Bias at the Beeb

How predictable - those numbskulls at the BBC show their true colours (red!!) when discussing anything Everton related. It also raises a further, more serious concern as to how they still favour certain teams (the so called big 4 / 5 / 6) like Man U and Chelski in how things are reported.

To prove the point you only have to observe the outrage and disgust on Final Score at our win yesterday - it was reported as daylight robbery and we didn't derserve one point lett alone three. Which may well be true, however........................ When one of their favourites manage to scrape a lucky win after being outplayed it's the sign of a team showing character and going places by winning even without playing well. Or its a classic away performance where they've soaked up pressure masterfully and hit the other team on the break like true champions.

Fair, impartial???? - hardly!

Blackburn 0 - Everton 1

Well well well , that was a close call eh?! What a weird match too - a tale of three penalties (you don't hear that very often) although the only important thing was we scored ours. At the end of the day a win is a win no matter how you get it and three points and our first league win is very welcome :-)

Having said that we were a bit lucky from all reports I've heard back from those who went - obviously they missed two pens before ours and also had the better of the game and chances. One of their boys even managed to smash one off our bar when it was easier too score ha ha!

Big Fella managed to do something similar though apparently - a lovely ball was played into him and all he had to do was stroke it home. Which he managed to not do and put it over doh!! I blame the afro still! He did redeem himselfy though by winning our pen at the end - it surprised me though cos most refs automatically give the foul against him in challenges. Well done to Mikel too for keeping his nerve and slotting it home - you always knew he would :-)

Lady Luck at least smiled on us for once so heres hoping she continues too :-)

Everton 3 - Sheff Utd 1

oh yes boys , this is just what we needed after last weekends disappointment :-) well done to the lads for negotiating a potentially dangerous tie and cheering everyone up :-)

have to say didn't look too promising when  I heard Big Vic was in for jermaine to lead the line up front but happy to say he had an alright game and even got on the score sheet. sounds like a good effort too from all accounts. Sounds like Big Fella had a good game on his return to the side too as did Rodders. could this be anything to do with him playing more centrally where he is obviously better?! hoping that the penny has dropped with Moysey on this issue now and he keeps him there if he does play.

we had the better of the first half although managed to concede a soft one again - really need to tighten up in defence as clean sheets seem allergic to us at present! to make it worse it was another  Jags blunder that let them in! time to take the Arsenal money & run perhaps ha ha?! after that setback though we recovered and hit back well.

second half was a bit more of the same but no further goals unfortunately. sounds to me like young Barclay had another good one too so is starting to look the real deal. he seems to have time & space when he needs it and also the vision to pick a pass and the skill to pull it off which can only be good. also it seems my personal fave, Little Leon Osman, had a stormer too. well done little man :-)

Everton 0 - QPR 1

Oh dear, oh dear - and another season starts with the usual let down! why is it that we start every season the same these days? surely Moyesy must have worked out the same as us fans now its happened a few years on the trot and realised its time to look at how our pre-season works. cos at the minute it just doesn't! we always look about a month behind the rest of the league every year now till October time which is crazy!

However, on the plus side my mates who went to the game report that we were unlucky to lose and played alright which is something I guess. They reckoned it was the same problems as last year - created some good chances but no-one there to finish them off. Also, our play up till the final third was good but a lot of the time we just couldn't make that final pass to penetrate. So we still need a goalscorer and a playmaker - also a genuine winger to add width to at least one flank would be nice too. Reports also came back that young Ross Barclay played well and looked at home in the first team which is encouraging for the season ahead. He looks a very good player and could be one of the bright notes this year.

On the down side - well we lost at home to QPR didn't we which is pretty bad. They're an alright team I guess but we should really be winning teams like that specially when they're still adjusting to the PL. Also, why is Rodders being played out of position constantly on the right of midfield? It is destroying the lads confidence and making him look worse than he is. Play him in the middle of not at all Moysey! And why take off Beckford for Fellaini when we were chasing the game? I know he didn;t have the best game but surely it made more sense to put another striker on not take our only off?

You have to remember though that its only the first game and we always start slow so no need to panic yet. Onwards and upwards as ever :-)

please Jermaine don't go :-(

so the rumours been doing the rounds a few days now - Sven wants our Becks to join the big money revolution at Leicester. I for one really hope this doesn't happen as I really like him and think he is a quality player with goals written through like a stick of blue rock. Also don't forget he's one of the current squad who has got pace which is particularly important for us up front where he can get in behind teams and stretch them at the back. Lose him and we're back to Big Vic lumbering about like Sloth off the Goonies and The Yak strolling about like he's off to collect his pension from the post office (which he probably is , nigerian passport eh ha ha?)

i would much rather a few of the others went before him (like the Yak or Yobo) and certainly think the £3 mil offered is far too cheap if we were gonna sell. its depressed me thinking about him going so fuck it i'm gonna put another picture of pamela anderson up to cheer us all up for the first game when it finally arrives :-)

did you just say liverpool only drew?!

In your face Dalgliesh

with the absence of any Everton game to discuss in the new season I needed a distraction to occupy my mind. and what better and funnier distraction than to laugh at those twats from across the park who only manged to scrape a draw at home to the Black Cats despite spunking millions and millions on players all summer. looks like 'King Kenny' (urghhh i hate even typing that!) isn't quite the messiah you thought he all was eh boys ha ha ha! the man has pissed millions up against the wall on rubbish like Henderson and Downing ha ha , not so clever now is he. and to think they were all trotting out the usual 'we'll challenge for the title this year' bollocks all summer in the papers and on tele (and whenever you had the misfortune to bump into one around town)

and before I get called bitter blue and told we are better than them and shouldn't stoop to mocking them and revelling in their failure - sorry it might not make me the better man but it makes me the happier haha :-) almost as happy as this:

New Season kicks off

and so here we go again - the new season kicked off today and we have another year of thrills and spills following the blues to look forward too. or not quite yet ha ha - thanks to the rioters the game we should have been playing today at Spurs was called off. so we have to wait for our curtain raiser and see how the team is looking

a big hello to all you fellow Blues and hope you enjoy following the blog as the season progresses :-)