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How Blackpool illuminated Catterick’s vision

February 17, 2012
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How Blackpool illuminated Catterick’s vision

Back in the mid 60’s Blackpool were a solid top division club, able to field a team containing England internationals like keeper Tony Waiters, full back Jimmy Armfield and the prolific Ray Charnley, a lanky old-fashioned centre-forward, who scored 193 goals in 363 appearances for the club. Saturday’s FA Cup tie against Blackpool at Goodison evokes strong memories. It was for the Tangerines that the legendary Alan Ball first played professional football, where he learnt his trade, and it was events at Bloomfield Road, Blackpool on Saturday January 15 1966 that turned out to be a watershed in the history of Everton Football Club. It may well have been the day that manager...

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My Ultimate Everton XI

August 23, 2011
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Ed gives us his Ultimate Everton XI, and there are a few surprises amongst the more obvious names...

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60 Evertonians: 8.Ian Hart

October 22, 2010
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60 Evertonians: 8.Ian Hart

8.Ian Hart Bio: Ian is a successful actor whose thespian wingspan reaches from his role as paranoid paparazzo Don Konkey in Dirt to playing John Lennon twice. Luckily enough for us, he’s also an Evertonian. Q1.Why Everton? There is a sign on my daughter’s bedroom door which reads “Evertonians are born …etc Q2.Which player from the past would you have loved to have seen? Alan Ball Q3.Favourite all-time player? Big Dunc, even though he was often a bit wayward. Q4.Dixie Dean OR Alan Ball – who’s better in your book?  Alan Ball for the white boots. Q5.You were Nobby Stiles in the film Best, are there any Evertonians that...

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60 Evertonians: 6. Matthew Harrison

October 18, 2010
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60 Evertonians: 6. Matthew Harrison

6. Matthew Harrison   Bio:  I’m an Evertonian since childhood and a pharmacist in Nottingham. I’m also an avid traveller spreading the word of Everton as often as possible. As a regularly commuter up the M6, I pack a good set of lungs and a badge for the sleeve, but it’s also not unusal for me to crop up at the away fixtures. Football is my passion and Everton is the team I love.          Q1. Why Everton? I was bought a full Everton strip when I was a wee nipper and then saw Tony Cottee bag a few beauties. From then on, the rest is history....

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60 Evertonians: 2.Zach “The Ginge” Woosley

October 1, 2010
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60 Evertonians: 2.Zach “The Ginge” Woosley

There is no single reason that I became an Everton fan. As I began paying attention to European soccer in the mid to late 90's it was nearly impossible to see games in the US. When they did air a match, it was always Manchester United or Arsenal and thankfully neither team made an impression on me. I did see a few Everton matches though, the first I remember was the 95 FA Cup Final and as I saw and heard nothing but Man U this and Man U that (especially in 99), that always stuck with me as a great moment seeing a club topple the evil empire....

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Everton, England, and 1966 – Garrincha, Ali, Dylan & Ball

June 12, 2010
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Everton, England, and 1966 – Garrincha, Ali, Dylan & Ball

When Kurt Cobain was a kid he didn’t know what punk sounded like. Not knowing first hand, he made up his own sound, a rangy sloppy grunge quite different from punk. It was like comparing Johnny Giles to Aaron Lennon. I’m in that position with Everton, I don’t have memories of ’66 – I just stitch together other peoples’ recollections…The past, for Everton, is definitely a foreign country: back then we wore vicar’s collars, enrolled in the School of Science  and were called the Mersey Millionaires, now we shop in bargain basements and dusty flea markets… I was born in the 80′s and found football in the 90′s. Conveniently nestled between these...

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Top 60 Everton Players:#2.Alan Ball MBE

May 21, 2010
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Top 60 Everton Players:#2.Alan Ball MBE

Alan Ball MBE (1966-72)  249 appearances, 78 goals.   “No one was greater than their club, but you came pretty close.” – Tribute sent to Goodison after Ball’s death. ‘I was running back to the centre-circle after I scored the second goal against Liverpool and pure elation welled up inside me. I remember thinking: “I just love this place, I want this place forever.”‘ Alan Ball, August 1966 Ball, who chased his surname perpetually, like a Jack Russel chasing its tail – was a true Everton legend. The zest from this orange haired dynamo was extraordinary, and it was borne out of an utter hatred for losing. Remarkably he...

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Everton out of luck but in the mix

March 29, 2010
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WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 0 – EVERTON 0 Alan Ball once humorously and presciently observed, “I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.” And of course luck does tend to even itself out over a season; witness Drogba’s header rebounding off the back of Saha’s head to give Everton a share of the points at Stamford Bridge. So the wailing and gnashing of teeth which has followed the game at Molineux should be tempered by the knowledge that although clear scoring opportunities were missed – notably by Osman, Saha and Gosling – at least chances were created, and created without Arteta, Everton’s most inventive, progressive, player....

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