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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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TEN YEARS OF MOYES: The Day Everton Lost Victor Anichebe

March 12, 2012
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TEN YEARS OF MOYES: The Day Everton Lost Victor Anichebe

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 Dec 14, 2010. It’s amazing what happens when things are taken out of context The excruciating thing is that they both did exactly the same strange neck dance. Their actions before were different, the games themselves were utterly different, but the spasmodic neck move was the same. In both cases it was a dance borne from emotion shaved to the bone, they both looked like fish, slapping about on the deck, writhing for oxygen. For a split...

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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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The Day Everton Lost Victor Anichebe

December 14, 2010
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The Day Everton Lost Victor Anichebe

It’s amazing what happens when things are taken out of context The excruciating thing is that they both did exactly the same strange neck dance. Their actions before were different, the games themselves were utterly different, but the spasmodic neck move was the same. In both cases it was a dance borne from emotion shaved to the bone, they both looked like fish, slapping about on the deck, writhing for oxygen. For a split second Michael Thomas and Victor Anichebe share the same space, and then go their separate ways. Watching Michael Thomas’ goal is always amazing. Real football has the ability to make Roy of the Rovers a...

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Everton's Triumvirate Of Injured Young Talent

April 1, 2010
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Everton's Triumvirate Of Injured Young Talent

         The miserable news about Dan Gosling is that he won’t be back until Christmas. This is a blow; whilst injuries to Arteta and Jagielka hurt the current side immeasurably, Gosling’s injury is in some ways more painful.    We know what Jagielka and Arteta are capable of, but haven’t yet seen Gosling at his peak. We have witnessed first hand how injuries can cauterize a career about to jump into full flow; James Vaughan’s cruel catalogue of knee problems have kept him off the score sheet and have clipped his wings. A serious cruciate problem at such a young age – just 20 years old – is...

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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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'New' Everton on steep learning curve

March 15, 2010
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BIRMINGHAM CITY 2 (Jerome 25, Gardner 50) – EVERTON 2 (Anichebe 18, Yakubu 21) That Everton led by two goals to nil after 21 minutes and yet failed to secure all three points will mean that the team coach was very quiet on its way back up the M6 on Saturday evening. Well taken goals by Victor Anichebe and Yakubu, the second set up by man of the match Steven Pienaar, should have provided the platform for a victory, but a soft goal by Jerome got Birmingham back into contention before half-time and then Gardner evened things up shortly after the break. We like this new, attack-minded, team line-up...

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Everton v Sunderland: an early chance to banish Cup blues

January 26, 2010
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A bad 45 minutes against Birmingham does not destroy a season, nor does it indicate “attitude problems” as some are saying. Where were these supposed problems during the come-back against Spurs, the draw at Arsenal and the victory over City. The game against Sunderland on Wednesday evening probably can’t come soon enough for the Everton team who will be champing at the bit to get out there and show that the Birmingham result was a one-off. Since Saturday Swiss international Philippe Senderos has joined on loan from the Gunners to bolster our central defensive options and Mikel Arteta and Victor Anichebe have apparently played in a ‘behind closed doors’...

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