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78,299 fans crammed like Scouse sardines into Goodison to watch this Merseyside derby. It was an attendance that has never been - and probably never will be eclipsed.
#16.Everton 1-0 Tottenham. 20th April 1963. – “Our biggest rival was Tottenham and thanks to the work of Jimmy Gabriel and Tony Kay, we slaughtered them at Goodison. It was a tremendous effort and I was thrilled to score the golden goal. I must admit that it was a pretty good header.” - Alex Young Everton came into this game level on points with Tottenham at the summit of the league table. The next six games would be a straight sprint for the title. Alex Young, on seventeen minutes, hung in the air as he headed in a Roy Vernon cross and won Everton this game. Young’s leap was...
EVERTON 2 (McAuley 18 og, Anichebe 68) – WEST BROMWICH ALBION 0 March, with its glut of crucial games, was always going to be season defining for Everton. However as someone once said difficulties create opportunities and how well the squad have responded; even the much changed team which went down 3-0 at Anfield might have served a useful purpose if it planted even the tiniest seed of over-confidence amongst the players who wear red and the inhabitants of the boot room. New signings can take a long time to settle; each is different physically and psychologically. We were lucky enough to witness both Howard Kendall and Alan Ball’s...
#15.Everton 6-4 Sunderland. 30th January 1935 – “It was a match of a lifetime; one international player of years gone by told me he had never seen anything to approach this historic struggle.” – Match report. Liverpool Post & Mercury. A wonderful cup tie. 60,000 fans were witness to the ten goals scored in this FA Cup fourth round replay. Reports tell of a crowd bursting at the seams with excitement as the teams took to the field, almost as if they knew what was coming. By half time, Everton were 2-1 up, and after 90 minutes the scores were level at 3-3 – somehow Everton won it 6-4....
SWANSEA CITY 0 – EVERTON 2 (Baines 59, Jelavic 76) Everton became only the third team to emerge from the Liberty Stadium victorious this season thanks to an impressive second-half performance which saw them carve out a stream of presentable chances. It was a thoroughly deserved win which will put them on the road to Wearside, for their FA Cup quarter-final reply, in confident mood. After a goalless first half Leighton Baines broke the deadlock with a fine free-kick which hit the ‘postage stamp’ in the top left-hand corner, before Nikica Jelavic, after spurning two earlier chances, made the game safe following excellent work by Marouane Fellaini. As against...
NB.There is little doubt I’m barking up the wrong tree here. I’m just miffed that after a nice win I couldn’t read two different match reports in two of the country’s biggest papers. They were both using the same agency copy. A beautiful 2-0 win for Everton away to Swansea and the blue half of Merseyside is smacking its lips waiting for Match of The Day. Whenever we win I hunt down match reports wherever I can find them. Today though it appears the Guardian & Times reporters were too lazy to flex their own creative muscles and just copied each other’s notes. Perhaps I missed something but Mr...
A disenchanted, depressed or just plain cynical Evertonian might be tempted to suggest that their run of ‘bad luck’ amounts to some sort of curse. Legitimate goals ruled offside, opposition keepers pulling off Banks-lite point-blank saves, a fixture pile-up; following early season freakish Heitinga own-goals, the Rodwell red card that never was, stone-wall penalties waved away – it’s all becoming a bit Sandy Brown. Dixies60 is beginning to wonder if Everton have displeased the gods. What better way to throw off all this negative dross than by hammering Swansea – media anointed exponents of ‘beautiful’ football, supposed masters of the passing game. Given recent results we suspect David...
Bio: 35 year old who has been going to Goodison for 30 years now and wishes we could be as good as we were in my first 7 years as a fan! Run the NSNO site as a hobby, although it’s become a much bigger hobby than was ever planned. In fact, when I started NSNO, I told my (then) girlfriend that if it ever out-grew the free hosting it was on, that I would just give it up. A dedicated server and a break up later, it has survived. The site was started as a distraction from my day job, and it combined two things I liked most...
How one fan's cup has gone from half full to smashed on the floor in sheer frustration...
Everton tottered into Anfield last night and proceeded to treat it like the Bates Motel. As the Blues took a relaxing shower, scrubbing up for the weekend, Steven Gerrard pulled back the shower curtain and knifed us, bagging a simple and all too easy hat trick. The talking point before a ball was kicked was Moyes’ team selection. With four days to go until Sunderland in the FA Cup, Moyes made six changes. From the start we were nonchalant, and our manager has to accept a large slice of the blame for this. Making such dramatic changes showed that his mind was on the Sunderland game, and it’s hard...
