GODFREY TO SIGN FOR SCUNTHORPE?
Friday June 3, 1960. Liverpool Daily Post
By Horace Yates
Bryan Godfrey Everton's twenty-years-old reserve winger, may sign for Scunthorpe the Second Division club today. Godfrey visited Scunthorpe yesterday after terms had been agreed between the clubs and Everton manager Mr. John Carey, experts to he told today whether or not the player will make the move. Godfrey who joined Everton from Flint became a professional about two years ago after having gained Welsh Youth international honours. He was still amateur when he made his Central League debut, a league in which he has now made about forty appearances and has scored eight goals. Godfrey was one of the boys also figured in Everton's surprise changes early in January when both he and Alan Tyrer were brought into the League team at Fulham for their first senior game as wingers. The Welshman was introduced to football as a member of the Gwynedd secondary modern school, Flint, and afterwards played for Flint Alex.

GODFREY SIGNS
Saturday, June 4, 1960. The Liverpool Daily Post
ACTIVITY BY SOCCER CLUBS
As anticipated Brian Godfrey an Everton reserve winger yesterday signed for Scunthorpe the first capture by Mr. Dick Duckworth since his appointment as Scunthorpe manager.

TWO MORE EVERTON MEN MAY MOVE THIS WEEK
Monday, June 6, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Michael Charters
Everton are slowly whittling down their 14-strong list of men for transfer. Last week three of them found new clubs-Tansey and Shepherd to Crewe, Godfrey to Scunthorpe-and I understood that two more may be on the move in the next few days. A Southern club is interested in outside left Bobby Laverick while centre half Stan Billington, a Wallasey boy may join another local club. There have been several offers for Billington, but the proximy of this team to his home town may persuade Stan to sign for them. Billington who can play either full back or centre half, was a regular in the Everton Central League team last season. Laverick was signed from Chelsea the season before last-he was in fact, manager John Carey's first capture when he took over at Everton from Blackburn Rovers. Laverick and Eddie O'Hara (Now with Rotherham United) vied with each other for the senior place on the left wing and Laverick looked the regular choice at the start of lasts season only to go into hospital for an appendix operation just before the opening game. He took a considerable time to win back his fitness and even then was only rarely called on last season because centre forward Alan Shackleton had a few games at outside left before the arrival of Tommy Ring. Laverick is at present on holiday at his home in Co. Durham and negotiations for his transfer may be delayed while he is contacted for his decision. Mr. Carey hopes to have as many as possible of the transfer-listed players settled with new clubs before their contracts with Everton run out at the end of the month.

OFFERS FOR KING
Thursday, June 16, 1960. Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Michael Charters
Tranmere Rovers have made an approach to Everton for wing half John King and centre half or full back Stan Billington. Bournemouth and Norwich City are also interested in King who, incidentally is being married at Halewood on Saturday. Mr. Don Welsh the Bournemouth manager, formerly at Anfield, has been to Goodison Park, but negotiations are nowhere near the final stages.
King, who was born in London has many relatives living in the South of England and may well elect to move down there when his final decision made. His bride-to-be, a Halewood girl, does not mind where they settle down at the start of their married life.
Another Everton player, who may also move south, is outside-left Bobby Laverick. Although his home is in County Durham in the same village where Liverpool trainer bob Paisley was born. Laverick began his professional career with Chelsea and would probably not object to leaving the North again. A likely transfer soon is Tranmere reserve goalkeeper Albert Harris to Southport. Harris a Liverpool boy, was with Everton before he joined Tranmere a couple of seasons ago, but the incoming of Gordon Clayton from Manchester United last winter has meant he cannot find either a first or second team place at Prenton Park. For a time last season he was loaned to Ellesmere Port Town. Champions of the Cheshire County League.
PROBLEM FOR O'NEILL
While these moves and possible-moves are going on, spare a thought for the dilemma of Everton's Irish international goalkeeper Jimmy O'Neill, whose future is anything but bright. After 11 years first-class service with the club, O'Neill is listed at the high figure of £7,500 and this fee is scaring off any clubs who might be interested. O'Neill has no other job to which he can turn and his position is made worse by the fact that he is living in an Everton club house, which, presumably he must vacate some time. He may well forced to join a non-League club, if a deal cannot be made within the Football League O'Neill's problem is undoubtedly similar to many other professionals, all over the county when they are listed and it emphasises how important it is for a player to have some other line of business in mind when his first class playing days near their end. The transfer system has many snags and O'Neill's case pinpoints one of them. He can of course, apply to the Football League for his transfer fee to be reduced and this he would be well advised to do.

LAVERICK TRANSFERRED TO BRIGHTON
Tuesday, June 21, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
EVERTON WINGER
By Michael Charters
Second Division club Brighton today completed the signing of Everton out-side left Bobby Laverick who is the fourth on Everton's 14-strong transfer list to join a new club during the close season. Negotiations have been going on for some time but Laverick went to Brighton last week and talked to Mr. Bill Lane, the Brighton manager. He agreed to sign after one or two details had been settled and the deal went through this morning. Laverick now 21 joined Everton from Chelsea in February last year and was Mr. John Carey's first capture when he took over at Goodison Park from Blackburn Rovers. He was then in the Army, but played many First Division games until the end of the season, displacing the Scot Eddie O'Hara on the wing. Just before the start of last season when it seemed he was going to the regular first team choice, he had an emergency appendix operations and it took him a few months to become match fit. He only played a few senior games during the season and the incoming of Tommy Ring relegated to the reserves. Everton paid about £5,000 to Chelsea for him, and Brighton have now paid a fee in the same region. He is tall, strong and young and Mr. Lane will be putting him straight into his first team next season. The last transfer between Everton and Brighton involved centre forward Peter Harburn who joined Everton two years ago, but was subsequently transferred to Scunthorpe in January 1959. He is now with Workington.

EVERTON GET LAVERICK FEE BACK
June 22, 1960. The Liverpool Daily Post
By Horace Yates
Everton yesterday recouped the fee they paid to Chelsea for outside left Bobby Laverick in February of last year, when the 21-year-old winger signed for Brighton the second Division club. In the first season Laverick played in eleven Division 1 games and scored five goals. Last season he also made eleven appearances, plus one F.A Cup outing and scored once. With the signing of Ring, Laverick's opportunities were obviously considerably reduced at Goodison and the outlook appears much brighter for him at Brighton. Several clubs are interested in transfer-listed Johnny King and it is only Everton's valuable of the player that has delayed action. Despite the fee it would be surprising if King is not snapped up before the opening of the new season. Inquires have been made of other players at Goodison Park and there may be development at any time.

O'NEILL APPLIES TO LEAGUE
Wednesday, June 22, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Michael Charters
Jim O'Neill, Everton's Irish international goalkeeper who is on the transfer list at £7,500 has applied to the Football League for a reduction of the fee because he feels that it is this high figure which is preventing clubs becoming interested in him. I made this suggestion to him last week and it will be interesting to hear what will be the League's assessment of the transfer fee. The Football League committee will meet on Friday to consider the application of O'Neill, and others similarly placed with their clubs.

MR. JOHN MOORES IS NEW EVERTON CHAIRMAN
Friday, June 24, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
Elected After Only Three Months on The Board
By Michael Charters
Only three months after being co-opted as a director on the Everton board, Mr. John Moores the millionaire was today appointed chairman of the club in succession to Mr. Fred Micklesfield, who only held the appointment for a year. The Everton directors held a board meeting today following their annual general meeting last night. The position of vice-chairman occupied previously by John sharp will not be filled for the ensuring year. This is a sensational move by the Board as hitherto the position of chairman has been held for three years. Mr. Mickelsfield was only appointed last year to succession to Mr. Dick Searle. It was stated at last night's meeting that Mr. Moores had loaned Everton £56,000 interest free last season in order to buy top-class players. The loan will be paid back at the rate of £10,000 for the next five years. Mr. Moores was co-opted to the board on March 21, after resigning his position as chief of the Littlewood's pools firm in order to complete with Football Association rules. He still remains head of the mail order business. He has been a shareholder at the club –and Liverpool- for many years and has long followed football from his early days as a player himself. For many years he has been counsellor and friends of directors of both Everton and Liverpool. His business knowledge and flair, and insistence on having the best men to do the job in hand will obviously go far to make Everton live up to their ambition stated a few seasons ago of making them the finest club in Britain.
SPORTING INTERESTS
Mr. Moore, who is 64, has had a lifetime interest in sport generally in boxing and golf particularly. He is a Stewart of the Boxing Board of Control, Northern Section, and plays golf at Formby where his usual partner is Mr. Tom Williams chairman of Liverpool F.C. He is also a major patron of the arts, giving large sums to further art exhibitions. But in the football sense, it is now true to say that Everton have made the greater signings in the club's history.

IF WE FAIL, OUT WE GO, SAYS MR. MOORES
Friday, June 24, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Michael Charters
Rumours became facts at Everton Annual General Meeting last night when it was stated that millionaire Mr. John Moore, who resigned his position as head of Littlewood Pools in March become an Everton director, has loaned the club's £58,000 interest free, and that they offered £45,000 last season to Hibernian for English international centre forward Joe Baker and a little less to Huddersfield Town for Denis Law. These starting statements were two features of a meeting which passed off smoothly, apart from the shareholders revived indignation at being moved from their seats in the centre of the Bullens Road stand. The chairman Mr. Fred Micklesfield referred to the club's liability of £88,895 in bank advances and loans. He said that Mr. Moores loan covered the major portion of that- to be paid back at the rate of £10,000 a year for the next, five years –and the bank overdraught for the residue was secured by mortgages on club property. He paid handsome tribute to Mr. Moores' generosity which had enabled Everton to buy players they needed to get out of trouble. He said that the team made a disappointing start last season, and although they did not win an away game all winter they did draw more away than any other team in the First Division. He and other directors, accompanied by manager John Carey, had travelled many thousands of miles during the season in trying to sign players they wanted.
ANSWER IS THE SAME
He went on, "It takes more than just having a cheque ready, I went to Edinburgh with Mr. Carey armed with a blank cheque for Baker. After discussing the matter with the Hibs chairman, Mr. Harry Swan, I filled in the cheque for £45,000. As I did so Mr. Swan said; you can put another £5,000 on that but the answer is the same –we want the player.' "We went to Hudderfield for Law and offered almost as much. The Huddersfield people told us they still had a chance of promotion and would not let the player go. Still, later on, we were able to sign an inside forward (Vernon) as good if not better than law. We have made progress in signing other first-class players and there are still one or two positions in need of strengthening. We hope to find men of the right calibre in due course, I face the coming season with greater confidence than I have done for the past few years. Mr. Carey also added the same note of confidence after he revived the past season. He referred to the fact that 14 players had been placed on the transfer list six of whom had now moved to new clubs, and negotiations were proceeding for the other eight to be fixed up before the new season. Although they were ready to sign the readymade class player at the right time, he was very pleased with the youngsters on the books and the 14 on the transfer list could not have been allowed to go had there not been these good boys coming along. Many of them would be playing in the reserve team next season and he was sure they would make top class players and be challenging for first team places in due course.
QUIETLY CONFIDENT
His final comment was "I know many of our supporters envisage greatness for the team next season. I would be the last persons to put a damper on such enthusiasm, but I would say that I am quietly confident that the task of rebuilding a great Everton is in progress-there is much work still to be done-but we are going ahead in the belief that in the future there will be a team worthy of such wonderful support."
At the request of a shareholder, Mr. Moores also spoke. He admitted to being a "typo" in football directorship but he had been very disappointed at the poor teams Everton had for the past 20 years. "I encouraged the directors to spend heavily," he said. "We still need more players and we will have the money to buy the right ones. "But it is no use people telling us to go out and buy world-class players like Real Madrid can do. The League rules will not allow it. If I had offered Puskas a £15,000 sign-on fee when he left Hungary, and made him a director of Littlewoods at £10,000 a year, I still could not have signed him for Everton because the Home Office would not have admitted him into the country as an alien, the Players' Union would have objected and the League would have vetoed it too. We must live within the rules and I am sure the shareholders would not want the Everton directors to do otherwise. "However, Everton must have the best players, the best coaches the best manager and the best directors. If any of them fail they must go. I'm prepared to go to the Continent to see how they coach over there, but Mr. Carey assures me that he is satisfied with the coaching at Everton now. "I have asked Mr. Carey to spend more time out coaching his team than at his desk, for it he can teach the players to play as he used to do at Manchester United that is what we want."
PLEA TO REAL MADRID
Other points from the meeting were that the Board have considered the shareholders complaints at being moved from their seats but will not change their decision taken a year ago, despite the many protests at last night's meeting. They have decided however, to move the boys pen under the stand from the terracing because of shareholders complaints. A new, better programme is to be published, (and will probably cost more) and an invitation has been sent to Real Madrid to play at Goodison. My personal impressions of the meeting was that there was complete confidence for the future-and justifiably so. The pitch problems have probably been cured and what problems there are in team-making will be solved by the astute selection and buying of Mr. Carey and most important, the financial backing from Mr. Moores, whose presence on the Everton Board lends a stability and charter which every other football club in the country must envy.

SOUTHPORT SIGN EVERTON YOUNGSTERS
Friday, June 24, 1960. The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
BOTH FULL BACKS
SIX HAVE LEFT
By Michael Charters
Southport have signed two young Everton full backs- Alan Bentham aged 19, and Bryan Griffiths, 21. Both boys are Liverpool-born and joined Everton straight from school. Bentham a former English schoolboy international made several Central league appearances for Everton while Griffiths was mainly in the "A" team. They signed professional forms on reaching 17 at Everton but their early promise was not fulfilled sufficiently to anticipate them reaching first team status. These transfer mean that six on Everton's 14-strong transfer list have now moved –Tansey and Shepherd to Crewe, Godfrey to Scunthorpe, Laverick to Brighton and now these boys to Southport.
Negotiations are proceeding for the remaining eight as manager John Carey said at the annual general meeting last night.

WALTER GREAT AT COACHING SAYS PETER FARRELL
Monday, June 27, 1960. Liverpool Echo and Evening Express
By Michael Charters
Critics of Mr. Walter Winterbottom in his capacity as England team manager are never short of ammunition and shoot it off with Bisley-like consistency during the football season. They seem to forget that Mr. Winterbootom's full-time job with the Football Association Director of Coaching in which he does not receive the publicity his other occasional duty brings. Here again, opinions vary as to the worth of the F.A. coaching schemes organised by Mr. Winterbottom, but Mr. Peter Farrell manager of Tranmere Rovers, who returned last week from a course at Lilleshall conducted by the F.A official is definite in his views of their value.
Mr. Farrell told me "Mr. Winterbottom is a magnificent coach and I was sorry that out of a class of about 60 there were only a couple of other managers there besides myself *George Swindin of Arsenal, and Ted Bates of Southampton). I'm sure that other managers would have appreciated Mr. Winterbottom's teaching as much as I did. "But apart from that you live and eat in a 100 per cent football atmosphere for a week and meet people in the game who matter. The contact and friends you make can be invaluable later, and this reason alone this summer course is worthwhile let alone the coaching angle.