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Match Reports

Accounts from matches by our editorial team and featured correspondents

Are you (allowed to be) entertained?

Paul Traill : 06/05/2018

Let's draw a line under this season and go again next season with a new, better, manager. A big breath of fresh air is needed. There's a lot of cobwebs to blow out of the club.

Will finishing well mean starting well?

Paul Traill : 29/04/2018

We're experiencing a strange end to a difficult season. It's great to see us finish strongly. In any other season, such a strong finish could be a very good catalyst to hit the ground running with pre-season and start the next season well...

Surely this can be handled better?

Paul Traill : 24/04/2018

Everybody knows Sam Allardyce will be leaving at the end of the season. We know it, the players know it, Moshiri knows it, Sam knows it. This doesn't stop the circus continuing on into town though and we remain a laughing stock.

Why can't we ever just do it?

Paul Traill : 08/04/2018

Whatever the reason, I wish that for once we'd just do it. Missing sitters in the last few minutes of a derby against under-strength Liverpool — we won't get many better opportunities than that!

Allardyce interview fail

Paul Traill : 31/03/2018

Sam has now failed in his job interview for me, with the only hope of resurrection being an emphatic hammering of Liverpool next weekend, but we all know that won't happen.

Big Sam's eight game job interview

Paul Traill : 11/03/2018

We still have an opportunity to look up rather than down this season. If, and it's a ginormous if, we can go unbeaten in these games and win the majority of them, this gives us quite a platform and good momentum going into pre-season. This then makes it difficult to move Sam Allardyce on.

A Never-Ending Nightmare

Paul Traill : 04/03/2018

The latest away defeat under Sam Allardyce has increased the despondency around Everton

Looking up, not down

Paul Traill : 11/02/2018

Report of the 3-1 win over Crystal Palace

Win relief

Paul Traill : 01/02/2018

Eventually we were able to see the game out and claim a vital, and ultimately deserved three points. Though we were up against it in the final 20 minutes, for the best part of an hour of this game we were the better team.

Woeful Everton take undeserved point

Paul Traill : 20/01/2018

It's a mess alright, and I can't wait for this season to end...

Second best

Paul Traill : 01/01/2018

Relegation is not a threat, but surely the plan has to be to attack better than that?

Almost a Christmas miracle

Paul Traill : 24/12/2017

A resilient effort from Everton and if you cast your mind back a month to that wretched performance versus Southampton, you would never in your wildest of dreams have us walking away from a draw with the champions a little miffed that we didn't have more of a go at them.

Giving something back

Paul Traill : 08/12/2017

What a tremendous trip. I enjoyed every minute. Great company with Gaz and Dan, and it was superb to meet so many other Blues who had travelled from afar, most notably John and Stretch.

Playing Devil's Advocate

Paul Traill : 30/11/2017

Why the sudden upturn in performance? Has David Unsworth finally found his best team, albeit too late? Has the penny finally dropped what is required for the players? Or, is this simply the reaction to a new manager coming in?

You learn who you can depend on

Paul Traill : 24/11/2017

The game meant nothing. The team talk on the face of it should have been a piece of piss. “Right you lot, here's your opportunity. Prove to me why you should be in the team”. Unfortunately the majority out there only really proved why they shouldn't be in the team.

Crisis of confidence

Paul Traill : 19/11/2017

We just don't have the confidence currently. I believe the players are good enough but it'll take a bit longer yet until we get any sort of swagger back. Players just don't look for the ball enough. Too many hide and there's a real lack of responsibility on the field.

Sausage Party!

Paul Traill : 06/11/2017

A splendid day out at the game. Them fun days only ever happen about once or twice a season so I was glad to make the most of it, even if I paid for it a bit in work today.

For how long does this go on?

Paul Traill : 20/10/2017

I'm not one for sacking managers quickly. I like to see managers given the opportunity to build a team. It hasn't been our style and I want to believe it can work under Ronald Koeman. That said, the pressure is on, and failure to beat Arsenal, a Carabao Cup exit at Chelsea, and defeat at Leicester City would pretty much make his position untenable.

The board have a big decision to make

Paul Traill : 01/10/2017

The talk on everyone's lips after the game of course was, should Ronald Koeman be sacked. It's safe to say, most of the supporters seem to think so. Personally, I'm pretty neutral.

It was just so Everton

Paul Traill : 29/09/2017

The Europa League campaign doesn't have to be doom and gloom just yet but we are certainly doing it the hard way.

Niasse brace gets Koeman out of jail

Paul Traill : 24/09/2017

Win we did. It still wasn't especially pretty up until the winning goal just five minutes later, but we persevered

One foot in the group stage

Paul Traill : 18/08/2017

With four clean sheets in four games, it's hard to complain. I'll be interested to see where we stand in a month's time.

Welcome home, Wayne

Paul Traill : 13/08/2017

With the fixtures upcoming, I was simply relieved to be coming away with the three points, our first opening day win for five years

Evertonians just get everywhere

Paul Traill : 24/07/2017

Luckily we didn't book our trip to the Netherlands for Everton's game-that-wasn't against Groningen and so, when the game against Genk was announced, Gaz and I were able to book some flights to Brussels Charleroi.

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