A penny for Kevin Ratcliffe’s thoughts as the most-successful captain in Everton history sat in the row behind the ECHO’s scribes in Goodison Park’s Press Box.
Wearing a baseball cap that gave him a degree of anonymity, one of the men who played a leading role in writing some of the most-glorious chapters in the club’s history cut an understated figure, largely blending into the crowd around him but what he witnessed for prolonged periods of a testing 90 minutes cannot have been easy for someone who has been part of the Blues at their very best.
When this legend speaks you listen and last month when Everton also had consecutive home games, Ratcliffe made a salient point when speaking to the ECHO. He said: “Sometimes the fans can lift the players but on other occasions the players have to lift the fans.” The visit of Leicester City seemed to be one of those times.
