With the summer transfer window well and truly open until 8 August,? Many of the greatest clubs in football history have had at least one transfer move Emblazoned on the ironclad paneling that surrounds Goodison is a maxim that epitomises an array of Everton matches. Nil Satis Nisi Optimum avows that nothing, but unparalleled greatness is good enough. Throughout their turbulent years of existence, Everton have been involved in a slew First opened on 24 August , this revered ground was the first major football stadium built in England.
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Blog 30th May Facebook 1 Twitter 1 Linkedin 1 Email 3 X. Blog 22nd May For those teams that didn't come specifically from the Catholic church Glasgow Celtic , it was likely that the factory and mill owners were involved in charitable organisations, religion and politics all masonic activities. It is no coincidence that the meeting that led to the formation of the FA took place in a pub called the Freemason's Tavern. Or am I just a conspiracy theorist?
Whatever religious connection there might have been originally, it seems to have faded fast as the popular appeal of football grew and the name changed within a year to Everton Football Club. None of the early characters involved in establishing the club appeared to have expressed any religious position regarding the club, apart from a mild objection that early meetings were held in the public rooms of Houlding's Queens Head Hotel — within smelling distance of the evil alcohol that would have been anathema to the teetotal Methodists of St Domingo's.
There appears to be little real evidence to suggest any strong relationship between support of Everton and adherence to either the Catholic or Protestant faiths. Parental family ties appear to have been much stronger, with many current Evertonians citing fathers or grandfathers of either religion who were true blue, through and through.
On an individual basis, it must have been comforting for some to draw a parallel between allegiance to the club, and faith in God. But on a larger perspective, it seems that many families united by their religious origins include both true blues and other misguided souls who are seduced by the red devils from hell, aka Liverpool FC.
The possibility of a religious connection may be relatively recent and purely accidental. Through the s, the Everton team took on a distinctly Irish flavour, with the likes of Peter Farrell and Tommy Eglington becoming big crowd favourites.
This brought about a significant influx of Irish fans, and may have been responsible for suggesting a Catholic flavour. Prior to this, there may have been a majority of Orangemen with a history of family support for the club from the early part of the century. Either way, it probably matters very little today, to all except a few zealots and fundamentalists.
Other subtle clues help only to cloud the issue, such as an indefinable link in the minds of some supporters between Everton and Glasgow Celtic, rather than Glasgow Rangers — the Bears being more readily tied with Liverpool FC.
The religious division between the two Glasgow rivals is a very real factor that bears no comparison on Merseyside, where the two clubs grew from the same root. However, this last factor is immortalized in the words of one Goodison anthem that had its origin in the s, when the historic internecine rivalry between Shankly's Liverpool and Catterick's Everton reached new heights: Oh we hate Bill Shankly, and we hate St John But most of all, we hate Big Ron And we'll hang the Kopites one by one On the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey So to hell with Liverpool and Rangers too We'll drown them all in the Mersey And we'll fight, fight, fight with all our might For the lads in the Royal Blue Jersey.
Conspiracy theorists will suggest that his thread underlies the incomprehensible treatment directed at Glasgow Rangers handed down to Everton's Nineties cult-hero, Duncan Ferguson , by a Scottish hierarchy steeped in religious bigotry that has no place in football. However, as far as Everton FC are concerned, the links with the two Glasgow clubs seem relatively evenly balanced. The record books show that transfers of players from both the Glasgow clubs have occurred consistently since the earliest years of EFC.
And recent ties, such as the loans of Ian Durrant and Duncan Ferguson from Rangers in , and Dave Watson's Testimonial against Rangers in — contrasted with Neville Southall's testimonial opponents Celtic a couple of years earlier — must demonstrate that no such preferential or religious connection exists in practice.
In this day and age, when religion lies at the heart of so much pain and suffering, it would pay us to distance ourselves from this divisive issue.
Half Time: Kick Off:. Michael Keane 19' Goal. Dominic Calvert-Lewin 81' Goal. Richarlison 90' Red Card. Mohamed Salah 72' Goal. Andrew Robertson 3'.
EVE Goal 3 Mins Andrew Robertson. Substitution 11 Mins 4. Virgil van Dijk Substitution Off. Joseph Gomez Substitution On. Goal 19 Mins 5. Michael Keane Ast. Substitution 31 Mins Ben Godfrey Substitution On. Yellow Card 45 Mins Yellow Card 67 Mins Yellow Card 69 Mins Goal 72 Mins Mohamed Salah. Far from it. Liverpool versus Everton matches have seen more red cards than any other Premier League contest in the past 20 years.
This match makes other so-called "hotly contested derbies" look like tickling contests. The Friendly Derby tag comes from the fact that sets of friends will, as with families, be divided between Liverpool and Everton. Childhood pals, best mates, brothers-in-arms will find themselves on opposite sides of the Stanley Park divide with their allegiances sworn to the Reds or to the Blues.
As with families, you'll see groups of friends walking to the match together. There will be no aggro; there is no real need for police to be on site. What makes the Merseyside Derby different from so many others is that there are no political or social differences between the two clubs.
There is no great geographical distance between the clubs. There are no religious differences between the fans. Sure, there are people with different beliefs, but there's no sectarianism in the city as there is in Glasgow. There is no dispute, as there is in Manchester, about one club being from the city and the other being from outside. There is none of that. These are simply two sets of fans from the same city who support teams from the same city, and who are, by and large, very similar.
If you attend a match at either Anfield or Goodison Park you will see thousands upon thousands of men and women, in their 30s and 40s who have been going to watch their teams play for most of their lives. These people will have grown up during the s when Liverpool were unquestionably the best team in England and arguably the best team in Europe throughout the decade, and Everton experienced arguably the most successful period in their history.
Such was the social climate in the city of Liverpool during the s, when the Thatcher-led government and their policies were crippling northern cities who relied on industry for employment, that football became somewhat of a sanctuary. It was an escape from reality and depression. And during the '80s, it was a fantastic escape. The new of European cups could well have been doubled if not for the ban on English clubs following events at the Heysel Stadium before the European Cup final.
Seven league titles, three FA Cups, four League Cups and three major European honours between the two clubs in a year period. And as I said, those European honours likely would have been added to had the teams been allowed to compete in Europe, as Liverpool and Everton would have done almost every year. A generation of football fans grew up during that era and, while the relationship between the clubs and fans grew extremely strained following Heysel, there was a mutual respect for the achievements of each team.
That respect and the relationships that were re-formed towards the end of the '80s remain prominent today. Another thing that sets this derby apart is the number of players who have represented both teams.
Throughout the history of both clubs, there have been 30 transfers between the two clubs. While that may not seem a lot over a year existence, you won't find many other derby matches where the teams have had that many transfers between them.
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