Everton Season Diary: October 1997

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October 1997

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29th: Slaven Bilic gets the Croatians' first goal against Ukraine in Kiev as they win 2-0 in the first leg of the World Cup Qualifying Playoffs. Terry Phelan stays on the bench as Ireland draw 1-1 with Belgium. Thomas Myhre, trial goalkeeper with the Everton Reserves at Blackburn, impresses but fails to keep a clean sheet as a reasonably strong team (with Richard Dunne returning) lose 0-2 and slip to 4th in the Pontins Central League Premier Division.
28th: Reserves player, Mark Quayle, is going on trial with Swindon Town.
27th: Publication day for Everton Greats, the book written by Everton fan, Jon Berman, about what happened to the footballer-heroes who graced Goodison Park after they hung up their boots.
25th: Everton fail to extract full revenge at Coventry City but come away with a creditable 0-0 draw. Richard Dunne plays a key role in Ireland's U-18 win in Moldovia. Michael Ball captains the England U-18s to a 2-1 defeat in Russia.
October 26th: Howard Kendall decides he has no further interest in Dalian Atkinson, who returns to Turkey. Everton FC place an advert in The Sunday Times for a new Chief Executive to revitalise the merchandising and lead the new stadium project.
23rd: Everton Reserves added the scalp of Liverpool's second string at Goodison Park as they triumphed 4-3 after squandering a 3-goal lead. Visit the Everton Reserves page for a match summary. Branch sustained another injury and misses the Coventry match on the 25th.
22nd: The Croatian FA deny Everton's request for Slaven Bilic to play at Coventry as they prepare for their World Cup Qualifying Playoff on the 29th. An X-ray reveals that Tony Grant has a hairline fracture of the shin and could be out for at least 3 weeks.
21st: Howard Kendall reveals the truth about Ince, Ferdinand, and Ravanelli exclusively to ToffeeNet in Joe Banerjee's unique interview with the Everton Manager. Richard Dunne returns to Home Farm for a loan spell to improve his fitness and lose a bit of extra weight.
20th: Franz Carr has returned to his Italian club but Dalian Atkinson remains at Bellefield for the time-being as Howard Kendall looks for clearance from Galatasary for him to play in the mini-derby on the 23rd.
19th: Howard Kendall has negotiated the release of Danny Cadamarteri from the England U-18 squad so that he can play for Everton at Coventry on the 25th; Michael Ball will be away for the clash with Russia.
October 18th: Southall is back in goal as Everton outplay Liverpool in a stirring display at Goodison Park, winning 2-0 with an amusing og from Ruddock and a wonderful solo goal from Danny Cadamarteri, who started in place of Barmby. Slaven Bilic is suspended for this match. Someone chose an inopportune time (pre-match) to distribute 20,000 leaflets demanding the removal of Peter Johnson, the beleaguered Everton Club Chairman.
16th: Howard Kendall makes an unprecedented attack on his players for their lack of committment and poor quality, and threatens to use reserves against Liverpool... Everton Reserves must have impressed Kendall as they hammered Sheffield Wednesday away from home, also by 4 goals to 1, with both Dalian Atkinson and Franz Carr playing.
15th: Everton crash out of the Coca-Cola Cup in a disastrous 3rd Round 1-4 defeat at Coventry City, which ends with a bizarre incident in which Kendall claims to have been "warming down" the players on the field...
14th: Neville Southall will be given a free transfer if and when a back-up/replacement for him is lined up.
11th: Of Everton's four full internationals in this weekend's squads, only Terry Phelan starts for Ireland. The others are Gareth Farrelly (Ireland), Neville Southall (Wales), and Andy Hinchcliffe, who is part of the triumphant England squad that secure a place in France 98 with their stultifying 0-0 draw in Italy. John Oster gets a dubious full debut or Wales as a last-minute sub. Welsh captain Gary Speed is suspended. At lower levels, Everton are represented by Danny Cadamarteri and Michael Ball (England U-18), and Richard Dunne (Republic of Ireland U-18).
10th: Joe Parkinson has had another operation on his knee and will now be out for at least 4 or 5 months -- probably to the end of the season.
October 9th: Pat Nevin has written a book entitled In Ma Head, Son! with psychologist Dr George Sik, about the mind of a footballer. More information is available from ToffeeWeb's exclusive listing of Everton Books.
8th: Slaven Bilic has been charged with misconduct by the FA for remarks he allegedly made to referee Graham Poll following his sending off against Newcastle on September 24.
7th: A strong Everton Reserves team beat Manchester United's reserves 3-2 at Goodison Park. Franz Carr runs out for the Blues as a late second-half sub. Commentary was provided *live* on the new #Comms IRC Channel (DALNet) by the excellent ToffeeNet commentary team.
6th: Unfit veterans, Franz Carr and Dalian Atkinson, are joining in with group training at Bellefield this week.
5th: Tommy Ring, a famous Everton player and Scottish international from the 1950s, has died aged 67.
4th: Everton visit Sheffield Wednesday but lose 1-3, the Owls' goals coming in the last 12 minutes when Danny Cadamarteri also got the consolation goal -- after missing a golden opportunity earlier...
3rd: John Hills returns from another successful loan period at Swansea City.
2nd: Andy Hinchcliffe has signed a new 3- or 4-yr contract with Everton.
1st: Everton beat Scunthorpe United 5-0 in the return leg of the Coca-Cola Cup 2nd Round tie at Goodison Park, with excellent performances by Oster, Speed and Ball. Goals from Stuart, Oster, Barmby (2) and Cadamarteri, but Grant picks up yet another injury.

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