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Everton 2-0 West Ham: The Tears After The Storm
“The way the club look after their ex-players, the way the ex-players come back and talk so highly of the supporters and the club, the way the supporters treat their players: it’s really one big circle here. It’s never ending and I think once you’re in the circle, there’s no way out of it. I’m … Read more
Moyes: The Fuming, The Pride And The Rebuilding Job
I’ve fumed many a time. One up top against relegation fodder. Neville in midfield. “Coming off, number 8 Louis Saha, and his replacement number 2 Tony Hibbert”. I’ve gone home from the game and argued with anyone who had the misfortune to be in the house, I’ve kicked the cat, once or twice I’ve even … Read more
Dire Derby Leaves Everton Ahead In Race For 6th Place Trophy
220 Merseyside derbies down and this, surely, was one of the dullest: a dire game between two teams with little quality, not enough hunger and as much imagination as a schoolboy wondering what to graffiti on the underside of the table. To call it a war of attrition would reflect the even balance of play, … Read more
Labone: Footballer, Gentleman, Evertonian
Football supporters of the modern age have become desensitised to the word ‘legend’. But before the money and the internet and the hyperbole it used to mean something. A legend was the type of player that came around but once in a generation: the type of man with an aura and general demeanour in accord … Read more
Magic Mirallas Sees Everton Win Ugly
It must be shit to support Stoke. I mean, it’s bad enough watching that twice a season but imagine sitting through an hour and a half of such dourness every week. What a chore it must be watching your grock of a centre half launch the ball up to a splurge of strikers fit only … Read more
Beware The Wounded Everton
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius After the week that was, there could hardly have been a better fixture for Everton to right the Wigan wrongs. Because, by some uncanny stamp of toffeeism, we needed a challenge where the incentive was the restoration of … Read more
Now That’s A Fer Coup! Leroy Set To Sign
Our continental traverses are kept silent, our targets identified and our strategy fastidiously planned. The alligators of the transfer market, we lurk beneath the water’s surface, barely bothering to threaten Sky Sports’ yellow ticker or tease a tabloid exclusive. Until we’re ready. Snap. “Get in! Leroy Fer! We’re signing Leroy Fer! £8 million!” “Who’s Leroy Fer … Read more
Blues Earn Point Butt Fellaini A Disgrace
“Nobody wins with a headbutt” – Kevin James as Paul Blart in Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) Right, we may as well get straight to it. The game’s major talking point will no doubt be Marouane Fellaini’s headbutt on Stoke’s Ryan Shawcross: outrageously committed and, just as outrageously, missed by the officials. There is simply … Read more
JelaNics It At The Death
She’ll toil and she’ll frustrate, she’ll stand you up and she’ll let you down. But who other than Lady Domingo could turn your weekend on its head in the space of eighty-eight seconds? This game, our last at home before Christmas, threatened to end in an ill-deserved defeat: most Evertonians had resigned themselves to a … Read more
On-Bassong Canaries Grab Late Point
“Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.” - Bill Russell Wigan Athletic (a). Queens Park Rangers (a). Liverpool (h). Fulham (a). Sunderland (h). Reading (a). Norwich City (h). Points: 8. Wins: 1. If nothing else, our recent torrid run has given us a lesson in the flaws of wild and poorly-substantiated optimism. Today’s draw at … Read more
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