“His children, his grandkids and his beloved Everton – that was his life,” Shell continued.
“I am a Kopite however I’ve performed each derby days on the cemetery. I take the radio down, bang the footy on for him and he would not have it another method.
“I even queued up as soon as for seven-and-a-half hours for a Man Utd ticket [FA Cup semi-final 2009] for him. It acquired handed all the way down to everybody there was a Kopite within the queue!
“He beloved it and he’d be buzzing now Moyesey is again and they’re on the up. We have him a brick on the new stadium and we made the funeral administrators take us to Bramley-Moore and previous Goodison.
“He would have been completely buzzing.”