Everton will be hoping the passion of their supporters can help cheer them to Premier League safety again over the next five weeks but ahead of the move to their new 52,888 capacity stadium, there is a great example of fan power from the only previous season in the club’s history that they averaged gates of over 50,000.
Some 60 years ago today, Goodison Park enjoyed one of its most-pivotal matches as Everton took a giant step towards winning the first of their post-Second World War League titles in front of a huge and vociferous crowd. This was the game that signalled the start of a bright new era for the Blues in the Swinging Sixties – albeit under the stewardship of their straight-laced manager Harry Catterick and owner John Moores.
If you spend prolonged periods reading the largely London-based national media then you might be lulled into thinking that Tottenham Hotspur are somehow the footballing kings of the universe when in truth they’ve won less than a quarter of the League Championships on Everton’s honours list with their two titles puts them behind such luminaries as Huddersfield Town (3) in the all-time rankings. That’s half the number of fallen giants such as Sheffield Wednesday and Newcastle United (both 4) and a third of Sunderland’s total (6).
