Everton Magazine - December 2016-17

In this issue

The Everton DNA runs right through the football club and so it’s appropriate that this month’s magazine is the same.

Alex Young and Duncan Ferguson are legends, Leighton Baines is the perfect ambassador, Tom Davies is a lifelong Blue who is the future of our Club and the Academy is in the safest of hands with coaches who have been here as players.

Paul Tait, John Doolan and Phil Jevons all had aspirations of becoming first-team regulars when they joined Everton as impressionable teenagers. It never happened but all three of them tell us in our Around The Table feature this month how dedication, strength of character and a belief in their own ability not only carried them through long and successful playing careers, but also brought them back to their first love.

The Golden Vision and Big Dunc scored 159 goals between them for Everton but the bare statistics fall some way short of summing up the contribution made by the two Scotsmen. Alex was back at his beloved Goodison Park recently and we accompanied him a couple of days before we sat down with Duncan at Finch Farm to discuss his current role at the Club.

Even the only ‘outsider’ this month, former Derby County and Manchester City striker Paulo Wanchope, speaks well of us – and that’s despite being on the receiving end of a Duncan Ferguson forearm smash during his playing days!

Enjoy your December Everton!

Darren Griffiths, Editor