Category: Everton
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Have The Toffees Come Unstuck?
When Everton are in the mood, they are very good, with flair players all over the park. On form, they could sneak a European spot at the end of the season but that depends on two things. First is that they need to put teams away when they are on top in matches instead of…
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Barcelona Begins To Look Like The Real Deal Again
For 90 minutes at the weekend, all of us went back in time a couple of years, to a period when one football team so eclipsed all others that they were being considered not just the best side on the planet at that moment but one of…
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A Sport That Ignores What It Doesn’t Like
I love football, but there’s something about the game that’s pretty hard to deny. Football, above and beyond any other sport, is incredibly good at ignoring problems. Its leaders are incredibly good at wishing they’d go away. I’m writing a lengthy piece for this site on the continuing trials Scottish football is enduring as the…
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EPL Matchday 10: One Bore Draw And Many Harry Returns
Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea took another battering, on and off the pitch, over the last few days as this weekend’s Premier League matches saw them defeated, again, this time to West Ham. They followed that up with a penalty kicks defeat at Stoke, in the League Cup, although like most of the other top clubs that’s…
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Watching Paint Dry – The Most Boring Matches In History
Everyone who watches football remembers at least one game they wish they could erase from memory, one match which was so bad that it made you want to give up watching the sport completely. These are some of those games … games which redefined the word “boring” and put a time and date on it…
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EPL 15/16 Matchday 6: Swansea 0-0 Everton
A Bore Draw this one wasn’t, although that’s what people looking back on the score line will remember about it in years to come. In fact, these two teams contested a hard fought and exciting match, one where there were good chances from both side and a lot of impressive displays. Ross Barkley continues to…
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Man United to follow Ramos bid with move for Everton full-back
View image | gettyimages.com Manchester United will follow up their recent bid for Sergio Ramos with a move for Everton defender Seamus Coleman, Football Express News understands. An improved second bid from United has been submitted to Madrid in the past 24 hours, prompting the Spanish international to inform the La Liga side of his…
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Chelsea prepare £20m bid for English centre-back
View image | gettyimages.com Chelsea are preparing to make a bid for Everton defender John Stones, but will have to pay around £20m for the centre-back. Stones has emerged as a transfer target for Jose Mourinho in his bid to strengthen his options at centre-back. Mourinho has long been linked with a move for Real…
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Everton’s Seamus Coleman in sights of Manchester United
View image | gettyimages.com According to Sky Sources, Manchester United are interested in the signing of Everton right back Seamus Coleman. Although they are yet to make a bid, sources reveal that Louis van Gaal is keen to sign the Republic of Ireland defender. Coleman has sparked interest following an excellent few years as an…
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Tottenham Hotspur prepare £7m bid for Everton winger
View image | gettyimages.com Tottenham Hotspur are keen to make a summer move for Everton winger Kevin Mirallas and have prepared a bid in the region of £7m, according to reports. Everton boss Roberto Martinez was forced to reject a January swap deal which included Mirallas going to White Hart Lane for a permanent Aaron…
