As Everton and Arsenal face each other on Sunday, this extract from Jim Keoghan’s new book Everton’s Greatest Games (The Toffees' Fifty Finest Matches) gives an account of a head-to-head that took place back in 2002, a time when an up-and-coming young player first made a name for himself at Goodison with a winning strike that made the football world sit up and take notice… Life as an Evertonian had been tough in the late 1990s and early 2000s, an era characterised by debt, penury and the near-constant threat of relegation. As the four-year reign of Walter Smith ground to an end, an outcome that Evertonians willed with an almost palpable sense of desire, the Blue half of the city...
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