By Brian Sears 18 March 2011 In many ways, Everton have struggled to hit the statistical heights in the Premier League era. Of the seven ever-present Premier League clubs, Everton will be the last to reach the coveted 1,000 points total – they are still 39 points short. (Tottenham were the sixth club to reach the target […]
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Arsenal, Newcastle, Everton and Blackpool: eight-goal thrillers by the dozen
By Brian Sears 7 February 2011 The Premier League’s 41-goal Saturday was a record for the 20-team division, but other intriguing stats can be found in two specific score lines: Everton’s 5-3 win over Blackpool, and Newcastle’s 4-4 draw with Arsenal. This was the first time in the Premier League that both these eight-goal thriller […]
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Arsenal dominant at home to Everton (and everyone else, bar ONE bogey team)
By Brian Sears 1 February 2011 Arsenal host Everton on Tuesday evening for the 19th time in the Premier League era and statisically-minded Gunners will be licking their lips. Arsenal have won more home points against Everton since 1992 – 45 points from 18 games for a whacking 2.5 points per game on average – […]
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Why Everton should relish the visit of Grant’s generous West Ham
By Brian Sears 21 January 2011 Everton prepare to host West Ham on Saturday knowing the Hammers bottom of the table with one measly away win this season. But more than that, the London side have provided more points for Everton than any other opponents in the history of the Premier League. (See table below […]
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Tottenham to face ‘easy’ Everton with an eye on ‘1,000 Club’ status
By Brian Sears 21 October 2010 Tottenham are on course to become the sixth Premier League club to amass 1,000 points since the League started in 1992, and are almost certain to reach that tally this season. They have 969 points to date, so need another 31 points from 30 games remaining this campaign to […]
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Andy Murray muses on Everton, Liverpool and Blackpool rather than basking in Masters thrashing of Federer
By Nick Harris 17 October 2010 Andy Murray rubber-stamped his return to form with a straight-sets thrashing of Roger Federer in the final of the Shanghai Masters today – not that you’d know it from his Twitter feed. There was no mention at all of the sixth Masters title of his career, or that fact […]
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In the week of the Merseyside derby: the tale of Everton’s Dixie, the Babe, the Sox and Liverpool
JOHN ROBERTS wrote for the Daily Express, The Guardian, the Daily Mail and The Independent, where he was the tennis correspondent for 20 years. He collaborated with Bill Shankly on the Liverpool manager’s autobiography, ghosted Kevin Keegan’s first book, and has written books on George Best, Manchester United’s Busby Babes (The Team That Wouldn’t Die) and Everton (The Official Centenary […]
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Mersey misery for Liverpool and Everton reflected in lacklustre league hauls
By Brian Sears 23 September 2010 Carling can rarely if ever have been responsible for a regional hangover of such proportions as the one clouding Merseyside today. First Everton became the penalty shoot-out victims of League One Brentford in the Carling Cup on Tuesday. Now Liverpool are licking their wounds after going down to Northampton, […]
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ANALYSIS: What the yawning gap between Manchester United and Everton says about the Premier League’s seven ‘ever presents’
By Brian Sears 10 September 2010 The first Premier League match of the weekend, tomorrow lunchtime, features two of the teams ‘ever present’ in the League since it began in 1992, with Everton hosting Manchester United. Only seven sides have been ‘ever present’, that pair plus Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Aston Villa and Tottenham. Thus 42 […]
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West Brom join Arsenal, Tottenham, Everton and others in banning vuvuzelas
By Keira Daley 29 July 2010 West Bromwich Albion have today become the latest Premier League club to announce an official ban on vuvuzelas within their ground for the forthcoming season. In a statement on the club’s website, Mark Miles, Albion’s head of facility operations and development, said: “Although vuvuzelas are very popular in South Africa, […]
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