England's top flight wins of 2,000 are a recent milestone for Liverpool. With 7,000 goals in England's top flight, this is a milestone Arsenal has just completed. When we praise liverpool and Arsenal's strong heritage, we can also see such a statistic - Liverpool's top league season statistics are only third, and Arsenal are fourth.
Liverpool have played in the top flight for 107 seasons, Arsenal for 105, Manchester United for 97, Manchester City for 93 and Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur for 87 seasons.
In second place is Aston Villa, who have played in the top flight for 108 seasons. The first place is Liverpool's nemesis , Toffee" Everton, who have played in the top flight for 119 seasons, 11 more than the second place!
[Data say: Everton's 5 firsts]
In English football, in terms of seniority, Everton is unique, and they have maintained several firsts in the history of The English top flight:
First in 4611 games, 383 more than second place Liverpool and Arsenal, Aston Villa in fourth place, with only these four teams playing 4,000+ in total (Villa played more seasons but played fewer games because there were only 22 rounds in the early single season of the top flight);
The first number of goals scored, 7139 goals, 68 more than the second place Liverpool, the third place Arsenal 7003 goals, a total of only these 3 teams scored 7000+;
First draw, 1157 games, 77 more than second place Arsenal;
First place lost, 1582 games, 78 more than second place Aston Villa;
The first number of goals conceded, 6388, 173 more than the second place Aston Villa.
In terms of top-flight wins and total points, Everton are third, behind Liverpool and Arsenal. This is a little embarrassing, with Everton's results easily suppressed by Liverpool and Arsenal while far ahead of the competition, and Everton has played 741 more top league games than Manchester United, but only won 15 more...
This team, which has a strong foundation and is unique in seniority, has long played the role of dragon set in the Premier League.
You know, Everton has a "prominent" identity - the double elder of the old League One and the Premier League, and there are only three teams with this status, except for Everton, aston Villa and Blackburn.
【The second generation of hegemons, witnessing the birth of Liverpool】
England's top flight began in 1888, in the fourteenth year of Guangxu, and Everton was the first generation of elders, which coincided with the 10th anniversary of their founding. Manchester United made their debut in the top flight in 1892, Liverpool in 1894, Manchester City in 1899, Arsenal in 1904, Chelsea in 1907 and Tottenham in 1909.
In 1890–91, Everton ended Preston's two-game winning streak, becoming the second title in The history of England's top flight, when Everton's home stadium was Anfield Stadium.
Just after this victory, a major event happened that changed the history of English football. In 1892, the Everton Club Council and Everton Club President and Anfield Stadium owner John Hoding had a serious disagreement over business philosophy and distribution of benefits, Hoding significantly increased the rent of the stadium, Everton was forced to leave the 8-year-old Anfield Stadium and move to Goodison Park, and Hoding founded a new club, he named the team "Everton Sport" was rejected, and later renamed "Liverpool", the most successful club in the history of English football was born!
To this day, There are still Everton fans who use this history to flaunt the team's heritage, because they can see Liverpool as a branch of Everton.
【Goal Machines in the War Years】
In the 1914–15 season, after 24 years of waiting, Everton won the top flight again. But then, the top flight was suspended because, World War I broke out.
In 1927-28, Everton won the title for the third time, they scored 102 goals, and Everton legend Dixie Dean scored 60 goals in 39 appearances that season, setting a record that could not be surpassed!
Dean played for Everton for 12 years, scoring 383 goals in 433 appearances, and is still the team's all-time top scorer, 224 more goals than second place Graeme Sharp! Dean's statue was inaugurated outside Goodison Park in 2001, 21 years after his death.
In the 1931-32 season, Dean scored 45 goals in 38 games and led Everton to his 4th league title! The experience of winning the title was legendary, because in 1930, Everton were relegated two years after winning the title, missing the top flight for the first time, in 1931, they won the championship and were promoted, Dean scored 41 goals, and in 1932, they were crowned fourth as promotion horses!
In 1938-39, Everton won the title for the fifth time, but then the English top flight was shut down. Because, the Second World War broke out again.
After Everton's second and fifth titles, after 4 and 7 years of offspring, respectively, In that war-torn era, Everton fans could not enjoy the joy of defending champions, they first faced survival, they longed not to defend their title, but to peace.
【Merseyside Two Heroes】
In 1951, Everton were relegated for the second time until their return in 1954, when Everton never left the top flight. In total, they have only missed four seasons in the top flight. Among today's Premier League teams, Everton is the second most consecutive season, behind Arsenal, who have not been relegated since 1919 and have played consecutively since then.
In 1963 and 1970, Everton won the league twice, and English football immediately entered the era of Liverpool, and the Reds won the top flight 11 times in the 20 years of the 70s and 80s!
In the mid-1980s, merseyside staged a brief pinnacle showdown.
In 1983–84, Everton won the FA Cup but lost to Liverpool in the League Cup final, and in 1984–85, Everton overpowered Liverpool to win the top flight for the eighth time, while they eliminated Bayern in the semi-finals, defeating Vienna Express in the final to win the European Cup Winners' Cup, the only European championship in the team's history. But then, the English team was banned from the European competition, and Everton had no chance to compete for glory in the Champions League!
In the 1985-86 season, Everton was second behind Liverpool by two points, and lost to Liverpool in the FA Cup final, ranking second for two consecutive years; in the 1986-87 season, Everton had a nine-point advantage over Liverpool, regaining the league title and winning the top league for the ninth time! The stats are now ranked fourth in England's top flight, behind Manchester United (20), Liverpool (19) and Arsenal (13).
Just as the club celebrates its 100th anniversary, Everton's peak era has come to an end!
【27 years without crown】
In 1995, Everton beat Manchester United 1-0 to win the FA Cup, followed by a 1-0 win over Blackburn in the Community Shield. Since then, Everton has not touched the championship trophy, and the honors in the club's honor chamber are fixed: 9 top league titles, 5 FA Cups, 9 Charity Shield/Community Shield titles, 1 European Cup Winners' Cup.
In the 27th minute of Everton's 2-1 match against Arsenal in the 15th round of the Premier League, Under the leadership of the fan organization, Everton fans collectively stood up to protest the incompetence of the club's top brass. The 27th minute was chosen because Everton have been 27 years without a title!
In the Premier League era, Everton and Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur are six full-time teams, but the traditional BIG4 have won the championship one after another, and have their own era, Although Spurs also have 14 years without a championship, but at least in the past decade, they are Champions League regulars, as well as Premier League runners-up and Champions League runners-up. Everton, on the other hand, was reduced to a complete dragon suit.
In the early days of the Premier League, Everton always fought for relegation, and in the 1997-98 season, Everton ranked fourth from the bottom, relying on the advantage of 5 goal differences to force Boltons to relegate!
【The Age of Moyes】
In 2002, 39-year-old Scotsman David Moyes left the original overlord Preston and came to the second generation of overlord Everton, starting an era of his own!
At Everton, Moyes spent 11 years in charge of 518 games, was named Premier League Manager of the Month 10 times, and was second only to Sir Alex Ferguson and Professor Wenger in the number of times he coached a single club and was named Manager of the Month. Moyes was also named premier league manager three times in 02-03, 04-05 and 08-09.
In the early days of Moyes' tenure, young rooney turned out to be a superstar, leaving Everton in 2004 to join Manchester United. In the 2004-05 season, Moyes led Everton to the best ranking of the Premier League era – fourth place – to reach the third round of the Champions League qualifiers. However, Liverpool and Manchester United passed the qualifying rounds and Everton were eliminated by Villarreal.
Everton's only journey after the Champions League restructuring came to an end, and the feat of the 5 Premier League teams participating in the Champions League was not achieved at that time. Moyes led Everton to four European matches, and his best record was only one League Cup round of sixteen.
Everton in the Moyes period, 9 of the 11 seasons ranked between 4-8, this is really the best positioning of the dragon set, there is no relegation worry, sometimes european participation, can play the role of spoiler, but always can not become the protagonist.
【Change the coach, buy people, stand still】
In the post-Moyes era, Everton has welcomed Robert Martinez, Ronald Koeman, Allardyce, Marco Silva, Ancelotti, Benitez and other coaches in 8 years, but the team's record is still in place, the best record is the 5th place in the 13-14 season, and the worst is also the 12th place in the 19-20 season.
Everton is changing, but not quite. During this period, Fellaini, Stones, Lukaku, etc. all used this as a stepping stone to take the higher stage, Rooney had a brief return, Eto'o, J Ronaldo played briefly, and Goodison Park did not lack famous coaches and stars.
Importantly, Everton also began to spend a lot of money, Sigurzsson, Richarlison, Lukaku, Iwobi, Mina, Boracier, Michael Keane, Pickford, Moise Keane, Godfrey, Klassen, Alain... The top 18 ever ever made in ever since the post-Moyes era, especially in the summer of 2017, when Everton spent 203 million euros trying to create a seven-game battle with BIG6. However, when Leicester City performed a miracle and West Ham United suddenly emerged, Everton remained in place.
【Not willing to be ordinary, such as what to do】
With a long history, deep heritage, stable development and ordinary achievements, this is the current situation of Everton.
There is no hope of winning the championship, there is no worry about relegation, there is less than the top, there is more than the bottom, this is everton's mentality.
In today's Premier League, it is not easy for Everton to be able to achieve a safe corner, but Everton is not a generalist, and fans cannot be satisfied with the Toffee for many years, and it is in the case of large investment.
Over the past decade, Manchester City's blue has conquered Britain, Chelsea's blue has conquered Europe, and Leicester City's blue has conquered the world. Everton's blue, but always the background, witness Leicester City win the championship, witness Aguero farewell, become the color match in the blue, the standard dragon suit character. It's hard for you to value him because he's not good or bad. You can't help but pay attention to him, because he has a good face and can always create some threats. Everton's presence adds a lot to the excitement of the Premier League, but it is all in the posture of a dragon suit, and they are far from becoming the protagonists.
Life is like Everton, fighting day after day, year after year, just to survive.
However, not many people's lives can have a "prominent" family lineage like Everton, and ordinary people can be content with the ordinary, but Everton can't.