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SEAMUS COLEMAN WILL take charge of Everton alongside club legend Leighton Baines in their FA Cup tie this evening, after Sean Dyche was sacked as the club’s manager today.
The Toffees have won just one of their last 11 Premier League matches under Dyche.
Everton confirmed that under-18s head coach Baines and club captain Coleman would take charge of first-team affairs on an interim basis, starting with tonight’s FA Cup tie against Peterborough at Goodison Park.
The club’s new owners, the Friedkin Group, will now begin the hunt for Dyche’s successor, with former Chelsea and Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho having already been linked with the position.
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Well I’ll be working over Christmas so maybe its nice to be appreciated!
Dont be so naive, this man doesn’t appreciate you or care less about you. Its PR, the speech was wrote for him by a french lady who is getting a salary of over 100,000 a year to write his speeches on whatever topic his spin doctors tell him is apt. The people here, your customers etc will appreciate you a lot more than this fraud
Was written not wrote
@Fridget: Nonsense, Michael D loves us all equally! He’s like Jesus except better because he’s Irish! Give us hell Micahel!
Chill out bridie
No she did’t as she resigning
Thanks Eoj, that explains why I’ll never be a six figure earning presidential speech writer :(
If I had a Captain Morgan I would be chilled, I’d be in great form!
lol @ Bo
The French lady actually resigned some weeks ago.
He should have put on his santa hat.
Lads, you should be doing stand up. Such original material.
Useless overpaid fraud. This guy is so full of it, only in Ireland would he get away with his massive salary and fake persona. What kind of a gullible person believes this speech…it’s wrote by his new speech writer, a French lady who gets paid over 100,000 a year to write for this fake useless waste of money
Take two of the big pills and one small one. Glass of warm milk. You should be fine in an hour or so.
Obviously not on the same stuff you are on chief!
Peace brother
Peace Chief. Do not feed the bad wolf, a warrior does not need many words to speak the truth
What a waste of space!
Johnny enough about you, now what do you think of Higgins?
Well done Michael. The Irish people are well represented by you and we agree with your well thought out comments.
Oh go away you muppet..if you love his speech so much, send a Christmas card to his speech writer
I’d have ethics coming me hole if I was on €249,014 a year in fairness!!!!!!
lol Exactly
He’s the president of Ireland…
An overpaid president. Crazy money
Well done Michael D. What a nice sentiment and a good warm up for the real xmas message given by our Queen on Christmas day.
Ah Ginger, that’s a poor attempt at trolling, I’m sure you can do better than that. ;)
Michael Higgins, the abortion president.
I’ll be saying a special prayer for the innocents who will in 2014, be sacrificing themselves on the Labour Party ideological altar.
So 2014 will be the year for a big discussion on “ethics” in Irish society eh?
Lol. That’ll be fun. Just what New Ireland needs.
Won’t god be too busy making pigeons land on pope Francis’ hand to listen to you?
At least Pope Francis does proper live TV Christmas messages. Michael Higgins is an intellectual lightweight and the figurehead of a bankrupt country.
He’ll look like a right tool when he has to stand in the pissing rain watching dad’s army march past him on Easter Sunday 2016. Face it: your country is a failure and Michael Higgins is the perfect man for the job.
Would you prefer mayonnaise or ketchup for that chip on your shoulder?
You realise that they just legislated for what was *already* legal in Ireland right? As put to the people not just once but twice..
This makes paying the USC a little easier to stomach. Not.
Michael Higgins is a national embarrassment.
I just wish they wouldn’t bother with this crap. We don’t want to hear this s**t out of any of them. Country is screwed and most of us with it. Go to hell Higgins, and the rest…
Sure its all take in Ireland today .
Nobody working for me
Pay the real property tax on your home in the Phoenix Park and I will take you seriously.
Till then keep your greetings.
Unless you need a gaurd or medical assistance on Christmas Day. Unless you don’t want them to work for you then either.
Who do you work for Higgins?
The bondholders?
Because it certainly aint me.
Running back from Italy in the dead of the night to sign us up for 100% of Anglo’s gambling debts (plus interest)!
Turning Fitz’s and Drummers bookie tab into Soverign debt!
Europuppet!!
A gaurd?
A proper president.An educated man with a passion for his country. Love to be a fly on the wall when he meets the queen of England. I’ve no doubt she will get away with any comment
Michael D’s a great man. A champion of human rights. Fair play to him for expressing his sentiment towards the emergency services who have to go through an awful lot of shite because of drunken idiots at this time of year more than any other time sadly. Also, on the point of the French woman who writes up the script, fair play to her ! George dubyah could have done with her during his reign as US president.
Agreed. I’ve noticed over last while that the journal is just hijacked by whingers. I appreciate those working over Xmas the guards nurses and doctors. Credit to us all.
It would be nice if the journal had non comment app same as this layout. Id use it rather then this as the comments really misrepresent the 99% of people in this country. Hows about that journal?? Xmas present for us with new app
Sanctimonious little sh1te
Who has developed the strangest of accents (even more pronounced since he moved in to the Phoenix Park). Where it originated from (poet land?), God only knows. I’d say this April Queen Elizabeth will be wondering how on God’s earth her language could become so distorted just a few hundred miles from its home.
Some people are seriously miserable, ah well just laugh at them and move on as they ain’t worth bothering with
I send out an email saying I need people to work on Christmas Eve every year, if people don’t volunteer then I simply remove them from the roster as their priorities are obviously wrong
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