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Back to back wins as Ossie fills Felli’s boots to perfection

December 27, 2012
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Back to back wins as Ossie fills Felli’s boots to perfection

EVERTON 2 (Osman 52, Jagielka 77) – WIGAN ATHLETIC 1 (Kone 82) Everton continue to hold their place in the pack of Champions League hopefuls, after stretching their unbeaten run to a seventh game with this narrow win. In the aftermath of the game the media went into overdrive emphasizing how “things might have been different had Lee Mason awarded a penalty after Maloney tumbled over Leon Osman’s outstretched leg”….well….actually, the answer is that if Mason had disallowed Koné’s strike for his blatant handball in the Keystone Cops episode which led to Wigan’s goal ‘things’ wouldn’t actually have been any different, even if he had awarded a spot kick and...

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Inept referee steals limelight from Leon

December 23, 2012
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Inept referee steals limelight from Leon

WEST HAM UNITED 1 (Cole 14) – EVERTON 2 (Anichebe 64, Pienaar 73) These three precious points came thanks to an excellent team performance and a fine individual display from Leon Osman. Interesting that in a game which had David Moyes scrambling to counter West Ham’s perceived height advantage it was one of the shortest men on the pitch who should exert so much influence. His disallowed headed goal, his close control which enabled him to set up the winner and his flexibility to excel in whatever role is asked of him; here is a player who despite being the wrong side of thirty and growing increasingly grizzled is...

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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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Suddenly everyone is talking about Kevin

August 30, 2012
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Suddenly everyone is talking about Kevin

EVERTON 5 (Mirallas 16, 29, Osman 22, Anichebe 35, Gueye 67) – LEYTON ORIENT 0 The Toffees maintained their impressive start to the season with a clinical dismissal of their visitors from East London at Goodison last night. David Moyes rested Tim Howard, Marouane Fellaini, Nikica Jelavic, Steven Pienaar and Sylvain Distin, but still picked a strong starting eleven, and used the opportunity to give Kevin Mirallas his full debut, which he marked with two goals and two assists in this rout of League One side Leyton Orient. Such was Everton’s dominance that the tie was effectively over inside 25 minutes. With Saturday’s Premier League encounter at the Hawthorns...

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Albion v Everton: Scharner out to bag another Toffee

December 30, 2011
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Albion v Everton: Scharner out to bag another Toffee

As someone said earlier this week, “West Brom might have held City to a goal-less draw and might play some nice stuff, but they are hardly Barcelona”….indeed, however this is still the team which took six points off Everton last season and in the process scored five and conceded one and against whom two players were red carded; Arteta at Goodison and Bilyaletdinov at the Hawthorns. They are also the club, lest no one forget, who beat hot favourites Everton 1-0 in the 1968 FA Cup final thanks to that Jeff Astle extra-time winner. They are then, in best nose-picking parlance, a bogey team. Now let’s discuss the estimable...

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Clock ticking for Saha & Cahill

December 23, 2011
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Clock ticking for Saha & Cahill

Despite all the negative comment, much of it reminiscent of the refrain “Doomed, we’re all doomed” from the gloomy Private Frazer in Dad’s Army, Everton embark on their customary Christmas travels eleventh in the league, better than the fourteenth of last season and the fifteenth of the season before. And there are reasons to be optimistic: Royston Drenthe just gets better and better; Leon Osman and Marouane Fellaini are bang in form; defensively the partnership of Phil Jagielka and Johnny Heitinga is bedding-down; Tony Hibbert, as usual the butt of much vitriolic criticism, is playing some of the best football of his career; running-man Leighton Baines keeps on bombing down the...

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Arteta & Osman; diminutive duo to get Blues back on track?

April 29, 2011
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Arteta & Osman; diminutive duo to get Blues back on track?

Another short coach trip across Lancashire on Saturday takes Everton to relegation threatened Wigan, who were soundly beaten 4-2 at Sunderland last weekend. The Latics have just two problems; a porous defence and impotent attack. They have not kept a clean sheet in seventeen matches and have conceded four or more goals on no less than eleven occasions over the last two seasons, while averaging exactly a goal a game - with Birmingham, the worst scoring record in the division. Manager Roberto Martinez tempted fate when he said, ten weeks ago, that Wigan had finally “clicked as a team” a comment which he might now regret since, in their last seven matches,...

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Attacking Leon Osman

April 18, 2011
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Attacking Leon Osman

In the past few games Leon Osman has been wonderful. He has been the creative fulcrum in a team shorn of stars. That this Everton, a pruned squad facing the business end of the season, has done better than the superstars who started our season and flattered to decieve opens up a lot of questions. Perhaps those worried about our lack of transfer funds, and potential summer sales, should cast their minds back to 2004-05 when we finished 4th, after selling Wayne Rooney the previous summer and Thomas Gravesen half way through the campaign. Despite excelling in a weakened side, finally playing in the position that is best for...

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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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Osman & Saha start against City

March 24, 2010
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Leon Osman has been drafted into midfield and top scorer Louis Saha will lead the line at Eastlands tonight, with Yakubu and Bilyaletdinov dropping to the bench. The full starting XI (4-1-4-1): Howard; Neville (C), Jagielka, Distin, Baines; Heitinga; Pienaar, Osman, Arteta, Cahill; Saha. Substitutes: Nash, Yobo, Hibbert, Yakubu, Bilyaletdinov, Rodwell, Gosling

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Premier League fixtures announced 9 am, Weds 19 June. Season kicks-off Sat 17 August

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