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The big four’s stranglehold will loosen

In 10 years time the monopoly of English Football held recently by Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool will be over. This will not happen overnight but gradually, season-by-season, other ‘big’ clubs will be challenging for domestic honours. Money continues to flood into the game and worldwide popularity for the Premiership grows each year – […]

The race for the final Champions League place

The race for the fourth Champions League spot took another twist this weekend as Everton slumped to a defeat at Craven Cottage as Liverpool impressed in a home win against Reading.
Liverpool now have a three point cushion over their Merseyside neighbours with goal difference also being in their favour but there will be no complacency […]

The Moyes the Merrier – Everton’s Meteoric Rise

Rewind back to Sunday 10th March 2002. It’s a 1:00pm kick off at the Riverside Stadium for a FA Cup Sixth Round game, live on Sky Sports 1, between Middlesbrough and Everton.
Middlesbrough run out comfortable 3-0 winners with a seven-minute onslaught which destroys any Evertonians hopes that anything can be salvaged from a ghastly […]

Everton’s revival has the feeling of permanance

Quietly and almost imperceptibly, Everton are having quite a season. David Moyes has developed a squad with the depth, quality and resilience to last a campaign, and his methods have been emphatically vindicated.
What is so impressive is, unlike other clubs unexpectedly challenging for fourth spot, Everton have not channelled their resources on the league, but […]

The chase for fourth spot hots up as underdogs lurk

To older football fans, the idea of the race for fourth place being as interesting, or as important, as the title chase or the relegation dogfight is fundamentally absurd. After all, as Bill Shankly once said “if you are first you are first, if you are second you are nowhere”.
But this season one of the […]