Source: Liverpool_Echo
DAVID PRENTICE: Pass and Move, its the Everton groove!
ANY Everton victory at Goodison Park nowadays is the cue for the tannoy announcer to press the ‘Play’ button on his battered old copy of “It’s a grand old team . . .”
It’s triumphant, it’s jolly and celebrating fans seem to lap it up.
But every now and then perhaps it may be more appropriate for the Goodison DJ to dig even further back into his musical archives and pluck out an old vinyl record.
‘Forever Everton’ contains a lyric that was used to taunt Evertonians for years.
But “Everton’s the team that plays, beautiful football” is becoming more and more fitting.
The cheesy 45 was recorded in 1972 – ironically when the most sublimely gifted football team in the club’s history was on the downward slide.
But there’s a good football team developing at Goodison Park once again.
It hasn’t reached the heights of a couple of years ago yet, when Sunderland were smashed for seven prompting Stuart Hall to go all priapic on us – and Larissa were on the receiving end of back-heeled climaxes to length of the pitch passing moves.
But it’s getting there.
And against a team as agricultural and obvious as Blackburn it was the football equivalent of casting pearls before swine.
Don’t be misled by Everton scoring once again from a couple of set pieces.
That’s merely a legacy of Leighton Baines’ outstanding deadball delivery.
Their general approach play, quality of passing and speed of thought was increasingly impressive.
