Despite being a Hammer to the core, Tony Cottee gave Everton his best footballing years. Perhaps his biggest mistake was coming to us, when Arsenal wanted him.
However, a lasting memory of Tony Cottee is of a player who, on 99 goals scored in an Everton shirt, bottled it when asked to take a penalty in a game where we were losing 0-2. A vital game. THAT game!
A game we needed to win to retain our proud record amongst the elite in England. Even the banner in the Park End building site asking for no more than PRIDE went unheeded. He bottled it and from there on many Evertonians lost a little something for TC....but their admiration for a diamond of a player, Graeme Stuart, grew .