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Everton don’t just make history. We change the game. 💙 Meet John Alexander Brodie — a lifelong Blue, a visionary engineer, and the man who gave football one of its most iconic features. Yes… the goal net. Back on 26 October 1889, watching Everton vs Accrington, with the score locked at 2–2, something happened that every football fan dreads. The ball hit the goal. It looked in. It felt in. But there was no proof. No net. No certainty. No goal. Denied. Most people would’ve just complained on the walk home. Not Brodie. That moment stuck with him. So much so that later, rummaging in his pocket for a pencil, inspiration struck. He scribbled down a simple idea — one that would change football forever: “A pocket in which the ball may lodge after passing through the goal.” Two years later, by the 1891–92 season, goal nets became mandatory. From Goodison frustration… to global football standard. And here’s the best part? Brodie — the man behind the Mersey Tunnel — said this was his greatest achievement. Not tunnels. Not infrastructure. Football. Everton didn’t just witness history that day. We created it.

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"We didn’t deserve the outcome we got, but football is cruel sometimes. You have to go again despite the adversity. "I thought we were the better team for the first 25 minutes. We got back into the game and I thought if anyone was going to score, it was going to be us." 🔵

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