It seems as though it’s human nature – especially in the age of social media – to come down on one side or the other whether something is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and this could certainly extend to Everton’s Premier League fixture list but before any of us start getting carried away, we must always remember that football matches are won on grass not paper.
It seems as though in the eyes of many, the Blues are deemed to have been handed something of a raw deal in their start to the 2022/23 season but this correspondent does not necessarily go along with that.
At first glance, there are three elements that stand out about this list, the trio of home fixtures that Everton have on the opening and final days of the season plus Boxing Day, which this year has even greater significance given that for the first time in history it’s the date on which top flight football resumes in England after a six-week break caused by a winter World Cup in Qatar.
