Everton v Sunderland in FA Cup 3rd Round

The Red Shite were just before us too!!!

They played before we kicked off I think and got beat.
We beat Sunderland and went on to win the thing!!

Fingers crossed history repeats itself...

Bring it on, I say!!!

Liverpool will be the TV-changed game time, everybody will be anticipating a shock… a Liverpool win!

Sorry but shouldn't mention the time they knocked us out: 15 February 1964. We lost 3-1 at Roker Park.

We were the reigning champions and it was a big shock, more particularly since I was at Anfield watching a reserves game and it came over on their tannoy at full-time to great cheers from the Kop!

Once again, sorry but its still a bad memory!

I remember that game very well, drove up with my father and brother.

Arrived early and went down onto the beach, which was not far from Roker Park. Very poor result, drove home straight after the game, well sort of, stopped at Barnard Castle for a couple drinks, still had nt recovered from the result, arrived home very late.

I had forgotten about that game, till it was brought up here.

Looking ahead, there will be a few Premier League teams getting knocked out and perhaps we get a nice path to the final.

Yes, a poor game for us on a snowy pitch. I think Jimmy Gabriel got our goal, playing as a centre-forward that day and that Roker Roar was in full blast urging their team on.

This game is at home so that should make a big difference.

John (4) It was the other way round —- we played first and Liverpool played Chelsea later that day. Not sure but I think it was 4-3 for Chelsea with Bobby Tambling(?) getting the winner.

Me and my mate stayed behind a bit after our game waiting to see the Kopites walking away from Anfield and innocently asking them the score and forgetting to hide our big grins when they told us — a bit daft but I was only 23 at the time!

Will Moyes throw it like he did the League Cup now that he is talking about getting into Europe via the Premier League?

We will be favourites with a home draw though.

I know Moyes is very rarely upbeat but surely even you are not suggesting this was him talking us about getting into Europe:

"I'm too old now to say we just want to avoid relegation, but I'm not daft enough to say Europe is possible."

I try to forget that Roker Park cup tie also but my baby brother was born that same afternoon so I am reminded every birthday since.

He's now 61!!

Mind you the TV loves a giant killing... but I am sure Barnsley can prevent a shock.

We'll probably have our match moved to accommodate them. By God, I want to see them suffer.

They are just so cynical. Give him a new contract. Upset him, Make him move to Saudi in January and pick up a huge fee.

Is he bright enough to realise he is being played?

I think that there are more than a few more interesting games than ours. I have a hunch that we will not make it onto the box for this one.

I think the Christmas spirits visited him on Sunday because when it was put to him that Dewsbury-Hall said he believed we could get in Europe, Moyes said “Why not? At West Ham we were in a relegation battle and then we got into Europe, so why not?”

It may have been a Moyes doppelgänger who hadn't read the script but that was what he appeared to say.

I'd consider them a good bet to make it out of their group and win their first knockout match but, if not, they'd have at least a full week to be ready for the cup match.

With just about the last kick in the game.

Should've gone to Specsavers, mate!

My wife's a Geordie? If I ask her, it will be a 1-hour lecture????

Google Barnard Castle Dominic Cummings…

You married one of the less talkative Geordies then?

We were hoping to be back in England around October this year but, among other things, Irene fractured her back. Trying to reorganise to be there next year at the Hill Dickinson Stadium.

Doesn't matter who the draw pairs us with, bottom line is we have to beat them to go through. Sunderland look a decent outfit but are certainly doable at Hill Dicko!

We shouldn't take them lightly. I've still got nightmares from bloody Luton putting us out at Goodison a season or two back.

Come on, Blues, let's go all out and win it. After all... we are well overdue trophy. 🏆

Fancy Michael Keane being caught like a rabbit under the lights at Stamford Bridge.

Our youngster Armstrong is in midfield for PNE. He looks like a good footballer. Made some nice attacking moves and passes, with the ball at his feet, first half.

He's #5.

He will be aiming for about 7th-ish and to keep doing that year after year. In all probability, he plans on being here for at least another 10 or 15 years.

A good match for returners from injury: Seamus, Jarrad, Merlin -- if the time is right perhaps?

We can even dream (must be Xmas) that one or more new faces will have arrived and can be blooded that day.

Or Moyes could just put in those players that everyone calls for to be given game time, you know, like he did in the Carabao Cup

We have to put out our best side possible for this one, not least because Sunderland are at this moment an impressive team.

This is the first game of our last chance to win a trophy this season. It will be the most important game of our season when it comes around. You might rotate or nurse back the wounded if we were playing Weston-super-Mare (but even then I would have doubts), but we are playing a top-half Premier League team and we need a trophy so badly, so desperately.

What you say is logical but this is Moyes the genius who threw the Wolves game so he will

probably rest players for the prem then laugh about it if we lose. But given his aversion to

Youth I’ll expect to see both Travers and King in the starting 11 along with probably Alan Irvine and Phil Neville as CM.

Actually, the team he put out at Wolves was not a shite v Palace team. It was much stronger than that and with the subs was pretty much our strongest line up back then. But, I agree, he got it wrong. In hindsight, even more embarrassing now than it was at the time when we look at Wolves.

I can't stand it when gaffers showboat with weakened line ups in the cups. If Moyes does this with the Mackems Kieran and dourly smiles it off, then I'm done with him. Put pictures of fans up with effusive thanks and then stab them in the back when some of them would lose a limb to see us win something.

But I still think that he will go all in with his strongest XI Kieran, but remember that I once said John Spencer would come good, leave him the fuck alone.

By the way, you two weren't among those that were calling for Moyes to use the whole squad and give a start to those peripheral players (Dibling, Aznou, Rohl) that started the Wolves game were you?

After all, it was only Wolves.

I was at the 1995 final and was young and there in 1984-1987 and I just want us to win a bleedin trophy, for me, for all of us, and especially everyone under 40.

I missed the '84 to '87 years working in the sandpits of Saudi, but I'll always have the 1966 and 1970 wins, and the years in between.

Fading memories now...

Lovely evening, fish and chips from George and Angela's in Crosby after the match, and probably the Generation Game and Love Thy Neighbour or Man About the House or Please Sir and, finally, MotD.

The implausible reason Dyche gives is that its "For the good of the game" and then goes on to further embarrass himself that players see red for touching strands of hair or head-to-head contact.

The referee didn't deem it noteworthy. VAR most certainly checked it but the report on Sky states they didn't. Forest Fan TV ((FFTV) are disillusioned about 'Yet another complaint. when is it going to stop'.

They agree a VAR check occurred. The guy from FFTV states in his opinion it was an 'orange' but not a red. Then states it was dealt with at the time, badly, but it was dealt with. Move on.

He then said Everton would have beaten them with 9 (sic) men 😲. I think his maths let him down there. Forest fans on this YouTube article agree that they would have lost, red or not, because they were so bad.

Tarkowski was beyond stupid. He could easily have seen red and I stated that on the live forum at the time. He got away without a yellow even.

What the club have done to reel him in, especially after tantrum Gueye's sheer stupidity, as we are on paper thin numbers as is, is probably Moyes has done nothing.

The kudos for Dyche and his efforts at Everton to keep the club going through abject turmoil is the only thing preventing me lambasting him further. I think he is the latest in the line of Marinakis's pets. This one he has made bark to his command.

What possible outcomes will no doubt be heard soon. Will PGMOL make up a sanction? You never know. In theory, it is all over, but after all, it is Everton.

He does the great pass and block and I like him. He's decent in pressers. But the knobhead moments are adding up.

Come on mate, first Moyes wants to be here for another 10 to 15 years.

He is 62 years old, he was given a 2½-year contract, probably his last in management post.

Use your time up more wisely, go and decorate the living room, take up knitting, do something useful.

Does Forest's complaint mean that Moyes can ask for his flowers back?

Eric 55,

I think Marinakis has trampled them, shoved the crushed vegetation through a shredder, and given Dyche the choice, eat them or make the Tarkowski complaint to the nation.

It was freezing and snowing but the game went ahead. I didn't even have a coat, just a denim jacket.

We lost 2-1 and were knocked out of the FA Cup. I want to thank the driver of Jones Motor Services who let me on his coach and dropped me back in Ellesmere Port on his way back to North Wales.

My first trip to the new ground. Where do ToffeeWebbers recommend I should try and sit? Thanks.

I am in the Club View on the other side, which is decent. There isn't a bad seat in the stadium though.

I see kick-off is now 12:15 not 3 pm which does not make it easier for those of us travelling up from the West Country on the day.