The below interview first appeared in December’s Everton magazine.
Deep in the marrow of Goodison there is a special place that will remain Forever Young. It goes beyond the memories of all the goals and all the sophisticated deceptions that persuaded his teammate, Joe Royle, to recall wistfully that the intricate way Alex Young swayed and moved while on the ball “he could make men fall over”. On the terraces he made men fall head over heels in love with him to the extent that almost half a century after he last kicked a ball in an Everton shirt the ovation he received following a special screening of a new biopic Alex The Great was, in Royle’s words again, “a lovely reminder of just how much this club loves him”.