Gavin Buckland

Everton Heritage Social/Talks Evenings – A Successful Launch!

Everton Heritage Social/Talks Evenings – A Successful Launch!

Rob Sawyer The Everton FC Heritage Society’s first season of talk and social evenings was successfully launched on 8 January and superbly hosted by the Denbigh Castle team in their function room. Dire weather reports of the approaching Storm Goretti did not deter a full house of Evertonians (from as far afield as the USA, Isle of Man, Northern Ireland and Anglesey) turning up to hear Gavin Buckland and Rob Sawyer discuss the Everton careers of Harry Catterick and Howard Kendall and their legacies. The programme is the brainchild of the Society’s vice-chair Mike Royden, and adds another strand to…
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‘Money Can’t Buy Us Love: Everton in the 1960s’ – By Gavin Buckland

‘Money Can’t Buy Us Love: Everton in the 1960s’ – By Gavin Buckland

Two strong-willed, complicated, men form the axis of a new book by Gavin Buckland which explores, in greater detail than ever before, Everton during the trophy-laden 1960s Rob Sawyer For those who have only been following Everton since the 1990s, you’ll have known the Blues as the plucky underdogs – the Dogs of War, even. It’s been the People’s Club, punching above its weight against opponents with much greater financial clout. For these younger supporters - even in this more financially stable and ambitious Moshiri-led era - it must be hard to envisage a time when the Toffees were the…
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