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"So, Everton are set to step in, with chief executive Angus Kinnear ready to contact referees’ chiefs to raise concerns about the consistency of officiating in the Premier League.
"This has been going on for years, though as, after a similar piece of expert ball-handling from a Blues opponent, Manchester City midfielder Rodri, at Goodison Park in 2022, the club’s then manager Frank Lampard and chairman Bill Kenwright both received phone calls from PGMOL boss Mike Riley after the club wrote to complain.
"Actions speak louder than words, though, and only when the officials themselves start giving Everton a fair deal and treating them with the kind of respect they afford to others will there be a genuine breakthrough.
"Because, all season long, the Blues have been hampered by repeated inconsistency when it comes to decisions.
"Their campaign started at Leeds United – and with Chris Kavanagh, who incidentally was the VAR official for Rodri’s unpunished handball offence four years ago. At Elland Road, he awards the Yorkshiremen a late match-winning penalty for a supposed handball by James Tarkowski.
"The Blues centre-back said: “I asked the question to the referee: ‘If my arm is by my side, is it a penalty?’, to which he said: ‘No’, so I don’t understand how it’s been given.”
"In Everton’s next game, their first competitive fixture at Hill Dickinson Stadium, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall is punished for a similar offence by Attwell, the referee who missed the Fernandes handball this weekend. What is also galling, is that the Blues were not awarded a penalty at Burnley in December when Jaidon Anthony blocked a shot by Tyler Dibling in similar fashion.
"Back in August, the Premier League Match Centre deemed Dewsbury-Hall had raised his arm and made his body unjustifiably bigger. Yet replays showed the Everton midfielder was closer to the shot than Anthony.
"In the Blues’ previous game to the one at Turf Moor, there had been the failure to award them a penalty against Arsenal after William Saliba floored Thierno Barry. The Premier League Match Centre’s explanation merely remarked how the contact “wasn’t deemed sufficient for a penalty” but just 48 hours later Fulham beat Nottingham Forest 1-0 thanks to a penalty converted by Raul Jimenez after an almost carbon copy challenge by Douglas Luiz on fellow Brazilian Kevin.
"David Moyes claimed watching that incident left him “half choking” and added: “It feels like certain clubs seem to get those decisions and other clubs don’t – we seem to be on the latter side of that.”
"Of course, adding insult to injury, the Premier League’s Key Match Incidents Panel subsequently voted that the decision not to award a penalty against Arsenal was incorrect and VAR should have also sent the match official to the monitor.
"Just days later, after the turn of the year, Everton centre-back Michael Keane was shown a red card for a tug on the hair of Wolves striker Tolu Arokodare, and following the club’s unsuccessful appeal to have their centre-back three-match suspension overturned, furious manager Moyes, who insisted the action was not deliberate, claimed: “The technical part of it nearly makes it impossible to be done.”
"After the incident, PGMOL chief Howard Webb talked tough when in conversation with Michael Owen on Sky Sports’ Premier League Match Officials Mic’d Up.
"He said: “It (Keane’s sending off) was the appropriate outcome. It was unusual but if we see it again next week, it will be the same outcome next week as well.”
"Except we didn’t. Because the following month in what was an even more blatant tug, Fulham’s Kenny Tete pulled the hair of Manchester City’s Antoine Semenyo, but he got off scot-free.
"It’s begs the question that some people high up at the Premier League don’t like Everton. We’re all left scratching our heads why that might be."
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"This has been going on for years, though as, after a similar piece of expert ball-handling from a Blues opponent, Manchester City midfielder Rodri, at Goodison Park in 2022, the club’s then manager Frank Lampard and chairman Bill Kenwright both received phone calls from PGMOL boss Mike Riley after the club wrote to complain.
"Actions speak louder than words, though, and only when the officials themselves start giving Everton a fair deal and treating them with the kind of respect they afford to others will there be a genuine breakthrough.
"Because, all season long, the Blues have been hampered by repeated inconsistency when it comes to decisions.
"Their campaign started at Leeds United – and with Chris Kavanagh, who incidentally was the VAR official for Rodri’s unpunished handball offence four years ago. At Elland Road, he awards the Yorkshiremen a late match-winning penalty for a supposed handball by James Tarkowski.
"The Blues centre-back said: “I asked the question to the referee: ‘If my arm is by my side, is it a penalty?’, to which he said: ‘No’, so I don’t understand how it’s been given.”
"In Everton’s next game, their first competitive fixture at Hill Dickinson Stadium, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall is punished for a similar offence by Attwell, the referee who missed the Fernandes handball this weekend. What is also galling, is that the Blues were not awarded a penalty at Burnley in December when Jaidon Anthony blocked a shot by Tyler Dibling in similar fashion.
"Back in August, the Premier League Match Centre deemed Dewsbury-Hall had raised his arm and made his body unjustifiably bigger. Yet replays showed the Everton midfielder was closer to the shot than Anthony.
"In the Blues’ previous game to the one at Turf Moor, there had been the failure to award them a penalty against Arsenal after William Saliba floored Thierno Barry. The Premier League Match Centre’s explanation merely remarked how the contact “wasn’t deemed sufficient for a penalty” but just 48 hours later Fulham beat Nottingham Forest 1-0 thanks to a penalty converted by Raul Jimenez after an almost carbon copy challenge by Douglas Luiz on fellow Brazilian Kevin.
"David Moyes claimed watching that incident left him “half choking” and added: “It feels like certain clubs seem to get those decisions and other clubs don’t – we seem to be on the latter side of that.”
"Of course, adding insult to injury, the Premier League’s Key Match Incidents Panel subsequently voted that the decision not to award a penalty against Arsenal was incorrect and VAR should have also sent the match official to the monitor.
"Just days later, after the turn of the year, Everton centre-back Michael Keane was shown a red card for a tug on the hair of Wolves striker Tolu Arokodare, and following the club’s unsuccessful appeal to have their centre-back three-match suspension overturned, furious manager Moyes, who insisted the action was not deliberate, claimed: “The technical part of it nearly makes it impossible to be done.”
"After the incident, PGMOL chief Howard Webb talked tough when in conversation with Michael Owen on Sky Sports’ Premier League Match Officials Mic’d Up.
"He said: “It (Keane’s sending off) was the appropriate outcome. It was unusual but if we see it again next week, it will be the same outcome next week as well.”
"Except we didn’t. Because the following month in what was an even more blatant tug, Fulham’s Kenny Tete pulled the hair of Manchester City’s Antoine Semenyo, but he got off scot-free.
"It’s begs the question that some people high up at the Premier League don’t like Everton. We’re all left scratching our heads why that might be."
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Indiantoffee75
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Re: Everton in the media
Nothing will change.
I'd have a small amount of respect if they simply turn around and say we simply don't like Everton.
I'd have a small amount of respect if they simply turn around and say we simply don't like Everton.
Re: Everton in the media
Haha. I'm proper baffled by the cards turning 'glass' there
Not sure about those break dancers
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sam of the south
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sam of the south
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From the echo FB page (no need for the inevitably dodgy link)
On this day I was working in an awful kitchen just outside of Brighton at my weekend A-Levels job, glued to the radio with the troop of affable Sudanese chefs who made the job vaguely bearable with their general loveliness:
It was May 7, 1994. And in the week leading up to Everton’s infamous match against Wimbledon the ECHO sports desk phone rang regularly. The questions were all of the same theme.
"We're not going down, are we?" Or "They can't really get relegated can they?" Or “This isn’t really happening is it?”
Except it was.
A decent group of footballers, badly managed, had slumped so badly that even a win in the last match of the season against sixth-placed Wimbledon may not have been enough to preserve Premier League safety.
But Everton knew three points was paramount.
Howard Kendall resigned on December 4 after a 1-0 victory over Southampton, with Everton 11th in the table.
Kendall had been the glue holding the club together and under caretaker boss Jimmy Gabriel Everton failed to score for six matches, losing five of them, then when they did score at Chelsea they still folded 4-2.
New manager bounce under Mike Walker saw the Blues win three of his first six league matches, then a slump set in.
1-2, 0-3, 0-1, 0-0, 1-5, 0-3 were the results endured before a desperately needed 1-0 win at West Ham.
But that wasn’t the prelude to an upturn.
Everton lost to an 87th minute goal at QPR, were held 0-0 at home to Coventry and collapsed 3-0 at Leeds United.
That meant Everton kicked off the final match of the season in the relegation zone.
Swindon had long since been relegated, but Oldham, Sheffield United, Ipswich Town, Southampton and Everton all went into their final fixtures threatened by the drop.
Oldham Athletic needed a win at Norwich, but a 1-1 draw meant they joined Swindon.
But that left one place still to be filled.
Blues fans had pinned most of their hopes on runners up and soon to be champions Blackburn making Ipswich that team by beating the Tractor Boys.
They didn’t. A goalless draw saved Ipswich's skins.
Southampton stayed up with a 3-3 draw at West Ham.
And in the only other fixture which might have helped save Everton, Sheffield United led Chelsea 2-1 after an hour.
If that result had stayed the same even the dramatic victory Everton achieved would not have been enough.
That afternoon really was a surreal, nerve shredding experience.
You all know what happened.
Everton trailed 2-0, Graham Stuart converted one of the most important penalty kicks in the club’s long history, Barry Horne lasered in one of the most spectacular and unlikely volleys then Stuart scored one of the most unconventional but wildly celebrated winners in Goodison history.
But some of the background you may not be familiar with.
‘Diamond’ had confided with me over a pint several weeks earlier: “Guess who’s on penalties now?”
After guessing incorrectly David Unsworth, Anders Limpar and Tony Cottee, Diamond said: “No, me. I can picture it now. I’ll need to score a penalty to keep us up and my arse will be going.”
That very same conversation raced through my mind when referee Robbie Hart pointed to the penalty spot after Anders Limpar had tumbled realistically over Peter Fear’s challenge.
The Wimbledon defender hadn’t made any form of contact. But it was the most realistic dive I’ve ever seen. It kidded me at the time. And it kidded Hart.
But when he pointed to the penalty spot chaos reigned.
Wimbledon had kicked the ball down the pitch in disgust and it appeared at one stage like Neville Southall was going to take the kick.
He strode down the pitch with the ball held out, as if he was offering to take it but waiting to see if anybody else fancied the responsibility of keeping 40 years of top flight football intact.
"I was thinking what everybody else was thinking," recalled Diamond.
"This mad man is walking up and if ever there was a goalkeeper crazy enough to take a penalty it was Nev. I genuinely thought to myself 'I'm not having this' There's no way on the planet you can allow your goalkeeper to take such an important penalty."
Diamond fancied it.
He strode purposefully back to the halfway line, took the ball from Nev and headed back to the Park End penalty area.
There was a smattering of applause as some supporters recognised the courage of a player putting his balls on the line, then there was a tense, nerve-shredding silence heavy with anxiety.
Hans Segers dived to his left, Diamond’s penalty arrowed sweetly, decisively and perfectly into the other corner.
And the roar was primeval.
Diamond had neglected to mention to me during our Grapes conversation that his only other previous penalty kick had flown over a Stamford Bridge crossbar.
This one was perfect and gave Everton a platform.
Horne’s remarkable strike and Diamond’s fortuitous second ensured that Everton built on that platform.
But it was a day when chaos reigned.
In pre-internet days Evertonians were cavorting wildly on the pitch at the final whistle, but there was still no confirmation Everton were actually safe.
I was grasping a telephone receiver in the Goodison press box waiting to file four paragraphs of copy to the sports desk for use on the front page of the Football ECHO, but I couldn’t because I still didn’t know Everton were safe.
It wasn’t until my colleague Phil McNulty screamed at me: “It’s okay. Sheffield United have lost!” (to a 90th minute Mark Stein goal) that I felt able to bark out four pars down the phone and breathe an enormous sigh of relief, while all around me pandemonium reigned.
Barely an hour later copies of that newspaper, carrying the biggest banner headline I’d ever seen proclaiming SAFE, were being sold by vendors around Goodison Road, which was a sight to behold.
Fans were running round holding copies of the Pink ECHO aloft with that SAFE headline.
What most fans didn't realise was that Roy Wright, the sub-editor in charge of the front page that day, had an equally big headline prepared saying DOWN.
Happily that never saw the printing presses.
In the aftermath of the match plenty of very famous Evertonians of my acquaintance, including one manager, were convinced there was 'something strange' about the result that day.
I'm not having that one little bit.
Wimbledon simply wilted under the incredible tension and atmosphere of that day.
Their team coach had been torched by Blues fans the night before and look at John Fashanu, who hadn't played.
He came onto the pitch at the end ushering his players off. They were concerned for their personal safety if they'd relegated Everton.
If you're going to throw a match you don't score from a penalty kick.
And Segers did make some stunning saves, one from my mate Diamond, before his late aberration.
With that goal I genuinely think he thought Diamond was putting in a block tackle on the edge of the area, not shooting, which is why he was deceived by the spin and pace of the ball.
We all said at the time 'Never again.' Yet only four years later we found ourselves in exactly the same position.
But that’s for another day …..
𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐂𝐇𝐎 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐨𝐧'𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭-𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟑-𝟐 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝟑𝟐 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨
On this day I was working in an awful kitchen just outside of Brighton at my weekend A-Levels job, glued to the radio with the troop of affable Sudanese chefs who made the job vaguely bearable with their general loveliness:
It was May 7, 1994. And in the week leading up to Everton’s infamous match against Wimbledon the ECHO sports desk phone rang regularly. The questions were all of the same theme.
"We're not going down, are we?" Or "They can't really get relegated can they?" Or “This isn’t really happening is it?”
Except it was.
A decent group of footballers, badly managed, had slumped so badly that even a win in the last match of the season against sixth-placed Wimbledon may not have been enough to preserve Premier League safety.
But Everton knew three points was paramount.
Howard Kendall resigned on December 4 after a 1-0 victory over Southampton, with Everton 11th in the table.
Kendall had been the glue holding the club together and under caretaker boss Jimmy Gabriel Everton failed to score for six matches, losing five of them, then when they did score at Chelsea they still folded 4-2.
New manager bounce under Mike Walker saw the Blues win three of his first six league matches, then a slump set in.
1-2, 0-3, 0-1, 0-0, 1-5, 0-3 were the results endured before a desperately needed 1-0 win at West Ham.
But that wasn’t the prelude to an upturn.
Everton lost to an 87th minute goal at QPR, were held 0-0 at home to Coventry and collapsed 3-0 at Leeds United.
That meant Everton kicked off the final match of the season in the relegation zone.
Swindon had long since been relegated, but Oldham, Sheffield United, Ipswich Town, Southampton and Everton all went into their final fixtures threatened by the drop.
Oldham Athletic needed a win at Norwich, but a 1-1 draw meant they joined Swindon.
But that left one place still to be filled.
Blues fans had pinned most of their hopes on runners up and soon to be champions Blackburn making Ipswich that team by beating the Tractor Boys.
They didn’t. A goalless draw saved Ipswich's skins.
Southampton stayed up with a 3-3 draw at West Ham.
And in the only other fixture which might have helped save Everton, Sheffield United led Chelsea 2-1 after an hour.
If that result had stayed the same even the dramatic victory Everton achieved would not have been enough.
That afternoon really was a surreal, nerve shredding experience.
You all know what happened.
Everton trailed 2-0, Graham Stuart converted one of the most important penalty kicks in the club’s long history, Barry Horne lasered in one of the most spectacular and unlikely volleys then Stuart scored one of the most unconventional but wildly celebrated winners in Goodison history.
But some of the background you may not be familiar with.
‘Diamond’ had confided with me over a pint several weeks earlier: “Guess who’s on penalties now?”
After guessing incorrectly David Unsworth, Anders Limpar and Tony Cottee, Diamond said: “No, me. I can picture it now. I’ll need to score a penalty to keep us up and my arse will be going.”
That very same conversation raced through my mind when referee Robbie Hart pointed to the penalty spot after Anders Limpar had tumbled realistically over Peter Fear’s challenge.
The Wimbledon defender hadn’t made any form of contact. But it was the most realistic dive I’ve ever seen. It kidded me at the time. And it kidded Hart.
But when he pointed to the penalty spot chaos reigned.
Wimbledon had kicked the ball down the pitch in disgust and it appeared at one stage like Neville Southall was going to take the kick.
He strode down the pitch with the ball held out, as if he was offering to take it but waiting to see if anybody else fancied the responsibility of keeping 40 years of top flight football intact.
"I was thinking what everybody else was thinking," recalled Diamond.
"This mad man is walking up and if ever there was a goalkeeper crazy enough to take a penalty it was Nev. I genuinely thought to myself 'I'm not having this' There's no way on the planet you can allow your goalkeeper to take such an important penalty."
Diamond fancied it.
He strode purposefully back to the halfway line, took the ball from Nev and headed back to the Park End penalty area.
There was a smattering of applause as some supporters recognised the courage of a player putting his balls on the line, then there was a tense, nerve-shredding silence heavy with anxiety.
Hans Segers dived to his left, Diamond’s penalty arrowed sweetly, decisively and perfectly into the other corner.
And the roar was primeval.
Diamond had neglected to mention to me during our Grapes conversation that his only other previous penalty kick had flown over a Stamford Bridge crossbar.
This one was perfect and gave Everton a platform.
Horne’s remarkable strike and Diamond’s fortuitous second ensured that Everton built on that platform.
But it was a day when chaos reigned.
In pre-internet days Evertonians were cavorting wildly on the pitch at the final whistle, but there was still no confirmation Everton were actually safe.
I was grasping a telephone receiver in the Goodison press box waiting to file four paragraphs of copy to the sports desk for use on the front page of the Football ECHO, but I couldn’t because I still didn’t know Everton were safe.
It wasn’t until my colleague Phil McNulty screamed at me: “It’s okay. Sheffield United have lost!” (to a 90th minute Mark Stein goal) that I felt able to bark out four pars down the phone and breathe an enormous sigh of relief, while all around me pandemonium reigned.
Barely an hour later copies of that newspaper, carrying the biggest banner headline I’d ever seen proclaiming SAFE, were being sold by vendors around Goodison Road, which was a sight to behold.
Fans were running round holding copies of the Pink ECHO aloft with that SAFE headline.
What most fans didn't realise was that Roy Wright, the sub-editor in charge of the front page that day, had an equally big headline prepared saying DOWN.
Happily that never saw the printing presses.
In the aftermath of the match plenty of very famous Evertonians of my acquaintance, including one manager, were convinced there was 'something strange' about the result that day.
I'm not having that one little bit.
Wimbledon simply wilted under the incredible tension and atmosphere of that day.
Their team coach had been torched by Blues fans the night before and look at John Fashanu, who hadn't played.
He came onto the pitch at the end ushering his players off. They were concerned for their personal safety if they'd relegated Everton.
If you're going to throw a match you don't score from a penalty kick.
And Segers did make some stunning saves, one from my mate Diamond, before his late aberration.
With that goal I genuinely think he thought Diamond was putting in a block tackle on the edge of the area, not shooting, which is why he was deceived by the spin and pace of the ball.
We all said at the time 'Never again.' Yet only four years later we found ourselves in exactly the same position.
But that’s for another day …..
𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐂𝐇𝐎 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐨𝐧'𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭-𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟑-𝟐 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝟑𝟐 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨Re: Everton in the media
I think he's wrong about us waiting for the Sheffield United result.
A draw for saints and ipswich meant that if we won we would finish in front of both, which we did.
That last min Mark Stein winner did send Sheffield down, but it didn't save our arse, it saved Ipswich's
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Bluebridge
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Not sure where to put this, but interesting seeing how the table changed on the final day in 94.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1B2tEc ... tid=wwXIfr
Edit….
Ties in nicely with Sam’s post above.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1B2tEc ... tid=wwXIfr
Edit….
Ties in nicely with Sam’s post above.