ToffeeWeb - Season 2007-08

Michael Kenrick

Oh Nooooooo!!!!

I think you're on the wrong website; we don't do "Top Ten Tables"

And who the fuck is "Gary Linacre"?

Bo Nehead
1 Posted 19/09/2007 at 05:23:58

Hmm, Fancy omitting numero uno as William Ralph Dean !!!!!!!!!!!!

norman merrill
2 Posted 19/09/2007 at 07:26:57

Dick, sorry but you dont do the Great Roy Vernons memory the justice it deserves, when you put Mick Lyons in the list and no mention of him.

Peter Pridgeon
3 Posted 19/09/2007 at 07:21:28

Bob Latchford my arse and Mick Lyons he was fucking centre half. For those who know their history Mr Latchford handed in a transfer request the second season he was at Goodison. It sickens me the way he is now feted by some of the Everton family. It was Howard Kendall (who incidently was sold to Birmingham in exchange for Latchford)who got rid of the fat bastard)correct me if I am wrong someone, as the memory fades having lived overseas for the last 26 years.
COYB

Dan Brierley
4 Posted 19/09/2007 at 08:08:42

No room for the greatest goalscorer of all time then?

379 goals in 438 games and the great ’Dixie’ Dean doesnt get in your top ten. Shame on you!!

Ron Martin
5 Posted 19/09/2007 at 08:26:59

Where the fuck´s Mike Newell?? Brett Angel?? Ibrahima Bakayoko?? Mikel Madar?? Phil Jevons??

come on...

Shaun Brennan
6 Posted 19/09/2007 at 08:44:06

How did AJ get in?

We are missing danny pineapple head cadamatri (apologies if i’ve spelt his surname wrong, but you’ll all know who i mean).

Dave Lynch
7 Posted 19/09/2007 at 08:58:34

And where is big Joe Royle

benny
8 Posted 19/09/2007 at 09:01:27

Andrew Johnson?

Are you out of you tiny mind?

Ian Sephton
9 Posted 19/09/2007 at 08:57:14

WTF???
No Roy Vernon?
No Tommy Lawton??
No Dixie Dean???

Watch out fella. The men in the white coats will be knocking on your door real soon!!

Billy Deane
10 Posted 19/09/2007 at 09:01:40

Mick Lyons number 5 I cant believe that, he played 85% of the time at the back and was thrust forward for the last 10 minutes when we were losing which at the time he was playing was most of the time.
Have you not heard of Dixie Dean and Tommy Lawton.
Fred Pickering was only here for a short.
while.
Dean and Lawton are regarded as the greatest Everton strikers of all time.
If you know your history you would also know Sandy Young from 100 years ago was also a great Everton scorer.
What about Joe Royle he was better than most of them you have named.
You could even name Mike Trebilcock based on what he did in the cup final only.
Roy Vernon he was a fantastic striker in the early 60’s with a prolific scoring rate, he led the team to the 1963 championship.

Ray
11 Posted 19/09/2007 at 09:01:09

And no Tommy Lawton? And if Lyons is there (59 goals in 427 appearences), where’s Campbell? Kept us up if I remember.....

Ray
12 Posted 19/09/2007 at 09:08:33

By the way, Fred Pickering may only have been here a relatively short time but his 70goals in 115 appearances is pretty impressive, just the same.It’s easy to forget just how prolific he was.

billy deane
13 Posted 19/09/2007 at 09:25:54

If that was Pickering’s scoring rate then I accept he was prolific and deserves to be in. Campbell yes he came and did a job for us. How about Duncan McKenzie for entertainment value. How about Ammo for the Cup Semi Final, Rideout for the cup final, and Tony Cottee 99 league goals.

T G Jones
14 Posted 19/09/2007 at 09:28:11

Jack Sharp, 342 appearances 80 goals, A century for England at cricket and a sports shop we all remember.

Peter Beardsley had a good record when here, he has not been mentioned.

Bert Freeman 58 goals in 2 seasons.

Edgar Chadwick 97 goals in 270 appearances

Dan Wragg
15 Posted 19/09/2007 at 09:55:40

AJ would never get in my time. Sure, he is a good player, but like any of the big spends, he has dissapointed.

I really hope he proves me wrong and becomes a massive success for this club, but for me, Joe Royle and Dixie would get in ahead of him!

billy deane
16 Posted 19/09/2007 at 09:57:19

Sandy Young
A Scot hailing from Slamannan, Stirlingshire, Alexander Simpson Young, a skilful, wily centre-forward, joined Everton from Falkirk in 1901 at the age of twenty-one. Standing at just five feet eight inches and weighing a little over eleven stones, he is one of the more light-weight centre-forwards to have graced the royal blue jersey. Nevertheless, in an Everton career spanning 314 first division and FA Cup appearances, Sandy Young netted 124 goals, one every 2.53 games, including the, for Everton, historic, winner in the 1:0 victory over Newcastle United in the 1906 FA Cup Final in front of 75,000 spectators at the Crystal Palace on 21 April 1906, the first occasion upon which the club had triumphed in this, the world of football’s oldest knock-out competition.

An accomplished striker who, at the height of his powers, was Everton’s leading scorer for five consecutive seasons, Sandy Young scored four times in one match on no less than three occasions, including a 5:2 victory at Goodison over Liverpool on, aptly enough, Good Friday, 1 April 1904. Not only is this the highest number of goals ever scored by any Everton player in a Merseyside Derby, it is also the only hat-trick ever scored by an Everton player at Goodison in an all-Liverpool clash. While Dixie Dean, the sole Everton player to have scored more goals for Everton against the Anfielders than Sandy Young, who managed a total of twelve in twenty-two Derby appearances, eight at Goodison and four at Anfield, did notch two hat-tricks against the Reds in his distinguished Everton career, they were both at Anfield.

Young’s two other four-goal strikes occurred during the 9:1 demolition of Manchester City at Goodison on 3 September 1906, Everton’s most emphatic top-flight victory to this day, a score-line equalled only by the 9:1 destruction of Plymouth Argyle at Goodison on 27 December 1930 in the old second division, and a 5:1 home win over Nottingham Forest on 5 November 1904. However, his goal-scoring qualities notwithstanding, Sandy Young also attracted his fair share of brickbats in consequence of his aggressive attitude and retaliatory streak, traits which did not endear him to the Football League authorities.
Young emigrated to Australia and was hung for cattle rustling.

T G Jones
17 Posted 19/09/2007 at 10:19:50

Legendary stuff!!!! Hung for cattle rustling I love it.
Didn’t they unearth some mural or painting of Sandy Young in a derelict pub in the Goodison area in recent years, I vaguely recall reading about it.

lichblue
18 Posted 19/09/2007 at 10:48:20

I have it on good authority that Albert JULIUSSEN was the worst forward ever to wear the blue shirt.

And I don’t think Sandy Young was hung for rustling.

James Elworthy
19 Posted 19/09/2007 at 11:15:54

I have unearthed this piece from an old Guardian a few years back

Wednesday October 25, 2000
Guardian Unlimited

THE CASE OF THE EXECUTED FOOTBALLER
"Is it true that a winner of a Cup Final medal was hung for sheep stealing in Australia in the early 1900s? I was told that it was an ex-Everton player," asked James Carlin a few weeks back.

Last week, we suggested that Goodison legend Sandy Young was indeed hung for this heinous crime - a fact once backed up on TV by goody-two-shoes presenter Gary Lineker. But Geir Juva has evidence that Young was imprisoned - and not executed - for far more wayward ways:

"Young played for Tottenham for a few months in 1911, and I found the following in Bob Goodwin’s excellent Who’s Who of Tottenham Hotspur:
’... [Young] had a year with South Liverpool before emigrating to Australia in 1914. In December 1915, Young was charged with the wilful murder of his brother and, in June 1916, was found guilty of manslaughter, evidence having been produced from football officials in England that during his playing career he had been subject to fits of temporary insanity. He was sentenced to three years imprisonment but was not released immediately on completion of his sentence but kept in custody on the grounds of ’mental weakness’ and it was some time before he returned home to Scotland...’

"Young died on 17 September 1959 in Portobello, Edinburgh. A belated booking for Mr Lineker?"

Allan Hobbs
20 Posted 19/09/2007 at 11:19:27

I’m bleeding profusly from the wrists...

Dick Fearon
21 Posted 19/09/2007 at 11:19:30

I should have said ’of those I have seen in the flesh’ Thank you all for jogging this old memory of other great strikers.

LUKE SKYWALKER
22 Posted 19/09/2007 at 11:21:54

Me great great great grandad used to go watch Everton every Saturday aftanoon and always brought home with him a leg of lamb for the Sunday dinner, Me Great great great granma always asked where he got it from and he always said Sandy Young. Me gran used to think it was a butchers shop but Sandy used to go sheep rustlin up the Horseshoe Pass in Wales on Friday night then him and his mate sold legs of lamb to the crowd after the match to supplement his 1 shilling a week wages. URBAN LEGEND

Billy Deane
23 Posted 19/09/2007 at 11:46:11

Thank you for your clarification Dick but still cannot believe Mick Lyons, has the Aussie Sun wilted your memory

Andy Ellams
24 Posted 19/09/2007 at 11:55:48

Tony Cottee didn’t too bad, 99 goals I think. Where is he?

Paul Rideout probably isn’t one of our top 10 but he did score the winner in the cup final so could probably get into that list. Same for Derek Temple and Mike Trebilcock.

Lee Spargo
25 Posted 19/09/2007 at 12:31:25

Dick,

If you saw Duncan Ferguson in the flesh and you also saw Dave Hickson in the flesh, just how old are you?

Michael Newton
26 Posted 19/09/2007 at 12:49:31

What no Belfitt, Harper, Bakayoko, Beattie, Eastoe, Biley, Pearson, Angell.

What about Alan Whittle one season wonder he was brilliant then bang he went off the boil faster than an unplugged kettle.

Tony Marsh
27 Posted 19/09/2007 at 13:38:02

When did Mick The kick Lyons become a striker Dick???.To much Auzzie sun mate.

Mark Stone
28 Posted 19/09/2007 at 13:26:26

Lee - is it so inconceivable to have watched a football match at Goodison on the 50’s and again in the 90’s? All of 40 years apart!

Michael Newton
29 Posted 19/09/2007 at 13:43:23

I calculate to have watched a match in the 50’s and then in the 90’s you only have to be about 55 or older.
Tony Marsh did you watch a match in the 50’s.

Mike Neely
30 Posted 19/09/2007 at 13:35:40

I think you,ll find that Wayne Clark,s goals per game ratio can,t be equalled.
And yes Peter Pridgeon, Latchford does merit a top ten spot.I can go back a long way and he,s certainly one of the best I,ve seen in England never mind at Goodison.

Ivan Parsons
31 Posted 19/09/2007 at 13:50:35

This sounds like a good old Aussie case of ’fishin’ to me and what few beauties he’s gone and caught. What Everton fan would forget about William Ralph Dean?He’s havin’ a lend of you all.

Onamish
32 Posted 19/09/2007 at 14:30:40

1. Dixie Dean
2. Alex Young
3. Bob Latchford
4. Dave Hickson
5. Joe Royle
6. Roy Vernon
7. Tommy Lawton
8. Graeme Sharp
9. Gary Lineker
10. Duncan Ferguson *hides*

chris keightley
33 Posted 19/09/2007 at 14:33:16

barn door barlow ?? amokachi, mo johnson,nick chadwick ? brilliant strikers in there day !!!!!!!!!!!!

Andy Mackenzie
34 Posted 19/09/2007 at 14:26:41

Wayne Clarke anyone? Signed to prop up an injured front line and scored 18 goals in 46 appearences after being signed early 1987 to assit picking up a league title.

Not a bad squad player by todays standards.

Bob Latchford walks on water
35 Posted 19/09/2007 at 14:37:12

1 Dixie Dean
2.Tommy Lawton 65 goals in 87 games, the war happened in his prime and robbed him perhaps surpassing Dixies own achievements.
Do you know Everton held the league title for 5 years after 1914 WWI and 7 years after 1939 WW2. So we held the league title for 12 years.
Thats 3 great Everton sides ruined 2 by wars and one by Heysel.

patty blue
36 Posted 19/09/2007 at 15:04:06

Lee Spargo .... how old do you have to be to be a true blue supporter and have seen Dave Hickson and Big Dunc. I am a young 67 in answer to your question and loved to watch Dave Hickson "batter" up the opposition in the 50’s, saw Jimmy Greaves make his debut for Chelsea at Goodison Park on a day we beat them 3 - 0, and of them all, Roy Vernon and Duncan Ferguson were my idols. But then, I have been going to Goodison Park since I was 6 and am still going ....see you lot on Thursday.

Mark Stone
37 Posted 19/09/2007 at 16:15:11

Chris I think your being unfair labelling Nick Chadwick in the same group as Barlow. I thought Chadwick did ok - not a premiership player maybe but he scored a few goals on his rare chances didn’t he?

Anthony Dilworth
38 Posted 19/09/2007 at 19:56:59

Peter Pridgeon , how dare you?
Big Bob was the best English centre forward of his generation .
He certainly made being an Evertonian alot better as that lot across the park dominated Europe

Peter Pridgeon
39 Posted 19/09/2007 at 20:30:58

Anthony Dilworth, I admit Latch was one of the better centre forwards of his day but you must remember how lazy he was, this being the reason he never secured an England place. He was a terrible penalty taker and always wanted to leave the club, I am sorry but for those with rose tinted Latchford glasses he was the antithesis of a true Evertonian.
However enough said I still have a faded piece of the penalty spot where he scored # 30 in 1977 against a wretched Chelsea side

Jimmy Martyn
40 Posted 19/09/2007 at 14:58:16

There are still many who can span the years as Evertonians, my first game: 1947; my last, Saturday v Man Utd. That makes 60yrs. In the late 40s early 50s John Willie Parker played alongside Dave Hickson, did nowt on the pitch but scored goals for fun along with a great Irish winger Tommy Eglinton. My personal choice of strikers all of whom I saw so many times....

"In NO particular order": Graham Sharpe, Joe Royle, Dave Hickson, Andy Gray, Roy Vernon, Alex Young, Bob Latchford, Gary Linaker, Tonny Cottee even Peter Beardsley, Better stop there.. Like them or not they all did there job. Scored goals, some off their arse etc but many real scorchers, whatever, they all counted. It's a long time since we had anyone performing as well as those on that short list all who did, did what the game is about "scoring goals"... can't win without them.

roy coyne
41 Posted 19/09/2007 at 23:39:30

Lee their are a lot of us that saw Dave Hickson in the flesh and are still actually watching Vaughan now and have seen all between.I honestly dont understand the lack of acknowledgement that Roy Vernon gets he was one of our greats with out a doubt and I also agree with the comments about Latchford once he posted his transfer request through a open car window rather than face the manager I lost all respect for him now Dick come on own up much as Mick Lyons would die for the cause a top striker he only played there if we were desperate it was a wind up wasn’t it

Keith Edmunds
42 Posted 20/09/2007 at 00:11:42

Its true that Bob Latchford was useless at everything, except scoring goals week in week out.

george brooks
43 Posted 20/09/2007 at 00:26:56

c’mon mr kenrick,you’ve never heard of gary linacre,play’s for the poulton vics in the wallasey sunday(catch y’self on mate)

Dick Fearon
44 Posted 20/09/2007 at 01:22:10

Born the year before war broke out. I vaguely remember a few games at Goodison perched on my dads shoulders. the year before promotion I began regularly going to home and away games.

Pete Farthing
45 Posted 20/09/2007 at 09:18:24

Are you fucking joking?Andrew Johnson wouldn’t deserve to be included in the top 30 Everton strikers i have seen since 1960!Thiese long distant fans who haven’t seen Everon since the king died are a just a laugh.They spout about the team,the ground,the manager-all on the basis of sycophantic rubbish they read via the internet.Stick to Aussie Rules,mate!

patty blue
46 Posted 20/09/2007 at 15:35:39

What about Kevin Sheedy and his left foot?