In August 2010, Everton Football Club unveiled the Everton Timeline. Stretching around Goodison Park, the 123 monochromatic images chart the major events in the club’s illustrious past. Though updated periodically, the final image on Goodison Road celebrates the signing of Romelu Lukaku back in 2014. Did time stand still for Everton Football Club, or has it simply failed to acknowledge the struggles which occurred during one of the most eventful periods in its 146-year history?

This is the book that fills in all the gaps, on and off the field, during the tumultuous years of Farhad Moshiri’s ownership, right up his sale of the club to The Friedkin Group in December 2024. More than a book about modern-day football, The Unofficial Everton Timeline documents unbridled ambition crashing into chaotic reality between 2014-2024. It is a comprehensive and detailed chronicle of important matches, big dreams, colossal financial investments, unproductive transfers, property deals and engineering marvels. But most of all, it is a book about people: moneymen, conflicting egos in the boardroom, highly rewarded players, and the real heroes of the story - a community of passionate Everton fans.

In this updated second edition, we've taken stock and examined what really happened after Everton's 'messiah' owner, Farhad Moshiri, arrived on the scene in 2014, what assumptions Moshiri made, why things didn't work out the way he and the fans expected them to, and how The Friedkin Group became the current owner and custodian of the football club. In short, we'll update the Everton Timeline. Ours is the full, objective, unofficial version of events - the version guaranteed never to be included on the club's website, nor on the walls of the stadium. We hope you listen from start to finish. It's a truly fascinating story.