Ross excites me and I have been going the match since 1971.
No player in all my long years has made me hold my breath in anticipation the way Doolafoo has this season.
No matter what age a fellow is, a new player doing great things on the pitch will excite him.
Age doesn't come into it.
Old and young alike have been bored witless by the dross of the fifteen or so seasons prior to this one.
But now both me and my teenage nephew can't wait for match days such is the excitement round the Grand Old Team these days.
We are both reborn.
Duncan McKenzie used to get me out of my seat in the old days.
Dave Thomas when he set off down the left wing.
Kanchelskis and Limpar.
Wayne, of course.
Big Dunc and my all time favourite player, Big Bob.
(when we had nowt else we still had Dunc and Latch)
Even R R Drenthe for an all too brief period a couple years ago.
You young blokes, you will never get tired of seeing great players at Goodison.
You will never compare them to past generations of players and think they don't measure up.
And in thirty ŷears time you will still romanticise about Ross, Seamus, Gerald, Wayne, Big Dunc and all the great players of your youth.
But you will still love the new players lighting up your lives every bit as much.
Trust me on this
Got actual shivers reading this
