Archive Archive

The Last Chance Saloon

25/08/2023

  So here we are entering the last week of the summer transfer window. The fact we haven’t signed a striker, the critical business, means that we really have walked into the Last Chance Saloon.  Worse still, we are at the bar and telling the barman we want a drink, no, we need a drink, […]

Everton vs Wolves

24/08/2023

Everton return to Goodison Park this weekend to face Wolves for what will be their second home game of the season still searching for their first goal and points of 2023-24.

Everton agree fee with Udinese for Beto

24/08/2023

Everton have reportedly increased their offer for Beto and now met Udinese's valuation of the striker, with a medical scheduled for this weekend before the final paperwork is completed on a €30m transfer.

Is Our Man Just a Gofer?

24/08/2023

I wasn’t the gofer, but he had a relative who knew what the life of a gofer was all about. Dodgy dealings, enormous bank loans, tax evasion, false accountancy, bribery and underhand profit transfer theft was often carried out at his behest.

Villarreal Revisited

24/08/2023

Eighteen years ago today (24 August 2005), we boarded a flight to Valencia from Stanstead, in the hope that Everton could overcome a 2-1 first-leg deficit in the third qualifying round of the Champions League against Spanish side Villarreal. The meagre allocation of 1,100 tickets for an August game on one of the Costas meant […]

MSP Sports Capital withdraw from Everton talks

23/08/2023

Everton appear to be back at square one with regard to desperately-needed change at boardroom level with the news that MSP Sports Capital have stepped away from talks around taking an investment position in the club.

The (Thick and) Thin Blue Line: Part Two

23/08/2023

John Daley's latest Epistle to The Evertonians traces football, family and fatherhood through three generations of Goodison faith and godly misfortune, Part Two

Champagne at Highbury

22/08/2023

Tommy Lawton recalls in his own words the Arsenal v Everton game at Highbury in September 1938

Andy Rankin passes aged 79

22/08/2023

Former Everton goalkeeper Andy Rankin, who played for the Blues in the 1960s and 1970s, has died.

Creeping Anxiety and a Social Dilemma

22/08/2023

Emotions are already running high after Everton's bad start. Neither the actions of a tiny few nor a media waiting to pounce are helping

Dyche dismayed by ‘soft’ Everton

21/08/2023

Sean Dyche said he was surprised by the nature of Everton’s heavy defeat to Aston Villa, admitting that he thought he and his staff had largely eradicated the team's psychological collapses

The Merry-Go-Round from Hell

21/08/2023

Round and round and round we go. A change in manager, a couple of new players. Hope followed by disappointment then humiliation and despair. This is the lot for Evertonians, it seems.

Pathetic Everton are thrashed at Villa Park

20/08/2023

The alarm bells are ringing early and loudly for Everton after they were hammered 4-0 by Aston Villa on the back of a shambles of a performance where they gifted their hosts two goals from throw-ins.

Don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched

18/08/2023

By Joe Mercer – Everton, Arsenal, and England. During a temporary stoppage about 4 minutes from full time, with the score 2-0 in our favour in the 1950 Liverpool vs Arsenal FA Cup Final , my old friend Walley Barnes said to me,  “What does it feel like to win a Cup medal?” My words […]

Premier League — Matchweek 2

18/08/2023

The second weekend of the new Premier League season includes a Friday night game (Nottingham Forest vs Sheffield United) that is not being televised in the UK, while there is no lunchtime game on Saturday and Luton Town’s home fixture against Burnley has been postponed as refurbishment work continues at Kenilworth Road.  The five matches […]

Aston Villa vs Everton

18/08/2023

Everton travel to Villa Park for their first away game of the season with Sean Dyche saying that Dominic Calvert-Lewin has completed his planned rehabilitation and is "in the thinking" for Sunday

Tickets & Travel — Sheffield Utd (A)

17/08/2023

Tickets for sale, requests for spares, ride-share, meet-up information or places to watch from afar for Everton’s trip to Bramall Lane should be posted to this thread. Face value or at-cost ticket sales only, please. Note: We provide this purely as a means of fans letting other fans know of potentially available tickets or when […]

Anfield derby will now kick off at lunchtime

17/08/2023

Two of Everton's October fixtures have now been moved for live television broadcast, with the Anfield derby now set for a lunchtime kick-off and the trip to West Ham moved back a day.

Blue & White chess sets

17/08/2023

I wish we could get some Everton business to create and sell Everton-themed chess sets along these lines: Iconic Chess Sets – based on Scottish Football’s fiercest rivals. I assume Howard Kendall would be the King, Alan Ball the Queen, and Colin Harvey the Bishop?  Where would we place Dixie Dean though as he has […]

VAR is not for me — Ashley Young

17/08/2023

Ashley Young says that it were up to him, football would go back to the days of on-the-pitch human eyes and decisions rather than continue with the Video Assistant Referee experiment that remains controversial despite the promise of a fairer game.

A reminder on comment moderation policies

16/08/2023

I just wanted to address the issue of comments moderation and accusations that posts only stay on the site if they tally with the opinion of the moderator(s) or were submitted by one of the “cool kids” after the lead-off comment on the Jack Harrison interview article (together with subsequent comments referring to it) was […]

Harrison excited to get going at Everton

16/08/2023

Jack Harrison says he is excited to be on the other side of the intimidating Goodison Park atmosphere now that he is an Everton player following his season-long loan switch from Leeds United.

Women’s World Cup

16/08/2023

Please post your thoughts here about the FIFA Women’s World Cup which will see England’s Lionesses attempt to follow their European Championships success with an even bigger prize Down Under on Sunday when they take on Spain in the Final after beating joint-hosts Australia in the final four.

What’s Left on the Shelf?

15/08/2023

There's still time and there are still options out there to improve the playing squad before the transfer window deadline

🎙ToffeeWeb Podcast: ‘Cautiously Negative’

15/08/2023

The fellas pick through the season opener against Fulham where Everton somehow failed to score, ponder whether things will ever click for Maupay, assess the signing of Harrison and then look ahead to Villa (A).