 Harper scored few goals but many of those he did score were spectacular efforts, often from long range.Everton fans nicknamed him 'Bertie Bassett' because he played in 'allsorts of positions'.Harper started out at Liverpool in the late 1970s, the club he had supported as a boy, but he never made a first team appearance for Liverpool before Howard Kendall took him across Stanley Park to Everton in the summer of 1983 for £100,000.