‘He would have died for Everton’: The aching sadness of Mike Lyons, the man who bled blue – and why his story should inspire David Moyes’ side to go all out to win this season’s League Cup

A statistic currently going around about Everton being the only club among the Football League’s 92 not to have won a trophy, a title or promotion, or been relegated, since the turn of the century has contributed to a pessimism which made a gathering of the club’s faithful last Friday evening very welcome.

The occasion, at the Denbigh Castle pub, a legendary gathering place for Evertonians in central Liverpool, celebrated the former Everton captain Mike Lyons, whose life and career have been charted in a fine new book.

The aching sadness underlying an occasion in which Lyons’ former team-mates took turns to

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