Official Site of Everton · Feb 10, 2019
Everton Saddened To Learn Of Fred Pickering Passing
Everton Football Club is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Fred Pickering.
A prolific striker and the most expensive footballer in Britain when Everton paid hometown team Blackburn Rovers £85,000 to sign him in March 1964, Fred died on Saturday 9 February, aged 78.
The thoughts of everybody at Everton Football Club are with Fred’s three children, his family and friends.
Pickering scored a remarkable 70 goals in 115 appearances during three years at Goodison Park to secure his place in the Club’s pantheon of brilliant number nines.