MikeO

Not great but I've seen worse, some nice work down the left (as usual). Sunderland are no threat at all though I don't think. Step it up a bit and we should be OK.

Current Player of the Year standings.... Jagielka 229 Fellaini 185 Baines 179 Arteta 164 Pienaar 142 Cahill 133 Neville 120 Osman 102 Howard 64 Saha 62 Lescott 57 João Alves Jô 39 Rodwell 29 Castillo 28 Gosling 28 Anichebe 21 Baadhi 17 Hibbert 16 Yobo 12 Vaughan 11 Yakubu 10 Van der Meyde 10 Baxter 4 Jacobsen 4 Valente 2 MOTM winners.... Blackburn (H)...Mikel Arteta West Brom (A)...Leon Osman Portsmouth (H)...Leighton Baines Stoke City (A)...Tim Cahill Standard Liege (H)...Segundo Castillo Hull City (A)...Leon Osman Blackburn (A)...Louis Saha Liverpool (H)...Phil Jagielka Standard Liege (A)...Phil Jagielka Newcastle (H)...Leighton Baines Arsenal (A)...Marouane Fellaini Manchester United (H)...Marouane Fellaini Bolton (A)...Marouane Fellaini Fulham (H)...Phil Jagielka West Ham (A)...Louis Saha Middlesbrough (H)...Phil Neville Wigan (A)...Tim Howard Spurs (A)...Phil Jagielka Aston Villa (H)...Joleon Lescott Man City (A)...Tim Cahill Chelsea (H)...Leon Osman Middlesbrough (A)...Mikel Arteta Sunderland (H)...Mikel Arteta Macclesfield (A)...Leighton Baines Hull (A)...Mikel Arteta Liverpool (A-league)...Leighton Baines Liverpool (A-Cup)...Phil Jagielka Arsenal (H)...Tim Cahill Manchester United (A)...Tim Howard Liverpool (H-Cup replay)...Phil Jagielka Bolton (H)...João Alves Jô Aston Villa (H)...Mikel Arteta Newcastle (A)...Jack Rodwell West Brom (H)...Steven Pienaar Blackburn (A)...Phil Neville Middlesbrough (H)...Marouane Fellaini Stoke City (H)...Marouane Fellaini Portsmouth (A)...Leighton Baines Wigan (H)...Marouane Fellaini Aston Villa (A)...Steven Pienaar Manchester United (Wembley)...Phil Neville Chelsea (A)...Leighton Baines Manchester City (H)...Marouane Fellaini

Hell that's good!

Ooops .

Howard, Jacobsen, Yobo, Lescott, Baines, Cahill, Neville, Pienaar, Fellaini, Gosling, Jo. Looks like a winning team to me. Nash, Castillo, Saha, Vaughan, Rodwell, Agard and Wallace on the bench. Leon gets a rest .

The Greek cup final between Olympiakos and AEK Athens. 4-4 draw and Olympiakos win 15-14 on penalties . http://www.goal.com/en/news/117/greece/200...greek-cup-final

Maybe Marouane is Lynott reincarnated . I'll check the dates .

Yup....have a nice day! (what's the significance of the Phil Lynott avatar btw?)

Luke Nicoli, NOTW.... "Everton boss David Moyes is in the box seat. The Goodison club have money to burn following their FA Cup run and the promise of European football next season." Really? Highly informed piece of quality journalism as we should always expect from his employers .

If David James is England's best we're in desperate trouble. See Arsenal's first goal today? Typical of the man. Laughable.

If we sign him I think we should make a cheeky bid for the lad who got Dundee United's late winner today, I think they could fit together nicely. David Goodwillie is his name :smile_anim: .

Does Arteta's second against Sunderland count?

"...the new retail arrangement for Everton includes a sports marketing agreement of up to five years with Le Coq Sportif." No specific length put to it . "Up to five years" presumably means we can change if something better comes along.

Signed before they became minted I think ? They were a less attracive proposition than us. Suggests (to me) that it must be £3m a year. Inconceivable that it isn't surely.

Having been at Goodison for the reverse fixture I just can't see Sunderland being any sort of threat at all, they were very poor even though they were supposedly on a good run of form at the time. I'd go along with Martyn's team, think that'll be good enough for a 2-0. Edit: Relax, it's in the bag, Lawrensen's gone for Sunderland . Sunderland v Everton (1600 BST) Sunderland really came up short against West Brom last week, which was a game they would have targeted to secure their safety. I'm sure Ricky Sbragia will have them fired up to make sure they compete here. Everton have come a long way this season, played really well at times and still have the FA Cup final to look forward to, but I think one or two of them may have taken their eye off the ball. Verdict: 2-1 He also thinks that Villa, "...have broken the back of that awful run of form they were going through" (when did they do that....in terms of results?) so that's put the curse on them.

Dubious personally....however, we signed a supposedly knackered striker whose best days were long gone once before. Desperation a lot of us thought (me included I have to say). That was Andy Gray .

Gee thanks....he just had the 125....and you've narrowed it down to 95. Easy now .

She's not the answer though . But point taken .

Can you narrow the song down to a decade ?

Give that man a coconut!

You're in roughly the right time slot Jim, but the one I'm looking for started ten years after Jim'll Fix It, and ran for another nine years after Savile was cancelled.

As I've said before, I plan to live forever (or die in the attempt) .

Wife had one of those after colonoscopy was inconclusive, said it was far, far more traumatic. She was upset for days .

Specific long running show (not on any more though).

OK....here's my attempt. Connection between Saturday night TV and the Everton/ManU semi-final....with a bonus point for the link to a prominent member of TT.