Source: Liverpool_Echo
Time Harry Catterick was hailed as a sixties giant says Everton FC legend Colin Harvey
IT is time for Harry Catterick to be accorded his rightful place in football history among the great managers of the 1960s, Colin Harvey insisted this week.[LNB]Catterick built two great a title winning teams at Everton in 1962/63 and 1969/70 and masterminded a thrilling FA Cup triumph in between. Yet his name and achievements are frequently overlooked while waves of media nostalgia wash over the reputations of his contemporaries such as Matt Busby at Manchester United, Bill Shankly at Liverpool and Bill Nicholson at Tottenham Hotspur.[LNB]The year 2011 marks the 50th anniver- sary of Catterick's arrival at Goodison, where his influence transformed Everton into a major force at the top of the English game after decades without success.[LNB] Harvey, who played under Catterick and then followed his footsteps to become an Everton manager himself said: 'Harry's is a fantastic record and bears comparison to the very best of the managers at the time.[LNB]'My only regret, having worked under him for a long time, was that he did not get the recognition he deserved. He was on a par with Busby, Shankly and Nicholson. His record bears that out.[LNB]'He created not one great team but two. I came in on the end of the one that won the title in '63 and was lucky enough to make my debut in the European Cup, against Inter-Milan. Then he created another great side that won the title in 69/70.[LNB] 'They were two very different teams and in '66 he won the FA Cup, got to another final in '68 and kept Everton near the top of the table for year after year.'[LNB]Harvey acknowledges Catterick did not have a personality that played well with the media - or with some players. But his hard but fair approach delivered winning football that was attractive to watch.
