Seasons 2019-20
Opinion & Articles
Contributions from our editorial team, featured columnists and readers.
Comings and Goings
Alasdair Jones
30/05/2020The theme of this article is the transfer dealings of the two managers that succeeded Harry Catterick, and whose objective would be to rebuild the team and ultimately create a Championship-winning side. How did Billy Bingham and then Gordon Lee fare in comparison to the “shrewd operator�
Decline and Fall
Alasdair Jones
29/04/2020Everton's fall from grace after winning the Football League Championship in 1970 is something that rankled with me as it unfolded in the early '70s. Writing a few weeks back about the 1970 Championship win (Our Golden Anniversary) reignited my need to try and get a handle on why it all came about.
Six Degrees of Separation
Pete Jones
20/04/2020The author tries to link Everton to himself via a bit of land in South Merseyside, the first unequivocal victory for British and Dominion force in WW1, one of the greatest songwriters of the past 60 years and what appears to be the archetypal reality TV show in six steps.
Our Golden Anniversary
Alasdair Jones
09/04/20201 April 2020 marked the Golden Anniversary of Everton securing the First Division Championship trophy in that most memorable 1969-70 season.
Everything You Wanted To Know About Portugal (But Were Afraid To Ask)
Pete Jones
14/02/2020I'd been thinking about writing something about Portugal and Brazil since the appointment of Marco Silva and the arrival of Portuguese speaking players like Bernard, Gomes and Richarlison
Patience?
Alasdair Jones
18/11/2019With the high expectations that attach to expensive incoming players, and the frustration amongst many about the reluctance to use young players, I am prompted recall how the club performed in relation to these matters during my earlier years as a Blues supporter. This led me to consider the way in which previous teams were assembled. How successful or otherwise was Harry Catterick in the 1960s in his quest to rejuvenate and remodel his Championship team of 1963?
(Everton in the) Community Singing
Pete Jones
02/11/2019If you were watching BBC Look North West on September 26th 2019 you may have caught a report about BBC Music Day which included a snippet about a mass singsong at the National Football Museum. The singers were drawn from football clubs across the North West and the newly formed Everton in the Community Friday lunchtime singing group represented the Blues.
Bus and Boat Return
Alasdair Jones
15/10/2019As a bit of light relief, given our present travails, and with an eye to nostalgia, I thought I would pen and submit this short article.
The Nursery
Pete Jones
21/08/2019In a region of France known as the Forgotten Front lies an area dubbed “the Nursery Sectorâ€, where new formations arriving on the Western front in WWI were often given their first front line experience. One was the 2/10th (Scottish) Battalion of the King's Liverpool which included Corporal Wilfred Toman, formerly of Everton FC who was killed there on 2nd May 1917
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