Richard Wright with "world class" one-handed save on Phillips penalty. Richard Wright had given up the penalty by pushing Quinn. "Won't see a better penalty save." Li Tie to Radzinski in the box - Sunderland breaking - into the penalty area - Weir defends well and gives up corner. "Astonishing 3 or 4 minutes of action. Game is boiling." Clever header by Reyna - ball played around box by Sunderland and ball cleared for corner. Reyna sends the ball in...Quinn hits the post! Cleared by Everton. Reyna to Mcann - Piper - corner kick won again. 17 minutes plus stoppage. Poor corner by Reyna - Cleared out to Sorensen. Phillips offsides. Alexandersson going off - replaced by Rooney. Li Tie coming off as well.
Gravesen dispossessed by Reyna - ball goes in to Piper - Naismith clears out right. Phillips dispossessed by Rooney - Reyna does well to maintain possession. Ball is going back and forth. Radzinski with a nice run but runs through to Sorensen. Great header by Weir, Radzinski offsides.
Phillips pounces on error in the back but can't finish the chance. 11 1/2 minutes to go. "Nerve wracking stuff" Brilliant footwork by 16 year old Rooney. Radzinski goes around 3 and crosses in but misses mark. Frantic pace continues. Piper in the box - Naismith clears for another corner. Reyna with a good corner - intercepted well by Rooney who runs 50 yards before challenged off the ball for throw-in Everton. 16 year does well to relieve some pressure. Everton with some possession football - Gravesen gives up the ball poorly. More Everton possession - Campbell with a nice pass to Gravesen - crosses - goes out for throw-in Everton. Rooney loses the ball - Reyna plays it forward - defended well. Rooney - tries to get behind Bjorklund and wins corner. "We've got a player here, haven't we." Short corner - poor cross - poor clearance - Steven Wright clears. Reyna on the ball - Phillips - wide to Piper - Radzinski goes down and appeals for assistance. 6 minutes left.
Some Sunderland supporters leaving. (I never get this. Who are these fans who do this with only a 1 goal lead?) Radzinski still being worked on.
4 min plus stoppage. Great ball in to Butler - into the penalty area - to Michael Gray - cleared. Everton possession - Radzinski gets in the box but shoots wide. Little more composure needed but he has run himself into the ground today so fans are appreciative. 90th minute.
Piper gets in a good cross but Richard Wright intercepts. Piper with another cross - falls to Butler - Babb - cleared. Rooney to Radzinski - Campbell - Pembridge - Hibbert - Rooney with a bit of naive play in giving up a foul. 1 minute left. Campbell may be the first Everton player to score a winning goal at the Stadium of Light. Rooney takes off alone and takes a shot - goes wide. Full time. Everton's first win at Stadium of Light. "Colossal performance by Richard Wright."
Didn't listen, but Sunderland seemed unlucky - how many posts hit plus a "world class" penalty save. Did Everton really dominate that much?
Let us now lament the demise of sports.com. Nice work on the pbp, folks. I forgot how much fun it was to follow matches this way from work. Obviously, a TV would be better, but barring that...
decent message board: http://www.ready2go.net/smb2/viewtopic.php?t=5870 attendance thread: http://www.ready2go.net/smb2/viewtopic.php?t=5820
I just did a quick search on the Sunderland message board, and Reyna's performance is getting universally high marks. In fact, he's basically the only sunderland player getting any praise at all. A few of the comments: "Today one thing did stand out above the usual crap-Claudio Reyna is a World-class player. Shame he plays alongside McCann & Whackiteer." "Reyna: 7 - Best player on the pitch, well certainly the best in a Red & White shirt. Needs another player of his ability in the middle tho, McAteer and McCann are shite. " "Reyna is sheer class. Involved in everything and always looking to create."
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why doesn't Reid just go to Claudio and say - what will it take - two words - Beasley and Mathis for 5 million pounds together .... it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the problem - no offense of any note.
I will tell you this much. I would go out and buy 3 Sunderland jerseys the day they get transfers done for both Beasley and Mathis. The question obviously becomes then, how many foreign players do they have on their roster (non-EU obviouslY). Reyna obviously is one, but the other two I am unsure of. Second is Clintinho cap qualified for a work permit? I am sure that he will get "credit" for the fact that he was injured, but from my recollection he played in friendlies starting with the Gold Cup (about 2-3 games), Germany, I don't think he was in for Italy but I am not sure, Ireland I think he was in, Mexico he was in, Ecuador I recall he punched someone, then the 3 Road matches he was in 2 I believe, and then in for Germany, Poland, Korea in the World Cup. That is just off the top of my head. I don't know if that is enough. I thought that he would be, but Wolff needed another couple of games to offically be qualified. I mentioned in an earlier thread, that Reyna seemed to have enough pull to recommend to Peter Reid to give Mols and Flo a try at forward. As a result, I found it surprising that he didn't have the pull or chose not to use his pull to say, Mathis is class.
Clint Mathis has already been approved for a work permit - Blackburn Rovers checked with the Home Office when they were scouting him.
I looked all over the safc.co.uk site yesterday for the message boards...Where are they!?! I must be totally blind...
I think he was talking about this message board: http://www.ready2go.net/smb2/viewforum.php?f=1 They have like 10 moderators, but don't seem to be able to merge threads.