Elegant player and legendary coach looks back on some of his finest moments at ?iconic? Goodison Park
Standing outside a pawnbrokers on Goodison Road, waiting for his dad to emerge through the crowd after the match, a young Colin Harvey could not have imagined what lay in front of him. Standing in the same place today, the great Evertonian would face a statue of himself immortalised alongside fellow members of ?The Holy Trinity?, Howard Kendall and Alan Ball. Time has not diminished the 80-year-old?s wonder at his life and legacy at Goodison Park.
?How do you go from being a kid watching Everton from the Boys? Pen to having a statue on Goodison Road?? he says, with genuine astonishment. ?If someone had presented me back then with a history of my life in football I?d have said: ?Don?t be silly, nothing like that is ever going to happen to me.? But it did. When I was told the statue was going to be made it was one of my proudest moments. I?ve had a fantastic football life and it amazes me when I look back on it.?
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