Articles – Page 3 – Everton FC Heritage Society

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Jun

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1960-1969, Articles, Latest, Obituary, Rest in Peace, Rob Sawyer, Steve Zocek

Remembering Frank D’Arcy

8 December 1946 - 15 June 2024 Speaking to Steve Zocek in 2013, with an introduction by Rob Sawyer Everton FC Heritage Society members were saddened to learn of the death, at seventy-seven, of Frank D’Arcy - one of the Blues’ youth products who made it through to Harry Catterick’s highly-polished first team in the late 1960s. The Liverpool Schoolboys player joined the Blues as a centre-half straight from school in the summer of 1962, turning professional two years later. At left-back he was an FA Youth Cup winner with the Toffees in 1965. In the quarter-final of the competition…

Kevin Campbell – An Everton Talisman Remembered

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Jun

By Rob Sawyer

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2020-2029, Articles, Latest, Obituary, Players, Rest in Peace, Rob Sawyer

Kevin Campbell – An Everton Talisman Remembered

Rob Sawyer Sometimes, fate throws a football club and player together in times of mutual adversity and it just clicks. Witness Howard Kendall’s 1983 roll of the dice with Andy Gray, a player whose salad days were thought to be long behind him. So it was, also, when Kevin Campbell rolled up at L4 in 1999. On England U21 duty Campbell, born in February 1970, came through the ranks at Arsenal in his native London, having loan spells at Leyton Orient and Leicester City to aid his development. His first team debut came against Nottingham Forest in 1988, and he…

Eddie Wainwright – A Bright Light in Dark Days

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Jun

By Rob Sawyer

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1950-1959, Articles, Latest, Players, Rob Sawyer

Eddie Wainwright – A Bright Light in Dark Days

by Rob Sawyer ‘When I hitched my chariot to the Goodison Park star, I did myself the best service ever. No club could treat its players better.’ Eddie Wainwright, Liverpool Echo 1955 The immediate post-war era for Everton was one of austerity, much in keeping with that felt by a battered Britain. The Toffees’ squad had been ravaged by age and star-player exits since the club was crowned Football League Champions, a few short months before Nazi forces marched into Poland, precipitating a global war. Tommy Eglington, Peter Farrell and Wally Fielding proved to be astute signings, but the team…

08

Jun

By Rob Sawyer

1960-1969, Articles, Latest, Republic of Ireland, Rob Sawyer

Royal Blue in The Emerald Isle

The Story of Club Everton Atha Cliath Rob Sawyer Everton FC has sired namesakes in Chile, Argentina, New Zealand, the Caribbean and elsewhere. Closer to home, several sides in the Emerald Isle have adopted the Everton moniker over the years. Just over a decade ago, a conversation with David Exall, Everton’s erstwhile Promotions Manager, put me on the trail of Club Everton Atha Cliath - translated as ‘Club Everton of Dublin’- and Séamus Ua Trodd, its founder, secretary, coach, PR man and lifeblood. David recalled how the alliance across the Irish Sea was forged: ‘In 1971 Séamus asked for permission…

Alf Milward – The Toffees’ First Great Left Winger of the League Era

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Jun

By Rob Sawyer

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1878-1889, 1890-1899, Articles, Latest, Players, Rob Sawyer

Alf Milward – The Toffees’ First Great Left Winger of the League Era

by Rob Sawyer ‘His buoyant spirit called for the wild career down the wing, for the flying charge, and the flying shot to the goalmouth where Geary or Chadwick could be trusted to meet the rebound.’ Victor Hall, Liverpool Echo, 1924. Baines and Pienaar, Dobson and Thomas, Fielding and Eglington, Stevenson and Coulter – all fantastic partnerships on the left side of the Toffees’ attack. The original great partnership on that flank was formed by the contrasting but complimentary attributes of Edgar Chadwick and Alf Milward. Supporters and reporters would refer to them together simply as ‘The Wing’, such was…

The Day George Robey Brought Show Business to Goodison Park

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Mar

By Rob Sawyer

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1900-1909, 1910-1919, Articles, Latest, Rob Sawyer

The Day George Robey Brought Show Business to Goodison Park

George Robey in his late 60s - National Portrait Gallery Football and showbiz have been bedfellows since the early days of the sport. Before the dawn of the 20th Century, theatrical matches were staged at Everton’s ground. In the 1920s, Jack Cock combined spearheading the Blues attack with treading the boards in music hall, subsequently trying his hand at movie acting. In 1968, the Golden Vision play, screened on the BBC, immortalised Alex Young on celluloid. More recently, the Toffees’ late chairman, Bill Kenwright, was a successful and high-profile impresario in the world of theatre. Other football clubs have, of…

George Farmer – Grave Rededication Report

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Mar

By Rob Sawyer

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1878-1889, Articles, Rest in Peace, Rob Sawyer

George Farmer – Grave Rededication Report

Anfield Cemetery and The Winslow Hotel 23 March 2024 Rob Sawyer In May 1905, a 42-year-old-man who was as working as a gas meter manufacturer in a corporation yard in Everton, succumbed to a heart condition. This was no ordinary man, however, but – in all likelihood – the first idol of Everton supporters in the club’s Anfield days. He was George Farmer, the celebrated ‘king of the screw shot’ and a potent attacking threat down the Toffees’ left flank in the mid-to-late 1880s, at the dawn of the Football League age. His premature passing left a pregnant widow, Louisa,…

‘George could bend it way before Beckham’

24

Mar

By Ken Rogers

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1878-1889, Articles, Ken Rogers, Rest in Peace

‘George could bend it way before Beckham’

George Farmer (1862-1905) - Everton Pioneer Grave and Headstone Rededication Project Liverpool Echo Article by Ken Rogers In the days running up to the rededication event, our chairman Ken Rogers - former Sports Editor of the Liverpool Echo - composed a fitting article for the newspaper he knows so well; In an age when commerciality pervades every aspect of top-flight football, it is encouraging to reflect on a remarkable initiative that continues to focus on those oft-forgotten heroes who helped transform Merseyside into the soccer hotbed it is today. Everton Football Club’s official Heritage Society (EFCHS) is driving a project…

24

Mar

By Jamie Yates

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1878-1889, 1890-1899, Jamie Yates, Rest in Peace

The George Farmer Story

Jamie Yates of Everton FC Heritage Society, who researched the story of George Farmer and directed the project, writes; Why George Farmer? Without the philanthropy of Everton Football Club and the local community around Liverpool 4 and beyond upon the death of George Farmer in May 1905, it is not unreasonable to assume that his widow and eight young children would not have survived the poverty-stricken future they were facing. Without George Farmer capturing the imagination of thousands of Evertonians - not to mention the thousands who went along to watch football for the first time in that era with…

George Farmer (1862-1905) – Everton Pioneer

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Mar

By Jamie Yates

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1878-1889, Film and Media, Jamie Yates, Latest, Lewis Royden, Players, Rest in Peace

George Farmer (1862-1905) – Everton Pioneer

* Grave and Headstone Rededication Project (Click images for further detail) . https://youtu.be/_rHA8qFxADQ?si=IQ09wDE2s3YgQADR A film of the rededication, with interviews at the graveside by Giulia Bould and Ken Rogers. Filmed and edited by Lewis Royden The Grave Rededication Event Full Film in production A short film of the rededication can be found above. The full film, including the Winslow event, by Lewis Royden, will be uploaded and announced on social media as soon as possible The George Farmer Story Jamie Yates George could bend it way before Beckham Liverpool Echo article by Ken Rogers Making of the Headstone Order of…