They pour from the mouths of former players, fellow managers and football reporters who knew them. Even Don Revie retains a loyal army of admirers among former Leeds United players.

He had five good seasons at Everton and two more at Crewe Alexandra before taking on the club’s managerial role. He then managed Rochdale and Sheffield Wednesday until in 1961 he took charge of Everton, leading to the club’s most successful decade: the Division One title in 1963 and 1970 and the FA Cup in 1966.

April 22nd has brought a variety of headlines for the Toffees in years past, so let’s take a look at how this date shaped Everton history as we know it! 1939: Everton earn a good enough result to clinch league title 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 I played as a pro for nearly 20 years around the globe and this now makes it all seem worthwhile – it gives me pride and satisfaction.” 'I played with great players... I just wish it had lasted longer' Veall’s contribution to Everton’s 1962/63 campaign was far greater than sitting on the bench 10 times. At a time when The Beatles were ascending their heights, the city of Liverpool had become the darling of the press. Everyone wanted a slice of it, and with the emergence of TV coverage, suddenly music, comedians and two football teams caught the public imagination.

Ball, Kendall and a homegrown hero called Colin Harvey formed a midfield partnership which has had few equals in Everton history, or indeed the English game. No doubt the people behind the latest stunt will get their laughs from the “lolz” generation and Spurs, with a hefty fine on the cards, will be accused of not getting the joke. Until Evertonian author Rob Sawyer heard of Veall’s frustration and made representations to the Football League. Ross Barkley’s dive in the same game was a full-on deception, but Tomkins took gamesmanship to a new level and, though it scarcely matters given the wealth of these people, it would be nice to think that as well as a dressing-down from Sam Allardyce his club might have considered it worthy of some form of disciplinary measure. But with Morrissey recovered from injury, Veall returned to the reserves in mid-December and never added to his 11 senior appearances.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. However, this was also the era when Liverpool enjoyed the first wave of success under Shankly, which couldn’t have helped with the supporters’ sense of perspective. The first stop was California: “We went to Los Angeles Wolves but that collapsed after one year, it was a shame as we enjoyed it there and were doing well.

Due to unforeseen circumstances I couldn’t make it to Harry’s centenary, Imwould have loved to hear and enjoy football people who knew and worked alongside Harry and tell how he operated. In this era “ club sources” – usually the manager – fed newspaper journalists with information, but there were no press conferences and the new media of TV, as yet, had no real interest in the game, so the relationship between club and newspaper coverage was on a personal basis. It always irked me, and still does that people had the egotistic Liverpool manager as a better manager than Harry, no way, Harry was every bit as good, better to me, than the Liverpool manager, who was too much in love with himself for my liking, obviously my Everton bias coming into play there, but give me common sense and a quiet manner over showing off and looking for the limelight any day.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. I played a little bit of football poker. I let it be known that I did not think Ball was a great player and that I wasn’t terribly interested. There was film of the 1966 FA Cup final, and Derek Temple was introduced to huge applause. Typically, he said “People say I scored the winning goal. I don’t look at it that way, I simply scored the third goal. Without Treb’s two goals, mine would have meant nothing”. I had a brief word with Derek, and asked him whether he got fed-up with such evenings? “No” he replied, “these things are important. And let me tell you – Evertonians never forget”. Carey had been given full funding by chairman John Moores and spent well in building a good footballing side, true to the “ School of Science” ethos. Success, in the form of silverware, however, had eluded him. The antagonistic clash of dispositions between rivals from the dugout is certainly not a new phenomenon, although the mischievous stoking of the coals by outside influences does seem to be of a greater prevalence these days.