Everton vs Crystal Palace

Generally, though, play the kids, because there isn't a chance that we'd be allowed to win this competition as it'd fuck up their business model.

Play the best side, win and send us home in happy delirium.

I would put Dame Caroline Dineage up front with Harrison in the number 10; move Damian Green wide right; give Tarkowski a well-earned rest and put Rupa Huq in central defence for this one; and give Jordan a breather because Julie Eliott can do a good job between the sticks, and, after all, she does represent Sunderland Central.

No taxation without representation and fair Premier League process.

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COYB

Tony A, I'm so glad you're posting mate, it's not the same without you, your voice matters.

In the early rounds of the cup, I always look for clean sheets because, whenever we have won the cup in my lifetime, we always kept a lot of clean sheets in the early rounds, and actually only conceded one goal in the competition both times, with one of them being a dodgy Klinsman penalty!!

Give us some hope! 💙

It's important to get through.

Not the FA Cup, but our first match in the Cup Winner's Cup was a goalless draw against University College Dublin, which alarmed a few.

But we steadily progressed and I don't think we conceded a goal until the second leg against Bayern at Goodison.

Two goals conceded in the whole competition and a trophy on the back of it.

I've checked and nope. Tonight's star turns on ITV4 are Blackpool vs our fellow naughty book cookers, the mighty Forest of Nottingham! Live from Bloomfield Road..

He's leading and doing what he and the players can only do. Focus on the pitch and win games. That's all they can control.

Goodison under the lights for a cup match. There are still a few tickets left, but Tottenham already sold out.

Dyche will press on regardless and put our strongest team out and I think we will get the win and a home tie versus Luton.

The fans will get us over the line, no matter how much crap the Premier League throw at us, we are not going anywhere without a fight. Bring it on!

I wonder if he will start with Virginia in goal, I would hope that Dobbin gets some minutes tonight.

I'm watching bitter twisted and proud as well as the St Domingo song to get into the mood.

Proud. The 1878 Originals. Prisoners of Prince Rupert's Tower..

Like some have suggested I would rest or sell DCL, not because of his glaring miss against Villa on Sunday, but all the others prior to that. He had his best spell under ' Carlo the Traitor ' who clearly instructed him to stay in or around the box, where he could be fed. Now he wanders all over and although he is decent at hold up play he clearly isn't a Striker in the truest meaning of the word.

Hopefully a chance to see Beto/Dobbin/Chermiti at some stage, and not the last 5 or 10 minutes !

Mike @ 18, " Isn't Super Silk playing? Or is he cup-tied?

I believe he is washing his briefs ! :-)

COYB 👍💙💙

Although I suppose we could reform like Bury and call ourselves FC Everton and start in league division 12, therefore maybe play in FA Trophy cup or whatever it is called…

I thought it had been postponed due to the weather but obviously not.

Any of our smarter guys know how we can watch the game in the US???

Tell tired Doucoure if he's tired then he won't be included, but tell him to make himself available for the Under-21s against Barnsley at the weekend, and when he recovers from his tiredness to give me a ring and I'll consider putting him back in the first team.

Tired? Unbelievable, just the type we need for a battle. Over paid. over rated, one game and tired.

I really fancy ouur chances tonight. The game has now sold out so I think both the crowd and the team will be up for this one. Get in the ref's ear early doors and he will crumble, just a shame VAR can intervene.

If Michael Keane gets some minutes,, I can see him scoring tonight, 3-1 to Everton.

He held the season tickets and he used to run the Railway Inn pub in Kirkby... what was the Club we met in on City Road?????

Most teams as we know tend to use a few benchwarmers which show you how important the cups are rated.

Our next league game has to be the target for players to be fit for so I don't care if Doucoure is rested for this one.

I remember we all got a miniature Bell's Whiskey in there when Bob Latchford got his 30 goals.

It was called the Everton Supporters Club too.

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In the later session, I met a guy who I think was from Northern Ireland. I say “think” because as the night wore on he assumed several, and convincing, dialects.

Anyway, he's been going in there for a while but hadn't noticed the shrine to the SAS in the corner and, being a catholic boy, got a bit irate!

Later on in the Brick I met a couple of the auld guys who appeared in “The Golden Vision” who got a bit upset when I said I think the “Goodison Road” song is shite. Apparently they were the ones singing it in the show.

I mentioned a few days ago when you posted the same thing that 99.999% of the blue fan base would disagree with you.

After further scientific study, I may have underestimated.

I used to walk up City Road to get to Goodison and remember walking past it. Never went in though.

ESPN+ is showing the Forest-Blackpool game but not ours. We'll have to go on the Forum and beg for links from Iakovos.

I often wonder what became of those in later life, honestly think a couple of them are still around and hanging out in the Live Forum. :-)

Separate question – is tonight's game on TV?

'The game will be broadcast on ESPN. If you want to watch Everton vs Crystal Palace in streaming, you will need to use Star+. If you want to watch the game live online, VAVEL Mexico is your best option.'

And the wife says that since the game isn't on, I have to take her to Costco.

It's such a tough life. Mind you, I imagine that some energy has to be preserved to count the money paid each week and to carry it to the Bentley before driving to the private bank to deposit it.

Forest and Blackburn are are also the live match on ITV 4

I wonder if ESPN picks up its UK football coverage from ITV. I guess we wouldn't know unless we could see both and compare the commentators and camera angles.

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Link looks good.

I was at Arnot Street from when it first opened till 1957-58 when I went on to Walton Tech. Mr Range was our class teacher for one year. I believe it was knocked down and the site became a supermarket.

In those days, we were bused to Long Lane to play football.
At Walton Tech, you were bused to the Cottage Homes in Fazakerley to play football.

If I get time I'll tell you about my Saturday with my brother and two of my (3) sons and our pub crawl of Liverpool's finest pubs:

The Grapes (the one in Roscoe Street), The Roscoe Head, The Dispensary, the Ship and Mitre, Dr Duncan's, The Phil and then the Caledonian.

I might have missed one or two… But it was a great start to a good weekend in the City.

I had forgotten that name 'Wally the neck'. He gave me the cane in 1975 for fighting, if you could call it that (me fighting, the cane was real).

"Championship at best", is quoted often as well. Applied to anyone really. I don't take part in the Live Forum very often but there are plenty of top Blues on there, it has a kind of belligerent bar vibe which is grand. Unfortunately there are a few Koppites joining in.

I was at Alsop 64 - 71. Half and half blue and red...and we were more than the equals of that lot in those days.

Seem to recall sagging off to queue for the FA Cup derby in 1967. Can't have been many in school.

The Everton Supporters Club, on City Road, used to be
the Coliseum Picture House. I recall going there as a kid and watching Flash Gordon every week, each week he seemed to escape certain death.

February 1958, I remember we were walking past Goodison heading for Walton Lane and a man said, have you heard, the Man Utd plane has crashed in Germany?

Later found out Frank Swift (ex goalkeeper) had been killed in the crash. The previous year, I had asked him for his autograph outside the ground and he did and said, "What is your name?" and he signed with his best wishes to me.