Everton paid tribute to Andy Burnham’s father, Roy, during the club’s Carabao Cup match against Wolves, which Burnham attended days after his death. Burnham watched alongside Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, making the occasion personally significant for both men as fellow Everton supporters and highlighting their shared experience of losing fathers to Alzheimer’s disease.

Roy Burnham’s photograph and a message describing him as a “lifelong, diehard Blue” appeared on the stadium screens, while Burnham and Carney wore Alzheimer’s Society forget-me-not flowers. Before the match, they held a 45-minute bilateral meeting covering UK-Canada co-operation on trade, defence and artificial intelligence, including Canada’s observer role in the Global Combat Air Programme; Everton won 1-0 with a goal in the 80th minute.