Premiership latest.

The Magnificent 7 Ride Again.

With all the post-Rooney furore [or should that be fury?], I've neglectd to link to the latest BBC news table, fixtures and results data. Were sitting pretty, looks like those who forecasted optimistically on the 'Where will we finish' poll [see the right hand side of this page] were shrewd.

P2P betting exchange, Betfair, has the following Everton prices, to go down: Back at '6.6,' Lay at '7.8'

On the 'Premiership Handicap,' Everton are 4th favourites in the market. 'Everton +46.5 points' is '9.8' to Back and '10.5' to Lay.

Reassuringly, Betfair have Moyes at '70,' to Back and '95,' to Lay in the next Toon manager market.

Moyes' view, Rooney doesn't expect the title, this year and the 'Bill and Ben' story.

Firstly, remember Adidas Trimm Trabb anybody? It was love at first sight for me. Oh how I lusted for a pair as a child, upon first seeing them in the Enclosure:



Arguably, the greatest training shoe of all time. Well, soon cometh the hour. Apparently, they're due for re-release in Britain in the near future. Being a hopeless and eternal scally, with a burning, unresloved love, I can hardly wait.

Eloquent as ever, here's the quiet and considered Moyes view.

Rooney has indicated that he does not expect the title, for this year at least.

Rooney: “We’ve got some good young players at the club and providing we can all grow together in the team, I think we’ll eventually come good again,” he told the club’s official website.

“It’s a big challenge for us and we might not win the league this season; it might take two or three years. But I really think we’re capable of matching both Arsenal and Chelsea.”

Excess 'Rooney' Everton shirts are being given to Africans. Hopefully one or more of them will be inspired and follow Yobo's route!

Talking of Africa. South African striker, Benni McCarthy, is reportedly very upset ['extremely disappointed'] with FC Porto officials after they cancelled his transfer to Everton, preventing him from becoming Rooney's replacement, the deal collapsing just before the end of the window of opportunity. Don't worry, it'll soon be Christmas Benni.

Mike Parry of Talksport radio

Mike Parry, the Evertonian from the Talksport Radio Breakfast show [with Alan Brazil] is very ill. Here is the letter, describing his condition, the prognosis and his plans, that he recently sent in to the radio station.

Note the message from Rooney, referred to at the end.

The master commentator's view.

In combination, the following two articles are a heady double, like I, you shall very likely digest them with a curious mixture of pleasure and pain.



I strongly recommend that you start here, with this article, written a long, long time ago...

Next, read the most recent article. Yet again, MBE has produced, what I consider to be THE definitive commentary.

'Dennis Kelly is innocent’ and the writing may be on the wall.

Daddy's in the alley
He's lookin' for the fuse
I'm in the streets
With the tombstone blues…
Tombstone Blues [Bob Dylan]

Oh dear. The volume of Rooney-related graffiti [first photographed [in order to alert and shame] and displayed on this site, in posts from last weekend] that has erupted, since his departure, has put me in mind of the ‘Dennis Kelly’ phenomenon from around 25 years ago.

Do any of you remember 'Dennis Kelly is innocent'? Scousers of a certain age, may very well remember the ubiquitous 'Free Dennis Kelly' etc graffiti that, often sitting alongside 'SMBB' covered much of the external wall-space of Liverpool in those far-off, simpler times.

Graffiti can leave a lasting impression; long after the paint has faded away or been over-coated.


Fanatical apathy

This ‘Rooney Manc/Judas’ etc. shyte has GOT to be addressed. Ignore the principles of free speech, pay no heed to it being the harmless preserve of errant kids. We can and should do something about it. Apathy may prove extremely damaging.

I'm not going to go and do an Edward Woodward/ Rambo on the next group of shaven-headed, foul-mouthed urchins, that I catch with a dripping paintbrush. Nor do I encourage any physical intervention from you lot. The World Wars stripped us of many of our alpha-specimens, allowing the weak, bleeding-hearted to flourish. Consequently, the suffocating, PC-rules of our neo-liberal state have put paid to all reasonable forms of correctional therapy. However, even in such regulated, sterile times as these, both you and I, can still act. I suggest that we should note any observations of such Rooney-related graffiti and try the novel approach, of actually DOING SOMETHING both simple and legal about it.

I request that you simply ‘phone the Council direct on [0151] 233 3000 in order to report any future graffiti sighting.

Today, I have reported some ‘Rooney’ graffiti that I saw on Mill Lane, West Derby, [between the Jolly Miller and West Derby Village/ the Bellefield Training Ground]. The process went as follows:

1] I ‘phoned the Council on [0151] 233 3000 and
2] logged the location and nature of the graffiti with them,
3] adding that such ‘garbage’ may damage more than the name of Everton Football Club.

We are not Leeds Utd, we are not West Ham Utd. With respect to both of those clubs, we are bigger and ‘better’ than those that tolerate [and therefore allow] such small-time, parochial hate-campaigns to flourish.

In the name of decency and respect, this activity must be roundly denounced. Failure to nip this in the bud, in our own law-abiding ways, may do much more than damage the fragile aesthetic appeal of our City.


Yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look …[Oscar Wilde].

Read deeper than the [prima facie] junk-content, the juvenile misspellings and the name-calling. It’s fine to debate sensibly; conjecture, within reason, is understandable and necessary. To talk on the correct forums is important, as feelings are running high amongst many fans at the moment.

Crucially and worryingly, you can bet your mortgage that feelings are running high in each of the Rooney households too.

Consider this. The ‘next Rooney,’ his youngest brother 'John,' who is thought by certain scouts and trainers to be astoundingly talented and his eldest sibling’s equal[!!!] is, to my knowledge still with Everton. Could this trend in abuse [graffiti, stadium chanting etc], if allowed to continue unchecked, result with him being moved, by his justifiably enraged parents, to the Youth set-up of Man Utd? Think long and hard about that logical possibility, before you close your ears and your eyes to it.

So, besides making the City look like the maddest corner of the League of Gentlemen's Royston Vasey and the angriest of the Goodison choristers sound distinctly small-time, be aware that this phenomenon could literally cost Everton the ‘next Rooney.’

The stadium chanting is a more difficult nut to crack as it can be difficult to argue with a fella who may well be absolutely crackers and whom you may have to sit next to, year in year out. The courageous shall no doubt attempt to reason with the loudest vocalists no matter what. If you’re one of those bravest men and true, you have my admiration and my best wishes. However, the graffiti matter is more easily manageable. Be vigilant and if your moment comes, make that call.

Just my 2p fellows.

Laughing ghosts that cross our minds… GMail winners [2 of 2]

From the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, take the last left, onto Memory Lane ...

Part 2 [of 2] of our recollections is here:

End of the 95 final, Dave Watson walks up the steps, then lifts the FA Cup (after beating you know who) turns to the tunnel end the cheer was out of this world. So special for me as I'd missed the 84 final and had seen us draw in 77 & 84 league cup, lose in 85,86 & 89 FA Cup and the Zenith Data & whatever it was called when Forest beat us.. all at Wembley.. I met Dave Watson a couple of years ago and told him, that I could now die happy after seeing us win at Wembley!

EFC, those who know understand, those who don't, don't matter.. and those who don't care f*ck off down the M62..
Tommy Gibbons

Has to be beating Man Utd in the 1995 FA Cup final - i played my footballclub finals on the same day, and all the man utd fans were ripping it out me saying they were gonna thrash us, and we went on in typical joe royle dogs of war spirit and did the business - which left them trophyless for that year - comedy !!!!
Toni

Although it was one of the lowest points of the past decade and a half, the Houdini act of May 1998 on the final day of the season was perhaps my greatest Everton moment. I arrived at the ground early and walked around the outside of an eerily silent Goodison Park fearful yet
somehow confident that we would stay up. A few hours later I was dancing in the centre circle in the pouring rain celebrating our second great escape. The deafening crowd, Z-Cars, Vialli at Stamford Bridge, the missed Barmby penalty, Coventry's late equaliser... who could forget the drama!?
Lyndon
ToffeeWeb Webmaster

Here's my entry (quite ironic that it involves United!)
December 25 1977. Opened a Christmas present from my dad. Two tickets for my first ever Everton match the following day. The tickets never left my sight until we walked to Goodison Park. Manchester United at home, Everton had gone the first 19 games of the season unbeaten. 90 minutes later, it was still 19 games unbeaten. Man United won 6-2 but I didn't really care - I'd been for the first time in my life plus I'm sure that 6-2 defeat has helped me come to terms with life being an Everton supporter. Cheers Dad.
steve flanagan

In case you still haven’t spotted it, the Rooney Poll [‘Who’s foolin’ who?’] is on the right hand side of this page. Please have your say.

The GMail invitations to the winners, shall be dispatched later today. Thanks to you all.

Laughing ghosts that cross our minds… GMail winners [1 of 2]

Come with me along the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, let's see what laughing ghosts cross our minds …

In the name of the GMail freebie competition, I have received the following wisps of memory - evocative recollections of better days. Thanks to you all; just the tonic needed for the darker days of the here and now…

The invitations to the winners shall be dispatched later today.

In case you haven’t spotted it, the Rooney Poll [‘Who’s foolin’ who?’] is on the right hand side of this page. Please have your say.

Anyway, Part 1 [of 2] of our recollections is here:

Greatest Everton Related Moment eh......
It would have to be standing in the Gladwys Street End when Graham Stuart bobbled in the shot from 25 yards out to beat Wimbledon 3-2 on the last day of the season and keeping our status in the Premiership...... Keep up the good work pal.
Eddie Sherwin

I am an avid Everton fan from New York City. In 1989 I was watching the FA cup final in a bar in downtown Manhattan. At half time I went to the bar and started chatting to a guy, Rob is his name. Being the only girl in an Everton shirt I must have stuck out. 15 years on we are married with kids - thats my greatest everton moment.
Hopefully this counts, Thanks, Chrissie

when i was around 4-5yo (30 now). my aunt lived door to old everton player, jack lindsey, whom we called uncle jock.wed be on her back wall. and hed come out and say ,would you like an apple, hed ask ' blue or red' if u said red hed go mad(messing) because of this we grew up blues..
thank god..
R.I.P. JOCK
perry and lynn

the greatest moment for me was the way in which Peter Reid ran near 40 yards and put in a crunching challenge on the baldy german during the semi final second leg of the cup winners cup when we were getting beat 1-0 this was the rallying point for our greatest win in europe ever by miles
colin wilkes

My greatest Everton memory has got to the the European Cup Winners Semi-Final Cup against Bayern Munich, I love night matches you cannot beat them for atmosphere, the buzz that night kept the 'z-cars tingle' going the whole night. I hope we will experience nights like that again in the near future.
Ken Rushton

Come on you Blues, another GMail [Google e-mail] giveaway.

Here we go again, more free GMail accounts [Google's excellent 1GB webmail service] on offer. I've been using GMail for ages now and I would never go back to my old webmail providers - it's wonderful. At 1GB worth of storage, in combination with some very smart features, inbox maintenance pressure and retrieval problems just don't feature...

So, for tonight's giveaway, I'd like you to describe your greatest Everton-related moment. Please write less than 100 words.

Submit your entry to me, via e-mail [chancellor@evertonblog.co.uk]

Let's buoy our spirits with a couple of stories about better days.

The best one or two will be published here tonight [or at the very latest, by this time tomorrow] and the 'winners' shall then be e-mailed a much sought-after GMail invite.

Who's foolin' who? and the 'Rooney transfer' poll #1 results.

The 'Rooney to leave during the Transfer Window' poll has now closed.

The results are as follows:

It has to be asked... do you think that Wayne Rooney will still be an Everton player when the transfer window closes?

Yes, there was never any doubt, 'Once a Blue, always a Blue!' 15% 43
Yes. 43% 124
No. 17% 50
No, since Euro 2004, there has been no doubt that he would leave. 25% 72
289 votes total

With hindsight, how spot-on was the 4th option...?

This next poll is a natural follow-on. To the right hand side of this page you will find a self-explanatory poll entitled 'Who's foolin' who?'

Who's foolin' who?

I and many viewers, will be very interested to know what the mood of a [hopefully representative] section of the on-line Everton community. You are invited to indicate what single factor you think has played the biggest part in this sorry episode, that has left us with a mere £10m, 'last orders' having already been called.

Hopefully, all of the many possible reasons cited have been included, you may not agree with the inclusion of some on the list but, in the absence of too many agreed facts, it's largely 'in the eye of the beholder' - others may deem those options essential. Note that the poll is asking for you to indicate the person or factor that you consider to be mostly 'to blame' [don't you just love the blame culture by the way?] - it is appreciated that there has been more than one element at work in this matter and in reality you may agree with a few of the statements.

Freebie time again tonight, more GMail accounts [fom Google] will be given away free to Evertonians after 22.00 GMT

Any Blue want a free Gmail account [1GB email by Google]? These accounts are currently obtained by invitation only and I'm just the fella to ask...

It'll soon be freebie-time again, more GMail accounts [from Google will be given away to Evertonians tonight.

Check back at around 22.00 [GMT] tonight, my fellow crestfallen, Blue conscripts and around that time, a post on this site will signify the opening of another e-mail-based competition. The first few respondents, after the competition opens, will be sent to bed happier than of late, with a valuable and much sought-after invitation to open a GMail account. At the time of writing, Google's free 1GB webmail accounts are still only available by invitation from Google's band of cronies [such as I].

If you are a winner of the previous GMail competition and have not yet received your invitation from Google, you should e-mail me and I will make alternative arrangements [a private url address, containing the GMail creation link will be set up and notified to you] for you to set up your free GMail account. Previous winners' names are listed about 6 posts down on this page...

Thorn' in my side?

Time to look ahead. This fella's agent [I really don't like that word at the moment] reveals our interest in Sunderland midfielder, Sean Thornton. He may be a signing when the transfer market re-opens in [the far off days of] January 2005

Those of you who have tears, prepare to shed them.

What's done is done and cannot be undone.

Talk about pictures painting thousands of words. Sight of the following images will mentally exhaust you. Credit to Jan Nedretvedt [of Norway] for supplying the following [hideous] link.

I can't imagine many of you will be doing the old 'right click, save image as...' routine with these little beauties! View this link [here] to glimpse the future, today, be aware that the content is not pretty.

To borrow from the lyrics of Bob Dylan, "It's all over now, baby blue."

Keep the faith brethren.

I can see clearly now that Wayne has gone.

I can see clearly now that Wayne has gone in an uncontrollably cracking, Johnny Nash style

The club has sold its major asset without consulting the shareholders.

What sort of business outfit pulls a stunt like that? Also, the Newcastle sums looked more attractive. Perhaps being the new Sheerah at the Toons didn't really appeal to Wayne. Oh, yeah, I nearly forgot, Fred Shepherd's son is a shareholder at Proactive isn't he?

Man Unaarted are laughing all the way to the bank.



'#8,' all very clever, 8's a magic number in the Far East.

We've been shafted by the Manc, Media and Marketing Masters. We've got £10m and nothing more for 12 months. Bearing in mind the bank that likes to say 'No' is going to take half [£5m] immediately, we'll have a mere £2m - £5m to show for the next 12 months. Chicken-feed for the loss of Europe's [and very probably the world's] finest young player.

The red tops have played their part, remember them for that, when buying your ‘news’-papers in future.

All is quiet at ground zero.

As for Kenwright's "£7m," where is it? Did it ever exist? Will we see the £50k per week set aside for Rooney directed at the squad? Are we going to sign anybody in the next 2 hours?

'Everton are still paying the price for Heysel [part 16 - The uncut, widescreen Redux Version]'

Read the article about the price of Heysel by Martin Samuel here From the Toffeeweb archives.

Besides the 95 FA cup, our second bit of luck since '87 and surprise, surprise he's slipped away. Make no mistake, Man Utd. will make the £10m per annum and then some from [extra-over, Rooney-mania] shirt and merchandise sales alone. Our national profile will now quickly sink to the depths of the early 90s all over again. Consequently, we can expect our merchandise income to plummet to the usual lows. The fall in merchandise revenue shall eat into the complex and obtuse drip-fed on 'ifs and buts' fee. We've lost the image of Rooney in an Everton shirt being beamed around the world's TV sets. Marvel at how Chang shall drop us with the same speed that sh/t flows through a goose.

What's the bigger picture? Where do we go from here?

If Man U need success for us to get our payments, expect us to roll over and let them shaft us in all future fixtures. Expect Everton fans the world wide to be hoping and praying for the Red Devils to win things and influence people, all with the aim of Everton getting their hands on the success-related cash - it's laughable.

We shall never see his like in our lifetimes again. Are we now to expect Rooney's parents to consider moving their remaining youngster[s] away from our Youth Academy and into that of Man Utd?

King's Dock, Rooney for £50m, the failed NTL deal, the replacement Chief Executive, Russian cash, Bill Kenwright is living in world of fantasy. Kenwright! This is not a play, this is Everton, in the name of all that is holy, get out of Dodge for f'cks sake, before the curtain well and truly falls. Nevermind fireworks, the forthcoming EGM will hopefully see the landing of a timely and well-aimed Exocet.

As promised, remaining positive about the man of the moment

I shall be positive about Rooney and will get the matter of that particular young man out of the way in the finale. We shall continue to marvel at Rooney's talents, only now it shall be from afar and dispassionately. No, we can't expect to have the intoxicating pleasure of any emotional attachment. He set sail too soon, but he’s only guilty of doing what he felt he had to. Many will not see that as a crime. Good luck anyway lad. Oh, and I hope you change agents really soon.

If only more people appreciated poetry. A little poetry as both 'The Window' and the long day close ...

Poem lyrics of Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

...
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Benny Good-man? Rooney: it's a thin line between love & hate - don't be pushed over it!

Benny Good-man?

Everton are in talks with European champions FC Porto for South African striker Benny McCarthy.


It's a thin line between love and hate...

How am I? My chest and stomach are aching. I imagine that this is how I'd feel if my wife ever left me and the kids, to go and live in a sordid, sweaty, sex-shack with one of the [thankfully] few fellas that I truly despise.

You will have no doubt heard that the boy wonder has been seen at Man U's training ground. Expect the bomb to drop any minute now. When it does, my fellow malcontents, let's keep our composure. I, for one, am going to concentrate on the few positives that remain and the happy memories of when he was once a blue ['mine']. That goal v Arsenal was one of the greatest moments that I have ever experienced at Goodison,
the moving footage in my mind, the "Remember the name..." commentary that weekend on the TV, make me feel very, very sad right now. I know that time will change me.

We're just going to have to get on with it and wish him the best of luck; what else can you do at the end of a love affair?

'Rooney shirt' on ebay

Unsurprisingly, no bids for this to date!

Winners of 'Freebie time: free Gmail [1GB Google e-mail] account.'

The response has been tremendous. Thanks people. The competition has now closed.

I have decided to let 6 Nr highly sought after, free GMail [1GB free e-mail accounts by Google] go to the following 6 Nr Blues:

Olly Wilkins [Account now opened!] - favourite Everton player: Dixie

David Urmson - favourite Everton player: Tommy Lawton [that's what my arl fella always says when asked]

Nick Armitage - favourite Everton player: Kevin Sheedy

Chris Muir [Account now opened!] - favourite Everton player: Joseph Yobo [mine too]

Jess Davies - favourite Everton player: Kevin Sheedy

Mark Crabtree*** - Favourite Everton player: Tommy Gravesen

*** Of Cornell University, USA! Known as 'The 1st American University.' If I remember rightly, one of my all-time heroes Rod Serling of The Twilight Zone fame used to lecture in the Ithaca Campus.

There has been a problem with Hotmail and Yahoo allegedly blocking GMail invitations from entering their users' inboxes! If you have a Hotmail of Yahoo account and you don't recieve your invite via e-mail within 24 hours, let me know. In such circumstances, I'll email you the link from my non-GMail account and include the address [url] of a page that I'll set up on the internet, just for you, from which you'll be able to access the GMail url, that will allow you to set up your free new account.

Congratulations and thanks for tuning in.

Freebie time: free Gmail [1GB Google e-mail] account going ...

Don't ever say that I never give anything to you lot.

The first person to e-mail me,

[a] informing me how they found this site and
[b] naming his/her favourite Everton player

... will be sent a link that will allow them to get their very own free GMail [1GB e-mail] account from Google. These are very sought after and are not generally available to the public yet. On Ebay, bids for invitations to open these accounts have reached £100 each!

Don't forget, your e-mail must confirm how you found this site and include your favourite player's name, for your entry to be considered, may the best blue win!

Grav. on his way to Aston Villa?

A rumour has been circulating since Saturday that Chris Coleman landed, in a helicopter, in Crocky Park on Saturday, with a view to Fulham signing Grav!

Blue kipper have a different story...

Bluekipper are suggesting that our prematurely bald midfield maverick is going to Villa. This in combination with a likely Rooney exit, will give us all of a few minutes at the end of the transfer window, when all the best players have already been sold. Well planned fellas.

Premiership final score: Everton 0:0 Manchester United - Everton denied a clear penalty.

Correction, 2 penalties...

So much for Man U, eh Wayne!

What have you got to do to get a penalty at Old Trafford? Isn't it now 6 years since an away team got a penalty at Old Trafford?

Evertonians can justifiably feel frustrated, after being held to a 0:0 draw by the in-decline Man. U. OK, Man. U. hit the woodwork, but the refereeing for a Man. U. game was once again, atrociously biased. D.G. could only point one way and we were denied, amongst other things, two penalties.

Yet again, a trip to Rate the Ref. beckons.

More later.

Everton and the Russian fiasco - a viewer's letter.

Without prejudice.

In light of the recent story about Bumbling Bill, gagging for a Gulag Goldmine, a viewer has submitted this to Everton Blog and we have decided to share it with you lot. It is entirely the work of the author Colin Wilkes, email: niloc_sekliw@hotmail.com

Read it for yourselves and bearing in mind the suggested evidence [links], make your own minds up.

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i have had to open this Blog because no one wants to either believe or post what i have to say the euphoria that has been heralded by paternalistic Bills £20million is going to be very short lived and not because of Paul Gregg involvement but because the money is tainted do we as true blue EVERTONIANS want this money at any cost i think and hope not

the principal player in the russian offer is Christopher Samuelson all the information i have gleaned on him so far is there in the public domain so its all verifiable there is also loads that i cant gain access to for a number of reasons 1 you have to pay for it and 2 the british secret service wont release it (minge bags)

Samuelson is either CEO or is the front man,or is a principal for the following companies Fortress Sports Fund, Mutual Trust, Valmet, Menatep thats 4 there are i would guess many more the very nature and methodology used to construct these organisations has left not just me but most governments and secret service agencies through a highly complex labyrinth of offshore companies

Fortress Sports Fund has only recently been set up and is based in Brunei its objectives are to buy into sporting organisations and sports management

Valmet Group( formerly Mutual Trust) is based in Geneva Switzerland ( and shares an office with Sibneft the CEO of Sibneft is Roman Abramovich yes you got it the owner of Chelski FC London ) one of Valmets former principal players and ex partner of Samuelson is Peter Bond financier of the IOM who has been investigated by the FBI and other law enforcement organisations he has admitted money laundering activities but was given immunity by the US authorities this was whilst still in partnership with Samuelson Peter Bond had a very close working relationship with the deceased british lawyer Stephen Curtis the man the secret service had discovered as the brains behind the web of offshore accounts that stretched from IOM-Gibraltar-Cyprus and god knows where else used by the russian oligarchy shortly before his death Curtis had been to the British authorities and had informed them he wanted to blow the whistle on the illicit activities in Britain being perpetrated by the Russian money people and had been assigned a handler by the National Criminal Intelligence Service

Menatep was the holding company of Yukos Yuko.MM oil Yuko oil is owned by the tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky at the present time serving a hefty jail sentence for tax evasion and fraud in Russia Yokos oil was laundering money via Sark one the smallest of the Channel Islands and the IOM

what i am attempting to do here is delineate some of the short comings that i believe have been overlooked and we as the fans and therefore the present custodians of our great football club have not been informed of regarding this present amount of money being on offer we have to be ever vigilant from the paternalism of Kenwright and the advances of another Johnson type figure and i dont include Gregg in that catagory as i see him as just wanting to recoup his money and say goodbye

Paternalistic Bill has either been conned good style by a 23 year old business student or is once again lieing his bollox off

here are the links you can read all the full stuff for yeh self

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Dead link, published for the sake of completeness Supporting link 4

What's your Russian like?

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Manchester Unaarted preview.

See here for legal notice relating to images in this article.

The prediction poll has been closed. Here are the results:
Predictions: Away v ManU plc tm [Mon. 30th August at 12.00]
Everton win 27% 9
0:0 0% 0
Score draw 18% 6
ManU plc tm win 55% 18
33 votes total

This 'Daily Manc,' article talks of whining and moaning of the fans. The beaut should wake up and realise that his and his 'sister' papers have probably catalysed this process, by giving voice to the ['well-meaning'] 'agents provocateurs,' poking wounds by interviewing prostitutes and generally making his position at work and at home intolerable. Don't you just love the red tops? Like New Labour, they're a triumph of style over substance, full of spin and are just never wrong! It is common for red tops to have 'news stories' of soap stars as headlines! On that final point, the case is rested.



The 'Mancs' will attempt to take the p/ss as usual today. As ever, the chants from the 'One love' group will be a bit rich, bearing in mind that they are 'Geordies in Armani' [copyright WSAG] Whilst "Rooneh, Rooneh ..." booms, we should take comfort in the fact that Evertonians are not a group of ear-ring wearing, tattooed, fairground-worker-lookylikey, universally reviled, teds, intent on glory hunting. Bitter? 'Kin right.

It's ironic that the Rooney merchandise is now half price in the club shops, bearing in mind at £24.2 million, he's apparently going to Man U for roughly half price. Europe's most exciting youngster is surely worth a truckload more than Rio [£32 million and a big muthafukkin afro] Ferdinand, with Rooney perhaps being worth some £40m+?

Go on Bumbling Bill, be a devil and tell them to sod off.

Anyway, a trio of preview articles for you, my fellow malcontents, to digest: here, here and here.

Turning to the betting markets. Latest odds for the game [from Betfair the P2P betting exchange]

Everton to win
Back at 12.0
Lay at 12.5

The Draw
Back at 5.6
Lay at 5.7

Man U to win
Back at 1.35
Lay at 1.36

On the same site, Man U prices to descend Jacob's Ladder are:
Back at 150.0
Lay at 1000.0

Everton's prices to go down have drifted to 5.3 and 5.8 to back and lay respectively. To win the League, our odds are 1000.0 to back only.

For there to be less than 2.5 goals scored, the odds are 2.36 to back and 2.4 to lay and for more than 2.5 goals scored, the prices are 1.72 and 1.74 to back and lay respectively.

I'd just 'love it' if we beat them.

Exclusive: Photos of the appalling 'Rooney...' graffiti outside Goodison - stop this madness.

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Here are a few shots of the graffiti daubed by the small-minded shytehawk[s] yesterday and today. Surely the mention of Rooney in such daubings is not the right thing to do. After all that we've been through with the lad, is this really how it should end?

It is disgusting that the club have not dealt with this lunacy in their usual manner [i.e. when the Dean statue gets its usual red rinse - is there perhaps a sinister reason behind their lethargy?], I shall be contacting them, with a clean-up suggestion this afternoon.



I publish these images in the hope that they will shock right-minded fans into switching their attentions to the real villains of the piece and not Rooney, who has been led astray and generally mishandled, by all of his advisers and management, except for Moyes, with whom he just didn't seem to get on.