A side story of the past few weeks which may have escaped your attention is Everton fullback Leighton Baines’ apology for his comments after the league defeat to Manchester United. His words: “I just don’t feel as though the chemistry is quite there with the team on the pitch, and it hasn’t been for a […]
Above is a tweet from almost a year ago, which I intentionally bookmarked for a night like Tuesday night. England defender John Stones slipped when trying to play his way out of trouble to hand the Netherlands the ball in a dangerous area. This would eventually lead to them winning and converting a penalty. When […]
There is a current Premier League side who had their lowest league finish in ten seasons last year, registering their lowest points total in that time in the process. At the half way stage of this campaign, they are on course to register their second lowest points total in that same timeframe (should they mirror […]
Mention the name Dixie Dean to Everton fans no matter their age and you can bet they’ll go all nostalgic and quite rightly so, as he is a legend to the blue half of Merseyside and that’s why they have a statue of him outside Goodison Park. But his name is famous outside of Everton too because of the amazing […]
As Everton were booed off by their supporters after a frustrating stalemate at home to West Brom, it signified the latest increase in pressure on their manager Roberto Martinez. I don’t feel he’s currently in danger of losing his job, but the scrutiny over his and his team’s performance is disproportionate to the actual gravity […]
Originally written on 07/01/13 Football fans have very short memories, don’t they? By our very nature, we are a fickle old bunch. By in large, being a football fan seems to be an extended sequence of knee-jerk reactions one after another. And, if something happened last season, it might as well not have happened, because […]
