And to a major rival too. Never understood it at the time. Still don't. £200k. Huge money at the time but that Everton team never won another thing so a terrible decision.
Everton with most of the Championship winning team from 2 seasons earlier playing here; Ball, Royle, Husband, Morrissey, Harvey, Kenyon, West, Wright, Hurst, but struggling at the bottom.
21st November 1970. that was the day the tide turned. Despite the fact both clubs had a reasonably even trophy count there was just something about Everton that the wider public felt made them a bigger club. Bigger stadium, wider spread of trophy success [Liverpool tended to win things in small bursts then go through fallow periods whereas Everton would win one trophy at evenly spread out periods] Every day since has been the reverse. On that day Everton went to Anfield and took a comfortable 2-0 lead. Liverpool came back and won 3-2. Unfortunately such a game was inevitable and would still have happened sooner or later. Off the field the two clubs were going in different directions. Everton shunned the media and didn't embrace fan culture. [The club were very reluctant to be involved in the Golden Vision programme] Liverpool embraced the media and promoted fan culture. Goodison was always a place that could get very toxic if the team were having an off day. At Anfield Shankley worked hard [from the 50s] on the 12th man ethos and instilled a mentality in fans at the Kop that when Liverpool were playing badly, the fans had a role to play. It was and remains worth at least ten points a season to Reds and even the most diehard blue has to admit that the atmosphere at Anfield when the Rs are having a bad day gets behind the time and drives them on. At Everton it gets on the team's backs and has the opposite affect. We're not alone in this by any means. In truth Liverpool are probably the only club who've managed to master this with their fans. It takes a really really bad day for the Kop to get on their case. It's something I know some people at Everton are very keen to address in the new stadium and I believe supporters clubs have been contacted with a view to deliberately positioning cheer leading fans in every area to the stadium with a role to create a 12th man atmosphere at the new stadium. Alas Goodson has only ever generated that when the team play well when its needed on the players off days. The badgering of John Stones was the most high profile incident.
@Paul Morris Yes, agree, especially right after the European Cup exit the match before. Their results after that were lost 7, drawn 2, won 1. www.evertonresults.com/197071.htm
The difference in the two Clubs was the managers- Harry Catterick- austere and private/ distrustful of media. And Shankly, who was charismatic and perfect for the media. Then Everton got it wrong with Bingham and Lee, although Sir John Moores did try everything to lure Bobby Robson out of Ipswich. Maybe he should have broken the bank to get him...
@@peterreid9769 I think you are wrong Peter. The semi final against the reds was at the end of the previous season. This game was in October of the 71-72 season. Derby became champs and Leeds won the cup. Up the Toffees.😉
Think this was Alan's final game for the blues. Remember my late Dad when we got up for work saying it had been on BBC morning national radio news that he was joining Arsenal. Back then a huge story. Very little sport covered unlike the 80s onwards. Everton tried to sell Alan to Leeds in September 1967, having signed Ernie Hunt to replace him. Catterick should have rebuilt the team around Alan, Gordon West, and Howard Kendall. John Hurst, Tommy Wright, Colin Harvey were a pale shadow of themselves after the twin defeats in April 1971 in the FA and European Cup. I still recall the funny sight of Tiger Mc Laughlin at 5ft 5in trying to tackle 6ft 2in John Radford on the wing at Goodison. Tiger would join Tommy Wright scoring own goals in a 4-0 defeat at Anfield the next season. 1971-72. 72 73 were sad times after the glory of the 60s teams
No mate it wasn't his last game. He played a few more games. He played a few weeks later in the 8-0 beating of Southampton in which he scored 1 and David Johnson got 3 and my Hero mighty Joe royle got 4. I am not sure but I think Bally was sold to Arsenal on boxing day 1971. COYBs.
@@user-py5ct1go2s Didn't say it was his last game, rather thought it was. I was at the Southampton game it was played in torrential sleet, rain and recall the big Southampton defence of Mc Grath, Gabriel ex blue and Kirkup couldn't keep their feet Think it was the first time the electric scoreboard was used Couldn't see it being in the Park end. Back in October 1968 Everton almost signed Colin Stein from Hibernian to replace Joe Royle, only to lose out after he was lobbied by a well known manager, who told him he would never be selected for Scotland, if he signed for Everton. The Colin Stein move was prompted by the poor forward display in the 1968 FA Cup final when the blues lost to a team they had completed the double over and were a far superior team He went on the have success at Rangers. He was a bit in the Andy Gray mould Alan Ball I think left Everton early mid December 1971. Hope the blues fortunes turn the corner next season.
@@fisherpeter695 It's okay mate I understood what you meant. I remember Colin Stein he was a big centre foward I think he also played for Coventry City. Also the Derby game where we lost 4-0 I remember it well.all 4 goals were scored by defenders. Emlyn Hughes, Chris Lawler as well as own goals by John Mclaughlin and Tommy Wright. At the time Tommy's was the quickest own goal on record. He scored another OG a week or 2 later against Man City. Let's hope we have better times ahead.
@@user-py5ct1go2s Thanks for mentioning that 4-0 defeat at Anfield. Likewise I was at the game and in the Kop that sad day. When Emlyn Hughes smashed in the fourth goal at the kop end, I thought it the worst display by any Everton team I had witnessed since watching them in the late 1950s. And should have led to a major clear out of players at a time the Blues still carried some clout attracting new players, plus the money supply not many other teams had. In the mid 70s whilst in Benidorm on holiday my workmates were Reds And the manager of the Western Saloon near the Levante beach invited us to meet the LFC team at the nearby Dom Pancho. this was the year they piped the Blues to the league title. It was later revealed how well they were treated by the Blues when attending their games, something unheard of back then. Like Man U, LFC loved to play at Goodison in the 70s Only Gordon Lee and later Howard Kendall altered this !
@@fisherpeter695 The weird thing about that 4-0 loss at Enfield is that all the goals were scored by the full backs. Emlyn Hughes was playing full back as the reds cental defenders were Larry Lloyd and Trevor Storton who were not too bad themselves.
The level of fitness, athleticism and skill has certainly moved on a lot since then. A team made up of the best players of that era would struggle to avoid relegation from the second tier (the Championship) of English football today in the 2017/18 season. You can see it in this video in the way they move, tackle, pass the ball and the very build and muscle tone (or lack of it) of the players.
I used to worship MOTD...but not anymore, the whole thing is one bloody great yawn. Premier is more like an Afro/Latino league, most of it is pretty pedestrian ...much of it lacking in thrills and spills. Just does not draw me in, don't watch it...don't miss it.
You won't see a better goal than that beauty from the legend...........ALAN BALL........Everton to the bone!..........💙
My first ever game at Goodison...they´ve cost me two wives, countless girlfriends and god knows how much money since but still Forever Everton!!!
A great reminder of why Alan was the best English player in the first half of the 70s - the first disallowed goal was brilliantly played too.
@tigerarmyrule Yes !!
A great Everton goal by one of the all-time greatest midfielders in English top-flight football, Alan Ball.
getting booked used to be a much bigger deal than it is now. that guy looked ready to top himself.
Ball............... legend..schoolboy hero..never forgotten...............
Wow wow wow .....what a goal.
BALL of FIRE!⚽
Cracking goal from the lad from Farnworth, near Bolton
I never forgave Catterick for selling Bally. A disgraceful thing to do. RIP Alan.
And to a major rival too. Never understood it at the time. Still don't. £200k. Huge money at the time but that Everton team never won another thing so a terrible decision.
Yeah and Ball said he never wanted to leave Everton...when he went it was the end of an era for me....I was absolutely gutted...💙
Everton with most of the Championship winning team from 2 seasons earlier playing here; Ball, Royle, Husband, Morrissey, Harvey, Kenyon, West, Wright, Hurst, but struggling at the bottom.
21st November 1970. that was the day the tide turned. Despite the fact both clubs had a reasonably even trophy count there was just something about Everton that the wider public felt made them a bigger club. Bigger stadium, wider spread of trophy success [Liverpool tended to win things in small bursts then go through fallow periods whereas Everton would win one trophy at evenly spread out periods] Every day since has been the reverse. On that day Everton went to Anfield and took a comfortable 2-0 lead. Liverpool came back and won 3-2. Unfortunately such a game was inevitable and would still have happened sooner or later. Off the field the two clubs were going in different directions. Everton shunned the media and didn't embrace fan culture. [The club were very reluctant to be involved in the Golden Vision programme] Liverpool embraced the media and promoted fan culture. Goodison was always a place that could get very toxic if the team were having an off day. At Anfield Shankley worked hard [from the 50s] on the 12th man ethos and instilled a mentality in fans at the Kop that when Liverpool were playing badly, the fans had a role to play. It was and remains worth at least ten points a season to Reds and even the most diehard blue has to admit that the atmosphere at Anfield when the Rs are having a bad day gets behind the time and drives them on. At Everton it gets on the team's backs and has the opposite affect. We're not alone in this by any means. In truth Liverpool are probably the only club who've managed to master this with their fans. It takes a really really bad day for the Kop to get on their case. It's something I know some people at Everton are very keen to address in the new stadium and I believe supporters clubs have been contacted with a view to deliberately positioning cheer leading fans in every area to the stadium with a role to create a 12th man atmosphere at the new stadium. Alas Goodson has only ever generated that when the team play well when its needed on the players off days. The badgering of John Stones was the most high profile incident.
@Paul Morris Yes, agree, especially right after the European Cup exit the match before. Their results after that were lost 7, drawn 2, won 1.
www.evertonresults.com/197071.htm
The difference in the two Clubs was the managers- Harry Catterick- austere and private/ distrustful of media. And Shankly, who was charismatic and perfect for the media. Then Everton got it wrong with Bingham and Lee, although Sir John Moores did try everything to lure Bobby Robson out of Ipswich. Maybe he should have broken the bank to get him...
@@TheGiantKillers I think it was the cup semi-final later that season when the balance of power shifted.
@@peterreid9769 I think you are wrong Peter. The semi final against the reds was at the end of the previous season. This game was in October of the 71-72 season. Derby became champs and Leeds won the cup. Up the Toffees.😉
0:04 mins Wakey wakey ! LOL
Screamer!
Proper football
Wow!
No-one's saving that!
Think this was Alan's final game for the blues. Remember my late Dad when we got up for work saying it had been on BBC morning national radio news that he was joining Arsenal.
Back then a huge story. Very little sport covered unlike the 80s onwards.
Everton tried to sell Alan to Leeds in September 1967, having signed Ernie Hunt to replace him.
Catterick should have rebuilt the team around Alan, Gordon West, and Howard Kendall.
John Hurst, Tommy Wright, Colin Harvey were a pale shadow of themselves after the twin defeats in April 1971 in the FA and European Cup.
I still recall the funny sight of Tiger Mc Laughlin at 5ft 5in trying to tackle 6ft 2in John Radford on the wing at Goodison. Tiger would join Tommy Wright scoring own goals in a 4-0 defeat at Anfield the next season. 1971-72. 72 73 were sad times after the glory of the 60s teams
No mate it wasn't his last game. He played a few more games. He played a few weeks later in the 8-0 beating of Southampton in which he scored 1 and David Johnson got 3 and my Hero mighty Joe royle got 4. I am not sure but I think Bally was sold to Arsenal on boxing day 1971. COYBs.
@@user-py5ct1go2s Didn't say it was his last game, rather thought it was.
I was at the Southampton game it was played in torrential sleet, rain and recall the big Southampton defence of Mc Grath, Gabriel ex blue and Kirkup couldn't keep their feet
Think it was the first time the electric scoreboard was used
Couldn't see it being in the Park end.
Back in October 1968 Everton almost signed Colin Stein from Hibernian to replace Joe Royle, only to lose out after he was lobbied by a well known manager, who told him he would never be selected for Scotland, if he signed for Everton. The Colin Stein move was prompted by the poor forward display in the 1968 FA Cup final when the blues lost to a team they had completed the double over and were a far superior team
He went on the have success at Rangers. He was a bit in the Andy Gray mould
Alan Ball I think left Everton early mid December 1971.
Hope the blues fortunes turn the corner next season.
@@fisherpeter695 It's okay mate I understood what you meant. I remember Colin Stein he was a big centre foward I think he also played for Coventry City. Also the Derby game where we lost 4-0 I remember it well.all 4 goals were scored by defenders. Emlyn Hughes, Chris Lawler as well as own goals by John Mclaughlin and Tommy Wright. At the time Tommy's was the quickest own goal on record. He scored another OG a week or 2 later against Man City. Let's hope we have better times ahead.
@@user-py5ct1go2s Thanks for mentioning that 4-0 defeat at Anfield. Likewise I was at the game and in the Kop that sad day.
When Emlyn Hughes smashed in the fourth goal at the kop end, I thought it the worst display by any Everton team I had witnessed since watching them in the late 1950s. And should have led to a major clear out of players at a time the Blues still carried some clout attracting new players, plus the money supply not many other teams had.
In the mid 70s whilst in Benidorm on holiday my workmates were Reds
And the manager of the Western Saloon near the Levante beach invited us to meet the LFC team at the nearby Dom Pancho. this was the year they piped the Blues to the league title. It was later revealed how well they were treated by the Blues when attending their games, something unheard of back then. Like Man U, LFC loved to play at Goodison in the 70s
Only Gordon Lee and later Howard Kendall altered this !
@@fisherpeter695 The weird thing about that 4-0 loss at Enfield is that all the goals were scored by the full backs. Emlyn Hughes was playing full back as the reds cental defenders were Larry Lloyd and Trevor Storton who were not too bad themselves.
My grandad scored the first one
The level of fitness, athleticism and skill has certainly moved on a lot since then. A team made up of the best players of that era would struggle to avoid relegation from the second tier (the Championship) of English football today in the 2017/18 season. You can see it in this video in the way they move, tackle, pass the ball and the very build and muscle tone (or lack of it) of the players.
peterc bullshit. Pitches were much harder to play on. Ball and boots heavier .is well as game being ao much physical to todays ponce game
@@bigbadbill0071 Ponce game played by ponce players
I used to worship MOTD...but not anymore, the whole thing is one bloody great yawn.
Premier is more like an Afro/Latino league, most of it is pretty pedestrian ...much of it lacking
in thrills and spills. Just does not draw me in, don't watch it...don't miss it.
@@lennylaa1686 Agree. I completely lost interest in football several years ago. I certainly miss the pro-golf and cricket since C-19, though.
The state of woodison, it hasn't improved much since then either 😂😂
No need to chat shit, nobody likes you for it
Indeed. It must piss you off that a World Cup Semi Final and FA Cup Final was played there.
I see what you've done there, you've took wood and goodison and put them together for a hilarious reposte
@@RickyBrownsword It's not hilarious lad, it's just a nickname because the whole place is mostly constructed with wood 🙄
@@jamesdude8399 I don't comment for likes Dude so butt out you blurt