How dumb even though I know its fun. I can give you an ace hot team, of Evertonians born and bred if we go back say 40 years and before and even after. Do you mean in the last ten years or so, coz if not it starts to get a little silly (5) Big Brian (9) Dixie (2) Hibbo and so on and so on ad infinitum.

Baines was a boyhood red.

Matthew Lovekin, Brighton ...............Ooooops!!!!!!!

OK Matthew, I'll play, with a mixture of oldies, not so oldies and downright oddities

Andy Rankin

Gary Stevens
Brian Labone (c)
Roger Kenyon
John Bailey

Leon Osman
Gary Speed
Colin Harvey
Ronnie Goodlass

Joe Royle
Wayne Rooney

Also worth a mention

Peter Scott
Terry Darracott
Mike Lyons
Albert Dunlop
Tommy Jones

struggling a bit now

Was Jag a boyhood blue? He's a Manc so find this unlikely.

Boys pen substitutes?

Errrrr........? can't think.

Matthew
you've got me thinking, and being an old anorak, I went and looked up a few more. Given the time period I'm looking at there are surprisingly few.

I've left out McMahon and Johnson because they defected to the Dark Side and even if they were boyhood blues, their later exploits put them beyond the pale.

anyway, and in no particular order, please see the additions to my first stab at this

John Ebbrell
Kevin Ratcliffe
Brian Borrows

Billy Wright
David Jones
Gary Jones
Steve Sergeant
Alan Whittle
Tommy Wright
Derek Temple
Brian Harris
Dave Hickson

Not all that many, assuming the assumption that they come from round Merseyside and Everton was their first club makes them a boyhood Blue is correct. I mean I'm looking at nearly 60 years here.

there were a lot who played only a handful of games whom I didn't consider, but surprisingly few nonetheless

Don't all boyhood Evertonians sign for the Shite ? Could name a few traitors like Fowler, Rush, McManamong, Owen etc. Rooney can sod off too.

Stevie Me once seen posing in full Everton strip between trophies we won. I would disown Dunlop who turned out to be a traitorous lying bastard who sold our good name for 30 pieces of silver.

Steve McMahon qualifies on so many levels........

Dick Fearon - What's that about Albert Dunlop?

McMahon on levels of complete Twattery...

I seem to recall something about Dunlop telling tales in the People or some such rag in the early 60s. Something about drug taking and other inside tales that went on in the club according to him. He'd long since lost his place to Gordon West so presumably got a few bob for his trouble.

It followed on from that same paper's involvement with breaking the Tony Kay business of betting against Sheffield Wednesday, effectively ending his career – one of the best players I've ever seen in a Blue shirt by the way.

One culmination from Dunlop's tales was that at the next Derby game some humorous kopite planted a bloody big cardboard purple heart in the centre circle. Well it was the 60s. No doubt Dick can tell us the full story.

By the way I should add Jimmy Tansey to the boyhood blues list. Sadly he died last week. RIP.

My mates lad, Michael Branch.