Having beaten Peterborough in the 3rd round Pompey had held Fulham to a 0-0 draw at Craven Cottage in the 4th and the thought of a cup run caught the city’s imagination the replay was played out in front of a ground bursting 44,050 crowd, the best attendance at Fratton Park for 16 years. It was to be the FA Cup that would again feature highly in ‘Trebs’ career. Ironically, Ipswich had seemed to make the right decision as O’Rourke’s goals won them promotion to Division 1 along with QPR. Pompey were to finish the season in 5th place. It wasn’t long before ‘Trebs’ had the Fratton faithful on their feet as three minutes into his Fratton debut against Derby he scored helping Pompey to a 3-2 victory.īut that was it… his goal touch deserted him and he was not to score another league goal in his next 12 appearances. ‘Trebs’ made his debut away to Rotherham in February ’68 and gave a good account of himself and although he was unable to mark his debut with a goal Albert McCann benefited from his contribution by following up to score after ‘Trebs’ had hit the bar.
In January 1968, lying second in the table, Pompey forked out a new club record of £40,000 for Trebilcock leaving Ipswich to snap up O’Rourke for £10,000 less Two names were mentioned: Middlesbrough’s prolific striker John O’Rourke and Everton’s Mike Trebilcock. Meanwhile, down at Fratton Park the 1967/68 campaign was going well Pompey were top at Christmas but needed a goalscorer to secure promotion. For Part One of this article please click here.ĭespite his heroics in the 1966 FA Cup Final Trebilcock assumed his usual position of spectator for the start of the 1966/67 season and for the next 18 months struggled to establish himself as a regular in the First Division Everton side.
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