About the Author

James Corbett is a sports correspondent and award-winning author who has reported from 20 countries across five continents for outlets including the BBC, the Observer, the Guardian, the Sunday Times and FourFourTwo. A lifelong Evertonian whose family have been supporting the club since the nineteenth century, he cut his journalistic teeth editing the fanzine, Gwladys Sings The Blues, while still at school in the 1990s. His acclaimed narrative history of the club, Everton: The School of Science, was first published in 2003 and reissued by deCoubertin Books in 2010. Most recently he collaborated with Neville Southall on his eagerly anticipated autobiography.