The A to Z of Everton

Playing a 4-5-1 formation:

Southall
Stevens Stones Stubbs Seargeant
Steven Stevens Snodin Speed Sheedy
Sharp

Sub: Stuart

I reckon this S-team would smash the A-team!

Wright
Watson
Weir
Wilson

Warzycha
Whiteside
Ward

Whittle
Wignall
Wilkinson

Turner

Tansey
Todd
Tiler
Thomson

Thomas M
Telfer

Temple
Thomas E
Trebilcock
Thomas D

I left out notable good Ms like Mountfield because the general trend was Ms aren't very good. This team would get slaughtered.

I agree on the S-team but the A-team (Atteveld, Alcatraz, Anichebe!) seems a lot like the current team.

I would but, with so many crap players in there, I didn't want to tarnish Martyn by putting him in this group.

Lyons
Labone
Linderoth
Lundstram
Lukaku
Lineker

Lyons
Labone
Linderoth
Lundstram
Lukaku
Lineker
Latchford
Lescott
Lookman
A'hem Li Tie

Just need a keeper!

Funnily enough, I remembered some years ago (50 odd?) in an Everton programme the same question, a team composed of players names beginning with "L". There was Lill, Lello and the, apparently, only goalkeeper, Harry Leyland.

This team has zero consistency

Some classics. Mostly bad...

Instead of Gerrard try ‘Groundsman'.

Lads, anyone got a keeper?

Ball M
Bilic
Brown
Baines

Ball A
Bracewell
Beardsley
Barmby

Barlow
Bakayoko

Jordan Pickford

Matt Pennington
Neil Pointon
Alessandro Pistone
Terry Phelan

Stephen Pienaar
Joe Parkinson
Mark Pembridge
Preki

Paul Power
Fred Pickering

(Don’t remember the strikers, but couldn’t think of anyone else)

A couple of horrors in there. Thought of Beagrie, and Bernard too, even Baxter and Bailey. But certainly not Barrett!

John Willie Parker?

Check Fred's goals-per-game stats. You wouldn't worry with Fred up front.

Hauwe
Holgate
Holmes
Hibbert

Harvey
Stephen Hughes
Harper

Mark Hughes
?
?

I was gonna do a B-team with Fred Barber but you beat me to it. I wondered if anyone else remembered him, lol.

Harris B, lovely bloke, excellent player too.

I don't really remember Harris J.

Kearton
Brian Kidd
Keown
Kendall
Andy King
Billy Kenny
Kanchelskis
Kilbane
Tony Kay
Daniel Kinsella

If John O’Kane counts Ill add him if not I will include myself at RB

Jimmy was a contemporary of Brian. Centre-forward who moved to right wing when Alex Young was signed. Great burst of pace, he scored the least remembered hat-trick in Everton history. When we got beaten 10-4!

Went to Birmingham for a decent fee.

And the 10-4 debacle. I remember the effect on my Dad when that score came through on the BBC on the Saturday evening. And the piss-taking in school on the Monday.

I was standing outside the players' entrance when I was about 8 or 9 getting autographs in pre-Bellefield days. Jimmy came out and signed my scruffy bit of paper. He asked who else I wanted and I said Davy. He went back in and came out with Davy who signed as well. Just a nice thing to do.

So I've got a bit of a soft spot for Harris J (as the programme used to say).

It’s strange these things stay with us maybe 60 years on.

Small kindnesses.

Jeffers
Jevons
Johnson A
Jelavic
Johnson T

Jacobsen
Junior

Jackson
John
Jones G

And I don't know if I'm allowed this sneaky one for the 'goalie':

Jagielka

Chamberlain

Coleman
Cleland

John Collins
Cahill
Carsley

Calvert-Lewin
Wayne Clarke
Cottee
Bobby Collins
Chedgzoy

Bench:

Peter Clarke
Castillo

Player manger: Catterick

Kearton
Keane
Keown
Kenyon
Kenny
Kilbane
Andy King
Kendall
Tony Kay
Mosie Kean
Brian Kidd

Midfield, what else, The Holy Trinity
Joe Royle upfront alongside Harry Catterick and the Golden Vision.
Joe Mercer in defence and/or Goalie in & out, for those old enough to remember that position
Alan Stubbs
What position did that bloke Saunders(?) who managed Villa to a European Cup (almost?) play
Just a couple of full backs and the usual problem possibly covered by Joe Mercer.
Did Davie Weir ever manage and could Arteta manage at full back?

Arnold

Barrett
Chadwick
Distin

Ebbrell
Fellaini
Gravesen
Hartford

Irvine
Jeffers
Kanchelskis

Subs
Leyland
Marshall I
Neill
Osman
Parker JW
Rooney
Sharp

Maybe with Kanchelskis?

The guy at Wolves was a goalie wasn’t he?

Mike Walker was a goalie, Southall managed Wales, Dino Zoff, Nigel Pearson, Peter Shilton at Plymouth,

David Weir was sacked I think by Sheffield Utd, as they were rooted to the bottom of the table. Alan Stubbs had some success at Hibs but was sacked by Rotherham, and Neil Warnock did a miraculous turnaround to keep them up.

I think Peter Reid won promotion to the Premier League with Sunderland as Champions.

Ron Saunders played 3 games in the 1954-55 season and it was your hero Dave Hickson who was the regular centre-forward. He played 39 League and 2 FA Cup games: Southend 3-1 and that disaster vs Liverpool 0-4.

Goalkeeper: Southall
Full-backs: Reid & Arteta
Central Defenders: Mercer & Ratcliffe
Midfielders: Harvey, Ball & Kendall
Forwards: Young, Royle & Catterick

Subs: Weir, Stubbs, Saunders, Cliff Britain?, and the legendary AN Other.

I've got my doubts about Wales being a club but it's a line up like Brazil, who needs to defend with attackers like these?

Does Duncan Ferguson qualify? And if so, does that mean Unsworth does also? It could be that the money is sat on the bench.

Drop anyone but Tony Kay. Fantastic player. He would have been a World Cup winner but for the so-called betting scandal.

Maybe Uncle Joe to console Boys Pen Bill as he wipes away the tears.

McDonough

McDonald
McNaught
McCann
McLaughlin

McBride J
McCall
McMahon
McFadden

McBride B
McKenzie

More than one 'L' of a team

Farrell
Fellaini
Forshaw

Ferguson
Fielding
Ferguson

Bit stuck for a 'keeper. Is "Fuckin' Gerrard" permissable?

It's probably outside your time of watching but a Goalkeeper by the name of Tommy Fern played for the club from 1913-1924 and I think he was the keeper in the Championship-winning side of 1915.

Virginia
Van Den Hauwe
Valente
Valencia
Veall
Vernon
Vlasic
Varadi
Victor... (Anichebe)
Vaughn
Vellios

At a push, you could have Andy Van De Meyde and one that I had to look up – the Icelandic Bjarni Viðarsson.

Enner VALENCIA
Nuno VALENTE
Pat VAN DEN HAUWE
Andy VAN DER MEYDE
Imre VARADI
Alfred VAUGHAN
James VAUGHAN
Ray VEALL
Apostolos VELLIOS
Roy VERNON
Bjarni VIDARSSON
Albert VIRR
Nikola VLASIC

I hope that helps a bit.

Not surprised, I still have nightmares of him in goal for us.

I didn't realise there were two Vaughans. And no Virginia on your list although I don't think he's been seen yet. Does he actually exist?

I tried it with 'K' as well – some good choices there. i could put together a half-decent team but no goalie other than 'A Keeper'.

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Drew Brand is the last keeper at Everton to come through the youth or school boys to make an appearance in goal for the first team, making just two appearances. Since then, we have never produced a goalkeeper coming from the youth set up and playing for the first team.

Does anyone know what goalkeepers if any have come through our youth before Drew Brand who have made a first-team appearance for Everton, not including being an unused sub?

That's 45 years since we produced a goalkeeper to go on and make it in our first team; even then, Drew can be discounted with only ever playing 2 games for Everton.

I can't help you in the quest to find a goalkeeper Everton produced prior to Drew Brand – but below is a full list provided by Evertonresults.com. Having looked at the list again it would seem that Andy Rankin may be the answer?

GK Starts

Having said that, same could be said about other clubs.

Seems strange one of the most important areas of a team, yet very few make it at top level with their clubs.