It was a dreary, drab affair – much like the weather – and in truth, it was really what most of us expected. Two teams with nothing to play for conjured up a game that had little to offer. The first half was a dreadful spectacle as two teams attacked with urgency but the quality […]
Unsurprisingly, playing the lazy old guard didn’t work last time out as the season is coming to a close. It’s finished for them, they’re on their holidays. Play the players who care about just getting good results for Everton, and that’s most of David Unsworth’s young squad. I’m not expecting much from this Everton side, […]
Another unsurprisingly diabolical game from an already holidaying Everton. Ronald Koeman is losing his usual coldness as he begins to play favourites by letting Maarten Stekelenburg – who is appearing ever more like a raffle winner – stay in-goal for Everton. Am I targeting? Scapegoating? Yes. Does he deserve it? 100% Anyway, that’s not to say the rest […]
It’s getting towards the time where the team selection becomes based on whether we’d like to take things ultra-seriously, or whether it’s time to blood some youngsters (That sounds incredibly sinister) and try to find the next Tom Davies. I’m in the camp favouring the latter, seeing as they did just win the Premier League […]
I’m not going to dress any of that up. It was awful and I can’t wait to get home. The referee was awful and ruined the game. Cahill should have been sent off with Costa. The linesman didn’t know how throw-ins worked and that gave us a few laughs. Well, if you didn’t laugh, you’d […]
We’ve had some historic nights and games against this lot. This easily hate-able lot. This embodiment of modern football, lot. This world-class lot. As detestable as Chelsea may appear to be sometimes, and that’s not subjective, they’re really good at football and we’re not good against those who are good at football. So these, basically, […]
Another quiet week at Everton then. In all seriousness, Lukaku has been overdone by both me and everyone else so I’ll keep it to a minimum and focus on the actual reason we’re here. Football. There’s too much attention elsewhere recently. There’s nothing new with us now, we beat the teams we’re better than and […]
It’s coming towards the time when we lose Everton for a few months and the Transfer Madness ensues -which judging by rumours, will be especially crazy in the coming Summer. It’s also a time for us to look back on the season passed and assign some arbitrary awards to our Players, Moments, Goals and Letdowns […]
Two goals in quick succession will cast out memories of what was an appalling display for the first 70 minutes. We were sloppy in possession and all around dreadful in every regard. Too many players were letting the game drift by and failing to make any considerable impact, a worryingly common theme this season. However, […]
3-0, 4-0, 6-3, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 4-2 We’ve scored 26 goals in 7 games at home, averaging over 3 a game and only conceded 5, since January. We constantly seem like we’re going to cool down but we keep going at full pelt at Goodison, making that push for the Top Six that has been out […]
Very rough football week this one, isn’t it? Started off with that game at that place, only to find ourselves at Old Trafford 3 days later to be frustrated at the death after Ashley Williams’ heel turn coveted us two valuable points. However, to not look back in anger, as that ditty goes, we look […]
Not many of us – me included – had any hope going into the fixture and that is completely reasonable given the horror show at their place. An altered team allowed room for Barry and Mirallas to make starts in place of Pennington and Calvert-Lewin, with Koeman signalling his want for experience on a pivotal […]