Richard Dunne ended up playing 604 senior matches in English football and while only the first 72 were for Everton, now 25 years on from his debut, the Irishman insists he counts his blessings for the time he did have at Goodison Park rather than his subsequent spells away.
Over five years before home-grown hero Wayne Rooney burst onto the scene at Everton, Dunne was another teenage ‘man-child’ thrust into the first team spotlight at a tender age.
Despite his early start in the Blues side, the now 42-year-old, has been away from the club that launched his career for more than two decades having joined Manchester City for £3.5million in October 2000.
