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Everton FC are the team to fear in the Premier League, says Bolton Wanderers boss Owen Coyle
EMPHATIC triumphs over the Premier League's top four have made Everton the division's form side, according to Bolton boss Owen Coyle.
Everton FC legend Peter Reid praises quality of David Moyes's squad
IT WAS a goal of immaculate technique and true perseverance which took Peter Reid's breath away.
Howard Kendall: Beware of Bolton's Big Kevin Davies
IT WAS such an impressive start for Everton against Birmingham, a side who have been likened to the Toffees in the past.
David Prentice: Everton FC must sign up Steven Pienaar before he lights up World Cup
STEVEN PIENAAR, it seems, is already thinking about the World Cup.
THE Liverpool ECHO sports team look ahead to Liverpool's Europa League decider with OSC Lille and Everton's weekend clash with Bolton Wanderers

This can still be a special season for Everton FC says Tim Cahill
TIM CAHILL believes Everton can still celebrate a "special season" at Goodison Park.
The Jury: Everton FC fans on the draw at Birmingham & Landon Donovan's departure
LET'S rewind to March last year when Evertonians were like kids on Christmas Eve marching down to Wembley to watch us beat Man Utd in the Semi Final while Liverpool were sitting in second position above Man Utd, a point off the top of the Premier League.
Everton FC have got the right blend says Tim Cahill
TIM CAHILL and David Moyes go back a long way. The influential Australian was one of the Everton manager's early - and some would say best - signings when he paid Millwall the unfeasibly modest fee of £1.5m in the summer of 2004.

IT'S A sign of how many players have returned from injury at Everton that David Moyes is now allowing some of his youngsters to go out on loan.
James Vaughan made his debut on loan to Leicester City at the weekend in his latest bid to get his career back on track, and there is talk of right-back Seamus Coleman having a spell at Blackpool in order to get some first-team experience.
There's been a bit of a clamour from supporters to see more of Coleman since a couple of barnstorming cameos as substitute that turned awkward games against Tottenham and Carlisle United in the Blues' favour.

England will flop at the World Cup - Everton & South Africa's Steven Pienaar
STEVEN PIENAAR has cranked up the psychological pressure on his team-mate and potential South Africa 2010 rival Leighton Baines by declaring that England are likely to be World Cup flops.
Everton FC fans letters: David Moyes should give Blues' kids more of a chance
I DON'T understand why Seamus Coleman hasn't played more for Everton.
Jose Baxter sent off as Everton are knocked out of Liverpool Senior Cup by Skelmersdale United
EVERTON'S hopes of joining Liverpool in a 'battle of the giants' Liverpool Senior Cup final were dashed as Jose Baxter saw red in a 2-0 defeat at the Skelmersdale & Ormskirk College Stadium.

Everton FC are getting better and better - Yakubu
YAKUBU believes Everton are stronger than they have been for many years.
On-loan Everton FC star John Ruddy keeping it clean north of the border
AT the tender age of 23, John Ruddy's first team Everton career is already a dim and distant memory.

IT'S BEEN an awful long time since Kevin Davies ran from the halfway line to score a wonder-goal at Goodison Park - so long ago it was even before I arrived at Everton! And I don't think we're going to be seeing too many goals like that again from Kevin.
But he will be back at Goodison Park again on Saturday with talk of an England call-up ringing in his ears.
I'm not sure about that, but there will be a player in an Everton shirt on Saturday, not dissimilar in style to Kevin, who should be on the plane to South Africa this summer.
Missing out on Europe would make season a failure says Everton FC's Victor Anichebe
VICTOR ANICHEBE today admitted that missing out on European qualification would make Everton's season feel like a failure.
David Moyes rues slip up against Birmingham: Everton FC latest
DAVID Moyes bemoaned his side's failure to grab all three points after building a two-goal lead in Birmingham.
Everton FC's season of squandering continues against Birmingham
IF EVER a game summed up Everton's season it was this.

Everton FC starlet Seamus Coleman could go out on loan
SEAMUS COLEMAN could follow James Vaughan out on the loan trail as David Moyes attempts to hand his crop of promising youngsters vital experience.
David Moyes: None of my Everton FC stars are going anywhere
DAVID Moyes will draw iron curtains around his squad in the summer as he vows that none of his ever-improving Blues will be allowed to leave.
GREG O'KEEFFE: Everton FC should raise the bar on those DVD releases
THE joker in the Park End summed it up. As Everton scored their fifth past a pitiful Hull City en route to Sunday's crushing victory, that wonderfully self-deprecating Goodison humour kicked in.
Fans' groups unite to promote city football quarter
LIVERPOOL and Everton fans have joined forces to campaign for a football quarter in north Liverpool.

MANAGER David Moyes has spoken about his determination to ensure there are no departures from Everton this summer.
Considering the value and age of the current squad, it's no surprise that he's keen to keep them all together and make a couple of acquisitions.
When you compare the squad now to what Moyes inherited it's a huge improvement.



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