50 years on: How the title was won

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Everton's Official Site are taking a fond look back at the 1962-63 season which ended with the Blues lifting the Football League Division 1 title for the sixth time.

They're kicking things off with a month-by-month review of a campaign that was lit by the likes of Goodison legends Roy Vernon, Alex Young and Gordon West.

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Carl Sanderson
1 Posted 31/05/2013 at 18:30:24
What a fantastic season; and the atmosphere at that Fulham game must have just incredible.
Paul English
3 Posted 31/05/2013 at 18:53:14
I was 12 years of age and I was on the Goodison Road terraces underneath the main stand, a brilliant sunny day, just right to win the 1st Division title. Vernon, Young & Kay were part of a fantastic team that I still think about, with wonderful skills, who could also mix it when required.

I remember the bitter kopites looking for excuses to bring us down Purple Hearts (nothing ever changes with those fans.) I have to say my early years as a Blue were my best and we've had some great teams since.

EVERTON FC — YOU'RE IN MY HEART AND IN MY SOUL.

Come on gang, let's have your memories.

Brin Williams
4 Posted 31/05/2013 at 19:07:46
I was there!!!!
Brin Williams
5 Posted 31/05/2013 at 19:07:46
Dup
Ray Atherton
8 Posted 31/05/2013 at 20:16:30
I was 16 when we played Fulham at Goodison Park the atmosphere was electric. I went to all home games and most away. me and a mate hitchhiked to the London matches and Ipswich also Cardiff who were in Division 1 then; seems poignant that 50 years on they are back in the top flight.

I knew most of the players as we went to their hotel in the morning at the London games and go for a walk to the stores with Roy Vernon and Alex Young who were very close. I was made up it was Fulham when we won the title as they beat us 1-0 at Craven Cottage early in the season such a disappointment but we never lost a home match that wonderful year.

Peter Truin
9 Posted 31/05/2013 at 20:39:55
I wasn't born I'm afraid. My first regular season was 1982-83, the rest has already been said many many times.

I would say that Bayern Munich is still the most memorable night for me: straight after school, in uniform, and not getting home till the early hours... But, like I said, 84-85 has been done to death.

Phil Roberts
10 Posted 31/05/2013 at 19:30:01
I was there - aged 8 and a half (when you were that old, the half mattered).

Back row of upper Gwladys. I seem to remember that when I stood up (on the seat?), I could not see the goal at the Park End.

Vague memories of the Roy Vernon hat trick goal and a little surprised at all the fuss as the players came out into the old directors box.

Season tickets in 69-70 but a school trip to London meant I missed the WBA game.

So come 84-85, left work early in Leeds to get to GP to see the WHU game and the trophy being presented.

Eugene Ruane
11 Posted 31/05/2013 at 20:49:49
I remember really wanting a season ticket in 63 but my dad saying "you're not going, you're only fucking four".

I was gutted but my mam 'Mystical Zena Ruane' said "don't worry, they'll win it again in 1970 and then you'll be able to go".

By the way, that 'seeing into the future' thing is in the blood and was passed on to me, so I also asked "what about the cup final in 66 when we beat Sheff Wed - can I go to that?"

She said "I'll bleedin' 66 cup final YOU if you're not careful"

(she was a bit of a nark but a boss mystic).

Oh and for those who don't want to know the name of our new manager, leave the computer now.

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Stubbs!!

(or maybe one of the other fellers)

John Keating
13 Posted 31/05/2013 at 21:16:38
Remember the Fulham game.
2 lads kicking a tennis ball around on the pitch before kick off loud cheers every time one of them scored.
I started off with my dad in Goodison Road at the Park End before kick off and by half time we were at the Gwladys Street end just carried along in the wave !!
Brilliant day, brilliant support and a brilliant team !!!!
Peter Mills
14 Posted 31/05/2013 at 21:48:26
Eugene, most entertaining.
Tony Stanley
15 Posted 31/05/2013 at 21:55:26
I was 13 remember it like yesterday, in the Park End, fuckin unbelievable.
Ray Roche
16 Posted 31/05/2013 at 23:32:37
I was 15 and well remember that game, and that season. I also remember the half time scores being put up against the letters of the alphabet along the sides of the ground and a couple ex pugilists carrying a large placard around the running track advertising forthcoming fights at the old stadium. As lads we'd pretend we knew one of them and would call out "Joe, alright mate" to try and impress our pals, and Joe would acknowledge the shout even though he didn't know us from Adam. Although Adam probably needed a bigger fig leaf.

And the old St Johns Ambulance men with their white Sam Browne belt and ill-fitting uniforms who were there to administer first aid to anyone who succumbed to the heat and crush that 60k-70k plus crowds would bring. Kids stood on boxes or stools against the wall so they could see, with their dad's protective arms around them. Little Toffees. Bad language being frowned upon in the Paddock, where females and children could go in relative safety.

Huge floodlight pylons and big square clocks in the corners, the massive Goodison Road terracing, fans without tickets climbing onto the Church to see the match. Meat pies with juice running down your hand, people with flasks of Bovril... fuck me, I feel old.

Brent Stephens
17 Posted 01/06/2013 at 00:01:11
Ray, ah, old memories. And I remember when the toilets were crap, and the food diabolical. Not now though, eh?

I used to get there early to stand behind / above one of the stairwells so I had nobody in front of me (me being a short arse).

Tommy Davis
18 Posted 31/05/2013 at 20:26:24
I was 12 that year too Paul in 1963, the season of the great freeze & I believe one of the reasons we managed to fend off Spurs to win the league, was our under soil heating, which meant we played the home games with no weather issues & usually a victory too :-) I can't believe it's 50 years ago, cos some things in my mind seem like yesterday, particularly the superb Alex Young (Golden Vision) headed goal against Spurs at Goodison, when he out jumped (Bill Brown?) the Spurs keeper, for the only goal of the game!! The height Alex reached with that prodigious leap, was truly amazing, above the outstretched arms of their keeper who stood well over 6ft, whilst Alex was a mere 5' 7"!

It seemed like our whole team was attack minded, possibly due to the manager Harry Catterick, who was an ex centre forward himself, but seeing Roy Vernon (Royston) scoring with aplomb, virtually every game it seemed, very ably assisted by Alex Young, made them two the most fearsome strike force at the time, truly 'poetry in motion' AND we lived up to our motto of Nil Satis Nisi Optium, plus the truly warranted 'School of Science', moniker, due to the absolute brilliant football we played!

I recall the Fulham game with Royston bagging another hat-trick & I think Chico (Alec Scott) got the other, also wasn't that Albert Dunlop's last game with us, due to the signing of Gordon West, I think it was to be Tony Kay's last game also, perhaps..........due to the betting he did, whilst with Sheff Wed?? I know it was hot that day with over 60,000 Toffees inside the Grand Old Lady & she was rocking that day, talk about LOUD, I remember seeing Tony Kay smoking a huge cigar....... after the game, receiving the League Championship in the Main Stands!! My apologies for rambling, but some great memories from that season & before, even many more afterwards too.........all connected to my first love...............Everton Football Club :-)

Mike Hughes
19 Posted 01/06/2013 at 00:26:53
Born in '66 but still makes me proud to be a Blue reading this. We are a breed apart. Just more evidence of why the badge matters more than marketing consultants, Nike and the rest.

Anyone seen the film The Golden Vision? Brilliant. Reminds me of growing up in bootle and Walton.

1 blue is worth a 100 reds.

Albert Perkins
20 Posted 01/06/2013 at 04:18:12
I was 13 and never been to a match. My dad was Liverpool and told me he would take me to the games cos they'd just got promoted to the First Division. That season Everton played first and my Evertonian mate convinced me to go with him to the game.

I remember getting on the bus in Litherland and walking up the hill to Goodison, with the horde of fans in their blue and white scarves. Then entering the ground and the green, green pitch and the maybe 60,000 people. Standing under the main stand, getting swept up in the noise and excitement.

Then the amazing roar when the team ran out like gladiators, hard and confident and class. We won 3-1, was it Burnley or Arsenal? Anyway, I fell in love that night watching Roy and Alex work their magic.

Next game was Tuesday under lights and I went alone following the crowds cos I didn't know the way. Another 3-1 and I was hooked.

When I asked my dad if I could be an Evertonian, it was like asking if I could change my religion. He was good about it, and admitted his favorite player had been Dixie Dean. I wondered why he always parted his hair down the middle.

Thanks for the memories.

Norman Merrill
21 Posted 01/06/2013 at 05:51:25
My memories of that championship winning weekend are still very clear, although at the time it was a double celebration for me as I was celebrating my 21st, & for obvious reasons things became a little clouded.

No better present than seeing Roy Vernon lift that trophy, alongside a very talented team. COYB.

Gerry Morrison
22 Posted 01/06/2013 at 06:10:36
That was the first season I started going to the match. Me and me dad used to get there a couple of hours before kick-off so I could sit on the same crossbar every week. We used to stand on the Goodison Road side. I believe it was three bob to get in.
George McKane
23 Posted 01/06/2013 at 08:30:41
Never forget it. I used to get to Goodison as early as possible with my mate Brian Brady, trying to get in early, 1:00pm so we could get close to the goal and lean on a stanchion. On the way up, we would play footie. We used to walk along from Smith Street where we lived, up Westminister Road, past The Dark House (where we drink today before and after the match), up Spellow Lane – remember you could walk around the ground to get behind each goal. Back home after the game and played footie in "The Swings" all night until bedtime....

Great days – great football – great team.

Carl Sanderson
24 Posted 01/06/2013 at 09:12:25
This is the best thread I've read on here in many months. Nice one!
David S Shaw
25 Posted 01/06/2013 at 10:15:23
I grew upon tales of this era so love hearing about it. I was told we had a song around then to Birmingham's "Keep right on to the End of the Road." Does anyone know what our words were?
Paul English
26 Posted 01/06/2013 at 09:58:33
That great year, I moved school from Holy Cross mixed to Archbishop Whiteside boys in Sylvester St, it was a 4-story building so when on the top floor in a maths class I would stare out of the window and could see those four big floodlight towers and daydream about Vernon, Young etc... Then a piece of chalk would hit me on the head, thrown by Fat Joe Mercer (the teacher) telling me to wake up or I'll never be clever, he was right but I didn't give a toss.

On Saturdays, I'd get the lunchtime Echo because there was always a big frontpage picture of one of the Everton players; next week, one of the RS.

Then off to the match, we would win as usual. Then wait outside your local shop for the Pink Echo, you could be waiting for about half an hour for an Echo van to turn up. Then read about the game on the way home, because your dad and elder brothers would be waiting to read it first....

Brian Harrison
27 Posted 01/06/2013 at 10:13:05
Yes great days indeed, some wonderful players a real joy to watch. Those were the days when there was no segregation and you could watch the first half from Gwladys Street and the second half from the Park end. Also there wasnt wall to wall football on television like it is now so the anticipation of seeing some of the great players was higher than it is today.

Not sure how the media today would have reported Roy Vernon running onto the pitch throwing away his cigarette, probably wanted him banned for x number of games for setting a bad example. Beause there was no segregation you could talk with opposing fans and usually had some good banter, I think when television became more involved and made the game more tribal thats when all the trouble started.

I guess it was easy being an Evertonian then because we were successful and I do feel for the younger fans who haven't had the joy of watching us win the league.

Paul English
28 Posted 01/06/2013 at 10:30:06
David, I don't remember that one. We sang, "We'll hang the kopites" and "When you're smiling" and "Bless em all". I can't remember any more as age really does catch up.
Keith Douglas
29 Posted 01/06/2013 at 11:55:57
I can remember the game as if it was yesterday, my brother Steve and I were both standing in the Gwladys Street end. We got into the ground as soon as the gates opened, the atmosphere prior to the start of the game was fantastic; as everyone was so confident that Everton would win after beating West Brom 4-0 the previous Wednesday.

The team came up to Gwladys Street for the pre-match kick about and someone ran on the pitch waving blue streamers and shook hands with all the players, I couldn't imagine that being allowed now...

We went at Fulham right from the kick-off and were two up after eight minutes with both goals from Roy Vernon, who went on the complete his hat-trick in the second half, and from then on it was only a matter of how many we would score. The crowd was going wild towards the end of the game as we knew that we would be Champions.

The lap of honour after the game was something special, Alex Young had a column in the Echo at the time and he wrote the following week that he could nearly feel the ground shake with the noise of the crowd.

Just a mention about the crowd moving between the Park End and Gwladys Street. A couple of years prior to the 62-63 season, there was a fence erected at the corner of Goodison Road and Gwladys Street, there was a gate in the fence that was opened late in the games to let the crowds exit by the Church. Sometimes this gate was left open during the games but as a general rule it was closed.

Tony Sullivan
30 Posted 01/06/2013 at 13:34:59
I was 17 at the start of the 62-63 season.

I went to the first game away to Burnley, lovely sunny day and a sublime Alex Young performance in a 3-1 win against a powerful Burnley side. Meanwhile at Anfield the newly promoted Reds were losing to an Alan Ball inspired Blackpool, it was a great start to the season.

I think our first home game was against Sheffield Weds, Young was brilliant again and scored a great hat-trick.

Later that long season, made so by the 'Big Freeze of '63, we played the great Spurs double-winning team at Goodison around mid April I think, unfortunately I was in Stanley Hospital having had my appendix removed. I listened to the game on the hospital radio broadcast, and the magnificent Alex Young scored the only goal of the game with a towering header, press pictures show him 'hanging' in the air, those who saw him will know what I mean. I think I was close to bursting my stitches in the excitement of the game.

A couple of weeks later, out of hospital but still off work, I went with a mate (who bunked off his job) to a midweek game at West Brom; we won 1-0 when the great Alex Young intercepted a Don Howe back-pass and scored. I think this was the game that clinched the title???

The following Sunday we went to see Roy Orbison and the Beatles at The Empire. This was followed the next weekend by the Fulham game, I was in the Gwladys St end and remember the great atmosphere and the Roy Vernon hat-trick, was it the last time we saw Tony Kay? I remember he was smoking a cigar when the players appeared in the Director's Box at the end of the game. Great days and greater memories.

It was a magnificent season.

Jim Lloyd
31 Posted 01/06/2013 at 13:50:37
Ah, bloody nora, how lucky we were! What a season, even with the snow from one of the worse winters ever. Can remember lots but probably not all in order.

As someone mentioned, Alex out-jumping Brown, the Spurs goalie, to head us to victory. He also had to contend with Maurice Norman, their centre half and that dirty bastard Dave McKay. A truly majestic goal from a majestic player. I can remember painting a picture of it, that got put up on the class room wall (teacher was a good Blue).

Remember Royston's hat trick. What a goalscorer was our Roy, I think he scored about twenty penalties and never missed. Between them they scored over 50 goals that season. I think Roy got 28 and Alex 25.

It wasn't just that we won the Championship, it was HOW we won it, pure magic and you had to get to the ground before 2pm to make sure you got in. We used to walk from Lambeth Road to Goodison Park and get in for about quarter-past, half-past one.

Probably spotted George and his mates as we made our way along wessy, too. What a great great team we had and what fantastic football we played. I think we got 88 goals that season.

I was 15 and had been watching from the end of the great Davey Hickson's time. Used to run home and watch the Telly goons... still daft now!

Brian Hill
32 Posted 01/06/2013 at 14:29:32
Eugene, you wrote: "I remember really wanting a season ticket in 63 but my dad saying "you're not going, you're only fucking four". Four what? And how many would you have had to, er, you know what, in order to achieve the prize?
John Keating
33 Posted 01/06/2013 at 14:26:24
The whole of that period was great – not only the footy.

They always put extra buses on that just stopped to let you on – there were as many hanging on the platform than actually in the bus!!

Walking along Great Homer Street or up the Brow and along Netherfield Road, cars and taxis would just stop and if you could squeeze in you got a lift to the ground.

For the Fulham match, the ground was full long before kick-off, I doubt anyone could get in if they stayed for a final pint just before kick off like we do now.

How much would Roy Vernon or Alex Young cost nowadays???

I always remember Young seemed to, just BEFORE the ball was crossed in, the centre half would go with him and when he landed Young would still be up there having a look round! Bang – straight in!!

Jim Lloyd
34 Posted 01/06/2013 at 14:47:47
Hahaha... lovely, John. That couple of sentences epitomised Young; he had all the time to decide just what he would do.

I can remember we were playing the Dark Side and Alex got the ball, and just had his foot resting on the ball. Yeats thought he'd do a slidy on Alex and began charging over to him. We were all shouting "Watch out Alex" and thinking the worst was going to happen. Just as Yeats dived in, Alex just rolled the ball back and then went on his way. Yeats slid right off the pitch!

Eugene Ruane
36 Posted 01/06/2013 at 14:52:04
Brian (024) - "Four what?"

Bored housewives.

"And how many would you have had to, er, you know what, in order to achieve the prize?"

Seven - it was basically a promotion run by Barker & Dobson, makers of Everton Mints.

"Nob seven bored housewives, win a 62/63 Everton season ticket"

You might be too young to remember it, but at the time, many Evertonians were into it.

(much like the Tetley pub crawl many years later)

I think it was won by a young David Johnson.

David S Shaw
37 Posted 01/06/2013 at 15:15:48
Paul, would you know the one sung to Green grass of home?
Ray Roche
38 Posted 01/06/2013 at 15:27:00
David, like Paul English says in post 981 I don't remember the song with the tune of "Keep right on to the End of the Road." The Green Green Grass Of Home wasn't written until 65 and Tom Jones version released in 66, and that doesn't ring any bells either, I don't remember it being used by us Blues.
Trevor Lynes
39 Posted 01/06/2013 at 16:22:46
I was actually playing for Buxton at that time and had played against Derek Temple as a schoolboy.

Roy Vernon was my particular favourite as he never gave less than 100% and shone in all the derby matches (unlike Alex Young)... The derby hurly-burly never suited Young's style of play but both Vernon and later Alan Ball revelled in them.

The Fulham game was a triumph and we put on one of the best displays of the season. The atmosphere was electric and Vernon's hat-trick was fantastic.

Tony "Cassius" Kay had a wonderful game and smoked a big cigar at the end of the match as he strutted around the pitch. It was a real shame when he was banned for life as the footballing world was at his feet.

The whole of the 60s was standout for me and was the best era I lived through. Full employment, a great team to follow and the Liverpool pop scene has never been equalled since.

Alex Parker, who was a great right back, ended up managing the Swinging Sporran in Runcorn shopping centre.

My honest opinion is that the old First Division was a much better league than today's Premier League due to the equal playing fields each team had... money did not rule to the extent it does today and every team had a chance of winning the title. It's no coincidence that the likes of Chelsea and Man Utd struggled.

Liverpool as a city dominated the First Division without the help of foreign players and this fact did not sit well with the media of the day. Teams like Leeds Utd and even Ipswich won the title whilst the London clubs were also-rans.

The nucleus of the great Everton side of the 60s was actually built by the unfortunate Johnny Carey who coached the team to play football with true entertainment, skill and workrate. Catterick's best buy was Tony Kay... even though just for a short period. Unfortunately he got rid of Collins, Vernon and Young which took the flair away from the team. Collins left far too soon and later had a great career at Leeds Utd.

I was privileged to support the best footballing side ever produced by Everton.

Harold Matthews
40 Posted 01/06/2013 at 16:58:18
A day to remember.
Richard Tarleton
41 Posted 01/06/2013 at 17:11:16
In my mind, when I think of Everton and Goodison, it is 1962-63, I had a Paddock season ticket, I was 16, and it cost £4 5/- (shillings). That was a marvellous Everton team and after the dire fifties teams, it was so refreshing to see Young, Vernon, Kay, Morrissey, Labone, Gabriel, Parker, West etc.

The Fulham game was so marvellous and I was at this year's game against Fulham and was delighted to be able to stand up and honour Young and the others who were there.

People often forget Ray Veall who played 11 games on the left wing at the beginning of the season. I never hear anything of him, do any old Evertonians have any information?

Paul English
42 Posted 01/06/2013 at 17:10:13
The Beatles started on People and Places with Bill Grundy,whose legacy was to leave his name to underpants!

At school on the double decker bus on sports day going past Goodison Park cheering and shouting EV-ER-TON on the way to Wally Hall Park. Arrrh great days...

Ray Atherton
43 Posted 01/06/2013 at 17:04:33
Tony 021,

The game before Fulham on the Wednesday night against West Brom was 4-0. The left back who gave a dreadful free kick was the Welsh international Graham Williams, their goalie was walking towards the edge of the box then Alex intercepted and tapped into the net .
Paul English
44 Posted 01/06/2013 at 17:27:34
Richard, just checked Ray Veall out on wiki ,not much about him he his 70 and was born in Skegness. The game I remember him for was when we beat Blackpool 5-0 he had a stormer. Moggsy and Derek Temple must have both been injured...

Keep em coming gang!
Paul English
45 Posted 01/06/2013 at 17:46:48
What about The Golden Vision's understudy Frank Wignall a future England centre forward and poor old George Heslop he never got a chance because Labby was so good and never got injured...no one ever moaned about badges those days,because the kit never had one on it...
Ray Atherton
46 Posted 01/06/2013 at 18:01:22
Richard 080 and Paul The players profiles are on the Everton website: How the title was won.

Mick Meagan our irish left back mentions that Blackpool game and how Ray Veall run rings around Jimmy Armfield. He played for Gisborne in New Zealand and now lives there.

Ray Atherton
47 Posted 01/06/2013 at 18:16:22
.Richard 080 and Paul The players profiles are on the everton website :How the title was won:Mick Meagan our irish left back mentions that Blackpool game and how Ray Veall run rings around Jimmy Armfield He played for Gisborne in New Zealand and now lives there.
Jim Lloyd
48 Posted 01/06/2013 at 18:11:03
Ray 87,
Shows how memory plays tricks. I was in Gladys St and remember Alex scoring at our end but it stuck in my mind as 5 1 but that might have been in 1966. Whatever though, we were lucky to see those players. Poetry in motion!
Paul English
49 Posted 01/06/2013 at 18:53:23
Clap..clap...clap clap clap...clap clap clap clap...CHICO!....

Remember the home night game v Arsenal. Westy was injured just before half-time and the players didn't came on the pitch for the 2nd half for about 20 mins with big Gord's injury strapped up, we drew 1-1.

In those days the music from the tannoy was usually military music, but I remember that night at half-time they played an Andy Williams song, "Cant Get used to Losing you".... Now why does that stick in my mind? Sorry guys!

Lenny Kingman
50 Posted 01/06/2013 at 19:28:05
"People often forget Ray Veall who played 11 games on the left wing at the beginning of the season. I never hear anything of him, do any old Evertonians have any information?"

The last time I ran into Ray Veall was when I was living and married to a local girl in Gisborne, New Zealand, back in 1975. We had a few beers around that faraway town and talked about the days of yore. I'm amazed at Ray Atho's revelation above that he still lives in Gisborne. Long way back it all seems now.

There was a reserve night game at Goodison Park between Man City and the Blues many years ago. Big big crowd and the team featured the aforementioned Veall and big George Heslop amongst others. I found myself in the Park End for a change that night; it was absolutely pissing down but the mission that thousands of Blue boys set out to achieve that night was accomplished: a voucher for a ticket to the greatest FA Cup final of all time in 1966.

Richard Tarleton
51 Posted 01/06/2013 at 20:45:18
1966, Cup Final. what a day! I ended up soaked in the fountain at Trafalgar Square and then caught a train back to Exeter where I was at University and let off the fire alarms in the Hall of Residence which cost me a £10 fine, and when you consider my Cup Final ticket was only 7shillings and sixpence, that was a massive bloody fine, but worth every penny.
Paul English
52 Posted 01/06/2013 at 21:07:43
When me ma was a bit flush, she gave me the money to buy a stand ticket for the Spurs Golden Vision game. I went to Jack Sharp's in Whitechapel where they sold the tickets and I got my Park End ticket...

By the way, I'm convinced the Fulham match was on the BBC news that night, but I haven't seen it since and I've searched high and low on the net with no luck at all... can anyone help please!

Brian Harrison
53 Posted 02/06/2013 at 12:00:24
Lenny 145

Yes I remember Ray Veall, a very exciting left winger. I remember seeing Ray in an away game against Burnley, he was up against Alex Elder who was one of the best fullbacks in the league. He turned Elder inside out and I remember him hitting the bar rfom about 25 yards, he was outstanding that day and all the Burnley fans were asking about him.

I did hear a rumour that Ray liked his drink now whether that stopped him progressing I don't know , but he was a very talented young footballer. I think he came from Huddersfield, and I cant remember who he went to after us.

Daniel Starkey
54 Posted 02/06/2013 at 18:37:04
My first season... remember the chant: "Everton, cha cha cha, Liverpool, under the arm"?

Our best player was Roy Vernon. Then the bitter aftertaste the following season when we lost Tony Kay and the other lot took top spot from us.

Ray Atherton
55 Posted 02/06/2013 at 18:26:07
Brian Harrison (#341)

Ray Veall signed from Skegness Town in 1961, made 11 appearances for us in the 62-63 season. He joined Preston in 1965, later moved to Huddersfield then Los Angeles Wolves then moved to South Africa's Maritzburg and finally Gisborne New Zealand.

In that title-winning year, I went to Notts Forest, a night game; we were 2-0 down early on but went on to win 4-3. Ray Veall had a smashing game; Vernon and Young were unplayable! Terrific, what a match it was!


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