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By Media and Publications Manager Darren Griffiths.

I am sure that Sydney and Melbourne are both fine places with lengthy lists of attributes...but my opinion of both these wonderful cities has been severely blighted by the chronic toothache that is driving to me to despair.

After a painful flight from the former to the latter I sought out a dental surgery close...

By Media and Publications Manager Darren Griffiths

Former Manchester United striker Dwight Yorke and current Australian fast-bowler Brett Lee have both been fortunate recipients of my company in the last two days!

‘Yorkie', as the likes of Phil Neville, David Beckham and I call him, is coming out of retirement to play for Sydney FC against Everton on Saturday and he did...

By Media & Publications Manager Darren Griffiths

Another busy but thoroughly enjoyable day here in Sydney...a day when an Everton player made history, a Sydney taxi driver got lost on a half-mile journey and the Australian Toffees got to meet their heroes!

Training this morning was once again at the West Tigers complex on the outskirts of the city and again the...

By Media and Publications Manager Darren Griffiths 

Welcome to my second blog of the Australian tour.

I met a former Everton player here in Sydney this morning...but I doubt many supporters will recall him.

Dennis Jaeger was a youth team player in the mid-60s and as he lives in Sydney these days he was delighted to come along to watch his former club training.

The...

By Everton's media and publications manager Darren Griffiths 

The effects of jet-lag finally appear to be wearing off!

After two days of tiredness at bizarre times, my body finally seems to have accepted the fact that it's nine hours ahead of where it should be.

The midnight viewing of the Germany v Argentina game was probably the clincher.

Watching a football match in a...

There was a very early start for some of the evertonfc.com team on Saturday as they headed back to the airport to welcome the squad to Australia.

But they were certainly weren't the only ones to have got up early as a throng of fans and camera crews has also turned up at Sydney Airport.

But of far more interest was...

We're now fully installed in our Sydney base and eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Everton squad.

As this blog is being written, David Moyes and his players and staff are in the air on their way Down Under.

They are following the same path the evertonfc.com team took a day earlier, and the marathon journey does throw up a few problems.

Deciding when to...

As you will probably know the Everton squad is heading to Australia this week to kick off a three match tour.

As ever, evertonfc.com and evertontv will be with David Moyes and his players as they visit Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

We actually fly out ahead of the squad, meaning we'll arrive Down Under in time to get our bearings and...