Alan Irvine is rattling through the list of young players he helped to climb the ladder to the highest rung of the professional game.
Back at Everton as assistant to long-term cohort David Moyes, there is a mention of ‘Wayne’. No one sees the need to ask for a second name. “So there was Wayne right at the beginning, really,” he says. “I then worked with Damian Duff and Damian Johnson, and James Beattie.
