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The Right Man at the Right Time

Lyndon Lloyd

It's been a restorative week in terms of the manager’s standing with many fans and Dyche has now proved that he represents a rare and much-needed element of stability at a club still distressed by an uncertain future

29/04/2024

Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends

Lyndon Lloyd

If there was one message that could be delivered to the players, it's that you are a lot better than performances and results have demonstrated in recent weeks. The four key matches against teams around us that remain provide the perfect opportunity to prove it.

19/04/2024

The Line Between Seeking Justice and Witch-hunt

Lyndon Lloyd

If the Premier League had had their way, Everton would have been deducted SEVENTEEN points this season. And despite two Independent Commissions and one Appeal Board, they're still fighting the club over stadium interest costs while Nottingham Forest got half the penalty and the Manchester City case remains a mirage

09/04/2024

No Excuses

Lyndon Lloyd

Everton couldn't have asked for better circumstances, relative to their wider predicament off the pitch, to turn their form around heading into the final 10 games of the season

19/03/2024

Light at the End of the Tunnel

Lyndon Lloyd

The threat of the charge for a second alleged breach of PSR still looms large but the Club and its fans at least have a modicum of clarity about their situation following the Appeal Board ruling

27/02/2024

VAR is killing football. Making it palatable is likely beyond the powers that be

Lyndon Lloyd

The evidence of the past four years shows that the great promise of Video Assistant Referees as a panacea to controversy was a false prophecy. VAR, as implemented by these officials and under the current guidelines, is deeply flawed and the soul of the game suffering for it

11/02/2024

The Unofficial Everton Timeline – 2014-2023, The Moshiri Years

Lyndon Lloyd

Out now, a new book that documents unbridled ambition crashing into chaotic reality, starting in 2014 when Farhad Moshiri first began talks about taking a stake in Everton and going right up to the present day.

07/02/2024

Everton’s Double Jeopardy and the Farce of the Premier League’s PSR

Lyndon Lloyd

It's absurd that Everton could be punished for the same crime twice in the same season

16/01/2024

Selective Punishment of Everton Betrays the Rot in the English Game

Lyndon Lloyd

The 10-point penalty meted out to the Blues was what so many have said – a disproportionately harsh sporting punishment for a financial crime that makes a mockery of the very concept at the heart of the Premier League's unevenly applied rules: sustainability

29/11/2023

Independent Commission into Everton breach feels more Show Trial than fair trial

Lyndon Lloyd

It’s hard to shrug off the feeling that there was nowhere near enough distance between the prosecution and the adjudicating entity for this to have been a truly fair process.

20/11/2023

Creeping Anxiety and a Social Dilemma

Lyndon Lloyd

Emotions are already running high after Everton's bad start. Neither the actions of a tiny few nor a media waiting to pounce are helping

22/08/2023

A Dele Reborn Really Would Be Like a New Signing

Lyndon Lloyd

If he can regain his fitness and his form, the Dele Alli story could add a fascinating dynamic to Everton’s 2023-24 season given that, on his day, he is a world-class performer. He might only have a narrow window to prove it, though

13/07/2023

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	Team	Pld	GD	Pts
12	Wolves	36	-11	46
13	Fulham	36	-4	44
14	Crystal Palace	36	-8	43
15	Everton*	36	-11	37
16	Brentford	36	-8	36
17	Nottingham Forest^†	36	-18	29
18	Luton Town	36	-29	26

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