David Moyes May Need To Be Given A Chance To Have A Chance
By the time that the announcement had been made, it was starting to feel as if the appointment of David Moyes as the successor to Alex Ferguson at Manchester United...
Posts Tagged: "Everton"
Cups Half Empty & Half Full At Goodison Park Last Night
In some respects, the fixture compilers had been a little unkind to Alex Ferguson. A trip to Goodison Park seldom feels like a guaranteed three points, and this year’s Everton...
The 200% Pre-Season Previews: Everton
Plus ca change. It has, in recent seasons, got to the point at which we could set our watches by the undulations of Evertons season. Pre-Season grumpiness at a relative...
Match Of The Past: Everton
Everton Football Club is one of English footballs great institutions. Founder members of the Football League in 1888, they are second only to Arsenal in terms of their unbroken record...
100 Owners: No.100 – John Houlding (Everton & Liverpool)
There is a point of view held by some that the olden days were better and somehow purer than the world that we live in today. Considering the twenty-four saturation...
The 2012 FA Cup Semi-Finals: Everton 1-2 Liverpool
Shortly before 12.45 this afternoon at Wembley Stadium almost ninety thousand people fell silent in memory of the Hillsborough disaster, which happened twenty-three years ago this weekend. It was a...
The Spectre Of Goalline Technology Reappears
Over the weekend, the debate over goalline technology resurfaced as Queens Park Rangers defender Clint Hill’s header against Bolton Wanderers clearly crossed the line with assistant referee Bob Pollock claiming...
How Everton Represent English Football’s Failed Business Model
If you were after a textbook example of top-flight English football’s failed business model, you couldn’t go wrong with Everton – consistently decent Premier League performers with consistently high home...
Everton’s Union Blues
Three years ago, the publication of accounts for the holding companies of Arsenal and Everton provided a stark contrast between clubs who were, at the time covered by those accounts,...
The Twohundredpercent Premier League Previews: Everton
As 1983 drew to a close, Everton Football Club was in a state of crisis. On New Years Eve, with just over 13,500 people rattling around Goodison Park like marbles...
Use Hearing Protection: Six FA Cup Final Songs
Amid all the talk of the “devaluation” of the FA Cup (and it should go without saying that we should all wish an eternal curse on that rogue organisation, the...
Match Of The Midweek: Everton 0-1 Reading
For all of the surprises that this season’s FA Cup competition has provided, the quarter-final draw has a wearyingly familiar look to it. Unless Leyton Orient can cause one of...
Match Of The Week: Liverpool 2-2 Everton
Whatever optimism may have been brought about amongst the red half of Liverpool by the appointment of Kenny Dalglish and Liverpool’s performance at Old Trafford last weekend, the fervour quietened...
Match Of The Week: Manchester City 1-2 Everton
Carlos Tevez, then, has withdrawn his transfer request after what are apparently called “clear the air” talks with the executives of Manchester City Football Club. It feels as if there...
Match Of The Week: Everton 2-0 Liverpool
For all of the talk of the modernisation of football, there remain some outposts of the game that are defiantly of another age. Everton’s Goodison Park is one of them,...
The Way We Were: Aston Villa vs Everton, November 1989
Watching repeats of old football matches can be an unsettling experience at times. Watch any match over around thirty years old and everything looks and feels different. The levels of...
The Premier League 2010/11 Previews, Part 8: Everton – Steady As She Goes
It may surprise some younger readers to learn this out, but when Bill Shankly retired from Liverpool Football Club and football in 1974, Everton were historically as successful as his...
Match Of The Week : Arsenal 2-2 Everton
An icon of American football made his Premier League debut at The Emirates Stadium, and Landon Donovan's performance gave every indication that he will be a significant acquisition for Everton...