There is something about Everton and that ‘Number 9’ shirt. Throughout the club’s long history, so many of our heroes, the players who have often come to define an era or a side have worn that number on their backs.The names run like a panoply of Goodison greats, names like Dean, Hickson, Gray and Ferguson, players whose exploits have become an indelible part of the club’s grand narrative.It’s telling that today, in an age when shirt numbers mean nothing anymore, the era of the expanded squad reducing the positional familiarity of the old 1-11, Everton’s ‘Number 9’ still retains its power.It is still given frequently to the player who is expected to lead the line, the one number in the first eleven that keeps its roots in the past.This book, exploring the lives of nine of those figures aims to illustrate why that is the case, to show just what they gave to this club. It’s not an exhaustive exploration and nor does it cover everyone who has ever worn that number, but it is a collection of the greats, the lions of Goodison who have helped make the ‘Number 9’ what it is.
ASIN : B08B39MT82
Publisher : Independently published
Publication date : 14 Jun. 2020
Language : English
Print length : 137 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8649576963
Item weight : 170 g
Dimensions : 12.85 x 0.89 x 19.84 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 403,751 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) 41 in FC Everton
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