30 APRIL 2017 2.05pm | £3.50 OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME v CHELSEA REFRESHINGLY DIFFERENT HOWEVER YOU LOOK AT IT ENJOY CHANG BEER RESPONSIBLY Everton v Chelsea 2016/17 CLUB DIRECTORY Chairman Bill Kenwright CBE 04 RONALD KOEMAN Deputy Chairman The boss analyses recent home 58 Jon Woods and away performances and the Directors challenge posed by Chelsea Robert Elstone seamus coleman Alexander Ryazantsev 06 PHIL JAGIELKA Denise Barrett-Baxendale MBE The skipper on his ‘questionable’ The popular defender, back at the Keith Harris _ goal celebrations and today’s test Club and on road to recovery Chief Executive Officer Robert Elstone Deputy CEO Denise Barrett-Baxendale MBE 10 Director Of Football Steve Walsh Team Manager calvert-lewin Ronald Koeman Vice Life President The young forward discusses how Keith Tamlin Honorary President of Academy he’s relishing the opportunity of Thapana Sirivadhanabhakdi making progress at Goodison 65 OPPOSITION _ A look at the Londoners’ successful HONOURS season so far under Antonio Conte First Division Champions 1890/91, 1914/15, 1927/28, 1931/32, 1938/39, 1962/63, 1969/70, 1984/85, 1986/87 Runners-up 75 1889/90, 1894/95, 1901/02, 1904/05, 1908/09, 1911/12, 1985/86 Second Division Champions PHIL NEVILLE 1930/31 Runners-up 29 CHAMPIONS! The former captain on justifying 1953/54 An in-depth look at the success his Toffee credentials, and the FA Cup Winners of David Unsworth’s PL2 winners impact of Tom Davies 1906, 1933, 1966, 1984, 1995 Runners-up 1893, 1897, 1907, 1968, 48 ALAN BALL 1985, 1986, 1989, 2009 Ten years after the Blues legend’s Football League Cup Runners-up passing, we revisit a 1971 interview 1976/77, 1983/84 FA Charity Shield Winners 51 TOMMY FLEETWOOD 1928, 1932, 1963, 1970, 1984, The rising golf star on following 1985, 1987, 1995 Shared: 1986 the Blues and his Open prospects European Cup Winners’ Cup Winners 1984/85 FA Youth Cup Winners Editor Darren GriffithsHead of Media & Communications Brian Doogan 1964/65, 1983/84, 1997/98 Head of Content Howard Frost Contributors Hamish Dufton, Adam Clark, Runners-up Rob Urbani, Daniel Alston, Mike Taylor, Jennie Kozlowski, Matthew Gamble 1960/61, 1976/77, 1982/83, 2001/02 Sub Editor/Writer & Production James Cleary Design Graeme Helliwell & Tom Rogers Photography Tony McArdle, Getty Images, Press Association, Mirrorpix, SUBSCRIPTIONS: Subscribe to the Everton matchday programme for just £72 (UK) for 24 Liverpool Echo Published by Sport Media issues. Direct debit is also available. To order, and for overseas subscription prices, please call 0845 The views in this programme are not necessarily the views of Everton Football Club. Material in this programme 143 0001 or visit evertonfc.com/publications is copyrighted and may only be reproduced with the written permission of Everton Football Club. Everton Football Club have made every effort to trace the copyright holders of all photographs used. If you are the copyright holder of any uncredited photograph, please contact the Club. 04 Manager’s Notes ood afternoon everyone and welcome to Goodison for our “Our challenge today is to G Premier League game against Chelsea. It is a challenge we look forward impose ourselves and play at to when we face the Premier League leaders at home. Certainly, we know that we cannot perform at the level the level we know we can” we did last weekend at West Ham. In no aspect of the game were we the team we aspire to be – and we showed more aggression and inaugural Premier League 2 title. I know we can be. We were simply so intensity in our game to overcome have always been a manager who far away from the level we expect. the strengths and toughness of our is unafraid to give young players the From the outset, the intensity in our opponents and secure the victory opportunity to play in my team if they game wasn’t there, we took too much that, ultimately, our play deserved. are good enough and it is important time in possession and, if you start In welcoming Antonio Conte, for the future of the Club that we are the game like this, it’s never easy to his staff and players and the always producing players via our change. fans of Chelsea, it is only right to Academy and Under-23 team. That said, we know that at home acknowledge the standards they The support of our fans here at we have been a much different have set this season, which no Goodison has been an ongoing team, a winning team with a other team has managed to reach. critical factor in the strength of our strong mentality. A sequence of Sustaining that level over the course performances at home and, just as eight successive wins at Goodison, of a whole campaign is the test which it has all season, we know that the something we have not achieved is set for any would-be champions, support for the players will provide as a club for 27 years, reflects that but our challenge today is to impose that extra motivation in a big and fact and I like also that our home ourselves, play at the level we know important game. goalscoring record in 2017 is second we can and try to maintain home only to Barcelona’s across all of the form that we know is not merely a Enjoy. top five leagues in Europe. coincidence. Last time here at Goodison against I would like to acknowledge, Burnley I thought we started slow too, the inclusion of Romelu Lukaku again, taking 30 minutes or so to in the PFA Players’ Team of the realise what we needed to do. The Year and also the achievement of second half was much better and our Under-23 team in winning the 05 06 Captain’s Notes ello everyone and welcome to this afternoon’s game… “No team likes coming here at H Our recent form at Goodison Park has been terrific and we have made the place the moment and it’s a challenge into something of a fortress, but it goes without saying that today’s visit of Chelsea will be a tough one. But we are looking forward to” no team likes coming to Goodison at the moment and it’s a challenge that we are very much looking forward in case I scored at West Ham. It’s can tap into my experience whenever to. Chelsea have had an excellent probably just as well that I didn’t! he wants. It’s just great to have him season and are four points clear at In truth, nobody looked like scoring back. the top after beating Southampton against West Ham and they never Finally, big congratulations to on Tuesday night. looked likely to break through, either. David Unsworth and his staff and But our concern is purely with There was no disputing afterwards players on winning the Under-23 our own form and a Club Premier that it was a very poor game. Neither title. It’s an absolutely magnificent League record of eight straight home side did anywhere near enough to achievement and everyone at victories tells its own story. win the game and it was just one of USM Finch Farm has been buzzing I took a bit of stick after the latest those days. about it this week. They have of those home wins against Burnley That can happen in football but it been outstanding all season and when I celebrated the opening was a clean sheet and a point away thoroughly deserve to win the league. goal in a somewhat unorthodox from home – which in the Premier Enjoy the game today. fashion – certainly by my standards, League is not to be sniffed at. anyway. I blame my kids! Up until that We welcomed Seamus Coleman Jags scrambled goal I had never scored in back into the fold this week. He three consecutive games and I had returned to USM Finch Farm and it jokingly asked my daughter and son was great for him to be back among how I should celebrate if I managed the lads. He knows he’s got a long it. It was they who suggested a road ahead of him but he’s ready to cartwheel! take his time, put all the work in and And you could see why I chose try to keep a smile on his face. I know football over gymnastics! They then what it’s like to be out for a long time came up with another celebration with an injury and he knows that he 07 Blues News Star Turn From Schneiderlin Blues midfielder Morgan Stars is inspiring the kids to learn Everton is one of 88 Premier Schneiderlin paid a visit to pupils at and be active,” said Schneiderlin. League, Football League and St Aloysius Catholic Primary School “The dodgeball PE lesson was really National League clubs in England in Huyton to mark the recent launch fun and helps to teach the kids to and Wales which provides in-school of Premier League Primary Stars, improve their communication and support through Premier League the Premier League’s new national discipline. When you see the look Primary Stars. This is the Premier curriculum-linked education on their faces it makes days like this League’s most ambitious community programme. really special.” programme to date and aims to Primary Stars uses the appeal of The Premier League Primary Stars support 10,000 primary schools by the Premier League and professional Kit and Equipment Scheme will allow 2019. football clubs to inspire children teachers the opportunity to get their Hannah Evans, a year 5 and to learn, be active and develop hands on a full team kit or a range 6 teacher at St Aloysius Catholic important life skills.