10 Boyhood Everton Fans The Club Should Have Signed

Jamie Carragher may have achieved legendary status at Liverpool, but there was a time when a Reds win in the Merseyside win would have made him feel violently ill. The Champions League winner with the Reds in 2005 is a self-confessed boyhood Evertonian and it took being chucked into the Liverpool first-team to cleanse him. Now he can’t stand the sight of the very club he used to adore.

“Losing the derby is worse than losing any other game. My passion has gone full circle. I was made up on the first day of the season when Blackburn scored that late winner at Goodison. We were getting ready to play Sunderland and it gave me a big lift.” - Jamie Carragher, September 2008.

The former ‘Biggest Blue in Bootle’ claims that he was ‘a total Everton fanatic’ right through his childhood and teens, so if someone had told him back then that he would go on to play over 500 games for the club across Stanley Park, he probably would have thought it was a cruel, whilst admittedly slightly dull, joke.

“Everton controlled my life and dominated my thoughts 24/7. I went to the away games, followed them across Europe and then in the mid-80s went to Wembley so often it began to feel like Alton Towers. When I talk about that Everton team I still say ‘we’. Even when I was playing for Liverpool reserves I’d want Everton’s first team to win the derby every time.” - Jamie Carragher, September 2008

As to whether the former England international has an Everton tattoo somewhere on his person, it’s probably better that some things are left unanswered…