Was Don Revie lined up to replace Harry Catterick?

The contract was for 7 years and the salary was £15,500 per year plus bonuses. He would also been given a house between £40, 000 and £50,000 which he could rent at £6 per week or buy at the end of his contract, the house had to be within 25 miles of Goodison Park.

The Everton Board of Directors were apparently shocked that Revie turned them down. Some will see it as a blessing, others a missed opportunity.

'Dirty Leeds' -- that became the mantra for him and his team as far as Everton were concerned.

A Sliding Doors moment indeed... but impossible to know how things would have turned out, because it never happened. But we won nothing for 11 more years so one can speculate what might have been had he come instead of Billy Bingham and then Gordon Lee...

He would've turned us into greats, I truly believe!

As for Revie... he is loved by Leeds fans, naturally but was hated by Clough & many others... "Dirty Blues" wouldn't wash with Moores and his board, I reckon!!

Terms agreed, contract signed, set to go until someone at Everton leaked the news prior to Bobby telling Ipswich he was leaving.

Felt he couldn't trust us and ripped up the contract.
Story direct from his book.

As for a statue outside Goodison for Don Revie there isn’t one for Everton's, to me, greatest manager, Harry Catterick.

As for Revie and his horrible teams - the less I say the better.

Their whole footballing philosophy was conceived by Revie out of fear of failure and cowardice and carried out on field by his 2 snide henchmen Giles & Bremner... and others

Thing was they didn't need it as they could also play a bit, but it worked for them, teams fell for it, got sucked it to worrying more about the fightball than the football.. .just like we did in the 'Battle of Goodison' -- what a day that was.

Revie? No thanks.

I loved when Howard Kendall shouted "Fuck You" to the Bayern Munich bench, but my favourite Everton story ever, was when Jack Charlton told the footy world he had a "black book" with the names of forwards he was going to crock -- older fans will know this story.

Leeds came to Goodison a couple of weeks later and he had a nibble at Johnny Morrissey in the opening stages. Anyone in the ground who lived near Athol Street knew Charlton had just made a grave error of judgement.

The next time the ball came near him, "Moggsy" came from nowhere and very nearly cut him in two... He looked back at Charlton and said "Stick that in your little black book".

Catterick's team were not just wonderfully talented. They took no shit from nobody.

It's generally good work by the lad, Adam Pope, who narrates it and tries to make a mystery tale out of it. But it's clear the offer was more than common knowledge at the time -- everybody expected it to happen as it was such a good offer that Everton had agreed with him.

Sounds like he justified the decision to turn Everton down and stay on the back of two failed finals in the FA Cup and the Fairs Cup in May 1973, feeling the rumours had affected the players. But that weird 'Pay Code' thing in the Houses of Parliament may have been the real reason.

It rejuvenated Revie and he challenged the Leeds team to go unbeaten all season in 1973-74 -- they almost managed it, with a run of 29 games following the first of the season -- a 3-1 win over Everton! And they ran out Champions in 1974, Everton finishing a Magnificent 7th, before Revie could not refuse the England job.

But what I did not like was hearing the almost incoherent ramblings of former players Eddie Gray and Ronny Goodlass, which added nothing.