Everton Magazine - September 2017-18

In this issue

What a way to mark your full debut.
Twenty seconds into the second half of a European away tie and you spot the home goalkeeper a couple of yards off his line. The fact you are some 50-plus yards from goal isn’t a deterrent and you let fly with ferocious power and unerring accuracy to propel the ball from near the halfway line into the back of the net!
It’s the goal that seals Everton’s passage through to the UEFA Europa League group stage and it announces Gylfi Sigurdsson as an instant Blues hero. The Icelandic international became the club’s all-time record signing during the summer transfer window and, as you will read this month, his journey to Everton from the small streets of Reykjavik has been a long and winding road.
Nikola Vlasic joins him on the pages of your September Everton magazine and his own route to the Premier League is every bit as absorbing – the catalyst for which has been an astonishing athletic gene that runs through the family, and a carefully planned career path crafted by his father.
Whenever somebody says: ‘Remember Gareth Farrelly’s goal?’ no self-respecting Evertonian of a certain age ever replies, ‘Which one?’ The quietly-spoken Irishman, who etched his name forever in Goodison history in May 1998, is back at Everton Football Club in a whole new capacity and this month he explains what it’s all about.
All this plus features with Ronald Koeman, Seamus Coleman, Phil Jagielka, Yannick Bolasie, Liam Walsh, Graeme Sharp and Andy Hinchcliffe!
The season is up and running, the European adventure is gathering pace and there’s much to enjoy in this month’s Everton magazine…