Today is the date that Everton have only ever won once on and it took them over a hundred years to break their duck!
February 29 is of course ‘leap year day’, a date that only appears on our calendars once every four years to ensure the seasons don’t end up out of sync because the Earth takes 365 days, six hours and nine minutes to orbit the Sun.
Unlike February 28, a date on which Everton have recorded 16 victories and March 1, when they’ve won 11 times, February 29 brings up just a solitary success for the Blues. They have only played on the date on just four occasions, though.
The first was a 4-0 thrashing at Sheffield Wednesday – or The Wednesday Football Club as they were known until 1929 – in the FA Cup quarter-final at their former ground Olive Grove (The Owls would switch to Hillsborough three years later). There was then a 5-2 defeat at Nottingham Forest in 1908 – a game in which the visitors were already 5-1 down by the break – before a 2-2 draw with Manchester City in 1936, the only time Goodison Park has staged a game on the date, with just 14,418 fans, the club’s lowest gate of the season, watching a Saturday fixture in the First Division.
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Everton finally secured their first – and so far only – February 29 victory in 1992 in what was the last season before the creation of the Premier League. Howard Kendall’s men travelled to the Boleyn Ground to face Billy Bonds’ struggling West Ham United side, who would ultimately finish bottom of the table, and triumphed 2-0 despite having to finish the game with 10 men when Martin Keown withdrew
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