Source: Liverpool_Echo
Royal Blue: The People’s Club live up to their name
FOOTBALL fans like nothing more than indulging in a spot of nostalgia, especially when their side's fortunes are harder to predict then the National Lottery.[LNB]Evertonians need no excuse to band about stories of how they fell in love with the Blues, and share those early memories of travelling to games over a pint.[LNB]Now a new book launched by the Everton in the Community charity has gathered some of the funniest, bizarre and most poignant tales of supporters together for the first time.[LNB]'We are Everton' is a special compendium of Bluenose anecdotes, and images which are guaranteed to tug on the heart strings of all Blues, and generate many more happy trips down memory lane.[LNB] Compiled in partnership with the National Literacy Trust the book has a charitable cause at heart, and some of the proceeds of the £10 cover price will go towards helping local school kids to learn to love reading almost as much as they love pulling on their Everton kit and having a kickabout.[LNB]The book shows the very human heart of the People's Club, and the tales were largely gathered in person by the club's community engagement officer Mike Mills.[LNB]One supporter, Mags Fuller, writes how she became a Blue thanks to a fellow nurse she met on a training course in Medway Hospital in Kent.[LNB]Julie Hall, she explains, was a Scouser in exile living down South, who had never abandoned her love for the Toffees and always wore an Everton shirt to lectures.[LNB]Julie developed cancer however, and as she began to accept she would not beat the illness she handed her precious royal blue shirt to Mags and asked her to continue to follow the Blues after she was gone. Mags told Julie that famous truism, that 'Once Everton has touched you. You'll never be the same', and true to form Mags has been an avid Blue ever since.
