Season 18-19 Opinion Columns
Column & Opinion Articles
Contributions from our editorial team and featured columnists.
Soccer Boss? You”re Joking — I Want to be an Undertaker
Rob Sawyer
This article, adapted from the original, published in Lancashire Soccer Annual (1970), underlines Ray Wilson's candour and honesty — and his pride at having played for Everton FC24/06/2019
“Rags”: The Life of Cuthbert Tatters
Rob Sawyer
Few footballers' names are more evocative of bygone times in the Goodison lexicon than Cuthbert Tatters.18/05/2019
Harold Uren and His Sporting Dynasty
Rob Sawyer
Harold Uren holds the distinction of being the first footballer to transfer directly from Liverpool to Everton. His sons Harold and Dick would go on to have notable careers in sport of their own.20/04/2019
Tommy White — A Player of Many Parts
Rob Sawyer
Tommy White was Everton's ‘Mr Versatile' in a decade of service, which saw the club win two First Division titles, a Second Division Championship and the FA Cup.10/04/2019
Ron Saunders — The Toffee Years
Rob Sawyer
Ron Saunders is best remembered for moulding the Aston Villa team which won the League Cup in 1975 and 1977, the Football League championship in 1981 and the European Cup in 1982. Less reported is the fact that he began his life in football as an Evertonian.19/03/2019
“Flicka” — The Life of Graham Williams (1936-2018)
Rob Sawyer
The "small but stockily-built" winger who was signed as a promising 19-year-old from Bradford City in 1956 and spent three years with the Blues, passed away last November aged 81.21/02/2019
Fred Pickering — A Tribute
Rob Sawyer
The Everton legend passed away yesterday in his home town of Blackburn aged 78.10/02/2019
Jason Scott-Lee: Football Pioneer
Rob Sawyer
The story of one of the first of two players of Chinese heritage to play for Everton, some six decades before Li Tie and Li Weifeng would sign for the club under David Moyes20/12/2018
Billy and Bob: The Fabulous Balmer Brothers
Rob Sawyer
William and Robert Balmer formed a fearsome, and fruitful, fraternal partnership in Everton's back-line in the early years of the 20th Century22/11/2018
Gentleman John
Rob Sawyer
The infamous circumstances of Johnny Carey's dismissal as Everton manager in 1961 have entered football folklore but there was so much more to this which makes the focus on that taxi ride unjust.13/11/2018
“Maestro” — The Jack Southworth Story
Rob Sawyer
Evertonians laud the club's lineage of talismanic goal scorers but some wonderful marksmen are somewhat overlooked. One of them, Jack Southworth, remains the only Everton player to score a double hat-trick in a first team match. Yet there was much more to this polymath who excelled on both musical and sporting stages.10/09/2018
“Bunny” — The Robert Bell Story
Rob Sawyer
The Wirral has a proud tradition of producing high-calibre footballers and for a period in the 20th century, Tranmere became something of a centre-forward factory, producing the likes of “Dixie†Dean and his eventual team-mate “Bunny†Bell.31/07/2018
Elie Hurel — The First Jerseyman to Play in the First Division
Rob Sawyer
Elie Hurel was the first man from the Channel Islands dependencies to play in the English top flight. His journey there — from being orphaned as a child to lining up alongside the legendary Bill “Dixie†Dean at Goodison Park — is a remarkable one.18/07/2018
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