Bolton Wanderers And That
We’re Bolton and we’re barmy and we’re on the piss tonight. A short jaunt up the road for this FA Cup fourth round tie is a good opportunity to see […]
View ArticleBolton Wanderers 1 Everton 2
The deafening noise at the end of this fourth round FA Cup tie was the sound of scores of internet match reporters furiously pressing ‘delete’. When John Heitinga replaced Nikica […]
View ArticleEverton 2 West Bromwich Albion 1
‘You can fuck off and take your mate’s fucking knee with you,’ is one of the more esoteric shouts heard at Goodison Park in recent times. It came after Johnny […]
View ArticleOldham Athletic 2 Everton 2
When you write these match reports they start to form in your head as the game nears the end. Deep into injury time at Boundary Park the tone of this […]
View ArticleEverton 0 Wigan Athletic 3
Right then. The ‘narrative’ of this season has generally been all about Everton playing well but not killing teams off and paying the consequences with monotonous regularity. This FA Cup […]
View ArticleEverton 2 Manchester City 0
Oh Everton. Football supporting in the internet age often seems to boil down to watching a match with a fixed perspective and then interpreting what unfolds in a way that […]
View ArticleSpurs and QPR and Arsenal and that
Let’s face it, this blog has already got its flip-flops on, or one foot on the plane, or whatever ‘not that arsed now there’s nothing to play for’ footballing metaphor […]
View ArticleArsenal 0 Everton 0
FOW! AMBAW! Repeat until nauseating. That was the soundtrack to the first half of a game of big boys’ football at the Emirates where the gap between Everton and Arsenal […]
View ArticleEverton 2 West Ham 0
You’ve probably read everything and watched all the footage of Sunday’s game by now, so it’s difficult to know what to add really. It was an occasion alright, and one […]
View ArticleChelsea and Managers and That
The lack of importance of this match was highlighted by the fact that Steven Naismith started up front alongside Victor Anichebe. It was ages ago now so there’s little point […]
View ArticleA New Career In A New Town
Well, they are all back in training, doing fancy exercises around flag poles and ostentatiously ‘rehydrating’ wearing them weird monitoring sports bras, and it’s a far cry from the […]
View ArticleThe Star Club
According to most of the papers, SV Hamburg seem pretty confident about signing Nikica Jelavic. Some director or other of the German club has been tweeting that Everton have […]
View ArticleBlackburn Rovers 1 Everton 3
Oh man, don’t you wish the Blues would hurry up and get snotted by Juventus just so we can read something on Newsnow other than ‘United interested in Belgian […]
View ArticleFriendly Fire
The Premier League season lurches ever closer and Evertonians continue to try and get some indication of just how different Roberto Martinez’s team will be to that of David Moyes. […]
View ArticleEverton 2 Real Betis 1
To be fair to Roberto Martinez he managed to be really positive following an absolutely miserable performance in the final friendly before the start of the Premier League Hunger Games. […]
View ArticleNorwich Preview
In the words of Hank Kingsley, hey now. The waiting is all but over and the Premier League Game of Death is about to commence in earnest. And nothing says […]
View ArticleNorwich City 2 Everton 2
After a summer of uncertainty, capped off by that directionless display against Real Betis, Evertonians got their first real sight of Roberto Martinez’s Blues at Carrow Road and all the […]
View ArticleWest Bromwich Albion Preview
Everton would like to issue a warm welcome to West Brom, famously nicknamed ‘Big Ron’s alibi’, for the first home round of the 2013/14 Premier League Tekken Tag Team […]
View ArticleEverton 0 West Bromwich Albion 0
‘Ah, see that arl fella off the Barclays advert’s died’ was the first of several misunderstandings on a muddled afternoon at Goodison. Fair play to the Match of the Day […]
View ArticleChelsea Preview
Oh aye, the footy. Fancy forgetting about that. Every season it’s the same though, you wait for it to start and before you can settle in and get any sort […]
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