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An Under-19 Everton squad head to Germany

03/08/2023

An Everton Under-19s squad travels to Oberndorf, Germany today to face a selection of international opponents at the 2023 Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe Cup.

The Saudi League

02/08/2023

I am struggling to see how the Saudi league becomes successful as it doesn’t at present have access to contest the biggest prizes in club football. They can’t compete for the Champions League or the South American equivalent. So I am finding it hard to see – apart from mouth-watering salaries – what would be […]

The Story of The Bullens

31/07/2023

Now giving faithful service into its 97th year, the Bullens Road stand and its Archibald Leitch-designed cross-braced panels has provided Goodison Park its key motif since 1926 and the days of Dixie Dean

Agreement close for young Sporting striker

31/07/2023

Everton have reached an agreement in principal with Sporting CP to sign 19-year-old Youssef Chermiti according to a number of reports including from Fabrizio Romano and Alan Myers of Sky Sports.

Calvert-Lewin logs 45 mins in Monza friendly

31/07/2023

Everton played Serie A side AC Monza in a behind-closed-doors friendly today at Goodison Park where Dominic Calvert-Lewin came through a half's worth of action as he seeks to build fitness ahead of the new season.

The Impetuous Dr Whitford

30/07/2023

Everton director and chairman Dr William Whitford was an outspoken character who often found himself in the public eye – and, on occasion, in hot water.

If you know your history…

29/07/2023

Fortuitously, I came across a a documentary on You Tube called, “100 years of ⚽️ The Football League documentary”. It goes right back to the founding of the league upto when the Premier League took over the governance of our top tier of domestic. Pure nostalgia for old farts like me and a possible education […]

The Ups and Downs of the Original Twelve — Part IV

25/07/2023

Here is the final part of this series. Stoke City Stoke-on-Trent FC 1893, Stoke FC 1872. Stoke City 1925.Ground: Victoria Ground. Stoke City owes its origin directly to a Public School for in 1863, some Old Carthusians in the North Staffordshire Railway Works decided to form a football club. They played on Sweeting Field, the […]

Half-way through the transfer window

25/07/2023

It’s the season of impatience.  At around the half-way mark in a transfer window still to run until 1 September, this is an article to provide a little bit of perspective.  Although there’s been some business done, none of the three promoted clubs or the mid-table gang of Palace, West Ham, Bournemouth, Forest, Fulham, Wolves, Brentford or […]

Colin Harvey As Everton Manager: An Appreciation

25/07/2023

The recent article by Dr France on Colin Harvey, The Greatest Living Evertonian, caused me to dig out an (unpublished) article I wrote at the end of the 1987-88 Season, updated slightly in 1995. Hopefully it is still of interest; it follows below: What intrigued me about Everton in 1988, and caused me to put […]

Premier League announce radical changes to PL2

25/07/2023

The country's elite Category One Academy U21 sides will see radical changes this coming season that will combine the two existing divisions into a new  Premier League 2 with 26 clubs

The Greatest Living Evertonian

24/07/2023

A tribute to the surviving member of Everton's famous Holy Trinity, a club legend who has served Everton as a brilliant player, an outstanding coach and as manager.

Can We Be The Surprise Team?

21/07/2023

Brentford – with Brighton and Aston Villa in the frame – did it last season and it happens every season. What about us, with Sean Dyche unloading the stale, not-up-to-it, and gimpish ones, with seemingly a few quid squirrelled away if rumoured bids are true?  The differential between top players and the level below seems […]

Everton and hummel unveil 90s reboot away kit

21/07/2023

Everton's away kit for 2023-24 harks back to one of the more popular strips of the 1990s with a salmon-pink striped number that also features elements of another away shirt from that era.

The Ups and Downs of the Original Twelve — Part III

20/07/2023

Hi all, because part 2 has appeared to have run its course, and I don’t know the date of my next appointment for my eye operation, I’ve decided to strike while the iron’s hot. Apologies for any mistakes that one finger and one eye might bring. Everton Founded as St Domingo FC 1878, renamed Everton […]

Gordon Watson… One of Us

19/07/2023

Something of a raconteur, Gwladys Street Hall of Famer Gordon Watson loved to share tales of his life at Goodison and he once spoke passionately about his team-mates from the side he regarded as ‘The Forgotten Champions of 1939’

Everton’s Biggest Transfer Coups

19/07/2023

Everton fans have not had much to shout about in recent seasons, with two successive relegation battles highlighting how far the club has fallen. The days of regularly finishing in the top half of the Premier League are a distant memory, while winning silverware has become the impossible dream. Based on Everton’s lack of activity […]

How do we get into a stable midtable position by February 2024?

18/07/2023

With the knowledge that the club will find it very difficult because of poor contracts and transfers and bad decisions from previous years by upper management, what do supporters feel we need to finally stabilize us by February 2024 to avoid fighting against relegation? Looking at the present squad of players, we need to sell […]