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Facts
Formed: 1878
Home: Goodison Park, capacity 40,103
Nickname: The Toffees.
People
Chairman: Bill Kenwright
Chief executive: Keith Wyness
Head coach: David Moyes
Assistant coach: Alan Irvine
Team captain: Phil Neville
History
Founder members of the Football League, Everton have played more seasons in the top flight of English football than any other club. St Domingo's FC was the club's original name, but a meeting in 1879 led to an historic name change.
A few years later, Everton began playing their games at Anfield Road (yes, that Anfield) and only moved to Goodison Park as a result of a rent dispute in 1892. This quirk of footballing history means that the stories of Everton and Liverpool are inescapably entwined and it also serves to intensify the rivalry between these near neighbours.
With an enviable record for trophies, Everton also boast one of the greatest players of all time in the formidable shape of Dixie Dean. Dean wrote himself into the history books by scoring 60 league goals in the 1927/28 season – a year that saw him score 100 goals in total. The legendary centre forward scored 349 league goals in his career for his beloved Everton, notching up an astonishing 200 goals in his first 198 games.
The prolific striker was the first in a long line of iconic number nines at Goodison Park, from Tommy Lawton through Dave Hickson to Joe Royle, Bob Latchford and Graeme Sharp.
And it is against such an illustrious history that Everton's recent failings are inevitably measured.
Once known as The Bank of England club, Everton have been outspent, out-managed and generally outplayed by many of their closest rivals over the last couple of decades. And with only an FA Cup final victory against Manchester United in 1995 to shout about for quite some time, the supporters who remember the School of Science have inevitably grown impatient.
Honours
Football League champions: 9 - 1891, 1915, 1928, 1932, 1939, 1963, 1970, 1985, 1987
FA Cup winners: 5 - 1906, 1933, 1966, 1984, 1995
Community Shield winners: 1 - 9 – 1928, 1932, 1963, 1970, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1995, Shared 1986
European Cup Winners' Cup: 1 - 1985
Last Season
Premiership: 6th – P 38 W 15 D 13 L 10 GF 52 GA 36 GD 16 P 58
FA Cup: Third round - lost 4-1 to Blackburn
League Cup: Fourth round - lost 1-0 to Arsenal
A fan's view of the 2006/07 season
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