News Archive – Sep

Leicester City vs Everton

19/09/2024

Everton will travel to the King Power Stadium this weekend for what is an important fixture despite how early it is in the season but Sean Dyche’s squad continues to be stretched.

Footie in Yesteryear

18/09/2024

Just to get away from the nightmare that is supporting Everton these days, I came across an online article re Villa winning the European Cup in 1982. It stated that, in that complete season, they used 14 players: 42 league games (it didn’t say how many League Cup and FA Cup matches), plus however many […]

Catharsis

17/09/2024

Everton fans, over the years, have become all too familiar with that losing feeling. We hate it, and we kid ourselves that it doesn’t hurt. Behind the apathetic mask, it hurts. A lot. Inside, we are incredulous with rage that the players seem oblivious to the privilege bestowed upon them to play for this (once??) […]

Everton vs Southampton

17/09/2024

Everton turn once again to the Carabao Cup for a potential lift in their fortunes and a platform on which to build a revival in the Premier League after four straight defeats as they welcome Southampton to Goodison Park

Everton Statistics Since Moshiri bought into the Club in 2016

17/09/2024

This article will look at the statistics of Everton and provide only facts — there is some conjecture when it is appropriate to do this, but everything within this document is the truth. As Keats once opined, “Truth beauty”. Others have also been quoted as saying that “you can’t handle the truth!” You, my dear […]

A new season unfolds: Early impressions and what to expect at Everton

16/09/2024

Having gone into the 2024/25 Premier League season with renewed hope, three defeats in three games have brought Everton fans crashing back down to earth. While no one on the blue half of Merseyside expected the Toffees to be challenging for the title, improving on last season’s 15th-place finish was a realistic target. Everton would […]

Premier League — Matchweek 4

14/09/2024

Half of the weekend fixtures are slated for live broadcast in the UK, including Everton’s match at Villa Park: Saturday 14 September 202412:30 Southampton v Manchester Utd — TNT Sports 117:30 Aston Villa v Everton — Sky Sports20:00 Bournemouth v Chelsea — Sky Sports Sunday 15 September 202414:00 Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal — Sky Sports16:30 […]

Elsewhere On The Web

What is the future of VAR?

14/09/2024

ESPN’s resident expert on Video Assistant Refereeing, the rules of the game and their interpretation in the modern era of incidents reviewed on screens, sometimes hundreds of miles away, Dale Johnson, joins Jake Humphrey and guests to discuss the changes that are coming to the Premier League, in particular semi-automated offside. They debate the degree […]

Onana — “I grew as a man at Everton”

14/09/2024

Amadou Onana has spoken of how his experience playing through Everton's emotional battles against relegation has shaped him ahead of his reunion with the Blues at Villa Park this evening.

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John Textor’s Everton bid: ‘New equity’, Moshiri’s options, and what of his Crystal Palace shares?

13/09/2024

Writing in The Athletic, Matt Slater outlines the reasons why John Textor’s bid for Everton isn’t ever likely to come off. Chief among them are concerns among his partners in Eagle Football Group around Farhad Moshiri’s links with sanctioned oligarch, Alisher Usmanov, and the sponsorship his USM Holdings provided the Club prior to Russia’s invasion […]

The Everton takeover saga – further analysis of the potential Textor bid

13/09/2024

To purchase Everton, Textor has to sell his holding in Crystal Palace, whether held directly or indirectly, and the ownership and control of that club is complex. So significant barriers exist, not all answers are known and in the meantime Everton’s competitive and financial position worsens under Farhad Moshiri.

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Iliman Ndiaye: From park pitches and rejection to Everton’s beacon of hope

13/09/2024

“It’s been a Roy of the Rovers story for Iliman, from where he’s come from. The journey just feels too big, but he gives hope to everyone I work with that it can happen if you do the right things. Iliman’s the inspiration.” In The Athletic, Paddy Boyland charts the rise of the Senegalese forward […]

The Very Highest Standards

13/09/2024

Moyes may cast a shadow, but Evertonians must never lose sight of the fact that they deserve managers of the calibre of Howe and Arteta.

Aston Villa vs Everton

12/09/2024

Seamus Coleman has been described by Sean Dyche as "touch and go" for the weekend after sustaining a knock on international duty with Ireland.

Textor confident of completing Everton takeover

11/09/2024

John Textor, the American billionaire who has been in exclusive negotiations with Farhad Moshiri regarding a potential buy-out of the Anglo-Iranian's majority stake in Everton, has expressed his confidence in completing a takeover before December.

Moshiri-owned company sued by Usmanov

11/09/2024

The Athletic report that Alisher Usmanov and USM Holdings recently brought a case against a company owned by Everton owner, Farhad Moshiri.

We’re back… mostly

11/09/2024

I can’t lie, the past 36 to 48 hours have been hell but I’ve finally got the site up and running in all areas apart from the archived articles from past seasons. I’ll work on restoring those as soon as possible (although it was the archive database that has caused all the problems in getting […]