Starting today, the ECHO’s Chris Beesley begins a daily series of articles on Everton and the World Cup to run throughout the tournament in Qatar.
Over 30 players who were with Everton at the time have now turned out for their countries in the World Cup finals. But the Blues’ first representative in the tournament turned out to be making his last international appearance, a mere fortnight after he’d completed his big move to Goodison Park.
Right-back Alex Parker – who Everton legend Alex Young proclaimed to be the best in his position in the British Isles – holds the distinction of being the club’s inaugural World Cup player but then almost immediately fell foul of the Scottish Football Association’s reluctance to pick ‘Anglos’, their pool of talent who had been lured south of the border.
