst, Morrissey, Sub Brown (Sandy); Referee Mr. H. Williams (Sheffield). 
Unchanged Everton looked the better team in the first half at The Hawthorns this afternoon, but it was West Bromwich who took the lead with a fine goal from England centre forward, Geoff Astle.  He had always looked dangerous and he took his chance well to drive the ball past Rankin, who had little to do before this incident.  It needed a fine save from Cumbes with only two minutes gone to prevent Everton taking the lead.  A mistake by Lovett let Whittle through.  He took a quick shot but Cumbes stretched backwards to tip the ball behind him, then recovered to make a good clearance.  Once Albion settled down after the early shock from the Whittle shot, they produced some good attacks, mainly down the right.  Kenyon had to put the ball away smartly for a corner as the dangerous Astle moved on to Lovett’s pass.  Rankin made a fine catch from McVite’s kick.  A Fraser foul on Morrissey was only inches outside the box and Albion brought everyone back for the free-kick, which Astle headed away.
Fine Run
Ball was in good form and he sent Royle away on a fine run, with Royle trying a low shot from 20 yards which Cumbes covered all the way.  Everton’s attacking drive was bringing them a number of corners.  Cumbes did well to turn one of Ball’s efforts over the bar and Royle had the Albion keeper in difficulties from another which Talbut eventually headed away.  The danger of Astle had always kept Everton’s defence at full stretch and he put Albion ahead after 25 minutes.  The move began with Cantello’s pass to Suggett on the left, Suggett cleverly beat Harvey’s tackle and from his centre Brown nodded the ball down to Astle, who turned quickly and drove a left foot shot past Rankin into the far corner.  When Whittle was heavily body checked by Lovett just outside the area, Ball touched the free kick to Newton whose shot curled over the bar with Cumbes beaten.  Astle’s goal had given Albion the confidence they needed, after Everton had looked so good in midfield.  Everton were desperately unlucky not to equalize from a brilliant piece of work by Royle.  From Ball’s pass he cleverly beat Fraser and as Cumbes moved off his line, Royle placed a shot over his head but the ball struck the bar and upright before bouncing out.  There was plenty of action in this moving match, with Kenyon and Hurst having trouble coping with the long, through passes aimed for Brown and Astle.  Several times Rankin had to come off his line sharply.  Cumbes, the former Tranmere goalkeeper, was even busier as Everton strove hard for an equalizer.  He made a fine full-length save from Ball and play switched quickly to the other end, where Newton had to scamble the ball away from McVite after Rankin had been beaten.  McVite a clever winger, was causing a lot of trouble, and he beat Newton to turn the ball inside, only for Hurst to clear, as Suggest moved in dangerously. 
Fraser Booked
Fraser was booked for a tackle on Newton which sent the Everton back sprawling and needing attention from the trainer.  Everton were not doing as well now in midfield as they had in the earlier stages, while Albion were playing with a lot of confidence.  Kenyon and Astle got at cross purposes after a Kenyon tackle and while they were still arguing, the ball was moved up to Brown, who put it in the net but was clearly offside.  The game had now burst into over-physical action.  There were a number of rugged tackles which had the referee signaling a spate of free kicks.  Half-time-West Brom 1, Everton 0. 
Everton’s defence was pulled apart with a fine Albion effort which put them two up after 47 minutes.  Astle and Suggett between them made the opening on the left and Suggest’s centre to the far side of goal found Tony brown unmarked and he headed a simple, but well created goal.  Everton now had a mammoth task to retrieve something from this game.  With their midfield command nothing like it was in the opening 20 minutes, their defence was being torn apart by Albion’s fast and aggressive attacks.  Everton were struggling to create a worthwhile attack.  This was due to the pressure Albion were putting on, but there was a lone strike from Royle who hit a good shot which Cumbes touched away.  Whittle following up was offside.  Ball and Whittle had faded from their earlier prominence and it was left to Royle to spearhead Everton’s attacking reply.  He brought the ball inside from the right to try a shot from well out, but drove the ball over the bar. 
Fine Save
Cumbes had a fine match and he made an excellent save from a header by Wright, who had gone up for Ball’s free kick.  Wright hurt himself going low to make the header, but played on after attention. Everton were staging something of a rally now. Royle was trying everything he knew to make an opening but the Albion defence, with Kaye outstanding, stood firm. Cumbes was in spectacular action again to save well from Kendall.  Everton knocked Albion out of their stride by the power they were using to build up attacks from midfield. But Albion's two-goal lead looked very commanding. Royle was easily Everton's best forward and he was unlucky not to score with a fine angled shot which beat Cumbes and slipped past the far post. Whittle shot wide and Albion, after looking so much on top at the time of their second goal, were now struggling.  Everton’s rally crashed in pieces when Tony brown increased Albion's lead after 72 minutes from a breakaway. Hartford got the ball out of defence from Fraser, set off on a long run. When the ball was crossed to Astle he deceived Kenyon with a neat swerve and made an accurate centre from the goal line. Brown finished the move with a well-placed shot which struck the post before going in. As with Brown's other goal the Everton defence had been pulled out of position by Albion's direct attack. Final.  Final; West Bromwich Albion 3, Everton 0.  Attendance 22,000.
The Verdict
Everton had two dominating spells at West Bromwich -the first 20 minutes and the opening stages of the second half. But in between Albion had scored twice, through Astle and Tony Brown. Royle was desperately unlucky not to score at least two, but Everton's rally when two down was highly commendable.

YOUNG BLUE TEST OSBORNE
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 31 October 1970
After a slow start at Goodison the ball went loose to inside forward Johnson who streaked through on his own and beat ‘keeper Williams with a nice shot only to see it hit the bottom of the post.  At the other end Everton should have taken the lead when Melledew shot outside from about five yards but Wilson made amends at 19 minutes.  He put a nice drive in from the right which Osborne had covered but it went through the keeper's hand’s and rolled over the line.  Stiles was having trouble with Reed and Johnson who always looked dangerous when they got the ball, and only some good defensive covering kept these two quiet.  Just on the interval Osborne made two brilliant saves first from Melledew and then from Kenny who was doing a tremendous amount of work.  Half-time; Everton Res 1, West Brom Res 0. Everton Res; Williams; Seargeant, Stiles; Smith, Lyons, Bennett; Kenny, Wilson, Johnson, Darracott, Melledow, Sub; Scott.  West Brom Res; Osborne; Williams, McLaren; Woodger, Hatton, McCartney, Reed, Johnson, Nesbitt, Honour, McLean, Sub- Holden. 

GERMAN FANS ARE TOLD; BANNERS ARE BARRED AT GOODISON PARK
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 31 October 1970
German fans coming to Goodison Park next Wednesday for the European Cup-tie have been warned to leave their banners and flags at home to prevent trouble on the terraces which flared up a couple of times in the first leg tie between Everton and Moenchen Gladbach ten days ago. German supporters have a habit of carrying giant-sized banners which they wave around, the terraces to the discomfort and even safety, of the other fans. When Moenchen Gladbach scored against Everton in Germany, out came the flags and there were a few minor "incidents" among the crowd as they were waved alarmingly. Liverpool police took note of this. To ensure that there is no repetition at Goodison, they asked Everton to advise the Germans that there is a total ban on banners within the ground because they are a hazard to public safety.
Major Task
The German team, facing a major task after the 1-1 draw on their own ground fly to Manchester Airport on Monday evening and will make their headquarters in Southport, while preparing for this vital game, with entry into the quarter-finals as the prize.  They will train at Southport on Tuesday and will also visit Goodison to check on the pitch and probably the floodlights. 

EVERTON FIND A GEM IN DAVID JOHNSON
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 31 October 1970
FOUR famous members of Everton's first team squad played in the Lancashire Senior Cup tie at Blackpool in midweek -England World Cup centre half, Brian Labone, international goalkeeper Gordon West, defender Sandy Brown and forward Jimmy Husband. But the outstanding player on the field was 18-years-old centre forward David Johnson, who played for Liverpool Boys four years ago, and continues to earn such rave notices that manager Harry Catterick must be pondering when and how he can test this brilliant youngster in more severe competition. Johnson will not be rushed… but Everton could have found a gem.

THE HARRY CATTERICK COULMN
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 31 October 1970
LONDON CLUBS ARE NOT SOFT
SOCCER these days gets such saturation coverage from television, radio and the newspapers, that sometimes I think controversy is raked up just for the sake of a smart headline. So let's have some straight talking and debunking on three topics which have recently caught my eye.
(1) Will London's chal-championship fold up because Southern clubs are allegedly not as determined as their rivals in the North and Midlands?
(2) It is unfair to give footballers a suspended sentence and thus force them to play for six months or a year with this threat hanging over their heads?
(3) Is Everton's European Cup task against Moenchen Gladbach as easy u some of the critics are trying to make out?  Let's take this North v. South controversy first. With four London clubs— Arsenal, Spurs. Chelsea and Crystal Palace—in the top six, they must obviously be considered powerful candidates for the League championship. Furthermore, this accusation that Southern clubs lack the fire of their Northern and Midland counterparts makes me smile.
Superlative
When I was a youngster and a player with Everton, Arsenal dominated the game and they had the flags out in the North and Midlands when they were beaten. The Spurs sides of the 1950 s and 1960 s left a memory of superlative soccer. Many good judges would rate them among the greatest club sides of all time. And these days there is no manager in the First Division who is not happy to come away from Highbury, Selhurst Park, Stamford Bridge and White Hart Lane with a point. These people who blithely claim that Southern clubs are softer than those in the North overlook one important factor. There are in these London sides, as with most others, a very fair sprinkling of Scottish, Northern and Midland players. There is, however, one interesting factor of this North v South controversy, which no one seems to have touched upon. Players who go to London usually have a one way ticket. There is very little two-way traffic between Northern and London clubs. A northern manager knows it is virtually useless trying to move in to buy a Jimmy Greaves or a Bobby Moore, even if they were up for sale. Do you remember the ripple of surprise when Dave Mac Kay elected to come half way North when he left Spurs- Derby County? It made news because this type of transfer is so rare. Even then, I understand MacKay has retained his home in London. I believe the reason for this one-way traffic is simply the attraction of London itself: A wider social life, and although I hardly expect the Southern club players will agree, there are probably more perks outside the game, being in London they are easily contactable and always seen by the big firms who want sports stars for a project. On the other hand, perhaps, the Northern and Midland players have a closer and more intimate contact with their supporters. As far as this season's championship is concerned, forecasting is not my line of territory! But whatever happens in the League, you can take it from me the players with London clubs are just as hard and determined as those in other parts of the country. There has been a lot of talk this week about the rights and wrongs of giving players a suspended sentence when they come before a Disciplinary Commission. In the old days, they were sent off; Punishment by suspension followed as surely as night follows day. Now they often get a second chance. It is of course, difficult for a player with this sort of thing 'hanging over him because opponents know they might be able to goad him into further misdemeanors. Nevertheless, a suspended sentence is like an endorsement on a driving license. It makes the thinking man go more carefully. Certainly, I think Alan Ball is one player who through this sort of suspended sentence was able to become more self-disciplined. Everyone at Goodison Park was thrilled when we came back from Germany level-pegging with Moenchen Gladbach in the European Cup. The temptation now is for some people to think we have only to make an appearance and thereby get into the next round. Nonsense this type of thinking is no good for the club, nor the players. The Moenchen team is one of the finest club sides I have ever had the privilege of watching. They are as hard and as determined as any English League side. They also have class. We are not afraid of them, but everyone at Everton knows only our best form will see us through.

YYOU’RE TELLING US!
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 31 October 1970
EUROPEAN CUP WILL LIGHTEN BLUES’ SEASON
In postbag recently, the old cry went up that certain players should be restored, and others dropped, after Everton's 4-0 defeat at Arsenal. Granted, they were poor; but I waited until the Borussia game, before jumping to conclusions. What did we learn from this game.' against one of Europe's finest teams?—That there is nothing wrong with Everton.  Kenyon was steady as the rock of Gibraltar: Hurst was a tower of strength, and Kendall had his greatest game ever in an Everton shirt. If only your readers from Queens Drive had seen this game, they would be eating their own words. Lack of class …the whole team smacks of mediocrity ... WHAT RUBBISH !
Everton took a first-half pounding, and only great teamwork and defensive play kept them in the game. What was most pleasing was to see Everton give Borussia a taste of their own medicine in the final 20 minutes. Yes a hard season for Everson, but the European Cup will lighten it —R. Barker, 3 Talbotville Road, Broadgreen.
Everton have come good; but they may still have to beat Celtic or Cagliari to lift the European Cup. BLAME
I am surprised that all the blame for Everton's mediocre displays should be pointed at their defence. What about the forwards?  Royle hasn't scored in his last five League games. Husband and Whittle have notched only a handful between them. We were all led to believe that the present team was going to be the greatest in the history of Everton. What nonsense! I don't think Royle, Husband and Whittle are first team material. How can anybody class these players with Osgood, Hudson, Radford, Kennedy, and Hutchinson and man' others'—J. Fernie, 310 Mill Lane, Liverpool.
Royle and Whittle scored last Saturday; Husband hasn't even been playing, I think you're way off the beam.
UTMOST
Everton’s first half show against Newcastle was the best I have seen for a long time. There was not a weak link. Every player is doing his utmost to keep his position, knowing that Henry Newton is breathing down his neck. This is a particular challenge to a couple of players, who must keep on their toes in every game.—R. Gadd, 28 Sunlight Street, Liverpool, LB 4AQ
Suddenly, everyone loves Everton
I salute referee Roger Kirkpatrick, who handled the Everton- Newcastle game. Here, at last, was a referee who, by his re-enacting of each offence, made it clear to players and spectators why he had blown his whistle. All too often, referees come under fire for lack control, and letting things get out of hand, bur Mr. Kirkpatrick deserves the highest praise for his handling of this game. He made no mistake in letting the players know who was in charge, and when he wanted to caution a player after committing an offence, he stood firmly where he was, and made the player come to him. In the match programme it stated that Mr. Kirkpatrick is keen on physical fitness—well, that was obvious, from the amount of running that he did. His sprinting up and down the field to keep up with play was most entertaining. So thanks to both teams, and to Mr. Kirkpatrick, especially, for a very enjoyable afternoon —Mrs. D. Haigh. 11 Lucan Road, Aigburth.  
Clearly you were smitten with the referee … could you tear your eyes away for the goals?