The game was entering the final minute of normal time, and David Moyes was incredulous. Everton, with the chance to go fourth, had contrived to lose. They had dominated the game, but the visitors, Tottenham Hotspur, had stood firm. What’s more, they had nabbed a goal, and were set to celebrate a smash-and-grab victory. The […]
Every football club has a ‘bogey team’. There is (at least) one side who cause a sense of impending dread when the time to play them rolls around again. A couple of years ago, the Telegraph crunched the numbers and worked out each of the Premier League clubs’ most feared opposition. Arsenal’s was Chelsea. Chelsea’s […]
Of all the sides Everton could potentially face in the third qualifying round of the Europa League, only one was a familiar sight. As it happens, it is SK Brann Bergen that Ronald Koeman’s Blues will face, if the Norwegian side are able to overcome MFK Ruzomberok. The class of 2017, bolstered by the likes […]
Romelu Lukaku scored a total of 87 Everton goals in his four years at the club. A number of them were matchwinners. But while the Manchester United forward’s maiden Blues goal was one, it was just one of many intriguing details in a topsy-turvy match best remembered for some Leighton Baines magic. West Ham was […]
David Moyes won 218 of his 518 games in charge of Everton – arguably, it was win number 100 that was his best. It was November 2007, and Sunderland had come to town looking for three important points in their relegation scrap. They left with their tails firmly between their legs, having been given an […]
If he were to sum up his three-season spell as Everton manager in one word, Roberto Martinez might plump for “phenomenal”. Evertonians feeling embittered by a failure to build on a great deal of promise might go for something shorter and blunter. “Entertaining” is a fair compromise, one neutrals would certainly agree with. The Spaniard […]
There’s nothing quite as unexpectedly glorious as a last-minute winner. Settling down and considering the ramifications of earning a single point, considering whether the performance had merited more, readying yourself for the journey home when, suddenly, it happens. The ball hits the back of the net, and the world is turned upside down. You embrace […]
What is, to date, the best FA Cup match ever? Ask a fan of every team that has taken part, and you’d probably get a unique answer from almost every single one. Evertonians can point to an incredible night at Goodison Park in February 1991 that really could stake a serious claim to be the […]
Romelu Lukaku will be known by most Evertonians under the age of 30, for the foreseeable future at least, as the best striker they have seen wearing the famous royal blue. His strength, pace and lethal finishing make him an all-round talent that has the potential to mix it with the best in the world. […]
Everton had a problem. Their FA Cup semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur was on a knife-edge with 23 minutes to go, and Paul Rideout was sprawled on the Elland Road grass in considerable pain. The forward had been carrying an injury going into the game, and now Joe Royle had a decision to make. Daniel Amokachi […]