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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The reaction from most of the press was overwhelmingly against Tim Cahill’s mock manacle tribute after scoring against Portsmouth. The Australian midfielder, visibly on the brink of full blown tears, said he did it as a message to his incarcerated brother, to show that he was thinking of him. Sean Cahill was jailed...
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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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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 bearded goon Rafa Benitez is weeping to all and sundry about his team’s lack of form, Everton are calmly preparing for Saturday’s game at Goodison and have been given a timely boost by the return of Tim Cahill. Whilst Rafa and his entourage are followed by a swirl of rotation controversy wherever they...
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