As we come up on the Goodison finale, I have just spent a glorious 90 minutes watching this film. Posted on the EFC Heritage Society website, it’s the first of three films featuring Dr Everton, aka David France OBE, creator and keeper of the greatest one-club historical archive in any sport, anywhere. David Prentice asked […]
I thought now would be a good time to look back on the foundation of our great club, before it became fully professional and moved into its first purpose-built football ground
Nostalgic as many of us are, and respectful as I am of so many fellow Toffees, I just want to cite the best ever game I ever saw at our beloved Goodison Park. I hope many others cite their most cherished memory too. Easter 1970 was the best experience for me: namely Everton 5-2 Chelsea. […]
This is the story of 11 one-match wonders who made just one appearance each in Everton's inaugural season in the new Football League, 1888-89.
Coincidental connections between the 19th Century scourge of London, and players in Everton's inaugural team on the occasion of their first Football League fixture, are explored in detail.
The concluding instalment of Gavin Buckland’s trilogy covering Everton in the Moores era, from the summer of 1985 to 1994 with the Blues in relegation peril
The story of two brothers: one an international-standard cricketer and footballer who was named an Everton Giant earlier this century; the other having a career in the same sports, but something of a footnote in the Club's history
A timely installment of Real Footballers' Wives featuring Maureen Temple, wife of Everton's FA Cup goalscoring hero Derek, who was born Maureen Molyneux in Dovecot on 31 August 1941 and sadly passed away this week
The touching story of a young Evertonian who was mascot for the Blues' clash with Manchester United in September 1986 and died from Leukaemia within hours of his special moment at Goodison Park.
For four decades, the responsibility for keeping the famous Goodison Park playing surface in top-top condition lay with the Storey family
Locally born, he served both Blue and Red during a long and varied career as a player, coach and manager that took him well beyond Britain's shores.