Blast from the past
West Ham United recorded a rare win at Goodison Park on the 17th October 1959. Bobby Darin was number one with ‘Mack The Knife’, Kenneth More and Lauren Bacall were in UK cinemas in North West Frontier and Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp had been born the day before.
Johnny Cartwright made his league debut for the Hammers at inside-right at the age of 18 – he would make eight appearances for the Irons in total, scoring three goals. Cartwright would go on to represent Crystal Palace and Wimbledon before having a successful coaching career. 26-year-old outside-left Malcolm Musgrove (pictured) struck to give the Hammers a lead which they didn’t relinquish in front of 30,653 – Musgrove would score 20 goals in 48 matches in 1959/60 to end the campaign as the Irons’ top goalscorer.
Ted Fenton’s Hammers, who went third in the league with this win before topping the Football League with victory at Arsenal a month later, went on to finish in 14th place in the 1959/60 Division One season while Johnny Carey’s Everton ended up one place and one point below in 15th. Burnley won the league title and Wolves won the FA Cup.
Everton: Albert Dunlop, Alex Parker, Tommy Jones, John Bramwell, Johnny King, Bobby Collins, Brian Harris, Eddie Thomas, Alan Shackleton, Dave Hickson, Jimmy Harris.
West Ham United: Noel Dwyer, John Bond, Ken Brown, Noel Cantwell, Andy Malcolm, Bobby Moore, Mike Grice, Johnny Cartwright, Vic Keeble, Andy Smillie, Malcolm Musgrove.
Club Connections
Former Hammer and Toffee David Unsworth is currently in charge of the Under-23s at Goodison Park. He is joined in representing both clubs by:
Goalkeepers: George Kitchen, Richard Wright.
Defenders: William Wildman, George Eccles, David Burrows, Bob Young, Lucas Neill, John Russell, Alex McCartney, William Kelly.
Midfielders: Harry Dawson, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Don Hutchison, Joe Blythe, Mark Ward, Ray Atteveld, Niclas Alexandersson, Danny Williamson, Ian Bishop.
Strikers: Tony Cottee, Chas Crossley, Tony Weldon, Alex McDonald, Mike Newell, Enner Valencia, Nikica Jelavic.
Slaven Bilic played for both clubs and managed the Hammers. Sam Allardyce and David Moyes have managed both the Toffees and the Irons.
Today’s focus though falls on a player who played just 26 matches for West Ham having initially moved to England with Everton. Lars Jacobsen was born in Odense, Denmark, on 20th September 1979 and began his professional career with local club Odense in the 1996/97 season. After 112 league appearances, and having won the Danish second tier title in 1999 and the Danish Cup in 2002, the right-back moved to Hamburg in the summer of 2002. He returned to Denmark in January 2004, signing for Odense’s rivals FC Copenhagen. Whilst in the Danish capital, he won the title in 2004, 2006 and 2007 and also made his full international debut for Denmark in a 2-0 friendly victory against Israel in 2006. He returned to Germany in the summer of 2007, signing for Nurnberg with whom he had an injury-hit spell.
After one season, the 28-year-old Jacobsen was on the move again, this time to England. He joined David Moyes’ Everton on a free transfer in late August 2008, turning down moves to France, Norway and Spain. He dislocated his shoulder whilst on international duty and did not make his debut for the Toffees until 21st March 2009, in a 2-1 defeat against Portsmouth at Fratton Park. His only full 90 minutes came in a 3-1 win over West Ham on 16th May 2009, a game which saw Radoslav Kovac score his first goal for the Hammers. Two weeks later, Jacobsen made his last appearance for Everton as a half-time substitute in the FA Cup Final against Chelsea, a match the Toffees would lose 2-1. He made six appearances for Everton, without scoring.
After spending the 2009/10 season at Blackburn, the 30-year-old Jacobsen signed for Avram Grant’s West Ham United on summer transfer deadline day in 2010 and made his debut in a 3-1 defeat to Chelsea at Upton Park on 11th September 2010. Jacobsen had joined a struggling West Ham side and played 12 consecutive matches which yielded only one win – albeit against Tottenham – and two clean sheets. A heel injury kept Jacobsen out for two months either side of Christmas – by the time he returned the Hammers were in trouble that they ultimately couldn’t escape from. Jacobsen made his final appearance in claret and blue as a substitute under caretaker manager Kevin Keen in a 3-0 home defeat to Sunderland on 22nd May 2011, with the Irons already relegated. After 26 appearances for West Ham United, Jacobsen was released following the Hammers’ relegation to the Championship and he returned to FC Copenhagen in the summer of 2011.
Jacobsen netted his only international goal in a 4-1 European Championship qualifying win in Cyprus in October 2011. He had been part of Denmark’s squad at the 2010 World Cup and was also in the Danes’ Euro 2012 squad. He won 81 caps in total for his country between 2006 and 2015. He won the Danish Cup for a second time in 2012 and the Danish league title for a fourth time in 2013. Jacobsen moved to France in the summer of 2014, signing for Guingamp. Jacobsen, now 40, retired from football in the summer of 2016.
Referee
Saturday’s referee is 38-year-old Paul Tierney. The Lancashire-based official has refereed the Hammers on six previous occasions. His most recent Irons appointment was our 2-0 home win against Norwich in August, while he was also in charge the last time we met Everton, in our 2-0 defeat in east London in March. He also refereed our 3-0 win at Newcastle in December.
Tierney’s first West Ham appointment was for the 1-1 draw with Everton in November 2015 which saw James McCarthy’s tackle on Dimitri Payet put the Frenchman out of action for two months. His second Irons game was our 0-0 draw at West Brom in September 2017, when he chose to issue just a yellow card to Ben Foster for his late tackle on Javier Hernandez. He also refereed our goalless draw at Shrewsbury in the third round of the FA Cup in January 2018.
Possible line-ups
Everton’s Jean-Philippe Gbamin is out injured and Fabian Delph is a doubt for the visit of the Hammers, while Seamus Coleman is suspended. Everton have lost five of their last six league matches. The Toffees have won more Premier League matches (25) and scored more goals (83) against West Ham than any other team.
For West Ham United, Lukasz Fabianski, Winston Reid and Michail Antonio are on the sidelines. Aaron Cresswell, Declan Rice and Robert Snodgrass should all be available.
Possible Everton XI: Pickford; Sidibe, Mina, Keane, Digne; Gomes, Delph; Richarlison, Sigurdsson, Iwobi; Calvert-Lewin.
Possible West Ham United XI: Roberto; Fredericks, Diop, Ogbonna, Cresswell; Rice; Yarmolenko, Noble, Lanzini, Anderson; Haller.
Enjoy the game – Up The Hammers!