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2010-11 Match Reports

Season finally starts at Everton

April 11, 2011
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Season finally starts at Everton

WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 0 – EVERTON 3 (Beckford 21, Neville 39, Bilyaletdinov 45) Perhaps David Moyes should take a leaf out of Dave Bassett’s book; Bassett became so infuriated by the slow starts to the season that his Sheffield United team repeatedly made in the early 1990’s that he once held the club’s Christmas party in August in an attempt to lure his players into thinking the season was already half over. Another puzzling echo of previous seasons is how this team, minus its best players, performs so much better than when everyone is fit and available. We see it now, we saw it in the spring of 2009 on the...

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Saha throws off shackles to sink Spurs

January 6, 2011
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EVERTON 2 (Saha 3, Coleman 75) – TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 1 (van der Vaart 11) Seamus Coleman loves playing against Spurs. It was in this fixture last season that he first announced himself; coming on as an early substitute he was the catalyst for a pulsating comeback from 2-0 down, and again last night the young Irishman was hugely influential, making a mug of his marker, Assou-Ekotto, setting up chance after chance, before finally netting the winner. But this was no one man show. Heitinga was impressive, returning after a long lay off he deputised admirably for the injured Jagielka, Fellaini was back to his best putting in a powerful...

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Everton seize City built on sand

December 21, 2010
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Everton seize City built on sand

MANCHESTER CITY 1 (Jagielka og 72) – EVERTON 2 (Cahill 4, Baines 19) The Everton that David Moyes built put in a welcome return last night at Eastlands delivering a victory built on all the qualities we have come to expect, but which have been missing for large chunks of the season; commitment, incisiveness, hard work and unflagging belief. Forced to play the bulk of the second half with just ten men every member of the team covered, harried and defended as City pushed forward, but even when the opposition found a way through they were met by a goalkeeper in Tim Howard who was in no mood to...

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Everton 0-0 Wigan – Apocalypse Now?

December 13, 2010
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Everton 0-0 Wigan – Apocalypse Now?

For a while now we haven’t been getting the desired results, and Wigan at home continued this worrying theme. Again though, we played well, we created chances, we utterly dominated. Following the full-time whistle, a tsunami of kvetches and grumbles came back from annoyed Everton fans, accusing Moyes of being too negative, of 4-5-1 being the wrong formation, of our performance being “poor”. People vented on blogs, on Twitter, even on 5-Live (prompting a Krakatoan defence of our manager from host Darren Fletcher). Did any of these people watch the game? Normally when a player hits the bar, or fluffs a one-on-one, the event is used in mitigation of a poor result:  “we...

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Everton’s defenceless display plumbs new depths

November 29, 2010
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EVERTON 1 (Cahill 42) – WEST BROMWICH ALBION 4 (Scharner 16, Brunt 26, Tchoyi 76, Distin 87 og). The Everton designed and built by David Moyes has never been prolific in front of goal, wins and league position have been built on defensive solidity. Back-to-back fifth place finishes in 2007/08 and 2008/09 plus a Cup Final appearance were constructed on a foundation of clean sheets, nothing more, nothing less. Remember what pride all Evertonians took when the team soldiered on and maintained their terrific form through December 2008 into February 2009 without a single fit striker at the club, until Jo arrived on loan and in a brief and...

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Confident Coleman led but no one followed

November 16, 2010
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EVERTON 1 (Cahill 89) – ARSENAL  2 (Sagna 36, Fabregas 48) Grizzling on about the referee changes nothing and just deflects from the real issue which is that on Sunday the eleven men in blue were outplayed. In recent years the only team to give Everton a couple of real spankings has been the Gunners. Because they play the style of football Everton aspire to and run their club in a way that the Goodison hierarchy would love to emulate, it seems as though the Blues stand off, admiring, agog and gormless, all passion spent. It was only when they were 2-0 down, which bar a howling two yard miss...

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Everton strikers will strike again – honest!

November 11, 2010
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Everton strikers will strike again – honest!

EVERTON 1 (Beckford 90+4) – BOLTON WANDERERS 1 (Klasnic 79) A week is a long time in politics and ten minutes is a long time in a football match. With about five minutes of normal time to go against Bolton, Everton, already a goal down, became Everton a man down as well, after Marouane Fellaini, having a good game, was sent of for a foolish foul on Paul Robinson. Fast forward to the few seconds added by Phil Dowd to the already elapsed three minutes of added time; Leighton Baines won a fierce contest with Lee on the touchline and managed to prod the ball to Jermaine Beckford loitering...

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Points blown away in seaside breeze

November 8, 2010
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BLACKPOOL 2 (Eardley 10, Vaughan 48) – EVERTON 2 (Cahill 13, Coleman 50). End to end football is fine so long as the result is right and on Saturday it wasn’t. Blackpool’s goals, one a freakishly good free kick which Eardley probably couldn’t replicate if he tried fifty times and the other a scrambled miss-hit, were instantly equalized by Cahill and Coleman, but a host of missed chances, of which those by Pienaar and Saha fell into the ‘sitter’ variety, meant a return of just one point from a game which should have yielded three. Why does this Everton team always seem to struggle against the lesser lights of...

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Potters cracked by goal hungry Yakubu

October 31, 2010
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EVERTON 1 (Yakubu 63) – STOKE CITY 0. One thing we can safely say for this game, without fear of criticism, is that it lived down to expectations: Stoke were going to string four players built like rugby prop-forwards across their back four – tick; they came to defend, in depth, with no attacking ambitions whatsoever, so long as the scores remained even – tick; it would require patience and maybe a touch of luck to break them down – tick; it would not be pretty – tick. Thankfully, the only prediction that we got wrong was that we didn’t have to watch Rory Delap trundle up the touchline,...

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Superb Jags just gets better & better

October 25, 2010
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Superb Jags just gets better & better

Judging by the over-confident predictions coming across the blogosphere and from the twitterati you would have thought that Spurs only had to turn up on Saturday to claim the three points. In the event we had to give them a goal to keep them in the game.

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Premier League fixtures announced 9 am, Weds 19 June. Season kicks-off Sat 17 August

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