The Football Association won a major concession at the International FA board meeting in
The Football Association won a major concession at the International FA board meeting in Belfast on Saturday. Hearts were paid an original £1m when Naysmith went to Everton and receive £250,000 every 25 games.. Naysmith has now made 75 first-team appearances for Moyes’s side, which means another installment. He has done very well for us and played a big part in what we have done over the last few months.”Hearts are to receive another £250,000 thanks to the performances of their former player Gary Naysmith at Everton.
They will hold final talks before making a decision early next week, but the signs are not good.McBride is due back with his US club Columbus Crew on 1 April, so it appears his final appearance in an Everton shirt will be at Arsenal on Saturday.Moyes said: “Brian understands we would not want to spend such a lot of money on him at his age. Everton had hoped that they would be able to persuade the MLS to allow McBride to stay for a further season on loan, which would have cost around £500,000 in fees and wages.But the Americans are insisting on a permanent transfer and want £1.7m, money Everton do not have. Everton’s home supporters probably saw the last of the US striker Brian McBride when he was taken off after 54 minutes of Saturday’s 0-0 draw with West Ham United.
The club are in dispute with Major League Soccer, the American league that owns McBride’s contract. Substitutes not used: Arphexad (gk), Baros, Smicer, Biscan.Bookings: Tottenham Poyet, Liverpool Hamann.Referee: U Rennie 5 (Sheffield).Man of the match: S Gerrard (Liverpool).Attendance: 36,077.. Substitutes not used: Sullivan (gk), Acimovic, Toda.Liverpool (4-4-2): Dudek 3; Carragher 4, Hyypia 5, Traore 5, Riise 5; Murphy 7, Gerrard 9, Hamann 7 (Diao 87), Diouf 7; Heskey 7, Owen 7.
“But performances like that give us heart.” It is Liverpool, however, who are looking in rude health right now.Goals: 1-0 (Taricco, 47); 1-1 (Owen, 50); 1-2 (Heskey, 71); 1-3 (Gerrard, 81); 2-3 (Sheringham, 86).Tottenham Hotspur (4-4-2): Keller 4; Carr 5, Thatcher 4, King 5, Taricco 4 (Freund 66, 3); Davies 7, Poyet 6, Bunjevcevic 4, Etherington 4; Sheringham 4, Doherty 3 (Slabber 78). “We have got to put a run together and stop conceding,” he claimed, mindful that when the two sides met in October they were both in the top three. Not quite an open door policy there, then.Afterwards Hoddle’s attention was firmly on the league table, saying his team desperately needed “momentum”. Hoddle offered a little insight when he said, during the week, that he did not have a communication problem – having spoken to Thatcher “a couple of months ago”. The former Wimbledon defender has become the latest to be unsettled at White Hart Lane, raising further murmurings over the former England’s manager’s handling of his squad.
The England midfielder ran on, steadied himself and calmly shot low past Kasey Keller to condemn Tottenham to only their third home defeat in 15 games.Thatcher, incidentally, had been recalled in place of the suspended Dean Richards, one of eight first-team players unavailable to Hoddle. There seemed to be some justification to Hoddle’s protests that he was offside, however.Then, with Tottenham pressing, Murphy’s long ball was collected in his stride by Gerrard whose momentum took him past Ben Thatcher on half-way. Emile Heskey arrived to put his side ahead with his second goal in a week. Gerrard – who had shot wide in the first half after an impressive 50 yard run to link play with Danny Murphy – burst into the area and chipped an instinctive cross to the back post. Sheringham was caught dwelling in possession on the edge of his own penalty area and the ball transferred to Gerrard whose low ball was swept in.Suddenly Liverpool were energised. “We were inches off two or three goals,” Hoddle said, adding that his side – despite what he claimed was a performance good enough to have won the game – paid for “individual errors”.Tellingly, it was from a similar move to the ones spurned by Spurs that Michael Owen equalised. Twice Tottenham failed to provide sufficient personnel while Poyet spoiled a third chance wide with his team-mate Gary Doherty inadvertently impeding him.
