No after you, no after you...
by Dave McDowell | 31/01/2021
Firstly let me establish my good fortune of having witnessed two great successful Everton teams full of leaders: Labone, Ball, Harvey & Kendall; then Reid, Gray, Southall & Ratcliffe.
All of the above hated losing, I mean these guys took it personally. We regularly heard stories that, if the Blues lost, then that weekend, woe betide the dog, the cat and sometimes the wife. Evenings out cancelled, sulking, silence & fronting up any teammate they felt hadn’t put a shift in.
Those were the days when a win bonus probably was more important than the regular salary but it wasn’t down to the money – it was down to the in-built will to win these guys had.