Landon Donovan needs to leave the US to further the beautiful game in his country. This may sound counter intuitive but even as his country rides on a post-World Cup high, soccer still only attracts high numbers of fans through TV – and even then it is watching European Leagues – and especially the Premier League –...
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Top Podcast! Followtonians Podcasts are a brilliant tool, especially for a club with a large, passionate fan base like us. There also very useful for the listener too, as you can fling a podcast onto your MP3 player with the same ease that previous generations put a kettle on. This particular podcast – featuring...
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   He’s done well to come this far considering the state of his foot this time last year. Seamus Coleman’s blistered foot was such an infected mess that it was considered career threatening by Everton’s medical staff. Having glistened in both his handful of appearances for Everton and his part in Blackpool’s promotion charge,...
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The third-fourth World Cup playoff between Uruguay and Germany was a good game with both teams bouncing from one end of the field to the other – the only thing that marred the game was the consistent booing of Luis Suarez. The Uruguayan forward has been accused in some quarters of being a cheat for...
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World Cup 2010: USA https://twitter.com/TimHoward2010 “Detroit has a nice smile, it’s just that some of her teeth are missing.”   Detroit’s slump comes in more varieties than Heinz Ketchup. She’s an ugly one industry town. Her ex-Mayor is in jail for stealing from her, and worse still a documentary ran recently that gave her...
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Now is the summer of our discontent. Summer is an atrocious time to be an Evertonian. Nails are bitten to the quick, nights are sleepless, and the fevered clamour amongst the gutter press for a full-scale Everton exodus reaches unbearable levels. With Pienaar still flirting with our offer, Arteta a possibility to leave, and...
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World Cup 2010: England http://twitter.com/dixiessixty Germany 4-1 England. It was an escape from victory not Escape To Victory, a bust rather than Dambusters.   And soon after a stampede of familiar moans charged across the horizon:     “It was because we have a foreign manager” (forgetting how the last English manager performed) “They...
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David Moyes has continued his strategy of scouting and buying young, promising, but undeveloped, footballers with the acquisition of France U-21 striker Magaye Gueye from RC Strasburg for a fee in the region of £1 mln. The 19-year old was born in the same Paris suburbs that produced the ‘golden crop’ of Louis Saha,...
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If the media reports are correct and Mikel Arteta and his wife Lorena want to return to be closer to their extended family in San Sebastian after discovering that their one year old son Gabriel is partially sighted, then the Everton hierarchy can do only one thing; allow him to leave with their best...
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The return of Gareth Barry to the England midfield is being hailed by the media as though it were the second coming. It is to be hoped that he can indeed deliver a resurrection of English spirits and confidence. What is certain is that he will unshackle the imperious Steven Gerrard and change the balance...
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