Martin Dobson Special: Everton in the 70s with English football’s first £300,000 player

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Martin Dobson, English football’s first £300,000 player, joins Chris Beesley as the latest guest on Goodison Park: My Home to relive Everton matters from the 1970s.

The 77-year-old, who has penned his own autobiography Dobo: For Club and Country, tells the story of how he went from being released by Bolton Wanderers as a teenager to an England international with Burnley and his record-breaking transfer to the Blues in 1974.

The classy midfielder has a treasure trove of tails from an era when Everton had several near-misses: in the title race in Dobson’s first season, in an epic three-game League Cup final against Aston Villa and a notorious FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool when they were denied a Wembley trip by referee Clive Thomas’ controversial decision.

There are also plenty of more-enjoyable moments though as Dobo recalls captaining the Blues to victory in the ‘Andy King’ Merseyside Derby, the 6-0 romp against Chelsea when Bob Latchford reached 30 goals for the season and another Goodison game against the west London side when his pal Duncan McKenzie scored for the opposition only for the home crowd to applaud.

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