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Once he's been touched by Everton...

Which Tayto crisps?

L'altro club di Liverpool.

I was thrilled when I heard Dave's dad was giving up his season ticket as it moved me one place closer to getting one. This news is almost as good.

A few days on and I'd like to offer a considered opinion...losing Ancelotti is an absolute catastrophe for the Bloos. I remember saying when they gave Red Ronnie the bullet that they'd come to regret it. There are not many figures of the stature of Koeman out there, someone who makes you feel good about your club even when things are not going according to plan. Everton usually have to root around in the boxes marked "unproven" or "proven to be a cunt" when they are looking for a manager, so that they thought they were too good for Koeman was madness, something that was demonstrated by their next two hires which came from those respective boxes. And then they have the unbelievable good fortune to land Ancelotti. I think he was eager to have a shot at English football again, where top football men all over the planet are lured by the prospect of being dictators in contrast to the continent where they are strictly coaches with no input into transfer or academy policy. Had Arsenal not been eager to take their chances with the "unproven" box having tried the "proven" box to replace Wenger I have no doubt Ancelotti would have ended up there. But Arsenal were determined to deny Liverpool fans the chance to say 'where's the Arteta money, Bill?' (© Dave Usher) and Ancelotti had nowhere else to go so he thought yeah, why not? It took him 18 months to learn why not, and now they'll surely never get a name as big as him as long as their owner(s) are not willing to spend Abramovich/Mansour money. It's all too beautiful.

Everton, always:

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Photoshoppers: get busy with the eyebrow.

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