ViewsOnTheBlues

So the European Super League saga is back again. This time they have included relegation and promotion and a built-in, tiered league system to claim that success will be based on "sporting merit". Personally I do not see a problem with the current system whereby the best teams in each domestic league already meet to play each other in a "Champions League" formerly the European Cup. So we know from the video that was released how the new ESL would be structured; top tier is the "Star" league with 16 clubs, second tier is "Gold" league with another 16 clubs, then the bottom tier is "Blue" league with 32. Each team plays the other two times and then they go into a play-off style knockout. How very American. They have included relegation and promotion in that the bottom two teams from each tier are knocked down and the winners of the play-off finals in the "Gold" and "Blue" league will be promoted. So you could theoretic...

What a way to finish the week. I might sound a little bit arrogant when I say this but, truthfully I was always confident we would get a good result against Burnley. The team's confidence is high and they're playing really well in tough circumstances and it was only made tougher with the late injury to Vitaly Mykolenko, necessitating a last minute reshuffle which saw Everton use more 5-4-1 formation with Patterson and McNeil playing as wing-backs. This adjustment worked incredibly well to limit Burnley to half chances at best and Pickford wasn't really troubled by a lot in with only two shots on target for the home side from fourteen. The three former Burnley boys did the business for Everton tonight, with McNeil creating plenty from his slightly deeper position, Tarkowski and Keane only ever looked shaky on a couple of occasions, Godfrey's pace proving pivotal in digging them out of trouble when Burnley did get in behind to steal the ball off the toe of an onrushing Am...

Well it's been a little while now but my goodness what a month December has been so far for the Toffees. Six goals in three games, zero conceded and we're out of the relegation zone in less than a month after getting slapped with a ten point deduction for breaching PSR. There was an initial wobble from the Blues when Manchester United came to town but since then, Sean Dyche's Royal Blue Army have been a force to be reckoned with and the results have been pretty significant. We have brushed aside teams we were not fancied to beat, Newcastle United with their Saudi blood money and Chelsea with their splurging American muscle. I have to be honest, however, I have regained my confidence in Everton Football Club this season. They might not play pretty football but it's ugly but effective, like an executioner's axe. Having said that, the twenty-nine pass streak before killing the game off against Newcastle United for the third goal was special and something we can look fo...

I love it when we won you know. Especially when we win against a team we should already be ahead of if the world was right. Nottingham Forest is a game Everton should be winning anyway and we looked alright for most of the game, there were a few occasions where I worried our defence had fallen asleep momentarily and let them in but overall I thought we defended brilliantly. Tarky and Branthwaite were giants at the back once again and kept Chris Woods quiet all game. I don't think there was a single instance where I was worried one of them wouldn't win their duels. Dwight McNeil was back to his best and the more confident Mykolenko gets, the better we look down the left. I thought the two in midfield were brilliant as well and it showed with just how many times they would win the ball back and find passed forwards. Ashley Young only had one wobble when he game away a pointless free-kick out wide when he was beaten for pace by Anthony Elanga. Beto and Doucoure didn't quite co...