The ECHO’s Chris Beesley concludes his daily series of articles on Everton and the World Cup running throughout the tournament in Qatar.
Alan Ball is one of two truly great footballers to have played for Everton and was a complete one-off reckons his former midfield colleague Colin Harvey. Along with the Blues' most-successful manager Howard Kendall, Ball and Harvey were immortalised in a statue of ‘The Holy Trinity’ – the Blues’ most-celebrated midfield trio – unveiled outside of St Luke’s Church in the shadow of Goodison Park back in 2019.
However, as far as Harvey – who made 388 appearances for his boyhood club, scoring 24 times before serving them as a coach and manager – is concerned, they broke the mould when it came to his old pall Bally. He told the ECHO: “Alan was a complete one-off. I’ve never seen anyone like him since and I don’t think there was anyone like him before.
