Welp, so much for that idea. Yoshinobu Yamamoto is a Los Angeles Dodger, and the New York Mets are still the Mets. After putting on a full-court press for the Japanese ace, giving it 115 percent, and leaving it all on the field, owner Steve Cohen’s efforts amounted to diddly squat. Now it’s back to the drawing board, or as Mets fans more commonly refer to it, a drab, depressing existence occasionally highlighted by spurts of misguided optimism. The club hasn’t done everything right since Cohen took over, but it was Cohen taking over that was supposed to fix everything the Wilpons could not. While the Mets might not have the basic knowledge yet, and who knows how long Cohen will listen to the logic of new front office man David Stearns, they possess an owner who’s committed and…

Carlo Ancelotti said he wanted to make history with Everton after becoming the first manager to lead the club to victory over Liverpool at Anfield since 1999.

The Italian was full of praise for Jordan Pickford, his team’s defending and their clinical finishing as Everton ended a miserable run at Anfield. Ancelotti believes the performance showed his team can compete with the leading lights of the Premier League but must be replicated at Goodison Park, where Everton have won four league games this season compared with eight away.

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It was the plumes of blue smoke that gave the game away. As the Everton team bus inched its way up Goodison Road, the crowds reluctantly parted to allow it through. Shirtless children. Women with blue soot on their face.

Men clutching their four-packs of San Miguel with one hand and shaking a fist with the other. A swelling, soaring, billowing wall of noise filled the narrow little terraced streets like a fever. A “Road Closed” sign was slapped by an Evertonian for the crime of being red.

Where does that fervour and longing come from and where does it go? It doesn’t simply disappear between Monday and Friday. Instead it builds and festers, unquenched and often unrequited. The hours pass slowly and the years pa…

Sean Dyche has said Everton must unite again and focus on “the rise of the Toffees” in response to the club’s second points deduction of the season.

Everton slipped to 16th in the Premier League on Monday, two points above the relegation zone, after being docked two points for a £16.6m breach of profitability and sustainability rules up to 2023.

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A hearing into whether a total of £23.46m in stadium interest payments can be excluded from the club’s PSR calculations will take place after this season. That carries the threat of a third points deduction for a club in an increasingly perilous financial situation, with 777 Partners request…