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13 unusual facts about Everton F.C


Boothferry Park Halt railway station

The station was first used for a match against Everton when six trains ran the football service between Paragon Station, Hull's central railway station and Boothferry Park.

David France

Throughout the past decade, he has been the driving force behind numerous initiatives related to Everton Football Club including Gwladys Street’s Hall of Fame, the Everton Former-Players’ Foundation, the Founding Fathers of Merseyside Football and the Everton Collection (formerly known as The David France Collection).

Everton-Chang

The area was renamed to Everton-Chang after Everton F.C. and Chang Beer raised over £135,000 to rebuild the village after a Tsunami struck.

Garden Corner

However, despite extensive restoration, after buying a £7.5 million stake in Everton F.C., Gregg was spending most of his time in north-west England.

Lukaku

Romelu Lukaku (born 1993), Belgian football player, who currently plays for Everton.

Malefice

In 2012 they recorded a song with Everton goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann for the Jägermeister UK "Ice Cold Session", titled Omega and released on February 1, 2012.

Peter Sippel

He refereed in the UEFA Cup 1st round, 2nd leg tie between Standard Liége and Everton, which Standard Liege won 2-1, going through 4-3 on aggregate.

Rob Lloyd

In 2003 he attempted to help finance a stadium build for Everton F.C. at King's Dock, Liverpool.

Rubén Rochina

On 16 April Rochina made his league debut for his new club, starting in a 2–0 away loss against Everton.

Slamannan

Early twentieth century Everton footballer, Alex "Sandy" Young was born in Slamannan, and spent his youth years playing for Slamannan Juniors.

The Combination

As the competition evolved, the nature of the teams changed, with many more Welsh teams being involved, as well as the reserve teams of the Football League clubs such as Everton and Crewe Alexandra.

Warburg Pincus

In 1999, they attempted to purchase English Premier League football (soccer) team Everton.

William James Sawyer

Secretary/Manager of Everton F.C. in 1918-19 (until stepping down due to work commitments) - steering the club through tricky times as World War I ended.


2000–01 FA Premier League

When Walter Smith was appointed as Everton manager three years ago, he was intent on reversing the decline which had turned Everton from title winners to relegation battlers in barely a decade.

Alex Stevenson

Puzzled by the fourteen-year gap between his first and second FAI cap, Stevenson apparently approached both the Everton secretary-manager, Theo Kelly, and the FAI secretary Joe Wickham for an explanation but neither was prepared to offer one.

Association Footballers' Union

Jack Bell, the Everton forward and Scottish international, was the first chairman.

Bertram Sharp

In December 1900, Southampton acquired the services of C. B. Fry, the celebrated amateur footballer – whenever Fry was available to play, Sharp was required to give way, thus missing several important games, including the FA Cup First Round defeat by Everton.

Bill Asprey

In a training session at Highfield Road he came up with the idea of the famous donkey-kick free-kick routine that was executed by Willie Carr and scored by Ernie Hunt in a league game against Everton in October 1970.

Darren Beckford

The highlight of his time at Norwich was his hat-trick in a 4–3 win against Everton – a victory which would prove key to the Canaries avoiding the drop in 1991–92.

Dennis Yaager

During the 1964–65 season he spent time at Everton, though he did not make a first team appearance.

Ed Woodward

Woodward's first transfer window, where Manchester United completed the signing of Belgian midfielder Marouane Fellaini from Everton, but failed to acquire other transfer targets, was described as being "disastrous" by The Daily Telegraph.

Foxdale A.F.C.

Former Scotland, Wolves and Everton F.C. striker Andy Gray was also due to attend but has had to withdraw because of a family commitment.

Gary Gillespie

He had played 14 times in the 1985–86 season, however, scoring three league goals, as the Reds sealed the double of the league title and the FA Cup, beating their local rivals Everton into second place and also defeating them 3–1 in the Wembley final.

Hastings United F.C.

After manager Steve Lovell's resignation in November that year, United surprised many by bringing in ex-Wales and Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall, and with him came an upturn in fortunes, with eventually United consolidating their position in their new league.

Jesse Pennington

In 1913, Pennington was approached by Pascoe Bioletti who offered £5 per player for Albion corruptly to endeavour not to win their forthcoming game against Everton F.C. on 29 November.

John Hemmingham

Hemmingham started playing music at football matches in 1993 when he took a bugle to a Sheffield Wednesday match away at Everton's Goodison Park and played the fanfare to Aida.

Ken Bates

He provided significant finance by way of bank guarantees that enabled the then manager, Larry Lloyd, to sign a number of players, not the least of which was Eamonn O'Keefe from Everton for £65,000.

Mark Came

But a broken leg early in the 1988–89 season after a tackle by Chester City's striker Ian Benjamin ruled him out for more than a year thus ending interest in him by Arsenal, Ipswich Town and Everton.

Mehmet Topal

In the 2008 summer transfer window, there were rumours surrounding a move to Everton in the Premier League, with David Moyes apparently keen to bring the player to Goodison Park.

Milan Baroš

In the Boxing Day match against Everton, Baroš was involved thoroughly in the proceedings.

Neale Barry

Neale Barry's last Premiership game as man-in-the-middle was the 3-2 win for Bolton Wanderers at home to Everton on 15 May 2005, when he was unfortunately required to send off Bolton's Bruno N'Gotty for violent conduct.

Pascoe Bioletti

In 1913, Bioletti approached West Bromwich Albion F.C. and England captain Jesse Pennington and offered £5 per player for Albion to endeavour not to win their forthcoming game against Everton F.C. on 29 November.

Pat Dunne

Dunne played in Dublin with Stella Maris Football Club, a club that competes in the Dublin and District Schoolboys League, in Drumcondra before playing in England for Everton.

Phil Quinlan

Philip Edward "Phil" Quinlan (born April 17, 1971 in Madrid) is a former professional footballer, who played for Huddersfield Town and Everton.

Reto Ziegler

Some of his most memorable moments from that season came in the home loss to Arsenal, when near the end of the game he played a delicate chipped pass to Frédéric Kanouté, who scored to make it 4–5, and in the New Year's Day game against Everton, where he scored his first goal en route to a 5–2 Tottenham win.

Roker Park

In 1929 the old wooden grandstand was demolished and replaced by a new Main Stand, which was designed by Archibald Leitch, whose influence, the criss-cross lattice work, can still be seen at Ibrox (Rangers), Home Park (Plymouth Argyle) and Goodison Park (Everton).

Ronny Goodlass

He was the player who provided the cross for the infamous disallowed "goal" by Bryan Hamilton by controversial referee Clive Thomas that would have seen Everton through to the FA Cup final.

Runcorn F.C. Halton

In 2000, they sold the Canal Street ground where they had played since 1918, and moved to the 11,000-seat Halton Stadium in Widnes, which was also used by the town's rugby team and Everton reserves.

Sandhills railway station

It is also used by football fans heading for Liverpool F.C. and Everton F.C. matches: a bus service called Soccerbus runs between the station and the football stadiums on match-days only.

Stanley Park, Liverpool

Stanley Park is known for dividing the home grounds of rival Merseyside football clubs Everton and Liverpool.

Tony Waddington

To pay for the repairs the club had to sell their best players, such as Jimmy Greenhoff to Manchester United, Alan Hudson to Arsenal and Mike Pejic to Everton.

Wally Fielding

In 1945, after leaving the Army, Fielding was signed by Everton manager Theo Kelly having been a youth amateur player for Charlton Athletic F.C.

Warsop

It is home to The Meden School & Technology College on Burns Lane; former pupils include television hosts Pollyanna Woodward and Simon Mapletoft, Mansfield 103.2 presenter Jason Harrison, Breakfast Show host Joe Sentance on Rother FM, ex-Everton footballer Neil Pointon, and England wicketkeeper Bruce French.

Wilf Wild

In Wild's first season in charge Manchester City reached the 1933 FA Cup final, but lost 3–0 to a Dixie Dean inspired Everton.