Dixies 60 » 11. Roy Vernon http://www.dixies60.com ZERO TO SIXTY IN ONE SEASON Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:48:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Top 60 Everton Players: #11. Roy Vernon http://www.dixies60.com/2010/04/03/top-60-everton-players-11-roy-vernon/ http://www.dixies60.com/2010/04/03/top-60-everton-players-11-roy-vernon/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:41:44 +0000 Ed Bottomley http://dixies60.com/?p=1216 11. Roy Vernon (1959-65)

200 appearances, 110 goals

“There’s Denis Law, there’s Jimmy Greaves, and there’s me…” – Vernon, on being asked to name the top goalscorers of his generation.

Fiery, fast, skilful and with a monumental right foot, Vernon had a glorious goalscoring record, introducing ball to net with astonishing regularity and finishing top-scorer for Everton in four consecutive campaigns. Captain of the 1963 League Championship side (a Catterick masterstroke, calculated to tame the wild Welshman), Vernon was a ruthless penalty-taker, missing only one out of twenty spot-kicks.

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