Football: BLUES GET LIFT FROM JAG; BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE EVERTON 1 JAGIELKA 62 READING 0 Phil uses his head to rock Royals.(Sport)

From: Sunday Mirror (London, England) | Date: February 10, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: SIMON MULLOCK AT GOODISON PARK

THEY would have been asking for their money back in Malaysia or Miami. But on Merseyside it doesn't matter how good the football is when your team is chasing a Champions League place.

Phil Jagielka's 62nd-minute goal - Everton's first in over six hours of league and cup football - kept David Moyes's bid to join Europe's elite on course.

And while this was hardly an afternoon for the purists, none of that mattered to the Goodison fans as they went home savouring a result that maintained their three-point lead in the battle for ...

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