Source: Liverpool_Echo
Time for Tony Hibbert to cause a riot at Everton
HIBBERT scores, we riot!' says the banner. But Goodison stewards shouldn't fret. Now 230 games and counting, Everton's stalwart defender hasn't even looked like breaking the second longest goal drought in Everton history.
Second longest, I hear you exclaim?
You mean there was somebody who enjoyed a longer Goodison career without finding the net?
There was - and no, it wasn't Mickey Walsh or even Rod Belfitt.
In fact Tony is in celebrated company when it comes to long runs without scoring.
Hibbert still has another 47 appearances to go before he can
claim the longest Everton run without a goal - and that record is held by one of the club's greatest ever servants.
Brian Labone made his Everton debut in March 1958 - and finally celebrated a goal on October 5, 1965 - a run of 277 matches.
It was an important goal, too, earning a point in a 2-2 home draw with Blackburn.
'This was a historic goal,' wrote the Daily Post's Horace Yates. 'If only for the fact that it was scored by Brian Labone in his 249th league game for Everton and it was the first time he had ever found the net.
'Up came Labone for Temple's corner kick and with a downward header of some power beat Else completely.'
Manager Harry Catterick, however, wasn't there to witness the historic moment.
Taken ill on the morning of the match he was rushed to a Waterloo nursing home for an emergency stomach operation.
