The End

In May 1994, Everton Football Club found themselves on the brink of disaster – an outcome no one could have imagined just a few years earlier. More than three decades after John Moores set out to make Everton the dominant force in English football, the club faced the grim prospect of relegation in the final match of the 1993/94 season against Wimbledon.



Once known as the 'Mersey Millionaires,' Everton had fallen to 'Mersey Mediocrities.'



In The End, Gavin Buckland's final book on the Moores era at Everton, the author explores the club's journey from towering success to the brink of relegation. The narrative captures how boardroom complacency and indecision combined with uncertainty over the club's ownership to allow Everton to fall behind their peers as a new era of English football dawned.



Meticulously researched and piecing together interviews, archival materials and behind-the-scenes stories, The End is the authoritative and vivid telling of footballing aristocracy falling on hard times.



Gavin Buckland is official statistician to Everton FC and has written a number of books about the club. He is a founding member of Toffeeopolis.



"Buckland's carefully researched and superbly written account of all these events and others to befall Everton during 1985-1994 is a must for all Bluenoses and neutral football enthusiasts alike."