Soccer Players Upset, So They Beat Team, 14-1

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30447, 22 May 1964, Page 15

Soccer Players Upset, So They Beat Team, 14-1

(N.Z. Press Assn.— Copyright) SYDNEY, May 21.

A Perth radio announcer yesterday described the touring English soccer team, Everton, as “a scruffy looking bunch.” Last night Everton went out and thrashed the Western Australia State side, 14-1.

The Everton manager, Mr Tom Eggleston, said today that his players may have been spurred on to its crushing win by the uncomplimentary description given the team, although “they probably would have won by as much anyway.” Mr Eggleston said that some members of his team had been upset by the description.

The radio announcer, Wyburn Taylor, said he hoped Everton “were enjoying themselves among us beastly colonials.” “Actually I think they’re a scruffy looking bunch anyway —I can’t tell the difference between the ‘Merseyside Milionaires’ (the name given to the highly-priced Everton players) and the ‘Rolling Stones’ (a mop-top English singing group).”-

Taylor’s comments followed newspaper reports that Everton had indulged in “high sounding criticism” of their Perth hotel and had quarrelled with the hotel management.