This passionate partisan piece of doggerel in support of past Everton heroes chanted en masse in my boyhood primary school playground, has continued to reverberate in my head down the years. Heroes sometimes achieve immortality in odd ways! Dixie Dean and Tommy Lawton were ‘Terrace Heroes’ of my north-western childhood. Graham Kelly has added to this small but sacred pantheon with his study of the lives and times of his Topical Times Ten. He places them in their cultural context, explains their social purpose and explores their common significance. This makes good sense. His Heroes, in part or in whole, personified period values
