TOFFEES 2 – LA VIOLA 0 Aggregate score 2-2 Tie decided on penalties: Everton 2 – Fiorentina 4 Sport has been defined as “a pleasant pastime; amusement; diversion” and professional sport clearly extends into the entertainment industry. Few inside Goodison last night could desribe events as ‘pleasant’ but for the millions of neutrals watching on TV...
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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? I was left contemplating that after a nasty 1-4 home defeat to Arsenal with all the kick in the teeth trimmings. Does Eduardo’s handball exist (despite the confirming howls of disgust from the Goodison...
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So a game which looked to be going totally according to plan, bellyflopped at the last minute when Steven Pienaar inexplicably felled Ryan Giggs with mere minutes remaining. Ronaldo despatched the penalty with aplomb, naturally; and what looked like the blueprint for how to take on Man Utd at their place dissolved into heartbreak....
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Mystical types call it the Saturn Return – and most football fans will call it utter tripe. It takes Saturn about 29 years to complete one full orbit of the Sun and return to the exact position it was in when you were born. And when Saturn returns, a cosmic food blender of positives...
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Chelsea 1-1 Everton – Acrobatic ‘Roo saves Everton! Everton approached this game having recorded victories in each of their last five calendar entries. With Arteta out injured, Moyes moved Phil Neville up to midfield and brought in Hibbert at right back, a move that always provokes queasy unease. Perhaps Gravesen should have started in Arteta’s...
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Everton’s seemingly comfortable 3-1 victory over Birmingham belies the fact that Kapo pulled Steve Bruce’s men level only ten minutes from time. A draw would have been a disappointment for the Toffees, but late goals from Lee Carsley and James Vaughan pushed them towards the three points. It is now four wins in a row...
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David Moyes’ disgust with derby referee Mark Clattenberg is so all consuming that you wouldn’t put it past the Scot to take out television adverts warning against the biased ref. Before yesterday’s game Moyes used his team’s UEFA cup press conference to slate Clattenberg, and then even added some extra bile into his programme...
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Whilst Everton have Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky as a celeb-fan, Liverpool had Joe Louis – the tough Detroiter with his piston like fists as a former ‘player’ on their books. During WW2 Louis came to Liverpool as a morale boost for the GI’s assigned to England and during a press conference he ‘signed’ for Liverpool....
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The only thing that today’s referre Mark Clattenberg and I can agree about is that Tony Hibbert, so poor this season, doesn’t deserve to be on the Goodison Park pitch. Clattenberg sent off Hibbert for his foul on Gerrard, the subsequent penalty being despatched by Kuyt, who got another in the last minute, from...
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With the main issue being will the Yak play, and secondly, will he listlessly meander around the pitch like a jet lagged tourist in a crowded airport, our sneaky Dutch winger Andy Van Der Meyde has slipped back into the squad with little fuss. The Liverpool Echo is reporting that recalcitrant wide boy Van...
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