As with the game against Manchester United, I felt awful before this game. And, as with the game with Manchester United, I shouldn't have bothered. Rarely have Liverpool dominated with such ease at Goodison Park (61% of possession, the stats showed at the end) and really it was a game that could have been won by a bigger margin. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool striker Fernando Torres shrugged off his Euro 2008 hangover to score twice to beat 10-man Everton in the 208th Merseyside derby.

The Spain international had managed just one goal all season before this match.

He got himself booked at Goodison Park, argued with referee Mike Riley about the heavy-handed treatment he was getting from Everton's defenders and then hit back where it hurts. Click to continue reading...

Fernando Torres two goals in three minutes is the difference as Liverpool take the short trip to Goodison Park and come out 2-0 victors that was marred by the horrific refereeing of Mike Riley.I am going to say it like I see it here, Mike Riley has officially ended the FA's respect campaign over the [. Click to continue reading...

Fernando Torres two goals in three minutes is the difference as Liverpool take the short trip to Goodison Park and come out 2-0 victors that was marred by the horrific refereeing of Mike Riley.

I am going to say it like I see it here, Mike Riley has officially ended the FA's respect campaign over the last two weeks.

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Arbeloa Skrtel Carragher Dossena
Kuyt Alonso Gerrard Riera
Torres Keane

Goals:
Torres 59' 63'

Just as promised: hands up, I was wrong. Liverpool deployed the 4-4-2, with Alonso for Mascherano because of injury the only deviation from my guess at a squad, and Liverpool leave Goodison two-nil winners thanks to the genius of Fernando Torres. Click to continue reading...

I have never been a fan of Nicolas Anelka so I know I am totally biased against him. Actually, that isn't totally true, when he was a teenager at Arsenal I was as impressed with him as was everybody else. It is since he left Arsenal that he has been such a disappointment. Watching Chelsea play against Manchester United on Sunday, I couldn't help but feel that Anelka looked totally out of place. Click to continue reading...

We'll be underway at the top of the next hour, here are your line-ups: Howard; Baines, Yobo, Lescott, Neville, Castillo, Arteta, Cahill, Anichebe, Yakubu Bench: Nash; Valente, Kissock, Wallace, Agard, Gosling, Rodwell, Vaughan, Baxter Espinoza; Camozzato, Onyewu, Sarr, Dante, Dalmat, Defour, Nicaise, Witsel, De Camargo, Mbokani Bench: De Vriendt; Goreux, Mikulic, Ingrao, Toama, Jovanovic, Click to continue reading...

2007/8 Review

Everton enjoyed another very good season under the stewardship of David Moyes, flirting with Champions League qualification for much of the campaign before finishing fifth. This was despite Everton allowing opponents more attempts on goal than they themselves created. The Toffees were able to overcome this imbalance thanks to some very sharp finishing from their strikers, dead ball prowess, and excellent goalkeeping from American Tim Howard. Click to continue reading...

Photo from the Telgraph via the AP.

First batch of match reviews from the past weekend. The final batch will be up tomorrow morning. Note there won't be a second full match review as I was unable to see Sunderland v Manchester City in full.

Everton v Portsmouth: Jermain Defoe's two goals and assist see Portsmouth go away and get an emphatic 3-0 victory at Goodison Park.

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Everton 0-3 Portsmouth

Ugh! what a fundamentally depressing afternoon. There was just something in the air at Goodison...there was no singing our cheering, instead just a constant hubbub as Evertonians digested the new signings and the cup draws.

Nothing went right for the blues, essentially we had the better of the first half but went in 2 goals down, we missed a penalty and you just knew it wasn't our day. Click to continue reading...

Yobo and Yakubu have been great signings for the Toffees and it now appears as though another Nigerian will be playing in a blue shirt this season. David Moyes has been frantically trying to draft in some high-quality players and it appears that he's struck gold as far as this ... Click to continue reading...

Premier Lig'in ikinci haftasında Arsenal Fulham deplasmanında mağlup oldu. Wenger'in yeni neslinin zamana ihtiyacı var galiba. Liverpool Anfield'deki birinci, ligdeki ikinci maçında da galip gelmeyi bildi. Middlesbrough'u 2-1 ile geçtiler. İlginç olan Tuncay 86'da çıkmış, Liverpool da son 4 dakikada bulduğu 2 golle galibiyete ulaşmış. Click to continue reading...

Everton 2-3 Blackburn

Absolutely gutted about that but I can't really comment about the game 'cause I was down south at a family do...look at that midfield though. Arteta plus two defenders and a kid. Not strengthening the side during the close-season is little short of dereliction of duty. Click to continue reading...

After season of ultimately being in the shadow of Manchester United both domestically and on the continent, Chelsea sent a warning to the defending champions that they intend to see the Premiership return to Stamford Bridge. Luiz Felipe Scolari's first match in charge saw a rampant Chelsea overcome FA Cup Winners Portsmouth 4-0 in a game which saw them showcase Lampard, Deco and Ballack in the same midfield. Click to continue reading...

Premier League football is back, and the goals were flying into the net this opening weekend. Where to start?

Chelsea 4 - 0 Portsmouth
How about with Scolari's Blues as Chelsea thrashed Portsmouth 4-0. Joe Cole, Nicolas Anelka, Frank Lampard, and Deco all scored as Chelsea soared to the top of the table on goal difference.

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Everton and Blackburn played out a very entertaining game which Blackburn ran out 3-2 winners thanks to a last minute goal from Andre Ooijer. David Dunn gave Blackburn the lead in the 21st minute but just on the stroke of half-time a Mikel Arteta free kick ensured the sides went in level at the break. Click to continue reading...

Fulham complete £10.5 million signing of Andy Johnson from Everton

Andy Johnson's protracted move from Everton to Fulham has been concluded, with the England forward signing a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee, believed to be in excess of £10 million.

The former Crystal Palace striker, 27, returns to the capital after a disappointing second season on Merseyside that was hampered by injury, after his £8. Click to continue reading...

Kick off is at 6 PM and the tailgate is going to start at 3 PM as the Rapids are set to take on EPL's Everton featuring Mikel Arteta, Tim Cahill, Phil Neville, Yakubu, Andy Johnson, and American Tim Howard.... Click to continue reading...

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Good morning all. Last night was a good night to be an MLS fan. New England toppled Mexican champions Atlante in SuperLiga while the Chicago Fire defeated Everton in a friendly. Couple those results with the latest in the European soccer world and we've got a lot to get to this morning.

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Everton striker Andy Johnson is on the verge of a £12 million move to Fulham following a medical at Craven Cottage.

The 27-year-old has not travelled with the Everton squad to the United States on a pre-season tour and is about to become Fulham's record signing.

The money would allow Everton manager David Moyes to strengthen his squad and he is now likely to increase his efforts to sign Sporting Lisbon midfielder Joao Moutinho. Click to continue reading...

New Fulham striker Andy Johnson is leaving Goodison Park, but not before giving Everton fans one last gift. Johnson's departure is enabling David Moyes and the Everton board to increase their offer for Portuguese sensation Joao Moutinho, and most likely will allow the club to complete his signing.

Everton look set to increase their bid to £15 million. Click to continue reading...

New Fulham striker Andy Johnson is leaving Goodison Park, but not before giving Everton fans one last gift. Johnson's departure is enabling David Moyes and the Everton board to increase their offer for Portuguese sensation Joao Moutinho, and most likely will allow the club to complete his signing.

Everton look set to increase their bid to £15 million. Click to continue reading...

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Good morning everybody. While we await word on where Kenny Cooper is headed, and wait for an official announcement of the Chicago-Toronto FC trade that will send Brian McBride to the Chicago Fire, here are some stories from across the pond to get your day started.

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Just what we needed. The man I've been wanting to captain this team for the new season contracted malaria over the summer in the Ivory Coast. He was feeling a little weakness during the training camp in Austria and was taken to the hospital for a check up, and they discovered...wait for it...that he has contracted the deadly disease. Click to continue reading...

Here are the players who have scored ten goals or more - more than once - in the last three seasons: Frank Lampard 3 Ayegbeni Yakubu 3 Robbie Keane 3 Wayne Rooney 3 Darren Bent 2 Dimitr Berbatov 2 Didier Drogba 2 Steven Gerrard 2 Nicolas Anelka 2 Jermain Defoe 2 Thierry Henry 2 That's it.   I'm beginning to think that there really is no such thing as a consistent goalscorer for teams like us. Click to continue reading...

Apologies for the delay, but I have finally got around to making my first attempt at writing a case study. This time we will look at Everton, one of the top five clubs in English First Division/Premiership history.

After strong performance during the middle third of the season, Everton struggled near the end of the season and they finished 11 points behind Liverpool and 5 ahead of Villa (the next largest gap was Man City finishing 6 ahead of West Ham).

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Saturday, March 1st Birmingham 4, Tottenham 1 Not many were expecting this result and it's pretty certain that not a soul would have expected Mikael Forssell to hit for a hat-trick against the Hotspur no less. Sure enough, that's what happened. The true 'nail in the coffin' came with Sebastian Larsson's swerving free-kick beating Paul Robinson to [. Click to continue reading...

The big Nigerian striker provided the first goal in a 2-0 shutout of Sven's sliding Citeh (and his 16th of the still young season). Last month's CHI Best XI pick Joleon Lescott added another less than 10 minutes later as the Toffees rode their first half efforts into fourth place, surpassing Liverpool no less. Click to continue reading...

The Liverpool Echo brings us news that Thursday's UEFA Cup encounter between Everton and Norwegian side SK Brann is being viewed as Mission Impossible by the Scandinavian outfit. Everton come into the Goodison tie two away goals to the good and Brann boss Mons Ivar Mjelde whimpered: "We need a miracle of a [. Click to continue reading...

Everton striker Ayegbeni Yakubu is back after his little post-tournament African Nations mini-break, and after the Toffee's 2-0 UEFA cup victory against Norwegian's SK Brann he bigged-up his comrade, young pup Victor Anichebe. The youngster came on late in the game to score his fourth in the UEFA cup this season, and Yak [. Click to continue reading...

Yakubu returned to the Everton team yesterday, playing an important role in the Toffees 2-0 win at Brann and subsequently earning praise from his manager David Moyes. It goes some way to drawing a line under events of the past week, when the striker failed to report back at Goodison Park on time after Nigeria [. Click to continue reading...

Unsurprisingly David Moyes will bring Yakubu back from exile for this week's UEFA Cup tie against Norwegian outfit SK Brann. The Moyesiah said: "Yak's back in and it's done with now — that episode has ended. "Let's hope he feels he has a point to prove because he let us down by not coming back [. Click to continue reading...

Everton's recalcitrant Nigerian Yakubu Aiyegbeni has been left out of Everton's squad to play Reading as punishment for going AWOL on an African minibreak instead of coming back to Everton as scheduled after Nigeria went out of the African Cup of Nations. When asked about Yak, David Moyes kept his cards close to [. Click to continue reading...

Every time the African Nations Cup comes around, there always seems to be a Premier League player who initially fails to report back for training after their team are eliminated from the competition. In 2008, it's Everton's Yakubu grabbing the headlines in the Daily Telegraph for doing this - it looks like he'll have some [. Click to continue reading...

Have you seen Yakubu? Because his club Everton haven't. The Nigerian striker should have returned to training on Wednesday, but he hasn't showed up. Team-mate Joseph Yobo did make it back in one piece, which makes Yakubu's mysterious absence look... Click to continue reading...