Our first ever big Sponsors, Bovril - sold at our ground -
The date was 1893 when it was ‘cheers!’ to . . . Bovril, our first match sponsors. This steaming bovine-based beverage was first introduced in 1884, four years before we became one of the founder members of the Football League. By the time the new League venture got underway in 1888, Bovril was already available in pubs, grocers and chemists throughout the North West and had begun to be sold to football fans as an antidote to bitterly cold winter afternoons across the region. With Everton FC an emerging household name, Bovril marketed their increasingly popular drink by linking it with a fixture at the impressive one-year-old Goodison Park on 23 November 1893.
Ken Rogers, a true Blue who has written many books about the blues & their History for top correspondent of the Echo - had a great friendship with HK -
