Everton at the Turf

David Moyes - agreed to bring his Everton side to Burnley

It is three years since we played them, also in a pre-season game, and that was the night Arthur Gnohere made his first appearance in a Burnley shirt.
 

Everton were still under the management of Walter Smith then and they went on to win 1-0 with a goal from Niclas Alexandersson.

Apart from Arthur it was also a first appearance on the Turf for trialist Paul Hughes who started the game and for Luigi Cennamo, Mark McGregor, Tony Ellis, Dimitri Papadopoulos and Alan Moore.

At the time I wrote: “Alan Moore did well and he is a clearly a player who likes to take his man on down the left hand side. Papadopoulos came on to a superb reception but struggled to get into the game whilst Luigi Cennamo made one excellent block.

”Arthur Gnohere though looked very impressive. He did everything that was asked of him at the back and he has an excellent touch on the ball. He looks to pass the ball well and also caused a threat in the Everton box on a couple of occasions.”

There’ll be more new players to get a first look at when they visit again and just to show how much change there has been at Burnley in the last three years the teams from July 2001 are below:

Burnley: Nik Michopoulos (Luigi Cennamo 72), Dean West (Paul Weller 45), Graham Branch (Alan Moore 45), Kevin Ball (Mark McGregor 68), Steve Davis (Andy Payton 77), Ian Cox (Arthur Gnohere 55), Glen Little (Brad Maylett 65), Ian Moore (Dimitri Papadopoulos 60), Gareth Taylor (Tony Ellis 65), Paul Hughes (Paul Cook 60), Lee Briscoe (Gordon Armstrong 72). Subs not used: John Mullin, Lenny Johnrose.

Everton: Steve Simonsen, Steve Watson (Alec Cleland 69), Alessandro Pistone, Alan Stubbs, David Weir, David Unsworth (Abel Xavier 63), Niclas Alexandersson (Idan Tal 45), Scott Gemmill (Danny Cadamarteri 77), Kevin Campbell (Joe-Max Moore 63), Duncan Ferguson (Tomasz Radzinski 63), Thomas Graveson. Sub not used: Paul Gerrard.