Talking Points

Sad news about a former Everton young player as news of the death of Cliff Marshall has been relayed by Everton FC:

A forward who was born in Liverpool in November 1955 and grew up an Evertonian, Marshall made his debut when introduced as a substi...
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Like most Premier League sides, Everton were handed their annual away defeat to Manchester City this weekend. A sobering 3-0 scoreline, continuing a run of six games now without a win. Everton though, haven’t won at Manchester City since Dece...
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Tom Davies is reported to have been injured in training at Finch Farm. A knee injury that will keep him out for at least a month.

This is coming from "The Bobble" on Twitter, usually reliable. We’ll probably find out later if there’s...
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When Farhad Moshiri initially bought into Everton Football Club by purchasing shares from Bill Kenwright and associates in February 2016, and was announced as our new billionaire owner, it seemed to be a new dawn and the start of a new era of succ...
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I think the time is ripe to have an open, focused discussion on the purpose of the Under-23s. I've seen a few posts here and there across a number of topics where the Under-23s are brought up and no concensus is ever reached before the debate is buri...
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Well, the wheels certainly fell off yesterday. The question is: Was anyone really surprised? The inquest was not long in coming and not surprisingly, Rafa is copping some stick… but is it fair?

Looking at it objectively, his substitutions ye...
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How would Everton be doing in the Premier League table without the intervention of VAR?

ESPN have compiled the VAR Effect Table where they took all 22 VAR decisions in the Premier League so far this season and calculated how they might have chang...
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We have had some of the greatest players of the last 50 years on our books:

Jennings
Sansom
Gough
Gascoigne
Rooney
Ginola
Hughes
Rooney
Eto'o
James
Whiteside
Who else?

Sadly, they were on the books of ...
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Another turgid international break – and it’s only early October. It feels better, though, going into them after a good performance and in a positive mood.

It is a psychological problem, but I often wake up and start thinking about Everton th...
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Buoyed by my ever-increasing confidence in this Everton side, I found myself contributing to the Andy Goldstein phone-in on TalkSport last Thursday. The discussion was about outside selections for the England team.

Danny Murphy had already dam...
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First thing, thanks to Michael and Lyndon. Without this website, I wouldn't have met some of the finest people ever. Also, thanks to Tony Abrahams, top man from a top blue family. I think I had Danny's ticket; cheers, Danny, it's more than I can say....
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Just came across two great episodes of Sky Sport's Time Of Our Lives with Jeff Stelling. Sheedy, Sharpy and Gray, with Kendall, Harvey and Royle in the other one. Fantastic viewing and stories.