Highs, Lows and Bakayokos

Everton in the 1990s

Jim Keoghan

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785312502
• Year: 2016

The 1990s, what a time to be an Evertonian! After a decade of success in the 1980s which saw cup and league wins, the 1990s brought brushes with relegation, financial ups and downs, a club drifting without purpose; it was a decade that saw Everton fall irrevocably off the pace, abandoning a long-held position as a member of English football's elite. There were still some games which won't fade from the memory, silverware and moments of unadulterated elation. Highs, Lows and Bakayokos evaluates the causes of Everton's troubles; examines why peers raced away, grasping the opportunities presented by the new Premier League era; and ultimately sets out to rescue and redefine an unfairly maligned decade and its emotional intensity and capacity to thrill that has perhaps been all-too-absent for Evertonians in the recent era of stability.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction
• The Great Escape (Part I)
• The Great Escape (Part II)
• Where Had It All Gone Wrong? (Part I)
• Where Had It All Gone Wrong? (Part II)
• Come Hell Or Mike Walker
• Royle Coronation
• The Dogs Of War
• A Royle Revival?
• Never Go Back (Again)
• The Great Escape II
• Mr Smith Goes To Nowhere In Particular
• What Does It All Mean?
• Bibliography
• Photographs