Everton Wins Merseyside Soccer Cup “Derby”

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31317, 13 March 1967, Page 11

Everton Wins Merseyside Soccer Cup “Derby”

(N.Z.f. A. -Reuter— Copyright) LONDON.

A crowd of 114,000 in two separate stadiums saw Everton, the holder, beat its Merseyside rival, Liverpool. l-O, in the fifth round of the English Football Association Cup on Saturday. Liverpool, the reigning English League champion, fell to a 44th-minute goal from the England inside-forward, A. Ball, signed by Everton from Blackpool for £llO,OOO last year.

A capacity 64,000 crowd watched the match in Everton’s Goodison Park while the game was relayed by closed circuit television to more than 50,000 fans in nearby Anfield Stadium, Liverpool’s home ground. Swindon Town, the struggling third division side, lived up to its giant-killing reputation when it held Nottingham Forest to a goal-less draw at Nottingham. Swindon eliminated West Ham in a previous round.

The favourite, Tottenham Hotspurs, entered the quarterfinals with a 2-0 win over the second division side, Bristol City. J. Greaves, returning to the Spurs’ side after illness, scored both goals. A goal by G. Vowden seven minutes before the end, earned Birmingham City a 1-0 victory over Arsenal, and Chelsea scored an expected win, by 2-O, over Sheffield United. Sheffield Wednesday dashed the hopes of the second division team, Norwich, conqueror of Manchester United in the previous round, with a 3-1 away win.

Celtic, the most successful soccer team in Britain this season, continued to dominate the Scottish Cup with a 5-3 win over Queen’s Park. In the English League Manchester United soon to tour Australia and New Zealand — went to the top of the first division on goal average after a goal-less draw at Newcastle. United and Liverpool have the same number of points, with Nottingham Forest four points behind in third place.

ENGLISH CUP Fifth Round.—Birmingham 1. Arsenal 0; Chelsea 2, Sheffield United 0; Manchester City 1, Ipswich 1; Norwich I, Sheffield Wednesday 3; Nottingham Forest 0, Swindon 0; Sunderland 1. Leeds 1; Tottenham 2. Bristol City 0: Everton 1, Liverpool 0. SCOTTISH CUP Quarter-finals. Celtic 5, Queen's Park 3: Clyde 0, Hamilton 0; Dundee United 1, Dunfermline 0; Hibernian 1. Aberdeen 1. IRISH CUP Second Round.—Bangor 4, Portadown 1; Cliftonville 1. Linfield 4: Crusaders I, Coleraine 0; Glentoran 3, Distillery 1. ENGLISH LfiAGUfi Division One.—Newcastle 0. Manchester United 0. Division Two.—Bolton #, Crystal Palace 0; Charlton 2, Preston 0; Northampton 0, Coventry 0. Division Three.—Bristol Roven 0, Workington 1; Colchester 0, Gillingham 0; Middlesbrough 3. Bournemouth 1; Queen’s Park Rangers 0, Peterborough 0; Reading 2, Mansfield 2; Shrewsbury «, Leyton 1: Swansea 1, Brighton 1; Torquay 2, Darlington 0: Walsall 0, Watford 1.

Division Four.—Bagnsley 1. Hartlepools 2; Bradford City 4, Aidershot 1: Crewe 2, Chesterfield 1; Halifax 2, Newport 2; Lincoln 2, Barrow 1; Luton 4, Exeter 0: Port Vale 0, Stockport 2: Rochdale 1. Bradford 0: Southport 4, Chester 3; Wrexham 0, Tranmere 0; York 0, Brentford 0.

SCOTTISH LfiAGUfi Division One.—Dundee 3, Ayr 0; Motherwell 5, Partick 0; Rangers v. St. Johnstone (postponed); St. Mirren 1, Falkirk 2; Stirling Albion 0. Airdrieonlans 0. Division Two.—Albion 0, AUoa 2; Arbroath 1, Dumbarton 1; Clydebank 3, Forfar 0; East Stirling 2, Cowdenbeath 3; Montrose 1, East Fife 2; Morton 4, Berwick 0; Ralth S, Brechin 1; Third Lanark 1, Stranraer 3. IRISH LfiAGUfi CITY CUP Glenavon 0, Ards 3. FRIfiHOLY MATCHIS Blackpool S, Blackburn 2; Portsmouth 2, Southampton 2; Grimsby 1, Queen Of The South 1; Plymouth 2, Stoke 1. AMATIUR INTBRNATIONAL Eire 3, England 2.