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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   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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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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Tony Hibbert – Some Managers Do Have ‘Em OR How I learned to stop worrying and love our right back. Take a sprig of Baldrick, just a dash of Eminem, throw in some David Burroughs, Marc Hottiger, and Earl Barrett, as well as a nervous field rodent and a shoe. You have both a...
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 Why we should’t be too upset about losing Pienaar. Rob Gordon: I will now sell five copies  of “The Three EPs” by The Beta Band. Dick: Go for it. Beta Band Customer: Who is this? … Rob Gordon from High Fidelity reminds me of David Moyes from Goodison Park. Our...
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The Premier League’s ecosystem took a big hit yesterday with news that Cesc Fabregas will be leaving Arsenal and heading back to Barcelona. The first I heard of this was when Oliver Kay gave his opinion on Twitter saying: “If, as G Balague implies, Barca feel Arsenal “owe” them after using legal loophole to sign...
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         The miserable news about Dan Gosling is that he won’t be back until Christmas. This is a blow; whilst injuries to Arteta and Jagielka hurt the current side immeasurably, Gosling’s injury is in some ways more painful.    We know what Jagielka and Arteta are capable of, but haven’t yet seen Gosling...
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So Landon Donovan, our footballing pen pal, has returned to LA. The Home Depot Center in Los Angeles – a distant football colony – with Tom Cruise watching and David Beckham hobbling must be a far cry from the Old Lady Goodison Park. A move back to Everton is possible, and we should push...
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It started in the smog filled queue of cars outside the Taco Bell drive thru somewhere in suburban Detroit – an area as flat and grey as a politburo suit. My mum was over visiting and she’d been nursing a chip on her shoulder about the US for decades. After rattling off a list...
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