Season 2011-12
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Holloway backing Everton for glory
Blackpool boss Ian Holloway hopes Everton go on to lift the FA Cup this year after his team were knocked out at Goodison Park.
Added on 19/02/2012
Early goals book Everton a place in quarter-finals
Two goals in the opening six minutes proved enough for Everton to get past Blackpool at Goodison Park and book their place in the FA Cup quarter-finals.
Added on 18/02/2012
Rooney watches Everton in the FA Cup
Once a blue, always a blue... Wayne Rooney pays visit to Goodison Park to watch his old club Everton in the FA Cup.
Added on 18/02/2012
An Everton Fan On How Suarez Exposed The Madness Of Certain Kopites
Liverpool fans have lost it. The whole Suarez affair has tipped them over the edge and exposed them for the lunatics they are. An Everton fan explains how he knew what they were like all along...
Added on 17/02/2012
Big Denis can be the new Big Dunc at Everton
Argentine striker Denis Stracqualarsi has shown encouraging signs of progress in recent months at Goodison. Can he emulate Duncan Ferguson?
Added on 17/02/2012
Moyes is good enough to manage Man Utd
That's what Ian Holloway thinks in the now usual pre-match managerial back-slapping session
Added on 17/02/2012
Everton have criminally underachieved this season
For Everton it perpetually seems to be a season of two halves. The trend goes that they play like utter dross until January, then suddenly become amazing. Recent wins against Man City and Chelsea suggest that they’re at it again.
Added on 17/02/2012
Which Premier League Club should you support?
A flow-chart approach to choosing your most suited team
Added on 16/02/2012
Drenthe’s benching is a terrible defeat for entertainment
Everton’s re-signing of Steven Pienaar in the final seconds of the January transfer window may well spell the end of Royston Drenthe’s long-term hopes of remaining at Everton, and is the latest example of the David Moyes mantra of perspiration over inspiration.
Added on 09/02/2012
Pienaar: Time at Tottenham was ‘killing my spirit’
Steven Pienaar has admitted that his time at Tottenham spent largely sitting on the bench, watching others play, was killing his spirit.
Added on 02/02/2012
A Tale of Two Stadiums
The failed Kings Dock and the Etihad... read it and literally weep
Added on 29/01/2012
Prentice: Stracqualursi is a cult hero in the making
David Prentice sees encouraging signs in the Argentine after he notches his first goal for Everton.
Added on 29/01/2012
Liverpool Senior Cup semi-final revisits the original Merseyside derby
Everton meet Bootle, a fixture that was hotly contested 13 decades ago in the days before Liverpool FC!
Added on 29/01/2012
Why Everton must buy Landon Donovan
Matt Cheetham: On the pitch, Donovan is already eclipsing many of his team-mates’ feats and with his pace, direct approach and whole-hearted commitment, and he has once again been a breath of fresh air at Everton
Added on 28/01/2012
Regeneration in practice: Liverpool to create football quarter
Council leader Joe Anderson on the regenerative potential for north Liverpool of the proposed Football Quarter.
Added on 27/01/2012
Deconstructing Drenthe: Royston's Half-Time Report
This short piece at the Executioner's Bong blog looks at the impact Royston Drenthe has made since coming to the club in the summer.
Added on 25/01/2012
Why Landon Donovan Should Sign Permanently with Everton
Added on 22/01/2012
Three ways Everton could overcome their financial position
In a nutshell, youth, Asia, the lower divisions...
Added on 19/01/2012
Why Prem chief Scudamore is wrong to rubbish 'incestuous, meaningless' US sport
Oliver Holt in the Mirror highlights the strength of US sport and the NFL in particular where a culture of equality and, in the case of the Green Bay, fan ownership, serves an example to the uncompetitive Premier League
Added on 17/01/2012
Explaining the confusing world of Everton's cash transfer spend
A United fan offers "this is slightly dweeby analysis of Everton's transfer spending that attempts to explain why the figures quoted by EFC Chief Executive Robert Elstone and published in the club accounts do tie in with reality."
Added on 17/01/2012
Everyone has a price?
Stating the case for Tim Cahill's status as Everton legend and for keeping faith with the Australian forward
Added on 16/01/2012
The return of Scholes sealed Gibson's fate
Paul Scholes's return signalled the end of Darron Gibson's Manchester United career.
Added on 13/01/2012
A half-season of frustration
Everton Club Focus - Toffees' half-season report tells a story of frustration and a lack of firepower.
Added on 11/01/2012
Slowly Destroying Football Crowds
A poorly-written article highlights the dwindling crowds for last weekend's FA Cup games, and downtrends in the EPL as well...
Added on 09/01/2012
Moyes admits FA Cup is losing its shine
“Unfortunately I probably have to say yes,” he replied.
“I watched the game on the telly today (Birmingham 0 Wolves 0, with huge banks of empty seats)...
Added on 09/01/2012
Home comforts are hard to find for Everton FC fans
"They are the stay-away fans, once match-going regulars who are choosing not to attend games and alarmingly their numbers are growing all the time."
Added on 08/01/2012
iPitch: Apple Prepares Bid For EPL TV Rights
Could California-based tech titan Apple be preparing to use some of its $82bn in cash reserves to bid against BSkyB and ESPN for broadcasting rights to the English Premier League?
Added on 07/01/2012
Everton's Blueprint for Oblivion
Colin Fitzpatrick spells out the failings of the Kenwright regime for an audience beyond the Everton fan base
Added on 07/01/2012
Is this why Howard didn't celebrate?
Perhaps Howard remembered that he had suffered a similar fate himself in between the posts for Manchester United's reserves six years ago.
Added on 06/01/2012
Tamworth plotting Cup upset against Everton
Marcus Law, the sharp, ambitious young manager at Tamworth, is convinced that, as his team prepare to face Everton in the FA Cup on Saturday, a certain Gwyneth Paltrow romcom can tell them much about the task in hand.
Added on 06/01/2012
10 Point Tactical Post-mortem on the Bolton defeat
Analysis of the home defeat to Bolton
Added on 05/01/2012
5 Point Tactical Plan for Bolton
Tactical Analysis from the Executioner's Bong
Added on 04/01/2012
Santa Claus Is An Everton Fan
"The whole Father Christmas strategy represented my mum’s last ditch attempt to wrest me away from the claws of Liverpool FC."
Added on 02/01/2012
Everton Half-Term Report: ‘We Can’t Tread Water Forever’
No investment, negative tactics, and slipping down the Prem, right now is not exactly a good time to be an Everton fan.
Added on 02/01/2012
Everton on brink of 1000 EPL points
Everton are poised to pass the 1000-point landmark in the Premier League era — the last of the seven ever-present clubs to do so.
Added on 30/12/2011
Louis Saha: Striking Struggles
Matt Cheetham covers the struggles of the Everton striker
Added on 29/12/2011
Penalty gift masks forward failings
Louis Saha and Tim Cahill have scored one league goal between them in 2011-12.
Added on 27/12/2011
Expert Everton Opinion for Black Cats
Ahead of the game at the Stadium of Light on Monday, acclaimed Everton author James Corbett has been giving a Sunderland fansite his views on the state of the club.
Added on 24/12/2011
Time to drop Tim Cahill
He's been a hero at Everton for years, but without goals he adds little but tenacity and forces a certain style of play on the team. Thanks for the memories, Tim, but it's time for a change...
Added on 18/12/2011
An Everton Loan is Not Good Enough for Donovan
"...but a permanent one is" says Michael Lewis
Added on 18/12/2011
Kenwright is using Donovan to pull the wool over Evertonian eyes
"There's going to be a great deal of attention paid to Donovan and Everton for the next two months, which is exactly what Bill Kenwright and his 'Knights of the Idiotic Table' want."
Added on 17/12/2011
Will industrial decline stem flow of successful Scottish managers?
Certain characteristics are common to most of the successful Scots. Chief among these is an old-fashioned working-class resilience, work ethic and sense of authority born of a background associated with mining or heavy industry.
Added on 17/12/2011
Donovan a difference-maker for Everton
Everton improved across the board when Donovan got there [in 2010]...
Added on 16/12/2011
Our look at Everton’s accounts
RBM writers Darren Melling and Daniel Miller give their take on where Everton are and where the club is headed.
Added on 15/12/2011
5 Point Tactical Plan for Norwich
The Executioner's Bong provides his 5-Point Tactical Plan for tackling Norwich City
Added on 15/12/2011
Why Landon Donovan should join Everton
"He is already a club legend and has won almost every trophy he possibly could with the Los Angeles Galaxy. It is time for him to move on and make his mark with Everton FC."
Added on 14/12/2011
Graeme Sharp is a Creep
The Mersey Juror lays into the Everton Fans' Liasion Officer, no holds barred!
Added on 09/12/2011
A 5-Point Tactical Plan for Arsenal
Just what it says on the can...
Added on 08/12/2011
Tim Cahill has hardly touched the ball this season
Opta stats show Cahill in the top 20 for fewest touches of the ball recently: has managed 388 touches in his 822 minutes of football this season – an average of less than 43 every game.
Added on 07/12/2011
Anfield derby now a lunchtime kick-off
The Anfield derby in February will now kick-off at 12:45 on Saturday, 25 February, and will be shown live on Sky Sports... but will be postponed should Liverpool reach the Carling Cup Final, which is also that weekend.
Added on 02/12/2011
A 5-Point Tactical Plan to beat Stoke City
Patience will be key on Sunday but it won’t be pretty. Both sides are in the league’s top 5 in terms of fouls conceded so the game will unquestionably be scrappy.
Added on 02/12/2011
Toffees next in line for take-over?
Added on 01/12/2011
When We Were Good: Everton In 1985
Few fans get to enjoy what Evertonians experienced in 1985; that sense of invincibility and belief that anything was possible.
Added on 28/11/2011
Why no Red for Coleman elbow?
Seamus Coleman should have seen red after elbowing me in the head, insists Bolton defender Robinson.
Added on 28/11/2011
Temporary store open at Metquarter
Graeme Sharp & Lord Grantchester were on hand at the opening of a temporary Everton store at Metquarter on Thursday. The store, which is open four days a week until December 23, will showcase pieces from the Everton Collection as well as selling club memorabilia and one-off pieces.
Added on 25/11/2011
Ballon D’Oh Nominations 2011: Everton’s Tim Howard And His Camouflage Disaster
Added on 24/11/2011
Help make Echo coverage of Everton right for you!
The Echo launches its Viewpoints readers' survey: http://www.viewpoints.me.uk/
Added on 22/11/2011
Everton Football Club For Sale
Some wag called Simon in Spain has obviously been either employed by Blue Bill or has a keen sense of humour!
Added on 22/11/2011
5-Point Tactical Deconstruction
At least somebody understands the Moyes approach to negative football...
Added on 20/11/2011
Blues March... Who's Arsed?
At his 'no holds barred' blog, Frank Hargreaves previews today's march by summarizing events this week, as he sees them...
Added on 20/11/2011
Wolves... a comparison
A club with real ambition, doing the kind of stadium redevelopment Everton could've done years ago, but we were told was impossible...
Added on 19/11/2011
Everton Must Attack
Shoot's Everton blogger looks for Everton, and especially Rodwell, to play a bit further up the field.
Added on 16/11/2011
From the Heart
A review of where the Blue Union has taken its protest in the first three months since its inception
Added on 15/11/2011
Everton fans plan peaceful demonstration
Added on 14/11/2011
Everton U-18s 2 - 4 Manchester City U-18s
Everton U-18's were blown away by a three-goal blitz from Man City U-18s at Finch Farm but fought back with two goals in the second half, only to succumb to an injury-time goal that sealed it for the Mancs.
Added on 13/11/2011
Jagielka can't blame poor form on missing Arteta
Phil Jagielka believes there are are enough good players in the side to make up for the loss of Mikel Arteta, but they are low on confidence after losing six of the last seven games.
Added on 11/11/2011
Moyes should have left Everton when the going was good
David Moyes owes Everton nothing. He has given it his all, and, when the time comes, should be allowed to walk away, with his head held high.
Added on 10/11/2011
Would Everton have won the European Cup?
The age-old question, the answer to which we'll never know thanks to the Heysel ban
Added on 09/11/2011
'A lot of things are missing' — Moyes
David Moyes believes there are “a lot of things missing” from his Everton team after they slipped to a sixth defeat in seven games at the weekend.
Added on 08/11/2011
Moyes keen to see new buyer
Added on 05/11/2011
Everton were interested in Demba Ba
Added on 05/11/2011
Newcastle v Everton – Tactical Preview
Added on 03/11/2011
ToffeeTunes: Poor Everton
Added on 03/11/2011
The Kenwright Delusion
Steven Maunder guest writes over at Football Fix with a withering assessment of the Kenwright regime
Added on 02/11/2011
The epic Everton takeover article
Tom Mallows chronicles the numerous and disparate internet pages chattering about the imminence or otherwise of an Everton takeover...
Added on 01/11/2011
What impact will the EPPP have on English football?
Added on 01/11/2011
Cash in... or Moyes to Spurs next summer
Added on 01/11/2011
Heitinga admits Blues are falling behind
Added on 31/10/2011
Uninspired Toffees toil to Man Utd defeat
Added on 31/10/2011
Saha blames boots for not scoring
Added on 30/10/2011
5 Tactical Points on Everton 0-1 Manchester United
Added on 30/10/2011
Rooney will always be 'a traitor'
Sir Alex Ferguson admits Wayne Rooney will always be "a traitor" in the eyes of Everton fans.
Added on 29/10/2011
Kendall: Mucha shouldn't have played
Howard Kendall believes that goalkeeper is one position you don't rotate, particularly against a team like Chelsea.
Added on 29/10/2011
The Battle of the Wounded Tigers
Added on 28/10/2011
How Goodison Park has become a danger zone for United
Sir Alex Ferguson is looking for a response from his players following their 6-1 home defeat to Manchester City but he must get it at Goodison Park which has become a tricky place to go for United in recent seasons.
Added on 28/10/2011
Everton and the League Cup: A Miserable History
Sabotage Times summarise Everton's poor record in the only major domestic competition that haven't won
Added on 27/10/2011
Baxter's Tranmere loan extension confirmed
Added on 27/10/2011
BBC's Conor McNamara ejected from Goodison Park
Added on 27/10/2011
Everton v Chelsea Carling Cup preview
Added on 25/10/2011
Stracqualursi not exactly a workaholic
Added on 25/10/2011
Everton Announce Goodison Bottle Ban
Added on 25/10/2011
Jack Rodwell’s the lad to sting Chelsea
Added on 25/10/2011
Louis Saha returns to haunt Everton Fulham
Added on 23/10/2011
Johnson targets 'special' goal v Everton
Added on 22/10/2011
Everton Training Session (Gallery)
Added on 21/10/2011
Fulham v Everton
Added on 21/10/2011
Fulham fixture of great importance
Added on 21/10/2011
Fulham v Everton Tactical Preview
Added on 21/10/2011
Neville to battle for Everton start
Added on 20/10/2011
Kevin Langley leaves Northwich Villa
Added on 20/10/2011
Beckford finally scores for Leicester
Added on 19/10/2011
Sven says: 'Don't judge Jermaine Beckford'
Added on 19/10/2011
Parry would like to keep Baxter longer
Added on 19/10/2011
McFadden move smacks of desperation
David Prentice on the acquisition of ex-Blue James McFadden for the remainder of 2011-12.
Added on 18/10/2011
Hillsborough Parliamentary Debate
Twenty two years after that fateful day in the spring of 1989 the families involved in the Hillsborough campaign for justice finally heard the cross-party support for the truth to be revealed reverberate around the very heart of government, the chamber in the House of Commons.
Added on 17/10/2011
Blue Union unveils its website
Added on 17/10/2011
Moyes calls Rooney ban a joke
Everton manager believes Uefa punishment is excessive
• Moyes says it might be better to leave Rooney at home
Added on 14/10/2011
Chelsea v Everton: Tactical Preview & Statistical Analysis
The Blues head to Stamford Bridge this weekend looking to stretch their unbeaten run against Chelsea to 8 games in a fixture which has yielded 6 successive draws …
Added on 13/10/2011
Government request changes to football governance
KEIOC summarize the latest government recommendations on key issues like football ownership, transparency and the role of agents
Added on 12/10/2011
A recipe for the rich to get richer
David Conn in The Guardian with a sobering assessment of where the Premier League is heading based on Liverpool's new drive to scrap revenue sharing of international TV revenue
Added on 12/10/2011
10 January transfer targets for Everton
Landon Donovan is included in Bleacher Report's list of potential transfer targets for Everton in January's transfer window
Added on 11/10/2011
Everton facing up to harsh economic realities
KEIOC cite Trevor Birch's assessment that Premier League clubs are cutting back their costs in the face of increasing financial pressures
Added on 11/10/2011
Arteta: Spirit in Everton's dressing room is the best
Added on 07/10/2011
Arteta did not undergo medical before joining Arsenal
Added on 07/10/2011
Doncaster ready to pounce for Dan Gosling with Newcastle set to release midfielder on loan
Added on 06/10/2011
Dan Gosling: Was he better off at Everton?
Added on 06/10/2011
Bill Kenwright admits club will lose up to £5 million a year waiting for a new owner to emerge
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Added on 06/10/2011
Atkinson awaits fate after Rodwell's red card is rescinded
Martin Atkinson is waiting to discover whether Jack Rodwell's successful appeal against his red card in the Merseyside derby will lead to the official's temporary demotion from the Premier League.
Added on 04/10/2011
The Blue Union in The Times
KEOIC claim that a journalist with The Times was banned from obtaining quotes from Everton players after the derby for including an article by the Blue Union last Saturday
Added on 04/10/2011
Pub landlady wins foreign TV battle
Portsmouth pub owner, Karen Murphy, who took her case about being able to screen Premier League matches with a foreign satellite decoder to the European Court of Justice, has been successful. The decision could trigger a major shake-up for the Premier League and pave the way to cheaper viewing of foreign broadcasts for fans of top-flight English games.
Added on 04/10/2011
Blue Union piece in The Times
Added on 03/10/2011
Liverpool planned to snatch Baines
Added on 03/10/2011
Neville calls for Rodwell to be cleared
Added on 03/10/2011
It's Liverpool or Everton – you don't do both, says Leighton Baines
For Everton's left-back Leighton Baines the Merseyside divide is one only your father can cross
Added on 01/10/2011
We couldn't afford Adam, admits Moyes
The 216th Merseyside derby is being billed as a match between the haves and the have-nots.
Added on 01/10/2011
How 25 years of poor planning left Merseyside trailing Manchester
Louise Taylor assesses the gulf that's opened up between the respective clubs of Manchester and Liverpool against a socio-economic backdrop that helped create it
Added on 30/09/2011
Derby memories: Rare pictures from the Echo archive
Echo slideshow — with YNWA warning
Added on 30/09/2011
Everton to open School of Science?
Everton are looking to become one of the first football clubs in the country to open a free school under the government scheme.
Added on 29/09/2011
Two years since Everton lost two in a row
Remarkable statistic could bode well for Goodison derby
Added on 28/09/2011
Saha can still be a game-changer for EFC
Added on 27/09/2011
Hahnemann: I definitely didn't join Everton for the money
Listen again to Marcus Hahnemann's interview
Added on 27/09/2011
How the Barca ownership model might work for Everton
Peter Bottomley at Dixie's 60 analyses a Times article that presents the case for fan ownership of football clubs
Added on 26/09/2011
Life is getting tougher for the have-nots
Lee Dixon assesses Everton's prospects ahead of the trip to moneybags Manchester City
Added on 25/09/2011
Bill Kenwright gets cheers but fans’ anger still grows
Added on 14/09/2011
Use Your Voice
Added on 14/09/2011
Everton gripped by identity crisis as People take on Club
Added on 14/09/2011
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