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

Rising To The Challenge

In the midst of a tricky run of league games, manager Ronald Koeman believes the Blues are showing poisitive signs to reignite their season, despite the untimely loss of Yannick Bolasie.

5 mins

Setting New Goals

A Club legend due to his attacking exploits during his playing career, Duncan Ferguson is on the right path to make his name in coaching – and believes he is in the right place to do it.

4 mins

Blue Girls

Two female Evertonians are making waves in their respective disciplines. Molly McCann – or Meatball to her friends – is a Mixed Martial Arts fighter with her sights set on the UFC while cricketer, Sophie Eccelstone, made her senior England debut aged just 17 earlier this year.

4 mins

Scouse And Proud

After a 2016 in which he took giant leaps, teenager Tom Davies seemingly has the footballing world at his feet. Primed to make a big impact in the years ahead, he says there is no place he would rather call home…

6 mins

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