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V Crystal Palace PREMIER LEAGUE • 21 OCT 2018 • KICK-OFF 4Pm • £3.50 Playp at Sportpesa.Uk Everton OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME v Crystal Palace PREMIER LEAGUE • 21 OCT 2018 • KICK-OFF 4pm • £3.50 PlayP at SportPesa.uk Su WI #MAKEITCOUNT CONTENTS CLUB DIRECTORY Board of Directors Chairman • Bill Kenwright CBE Deputy Chairman • Dr Keith Harris Director • Jon Woods Chief Executive Officer • Professor Denise Barrett-Baxendale MBE Chief Finance and Commercial Officer • Alexander Ryazantsev Vice Life President • Keith Tamlin Director of Football • Marcel Brands Manager • Marco Silva Assistant Manager • João Pedro Sousa First-Team Coach • Duncan Ferguson Goalkeeping Coach • Hugo Oliveira Fitness Coach • Gonçalo Pedro Head of Performance • Bruno Mendes Technical Scout • Antonios Lemonakis Director of Medical • Dr Aboul Shaheir 04 MARCO SILVA 48 U23s, U18s & LADIES Blues manager looks to build on John Ebbrell, Paul Tait and Kirstie Leadership Team positives from successive league Levell feature Chief Executive Officer • wins Professor Denise Barrett-Baxendale MBE 55 HALF-TIME QUIZ Club Secretary & Director of Football Operations • 06 PHIL JAGIELKA David Harrison Club captain on importance of 58 KIDS’ CORNER Director of Marketing, Communications & Community spreading goals around the squad JAKE MILLS & Chief Executive Everton in the Community • 64 Richard Kenyon 08 DR ABOUL SHAHEIR Evertonian on working with Club to provide pioneering mental health Finance Director • Grant Ingles Director of Medical explains his project Commercial Director • Alan McTavish work with Marco Silva and the first Academy Director • Joel Waldron team 69 FAN ZONE Director of Risk and Governance • Paul McNicholas THE BIG INTERVIEW Your moments and messages People Director • Kim Healey 14 Gylfi Sigurdsson on a life of Stadium Development Director • Colin Chong 73 MASON HOLGATE devotion to football From ball boy to the Blues Programme 25 DAVE JONES DREAM WEEKEND Editor • Darren Griffiths 82 Boyhood Blue opens up on Morgan Schneiderlin selects his Head of Media & Communications • Brian Doogan his career as both player and choices for a few days away Head of Content • Howard Frost manager Contributors • Adam Clark, Hamish Dufton, Jennie Kozlowski, Paul McNamara, Peter Lennox Sub-Editor/Writer & Production • Chris Brereton The views in this programme are not necessarily the views of Everton Football Club. 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To order please call 0845 143 0001 or visit evertonfc.com/publications evertonfc.com/publications Honours First Division Champions • 1890-91, 1914-15, FA Cup Winners • 1906, 1933, 1966, 1984, 1995 European Cup Winners’ Cup Winners • 1984-85 1927-28, 1931-32, 1938-39, 1962-63, 1969-70, FA Cup Runners-up • 1893, 1897, 1907, 1968, FA Youth Cup Winners • 1964-65, 1983-84, 1984-85, 1986-87 1985, 1986, 1989, 2009 1997-98 First Division Runners-up • 1889-90, 1894-95, Football League Cup Runners-up • 1976-77, FA Youth Cup Runners-up • 1960-61, 1976-77, 1901-02, 1904-05, 1908-09, 1911-12, 1985-86 1983-84 1982-83, 2001-02 Second Division Champions • 1930-31 FA Charity Shield Winners • 1928, 1932, 1963, Second Division Runners-up • 1953-54 1970, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1995 Shared: 1986 evertonfc.com 03 THE MANAGER OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME MATCHDAY OFFICIAL EVERTON FC FC EVERTON 04 evertonfc.com MARCO SILVA This is what we want, that level of ambition, attitude, creativity, resilience and determination to see the game through Good afternoon everybody. Welcome back to Goodison for striker and he delivered a goal and provided much intensity our Premier League game against Crystal Palace. to the team. Bernard contributed a great deal to our attack Of course, there are many things we need to keep with the quality of his decision-making. Tactically, he is really improving as a team and as a squad and every day we will competent with or without the ball. And Theo injects both continue to work really hard to achieve this. But in the second quality and speed into our attack and soon, I believe, we will half of our game against Fulham here at Goodison and in see more and more assists and goals. the game that followed away to Leicester City we showed With many of our players having been away since the something of the image we want to create. Leicester game, representing their countries in various This is what I want, it’s what the players want and I know international games around the world, it has been difficult it is what our fans want. That level of ambition, attitude, to prepare the squad in precisely the way you would like to creativity, resilience and determination to see the game ahead of today’s game. But we have been able to reintegrate through. This is what will grow and strengthen the connection some players who are returning from injury and we have we want between the team and our fans. This is a reflection worked really well with the players who have been here at of what we ultimately aspire to. USM Finch Farm. Competition is what we want to have in Character was something we displayed, too, with our every area in the team, players pushing one another every players refusing to be discouraged when we missed a penalty day. This is how we can grow the Club and continue to get at 0-0. We maintained our discipline, our application and better all the time. underpinned this with the necessary aggression to record We welcome today our visitors, Roy Hodgson, his staff and our most emphatic win of the season. players and the fans and officials of Crystal Palace. We know We appreciated that going to Leicester would not be easy. this will be a really tough, competitive game but it is one we It’s always tough to play there. A strong team with fast players will be very determined to win. and a real threat about them at all times, but we went there To our supporters, I say again that we appreciate the way to win the game and we absolutely deserved all three points. you get behind the team. Even with some of the coaches We pressed well, we took the game to them and caused arriving late at Leicester, you were fantastic. I know the FC EVERTON them problems throughout, demonstrating how much we strength of the connection between you and the team will wanted to win. Even when we conceded the goal just prior be in evidence today, too. to half-time, at a point in the game in which I believed we Enjoy the game. were in complete control, we again showed we would not PROGRAMME MATCHDAY OFFICIAL be denied and we worked so hard to regain our advantage with a stunning goal, a goal that reflected our overall performance. I never like to individualise but when we talk about character I have to highlight how Gylfi was able to respond after missing the penalty. He did not allow this to affect him and he was decisive in our victory, which is exactly how he works on a daily basis at USM Finch Farm. When you have quality and you work as he does, the best will always be to come. In terms of the three players who played with Gylfi in our attack in the last game, this was Richarlison’s first game as evertonfc.com 05 THE CAPTAIN OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME MATCHDAY OFFICIAL O Everton’s new Zen Blue/Blazing Yellow Elite Training Collection - as worn EVERTON FC FC EVERTON here by Phil Jagielka – is now available online at evertondirect.com 06 evertonfc.com MAIN INTERVIEW — PHIL JAGIELKA PHIL JAGIELKA We need as many players as possible contributing to our goals tally. Having most of the squad fit and fighting for a place in the starting XI always helps, too Good afternoon everyone and welcome back to for a place in the starting XI always helps, too. Goodison Park… Obviously, I am eager to be playing in the side It was nice to go into the international break but I have been in the game long enough to know on the back of two successive Premier League that really tough competition for places is essential victories. for any club that wants to be successful. Indeed, to have lost only two of our opening It’s a new situation for me because, fortunately, eight games represents a good, solid start to the I have always been in the team throughout my season for us – and one of those was away at career here and before at Sheffield United. All an Arsenal side who, coming into this weekend’s you can do is keep working as hard as you can games, were the in-form team in the division. in training and make sure you are ready for any We were disappointed to lose in the Carabao opportunity that may come your way. The team Cup to Southampton but the important thing for comes first and every professional footballer has us was to quickly put that behind us and build on to accept that. the positives from our 3-0 victory against Fulham. I hope you’re all raring to go again after the We certainly did that at Leicester City in our last international break and let’s hope that we can match before the international break.
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