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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 – 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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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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