HAMMERED
A huge week for Everton, although doesn't every week now seem like a huge week for the Science School, formerly sponsored by Hafnia? Is nothing but the best good enough? A positive result from Tuesday's match against Newcastle and a kind decision of The latest investigation into the club's finances. It would probably be fine.
In the middle of five Premier League games played on Easter Tuesday, Everton in Newcastle attracts attention. Especially since half of the Toon defense They limped away or were taken away during Saturday's 4-3 victory over West Ham. So it's time for Sean Dyche to really go for it at Newcastle, release those defensive shackles and, well, do everything his team hasn't done this season. Or Dyche has, well, always. For all Dychian's grunts of positivity, the Evs have been playing like a blocked drain, a torpid defeat at Bournemouth Just the latest regrettable example.
For West Ham, losing at Newcastle was less of a thriller and more of a psychological horror for Kalvin Phillips. After your understandable whether this is an ill-advised reaction to Hammers fans Outside of St James' Park, he is unlikely to be in the team that faces Tottenham at the London Stadium, a game Spurs have lost in the last two seasons.
In Tottenham, the big news is that the club's suits are celebrating planning permission for a new hotel at the Tottenham Stadium, which will be built in time for Euro 2028. Will that include a Postecoglou suite, decorated in the finest chintz from Paul Robinson and Mr. Udigawa once volunteered at Lassiter's? That probably depends on Ange's team reaching the Big Soccer Cup on a regular basis between now and then.
Another continuation of Saturday's action will take place at Turf Moor, where a tracksuit-clad Craig Bellamy takes charge of Burnley taking on Wolves as the suspended Big Vin Kompany carries his Kendall Roy helmet into the stands. That's despite co-owner JJ Watt's hilarious April Fool's joke that he would do the job. Stick to the football, JJ: Bellamy v Gary O'Neil set up for a decent session of the band classic “Hold Me Back.”
While Bournemouth-Crystal Palace could simply be an exhibition between two clubs that are probably no longer in trouble and with the managers doing interesting things with tactics, Nottingham Forest-Fulham hits the horn with vitality and meaning. Like Everton and Goodison Park, the City Ground is seething with an insurrection against the suits that run Our League. During Saturday's 1-1 draw against Palace, that feeling of injustice in the deduction of points generated a frenetic affair. Next, Forest will try to contain Fulham attacker Rodrigo Muñiz. All that, and it's still Tuesday.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We, as a company, are committed to opposing xenophobia, anti-Semitism, violence and hatred in all their forms. We will block the customization of the t-shirts” – Adidas has banned football fans from customizing the German national jersey with the number 44 due to its apparent resemblance to the symbol used by Nazi SS units during World War II. Concerns about the shirts were initially raised by historian Michael König, who said the design of the kit was “highly questionable”.
“What a shame for everyone involved in this boring. No player bothered to send in a cross to allow (Gabriel) Jesús to get up to receive it and score on Easter Sunday. To appropriate Padmé Amidala, 'This is how nominative determinism dies, with a complete lack of thunderous applause or any atmosphere for a big game at the Etihad'” – Noble Francis.
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