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The making of Phil Jagielka at Everton

After stalking his quarry for an inordinate amount of time last summer, David Moyes finally snared Phil Jagielka, a player that The Guardian wittily described as a “footballing Swiss army knife”. This particular blade signed from Sheffield United, and ...

From ED BOTTOMLEY, Sportingo,  13 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Alan Stubbs,  Tim Howard,  Joleon Lescott,  Phil Neville,  Leon Osman

After Everton's triple torment, should bungling officials pay a heavier penalty?

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Does the handball by Blackburn’s David Dunne against Everton exist if the ref didn’t see it? The bungling oafs who botched the Everton-Blackburn game and thus ...

From ED BOTTOMLEY, Sportingo,  11 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Andy Johnson,  Zurab Khizanishvili,  Glenn Hoddle

Everton make it clear to Yakubu: No more nonsense

It is the one thing we all feared would happen . . . Yak's gone bad! Yakubu Ayegbeni is to lazy tardiness what Pete Doherty is to narcotics, and we all should have seen this particular relapse coming a long way off. Whereas Yak’s Everton and Nigeria ...

From ED BOTTOMLEY, Sportingo,  10 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Pete Doherty,  James Vaughan,  Andy van der Meyde,  Thierry Henry

Watch out Liverpool, the vultures are out to grab your perch!

The big four are being circled by a host of clubs. Like a rock-solid ship's biscuit being attacked with an anvil, a piece has broken off. The Champions League has enabled the big four to grow, but the cash fiesta that is the Premier League is now ...

From ED BOTTOMLEY, Sportingo,  9 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Damien Duff,  Michael Owen,  Obafemi Martins

Do these bizarre Everton signings highlight a David Moyes weakness?

I love David Moyes. His moniker “The Moyesiah” is fully deserved. He is a ginger alchemist who pulled Everton’s socks up almost single-handedly. Having said that, there is a dark side to Moyes’ brilliance, the one thing that niggles at me are some of ...

From ED BOTTOMLEY, Sportingo,  7 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Andy van der Meyde,  Mikel Arteta,  Tim Cahill,  Tim Howard,  Joleon Lescott

Are Everton paying for their pact with the devil?

Evertonians must like tension – the years we spent on the razor’s edge of relegation weren’t able to be healed by warm, coddled mid-table safety for long. Now we have a different set of reasons to grab every point that we can get. Whereas in the past ...

From ED BOTTOMLEY, Sportingo,  6 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Pierluigi Collina,  Duncan Ferguson,  UEFA Champions League,  James Vaughan

America's MLS on a par with the Premier League? You're biking up the wrong street!

Overhead kicks are known in other far off lands as a Chalaca, or in Germany the very phlegm inducing Fallrückzieher – whatever you call them, bicycle kicks are the slam dunk of football – a glorious coup de grace and something guaranteed to get the ...

From ED BOTTOMLEY, Sportingo,  25 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Carlton Cole,  Tim Cahill,  Micah Richards

Liverpool misfit's vow; Newcastle chase Bayern ace; Spurs in double Italian swoop

If you've heard any interesting football rumours or gossip recently, feel free to post your news below. Liverpool’s lanky paper-clip of a striker has had enough of the transfer guff being spoken about him and has reiterated his desire to stay at ...

From ED BOTTOMLEY, Sportingo,  19 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Peter Crouch,  Kevin Keegan,  Roy Hodgson,  Wayne Routledge

Keegan may be King Kev at Newcastle again, but has his crown slipped?

The thick necks of the press were all craned and contorted in one direction last night. Enter stage left - Kevin Keegan! The man who would be king – who tried to scale the heights of the Premier League with Newcastle but failed mere inches from the ...

From ED BOTTOMLEY, Sportingo,  18 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Kevin Keegan,  Sam Allardyce,  Michael Owen,  Howard Kendall

The sheer arrogance that exposes Chelsea's lack of class!

Earlier this season when Everton bagged a point at Stamford Bridge, I was over the moon with our pickpocketing performance - and especially Tim Cahill's overhead kick. It exorcised some of my hatred towards Chelsea. Things like the utter bemusement I ...

From ED BOTTOMLEY, Sportingo,  11 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Tim Cahill,  Joleon Lescott,  Phil Neville

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