In Liverpool it seems that you’re either a Blue or a Red with no in between – unless you’re former Beatle Paul McCartney who joked he’d got special dispensation from the Pope to cheer for both – but a new book looks at those select band of footballers to have represented each of the city’s professional clubs and crossed Stanley Park.
Crossing the Park: The Men Who Dared to Play for Both Liverpool and Everton comes out on April 24 and its author Peter Kenny Jones admits that such individuals (there are now just 10 left after the death of David Johnson – Johnny Morrissey; Kevin Sheedy; Steve McMahon; Peter Beardsley; David Burrows; Don Hutchison; Nick Barmby; Abel Xavier; Sander Westerveld and Conor Coady) – have put themselves in a position that few fans would ever consider.
He told the ECHO: “Switching sides is something as a supporter that you could never imagine yourself doing. At the back of the book I also have a section called ‘The Carraghers’ because Jamie Carragher is the most famous example of someone who as a child was a staunch Blue and now he’s a massive Red.
