by Neville Smith and Gordon Honeycombe
Alex Young is a small, quiet man. He looks delicate and tentative. But on a football field, when things are going well for him, he's a giant. Alex is not a bit flash. He is precise and elegant and subtle. Only sophisticates like Joe Horrigan really appreciate him. To them he is the golden vision.
Joe and the men like him are married to Alex and the Everton team. It is a volatile marriage, but divorce is never even thought of. Life is football-to be talked about, dreamt of all the week, and embraced on Saturday...
"Kenneth Loach could whip up a racy narrative from the fine print on a parking ticket I was entertained to the end" (Sunday Telegraph)
"It caught the flavour of the wry Merseyside humour" (The Times)
