EPL 2023/24

[Earnest]

Blades nil
Toffees Four

[747man]

Here is another test for you soccer fans:

Bill Edgar
Wednesday August 30 2023, 1.30pm BST, The Times


Let us know your score in the comments below.

QUESTION ONE: LUTON TOWN V WEST HAM UNITED

Luton, who play their first home league match of the campaign here, gained promotion to the top flight last season despite recording the lowest average attendance in the second tier. That had only happened once before in league history — which club had done the same just 12 months earlier?

Brentford

Bournemouth

Watford

Fulham

QUESTION TWO: SHEFFIELD UNITED V EVERTON

Which of these Everton players was born in Sheffield and played for Sheffield United in League One?

Michael Keane

Ben Godfrey

Ashley Young

Dominic Calvert-Lewin

QUESTION THREE: BRENTFORD V BOURNEMOUTH

Brentford, Bournemouth and their fellow Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion have played in all four League tiers in the 21st century. Three of these other four "B" clubs have also played in all four tiers in that period — which is the odd one out?

Bradford City

Blackburn Rovers

Blackpool

Bolton Wanderers

QUESTION FOUR: BURNLEY V TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR

Over four consecutive seasons Wolverhampton Wanderers, Burnley, Tottenham Hotspur and Ipswich Town won the league title (in that order) — but none of them have been champions since then. What were those seasons?

1930-31 to 1933-34

1949-50 to 1952-53

1958-59 to 1961-62

1968-69 to 1971-72

QUESTION FIVE: CHELSEA V NOTTINGHAM FOREST

In which city did both of these clubs clinch the first of their two European Cup/Champions League successes, Nottingham Forest in the 1979 final and Chelsea in the 2012 climax?

Madrid

Milan

Munich

Moscow

QUESTION SIX: MANCHESTER CITY V FULHAM

Which manager took Fulham to the third-tier title in 1998-99 and Manchester City to the second-tier title in 2001-02?

Kit Symons

Mark Hughes

Paul Bracewell

Kevin Keegan

QUESTION SEVEN: BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION V NEWCASTLE UNITED

Newcastle, who signed Harvey Barnes this summer, were managed by a Harvey (his surname) when they won their most recent major trophy, the Fairs Cup in 1969. What was his first name?

Joe

Neil

Keith

George

QUESTION EIGHT: CRYSTAL PALACE V WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS

When these teams met in the FA Cup at Selhurst Park in 2010 Palace’s Danny Butterfield, an emergency striker, scored three goals in the space of six second-half minutes. What was his normal position?

Goalkeeper

Full back

Defensive midfielder

Centre back

QUESTION NINE: LIVERPOOL V ASTON VILLA

Two players appeared for Oxford United in the top flight and later helped Liverpool win the FA Cup in 1992 and Aston Villa win the League Cup in 1994. Ray Houghton was one but who was the other?

Dean Saunders

Steve Staunton

Mark Walters

Patrik Berger

QUESTION TEN: ARSENAL V MANCHESTER UNITED

Only once in these clubs’ past 36 meetings has one team scored more than three goals. Manchester United won that league match in August 2011 by what score?

6-3

8-2

7-3

5-4

View your score

Hold On a Bit LYM, Desserie ( aka Tefal ) Is Busy on GOOGLE......555 !!

[Laan Yaa Mo]

Lord Thunderin' Jaysus!!! Another article about the boring Evertons. However, 747 should be thrown a bone every now and again.

]Everton fans won’t lower expectations – and Sean Dyche knows it
As the Merseyside club return to a ground symbolic of their decline, their manager understands that he cannot use factors beyond his control as excuses

Everton are yet to score or earn a point in the Premier League this season

The high points in Everton’s turbulent recent history are not easy to identify, though the club’s most recent visit to Bramall Lane may well be one.

It came on Boxing Day 2020 and while the game against Sheffield United was not a classic — a scrappy, 1-0 success secured on a rain-lashed night — the Premier League table made for pleasant viewing come the final whistle.

Everton sat giddily in second place, just behind Liverpool, and Carlo Ancelotti, the manager, was asked in the post-match press conference whether the club was capable of delivering a first league title since 1987.

The Italian shut down such talk with a smile and a chortle but, having seen Gylfi Sigurdsson conjure the decisive moment in Yorkshire for a team shorn of James Rodríguez, Richarlison, Lucas Digne and Allan, Ancelotti felt comfortable in publicly stating that European qualification was the desired aim.

By the end of the season, however, Everton had slipped to tenth, Ancelotti would soon depart for Real Madrid and the depressing cycle of boom to bust was beginning all over again. Managerial appointments, managerial sackings and star players sold but not adequately replaced.

As they prepare to retrace those footsteps, pointless and goalless in the Premier League this season, the extent to which the Merseyside club’s fortunes have dipped is laid bare.

Everton have played 102 league games since then, winning 27, drawing 24 and losing 51. They sit bottom of a table comprising the results of those sides who have remained in the top flight over that 2½-year period.

It has been a miserable decline, one that was exacerbated for Everton supporters by the Covid-19 pandemic, meaning that the rise in the first half of the 2020-21 campaign came behind closed doors.

Some of the names remain the same. Jordan Pickford, Michael Keane and Abdoulaye Doucouré all started that December 26 fixture, along with Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who is injured.

The rate of change at Goodison Park is further emphasised, however, by Sean Dyche being the third permanent manager in situ since Ancelotti’s unexpected departure to the Bernabéu. The constant upheaval on the playing side, without tangible success, means the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules on spending have restricted transfer activity at a time when there is little bang available for the buck.

“The last six months to a year, there has been a real jump in terms of where the numbers have gone to,” Dyche said. “Unfortunately, our pot has got smaller as the pots around the country have got bigger. That is just the reality and life at the current time.” It has meant that Everton’s director of football, Kevin Thelwell, has had to be creative in structuring deals with the initial payment on the £26 million deal with Udinese for Beto not due until next year.

All of which makes orchestrating a lasting recovery more difficult and, in the short term, small steps are required.
Dyche said on Thursday that at Burnley, his former club, such issues would be factored into the expectations that subsequently swirled around the team. At Everton, he has discovered that is not the case.

It has been left to the supporters to uphold the standards which were once commonplace throughout the club, demanding more and questioning decisions. It is, quite frankly, how it should be and without that you wonder how much more of a mess Everton would be in.

“Everton is different,” Dyche, who saw Beto score on his debut as a Carabao Cup calamity against Doncaster Rovers was averted on Wednesday and has Dwight McNeil back in training, said.

“Evertonians, as much as they support us when you are on the pitch, they don’t bother about whether you have got money, no money, injuries, no injuries. They are just like, ‘You didn’t win or you did win.’

“So that is what is key to Evertonians, and I have learned that. That is what being at a bigger club is like and that is no disrespect to Burnley, a fantastic club. But this is a bigger concern and so, therefore, the heat comes on much quicker regardless of the facts.

“The facts here just don’t count, whereas at Burnley they did, and I think people went, ‘OK, I sort of know where we are at.’

“At Everton, it is a different animal and I have become well adjusted to that — and I had to.”

So different in fact that 2,869 fans will make the trip across the Pennines, unflinchingly loyal in their belief that a win could provide the catalyst for an upturn in fortune that is long overdue. And that they may bound away from Bramall Lane with something similar to the sense of hope that was emboldened by their last trip.


Everton booed off after third defeat without scoring
PREMIER LEAGUE
Everton booed off after third defeat without scoring
August 26 2023, 6.00pm
Charlotte Duncker

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ever ... -j7mjx7s5v

[747man]

[Drunk Monkey]

Reds and Blues .. full movie from 2011... highlights the deep rooted and amusing side of the Liverpool FC v Everton Fc rivalries... possibly happening in Nong Khai as well.

https://youtu.be/uly4BS73hWs

[Irish Alan]

[tamada]

Lord Thunderin' Jaysus!!! Another article about the boring Evertons. However, 747 should be thrown a bone every now and again

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ever ... -j7mjx7s5v

No. No he bloody well does not. Post a link by all means but spare us the eye-bleeding copy-paste nonsense of biblical proportions

[tamada]

Two goals and a point. Well done.

[tamada]

Hah! Burnley! Crash and burn you six-toed dingles.

[747man]

Reds and Blues .. full movie from 2011... highlights the deep rooted and amusing side of the Liverpool FC v Everton Fc rivalries... possibly happening in Nong Khai as well.

https://youtu.be/uly4BS73hWs

Fookin' Funny 'Eh Jon ?? Have Yer Stopped Laughin' Yet....The Doctors Diagnosis Severe case of " Red & White Shiteitis ".... 555 !!

[dezzer111]

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Grow up Lilac

[dezzer111]

Pickford ,what a ,I suppose Lilac will be cock a hoop,now that the Bluenoses have finally got a point what a load of tripe.

[747man]

Ooooooops ,jumbo strikes again
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Did I ??? I Don't think So......What Date is THAT Then ??...

[Irish Alan]

You've posted the same screenshot twice. POST THE LINK TO THAT ACTUAL ARTICLE.

[tamada]

Ooooooops ,jumbo strikes again
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Did I ??? I Don't think So......What Date is THAT Then ??...371798557_6807708422602026_405780769850779979_n.jpg

How's life in the Evertoon affirmation echo chamber these days?

The point is that someone you are following online posted an EDITED picture of a news article published in September 2014. Here's the ORIGINAL article from the Guardian website plus a link.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... dApp_Other

Or do you believe EVERYTHING that you see on your trawl for childish memes?

[Irish Alan]

[Irish Alan]

[747man]

One Of the 3 Was a FLUKEY OG....But You never mentioned that,Did Yer ??

[thewatchman]

A big big Happy Birthday to the biggest Evertonian out there, Bill Kenwright.

All the best agent Bill,keep up the good work

[tamada]

One Of the 3 Was a FLUKEY OG....But You never mentioned that,Did Yer ??

Bugger me, talk about desperate? The Evertoon's probably dream of an OG. Any goal for that matter. They've almost forgotten what the bloody things look like.