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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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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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