Cornish Steve

If they had any sense of sportsmanship, they would have scored once and left it at that. Disgraceful. When I used to coach my son's team, and the other team had (because of bad traffic hold-ups, for example) too few players to field a full team, we would play short-handed ourselves. This was the norm when I grew up. These days, it seems that there's no such word as sportsmanship.

Great goal from Michael Bradley - although I doubt he meant it!

Thanks for that. Ball, Harvey, and Kendall. There's a midfield trio for you! Now we have McCarthy, Besic, and Barkley - and they could aspire to the same greatness.

Nice to see Raith Rovers knock Rangers out of the cup.

Distin will never start (PS - I see that you corrected this). It will be Oviedo, although I'd prefer Garbutt. McGeady was rested and will start ahead of Lennon. Barkley was rested, and I would hope he'll be the difference between the teams. Mirallas was rested in part and will start.

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Chelsea 1-1 Everton McGeady

Which is why I'm mystified by the calls for Lennon to replace Barry - "totally different players with totally different jobs." Taking off Barry would have undermined the focus on a solid defence and represented a big risk. Replacing Mirallas with Lennon was like for like. And Mirallas was no great shakes today. Besic and McCarthy, on the other hand, were immense.

The season totals are quite revealing. Putting aside those with single digits, Besic is at the top and Coleman at the bottom. I'm guessing that, at the start of the season, most would have predicted the complete opposite.

Very few appear to be doubting Robles these days. Another vote from me. McCarthy and Besic playing together are going to be the rock of this team.

There were four winners this week: Well done to Deacs, MikeO, mogsy, and Peter H. Each scored the extra point for a prediction better than the average. Romey still leads for the season and for average points per game.

Called it!

Everton 4-3 Liverpool Naismith

I'm really hoping for both Besic and McCarthy to start, with Barkley in front of them.

Not sure why anyone would be satisfied with just a point. We got that at Anfield. I would expect three points at Goodison. I expect six or seven goals in this one. (Just watch it be a 0-0 draw now I've said all that!)

I thought he was loan with buy option. That would explain it. Plus, the style they play in Africa is very different.

Arsenal all the way. And an all London final.

My hair somewhat resembles skid marks in the snow. Does that mean I'm trendy?

Deliberate. He saw the writing on the wall and wants to claim his last derby game was a win.

The reasons why a school suspended this child three times are truly bizarre. One was for bringing an encyclopedia to school - and the latest is for claiming he had a LOTR ring that could make his classmate disappear. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-boy-suspended-bringing-ring-power-school-article-1.2099103

Mirallas, Januzaj, and Lukaku - the Belgian front line.

McCarthy, who's hardly ever been out before with an injury, versus Mirallas who's out every season? OK - so an entire debate took place since the comment to which I responded was made. Just a bit slow on the up-take! Anyway, by 5-1, it's Mirallas gets the boot.

Joel is winning it 8-0. Quite a turn-around from a few weeks ago.

There must be a lot of deluded folks around, then. 13 of 22 predicted an Everton win.