Can you name the 50 teams Dixie Dean scored against when he played for Everton?
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The Bradford Blizzard
In the 1904/05 season, Everton were cruelly denied the First Division title by one point. “Cruelly” being the operative word here as in November 1904, Everton were leading 3-1 against Arsenal at the Manor Ground but the match was abandoned 15 minutes before full-time due to fog. In the rematch the following April, Arsenal won 2-1. If the original match had continued right to the end, Everton could have been champions. Luck was against Everton that season but in 1915, it made up for it.
Brawling Blues
The start of the 1990/91 season was as bad as it could get for Everton. Star players requesting moves, no points and bottom of the league. Everton lost each of their first three games of the season and were the only team in the First Division without a point. Colin Harvey decided to take the players out for a meal, hoping that uniting everyone will help kick-start their season. But it all went horribly wrong.
When Everton Fans And Watford Fans Were Friends
Everton and Watford’s relationship has turned quite sour since the Blues pursued the Hornet’s manager Marco Silva in November 2017 and then appointing him as their manager in May 2018. A couple of months after the appointment, Watford submitted a complaint to the Premier League, claiming Everton made an illegal approach for Silva. Watford also stopped playing Z Cars in the last few weeks of the 2018/19 season and replaced it with I’m Still Standing by Elton John. (The theme was then brought back in the first game of the 2019/20 season against Brighton.) Everton subsequently paid Watford compensation of £4m. The Watford fans showed their disapproval of Marco Silva by bringing rubber snakes to the clubs’ first meeting since Silva’s appointment as Everton manager the following December.
The relationship between the clubs is in tatters, and there is a bit of acrimony between the fan bases as well. However, there was a time when Everton fans and Watford fans had a fraternal friendship.
Cyril Webster – The Courteous Clerk
It is extremely rare for players to spend a decade at the same club and not make a single first-team appearance. Before the Second World War, Everton had a player who did exactly that – Cyril Roscoe Webster.
Phil Jagielka Quiz
The day this quiz was posted was also Phil Jagielka’s last day as an Everton player. How much do you know about Philip Nikodem Jagielka during his Everton career?
| What was Jagielka's first shirt number at Everton? | |
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| Who did Jagielka replace as Everton's number 6 - the shirt number he has kept for the rest of his Everton career? | |
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| Which team did Jagielka make his competitive Everton debut against? | |
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| Jagielka made his competitive Everton debut as a substitute. Who did he replace? | |
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| Jagielka scored 19 goals in all competitions for Everton - the first was in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup against which team? | |
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| Conversely, Jagielka scored 4 own goals for Everton's opponents - half of them were for which team? | |
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| Jagielka's most famous goal for Everton was his last-minute equaliser against Liverpool in 2014. Which Liverpool player "assisted" Jagielka when he headed the ball out of the box to him? | |
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| Jagielka's highest goalscoring tally in a single Premier League season for Everton was 4 in the 2014/15 season. Which team did he score against in both league meetings that season? | |
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| Jagielka has been sent off only twice in his entire Everton career - against Wolves and who else? | |
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| On 12th October 2015, Jagielka became the first Everton player to captain England from the start of the match. Who were England's opponents? | |
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The Roker Park Comeback
On 30th January 1935, Everton beat Sunderland 6-4 after extra time in an epic FA Cup match, often regarded as Goodison Park’s greatest ever match. However, it wasn’t the only entertaining match between the two sides in the 1930s. Just over a year later, on 7th March 1936 at Roker Park, the two sides met in the First Division in a game that made Everton history.
Everton’s 2018/19 Statistical Summary
A statistical summary of an improved season for Everton.
The Derby That Never Was
On 20th October 1996, Everton and Liverpool were set to play against each other in the 184th Merseyside Derby. Ahead of the game, Everton were unbeaten in the previous 4 derbies, winning 2 of them. Both sets of fans were eagerly awaiting the occasion, however disappointment was on the horizon – not for just one team, but for both teams. Controversial decisions by a referee is nothing new in the Merseyside Derby, but this time, a controversial decision was made BEFORE the game. Around an hour before kick-off, the Merseyside Derby was called off by matchday referee Roger Dilkes due to torrential rain.
Fred Pickering – The Boomer From Blackburn
On 10th March 1964, Fred Pickering joined Everton from Blackburn for £85,000. At the time of the transfer, it was both a record fee for Everton and for a transfer between two English clubs, eclipsing the £60,000 Everton spent on Tony Kay from Sheffield Wednesday in December 1962. However, Pickering was not short of interest. At the start of 1964, it was reported that Leeds made a joint £120,000 bid for Pickering and Mike England, and just before the transfer, he was linked with a move to Tottenham, Manchester United, Sunderland and Wolves. But he decided to go to Everton.