A reminder of when the Blues were a great team and a great club. Makes me sad to even compare the current bunch of wastrels with those legends. Once upon a time we could hold our own with, and usually outplay, any team.
Years ago I saw a documentary on everton v arsenal 1967 68 season. An Interview with Alex Young , he said that in 1966 he was on 39 pounds a week and after winning the FA cup he got a 9 pound a week rise so he bought the wife a mini of hire purchase, he lived in Liverpool in a small terraced house. That pay rate is worth about 70,000 a year now. And Everton were a wealthy club.
What's the average full time wage now £30,000 pa?....It's a myth that first div.soccer players didn't get more than the average wage.With bonuses it was like twice Young's stated figure.So it would have been about 4 times national average.But if course it was over at 30 or so
Brilliant game, especially Best's moment of brilliance when he turned Ray Wilson inside out at 4.30, and Young's tremendous third Everton goal (apart from the blatant handball that is). Fantastic Everton performance - Ball, Harvey, West and especially Royle - I'm surprised that great team took until 1970 to be champions!
I've come back to this game because I was there in the paddock having graduated from a ground season ticket at four guineas to a paddock season ticket at five guineas. I remembered a good goal from Bobby Charlton and wanted to see it again in memory of the great man. That was the start of the Holy Trinity and a wonderful reminder of the sheer class of Alex Young. Those days in the late sixties of watching Everton were the best in football terms of my life enlivened as they were by some great opposition footballers like Greaves, Lee, Best, Charlton, Eddie Gray, Alan Clarke, Law, Peter Thompson, Eastham, Baker, Dougan. They have never been matched in my opinion.
ALMOST CRYING WITH NOSTALGIA..... the days when it was real football... with often local lads playing..Always loved Alan Ball..the clockwork orange as he was known...... I was 6 at the time...... went to Goodison with my late father a few times in 1970.... happy times
How this Everton team didn't win more trophies is beyond me. We beat the champions, who would turn out to be European champions, that same season, convincingly. Ball and Young, as well as Charlton and Best, all on the pitch at the same time: four legends.
The Everton team is almost the same as the team that were champions in 1970. I never saw Ray Wilson or Alex Young play but from the evidence of this game they were both great players. My first game at Goodison was against Wednesday in August 68. Sandy Brown (sub for this game) was left back and Jimmy Husband wore the number 7. Just a great side playing great football.
A lot of people now forget how big Everton were in the 1960s. The big ground, the big crowds, the big history, the Moores money bringing in a series of record signings. Even the training ground looked special.
Same experience . 68 69 season first game v Ipswich town ray Crawford punched ball into net! Ball missed a penalty. Result 2 2 great memories of superb side
@@robertlees7528 Everton's home game v Ipswich in the 1968-69 season was played in late January 1969.Its a game I always recall for two reasons. One was that the goal by Ray Crawford in the Gwlady's Street end was clearly punched into the net given he was yards offside and Gordon West made no attempt to save the ball having seen it land in the net. The referee who allowed it was Maurice Fussey, who older fans will recall. The other reason was that after the game my brother and me went to the front office with our Golden Goal ticket, seeing people walking away, we were shocked and elated to be told we had the winning time for the first goal. 35 minutes scored by Sandy Brown, a grass cutter from 25 yards, prize was £100. If you held that time with a second either side it was a £10 prize. Bally missed a late penalty when it was 2-2 which rocked the side a bit. In my own opinion Everton were a better side in the 68-69 season than the 69-70 winning title side. Their only weakness was the lack of a strong centre forward like Martin Chiver's, that cost this wonderful side more trophy's 1968- 71. I watched Everton home and away during the 60s and 70s.
One of the best in the world then. Completely out of date now. Supposed to be moving to a new ground in a few years time, but we’ll be in the championship after this season, so it will never happen, or we’ll go bankrupt with the debt of abandoning the scheme once we are relegated.
Oh my god!..that game brought back some memories..I was 18 in the Gwladys st end that day...what a team performance!..team full of legends!!!! Everton went on to finish 5th that season...I wish I could go back in time. and be in that crazy mob again in the street end!....ah good times..
Everton’s greatest ever team I would suggest. Alan Ball was a magnificent player and the best on the pitch. What football as well. No tippy tippy rubbish you get now but end to end attacking by both sides and proper football. No wonder I rarely watch a modern game.
As well as the football was great in those days the gates for most clubs were pretty full. Also the TV commentators were knowledgeable and concentrated on the game, unlike today's lot who waffle on about anything and everything. COYBs.
Unsure but this could be the first time Everton appeared on motd because Catterick didn't like the team on the telly for league games Also take note half the team were scousers
Your probably right about it being the first EFC appearance on MOTD, five of the team were scousers, Tommy Wright, Brian Labone, Colin Harvey, Johnny Morrisey, and Joe Royle, John Hurst came through the youth system.
Catterick disliked the media. Didn’t trust them. Wouldn’t allow player interviews without his permission. Ball did once. Catterick dropped him and said lucky he didn’t sell him. Media have never forgiven the club and is why we are hated even today.
We’re so lucky that Pep invented football… 65000 packed perfect Goodison, 2 teams of world class players , not a hint of cynicism and pure football.. I was the happiest 6 year old on the planet
I saw three members of that Everton team playing for Oldham a few years later - Wilson, Hurst and Morrissey. The first two were okay, but Morrissey was a right shyster: played just half a dozen times, then demanded a transfer. Seems to have retired completely from the game after that (September 1972). Joe Royle went on to become our manager as well in 1982.
Look at the respect between the players at the end of the game, especially from the United players, given that we’d soundly beaten them! Those were the days, proper players and proper men!
This was one of the first Match of the Days I was allowed to stay up late to see. There was a resurgence of interest in football at the time with England's World Cup win a year before. I think this was first game of the season and United were defending champions. They didn't retain it but they did win the European Cup at the end of that season - an emotional occasion due to the events at a certain airfield ten years before.
Many fabulous players in both teams! Everton's two of the all-time greatest are here to be seen. Alan Ball, the midfield dynamo, the "new hero" and League Champion in 1969-70. Alex Young, the all-round striker, the "old hero" and League Champion in 1962-63. Everton's third goal is a testimony of Young's superb technical ability and footwork and finishing power. He was also a brilliant header of the ball.
I was at this game., I got a season ticket the season before by saving all my pocket money, with a hand from my Ma when Everton signed Alan Ball after his preformance's in the World Cup win. My absolute hero. Everton won the FA Cup in1966 as well. I was a lucky 12 year old to see such great player's in the Royal Blue.
I was eleven years old then. All my memories are Haley. I know I wasn't allowed to go to utd games because their fans had a reputation. How on earth did we have to wait three seasons for a championship.
sell out crowd half circle behind goal young ball Harvey Kendall 18 yr old Joe Royal Morrissey Brilliant football and a win in style what a great Everton team and I just want our club to be like that now ( surely it's a simple mix fight loyalty passion love ) not rocket science !! COYB
@Ian Concannon Yeah, it's the rabona. It's a Brazilian skill set. Watch Pelé vs Racing Club 1960 on youtube. You'll see Pelé doing the rabona during the match.
Fabulous footage and truly great Everton team worthy of( the school of science ) tag also why Alan Ball became my foogball legend Epitomises what Everton FC is all about then and now i was born 1960 so i was 7 yrs old reckon I've only seen 2 Everton teams of this quality the other being Howard's of course Great Team Great supporters Great memories COYB
The rot was already setting in. Nothing like a governmental human trafficking programme parading as immigration policy with not one single vote of consent to really ruin a country. Still we've seen Parliament for what it truly is. Democracy was never its strong suit and there's no people it despises more than the British....and MP's have the temerity to label us racist.
But the BBC would have you believe it was 50/50 and there have always been black people there. Diversity is not pro strength. Multiculturalism is killing us.
Just look at both teams...ALL players home grown talent...its before my time..but looking back at how football was such a fabulous working class game...then we had the great ..only in my eyes..70s and my greatest years the 80s before it started to become all about money and was forever ruined by to many foreign players...dont get me wrong...you have to move with the times i suppose...but now...almost ALL teams have zero players who were local...look at everton and united here...how many were from liverpool and manchester...quite a few..but ALL...were from the uk....now...the fans arent needed...its all money from tv and media...players being payed a million a week...absolutely disgusting...i saw it all starting...with glasgow rangers..paying huge wages..bringing every foreigner in they could..and enticing english players by doubling theyre wage...i hate them for it...for the last 20 years its just a money machine...all defence and boring tactics...its finished for me and has been for years....now..the champions league exists..what a joke...teams can be called champions of europe...when they ARENT even champions of theyre respective league..the european cup was ONE team from each league in europe..and it was great...now..you can win NOTHING...and still enter it...
At half time they would use them to give the latest scores. In the programme each letter represented a team and next to the letter would be placed a card with the corresponding team's score on it.
What a goal by Young. Nothing wrong at all with the technical ability of players then. I doubt there is very much to separate players then and now on that basis. Probably the real differences are superior tactical nous, better "medical" science to boost players fitness, and most of all selection of players not based on football talent alone but freakish physical attributes. What football gained in athleticism is lost in every other area that made is so central to peoples lives.
@@EndtimeElijah when I think about sport in general, but particularly football I think I was so lucky to be around for the late 60's and early 70's. The sports had their faults but they were far more genuine in their competition, far less corrupt and best of all they were participated in by genuine people not manufactured constructs of the corporation. It's one thing to watch those events today as a recording but it's quite another to recall them as they unfurled in real time. I wonder as corporation wrap their criminal control.around us ever tighter, will we be still alive to see those days return?
Nothing wrong with talent and potential technical ability in the old days.... at amateur/school levels, the game is very similar now to what is was 50-60 years ago. In the old days, training facilities and actual training was hardly any different for top professionals or pub football e.g. read what Bill Shankly had to cope with when he first arrived at Anfield. At the highest levels the main differences nowadays is far superior physical fitness and focused development of tactical and technical skills.........all made possible by advanced technology and much, much, much more money.
