Let’s assume that Landon Donovan will remember this day for a long time.

When he made his debut in the English Premier League … and played at Emirates Stadium in north London … during a steady snowstorm … on a day when his match was the only one at 3 p.m. (and, thus, seen by a huge TV audience) … and got an assist on a corner kick to give Everton a 1-0 lead en route to a 2-2 tie with powerful Arsenal.

Did you see it? Did they show this match, back there in the states?

A brief recap, if you didn’t:

First, let’s confess to how we saw bits of the match. At the paper, here in Abu Dhabi, live video of a batch of television feeds can be pulled up on our computer screens. Right at our work stations.

A Scottish guy who sits across from me came over and found the Everton-Arsenal game a few minutes in, and there it was in one of my computer windows, in full color, with a decent picture.

I stole glances at it for the next two hours.

Donovan, on loan for 10 weeks from the Los Angeles Galaxy, and a member of the Everton side only since Monday, looked as if he had been with the team for months, not days. But, then, that is what you expect from a veteran player, and a veteran is what Donovan is, at age 27.

The match was played in brutish weather. Colder than usual, for southern England, record cold, even, and far snowier than it ought to be. Most of the matches in the Premier League today were canceled, but they went ahead with this one. Presumably because London was able to keep its streets clear and the Underground running.

Snow fell during most of the action, and flakes were drifting towards the earth when Landon, wearing No. 9 for Everton and playing on the right side of midfield, set up a corner kick, 12 minutes into the match.

Galaxy and U.S. national team fans know Donovan can be very effective on restarts, and he curled a nice corner into a spot near the top of the goalie box, and Leon Osman headed it in.

Nice start, Yank.

Landon seemed close to scoring early in the second half, when the snow was coming down so hard it was sticking to players’ heads and they clearly had trouble seeing across the pitch. His shot in the 52nd minute was just wide.

He came out in the 68th minute, suffering from cramps,  according to Everton coach David Moyes. Which is understandable, considering he hadn’t played a match in nearly seven weeks and he was playing in weather so nasty that other players (Arsenal’s William Gallas, in particular) seemed at risk of hurting themselves as their muscles turned brittle.

Everton fans in the Emirates crowd apparently gave Donovan a round of applause, and Moyes said nice things about him, too. “I thought Donovan did very well,” he said. “He cramped up, so we had to take him off and the cold probably didn’t help him. Landon was a threat to Arsenal all day and he did a great job out on the right. Landon offers up plenty of options, and that is why we are delighted to have him.”

It wasn’t all roses and lollipops for Landon. His speed put him in good stead in a league where everyone can run … but he was knocked around by bigger opponents, and the Premier League has lots of big players, especially in the back. I’m not sure Landon won a 50-50 ball in the air, and he seemed surprised several times when an Arsenal player banged into him and no call was made. But it’s a physical league and the referee was consistent in not calling fouls on anything short of a blatant assault.

Everton went ahead again, 2-1, but Arsenal scored in extra time to extract a tie, which kept Everton from winning on Arsenal’s pitch for the first time in 14 tries. But considering Arsenal destroyed Everton 6-1 back on the first weekend of the season, a 2-2 result looks fairly attractive.

As for Donovan … he will need to adjust to the body-slamming endemic in this league, and will need to use his quickness to avoid big collisions. But he demonstrated he has the technical skills to hang with these guys … and he can be fairly certain that he won’t again play in conditions quite that awful again. Not in England.

Look for him in the lineup again when Everton gets Manchester City next weekend, perhaps starting again ahead of Russian winger Diniyar Bilyaledinov. And if he is playing on a dry, fast track with balmy temperatures of, say, 40 Fahrenheit … he might even improve on today’s quite solid performance.