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Soccer Boss? You”re Joking — I Want to be an Undertaker

Rob Sawyer

This article, adapted from the original, published in Lancashire Soccer Annual (1970), underlines Ray Wilson's candour and honesty — and his pride at having played for Everton FC

24/06/2019

“Rags”: The Life of Cuthbert Tatters

Rob Sawyer

Few footballers' names are more evocative of bygone times in the Goodison lexicon than Cuthbert Tatters.

18/05/2019

Harold Uren and His Sporting Dynasty

Rob Sawyer

Harold Uren holds the distinction of being the first footballer to transfer directly from Liverpool to Everton. His sons Harold and Dick would go on to have notable careers in sport of their own.

20/04/2019

Tommy White — A Player of Many Parts

Rob Sawyer

Tommy White was Everton's ‘Mr Versatile' in a decade of service, which saw the club win two First Division titles, a Second Division Championship and the FA Cup.

10/04/2019

Ron Saunders — The Toffee Years

Ron Saunders is best remembered for moulding the Aston Villa team which won the League Cup in 1975 and 1977, the Football League championship in 1981 and the European Cup in 1982. Less reported is the fact that he began his life in football as an Evertonian.

19/03/2019

“Flicka” — The Life of Graham Williams (1936-2018)

Rob Sawyer

The "small but stockily-built" winger who was signed as a promising 19-year-old from Bradford City in 1956 and spent three years with the Blues, passed away last November aged 81.

21/02/2019

Fred Pickering — A Tribute

Rob Sawyer

The Everton legend passed away yesterday in his home town of Blackburn aged 78.

10/02/2019

Jason Scott-Lee: Football Pioneer

Rob Sawyer

The story of one of the first of two players of Chinese heritage to play for Everton, some six decades before Li Tie and Li Weifeng would sign for the club under David Moyes

20/12/2018

Billy and Bob: The Fabulous Balmer Brothers

Rob Sawyer

William and Robert Balmer formed a fearsome, and fruitful, fraternal partnership in Everton's back-line in the early years of the 20th Century

22/11/2018

Gentleman John

Rob Sawyer

The infamous circumstances of Johnny Carey's dismissal as Everton manager in 1961 have entered football folklore but there was so much more to this which makes the focus on that taxi ride unjust.

13/11/2018

“Maestro” — The Jack Southworth Story

Rob Sawyer

Evertonians laud the club's lineage of talismanic goal scorers but some wonderful marksmen are somewhat overlooked. One of them, Jack Southworth, remains the only Everton player to score a double hat-trick in a first team match. Yet there was much more to this polymath who excelled on both musical and sporting stages.

10/09/2018

“Bunny” — The Robert Bell Story

Rob Sawyer

The Wirral has a proud tradition of producing high-calibre footballers and for a period in the 20th century, Tranmere became something of a centre-forward factory, producing the likes of â€œDixieâ€ Dean and his eventual team-mate â€œBunnyâ€ Bell.

31/07/2018

ElieÂ Hurel — The First Jerseyman to Play in the First Division

Rob Sawyer

Elie Hurel was the first man from the Channel Islands dependencies to play in the English top flight. His journey there — from being orphaned as a child to lining up alongside the legendary Bill â€œDixieâ€ Dean at Goodison Park — is a remarkable one.

18/07/2018

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