Everton 1-1 Leeds United: Trust against Barry
A manager is entitled, after much thought, to leave the players who kept a clean sheet last week out there on the pitch and expect them to keep doing their jobs, i.e., not conceding to Thierno Barry.
A manager is entitled, after much thought, to leave the players who kept a clean sheet last week out there on the pitch and expect them to keep doing their jobs, i.e., not conceding to Thierno Barry.
Everything seemed set for success, his way, with an ambitious club with a family ethos that would pay him handsomely. Nobody can say for sure why Don Revie, in the end, didn't go to Everton.
These three precious points are one more gift from the 2025 Champions to themselves and the players getting ready to join in.
Just about the only player I saw really standing up to the needs of the occasion was Junior Firpo, who seems to finally have the conditions he needs to shine for Leeds: a team playing badly around him.
Imagine the clammy cold creeping across Kinnear's loins as Rodrigo went staggering off in the first half, sobbing and huffing oxygen to dull the searing pain in his shoulder.
Birth, marriage, sex, work, death, religion and salvation in the hereafter. Football has beaten down and replaced them all. But when this film interweaves interviews with Everton's actual players, such consuming football passion turns ominous.
I was nervous as a sixteen year old going to games, when I didn't know the unwritten rules, and I was nervous now, walking down under the station and over the river, not sure if the rules were still the same after eighteen months.
"My dad and I, we lived the game. It wasn't his job, it was his passion. I would ask him, 'Why aren't you playing him, he's such a good player?' He'd say, 'Yes, but he doesn't play well with someone else.' And then I would try to see things in this different way."