Everton 1 Chelsea 0
It’s weird to keep reading José Mourinho making out that Chelsea battered Everton on Saturday but simply failed to convert their chances. Both sides were fairly cagey, passing the ball […]
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It’s all about the journey these days, isn’t it? It used to be about having passion, but now everybody has that, for everything, and so whether you are a sportsman, […]
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Before we begin, it’s important to remember that Saturday’s game wasn’t about the result, but more an opportunity for the footballers of the Premier League to keep chasing that rainbow. […]
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What are you meant to make of this lot? Manchester City were once quintessentially British in their hangdog awfulness, the footballing equivalent of Hywel Bennet in Shelley, but now they […]
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According to the nice people at Newsnow, the reason that stories from this website haven’t been appearing on theirs is because they filter for cuss words and won’t publish articles […]
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‘Yeah, so they have offered me a new contract, which is fantastic. I’m going to go in and sign it on Monday. You’re stripes.’ ‘Woah, steady on son. Are you […]
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In a completely transparent bid to drum up interest and provoke controversy in a publication that nobody really reads we approached Russell Brand to guest edit This Is Not Football […]
View ArticleEverton 0 Tottenham Hotspur 0
As we vainly looked for a decent ending to the preview we fell back on the tried and trusted ‘should be a cracker’, a statement that managed to be simultaneously […]
View ArticleCrystal Palace 0 Everton 0
You have probably gathered already that the lack of a preview for this game was in fact an achingly post-post-modern comment on a match in which almost nothing of any […]
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Ahoy hoy! It’s been a while. International breaks are normally an absolute nuisance but it’s allowed This Is Not Football some valuable time to find a way around the stringent […]
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‘These are nothing special. The only thing we have to fear here is just being typical Everton’. Five minutes later Philippe Coutinho is left completely unmarked at a corner and […]
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Ok, first thing’s first, as we said the other day, a big chunk of this was going to be about Leighton Baines and the various permutations available to cover for […]
View ArticleEverton 4 Stoke City 0
First of all, an apology. Last week, while musing on how Roberto Martinez would cope with the absence of Leighton Baines, we deduced that Bryan Oviedo’s absence from the derby […]
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Manchester, so much to answer for. In an extremely unusual move this beginning bit has actually been rewritten. It originally started off looking over David Moyes’s time at Everton and how […]
View ArticleArsenal 1 Everton 1
London’s a very big place Mr Shadrach, a very big place. A man could lose himself in London. Lose himself. Lose himself in London. Not Everton though. The Mighty Blues […]
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Let’s do it for Martin Jol. You have to feel for the big Dutchman don’t you, when you think of him on that crisp, fateful morning, turning into the training […]
View ArticleEverton 4 Fulham 1
As ‘wake up calls’ go, a 4-1 win that takes you up into fourth place is far from the worst sort. Despite Roberto Martinez’s warnings about taking Fulham lightly though, […]
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‘The English language is the wall that divides us, and ‘fuck’ is my chisel’ – Tommy Tiernan, 2008 Right then, Swansea City away. It’s going to be a short one […]
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The games are officially coming all Darren Huckerby now – that’s right, ‘thick and fast’ – so once again we adopt the lazy-arse scattergun approach of talking about what’s going […]
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Previously, on This Is Not Football… Right, so after we got beat by Sunderland we had a hard game against Southampton, especially with a couple of big players suspended, but […]
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