"Alan Ball told me that Everton will always be his team," revealed BBC Radio Merseyside's Mike Hughes. The club legend, who died of a heart attack at the age of 61, joined Everton from Blackpool in August 1966 for a then British-record transfer fee, shortly after winning the World Cup with Engl...
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