Career
He was a prolific goal-scorer in Everton"s 1962-1963 championship season. Alex Young first played for Newtongrange Star in Midlothian but soon joined Hearts making his debut at the age of 18. Young and George Thomson were signed by Everton from Hearts in November 1960, but Young was not an immediate success at Goodison Park.
Young scored 22 league goals in the 42 league games in the 1962-1963 season and made many other goals.
His elegant touch earned him the nickname of "The Golden Vision", a title coined by Danny Blanchflower - "..the view every Saturday that we have of a more perfect world, a world that has got a pattern and is finite. And that"s Alex – the Golden Vision."
Alex Young featured as himself in a drama-documentary film by Ken Loach called "The Golden Vision", released in 1969.
Young scored 87 goals in 273 appearances in all competitions for Everton before being sold to Glentoran in 1968 for £10,000. Young later played briefly for Stockport County for 23 games before a knee injury forced his retirement.
After football Young ran his family"s upholstery business in Edinburgh before retiring.
Belatedly, in August 2001, Everton gave Alex Young a testimonial at Goodison, with over 20,000 turning out to salute him.