Brum Game: Mikel is back!!!
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Mikel Arteta has been named as a substitute for the FA Cup clash with Birmingham.
Everton starting 11: Howard, Heitinga, Bilyaletdinov, Saha, Donovan, Distin, Cahill, Neville, Pienaar, Baines, Fellaini.
Subs: Nash, Arteta, Vaughan, Osman, Coleman, Duffy, Baxter
Ok ladies and gents lets hope he can get 20 mins with a 3 - 0 scoreline!!!!
Anyone got any links??
John Audsley,
Leeds Posted 23/01/2010 at 11:18:25
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Arteta is on the bench, be suprised if he gets on but how good does it feel to see him back.
Carry on the good form lads, here's to a big win.
John, try these
http://iraqgoals.net/
http://www.magedtv.net/ch1.html
Oh Jesus! I’m about to miss my 1st game of the season and Mikki’s making a comeback
Bench is starting to look as good as the field - haven’t said that for years. Certainly some options starting to show up
Cheers Gerry
Got a very good feeling about today. Got to be positive after the Citey game
come on you blues!!!!!
BBC Saturday Live is OBSESSED with Manure - they aren’t even in the Cup! No team news from anywhere but them.......moan over!
This is always a solid link.... but with french commentry.
http://www.veetle.com/viewChannel.php?cid=4b05959c0d76b
I got quite emotional when I saw Mikky’s name as a sub! Feel so good to have him back, and so pleased for him.
If we see him get on the field today the reception he’ll get will probably send me into tears. We’ll be 2-0 up by then anyway so happy days all round.
COYB!!!!!
Christopher Brierley
Posted 23/01/2010 at 15:01:57
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Iraqgoals down already? It was only on for 1 min
Afternoon all.
Anyone else watching a perfect picture of the blues match on Maged, but listening to Man U?
@Andrew: I am. Perfect picture on magedtv with manure commentary.
Christian Yandell
Posted 23/01/2010 at 15:07:32
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anyone know where i can get a link to watch on a mac?
Counter attack as a result of a poor everton freekick.
All came from that fucking awful free kick. Soneone else take ’em for fucks sake!
All that came from another useless free-kick from Baines. Fuckin rubbish.
okay lets stop talking how great we are all of a sudden and work out how we are 1 nil down after 6 minutes. ffs
Links are shit, wouldnt suprise me if the powers at be are messing with them somehow... grrrrr. Surely Bily should have been on that free kick?
Christian : you can watch it on
http://www.veetle.com/viewChannel.php?cid=4b05959c0d76b
but on Firefox. French commentary though.
Maged TV perfect now, correct commentary. Come on BLUES
Cahill loves a dive this season
Surely there is someone who plays for Everton who can take a free-kick. Do they not practice these things?
Thats the Jimmy Mac I remember!
Christian Yandell
Posted 23/01/2010 at 15:22:01
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cheers raymond
Christopher Brierley
Posted 23/01/2010 at 15:19:28
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Getting fed up with these damn links going down all the time
am on the maged tv , pic and sound both v.good
thats my Everton, quality hoofball..
Not in this game yet, are we? Poor movement and lethargic - the crowd needs to get on their back - they sound frustrated
If you have sopcast, get on this one, its very good, even if everton are NOT (at the moment)
COYB
sop://broker1.sopcast.com:3912/33595
The commentator for some odd reason thinks it is better to go 1-0 in the 6th minute opposed to the 89th. Please discuss.
Our passing is shocking - overhitting everything, what did they have for brekky this morning?
bloke on the com, its better to go a goal down from 0-0 early on????
How else you going to go a goal down!!!! TWAT!!!
all my pre-match good vibes have gone south
bloody awful so far
Ill discuss, he is a tit.
Thanks for the link Andrew.
Where’s Landon?? He’s never available...
Brum are doing to us what we did to the arse not letting us settle
Forgot to say, Afternoon one and all from a very grey looking north cambs uk
Yep, no option but to hit long..
Brum are doing an us, on us! They are getting in our faces, defending from the front and we are reverting to type, misplaced pass after pass, and just hoofing it up.
Here’s an analogy. Everton are a guy on a date. Birmingham are the thug who can’t get a date so decide to glass the guy on a date to stop him having a date as well. They wiull never amount to anything with laughably bad big time charlies like McFadden, Ferguson who enjoy being big fish in small ponds because they can’t hack it with good teams. Once McLeish gets to spend $50m sending them into debt they won’t be around for long a la Portsmouth. Watch this space.
Barry Ferguson’s a gobby bastard
got to get a foot on the ball look for the pass and make it count!
Does anyone else think Baines has been horrible today?
KK- who cares they’re playing us at our own game and making us look garbage..
Roll on halftime - Moysie SCREAM at them to move faster!
Baines has been awful all season bar a couple of games.
Kieran, that big fish in a small pond is running the midfield at the moment.
Where the fuck is Donovan!?!?! He just had his second touch FFS!!!
be a good time to score just before ht, but then anytime is a good time to score, i will say it before someone says it for me!
Is this not just like us-our form is up and down like a whore’s drawers.
here’s to a better show in the second half
Donovan and Billy are not going to get many passes when they have to look up 20ft !
Yes Kieran, a big fish in a small pond hey!
Christopher Brierley
Posted 23/01/2010 at 15:39:11
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Now birmingham have the goal they are really packing the midfield and our passing is just too god awful at the minute to find a way through. Landon has completely disappeared so far this half. oh and now they’ve scored again..what a bag of shite.
That barmy day back in april with a semi win over the mancs seams a long long way away......Shit
Birmingham are playing very well.
FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thats far too easy and simple
To everyone who thought we had turned the corner last week
We Havent.....
Think we might see lego head sooner than expected!!!!
Big task now...they are a classic midfield spoiling..counter attacking side
and they’re good at it
I hope Distin is still injured
I can’t believe we just let someone who’d get kicked off most pub football teams for being a belligerant drunkard score at Goodison. Obviously the city performance went to everyones heads. I knew we’d screw it up once UTd and RS went out because everyt time I’ve ever seen us do well in the cup we’ve always played one of those two somewhere along the way.
Yes!!!! My feeds gone down. I don’t have to watch that shite anymore.
dont think they are playing well just that we are playing like prats!
We’re attacking like a one-armed southpaw at the moment. Get Donovan off and Coleman on and then we might do something down the right.
We have a mountain to climb but it ain’t over just yet.
fucking BAINES! pull him!
This is the inconsistency with Everton one week brilliant the next week total fucking shite. It’s so infuriating.
Brian Waring
Barry Ferguson is rubbish. Rubbish for Scotland, rubbish for Blackburn. Don’t confuse our ineptitude for someones elses talent.
Baines - that was pathetic
Baines is shocking. We really need a back up left back that can give him a kick in the ass.
bainsey, get yer coat u daft twat
Hang on Kieran, he may be shite, but at the end of the day he is running the midfield, it says how good our midfield is then if he is bossing it.
Baines knows he’ll get picked week in week out. There is no-one to replace him. He’s done it all season. Fuckin useless.
how do they expect to score if we dont bloody SHOOT!!!!!
Such fucking crap. Like watching "Rangers South". Counter-attack, knick a goal, and park the bus. Boring as shit. I hate Ferguson and McLeish - King and Prince of stupid, no brain, ugly shit football.
Rant over, we’re awful thusfar
absolute garbage. where’s has last week’s team gone ?
I should be on this pitch, I cant cross very well and i’d do it for £500 a week
Turn the corner? id be happy with 1 the way this has gone.
That was a very painful half to watch...Baines...what can you say? Agreed needs competition at that left back position...and no more freekicks, please
Early second half goal hopefully to make this worth watching.
Arteta on ? I guess none of us know how long he has been fit.
Coleman on...definitely
From the best half last week to the worst in a long time
Sadly that EFC under Moyes
Great, then crap
Lets hope he sorts this shite out at half time
get arteta in for billy and send pienaar to the left to work his magic..... 45 mins to score at least 2 goals...its not impossible!!!!
COYB!!!!
Substitute any of Donovan, Cahill, Bily and Baines. All have been awful in that first half.
Brian, if u think Ferguson has bossed the midfield, ur watchin a different game. Both goals down the right, both sides poor, Brum slightly better
To be honest I think we should sell Pienaar now. He is a bit of a Jamie Redknapp. Injured a lot, small and gets lot of attention for all the long range shots that ALMOST go in but invariably hit the cross bar of skim past the post. Remember Juninho at Boro ? Skilled but completely ineffective. As for Donovan I told you all that he was crap before he came. Fellaini today seems to believe his own hype and is trying to do his best to replicate Ossie Ardilles in "Escape to Victory" but having more of a Carlton Palmer performance. Neville and Baines are making Hibbert look like good crossers. Saha and Bily don’t seem to be aware that the game is going on around them.
Christopher Brierley
Posted 23/01/2010 at 15:48:12
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Im sure i saw Moyes bollock the fuck out of Baines whilst he was taking a throw in next to him and once he took the throw in he just walked off (my lip reading skills arent all that good) but he was turning the air blue swearing as he walked away
" Nick a goal, and park the bus.Boring as shit " Jamie, remind you of anyone?
With you Jo...2 in a half. Can be done.
Off to find a stiff drink and a rocket or 10 to shove up someones arse as they need it!!!!
This is back to pre Arsenal levels. Baines is having a shocker, no one except Piennar willing to have shot from anywhere.
In my eyes its got to be a move to 4-4-2 with Cahill off for Vaughan and Mikel on for that Russian waster.
Moyes will bollock them and the first 10 mins will tell all.
Im still expecting a home win today.
LOL Brian - but for Chrissakes the last 2 weeks we were playing like Barcelona!
Hope builds, then we lay an egg and revert to absolute crap form. This is really infuriating.
I think this has been mentioned already, but we’re being out-Everton’d. Packing the midfield, closing men down quickly even in areas high up the field - sound familiar? We need someone to stretch the shape of this game, and a bit of pace and invention. All too square and predictable so far. Possession-wise we’re superior, but we can’t stay patient for too long. Who would you bring on as a wild-card?
That was pretty depressing stuff. I think Coleman to come on and drive down the right side. We’ve got so much space out there but Neville’s crossing has been poor today.
If Coleman on for Baines, takes the right with Neville shifted to the left. I’ll be a happy man. Baines is shocking this game. Did fuck all.
Anthony O'Sullivan
Posted 23/01/2010 at 15:52:58
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Utter garbage in the first half.
How many crosses did neville hit straight at the first brum player ? Even when he got a second chance he picks out another brum player.
Long balls up to a lone striker. Its the same problem that has dogged us for years.
Stewart, listening to the game on the OS, and he has been involved in most things, even the commentator and Ronnie Goodlass have said along the same lines.
Could be worth a try Wilson, Coleman likes to go at people and I like to see that.
Wilson - agree 100%. Move Phil to the left and bring on Seamus. Baines has been horrific.
Moyes has got to do this.
Kieran Kinsella, i think you’ve been watching some different matches to me re Pienarr. We looked hopeless without him earlier in the season.
I think Fellaini has done his job well his distribution was tidy however why is Neville are main outlet he is having all the ball in great positions and floating balls to the first man get coleman on, neville shits his pants in the final third!!!!
Anyone got any links that don’t work ’cos I’m fucked if I’m watchin’ that shite.
If that 45 minutes doesn’t bring Tony Marsh out of retirement, nothing will. Nice to watch the TV French ads, though.
The first 10 mins will be key. I hope Moyes gives them a big kick up their bollocks. Can we use up all 6 subs and leave nash on the bench?
I’ve praised Fellaini the last few weeks, and rightly so, but these are the games were he needs to earn his money. The defensive side of his game has been excellent of late, as shown against Arsenal and city, he was breaking up attack after attack in them 2 games, but he now needs to show the attacking side of his game, I reckon if he ups a couple of gears then we will have a chance, a few mths ago, I never thought I would be saying that about him.
Christopher Brierley
Posted 23/01/2010 at 15:57:20
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I cant see us getting 2 goals back. We just aren’t putting the ball into the right spaces. If we have a player in space the ball just gets lumped into a crowd of 4 birmingham players nowhere near one of ours. Anyways im off for a fag before a second half of awful drivel starts
Brian, I think Fellaini (as well as Pienaar) isn’t playing too badly today. Unfortunately, he has been let down badly by the other guys like Neville, Baines, Cahill and Billy.
I just think we it’s funny that one week we are freaking out that Chelski or Man Utd are going to steal one of our stars lik Rodwell or Fell for $20m and the next week we see that the whole team looks like crap. It has always been the way. I remember people on Toffeeweb freaking out when Cadamarteri was being linked with Inter Milan 5 games in to his Everton career. New idea. Every time one of our players has a good game immediately sell them for a tonne of cash and evevntually we can clear our debt, buy a new stadium and get rid of BK and Moyes who like Curbishley seems to be a nearly man not a trophy winner.
Not sure we can get 3 kicking towards the Park end. Will settle for 2 COYB
Looks like Ossie’s on for the deuxieme demi.
Well that was a piss poor first half performance. Credit to Birmingham for preventing us from settling, but our downfall is all of our own making. Why, oh why do we always revert to hoofball? Once again we are struggling out wide. Decent crosses are non-existent. Bily, Baines, Neville, etc, why can none of them put some quality in to the box. Tempting to throw Arteta in here but surely its too early for him. Maybe a late cameo introduction. All that said, I still think there is something in this for us. Moyes needs to change the tactics and the players need to up their performance. An early goal in the 2nd half will change everything!
why is Baines still out there? Jeezuz.
2nd half or siesta ?
Still deciding.
Me too John. I think Fellaini has done alright. Not his fault they’re a load of idiots who he has to play with. Totally clueless. If Donovan doesn’t want to play, he should tell Moyes at half time. Not fuckin hide on the pitch, and Baines. Useless all season.
Great Moyes, just great. Fucking Osman is the answer is he? ffs
We’ll get back into it Ged, don’t worry.
Nice job Osman you’ve shown us what you’re truly capable of.
2 crap touches out of 2 Os and to think I was almost thinking it might be an idea to bring you on.
commentator - Osman has the pace that Everton fans are looking for..
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fuckin hell
Also the co-commentator is ex Spurs shite Gary Stevens - a total fucking tool
At least a much better start.
Jamie agree, Fellaini sounds like he has done ok, and he has had players having bad performances all around him,but as we have been told by plenty on here the last few mths, that he is world class, these are the games were he needs to really raise his game and take the it by the scruff of the neck.
B’ham keeper has no saves to make and its 50 mins gone...
Watching BFC really is like watching us in many games.
They are frustrating us in every area and we don’t have a player today to do something to surpise them.
Time passing.
Concentrate on league ?
We could really do with a lucky penalty to get us going and back into this.
it starting to look a bit better or am i just tempting fate putting this up???
Baines and Osman.... shows why i don’t manage and frankly don’t know shit at the end of the day.
Cmon Boys!
Get that fuckin idiot off the pitch. What can Ossie do.
Christopher Brierley
Posted 23/01/2010 at 16:05:12
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Thank god for osman
Once again Ossie confounds his critics! That’s the early goal we needed. Now we can go on and win this!!
Yes Osman is the answer Chris L
Keep the negativity coming
OSMAN IS THE ANSWER, WELL DONE MOYESY!
Time to raise the roof boys and girls
Or maybe a quality finish from Lyons Osman!
Baines!!! Osman!!!! Moyes you genius (why can’t they start like?)
Running round like a team possessed. Great goal
c’mon you blues lets build on this!
I’d love to knock Fergusons head off. Fuckin gobshite!!!!
Ooooooooooooooooh! Close Saha.
We’ll win this!
I second that Jamie.
Unlucky Louis!
Saha what a miss! We are gonna win 3-2. COYB!
Any quality streams at the moment?
has stevens the ex spur still got that mullet from when he was playing??? twat then twat now, not much changes over the years!
AHHHH.... Saha has to bury that
http://www.veetle.com/viewChannel.php?cid=4b05959c0d76b
the French one is working
We just need to keep playing the way we are and the goals will come. The only worry I have is that the longer the game goes on, that we don’t start to panic and start hoofing it up again, that would only play back into Brum’s hands.
Christ whats saha got to do to score today? Must be bad karma for lumping that fan last week for trying to nick his hat
3 chances to Saha now. I bet he’s gonan bury the next one.
What is Birminghams 3rd ? anyone good odds on fad ?
I think we need to get Coleman on, very little coming from our right hand side, would say get Arteta on to, but who knows how fit he is.
I want brum to lose more than i want us to win. Someone needs to to put these jumped up midland monkeys in their place.
Sad but true.
I want brum to lose more than i want us to win. Someone needs to to put these jumped up midland monkeys in their place.
Sad but true.
Fellainis back to hospital passing
Donovan’s having no impact. Arteta maybe? Or Coleman.
Nice of Saha to stick around on the sideline and cheer on his team mates.
Saha’s left the ground already!!
Why didn’t Donovan want to shoot?!
Fellaini’s earning his corn today.
NO FUCKIN CALLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We ain’t got our shooting boots on today.
think its going to be one of those days
He might need a shit Kieran.
Arteta’s back!
Praise God!
Arteta! May be the wild card we need.
The sight of Senderos’ babe only outshone by the sight of Arteta back on the pitch!
yes it was him in the hat
Birmingham are tiring and we can have this in the last 10 minutes if we just get a few attacks down our right side where there is oceans of space, Get Coleman on!
Fed up with kierans snide comments talk football.Arteta is back and coming on yes WAT A PLAYER
Now at last we have 11 men on the pitch.
What price an Arteta goal in next 5 mins?
Come on Mikel! We can do this. Keep the momentum of the half going, don’t panic and change style, keep pushing... COYB
Ray: I think we have made our third sub.
Wilson
We need at least 12 players out there mate!
Welcome back Mikel Arteta
Great cross Mikel - great shot vaughny
Well... not a great cross really
cahill, that foul was ridiculous and now puts us in trouble
If only we could just get our shots on target, we would have been 5-2 up.
When the big affro can pass well he’s be brilliant. In time it will come.
As for this game......just not our game I reckon
Whats with the succession of shit challenges? Letting them waste time!
If we were able to convert chances, despite our other failings, we’d be about four places higher in the league.
In fairness we are up against one of the big 8
Hmmm
Looks like its the league and the Europa to concentrate on then - playing shite again
Nice effort Fellaini at least you are giving it a good go. watch and learn everyone else
Should have buried that Felli!
Maybe we should replace Z cars with Paula Abdul 2 steps forward,1 step back?!
Should have been 2-2, good play Felliani but just shot to close to the keeper
Cahill ran across the front of him as he was picking his spot.
Simon, you get what you deserve in this game. When you play like we did in the first half, we don’t deserve fuck all.
Did someone run over a black cat this week?
We’re not mvoing forward. We have the occasional good performance littered with too many bad ones to ever challenge for trophies. 7 or 8 years is long enough.
Hopefully we’ll run over the Black Cat next week!
Please... if there is a god...
AHHH FECK OFF... great effort from Fellaini. Should have had five or six here.
And fuck off Neville, fuck him right off.
Rich Murray, I did. Don't know what's happened there. Anyway I quite fancy a deflected equalizer of that twat Ferguson.
So unlucky Felli. Great game for the big man again. Shame about the other 10.
Good job Fell you’re the only one who deserves your pay check today.
Come on Everton - twat this free kick on target
Ok... so it is a trip to Hamburg not Wembley.
I think we need a penalty or an extremely lucky decision.
Not our day ? Not our decade. Moyes out.
Desperately disappointing... I thought we were hitting form just at the right time to mount a real challenge for the cup... Bollox!
Fuck it... fuck it... FUCK IT!!!!!
First half cost us... but at least Arteta got 15 mins as I predicted!!!!
A rubbish first half. A better second half. I hope these guys can wake up and play it from the 1st minute now.
I BLAME HIBBERT, if he was’nt injured Neville wouldn’t have wasted so many balls.
Poor first half cost us. Don’t kid yourselves that Brum were good - we were absolute shite in the first half, much better in 2nd but not enough. Have to say, thought the substitutions were poor today, can only think that Saha was injured to bring him off when he did
Arteta is rusty. Seemed afraid to be involved in challenges.
Bit rubbish that.
Hate to say it but really didn’t need Arteta coming on then. Would rather have had Coleman on to add some pace to the attack.
Guess the free weekends will help the Europa League push...
Stewart: Given that Saha didn’t hang around and went straight into the dressing room, I would assume he’s either injured or on the way out.
You wouldn’t lose 80% of the games with the pressure we had in the second half. Today the percentages were against us. As other have said, lost the game in first half - much encouragement from the second half to carry on with next time - great to see Mikel back - and I can now reclaim a whole pile of Saturdays from my Calendar to do something less upsetting with. Onwards and upwards.
Arteta is rusty ???
Wow you should be a manager
Stewart, substitutions? Osman got a goal after five minutes of coming on?
Yeah Rich, he made 3. Osman was the right one at half time, but unless Saha injured, should have been Vaughan for Cahill. And as others have alluded to, don’t think it was the right game for Arteta - especially against dirty bastards like Brum - how did they get away without a booking?
The first two substitutions were needed (assuming Saha was injured). Arteta shouldn’t really be on. I would have prefer Coleman with a little bit of pace down the right.
But once again it shows that we can’t get 3 full games on the trot out of Saha... £60k & a 2-year contract? I don’t think so.
Saha out Huntelaar in. Anyone?
It’s all good and well beating Man City and running Arsenal close but I think today proves why we are still a couple of quality players short in various positions and strength is depth is certainly required.
KING LOUIE have people forgot what he has done for the club UNBELIVEABLE. How good do we look when he plays. Would some people want Saha out and someone like Beckford upfront?? Let's have a vote and see what everyone thinks.
As for someone like Huntelaar... good in Holland, shite in Spain... and not doing fuck all in Italy and on £80k plus a week — sounds a gooood deal to me! When some people post logs do they realise we are not Chelski how the fuck are we going to pay wages like that?
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1 Posted 23/01/2010 at 11:12:40
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Carry on the good form lads, here's to a big win.