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Caught In Time
Featured
in the back of the Sports section of the Sunday Times,
the Caught in Time
series features a picture of a famous team, offers a
profile of each player, and answers the question 'Where
are they now?'.
Everton
win the First Division Title, 1970
by Greg
Struthers
When Brian
Labone walked around Goodison Park parading the League
championship trophy, he fell like a spare part. He was in
his overcoat while his Evcrton leammaies were caked in
sweat and mud. Labone was injured and missed the last
eight games as the Blues strolled to the title, finishing
nine points ahead of Leeds United. But there was no
denying the pan the England defender had played in iho
campaign. Many of the plaudits weii reserved for their
midfield trio of Alan Ball, Colin Harvey and Howard
Kendall. known as the "Holy Trinity".
Labone says: "I often joke with Howard that they
were the only three-man team to win the championship. We
had good defenders, although i am bound to say thai. a
fantastic midfield and Joe Royle up front banging in the
goals."
Goodison Park was known as the school of science.
"Nowadays when 1 jump into a taxi and ask to be
taken to the school of science the driver goes right past
Goodison Park." he says. What still baffles him is
why the team of the Seventies failed to dominate English
football; "I could not tell you why that team didn't
go on to achieve more."
1 Geoff Barnett (Arsenal)
The England schoolboy and youth international goalkeeper
joined the cluh in 1962 and made 10 appearances before
moving to Arsenal for £35.000 in October 1969. He played
for the Minnesota Kicks in America and is a publican in
Cheshire
2 Gordon West (Everton)
West signed from Blackpool for £27.000 in March 1962. a
then British record fee for a goalkeeper. It was money
well spent for he helped the club win two tides. He won
three caps for England and has retired after working in
security at RAF Woodvale in Formb)
3 Andy Rankin (Everton)
An understudy to West between the posts, he made 106
appearances and played for Watford and Huddersfield,
where he is a warehouseman
4 Wilf Dixon
A crucial member of the backroom staff, he was the team
coach. He also had coaching spells at Arsenal, Hull and
Tottenham and has retired 10 Chesier-le- Street. He is 86
5 John Hurst (Everton)
Ever-present in the title-winning side, Hurst played 402
games in 14 years at Goodison Park. He started as a
striker before joining Labone in the heart of the defence
and was Eve non's first-ever League substitute. He
coached the club's youth team and scouts for Blackburn
6 Joe Royle (Everton)
Strong in the air and with an ability to shrug off
tackles, Royle was an ideal centre-forward who became the
first 1 6-year-old Evertonian to play in the League. He
was the lop scorer in the championship season with 23
goaJs in 42 games. He is now manager of Ipswich
7 Brian Labone (Everton)
Joined the club from school in 1957, and after 47 years
is still a match-day host. Manager Harry Catterick called
him "the last of the Corinthians", for he was
booked only twice in 534 games. A dominant defender, he
won 23 caps for England and collected League championship
medals in 1963 and 1970. He captained the side in their
FA Cup final win in 1966. After retiring he says he
became "a square peg in a round hole", working
in insurance for 25 years. Now retired, he enjoys his job
as match host, because "I see all my old adversaries
getting fat. grey and bald"
8 Roger Kenyon (Everton)
A strong defender who played in the last eight games of
the championship season. He spent 15 years at Everton.
Formerly a pub landlord in Chester, he runs BlueNose
Promotions, a company organising events with former
players
9 Sandy Brown (Everton)
Signed from Partick Thistle in 1963 Brown was a useful
utility player who filled the right-back position in most
of his 253 games. A Scottish schoolboy international.
Brown ran a bed and breakfast hotel in Blackpool and
worked in a biscuit factory. He is in a Blackpool nursing
home
10 Howard Kendall (Everton)
One of ihe celebrated trio of midfielders, he joined
Everton for £80,000 from Preston North End in March 1967
and played an integral part in Everton's success. He had
three spells as manager, his first the most successful.
He won two League championships, the FA Cup and Cup
Winners' Cup. He is an after-dinner speaker and columnist
11 Harry Catterick (Everton
manager)
The Everton manager had a notable playing career
interrupted by the second world war, scoring 24 goals in
71 games for Everton. He became manager in 1961 and won
two League titles and an FA Cup. He died in 1985 at the
age of 65
l2 Alan Whittle (Everton)
Whittle scored six goals in six games in the charge to
the championship. One of many local lads in the team, the
20-year-old striker played 15 games that season. He had
spells at Crystal Palace, FC Persepolis in Iran and in
Australia. He worked in Everton's football in the
community scheme. Now retired, he lives on The Wirral
13 Johnny Morrissey (Everton)
A short left-winger, Morrissey earned the wrath of Bill
Shankly by joining Everton from Liverpool and helping the
Blues win the championship in 1963 with seven goals in 28
games. He scored 50 goals in 314 matches for the Toffees
and is a property developer who lives on The Wirral
14 Gerry Humphreys (Crystal Palace)
A Welsh-born striker who played 12 games in a nine-year
spell at Everton, Humphreys also played for Crystal
Palace and Crewe. He is a taxi driver in North Wales
15 Jimmy Husband (Everton)
A Geordie who scored an important away goal against
Newcastle in the chase for the title, Husband scored six
goals in 30 games during the season. An unpredictable
striker, he finished his career at Luton, where he lives.
He is a delivery driver
16 Tommy Jackson (Everton)
He won 35 caps for Northern Ireland as a hard-working
midfielder, but his appearances for Everton were limited
to 38 games in a two-year spell. A self-employed
upholsterer for Bannon and Co in Belfast, he lives in
Glengormley and coaches kids
17 Tommy Wright (Everton)
An attacking right-back who helped form a solid Everton
defence, he was a one-club player who won 1 1 caps for
England. He played in 374 matches for the Blues, but
retired through injury at the age of 29. He works at
Garston docks in Merseyside
18 Alan Ball (Everton)
The powerhouse in the midfield, he joined Everton from
Blackpool shortly after winning the 1966 World Cup. But
after 251 games, Everton fans were upset when he was sold
to Arsenal in 197 1 . Ball, who won 72 England caps, went
into management and is an after-dinner speaker 19 Colin
Harvey _____
19 Colin Harvey (Everton)
Nicknamed the "White Pele", he was the creative
talent in midfield, playing in 387 games. He scored a
spectacular goal to clinch the title with a win against
West Brom on April Fool's Day, but was surprisingly
selected only once for England. A former Everton manager,
he retired from football last year after 40 years at the
club
From The
Sunday Times 5 December, 2004, p.
26 Sports Section.
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