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Everton against Manchester United is always an interesting fixture, as it’s the one against the top sides that has really gone either way over the years. There have been some excellent fixtures in recent years, none more so than the 4-4 epic back in 2012. Looking back at that team, it really brings back nice […]
Regardless of how well the last few games have gone, this defeat negates all of the good work Mr Silva has done. A defeat to an already relegated side on an embarrassing losing streak is unacceptable at any point in the season, but it is emphasised even more when we needed the three points to […]
These are much harder to write whenever Everton are in good form because when Everton go through the far-too-common poor runs, about 100 words are usually filled with the hot-off-the-press faux outrage from Twitter, the eternal factory of sadness. However, times are good, and opinion of both the team and manager is changing for the […]
An in form Everton is as exciting as it is terrifying. It’s like that feeling we all get when we know we’re about to have a cold, but aren’t quite bedridden just yet. The throat starts tingling, nose is slightly blocked, going through tissues at an alarming pace. You just know something is about to […]
I mean this with little overstatement, but that was absolutely Everton’s best 90-minute display since we beat City 4-0 those many moons ago. Not once did West Ham look threatening in any way, and even if they would have, I have no doubt that Zouma and Keane would have easily stopped them with little effort. Every […]
For any regular readers of these ramblings every week, I hope beyond anything else how much I’ve driven home the point that I dislike West Ham Football United. I can’t stand them, if there are two games I’d want us to win all season, it’d be v West Ham at Goodison, and Liverpool at Goodison. Losing to […]
What do we do now? We’ve won. That’s not something we’re built to prepare for. Do we watch Match of the Day? Is that what those ‘winning teams,’ or so they’re called, do? Regardless, it was a terrific performance. The first half was shaky but resilient, and the Toffees grew from strength to strength in […]
I think we’ll beat Chelsea. If we play the same way we did against Newcastle, against Chelsea, then we’ll beat them. We put in a tremendous attacking display, let down by a disgraceful showing from a thoroughly unprofessional goalkeeper and amateur mistakes at the back. The refereeing performance didn’t help, and it’s common knowledge that […]
The period of about three minutes where Jordan Pickford dropped a ball with no one around him only to find Rondon bursting in out of nowhere, where he then put in a challenge Bobby Wagner (shoutout to my Seattle Seahawks) would be proud of, to then produce another penalty save to add to his already […]
Being once again an Evertonian with positivity and confidence is a very odd feeling indeed. If you simply go back a few games’ time and read those corresponding words that I’m writing right now, I, like the rest of us, was pretty hopeless. However, a comfortable 3-0 win over Cardiff, and triumph in the World […]
Being an Everton player in the tunnel awaiting Z Cars before the game would have been a harrowing experience. The noise inside the ground was absolutely nothing like I’ve ever seen it. A genuinely deafening few minutes preceded a mostly gritty, at times excellent first period. Lucas Digne, Séamus Coleman and Gylfi Sigurdsson were the […]
I don’t care for ‘derbies’. By that, I don’t mean I dislike the actual fixture as if that’s enough of a revelatory statement to open this fabulous piece of writing with, because that’s a given fact; I’m an Evertonian. What I do actually mean by that is that I don’t really see anything more special about this game […]
