{"id":912633,"date":"2026-09-28T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912633\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T09:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:06:10","slug":"is-supporting-everton-a-life-of-misery-or-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912633\/","title":{"rendered":"Is supporting Everton a life of misery – or celebration?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everton<\/a>‘s unbeaten start to the Premier League season and progress in the Carabao Cup has prompted a minor outbreak of something rarely felt among their fanbase in recent times – optimism.<\/p>\n

Guarded optimism, understandably, but the mood has shifted somewhat since the fury that followed a badly botched transfer window, typified by a shambolic final day that left manager David Moyes with only 18 senior outfield players.<\/p>\n

A move for AS Monaco striker Falorin Balogun fell through when he walked away from the deal after problems with the medical, while Iliman Ndiaye, arguably Everton<\/a>‘s best player, was sold to Manchester City<\/a> for \u00a365m.<\/p>\n

It is against this backdrop that Moyes seeks to end Everton<\/a>‘s 31-year search for success that has saddled them with an unwanted record.<\/p>\n

Since the turn of the century, Everton<\/a> are the only club in English football’s current top four tiers who have not won a trophy – their last being the 1995 FA Cup triumph against Manchester United<\/a> at the old Wembley – or been promoted.<\/p>\n

Of course, to the enjoy the rush of promotion, Everton<\/a> would first have to suffer the pain of relegation.<\/p>\n

It nearly happened this millennium as Everton<\/a> – last relegated in 1951 – stayed up by beating Bournemouth<\/a> on the final day of the 2022-23 season. They had only guaranteed safety in the previous campaign by coming from two goals down to beat Crystal Palace<\/a> in their penultimate game on a night of thunderous sporting theatre at Goodison Park.<\/p>\n

So is supporting Everton<\/a> a life of unrelenting sporting misery? Or is there still joy and celebration to be had following of one the grand old English football institutions?<\/p>\n

Former player Leon Osman, who made 433 appearances for Everton<\/a> between 2003 and 2016, scoring 58 goals, says: “Yes, there have been disappointments and those years without trophies, but let me tell you this – I wouldn’t swap being an Evertonian for anything in the world.”<\/p>\n

And prominent Everton<\/a> fan Dr. David France, who calculates he has travelled two million miles – the equivalent of going to the moon and back four times – to watch his beloved club from his home in the United States, told BBC Sport: “I can explain what I celebrate, even if we haven’t had tangible success for so long. I celebrate being an Evertonian.”<\/p>\n

Others who also celebrate supporting Everton<\/a> include Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Canada counterpart Mark Carney, who recently both attended the 1-0 EFL Cup win against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Hill Dickinson Stadium that set up a last-16 home tie with Newcastle United<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everton‘s unbeaten start to the Premier League season and progress in the Carabao Cup has prompted a minor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-912633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}