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Kissing The Badge, Part 2 — A Little Latin

Pete Jones
04/04/2019

All of us know at least one bit of Latin: Nil Satis Nisi Optimum; moreover we can translate it. But how come a modern football club on Merseyside has a motto in a language that hasn't been spoken as a native tongue for 1,500 years?

On Everton's Radar

Pete Jones
14/01/2019

These days, you can keep up with the transfer gossip 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If the complexity of the deals and the number of ways you can find rumours of them has increased, much of the vocabulary used to describe them is resolutely traditional.

Kissing The Badge, Part 1 — The Name Everton

Pete Jones
05/11/2018

One of ToffeeWeb's esteemed Everton historians looks at the origins of the name that our club adopted from the district in 1879 and still proudly bears to this day


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