World Cup winner with England. League title winner with Everton.
One of the greatest players this country has ever seen.
Remembering the legendary Alan Ball on what would have been his 81st birthday. 💙
🎶Who’s the greatest of them all? Little curly Alan Ball🎶
Celebrating his birthday #OnThisDay 1945. 251 games
79 goals. League champion.
World Cup winner. The Everton legend would have been 81 today. 2 goals in a 3-1 win v Man U at Goodison Park 1967 #EFC
This is possibly the best advert ever on British TV. For Carlsberg beer it features some great England players who play in a Sunday league match.
Lots of banter, crunching tackles & great action, including a Bobby Charlton rocket.
"You'll have to teach me that!" 🪱😅
The Everton in the Community Down Syndrome team headed to Finch Farm to meet Jack Grealish & the rest of the squad, and show them their moves! 💙
Gary Speed, fine player and even finer human being, passed away 14 years ago today. On Saturday, Everton unveil the Gary Speed Memorial Bench at Hill Dickinson Stadium before the game with Newcastle United, who he also represented with such distinction. The bench bears the message: “IN MEMORY OF GARY SPEED, EVERTONIAN, CAPTAIN, LEADER 1969–2011. A place for what is often unspoken. A place to sit, share and listen.”
The “talking bench” is one of a series introduced across the UK. In the words of @Everton, it’s “a simple but powerful way to encourage conversation, tackle loneliness and isolation, and signpost people to mental health support”. Via a QR code to programmes delivered by Everton In The Community.
“As part of the Club’s commitment to the Premier League’s ‘Together Against Suicide’ pilot, trained @EITC staff will be based in the area around the bench before every home fixture. Supporters who wish to talk, seek support, or learn more about the services available will be able to approach staff confidentially and without appointment”.
The bench, which has the full blessing of Speed’s family, was proposed by @EFC_FansForum as “a meaningful and positive legacy in Gary’s name”. Everton add that it's "a permanent space for reflection, conversation and connection - and a reminder that no Evertonian ever has to struggle alone". #EFC
The full football scene from the great film ‘Kes’
I think we can all relate to some of this when we were at school.
Picking teams, standing in a line, the worst players picked last, everyone wearing different kits, some swinging on the bar, goalmouths full of mud and a teacher who thought he was Bobby Charlton.
Two very special Everton mascots, Holly and Mason, will lead the team out for the West Ham game at the Hill Dickinson Stadium on Monday. Both huge Everton fans are currently battling cancer. Holly, 5, was diagnosed with Stage 4 Neuroblastoma in May 2024. Mason, 11, was diagnosed with Leukaemia last May.
Monday’s game has been dedicated to the Bradley Lowery Foundation’s Cancer Has No Colours campaign, which raises vital awareness and funds for childhood cancer research. Bradley’s parents, Carl and Gemma, are special guests at the game, along with Bradley’s friend Jermain Defoe.
Bradley first forged a special bond with Evertonians when he was mascot for Sunderland in a game against Everton at the Stadium of Light in September 2016. Bradley passed away in 2017, aged six. @Bradleysfight #EFC #CancerHasNoColours
Today is the anniversary of two tragic losses of young lives in our city.
Our thoughts, as always, are with both the families of Rhys Jones and Olivia Pratt-Korbel on this sad day.