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Football Protests: Are We All Moaners At Heart?

February 29, 2012
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Football Protests: Are We All Moaners At Heart?

I’m interested in Premier League protests, and especially the battle between the board and protest groups at Everton. Tomorrow I’ll be blogging on the Kenwright Out “issue”, trying to separate fact from the factions, but today I thought I’d post some pictures and quotes I’ve found on t’internet. It doesn’t look like fans of other sides are too happy with their owners or managers either.  Are we all moaners at heart? (Look out for the corking “Abramovich Out!” banner below…) Manchester United Glazers Sir Alex Ferguson Glazers Arsenal Arsene Wenger “Save Arsenal FC. Kroenke out. Arsenal Football Club is in crisis.” Chelsea Abramovich & Ancelotti Phil Scolari Newcastle United Cockney...

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WHY EVERTON DODGED A BULLET WHEN WE MISSED OUT ON THE ABU DHABI GROUP

October 15, 2011
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In a recent interview with Christian Purslow, Bill Kenwright claimed that if we had moved to a new stadium and were a little bit more “in the right place at the right time” then the Abu Dhabi group may have bought us instead of Man City. This is a bullet dodged, partly through our board’s incompetence and inability to move stadium, but we should all be sighing with relief. Some don’t feel that way. Some think that the ones who bleat on about not wanting one of the world’s richest men in control of the Goodison train set are the morons. The argument is simple: money makes the football...

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Why we are all Arsenal supporters now

August 16, 2011
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Why we are all Arsenal supporters now

The ground just shifted. When even a ‘permanent’ member of the Premier League’s elite like Arsenal can’t hold onto their top players – when Arsene Wenger concedes that the financial firepower of Barcelona, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester United and City now sets them apart from other clubs – you know something significant just happened. Perhaps Cesc Fabregas finally moving to Barca and ending what has become an annual season-end saga isn’t a surprise – but the price is. £30m plus add-ons of £5m or so for one of the best midfielders in the world, who is young (24) and still had four years left on his contract appears close...

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ON SIGNING BARTON: Catastrophe or canny?

August 5, 2011
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ON SIGNING BARTON: Catastrophe or canny?

  CANNY Peter For a moment no names, let’s suspend comment on a reputation, put aside all opinion and prejudice. Let’s just focus on a footballer. He stands 5’ 11 tall and was born on 2nd September 1982 in Huyton. He had a tough childhood, his parents separated and he was brought up by his father and his grandmother. A gifted athlete he enjoyed team games and could have played rugby league, but football was always his favourite – his dad played for Northwich Victoria. A bright lad he left St Thomas Becket High School with 10 GCSEs. After spending time in Everton’s youth system and having a trial at...

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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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Head boy Cahill knows a trick or two

March 25, 2010
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MANCHESTER CITY 0 – EVERTON 2 (Cahill 33, Arteta 85) The beauty of Tim Cahill is that you can never, ever, write him off. Just when you think he is “jaded” or “tired” or “not the player he was” he bounces back and puts in a match winning shift as he did at Eastlands on Wednesday night. Not just scoring with a typical header, or setting up a second with a clever dummy, but contributing all over the park, with energy and vision. On the back foot for long periods Everton defended in depth, as a team, but it would be harsh not to single out Phil Jagielka, who kept...

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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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Tough City test for Everton

March 23, 2010
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Most observers have pinpointed the departure of Icelander Gretar Steinsson as the turning point in Saturday’s win over Bolton, though it was the arrival of Leon Osman, as a seventy sixth minute substitute, which finally sealed this one. Osman slotted right into Yakubu’s boots, playing as an out and out striker, and it was he who picked up Bilyaletdinov’s little prodded pass, took on and beat the man mountain that is Zat Knight, before teeing up Pienaar for the goal which killed off Coyle’s hopes. If, instead of Leon Osman, it had been Theo Walcott or Joe Cole, Sky TV would have replayed the goal a few dozen times...

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Lescott, Lescott, WHAT'S THE SCORE?

January 17, 2010
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Lescott, Lescott, WHAT'S THE SCORE?

EVERTON 2 (Pienaar 36, Saha pen 45+4) – MANCHESTER CITY 0 Probably the first piece of advice handed down from father to son, as soon as he shows the slightest interest in kicking a ball, is that `football is a team game’. That the Arabs who bought Manchester City, and who have paid hundreds of millions of pounds to assemble a group of individual players, were never told this in their nurseries or at the expensive private schools to which they were probably sent at an early age, is sad, but happily not our problem. I bet they can tell us a lot about falconry or horse breeding or...

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FELLAINI WEARS AN "I TOLD YOU SO" T-SHIRT

January 16, 2010
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FELLAINI WEARS AN "I TOLD YOU SO" T-SHIRT

We already know that Superman wears Tim Cahill pajamas and that God wears a “PIENAAR IS GREAT” t-shirt – but our afroed genius Marouane Fellaini may well be wearing an “I TOLD YOU SO!” t-shirt under his Everton kit. He was omnipresent today,  tendril legs getting hold of the ball countless times, and he oh so nearly scored against Citeh’s only decent player – Shay Given. Fellaini’s pirouette around the ever-annoying Bellamy was a sight to behold. He told us all he was a defensive midfielder, and he has been outrageously good recently. We love you Marouane!

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