Football
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Right then. The ‘narrative’ of this season has generally been all about Everton playing well but not killing teams off and paying the consequences with monotonous regularity. This FA Cup quarter-final certainly represented a deviation from the usual script then. This was just old-school, common or garden shite. With Darron Gibson dropped to the bench…
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When you write these match reports they start to form in your head as the game nears the end. Deep into injury time at Boundary Park the tone of this one was going to be about Everton showing a certain degree of Premier League professionalism, especially in the second half, against a ‘spirited’ Oldham side…
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‘You can fuck off and take your mate’s fucking knee with you,’ is one of the more esoteric shouts heard at Goodison Park in recent times. It came after Johnny Heitinga more or less summed himself up: after scoring the glorious last-minute winner at the weekend he started here and gifted West Bromwich Albion a…
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The deafening noise at the end of this fourth round FA Cup tie was the sound of scores of internet match reporters furiously pressing ‘delete’. When John Heitinga replaced Nikica Jelavic on 81 minutes the reaction at the match was certainly the old one of ‘typical negative Moyes’, however the move ended up looking positively…
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