Everton fan Paul Bell had a ringside seat for the club’s 1980s glory days before jetting off to a new life in Australia. The 49-year-old now works in freight forwarding in Sydney but back when he was a schoolboy he had a dream job as a ball boy at Goodison Park.
Howard Kendall’s famous team of the time won two league titles, the FA Cup and a European Cup Winners’ Cup in a glittering spell for the Toffees, making Wembley their second home.
And Bell was there to see it all, from the highs of beating Bayern Munich to the lows of the 1983 season just before things began to turn.
This is his story. “In my first season things weren’t going too well for Howard,” he told Starsport. “I remember the 0-0 with Coventry in December when a load of
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