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Sneaky edit on the title and all's well Bill .

The only person in the ground who thought it was a red was the ref, even the Liverpool players didn't react at all. Should be overturned if there's any justice (which there often isn't <_< ).

"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" recorded by Bananarama among others .

What a fucking idiot Riley. Red card that has to be overturned for TC. Nonsense.

Current Player of the Year standings.... Osman 45 Arteta 29 Cahill 24 Saha 19 Castillo 18 Neville 17 Anichebe 12 Jagielka 11 Baines 11 Yakubu 9 Vaughan 7 Baxter 4 Yobo 3 Fellaini 2 Valente 2 Baadhi 2 Howard 1 Rodwell 1 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

Lets hope they don't replace Riera with Babel too soon....it's gonna happen at some point though . Interesting to see how soon Davey makes changes...Saha for Ossie I'd have thought. They've been much earlier this season than previously.

Thought kicking the ball away was a yellow card (as Riera just did). Obviously doesn't count if you're a Liverpool player .

I'm set up in the shed wearing the shirt that I bought on the morning of the 3-0....not that I'm superstitious . COYB!

Line-up. Howard Hibbert Yobo Jagielka Lescott Fellaini Neville Arteta Osman Cahill Yakubu "Everton have Mikel Arteta and Tony Hibbert back for the Merseyside derby. Arteta returns from the illness that prevented him facing Blackburn in midweek, while Hibbert plays for the first time since damaging his knee ligaments in the defeat to Arsenal in May. It will be his first match action of any type since that game. Hibbert's return means Phil Neville will switch to a midfield role, the skipper joining Marouane Fellaini and Tim Cahill. Leon Osman and the returning Arteta will operate on the flanks, with Yakubu the lone striker. Louis Saha and James Vaughan provide a striking threat from the bench, with Segundo Castillo, Nuno Valente, Jack Rodwell, Leighton Baines and Carlo Nash also in reserve. Liverpool name Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres in their starting XI, but Javier Mascherano misses out." (Liverpool: Reina, Arbeloa, Carragher, Skrtel, Dossena, Kuyt, Alonso, Gerrard, Riera, Torres, Keane. Subs: Cavalieri, Hyypia, Agger, Aurelio, Pennant, Babel, Leiva Lucas)

Thanks for the update Gav...looks a highly intelligent little lad! Is that a calculator in his hand (trying to work out how many goals we're going to score today )? Happy birthday Conor!

I don't think it was ever intended as an Evertonian "YNWA." Liverpool don't run out to that do they? Different thing entirely. Find it amazing that you still feel that way after it's been around for 45 years, but you're entitled to your opinion . Feel free to put up a poll if you like.....I suspect you'll be in a fairly small minority. Shortened history of Z-Cars with thanks to ToffeeWeb (the fact that some of it was filmed in Kirkby may get you a few votes Oz ). The significance of Z-Cars is that it was set in an undefined area of Merseyside. The series was introduced in 1962 and was an instant hit. It was also a time when regional accents – previously so despised by the BBC establishment – where finally beginning to be heard more regularly on radio and television. Home Counties dominance of the media was being challenged be regional programmes like Z-Cars that were a bit more "cutting-edge" than the usual stuff on telly back then. Z-Cars was streets ahead of its nearest London rival – the cosy and comfortable Dixon of Dock Green... but that's another story. Z-Cars was based in a fictitious district just outside Liverpool called "Newtown". The setting was one of the new overspill towns that were springing up around British cities after World War II to re-house people after the German blitz and move them out of city-centre Victorian slums. Most people identified "Newtown" with Kirkby, then in Lancashire, now in Merseyside. The policemen had Lancashire police badges on their hats, not Liverpool ones. Many of the location scenes were actually filmed in Kirkby. The catchy theme tune chosen by the BBC to herald the Z-Cars series was the music from an old Liverpool folksong called Johnny Todd. And one of the fans, who played PC Sweet on the front desk, was an Evertonian; one day he brought a few of the cast to watch the team. In recognition of that, the team came out on the field to the Z-Cars theme, it has stuck ever since. It was all about another group of Boys in Blue. Whatever the reason, the theme was introduced midway through the 1963-64 season and became a clarion call for generations of Evertonians. The original Z-Cars theme was a more sedate fluted version, which Everton first played. A more punchy version was recorded, aimed at the pop charts with some nice saxophone – it was a hit. Everton adopted the punchy version, as did the TV series. This is the version Everton still use today. A revamped version of the tune was also done in 1997 by the group Blueknowz and is available on Tape or CD from the Everton Megastore. Former Everton Chairman, Peter Johnson, knows to his cost that the Z-Cars theme is an Everton tradition which cannot be trifled with. In the 1994-95 season, a new Everton theme tune was introduced (Fanfare for the Common Man), and the Z-Cars theme was actually dropped for a period. This brazen attempt to jazz things up by riding roughshod over the views of traditional fans was met with derision and condemnation. Within a few short weeks, the experiment was over, and the magical flute of the Z-Cars theme was re-introduced by Joe Royle when he re-joined the club as manager in November 1994. In the good old days, the teams did not run out together, as they do now. The strains of Z-Cars echoing around the towering Goodison Stands would herald the arrival of Everton in those famous Royal Blue jerseys and white shorts, running out onto a pristine green Goodison turf... a special moment guaranteed to bring out the goose-bumps in every true-blue Evertonian.

You'll be watching, you can't not . I missed most of it last year.....I was on holiday in Zakynthos and got the KO time mixed up somehow....walked into a bar just in time to see Phil Neville's magnificent diving save . Interesting quote by Moyes here... Wonder what he's hinting at there .

Need no convincing, of course he does.....for now .

Check the team on the bottom of this report. >>KcLiCkLiKe<<. Where there's life there's hope .

According to the BBC ratings Rodwell was third best player (behind Saha & Osman), but no-one's voted for him. Think following on from Mark's comments I'll include Noah Baardi as an option every game from now on. Hopefully he'll not get too many MOTM performances .

Done.

Think nobody is an option that a lot of people have taken. If it was an election the turnout would be described as "disappointing."

This line says it all for me, Kinnear, who has been out of work since resigning as Nottingham Forest boss in 2004, said: "I am very excited." Course he is, no-one would give him a job for the last four years . Hilarious.

By which logic our Cup Winners Cup win in '85 is a meaningless irrelevence because it no longer exists. And it was the Inter Cities Fairs Cup....one competition, not two, that was renamed UEFA in 1971. To put it as nicely as I can....you are talking bollox .

Noticed that Steve. The very first vote cast didn't register for some reason, don't know whose it was.

Still three weeks according to the OS, but it's said that for a while. Lawrensen's gone for a draw... "Defensively, Everton are all over the place, but going forward they look like they've got real goal threat. Matches at 12.45 are never good games because both sides are half asleep, and for that reason I think we might get plenty of goals. Both clubs have been up and down so far this season, and I think there'll be mistakes aplenty." Verdict: 2-2

Interesting midfield .

Better than Beckham's (about 4.2) and Lampard (4.1). That's all games for ManU/Wet Spam & Chelsea, not just league .

Out of interest... Ossie 19 goals in 136 games. Goal every seven games roughly. Arteta 13 in 109. One every eight games. Valuable contributions certainly but... TC 31 in 103. Goal every three and a half. Not sure if those figures include this season but either way it wouldn't make a lot of difference.

The Derby was the turning point last season after a bit of an iffy start (though not as iffy as this season ). Even though we were robbed (or maybe because we were robbed) we went on one of the best runs we've had in modern times. Let's hope this is the point where the season finally gets going...but not after the same result. If the Goodison Derby doesn't concentrate the defences' collective brain-cells then nothing will! I'll predict a score when I see the team, but I'm confident that everyone (like me :whistle: ) will have tipped a home win in The Anusol .