MikeO

With a faulty calculator .

Was just about to sneak it on ahead of you Pat . It is on over here, love it (and as always nobody ever gets really hurt, always made me laugh...explosions, machine guns, nuclear weapons and everybody is always seen to get up and walk away just slightly dazed ).

Thing for me, just watching extended highlights on Everton TV, is that when TC and Yak came off they were smiling and laughing with AJ and Vic. Not remotely pissed that were missing out on the chance of a hat-trick but just genuinely pleased about the teams performance. Says a huge amount about the spirit for me and I like the way DM has kept talking up the players left out of the sixteen. We avoid serious levels of injury then Europe again and maybe a cup is certainly achievable. Fully fit squad we can beat anyone. Big game next week, very difficult to win at Pompey...no-one's done it yet this season but it's not beyond us.

Love the Daily Mail report (thanks Carl), quote of the week for me... Everton had saved the best goal of all for last. Osman's surging, jinking solo run was reminiscent of Paul Gascoigne in his prime and the magnificent seven will live in the memory for a good while. Perhaps Moyes can send Steve McClaren a video of this perfection. It's never too late to learn, after all. I'd (I've said it before) substitute Trevor Steven for Paul Gasgoigne but love it anyway .

With a half decent manager in place we should be OK from that group. At least we avoided France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Dutch. Ukraine adds an extra level of difficulty but I'm confident(ish).

Except we don't have a match this week, unless I'm being thick (wouldn't be the first time).

I agree with both of you .

If we win 1-0 at Pompey I'll slag off no-one. Be a blinding result, unbeaten at Fratton Park (inc against Liverpool and ManU).

Second game on (for once)...running order... Bolton v Man Utd Everton v Sunderland Newcastle v Liverpool Arsenal v Wigan Birmingham v Portsmouth Man City v Reading Middlesbrough v Aston Villa Derby v Chelsea

Cross today because my wife (understandably I guess as we so rarely play Saturday at the mo) arranged for us to pick up our grandson at 4.00 so I had to listen to the radio (Bolton/ManU commentary ). I forgive her . I may just arrange to do it every match day from now on......thought Stuart Hall was going to cream his pants .

The real reason we lost... Croatia rose to the occasion in their crucial Euro 2008 defeat of England - after an apparent X-rated gaffe by an English opera singer at Wembley. Tony Henry belted out a version of the Croat anthem before the 80,000 crowd, but made a blunder at the end. He should have sung 'Mila kuda si planina' (which roughly means 'You know my dear how we love your mountains'). But he instead sang 'Mila kura si planina' which can be interpreted as 'My dear, my penis is a mountain'. Now Henry could be one of the few Englishmen at the Euro 2008 finals in Austria and Switzerland as Croatian fans adopt him as a lucky omen.

Don't see this very often... David Moyes has a fully fit squad to pick from. The Everton manager was delighted to report that all the injury niggles of the last few weeks had cleared up ahead of the visit of Sunderland. That means Mikel Arteta is available after his groin problem. And Tim Cahill, Joseph Yobo and Yakubu are all ready to play after missing out on their respective international games last weekend. Andrew Johnson is back fit after his ankle surgery and Scousers Leighton Baines and Alan Stubbs are also in contention to face the Black Cats. Only keeper Iain Turner remains on the sidelines with his long term hip problem. Moyes told evertonfc.com: "I think it is the first time in my Everton career that I have had a fully fit squad to pick from. "It gives me a headache but a nice headache." Everton: Howard, Hibbert, Yobo, Lescott, Stubbs, Valente, Baines, Arteta, Cahill, Carsley, Osman, Jagielka, Gravesen, Neville, McFadden, Yakubu, Anichebe, Johnson, Vaughan, Pienaar, Wessels.

Nice one Davey . Rafa chucking his toys out of the pram big time .

Don't worry, you don't. Welcome.

Fair point but not as simple as that really. The team in the equivalent England disaster against Poland in 1973 was.. 1 Peter Shilton 2 Paul Madeley 3 Emlyn Hughes 4 Colin Bell 5 Roy McFarland 6 Norman Hunter 7 Tony Currie 8 Micky Channon 9 Martin Chivers off 85' 10 Allan Clarke 11 Martin Peters © 12 Kevin Hector on 85' No over-paid prima donnas there....Sir Alf was still the manager, Peters much respected captain and I've no idea who any of them were married to. I have no explanation as to why good players can play so poorly. I'm still expecting to wake up any minute but it's getting less likely now .

Correct .

Sounds good JD, though imo probably best if you gag the evangelical; there's no arguing with them in my experience (and they have hugely too much power and influence in your country I think.....scary people ).

Milord Earl Mike the Ineffable of Kesslington under Ox Has a certain ring to it .

It's on 11.30am Sunday on four Zed..web site here..>>>LINK<<< (hope you stood and saluted during the anthem )

All the replies (as far as I read) point out what a worthless article it is though. Completely meaningless...I particularly liked this one.... Lescott is superb for an Everton TEAM where he plays with a strong goalkeeper, Nigeria's captain alongside him and ALWAYS has easy options of Arteta and Carsley. Playing for England amongst a clique of overpaid, over hyped, under-acheiving millionaires must be very difficult for him.

This will be the highlight of the week-end for me..raising awareness of male cancer... During half-time of the Blues’ game with Sunderland on Saturday November 24, Mr Testicles – the charity’s mascot will be on the pitch at Goodison Park. This is Mr Testicles (bollock head to his friends apparently ) I know the cause is good, but the girls had nice pink shirts for their awareness day, not a huge tit bouncing around the pitch (might have been nice though ). Be interesting to see what sort of reception the sac man gets .

Forget O'Neil and Mourinho and the rest, got it sorted. Only one option...Slaven Bilic !

Agree with tying Ossie in, he's earned it for me. Hibbo's contract (unlike Ossie's) runs out after this season so it's not a question of giving him an improved deal, but whether we give him a new one or not when it runs out. I'd keep him as a squad player but rather he wasn't first choice.

Is that the official Catholic Church line Craccer or just your own considered personal theological position? Lady Chatterley's Lover?

Part of its remit when it started... "...Channel 4 was established in 1982 with a specific intention of providing programming to groups of minority interests, not catered for by its competitors." Given that it was back in the dark ages where people had BBC1, ITV and BBC2 (if they were lucky), no breakfast TV, only schools programmes during the day and the epilogue at about midnight followed by the national anthem and shutdown things have change a little . It's still committed to catering to minorities though, even if it's a fair point that it's no longer a minority channel.