MikeO

Phil Neville... Everything we did tactically over the last three games against Liverpool was spot on, despite what some people might say, I thought the comments after we played at Anfield in the Cup were a smokescreen." Maybe they were trying to provoke a reaction out of us, trying to play mind games. But they never had any chance of sucking us into that trap." We half treated Wednesday as if it was an away game, played with control and were comfortable. This is a different Everton one that plays the game, not the occasion." The managers belief beforehand changes everyones outlook and we got exactly what we deserved." What pleased me most in training the day after was that the main focus was on recovering from the game and on beating Bolton." "We know we have bigger challenges ahead than the one against Liverpool.

Jo is cup tied. Can't play.

You know me too well Bill...it's worrying .

I'm not telling him .

"The City of Liverpool, home of Everton FC since 1878..." Nice opening, except for the fact that the City of Liverpool wasn't home to Everton until 1895 . And that bloody constant "inspirational" choral music does it no favours. Interesting though .

From Henry Winter no less . Nice that a knowledgable neutral noticed .

Yeah....think two different versions happened. To the North of the country you only missed a bit but down south it was out for a full thirty seconds and came back to the pile of players. To be honest I didn't care a f'ck at the time but it pisses me off that I can't watch it back "as live" now.

I was interrupted mid-post by the good lady to some manly duties Bill (not that...I'd have been back sooner) . When I started your post wasn't there. But the rise in costings for Kirkby (costed last year? 2007 at a stretch maybe?) would be significantly less than rises covering the last nine years .

The study was done in 2000 so the costings are pretty much irrelevant today .

Severely bruised ego .

Got it, about 88'30" in. Only lasted about ten yards before Alonso brought him down but a thing of great beauty !

Squad announced and he's not in it. Midfielders named... Xabi Alonso (Liverpool), Albert Riera (Liverpool), Sergi Busquets (Barcelona), Santiago Cazorla (Villarreal), Marcos Senna (Villarreal), Xavi Hernandez (Barcelona), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), David Silva (Valencia). Predictable.

Would the "lifelong Liverpool fan" celebrate I wonder?

Sounds like it's run by a bunch of Luddites. Signed, but I doubt you'll get any joy. Good luck anyway .

The truly hilarious part is that they have absolutely no sense of the irony of it .

You picked a good day to come Marco . Glad you enjoyed it.

Watching the game back over again Jags is so impressive. Not faultless, as was pointed out earlier he gave the ball away for the Riera chance, but his contribution to the goal hasn't been mentioned as far as I've seen. When the ball came out it looked like Hibbert was going to play it square but Jags stormed through and took it virtually off his toes before passing to VDM. Destined for pens until then. Deffo MOTM and player of the season so far for me.

Thanks Bill . You can tell it's England rather than Canada because half an hour ago the power went off <_< . Couldn't get through on the phone to find out what was going on so I hatched a cunning and foolproof plan... Up into the attic, search to find camping stove and gas bottle. Return to kitchen and assemble. Fill saucepan with water (forgot to get camping kettle out of attic and couldn't be arsed to go back up to find it). Light gas and place saucepan on ring. Power returns within approx three seconds . It was never in doubt .

Got hit pretty hard overnight . Six or eight inches and (most importantly) no prospect of the school bus getting through for Josh. Just need to work out if I can get us to a decent hill somewhere!

Have you got a link to the details of what happened? Like to read about it before signing .

Loving the Brazilian one !

Classy. http://www.nsno.co.uk/news.php?item.4234.1

Funny that....I was shouting, "I don't want a f'king Volkswagon Golf!!" when it happened <_< .

They couldn't have kicked off with all our team (bar Howard) in their half. Why was the steward involved ?