It started in the smog filled queue of cars outside the Taco Bell drive thru somewhere in suburban Detroit – an area as flat and grey as a politburo suit. My mum was over visiting and she’d been nursing a chip on her shoulder about the US for decades. After rattling off a list of...
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We already know that Superman wears Tim Cahill pajamas and that God wears a “PIENAAR IS GREAT” t-shirt – but our afroed genius Marouane Fellaini may well be wearing an “I TOLD YOU SO!” t-shirt under his Everton kit. He was omnipresent today,  tendril legs getting hold of the ball countless times, and he oh...
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All Evertonians were lifted out of their seats by Sunday’s late comeback against Spurs, but Chelsea at Stamford Bridge is going to be a challenge of an altogether higher order. Having won every Premier League game at The Bridge and conceded only one goal, yes just one solitary strike against, their home form is...
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Sunday’s 212th Merseyside derby at Goodison can’t come soon enough – despondency and despair is in the air and doubts about David Moyes are being voiced, mostly it should be said, by the ill-informed media. What is needed is what we’ll get, a full house, raucous support, a tough, fast, physical game and all...
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Everton’s bouncebackability will be fully road tested at Hull tonight following the defeat at Old Trafford. Options, already severely restricted by a long injury list, are further reduced by bans to Fellaini and Bilyaletdinov. Also looming large, as David Moyes mulls his limited options, is the little matter of Sunday afternoon’s appointment at Goodison...
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 Andy Hinchcliffe (1990-98) Apps 182, Goals 7  Hinchcliffe was our left-footed dead-ball specialist during the nineties. Perhaps not as accomplished the right-footed dead-ball specialist that is still clinging onto the England squad for dear life – but actually more well-rounded. Because of Mr Beckham’s Murdochian stranglehold on football it is easy to think that good cross...
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1994-99, 105 apps, 4 goals Everton’s 57th best player (and Bournmouth’s 9th) is another one like Tony Kay who never came anywhere near to fulfilling his potential. Whereas Kay’s career was halted by draconian punishment, Parkinson’s was curtailed by injury – a cartilage tear that “despite operation after operation kept ripping”. Joe ran himself into the ground...
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Tony Kay (1962-64) 57 appearances, 4 goals Tony Kay was Britain’s most expensive footballer when Everton swooped for him in 1962, paying a British record £60,000 for the red-headed wing half. Ponderous players attempting a midfield filibuster were greeted by Kay’s menacing physicality as well as his abundant skill. Harry Catterick, a shrewd judge...
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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...
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Apparently it always comes in threes…bad news that is. Thus following the disclosure that Mikel Arteta has had to undergo a third – albeit minor – operation come reports that our best defender, Phil Jagielka, has had a second operation on his knee and Victor Anichebe has had a setback in his recovery. It...
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