• 29th:  A very disapointing performance by Everton at home to Tottenham Hotspur, when Les Ferdinand (yet again!) expoilts the poor Everton defence to secure a 1-0 win.
• 28th:  Graham Allen has joined Tranmere Rovers on a month's loan.
• 27th:  Everton are drawn away to Huddersfield Town in the 2nd Round (1st Leg) of the Worthington Cup.
• 26th:  Joe Parkinson's return is still a long way off: he has more surgery set for December, and hopes to start light trianing next March.
• 25th:  Everton announce an operating profit of just under £1M, turning around a loss of £2.89M from the previous season.  The Reserves mark up a 2-0 win away at Nottingham Forest, with Phil Jevons scoring both goals.
• 23rd:  Richard Dunne is on crutches with a foot injury, and Danny Williamson faces an extended period of recouperation after an operation on his injured foot.
• 22nd:  Early-season promise evaporates in the heat of Filbert St, as Everton are shreded by a stunning 1st-half surge from Leicester City, with Tony Cottee opening the scoring in an easy 2-0 win.
• 21st: Walter Smith's much publicized campaign to sign Mario Stanic falls through when Parma refuse to release him, despite a £4.5M bid.  Former Everton championship winner Alan Harper has returned to Goodison and will help Colin Harvey coach the club's youngsters.
• 20th:  The saga of prodigal son, David Unsworth, finally ends as Peter Johnson finds some extra fat in the farcically protracted wranglings with Aston Villa.  Slaven Bilic is out for a few weeks with his troublesome thigh strain.
• 19th:  Young goalkeeper, John O'Toole, has gone on loan to non-league Barrow-in-Furness.
• 18th:  Mickael Madar gets a 3-match suspension for his red-card indiscretion at the pre-season "friendly" against Fortuna Sittard. The Reserves are in action at home to Derby County, the match ending in a 1-1 draw with a goal from Gavin McCann.
• 17th:  Unsworth makes a reluctant debut for Aston Villa reserves as his move to Everton is still in limbo...  Neville Southall moves on to Doncaster Rovers.
• 16th:  Chris Woods, the goalkeeping coach, is registered as a player to provide cover for Thomas Myhre and Paul Gerrard.
• 15th:  The new season kicks off at Goodison Park with a disappointing 0-0 draw against Aston Villa the new star John Collins missing a penalty after just 8 mins. David Unsworth is ironically suspended for this match, along with Francis Jeffers.
• 14th:  Both Slaven Bilic (groin strain) and Tony Grant (minor knee op) are likely to miss tomorrow's season opener.
• 13th:  Slaven Bilic revealed that he turned down lucrative offers from Real Madrid, Inter Milan, and Juventus, to stay at Everton, where he is impressed with the influx of new blood.
• 12th: There is heavy speculation that Mario Stanic will join his Croatian teammate at Everton.
• 11th:  The Unsworth saga takes another twist as he returns to train with Aston Villa.
• 8th: In their last pre-season "friendly", Everton suffer an acrimonious 0-2 defeat at Fortuna Sittard, with Mickael Madar being sent off!
• 7th: Everton are slapped with a fine of £50,000 (suspended for one season), for last season's bad-boys' indiscretions which led to the Premiership's highest number of yellow and red cards, breaching FA rules!
• 6th: The fiasco of David Unsworth's transfer back to Goodison has become stalled, perhaps by Peter Johnson's reluctance to match Aston Villa's pass-on deal
• 5th:  Everton played out a 0-0 draw against Belgian 1st Division side, St Triuden.  Many papers are running with a story that Everton have agreed a fee of £3.5M for Steve Simonsen, the 19-year-old goalkeeping sensation at Prenton Park.
• 4th:  Michael Ball has been included in the England U-21 squad which assembles for a 3-day get-together later this month.
• 2nd:  Everton win the first 45-min game 2-0 against Español in a mini-Tournament to celebrate the centenary of Standard Liège. They then draw 0-0 with hosts, Standard Liège, and lose the penalty shoot-out.  However, they win the Tournoi de Gala trophy on goal difference!
• 1st:  Everton crash 1-3 to AZ Alkmaar in the first match of their Holland-Belgium pre-season tour.

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