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Watch Arsenal vs Everton LIVE!
Assuming the weather allows, Arsenal will be hosting the blue side of Liverpool when Everton come to the Emirates on Saturday 9th January.
Kick off is at 5pm SA time with the build up starting at 4:30pm. The game is being shown live in SA on Supersport 3. Please note that Blandford Manor is closed until 14th January so the Arsenal SA Club will NOT be meeting for this fixture.
Everton
Football Club are an English professional football club from the city
of Liverpool. Having competed in the top division for a record 107
seasons, they have played more top-flight league games than any other
English team and have won the League Championship nine times - the
fourth highest of any team. The club competes in the Premier League,
being ever-present since the league was founded in 1992.
Formed
in 1878, Everton were founder members of The Football League in 1888
and won their first league championship three years later. Following
five league titles and two FA Cups, Everton experienced a lull in the
post-war period until a revival in the 1960s, winning two league
championships and an FA Cup. The mid-1980s represented their most
recent period of success, with two league victories, an FA Cup, and the
1985 European Cup Winners' Cup - their first continental trophy. The
club's most recent major trophy was the 1995 FA Cup.
The club
have a large fanbase and regularly attracts high attendances, averaging
over 36,000, 90% of stadium capacity. Everton have a notable rivalry
with neighbours Liverpool F.C. and matches between the two sides are
known as the Merseyside Derby. Liverpool F.C. were formed in 1892 by a
breakaway group consisting of Everton's former president and several
players. The dispute also resulted in Everton leaving Anfield, their
original home ground. They have been based at their current home
ground, Goodison Park, since 1892. Plans to move to a new 55,000 seater
stadium in Kirkby on the Liverpool city border have been delayed due to
a public inquiry.
The club's home colours have traditionally
been blue and white, and numerous well-known footballers have donned
the Everton shirt: the most notable is Dixie Dean, who scored a record
60 league goals in the 1927-28 season. Since 2000, the club has
annually recognised successful former players, nominating an "Everton
Giant" at the beginning of each season.
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On this day in 1956
1956 - Jimmy Bloomfield, Mike Tiddy and Cliff Holton scored to give the Gunners a 3-2 First Division victory away to Portsmouth.
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