MikeO

Disagree...German's much easier than French for me. Got a better O level result in German than I did in French and I only did it for three years against five for French (plus some basic at primary school). You want difficult? Try Greek. I've had three or four aborted attempts to learn it so far. But I'll get it one day . Also had a South African girlfriend once who tried to teach me some Xhosa...has loads of different "click" sounds in it as well as normal verbal stuff. Totally impossible.

England have drawn Wales, Switzerland, Montenegro & Bulgaria. 76th, 18th, 72nd and 30th world ranked respectively. Easiest group ever by the look of it (watch us cock it up ). Scotland are screwed (Spain, Czech Republic, SCOTLAND, Lithuania, Liechtenstein). So are NI (Italy, Serbia, NORTHERN IRELAND, Slovenia, Estonia, Faroe Islands). Republic got a chance (Russia, Slovakia, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND, FYR Macedonia, Armenia, Andorra).

Juventus paid £3.2m for Zinedine Zidane and sold him for €78 (£46m at the time). Real Madrid didn't say, "...we're not paying that (significantly more than a 1000% increase) because you only paid this..." He's worth what someone's prepared to pay.

What we paid for him is irrelevant, but I agree we wouldn't get that much with only a year left on his contract (unless his performances at the World Cup start a bidding war).

I think mine is a better answer to 27 personally Bill .

So you're satisfied that we played as well as Liverpool....who (as you say) are very average. There's no problem with a performance like that ? And we didn't play badly?

DM.. Watched a different game from everyone else ?

Nah....Hull won't be a sell-out..you'll have no problem.

We were better when they had eleven .

Opportunity missed big time .

Keep it tight 'til half time....no stupid cards and we should have this.

Looks like Arteta coming on.

Liverpool: Reina, Carragher, Kyrgiakos, Agger, Insua, Mascherano, Lucas, Kuyt, Gerrard, Maxi, Ngog. Subs: Cavalieri, Aquilani, Riera, Aurelio, Babel, Degen, Skrtel. Everton: Howard, Neville, Distin, Heitinga, Baines, Fellaini, Donovan, Osman, Cahill, Pienaar, Saha. Subs: Nash, Bilyaletdinov, Arteta, Yakubu, Senderos, Anichebe, Coleman.

You'd want one of these people to invest in Everton!? Hopefully if they'd sniffed they'd have been told to f'ck off sharpish. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8500609.stm

I'd have Ossie in place of Arteta (because even if he's fit he won't be match fit), and I think DM will, but other than that it looks spot on to me.

Only Hibbert, Yobo and Jags unavailable for tomorrow. Squad... Howard, Nash, Neville, Coleman, Heitinga, Senderos, Distin, Baines, Fellaini, Osman, Arteta, Rodwell, Pienaar, Bilyaletdinov, Donovan, Gosling, Cahill, Saha, Yakubu, Vaughan, Anichebe, Duffy, Baxter, Forshaw. It's hero time....and it could be any of them....the Goose proved that!

So was John Paul Kissock . If we get one or two regular first-teamers out of this squad we'll be doing well .

Thanks for that Noddy. Blackburn away next....they put out ManU 3-0 . Could be tough.

Loved the semi-circles....unique. Anyone fooled by the cameras being on the "wrong" side of the ground . Wondered for a moment why we were warming up at the Park End .

More than likely to be the truth imo. Makes sense.

Was thinking this morning he must be in the running for it. Nice one .

I think it was probably more than Smith's recommendation that led to Davey getting the job. Was widespread speculation, even getting as far as the CBBC website... "The person most likely to take over seems to be Preston North End boss David Moyes, who took the club to the division one play offs last season, and is hotly tipped to become a very successful manager in the future." http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/sport/newsid_1870000/1870925.stm Maybe Walter gave the benefit of his wisdom to a Blue Peter presenter on the quiet as well as BK? He self evidently does have the money to be where he is. It'd be nice if he had more admittedly. Lescott went for closer to £24m I thought. Stupid money, whoever negotiated it. I'm a Kenwright fan, always have been.

He's not got a profile on the OS in either reserves or academy . Strange (or am I just having a senior moment ).

On the Echo site... http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/everton-fc/everton-fc-news/2010/02/05/david-prentice-time-for-leighton-baines-to-cross-the-england-bridge-plus-watch-alan-ball-beating-man-utd-100252-25766518/2/ Love Bally taking the ball of George Best's toes about 14'30" in...happy days .

In The Post as well...much more believable. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/everton-fc/everton-fc-news/2010/02/05/louis-saha-agrees-new-two-year-deal-at-everton-fc-92534-25767091/