50. Kevin Campbell

139 appearances, 51 goals

‘KC’ was rescued from Turkish side Trabzonspor by Walter Smith, after the President called him a “discoloured cannibal”. The Trabzon President also famously said of him “We bought him as a scoring machine, but he turned out to be a washing machine”. Campbell was however a steadying presence for us, scoring  51 times in 139 starts and grabbed Everton by the collar just as we were about to leap off the precipice. Campbell’s goals, especially the crucial net bulgers at the end of 1998-99 season, when he scored 9 goals in eight games, kept us afloat. The partnership that Campbell forged with the young Franny Jeffers was so successful that Wenger spent £8 million on Jeffers, who never lived up to his promise. Many of the stars that sit with Campbell in this list carry their medals as a mark of their success, Campbell’s success is bigger than that – his proud legacy is of keeping us in the Premier League.