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StevO

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  1. If I was planning to buy a football club I’d probably contact a journalist. I don’t think I’d be getting in touch with some fella on Twitter.
  2. You did it today? After that yesterday?! I did it too
  3. Yesterday was the first time I’ve taken my Daughter to Goodison. It had me thinking about memories of the place and I thought I’d start a thread about our memories of Goodison Park. Yesterday I asked a steward on our way into the upper Gwladys to take a photo of us for her first game. He said ok but follow me, and he took us into the lower tier and took a photo of us with the pitch right behind us. He didn’t have to do that, but it made it special. Even though it was crap on the pitch, it’s a memory I’ll never forget. I don’t remember my first game, but I remember being 2-0 up against Leeds, sat in the Lower Bullens and my Dad shouting at a Leeds fan “2 down against ten men are ya” My Dad isn’t a shouter, doesn’t really get aggressive, so it’s always stood out in my mind. Digging up the centre spot with my hands after either the Wimbledon or Coventry game, I can’t remember which, and putting handfuls of pitch in my coat pocket. Then when I got home they went in a bowl on my bedroom window. A couple of weeks later it smelt so bad my Mum threw it in the bin. Beating Arsenal 1-0 with a late Andy Johnson goal in the rain and hail. Beating Arsenal 3-0 with Martinez. I love us beating Arsenal, it’s not personal, but it kind of makes up for all of the dickings we’ve had over the years. Me and my mate saying at half time against Palace we will get Dele shirts if he comes on and keeps us up. We didn’t get those shirts. Dele kept up his side of the bargain. The man I’ve sat next to for the last 15+ years telling me a few months ago that he wants to sit next to me when we move to Bramley-Moore. In all these years we’ve never asked each others name, we probably never will, but I’ve hugged him a thousand times. I hope he’s sat next to me when we move too. For the ladies derby in a few weeks I’ve got tickets for the whole family. We’ll have three generations together at Goodison, hopefully not for the last time. I’m going to buy Everton shirts for everyone though. Got to make these memories while we can. Quite emotional thinking about the place. I’d love to hear some of your memories, some of you will have many more than me and will have seen some trophies too.
  4. "Behold Goodison Park! No single picture could take in the entire scene the ground presents, it is so magnificently large, for it rivals the greater American baseball pitches. On three sides of the field of play there are tall covered stands, and on the fourth side the ground has been so well banked up with thousands of loads of cinders that a complete view of the game can be had from any portion. "It appears to be one of the finest and most complete grounds in the kingdom, and it is hoped that the public will liberally support the promoters." The publication 'Out Of Doors', reported in October 1892.
  5. I’d do that, but drop McNeil and give Harrison a go on the left.
  6. You fucking broke him. Thanks for that!! He’s been crap since you posted this.
  7. Have you seen him in Criminal Record? Fantastic!! Capaldi that is, not Chermiti.
  8. Yep, if they want to make a quick buck then they have to sell the club in a better state than how they find it. It’s very simple really isn’t it? If there are other buyers waiting then I don’t see how with all the negativity around 777 they haven’t just popped up with a simple statement to make us aware there is an alternative. It would put pressure on the premier league to fail 777 and end the exclusivity agreement. Or are these other potential buyers waiting for us to go into administration and get us on the cheap?
  9. Yesterday we missed two good chances in my opinion. The penalty and the McNeil chance. Other than that we created a bunch of half chances. I don’t need to see Xg to think we should have won the game, but I don’t need stats to know that we create fuck all. If we don’t have Tarkys cross field pass, we don’t have anything.
  10. It was a brilliant save, but I’d much rather he fucking leather the thing into the back of the net. I thought the penalty was weak.
  11. We don’t trust the premier league to look after PSR and our points deduction, we think they are against us. But we think the delay in approving our new owners is because they are doing a thorough job of looking into them? The FA and the FSA were both satisfied they had all of the correct information immediately. 777 claimed all parties had everything up front. But the one party who’s been fucking us over all year are doing this one properly? Ive no issue with 777, if they get the club I’ll judge them after that. Lots of speculation about them, but our current owner is a shadow investor for a man who has been sanctioned by the western world for ties to an illegal war. The one before him was an egomaniac who borrowed money from his dodgy mates to keep hold of the club for as long as he could, so he could call himself “Mr Chairman”. We aren’t getting a John Moores type of owner ever again. The same reason we got Dyche, because the club was fucked, is why we’re getting some opportunists like 777. They admit they are opportunists too, only buying clubs who are in crisis to try to fix them. If we weren’t in the shit they wouldn’t be looking at us in the first place. If we don’t get 777 we won’t see the back of Moshiri for another 12 months, if we’re lucky. We are a rudderless ship, we need a captain. ASAP!
  12. There is much work to do for him and the staff. While we can’t spend any money, and we don’t really have an owner or a board, I’m not sure what should be our expectations. It’s not fun watching Everton though.
  13. Has to score to make it 2-0, if he does I think it’s game over.
  14. Go and see the stats? No! Go and watch us play! You don’t need a spreadsheet to understand football, just a pair of eyes.
  15. Have you seen us play? We were close to the top of the chances created table, because a ball into the box counts as a chance. A free kick, a corner, a cross. All chances. Quality chances? Doubt it. Can anyone who has watched us play football this season say we are a team that creates a lot of chances? Not because the stats say so but because your eyes have seen them? During this poor run of form Dom is having he’s probably missed about half a dozen good chances, in 20 games! Yes he should have scored, but our service is shite regardless. If he scored half of his good chances his figures would still be poor. I like the general style of play we have, but the lack of quality in the team is a joke.
  16. As a back up, Beto is absolutely fine. Everyone knows DCL is first choice when fit. We cant afford to buy a striker better than DCL, and any striker of similar quality wont be coming here to sit on the bench. We've got to be a bit realistic with our expactations. If you want to see some goals from our strikers, then take a good look at the quality of the players around them, or the lack of. We dont create a lot, they feed on scraps. Look at when we have Lukaku scoring for fun. He had Mirallas, Deulofeu, Barkley, Coleman, Baines. Put him in this team, he would struggle for goals too. When DCL was scoring goals he had Richarlison, Sigurdsson, James, Digne, Coleman. Over the last five years we have sold so much attacking talent and replaced them with lesser quality players. Thats our problem in front of goal. We can all say about the chance DCL had against Villa, but that probably the only real chance and we've seen good players miss one on one before. We need to be more creative.
  17. Dont believe the £40m headlines Rob. For us to end up paying anywhere near that, firstly, Everton would have to be successful, and second, Dele would have to be playing. That money is safe.
  18. I hate and admire Daniel Levy in equal measure.
  19. I don’t see Luton staying up. Surely conceding 19 goals in their last five games will take its toll. Especially when Sheffield United scored three of them. Let’s go bold. We play them on 4th May, we relegate them that day.
  20. If he can get fit I’d have no issue seeing him take a 12 month deal, once the Spurs contract is over. Apparently if he plays seven more games we have to pay Spurs. We’ve only got 13 games left, I doubt he would be fit in time to play seven games anyway. He’s not even training with the team yet. I don’t see any scenario where we pay Spurs now.
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