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The Fall and Rise of Victor Anichebe

April 14, 2013
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The Fall and Rise of Victor Anichebe

A Partick Thistle player once took a bad knock to his head and was getting treatment, so the story goes, when the physio shouted over to manager John Lambie that the player was concussed, didn’t even know who he was and would clearly have to come off.  Lambie replied, “tell him he’s f*cking Pele and get him back on”. Sometimes it feels like Victor Anichebe is in a similar mental state to that hapless headbangee. I remember when I first heard about Victor Anichebe. He was seemingly inseparable from fellow Royal Blue hope James Vaughan. Somehow though, Anichebe was always the junior partner and I expected less of him. Whereas...

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60 Games That Shook Goodison: #16.The Golden Vision Levitates

April 2, 2012
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#16.Everton 1-0 Tottenham. 20th April 1963. – “Our biggest rival was Tottenham and thanks to the work of Jimmy Gabriel and Tony Kay, we slaughtered them at Goodison. It was a tremendous effort and I was thrilled to score the golden goal. I must admit that it was a pretty good header.” - Alex Young Everton came into this game level on points with Tottenham at the summit of the league table. The next six games would be a straight sprint for the title. Alex Young, on seventeen minutes, hung in the air as he headed in a Roy Vernon cross and won Everton this game. Young’s leap was...

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The Blue Union – Do You Only March When We’re Losing?

March 9, 2012
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In an interesting variation on “You only sing when you’re winning,” it seems that the Blue Union only marches when we’re losing. Earlier today The Blue Union released a statement saying that tomorrow’s planned “day of protest” has now been cancelled. They lay out the reasons for the cancellation in full, chief among them being this: Since that meeting however, David Moyes and the players have managed to effect a significant upturn in form that now offers us the outside chance of UEFA Europa League qualification via the Premiership and, perhaps more significantly, has taken us to a very winnable FA Cup quarter-final at home to Sunderland, with the...

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Classic Everton Video: FA Cup Semi Final 1995

February 21, 2012
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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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Superb Jags just gets better & better

October 25, 2010
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Superb Jags just gets better & better

Judging by the over-confident predictions coming across the blogosphere and from the twitterati you would have thought that Spurs only had to turn up on Saturday to claim the three points. In the event we had to give them a goal to keep them in the game.

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Moyes to ring changes for White Hart Lane

February 27, 2010
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Which Everton will turn up at White Hart Lane? The clueless one that surrendered so meekly in Lisbon or the one that comprehensively beat City, Chelsea and United. Having a near fully-fit squad brings its own problems for a manager; it is no longer simply a case of selecting your best eleven players, no longer good enough to rally outnumbered troops with a ‘backs-to-the-wall’ battle cry. A more subtle, thoughtful, dare we say ‘managerial’ approach is needed, one which draws on the strengths of all the squad. We are not suggesting that David Moyes suddenly transforms into the ‘Tinker Man‘, but we are saying that it is okay to...

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

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