Jol joins as Everton World cup mission starts in earnest
Posted by Ian Marshall's Double in Everton, Premiership, World Cup | 14 June 2006
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. Malcolm S Forbes.
So Moyesy finally got his man, and he looks pretty chuffed as well.
It’s also entirely clear that Everton’s media machine has got the PR spot on recently, or these players are genuinely pleased to join coz old Joleon, rugged rather than classical in appearance, said all the right things Andy Johnson-style. Nice one. As pointed out before, the TV dominance of the Premier League probably means most of us haven’t seen that much of him. But, as ever, in Moyes we trust. After all, his last big centre-half signing went OK didn’t? Alan Stubbs, of course.
Best transfer link so far has to be Naysmith to Stuttgart. Now Watford yeah, but Stuttgart. What is their scouting policy? They’ve noticed that we’ve got 4 left-backs, but they’ve chosen the one who runs like a really slow Paula Radcliffe, and possibly stops mid-game to go to the bog. Weird.
And the 3 countries represented by Everton players have all now played in the World Cup.
Nuno looked like a class act as Portugal cruised past Angola. He was self-assuredness personified as the man who ‘honestly doesn’t want to leave Everton and has absolutely no idea where the rumours came from’ ambled through a one-sided, albeit 1-0 win.
Far too much has already been written about Tim Cahill inspiring the Socceroos to victory. It does seem odd that Gus (pronounced hoos) Hiddink decided to start with him on the bench but it all turned out nicely in the end. Watch out for the Aussies getting through next phase and proving to be really tough opponents.
As for Tim Howard, he can’t get a game, slightly worrying for us perhaps, although you’d have thought that Brad Friedel is also better than Keller, unless he’s jacked it in. Anyway, Tim should be home pretty soon to get used to Everton as a defeat to Italy, will see the septics on their way home.
It’s been an OK World Cup so far, with that perennial problem of refereeing probably not being quite as bad as in previous tournaments. However, having just clocked the highlights of South Korea v Togo (fried dogs ‘to go’?), unaware there had been a sending off, up pops this jumped up tosser obviously taking great pleasure in brandishing a card with a flourish, sprinting over to proffer said, second yellow then red. Yep, such was Mr Graham Poll of Tring’s excitement, that he pulled the red out first. Bless.
Anyhow, Real Life Blues is off to Germany to do some real life scouting mission over the next few days. You’ll read it here first.
Comments
Timmy C is great, lets hope he has some loyalty and we can show him the same, always seems that the "big buck" clubs will want him to warm their bench..and our "ambitions go out the window"
hope he has some heart and doesnt do a gravs or WAAAAYNE!!
Cheers for the comment, and apologies for the delay, just got back from a flying visit to Germany.
Got to see Nuno playing for Portugal against Iran in Frankfurt. It was sound.
Tim has always made the right noises about Everton and probably stayed longer at Millwall (pronounced millWALL) than he needed to. Here's hopin. It'll all seem a bit futile if we can get the likes of Andy Johnson and then lose Tim. I reckon he'll stick around, but it'd help us if the Aussies lose to Croatia and he gets home.
IMD