Win next weekend puts us on 45
Wolves - Palace a; Brentford h - need 2 wins because of GD
United - WHU and Villa h and Chelsea a - need 2 wins and a draw because of GD
Spurs - Palace and Brighton h and Villa a - need 2 wins and a draw
WHU - Forest h and Ipswich and United a - need to win all 3.

And Seamus to captain and score.

Palace just had there goal chalked off. I'm watching Forest v Leicester. Connor Coady. only for Gibbs-White to equalise.

If Palace win that's 12th place mathematically out of reach, so just 13th to play for!!

And United go behind. Soucek, who's name has been discussed on these pages putting them in front.

I see Davide Ancellotti wants to stay in Europe if his dad goes to Brazil. Would Davey Moyes take him on to be his successor?

We should now finish above the big North London club and Manchester United as it stands, although one of those two will win a trophy and be in the Champions' League next season.

Big goal for Forest.

If we could get Carlo and son back, Steve, I’d accept Charlie Adam being kept on as poker game manager or tea lady.

But what have the club done to us when we think 13th is success?

WTF Real?

Terrible defence.

Liam, he does if he learns to pick his feet up under challenges, like Messi does. With the kicks he's taking he could wind up like Van Basten, done at 29 with a fused ankle.

Awoniyi was clearly in pain, and could have suffered a serious injury. I can understand if an offside is close and therefore let play continue and if it leads to a goal, let VAR review it, but If it's a clear offside, just raise the flag.

Also, Madrid have lost a few defenders like Carvajal, Rudiger etc… Alonso has a lot of work to do. Vinny Jnr and Rodrigo are also vastly overrated imo.

Or did the 5th CL spot get 7th place in Europe?

They're so deathly afraid some linesman is going to raise a flag at the wrong time that they've subverted them to VAR. Definitely time to change that procedure.

Can't play with half the team not running. Look at the difference in PSG now they'd jettisoned the superstars.

I just think he's greedy, his decision making is iffy and he's not (imo) a team player.

But next season, that is a different matter.

And 3 points next week will seal it.

Nuno available in the summer?!!

Forest have had a great season and have qualified for Europe next season, but let's get one thing straight here, for me it will not happen again next season for Forest.

Jeez, you'd think they had been regulars in the Champions League for years, instead of spending 20-odd years down in the Championship.

Quite clearly the only thing interesting Pavarotti is the money being in the Champions League brings.

All that group hugging makes me want to throw up. Plus he's a whinger.

Real resemble Tottingham under Ossie Ardiles.

This clearly shows he's still heavily involved.

Hope they expel the fat prick out.

The 40th anniversary to the day of the Bradford fire tragedy, with another 40th coming up on the 29th of this month.

Food for thought, although I've never had an issue with pitch invasions myself, 25 Hamburg supporters were injured yesterday, one life-threatening as they stormed the pitch celebrating promotion back to the Bundesliga.

One to think of for an emotionally charged Goodison next week.

"Milked it" would be the sponsor.

Not the same scenario, but would that be similar to Usmanov not officially being involved with Everton directly or having any shares?

Yet his brand was all over Finch Farm, he had first call on the new stadium naming rights and funded us?

I'll be honest, I didn't really know a lot about it at the time.

Glad we are moving to BMD, the smell of that place being so close is enough to make you puke.

But now I've punished myself and I've got them on in the background.

Just when I don't think they can make me despise them any more, chanting "where's your European Cup" to the Arsenal supporters just raised my blood pressure.

And then is on the pitch giving it the big un, which clearly shows his involvement is still there.

Our dodgy Russian just sponsored a club, and withdrew it when Ukraine/ Russian sanctions came in. And did his bit for under paid bang average footballers/managers.

Suppose that's what happens when you bring a 12 year old on

What. A. Game.

Well done champion Barca.

It's all dodgy as hell isn't it.

When we qualify for Europe, I suppose it will affect us if we come into direct competition with Roma?

I didn't catch El Classico, but it sounds like a great match. Interestingly, I don't really have any leaning towards a Spanish team like I do in Germany with Schalke and Italy with Roma.

If pushed, I'd probably say Atletico.

Can't be just a pure ownership thing , as I guess redbull teams have been in champions league.

They own clubs in Germany, Austria, the US (our own Tim Cahill played for New York Red Bulls) and Brazil.

Interestingly, RB Leipzig had to adapt that name due to Bundesliga regulations not permitting teams to be named after a commercial entity. They get around it by labelling themselves as RB (RasenballenSport).

I'm not sure how it works for Bayer Leverkusen. To my knowledge, still owned by the pharmaceutical and biotechnology company they take their name from?

Hard to think that in their current guise, RB were only formed in 2009 and they are disliked in Germany due to how they have allegedly manipulated their 51-49 share rules.

It's a murky world. I'm sure it's not restricted to the beautiful game.

Lol, booing the home hero and one Conor Bradley

Wow, those boos.

A history of throwing bricks and bottles and now booing their own player!!!

Although it goes against the grain, strange reaction for their number 66. Okay, you could point the finger at us for the Rooney reaction, but he's been part of a club since a very young age and helped them win trophies.

I won't lose sleep over it, but harsh treatment.

Without googling, do Bilbao still follow the self-imposed Basque player rule? You've just answered it as I was editing.

Colin, at half time "the red arrows strike Arsenal". Fortunately, the Gunners have hit back.

Their beef over a local lad, not giving them a £20-50m transfer windfall is a joke.

Why on earth are supporters caring over that. Liverpool are making record profits and have a very strong balance sheet. If you want to moan over not getting a fee, blame the owners.

Stat from our kid today. 1922 and the announcement of Pius X11 and we lost to Villa the following Saturday. Since then, 8 new popes and we have not lost our first match after the conclave.

Did they win the league???

2 games to go. 2 points better than last year
Arsenal - 15 points worse.
City - 20 points worse.

Likely to be lowest number of points to win the title since Leicester.

And just discovered I was on the back row of Gwladys Street Stand 62 years ago today. Didn't understand all the fuss other than Everton beat Fulham 4-1 and Roy Vernon scored 3. Then the team appeared in the directors box on the old Goodison Road stand and my dad was very happy. I'll let you work it out
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Defending the supporters reaction, saying that you have to understand the city of Liverpool and what it means to play for Liverpool.

Hopefully his Royal Blue passport has been revoked. He gave it up years ago anyway.

I know he's had to be professional, both as a player and as a pundit, but I just can't comprehend how you can turn to that degree. Alien to me.

For us to recover, we need to stop taking that club as seriously as we do. We need to forget Heysel and stop being bitter about it and see Mordor as a ground that we can win at if we can improve our play and attitude.

For me, Liverpool are no more than a club that has for a while been run better than us and that we can eventually better by becoming better ourselves.

From 10 PM on the 29th May 1985, the blame for Heysel was already being shifted between the National Front and Chelsea fans, by none other than the very senior figure of Peter Robinson.

Actions speak louder than words, Joe Fagin, resigned as the Liverpool manager heartbroken, but it wasn't long before those witty kopites were (wittily 🤮) flying the Steau Bucharest flag on the Kop.

Every single club in the country has a few idiots in their crowd, but when it comes to making excuses for them, the sycophants in the red media are exceptional at shifting the blame away from those self-entitled Liverpudlians.

They cheated last year, plain and simple. That gained a sporting advantage and somehow they were given a lesser punishment to ours.

There are other factors, but that set us back significantly.

That Steaua Bucharest taunt is shameless and callous. First and foremost, 39 football supporters lost their lives. But their attempts to airbrush it from their selective history just sums them up for me. Mention it and you're accused of being bitter. I have a lot of red friends and family in Liverpool. I can't even talk to them about it.

Fagan done the right thing. I also think Dalglish was severely impacted by it. I have a lot of respect for him, both as a player and the work he and his wife have done for charity work in the city over the years.

I'm not bitter, I'm just like an elephant that never forgets.

If I was David Moyes, I would probably ask Wayne Rooney to become a first team coach at Everton.

Wayne has been unsuccessful in his managerial career, but he loves Everton, and has worked with Moyes, a couple of times, and it just might be possible that he could be a much better football coach and also suited to the training ground, rather than being a football manager?

A lot of difference between helping kids become decent footballers and team selection and tactics. Rooney was the same. The new Birmingham owners wanted them to play like Barcelona whereas playing with 8 men behind the ball would have probably got better results.

Question with WR is whether he could be bothered to have that level without being the manager.

Bugger that for a game of cricket

To compare the kopites and Trent to Villa Park is like comparing Ghandi to Trump.

On 606 today/yesterday three of them said that well over half the supporters were booing and it was resilient and loud and continued whenever he touched the ball. One of his team-mates said that he was 'devastated' at what happened and that it had a direct negative impact on every player.

There are blues in the 3000 Mr. Cleary who said that they heard hardly any booing at Villa Park and that includes two of my dearest friends who never miss a match.

I suggest Mr. Clearly that you ask Rob Halligan of his memories of that 'event' that you, fuck knows why, want to elevate out of all proportion.

I heard boos, a smattering of boos. Over half of the 3,000? Absolutely no way. As my mate said the fella next to him was giving it to an 'adolescent' boo-boy telling him to shut the fuck up and of course he did, straight away (perhaps that adolescent was from the same spotty adolescent group Mr. Cleary, also at Villa Park a while back, who were laughing their heads off with their oh so funny and smart new song to the tune of 'Cum on Feel the Noise' - ' ... Moyes loves the boys, he's a pedophile' - until one of them got smacked.

Nice work Mr. Cleary. I've rarely heard such bollocks as the 3,000 gave DCL 'the same treatment' as the red fella got today/yesterday.

Again, why the fuck would someone who supports Everton, I assume you do, come out with false hyperbole like that for what or to do what?

Keep riding that high horse fella that keeps taking wrong turns.

I grew up in a period when Liverpool were dominating European football for two decades in a way that a younger generation will remember Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United.

It was tough, but I don't remember it being as tough as watching the media gushing coverage of them now. Their supporters have changed too. I no longer see the ones who, as mates, Everton and Liverpool, we would travel to the derby together, go our separate ways, or sometimes stand in the same end, and then travel home together.

For those who remember it, playing Everton v Liverpool "kerby" on the street, with the outcome being celebrated like a victory at Goodison or Anfield!!

I don't like what they've become. Media influence and the influx of external support, certainly their match day attendees. I want ours to expand beyond the city and there are already many dedicated Evertonians around the country and the world. But I don't want us to become them.

Dominic got a good reception on Saturday, with his name chanted when he briefly came on.

On Trent, there are similarities with Rooney in that he is moving for his career. The differences are the circumstances. We now understand that Everton were selling the Croxteth kid and had him lined up for Chelsea, but once it was made clear, he decided where he was going.

We reacted badly at the time, but made our peace, and he never stopped being an Evertonian (unlike Spitty). He brought his kids up as Evertonians despite them growing up with him being an international superstar with Manchester United and he still attends matches at Goodison.

Alexander-Arnold has made his own decision. I could bring myself to understand the frustration amongst their supporters, but that treatment was out of order. A child-like tantrum because the nasty man doesn't want to play for Liverpool and labelled as a mercenary. I am sure he will be financially rewarded, but I don't feel he has made the move for money. He could have got a Salah or Van Dijk style contract by staying.

Colin is arguably the greatest Evertonian to have represented the club at all levels. Supporter, player, coach, manager.

He was a coach at heart and not cut out for the old style of football management. He belonged on the pitch and the training ground.

In the modern game, he would have been an ideal head coach, looking after the first team under a DoF, taking care of business and dealing with the board.

And let's not forget, he was the one who convinced Howard Kendall to go and have a look at the Liverpool reserve because "he can play a bit". I won't mention the name, but you know who I mean.

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And as for watching – the famous one: If Liverpool were holding a training session in your back garden, would you watch? No, I would draw the curtains.

Paul, I like those features that the club put up. It makes the club feel closer to the supporters. Stepping away from the match itself, some light-hearted observations:

Some players still wear shin pads. Not doing so frightens me, but I'm talking as someone who has broken both legs and both ankles over the years.

Those training / warm up tops are horrendous and not easy on the eye if it wasn't for sunglasses. Change them. I don't know who our kit sponsors will be next season, but I would like to see us finally have an Adidas one.

Leighton Baines's barnet is still looking good and defying his years.

Dwight McNeil always has and plays with a smile on his face. Football is to be enjoyed. Us supporters can do the worrying.

Tippy-Tappy is just a phrase, we used to play two-touch football every day, and my own view is that, if you can teach kids how to play football, then you won't have any trouble teaching senior professionals – just as long as you have both the inclination and also a strong personality.

If Colin Harvey had became a manager before he became a coach, then he possibly would have been lost to the game even though he was a fantastic innovative coach and it just might be possible that this is where Wayne Rooney has gone wrong?

Kenwright played everyone, allegedly phoning his mother and putting on the crocodile tears. Then he sat back happy, knowing that the fee received was going to keep him in charge of Everton Football Club.

They say all is fair in both love and war; Mr Kenwright definitely knew how to act like a politician and kid a very large part of the Everton fan base, and this is why I don't see any similarities at all.

On the field of play, you are often coached and coach to other players on one or two touch.

The first pass is often the best one, be that short to keep possession or a long pass or through ball into space.

See it, play it. Don't think to hard about it.

Back to Colin, yes Dave. Easy answer. No, it wouldn't have happened.

If you watch the Howard's Way documentary, the great man's tear jerking walk along the Gwladys Street and explanation of what it meant for him to support and play for Everton and passion for the game is there in spades. I defy anyone not to well up watching and listening to him speak.

He talks of the the conversation he had with Howard when our soon to be most successful manager was on the brink in the 1983 Everton winter of discontent.

It was in a pub in Liverpool (I think the Tiger?). Kendall told him he was thinking of throwing the towel in. Colin told him not to and ride the storm. That's when they mutually agreed that Harvey would step up alongside Kendall as the first team coach. His words from the blue mouth, not mine.

The moral of the story? All great decisions are often made in a pub, not the board room!!!

There are attempts to try to ban the mini shinpads at grassroots level as they offer little to no protection.

My son who plays semi-pro level was holding his shin pads after it fell out a couple of weeks ago. Ref gave a free kick against him from which the opposition duly scored!

That'll learn him!

I was religious about shin pads, with built in ankle pads due to the injuries I suffered.

I can see Mark in his cricket pads for extra protection, even for old man walking football.

I really hope he gets better.🤞