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Everton have been named one of the most depressing teams to support in Britain right now by a major football magazine.

FourFourTwo have revealed their top 10 clubs of misery and the Blues just sneak onto the list.

On face value, being unbeaten in over a month, in the top half of the Premier League and with the prospect of an iconic new stadium being built in a stunning location supposedly four years from now doesn't look too bad but such factors don't tell the full stories for the long-suffering supporters at Goodison Park.

It's now 23 years since Everton last lifted silverware – a drought of 24 years in the longest they've ever had to wait previously – and despite a record-breaking recruitment drive in the transfer market last summer, the Blues are still 13 points behind where they finished at the end of the 2016/17 season.

All this has come against the backdrop of neighbours Liverpool's seemingly triumphant march towards the Champions League final.

At least when the Reds last lifted the trophy in 2005, Evertonians had the consolation of enjoying a successful campaign themselves having finished above them in the league with a highest-ever Premier League placing of fourth.

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Placing Everton at 10 on their list, FourFourTwo write: “Everton fans are well aware that they haven’t snagged silverware in more than two decades. So, when Iranian businessman Farhad Moshiri purchased a majority stake in the club in 2016, nobody could blame them for feeling a collective pang of optimism.

“Finally, the blue half of Merseyside was equipped with the resources to compete with big-spending neighbours Liverpool.

“Fast-forward two years and it’s all gone horribly wrong.

“Ronald Koeman paid the price for poor recruitment with his sacking in October 2017, a team largely comprised of failed signings is chasing shadows across the Goodison pitch, and a weather-beaten Sam Allardyce sits on the throne of an empire in turmoil.”

Only one other Premier League club, Arsenal, finished above the Blues on the list having been placed eighth while top of the table were Brechin City in contrast to their real life fortunes.

Promoted to the second tier of Scottish football for the first time in 11 years, the Angus club finished the current campaign with just four points and without a single victory.

The full top 10 is: 10 Everton; 9 Coventry City; 8 Arsenal; 7 Ipswich Town; 6 Rangers; 5 Leeds United; 4 North Ferriby United; 3 Leyton Orient; 2 Sunderland; 1 Brechin City.