There’s Gonna Be A Show : Everton and me – a complicated love story

“Really beautiful… If you’re an Everton fan, you must buy this book. If you’re a football fan of a certain age, I would really recommend it as well.

A really funny, smart writer talking about football, his family and what it means. You will laugh and cry.” Richard Osman, The Rest Is Entertainment podcastJIMMY MULVILLE is one of the most significant figures in British television as owner and managing director of Hat Trick Productions, creators of such hit shows as Drop The Dead Donkey, Outnumbered and Have I Got News For You.He is also a lifelong devotee of Everton FC, having grown up less than a mile from Goodison Park, and has loved them then left before returning to them over the course of their modern history of 80s success followed by regular Premier League struggles. In There’s Gonna Be A Show, the Liverpool comprehensive kid who read Classics at Cambridge University tells how Everton have been the backdrop to his father’s suicide and his own drug addiction; how he reconnected with his home city after getting clean and sober and helped Bill Kenwright buy the club.

Taking as starting point the last game at Goodison Park, sponsored by Hat Trick, and ending with the first game at the new Hill Dickinson Stadum, this is a beautifully written memoir of football’s emotional potency and poignancy.