blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Everton Football Club have a long and detailed history. The club's roots lie in an English Methodist congregation called New Connexion founded by Guto Sion Jones in 1865, who decided to build a new chapel in the Liverpool area in 1868. The following year, the church bought some land on Breckfield Road North, between St. Domingo Vale and St. Domingo Grove. This was located near the district of Everton, which had become part of the City of Liverpool in 1835. Since then Everton have had a successful history winning the Cup Winners' Cup, the league title 9 times blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action and the FA Cup 5 times. They are the only club to have played over 100 seasons in the top flight of English football, the 2008-2009 season being their 106th.
1878 the club was founded
The first ever Everton team to win the FA Cup
Chart showing the progress of Everton F.C. through the English football league system from the inaugural season in 1888–89 to 2007–08 when Everton finished fifth in the Premier LeagueSt. blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Domingo Methodist Church's new chapel was opened in 1871 and six years later, Rev. Ben Swift Chambers was appointed Minister. He was responsible for starting a cricket team for the youngsters in the parish. Because cricket can only be played in the summer, they had to find something to play during the other seasons as well. So a football club called St. Domingo F.C. was formed in 1878.
blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Many people outside the parish were interested in joining the football club so it was decided that the name should be changed. In November 1879 at a meeting in the Queen's Head Hotel, the team name was changed to Everton Football Club, after the surrounding area. Barker and Dobson, a local sweet manufacturer, introduced "Everton Mints" to honour the club. The district is also the location of the team's crest image, an old bridewell known as Prince Rupert's Tower.
Everton started the 1890–91 season in superb form with five straight victories, with Fred Geary scoring in each of the first six matches. By mid-January, Everton had completed all but one of their fixtures and were on 29 points, while Preston North End were eleven points adrift with seven games still to play. Everton than had to sit out the next two months as Preston completed their fixture list until they were only two points adrift with one match each left to play. Both teams played their final games of the season on 14 March, with Everton losing 3–2 at Burnley (Geary scored both Everton goals) and Preston going down 3–0 at Sunderland. blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Everton were thus able to win the Football League Championship for the first time, by a margin of two points with fourteen victories from their 22 league games. Geary had been ever-present, and was the club's top goal-scorer with 21 goals.
In 1891 John Houlding, the leaseholder of Anfield stadium, purchased the ground outright and proposed increasing the rent from £100 to £250 per year. Everton, who had played at Anfield for seven years, refused to meet his demands and moved to Goodison Park.
Founder members of the Football League, they lost two FA Cup finals, 1-0 against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Fallowfield Stadium on 26 March 1893 and 3-2 against Aston Villa at Crystal Palace on 10 April 1897 before winning at their third attempt on 20 April 1906 again against blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Newcastle United at Crystal Palace. Their second successive final on 20 April 1907, however, finished in a 2-1 defeat by Sheffield Wednesday.
Interwar years: Dean and co.
blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Dixie Dean scores a trademark header against rivals LiverpoolQuite simply, William Ralph "Dixie" Dean was the one of the greatest scoring machines that the English game has seen. After averaging a goal a game for Tranmere Rovers, prolific striker Dean was lured across the River Mersey to play for Everton. In his first season for the Toffees, the 1925-26 season, Dean netted 32 league goals in 38 games (getting his first two on his debut), scored 21 in 27 the next year, and made history in 1927-28: in a seasonal performance that is unlikely to ever be bettered, blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Dean hit 60 league goals in 39 matches, setting a record that has stood ever since and almost single-handedly giving Everton the league title.
In a turn of events that seems unbelievable today, in 1930 Everton finished last in the first division and were relegated to the second division. Predictably, Dean was on top form in the secondary league, hitting 39 goals in 37 games and lifting the Toffees to promotion at the first time of asking. The following season, Dean hit 45 goals and Everton regained the league title. In 1933, they won the FA Cup, Dean becoming Everton's first ever number 9 in the 3-0 final win against Manchester City. The number 9 would become synonymous with commanding and high-scoring strikers at domestic and international level football, something Dean embodied.
The nickname "Dixie" has ambiguous origins, but it is thought that it was given to Dean because his curly hairstyle was similar to that sported by many people of African ethnicity, blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action popularly nicknamed "dixies" at the time. Dean is said to have disliked but reluctantly accepted the tag. He played his last match for Everton on 11 December 1937 and died at a Merseyside derby at Goodison in 1980, leaving behind a legacy of 383 goals in 433 matches overall.
In the 1938-39 season Everton with Joe Mercer, the classy T.G. Jones and Tommy Lawton won the Football League Championship again. Lawton scored 34 goals in this season at the age of 19. Sadly the outbreak of World War II interrupted the careers of this team for six years which blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action otherwise might have dominated for several years.
The 1940s/50s: The barren years
Although the nineties have been regarded as a poor decade, this era was worse. The great pre-war team were quickly split up in 1946. Tommy Lawton was restless and joined Chelsea, Joe Mercer disagreed with the manager Theo Kelly and was sold to Arsenal, and they tried to sell T.G. Jones to A.S. Roma. Soon only Ted Sagar was left.
Under the management of the uninspired and under-financed Cliff Britton, Everton were relegated after the 1950-51 season for only the second time in their history to the Second blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Division. This time it took three seasons before Everton were promoted in 1954 as the runners-up. The final match of the season decided promotion when the Everton beat Oldham away 4-0.
The era nevertheless had some notable players such as Dave Hickson and Bobby Collins. Memorable matches included ending Manchester United's long unbeaten run at Old Trafford with a 5-2 win in 1956.
Harry Catterick's Era (1961-1974)
Catterick's Everton wins the FA CupThe 1960s is regarded by many fans as the golden era of Everton Football Club. After the barren period of the 1950s, Harry Catterick took charge of blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action the Everton in 1961. The team were soon to be dubbed the "School of Science" after their methodical approach in the tradition of the Everton team in the 1920s who were first given this name. Their football was inventive and flowing similar to Tottenham's "Push and Run" style. In Catterick's first full season as manager Everton conceded fewer goals than any other team and finished fourth.
The following season, the Toffees lost just six of their 42 matches and took the title, with the striking partnership of Roy Vernon and Alex Young scoring 46 goals between them (the last time two Everton players have scored more than 20 goals each in one season). Other notable players included Billy Bingham, Jimmy Gabriel, Derek Temple, Bobby Collins and Brian Labone.
blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action In 1966, the same year the English international team won the World Cup, Everton took home the FA Cup after overturning a two-goal deficit against Sheffield Wednesday in the final to win 3-2. Everton went on to reach the 1968 final, but were unable to overcome West Bromwich Albion at Wembley.
A year later in the 1969/70 season, Everton won the Championship again thanks in part to the scoring sensation of one Joe Royle, who would later manage the club to FA Cup success in 1995. The success of the team could be seen from the number of points won (one short of the record) and nine clear of Leeds United. The team won the league in style, playing what was virtually a form of Total Football orchestrated by the "Holy Trinity" midfield of Howard Kendall, Alan Ball and Colin Harvey. With Labone at centre-half and club captain and Royle up front, this is blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action regarded by many fans as the club's finest side ever.
Harry Catterick's team of 1969/70 seemed destined for greatness but declined quickly. The team finished 14th, 15th, 17th and 7th in the following seasons. The stress of an under-performing team was said to be a factor in Harry Catterick's poor health and eventual resignation in 1974.
Mid/late 70s - Billy Bingham and Gordon Lee (1974-1981)
Everton were on course to win the Championship in the 1974/75 season under Billy Bingham (some bookmakers had even stopped taking bets at Easter) but some surprising losses to lowly opposition ended the challenge and they finished 4th. After two relatively poor seasons (11th blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action and 9th), Bingham left in 1977. During the interregnum, Everton reached the League Cup final in 1977 losing late in extra time of the second replay. Bob Latchford scored 30 league goals in the 1977-78 season.
Under Gordon Lee Everton finished third in 1977/78 and fourth in 1978/79 after again looking serious title challengers for much of these seasons, but expectations were high given the success of Liverpool and so Lee departed in 1981 - by which time Everton had suffered another setback and narrowly avoided relegation to the Second Division.
Kendall's glory years (1981-1987)
Everton lift the European Cup Winners Cup in May 1985Former Everton player Howard Kendall returned to the club as manager for the 1981-82, having won promotion from the Third Division with Blackburn Rovers and taken them within a whisker of a second successive promotion. blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Kendall's reign got off to a promising start with a 3-1 win over Birmingham City on the opening day of the season, and they finished eighth in the First Division. Their steady progress continued into the 1982-83 season, as they finished seventh and only narrowly missed out on a UEFA Cup place. The only real letdown that season was a 5-0 home defeat by Liverpool on 6 November 1982.
During the first three seasons after his appointment as Everton manager, Kendall brought in younger players like Neville Southall, Gary Stevens, Derek Mountfield, Peter Reid, Kevin Ratcliffe, Trevor Steven and Graeme Sharp in the hope of bringing some success to a club which had been massively eclipsed by neighbouring Liverpool since the early 1970s.
1983-84 was a trying season in the league, with Everton being in the bottom half of the First Division for much of the season and fans making continued calls for Howard Kendall to be blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action sacked, but a good run of form in the final weeks of the season saw Everton achieve a seventh place finish once again. They also reached the FA Cup final and beat Watford 2-0 to end their 14-year trophy drought.
The following season, Everton won the league title with four matches to spare, and also clinched the European Cup Winners' Cup to give them their first-ever European trophy. Had it not been for a 1-0 defeat by Manchester United in the FA Cup final, Everton would have joined Liverpool as only the second English team to win three major trophies in one season.
The 1984-85 Cup Winners' Cup campaign was not without its controversy. In a tie with Fortuna Sittard of Holland, an Everton fan streaked on the pitch and was arrested when trying to climb back over the security fencing into the stands. This was one of many high profile pitch invasions by fans of English clubs at home and abroad around this time.
Fans contend that the 1980s Everton team could have gone on to win even more European silverware after their 1985 Cup Winners' Cup success had it not been for the banning of all English clubs from continental competitions by UEFA after the Heysel Stadium disaster blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action (involving, in dark irony, Liverpool fans).
The 1985 close season saw the acquisition of 24-year-old striker Gary Lineker from Leicester City, with Lineker's arrival sparking the controversial departure of the hugely popular Andy Gray, who returned to Aston Villa.
1985-86, even without European action, would be another exciting season for Everton. By the end of September, it looked as though Manchester United would be champions of the First Division after winning the first 10 games of the campaign, while Everton were in fifth place and stood 13 points adrift of Manchester United and also had Liverpool, Chelsea and Newcastle United above them. However, United's excellent form gradually tailed off and Everton went top of the league on 1 February 1986 thanks to a 1-0 win at home to Tottenham Hotspur. blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Unfortunately, their defence of the title was ended on 3 May 1986 as Liverpool's last league game of the season left the title out of Everton's reach, despite Everton crushing Southampton 6-1 at Goodison Park on the same day. However, Everton won the race for second place by defeating fellow contenders West Ham United 3-1 on the final day of the league season. On 10 May 1986, they took on Liverpool in the first all-Merseyside FA Cup final. A first-half goal by Gary Lineker suggested that the FA Cup would be heading to the blue half of Merseyside, but two goals form Ian Rush and a goal from Craig Johnston saw Liverpool win the trophy to complete the double, while Everton were left with nothing.
Had UEFA decided to lift the ban on English teams in European competitions at the end of that season (though the ban on all clubs was indefinite, it was reviewed at the end of every season), then Everton would have entered the 1986-87 Cup Winners' Cup, but UEFA voted for the blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action ban to continue for at least another season and so there would be no European action for English clubs for the second season running.
The 1986 close season saw Everton sell leading goalscorer Gary Lineker to FC Barcelona of Spain , and the arrival of defender Dave Watson from Norwich City , while midfielder Adrian Heath switched to the role of Graeme Sharp's strike partner.
The 1986-87 season began in a familiar fashion, with Everton and Liverpool being firmly among blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action the contenders, though this time there some unlikely other teams also in contention, including Norwich City and Coventry City. By Christmas, Everton were fourth in the league (level with third placed Liverpool) and a point behind second-placed Nottingham Forest, while a resurgent Arsenal were six points ahead of them at the top of the league. However, a 3-1 win over Coventry City on 7 February 1987 sent them to top of the league, and they clinched the league title on 4 May 1987 with a 1-0 win over Norwich City at Carrow Road.
However, UEFA voted for the ban on English clubs in European competitions to continue in the1987-88 season, meaning that Everton would not be able to compete in the 1987-88 European Cup.
During the 1987 close season, Howard Kendall defected to Spain to become coach of Atletico Bilbao, and was replaced as manager at Everton by his former assistant Colin Harvey.
blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action The Colin Harvey era (1987-1990)=
Colin Harvey's first season as manager brought a fourth place finish (but no UEFA Cup place as UEFA voted for the ban on English clubs in European competitions to continue for another season) and during the 1988 close season Everton became the first English club to buy a player for £2million when they signed 23-year-old striker Tony Cottee from West Ham United. Despite the new arrival scoring a hat-trick on his debut against Newcastle United and going on to be one of the most highly-rated frontmen ever to wear an Everton shirt, Everton's league fortunes declined in 1988-89 as they finished eighth in the league. They did reach the FA Cup final though, only to lose 3-2 to Liverpool in extra-time.
blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action 1989-90 began well for Everton, who led the league for two weeks in late autumn. There was extra incentive for title glory this season, as UEFA had vowed to lift the ban on English clubs in European competitions for the following season provided England fans behaved well at the World Cup. However, Everton never regained the lead of the league that they had lost in early November, and finished sixth in the final table.
On 31 October 1990, Everton occupied the 18th of 20 places in the First Division. Only the bottom two clubs would be going down this season, as the top flight would be expanding to 22 clubs for 1991-92. However, it was still Everton's worst start to a league season, and manager Colin Harvey paid for these shortcomings with his job.
Howard Kendall returns (1990-1993)
Since leaving Everton in 1987, Howard Kendall had spent two years with Atletico Madrid before blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action returning to England to take over at Manchester City and save them from relegation. He had overseen their best league form in years during the opening three months of the 1990-91 season, as they occupied fifth place as November dawned. However, on 5 November 1990, Everton made an offer to Kendall to take over as their manager for the second time. He accepted the offer, reinstating Colin Harvey to the club as assistant manager to reform the old manager-coach partnership that had been so successful from 1981 to 1987, while former Everton player Peter Reid (now 34 but still a regular player) succeeded Kendall as Manchester City manager. He guided Everton to a secure ninth place in the final table and also helped them eliminate Liverpool from the FA Cup blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action before bowing out to West Ham United in the quarter-final.
The 1991 close season saw the departure of players including the legendary Graeme Sharp and the less successful Mike Milligan, while Kendall bolstered Everton's attack by signing Peter blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Beardsley from Liverpool and Mo Johnston from Glasgow Rangers, after being pipped by Liverpool to the signing of Derby County's free-scoring Dean Saunders.
Despite these changes to the squad, Everton continued to decline in 1991-92 as they finished 12th - their lowest finish for more than a decade, although it was enough for a place in the new FA Premier League which took over from the Football League First Division as the highest blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action division of English football.
1992-93 brought yet more frustration at Goodison Park as Everton finished 13th in the new Premier League, and the pressure grew upon Howard Kendall.
The opening stages of the 1993-94 season looked to be the turning point for Howard Kendall in his second spell as Everton manager, as they topped the Premier League after winning their opening three games. However, a dismal run of form followed over the next few weeks, and Kendall walked out on Everton in early December after they had plummeted down the league to occupy a mid table position.
Mike Walker (1994)
On 7 January 1994, Everton finally found a successor to Howard Kendall when they recruited blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Mike Walker from a Norwich City side that had recently finished third in the Premier League and eliminated Bayern Munich. However, he was now faced with a challenge of saving Everton from relegation from a top flight which they had so far been members of for 40 successive seasons and been champions of just seven years earlier. That challenge was very nearly lost when they went into the final game of the season occupying the final relegation place and needing to beat Wimbledon at Goodison Park in order to stay up. It looked as though the battle was lost as Wimbledon took a 2-0 lead, but Everton pulled off a dramatic escape act to beat Wimbledon 3-2 and help send Sheffield United and Oldham Athletic down with already-doomed Swindon Town.
However, Everton made a dreadful start to the 1994-95 season and Walker was sacked on 8 blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action November 1994 after Everton had won just one of their opening 14 league games and were bottom of the Premier League.
Joe Royle (1994-1997)
Within days of Walker's sacking, former Everton player Joe Royle had returned to the club as manager after 12 years in charge of Oldham Athletic. His key priority was to save Everton from relegation. He made a few changes to the squad in his first few months as manager, offloading players like Brett Angell and David Burrows, and added defender [Earl Barrett] to the squad along with the Nigerian striker Daniel Amokachi and the Scottish striker Duncan Ferguson for a club record £4million. Everton confirmed their Premier League survival in the penultimate game of the season when they won 1-0 at already-relegated Ipswich Town.
But the biggest success of Everton's season came on 20 May 1995, when a Paul Rideout goal gave them a 1-0 win over Manchester United in the FA Cup final. The brilliant goalkeeping of Neville Southall also played a crucial part in Everton's first major trophy win for eight years; he made several thrilling saves in the game, including two late shots from 20-year-old Manchester United forward Paul Scholes.
Royle bolstered Everton's squad for 1995-96 with a club record £5million move for Manchester United's unsettled Ukranian winger Andrei Kanchelskis. He was determined to build on the FA Cup glory with a good run in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup as well as strong form in the domestic competitions, but Everton's cup challenges in 1995-96 were short-lived. However, their league blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action form was vastly improved as they finished sixth and were narrowly pipped to a UEFA Cup place by Arsenal on the final day of the season. It had been a great season for Kanchelskis though, as he scored 16 goals and continued to live up to his reputation as the finest right-winger in the Premier League. However, he defected to Fiorentina halfway through the 1996-97 season, and Everton slowly fell apart without Kanchelskis. Royle stepped down as manager on 27 March 1997 with a relegation battle creeping upon the club. Veteran defender and captain Dave Watson took over as caretaker until the end of the season, helping confirm Everton's survival, but he did not want the job permanently and the hunt was now on for a new manager.
Howard Kendall's third spell (1997-98)
After the end of the 1996-97 season, Everton approached Howard Kendall (by now at Sheffield United) about a third spell as the club's manager. He accepted the offer, and there was much hype as the new season began about whether Kendall could still work his old magic and blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action re-establish Everton as one of England's top playing sides. However, 1997-98 was arguably Everton's most difficult season in their current spell blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action in the top division (which began back in 1954) and they only achieved survival on goal difference at the expense of Bolton Wanderers.
Off the field, the club was in a major financial crisis at this time. It was not resolved until December 1999, when actor and writer Bill Kenwright took the club over from previous owner Peter Johnson.
Meanwhile, Kendall's third spell as manager ended in June 1998 when he was sacked, and it seemed likely that chairman Peter Johnson would turn to Manchester United blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action assistant manager Brian Kidd as his successor, but the job went to Walter Smith instead.
Disappointment under Walter Smith (1998-2002)
Successful former Rangers manager Walter Smith took over from Kendall in the summer of 1998 and big things were expected along with some high profile signings but his first season blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action brought an unremarkable 14th place finish. His chances of success were hampered by continuing financial constraints which had also contributed to the club's decline in previous years. 1999-2000 brought an unimpressive 13th place finish and Smith came under increased pressure after Everton finished 16th the following season.
Revival under Moyes (2002-present)
The Everton board finally ran out of patience with Smith and he was sacked in March 2002 with Everton in real danger of relegation. The board turned to promising young Preston manager David Moyes with the task of moving Everton forward after years of underachievement, and he was able to steer the club to safety in the last few games of the season. In Moyes's first blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action full season in charge Everton finished seventh in the Premiership and just missed out on a UEFA Cup place, in a campaign which was dominated by the emergence of brilliant young striker Wayne Rooney, who came to national prominence with a spectacular last-minute winner against league champions Arsenal, becoming the youngest English league goalscorer ever and Everton's youngest ever scorer, and consigning the champions to their first league defeat for almost a year.
blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action 2002-03 was Everton's best season since the sixth place finish of 1995-96 and for a while it had even looked like they would qualify for the Champions League. In the FA Cup the Toffees were on the receiving end of a giant-killing, away to Shrewsbury Town, who were managed by former Everton captain Kevin Ratcliffe and were just four months away from being relegated from the Football League. The following season's league form was a stark contrast, with the club finishing 17th and accumulating the lowest points total in the club's history. Wayne Rooney handed in a transfer request and was sold to Manchester United in August 2004 for a fee of £23million, with a potential to rise to £30million due to bonus payments for league positions, trophies, international caps and 25% excess sell on fees. . Despite the loss of Rooney Everton's 2004-05 was much more successful and finished fourth in the table, their highest position since 1988, achieving Champions League qualification, ahead of rivals Liverpool. They played some of their finest football for years, thanks greatly to the 4-5-1 tactic of Moyes and the blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action sensational form of Danish midfielder Thomas Gravesen, who was sold to Real Madrid midway through the season.
Everton started the 2005-06 season badly, with their Champions League campaign ending blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action in defeat by Villarreal in the qualifying stages, after referee Pierluigi Collina controversially disallowed an important Everton goal. After being demoted to the UEFA Cup, they were knocked out by Dinamo Bucharest, who thrashed the English side 5–1 in Romania.
After occupying the Premier League relegation zone throughout October 2005, Everton stopped Chelsea's nine match winning run with a 1-1 draw to spark a short revival that saw the team finally start to get regular results to put much needed points on the board. However, this was followed by another dismal run including several 4-0 defeats to sides in the bottom half of the table and a one sided derby match. A 1-0 win at blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Sunderland on New Year's Eve started a run of five straight Premiership wins and six matches unbeaten including victory against Arsenal- the club's best run of results since the Premiership began which hauled the team away from the relegation zone, and made a top half finish or even Europe a real possibility. This was not to be as the team remained as inconsistent as ever and a disappointing draw on the last day meant an 11th place finish instead of moving into the top half. Inconsistency and a shortage of goals let Everton down in 2005-06, and ended their hopes of another European campaign.
Everton began the 2006–07 season well, including a first league win at White Hart Lane in twenty years, followed by a 3-0 win over Liverpool. The club's transfer record was broken with the signing of Andrew Johnson from Crystal Palace. At the end of the season blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Everton were in 6th place and qualified for the following seasons UEFA Cup competition. During the summer of 2007, the club announced the acquisition of a professional basketball team, called the Everton Tigers, and were entered into the British Basketball League as one of three expansion franchises for the 2007-08 season.
In 2007–08 Everton again broke their transfer record with the signing of Yakubu Aiyegbeni for £11.25 million from Middlesbrough, and Thomas Gravesen was re-signed on loan from Celtic. The club reached the group stage of the UEFA Cup, where they went on to win all of their games, including against the eventual winners Zenit St Petersburg. They were knocked out in the following round by Fiorentina on penalties. In the blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Football League Cup Everton reached the semi-final before losing to Chelsea. Everton spent much of the season in the top four of the league, but were eventually overtaken by Liverpool and finished 5th, again qualifying for the UEFA Cup.
The following summer was one of some turmoil for Everton as their failure to gain government acceptance for their proposed stadium move to Kirkby, the departure of Chief Executive Keith Wyness and the seeming reluctance of Moyes to sign a new contract increased the gloom amongst supporters. In the last week of the transfer window the club transfer record was broken with the signing of Marouane Fellaini for £15 million from Standard Liege. Everton failed to qualify for the UEFA Cup group stages as they blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action were eliminated by Liege, with Fellaini ineligible to play against his former team.
Moyes did eventually sign a new 5 year contract with the club, and with it fortunes began to turn. A strong run in November and December (8 wins and 2 draws in 12 league games) propelled the club to the upper reaches of the league table and raised hopes for another top 6 finish.
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blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Everton Football Club have a long and detailed history. The club's roots lie in an English Methodist congregation called New Connexion founded by Guto Sion Jones in 1865, who decided to build a new chapel in the Liverpool area in 1868. The following year, the church bought some land on Breckfield Road North, between St. Domingo Vale and St. Domingo Grove. This was located near the district of Everton, which had become part of the City of Liverpool in 1835. Since then Everton have had a successful history winning the Cup Winners' Cup, the league title 9 times blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action and the FA Cup 5 times. They are the only club to have played over 100 seasons in the top flight of English football, the 2008-2009 season being their 106th.
1878 the club was founded
The first ever Everton team to win the FA Cup
Chart showing the progress of Everton F.C. through the English football league system from the inaugural season in 1888–89 to 2007–08 when Everton finished fifth in the Premier LeagueSt. blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Domingo Methodist Church's new chapel was opened in 1871 and six years later, Rev. Ben Swift Chambers was appointed Minister. He was responsible for starting a cricket team for the youngsters in the parish. Because cricket can only be played in the summer, they had to find something to play during the other seasons as well. So a football club called St. Domingo F.C. was formed in 1878.
blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Many people outside the parish were interested in joining the football club so it was decided that the name should be changed. In November 1879 at a meeting in the Queen's Head Hotel, the team name was changed to Everton Football Club, after the surrounding area. Barker and Dobson, a local sweet manufacturer, introduced "Everton Mints" to honour the club. The district is also the location of the team's crest image, an old bridewell known as Prince Rupert's Tower.
Everton started the 1890–91 season in superb form with five straight victories, with Fred Geary scoring in each of the first six matches. By mid-January, Everton had completed all but one of their fixtures and were on 29 points, while Preston North End were eleven points adrift with seven games still to play. Everton than had to sit out the next two months as Preston completed their fixture list until they were only two points adrift with one match each left to play. Both teams played their final games of the season on 14 March, with Everton losing 3–2 at Burnley (Geary scored both Everton goals) and Preston going down 3–0 at Sunderland. blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Everton were thus able to win the Football League Championship for the first time, by a margin of two points with fourteen victories from their 22 league games. Geary had been ever-present, and was the club's top goal-scorer with 21 goals.
In 1891 John Houlding, the leaseholder of Anfield stadium, purchased the ground outright and proposed increasing the rent from £100 to £250 per year. Everton, who had played at Anfield for seven years, refused to meet his demands and moved to Goodison Park.
Founder members of the Football League, they lost two FA Cup finals, 1-0 against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Fallowfield Stadium on 26 March 1893 and 3-2 against Aston Villa at Crystal Palace on 10 April 1897 before winning at their third attempt on 20 April 1906 again against blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Newcastle United at Crystal Palace. Their second successive final on 20 April 1907, however, finished in a 2-1 defeat by Sheffield Wednesday.
Interwar years: Dean and co.
blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Dixie Dean scores a trademark header against rivals LiverpoolQuite simply, William Ralph "Dixie" Dean was the one of the greatest scoring machines that the English game has seen. After averaging a goal a game for Tranmere Rovers, prolific striker Dean was lured across the River Mersey to play for Everton. In his first season for the Toffees, the 1925-26 season, Dean netted 32 league goals in 38 games (getting his first two on his debut), scored 21 in 27 the next year, and made history in 1927-28: in a seasonal performance that is unlikely to ever be bettered, blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Dean hit 60 league goals in 39 matches, setting a record that has stood ever since and almost single-handedly giving Everton the league title.
In a turn of events that seems unbelievable today, in 1930 Everton finished last in the first division and were relegated to the second division. Predictably, Dean was on top form in the secondary league, hitting 39 goals in 37 games and lifting the Toffees to promotion at the first time of asking. The following season, Dean hit 45 goals and Everton regained the league title. In 1933, they won the FA Cup, Dean becoming Everton's first ever number 9 in the 3-0 final win against Manchester City. The number 9 would become synonymous with commanding and high-scoring strikers at domestic and international level football, something Dean embodied.
The nickname "Dixie" has ambiguous origins, but it is thought that it was given to Dean because his curly hairstyle was similar to that sported by many people of African ethnicity, blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action popularly nicknamed "dixies" at the time. Dean is said to have disliked but reluctantly accepted the tag. He played his last match for Everton on 11 December 1937 and died at a Merseyside derby at Goodison in 1980, leaving behind a legacy of 383 goals in 433 matches overall.
In the 1938-39 season Everton with Joe Mercer, the classy T.G. Jones and Tommy Lawton won the Football League Championship again. Lawton scored 34 goals in this season at the age of 19. Sadly the outbreak of World War II interrupted the careers of this team for six years which blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action otherwise might have dominated for several years.
The 1940s/50s: The barren years
Although the nineties have been regarded as a poor decade, this era was worse. The great pre-war team were quickly split up in 1946. Tommy Lawton was restless and joined Chelsea, Joe Mercer disagreed with the manager Theo Kelly and was sold to Arsenal, and they tried to sell T.G. Jones to A.S. Roma. Soon only Ted Sagar was left.
Under the management of the uninspired and under-financed Cliff Britton, Everton were relegated after the 1950-51 season for only the second time in their history to the Second blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Division. This time it took three seasons before Everton were promoted in 1954 as the runners-up. The final match of the season decided promotion when the Everton beat Oldham away 4-0.
The era nevertheless had some notable players such as Dave Hickson and Bobby Collins. Memorable matches included ending Manchester United's long unbeaten run at Old Trafford with a 5-2 win in 1956.
Harry Catterick's Era (1961-1974)
Catterick's Everton wins the FA CupThe 1960s is regarded by many fans as the golden era of Everton Football Club. After the barren period of the 1950s, Harry Catterick took charge of blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action the Everton in 1961. The team were soon to be dubbed the "School of Science" after their methodical approach in the tradition of the Everton team in the 1920s who were first given this name. Their football was inventive and flowing similar to Tottenham's "Push and Run" style. In Catterick's first full season as manager Everton conceded fewer goals than any other team and finished fourth.
The following season, the Toffees lost just six of their 42 matches and took the title, with the striking partnership of Roy Vernon and Alex Young scoring 46 goals between them (the last time two Everton players have scored more than 20 goals each in one season). Other notable players included Billy Bingham, Jimmy Gabriel, Derek Temple, Bobby Collins and Brian Labone.
blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action In 1966, the same year the English international team won the World Cup, Everton took home the FA Cup after overturning a two-goal deficit against Sheffield Wednesday in the final to win 3-2. Everton went on to reach the 1968 final, but were unable to overcome West Bromwich Albion at Wembley.
A year later in the 1969/70 season, Everton won the Championship again thanks in part to the scoring sensation of one Joe Royle, who would later manage the club to FA Cup success in 1995. The success of the team could be seen from the number of points won (one short of the record) and nine clear of Leeds United. The team won the league in style, playing what was virtually a form of Total Football orchestrated by the "Holy Trinity" midfield of Howard Kendall, Alan Ball and Colin Harvey. With Labone at centre-half and club captain and Royle up front, this is blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action regarded by many fans as the club's finest side ever.
Harry Catterick's team of 1969/70 seemed destined for greatness but declined quickly. The team finished 14th, 15th, 17th and 7th in the following seasons. The stress of an under-performing team was said to be a factor in Harry Catterick's poor health and eventual resignation in 1974.
Mid/late 70s - Billy Bingham and Gordon Lee (1974-1981)
Everton were on course to win the Championship in the 1974/75 season under Billy Bingham (some bookmakers had even stopped taking bets at Easter) but some surprising losses to lowly opposition ended the challenge and they finished 4th. After two relatively poor seasons (11th blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action and 9th), Bingham left in 1977. During the interregnum, Everton reached the League Cup final in 1977 losing late in extra time of the second replay. Bob Latchford scored 30 league goals in the 1977-78 season.
Under Gordon Lee Everton finished third in 1977/78 and fourth in 1978/79 after again looking serious title challengers for much of these seasons, but expectations were high given the success of Liverpool and so Lee departed in 1981 - by which time Everton had suffered another setback and narrowly avoided relegation to the Second Division.
Kendall's glory years (1981-1987)
Everton lift the European Cup Winners Cup in May 1985Former Everton player Howard Kendall returned to the club as manager for the 1981-82, having won promotion from the Third Division with Blackburn Rovers and taken them within a whisker of a second successive promotion. blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Kendall's reign got off to a promising start with a 3-1 win over Birmingham City on the opening day of the season, and they finished eighth in the First Division. Their steady progress continued into the 1982-83 season, as they finished seventh and only narrowly missed out on a UEFA Cup place. The only real letdown that season was a 5-0 home defeat by Liverpool on 6 November 1982.
During the first three seasons after his appointment as Everton manager, Kendall brought in younger players like Neville Southall, Gary Stevens, Derek Mountfield, Peter Reid, Kevin Ratcliffe, Trevor Steven and Graeme Sharp in the hope of bringing some success to a club which had been massively eclipsed by neighbouring Liverpool since the early 1970s.
1983-84 was a trying season in the league, with Everton being in the bottom half of the First Division for much of the season and fans making continued calls for Howard Kendall to be blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action sacked, but a good run of form in the final weeks of the season saw Everton achieve a seventh place finish once again. They also reached the FA Cup final and beat Watford 2-0 to end their 14-year trophy drought.
The following season, Everton won the league title with four matches to spare, and also clinched the European Cup Winners' Cup to give them their first-ever European trophy. Had it not been for a 1-0 defeat by Manchester United in the FA Cup final, Everton would have joined Liverpool as only the second English team to win three major trophies in one season.
The 1984-85 Cup Winners' Cup campaign was not without its controversy. In a tie with Fortuna Sittard of Holland, an Everton fan streaked on the pitch and was arrested when trying to climb back over the security fencing into the stands. This was one of many high profile pitch invasions by fans of English clubs at home and abroad around this time.
Fans contend that the 1980s Everton team could have gone on to win even more European silverware after their 1985 Cup Winners' Cup success had it not been for the banning of all English clubs from continental competitions by UEFA after the Heysel Stadium disaster blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action (involving, in dark irony, Liverpool fans).
The 1985 close season saw the acquisition of 24-year-old striker Gary Lineker from Leicester City, with Lineker's arrival sparking the controversial departure of the hugely popular Andy Gray, who returned to Aston Villa.
1985-86, even without European action, would be another exciting season for Everton. By the end of September, it looked as though Manchester United would be champions of the First Division after winning the first 10 games of the campaign, while Everton were in fifth place and stood 13 points adrift of Manchester United and also had Liverpool, Chelsea and Newcastle United above them. However, United's excellent form gradually tailed off and Everton went top of the league on 1 February 1986 thanks to a 1-0 win at home to Tottenham Hotspur. blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Unfortunately, their defence of the title was ended on 3 May 1986 as Liverpool's last league game of the season left the title out of Everton's reach, despite Everton crushing Southampton 6-1 at Goodison Park on the same day. However, Everton won the race for second place by defeating fellow contenders West Ham United 3-1 on the final day of the league season. On 10 May 1986, they took on Liverpool in the first all-Merseyside FA Cup final. A first-half goal by Gary Lineker suggested that the FA Cup would be heading to the blue half of Merseyside, but two goals form Ian Rush and a goal from Craig Johnston saw Liverpool win the trophy to complete the double, while Everton were left with nothing.
Had UEFA decided to lift the ban on English teams in European competitions at the end of that season (though the ban on all clubs was indefinite, it was reviewed at the end of every season), then Everton would have entered the 1986-87 Cup Winners' Cup, but UEFA voted for the blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action ban to continue for at least another season and so there would be no European action for English clubs for the second season running.
The 1986 close season saw Everton sell leading goalscorer Gary Lineker to FC Barcelona of Spain , and the arrival of defender Dave Watson from Norwich City , while midfielder Adrian Heath switched to the role of Graeme Sharp's strike partner.
The 1986-87 season began in a familiar fashion, with Everton and Liverpool being firmly among blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action the contenders, though this time there some unlikely other teams also in contention, including Norwich City and Coventry City. By Christmas, Everton were fourth in the league (level with third placed Liverpool) and a point behind second-placed Nottingham Forest, while a resurgent Arsenal were six points ahead of them at the top of the league. However, a 3-1 win over Coventry City on 7 February 1987 sent them to top of the league, and they clinched the league title on 4 May 1987 with a 1-0 win over Norwich City at Carrow Road.
However, UEFA voted for the ban on English clubs in European competitions to continue in the1987-88 season, meaning that Everton would not be able to compete in the 1987-88 European Cup.
During the 1987 close season, Howard Kendall defected to Spain to become coach of Atletico Bilbao, and was replaced as manager at Everton by his former assistant Colin Harvey.
blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action The Colin Harvey era (1987-1990)=
Colin Harvey's first season as manager brought a fourth place finish (but no UEFA Cup place as UEFA voted for the ban on English clubs in European competitions to continue for another season) and during the 1988 close season Everton became the first English club to buy a player for £2million when they signed 23-year-old striker Tony Cottee from West Ham United. Despite the new arrival scoring a hat-trick on his debut against Newcastle United and going on to be one of the most highly-rated frontmen ever to wear an Everton shirt, Everton's league fortunes declined in 1988-89 as they finished eighth in the league. They did reach the FA Cup final though, only to lose 3-2 to Liverpool in extra-time.
blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action 1989-90 began well for Everton, who led the league for two weeks in late autumn. There was extra incentive for title glory this season, as UEFA had vowed to lift the ban on English clubs in European competitions for the following season provided England fans behaved well at the World Cup. However, Everton never regained the lead of the league that they had lost in early November, and finished sixth in the final table.
On 31 October 1990, Everton occupied the 18th of 20 places in the First Division. Only the bottom two clubs would be going down this season, as the top flight would be expanding to 22 clubs for 1991-92. However, it was still Everton's worst start to a league season, and manager Colin Harvey paid for these shortcomings with his job.
Howard Kendall returns (1990-1993)
Since leaving Everton in 1987, Howard Kendall had spent two years with Atletico Madrid before blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action returning to England to take over at Manchester City and save them from relegation. He had overseen their best league form in years during the opening three months of the 1990-91 season, as they occupied fifth place as November dawned. However, on 5 November 1990, Everton made an offer to Kendall to take over as their manager for the second time. He accepted the offer, reinstating Colin Harvey to the club as assistant manager to reform the old manager-coach partnership that had been so successful from 1981 to 1987, while former Everton player Peter Reid (now 34 but still a regular player) succeeded Kendall as Manchester City manager. He guided Everton to a secure ninth place in the final table and also helped them eliminate Liverpool from the FA Cup blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action before bowing out to West Ham United in the quarter-final.
The 1991 close season saw the departure of players including the legendary Graeme Sharp and the less successful Mike Milligan, while Kendall bolstered Everton's attack by signing Peter blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Beardsley from Liverpool and Mo Johnston from Glasgow Rangers, after being pipped by Liverpool to the signing of Derby County's free-scoring Dean Saunders.
Despite these changes to the squad, Everton continued to decline in 1991-92 as they finished 12th - their lowest finish for more than a decade, although it was enough for a place in the new FA Premier League which took over from the Football League First Division as the highest blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action division of English football.
1992-93 brought yet more frustration at Goodison Park as Everton finished 13th in the new Premier League, and the pressure grew upon Howard Kendall.
The opening stages of the 1993-94 season looked to be the turning point for Howard Kendall in his second spell as Everton manager, as they topped the Premier League after winning their opening three games. However, a dismal run of form followed over the next few weeks, and Kendall walked out on Everton in early December after they had plummeted down the league to occupy a mid table position.
Mike Walker (1994)
On 7 January 1994, Everton finally found a successor to Howard Kendall when they recruited blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Mike Walker from a Norwich City side that had recently finished third in the Premier League and eliminated Bayern Munich. However, he was now faced with a challenge of saving Everton from relegation from a top flight which they had so far been members of for 40 successive seasons and been champions of just seven years earlier. That challenge was very nearly lost when they went into the final game of the season occupying the final relegation place and needing to beat Wimbledon at Goodison Park in order to stay up. It looked as though the battle was lost as Wimbledon took a 2-0 lead, but Everton pulled off a dramatic escape act to beat Wimbledon 3-2 and help send Sheffield United and Oldham Athletic down with already-doomed Swindon Town.
However, Everton made a dreadful start to the 1994-95 season and Walker was sacked on 8 blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action November 1994 after Everton had won just one of their opening 14 league games and were bottom of the Premier League.
Joe Royle (1994-1997)
Within days of Walker's sacking, former Everton player Joe Royle had returned to the club as manager after 12 years in charge of Oldham Athletic. His key priority was to save Everton from relegation. He made a few changes to the squad in his first few months as manager, offloading players like Brett Angell and David Burrows, and added defender [Earl Barrett] to the squad along with the Nigerian striker Daniel Amokachi and the Scottish striker Duncan Ferguson for a club record £4million. Everton confirmed their Premier League survival in the penultimate game of the season when they won 1-0 at already-relegated Ipswich Town.
But the biggest success of Everton's season came on 20 May 1995, when a Paul Rideout goal gave them a 1-0 win over Manchester United in the FA Cup final. The brilliant goalkeeping of Neville Southall also played a crucial part in Everton's first major trophy win for eight years; he made several thrilling saves in the game, including two late shots from 20-year-old Manchester United forward Paul Scholes.
Royle bolstered Everton's squad for 1995-96 with a club record £5million move for Manchester United's unsettled Ukranian winger Andrei Kanchelskis. He was determined to build on the FA Cup glory with a good run in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup as well as strong form in the domestic competitions, but Everton's cup challenges in 1995-96 were short-lived. However, their league blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action form was vastly improved as they finished sixth and were narrowly pipped to a UEFA Cup place by Arsenal on the final day of the season. It had been a great season for Kanchelskis though, as he scored 16 goals and continued to live up to his reputation as the finest right-winger in the Premier League. However, he defected to Fiorentina halfway through the 1996-97 season, and Everton slowly fell apart without Kanchelskis. Royle stepped down as manager on 27 March 1997 with a relegation battle creeping upon the club. Veteran defender and captain Dave Watson took over as caretaker until the end of the season, helping confirm Everton's survival, but he did not want the job permanently and the hunt was now on for a new manager.
Howard Kendall's third spell (1997-98)
After the end of the 1996-97 season, Everton approached Howard Kendall (by now at Sheffield United) about a third spell as the club's manager. He accepted the offer, and there was much hype as the new season began about whether Kendall could still work his old magic and blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action re-establish Everton as one of England's top playing sides. However, 1997-98 was arguably Everton's most difficult season in their current spell blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action in the top division (which began back in 1954) and they only achieved survival on goal difference at the expense of Bolton Wanderers.
Off the field, the club was in a major financial crisis at this time. It was not resolved until December 1999, when actor and writer Bill Kenwright took the club over from previous owner Peter Johnson.
Meanwhile, Kendall's third spell as manager ended in June 1998 when he was sacked, and it seemed likely that chairman Peter Johnson would turn to Manchester United blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action assistant manager Brian Kidd as his successor, but the job went to Walter Smith instead.
Disappointment under Walter Smith (1998-2002)
Successful former Rangers manager Walter Smith took over from Kendall in the summer of 1998 and big things were expected along with some high profile signings but his first season blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action brought an unremarkable 14th place finish. His chances of success were hampered by continuing financial constraints which had also contributed to the club's decline in previous years. 1999-2000 brought an unimpressive 13th place finish and Smith came under increased pressure after Everton finished 16th the following season.
Revival under Moyes (2002-present)
The Everton board finally ran out of patience with Smith and he was sacked in March 2002 with Everton in real danger of relegation. The board turned to promising young Preston manager David Moyes with the task of moving Everton forward after years of underachievement, and he was able to steer the club to safety in the last few games of the season. In Moyes's first blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action full season in charge Everton finished seventh in the Premiership and just missed out on a UEFA Cup place, in a campaign which was dominated by the emergence of brilliant young striker Wayne Rooney, who came to national prominence with a spectacular last-minute winner against league champions Arsenal, becoming the youngest English league goalscorer ever and Everton's youngest ever scorer, and consigning the champions to their first league defeat for almost a year.
blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action 2002-03 was Everton's best season since the sixth place finish of 1995-96 and for a while it had even looked like they would qualify for the Champions League. In the FA Cup the Toffees were on the receiving end of a giant-killing, away to Shrewsbury Town, who were managed by former Everton captain Kevin Ratcliffe and were just four months away from being relegated from the Football League. The following season's league form was a stark contrast, with the club finishing 17th and accumulating the lowest points total in the club's history. Wayne Rooney handed in a transfer request and was sold to Manchester United in August 2004 for a fee of £23million, with a potential to rise to £30million due to bonus payments for league positions, trophies, international caps and 25% excess sell on fees. . Despite the loss of Rooney Everton's 2004-05 was much more successful and finished fourth in the table, their highest position since 1988, achieving Champions League qualification, ahead of rivals Liverpool. They played some of their finest football for years, thanks greatly to the 4-5-1 tactic of Moyes and the blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action sensational form of Danish midfielder Thomas Gravesen, who was sold to Real Madrid midway through the season.
Everton started the 2005-06 season badly, with their Champions League campaign ending blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action in defeat by Villarreal in the qualifying stages, after referee Pierluigi Collina controversially disallowed an important Everton goal. After being demoted to the UEFA Cup, they were knocked out by Dinamo Bucharest, who thrashed the English side 5–1 in Romania.
After occupying the Premier League relegation zone throughout October 2005, Everton stopped Chelsea's nine match winning run with a 1-1 draw to spark a short revival that saw the team finally start to get regular results to put much needed points on the board. However, this was followed by another dismal run including several 4-0 defeats to sides in the bottom half of the table and a one sided derby match. A 1-0 win at blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Sunderland on New Year's Eve started a run of five straight Premiership wins and six matches unbeaten including victory against Arsenal- the club's best run of results since the Premiership began which hauled the team away from the relegation zone, and made a top half finish or even Europe a real possibility. This was not to be as the team remained as inconsistent as ever and a disappointing draw on the last day meant an 11th place finish instead of moving into the top half. Inconsistency and a shortage of goals let Everton down in 2005-06, and ended their hopes of another European campaign.
Everton began the 2006–07 season well, including a first league win at White Hart Lane in twenty years, followed by a 3-0 win over Liverpool. The club's transfer record was broken with the signing of Andrew Johnson from Crystal Palace. At the end of the season blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Everton were in 6th place and qualified for the following seasons UEFA Cup competition. During the summer of 2007, the club announced the acquisition of a professional basketball team, called the Everton Tigers, and were entered into the British Basketball League as one of three expansion franchises for the 2007-08 season.
In 2007–08 Everton again broke their transfer record with the signing of Yakubu Aiyegbeni for £11.25 million from Middlesbrough, and Thomas Gravesen was re-signed on loan from Celtic. The club reached the group stage of the UEFA Cup, where they went on to win all of their games, including against the eventual winners Zenit St Petersburg. They were knocked out in the following round by Fiorentina on penalties. In the blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action Football League Cup Everton reached the semi-final before losing to Chelsea. Everton spent much of the season in the top four of the league, but were eventually overtaken by Liverpool and finished 5th, again qualifying for the UEFA Cup.
The following summer was one of some turmoil for Everton as their failure to gain government acceptance for their proposed stadium move to Kirkby, the departure of Chief Executive Keith Wyness and the seeming reluctance of Moyes to sign a new contract increased the gloom amongst supporters. In the last week of the transfer window the club transfer record was broken with the signing of Marouane Fellaini for £15 million from Standard Liege. Everton failed to qualify for the UEFA Cup group stages as they blogger tutorial | stop dreaming start action were eliminated by Liege, with Fellaini ineligible to play against his former team.
Moyes did eventually sign a new 5 year contract with the club, and with it fortunes began to turn. A strong run in November and December (8 wins and 2 draws in 12 league games) propelled the club to the upper reaches of the league table and raised hopes for another top 6 finish.
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