Everton Football Club has been at English football's top table for all but four of the League's 125 years and they have been the subject of literally hundreds of thousands of quotes and comments. Here are 185 of the best from players, coaches, officials, opponents and fans, from Dixie Dean, Alan Ball and Howard Kendall, to Leighton Baines, Roberto Martinez and Bill Kenwright.

This isn't how I expected my life to be at 30 years old. I was supposed to be raising a little family, and fulfilling my dream of running a bakery in my small hometown. Instead, I'm now a widow with a 5-year-old little girl. Living far from that idyllic small town I dreamed of growing old in, surrounded by my BFF Quinn and my 4 best guy friends. I've been so beat down these past 10 years, not allowed to use my magic even in my own home. I think it's time I return to Everton. This town has nothing left for me now that my husband is dead. But the guys and I didn't exactly part on the best of terms.... Will they be able to forgive me for leaving the way I did? Or will returning to Everton be just another mistake? Returning to Everton is a reverse harem, meaning Rowen doesn't have to choose between her love interests and they all worship her. This book is for readers 18+ due to sexual content

Traditionally one of the Big Five of English football, Everton haven't enjoyed too much success in recent years but they are currently undergoing revival under the management of David Moyes and Bill Kenwright, the club's owner. Older than Liverpool, Everton have nearly as rich a history. Nine time winners of the English League title and five time winners of the FA Cup, they've sent out some of the greatest characters in English football on to the pitch at Goodison. From Dixie Dean, Tommy Lawton and Alex Scott through Alan Ball, Bob Latchford and Howard Kendall to Gary Lineker, Duncan Ferguson and Wayne Rooney, few clubs can boast as many people with so much to say for themselves. Everton have a proud tradition and a very loyal support, and this book aims to capture the flavour of both.

In 1977-78, Brian Viner was a season ticket-holder in the Gwladys Street End at Goodison Park, home to his beloved Everton. In front of him were the stars of the day: striker Bob Latchford, creative midfielder Duncan McKenzie and goalkeeping hero George Wood. There were no airs and graces then: Viner would regularly see Latchford in the local pub, and even once saw Wood mowing the field at his school, so asked him to come and join his classmates for a kickabout, which he did. It would never happen now. But as well as nostalgia for that period, Viner reveals how this was a time when so much was on the cusp of change: in football the first wave of foreign players would arrive the next season, with Ossie Ardiles and Arnold Muhren among them; on Merseyside, the era of punk would soon give way to Thatcherism; and even Viner himself, at 16, was on the verge of adulthood. But little of what happened next could ever have been predicted. Viner's investigation of that year in the 1970s, based on many interviews with the players of the time, not only reveals a vanished era, but also shows how football often fails to look after its own, as the life stories of what happened to the players afterwards shows, but how the spirit of the sport will always shine through.

The Little Book of Liverpool is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and literally hundreds of wacky facts. Alex Tulloch's new book gathers together a myriad of data on this historic city. There are lots of factual chapters but also plenty of frivolous details which will amuse and surprise. A reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped in to time and time again to reveal something you never knew. For instance, did you know that the clock on the Liver Buildings was started at the precise moment that King George V was crowned on 22 June 1911? Thought not. A remarkably engaging little book, this is essential reading for visitors and locals alike.