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My Love Affair With The Slide Tackle

January 19, 2012
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My football skills have always been of the lowbrow variety. I eschew skill and control for pace and – my ultimate get out of jail free card – the slide tackle. This weekend, blessed with a new pair of football boots, I skipped over to my favourite football pasture and proceeded to horrify all my friends. My tackling, once something that could get me out of scrapes, now appalled everyone. Every time I slid in, I got the ball. Occasionally I took the man too, but when I  went in – two-footed or not – the howls were deafening. This just made me want to slide in more, as...

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Dixie’s 60 Match Report: Aston Villa 1-0 Everton

August 30, 2010
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Dixie’s 60 Match Report: Aston Villa 1-0 Everton

Move over Thom Yorke, stand aside Morrissey, sit down Neil Warnock: for the next few days – at the very least until our next game – Evertonians will assume the mantle of England’s Laureate Moaners. Nothing frustrates like playing a team off the park, and getting nothing – and that’s exactly what happened on Sunday. Our game against Aston Villa was a sight to behold. Slick passing, huge possession figures, but not a single goal. One mis-swiped clearance from Marouane Fellaini was all it took for Villa to take possession and score a classic Sod’s Law Goal, and the rest of the game they sat back. If the half-way...

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Entire Everton Squad To Leave

June 18, 2010
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At least that’s what the press would have us believe. I find it ridiculous that journos on TV and in newspapers are constantly linking Everton players with a move away from the club, it’s as if their shallow paddling pool minds can’t fathom good players playing for Everton. The rote line is similar for every player, and it goes something like this: “Everton are a good club, but for X to really get success he has to move on.” This summer, the transfer tales have reached Pinocchio levels, with a huge slice of our squad as well as our manager being linked away. If all these players are good enough for a...

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“Good News”: Jack Rodwell signs contract.

May 21, 2010
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 Evertonians woke today to some cryptic information from the Times’ Ollie Kay on Twitter: Otherwise engaged today. Everton fans might want to look out for some good news later. #EFC  A bit of digging around journo’s Twitter accounts reveals that the “good news” is Jack Rodwell, who has signed a new contract with us. Daniel Taylor at the Guardian tweets: gd news 4 #Everton but let’s not kid ourselves – Jack Rodwell wouldn’t B signing new contract if genuine interest from #mufc  Another player signed up, next up…Mikky Arteta…

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Everton must drive home advantage against Hammers

April 2, 2010
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With three straight clean sheets, seven successive home wins and facing a team who have gone fifteen games since they won away, this, many Evertonians will tell you, is a banana skin waiting to be slipped on. Everton appear to reserve their best for the toughest opponents – United, Chelsea, Liverpool, City at home, Arsenal, Chelsea, City away – and tend to be more troubled by humbler opposition, when perhaps the adrenal rush is more subdued. Like their failure to close out Birmingham when 2-0 up, or play out a draw to protect a fragile 2-1 aggregate lead at Sporting Lisbon, or find the single goal that would have...

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Dixie's Daily 31.3.2010 Rodwell to sign new contract

March 31, 2010
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Dixie's Daily 31.3.2010 Rodwell to sign new contract

Jack Rodwell - the new Gerrard/ Rio/ Beckenbauer/ Lothar Matthaus – WILL sign a new contract with Everton, meaning that the host of clubs sniffing around him will have to go and do one. According to the Daily Mirror : ”Everton starlet Jack Rodwell is ready to sign a bumper new £25,000-a-week deal – and disappoint Chelsea and Manchester United. England Under-21 ace Rodwell is close to agreeing terms that will see him stay at Goodison Park for the next four-and-a-half seasons.” Jolly good. Everton drew 0-0 with Man City in last nights reserve game – see match report. Wayne Rooney, the blue genius who ran off to Manchester, injured his ankle in Man...

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Everton out of luck but in the mix

March 29, 2010
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WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 0 – EVERTON 0 Alan Ball once humorously and presciently observed, “I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.” And of course luck does tend to even itself out over a season; witness Drogba’s header rebounding off the back of Saha’s head to give Everton a share of the points at Stamford Bridge. So the wailing and gnashing of teeth which has followed the game at Molineux should be tempered by the knowledge that although clear scoring opportunities were missed – notably by Osman, Saha and Gosling – at least chances were created, and created without Arteta, Everton’s most inventive, progressive, player....

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For Everton: maximum points at Molineux a must

March 26, 2010
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For Everton: maximum points at Molineux a must

Both teams will start this game feeling good about themselves – Wolves on the back of their 3-1 win at Upton Park, which all but secured their Premier League status; Everton following their fine win at Eastlands. The highlight of the season so far for Wolves must be completing the double over Spurs and they come into this fixture unbeaten in their last three outings. Republic of Ireland striker Kevin Doyle, signed for a club record fee from Reading in the summer, is their top scorer with 7 goals, central defender Jody Craddock is their second highest with 5. Mick McCarthy has settled on a trusty 4-5-1 formation which...

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Head boy Cahill knows a trick or two

March 25, 2010
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MANCHESTER CITY 0 – EVERTON 2 (Cahill 33, Arteta 85) The beauty of Tim Cahill is that you can never, ever, write him off. Just when you think he is “jaded” or “tired” or “not the player he was” he bounces back and puts in a match winning shift as he did at Eastlands on Wednesday night. Not just scoring with a typical header, or setting up a second with a clever dummy, but contributing all over the park, with energy and vision. On the back foot for long periods Everton defended in depth, as a team, but it would be harsh not to single out Phil Jagielka, who kept...

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Now Everton, reproduce this form – again and again and again!

February 23, 2010
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EVERTON 3 (Bilyaletdinov 18, Gosling 76, Rodwell 90) – MANCHESTER UNITED 1 (Berbatov 16) Everton are developing a handy technique for slaying the top teams; start slowly, size them up, even allow them to land a blow, then come on strong and hit them hard with a combination of punches. Making light of the absence of Fellaini and Cahill the Blues showed that they are capable of overcoming any opposition with their potent mix of team spirit, work ethic and obdurate defending, allied to flair and skill in key areas of the pitch. Osman was, yet again, quite magnificent, on this form a call-up to the England squad cannot be far...

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