Brian Labone	Everton FC 26 appearances, 0 goals P 26 W 14 D 6 L 6 F 44: A 23 65% successful 1962-71  disciplined: none captain: none minutes played: 2370
Timeline
	Brian Leslie Labone
Birth	23 January 1940 in Liverpool, Lancashire [registered in Liverpool South, March 1940]. Attended Liverpool Collegiate School
Marriage	to Patricia E. Lynam [registered in Wallasey, Cheshire, June 1966]. One daughter, later divorced in 1970.
Death	24 April 2006 in Maghull, Liverpool, aged 66 years 91 days [registered in Liverpool, May 2006]. Collapsed suddenly and died from a heart-attack at his home. Funeral took place at Liverpool Cathedral.
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &
Biographies	x
	x. - A Football Compendium, Peter J. Seddon (1999).
Club Career
Club(s)	Labone was always enthusiastic about sport, even after joining the club as an amateur in 1955, he was sorely tempted to go to university and deliberated coolly before accepting the offer of professional terms at Goodison as a 17-year-old in 1957, spurning local rivals Liverpool in the process.  So impressive was the newcomer that he leapfrogged the Toffees' three junior teams to claim a place in the reserves. Seven months later he made his first-team entrance, but it was not until his next senior outing, at home to Tottenham Hotspur in April 1957, that he discovered the cruel reality of top-flight football, then earning a regular place in the First Division line-up in 1959-60.  Being made Everton skipper in 1964-65. In September 1967, notionally in his prime at 27 and leading one of the best teams in the land, he revealed that he was no longer enjoying his football, having lost both form and confidence, and planned imminent retirement. However, having bared his soul, he felt his mind clear and his anxiety lift. Now he produced arguably the finest football of his life, and he laid aside his boots in 1972.
Club honours	x
Individual honours	x
Distinctions	x
Height/Weight	6' 0½",12st. 11lbs [1966].
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].
England Career
Player number	One of three who became the 811th players (811) to appear for England.
Position(s)	Centre-half
First match	No. 364, 20 October 1962, Northern Ireland 1 England 3, a British Championship match at Windsor Park, Donegall Avenue, Belfast, aged 22 years 270 days.
Last match	No. 448, 14 June 1970, West Germany 3 England 2, a World Cup Finals quarter-final match at Estadio de Guanajuato, La Martinica, León, aged 30 years 142 days.
Major tournaments	European Championship Finals 1968; World Cup Finals 1970; British Championship 1962-63, 1967-68, 1968-69, 1969-70;
Team honours	World Cup Finals 1966 (withdrew injured); British Championship winners 1967-68, 1968-69, shared 1969-70;
Individual honours	x
Distinctions	x
Beyond England
x.  - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.x. Subsequently he enjoyed a successful sojourn in insurance and served for many years on the Littlewoods "spot the ball" panel. Meanwhile his love affair with Everton never abated. In recent years he worked for the club as a match-day host, a convivial role to which this courteous, patient, gently amusing man was ideally suited.

 

Brian Labone - Career Statistics
Squads	Apps	comp. apps	Starts	Sub on	Sub off	Mins.	Goals	goals ave.min	comp. goals	Capt.	Disc.
-	26	14	26	0	0	2370	0	0 min	0	none	none
minutes are an approximation, due to the fact that many matches rarely stick to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time for injuries and errors.

 

 

 

 

Brian Labone - Match Record - Tournament Matches
World Cup Finals Tournament
Type	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	FTS	CS	FAv	AAv	Pts%	W/L
WCF 1970	3	1	0	2	3	4	-1	1	1	1.00	1.333	33.3	-1
WCF All	3	1	0	2	3	4	-1	1	1	1.00	1.333	33.3	-1
European Nations' Cup/Championship Preliminary Competition
Type	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	FTS	CS	FAv	AAv	Pts%	W/L
ENP 1962-64	1	0	0	1	2	5	-3	0	0	2.00	5.00	0.00	-1
ECP/BC 1967-68	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1	0	0	1.50	1.00	75.0	+1
EN/CP All	3	1	1	1	5	7	-2	0	0	1.667	2.333	50.0	=0
European Championship Finals Tournament
Type	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	FTS	CS	FAv	AAv	Pts%	W/L
ECF 1968	2	1	0	1	2	1	+1	1	1	1.00	0.50	50.0	=0
ECF All	2	1	0	1	2	1	+1	1	1	1.00	0.50	50.0	=0
European Nations' Cup/Championship
Type	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	FTS	CS	FAv	AAv	Pts%	W/L
EN 1962-64	1	0	0	1	2	5	-3	0	0	2.00	5.00	0.00	-1
EC 1966-68	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2	1	1	1.25	0.75	62.5	+1
EN/C All	5	2	1	2	7	8	-1	1	1	1.40	1.60	50.0	=0
British Championship Competition
Type	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	FTS	CS	FAv	AAv	Pts%	W/L
BC 1962-63	2	2	0	0	7	1	+6	0	1	3.50	0.50	100.0	+2
BC/ECP 1967-68	1	0	1	0	1	1	=0	0	0	1.00	1.00	50.0	=0
BC 1968-69	2	2	0	0	7	2	+5	0	0	3.50	1.00	100.0	+2
BC 1969-70	2	0	2	0	1	1	=0	1	1	0.50	0.50	50.0	=0
BC All	7	4	3	0	16	5	+11	1	2	2.286	0.714	78.6	+4
All Competition
Type	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	FTS	CS	FAv	AAv	Pts%	W/L
WC	3	1	0	2	3	4	-1	1	1	1.00	1.333	33.3	-1
EN/C	5	2	1	2	7	8	-1	1	1	1.40	1.60	50.0	=0
BC	7	4	3	0	16	5	+11	1	2	2.286	0.714	78.6	+4
Note that the 1967-68 records of the European Championship and British Championship are duplicated, and one set is therefore deducted from the grand total.
All	14	7	3	4	25	16	+9	3	4	1.786	1.143	60.7	+3

Match History

Age 20 under 23   reserve - Netherlands March 1960, GDR, Poland & Israel May 1960. unofficial - Denmark XI September 1960, one appearance - Italy November 1960    Age 21   four appearances - Wales February 1961, Scotland March 1961, Israel & Netherlands November 1961.     Age 22   withdrew - Scotland February 1962

Club: Everton F.C. - 26 full appearances (2370 min) manager: Walter Winterbottom - two full appearances (180 min)x

apps	match	pic	match details	comp	res.	rundown	shirt

1	364	20 October 1962 - Northern Ireland 1 England 3 Windsor Park, Belfast	BC	AW		5
2	365	21 November 1962 - England 4 Wales 0 Empire Stadium, Wembley	BC	HW		5

manager: Alf Ramsey - 24 full appearance (2190 min)x

Age 23
3	366	27 February 1963 - France 5 England 2 Le Parc des Princes, Paris	ENP	AL		5

Age 26

Alf Ramsey named his provisional list of forty players on April 7 that excluded Brian Labone. He then named a provisional squad of 28 on 6 May to attend Lilleshall that did include Labone, but he had to withdraw because of injury.

Age 27
4	414	24 May 1967 - England 2 Spain 0 Empire Stadium, Wembley	tour	HW		5
5	415	27 May 1967 - Austria 0 England 1 Praterstadion, Wien		AW		5

Age 28
6	419	24 February 1968 - Scotland 1 England 1 Hampden Park, Glasgow	BC/ ECP	AD		5
7	421	8 May 1968 - Spain 1 England 2 Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid	ECP	AW		5
8	422	22 May 1968 - England 3 Sweden 1 Empire Stadium, Wembley	Fr	HW		5
9	423	1 June 1968 - West Germany 1 England 0 Niedersachsenstadion, Hannover	Fr	AL		5

			ECF	centre half 5x
10	424	5 June 1968 - Yugoslavia 1 England 0 Stadio Comunale di Firenze, Firenze		NL
11	425	8 June 1968 - England 2 USSR 0 Stadio Olimpico, Roma		NW

12	426	6 November 1968 - Romania 0 England 0 Stadionul 23 August, Bucureşti	Fr	AD		5
13	427	11 December 1968 - England 1 Bulgaria 1 Empire Stadium, Wembley	Fr	HD		5

Age 29
14	430	3 May 1969 - Northern Ireland 1 England 3 Windsor Park, Belfast	BC	AW		5
431		7 May 1969 - England 2 Wales 1, Empire Stadium, Wembley		HW	squad/unused
15	432	10 May 1969 - England 4 Scotland 1 Empire Stadium, Wembley		HW		5
16	433	1 June 1969 - Mexico 0 England 0 Estadio Azteca, Ciudad de México	tour	AD		5
17	434	8 June 1969 - Uruguay 1 England 2 Estadio Centenario, Montevideo		AW		5
18	435	12 June 1969 - Brazil 2 England 1 Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, Rio		AL		5

Age 30
19	439	25 February 1970 - Belgium 1 England 3 Stade Émile Versé, Bruxelles	Fr	AW		5
20	440	18 April 1970 - Wales 1 England 1 Ninian Park, Cardiff	BC	AD		5
441		21 April 1970 - England 3 Northern Ireland 1, Empire Stadium, Wembley		HW	squad/unused
21	442	25 April 1970 - Scotland 0 England 0 Hampden Park, Glasgow		AD		5
22	443	20 May 1970 - Colombia 0 England 4 Estadio Nemesio Camacho, Bogotá	Fr	AW		22
23	444	24 May 1970 - Ecuador 0 England 2 Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito		AW		22

			WCF	centre half 5x
24	445	2 June 1970 - England 1 Romania 0 Estádio Jalisco, Guadalajara		NW
25	446	7 June 1970 - Brazil 1 England 0 Estádio Jalisco, Guadalajara		NL
447		11 June 1970 - Czechoslovakia 0 England 1, Estádio Jalisco, Guadalajara		NW	party member
26	448	14 June 1970 - West Germany 3 England 2 Estadio de Guanajuato, León		NL

450	3 February 1971 - Malta 0 England 1, The Stadium, Gzira	ECP	AW	injured squad member