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"I remember the last five minutes. We knew we had done it and I'll always remember hearing the crowd signing 'Grand Slam's coming home' – it was spine-tingling. It was the perfect day," said Shanklin.

Watching its FA18 and F35 fighter jets being hurled into the air every minute or two by the carrier's steam catapults is a spine-tingling experience, a procedure managed with impressive composure by the crew on the crowded deck.

"It is a spine-tingling moment" said Tom, who along with his son Elliott, are signed up season-ticket holders for next season.

It was spine-tingling as the newer Everton tradition of an air-raid siren blared before Z-Cars, the soundtrack to the start of every Goodison Park game, rang out.

But what shines through, from an illustrious beginning to what, after some hard years, feels like a happy end, is her ferocious talent; every performance, and we see many, is spine-tingling good.