Short and sweet today as the replay wasn't on until well after the result was in the bag. I followed on iFooty and after a thousand refreshes, saw Everton finish off a great week by winning 2-0 for the third time in a row, and leaping, for now, into 7th place in the EPL.
Another curious thing about soccer is the own goal, "scored" when a player deflects the ball into their own net for a gift to the other side. It seems it's been a more common occurrence this year than in others, but it happened twice in the Toffees favor this week. The thing about own goals is they are always different. The goal that Sunderland put in their own net was the very definition of an own goal. The defender had all the chance in the world to clear the ball, but put it cleanly in the back of his net. Today was much different. The lovely strike by Leon Osman took a slight deflection before heading home. In both cases, the offensive players got no credit for the goals, but clearly Osman should have. Believe it or not, a Goals Committee exists for just the case of deciding what is and isn't an own goal. Brilliant. On to Easter Weekend and games Saturday v. Norwich and Monday v. Sunderland before the FA Cup Semi-Final Darby in two weeks. Up the Toffees...
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