Manchester City treated us with little respect and broke rules," stated Moyes.
"I found it very difficult to accept that a club with so many similarities to Everton should suddenly start acting with no class
via news.bbc.co.uk
Manchester City treated us with little respect and broke rules," stated Moyes.
"I found it very difficult to accept that a club with so many similarities to Everton should suddenly start acting with no class
via news.bbc.co.uk
The Telegraph's greatest footballing insults:
Reminds me of overhearing someone say that Dirk Kuyt's great at heading, since it's always his second touch!
Of course Tim Howard doesn't need any help with his pens, but England's players do. Of course the master is Matt Le Tissier, once of the greatest footballers of the modern era. I was interested to see the secret of his success:
Le Tissier said he practised by offering financial incentives to youth-team goalkeepers in training if they could save any of his kicks. "I knew [the goalkeeper] was trying for every one of them and it meant I had to focus because I didn't want to give away money because I was tight," he said.
I'm a fairly pessimistic Evertonian, so my reaction to The Shite's humbling in Hungary is grounded by the expectation that they'll now knock us out of Europe via a dodgy pen. I also approach most derby games with fear, trepidation, and a general feeling of "can't we just get it over with". But then I remember Cahill's piley uppy, AJ's three fingered salute, and that Gosling winner, and get excited. And then I remember Hutchison's disallowed winner, The Clattenberg derby, and the general nastiness between the fans that underpins recent games.
I expect Moyes to stick to one up front, which means the match will be determined by how well Jack Rodwell and Johnny Heitinga do in the middle (and indeed how long Hietinga stays on the pitch for). Having Pienaar available will be a huge plus because frankly him and Arteta are our only creative threats. Between Saha and Yakubu we have a genuine goal threat, and although Fellaini and Cahill are anonymous when they play together, both are potential match winners. We all know they're there for the taking, but then again that's precisely when they seem to step up a gear.
So, in the interests of banter, here's a couple of things that made me chuckle:
http://www.lfc-endofseasonparty.com/
Seasick Steve is an Evertonian.
Finallly, at least The Fonz will be there:
on Sunday I’m watching the derby game, I've been asked by a man called Bill to go in a box
Colin Murray: Do you think Man City have signed the best centre back in the Premier League?
Pat Nevin: I don't think they've signed the best centre back at Everton
I've been paying attention to the Steven Gerrard case recently, and confess to possessing a fairly instinctive (and not necessarily commendable) opinion that he should obviously go down for it. If you throw the first punch (of three) in a fight then you're in trouble. And given the CCTV footage is conclusive
you might think his status as an England international will be the only thing keeping him out - which would be wrong. Yesterday though I was talking about it with someone who said this was an overeaction, and given that he doesn't have any previous a prison sentence would be severe. But what about whene he got done for drink driving?
Now this took me back to my student days, when I was doing my coaching badge and was talking to a guy from Huyton. He said that recently Gerrard got done for drink driving, but Liverpool planted a story in the Echo saying that he had a hamstring injury (not beyond the realms of possibility) and was therefore getting a lift to training from his brother. The fact that his brother (Paul?) started driving a brand new yellow Renault Megane was "coincidental". As far as I was aware, this was not reported by any national newspaper. As time passed I forgot about this, but it's clearly influenced my snap judgment. And guess what's emerged from the trial today:
Mr Gerrard's barrister, John Kelsey-Fry QC, said his client had been in trouble with the police before - when he was 19 he was banned from the roads for nine months for driving while drunk.
Mr Gerrard said he had not been in trouble with the police since, or been involved in any other violent incident.
So I'm curious. Was Gerrard's conviction (a) public information; (b) common knowledge? (For example he's not on this list, but neither's Big Dunc).Regardless, he won't go down for it will he? The judge is probably Graham Poll.
Update: The BBC article has been modified and the section I've quoted above has been removed.
I was in a bar in Elounda, Crete, that was evidently geared towards Brit's abroad. Aside from the free shots (seriously, what's with downing a shot within a half pint of lager? who thought that would ever be a good idea?), the decor was comprised of Premier League jerseys. I was glad to see an Everton one (albeit next to the gents), but couldn't make out the signature. It has the number "11" underneath, and is one of the Keijan kits from 2002/03 (the one on the left here). So I figure it must be Mark Pembridge, but there's no way that this is what the autograph says. The others shirts seemed to be signed by players, so it's a mystery. Any thoughts?
Update: 2 different people have suggested James McFadden, and comparing his autograph it looks like a match. My only question - why did he sign a shirt from the year before he joined us?
That's Mark Ward, who was one of my favourite players in the HKII era. His autobiography is out now.
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