March 2007 the Mali star was linked with £ 3. 5 Million moves to Newcastle United, Everton and Real Zaragoza.

" He was linked with moves to a number of teams including Portsmouth, Arsenal, Everton, West Bromwich Albion and Crystal Palace before Tottenham Hotspur emerged as front-runners to sign him.

Carr had been linked with moves to Aston Villa, Everton, West Ham United, Wigan Athletic, Hertha Berlin, Racing Genk and Bohemians.

was founded following a dispute between the Everton committee and John Houlding, club president and owner of the land at Anfield.

It was originally used by Everton before the club moved to Goodison Park after a dispute over rent with Anfield owner John Houlding.

Their rivalry stems from Liverpool's formation and the dispute with Everton officials and the then owners of Anfield.

Houlding decides to form his own team after Everton leaves Anfield in an argument over rent.

Originally called The Mavericks, Tony Crane ( born Anthony Crane, 17 April 1945, Anfield, Liverpool ) and Billy Kinsley ( born William Ellis Kinsley, 28 November 1946, at The Mill Road Hospital, Mill Road, Everton, Liverpool ) formed their first band in late 1960 and became The Pacifics in September 1961.

* 13 March — Liverpool Football Club is founded after Everton is split by a faction fight at board level over the proposed purchase of the freehold at Anfield.

Earlestown also played Everton in the first ever match at Anfield stadium.

On 30 May 1942, he played a single game for Liverpool in a 4 – 1 win over Everton at Anfield.

Kewell scored his first league goal at Anfield in over two years when Liverpool beat Tottenham Hotspur 1 – 0 in January, he was also the only scorer when Liverpool beat Manchester City 1 – 0 at Anfield and scored the last goal in a 3 – 1 win over derby rivals Everton just under a month later in one of his best displays of the season.

John Houlding, former Everton Chairman and Anfield landowner

Everton moved to nearby Anfield, where proper covered stands were built.

Everton played at Anfield from 1884 until 1892.

During their time at Anfield, Everton became the first club to introduce goalnets to professional football.

After much negotiating and brinkmanship on both sides Everton vacated Anfield with Houlding left with an empty stadium, who promptly formed Liverpool F. C ..

Mahon revealed that Everton were buying Goodison Park for £ 650 less than the price of Anfield three years earlier, and Goodison Park had more land and had 25 % larger capacity.

In 2010 Everton supporters approached University of Liverpool and Liverpool City Council to initiate a dedicated ' Football Quarter '/' Sports City ' zone around Goodison Park, Stanley Park and Anfield.

The games are only especially remembered for Ian Rush's impressive haul of five goals for Liverpool over the two games ( although these goals are sometimes excluded from his official record-breaking Merseyside derby tally, probably due to them having been scored in a minor competition against what was largely an Everton reserve side ) and for Kevin Sheedy's spectacular goal for Everton at Anfield, scored from a long-range free-kick at the Kop end ( a feat he would repeat later in the season in a league derby match ).

Everton is an inner city area located just north of Liverpool city centre, with Vauxhall to the west, Kirkdale to the north and Anfield to the north east.

His Liverpool career ended after 332 appearances and 18 goals in all competitions – one of which was the " forgotten fifth " in a 5 – 0 thumping of Merseyside rivals Everton on 6 November 1982, a game in which Ian Rush took most of the headlines by scoring four of the five goals and a place in Anfield folklore.

Anfield is a residential district of Liverpool bordered by a number of areas including Walton, Clubmoor, Tuebrook and Everton.

Anfield Stadium, the home of Liverpool F. C., and the original home of Everton F. C.

Everton originally played on an open pitch in the south-east corner of the newly laid out Stanley Park, which is the site for the proposed new Liverpool F. C.

The ground held its first national cup final in 1977 when it played host to Everton and Aston Villa for a Football League Cup final replay.

Everton Football Club have built their new training ground and youth academy on the edge of Halewood called Finch Farm

They continued to live in the semi-detached house at West Derby, near the Everton training ground at Bellefield, which they bought when they moved to Liverpool in 1959.

A journalist writing in the Athletic News described Celtic Park as the best ground in Britain at the time, a title for which it may only have been challenged by Goodison Park, the home of Everton.

In August 1891 Orrell announced intentions of developing his land next to the football ground and building an access road on the land owned by Houlding and occupied by Everton F. C.

In 2010, the street, including Gwladys St and Diana Street's future was threatened when Everton claimed they may redevelop the ground sacrificing 38 houses, this decision was later scrapped in 2012.

Everton have played at Goodison Park for all but 4 of their 106 league seasons, giving Goodison Park the distinction of hosting more top-flight games than any other ground in England.

The previous December, in a match against Everton, in a noteworthy display of sportsmanship, Di Canio shunned a goal scoring opportunity and caught the ball from a cross instead as the Everton goalkeeper Paul Gerrard was lying injured on the ground after he twisted his knee attempting a clearance on the edge of the box.

" A training ground injury prevented Quashie from making his debut against Liverpool on 22 January 2005 and he did not make his debut until the match against Everton on 6 February.

The last competitive match at the ground was a 3-0 victory over Everton.

In 2000, they sold the Canal Street ground where they had played since 1918, and moved to the 11, 000-seat Halton Stadium in Widnes, which was also used by the town's rugby team and Everton reserves.

" Today Hickson is still with Everton as a guide on the tours of the club's ground, Goodison Park.

The first ground in England to have under-soil heating installed was Goodison Park, home of Everton.

In his first match back from the hernia operation, he scored a late goal coming off the substitutes bench to clinch victory for Newcastle over Everton.

Having seen Dublin in a cup tie, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson signed him for £ 1 million on 7 August 1992, fighting off competition from Chelsea and Everton.

Everton are putting up a surprise title challenge after more than a decade of mediocrity as they occupy third place and are just three points off the top.

He was sent off by referee Rob Styles in the home loss to Everton, for kicking Leon Osman.

Beattie found it difficult to settle at Everton, and, in only his fifth Premier League appearance for the club, he was sent off for a head butt on Chelsea defender William Gallas, leading to an automatic three-game suspension, and this, combined with a series of injuries, severely limited his contribution during what remained of the 2004 – 05 season.

Saha came off the bench at half-time in that season's FA Cup quarter-final against Middlesbrough, scoring the winner and helping Everton reach the semi-finals for the first time since 1995.

Saha scored again for Everton against Fulham on 19 March 2011 with a low right footed drive from a free kick, he was later stretchered off with an ankle injury and remained sidelined for the remainder of the season.

Ball was instrumental in the team which won his first and only major domestic honour in the game as Everton took the 1969 – 70 Football League Championship title, seeing off a late challenge from Leeds United.

In a match against Everton he received mild concussion after a clash with Tim Cahill and had to be stretchered off.

He finished as the club's top scorer by the end of his first season at Goodison Park and again showed his dynamic quality during his second season, but off the field Everton were suffering financial difficulties and when former club Newcastle offered Everton £ 1. 5 million for Beardsley it was a sum they couldn't turn down for a 32-year-old player.

But off the pitch problems dominated Pennant's season as he broke a club curfew twice, before matches against Everton and Crawley Town.

He was sent off in Manchester City's 2 – 1 defeat to Everton on 20 December 2010, this denied City the chance to top the Premier League table on Christmas.

In the Merseyside derby match on 19 April 2003, Weir received his first red card in a match against Liverpool as Everton lost 2-1 and played with 9 men after another sending off from Gary Naysmith.

On 27 September 1999, during the Merseyside derby against Everton at Anfield, Staunton played the last 15 minutes of the game in goal after Sander Westerveld had been sent off for fighting with Francis Jeffers after Liverpool had used all three substitutes.

All of the matches in which he played for Arsenal were in the Carling Cup, including a game on 9 November 2004 against Everton which saw him go off injured after 20 minutes.

Moran is notable for receiving a red card in the 1985 FA Cup Final against Everton, the first player ever to be sent off in an FA Cup final.

The title was clinched but Everton were beaten by Manchester United ( reduced to 10 men after Kevin Moran was sent off ) in the FA Cup final.

In the Play Offs they narrowly avoided an upset after seeing off Cheshire Jets 88-83 before beating Plymouth Raiders to form a match against Everton Tigers once again.

He was also sent off in the semi-final of the League Cup against Everton, for a challenge on Phil Neville.

A ' Court, who followed Rugby League, signed from Prescot as an 18-year-old in September 1952, spurning the advances of Everton and Bolton to become an Anfield apprentice, a decision that paid off as just six months after joining he made his first team debut.

Walker quit Norwich in January 1994, following a long running feud with Chairman Robert Chase ( mainly centring around Chase's habit of selling off the club's key players without consulting his manager first-for example Robert Fleck to Chelsea just after Walker's appointment ), to become manager of Everton, with Everton having to pay substantial compensation to Norwich to secure his services.

Walker was nicknamed the ' Silver Fox ' during his time at Goodison, and one of the more positive aspects of his reign was his decision to bring the controversial Rangers striker Duncan Ferguson to Everton on loan, a gamble which ultimately paid off after Walker's departure with Joe Royle signing the Scot on a permanent basis.