Joyce is such a massive red. I’ll never forget him practically trembling with barely concealed rage in the press conference after the Van Dijk derby and Carlo swotting him aside as he defended Jordan with absolute assurance.
People can't really comprehend huge figures - money, measurement, whatever. I think moaning about "wages", that lovely working-class term - when these are the "salaries" of top professionals, is about 35 years too late. Jimmy Hill fought for fair...
We’ve been following our usual routine all summer by cheaping out at every turn. Winning the Europa put a sheet of tracing paper over a crack bigger than the one in my arse. An ambitious club would think phew, 17th but we won the Europa and our...
The sheer mention of that makes me cringe, I'll never forget dreading the postman delivering the phone bill back in 1995.... The buildup, ruined my summer holidays and the sheer terror as my mother opened the envelope.
Dark Days
The only person at TeamTalk who can report on Everton is Harry Watkinson, who used to work for the club writing match reports. He was the first person to report on interest in Thierno Barry by a few weeks and reported on KDH a day before Romano.
I blame us supporters , we were lazy , when football sold out to Murdoch ( he is a nasty piece of work , by the way ) we should have done something, anything to show our opposition.
The game has been gentrified , commodified and taken from us ...
Boss that mate. My dads the same. Probably the only thing that can get him excited like a kid at christmas. Going to meet him in a min as he wants to get there super early and take it all in.
Just off the phone to my dad, 77 he is and has followed Everton everywhere for 70 of those years. He was just heading off to meet his mate Paddy from the NI supporters club at Moorfields and walk down. So excited he couldn't sleep last night...