Sir Alex Ferguson was given 40 medals to distribute among his squad, and explained: “It’s changed now. They give you an allocated number of medals and it’s up to you to distribute them how you want. I think that’s fair because, in Darren Fletcher’s case for instance, it’s only illness which has prohibited him from getting a medal. I keep my eye on Everton; English football does not get a lot of attention here as you have to get up at midnight to watch. But some people do still remember me over here.

The 18-year-old apprentice marine engineer who signed his first professional deal with Everton in 1937, had to wait until he was 27 to make his League debut in August 1946. While Ramsey was often portrayed as the grey, establishment figure there was another hugely successful manager of the time who embraced the role of the straight man with even more vigour. Centre half and captain Brian Labone was among the Everton players of the era to suggest that some of the performances delivered by the developing side between 1967 and ’69 were as good as any in the Championship season. But with Morrissey recovered from injury, Veall returned to the reserves in mid-December and never added to his 11 senior appearances. But this being the land of Evertonia, below the surface things are always more complex than how they appear.Ernest Mangnall is, along with Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson, the only man to win a league title for United. His official title was that of secretary, but nobody was in any doubt as to who was running the team. He arrived from Burnley in 1904 – having kept that club afloat during a "most serious crisis", according to the Manchester Evening News – and immediately set about changing United from a run-of-the-mill Second Division side into real contenders. As a result Don Revie, Bill Shankly, Bill Nicholson and Sir Matt Busby all get mentioned as being the great managers of the era, while Harry doesn’t. However, he was right up there among them and created three different trophy winning sides.” Carey had been given full funding by chairman John Moores and spent well in building a good footballing side, true to the “ School of Science” ethos. Success, in the form of silverware, however, had eluded him. By the late 1960s, the vision of producing an entertaining team based on a fluid 4-3-3 formation was coming to fruition. No less than six players developed through the Club’s youth system were regulars in the starting 11.

Former Everton player Dan Gosling has admitted an FA charge in relation to multiple breaches of Rule E8(b) for misconduct in relation to betting Despite Harry’s achievements in football he seemed to have been practically whitewashed from the sport’s history - something that irked me when I saw the coverage afforded to many of his contemporaries.As mentioned earlier, the sixties were a golden age for football in England – not only did the national side win its own World Cup in 1966 but the domestic game thrived on the competition that raged in the League; eight different clubs were crowned champions between 1960 and 1970 with none able to win the title in consecutive years. Out of that jostling for supremacy, several iconic managers emerged. At a time when The Beatles were ascending their heights, the city of Liverpool had become the darling of the press. Everyone wanted a slice of it, and with the emergence of TV coverage, suddenly music, comedians and two football teams caught the public imagination. The first stop was California: “We went to Los Angeles Wolves but that collapsed after one year, it was a shame as we enjoyed it there and were doing well.