News Archive – Oct

Should this defender be given another chance under Sean Dyche?

17/10/2023

Has there ever been a worse time to be an Everton fan? At the start of the Premier League, it looked as though the Toffees’ top-flight aspirations were being resurrected when a four-minute second-half double salvo from James Tarkowski and Dominic Calvert-Lewin gave them an impressive 3-1 victory away at Brentford. But their relegation woes reared […]

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Pat Nevin interview with EFCHS

16/10/2023

Rob Sawyer and Lewis Royden of the Everton Heritage Society Media Team met up with Pat Nevi before his book signing session at St Luke's on 7 October 2023.

Moshiri reiterates his confidence in 777 Partners

16/10/2023

Farhad Moshiri says he believes more strongly than ever that in 777 Partners he has found the right people to take Everton forward should their takeover of the club gain regulatory approval.

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The Premier League’s camp for ‘de-selected’ players

15/10/2023

A 2022 Premier League study revealed that 97% of players at top academies never play a minute of top-flight football. Another showed more than 10,000 players aged between eight and 18 are released from academy football every year.

Onana and Belgium book their place at Euro 2024

13/10/2023

Amadou Onana helped Belgium qualify for next summer's European Championships with a 3-2 win in Austria, with former Everton striker Romelu Lukaku scoring what proved to be the winner.

Tickets & Travel — Manchester Utd (H): New date

13/10/2023

Tickets for sale, requests for spares, ride-share, meet-up information or places to watch from afar for the encounter with Manchester United at Goodison Park should be posted to this thread. Face value or at-cost ticket sales only, please. Everton were set to welcome the Red Devils on Saturday 25 October November at 3 pm GMT  […]

The Everton Stadium

12/10/2023

Our potential new owners, 777 Partners, expressed many a fine sentiment in their recent open letter to the fans. For this fan, however, fine words butter no parsnips. Actions, we are told, speak louder than words. There is an opportunity for the new owners and custodians to leave an indelible mark of their tenure. An […]

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Everton: Nothing Will Be The Same

12/10/2023

The BBC have released a podcast series in 10 episodes telling the inside story of Everton's turbulent, pivotal, almost catastrophic 2022-23 season.

Housekeeping Thread

11/10/2023

A number of issues with the site came up in one of the news threads so I thought it would be useful to move the related comments over here to address them and allow others to report bugs and issues they are experiencing on the site. There is usually quite a few so feel free […]

The Fall of Everton in the Post-David Moyes Era

11/10/2023

Everton, one of the most successful clubs in English football history, have experienced a significant decline in recent years. This decline began after David Moyes left the club to join Manchester United in 2013. Moyes had spent 11 years at Everton, transforming the club from a mid-table team into a regular European challenger. He led […]

UK and Ireland confirmed as Euro2028 hosts

10/10/2023

Uefa have rubber-stamped the United Kingdom and Ireland as the hosts of the 2028 European Championships, with Everton's new stadium among the venues chosen for the tournament.

A Good Day

08/10/2023

This was an important win, make no mistake. While this only takes us up to 15th position in the league table, it’s a big relief to have a little cushion on the teams in the Bottom 3.

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Navigating without a compass

07/10/2023

On the County Road Cobblers blog, David Wycherley asks, "How do we recapture that feeling of belonging and get back to enjoying the thing that we love the most?"

The Cautionary Tale of Metalist Kharkiv

06/10/2023

By 2014, their wage bill was crippling and they ceased operations in 2016 due to insolvency; they were expelled from the Ukrainian League and their owner had basically ‘done a runner’ and left Ukraine.

Branthwaite signs new 4-year contract

06/10/2023

Jarrad Branthwaite has signed a new 4-year contract with Everton after securing his place in the Blues' first-team this season and attracting speculation that he could be poached by a higher-placed club.

Pat Nevin book signing at St Luke’s

06/10/2023

Pat Nevin will be at the Everton FC Heritage Society pre-match exhibition, upstairs at St Luke’s on Saturday before the match with Bournemouth. He’ll be selling/signing copies of his latest book, Football – and How to Survive it, plus his previous memoir, The Accidental Footballer. He’ll be there from approximately midday to 1:20pm. Those feeling peckish […]

Everton vs Bournemouth

05/10/2023

Everton head into the second international break of the season needing a tonic to settle the mounting anxiety over their Premier League form which has them level on points with Burnley, the highest placed club in the bottom three in 18th, after seven games.

Gomes nearing return from injury

05/10/2023

André Gomes is close to be available to Sean Dyche as he completes his recovery from a niggling calf problem that has kept him sidelined so far this season.

🎙ToffeeWeb Podcast: ‘Welcome Back to Purgatory’

04/10/2023

Andy, Lyndon and Paul scratch around for answers to Everton's horrendous home form following the 2-1 defeat to Luton Town which extended the run under Sean Dyche to seven defeats from the last eight at Goodison Park.

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Dark Blue

04/10/2023

Norwegian digital football publication Josimar have published a third article about 777 Partners, the proposed buyers of Everton, this time focusing on a lawsuit filed by a former employee of budget airline Flair.

I Don’t Want to Simply Exist Anymore

04/10/2023

As a club, we are "happy" surviving. Being in the Premier League is success, we are told. Well, why doesn't it feel like success? I was raised believing the point was winning things. Not simply existing...