Nathan Patterson injury claim made as Frank Lampard…

Nathan Patterson injury claim made as Frank Lampard stands apart from Everton predecessors

It's time for your Everton FC morning headlines on Sunday, September 25.

Nathan Patterson 'not serious' injury claim made as Everton defender offers clue

Everton have been handed a potential boost over the fitness of Nathan Patterson.

The Everton right-back was stretchered off just 20 minutes into Scotland’s Nations League win over Ukraine on Wednesday night with concerns over his fitness after he indicated pains in his leg and his knee. The medical team at Hampden Park needed more than five minutes to treat Patterson before he was withdrawn from the pitch.

Now, according to the Scottish Daily Express , the injury to the 20-year-old is deemed “not serious”. The report also claims that Patterson is only expected to be sidelined for a short period of time, but does not elaborate any further. The player himself spoke on Twitter on Saturday evening as he gave an update on his condition.

Read the full story HERE.

Frank Lampard succeeding as Everton manager while others without his gift try to rewrite history

Former Everton managers seem to be like politicians these days when it comes to playing fast and loose with the truth and coming up with their own revisionist recollections of their tenures at Goodison Park. There was a time in the not-too-distant past that Blues fans might dread the international breaks, fearing that one of their players might talk up a potential move when away with his country and then inevitably try and claim the quotes were somehow lost in translation.

However, the current interruption in Premier League fixtures – even more frustrating because it comes after the recent fixture postponements following the Queen’s death and ahead of a six-week mid-season winter break due to the World Cup finals in Qatar – has featured not one but two ex-Blues bosses opening up to Sky Sports News to give interviews trying to explain just why their highly-paid assignments working for Farhad Moshiri were supposedly so difficult.

First Rafael Benitez claimed that because of his past employment at local rivals Liverpool “maybe I couldn’t make some decisions”, before Ronald Koeman's cosy sit down chat with Sky aired just three days after Benitez’s. The old Dutch master – in playing terms at least – only had one full season at Goodison Park to remember but as my fellow Everton reporter Adam Jones pointed out on Friday, he still managed to wrongly claim they came sixth rather than their actual position of seventh.

Read the full story HERE.

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