EVERYONE JUST PAWN IN GAME OF LIFE* By Mickey Blue Eyes *Due homage to...Read More

NOW YOU SEE HIM, NOW YOU DON'T(?) By Mickey Blue Eyes   In a few week...Read More

SAW HIS ARSENE By Mickey Blue Eyes   It promised much: Us in sixth ...Read More

DOWN RANGER By Mickey Blue Eyes   There is no way I should like 'Arry Redknapp.........Read More

IN AND OUT. QUICKLY By Mickey Blue Eyes   Ever the optimist, usually I give t...Read More

CAR CRASH ON SUNSET BOULEVARD By Mickey Blue Eyes   It is officially British Summer ...Read More

WOULD, COULD, EINSTEIN HAVE HELPED? By Mickey Blue Eyes   I give up on this...Read More

APOCALYPSE NOW By Mickey Blue Eyes   Well.   Whatever we were e...Read More

  GOODISON PḖTANQUE By Mickey Blue Eyes   B...Read More

  TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SHMUCK By Mickey Blue Eyes   The FA Cup is t...Read More

  SEASONAL AFFECTED DISORDER (SAD) By Mickey Blue Eyes   We have now en...Read More

  ROMAN REMAINS By Mickey Blue Eyes   I don't mean to be unkind, but th...Read More

  APOCALYPSE, THEN? By Mickey Blue Eyes   Compliments of the season to ...Read More

  INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT ELSTONE By Mickey Blue Eyes Before flying out to warmer clim...Read More

  BACK HOME By Mickey Blue Eyes   Back home from sunnier climes and ter...Read More

  LIKE IT, LIKE By Mickey Blue Eyes   Alas, I have attended only one ma...Read More

HILLSBOROUGH: A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE By ...Read More

   OPENING SALVO By Mickey Blue Eyes   Doubtless you are relieved ...Read More

  THIS SCOUSE V MANC THING By Mickey Blue Eyes   As our opening match l...Read More

  COMING UP, SEASON 2012-2013 By Mickey Blue Eyes   In just over one we...Read More

  TIM CAHILL, ONE OF US By Mickey Blue Eyes   Eighteen months ago I pos...Read More

  THE "REVOLUTIONARY" (FOOTBALL) GAMES PEOPLE PLAY By Mickey Blue Eyes   ...Read More

  FOOTBALL AND RȎLE MODELS By Mickey Blue Eyes.   ANDREA: "Unh...Read More

  THE JOHN TERRY AFFAIR By Mickey Blue Eyes   Well, swipe me, guv, John...Read More

  ¡VIVA ESPAÑA! YET AGAIN By Mickey Blue Eyes ...Read More

  SUSPICION By Mickey Blue Eyes   Our Sunday match at nearby championsh...Read More

  THE PERFECT DAY By Mickey Blue Eyes   I've probably s...Read More

  INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT ELSTONE By Mickey Blue Eyes   I originally aske...Read More

  DELIA'S BOILED BEEF AND CARROTS By Mickey Blue Eyes   Prior to Saturd...Read More

  NO PEACE FOR THE DERBY WICKED By Mickey Blue Eyes   "... ... ......Read More

  OUR CUP RUNNETH ON, STILL By Mickey Blue Eyes   Some years ago I stopped goin...Read More

  SWANS VESPERS By Mickey Blue Eyes   Motoring to the midweek home game V Arsen...Read More

  OUR CUP RUNNETH ON By Mickey Blue Eyes   After each match I usually w...Read More

  THE GAMBLE THAT FAILED, DAVEY - BADLY By Mickey Blue Eyes  ...Read More

  HAPPY TENTH ANNIVERSARY, DAVID MOYES By Mickey Blue Eyes   One of the...Read More

  COME FRIENDLY BOMBS, FALL ON SHEPHERD'S BUSH By Mickey Blue Eyes   Sa...Read More

  LANDON DONOVAN, AMERICAN GENTLEMAN By Mickey Blue Eyes   A long time ...Read More

  KISS THEM QUICK By Mickey Blue Eyes   I've said this before:...Read More

  DON'T ASK ME By Mickey Blue Eyes   It was the kind of week guaranteed...Read More

  HAS GARY LINEKER GONE MAD? By Mickey Blue Eyes   I ask this question ...Read More

  NEIL ARMSTRONG LANDS IN WIGAN By Mickey Blue Eyes   Ever since George...Read More

  PAMPAS BULL IN A CITY CHINA SHOP By Mickey Blue Eyes   So the January...Read More

  COLD COMFORT By Mickey Blue Eyes   If ever we needed a result, it was...Read More

  AN ILL WIND By Mickey Blue Eyes   It's not something you don't alread...Read More

  TERRACES: WHERE I STAND By Mickey Blue Eyes   ".......The tom-tom...Read More

  WINTER By Mickey Blue Eyes   Appropriately, the temperature dropped a...Read More

  THE LUIS SUAREZ AFFAIR By Mickey Blue Eyes   If there's one thing as ...Read More

  A CALIFORNIA YANKEE IN THE COURT OF KING LEAR By Mickey Blue Eyes   ...Read More

  VEST BRUM By Mickey Blue Eyes   One of my long-distance footy memorie...Read More

  LEON, SANTA'S LITTLE HELPER* *Due thanks to Alan By ...Read More

  UNGLAZED WINDOW By Mickey Blue Eyes       ...Read More

  Like me, most Evertonians I know don't have much knowledge of the Everton in the Community separate charity which operates out of Goodison Park.   So I asked for an interview with C...Read More

  ANYONE STILL AWAKE? By Mickey Blue Eyes   Stoke.   ...Read More

  FORMATION DANCING AND GEORGE BUSH 2 By Mickey Blue Eyes   There are f...Read More

  HEATHCLIFF'S REVENGE By Mickey Blue Eyes   Saturday's game at the Ree...Read More

  HORRIBLE BRUISERS By Mickey Blue Eyes   Saturday morning, bright and ...Read More

  A LEAGUE TOO FAR By Mickey Blue Eyes   Once Britain turned neocon in ...Read More

  GATES By Mickey Blue Eyes   No, not the American Bill Gates, Microsof...Read More

  THE FIX By Mickey Blue Eyes Having missed the home match V Manc United I was anxio...Read More

  DAS KAPITAL.* TWICE. By Mickey Blue Eyes *Due ...Read More

  THE CARLOS TEVEZ AFFAIR By Mickey Blue Eyes   A few weeks ago Carlos ...Read More

  TV "POWER" By Mickey Blue Eyes   A few days ago Alex Ferguson gave an...Read More

  ANUS HORRIBLUS By Mickey Blue Eyes   The home League Cup match with W...Read More

  LOUIS LAMENT By Mickey Blue Eyes   I am reliably informed by my young...Read More

  PIES? WHAT PIES? By Mickey Blue Eyes   Midweek, I paid my first visit...Read More

"For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, dishonest - but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We ...Read More

  AUTUMN LEAVES START TO FALL By Mickey Blue Eyes   "You know the f...Read More

  KLUTZ OF GUNSELS MONTH (2 of 2, then ad infinitum...) By Mickey Blue Eyes...Read More

  OUR INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MIDFIELD MEN By Mickey Blue Eyes   Appropria...Read More

  MO' BETTER BLUES By Mickey Blue Eyes   Well, that's a slight relief a...Read More

  INFIRM OF PURPOSE! By Mickey Blue Eyes   Well, there's one thing you ...Read More

  THE BONNY BLUE FLAG, 2011-2012 By Mickey Blue Eyes   "Big wheel k...Read More

  TAKE A BREAK By Mickey Blue Eyes   On 15th June this year ...Read More

  FIFA's ISLAMOPHOBIA By Mickey Blue Eyes   Here we go again. You reall...Read More

  SEPP, STILL HAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS By Mickey Blue Eyes   &nbs...Read More

  STATISTICS, WITCHES, DEMONS AND BROOMSTICKS By Mickey Blue Eyes   ...Read More

THE ATTACK ON NEIL LENNON - A WARNING TO US ALL By Mickey Blue Eyes   At last n...Read More

  SUGAR'S UNSWEETNER By Mickey Blue Eyes     Last Sunday a...Read More

  FOOTBALL AND PLEASURE By Mickey Blue Eyes    "One half of th...Read More

  FOOTBALL AND GOVERNANCE By Mickey Blue Eyes   "ALICE: While you t...Read More

  YANKEE CAPITALIST BRAND Inc. 1 PEOPLE'S CLUB 0 By Mickey Blue Eyes   ...Read More

  FOOTBALL AND HUMOUR By Mickey Blue Eyes   ...Read More

  TWO HOLES IN BLACKBURN, LANCASHIRE By Mickey Blue Eyes   How propheti...Read More

  WOLVES AT THE BACK DOOR By Mickey Blue Eyes   This 3-0 away win was a...Read More

  FOOTBALL AND THE SUB PRIME AND OTHER SCAMS By Mickey Blue Eyes &nbs...Read More

  FOOTBALL AND ----KING* SWEARING By Mickey Blue Eyes   ...Read More

  I'VE NEVER MET A NICE ASTON VILLA By Mickey Blue Eyes   Footy apart, ...Read More

Every now and then someone asks me to explain the term "Summer Twat" which occasionally finds its way into these opinions.......Well, there is no real explanation. It is an entirely subjectiv...Read More

  TIME AND TIDE By Mickey Blue Eyes   Time is the commodity in shortest...Read More

  THE SWEET HELL OF "SUCCESS" By Mickey Blue Eyes   And so this bizarre...Read More

  READING THE RUNES By Mickey Blue Eyes   Fresh off the back of the usu...Read More

  A WHITER SHADE OF STALE By Mickey Blue Eyes   You could have kidded y...Read More

  IF By Mickey Blue Eyes   Imagine if We hadn't beaten Chelsea........D...Read More

 HOW FIFA AND UEFA (AND OTHERS) ARE TRYING TO STEAL YOUR MONEY (AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT) ...Read More

  FOOTBALL AND "LOVE" By Mickey Blue Eyes   ...Read More

  OH I DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE By Mickey Blue Eyes   Now the "...Read More

  EVERTON 1 "COCKNEY" RENT BOYS 1 By Mickey Blue Eyes   I love the FA C...Read More

  CELEBRATING KLUTZ OF GUNSELS MONTH By Mickey Blue Eyes   As...Read More

  FOOTBALL AND DELUSION By Mickey Blue Eyes   "delusion...Read More

  FAINT LOUIS BLUES By Mickey Blue Eyes   One of the great bonuses of l...Read More

  WORLD CUP WILLIES By Mickey Blue Eyes   I thought I might as well thr...Read More

  SCOTCH MIST DESCENDING By Mickey Blue Eyes   Interesting one, this Sc...Read More

  ICE STATION CAT By Mickey Blue Eyes   Christ, but it was cold on Satu...Read More

  STRIKE A LIGHT By Mickey Blue Eyes   As we glumly contemplate the sea...Read More

  TIM CAHILL, EVERTON GREAT By Mickey Blue Eyes     "D...Read More

  INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT ELSTONE By Mickey Blue Eyes   ...Read More

  WEBB OF DECEIT By Mickey Blue Eyes   If there was one game to sum up ...Read More

  FOOTBALL AND HEROES (AND VILLAINS) By Mickey Blue Eyes.   "Did yo...Read More

FOOTBALL AND AMBITION By Mickey Blue Eyes    ...Read More

STOKING EXPECTATIONS By Mickey Blue Eyes   Most of us look forward to most games the...Read More

FOOTBALL AND PROFITS By Mickey Blue Eyes.   "Cui Bono?" (Translated: To whose pr...Read More

ROONEY SYNDROME By Mickey Blue Eyes   So now, after a lot of hoo-ha, Wayne ...Read More

ROYAL BLUES 2, YANQUI IMPERIALISTA LEVERAGED HEDGE-FUND RUNNING DOGS 0 By ...Read More

DERBY DAZE By Mickey Blue Eyes   "The art of needling is to get s...Read More

FOOTBALL AND PROFESSIONALISM By Mickey Blue Eyes   "When I was a ...Read More

 CLASSY FOOTBALL By Mickey Blue Eyes   When Europeans talk of "class" they usua...Read More

SIBERIA! By Mickey Blue Eyes   Some facts are beyond dispute: Beyoncé has a ...Read More

HAS THE FOOTY INTERNET TAKEN US AS FAR AS IT CAN? By Mickey Blue Eyes   I was living...Read More

PUNCHLESS AND BROODY By Mickey Blue Eyes   Well, not too much to report about the pi...Read More

CROWDS SEEN By Mickey Blue Eyes   "Men think in herds, go mad in herds, but reco...Read More

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE By Mickey Blue Eyes   I had a bad feeling on Saturday, pre-match....Read More

PAL JOEY By Mickey Blue Eyes   The title is taken from a 1957 American film starring...Read More

CLUB V COUNTRY By Mickey Blue Eyes   Football is one of my hobbies and I en...Read More

SEAMUS, T'BE SURE, T'BE SURE...... IS IT Y'SELF THAT'S IN IT? By Mickey Blue Eyes   ...Read More

SUNDAY PEST By Mickey Blue Eyes   Well, it doesn't get much more painful than defeat...Read More

FOOTBALL AND FEELINGS By Mickey Blue Eyes   "Men who are unhappy,...Read More

BRUMMY BOOT BOYS By Mickey Blue Eyes   Yes, yes, I know Wolverhampton isn't in Birmi...Read More

MAMMY BLUE By Mickey Blue Eyes   We couldn't wait for the season to start. And once ...Read More

SEASON PREVIEW 2010-2011 By Mickey Blue Eyes   ...Read More

HOW DOES YOUR EVERTON HISTORY MEASURE UP? By Mickey Blue Eyes   Ever...Read More

WORLD CUP, MOSTLY IFFY....BUT ¡VIVA ESPAÑA! By Mickey Blue Eyes   ...Read More

GO DO THAT VUVU THAT YOU DO SO WELL By Mickey Blue Eyes   When I first heard vuvuzue...Read More

FOOTBALL'S DARKNESS AT NOON PART 3 of 3 By Mickey Blue Eyes ...Read More

FOOTBALL'S DARKNESS AT NOON PART 2 of 3 By Mickey Blue Eyes ...Read More

FOOTBALL'S DARKNESS AT NOON[1] PART 1 of 3 ...Read More

INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT ELSTONE By Mickey Blue Eyes Last Wednesday 19th May 2010, to Goodison Park...Read More

THE FIRE NEXT TIME* By Mickey Blue Eyes   So......eighth it was, then, much as the r...Read More

WILD AT ROVERS By Mickey Blue Eyes   This has been one weird season. For the first t...Read More

IRONS IN THE FIRE By Mickey Blue Eyes Poor West Ham. Not only does their main stand have the wo...Read More

VILLA SYNDROME By Mickey Blue Eyes   I wasn't at all surprised to hear the latest ru...Read More

THE MOUNTING STREAM By Mickey Blue Eyes Computers are almost indispensable for day-to-day work th...Read More

WAN FOR ALL SEASON By Mickey Blue Eyes...Read More

“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the ...Read More

The recent sad death of Alex Parker at 74 triggered a flood of recollection for Evertonians of a certain age. And, as usual, recollection has lit...Read More

Autumn in its first days.......a break for international games..........the Kirkby decision imminent.............an appropriate time for a hitchhiker's assessment of the season so fa...Read More

"I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense." "The mob man, functioning as citizen, gets a feeling that he is really important ...Read More

I might as well have my tuppence worth on the Joleon Lescott saga. If your local has been like mine, then the world and his wife will have had their say already. And most ...Read More

Day Ten, Monday, 29th June 2009. Time for Paul, John and me to say farewell to Santiago and make our way to the airport for LAN flight number 445 at 14:...Read More

Day Three, Monday 22nd June 2009. Today was set-up for a visit to the two separate CD Everton administrative offices. These are in the city centre, not ...Read More

"Sunset and evening star, And one clear calls for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea." ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, "Crossing the Bar" (1889). ...Read More

If you haven't already seen it, I suggest you watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPf-xhJkx7U, student Kenny...Read More

Meantime, in the circumstances we will do well if we hold onto sixth place and manage a semi- or final place in the FA Cup. However badly we performed at the start of the season ...Read More

"It was the genius of Proust to take for granted that every appearance is either deception or subject to misinterpretation and that the only gift the killer Time bes...Read More

"To children ardent for some desperate glory, the old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori." WILFRID OWEN, 'Dulce et decorum est' (1963 ed.). There ...Read More