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Contributions from our editorial team, featured columnists and readers.

Soccer Boss? You”re Joking — I Want to be an Undertaker

Rob Sawyer
24/06/2019

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 FC

“Rags”: The Life of Cuthbert Tatters

Rob Sawyer
18/05/2019

Few footballers' names are more evocative of bygone times in the Goodison lexicon than Cuthbert Tatters.

Harold Uren and His Sporting Dynasty

Rob Sawyer
20/04/2019

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.

Tommy White — A Player of Many Parts

Rob Sawyer
10/04/2019

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.

Ron Saunders — The Toffee Years

Rob Sawyer
19/03/2019

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.

“Flicka” — The Life of Graham Williams (1936-2018)

Rob Sawyer
21/02/2019

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.

Fred Pickering — A Tribute

Rob Sawyer
10/02/2019

The Everton legend passed away yesterday in his home town of Blackburn aged 78.

Jason Scott-Lee: Football Pioneer

Rob Sawyer
20/12/2018

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 Moyes

Billy and Bob: The Fabulous Balmer Brothers

Rob Sawyer
22/11/2018

William and Robert Balmer formed a fearsome, and fruitful, fraternal partnership in Everton's back-line in the early years of the 20th Century

Gentleman John

Rob Sawyer
13/11/2018

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.

“Maestro” — The Jack Southworth Story

Rob Sawyer
10/09/2018

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.

“Bunny” — The Robert Bell Story

Rob Sawyer
31/07/2018

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.

Elie Hurel — The First Jerseyman to Play in the First Division

Rob Sawyer
18/07/2018

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.


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