Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall leads the rest on chances created

Long may it continue!

Keep up the good work, Kiernan!!

Would be nice seeing Dibling start.

At Villa, Digne played last Thursday, Cash played both and got injured, Tielemans both, Onana and Kamara seem injured, Rogers and Watkins played partly on Tuesday. Overall, we approach the game with better fitness levels, I believe.

COYB!

Slightly off topic, but Chelsea have about 74 charges against them, which by all accounts will go unpunished, not unlike City whose charges have dragged on and on. We had a breach in PSR and got slammed twice?

How are we to survive in a bent, shark-infested pool?

The imbalance in the Premier League can not now be reset, the clubs that enjoyed the spend-spend era are now so far ahead that their income is pretty much assured, and hence their books will balance with huge wages and transfer kitty.

But at last we can field a team that will compete and play attractive football — soccer mana from heaven.

In normal diplomatic circles, representatives from countries sit down with each other to discuss bilateral issues. For the Foreign office, this usually means the embassy staff, often the Ambassador as well, meeting their government counterparts locally.

A couple of years ago, just before Christmas 2023 I think - UK's representatives in UAE received items on the agenda from their counterparts - it included an item on City's 115 charges. It was dismissed as ineligible as it was not a government matter. It was tried again after the change in Government here, in a meeting with then-Foriegn Secretary David Lammy, in late 2024, and was again rebuffed on the grounds it is a Premier League matter.

So essentially, a foreign government was trying to influence the Premier League.

Chelsea are owned by Clearlake Capital. Newcastle are owned by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, the "Public Investment Fund" - PIF. (Who also own half of their own Premier League teams - apparently FIFA has no issue).

Why do I raise this? The PIF are also invested into Clearlake Capital (amount unknown) and it has previously been suggested were trying to sign various players from Chelsea for PIF-owned teams in the Saudi Premier League, on terms that would be favourable to Chelsea (in terms of transfer fee).

So along with billionaires of dubious motivation, we now allegedly have nation states trying to influence the game - it's long since been a level playing field.

Ironically, one of the Premier League's strengths used to be its appeal as a competitive league - better than other European leagues which are dominated by one or two.

Dewsbury-Hall has been overshadowed news-wise because Grealish has also been playing so well and is probably more newsworthy.

I think it's a toss-up which of the two proves the more valuable to us over the season.

Let's hope they both stay fit for a long time.

The site is being given a full revamp - there's a thread about it somewhere. It's too much work, and pointless for the mods to change all the headers when the site is about to completely changed.

Ignore it for now, change is coming.

On top of that, threads which before were shut down with chunks removed because of politics, religion or whatever, a women's piece in particular covered just about every conspiracy of the last decade, it didn't belong in the thread and frankly not on a football site.

ToffeeWeb has lost a chunk of what it was and soon the rest of it will follow as a new fresh site will emerge. Forgive me if I don't cheer.

I tend to stay out of those type of online debates and keep my opinion to myself on certain matters - online discussions of that nature invariably descend into argument. It's one reason why I don't use any social media other than TW.

On an International Break, when it's a real struggle to come up with decent and interesting Everton content for the website, I think there is a case for letting people have fairly free rein when it comes to meandering the current threads — as long as the personal battles of old are not revisited.

I wasn't following it very closely but I think it lets the nutters have their say, and be more widely recognized for what they are, bringing up their favourite tropes and basically making bigger fools of themselves, so we know with what we are dealing.