Wrecking Ball
Football is dead. Money, stats, officiating and television have killed the game we either still love or once loved. Without wanting to sound like someone moaning that everything was better in their day, it genuinely was. Not in every way, obviously. Pitches were terrible, tackles were brutal, and half the stadiums looked unsafe enough to […]
Stability
In January 2025, Sean Dyche was sacked as Everton manager, the same day as Everton were due to face Peterborough in the FA Cup 3rd Round. Seamus Coleman and Leighton Baines took control of the team that game and saw the Toffees through into the Round Four. This was the first challenge in the fledgling […]
Moments in Love (Hate, and Assorted Emotions)
Moment /ˈməʊm(ə)nt/ (noun) A brief, indefinite period of time or a specific instant. It’s not a sweeping narrative that best describes Everton’s 2025/2026 season – it’s more a series of moments. Our new modern state-of-the-art facility at Bramley-Moore Dock was christened the Hill Dickinson Stadium before the first home game. Incidentally, this was a name […]
Sixty Grand, Sixty Grand Seamus Coleman
379 starting appearances. 54 appearances from the bench. 28 goals. £60,000. Heroes and villains Football increasingly seems to be all about statistics, but numbers alone can’t really explain what certain players mean to fans. Everton supporters have always had their villains. Some, like Nick Barmby and Steve McMahon, and others like Emlyn Hughes, because of […]
Everton’s Next No.9: Who Fits Grealish, Ndiaye and Dewsbury-Hall Best?*
There’s a quiet shift happening at Everton. I’m going to take a look at three realistic new strikers that Everton could sign and have been linked with over the last six months or so, also factoring in that Jack Grealish is at the club and fully fit for the 2026/27 season. With Jack Grealish dictating […]
Do The Right Thing
You don’t usually hear it straight away. It creeps in. A few voices at first, then more, swelling as confidence grows. A chant lifted from somewhere else, repurposed, repeated because it always has been. Some people join in without thinking. Some don’t join in at all. Everyone hears it. And every time it resurfaces, the […]
Premier League: Corrupt as Fuck?
“Premier League Corrupt as Fuck.” These chants echoed around Villa Park during the first week of the 2025/26 season, uniting supporters of Aston Villa and Newcastle in their criticism of the Premier League and its Chief Executive, Richard Masters. Both clubs have recently broken into the Champions League places, daring to challenge the long-standing dominance […]
Transfer Deadwood Day
It’s transfer deadline day again — football’s equivalent of ten-to-two in a terrible nightclub. The players you ignored earlier suddenly look a lot more appealing through deadline-day goggles, and you’ll even buy them a kebab to seal the deal, no matter the price. Changing deadlines Before 2003, there was only one transfer deadline day, near […]
Get (Right) Back!
Everton’s right-back woes remain a constant worry. The Blues are desperately short in this area and in dire need of shoring up their right-sided options. Other than the capture of Seamus Coleman, it feels as though the last proper right-back the club signed was Marc Hottiger back in 1996. A right mess In truth, Everton […]
August & Everything After
Everton and August have never been natural bedfellows. Put the two together and you usually get false starts, sluggish afternoons, and that lingering sense that summer still has the upper hand. Yet Sunday flipped the script. In their shiny new Hill Dickinson Stadium, Everton looked anything but sluggish, brushing aside Brighton 2–0. Iliman Ndiaye opened […]