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2007-2008

Everton 2-0 Fiorenina: Light the blue touch-paper; we are going to the stars!

March 13, 2008
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TOFFEES 2 – LA VIOLA 0 Aggregate score 2-2 Tie decided on penalties: Everton 2 – Fiorentina 4 Sport has been defined as “a pleasant pastime; amusement; diversion” and professional sport clearly extends into the entertainment industry. Few inside Goodison last night could desribe events as ‘pleasant’ but for the millions of neutrals watching on TV this match was entertainment of the highest quality. Exciting, dramatic, climactic, and cruel, this game had it all; the sort of content that makes media executives drool. For the committed Evertonian it was heartbreaking, but to be part of it, to be at Goodison last night was uplifting. Make no mistake this...

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Everton put to the sword by Junior Gunners

December 30, 2007
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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? I was left contemplating that after a nasty 1-4 home defeat to Arsenal with all the kick in the teeth trimmings. Does Eduardo’s handball exist (despite the confirming howls of disgust from the Goodison crowd) if the ref and his linesmen don’t see it? Is Arteta’s non-violent hand flail all the more real and reprehensible to ref Martin Atkinson because it happened two feet away?… The irony won’t be lost on Moyes that in the week that he presented the FA with a video dossier of offside inconsistencies against...

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Manchester United 2-1 Everton – Why I forgive Steven Pienaar

December 23, 2007
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So a game which looked to be going totally according to plan, bellyflopped at the last minute when Steven Pienaar inexplicably felled Ryan Giggs with mere minutes remaining. Ronaldo despatched the penalty with aplomb, naturally; and what looked like the blueprint for how to take on Man Utd at their place dissolved into heartbreak. Steven Pienaar’s tackle was idiotic, and it took away from a good performance – but I forgave him in a heartbeat. It is exactly the same with my beloved Jack-Russel; what can you say to him when he shits on the carpet?

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Everton's Tim Cahill Returns To Give Chelsea EXACTLY What They Deserve.

November 14, 2007
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Everton's Tim Cahill Returns To Give Chelsea EXACTLY What They Deserve.

Mystical types call it the Saturn Return – and most football fans will call it utter tripe. It takes Saturn about 29 years to complete one full orbit of the Sun and return to the exact position it was in when you were born. And when Saturn returns, a cosmic food blender of positives and negatives falls upon your shoulders. The aforementioned mystic types, therefore, reckon that between the ages of 27 and 30 some funky bizarre stuff happens to us. The Saturn Return is most famously associated with musicians, and in particular The 27 Club, an unsettlingly large group of musicians who died at the age of 27....

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Chelsea 1-1 Everton — Toffees Snatch A Draw Against Chelsea Thanks To Cahill.

November 11, 2007
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Chelsea 1-1 Everton – Acrobatic ‘Roo saves Everton! Everton approached this game having recorded victories in each of their last five calendar entries. With Arteta out injured, Moyes moved Phil Neville up to midfield and brought in Hibbert at right back, a move that always provokes queasy unease. Perhaps Gravesen should have started in Arteta’s place – to put Phil Neville in Our tater’s place is surely switching silk with sandpaper. As it was, a cavalcade of Chelsea chances came in the first half and they were all scuffed, missed, or saved. Everton started the second half with a much more positive shape, bringing on McFadden and Anichebe for...

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Everton 3-1 Birmingham – Keep On Scoring Yakubu You Idiot Savant!

November 5, 2007
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Everton’s seemingly comfortable 3-1 victory over Birmingham belies the fact that Kapo pulled Steve Bruce’s men level only ten minutes from time. A draw would have been a disappointment for the Toffees, but late goals from Lee Carsley and James Vaughan pushed them towards the three points. It is now four wins in a row for Everton in all competitions and all of a sudden the heartburn of losing to Liverpool seems to have eased. Everton now have the triumvirate of Tim Cahill, Thomas Gravesen, and Carsley fully fit – the potent combination that drove them to fourth place and into Europe. The fact that the squad has since...

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Everton 3-1 Larissa – Toffees Welcome Cahill Home.

October 26, 2007
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Everton 3-1 Larissa – Toffees Welcome Cahill Home.

David Moyes’ disgust with derby referee Mark Clattenberg is so all consuming that you wouldn’t put it past the Scot to take out television adverts warning against the biased ref. Before yesterday’s game Moyes used his team’s UEFA cup press conference to slate Clattenberg, and then even added some extra bile into his programme notes about the referee. Everton’s 3-1 win against Larissa then, couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. This game had everything you would expect from the unpredictable and unsettled mix that is the Everton squad. Arteta was as always fabulous, playing football in a similar manner to Napoleon playing Risk, and Lescott (although caught...

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Everton remain half-formed whilst Liverpool are at a crossroads.

October 20, 2007
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Whilst Everton have Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky as a celeb-fan, Liverpool had Joe Louis – the tough Detroiter with his piston like fists as a former ‘player’ on their books. During WW2 Louis came to Liverpool as a morale boost for the GI’s assigned to England and during a press conference he ‘signed’ for Liverpool. These teams reflect their two mascots – whereas Everton’s is a fantasy figure, always the underdog – Liverpool’s is a figure that although legendary is grounded in real life. In this 206th league match up between these two sides Liverpool won in a game that was inflated with hype before and punctured with the opposite...

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Everton 1-2 Liverpool – Finally Time For Hibbert To Go?

October 20, 2007
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The only thing that today’s referre Mark Clattenberg and I can agree about is that Tony Hibbert, so poor this season, doesn’t deserve to be on the Goodison Park pitch. Clattenberg sent off Hibbert for his foul on Gerrard, the subsequent penalty being despatched by Kuyt, who got another in the last minute, from yet another penalty – this time conceded by Phil Neville – caught with his hands in the biscuit tin – diving to save a certain Liverpool goal. And the game started off so well, Hyppia scoring a wonder own-goal which we all thought would exorcise the ghost of Sandy Brown – alas , it wasn’t...

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Sheffield Wednesday – Everton – TEAM NEWS

September 26, 2007
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With the main issue being will the Yak play, and secondly, will he listlessly meander around the pitch like a jet lagged tourist in a crowded airport, our sneaky Dutch winger Andy Van Der Meyde has slipped back into the squad with little fuss. The Liverpool Echo is reporting that recalcitrant wide boy Van Der Meyde will be in the squad “for the first time since he was heavily reprimanded for missing a training session after the Blues’ opening day win over Wigan Athletic.” In other news Alan Stubbs will probably replace the injured Joseph Yobo, while Mikel Arteta (ankle) is doubtful, while Stefan Wessels should continue in goal...

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