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Donovan departure + crocked Coleman = Barkley return?

February 13, 2012
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Donovan departure + crocked Coleman = Barkley return?

EVERTON 2 (Pienaar 5, Stracqualursi 71) – CHELSEA 0 WITH the twin peaks of Chelsea and Manchester City conquered 3-0 on aggregate the burning question is; can this form be carried forward into the FA Cup, can Championship Blackpool be similarly swept aside and a quarter-final place secured? If Everton approach that encounter with the same hunger and cold-eyed determination shown in their last two home games there can only be one winner. This new-found confidence and momentum must be sustained and channelled into ensuring that meaningful progress is made in the only competition that remains open to the Toffees this season. Up until two weeks ago Leighton Baines was playing...

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Welcome back Landon

December 16, 2011
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Yesterday was a good news day for Everton. Landon Donovan will be returning to Goodison Park. His loan will start in January (possibly against Bolton on the 4th) and his last game will be on February 25th, the Merseyside derby. With the drumbeat of Internet rumours growing about a possible loan deal for Pienaar too, Moyes will suddenly have quite a few options at his disposal. Our Scottish manager has got quite a bit of stick for being too defensive; and for being stubbornly obsessed with 4-5-1. This isn’t the case. In a number of games Moyes has flirted with 4-2-3-1 – a fluid and believe it or not...

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Desert Island Kicks: Jason Davis

June 17, 2011
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Desert Island Kicks: Jason Davis

Desert Island Kicks “Desert Island Kicks” is a pale imitation of the legendary “Desert Island Discs” format. I’m looking to nab answers from footie fans from all corners of the globe and all walks of life. You’re stranded on a desert island, what footballing memories would you take with you? I want you to pick a game, shirt, goal, player and piece of turf from a stadium to take with you to a desert island, oh and you’re allowed one luxury too. Jason Davis is a busy man. He’s the editor of Match Fit USA, host of The American Soccer Show , and writer at KCKRS. You can also find...

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USA 2-0 Canada. Tim Howard stars

June 9, 2011
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USA 2-0 Canada. Tim Howard stars

It was very strange, sitting at home waiting to go to a football match in Detroit. The Motor City is many things, but a soccer city it ain’t. Since the World Cup in 1994 only two big football games have been played in south east Michigan. The first was last year, in the cavernous Pontiac Silverdome – a pretty boring end of season friendly between AC Milan and Panathinaikos. This game was a bit higher on the excitement stakes. A competitive Gold Cup game between US and Canada and a chance to see two Evertonians in the flesh; neither disappointed. Ford Field Donovan was constantly zipping around, never fully...

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Landon Donovan: Why He Had To Say NO

December 22, 2010
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Landon Donovan: Why He Had To Say NO

The players and staff at Everton took about 60 seconds of his debut to understand his value. He’s the kingpin of the American team, the closest thing his country have to a big soccer star, yet he has no ego. That was, perhaps, the biggest thing that struck you about him. You noticed it when he walked into the dressing room and you noticed it after about a minute of his first game for us, away to Arsenal. He was playing on our right. The ball got knocked down the line, Gael Clichy set off on the run and he turned and tracked Clichy, step for step, for 70...

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Everton and the USA: A match made in heaven.

July 22, 2010
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Everton and the USA: A match made in heaven.

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 – rather than Major League Soccer. Donovan then, could become more of a household name in the States by playing abroad rather than staying in Los Angeles. It’s obvious that we still pull at the little man’s heart strings – even his Twitter page still contains a profile picture of him in his #9 Everton shirt. Love...

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Tim Howard and Landon Donovan make it, big time!

June 2, 2010
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Tim Howard and Landon Donovan make it, big time!

To most Brits, even the most knowledgeable sports addict, the weekly American magazine ‘Sports Illustrated’ is a bit of an unknown, rather like the Wall Street Journal, a baseball ‘triple-play’ – or that the Midwest’s favourite hamburger is a White Castle ‘Slider’ and most assuredly not a ‘Big Mac’. Sports Illustrated has a readership to die for; with 3 million subscribers every edition is read by 23 million people, 19% of all red blooded adult American males turn its pages every week. Its ‘Sportsman of the Year’ award carries huge kudos; Tiger Woods has won it twice (1996 & 2000), Brits have won it twice – Roger Bannister in...

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Everton's American returns from the light to darkness

March 23, 2010
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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 for it as much as we can. Whereas Beckham was brought to the US as a footballing missionary to garner attention for MLS, exporting Donovan will focus foreign eyes on Merseyside. We shouldn’t underestimate just how much of a star we have on our hands either; when Everton signed Lie Tie and Li Weifeng millions...

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'New' Everton on steep learning curve

March 15, 2010
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BIRMINGHAM CITY 2 (Jerome 25, Gardner 50) – EVERTON 2 (Anichebe 18, Yakubu 21) That Everton led by two goals to nil after 21 minutes and yet failed to secure all three points will mean that the team coach was very quiet on its way back up the M6 on Saturday evening. Well taken goals by Victor Anichebe and Yakubu, the second set up by man of the match Steven Pienaar, should have provided the platform for a victory, but a soft goal by Jerome got Birmingham back into contention before half-time and then Gardner evened things up shortly after the break. We like this new, attack-minded, team line-up...

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Landon Donovan: A Superior American

February 23, 2010
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Landon Donovan: A Superior American

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 of problems that she had with Detroit – and the US in general – she wrapped her argument off with a final claim: “They think they are so superior at everything.” That sentence uttered by my mum, seeps into the cracks that cover the beautiful game. It’s thought by Moyes and his boys as they...

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