Sheff Wed 0, Everton 1. / Tues. 20th Aug 2002. / Attn: 445

Everton : Simonsen, Pilkington, Feng, Yobo, Crowder, Carney, Unsworth, Rodrigo, Symes, McLeod, Subs: Cole, Osman, Moogan, Schumacher, Southern.

EVERTON
Simonson - simo made a few excellent saves and played well
George pillkington - solid won alot and distributed the ball out wel
Martin Crowder - had a quiet game but was quite effective with the long ball
Joey Yobo - joey had a dodgy 10 minutes at the start but picked his game up well and got better as the match went on. 20 minutes from the end holden stuck him in the centre of midfield and was excellent - patrick viera like
Li wei Feng - this guy aint no monkey! he's fast won every header and puts himself about - he did a class kung fu kick for a tackle.
David Unsworth - solid as always got stuck in
Dave Carney - had a quiet game didnt really see to much
Leon Osman - good attacking and made some good passes - wasnt too keen on the defending half though
Michael symes - good holding the bvall up but was generally quiet
Kevin McLeod - he was class by far the best player and the goal scorer which he was quick to pick up on a wednesday error in the 18 yard area and cooly slotted home from around 12 yard from a tight angle - he played some excellent crosses and linked up well with symes
RodrigoI - very juhnino like and had some good dribbles - he hit a few great free kicks which caused some good saves
used subs:
Scott brown - scott was proud to show off his everton tattoo as he changed his shirt (i sat behind the bench~) and looked lively for the 10 mins he was on
Alan Moogan - come on at the end to waste time

moyes was there with jimmy lumsdon also was colin harvey
at the end moyes was signing autographs and i managed to see him before he went so i called his name and said '' long live the peoples club' he smiled then went. The Chief. (20/08/02)

Stars play for Reserves

David Moyes plans to use reserve games to get first team squad members prepared for the Premiership. Steve Watson, Joey Yobo, Juli, Rhino and Kevin McLeod are all expected to play at Sheff Wed tonight. I wonder if any of them will do a Micky Thomas and refuse to play. I don't think so.

David Moyes said:" We will pick and choose when we think people need games and when they don’t.We will do what we think is right and in this early part of the season players do need games to get up to full speed and the players we have got we’ll use in the reserves.” (20/08/02)