 Everton's 21-22 Premier League season is one fans will never forget. I can't believe what I just watched there, what I've witnessed that comes from past. For the first time in a generation Everton were threatened with relegation. With sackings in the manager's department and at boardroom level, the club was split but ended in unity. Welcome to Toffy TV, Carl Antolotti has left his role as manager of Everton Football Club to join Real Madrid. With Everton fans hoping for a peaceful summer, the season had barely finished when Carlo Antolotti announced the devastating news that he was moving to Real Madrid and leaving Everton once again without a manager. My first thoughts when Carlo left was, not again, we've been out of again the famous line like I wouldn't leave Everton and all that. And then the second Real Madrid rang. I don't think anyone can kind of blame him. Real Madrid is such a prestigious club. At the time I didn't really see it coming. I know he spoke about going into next season with a transfer window and needing better players but I suppose the huge club that Real Madrid are, it was hard for him to turn down. I go to Real Madrid so I don't blame him one bit. After a month of rumours Farad Meshiri made the controversial decision to appoint Rafa Benitez as the new Everton manager, causing a split in the fan base. Welcome to Toffy TV, we've got the breaking news that Rafa Benitez has been appointed Everton manager. He has signed a three-year deal. I think it's one of the biggest mistakes as an appointment for Everton Football Club. He was never going to be the right man for the job. But I did get behind him to begin with because it's the team first and the fans first. If you like him, we're always around managers come and go. It was a very, very strange day seeing him holding the Everton scarf up and standing a finished form with all the board of directors and the rest is history after that really. He had a good run with Liverpool. Let's just have it right. He done well with the players that he had. So I thought that we was going to get a little bit of that. However he was just an absolute agent under cover and just wrote us off really. Rafa Benitez got off to an absolutely fantastic start with wins against Southampton, Brighton and Burnley and a draw against Leeds. But it didn't last. Yes, we had a decent start to the season. Obviously first day of the season against Southampton. Made a terrible start. Actually Southampton took the lead in the game and then we managed to claw it back second half and we went into a lot of confidence going into the Leeds game and we really probably should have won that Leeds game. Don has a chance just to dink it over the goalkeeper and we go on and win it. And then obviously Brighton away and winning up Brighton away. He was a great win as well. So at the start of the season there was a lot of hope and he had us hard to beat and we were scoring goals and we were creating more chances than we were under Carlo at the time. It wasn't a decent start. It was just teams I expected to beat and that every Everton fan had expected to beat. I expected to beat Southampton at home. I expected to beat Leeds away and we never done that. I expected to beat Brighton away. I expected to beat Bayon at home. Everton suffered a huge blow when Dominic Halvert Lewin was injured and ruled out for a few months. The feet started to occur including a crushing fight to home the feet by Wafford and continue through to a hammer-in in the Maisie side of Derby. I can't believe what I've just watched there. What I've just witnessed the other some part. It was unbelievable. It just collapsed by Everton today. I mean it didn't really start that well but to be fair this is number one. Wafford wanted that game more than any Everton player on that pitch. Every Wafford player ran through a brick wall for their manager and their fans today and Everton just simply couldn't cope. It was just a disgrace. We just got a gang of absolute shitbags playing for us. That's all I can say from today's performance an absolute gang of shitbags. I think that was the first real time where I was thinking to myself that was really, really bad. It was a really, really, really tough time. Autumn going into winter was really, really tough for the club. I think I'd been away at a whole fight camp won the fight, came back, kept coming to these games thinking I can finally have a baby, I can finally eat a pie or a rollof of a hot dog and we were just waiting for that moment, weren't we? At the start of December fans were getting restless and the 27 campaign was launched. It coincided with the home game against Arsenal that Everton must win. But fans were set to walk out the ground. For me particularly that game against Arsenal the thought that true blue Evertonians would walk out the stadium on a game that was so important. I just couldn't embrace that at all. It was very much a mix of us, I think the majority of Evertonians feeling like we were really, really in trouble and therefore almost agreeing with the campaign but sort of not agreeing with the way in which things were done at the time in which they were done. Chose not to leave me seat on the 27th minute cos it just wasn't. You can understand the full process behind it and I commend the fans who felt the need to do that because that was the way, my way was just a little bit different from being an athlete. I just know like a negative approach probably isn't always the best for athletes when you can feel and see that they were shitting themselves every time they played. No-one wanted to touch the ball because everyone was on them straight away but I do believe the 27 campaign was what brought around a big change. As the unrest continued, Marcel Brands was sacked and we moved into January with Rafa Benitez gaining more and more power. As we went into January, Benitez started to flex his muscles and bite players. Obviously going into January Marcel Brands you get to this, whether he left or whether he got sacked is up for interpretation. That led to Rafa Benitez ultimately getting the power he'd been fighting for all season. That was very frustrated because I'd read about Rafa's past and what he'd done and took control in others and made certain players leave. I'm not saying Lluwydim was just solely down to Rafa because I think there was other reasons for that. He's done it at every club he's gone to. You look at Liverpool, the power struggle at Liverpool, Newcastle, Mike Ashley, he wanted the power there and he got his power at Everton Football Club in the end. Welcome to Toffy TV and it's the match reaction Norwich City 2, Everton 1. The unthinkable has happened. Everton have lost to Bottom. Well, they're not Bottom now because they're off the bottom. Bottom club, Norwich City. Everton become the only team this season to lose to all three promoted sides. After the disappointing 2-1 defeat to Norwich City Rafa Benitez was sacked and Everton were in need of a new manager. Right to top and Rafa Benitez has just been sacked as the Everton manager. The club have just put a statement out saying that the football club can confirm the departure of Rafa Benitez as first team manager. Benitez, who joined Everton in June 2021 has left the club with immediate effect and update on a permanent replacement we made in due course. It had to happen. One win in 14 games. No manager survives that. It was amazing how long he did survive and again that is indicative really of what's been going on at Everton. People are unable to make that decision. The fans felt it as well and it's no different for us when we're reporting on the club. You can feel that it's coming. I just think had he not been sacked the divisiveness within the fan base would have stayed in place. We couldn't have all pulled together and ultimately we'd have probably got relegated. With Rafa Benitez now gone could Duncan Ferguson take his chance and become Everton's manager? Duncan Ferguson has asked to take the team against Aston Villa and I guess everybody was hoping for the same uplifters when he took it the time before against Chelsea and I think he was given even that decision wasn't made quickly enough he was given the team and a couple of days to go and we had Villa at home and despite Everton being the better side we lost the game and it was a hammer blow for Duncan it was a hammer blow for Everton because it was a game you know Rafa Benitez had gone this was a game that was there on their line. And then we wasted a couple of weeks on who we were going to get you know we spoke to Duncan Ferguson Vita Pereira who looked like he was the number one at a time and appeared on Sky Sports News and almost begging. Everybody walked right around the outside I've covered some park for you know around an hour or so I think it was like an hour 90 minutes and we covered that extensively on the echo so you know that was a really it was a really interesting thing to try and cover because as I say I've never I've never covered anything like that before. Rafa Benitez Following Rafa Benitez a second the Everton board chased Roberto Martínez which she understands the decision Vita Pereira before finally settling on Frank Llanparth he was appointed the new manager of Everton Football Club Frank Llanparth is the new Everton manager he's been announced at last the way it's kept secret in football for the last few days but he is the Everton manager he's very happy to be here he said So when Frank came in obviously there was big question marks as to whether or not he was good enough experienced enough to be able to drag Everton out of the position that we were in I thought he was harshly treated at Chelsea I thought he'd done a very good job on the financial constraints that they had and he'd come to our club and I feel like he was one of those managers Llanparth he got the fan but he comes in and he knows evidence of football club he's played against us many times before for Chelsea With the transfer window being open us as fans knew what Everton needed and yet we didn't make a decision quick enough we didn't either say write it's Duncan Ferguson till the end of the season and then we'll identify a manager or we didn't say it's Frank Llanparth this young hungry manager let's get him in now it just rolled on and we got to transferred okay we got to the weekend where the deadline was and Frank Llanparth looked like he was the manager but he wasn't until he was appointed on deadline day so what happened there was we removed any opportunity for him to take his time over a couple of days and maybe bring in players that we needed but also every day we hesitated it was later for him to do his work and culminating in the afternoon of the transfer deadline day when you're still trying to strengthen the squad you know that is really in my opinion help we didn't help Everton in the battle to improve and to move away from the relegation battle just hesitation made the situation worse really Frank Llanparth got off to the perfect start with a 4-1 win at home to Brentford in the FA Cup Super Llanparth Super Llanparth Super Llanparth Super Llanparth Super Llanparth Super Llanparth Decent start in Frank Llanparth that's it no great day, great occasion great for the players and the manager quite comfortably in the end at Gullison Park today in Frank Llanparth's first game as Everton manager it couldn't have gone any better for him I just remember the heroes welcome and the taining of the tards with the fans and I just remember it's really given me goosebumps now cos I hadn't felt that kind of the fire in the belly of the fans and I was just like oh my god this is what it used to be like years ago a win against Leeds followed and another win against Newcastle Super Llanparth Super Llanparth Super Llanparth It's the Clarysu reaction to Everton 3 Leeds United nail what a game what a performance Instant Clarysu reaction Everton have just beaten Newcastle United one nail in just an unbelievable mad game of football it was tight, it was tense we had some not bad change with the goal post protest an oil fair enough, protest an oil mate just don't do it I'll go to some park when I'm desperate for points After a disappointing 4-0 defeat against Crystal Palace in the quarterfile of the FA Cup harsh words were spoken about the squad and Frank Llanparth asked them if they had the bollocks I think the reality started to settle in that Frank Llanparth was not a magician and he wasn't going to be able to come in and shake a magic wand at this squad I kind of went back to the old Everton really and it showed that the inconsistencies these players had pulled on for years and years now and it just proved that whatever manager you put in charge these players were going to let us down at times unfortunately Following the FA Cup defeat at Crystal Palace Everton faced away games at West Ham and Burnley and although performances were better the Blues lost both games Burnley 3, Everton 2 and Everton have gone and done it they've gone and lost the game that was the 6.8 biggest game that we've had for years I just thought that was the end and I'm accused by everybody being a deluded optimist at times and it did take me a good couple of nights to get myself back but my friends, the four members including Barry managed to get me back to being like no come on we can do this We went to Burnley and it was a tough, tough night and a lot of people felt like if we got the win that night or we didn't get beat would be safe so we've thrown it away Then came back with Manchester United and Leicester City and Cothersham Park and Everton took four points from those two games before heading in to the Masseyside Derby things were on the up it seemed Welcome to Toffy TV here is the match reaction Liverpool 2-0 in the Masseyside Derby not an unexpected result to be fair As far as I'm concerned we're fucked over by the referee as far as I'm concerned it's a clear pen on Anthony Gordon I'm not asked what's happened before So this was it Everton were in the relegation zone five points from safety and facing Chelsea at home in a game they had to win and the fans decided to take back control and make this place a bear pit Clarice Sealy Action Everton 1 Chelsea 0 I've had to wait about ten minutes for the clouds to go down the songs to go down are unbelievable The fans made their voices known before the game Welcome on the coach the flares the smoke is absolutely unbelievable just an amazing atmosphere for a huge game Everton started the day five points behind Leeds and Burnley and I had to win and we won I don't think anybody could have really expected just how massive that coach welcome was I wasn't expecting to go to the ground about an hour before the coach turned off I wasn't expecting the amount of people that were going to be there Probably the most unified they've ever been like in God knows how long We played against Brenford and again the scenes were absolutely incredible absolutely incredible before the game you know Burnley had been beaten by Spares Leeds are true with Brighton we needed to win she needs to win we needed two points and obviously we went one nil up and then they send them off to Jalabrath we changed the game the referee that day was terrible but we ended up getting beat Everton again found themselves at home with the opportunity to secure their Premier League status a win against Crystal Palace would do just that and keep Everton in the Premier League again the fans stepped up and made this place a sea of blue The scenes after that were just unbelievable it gives me goosebumps even thinking about it now it was what goodness and park is to me a monumental result against Crystal Palace and to be two nil down and to turn it round the way we did and then the scenes that followed afterwards was just unbelievable it was a night to remember baby it's good news I was just crying my eyes out I know it sounds really sad but this is our life this is what we live for and I was just hugging honey and I was just crying my eyes out we've done it so that was it that was the end of the 2021-22 season with Everton staying up and the fans taking back control but what next Everton Football Club and what changes will be made in the future a nice big piss-off in America I think Everton just needs to show as much patience as they possibly can fucking tough years