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Leighton Baines Quiz

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How much do you know about Leighton Baines’ Everton career? Test yourself by having a go at this quiz!

Which team did Everton sign Leighton Baines from for an initial fee of £5 million in August 2007?


Baines made his Everton debut against which team in August 2007?


Baines scored his first goal for Everton directly from a free kick against which team in March 2009?


Baines registered 53 assists in the Premier League for Everton - a Premier League record for a defender. Who did he set up to score the most often?


Baines has scored more penalties than any other Everton player in the club's history. How many did he score (excluding shootouts)?


Baines once had a penalty saved but then hit the post and then the goalkeeper on the back of his head and went into the goal. Who was the unfortunate goalkeeper who scored that own goal?


Baines scored 7 goals directly from free kicks for Everton - how many were at Goodison Park?


Baines played in every Everton match in all competitions in a single season only once - which season?


Baines' shirt number at Everton has always been number 3. Who wore the number 3 shirt for the Blues immediately before him?


Baines' last goal for Everton was a memorable strike against Leicester in the League Cup in December 2019. Who assisted him?








Everton’s First Overseas Match

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On 30th April 1905, Everton played their first ever overseas match in Budapest. It was the first of seven matches of a tour of Austria-Hungary. In January the same year, the club agreed to do a European tour, visiting Budapest, Vienna and Prague. There was originally a plan for a European tour in 1903 but nothing went any further. The first match of the tour was against a combined XI of two Hungarian clubs – Budapesti Torna Club and Magyar Atletikai Club.

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The Bradford Blizzard

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In the 1904/05 season, Everton were cruelly denied the First Division title by one point. “Cruelly” being the operative word here as in November 1904, Everton were leading 3-1 against Arsenal at the Manor Ground but the match was abandoned 15 minutes before full-time due to fog. In the rematch the following April, Arsenal won 2-1. If the original match had continued right to the end, Everton could have been champions. Luck was against Everton that season but in 1915, it made up for it.

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Brawling Blues

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The start of the 1990/91 season was as bad as it could get for Everton. Star players requesting moves, no points and bottom of the league. Everton lost each of their first three games of the season and were the only team in the First Division without a point. Colin Harvey decided to take the players out for a meal, hoping that uniting everyone will help kick-start their season. But it all went horribly wrong.

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When Everton Fans And Watford Fans Were Friends

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Everton and Watford’s relationship has turned quite sour since the Blues pursued the Hornet’s manager Marco Silva in November 2017 and then appointing him as their manager in May 2018. A couple of months after the appointment, Watford submitted a complaint to the Premier League, claiming Everton made an illegal approach for Silva. Watford also stopped playing Z Cars in the last few weeks of the 2018/19 season and replaced it with I’m Still Standing by Elton John. (The theme was then brought back in the first game of the 2019/20 season against Brighton.) Everton subsequently paid Watford compensation of £4m. The Watford fans showed their disapproval of Marco Silva by bringing rubber snakes to the clubs’ first meeting since Silva’s appointment as Everton manager the following December.

The relationship between the clubs is in tatters, and there is a bit of acrimony between the fan bases as well. However, there was a time when Everton fans and Watford fans had a fraternal friendship.

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Phil Jagielka Quiz

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The day this quiz was posted was also Phil Jagielka’s last day as an Everton player. How much do you know about Philip Nikodem Jagielka during his Everton career?

 

What was Jagielka's first shirt number at Everton?


Who did Jagielka replace as Everton's number 6 - the shirt number he has kept for the rest of his Everton career?


Which team did Jagielka make his competitive Everton debut against?


Jagielka made his competitive Everton debut as a substitute. Who did he replace?


Jagielka scored 19 goals in all competitions for Everton - the first was in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup against which team?


Conversely, Jagielka scored 4 own goals for Everton's opponents - half of them were for which team?


Jagielka's most famous goal for Everton was his last-minute equaliser against Liverpool in 2014. Which Liverpool player "assisted" Jagielka when he headed the ball out of the box to him?


Jagielka's highest goalscoring tally in a single Premier League season for Everton was 4 in the 2014/15 season. Which team did he score against in both league meetings that season?


Jagielka has been sent off only twice in his entire Everton career - against Wolves and who else?


On 12th October 2015, Jagielka became the first Everton player to captain England from the start of the match. Who were England's opponents?








The Roker Park Comeback

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On 30th January 1935, Everton beat Sunderland 6-4 after extra time in an epic FA Cup match, often regarded as Goodison Park’s greatest ever match. However, it wasn’t the only entertaining match between the two sides in the 1930s. Just over a year later, on 7th March 1936 at Roker Park, the two sides met in the First Division in a game that made Everton history.

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