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“History” and “Buying” the Title…

May 18, 2012
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“History” and “Buying” the Title…

There are few more annoying people on this planet than Ryan Seacrest. The American Idol host sports auto-tuned hair, a spray-on voice, and a cliched chin. Even his assorted platitudes sound botoxed and stiff. Seacrest is at his most irritating when he talks about history. “Ladies and Gentlemen,” booms the reality TV Bard. “Last night we had the most watched show in Idol history“. It’s the last word which grates. It could be changed for countless other terms and it wouldn’t even register on my radar. History is a powerful word. By using history Seacrest implies that American Idol has a long and storied background. It doesn’t, and that’s...

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This City no great shakes

May 9, 2011
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This City no great shakes

EVERTON 2 (Distin 65, Osman 72) – MANCHESTER CITY 1 (Yaya Toure 28). A second-half display rejuvenated by some timely tactical changes and ferocious vocal support from the Goodison faithful lifted Everton above and beyond an ultimately fragmented Manchester City on Saturday. The half-time changes which saw Phil Neville moved to right back in place of Tony Hibbert, Arteta shifted into a more central role and the introduction of Jermaine Beckford up front changed the balance of the game but it was Tim Cahill’s arrival, just a minute before Distin’s equalizer, that finally lit the blue touch-paper. It was clearly a big part of City’s game plan to get...

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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 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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Defending Wayne Rooney

October 22, 2010
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Defending Wayne Rooney

The reasons that Rooney wanted to leave cannot be crowbarred into a tiny Tweet, they cannot be reduced from a barrage of grievances into a one-inch punch. The worn old adage that form is temporary and class is permanent holds true in another sense for Rooney. No matter how well he does on the pitch, he's always reminded of where he came from.

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Everton & Aston Villa: 3 Step Guide to telling Man City “NO”

May 22, 2010
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Everton & Aston Villa: 3 Step Guide to telling Man City “NO”

Some goons over at the Fur Coat No Knickers lodgings in Manchester gave me some stick about claiming that illegal approaches smoothed over with lashings and lashings of filthy lucre was the Man City ideology. It patently is. The FC No Knickers ideology is that of its owners, to get them noticed and to get on the fast track to success. The Everton ideology is the exact opposite. With FC No Knickers sniffing around for fresh blood it looks like they may raid Aston Villa or Everton again this summer, and both Milner and Arteta are thought to be targets. I’m a little worried about Man City coming after...

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Man City: All Fur Coat No Knickers

March 26, 2010
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Man City: All Fur Coat No Knickers

  Our burgeoning feud with Man City has everything with clashes on the pitch, on the touchline, and in the director’s box – and long may it continue. To enrage their local rivals they plastered Carlitos’ face over a billboard. If putting Lescott’s image on the matchday programme was their petty attempt at another “Welcome to Manchester” it didn’t work on us. Neither did Mancini’s gallop over to Moyes’ technical area to fetch the ball, nor did City Chief Exec Garry “Gaffe” Cook’s alleged treatment of an Everton guest who joined in victorious Toffee chants… What we have here are two ideological opposites. The difference between Royal Blue and...

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