Jim Keoghan
Player Valuation: £50k
Back in the early 1990s, sartorial discipline
amongst certain Evertonians reached a level of stripped-down asceticism more
akin to a Benedictine order. No edict ever came from on high, but the maxim
that wearing colours was frowned upon permeated through elements of the fanbase
nevertheless. After a certain age, sometime in your early teens, it was made
known that coming to the match in anything more club-orientated than a WSAG
t-shirt would be considered an ostentatious infraction, one that would mark the
wearer down as exhibiting that most damning of characteristics, ‘Kopite-behaviour’.
Gradually,
over time, the maxim’s strength began to dissipate and as the 1990s rolled into
the 2000s and beyond, it became more commonplace to see your Da wearing an
overly-stretched home shirt in the Park End. Blue is very much the colour as you
cast your eye around Goodison today, the restrictions of the past a largely
forgotten footnote in Everton’s history, a bit like Rob Wakenshaw or...
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