A statistic currently going around about Everton being the only club among the Football League's 92 not to have won a trophy, a title or promotion, or been relegated, since the turn of the century has contributed to a pessimism which made a gathering of the club’s faithful last Friday evening very welcome.
The occasion, at the Denbigh Castle pub, a legendary gathering place for Evertonians in central Liverpool, celebrated the former Everton captain Mike Lyons, whose life and career have been charted in a fine new book.