Just wish footballers these days had the same mindset. A true great.

Hes the reason I support this club.I loved him.

Got my ALAN BALL Tattoo done not long after that. The best 1/2 a crown (12 . 1/2 p ) i ever spent.

Pleasure to have seen him as the Orchestratior of a truly wonderful side. My boy rang me at work the day he passed away and I just cried. I will never see the lke of him again. A giant for such a small man. R.I.P.

ALAN,,YOU ARE AND ALWAYS WILL BE A TRUE EVERTON LEGEND,,,MET YOU SEVERAL TIMES AND YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO TALK ABOUT EVERTON,,AND NEVER ONCE DID YOU SHUN PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THIER CLUBS AND FOOTBALL,,, YOU ONCE TOLD ME YOU WOULD HAVE WALKED ACROSS BROKEN GLASS ALL THE WAY BACK TO GOODISON IF WE WOULD HAVE NEEDED YOU FOR THE MANAGERS JOB,,ALAS THAT WAS NOT TO BE BUT YOU WILL ALWAYS STILL BE IN ALL EVERTONIANS HEARTS MATE,,, R.I.P A GREAT FOOTBALLER,,A GREAT EVERTONIAN AND A GREAT MAN,,CHEERS ,,,,

I remember well, Alan scoring against liverpool in an FA cup game at Goodison, forgot the year. He lashed it in from a really acute angle at the Gwladys st. end. Met him at Cheltenham raecourse years later and oh my, what a guy.

Spoken like the true gent he was, you never get that faith from these gold-digger players now. He had red hair, but we didn't care..... RIP Alan xX-EFC4EVER-Xx