"Everton had lost a ton of games towards the end of the 1954-55 season. It was never my strong point, geography Don't talk to me about geography. We use cookies to enhance your experience on ToffeeWeb and to enable certain features. I think I did okay - some of the opposition were legends like Johnny Haynes, Bobby Robson and George Cohen. Skippy was the scorer, in January 1971, of one of the greatest Goodison goals in living memory a volley past Peter Bonetti after swift interplay between Hurst, Harvey and Ball. "I didn't watch Everton much - I used to play at lot of golf at Prenton Golf Club - our house backed onto it. Eugene; Jimmy would certainly qualify as one of those reasons to be cheerful. I then worked in another sales job and Ive been retired about 7 years now. Very quickly he became a tough-tackling inspirational right-half, forming a terrific no-nonsense partnership with Bryan Harris on the left. 16:44:46, Posted * Jimmy "scored" twice at the San Siro but one is officially classed as an own-goal. A post on Everton's Twitter account paid tribute, reading: "Everyone at Everton Football Club is deeply saddened to hear the news that our former player and coach, Jimmy Gabriel, has passed away. Harry decided not to tell me early on that I was playing, then a couple of hours before the match he said Youre playing son and that was it. Since 1888, 48 players have held the position of club captain for Everton. Gabriel became the most expensive player to leave Scotland when he joined Everton from Dundee in 1960 before later appearing for Southampton, Bournemouth and Brentford among others. Watching, you knew (even as a kid) that Labby was a centre-half, Ball-Harvey-Kendall were midfield players and Joe Royle was a centre forward. So I came back and started looking for a job. His first coaching post in England was back with Bournemouth for four years before the offer from then manager Harvey to switch to Goodison. So it was exciting to get the opportunity with Memphis Rogues, Eddie McCreadie was manager and knew me well as a player as he usually marked me when we played Chelsea. We had to smarten-up and be more professional to play with him. My sons are both Evertonians, they didn't follow me into football but they go to Goodison now and again. Dunn, born in Glasgow and nicknamed "ginger" due to the colour of his hair, [4] started his senior career in 1920 when Hibernian signed him from his local Junior side St Anthony's. He stayed eight years with the Edinburgh club (304 matches, 103 goals in the Scottish Football League and Scottish Cup) [5] helping them to consecutive Scottish Cup . As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Born in Scotland, Gabriel started his career at hometown club Dundee, before moving to Everton in 1960 for an at the time record fee for a Scotsman of 27,000. Their chief scout, Jack Hixon, virtually lived at our house so I went to Burnley in the school holidays with a guy called Louie Henry I wouldnt go on my own. I took his place and made my debut at Burnley. Generally, this means players that have played 100 or more first-team matches for the club. Jimmy would go on score 72 goals in 207 Everton first team appearances; he would have grabbed more were it not for hamstring woes and redeployment as an outside-right. I was near the end then. Oregon is one of the most expensive places in the country to live, but it doesn't have to be like this. I had permission to go into Bellefield to keep fit (my in-laws just live round the corner from there) and I trained with the youth team which Colin Harvey coached. Too many of the fellows are not playing hard enough. The particular smell of the accompanying chewing gum wafted in front of my nostrils for a second. I had an achilles injury there and no-one knew what an achilles was in those days - they tried to tell me to run it off! The longest-serving captain is Peter Farrell, who was club captain for 9 years from 1948 to 1957. Eugene, that hair cut. However, the Everton Board minutes of 6 January 1959, three days after a 4-0 defeat at Newcastle, record that Johnny Carey accepted full responsibility for the players not having rubber-soled boots. Probably Fellaini at a push, but I'd hate to see him as a full back. Get the FREE Mirror Football newsletter with the day's key headlines and transfer news straight into your inbox. On 1 July 2013, Everton FC confirmed that Jimmy Lumsden, along with Steve Round and Chris Woods had been released from their coaching contracts and would join David Moyes at Manchester United. I met him but told him I only wanted to play for big city clubs - then guess who became manager at Everton four weeks later?! 21/05/2013 at All the clubs over there are franchises and can be moved anywhere the owners want so after two years our franchise was sold to an oil millionaire in Calgary. I'd play for Birkenhead Boys in the morning at left-half and then for Bebington Hawks in the afternoon at inside-right. Get rid of these ads and support ToffeeWeb, Bet on Everton and get a deposit bonus with bet365 at TheFreeBetGuide.com. He subsequently enjoyed management roles at both Bristol City and Rochdale before going back to the dressing room as First Team Coach at Preston, then in the Second Division, under the stewardship of David Moyes. 04:05:50, Posted I had gone to play for England Under 23's at Sheffield and was then due to play for Everton against Manchester City the following Saturday. Colin was great short ball player with wonderful first-time touch whilst Howard was a great long player of the ball with good vision - he didnt have that much pace but didnt need it. 12:39:02, Posted Way back in 2011, when Everton celebrated their 5,000th home goal against Blackpool we asked Echo readers for their all-time favourite. Altogether now."Jim Jim Jimmy JimmyJimmy Husband..On The Wing..On The Wing" . players, and for the current squad see the main Everton F.C. The trouble was we had no full-backs - we had to score three to get a draw! He had some great youngsters coming through and he knew that was the future; so he gave a chance to the likes of me, John Hurst and Joe Royle. Such was his impact that he was hailed as the "The discovery of 1955"by Don Kendall in the Evening Express. Gylfi Sigurdsson has already laid a marker for Everton's Goal of the Season with his stunning turn, run and shot at Leicester City on Saturday. And there was one contender which cropped up over and over again. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. We bake our bread in-house and slice our meats, cheese and fresh veggies by hand so that we can make you the perfect Freaky Fresh sandwich. The fans had these cups filled with sand, they threw them on top of the netting and it came down on us - in our hair and down our backs. He was a player ahead of his time who would have prospered in today's turbocharged game. I used to go up to Merseyside three or four times a year for former players dos, which was nice, but with the recession they have gone on the back-burner. He was a quiet, humble man off the pitch and Im honoured that I got to know him personally when he re-joined the Blues as Colin Harveys assistant in the early 1990s. Most of the Americans going to watch football in those days were just out for a good day out the weather was glorious and theyd go about four hours before kick-off with big pick-up trucks and have barbecues and cans of bear. Everton Chairman, Bill Kenwright, paid tribute to truly one of the Clubs greats. Then it was all back on the bus to Goodison where we got showered and had treatments. Of course, this will change on a show-by-show basis. Later I worked for 5 years as a sales consultant for Godfrey Davis which was a really good job but then they got taken over. At this time Colin Harvey and Tommy Wright had already broken through whilst John Hurst and I were in the same age group we were two years ahead of Joe Royle. We won the League Cup in 1963 which I played a big part in. 12:30:04, Posted James Husband (born 15 October 1947) is an English retired professional footballer who played in England and the United States as a striker.. Club career. The club's first captain was Nick Ross, who captained Everton during the 1888-89 season. 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English teams were always getting beaten in Europe so we had to follow with the flat back four. The pub was only three miles from another village called Everton so a guy approached me and the Liverpool Echo came down and ran a story with me turning out for Evertons village football team. Over the next eight years he had spells with Greenock Morton, St Mirren, Cork Hibernians, Clydebank. After a bit of homework we decided we didnt want to end up there -10 degrees every day - too cold! Had a soft spot for Jimmy. 17:07:24, Posted Following this Moyes took his trusted Coach over to Goodison Park when he succeeded Walter Smith as Everton boss. He wanted to take me to Blackburn Rovers when he was there. Well done again Rob. As for a utility player in this day and age, despite Moyes penchant for multi-tasking players, I struggle to name one who could play anywhere across the back and also up front and not disgrace himself. Kevin Mirallas, our quicksilver striker, has been described as a wide-attacker. So Joe, Johnny Morrissey and myself formed the attack. I tend to get up for one game each season - I took a friend up for the Reading game this season and the Former Players Foundation looked after us. I had two good years but they were struggling for money. Just another site. Dennis was the one to drop-off and help Jimmy Gabriel and Tony Kay in midfield he was the workhorse. It was much later (I think with the Dutch side) that I first heard about 'free roles'. He left for Southampton 12 months later and had five years with the south coast team before playing for Bournemouth, Swindon Town and Brentford. James Murdoch Lumsden (born 7 November 1947 in Glasgow), known as Wee Jimmy, is a Scottish former association football player and former first team coach at Manchester United and Everton. Jimmy Comer - Profile. Appearances and goals are for first-team competitive matches only; wartime matches are excluded. Luton were in the second division but were promoted in my first season there. Underrated player, played in almost every position for us. We spent a week there in nice digs and trained each day with the youth team. A number of other players who have played an important role in a league title win have also been included for their for example Andy Gray. We had played Inter Milan in the semi-final and I scored three goals over the two legs - we beat them over there, 2-1, and 2-1 at home. Ha-ha! Harry eventually moved on to Sheffield United and David Pleat replaced him. Most appreciated. But I did witness Wayne Rooneys, remember the name strike and an Adrian Heath effort from the title season of 86/87 and both deserved inclusion. 3,999 Likes, 50 Comments - Everton (@everton) on Instagram: ""They've [Garner and Patterson] been out a while, and they both need games. When Gary Peters quit the club in February 1998, Moyes (a 34-year-old defender) replaced him. Finished a great move started by Eggo, involving several passes, a long run and then on the end of Hicksons chipped pass back to him as he surged into the goalmouth. Talking about his affection for Everton in 2009, Gabriel said: Everton is in your blood thats what happens when you play for them. . *Author's Note: Jimmy recalls that the boot debacle precipitated an 8-2 defeat. Having initially joined the Sounders as a player/coach, Gabriel soon stepped into management full-time, taking the team to the championship game with the likes of Bobby Moore and Sir Geoff Hurst in his side, only to lose to the Cosmos. "Les McDowall, who had been manager of Manchester City in the 1950s, came to see me and I signed for Oldham. He won 7 trophies as captain, including 2 First Division titles, 4 Charity Shields, and 1 Cup Winners' Cup. Perhaps). As he states, he used to drift from the right wing across the front line, creating space for others. A sublime goal from Jimmy Husband. However, the Everton Board minutes of 6 January 1959, three days after a 4-0 defeat at Newcastle, record that Johnny Carey accepted full responsibility for the players not having rubber-soled boots. Alan, didn't Catterick take offence to remarks made by someone at the BBC and ban the cameras from Goodison for a while? Kev, Sandy also played as an emergency centre forward, before they became strikers, something that evokes memories of Red Robbo and British Leyland, for people of a certain age, but it's sad that he's remembered for THAT goal, which I think was a finalist in the Goal Of The Season award, much to the delight of the RS. Everton Football Club is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of the Club's exceptional former midfielder Jimmy Gabriel. I did suffer from homesickness and Everton paid for my rail ticket home every month. Nice article. It was always a great thrill; yes you see it on television but its not the same. And even 40 years on, plenty of our readers recalled it vividly. Time will tell, because Goals of any season are always subjective. Over 40 years ago a softy-spoken Geordie with a penchant for Bob Dylan, performed the same role with great aplomb over 199 appearances, scoring 55 goals. Those Chelsea boys were real swinging Kings Road flashy types. Or Neville (RIP). Tony Kay was a great player - hard as nails but a great tackler and inspirational and on the verge of becoming an England regular, he may have played in the World Cup. Of course, he couldn't do anything about away matches but we certainly didn't get the coverage we deserved. I wondered if Jimmy would have preferred to have been at the Odeon Cinema on the 14 May 1966 instead of hanging around off stage at Wembley that afternoon?. Afterwards not a word was said to anybody! He was the fastest centre forward I had ever seen. 21:30:12, Posted Bursting onto the first team scene as a 21-year-old in 1955, he notched 21 goals in his breakthrough season. In an epoch of battering-ram Number 9s, Jimmy was different - a fast, mobile all-round forward who could play across the front line. He also spent time on the dole after being let go by United. 09:24:18, Posted 12:13:40, Posted Great article. Blue shirts, white shorts, white socksSweet Gene Vinc.oh no that comes a bit later. Jimmy never got the recognition he deserved simply because he was a local lad. By then I was ready for a change; Billy had played at Luton and had connections there so thats possibly how I ended up there and had four great years I never heard about any other clubs in for me. Perhaps Jimmy is best remembered on Merseyside for a hat-trick, the only one of his Everton career, at White Hart Lane in October 1958. "Premier League: Manchester United appoint Steve Round as assistant manager", "Man Utd News | Team news, injury updates, transfers, new signings", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Lumsden&oldid=1114529203, *Club domestic league appearances and goals, This page was last edited on 6 October 2022, at 23:54. I could have gone to Tranmere but I didn't want to go local - I knew I wasn't the player I had been and didn't want people on Merseyside to see me at my worst. At Everton I was constantly racing against time to get to Bellefield. Every off-season we came back to our families in Liverpool and Newcastle or stayed with friends in Bedfordshire. I remember thinking weve found our new Dave Hickson!!! Unfortunately they did not sign Eric as a pro and he went to play for Southport. 02/07/2014 at However the thing I remember most was going to New Brighton baths with Alan Clare another fanatical Evertonian. ", "Once we got beat 8-2 at Newcastle - when we left, it was a nice sunny day in Liverpool but it was heavy frost in the North East. 16:50:41, Posted Paul Ferry (260) Did you mean Mike or (Chelsea's) John Dempsey? Posted Having spent six years at Leeds United as a player in the 1960s, Lumsden returned to Elland Road as Assistant Manager to Eddie Gray between in the late 80s whilst the club languished in the middle reaches of the old Second Division. 10:03:21, Posted Confirm anyone? RIP Jimmy.". Goodison was roused as it has not been all season.. I always played at inside-forward until one day they were short of a centre-forward in the A team at Skem - a top team. I never did know who he was - something to do with the Littlewoods empire perhaps? I mean everyone else had a completely fixed position, which you could tell by watching where they played. Andy Rankin too. The inside-forward was known unimaginatively, as 'Ginger', on account of his red curls. Howard knew this and if the full-back went with me he would drift into space on the right flank ready to receive a ball from Tommy and put in a good cross for Joe to get on the end of - this was just something the two of us worked out together in training. For a list of all Everton players, major or minor, with a Wikipedia article, see Category:Everton F.C. When Eugene mentioned footie cards, I had a Proustian moment. Straight away Harry Cooke said Come on were taking you back to your digs grab a suitcase as youre going off with the 1st team. I went over to Ireland for a few months with St Patrick's Athletic - I might have been the only protestant to play for them. "I worked my way up through the B and A team; players like Brian Harris, Derek Temple and Eddie Thomas were all working their way up too. It's Bebington Hawks not Bebbington Hawks. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. John Hurst won the ball in our penalty box, passed to Harvey standing on the edge of our area and he hit a 20 yard pass to Bally wide out on halfway line (standing in front of the players tunnel). That 8-2 beating at Newcastle, that day I was at Anfield watching another idol making his debut. The Posts Horace Yates, then a venerable sage of the press box, added: I doubt I will see a more brilliant goal than that with which Everton lit up the scene after only eight minutes.
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