Firstly as a youth in the 1960s, Lyons along with a group of mates, collars Alan Ball while the England international is going for a stroll on Blackpool’s front and delivers an impassioned plea to try and convince him to join Everton.

Whether the teenager’s enthusiasm had any impact on the World Cup-winner’s decision to eventually come to Goodison remains unknown.

Lyons crops up again a couple of decades later, when showing himself as a Good Samaritan he gives famous Liverpool fan the self-styled ‘Dr Fun’ a lift home from Wembley despite his beloved Everton just losing the 1986 FA Cup final to their neighbours.

The colourful Kop cheerleader enjoyed his free ride back from the capital but the book explains how his famous red coat came a cropper on his arrival back on Merseyside.

Fans’ eccentricities are well-documented and memories of the 1966 FA Cup final include a miniature replica of Goodison Park – complete with working floodlights – making it to the Twin Towers and back unscathed and a blue-clad donkey causing a stir in the Moorfields wine lodge on Saturday night after the win over Sheffield Wednesday.

The lengths that certain Evertonians go to in order to get to matches is also astounding. One supporter recalls how he and his brother hitchhiked their way to Dukla Prague away in 1978 – a trip that took three days and included a worrying brush with a Belgian trucker who cooked them dinner while recording their voices.

John Bailey, the joker in the pack of Howard Kendall’s great side, reveals that he still doesn’t know what happened to the outsized Everton top hat he wore after the 1984 FA Cup final victory against Watford while popular fan Tommy Griff finds himself on Everton’s table at the 1985 PFA awards in London where he tries to sell a ‘snide Cartier’ watch to Bobby Robson before offering to put the England manager up in his Norris Green council house when he was in the city for the Merseyside derby.

For better or for worse, this is a book that is uniquely Everton but can still be enjoyed by football fans of all persuasions.

TALES FROM THE GWLADYS STREET is published by Sports Books and is available now for £12:99.