Top ten facts and stats to know about Everton.
Posted on September 17th, 2010 | 113 Comments |
I am now going to try to incorporate more facts relating to this history between the two clubs as well as facts which relate to the big game along with the trivial facts of The Toffee’s to cast your eyes over. I hope you enjoy!
1. The record between the two clubs over the years is incredibly close. Out of 158 games, United have won 62 and Everton have won.. 62, with the the clubs drawing 34 times. The two clubs are even neck and neck for goals scored with United just edging it with 239 compared to 238 for The Toffees.
2. The bad news for United fans travelling down to Goodison Park however is that United have managed just five wins from the last 16 league visits to Merseyside in the Premier League, failing to win in the last 7 trips. United’s last win came in the 2001/02 season with messers Bellamy, Solano and Acuna netting the goals in a 3-1 win. Take some comfort from the fact United battled to a 2-2 in their last visit to Goodison Park in Joe Kinnears first game in the Newcastle hot seat.
3. There have been a huge number of notable players who have played for both United and Everton in recent years. The biggest names have been Everton legend John Bailey, Paul Gascoigne, Peter Beardsley, Marc Hottiger, David Ginola, Gary Speed, Steve Watson, Duncan Ferguson, Sylvain Distin, Alessandro Pistone, Paul Bracewell, Louis Saha and most recently and controversially of course, Dan Gosling.
In 2004 United fans perhaps never quite believed that Wayne Rooney would join the list as The Toon entered a bidding war with Manchester United – a war The Red Devils eventually won although Rooney did admit that if he didn’t join the Red Devils then he would have come to St James’.
4. David Moyes switched from Preston to Goodison Park in March 2002 replacing Walter Smith and in that time he has took the club to Champions League (albeit it just the qualification round) and FA Cup final, but with a couple of seaons of relegation worries in the middle of his spell at the club. He is perhaps a shining example that managers need to be given time to build a side. His managerial record at Everton stands at 382 games, 162 wins, 93 draws and 127 defeats giving him a win percentage of 42%. With his record vs Newcastle being 5 wins, 4 draws and 5 losses.
5. Moyes win Percentage is 3% better then the record of ex mag and Everton boss Gordon Lee’s record which was 39% at Everton with 92 wins, 72 draws and 70 defeats from 234 games. Lee spent two years on Tyneside arriving from Blackburn Rovers in 1975 and lead United to League Cup final in 1976. However Lee will always be remebered as the man who sold Super Mac. A bust up with the prolific forward saw Macdonald leave for Arsenal in 1976 for the bizarre fee of £333,333.33. Lee didn’t last much longer as he headed to The Toffee’s who Lee finished League Cup Runner up with for the second year in a row.
6. Toon hater Andy Gray ranks among the legends of Goodison Park despite making only 68 appearances. During his brief spell at the club he helped the Toffees to League and Cup success and the European Cup winners Cup with an inspiring performance in what has since been called ‘Goodison’s greatest night’ as they overcame the mighty Bayern Munich in the semi-final.
Other legends include record scorer Dixie Dean who netted 383 goals in 433 appearances including an incredible 60 goals in a single season, culminating in 9 goals in his final 3 games. Welsh goalkeeper Neville Southall holds the record for most appearances with 750 starts (216 more then second placed Brian Labone) between 1981 and 1997.
7. The 18th of September will be remembered for Everton as being the date of Goodison parks record attedance was achieved in 1948 as the blue side of merseyside hosted the red side infront of 78,299. The Toffees also made their European Cup debut on this day in 1963 as they played out goalless draw at home to Inter Milan.
8. The 2010/11 season is Everton’s 108th season in the top flight, an English record, and they have been ever present in the top flight since 1954 playing more top flight games then any other team as well as lifting the title no fewer then 9 times, putting them 4th on the overall list. They have also won the FA Cup five times, with the last time being in a 1-0 win over Manchester United under Joe Royle.
9. Howard Kendall was the last manager to lead Everton to the League Championship as well as winning the FA Cup and Kendall is the last manager English manager to lift a European trophy whilst managing an English side after the Toffee’s defeated Rapid Vienna to lift the Cup Winners Cup back when the two Merseyside clubs dominated English football. Interestingly, Kendall’s uncle Harry Taylor played for Newcastle United.
10. Finally I would again like to finish by looking at the Ladbrokes match odds ahead of Saturdays game. The home side are 4/6 favorites to win with United 9/2 and a draw priced 5/2. The odds for United getting another 2-2 on Merseyside are 14/1.
Tim Cahill is favourite for first goal at 9/2 with Andy Carroll priced 7/1. Whilst Ben Arfa scoring his first goal for United is priced at 12/1 and Check Tiote 25/1. Ex-pompey partners Distin and Campbell are both priced at 33/1.
Howay the lads!
Only need to know one fact about Everton – It’s full of Scousers and for that fact, it’s a shit hole!