Hull City Preview
Hello. Hello. Testing. Testicles. One-two. One-two. Is this thing still working? Hey, how you doing? Long time no smell. Great to have you back. Have you lost some weight? Been […]
View ArticleEverton 2 Hull City Tigers 1
A surprisingly evenly-matched contest had its tipping point after almost an hour, and fittingly it involved a player who is looking more and more like Malcolm Gladwell. Steven Pienaar, on […]
View ArticleLiverpool Preview
Ahoy hoy! It’s been a while. International breaks are normally an absolute nuisance but it’s allowed This Is Not Football some valuable time to find a way around the stringent […]
View ArticleEverton 3 Liverpool 3
‘These are nothing special. The only thing we have to fear here is just being typical Everton’. Five minutes later Philippe Coutinho is left completely unmarked at a corner and […]
View ArticleOn Their Toes
In the aftermath of a game in which Kevin Mirallas’s foul was so heinous it threatened to wipe out several generations of Suarezs (Suarii?) it turns out that it’s […]
View ArticleEverton 4 Stoke City 0
First of all, an apology. Last week, while musing on how Roberto Martinez would cope with the absence of Leighton Baines, we deduced that Bryan Oviedo’s absence from the derby […]
View ArticleSunderland and Southampton and That
The games are officially coming all Darren Huckerby now – that’s right, ‘thick and fast’ – so once again we adopt the lazy-arse scattergun approach of talking about what’s going […]
View ArticleEverton 2 Norwich City 0
Welcome to Goodison Park. Wipe your feet and leave the points at the door. Chris Hughton’s Norwich were simply the latest in a long line of barbecue-coated Christians thrown to […]
View ArticleStevenage and the Derby and That
‘Don’t look down, lad. Don’t look down. I’ve got some good news for you and some bad news. The good news is that it’s not soft tissue damage…’ The tale […]
View ArticleEverton 2 Aston Villa 1
Winning this game probably isn’t that significant in the big sweep of things. Losing though, that would have felt catastrophic, Continue reading →
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