Moyesy says: "In the first half we got our goals at important times and it gave us more confidence. The plusses were to continue the run that we are on. I hope that Saturday's game against Birmingham was a blip and now we are back on form and starting to get people back I think we can play much better.

I though his first two games were excellent (Jason Donovan). When you come here and you have to play Arsenal and Manchester City - he's done really well those games," Moyes said. He got his goal tonight, he has got a great goalscoring record over in America and he was a bit unfortunate not to get a second tonight when he rounded the goalkeeper. Now it's a case of seeing what we can do. I don't know if we can set any targets and say where we are going to end up.

Credit goes to the players, they bounced back well tonight and I'm pleased about that." (27/01/10)

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* When Sunderland sub Kenwynne Jones came on and hit a shot into row z the Goodison faithfull broke into: "Rafa Sign Him On" The Makems joined in.

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We were still hurting from the weekend before. The wounds that were inflicted on the boys in rule blue jersey were deep.... Great teams quickly lick their wounds and get on with the job in hand, seeking revenge on the next team to step within the arena. Like a pack of wolves, Everton ruthlessly tore apart a Sunderland side completely shot of confidence.

Ferocious
Artistic
Creative
Tenacious....... Four words from a list of many that could describe the fantastic performance we saw at Goodison Park last night. That, you fat Spanish twat, is a FACT!

The gaffa said after the Brum game that we needed a better start. Too many times this season we have started off slowly, leaving us as many deficits to recover as the current European economy. But in recent times, this seems to have changed (save the Brum game). The boys flew out of the tunnel, keen to quickly correct the woes of last weekend.

From the get go, everything looked like it was functioning better than Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. The midfield dominated from start to finish, cleverly linking up with King Louis up top. Ossie did the hard stuff, Nuts had the flair, Landon was sheer class yet again and Fellaini, well, I'm running out of superlatives for this lad.... he is a composed, determined and now (very importantly) disciplined young man.
Not many, if any, holding midfield players will compete with this man in the form he's in.

Tiny, finally regaining his best form, must have covered every blade of grass (excuse the overused football pun) and King Louis, as always, provided moments of sublime brilliance.

It was Felli's pinpoint cross that picked out Tiny within the first ten and only the slightest of touches helped the ball on its way past the rooted Gordon. 1-0 blues. Jubilation the sight around Goodison as Tiny made the familiar trip to the corner. Honestly, when he's on form, who would wanna be a corner flag eh!?

We didn't let off. 1-0 was not enough. We were hungry for more.... and the new boy deserved a goal as much as anyone after his fantastic start in the premiership. Tiny Tim jumped and competed well from a rather speculative cross, knocking the ball into the path of the American. One touch on the chest, down to his feet and he let fly. Yes, perhaps a little deflection guided the ball past the keeper, but nobody can argue we didn't deserve it!

There is little more to say on the game, we dominated from start to finish. Half time was 2-0, full time was 2-0. Landon could have doubled his tally for the season but some fine defending from McCartney meant the little American would have to settle for one goal and one cleared off the line.

Timmy T in the nets had a few saves to make, but all of the seemed to be "camera saves." No real scares really.

Last but most certainly not least, the appearances of Mikel and Big Vic. Every Evertonian knew when the best little Spaniard got injured, that we would suffer horribly. For many, until last weekend, that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach may still have been following that freezing cold day up in Newcastle..... But I think I can safely say, the best little Spaniard chant will forever be a Goodison favourite. Even when he hangs up his boots, the Spanish magician will forever be in our hearts.... Forever Everton. This rendition of the chant, was fantastic.

Brilliant to see Big Vic back as well... was it me or does he look even bigger now!? Bring on Michah Richards, let's have him Vic!!!

Lastly, something I noticed... after Landon scored his goal and crossed back to our own half, he bent down and after kissing his hand touched the Goodison turf and put his hand to his badge.... now this may well only be a goal-scoring ritual, but Landon if you wanna stay, you will be much more than welcome!!!

One final thought.... Over in Madrid I've hear rumours that Ribery is on his way out of the Bayern door to Real.... his replacement to be, our very own Mr Pienaar....

NUTS, IF YOU READ THIS, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE PARADISE. You give us something no other player can. Give us a few more years lad...
you are loved here, truly loved.

IN MOYES WE TRUST, NIL SATIS NISI OPTIMUM, COYB!!!!

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New boy Philippe Senderos has made Moyesy's squad for tonight's clash against Sunderland at Goodison. Mikky Arteta is also in the Gaffers twenty two (well it always is on England duty), but expect the Spanish wizard to take his place on the bench as the Manger eases our superstar back to full fitness. Senderos himself should be on the bench, with Moyesy probably giving Sylvian one more game to redeem himself from his mediocre performances of late. Someone will have to pay for Saturdays Cup defeat, and I expect that to be Billy, with Ossie coming in for him.

Competition for certain places is there now, and if players don't perform, they are out till they get their act together, and it is still hard to fathom, how we can be world beaters against mega rich Sitteh, and then utter shite against Brum. Yep that Cup defeat still hurts, it really does, and I hope the players are hurting enough to put the Mackems to the sword tonight.

Like The Arse, and manure are our bogey teams, we are certainly Sunderland's, with the Black Cats failing to gain a win against us in the last eleven attempts home or away. Our last encounter over Christmas saw us draw 1-1 at the Stadium of Light, and the Mackems last outing in the Prem seen then concede seven against a rampant Chelski. We enjoyed our biggest ever win in the Premiership against tonight's opponents when in November 2007, we stuffed them 7-1 at the shrine. In fact a Goodison old boy Peter Reid was their Manager when they last did us back in 1996, 3-1 at Goodison.