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Top 60 Everton Players

TOP 60 EVERTON PLAYERS: #56 Andy Hinchliffe

November 20, 2009
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TOP 60 EVERTON PLAYERS: #56 Andy Hinchliffe

 Andy Hinchcliffe (1990-98) Apps 182, Goals 7  Hinchcliffe was our left-footed dead-ball specialist during the nineties. Perhaps not as accomplished the right-footed dead-ball specialist that is still clinging onto the England squad for dear life – but actually more well-rounded. Because of Mr Beckham’s Murdochian stranglehold on football it is easy to think that good cross and set-piece merchants are immobile automatons obsessed with angles and lining up their Coke cans in an orderly fashion in their fridge. This would be wrong. Whereas Beckham has all the mobility of Dr Strangelove stuck in a mud drenched lay-by, Hinchcliffe was actually quite quick, and occasionally took on players too.  ...

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TOP 60 EVERTON PLAYERS: #57 Joe Parkinson

November 19, 2009
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TOP 60 EVERTON PLAYERS: #57 Joe Parkinson

1994-99, 105 apps, 4 goals Everton’s 57th best player (and Bournmouth’s 9th) is another one like Tony Kay who never came anywhere near to fulfilling his potential. Whereas Kay’s career was halted by draconian punishment, Parkinson’s was curtailed by injury – a cartilage tear that “despite operation after operation kept ripping”. Joe ran himself into the ground for Everton, and by playing through serious injury and making do on pain killing injections he put his career on the line for our club. It is interesting reading interviews with Parkinson; the poster boy for the “Dogs of War”, he was someone who was proud of his tough tackling, regarding it as a skill...

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Top 60 Everton Players: #58 Tony Kay

November 18, 2009
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Top 60 Everton Players: #58 Tony Kay

Tony Kay (1962-64) 57 appearances, 4 goals Tony Kay was Britain’s most expensive footballer when Everton swooped for him in 1962, paying a British record £60,000 for the red-headed wing half. Ponderous players attempting a midfield filibuster were greeted by Kay’s menacing physicality as well as his abundant skill. Harry Catterick, a shrewd judge of talent, clearly had big plans for Kay – plans that sadly never fully blossomed.   That Kay is instead remembered for becoming embroiled in a betting scandal during his time at Sheffield Wednesday and being banned from football for life is one of Everton’s biggest tragedies. Capped once by England, Kay resembles Everton’s major “what...

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Top 60 Everton Players: #59 DUNCAN FERGUSON

November 16, 2009
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Top 60 Everton Players: #59 DUNCAN FERGUSON

#59. Duncan Ferguson (1994-98, 2000-06) 273 appearances, 72 goals As misunderstood as Boo Radley, as Blue as they come, and unsurprisingly the No 1 choice for this season’s induction into Gwladys Street’s Hall Of Fame. Ferguson may not be the most glorious Toffee ever but peer over the journalistic wall of words and you have the perfect talisman for late 1990s Everton. Fans projected all their angst onto this Scottish totem, who was blighted by injury, brimming with anger, a fan amongst players and, when the mood took him, an unplayable striker. A nearly man who was underrated on the floor and wonderful in the air – most memorably...

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Top 60 Everton Players: #60 THOMAS GRAVESEN

November 3, 2009
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Top 60 Everton Players: #60 THOMAS GRAVESEN

#60. Thomas Gravesen (2000-05, 2007-08) 132 appearances, 11 goals From the beginning of his Everton career, Gravesen set out to get noticed, playing like he should have an exclamation mark grafted onto his surname. The excitable Dane even saw red in one of his first outings, a “friendly” against Blackburn Rovers in 2000, for some appalling tackling. Gravesen had two stints at Everton, but his first was his best. Often starved of a partner to exchange skilful midfield repartee with, he was forced to roam on his own – a goggle-eyed, shaven-headed hunter-gatherer. Why is he on this list? Gravesen polarises opinion like Marmite, Spam and country music, but...

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