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Destination Kirkby — Day 1
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This report from the Official Everton Website summarizes the opening statements from the various stakeholders. |
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Everton Res 1 - 0 Newcastle Res
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Everton Reserves beat Newcastle 1-0 at the Stobart Stadium last night. Lukas Jutkiewicz scored the winning goal but Andy Holden’s side had two goals disallowed in the first half. Hibbert, Baines and Anichebe all played. |
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Pienaar withdrawn
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David Moyes says there was no choice involved in his decision to withdraw Steven Pienaar from the South Africa squad for their game against Cameroon. The Bafana Bafana boys sound a bit miffed about the claimed injury, and will not be happy if Pienaar appears against Wigan! |
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Moyes fined
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David Moyes has been fined £5,000 by the FA and warned as to his future conduct following comments made on the touchline during Everton's match against Stoke City on 14 September. Such is the punishment for some managers who dare to question a referee's decision. |
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Destination Kirkby
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The public inquiry into the £400M development known as Destination Kirkby that includes Tesco's retail outlets and a new stadium for Everton starts today, with the club's sale to a new 'investor' likely to depend on the outcome. The club have launched a propaganda offensive to reinforce their total commitment to the plan, with no consideration of alternatives because there simply are none. |
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Kinsella is latest Academy graduate
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Gerrard Kinsella is the latest in a line of youngsters to sign professional forms with Everton as he eyes a place in the Reserves this season. |
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Cahill facing foot surgery
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David Moyes fears that rest may not be enough for a heel injury that his plaguing Tim Cahill and that the he will have to undergo surgery. The Australian played against Middlesbrough with the help of painkilling injections but was limping before being substituted late in the second half. |
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Vaughan for England U-21s
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James Vaughan has been called into the England Under-21 squad to face the Czech Republic on Tuesday after Blackburn's Matt Derbyshire pulled out with a groin injury. |
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Another youngster signs
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Gerrard Kinsella has become the latest Everton youngster to sign a professional contract with teh club. The locally born, central midfielder penned his deal at Goodison Park before the clash with Middlesbrough on Sunday. |
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Blues held by 'Boro
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Yakubu got back on the scoresheet, helping a Mikel Arteta free kick into the net by way of his shoulder to score the equaliser, but Everton toiled to find a winner and were ultimately frustrated by their own final ball and some resolute 'Boro defending. David Moyes's side fell behind to an early goal by Gary O'Neil when he finished a swift counter-attack by placing his shot in off the post. But the Blues responded well with a number of good attacks. Joleon Lescott's cross bounced off the post, Joseph Yobo, Tim Cahill and Louis Saha all missed with headers before the Yak struck to level the game. It was the visitors who came closer to winning it, though, when Tim Howard pushed Digard's shot onto the post. |
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Moyes in for Dutch winger
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Rumour Mill: David Moyes is "confident of winning the race for Dutch winger Eljero Elia" according to the News of the Screws. The Blues apparently face competition from Hull City and Birmingham for FC Twente's 21 year-old ace who would cost around £3.5m. |
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Lescott makes England squad
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Joleon Lescott will be Everton's sole representative when England take on Germany next week but Phil Jagielka was overlooked by Fabio Capello. |
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Junk Mail... Or Is It?
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David Arrow comments on a PanStadia feature article |
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A Big NO to eBay!
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Ian Ross, 'Head of Communications' at Everton has launched a withering broadside at fans selling limited edition pink shirts on eBay, branding them "greedy, self-serving and callous individuals who will be rightly condemned by every decent, right-thinking supporter of Everton Football Club." Mailbag Thread |
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Everton vs Middlesbrough
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Everton have their eyes on fifth sixth place and a fourth successive Premier League win as Middlesbrough come to town for a Sunday lunchtime kick-off. Joseph Yobo is out with a calf strain but Marouane Fellaini, Steven Pienaar and Aiyegbeni Yakubu are all back in contention. KO is 1:30pm |
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Moyes has utmost faith in the Yak
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David Moyes has warned Tottenham off any approach for Yakubu in January saying that he is committed to making the Nigerian one of the most feared strikers in the Premier League. "I am not aware of interest from another club" he says, " and I'm not worried about it, either. I have no intention of letting him go," |
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FM does the scouting
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Everton have signed a ground-breaking deal to use the huge player database of Football Manager to scout for new players. The game's creators, brothers Paul and Oliver Collyer, are avid Evertonians. |
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Groundsharing the Logical Choice
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Keith Harris, the man tasked by Bill Kenwright to hawk Everton around to international money-men but who seems to be talking his product down lately rather than up, believes that there would be a number of mutual benefits to the Blues sharing a new stadium with Liverpool. The idea of sharing a stadium is anathema to fans of both persuasions but the recent cataclysmic changes in the financial world have possibly created a new environment for the "economically sensible" solution to both clubs' stadium problems. "Why not?" asks Harris. "Technology today can turn a stadium from blue to red in the flick of a switch." |
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Hope in Everton's future
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Hope Akpan has become the fourth Academy graduate to sign on with Everton in the past month. The 17-year-old, who recently made the step up from the U-18s to the Reserves, joins James McCarten, Nathan Craig and Lewis Codling in signing professional terms as the Blues secure what some say is a potentially impressive crop of youngsters. |
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Howard hopeful over USA honour
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Tim Howard is in with a good shout of being named US Player of the Year for the first time this year. He has been shortlisted for the honour after keeping five clean sheets in his last eight international games. |
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