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Harry Catterick: The Untold Story of a Football Great

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So, what about those who represent each other’s yin and yang, not as counterparts, but as adversaries? In the modern era we are seeing the rather childish escalation of the rivalry between Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger; although quite which one of them can be steadfastly distinguished as the funny man and which is the stooge is occasionally harder to define. He is buried in the graveyard of St Anne's Church, St Anne's-on-the-Sea, Lancashire after a funeral held there six days after his death. His gravestone bears the Everton motto, "Nil satis nisi optimum". The arrival of Johnny Morrissey from across Stanley Park in September 1962 would limit Veall’s appearances but injury to Morrissey in the autumn resulted in an unbroken run of nine appearances. Those who saw the 62/63 side remember them as a class act. The 69/70 team were even better, some would say among the finest to grace the English game in the second half of the 20th century.

Until Evertonian author Rob Sawyer heard of Veall’s frustration and made representations to the Football League. Burnley became a major force. They won the title in 1960, having reached the top of the table for the first time that season when the whistle blew at the end of the campaign's final match. They had to win at Manchester City, and did so 2-1, reserve winger Trevor Meredith scoring the decisive goal. Potts had kept the team calm ahead of the match, treating it as just another game. Centre half and captain Brian Labone was among the Everton players of the era to suggest that some of the performances delivered by the developing side between 1967 and ’69 were as good as any in the Championship season. After the move to Deepdale failed to re-ignite his career a transfer to Huddersfield Town followed.Then, seemingly inexplicably, things imploded. Fatigued players following the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, where Everton had four representatives – Ball, Tommy Wright, Keith Newton and Brian Labone – and injuries to the likes of Labone, Johnny Morrissey and Joe Royle coincided with the loss of the manager’s Midas touch in the transfer market.

Atherton recalled: “In that title-winning year, I went to Nottingham Forest, a night game; we were 2-0 down early on but went on to win 4-3. Ray Veall had a smashing game.” Sunderland were granted league status in 1890 – the first new team to be admitted, replacing Stoke City – and they soon reached the top. After taking a season to acclimatise, Watson's side won three titles in four years. The first championship saw them win all 13 of their home games, a campaign during which they also recorded 13 wins on the bounce. In their second title season, they were the first team to score 100 goals in a campaign, 43 more than second-placed Preston. They also made the FA Cup semi-finals in 1892 and 1895. Yet a prank is generally supposed to be funny and this lot actually refer to themselves as “comedians”. That is actually the most amusing thing they have done, by some distance. Thespian Tomkins deserves a bad review Never again were we to sign the best player of his generation, playing at the top of his game in a team capable of the most sublime football – it was downhill for all parties and in 1973 he was asked to move “ upstairs” into an advisory role to be replaced by Billy Bingham. Here was a man who had spent 14 years at Goodison as a player, 12 as manager plus two as a “consultant” and who had created, arguably, one of the finest post-war teams to grace English football pitches, yet he had not been given recognition in the form of a biography.This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. And what of the Football Association? At least when Rivaldo embarked on that wretched piece of play-acting in the 2002 World Cup it led to a full hearing and the player being fined. “We want to demonstrate that this type of simulation cannot be accepted and cannot go unpunished,” Fifa’s disciplinary chief, Marcel Mathier, said. Former Everton player Dan Gosling has admitted an FA charge in relation to multiple breaches of Rule E8(b) for misconduct in relation to betting Certainly they were a beacon of attractive football in an era when defensive tactics became more sophisticated and oppressive. Like Shankly and Busby, he won two league titles in the 1960s and the FA Cup once. Nicholson won the FA Cup three times in a decade with Spurs but the title only once.

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