Cornish Steve

I watched the 20-minute highlights of the game against West Brom and was reminded of the several smart moves made by Lukaku. Once his confidence hits, he could be unstoppable.

They won today and progress to the next round.

Everton 2-1 Crystal Palace Lukaku

No European or Cup games will count in the rankings. Too much work for me to include them - sorry.

Very much agree with this. At the last minute, all parties in Westminster start promising greater devolution, various financial goodies, and think the Scottish are stupid enough to believe they're genuine. If they were, they would have been suggested years ago. It's attempted bribery, pure and simple.

Spot on re Mirallas. It happened again and again. Such a great talent, yet so frustrating. Me too, I expect. I really want to be positive about Mirallas, but he makes it difficult sometimes.

I think they need to agree a public rail system first.

Ah. OK. Hope it's nothing too serious (groin problem could be any of a number of things) and he'll be back soon.

Can't wait to see them both back in the first team - especially Kone because he'll really want to prove his doubters wrong.

Agree completely. Every time I see it, I wonder why it's an owl. Once you see it that way, you can not stop seeing it that way.

Aha. Got it!

Uuuuh. Fail! Now, if you'd been less greedy and suggested 2-1 Mirallas, I might have believed it was a problem with your browser - or not.

OK. You must excuse my occasional (frequent?) ignorance. Living outside the country, I don't see all the detail that you do.

I would guess resting ahead of the game against Wolfsburg.

While I appreciate the message that you trust what I've written, it's reaffirming and more fun to see why we each receive the points we do. If I have time, I'll continue with the colour coding - unless it simply causes more confusion!

Not such a good day in the FA Cup for the teams from Cornwall. Truro and Saltash both lost, while Bodmin live to fight another day with a draw at home.

Always bias! From the BBC website: "If Manchester United can win tomorrow, after Arsenal and Manchester City have drawn and Liverpool have lost, what a weekend it will have been for them." So what about Everton? :shaking fist:

So we are. Not sure whether my eyes or my brain that needs fixing. Maybe both.

The same pundits who had United in the top four last season and second in the league already this season. Just look at the table if based on Lawrenson's predictions at the BBC website, for example.

Honestly, I would praise if warranted. I watched most of the game, and Mirallas didn't stand out for me. Not in this game. Now, if you were at the game and could see more than I, I bow to your judgment.

Here we go. To reiterate: One point for predicting the correct outcome (win, lose, or draw) One point for predicting the number of goals scored by the home team One point for predicting the number of goals scored by the away team One point for predicting the correct goal difference (which always means a point for correct outcome, too) One point if your prediction is better than the average prediction Five points for a correct score (outcome+home score+away score+goal diff+better than average) Two points for predicting Everton's first goalscorer One point for predicting one of the other goalscorers (but not if you predict the first scorer) Three bonus points for correct score and first goalscorer, which means a total of ten points) Does the colour scheme make sense?

It will add more processing time, but I'm thinking of using a colour scheme so you can see where your points come from. The least obvious is the point for making better than the average prediction.

Two points if you identify the first goalscorer, and one point if your pick scores other than the first goal. There's an added incentive for picking the first goalscorer. If you also predict the correct score, you get 3 bonus points for a total of 10.

I wondered what the rotation would be with so many games coming up. Looks like Alcaraz will be paired with Distin.

What fools to sign someone up for 10 years. What incentive is there to perform?