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Oct 12, 2024 | 
toffeeweb.com | Christine Foster
by | 12/10/2024 I noted with interest last night, the 84th min substitution of one Gylfi Sigurdsson, making a brief appearance for Iceland on the international stage.
Despite almost 2 years left hanging by Greater Manchester Police and the Criminal Prosecution Service after being suspended by Everton — prematurely in hindsight, rather than waiting to actually see what transpired in this mysterious case.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
toffeeweb.com | Christine Foster
Tim Howard has created a few waves with his latest comments condemning Pep Guardiola for "ruining football". In an interview he said that teams are all trying to play the "expansive" style of football when in fact there are only 3 teams with the quality of players that are truly able to play that way. As a result football has suffered. Now I have to admit, I am torn.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
toffeeweb.com | Christine Foster
by | 07/12/2024 There's a site called Billy's Liverpool to commemorate all the past sights and sounds of Liverpool. Today, a poster I think called John Peat, posted this, written before the match postponement, it deserves a view even though he is from the other side of the fence...
A ‘Red' Perspective
Assuming we don't subsequently meet in the FA Cup, as a 60+ year old school Red but also a football fan, tomorrow will be for me a very sad nostalgic day.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
toffeeweb.com | Christine Foster
The other 14 clubs who make up the competition are irrelevant to the executive, merely the means to a lucrative end for the other six.
No-one begrudges wealth creation, but to claim that a regulator would damage the success of the Premier League is a sham, because it is more likely to ensure that the arrogance of Richard Masters is countered with regulation.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
stanfordmag.org | Christine Foster
There is a story in the New Testament in which four friends grabbed a mat and used it to carry a paralyzed man to Jesus, lowering the man through the roof of a hut in hopes that Jesus would heal him. To inhabitants of what often seems like a fractured, self-obsessed world, this 2,000-year-old story might feel remarkable. This man had friends who were connected to him—and to one another—enough to work in concert to help him.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
toffeeweb.com | Christine Foster
Deep breath. Okay, here we go..
We have reached a crossroads. This season is panning out as another relegation fight, one which I suspect we may not get out of if nothing changes. Tactically dreadful performances, puzzling team selections and a refusal to change formation, personnel or tactics unless there is no choice, has left us facing a December that could be as barren points-wise as ever before.
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Dec 24, 2023 | 
toffeeweb.com | Christine Foster
One of the joys of Christmas is that being in New Zealand or Australia, we get Christmas before anyone else does! So as I sit here on a quiet Christmas morning, my thoughts go out to my extended family here on ToffeeWeb to wish you all a wonderful and merry Christmas!
As a reflection of an Evertonian's life, ToffeeWeb can bring you laughter, frustration common sense or just friendship.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
toffeeweb.com | Christine Foster
Part of this article was originally posted as a response to Lyndon’s article on the closure of the amortisation loophole. Forgive me if those who read previously are irked by its modified repetition, however it occurred to me after posting that we all complain, but exactly what could or should be addressed to limit the “corruption” accusation against the Premier League or at the very least the obvious bias, towards the top four darlings of the brand Premier League.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
news.uchicago.edu | Christine Foster
Genevieve Lakier calls herself a “First Amendment addict.”A leading scholar on what freedom of speech means, she came of age as a lawyer just long enough ago that she remembers fielding questions about what was left to study on the topic. “These questions are much less fixed than when I was taught First Amendment law and started becoming an academic,” said Lakier, MA ’01, PhD ’14, a professor of law and the Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar at the Law School.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
stanfordmag.org | Christine Foster
Dianne Feinstein, ’55, was well known as the San Francisco mayor who helped the city find its way forward after the 1978 City Hall assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk, and later as one of the first pair of women to represent California in the Senate. She also had a less visible identity: mentor to generations of Stanford students who served as interns and staffers in her office. Several of them share their memories of the senator, who died September 29.
