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Everton
Everton Football Club started life in 1878 as St Domingo's FC before changing their name in 1879 to Everton FC. Their first game as Everton Football Club was on December 20th 1879 at Stanley Park against St Peter's which Everton won 6-0.
In October 1887, Everton played their first FA Cup match against Bolton and lost 0-1. Everton lodged an appeal to the FA that Bolton had fielded an ineligible player, which was upheld and a replay was arranged. The replay was drawn, the second replay was also drawn, and on November 19th (over a month from the original tie) Everton finally beat Bolton 2-1 at Anfield. Bolton lodged an appeal of their own, claiming that Everton had paid 7 of their registered 'amateur' players. This appeal was also upheld and Everton were suspended from playing for a month and had their Liverpool Cup trophy (won the previous season) confiscated!
Goodison Park was opened on August 24th 1892 and the first League match pleyed there was on September 3rd against Nottingham Forest - ending in a 2-2 draw.
In 1897, Everton beat Burton, Bury, Blackburn and Derby County to reach another FA Cup Final. The final was played at Crystal Palace and Everton losing 2-3 to Aston Villa.
In the 1933 FA Cup final, Everton beat Manchester City at Wembley 3-0.
In 1937, Tommy Lawton arrived from Burnley. 1938-39 was his finest season as an Everton player when he scoring 34 goals in 38 matches as Everton raced to another League Championship success.
The 1940's and 1950's saw Everton in decline, dropping to the Second Division and of the 1951/52 season where they stayed for three seasons before being promted back up.
In the 1961/62 season, Everton finished fourth in Divison One and this signalled a start to their revival to top quality football in the mid 1960's with Sunderland, Bedford Town, Coventry City, and the two Manchester clubs were all beaten during a glorious FA Cup run that carried Everton through to a Wembley final meeting with Sheffield Wednesday. Despite trailing 2-0, Everton went on to win 3-2 thanks to two goals by Mike Trebilcock and Derek Temple.
1968 saw Everton in the FA Cup Final but Everton were beaten by West Brom 1-0.
The 70s again proved a dismal time for Everton and a solitary League Cup Final appearance in 1976-77 was the closest they came to winning any silverware.
In the 1983/84 season, Howard Kendall managed an Everton side that lost only at 3 of their last 21 League games to finish 7th in the table, reached both the League Cup and FA Cup finals. The League Cup final was the first ever Merseyside derby in a major final even though Liverpool won the replay at Maine Road. In May, Everton lifted the FA Cup for a fourth time with Graeme Sharp and Andy Gray, two of the most pivotal figures in Everton's revival, scoring the goals that saw off Watford at Wembley. The folling season saw Everton stormed to the title with a record 90 points - 13 clear of 2nd placed Liverpool as well as success in Europe. They lost that year's FA Cup Final to Manchester United 1-0 at Wembley. Peter Reid was the PFA Player of the Year, Neville Southall the Football Writers Player of the Year and Howard Kendall was the Manager of the Year. The following year, Gary Lineker was added to the squad to replace Gray but Everton finished the seaon empty handed and Lineker moved to Barcelona
Peter Johnson took over the club in 1994, but the promised progress just never happened and the success the fans longed for seemed a long way off. In November 1998, the Chairman sanctioned the sale of Duncan Ferguson, to Newcastle and the outcry that ensued eventually forced changes at the very highest level. By Christmas 1999 Bill Kenwright led a consortium that was given the go-ahead to assume control of the football club.
