Everton Must Match Foxes' Fight And Character, Say Claridge

Buy your Watford tickets nowShop the Commemorative Range NOWSteve Claridge knows all about fight and character. As for effort, that particular quality came as a given during the former Leicester City forward’s peripatetic, enchanting 23-year professional career.

Do not underestimate Claridge’s ability, either.

His stooped gait and rough and ready appearance combined to give the impression of a footballer trudging across the turf, huffing and puffing simply to hold his own.

The reality was rather different. Claridge was fit as a flea – he still is as it goes – persistent and spirited.

Those attributes, however, take you only so far as a striker. Playing in that unforgiving position is a…