A statistical summary of the 2021/22 season.
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Everton’s 2020/21 Statistical Summary
A statistical summary of the 2020/21 season.
Bengt Kjell – The Swedish Surrogate
On Sunday (1st November 2020), Robin Olsen became the first Swedish goalkeeper to play a competitive match for Everton. Despite the defeat against Newcastle, his performance was praised and was arguably the Blues’ man of the match. His debut came 70 years after another Swedish goalkeeper played for Everton – Bengt Kjell.
Leighton Baines Quiz
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? | |
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| Baines made his Everton debut against which team in August 2007? | |
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| Baines scored his first goal for Everton directly from a free kick against which team in March 2009? | |
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| 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? | |
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| Baines has scored more penalties than any other Everton player in the club's history. How many did he score (excluding shootouts)? | |
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| 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? | |
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| Baines scored 7 goals directly from free kicks for Everton - how many were at Goodison Park? | |
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| Baines played in every Everton match in all competitions in a single season only once - which season? | |
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| Baines' shirt number at Everton has always been number 3. Who wore the number 3 shirt for the Blues immediately before him? | |
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| Baines' last goal for Everton was a memorable strike against Leicester in the League Cup in December 2019. Who assisted him? | |
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Everton’s First Overseas Match
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.
Dixie Dean Goals Quiz
Can you name the 50 teams Dixie Dean scored against when he played for Everton?
The Bradford Blizzard
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.
Brawling Blues
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.
When Everton Fans And Watford Fans Were Friends
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.
Cyril Webster – The Courteous Clerk
It is extremely rare for players to spend a decade at the same club and not make a single first-team appearance. Before the Second World War, Everton had a player who did exactly that – Cyril Roscoe Webster.