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  • Tottenham Hotspur Preview

    In a completely transparent bid to drum up interest and provoke controversy in a publication that nobody really reads we approached Russell Brand to guest edit This Is Not Football but the skinny-scarf wearing Herbert declared, rather bluntly, ‘You talk enough shite already. And I support West Ham’. So you will have to put up…

  • Aston Villa 0 Everton 2

    So, David Moyes and Alex Ferguson decide to have a game of darts this time. Not really, simmer down. Everton’s early-season hot streak continued thanks to a great performance from Tim Howard and another inspired substitution by Roberto Martinez. Resplendent in that yellow and blue away kit, and with last week’s returning hero Steven Pienaar…

  • Aston Villa Preview

    ‘Yeah, so they have offered me a new contract, which is fantastic. I’m going to go in and sign it on Monday. You’re stripes.’ ‘Woah, steady on son. Are you sure?’ ‘Definitely, even more money for doing the same job, why wouldn’t I?’ ‘I think you are being hasty there, to be honest. Two shots.’…

  • Everton 3 Newcastle United 2

    In the words of Elvis Presley: ‘Lord almighty, I feel my temperature rising’. And who wouldn’t after seeing Roberto Martinez’s hunks of burning love produce 45 minutes of joyous football. A Yohan Cabaye-inspired fightback resulted in a nervy finish that seemed unimaginable at the break, but it was that opening half that will live long…