Never Mind the Toffees 2: Another Ultimate Everton Quiz Book

By Gavin Buckland and Ian Snodin

If you enjoyed the first volume of the definitive quiz book on Everton Football Club, this all-new sequel is for you. Packed with over 300 carefully researched questions, it will test the breadth and depth of your Toffees knowledge – from the familiar to the formidable. Gavin Buckland, Everton’s official statistician, takes you through the history of one of England’s greatest football clubs, covering the results and records, triumphs and trophies, superstars and substitutes, headlines and footnotes, artists and artisans, goal-scoring legends and defensive stalwarts who’ve helped create Everton’s rich footballing legacy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The History Press
• Release date: Nov 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9780750986410

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First published 2017

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Contents

Foreword

When I joined Everton in 1987, I realised pretty quickly that most Blues know their history and enjoyed being tested on it. This has been proved to me many times in my years on local radio in the city, and I can confirm the Blues are far more knowledgeable than their Red counterparts! I also enjoy being quizzed on my football and sporting knowledge and this is put to the test when I face my former Liverpool rival Gary Gillespie in our weekly challenge on our popular BBC Radio Merseyside show Snods and Diz .

Therefore I was pleased to be asked to contribute the foreword to Never Mind the Toffees 2. There’s plenty of stuff in here that even I wasn’t aware of, like when I scored in the game that had the lowest top-flight attendance in history! Having said that, hopefully all the questions give you a chance of an answer so I hope you enjoy the book.

Ian Snodin

2017

Introduction

Welcome to Never Mind the Toffees 2 , the follow-up to – you will never guess – the Never Mind the Toffees quiz book first published in 2013. With more than 300 new Everton questions, as sequels go this is hopefully more Godfather 2 than Jaws 2.

To say that events at Goodison following the publication of the first book have been interesting would be an understatement. After a hugely promising beginning, Roberto Martinez’s reign ended in 2016 and his replacement, Ronald Koeman had an excellent first campaign. But the most exciting development was the arrival of Farhad Moshiri at the club in February 2016 – the businessman providing the funds that will hopefully give Everton a golden future to match our glorious past. Not surprisingly, there are more than a few questions to test your knowledge of the club over the past four years. Elsewhere, the book has made no effort whatsoever to change a