Everton have 76 reasons why they can finally leave Newcastle with an unwanted record

Everton have just ended one club record winless run in the Premier League, so can they now break another hoodoo?

While the late 1-1 comeback draw at Newcastle United was a welcome point, it marked a 13th Premier League fixture without a win for Sean Dyche’s men who broke the club’s previous record of 12 set by Mike Walker on October 29, 1994. That subsequently ended with the 1-0 victory over Burnley, but when Everton step out against Mauricio Pochettino’s side on Monday night, nearly 30 years will have passed since the Blues last secured three points at Stamford Bridge courtesy of Paul Rideout’s 39th-minute header past Dmitri Kharine on November 26, 1994.

It was new manager Joe Royle’s first away game in charge of Everton and it’s a sequence that goes back even longer than the club’s record-breaking silverware drought, which stretches to when another headed goal from Rideout in the capital secured the FA Cup at Wembley the following May when they defeated Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United 1-0.

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The world was obviously very different back then when the Blues picked up their most-recent three points at Chelsea. Baby D’s Let Me Be Your Fantasy was number one in the UK charts (it would eventually be knocked off top spot some three weeks later by East 17’s Christmas smash Stay Another Day); John Major was Prime Minister; Charles and Diana were still married. The first National Lottery draw had taken place the weekend before the Blues’ triumph at Stamford Bridge while that month the Daily Telegraph became the first national newspaper in Britain to launch an online