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Green shoots of recovery in the transfer business
Rob Jones
So far, our transfer business looks far more solid. We've re-signed a couple of (hopefully) squad players in Young and Harrison, we've signed a kid with real potential in Tim Iroegbunam, and are due to sign Iliman Ndiaye.29/06/2024
Everton under Friedkin
Robert Tressell
It seems to me that, this summer, any Friedkin-led ownership will simply carry on with what has always looked likely – sales of Branthwaite and Onana and reinvestment of no more than about 50% of the sales proceeds back into the squad.16/06/2024
Jack Harrison: Yes or No?
Robert Tressell
It looks as though the club is keen to retain Jack Harrison’s services after his loan 2023-24 season.11/06/2024
Billy Cook — The Original ‘Secret Footballer’ and his Peruvian Adventure
Rob Sawyer
A member of Everton's 1939 title-winning team that was broken up by WWII, Billy Cook went on an extraordinary coaching journey that took him around the world, including to South America where he took charge of the Peruvian national team09/06/2024
Role models: how other clubs do it
Robert Tressell
A look at a handful of over-performing European cubs with a common theme where extremely good quality players can be sourced to fill problem positions at low cost.23/05/2024
My return trip back home
Bill Gall
In 1976, we emigrated to Canada, the idea was for a couple of years but the family are still here, nearly 50 years later! We have over the years returned for visits – the last time was in 2009.09/05/2024
Alf Milward — The Toffees’ First Great Left Winger of the League Era
Rob Sawyer
Everton's original great left-sided partnership was formed by the contrasting but complimentary attributes of Edgar Chadwick and Alf Milward, a huge factor in the Club landing its very first Football League title in 189101/05/2024
Our Premier League Squad for next season
Mike Allison
We are facing a huge and difficult summer of yet more uncertainty, significant squad changes and a need to be both clever and realistic in what we can achieve in the transfer market27/04/2024
The Premier League: Fantastic success or death knell for competition?
Christine Foster
The league is anti-competitive in its structure, it's rules and operation. Now, unashamedly even the sham of any financial fair play has dropped its own deceit in abandoning the joke that its title alludes to: fairness.10/04/2024
Bournemouth (A) — Don't Let History Repeat Itself
Jim Wilson
We need another good little run, maybe after the Bournemouth and Newcastle games, but maybe a couple of draws in these games could see the confidence growing again.27/03/2024
Colin Harvey — An Evertonian Life
Rob Sawyer
Immortalised as part of the Toffees’ midfield ‘holy trinity’ in the late 1960s and dubbed "the White Pele" by his adoring Goodison faithful, it could be strongly argued that Colin Harvey is currently the greatest living Evertonian.24/03/2024
Alf Harland: The Irishman who became a Toffee and a Linnet
Rob Sawyer
Hailing from County Tyrone, he had the unenviable task of taking over from Everton's pre-WWI championship-winning goalkeeper, Tom Fern. He went on to make 70 appearances for the Blues22/03/2024
The Batistuta Factor
Stephen Vincent
A chance meeting in a hotel lobby ends with an Everton fan watching the Uefa Cup tie in Florence as the guest of a footballing legend.16/03/2024
1966 and All That
Tom Kelly
When the family of Tom Kelly were going through his things following his passing last December, they came across an essay he had written a decade ago recounting his life as an Evertonian, going back five decades. It’s a lovely, evocative piece of writing, worthy of a wider audience.15/03/2024
The Game I Love Has Been Taken From Me
Barry Metcalfe
I often ask myself what is the point of supporting a game where clubs aren’t allowed to compete because it doesn’t fit the Premier League and Sky business model? We now have many large clubs of potential who are disenfranchised.03/03/2024
Chosen by Everton
Ell Bretland
How a James Rodriguez mishap led a man from Texas to fly to Everton29/02/2024
Rooting for 777 Partners
Robert Tressell
I do worry about 777 Partners owning Everton, but I probably worry more that the takeover doesn’t go ahead.28/02/2024
The Deduction Reduction and What it Means for Everton’s Season
Matthew Parry
The little waft of positivity we’ve received today is no consolation. It remains a bitter pill to swallow after what has been a farcical few months from start to finish. Goodison needs to be the bearpit it can be on its best days to sustain our stand against those destroying our game.26/02/2024
John Lindsay’s Unlucky Break
Rob Sawyer
John Lindsay was a classy full-back who suffered injury misfortune that meant he never did get back to the level of fitness and sharpness required for a Blues first team comeback18/02/2024
Goodison Park Legacy Project
James Pankhurst
The majority of the project is superb but why has nothing been said about the complete demolition of such an historically important structure as Goodison Park which has been a part of my life for over 50 years and for hundreds of thousands of other people’s lives for nearly 150 years?12/02/2024
Be glad we’ve got Dyche
Robert Tressell
With the present playing staff, he’s done a remarkable job in the time he’s been here – and though it won’t be pretty, he certainly gives us a very good chance of staying up despite the wildly disproportionate points deduction.03/02/2024
My Blue Journey
Jonathan Oppenheimer
I was not born with Everton in my blood, but I’m now as Blue as they come23/01/2024
John Hurst (1947-2024) — A Tribute
Rob Sawyer
Brian Labone wasn't the only Everton stalwart of his era to embody the Corinthian spirit. "Gentleman Jack" leaves a legacy of being one of the School of Science’s most polished centre-backs and one of its finest men.19/01/2024
Albert Denaro — From Carter’s Boy to Everton’s Boardroom
David Kennedy
The Liverpool-born trade union leader was the founder of the Everton Shareholders Association which, in circumstances that will be feel very familiar in light of the recent protests against the Goodison Park hierarchy, grew out of vocal dissatisfaction with the running of the club in the 1920s and 1930s10/01/2024
Three More Trials for Sean Dyche
Robert Tressell
A follow-up to an article over the summer, three more objectives for the manager for the second half of the 2023-24 season06/01/2024
Goodbye to 2023 — Happy Blue Year
Danny O'Neill
2023 has been a testing year for Evertonians, to say the least.31/12/2023
What do we want to be?
Rob Jones
The new stadium will provide an uplift in revenue but it won't be enough. Some suggest the only way forward for Everton is to be purchased by some nation state but the best we can hope for?28/12/2023
Back to the future
Rob Jones
I'm 35. I became an Everton fan in 1995 (too late, sadly, it was in the autumn). Apologies if this article is long-winded. In many respects, it's a form of therapy, if only for myself.26/12/2023
Book Review: Everything About Everton You Wanted To Know (But were Afraid To Ask)
Andrew Barlow
This would make an excellent present for anybody at Christmas and a wonderful read thereafter.18/12/2023
Big Spending January?
Robert Tressell
It's obviously not going to be a big spending January but we never have needed mega bucks to materially improve the squad. Here’s hoping that Thelwell will have enough wriggle room to do his magic.12/12/2023
View From the Other Side — Newcastle (H)
Ash (NUFC News)
Ash from NUFC News gives the opposition's thoughts ahead of Thursday's game05/12/2023
From Founder Member to Sacrificial Lamb. Should Everton's points penalty be reversed on appeal?
Peter Quinn
Retired lawyer Peter Quinn has been diligently following the case of Everton's PSR breach and provides this article as a comprehensive analysis of where we are after the club filed its appeal of the independent commission's decision to deduct 10 points as punishment in line with Premier League wishes.04/12/2023
The Fever — Becoming an Evertonian in the 1980s
Phil Hamer
An article I wrote for the excellent Blackwatch fanzine last year, about that unrelenting fever of childhood football passion. In my case, it coincided with the a very tough time for Everton, as we plummeted from Champions to mid-table obscurity.03/12/2023
The Dyche Conundrum
Steve Hogan
He's been dealt an awful hand in terms of finances and kept Everton up last season but there are elements of Sean Dyche's management style that are hard to get on board with28/11/2023
Everton Should Take The 10-Point Deduction, They Will Be Okay — Are You Joking??!!
Jim Wilson
The true reality is that our position is now perilous. The Premier League have deliberately put us in a position that could easily get out of control, and that includes financially too.25/11/2023
The Goodison Bugler’s Last Post — The Life of Francis Hamill
Rob Sawyer
Rob Sawyer recalls the man who provided the Toffees with their own musical soundtrack in the late 1920s and 1930s11/11/2023
“I Felt Like I Belonged There” — Nancy Young
Becky Tallentire
Taken from ‘Real Footballers’ Wives — the First Ladies of Everton’ 
by Becky Tallentire in 2004, Nancy Young, the wife of Everton legend Alex, recounts her story.30/10/2023
Nick Walsh and the First Biography of Dixie Dean
Rob Sawyer
It would be nearly 40 years before the supreme Everton marksman’s amazing life story was properly told. The person to thank for capturing Dean’s memories in book form was fellow Birkenhead man, Nick Walsh.17/10/2023
777 Partners and Genoa
Robert Tressell
What have 777 Partners been doing at Genoa these past 2 years?14/10/2023
The Cautionary Tale of Metalist Kharkiv
Stephen Vincent
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.06/10/2023
Mr Dyche, You Drive Me Mad — Play the Winning Team!
Jim Wilson
Assessing the best options in midfield. Spoiler alert: It involves James Garner05/10/2023
I Don't Want to Simply Exist Anymore
Stuart Green
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...04/10/2023
How this horrible Everton chapter ends…
Jacques Sandtonian
I see administration now as a foregone conclusion. I therefore would like to see it happen while we are still a Premier League club. Even if we don’t go into administration, we’re likely facing relegation anyway.20/09/2023
The Three Trials of Sean Dyche
Robert Tressell
The main challenge for Sean Dyche this season is to accrue enough points to keep out of trouble. Having added greater strength to the wings and attack this summer, we should be able to do that.14/09/2023
Everton Village and the Birth of Everton Football Club
Everton Heritage Society
Hot on the heels of recent features about Everton’s first biographer, Thomas Keates, the Everton FC Heritage Society has released a new documentary film about the links between Everton village and the football club which adopted its name in 187913/09/2023
Transfer Window Ratings
Sam Hoare
Sam Hoare runs his rule over the individual incomings and outgoings, and then provides a collective appraisal.05/09/2023
Transfer window: how did we do?
Robert Tressell
The transfer window has closed, and we now (more or less) know the squad that will compete in the 2023-24 season under Sean Dyche02/09/2023
The Fish Rots from the Head
Steve Shave
The old Chinese proverb is very apt to what has gone on at Everton over the past few years24/08/2023
Is Our Man Just a Gofer?
John Hall
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.24/08/2023
Taking the shirt off fans' backs? Someone is.
Charlie Martin
Should fans be dealing with these incredible hikes in kit prices? The answer is no.23/08/2023
The (Thick and) Thin Blue Line: Part Two
John Daley
John Daley's latest Epistle to The Evertonians traces football, family and fatherhood through three generations of Goodison faith and godly misfortune, Part Two23/08/2023
Champagne at Highbury
John McFarlane [Senior]
Tommy Lawton recalls in his own words the Arsenal v Everton game at Highbury in September 193822/08/2023
Everton’s Recruitment — Shrewd and Structured or Same Old, Same Old?
Matthew Parry
It was clear years ago that serious change was required to make relegation battles a thing of the past but one shining light from the depths of despair may well just be the appointments of Sean Dyche and Kevin Thelwell18/08/2023
What’s Left on the Shelf?
Robert Tressell
There's still time and there are still options out there to improve the playing squad before the transfer window deadline15/08/2023
The (Thick and) Thin Blue Line
John Daley
John Daley's latest Epistle to The Evertonians traces football, family and fatherhood through three generations of Goodison faith and godly misfortune.10/08/2023
The Story of The Bullens
Rob Sawyer
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 Dean31/07/2023
The Impetuous Dr Whitford
David Kennedy
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.30/07/2023
Peter Corr: Winning in Blue — and Green — at Goodison Park
Rob Sawyer
Four decades before The Corrs made their musical breakthrough in the British and Irish pop charts, their uncle was an Irish international and Everton footballer. Less appreciated is his role in bringing Howard Kendall to the Toffees.28/07/2023
The Greatest Living Evertonian
Dr David France
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.25/07/2023
Gordon Watson… One of Us
Dr David France
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 1939’19/07/2023
Becoming a big club again
Robert Tressell
The initial building blocks are absolutely vital in our journey to becoming a big club again. There are no shortcuts; we cannot simply wait our turn for a sugar daddy who will probably never arrive.02/07/2023
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