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Articles by Everton Fans
Training ground options
Jerome Shields
8 July, 2026
Could Everton One Day Build a New Training Ground at Liverpool's North Docks?
Fan ownership: Can it work for Everton?
Dougal Paver
7 July, 2026
Would the German ownership model have saved Everton? Could it have delivered the clever and difficult financial engineering The Friedkin Group deployed to save our club from ruin?
Moyes — Time to Let Him Go
Nick Armitage
2 July, 2026
Everton have spent the best part of a generation being told to be patient, to trust the process. We finally have the resources to start being ambitious but keeping David Moyes on isn't a football decision, it's an emotional one dressed up as stability.
Book Review: There's Gonna Be A Show
David Bromwell
30 June, 2026
Jimmy Mulville is 71 and writes lovingly about his lifelong obsession with Everton. And what a life he has had; it has certainly not been boring.
Fast forward to 2027
Robert Tressell
25 June, 2026
It’s a very different Everton with a new manager in charge and a raft of new signings in place
Jealousy and Longing
Kieran Fitzgerald
23 June, 2026
In a summer that is, potentially, every bit as important as the last for Everton, there's a restlessness in the fanbase. Has all the hope and optimism that came from new owners and a new stadium evaporated?
A Look Abroad: FC Schalke 04 & Everton
Danny O'Neill
21 June, 2026
A brief snapshot of the two loves of my footballing life
EFC: Missing Europe, correcting David Moyes and the “plucky little Everton” culture
Mark Lloyd
20 June, 2026
It is time for Nil Satis Nisi Optimum to mean something.
Season 2026-27: Hopes, Dreams & Expectations
Danny O'Neill
20 June, 2026
I hope for a top-6 finish and, as part of a 5-year plan, clinching our 10th league title and the end of our tortuous trophy drought
TFG Have Mistaken Stability for Progress. And the Finch Farm Culture Will Defeat Them Too
Jerome Shields
12 June, 2026
For too long, Everton have had one objective: to stay in the Premier League. Fixing that culture starts in Halewood
Stagnant Hibernation
Paul Brownrigg
2 June, 2026
It is time the club stopped looking back and eyed the dawn of a new era of football. It is time we wake the slumbering giant.
Finch Farm: Stability or Stagnation?
Jerome Shields
28 May, 2026
Everton’s biggest problem is no longer survival. The club now has a new stadium, more stable ownership, improving revenues, and greater financial control. The next step is deciding what Everton actually wants to become.
Next Step Forward
Daniel O’Neill
27 May, 2026
A busy summer awaits as we rebuild yet again. What is crucial as we seek to add strength and depth is that it must be an improvement on what we have
We Need to Talk About David
Steve Hogan
25 May, 2026
I think the marriage is over sadly, and The Friedkin Group should pull the plug on his reign, and the search for a new manager should begin in earnest.
Alternative Everton situation
Jerome Shields
21 May, 2026
Roma were the lab rats. Everton are the Golden Goose
Regression to the Mean
Paul Tran
27 April, 2026
Everton are a stable mid-table team now with pretensions at Europe that might yet prove elusive this season. The question then concerns how the ownership want to proceed this summer
Like the Murphy's, I'm Not Bitter
Darren Hind
17 April, 2026
The onset of another derby — albeit a historic one — reopens old wounds and intensifies the desire for the kind of victory that could set us on the road to dominating this City for a very long time
The Case for Europe
Kieran Fitzgerald
16 April, 2026
Regardless if we feel the club is ready or not, European qualification makes for happy fans and Everton fans deserve European football. The experiences of Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace in their respective competitions also show that the Blues are more ready for it than many might think
The Power of Grievance
Tony Killen
22 March, 2026
The reaction from our fans to the leniency of Chelsea's punishment from the Premier League supplied what has so far been the missing piece of the puzzle at Hill Dickinson Stadium
From an Owner's Perspective
Kieran Fitzgerald
19 March, 2026
How will The Friedkin Group approach this summer in comparison to last in the context of their plans for Everton and their ownership of AS Roma?
I'm Sorry, I Just Don't Fancy You
Paul Traill
22 February, 2026
David Moyes’s line-up against Manchester United on Monday will be hugely instructive but the Scot doesn’t seem to rate his compatriot, Nathan Patterson. The full-back isn’t the first player to be unloved by an Everton manager.
Everton, “a club about the same size as Leeds United”
John Burns
31 January, 2026
Hearing comments like the Leeds slight from outsiders really grinds. It cuts deep into the blue blood that knows this shouldn’t be so
20 Months
Roy Johnstone
26 January, 2026
We go the match with a bit of hope that you will see your team win and have a lovely, relaxed weekend as a result. Grinning on the Merseyrail train for no other reason than you’ve just seen the Blues win.
Déjà Vu, Mr Moyes
James Hourigan
19 January, 2026
Is David Moyes Mk II a changed man and the person to lead us forward at this crucial time in the club's future?
Disheartened from Dublin writes...
Kieran Fitzgerald
17 January, 2026
For any fan, regardless of where you live, it is getting harder and harder to stay engaged, to stay involved with your club and recent results have sapped my desire to closely follow Everton
Personal Reflections
John Deegan
9 December, 2025
Early memories of following the Blues, starting in the 1960s
Now is the Time for Cool Heads
Adam Phillips
9 December, 2025
The winter transfer market has a long track record of inflated prices and short-term thinking. It is not the moment for bold gambles.
It Was Only a Change of Plan
Darren Hind
22 November, 2025
David Moyes was in the opposition dugout when Everton last won at Old Trafford. Ahead of Monday's latest instalment of what is a big game in more ways than one, let's hope he learned that the Blues won that night in 2013 because they went with the intention of winning
Hill Dickie Elegy
David Flynn
15 November, 2025
Everton may be in a gleaming new home by the waterfront but, take it from an ex-pat, it hasn't changed us. What a ground!
How to destroy not one but two centre-forwards
James Hourigan
4 November, 2025
Chopping and changing them from week to week, Moyes seems to have little faith in either of our two strikers. With no quality options likely in January, it will come down to how he manages, motivates and gets the best out of the pair of them
Luck, Fairness and Decision Making
Kieran Fitzgerald
23 October, 2025
There are myriad ways in which luck can present itself in football, both on and off the pitch.
The Many Heads of Worzel Gummidge
Kieran Fitzgerald
30 September, 2025
Retaining perspective over our mixed start to the season, when, and how, can we start to see if the Friedkin Group's tenure has been a success?
Everton – The Club They Wish They Were
Ali Ford
26 September, 2025
Do you ever look at the Reds and their success and think, “if only my life had gone another way”? I’ll bet you don’t. Why might that be?
Is the real Davey Moyes about to stand up?
Darren Hind
12 September, 2025
David Moyes has changed since his first stint as Everton manager, but has he changed enough?
A Very Strange August
Kieran Fitzgerald
3 September, 2025
With the team playing with confidence and a swagger together with the opening of the new stadium, it feels very different to be an Evertonian at the moment than it has for many years
A Normal Business
Paul Tran
23 August, 2025
Everybody wants a well-run club, until they get one, and realise that it’s about mixing hard work, hard negotiation and patience.
A New Stadium Signing
Kieran Fitzgerald
12 August, 2025
It is all a long shot but for me, I think Jack Grealish is worth the risk, at least for one season, given the potential reward as move into our new ground.
One Moore Thought
James Nolan
12 August, 2025
As they kick off a new era on the waterfront, Everton's first two opponents are fitting given their connection to the man after whom the dock site was named
Not Quite the Leap You'd Think
Kieran Fitzgerald
14 June, 2025
With savvy recruitment, turning the small margins in our favour and capitalising on rival clubs' involvement in Europe, there is plenty of scope for Everton to achieve a higher league finish next season
There She Goes
Becky Tallentire
11 June, 2025
The emotional farewell to Goodison Park was an unforgettable experience for anyone fortunate enough to be there. Becky Tallentire recounts the day, from the Titanic hotel early in the morning to the game itself and sitting on the pitch among Club legends
Memories of a Lifelong Friend
Paul Tran
21 May, 2025
That wonderful stadium. The community of Everton, centred around Goodison, the friend that lit up my life for 55 years.
One Last Dance at the Old Lady
Paul Traill
19 May, 2025
25 years or so of going to Goodison Park. Many amazing memories and despite so much hardship, you wouldn't change a thing. The tears flowed...
Our European Summit, Forty Years On
Paul Tran
20 May, 2025
Looking back at that great night 40 years ago when Everton lifted the European Cup Winners' Cup in Rotterdam
Leaving Home
Sid Fishes
18 May, 2025
Today, I’ll be there… So will every memory and all of the ghosts who will be with me. For, in a life where I have lived in many houses and different places, I’ve only ever had one home.
Déjà Vu – Contemplating Life Without Idrissa Gueye
Paul Traill
28 April, 2025
It feels horribly reminiscent of Summer 2019. Everton risk losing a key player who will be very tough to replace.
Seminar Notes in My Pocket – Goodison’s Finest Night, Forty Years On
Paul Tran
21 April, 2025
Football might be ‘only’ a game to some, but for those of us there, at a time when Liverpool wasn’t the happiest place, we witnessed something special
What we need, where we are
Larry Boner
21 April, 2025
Looking at the areas Everton need to strengthen this summer
An Homage from Across the Pond
Michael Potter
25 March, 2025
"Alan Ball was right", writes an American Evertonian, chosen at the heights of David Moyes's first reign as the Blues' boss, in this brilliant piece that describes how the club captured his heart
Where Have All the Striking Heroes Gone?
John Daley
11 March, 2025
The steady flow of high-scoring heroes at Everton faltered and stuttered to a halt after the halcyon days of the 1980s, replaced by a cavalcade of pitiable misfits
Goodison Debut and Other Memories
David Brown
3 March, 2025
An unforgettable first trip to Goodison Park to see the wonderful title-winning Everton team from 1969/70.
Enjoying Being a Fan Again
Kieran Fitzgerald
25 February, 2025
"David Moyes has, for me, tied the new stadium, the new owners and a half-decent squad together at just the right time. With the threat of relegation seemingly gone, I get to enjoy all the small things. I also get to start to think and dream big again."
First Look at Bramley-Moore Dock
Becky Tallentire
19 February, 2025
The stadium is superb and the sense of occasion was huge. Dan Meis, our magnificent architect, and his talented team have done us proud.
We're on a Roll
Paul Traill
16 February, 2025
Isn't it great to come away with a fabulous win? What a month or so it has been since David Moyes returned.
The Finished Cup That's Forever Full
Paul Tran
9 February, 2025
For me, the tie against Bournemouth ended a 52-year era. I still love the FA Cup. It’s a shame that it seems to be an afterthought these days. I hope there are plenty of memories in store for us at the new stadium. It’s got a huge, historical story to live up to.
David Moyes: Father figure returns to reunite the family
John Emery
2 February, 2025
To me, in my era of watching the Blues, Moyes is the voice of reason, security, and relative success. We’ll certainly need his long-term thinking in the coming months but for now he has managed to instantly bring back the fun in functional, as well as those old family values that this house was built on.
Wonderful Trip to the South Coast
Paul Traill
26 January, 2025
The Evertonians were fantastic from start to finish. We backed our team to the hilt while on the pitch everyone dug in and helped each other out.
The Curse of the Modern-Day Premier League Contract
Alan McMillan
9 January, 2025
While guaranteed compensation for managers even in the event of premature termination has its merits, Everton have found themselves hamstrung by hefty contracts, forcing them to delay making changes until it is almost too late while also the Club's ability to reinvest in new talent
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