Highs, Lows & Bakayokos

Book excerpt: The 1990s, what a time to be an Evertonian! Brushes with relegation, financial ups and downs, a club drifting without purpose; it was a decade that saw Everton fall off the pace, abandoning the club's long-held position as a member of English football's elite. Highs, Lows & Bakayokos explores this trans-formative time for one of the game's oldest and grandest clubs. It searches for the causes of Everton's troubles, looking for reasons why peers raced away, grasping the opportunities presented by the dawning of the Sky-era. But it seeks to redefine this often maligned decade too. Memorable games, silverware and moments of unadulterated elation; the 1990s was a time of emotional intensity, an era that moved fans in ways that have been all-too-absent at Goodison Park during the stable years of the past decade.