Last week David Moyes threw his tuppence worth into the footballing wishing well. He has a lot to wish for: fitness, points, and also a new place to call home. Close to the top of his wish-list must be an end to the stadium worries that stalk him - and Moyes stuck his neck...
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To the fans who pass around one shriveled brain cell like the Lord of the Flies conch, who moan about the best manager we've had in 22 years, and claim inexplicably that 'injuries are no excuse': Don't you dare tell me that only the best is good enough. My Everton are good enough for...
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When Wallis Simpson ‘stole’ our king and Edward VIII was forced to abdicate, the nation was split. With the benefit of hindsight what she had inadvertently done was remove a man who was patently unfit to rule. Edward was certainly a Nazi sympathizer and to varying degrees selfish, arrogant and witless while his brother...
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This post was originally written for the Times Fanzine Fanzone Blog. Moving home was always going to be an extremely testy subject. The very idea of it swills around our mouths until we spit it out like particularly disgusted wine-tasters. It looks like we have three options with regards to our footballing home. First option, which...
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Looks like the RS just blew their title hopes with Rafa scoring as spectacular an own goal as Carragher has ever managed. And it was worse, much worse, than KK’s famous outburst because it was premeditated, the dope had written it all out in longhand and read it as if delivering a bad wedding...
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As an Everton fan I can appreciate how lunacy in the boardroom can destroy a club. Peter Johnson (dubbed “Agent Johnson” by the Anfield faithful), did a mini-Leeds with Everton, mortgaging their future away so we could buy a cavalcade of stars. After a season we had to sell almost every single one. Johnson also had...
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Everton have now recorded victories or draws in each of their last 11 calendar entries and shouldn’t go anywhere with trepidation. For me, the big difference this season is fear, and more specifically a lack of it amongst Evertonians. All my immediate family are Evertonians, and when it comes to watching our blue boys in...
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This piece was originally written for sportingo. Phil Neville and PFA chief Gordon Taylor both think that players are getting burn-out, which is a fatuous and hackneyed argument. Although today’s stars do play a lot of games, I don’t recall burn-out ever being a tangible reality; rather it is a invisible miasma, a ghostly threat...
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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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