A 31-year wait for success - but can Everton fans still celebrate? — SkimNews
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- Everton are the only club in England's current top four tiers not to have won a trophy or been promoted since 2000, with their last silverware the 1995 FA Cup final victory over Manchester United at the old Wembley.
- David Moyes has guided Everton to an unbeaten Premier League start and a 1-0 EFL Cup win over Wolverhampton Wanderers that set up a last-16 home tie with Newcastle United, despite being left with only 18 senior outfield players after a collapsed transfer window.
- Everton's summer window fell apart when AS Monaco striker Falorin Balogun walked away from a deal after problems in his medical, while Iliman Ndiaye was sold to Manchester City for £65m, leaving Moyes short on the final day.
- Dr. David France, a 78-year-old Everton supporter based in Arizona since 1977 who has travelled two million miles since his first game on 4 September 1957, estimates he has spent a 'robust seven-figure' sum following the Toffees and founded the Everton Former Players' Foundation in 1999.
- Former midfielder Leon Osman (433 appearances, 58 goals between 2003 and 2016) rejected the '26 years of misery' framing, citing the 2004-05 fourth-place finish and Champions League qualification under Moyes, plus a dramatic FA Cup fourth-round replay win over Liverpool in 2009.
- Everton are one of six Premier League founding members never to be relegated (alongside Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham), but have lost 28 of 53 Merseyside derbies in the Premier League era, including the controversial 2005 Champions League qualifying exit to Villarreal.
Why it matters: Everton's 31-year trophy drought — the worst sustained record in English football's top tiers — has coincided with a 'shambolic' transfer window that left Moyes with 18 senior outfield players, yet their unbeaten league start and Carabao Cup progress offer the club's most credible route to silverware in years, with a last-16 Newcastle tie the next concrete test.
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