Ed gives us his Ultimate Everton XI, and there are a few surprises amongst the more obvious names...
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Echo Latest Everton NewsEd gives us his Ultimate Everton XI, and there are a few surprises amongst the more obvious names...
Bio: I was born in Walton Hospital within earshot of the Goodison Roar and was brought up in Bootle. My father had no interest in football whatsoever but my brother was a Kopite, he used to go to the reserve games at Anfield in the late 1950s but because I was younger I wasn’t allowed to go and he didn’t want me there anyway . It was in school where I heard about Everton from my mates, they told me all about a guy called Dave Hickson, he was their hero. Listening to them was like having a Superman Comic read out to you, my mind pictured Dave Hickson as a Super Hero…...
Portugal 5-3 North Korea. 19th July 1966 –Just sixteen teams played in the ’66 World Cup and only one place was reserved for Africa, Oceania, and Asia combined. Most countries pulled out of qualifying in disgust. Only Australia and North Korea remained. A two-leg playoff was to decide who would travel to England and as both countries were technically at war with each other, the neutral venue of Phnom Penh Cambodia was where the matches were played. Over the two games, North Korea won 9-2, a shock which continued to reverberate through tp the final itself. In the group stages of the ’66 World Cup North Korea had shocked...
July 12th 1966, Brazil 2-0 Bulgaria “BRAZILIANS DELIRIOUS OVER YOU STOP KISSES IN THE HEART STOP CRIOULA” – Telegram sent by Garrincha’s wife Elza after the Brazil’s win over Bulgaria at Goodison. Elza was – of course – toying with the truth a little. Brazil were not convincing against Bulgaria, they were eleven men that had never played together before. They won thanks to a Pele free kick in the first half and a Garrincha free kick in the second that corkscrewed toward goal-net. These two legends, when together, were bullet-proof. They never lost a game for Brazil while playing together. Garrincha’s first and only loss came against Hungary in their...
19. Ray Wilson MBE (1964-69) 153 appearances “There wasn’t a winger who played against him who could claim to have broken even in the exchange, let alone come out on top.” – Alan Ball Wilson is not only the best left back in Everton’s history, he became a world champion in 1966. Wilson was 29 when Harry Catterick bought him from Huddersfield for £40,000 and England’s Alf Ramsey regarded Wilson to be the best left back he had ever seen. Hard in the tackle, and armed with the ultimate defenders’ get-out-of-jail-free card, raw pace, he improved under the more intense Everton training system. Wilson played a clean game, and...
