NB.There is little doubt I’m barking up the wrong tree here. I’m just miffed that after a nice win I couldn’t read two different match reports in two of the country’s biggest papers. They were both using the same agency copy. A beautiful 2-0 win for Everton away to Swansea and the blue half of Merseyside is smacking its lips waiting for Match of The Day. Whenever we win I hunt down match reports wherever I can find them. Today though it appears the Guardian & Times reporters were too lazy to flex their own creative muscles and just copied each other’s notes. Perhaps I missed something but Mr...

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A disenchanted, depressed or just plain cynical Evertonian might be tempted to suggest that their run of ‘bad luck’ amounts to some sort of curse. Legitimate goals ruled offside, opposition keepers pulling off Banks-lite point-blank saves, a fixture pile-up; following early season freakish Heitinga own-goals, the Rodwell red card that never was, stone-wall penalties waved away – it’s all becoming a bit Sandy Brown. Dixies60 is beginning to wonder if Everton have displeased the gods. What better way to throw off all this negative dross than by hammering Swansea – media anointed exponents of ‘beautiful’ football, supposed masters of the passing game.   Given recent results we suspect David...

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