Podcasts about Howard Kendall

One of the most-cultured performances during Howard Kendall's tenure, the European Cup Winners' Cup final goes down as one of the greatest nights in Everton Football Club's history. The club's first and only European piece of silverware was achieved with a 3-1 on a sensational night in Rotterdam against Rapid Vienna. The final was held at Feijenoord Stadion in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on 15 May 1985. Everton, which dominated throughout, won the match 3–1 thanks to goals by Andy Gray, Trevor Steven and Kevin Sheedy. Join Chris Beesley, Gav Buckland & guest Pete Leonard (known universally as Fingers), for a Royal Blue podcast special.  Goodbye to Goodison special souvenir edition:  https://tinyurl.com/GoodbyeGoodisonSouvenir Gavin Buckland's Book 'The End' | Order your copy here: https://tinyurl.com/GavinBucklandTheEnd Everton FC podcasts from the Liverpool ECHO's Royal Blue YouTube channel. Get exclusive Everton FC content - including podcasts, live shows and videos - everyday.  Subscribe to the Royal Blue Everton FC YouTube Channel and watch daily live shows HERE: https://bit.ly/3aNfYav Listen and subscribe to the Royal Blue Podcast for all your latest Everton FC content via Apple and Spotify: APPLE: https://bit.ly/3HbiY1E SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/47xwdnY Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/everton-fc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivEchoEFC Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royal.blue.everto Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolEchoEFC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave Watson, Everton's most-recent trophy-winning captain, is Chris Beesley's latest guest on Goodison Park: My Home. The centre-half was the Blues' skipper when they defeated Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United side 1-0 in the 1995 FA Cup final and recalls an incredible story about what happened to the famous silverware that night after the Wembley victory. Scouser Watson, who grew up on Boundary Street, close to the new Everton Stadium, started his professional career across Stanley Park with Liverpool – for whom his brother Alex later played – but never made a first team appearance before joining Norwich City in 1980. While with the Canaries, he made his England debut, winning his first of 12 caps for the Three Lions, in a 2-0 win over Brazil in the Maracana Stadium before lifting the League Cup the following year. He returned to his home city in 1986 when Howard Kendall snapped him up for Everton for a then club record £900,000 fee and was part of their last League Championship-winning side in his first season at Goodison Park. Now 63, Watson made 528 appearances for the Blues – the third highest in history behind Neville Southall (751) and Brian Labone (534) – and also had a stint as caretaker manager in 1997 following Joe Royle's exit before having a season in charge of Tranmere Rovers in 2001/02 to serve all three of Merseyside's professional football clubs. Goodbye to Goodison special souvenir edition:  https://tinyurl.com/GoodbyeGoodisonSouvenir Gavin Buckland's Book 'The End' | Order your copy here: https://tinyurl.com/GavinBucklandTheEnd Everton FC podcasts from the Liverpool ECHO's Royal Blue YouTube channel. Get exclusive Everton FC content - including podcasts, live shows and videos - everyday.  Subscribe to the Royal Blue Everton FC YouTube Channel and watch daily live shows HERE: https://bit.ly/3aNfYav Listen and subscribe to the Royal Blue Podcast for all your latest Everton FC content via Apple and Spotify: APPLE: https://bit.ly/3HbiY1E SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/47xwdnY Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/everton-fc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivEchoEFC Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royal.blue.everto Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolEchoEFC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Beesley is joined by guests Gavin Buckland and David Prentice for a a special edition of the Royal Blue podcast to mark the 40th anniversary of Everton's 3-1 win over Bayern Munich in the European Cup-Winners' Cup semi-final second leg, an occasion widely-regarded as the greatest night in Goodison Park's history. After a goalless first leg in what was then West Germany, Everton, roared on by a passionate home crowd, recovered from a goal down at half-time to power through to what remains their only European final. In what proved to be a legendary team talk, manager Howard Kendall told his players at the interval that "The Gwladys Street would suck the ball into the net," and so it proved with goals from Graeme Sharp and Andy Gray before Trevor Steven's iconic late clincher. Gavin and David, who were both present at Goodison to witness the action, share their memories along with exclusive interviews from Everton players who starred that night: Derek Mountfield, Kevin Sheedy, Kevin Ratcliffe, Peter Reid and Trevor Steven. Goodbye to Goodison special souvenir edition:  https://tinyurl.com/GoodbyeGoodisonSouvenir Gavin Buckland's Book 'The End' | Order your copy here: https://tinyurl.com/GavinBucklandTheEnd Everton FC podcasts from the Liverpool ECHO's Royal Blue YouTube channel. Get exclusive Everton FC content - including podcasts, live shows and videos - everyday.  Subscribe to the Royal Blue Everton FC YouTube Channel and watch daily live shows HERE: https://bit.ly/3aNfYav Listen and subscribe to the Royal Blue Podcast for all your latest Everton FC content via Apple and Spotify: APPLE: https://bit.ly/3HbiY1E SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/47xwdnY Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/everton-fc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivEchoEFC Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royal.blue.everto Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolEchoEFC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Described by Everton's most-successful manager Howard Kendall as the Blues' most-important signing since the Second World War, Peter Reid joins Chris Beesley for the latest episode of Goodison Park: My Home. Reid first played at ‘The Grand Old Lady' when he was just 14 years old for Huyton schoolboys but back then he was a Liverpool fan. The midfielder underwent an emphatic conversion though following his transfer from Bolton Wanderers to Everton in 1982 and having helped the Blues lift the FA Cup in 1984, he was voted PFA Players' Player of the Year by his fellow professionals in 1984/85 as the club enjoyed their best-ever season, winning the League Championship with five games to spare plus the European Cup-Winners' Cup. After suffering the heartbreak of finishing runners-up to Liverpool in both the League and FA Cup the following year – refusing to take part in the joint open top bus parade after the Wembley final between the two local rivals – Reid and his team-mates would bounce back from injury and adversity to secure another title in 1986/87 before Kendall departed. Reid recalls Everton's glory days plus banter with team-mates and fans with his typical sense of humour in what is a fun-filled chat, although he almost spills coffee all over the studio when Chris asks him about an amusing incident in an FA Cup semi-final. Also, ahead of Mothers' Day, there is poignancy as the 68-year-old recalls the emotional scenes when his lifelong Evertonian mum was captured on camera, celebrating the 1985 League Championship success at Goodison Park.   Gavin Buckland's Book 'The End' | Order your copy here: https://tinyurl.com/GavinBucklandTheEnd Everton FC podcasts from the Liverpool ECHO's Royal Blue YouTube channel. Get exclusive Everton FC content - including podcasts, live shows and videos - everyday.  Subscribe to the Royal Blue Everton FC YouTube Channel and watch daily live shows HERE: https://bit.ly/3aNfYav Listen and subscribe to the Royal Blue Podcast for all your latest Everton FC content via Apple and Spotify: APPLE: https://bit.ly/3HbiY1E SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/47xwdnY Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/everton-fc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivEchoEFC Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royal.blue.everto Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolEchoEFC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Royle – the only living person to achieve legendary status at Everton as both a player and manager (the other being the late, great Howard Kendall) – invites Chris Beesley to his house for a special episode of Goodison Park: My Home. Royle, who grew up in Norris Green, attending Ranworth Square Primary School before going on to Quarry Bank High School where he developed into a talented all-round sportsman, also excelling in the high jump and swimming, became Everton's youngest-ever player at the time when he was controversially picked ahead of ‘The Golden Vision' Alex Young by Harry Catterick to make his debut at Blackpool aged 16 years and 282 days on January 15, 1966, a record that stood for over 42 years until it was eclipsed by Jose Baxter. Although Royle was part of the Blues team that lost 1-0 after extra time to West Bromwich Albion in the 1968 FA Cup final, alongside the ‘Holy Trinity' midfield of Kendall, Colin Harvey and Alan Ball, plus the likes of captain Brian Labone, goalkeeper Gordon West, fellow Scouser Tommy Wright and his good friend John Hurst, he was top scorer in Everton's 1969/70 League Championship-winning side. Once reaching 29 goals in all competitions in 1968/69, by the time Royle's Everton career had finished, he had netted more times for the club (119) than any player since Dixie Dean. Returning to Goodison Park as manager in November 1994 with the team bottom of the Premier League, he saved the Blues from relegation while also becoming the only manager in Everton history to win a trophy in his first season in charge. Some 30 years on, Royle remains the last Everton manager to secure major silverware for the club, while the following campaign (1995/96), he steered them to sixth place, which was their only top-half finish in the first decade of the Premier League. Now 75, he explains how the circumstances behind his departure continue to perplex him but as a True Blue, he was delighted to return to the Goodison hot seat for one last time as caretaker boss alongside his former player David Unsworth against Norwich City in 2016. Gavin Buckland's Book 'The End' | Order your copy here: https://tinyurl.com/GavinBucklandTheEnd Everton FC podcasts from the Liverpool ECHO's Royal Blue YouTube channel. Get exclusive Everton FC content - including podcasts, live shows and videos - everyday.  Subscribe to the Royal Blue Everton FC YouTube Channel and watch daily live shows HERE: https://bit.ly/3aNfYav Listen and subscribe to the Royal Blue Podcast for all your latest Everton FC content via Apple and Spotify: APPLE: https://bit.ly/3HbiY1E SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/47xwdnY Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/everton-fc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivEchoEFC Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royal.blue.everto Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolEchoEFC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Cottee, the striker who joined Everton for a then British record fee of £2.2million in 1988, netting 99 goals in 241 games for the Blues, is the latest guest on Goodison Park: My Home. Snapped up from his boyhood club West Ham United when many had expected him to cross the capital and join Arsenal instead, the Londoner – now aged 59 – talks affectionately but candidly about the ups and downs of his six-year spell on Merseyside. Cottee made a dream start to his Everton career, hitting the mark after just 34 seconds against Newcastle United and going on to complete the first of his half dozen hat-tricks for the club against the Magpies, the highest total from a Blues player since Dixie Dean, who registered a super-human 37, some 30 ahead of nearest challenger Bobby Parker on seven. Despite finishing top scorer in five of his six full seasons at Goodison Park, the diminutive frontman did not always see eye to eye with his managers and lifts the lid on how a difficult spell under Howard Kendall led to him facing an unlikely opponent while turning out for the club's third team! However, for all his travails, Cottee, who host Chris Beesley reveals netted the first Everton goal he ever saw, retains a passionate affection for the Blues and looks back on his time at the club with great fondness. Gavin Buckland's Book 'The End' | Order your copy here: https://tinyurl.com/GavinBucklandTheEnd Everton FC podcasts from the Liverpool ECHO's Royal Blue YouTube channel. Get exclusive Everton FC content - including podcasts, live shows and videos - everyday.  Subscribe to the Royal Blue Everton FC YouTube Channel and watch daily live shows HERE: https://bit.ly/3aNfYav Listen and subscribe to the Royal Blue Podcast for all your latest Everton FC content via Apple and Spotify: APPLE: https://bit.ly/3HbiY1E SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/47xwdnY Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/everton-fc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivEchoEFC Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royal.blue.everto Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolEchoEFC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Description: We resume our 1997/98 rewind with Howard Kendall having just won Manager of the Month. It can only be uphill from there then, right? WRONG! This episode - originally released in August 2024 - features part of Liam's interview with The Blue Room's Les Roberts, and is in association with The Excelsior. Thanks to Sean Ponzini, Gary Lunt and Niall O'Donnell for their contributions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In our first Goodison Park: My Home interview published in 2025 – the year Everton finally depart the Grand Old Lady – we speak to the Blues' favourite Yorkshireman Ian Snodin.  Despite hailing from the other side of the Pennines, ‘Snods' as he is affectionately known by Evertonians, became a True Blue and adored by the Goodison fanbase when snubbed Liverpool's Kenny Dalglish to accept Howard Kendall's offer to join the club in 1987. Ian's decision was vindicated as he was rewarded with a League Championship medal in his first season on Merseyside and his hilarious tale about what happened to him on the way home from that title success clinched at Norwich City is worth watching the interview alone!  He also speaks candidly about his upbringing in a mining community, his formative years in the game playing alongside his elder brother Glynn at Doncaster Rovers and the influence that Billy Bremner had on him both there and at Leeds United plus the varied role he now plays as an ambassador for Everton Football Club. Gavin Buckland's Book 'The End' | Order your copy here: https://tinyurl.com/GavinBucklandTheEnd Everton FC podcasts from the Liverpool ECHO's Royal Blue YouTube channel. Get exclusive Everton FC content - including podcasts, live shows and videos - everyday.  Subscribe to the Royal Blue Everton FC YouTube Channel and watch daily live shows HERE: https://bit.ly/3aNfYav Listen and subscribe to the Royal Blue Podcast for all your latest Everton FC content via Apple and Spotify: APPLE: https://bit.ly/3HbiY1E SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/47xwdnY Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/everton-fc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivEchoEFC Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royal.blue.everto Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolEchoEFC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gavin Buckland discusses his new book The End with ECHO Everton reporter Chris Beesley in a special edition of the Royal Blue podcast. Everton's official statistician Gavin is a regular guest on the podcast and having already penned Money Can't Buy Us Love: Everton in the 1960s and Boys From The Blue Stuff, which charts the rise of the club's most successful side in the 1984/85 season, the third instalment covers the period from 1985 to 1994 as the Blues slip from being the best team in the land and primed for more European glory to hanging on to their Premier League status by a thread. In between, there is the post-Heysel ban, missing out on the double to Liverpool, Everton's last title success in 1986/87, Howard Kendall's exit to Spain, Colin Harvey's elevation to manager, Kendall's subsequent return and the painful experiment with Mike Walker that almost cost the Blues their place in the top flight, all set against the backdrop of a takeover saga following the death of Goodison grandee, Sir John Moores. ‘The End', a book by Gavin Buckland is out now.  Order your copy here: https://tinyurl.com/GavinBucklandTheEnd Everton FC podcasts from the Liverpool ECHO's Royal Blue YouTube channel. Get exclusive Everton FC content - including podcasts, live shows and videos - everyday.  Subscribe to the Royal Blue Everton FC YouTube Channel and watch daily live shows HERE: https://bit.ly/3aNfYav Listen and subscribe to the Royal Blue Podcast for all your latest Everton FC content via Apple and Spotify: APPLE: https://bit.ly/3HbiY1E SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/47xwdnY Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/everton-fc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivEchoEFC Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royal.blue.everto Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolEchoEFC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Appropriately, Kevin Sheedy is guest number 11 on Goodison Park: My Home. The owner of the greatest left foot in Blues' history joins the ECHO's Everton reporter Chris Beesley to discuss his amazing football journey. Kevin reveals the unusual way in which he first learned his incredible technique as a youngster and how his arrival on Merseyside could have taken a very different path when he signed for Liverpool! However, after a frustrating spell at Anfield, he would make the bold move across Stanley Park and never looked back. One of the most-cultured performers in Howard Kendall's side during the glory days, Kevin recalls playing a leading role in some of Everton's greatest nights against the likes of Bayern Munich and sealing the European Cup-Winners' Cup triumph against Rapid Vienna in Rotterdam.  Other famous strikes in the conversation include his brace in the 5-0 rout against Manchester United; ‘saluting' the Kop after a stunning free kick in a Merseyside Derby and, of course, his famous twice-taken free kick against Ipswich Town. Everton FC podcasts from the Liverpool ECHO's Royal Blue YouTube channel. Get exclusive Everton FC content - including podcasts, live shows and videos - everyday.  Subscribe to the Royal Blue Everton FC YouTube Channel and watch daily live shows HERE: https://bit.ly/3aNfYav Listen and subscribe to the Royal Blue Podcast for all your latest Everton FC content via Apple and Spotify: APPLE: https://bit.ly/3HbiY1E SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/47xwdnY Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/everton-fc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivEchoEFC Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royal.blue.everto Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolEchoEFC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest guest in our Bred A Blue podcast series is former central defender, Neil Moore. Moore is a lifelong Evertonian who lived the dream… just! He played six senior games for his beloved Blues under Howard Kendall and Mike Walker before accepting that the level of competition was always going to be just too much. “I had Dave Watson, Kevin Ratcliffe, Martin Keown, David Unsworth, Gary Ablett all ahead of me,” he recalls. After progressing through the ranks, Moore made his debut at Goodison Park in October 1992. Everton defeated Rotherham United 3-0 with Moore replacing Barry Horne in the 87th minute. “Howard sent me on up front and all I did was run around for three minutes without touching the ball,” he says. “I got slaughtered for that in the dressing room afterwards!” Two of his subsequent Premier League appearances for Everton were against Manchester United and Arsenal, so Moore found himself competing against the likes of Paul Merson, Kevin Campbell, Eric Cantona and Mark Hughes. He also played 45 minutes as an emergency striker again alongside Peter Beardsley at Goodison against Sheffield United! Like every player who worked with Howard Kendall, Moore was immensely fond of him, describing him as a ‘fantastic character and a brilliant man' but he admits that he got more of a sniff when Mike Walker came in. “It's all about opinions and about trust, and Mike trusted me,” he says, “which was fantastic from my point of view.” Eventually though, Moore realised that his future lay beyond Goodison Park, ‘Joe Royle just didn't fancy me which was fair enough because that's football' and, ironically, it was Walker who offered him a way out – taking him to Norwich City. However, a friendly fixture at Carrow Road while he was still technically on loan, ruined his chances of a lengthy career in Norfolk. Norwich were playing West Ham but the referee called it off because the stadium was shrouded in thick fog. “You couldn't see the half-way line,” says Moore. That's when it got bizarre! The referee refused to take the game, so an appeal went out and a qualified official happened to be in the crowd. He duly officiated the game, in ridiculous conditions, and Moore suffered the most horrendous bad luck. “I broke two vertebrae in my spine so the chance of playing in the Championship was basically over before it had begun.” As enthusiastic an Evertonian as you could ever wish to meet, Neil Moore went on to have a long-playing career at lower league and non-league level and his love for the Blues has never wavered. He recalls his days of cleaning Neville Southall's boots (after first knocking on the men's dressing room door to be allowed in), buying chocolate bars with the coins intended to wash the kit in the laundrette, being coached by Mike Lyons and Jimmy Gabriel, and much, much more!

Welcome back to the new edition of the show and coming up we head back to the 1980's when the goundworks were underway for the biggest changes in the history of football as the balance of power began its shift from to associations to the tv companies when the era of commercialism really got underway. Set against a backdrop of economic recession, rampant hooliganism and suspect fashion, Go To War tells the story of how triumph and tragedy shaped English football during the 1980s. It was a decade in which some fans died watching the game they loved, and at times, the ‘slum sport' seemed set to implode. Yet, remarkably, the game was on the cusp of morphing into the behemoth it has become today. Throughout this explosive book, author Jon Spurling delves into the stories behind the successes and strife at clubs including Liverpool, Aston Villa and Arsenal, investigates the trials and tribulations of the England team and explores how ‘small-town boys' from Luton, Watford and Wimbledon made their mark. The decade also heralded the arrival of artificial pitches and fanzines, and Spurling introduces us to the new breed of high-profile executives, like Irving Scholar and Martin Edwards, who soon got busy changing the face of football. Thirty years in the making, Go To War draws heavily on interviews conducted with '80s icons including Terry Butcher, Graeme Sharp and Ray Wilkins, managerial legends like Howard Kendall and Bobby Robson and FA Cup heroes Ricky Villa and Norman Whiteside. Like its precursor, the bestselling Get It On: How the '70s Rocked Football, Go To War provides a unique insight into a pivotal footballing decade.

Chris Beesley speaks to Alan Irvine – who served Everton in three different capacities – in the latest episode of Goodison Park: My Home. The Glaswegian recalls how his Everton journey started in bizarre circumstances as the manager who convinced him to join the club, Gordon Lee, was sacked while he was in the building with him but explains how the fact that the by now former Blues boss' glowing endorsement only reinforced his decision to sign for them from Queen's Park. Irvine was then part of new manager Howard Kendall's emerging team and played in the first all-Merseyside Wembley final but injuries cost him a place in the side that would lift the FA Cup at the end of that season and he moved on to Crystal Palace. In 2002, he returned to Everton as David Moyes' assistant and the pair helped revive the Blues fortunes again before he went off to try his hand at management himself although he would later come back for a third spell with the Blues as he headed their academy and at 66, Irvine insists Everton remain the club closest to his heart. Everton FC podcasts from the Liverpool ECHO's Royal Blue YouTube channel. Get exclusive Everton FC content - including podcasts, live shows and videos - everyday.  Subscribe to the Royal Blue Everton FC YouTube Channel and watch daily live shows HERE: https://bit.ly/3aNfYav Listen and subscribe to the Royal Blue Podcast for all your latest Everton FC content via Apple and Spotify: APPLE: https://bit.ly/3HbiY1E SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/47xwdnY Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/everton-fc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivEchoEFC Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royal.blue.everto Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolEchoEFC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Ball is perhaps aptly number three in our Goodison Park: My Home series as he joins Chris Beesley in the ECHO's Royal Blue studio to look back on his playing career. The lifelong Evertonian explains how he grew up close to Goodison and attended matches regularly from a young age before coming up through the club's junior ranks and making his senior debut as a 17-year-old under caretaker manager and fellow Scouser Dave Watson in 1997. Ball admits he defied doctor's orders to play his part in a second ‘Great Escape' under Howard Kendall the following year but after battling back from injury problems and Walter Smith signing a clutch of other left-backs to be named the club's player of the year in 2001, he reveals that being told Everton had accepted transfer offers for him that summer when he thought he was on the brink of being offered a new contract with his boyhood team felt like “a dagger in the heart.” Now back watching the Blues from Goodison's stands as a fan again and offering hard-hitting views as a weekly ECHO columnist, Ball's candid opinions make for yet another passionate, lively and fascinating discussion. Everton FC podcasts from the Liverpool ECHO's Royal Blue YouTube channel. Get exclusive Everton FC content - including podcasts, live shows and videos - everyday.  Subscribe to the Royal Blue Everton FC YouTube Channel and watch daily live shows HERE: https://bit.ly/3aNfYav Listen and subscribe to the Royal Blue Podcast for all your latest Everton FC content via Apple and Spotify: APPLE: https://bit.ly/3HbiY1E SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/47xwdnY Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/everton-fc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivEchoEFC Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royal.blue.everto Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolEchoEFC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everton legend Derek Mountfield joins Chris Beesley in the Royal Blue studio for a stirring second episode of the Goodison Park: My Home, a series which begins the countdown to the club's historic stadium move. Following on from Chris' inaugural interview with Everton's most-successful captain Kevin Ratcliffe last time out, the Wales international's centre-back colleague enthusiastically shares his memories of the glory days with typical Scouse wit and humour. Mountfield lived the dream, going from the Gwladys Street terraces to being an integral part of Howard Kendall's side and despite being a defender, he netted an incredible 14 goals in all competitions in 1984/85, the Blues' greatest-ever season. #EFC #EvertonFC #EvertonFootballClub Everton FC podcasts from the Liverpool ECHO's Royal Blue YouTube channel. Get exclusive Everton FC content - including podcasts, live shows and videos - everyday.  Subscribe to the Royal Blue Everton FC YouTube Channel and watch daily live shows HERE: https://bit.ly/3aNfYav Listen and subscribe to the Royal Blue Podcast for all your latest Everton FC content via Apple and Spotify: APPLE: https://bit.ly/3HbiY1E SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/47xwdnY Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/everton-fc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivEchoEFC Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@royal.blue.everto Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolEchoEFC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1986/87: in the Mersey Wars trilogy, we're up to Everton Strike Back as Howard Kendall's side regain the league title. Keith Houchen ensures he will be forever frozen in time with that diving header in the FA Cup final as Coventry win the trophy and disappoint a Spurs side that promise so much but end up empty handed, despite Clive Allen's 49 goals. In Scotland, Graeme Souness starts his Rangers revolution, while Aberdeen lose their manager as Alexander Chapman Ferguson trades Pittodrie for Old Trafford.

Ian Cheeseman was the BBC's Manchester City correspondent for nearly 25 years and has been a fan all of his life. Here he hosts his weekly podcast, Forever Blue, where all things Man City are discussed. Sponsored by Property Developers Eamar Development Uk & Counting King, experts in business finance Ian talks to former Manchester City winger Mark Ward about the current City team, the recent performances, the upcoming games against Luton and Man United. Ian & Mark are joined by Andy & Toby from the Forever Blue squad to talk about all things City. If you'd like to support Ian's work you can message him by DM on twitter @iancheeseman

A season of agony and ecstasy with tragedies unfolding at Bradford and Heysel, both the subjects of separate podcasts in this series. We concentrate on the on-pitch issues in this one, Howard Kendall's Everton emerging to take Liverpool's crown from them, winning the Cup Winners' Cup too and coming within a whisker of becoming the 20th century's third double winners, beaten in the FA Cup final by Manchester United. There's a League Cup win - and relegation - for Norwich, Oxford replace them in the top flight, and Manchester City are promoted by the skin of their teeth. 

The midway point in our series, and not much changes as Liverpool win a third straight First Division title and a fourth League Cup in a row. But a new, blue presence is emerging at the bottom of Stanley Park with Everton reaching Wembley twice and carrying off the FA Cup, a portent of what is to come. Spurs win the UEFA Cup before Keith Burkinshaw walks out on them having had a visitation from the Ghost of Football Future, while Nottingham Forest miss out on that final courtesy of a brown envelope - a sliding doors moment for the mighty Brian Clough? Steven Scragg, Stu Horsfield and Chris Lepkowski recall an era where Howard Kendall and a Danish meat manufacturer began to look like a marriage made in heaven.

Our latest Official Everton Podcast looks back at the all-too-brief, but nonetheless spectacular, Everton career of Andy Gray. November 2023 represents 40 years since the Scottish centre-forward joined the Blues. Gray was plucked from Wolverhampton Wanderers by Howard Kendall and went on to have an unbelievable impact on a team that went from struggling to find its way to becoming arguably the best in Europe. Host Darren Griffiths speaks to Gray himself and is also joined by Dave Prentice and Gavin Buckland, with contributions from Gary Stevens and the former Liverpool Echo Sports Editor, Ken Rogers, who reveals that he discovered Gray's recruitment from an eagle-eyed Evertonian who had spotted him in a shop on Goodison Road. We learn that Everton were linked with Gray in the mid-1970s when Billy Bingham was the Blues manager, and the youngster was playing alongside Walter Smith at Dundee United. Everton statistician and historian Buckland tells us that Kendall was weighing up moves for an England striker and an Everton legend when he brought Gray in from Wolves. We also hear about when Gray threatened to walk out on the Club when he wasn't selected for an FA Cup tie and the man himself declares that if he could play one game again it would undoubtedly be the match against Bayern Munich at Goodison Park. We discuss whether Kendall would have kept Gray had we been allowed to take part in the 1985/86 European Cup and it's suggested that had he done so, then maybe Liverpool wouldn't have won the double that season. Gray speaks passionately about his time at Everton and agrees with the notion that the success of the mid-80s was probably an antidote for a challenging period in the history of the city of Liverpool. Everton never lost when Gray scored and that sums up his infectious desire to win football matches for the Blues. “My best memory was signing and my worst memory was leaving,” he says.

Hear from Howard Kendall and his players as they look back on the glory years of Everton as they conquer England and Europe after a turbulent start to his time in the dugout.

Howard Kendall talks to friend and journalist John Keith as he looks back on the signings that brought glory to Goodison Park and their domination of English Football in the 1980s.

John delves into the archives to recount his privileged friendship with the legendary Howard Kendall in this special three part podcast looking into the life and career of a true blue.

Last month saw the 60th anniversary of the Everton debut of a genuine Club legend! The Blues were the reigning Champions and were paired with Italian giants Inter Milan in the preliminary round of the European Cup. The first leg at Goodison Park ended in a goalless draw and for the return in the San Siro, manager Harry Catterick handed a first ever senior appearance to 18-year-old Colin Harvey. And the rest, as they say, is history. Colin went on to win the FA Cup in 1966, the League Championship in 1970 and made 388 appearances, scoring 24 goals. After hanging up his boots, Colin turned to coaching and it was his promotion to the First Team from the reserves in 1983 that was one of the catalysts to the greatest period in the Club's history. In this special podcast, we look back over a magnificent Everton career with Dave Prentice and Gavin Buckland joining presenter Darren Griffiths. With audio contributions from John Hurst, Peter Reid, Dave Watson and Danny Cadamarteri, we cover Colin's entire Blues career as a player, youth team coach, first team coach and, of course, manager. Why did he only ever win one international cap? Did he actually want to be the Everton manager when Howard Kendall left in 1987? Was he offloaded as a player too early when he still had much to offer? Colin Harvey has been on a unique Everton journey and it is entirely appropriate that he will forever be outside Goodison Park in solid bronze alongside Howard Kendall and Alan Ball.

This year marks the 45th anniversary of Everton legend Bob Latchford scoring 30 league goals in a truly memorable campaign. At the start of the 1977/78 season, a national newspaper offered £10,000 to the first player to hit the 30 target, as it hadn't been done for a number of years. It went to the last game, but Latchford slammed home a late penalty against Chelsea at Goodison Park to claim the prize. In this latest Official Everton Podcast, we look back at the career of the striker who Evertonians regularly claimed could ‘walk on water'. Hosted by Darren Griffiths, alongside Dave Prentice and Gavin Buckland, we look back at Latchford's career, with audio contributions from teammates Jim Pearson and Martin Dobson. The conversation is decorated by commentary from some of Latchford's most memorable goals. We hear about how he was linked with Everton during the reign of Harry Catterick and of how Bill Shankly tried to persuade Latchford to join Liverpool. And did you know that Howard Kendall considered re-signing him when he was also after Andy Gray in 1983? We also discuss why a striker with such a fantastic goalscoring record was only rewarded with 12 international caps and we wonder whether the outcome of that infamous 1977 FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool would have been different had Latchford played. After that memorable season when he plundered 30 league goals, Latchford only managed 23 over the entire course of the next three campaigns. We ask why? Bob Latchford's place in any Everton Hall of Fame has long been assured and Blues of any generation will enjoy listening to this special tribute podcast.

Ian Bishop is the latest guest in our Bred A Blue podcast series. Bishop came through the ranks at Everton in the early 1980s but made only one fleeting substitute appearance for the Men's Senior Team – replacing Robbie Wakenshaw against Manchester United at Goodison Park in April 1984. Unable to break into arguably the finest Blues team of all-time, Bishop sought pastures new and went on to carve out a terrific career for himself, earning the lasting affections of supporters of every club he played for. He also established himself as one of the maverick characters of the early Premier League era. In this hugely entertaining Official Everton Podcast, Bishop recalls his early days at Bellefield, his relationship with Howard Kendall, the move to Bournemouth that helped shape his career and his part in one of Manchester City's most famous derby wins. It was at Maine Road that Bishop teamed up with Kendall again – but he admits that didn't end well, either! From City, Bishop went on to make himself a West Ham legend before returning to Manchester City to play for Joe Royle. He ended his career in America, where he still lives and coaches, and among his Stateside tales is the one about cleaning the windows of rap star Vanilla Ice! He also, poignantly, reveals a beautiful conversation he had with Howard Kendall before the great man passed away.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Everton's 1997/98 FA Youth Cup success. Under the tutelage of the legendary Colin Harvey, the young Blues brushed aside all before them before securing the trophy for the third and most recent time. Leon Osman, who would go on to play more than 400 Senior Men's games for Everton, was an integral part of the successful squad and in this latest Official Everton Podcast he looks back over the games and the players who brought the Youth Cup to Goodison. He tells us about the future defender who, at the time, was a ‘Roy Keane-type midfielder', recalls taking the wrong boots to Watford in the quarter-final on a freezing night, and how he experienced the high of scoring in the first-leg of the final and the low of missing the glorious return game through injury. We also hear from Francis Jeffers, who missed the Watford tie because he'd been rushed to hospital in the middle of the night, and from Danny Cadamarteri who played in the final three days before being a part of Howard Kendall's squad that played the all-important relegation match against Coventry City!

Graham and Jamie are joined by life-long Everton fan Declan Clark to discuss and rank Howard Kendall's amazing EVERTON 1984-85 team, starting out in the early 1980's as Kendall began to shape an exciting perfectly balanced team through the glorious league championship season and beyond.Andy Gray, Trevor Steven, Kevin Sheedy, Graeme Sharp, Adrian Heath and Neville Southall are just a handful of the superstars filling the story behind this incredible football team. What level of GREATNESS meets this fantastic team? Download, listen, subscribe and fine out.If you enjoy these podcasts, please don't forget to subscribe and give us a rating and also tell everyone about them!Or visit our website at www.thegreatestteam.co

Gavin McCann is one of those rare breed of footballers who left Everton and later represented his country. Our latest Bred a Blue guest played 11 times under Howard Kendall during the frenetic 1997/98 season, before leaving for Sunderland where he flourished and was selected by Sven Goran Eriksson for an England international against Spain. McCann speaks about the experience of playing against the likes of Pep Guardiola, Luis Enrique, Iker Casillas and Raul – quipping that "they had an El Classico a week later so I think they were only at 50 per cent." The Blackpool-born midfielder also recalls his early days at Everton when he was under the tutelage of Everton legends like John Hurst and Jimmy Gabriel, and how Neville Southall was especially good to him. McCann's first-team debut came at Newcastle United in September 1997 when he replaced Tony Grant late in the game, but his abiding memory is that, "Slav (Bilic) got sent-off and had a cigarette in the shower, there was smoke everywhere!" Unable to break through on a regular basis, "Earl Barret did me in training and I cracked my ankle and missed a load of games," McCann signed for Peter Reid at Sunderland and had later spells with Aston Villa and Bolton Wanderers. He can name Kendall, Reid, David O'Leary and Martin O'Neill amongst his managers and he's currently a coach at Northern Premier League outfit Hyde United, where former Everton Academy and Under-21 player Manasse Mampala is one of his players.

Join Melinda, Paul, Jake and special guest Ian “Bally” Ball as we discuss all things Everton. From Megaphones in the Gwladys, to interviews with Howard Kendall, Bally takes a trip with us down memory lane. Very special episode this Blues! Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we did recording it. UTFT! x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris Beesley, Paul Wheelock and Gavin Buckland are joined by host Connor O'Neill on the latest edition of the Royal Blue podcast as they review Everton's 2-0 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur while also looking forward to Wednesday night's trip to Newcastle United. Frank Lampard's side held out against high-flying Spurs for almost an hour at the weekend, wasting a couple of big opportunities to score before eventually conceding through a controversial penalty from Harry Kane. The panel are asked about their thoughts on that incident, Lampard's tactics, Dominic Calvert-Lewin's fitness and whether the Blues should ring the changes when they go to the North East while Gav lifts the lid on a vintage display from Howard Kendall's side at St James' Park that turned out to be one of the greatest Everton performances he never saw!

A short tribute we made when the great Howard Kendall died seven years ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How does a shy lad from the small town of Berwick-Upon-Tweed end up becoming one of the most successful footballers of his generation? In the first Downtown Den podcast of the new series, DIB chief executive and Group Chairman Frank McKenna is in conversation with Trevor Steven. Through the Eighties and Nineties Trevor played for Burnley, Everton, Glasgow Rangers, and Marseille. He also represented England, winning 36 full caps, and competing in the 1986 and 1990 World Cup Finals. In his club career he won two English League Championships, an FA Cup and a European Cup Winners Cup; seven Scottish Premier League titles, and three Scottish League Cups; and a French Ligue 1 championship. He is now a mental health ambassador for Causeway Technologies. In this fascinating discussion, Trevor talks: Berwick Rangers Burnley and cleaning Martin Dobson's boots Scoring the winner at the Stretford End at the age of 16 Everton, Howard Kendall, and resilience Turning down Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United Glasgow Rangers and moving abroad Mental health       To find out more about the Causeway/DIB mental health campaign go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s73qRXrtwbQ https://causeway.com/mentalhealth https://www.causeway.com Trevor's Instagram is @trevorsteven7 Trevor's Twitter account is trevorsteven63 Follow DIB here: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram YouTube This episode was sponsored by Moore Media https://www.jaynemooremedia.com

Here's another chance to hear my Big Interview with Don Hutchison from season four.You'll hear about Don's meteoric rise from boys' club to Hartlepool to Liverpool – where he formed a midfield three with the magnificent Jan Molby and Ronnie Whelan under manager Graeme Souness. Don speaks about the vision, courage and split-second decision making required to be a midfield fulcrum.There's moving stuff, too: how Don's winner for Scotland against England brought his tough miner father to tears. And how Don found Howard Kendall weeping after leading his beloved Everton to top division survival. There's also a tale about another late, great manager – Walter Smith, who sprung the best bit of man-management ever on Don at Goodison Park. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Former Sheffield United player from schoolboy to first team, Dane Whitehouse, a local lad who still loves the club, speaks to Hal and Nick about his time playing at Bramall Lane, the wonderful Bassett days, his favourite goals and the tragic moment that ended his career.

In a special edition of the Royal Blue podcast, Gavin Buckland speaks about his new book Boys from the Blue Stuff with the Echo's David Prentice and host Chris Beesley.Following on from his 2019 publication Money Can't Buy Us: Everton in the 1960s, Gavin's latest release - which is available now - charts Everton's rise to 1980s glory through the difficult days of Billy Bingham and Gordon Lee's reign and then Howard Kendall's early struggles before a dramatic and glorious turnaround.The highs and lows of the era are brought to life through 400 illuminating pages of Gavin's prose and he and David discuss how the book has inspired them to re-evaluate a period that was their respective formative years.Concluding with the Blues' magnificent 1985 League Championship and success in the European Cup-Winners' Cup, with what is considered the greatest team in the club's history and one of the best club sides the English game has ever produced, Gavin points out that at least readers know that there's a happy ending!

Gavin Buckland, author of the book 'Boys From The Blue Stuff' tells us how Everton went from the glory days of Harry Catterick's 1970 side, to the glory under Howard Kendall, starting with Billy Bingham. Get More Shows See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Special Guest Don Hutchison joins Neil, Mark and Ross to discuss his career with Liverpool & Everton. Don gives us some great stories from his times at the club including his admiration for Graeme Souness and his fondness of Howard Kendall.We also discuss the vast differences between the clubs right now and give predictions for the upcoming game.

In an ATP Exclusive, Ian Mills & Phil Roberts sit down with former Everton striker Michael Branch, making his podcast debut in an Everton FC Special. We talk breaking through the youth team with record numbers and into Joe Royle's plans in 1996, before discussing Joe leaving, and how he found playing under his then captain/manager, Dave Watson. Howard Kendall's return and a disastrous injury plagued season in 1997 1998 is discussed, as Michael reveals how the injuries and subsequent lack of goals affected him mentally at that time, and how he got to a point of feeling exhausted and relieved that every game had ended. Nights out and memories with hilarious tales have the hosts in stitches, before we discuss how his Everton career ended, and his joy at being back at his boyhood club now, working for EITC. Michael's podcast debut, talking the timeline of his Everton career is a must listen for all Evertonians!

Durante los años 80 del siglo pasado se puso de moda entre los clubes de La Liga fichar entrenadores británicos para guiar sus respectivos proyectos. Con mejor o peor suerte aterrizaron en los estadios españoles técnicos tan dispares como Terry Venables, Howard Kendall, Jock Wallace, Ron Atkinson, Colin Addison o John Toshack. Hoy conocemos cómo fue su paso y la huella que dejaron en La Liga.

In the 1984/85 season, Everton had become champions of England for the first time in 15 years. The following season they had to watch their title slip away across Stanley Park to Liverpool, despite having the country's leading goalscorer wearing blue. By 1986/87, with Gary Lineker off to Barcelona, the chances of the title returning to Goodison Park looked remote. The Forgotten Champions, by TFT's Paul Mc Parlan, tells the story of how a Howard Kendall-inspired Everton battled against the loss of key men, a crippling injury crisis, and the perils of plastic pitches to emerge as champions once more.

In an ATP Extra that is definitely for both sets of fans from either side of the park, Terry McGivern & Ian Mills are joined by ex Liverpool & Everton player, Don Hutchison. Don starts off with his Liverpool days, telling the lads about how as a young 18 year old from Hartlepool, he initially thought he was being 'pranked' when Kenny Dalglish called him to tell him of Liverpool's interest, before revealing how the wow factor of Anfield on his first day really gripped him. From the inside, he says how it felt to see Kenny leave and be replaced by Graeme Souness, and the changes that came with it. Don explains the pressure that young Liverpool side felt, as some of the more successful old guard were moved on, and how the performances in the league, and league finishes fell short of expectations. His admitted disappointment in some of his own conduct as a Liverpool player is spoken about in brutal honesty, and he reveals he still to this day, looks back and wishes he would been able to stay at Anfield. Before we move on to Don's Everton career, he gives us an exclusive, on Gerard Houllier actually wanting him to re-join Liverpool in 2000! His Everton career starts with how his love for Howard Kendall was the pull in returning to Merseyside in blue, before becoming part of a team that went into the last game of the 97-98 season fighting for survival, and just why that day is not only the worst he's ever felt on a football pitch, but also his proudest '60 seconds' in football. His battles for the shirt with John Collins & Olivier Dacourt are discussed, his battle to stay at the club in 1998, how he became friends with Duncan Ferguson and bonded in a night club with Mitch Ward(!) and his love for Kevin Campbell are all discussed in detail, before Don reveals just how much pride he still has today, being Everton captain in the win at Anfield in 1999. Finally, Don reveals just what happened at Bellefield in February 2000, when he was stripped of the club captaincy and transfer listed, in what he describes as being 'absolutely gutting'. There are stories for both sides that are insightful, and hilarious throughout in a fantastic ATP Extra for all.

On this episode of ATP Extra, Ian Mills & Gary Judge are joined by Everton legend, Andy Gray to discuss his Everton career timeline. We start in 1983, with tales of meeting Howard Kendall, arriving at the club and a hilarious story of just how he got his medical records to Everton!  From the inside, we hear how he felt when Howard was under pressure, his thoughts on just what turned in 1984 and of course, the magic of winning the FA Cup in 1984. The magical 1984-1985 season is discussed in great detail. From persuading Graeme Sharpe to not hand in a transfer request after being dropped at Newcastle, to claiming the number 10 as his own, memories from the goals he scored, his thoughts on just how good Neville Southall was, and of course, Bayern Munich! The end of the season in which the league title and European Cup Winners Cup were clinched is discussed, with tales from the dressing room and beyond, as Andy tells us just how close that team were as a group of friends. Andy tells us just what still ‘winds him up' from the end of that 84/85 season before emotionally telling us just how he left Everton, the story behind it and honestly revealing he regrets that decision. We wind up with talking about his impact on the game from the studio, as in 1992 Sky Sports coverage of football with him at the forefront changed how we viewed football, and then tells us just what happened in 1997, when he interviewed for the vacant managers job & subsequently stayed at Sky Sports. This is a bumper episode, with tales that will make you laugh, and smile all throughout!

Judgy and Pricey caught up, over zoom, with former Scottish international, Chelsea, Everton and Tranmere winger Pat Nevin. Pat took us through his football career starting with how he came into the game at a young age but was torn in his early years between enjoying his life and progressing his studies alongside football or going Pro. He did, of course, eventually take the plunge and didn't look back. After moving down to London with Chelsea and being voted their player of the year in 1987/88, Pat was eventually signed by Colin Harvey for Everton where he enjoyed 4 seasons under Colin and later under the returning Howard Kendall. Pat talks us through the good and bad times he had at the club, playing with an "exceptionally talented group of players", who, for many reasons, never hit the heights of their predecessors. Pat talks at length about the transition that Colin Harvey has attempting to orchestrate and gives his opinions on where it went wrong. Pat also recalls the incredibly difficult period of the Hillsborough disaster and the "impossible" final which followed it. Pat also opens up on his relationship with the late Howard Kendall and how from day 1, he could tell that Howard "didn't fancy him" as a player.  We also hear about the great years that Pat had at Tranmere where Pat felt he played some of his best football. Really interesting chat with an incredibly honest and articulate man!

Former midfielder Mark Ward discusses his career journey and road to redemption in the latest edition of the Official Everton Podcast. Learn how Ward recovered from the "bombshell" of being released by Everton as an 18-year-old in 1981 to fight his way back to sign for the Blues under Howard Kendall a decade later - and how he "broke down" on learning of the transfer from his then-Manchester City boss Peter Reid. Discover how the teenage Ward would expend so much effort in training trying to compensate for a perceived lack of athleticism he would end sessions by being "physically sick".  Hear about the time he ran two hours to training - and then scored a hat-trick that weekend. Learn why he credits another Blues legend in Joe Royle for reigniting his football career. Hear his personal experiences of being resident in New York and seeing the harrowing aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre on 11 September 2001.  And understand the circumstances that led to him being jailed for eight years in October 2005, a sentence of which he would serve half.

Why the 1985/86 Everton side was the greatest team Gary Lineker played in. How he finally decided to join Barcelona after weeks of deliberation – and his regret at not staying at Goodison for longer to play for ‘one of Europe's greatest teams'. The former striker's love for Howard Kendall, and admiration for current Toffees boss Carlo Ancelotti. And how Dominic Calvert-Lewin can become one of England's top forwards. All this and much more with BBC Sport presenter Gary Lineker in The Official Everton Podcast.

Peter Reid and Adrian Heath are joined by Howard Kendall's son, Simon, to discuss what made Everton's greatest boss the master tactician and man manager he was, how he dealt with pressure away from the pitch and, in Simon's case, what it is like being the child of a serial-winner football legend.

Former Academy Director Ray Hall discusses his unorthodox Everton job interview with Howard Kendall, why our 1998 FA Youth Cup triumph remains his greatest ever achievement, and being dumbfounded by an eight-year old Wayne Rooney.

As part of our Rivals series Neil Atkinson is joined by Mike Nevin, Rob Gutmann and David Prentice from the Liverpool Echo to take a long look at the Liverpool and Everton rivalry of the 1980s, specifically while Howard Kendall was in charge of Everton. The two clubs were duking it out not just for dominance of Merseyside but of the whole English game. How did that come about and what were the turning points? 'The Rivals' is a new addition to our TAW Player subscription package of over 30-plus shows released every month to TAW Player subscribers. Just £5 per month (minimum sign up one month) allows subscribers a selection of shows about Liverpool FC past, present and future. Try it! https://www.theanfieldwrap.com/subscription/signup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode three of the ECHO's Big Interview, Neil Jones and Neil Mellor speak to Kevin Sheedy, owner of one of the sweetest left foots Merseyside has ever seen.Kevin talks about learning his trade kicking a ball against the wall of a Herefordshire pub, and moving to Liverpool under Bob Paisley in the late-1970s.Though he would fail to break into the first team at Anfield, he has plenty of memories and stories to share of his time in digs alongside Ronnie Whelan - attending barbecues at Kenny Dalglish's house. He would later, of course, make his name truly on the other side of Stanley Park, in that great Everton team of the 1980s.Howard Kendall and Jack Charlton feature prominently - listen out for a great Charlton story involving a deck of cards - and Sheedy also opens up about his successful battle against bowel cancer in 2012.It's a great listen - we hope you enjoy! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy