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Anichebe growing into a fine player

January 3, 2013
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Anichebe growing into a fine player

NEWCASTLE UNITED 1 (Ameobi 2) – EVERTON 2 (Baines 44, Anichebe 59) While the headlines belonged to Leighton Baines and Victor Anichebe for their stunning, contrasting goals this victory was more than anything else the result of teamwork and resilience by thirteen men who refused to be beaten and demanded the points. Both teams have lengthy injury lists and David Moyes is still having to patch-up his defence by playing his best central defender, Phil Jagielka, at right-back while covering for the debilitating absences of Darron Gibson and Kevin Mirallas with Phil Neville and Steven Naismith respectively. Everton went into this game having failed to keep a clean sheet...

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Win inspired by excellence of Osman and Fellaini

November 12, 2012
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Win inspired by excellence of Osman and Fellaini

EVERTON 2 (Fellaini 76, Jelavic 79) – SUNDERLAND 1 (Johnson 45+1) The dissipation of the promise with which Martin O’Neill began his reign at the Stadium of Light can be dated from their defeat to Everton in last season’s FA Cup quarter final. That 2-0 win on Wearside was one of Everton’s finest performances of recent years and was one of 17 games between these two during the Moyes era – none of which have been won by Sunderland. Indeed such has been the Blues dominance in this fixture that Evertonians must relish the annual arrival of the Black Cats rather like my lunatic Jack Russell anticipates the postman....

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More bad luck for Everton as referees continue to cock-up

October 22, 2012
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More bad luck for Everton as referees continue to cock-up

QUEENS PARK RANGERS 1 (Baines og 2) – EVERTON 1 (Cesar og 33) For an academic trying to prove the veracity of that old footballing saw which has it that ‘luck tends to even itself out over the course of a season’ Everton might make an interesting study: A couple of weeks ago at Wigan referee Kevin Friend allowed Kone to register a goal which was clearly offside; against Newcastle errors by officialdom converted what should perhaps have been a 4-2 win into a 2-2 draw; here at Loftus Road a mistaken second yellow and consequent red card for Steven Pienaar, plus a penalty for a foul by Mbia...

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Everton need a watertight Johnny

October 10, 2012
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Everton need a watertight Johnny

WIGAN 2 (Kone 10, Di Santo 23) – EVERTON 2 (Jelavic 11, Baines pen 88) A few weeks ago at Villa Park with about twenty minutes to go Kevin Mirallas made his league debut as a substitute. Everton were comfortably ahead and were pushing for more when Seamus Coleman broke down the right and put in a lovely cross which Mirallas buried with a powerful header, it was correctly ruled offside, by about half-a-yard. On Saturday at Wigan after ten minutes the blonde-bleached head of Kone scored a goal which to our eyes had exactly the same degree of offsidedness, yet it stood, a mistake by the assistant referee....

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Two left feet win it for Everton

November 21, 2011
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EVERTON 2 (Jagielka 44, Baines pen 83) – WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 1 (Hunt pen 37) In the end it was all down to the slight, unassuming, modest figure of Leighton Baines, the man who possesses the most potent left foot seen in these parts since Kevin Sheedy was in his pomp. Just a few minutes after Everton, in the shape of the freshly minted Marouane Fellaini, conceded an unnecessary, but definite penalty, it was Baines with a whipped left footed free-kick who picked out England team-mate Phil Jagielka allowing him to power an unstoppable header past Hennessey for the vital pre-halftime equalizer. One feels that if Wolves had escaped to their changing...

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My Ultimate Everton XI

August 23, 2011
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Ed gives us his Ultimate Everton XI, and there are a few surprises amongst the more obvious names...

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Optimism

August 12, 2011
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When we didn’t play our goalkeeper in a US friendly they said they wouldn’t have played us if they had known he wasn’t playing. He is a star in the States. Our left back has been linked with Liverpool and Man City among others. He has a left foot last seen on Kevin Sheedy, is a potent attacker, a constant source of lip-smackingly delicious crosses,  and can take gorgeous free kicks to boot. He  has caught the eye of England coach Fabio Capello. He’s just 26. Our centre half is hard in the tackle, and positionally excellent. Another England international, Arsene Wenger would have him at Arsenal if he could prise...

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60 Evertonians: #22.Megan Durham

June 15, 2011
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60 Evertonians: #22.Megan Durham

Megan Durham BIO: Megan is a 24-year-old Yank who fell in love with the beautiful game at the tender age of seven. A newcomer to Everton, she’s helplessly become ingrained in the club over the past two years. She runs her own blog about her life as a soccer fan at www.pinkawaykit.org, and is a regular host of the US Soccer podcast The Girls in the Cheap Seats at girlsinthecheapseats.blogspot.com. Q1.Why Everton? I’ve thought about this a lot, and I’m not really sure what attracted me to Everton. There was just a point in 2009 when I decided that I was going to start following the Premier League and...

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Penalty king Baines needs to be pushy

May 2, 2011
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Penalty king Baines needs to be pushy

WIGAN ATHLETIC 1 (N’Zogbia 21) – EVERTON 1 (Baines 78 pen) David Moyes clearly stated a few weeks ago, in the midst of Everton’s best run of the season, that no one, no matter who they were, could expect to walk back into this team. Did events at Old Trafford, when the team valiantly defended, and came within a referees error of winning a point or three, change his mind, or did he, well, not really mean it as far as Mikel Arteta and Tim Cahill are concerned? For despite the team’s excellent form, it is now clear that these two have been rushed, with unseemly haste, back into the starting...

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Everton seize City built on sand

December 21, 2010
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Everton seize City built on sand

MANCHESTER CITY 1 (Jagielka og 72) – EVERTON 2 (Cahill 4, Baines 19) The Everton that David Moyes built put in a welcome return last night at Eastlands delivering a victory built on all the qualities we have come to expect, but which have been missing for large chunks of the season; commitment, incisiveness, hard work and unflagging belief. Forced to play the bulk of the second half with just ten men every member of the team covered, harried and defended as City pushed forward, but even when the opposition found a way through they were met by a goalkeeper in Tim Howard who was in no mood to...

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