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 December 2006


News Headlines & Features

Great team performance to end 2006!
30 Dec - Everton closed out 2006 with an emphatic victory over a resurgent Newcastle with Victor Anichebe and Phil Neville grabbing their first league goals of the campaign. After a lively start, Anichebe forced the ball over the line to open the scoring after nine minutes and then, following a hilarious penalty miss from Obafemi Martins on the stroke of half time, the young striker was quickest to react when his header came off the bar and he scored from close range to make it 2-0. Minutes later, a fortunate shot from Neville looped in from 20 yards and it was party time at Goodison with the Blues back up to 7th! Match reports by Lyndon Lloyd and Paul Traill

Cahill back in full training
29 Dec - Good news for Everton: leading scorer Tim Cahill is back in full training, having made a quicker than expected recovery after being on the receiving end of a studs-up Carsley 'tackle'. He may be fit enough to play in the FA Cup Third Round tie against Blackburn a week on Sunday...

Frustrating result for the Blues
26 Dec - A disappointing result from an afternoon of earnest endeavour. With Lee Carsley wearing the captain's arm in Phil Neville's enforced absence, Everton made a strong and dominant start to the game, with a number of sweeping attacks and plenty of shouts for penalty appeals. But opportunities were spurned and they were unable to secure a vital back-to-back win this Christmas. Report from Paul Traill

Merry Christmas to Blues Everywhere!
25 Dec - We at ToffeeWeb wish Evertonians all over the world a very Merry Christmas, and best wishes to all of you for the rest of the Holiday season and the New Year. The three points from a fabulous win on Saturday have set things up nicely for us, and we'll be looking for things to continue with the next two games, at home to Middlesbrough (Boxing Day) and Newcastle (Saturday).

Johnson's goal drought over!
23 Dec - After a thrilling game last weekend, that turned on some superb goals fired in from outside the area, Everton's goal-shy forwards must have been studying the video and appear to have taken some inspiration for today's game against high-fliers, Reading. It took just 14 mins for Arteta to square the ball in nicely for Andy Johnson who finished superbly to put Everton in front. A brilliant strike from Osman should have made it two but hit the bar and bounced down right on the line. A great first half from Everton, and just after the break, a great goal from McFadden to set up a great road win. Match report by Lyndon Lloyd

Arteta has a foot injury
22 Dec - David Moyes has revealed that Mikel Arteta, star of Everton's determined performance against Chelsea last weekend, has been nursing a foot injury all week, and has not trained. He reamins doubtful for Saturday's trip to Reading.

Mourinho makes his apology
20 Dec - To Jos? Mourinho's credit, he has made a full apology after finally taking David Moyes's advice and viewing a video of the incident that caused him to call Andy Johnson "untrustworthy" after Sunday's match. He agrees that AJ was trying to avoid colliding with his goalkeeper. Jos? also takes the opportuniy to mend some bridges by saying nice things about Goodison, Everton, David Moyes, and his players.

Da Silva finally joins Everton!
19 Dec - The mysterious Brazilian player Anderson da Silva, who has suppossedly been with Everton for the last year, but out on loan at Malaga, has now signed a short-term contract (how long?) with Everton and will be assessed by David Moyes over the coming weeks. The lack of a valid passport prevented the player from joining Everton after he left Montevideo in 2005, so he played in the Spanish league last season, but his registration was not renewed for this season, which is why he was able to finally join the Blues outside of the official transfer window.

Everton demand Mouhino apology
18 Dec - Everton have reacted strongly and with full justification to the disgusting statements made by Jose Mourhino as he becomes the latest manager to call Andrew Johnson a diver. Something needs to be done about this nonsense and it seems Everton have got the balls (from somehwere!) to do something about it, threatening to take up the issue with the FA if they do not get satisfaction from Chelsea. At a personal level, AJ may sue Mourinho the Mouth for defamation.

Everton powerless to stop Chelsea fight-back
17 Dec - Having twice lead and done enough to win and been denied two strong penalty claims, Everton's hearts were broken by three sublime strikes, all from outside the area, as Chelsea got out of jail. Mikel Arteta slotted home from the spot late in the first half after Victor Anichebe had been fouled but when Mikel Ballack's free kick ricocheted off Tim Howard's back, the Londoners were level. Joseph Yobo headed home from a corner to restore the Blues' lead but Frank Lampard ? who else?! ? lashed home from 25 yards before Didier Drogba scored the pick of the bunch with a swivel shot from way out that killed off Everton's challenge as it rocketed past Howard. What a sickener. Report now available.

The AGM 2006
15 Dec - The salient points from this week's Annual General Meeting of Everton Shareholders ? most notably the Kirkby option ? may have already been publicised at length in the media but Colm Kavanagh's detailed account provides richer context behind what was said, particularly by Messrs. Kenwright, Wyness and Moyes.

ToffeeWeb Outage Update
14 Dec - We suffered a bit of a traffic-induced database meltdown yesterday that made the site inaccessible for much of the day, but we're pleased to announce that the homepage news is back after a hasty migration to a new database platform in the wee hours this morning. Some parts of the site may still be out of action or drawing from the old data so bear with us. Thanks for your patience!

Macclesfield Town v Everton
13 Dec - So, it's not Back to football after all, as Everton's Academy players will now have to wait until next Tuesday to take on Macclesfield Town in the FA Youth Cup. The pitch at Moss Rose was declared unfit to play after recent bad weather.

More double-speak from the top
12 Dec - [Link fixed] Talking to BBC Radio 5Live in an attempt to placate the anger and fears of many Evertonians who are not in any way enthused about a move outside the City of Liverpool to a new stadium in Kirby, CEO Keith Wyness says, "redeveloping Goodison Park may well be the way ahead in the end." ? which directly contradicts what Billy Kenwright told shareholders in last night's AGM: "it is not an option for Everton to remain at Goodison Park".

Kirkby option confirmed at AGM
11 Dec - As expected, the Everton Board confirmed to shareholders at this evening's AGM that the club are investigating the possibility of relocating to Kirkby. A formal announcement to that effect will be made tomorrow. "[I]n conjunction with Knowsley Borough Council and Tesco, we are investigating the possibility of a major regeneration initiative in Kirkby, one which might provide us with a new home," CEO Keith Wyness is quoted as saying by the Official site. "I must stress that this does not, in any way, constitute a final decision on the location of any new stadium for the Club." Some shareholders didn't approve. Do you support the proposal?

Tesco deal for Kirkby to be announced
11 Dec - The stage has been carefully set for tonight, when holders of shares in Everton FC Co Ltd will meet at Goodison Park for the 127th Annual General Meeting of the company. Bill Kenwright is up for re-election, and is expected to make an announcement regarding the Board's intentions to move to a new stadium in Kirkby, with some kind of a 'deal' with Knowsley Borough Council and Tesco to explore the possibility of building a new stadium as part of the multi-million pound regeneration of Kirkby.

One Year On
10 Dec - One year on from "the best financial results in Everton's history", Gary Crumley summarizes the accounts for Everton FC Co Ltd for the financial year ending 31 May 2006. The Annual Report & Accounts will be presented to the Everton Shareholders at Monday's AGM, and no doubt a positive spin will be applied by Mr Wyness, whose massive renumeration package (?466k) has recieved a lot of attention. He has overseen a bottom-line swing of over ?34M, from a widely trumpeted ?23.5M profit in 2005 to a dismal ?10.8M loss in 2006. Does this confirm thoughts expressed by some that the Club has already been spending the ?28M windfall in TV rights money due next year?

Beaten by the odd wonder-goal
9 Dec - A difficult fixture for an injury-ravaged Everton turned on a wonder goal from Matthew Taylor, who volleyed over Tim Howard from near the half-way line after barely 15 minutes. Kanu doubled the score for the home side before the half-hour and they then took a stranglehold on the game, denying Everton any real opportunity to fight back despite some early substitutions from David Moyes. A long journey home for the faithful as Everton slip to 10th.

Portsmouth vs Everton
8 Dec - Everton take their injury-stricken side to the south coast to face high-flying Pompey hoping to leapfrog Harry Redknapp's side in the table and maintain their quest for a top-four berth. Cahill, Arteta, Osman, Neville, Hibbert, Anichebe, Pistone... all are either doubtful or ruled out for what promises to be a stern test. [Updated TV]

Moyes in loan star state of mind
7 Dec - Manager David Moyes has hinted that he might follow Alex Ferguson's lead and try to bring in a few players on loan once the transfer window opens in January. Ferguson stole a march on the rest of the Premiership managers when securing the short term services of Henrik Larsson and Moyes wants to follow suit. He says, "we?re definitely down on numbers especially seeing as we lost Kevin Kilbane on transfer deadline day and that really put us just under regarding numbers."

Losses last season hit ?10M
6 Dec - One year on from "the best financial results in Everton's history", the accounts for Everton FC Co Ltd ending 31 May 2006 show a substantial loss of ?10M. The Annual Report will be presented to the Everton Shareholders at next week's AGM, and no doubt a positive spin will be applied by Mr Wyness, whose renumeration package has gone up a whopping 283% ? strange reward for the deepening financial mire and lack of real investment in the Club itself (as opposed to finding a buyer for a bloc of shares...) but it confirms thoughts expressed by some that the Club has already been spending the ?28M windfall due next year.

Everton set on Kirkby move
5 Dec - Pulling together all the various news snippets and learned pronouncements in the best fashion of his old Merseyside newspaper, Phil McNulty concludes that the move to Kirkby is ON! Quite how the machinations at LFC play into this is something of a mystery, since they ruled out ground sharing months ago, but this piece reads like another carefully constructed effort to soften up the fanbase ahead of next week's AGM. Watch this space...

Everton Res 2 - 2 Bolton Res
5 Dec - Everton Reserves have drawn 2-2 with their Bolton counterparts at Halton Stadium. First-half goals from Bjarni Vidarsson and Mark Hughes, who put the young Everton Academy side two-up at the break against a more experienced Bolton team. But the visitors equalised courtesy of a defensive mix-up and a penalty in the second half.

Five-Year Plan / Academies
5 Dec - It always helps to ask the right questions: the answers may surprise you. David Moyes says has made some progress in moving Everton forward over the last five years. But Moyes believes it will take another five years for him to bring Everton to their full potential! And he's not too impressed with the Academy system, preferring the lower league path of development instead.

On track for a 4th-place finish?
4 Dec - Three points against West Ham continues the trend of turning last season's losses into this season's wins. Steve Flanagan's statistical comparison shows Everton nosing ahead of the curve with a differential of +8 points over the same games last season. If the trend continues, that could see us finish on 61 points ? which was enough to secure 4th place in 2005!

AJ Signs DVDs tonight
4 Dec - Andy Johnson will celebrate the release of Everton?s new DVD, ?Everton 3 Liverpool 0?, with a signing session at HMV?s Church Street store in Liverpool on Monday 4 December at 6:30pm. Fans need to pick up free wristbands in advance at HMV, which will allow them access to the signing. Wristbands will be available only at the HMV store from 9:00am on Monday.

Talk about flattering scorelines?
3 Dec - David Moyes bemoaned a scoreline that flattered Man Utd on Wednesday; today the boot was on the other foot, a stoppage-time blast from James Vaughan giving this unconvincing exhibition a much better gloss than it merited. Andy Johnson was back in the starting line-up but he was very poor as Everton, without Mikel Arteta, Phil Neville and Victor Anichebe, struggled to get into the game in the first half. Andy van der Meyde was lively but no-one was on his wavelength, and it was a massive relief when Leon Osman scored after the break, following a fantastic recovery of a lost ball by Beattie. But it was then typical backs-to-the-wall defending and plenty of conceded possession until Vaughan popped up, and scored only the second goal of his interrupted Premiership career to confirm a vital win for Everton.

Everton v Blackburn Rovers
3 Dec - The draw for the Third Round of the FA Cup has been made and Everton gave been given a home draw against Premiership rivals, Blackburn Rovers.

Everton vs West Ham United
2 Dec - After two games away from home that arguably yielded two points fewer than it should have, the Blues are back at Goodison Park for the visit of West Ham. Alan Pardew's side have managed only two goals and one point on their travels so far this season... (at the risk of sounding negative) now there's a script waiting to be written. [TV]

ToffeeWeb Mailbag Back up
1 Dec - Sorry, we had a problem with the database file driving the ToffeeWeb Mailbag, but it has now been fixed. Please go ahead and submit your e.mails again using this form. Thanks for your patience!

Still better than last season
1 Dec - Steve Flanagan's comparative analysis of results this season and last, on a game-by-game basis against the same opponents, shows that Everton still have their noses in front so far, with 5 extra points. This is despite an inability to win the matches they were winning last season, but they have won others to compensate, and are still on track for a haul as high as 61 points.

 

Snippets & Rumours

No need to sell young players
31 Dec - Commenting on Man City captain Richard Dunne (and no doubt mindful of McCann, Ball and Rooney) David Moyes is thankful that there is no longer a need for Everton to sell their homegrown talent.

Vision way past his years
31 Dec - David Moyes is wonderful, says Cian Long

Everton close out 2006 in style
30 Dec - Everton ended 2006 the way they began it, scoring three goals and earning a convincing home victory.

Moyes blast inspires Anichebe
30 Dec - David Moyes provides a glimpse of his sensitive, protective, nurturing style with young Everton protege Victor Anichebe: "He had a bollocking at half-time as he had not played well enough in the first half. He scored a goal, but it wasn't enough. If you play in the first team whether you are 18 or 38, you have to do the jobs and do them well."

Myth Making
30 Dec - Kevin Sparke delivers a lengthy treatise on the cunning psychology of modern myth-making, and applies his findings to the case of current perceptions regarding Everton striker Andrew Johnson, in realtion to perceptions of 'simulation' and the non-award of penalty kicks.

Window of Opportunity
29 Dec - Ray Robinson sees the January Window differently than Moyes...

Transfers: Heaven & Hell
29 Dec - Rob Sachro assesses Moyes's buying record

Pistone is fit and ready
29 Dec - Alessandro Pistone hjas declared himsef fit and ready to play after a long injury layoff since August.

Lies, Damn Lies...
29 Dec - Simon Birsey goes mental on the Opta stats

Cadamarteri signs for Leicester
28 Dec - Danny Cadamrteri, the former Blue who has been out of the game for six months after falling foul of the drugs rules and getting released by Bradford, has signed for Leicester City.

Anichebe wants to play for Nigeria
28 Dec - He was born in Lagos; Nigeria is where is from, even though he has lived in Crosby since he was 1 year old. That is why Victor Anichebe will chose Nigeria to fulfil his international aspirations.

Five-Star Service!?!
28 Dec - Goodison is not the place for a pie and a pint

Oh what fun it is to see Everton win away
27 Dec - A belated report from the Reading win by Lyndon Lloyd.

Moyes puts trust in the officials
27 Dec - Showing signs of exasperation, David Moyes says he has told his players to stay on their feet and trust that officials will spot infringements that are worthy of penalties. Score so far: 4 or 5 claims denied on Tuesday.

Smear campaign has worked
27 Dec - In The Mirror, David Maddock confirms the sense that Everton are now paying the penalty for the successful smear campaign mounted by opposition managers against Everton striker Andrew Johnson, who continues to be denied perfectly valid penalty calls.

Boro came for the point
27 Dec - Match Report from Paul Traill

Moyes = Stability!
27 Dec - Brendan Fox thinks Moyes will come good

Please don't spend any money!
26 Dec - Not a plea that will be adopted by player-hungry fans...

Beattie going nowhere
26 Dec - David Moyes insists that the stories going around about James Beattie's future are pure fabrication: "An awful lot of you people are making up stories at the moment, but he's not for sale."

Moyes rues stalemate
26 Dec - "I'm disappointed because we had enough of the ball, lots of crosses around the goal, but we didn't test their keeper as much as we should have done." ? David Moyes.

How will this make us money?
26 Dec - Paul Johnson asks some pertinent questions abouit the Kirkby option

Programme sale in St. Luke's
25 Dec - Merseyside Football Programmes, situated upstairs in St Luke's Church on the corner of Goodison Road and Gwladys Street, are having a Christmas sale to rival anything the high street can tempt your other half to blow your load on. With a stock of well over 50,000 Everton programmes, what better way to escape the cold of Boxing Day than get your hands on that long lost programme from games gone by. As a special thank you to customers who have visited the stall throughout the year, ALL home league programmes from the past 30 years are half price, meaning you could get your hands on the full 1984-85 Championship winning season's programmes for just a tenner, the same goes for the 1986-87 season, or the season in which Bob Latchford got his 30 goals! Many programmes from earlier are also available at the knock-down price of just one pound, so you could find yourself the proud owner of a programme from each season in Harry Catterick's reign for less than ?15.

Moyes pleased with win
23 Dec - David Moyes was very pleased with the win his players carved out at Reading, and the contribution of 'catalyst' Andy Johnson, who scored one goal and made the other for Jamie McFadden.

Movement & Ambition
23 Dec - Simon Birdsey wonders why Everton are so loath to do the obvious

Money, Money, Money
23 Dec - Phil Lupton ponders the money that now feeds investment in the Premiership

Apology accepted from 'good man'
22 Dec - David Moyes was glad the fuss over Murinho's comments last weekend is now over, and said it befitted a 'good man' to acknowledge his error.

Someone's telling porkies
22 Dec - Keith Wyness and Cllr Warren Bradley seem to be having a war of words over what was said at the AGM about City Council support for Everton reloacating.

Christmas Gifts for EFC
21 Dec - Some seasonal cheer from Ray Said

Everty Little Hurts
21 Dec - Salvadore Allende(!) chimes in from Vi?a del Mar...

Football is Dead
21 Dec - So sit tight and enjoy the ride... says David Randles

Player performance
21 Dec - and the factors affecting same... from Keiran Fitzgerald.

We come from St Domingo's
20 Dec - The origin of many top football clubs from humble beginnings associated with churches in middle-class areas towards the end of the 19th Century should be no surprise to Evertonians. Peter Lupson makes this the subject of a new nbook entitled Thank God for Football!

Ground share: only way forward
20 Dec - Stephen Lavin sees the path forward... from Dubai

Let's Go!
20 Dec - Chris Owen is for moving on...

Ground Move?
20 Dec - More thoughts on the subject, from John Steadman

Follow the Money
20 Dec - Neil Pearse offers his insights on the War of Bradley's Jaw

Taylor wants comments to stop
19 Dec - PFA supremo Gordon Taylor has spoken out about comments like those of Jose Mourhino about players from other teams, and says they should stop. But will the FA act?

Everton can always move to Anfield!
18 Dec - In The Observer, Paul Wilson makes the rather bizarre case that Everton can and indeed should move into Anfield when it falls vacant in a few years...

Hypocrite
17 Dec - Jos? Mourinho's comments have really annoyed Nick Armitage.

Nuno a no-no again?
16 Dec - According to Vital Football, Nuno Valente has become the latest player to be crocked in training ? what exactly are the doing at Bellefield these days?! ? and has been ruled out of tomorrow's clash with Chelsea.

Reo-Coker says no
15 Dec - Not surprisingly, Nigel Reo-Coker, a potential target of the likes of Arsenal, has rejected speculation linking him with an unlikely ?10m move to Goodison. Everton are also distancing themselves from the paper talk.

Warren Bradley seeks BK meeting
14 Dec - We understand that Cllr Warren Bradley, leader of Liverpool City Council, has today written to Bill Kenwright, seeking a meeting regarding the relocation of Everton Football Club.

Turner returns... injured
13 Dec - Ian Turner has cut short his loan deal with Crystal Palace after sustaining a groin injury at the weekend. Peter Taylor wants him back for the rest of the season.

Osman should be fit
13 Dec - Leon Osman should be fit for Sunday's big game, with Phil Neville and Mikel Arteta getting close to full recovery.

Where will the money come from?
13 Dec - After scrutinizing the Everton accounts, Bill Gleeson in the Daily Post wonders where Everton will get the money they will still need to build a new stadium.

Blue Storm Brewing
13 Dec - For John McCabe, some things are worth keeping

Holding Back the Tide
13 Dec - Steve Guy sees a move as inevitable, so there's no point in fighting it!

The children are our future...
13 Dec - Kevin Murphy cites the loss of future supporters from the City

Negativity Gets You Nowhere!
13 Dec - Karl Masters urges patience support and positive thinking for David Moyes

Wrong Target
13 Dec - Rob Fox thinks the role of Liverpool City Council deserves more scrutiny

Beattie's Everton future in doubt
13 Dec - Nick Armitage picks up on a Mirror journo-hack's stunning expos

Blame the Council
13 Dec - Adam Bennett names and shames Liverpool City Council for the Kirkby debacle

There's bad news... and good news
13 Dec - David Cooper sees bad on the field, and good off...

New Academy set for next summer
12 Dec - Among the topics covered at the AGM was the club's new training academy at Finch Farm which is on target to open its doors in time for pre-season training next year.

Kissock signs pro contract
12 Dec - Hot Academy prospect, John Paul Kissock, signed professional papers with Everton yesterday. The 17-year-old has been rising through the ranks and was mentioned as a possible target of the likes of Chelsea recently.

Wait another year for Collection
12 Dec - With Keith Wyness adamant that Everton will not fork out the balance needed to buy the David France Collection, under tough questioning from our own Colm Kavanagh, the deadline has been pushed out yet another year.

Moyes is Great!
12 Dec - Another marvelously lunatic soundbyte from Bill Kenwright enters the annals of Everton history: "David Moyes is a great manager like Arsene Wenger".

Chronic lack of goals and ideas
12 Dec - Scott Edwards sees fundamental limitations in Moyes the Manager

Expectations
12 Dec - Simon Birdsey sees lessons in the untimely demise of the Hammers manager.

The Big Four
12 Dec - Brian Baker analyses the 'Big Four'

Sometimes love just ain't enough
12 Dec - Chicago's Phil Watson thinks GP can be redeveloped. BK says it can't. Period.

Shareholders challenge Knowsley proposal
11 Dec - Everton "announced" the club's intention to investigate the possibility of moving to Kirkby in a joint initiative with Knowsley Borough Council and Tesco at tonight's AGM and chairman Bill Kenwright faced a few skeptical questions from the audience.

Da Silva's imminent arrival
11 Dec - Just when club and fans had given up all hope of seeing Brazilian midfielder Anderson da Silva grace the Goodison Park turf, Bill Kenwright announced at this evening's AGM that he could arrive "within weeks".

Can't make it tonight
11 Dec - Guy McEvoy, who has provided us with many reports on Everton AGMs over the years, can't make it tonight, but he has some sound advice for those who are going.

Tom's a Sage who doesn't know his Onions
11 Dec - Link

Ruleteros Society Christmas Dinner
11 Dec - It's the Ruleteros Society Christmas Dinner this Saturday. If you are interested, click the link...

Complacency
10 Dec - Paul Tran new definition for the meek acceptance of mediocrity

Prof Cannon says DIC means sharing
10 Dec - Professor Tom Cannon says the cash-rich DIC group looking to buy out Liverpool FC would want to ground-share with Everton in order make even more lolly. Meanwhile, in the Mirror Brian Reade says Tom doesn't know what he is talking about...

Moments of class win it for Pompey
10 Dec - Lyndon Lloyd's report from the Blues' first defeat at Fratton Park for 49 years.

Everything under one roof...
10 Dec - Kevin Sparke outlines the future of media-driven footy. Response

''First half, we were rubbish''
9 Dec - David Moyes delivered a sweeping condemnation of Everton's insipid efforts in the first half at Portsmouth, and reinforced the perennial instruction that they must "work harder"! But he can't figure out why they're not scoring...

Aesthetics...
9 Dec - Alex Wilson makes a reasoned plea for redeveloping Goodison Park.

Ghosts of Christmas Future
9 Dec - A seasonal respite from reality, provided by John McFarlane

Gary Speed: 500 up!
9 Dec - Congratulations to Gary Speed, Evertonian and former Everton player , who today became the first player to chalk up 500 appearances in the Premiership.

Christmas carol concert cancelled
8 Dec - Everton's annual Carol Concert, that was due to take place this Sunday afternoon at 5pm, has been cancelled after several days of bad weather.

Former 'keeper passes away
7 Dec - Harry Leyland, who made 40 appearances for the Blues in the 1950s after replacing the great Ted Sagar, has died after a short illness.

Wyness salary artificially inflated
7 Dec - The massive ?466k renumeration package for the highest-paid Director at Everton is misleading, says Keith Wyness, in this detailed explanation.

Shandy Andy going nowhere
7 Dec - Don't expect Andy van der Meyde to join PSV in January, says his agent: Andy loves Everton and is going nowhere.

Vaughan loan deal ? just talk?
7 Dec - Crystal Palace's interest in a loan deal for James Vaughan just won't go away, but this quote from their manager makes it sound more like empty talk... let's hope so ? we need him!

Podcast & Pics of Goodison Park
7 Dec - Sights and sounds of Goodison and the Bolton game last month, from an American perspective, on EPL Talk.

Golden Vision to Blind Alley
7 Dec - John McFarlane bemoans the marginalization of EFC.

A positive spin
6 Dec - Joe Wightman sees a silver lining to the injury cloud...

Osman out of Pompey trip
6 Dec - Leon Osman will not be fit for Saturday's Portsmouth game, having limped off with a hamstring problem after scoring against West Ham.

On its knees
6 Dec - Nick Armitage on the state of the game as we know it...

Arteta out for 2 weeks
5 Dec - The scan on Mikel Arteta's ankle has confirmed the club medical staff's diagnosis of strained ligaments after he inadvertantly kicked the ground in training last week. He will be sidelined for a fortnight but will hopefully be in contention for the Christmas period.

Sow's Ears and Silk Purses
5 Dec - Peter Laing presents a somewhet Dickensian view of our lot in life.

Through the wind and the rain
5 Dec - Read Paul Traill's match report on Sunday's 2-0 victory against West Ham United.

FA Youth Cup tie next week
5 Dec - Everton's FA Youth Cup third round clash with Macclesfield Town at their Moss Rose ground is on Wednesday, December 13 (kick-off 7pm). Admission for the match is ?4 for adults and ?2 for concessions.

Everton take their chances to sink Hammers
4 Dec - A belated report from last weekend's win over West Ham by Lyndon Lloyd

Player of the Month: November
4 Dec - Voting is now open for PotM for November. Cast your vote today...

Blues to host Blackburn in FA Cup
4 Dec - Everton have drawn Blackburn Rovers at home in the FA Cup third round. The tie will be played on the weekend of 6 January 2007.

Update on Injuries
4 Dec - Both Phil Neville and Mikel Arteta are doubtful for next Saturday's trip to Portsmouth.

Hard fought victory well earned
3 Dec - Nick Armitage was at the West Ham game, and he saw it differently

Three points vital today
3 Dec - David Moyes was very pleased with the result achieved today by his makeshift side: "We can do better. We are far from the finished article, but we had to change shape today with a lot of players missing, the players deserve a lot of credit. I think we can play better, but we got three points."

Lescott playing very well
2 Dec - David Moyes has lots of glowing praise for his find of the season, Joleon Lescott, who has been playing very well.

Van der Meyde to go home?
1 Dec - PSV Eindhoven may be setting up to offer a solution that will bring to an end Andy van der Meyde's virtually non-existent Everton career.

Manchester City 2 - 1 Everton [L]
1 Dec - Match report by Lyndon Lloyd

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