Royal Blue

Join Connor O’Neill & Ian Croll as they preview Everton’s Friday night fixture against Luton 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

Although Goodison Park: My Home is a series mostly dedicated to Everton players, we make a change of gear for part 4 as Chris Beesley speaks to Blues super fan Dr David France. Growing up in humble surroundings in Widnes and coming from a family of Evertonians stretching back five generations, the 75-year-old affectionately known as 'Dr Everton' is a retired oil and gas industry executive who sold his 10,000-item collection of Everton memorabilia to the club at a heavily discounted price so it could be kept for posterity while also founding the Everton Former Players’ Foundation to raise money for the physical and pastoral care of ex-professionals who have represented the club. He was also the founder and driving force behind the Gwladys Street Hall of Fame, the EFC Heritage Society, Everton War Memorials and has authored 19 books about Everton with proceeds donated to Merseyside charities. Making transatlantic trips to watch his beloved Blues play having moved to the USA several decades ago, David has watche

Idrissa Gueye’s second goal in consecutive weekends secured a third successive home win for Everton and a result that ensured Sean Dyche’s side are now mathematically safe going into the final month of the season. Despite two separate points deductions, the Blues will now go into their last season at Goodison Park as a Premier League club. Join, Chris Beesley, Gav Buckland & Joe Thomas for the latest Royal Blue Podcast.  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

The Blues are back in action against Brentford on Saturday and manager Sean Dyche has a number of big decisions to make. Ian Croll, Dan Haygarth and Joe Thomas headed into the Royal Blue studio to discuss and debate those big decisions.  Of course, Sean Dyche will be looking ahead to Saturday’s encounter with Brentford, however the lads are still on cloud 9 from Wednesday’s famous win, with more Merseyside Derby discussion on the agenda.  Everton's win over Liverpool on Wednesday night propelled the Blues to within touching distance of safety in the Premier League.  The lads will also preview Brentford with a win all but set to guarantee survival. 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 App

Join Ian Croll, Joe Thomas & Gav Buckland as they look back at a famous Merseyside Derby win under the lights at Goodison Park. A superb display gave Everton their first Merseyside Derby on home turf since October 2010 as they beat Liverpool 2-0. Blues fans mocked their neighbours by chanting "you lost the league at Goodison Park" after goals from Jarrad Branthwaite and Dominic Calvert-Lewin either side of the break gave Sean Dyche’s side a richly-deserved three points to hand defeat to Jurgen Klopp on his last trip across Stanley Park. 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: h

Join Ian Croll and Connor O’Neill as they look ahead to tonight’s Merseyside Derby.  Everton will assess Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who came off with a minor injury against Nottingham Forest last Sunday. Beto will miss the next two games in line with head injury protocols, while Seamus Coleman is back in training but isn't yet ready to be involved. Sean Dyche's side are aiming to win three consecutive home league matches without conceding for the first time since a run of five in 2019. 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 Foll

Host Chris Beesley joins ECHO Everton correspondent Joe Thomas and regular guest Gavin Buckland for the latest edition of the Royal Blue podcast. The panel review Everton’s 2-0 victory over Nottingham Forest, which could be a hugely-significant win for the club and manager Sean Dyche’s side as they bid to secure Premier League survival. Goals from Idrissa Gueye and Dwight McNeil plus a crucial save from Jordan Pickford helped secure three points but the visitors were left upset by the officiating of the game, feeling they should have been awarded three penalties. Those incidents all come under the microscope along with a preview of Wednesday’s Merseyside Derby at Goodison Park. 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

Sean Dyche suffered his heaviest defeat as Everton manager as his side were torn apart 6-0 by a rampant Chelsea side at Stamford Bridge in their first fixture since being handed a new two-point deduction, their second sporting sanction of this season. Cole Palmer was the main architect of the Blues’ downfall as he ran riot with four goals on the night, the last of which came from the penalty spot while Nicolas Jackson and substitute Alfie Gilchrist netted the others but while their hosts were on form, the visitors made it too easy for them at times with some slack defending and a rare blunder from goalkeeper Jordan Pickford. Join Ian Croll, Chris Beesley and Connor O’Neill as they react to the Monday night’s disgraceful 6-0 defeat.  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

Host Chris Beesley joins the ECHO’s Everton correspondent Joe Thomas and regular guest Gavin Buckland for the latest edition of the Royal Blue podcast as they discuss another tumultuous week off the pitch at Goodison Park. Following on from Everton’s latest points deduction on Monday, prospective owners 777 Partners have formally requested an extension to a deadline to pay a major club creditor. Going back to football matters, after finally ending the club’s longest-ever winless streak in the Premier League with a 1-0 victory over Burnley, Sean Dyche’s side are now preparing to face Chelsea and the panel preview the trip to Stamford Bridge. 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

Everton have been deducted a further two points after the outcome of their second Profit and Sustainability Rules case this season was announced. After Everton handed an initial 10-point deduction in November – the biggest sporting sanction in 135 years of English top flight football at the time – which was later reduced to six points on appeal, the club were charged with a second breach of Premier League PSR in mid-January; which began a 12-week disciplinary process. Everton set out its position in a three-day hearing last month amid what has been a process lacking in clarity or guidelines. The appeal panel for Everton’s first charge said that there had been two “legal errors” in the club’s original verdict but then the independent commission handling Nottingham Forest’s charge only handed them a four-point deduction for a breach 77% larger than Everton’s, acknowledged it could not be sure how even the reduced punishment handed to the Blues had been calculated. Join Chris Beesley and Gav Buckland for the lat

Join Ian Croll, Chris Beesley and Dan Haygarth for Friday’s Royal Blue Podcast.  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

Join Ian Croll, Chris Beesley and Gav Buckland as they look back at Everton’s 1-1 draw with Newcastle United. Substitute Dominic Calvert-Lewin's late penalty snatched what could be a precious point for Everton against Newcastle United at St James' Park after Alexander Isak had put the hosts ahead in the first half. Although the result ensured the Blues broke their club record for their longest-ever winless run in the Premier League, the result, taken in isolation, and coming after the Magpies had a second goal from Dan Burn ruled out for offside after a VAR check, was a significant positive. 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: ht

Join Joe Thomas, Connor O’Neill and Gavin Buckland as the Royal Blue podcast discusses the newly released Everton accounts, what they may mean for the club’s second profit and sustainability case and, of course, the fallout from Bournemouth. 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  Learn more about your ad ch

Host Chris Beesley joins ECHO Everton correspondent Joe Thomas and regular guest Gavin Buckland for the latest edition of the Royal Blue podcast to preview the trip to Bournemouth. Everton haven't played a game for three weeks but there's been plenty going on off the field with the Fan Advisory Board letters to Farhad Moshiri, Richard Masters and Josh Wander.  The panel also react to Sean Dyche's press conference on Thursday as the Blues boss discussed a number of topics, including an incident between himself and Nathan Patterson during the club's Portuguese training camp. 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/47xwdn

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 L

Nottingham Forest have decided to appeal their Premier League points deduction which they were handed last week for breaching spending rules.The four-point penalty saw them sink into the bottom three with nine games of the season remaining, however a successful appeal could have a major impact on Everton’s final league standing.  Host Ian Croll is joined by Paul Wheelock and debutant Luke Davies to discuss the latest on all of the above.  Also on the agenda is Everton’s prospective takeover by 777 Partners. This week, supporters from The Everton Fan Advisory Board have written to three stakeholders who have a major impact on the next steps for the club – Farhad Moshiri, the Premier League and 777 Partners. The International break may still be upon us but the lads also discuss Everton’s up and coming fixtures against Bournemouth and Newcastle. All that and more on the latest Royal Blue Podcast.  #EvertonFC #EFC #LIVE Everton FC podcasts from the Liverpool ECHO’s Royal Blue YouTube channel. Get exclusive Everto

With work on Everton’s new stadium scheduled to be completed by the end of the calendar year and the first team set to play their first competitive game by the banks of the Mersey in less than 18 months’ time, progress on the Blues’ future home is continuing at pace. The laying of the pitch should begin next month while more than 30,000 of the total 52,888 seats have already been installed in a process due to be completed this summer. The ECHO’s Everton correspondent Joe Thomas produced a special report this week having been on site last Monday and said: “There are two great aspects to this project that only hit me during my visit this week. One is the sense that the ground’s location is inescapable. “The second is just how much this new stadium will foster a sense of wider community.” Everton FC correspondent Joe Thomas reports from Liverpool's new waterfront landmark as the club's future home moves from dream to reality.  Everton FC podcasts from the Liverpool ECHO’s Royal Blue YouTube channel. Get exclusiv

It’s another Everton free weekend but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to talk about.  As has been the case for most of the season, PSR remains firmly on the agenda with Leicester City the latest club facing a breach. It leaves Everton still sweating over the latest charge with the hearing expected next week. Join Ian Croll, Chris Beesley and Paul Wheelock as they discuss the latest on all things PSR and what Leiecester’s charge means for the Blues. Also on the agenda is the latest round of International fixtures with England and Toffee’s Number One Jordan Pickford coming in for some random criticism this past week from a number of pundits. Finally, pictures of Everton’s new stadium surfaced on social media this past week leaving Blues fans anticipating just what it will be like in their new home, however rival fans have jumped on the back of this and aimed jibes at the design.  All this and more on Friday’s Royal Blue Podcast.  #EFC #EvertonFC #Live Everton FC podcasts from the Liverpool ECHO’s Royal Blue Y

Join Beth Lindop for a special edition of the Royal Blue podcast ahead of this weekend's Women's Merseyside derby at Goodison Park. It hasn't been the easiest season for Everton but something about facing their city rivals always seems to bring the best out of the Blues.  Ahead of this weekend's showdown, we speak to first-team stars Courtney Brosnan and Heather Payne about the challenges posed by Matt Beard's side and how the home support could help get them over the line. 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