It's worth a look at that list of members.

Yes, Joe Mercer on one side and Harry Leyland on the other side of Tommy Eglington. I used to see Harry quite often as he had a stall on Birkenhead Market and I used to go over there from time to time. I think Harry was closer to Blackburn and Tranmere than he was to the Blues.

Oh maybe in a few years, if they become a regular event again, I might be able to... Have fun, all that go, and have a great night!
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I think our ex-Blue Eddie Thomas played for Blackburn in that 1960 final. He scored 2 goals against RS in a Senior cup match under our best floodlights in the first division.

Also Louie Bimpson, ex-Red, played for the Rovers.

I'm afraid my memory does not allow me to recognize either of Harry Leyland or Tommy Eggo in that photograph.

I think Eddie went to Blackburn Rovers as part of the deal which brought the great Roy Vernon to Everton. If I'm right, it looks like Roy missed out on that cup final.

Eddie Thomas was a very slight-built inside right, I think he was under-rated, had a very good football brain, I think he scored four in one game that finished 4-2 to the Blues either against Preston NE or Portsmouth.

He also scored for Swansea versus Liverpool in a 2-1 win for Swansea, think it was 1964, Moran missed a penalty for Liverpool, one of my many happy days on the Kop when they got beat, and it wasn't unusual in those days, especially in the EIGHT seasons they were in the old Second Division, as I like to remind my red friends, as often as I can.

As usual, you're correct. From memory, he was valued at £8k in the deal. He probably was under-rated at the time, and occasionally got dog's abuse from the crowd.

Although nothing like as bad as the treatment Alan Shackleton got. At least from what I can recall...

Did he come from Burnley? He was married to a beauty queen, so footballers had a bit of glamour then, even though they were only on £20 a week.

Alan Shackleton scored 10 goals in the 59-60 season in 26 games. Not too bad. Included 3 against Birmingham (4-0) and both goals in a 2-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday.

He and Dave played together at the start of that season, Shackleton wearing the #11 shirt before Dave left and we went out and signed Bobby Laverick from Chelsea after which Alan played at #9.

I was browsing around and in 1957 we beat Man City 4-2 on a day when our scorers were Ken Birch, Willy Haughey (anyone remember him? 4 appearances and this only goal), Jimmy Gauld and "Tom Thumb", Graham Williams. However did we manage to win that game? And Bert Trautman was in goal for them!

Willy Haughey was a young Scotsman, he seemed to be around a few seasons, not sure if that is true, he had a good touch and football brain, but lacked a bit of pace.

At that time, we had a centre-forward, Jackie Hood, who came from The Highland League, a big strong lad, not sure if he even got a game for the first team.

You mention Jimmy Gauld playing, he was heavily involved with the fixing of matches when Tony Kay was suspended for life, hope that's not a clue to how we won that match against Man City.

Yes he came from Burnley did Shack.

Gauld must have been a piece of work. I recall he seemed to be involved in the Kay story in the People but wasn't he involved in the other Albert Dunlop drug story as well.

That one led to a big purple heart on a stick being planted on the centre circle before a Derby at Anfield.

Interesting time to be a young Evertonian.

Not sure about that, Gauld had left Everton by then, in fact he didn't stay here too long.

I may be wrong but the Purple Heart story might have come from an article in a Sunday paper later in the year when we won theChampionship in 1963, it might have been written by Albert Dunlop himself. Albert was a notorious gambler who got himself into a lot of debt, maybe he sold the story to get himself some money.

Both signed while Dave was on his travels, Glazzard was way past his sell-by date when we got him from Huddersfield, and Harburn from the lower leagues, Brighton, I believe. A combined 7 games and 1 goal.

Jimmy Gauld had a vague connection to my Scottish family and we were quite excited when we signed him, He had pace and an eye for a goal, 7 in 23 games especially a double to beat John Charles's Leeds in an early game for us. He also played in the epic 5-2 win at Old Trafford around 1956, a game I attended in my infancy!

Yes, he was reportedly involved in the betting scandals that you both have mentioned, especially the betting that got Kay suspended. I am not sure whether the drugs rumour that Dunlop perpetuated had any real merit to it.

That's how I remember it, Dunlop being an unreliable bloke always short of money. He ended up at Rhyl where he was a "bit of a one", apparently. I also played for Rhyl but at a later time but some older pals of mine who played when he was there were less than impressed with him as a man. Crooked was a word that cropped up... read the link below from ToffeeWeb some time back.

http://ToffeeWeb.com/season/15-16/comment/editorial/31197.html

I think those Dunlop stories came up again in fairly recent times for some reason. I think ex players like Jimmy Gabriel came onto this website to refute them quite categorically.

As for Gauld, I must have seen him play but I can't rgecall him. The same goes for Peter Harburn.

I was quite a sprog in those days mind, but I seem to recall a young right winger called Bentley who played for us against, I think, Bolton and was played off the park by Higgins their left back. I think I saw him play against the same player in the reserves the previous weekend and give him the runaround.

Hard man was Higgins, father of Mark I think, who had muscles in his spit.

Yes, that was what I was thinking of.

Jimmy Glazzard was a cracking centre-forward, he once scored four against us, he also scored the winning goal for Huddersfield versus PNE then went in goal and saved a penalty from Tom Finney; you are right – we signed him years too late.

Peter 'Sailor' Harburn, as you say we signed him from Brighton H A preseason. I went to Leicester with thousands of Blues fans for the first game of the season, we got battered 2-0, the sailor was all at sea and impressed no-one. He didn't last long, but long enough toget injured, off the pitch: he heard what he thought were burglars trying to get into his house from the garden, he rushed out and ran right into the clothes line and nearly blinded himself. That kept him out for a few games, thank God.

The players we signed those days, I think all the scouts had learning difficulties, they definitely had very poor eyesight.

Happily we were much more fortunate in our next signing from Huddersfield, the Great Ramon Wilson. I saw Bertie Auld the other day describing the late Tommy Gemmill as the "best left back in the world in the mid 60s". I strongly beg to differ.

The trainer said to Bertie when he got back to the bench, "He's not too good,' referring to the injured striker, "he doesn't know who he is." Bertie said, "Well, when he comes in tell him he is fuckin' Pele and he might go out and score a hat trick in the second half."