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60 Games That Shook Goodison: #23. Everton 2-0 Fiorentina

April 11, 2012
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Everton 2-0 Fiorentina. [Aet] 12th March 2008.
Aggregate score 2-2

Tie decided on penalties: Everton 2 – Fiorentina 4

In the first leg of this European encounter Everton had slumped to a 2-0 defeat, but back at Goodison, they took apart Fiorentina in one of the best performances in David Moyes’ time as manager.

Exciting, dramatic, climactic, and cruel, this game saw Everton win 2-0, and take Fiorentina to penalties, only to lose. The twin pistons in this energetic and committed performance were Mikel Arteta and Andy Johnson. Arteta, with his Clark Kent hair and his Superman feet bristled with confidence, and Johnson was a tireless blue-collar worker; it should be no surprise that they scored Everton’s two goals.

The shootout was a depressing lesson in how unfair this sport can be. Reducing this battle from two legs to ten penalties was to reduce a 12 round fistfight to a one inch punch. Fiorentina, Italy’s fourth best team with a miserly defence, were completely outclassed, and at times reduced to a bickering, dishevelled unit until rescued from the requirement to play as a team by a penalty shoot-out. The performance though lives on, from the thrash metal pace, the hot blooded roars from the crowd, to the ice cool way Fiorentina stole victory in the shootout. It was a night where Everton were truly brilliant, and still managed to lose.

Sitting In The Suburbs Of Success

March 20, 2012
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suburbs-slums-future

How one fan's cup has gone from half full to smashed on the floor in sheer frustration...

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TEN YEARS OF MOYES: Moyes will get Everton relegated

March 15, 2012
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In celebration of Moyes’ ten years in charge of Everton, we’re dipping into the Dixie’s 60 archives to find some of our favourite moments. This post was originally published by me on Jan 16, 2010. Pele was woeful, Alex Young was worse, and Moyes will get Everton relegated Fan 1: What about last season? Fan 2: What about it? Fan 1: They were rubbish. They were f***ing rubbish. Fan 2: They weren’t that bad. Fan 1: They were f***ing rubbish last year. And they were f***ing rubbish the year before. And I don’t care if they are top of the League, they’ll be f***ing rubbish this year, too. And...

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Bright spark Drenthe needed to light blue touch-paper

December 14, 2011
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Bright spark Drenthe needed to light blue touch-paper

Saturday’s game against Norwich City marks the start of a succession of winnable games over Christmas and the New Year – Swansea City (h), Sunderland (a), West Brom (a), Bolton (h), culminating in the FA Cup 3rd round tie against Tamworth on 7th January. However talking of wins might be putting the cart before the horse because in order to win you first have to score and in their last two games Everton’s forwards have kept unwelcome clean sheets. Given his limited resources David Moyes has tried just about everything he reasonably could; starting Saha, starting Vellios, pushing Cahill further forward, trying Conor McAleny, even giving the hopelessly out of...

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NOT IN FRONT OF THE KIDS

October 9, 2011
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Some time has now passed since the Blue Union opened Pandora’s box and the completely expected truth about Everton’s finances was revealed. We are skint, not a revelation for anyone with even a passing interest in the Toffees. Nevertheless, it was with clenched teeth and furled fists that I read about our club in the national papers – it’s always annoying to be told about your club. To be told that Ross Barkley’s good, about a year after we all new. To be told that we aren’t the force we used to be, when we’ve been simmering with discontent for years about that very fact. And now, in what has to be...

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TOR’S RANT: Points mean prizes

September 20, 2011
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Mrs._Crabtree

I was very lucky to be at Goodison Park on Saturday to see Everton gain 3 points. I couldn’t believe the amount of people on the train and on twitter complaining that it was a “shit game”. Perhaps it was but I am not ashamed to say I don’t care how we play as long as we WIN!!! I wouldn’t care if we played the most boring football in the history of the sport and every goal we scored was off the opposition defenders back sides, as long as we win!! Money and European football is the prize for winning consistently. I don’t agree that is was a “shit game”...

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Osman turns in striking performance & Vellios demands a start

September 12, 2011
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Osman turns in striking performance & Vellios demands a start

EVERTON 2 (Osman 19, Baines 69 pen) – ASTON VILLA 2 (Petrov 63, Agbonlahor 83). IF you read some of the guff which fills the back pages of the newspapers and ponder the long-winded, repetitive drivel, which is churned out by certain web-sites masquerading as investigative journalism you would have come to Goodison on Saturday fully expecting to witness a mutinous crowd, the ritual decapitation of Bill Kenwright and an outclassed team devoid of motivation, drive and talent. What actually came to pass will have come as a huge disappointment to the reporters who packed the press box. The protest march did materialize, but the team, brimming with youngsters...

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Beckford scripts stunning end to season

May 23, 2011
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Beckford scripts stunning end to season

EVERTON 1 (Beckford 74) – CHELSEA 0 When Seamus Coleman trudged off the pitch after an hour to a standing ovation, having been shown a red card, the only Evertonian in the stadium not to applaud the young Irishman was David Moyes. He need not have worried the sending off merely galvanized his team to even greater efforts and ignited the crowd; Goodison smelling injustice and bearing a grievance is a fearsome place. From the moment Peter Walton reduced Everton to ten men there was only one winner and it was one of the finest solo goals of this, or any other era, which settled the game. Despite dominating...

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MOYES, KENWRIGHT, AND THE BLAME GAME

February 2, 2011
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MOYES, KENWRIGHT, AND THE BLAME GAME

There’s an argument wafting around the United States that is centred on a lawsuit against McDonald’s and their Happy Meals. One outraged mother is suing the fast food chain because Happy Meals made her children overweight. Shrugging off her parental responsibilities, the mother claims that McDonald’s and specifically their Happy Meals, is a dietary siren luring her young children to shipwreck; making them obese. Many are shocked by the fact that this mother , rather than exerting influence over her kids, is blaming McDonald’s totally. The case, I’m sure you’ll agree is open and shut. Leap over the Atlantic to our Premier League and managers, like McDonald’s, are totally...

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TRYING TO SEPARATE THE TRUTH FROM THE LIES

February 1, 2011
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TRYING TO SEPARATE THE TRUTH FROM THE LIES

There’s a stiff Arctic wind blowing over Goodison Park. Everton are the Premier League’s Inuits, a subsistence football club on the razor’s edge of survival. Nothing has changed for years. Now though, there are murmurs of discontent. People talking about “protests” at games, people at the end of their tether, emails from “insiders” going around. I can’t help feeling that because we weren’t part of yesterday’s transfer jamboree fans are jealous because our closest neighbours had a transfer hurricane come through Anfield. Because of  that some think it is time to call for Kenwright’s head. Jealousy is an irrational thing. In pre-season some of us with bloated dreams were...

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