It is Arsenal who not only sit top of the Premier League, but are also the team who are the most careful on the ball. 6965 passes have been completed from 8166 in their 15 games so far and playing at home, they have averaged 54% possession, second only to Liverpool and Southampton. When Everton
After Romelu Lukaku’s successes with West Bromwich Albion last season, many expected him to play an increased role at Stamford Bridge this season, under the reinstated Jose Mourinho. The signs were good during pre-season with the Belgian getting a fair amount of game-time and looking ready for the coming season. However, rumours started to circulate
For the transfer activity done by Chelsea this summer, totalling nearly £70 million in spend, it is the one that didn’t happen that was most significant. Samuel Eto’o, Willian, Andre Schurrle, Marco Van Ginkel and Christian Atsu were the arrivals as Jose Mourinho added unbridled quality to a squad already packed full of it, but
As the dust settled on a frantic ending to a bitterly unsuccessful transfer window for Manchester United, the focus was very much on those who David Moyes and co. failed to bring in through the door rather than the one they actually did sign. Not even the distinctive afro-hair and enthusiastic smile alongside Moyes as
Major transfers IN: Arouna Kone - £6 million – Everton; Antolin Alcaraz – Free – Wigan; Gerard Deulofeu – Loan – Barcelona; Joel Robles - £2 million – Atletico Madrid Major Transfers OUT: Phil Neville – Retired Everton start the season with a new manager for the first time since 2002 with the departure
The Roberto Martinez era has suddenly burst into life at Everton with the completion of 3 transfers in 2 days, though the identity of the three imports won’t have exactly sent pulses racing in accordance with his bold ambition to return the club to the Champions League. Sticking to the cliche “better the devil you
Everton’s season started with a magnificent Marouane Fellaini-inspired victory over Man Utd and ended meaninglessly with defeat to Chelsea to confirm an unwanted sixth place and David Moyes’ exit. A year that proved Moyes’ last offered some of the most genuine hope seen at Goodison for years, yet ultimately yielded routine feelings of frustration and
Since the Moyes dynasty started in 2002, the Toffees have not defeated Arsenal in the Premier League either at Highbury or the Emirates. Tonight, the Scotsman and his boys will attempt to end that horrible away record tonight when they face 3rd placed Arsenal. Everton are back in the hunt for the race
Everton’s regular late season push is nauseatingly over-referenced. I’ve lost count of the times this season I’ve angrily interrupted insufferable pundits and their propensity to start Toffees-based sentences with ‘Traditionally, David Moyes’ side are slow-starters’. But as we’ve passed the New Year, I’ll risk self-proclaimed hypocrisy to tackle the subject myself. Everton’s propensity to finish
I was at Leon Osman’s first Premier League game for Everton: Molineux 2004, we lost 2-1 but that 1 goal came from the, then 22-year old, Osman. His first goal in English football. I myself was only a young child at the time but I knew that he was going to be something special with
With the closing of the summer transfer window and the league being temporarily disrupted by the break for international World Cup Qualifiers and friendly matches, everybody can pause for a breath after what was a manic first month of the new Premier League season. As the dust settles on yet another window of inflated transfer
Born to Moroccan parents in Etterbeek, a small town near Brussels, the afro-ed box-to-box midfielder has flourished into one of the top midfielders currently playing in the Premier League. Fellaini is similar to Man City’s Yaya Touré in the way he can play in multiple positions and can dominate the midfield with his height and
Well I don’t know about you, but if you wanna look to one of the best pieces of business in the summer transfer window look no further than the blue half of Merseyside. Mastermind Moyes didn’t do half bad this window, snapping up a few deals and disposing of some of the dead weight (no
After Manchester City snatched the title from their neighbours in, quite literally, the last minute of the Premier League campaign, Manchester United are ready to do it all again and try to claim their 20th league title. The Reds travel to Goodison Park to open their account against Everton on Monday night. The last time
After the unquestionable snooze fest that was World Cup 2010, I thoroughly enjoyed Euro 2012. There was much more of an attacking intent from the teams involved, but one constant remained: Spain again emerged victorious, showing the importance of creation, movement and being able to keep possession. The Spanish method, it would appear, has resonated