• 31st: David Weir plays in Scotland's 1-2 home defeat by the Czech Republic. Don Hutchison gets his first senior national run out as a 63rd-min substitute for Gary McAllister.
• 29th:  Representatives of HSBC's investment banking arm have been visiting Goodison and Bellefield, as a precursor to the next stage of Bill Kenwright's takeover bid.
• 28th: The Everton U-14's are playing in the Dallas Cup in, er, Dallas, TX. Everton Ladies fail in the League Cup Final against Arsenal at Prenton Park, losing 1-3.
• 27th: Don Hutchison is called up to join David Weir in Craig Brown's Scotland squad but their match against Bosnia is called off. Everton Reserves lose 0-3 at Manchester United, where Mitch Ward makes a comeback from injury.
• 26th:  Everton called off their friendly trip to the Gulf for a match against a Dubai Select XI. Michael Ball plays a vital part in the England U-21 5-0 demolition of Poland at The Dell, but Steve Simonsen is not even on the bench! Peter Degn played for Denmark U-21 in their 1-2 defeat by Italy. Don Hutchison's red card appeal has been predictably denied: lack of video evidence.
• 25th: Transfer Deadline Day – its not Celtic's Morten Weighorst, who is injured, or ex-Blue Tony Cottee, who's Leicester boss told Walter where to put his £500,000 offer... The new face is Scott Gemmill of Nottingham Forest, joining Everton for a "nominal fee" of around £200,000. Peter Degn is being lined up to play for Everton in the Liverpool Senior Cup Second Round tie with Tranmere Rovers. 
• 24th: The arrival of Kevin Campbell on loan from Turkish club Trabzonspor is confirmed. Another non-achiever, ex-Red Michael Thomas, will thankfully not be joining Everton from Benfica, where he is still owed money. Meanwhile, ex-Evertonian Graham Stuart has stepped back into the Premiership with Charlton Athletic, leaving cash-strapped Sheffield United for £1.1M.
• 23rd: The FA Youth Cup campaign forges ahead with a 1-0 home win over Aston Villa in the 6th Round, thanks to an early goal from recalled first-teamer, Francis Jeffers.
• 22nd: Olivier Dacourt's 13th yellow card yesterday, just three weeks after his FA Disciplinary dressing down, puts him perilously close to incurring the full wrath of the FA.
• 21st: The realists expected nothing else at Manchester United: losing Bakayoko after 5 mins, and losing the match 1-3 in a 13-min second-half blitz that swamped a very poor Everton team forced by Walter Smith to defend the one point they arrived with. Peter Degn got his debut as a sub.
• 20th: Howard Kendall was fired by Greek club Ethnikos after less than 4 months in charge. Ethnikos are in last place in the Greek first division and 8 points adrift.
• 19th: Cold water has been poured on Bill Kenwright's Everton takeover bid by the spectre of relegation, and the fear that nothing will be sorted until the status of the club for next season has been established.
• 18th: The Nigerian Nonsense takes a new twist as Everton back down, and push the go/no-go decision onto their youth players due to represent England and Eire in the World U-20 Championships next month
• 17th: Everton legend Peter Farrell died yesterday. He played right half and led the Everton team that won promotion in 1953-54.
• 16th:  Everton Reserves again fail to get a game as Liverpool postpone the match at St Helens. Richard Dunne will miss the Manchester United match on the 21^st following a recurrent hamstring injury.
• 15th: The investment banking arm of one of the biggest banks in the world, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), is understood to have assembled a consortium of financial backers prepared to underwrite Bill Kenwright's bid to take over control of Everton FC Co Ltd from estranged and discredited majority shareholder, Peter Johnson.
• 14th: Don Hutchison will miss three vital relegation clashes, starting with the Anfield derby, after he became the latest Everton Badboy to suffer from incompetent refereeing. He may appeal, but we know that does a fat lot of good.
• 13th: A real battle lost by Everton against Champions, Arsenal, who run out 2-0 winners after and getting Hutchison sent off and conning Uriah Rennie into a bizarrely inconsistent display of refereeing.
• 11th: Fifa may threaten Everton, Leeds United, and Benfica with suspension if they do not release youth players for the World Under-20 Championships in Nigeria next month.
• 10th: Everton battle back from an early goal down to score a vital win 2-1 at Blackburn Rovers with a brace from Ibrahima Bakayoko.  Jamie Milligan bags two penalties for England's U-18 team as they beat Andorra 8-0 in Spain.
• 9th: Everton have ended their bizarre and somewhat pointless sponsorship of Dublin club Home Farm Everton, who may now drop the name and revert to being just Home Farm.
• 8th: Jamie Milligan plays for the England U-18 squad in Spain, playing preliminary group qualifying matches against Spain today, Andorra (on the 10th), and Israel (12th) for the European Championship.
• 7th: In the FA Cup 6th Round, Everton travel to Newcastle United without three suspended players: Dacourt, Dunne, and Ball, and end up losing 4-1 after showing the Toonies how to play football for over an hour.
• 6th:  Fellow strugglers in the mire of the Premiership Table do Everton few favours as they slip to 16th place – just 2 pts ahead of Southampton.
• 3rd: Everton are reportedly withdrawing their young bucks – Dunne, Regan, Milligan, Delaney – from the Eire and England U-18 World Championship teams that are supposed to play in Nigeria next month. Paul Gerrard's loan to Oxford United has been extended to a third month.
• 2nd: At Olivier Dacourt's FA Disciplinary Hearing for his is 11th yellow card, he is given a two-match ban and fined £1,000 for his trouble. The Reserves match against Blackburn Rovers in Widnes has been called off due to a waterlogged pitch. And Everton FC have won the right to redevelop Goodison Park as a shopping outlet, should they chose to move grounds in the future...
• 1st:  The FA Youth Cup campaign continues at Goodison Park, with a brilliant 3-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday in a 5th Round replay.

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