Another win for Everton

Good win for Everton – 5 out of 5 now and this with 10 members of the squad unavailable.
BBC SPORT | Football | Europe | BATE 1-2 Everton

Four in a row for Everton

Things generally looking up for Everton after the mess of the first few weeks of the season.  Yesterday saw their fourth win in the past four games: twelve goals scored and none conceded in the process.  Saha is effective if fit.  The major blot was Stephen Pienaar’s injury: another Everton man with a knee injury.

Injury time – a simple solution?

The weekend Manchester Derby turned out to be an exciting business.  Plenty of pot-stirring ahead of the actual game and some intriguing sub-plots.  One of the big talking points at the end was the timing of Michael Owen’s winning goal, well into the sixth minute of injury time.  Mark Hughes wasn’t best pleased about it. [...]

Weekend sport – season getting started

Slow out of the blocks is one way you could describe Everton’s Premier League campaign.  This weekend saw them in the relegation places after a home hammering at the hands of Arsenal and two narrow defeats in games where they should have done better.  However yesterday saw what turned out to be a fairly comfortable [...]

Weekend sport – off the mark

A friend commented last week in company that Everton are the strongest team in the Premier League: the point being that they were propping up the table.  That’s behind us now as they finally decided last week to do what should have been done weeks ago, namely buy a couple of new players and start [...]

Weekend sport: now it’s 2 out of 2.

Burnley 1 Everton 0: match report – Telegraph
Everton are starting to make a habit out of wasting the first few games of the season (they finished 5th last season, after giving everyone else a head start).  Problem seems to be that they want to take more of a break over the summer than everyone else: [...]

Try before you buy?

Another South American to Everton on loan.  Ever Banega this time.  Davy says if he’s not up to scratch, they can send him back.
BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | E | Everton | Everton secure Banega work permit

Weekend sport – the Everton soap opera

The great British BBQ summer is winding down (weather hasn’t been great, but we’ve managed a few BBQs notwithstanding).  And the football season is already upon us.  Football hardly goes away with the summer saga of the transfer window.  As Evertonians have come to expect, this summer’s window has not been smooth.  From being gazumped [...]

Watching Everton win a trophy

For the second year in a row, Everton’s junior team won the final of their section in the Milk Cup tournament – part of the summer events on the north coast here.  This afternoon’s final was a rematch of the FA Cup Final of 25 years ago: then Everton beat Watford 2-0 and it proved [...]

FA Cup final 2009: Everton’s 25-second goal not enough

FA Cup final 2009: Everton’s 25-second goal – Telegraph

Gavin Peacock practises what he preaches in new career | Premier League – Times Online

Just around a year ago we had Gavin Peacock speak at a joint initiative in Coleraine.  Here, the Times runs a nice article on where he is now – preparing for ministry in Canada.
Gavin Peacock practises what he preaches in new career | Premier League – Times Online

Penalty Shoot-out and Z-Cars at Wembley

Everton in the FA Cup Final

It’s been a long time since Everton made it to a cup final – 14 years, actually, since a Paul Rideout header, allied to a great performance from Neville Southall set up a 1-0 win over today’s opponents, Manchester United – but at last they are back.
This time it was even tighter as the game [...]

Everton’s blue-eyed manager

Great photo!  Read the article in The Times - David Moyes determined to put one over his mentor, Sir Alex Ferguson | Everton – Times Online

Weekend sport – 6th all year so far

A thumping 4-0 win over Wigan kept Everton securely in 6th, where they have been all year, apparently.  Can they maintain that over the remaining seven games of the season?  Indeed a win at Aston Villa next week – that would nice – would take them 5th.  And of course there is the little matter [...]

Everton reach the FA Cup semi final

Everton and David Moyes march on in FA Cup – Telegraph

Everton and David Moyes march on in FA Cup – Telegraph

Everton cook Liverpool’s goose

A late goal from Dan Gosling was enough to ensure that Everton cooked Liverpool’s FA Cup goose last night in the Goodison Park replay.  Not only did the Liverpool goalkeeper miss the goal, so, incredibly, did ITV who had switched over to a commercial break!
Dan Gosling brings FA Cup joy to Everton – Telegraph

Another round with the neighbours

After Monday evening’s 1-1 draw with Liverpool, it was the FA Cup at the weekend – and another 1-1 draw.  Apparently Everton forgot to give Liverpool a fair chance to win the game by trying too hard to prevent them scoring.  No doubt Rafa would have fancied his chances in a more open game, but [...]

Standing up to the neighbours

Tim Cahill celebrates his late equalizer against Liverpool.

Who needs strikers?

Everton 3 Sunderland 0.

Could Everton not play all their games away this season?

Celebrations.  Manchester City 0 – Everton 1 (Cahill).

An injury time equaliser was not enough

It was quite a spectacular equaliser – 127 seconds into the 3 minutes of injury time: but there was still time for Everton to get caught out with an Aston Villa winner.

ESV Bible Blog » Bilingual ESV Bibles Provided Free During Olympic Games

With the Olympics now in full swing, it is interesting to read news from Crossway books about Bible distribution at the Games.
In addition to the 10,000 bilingual CUV-ESV Bibles, 30,000 New Testaments and 100,000 bilingual editions of the four Gospels will also be made available at the Olympic Games.
ESV Bible Blog » Bilingual ESV [...]

The NW 200

It’s been hard to miss the presence of motorcycles around our area over the past few days.  One of the largest (probably the largest) sporting events in Ireland has been taking place today in the Coleraine-Portrush-Portstewart Triangle today.  Around 150,000 spectators are expected to watch the North West 200 motorcycle races.  The races actually round [...]

Gala dinner in Coleraine

Over the past five months, a number of the churches in our Portstewart – Coleraine – Portrush Triangle have been working with Crown Jesus Ministries in several special events.  Last night we had one of the biggest of the events in the series when we had a gala dinner in a local hotel.  Over 400 [...]

Rugby in Dublin

Before today I had been at one international rugby match – about 10 years ago I watched Switzerland play Serbia in Nyon – hardly top tier rugby nations. Today Pauline and I went to Dublin as with friends from church where we saw Ireland lose to Wales (who thereby won the Triple Crown). [...]

Untouchable Everton hit back in race for fourth – Football News – Telegraph

Things are heating up in the race for fourth place in the Premier League.  Thankfully Everton keep on winning.  At the weekend it was a 3-1 win against Portsmouth, with two goals from Yakubu (popularly known as the Yak).  The first was scored in the first minute (after about 8 seconds of actual playing time).  [...]

Back in the Top Four

After briefly surrendering fourth place to their red neighbours, Everton crafted a fine win to get back into the top four this evening.
BBC SPORT | Football | Premier League | Man City 0-2 Everton

Everton rout SK Brann with Yakubu hat-trick

Everton are still winning…
Everton rout SK Brann with Yakubu hat-trick – Football News – Telegraph