Premier League — Matchweek 12

Watching the Leicester v Chelsea game and beginning to wonder if you have to actually break an ankle or leg before you get a red card.Some of the tackles from Leicester players appear no where near the ball.

Agreed Bill, Leicester could (should?) be down to 9 men already

Man City doing their utmost to piss away the title again I see.

Might as well just crown the Dutch baldie's Shite with the crown now.

Jim, the way things are going, the other lot might win it at the same place they lost it last season.

Fred.

Just be another typical day in the Evertonian world, that, wouldn't it?

So down after the game. I went back to sleep deflated. Not long up and feck off, Pep & Man City. It's a poor team that depends on one player!

In better news, a really nice day for my FPL team after wildcarding and with at least 3x3 bonus points to come and three players left to play, including my captain.

Fire alarm at Stockley Park, where the VAR is located. Play continues at Ipswich.

Alarm bells should be ringing at Goodison, Ipswich just equalised.

Anybody else get excited to hear a Premier League manager has been sacked? Hopes were high?

It’s just another Sunday. In a tired old street.

Wow, surprised Leicester have pulled the trigger this early. Southampton and Ipswich favourites to go down so seems a bit panicky.

Please please take Moyes so the Everton return rumours can be put to bed!

They were knocking on the door too Fred

Delap, a classic strong bullish 21-year-old centre-forward, cost Ipswich an initial £15M and scores and plays every game and we desperately need a Number 9.

We bought Jake O'Brien for the same amount and he never plays and arguably we didn't need another centre-back.

Ipswich have already doubled their money. O'Brien would at the moment sell for less than we splashed out on him.

Great stuff, Thelwell and Dyche.

Paul

I agree. The loyalty we've shown to Calvert-Lewin has started to do my head in.

There is a wide world of better Number 9s out there and that has been the case in the last 4 years or more, but our heads have been in the sand.

And West Ham show what you can do if you vary the way you take corners.

Agree, Jim – we let the Coventry and Blackburn lads slip through our fingers but, as poor as all of this was, do we actually have Excel spreadsheets listing young South American talent and cheapish options everywhere that matches our budget?

Personally, splashing the same cash on O'Brien that would have brought Delap to us simply does my head in.

Skunks 2 down. I wonder if Eddie would come to us if we wanted him. But we don't really want Skunk rejects, do we?

Why would he want to come Paul?

Agree Brian. I'm not sure that dock, bigger salary than he is on now, and his Everton history would be enough.

The challenge is that daunting and this supposed new owner seems to like sacking managers, even more than Moshiri. He would most likely go to West Ham than us.

He might if he gets the boot from Newcastle, Brian, but I forgot Everton is held in such low esteem by its own supporters that nobody wants to move to a club that's somewhere between Ebbsfleet and Solihull in its current status.

Seriously though if Howe did leave Newcastle which major clubs in England would likely consider hiring him?

Not top 6 Fred. It would be in the Fulham, Brentford, Hammers mould, though he will be thinking higher.

That said, I wouldn't rule out him coming to us. It's a daunting task but in essence, he would have little to lose, a bigger bank balance, and some nice days out on the river.

Not held in such low esteem by only us Fred. Our league positions over the last several seasons speak for themselves.

One problem, Brian, is that the longer we go on without winning anything or being genuine competitors, the more distant our history seems now.

Attendance at Newcastle (according to BBC) only 22,000?

Here's me thinking they're a massive club!

Seems like Ing's hair is finally restored fully lol.

52,000 Edward.

Obviously a typo from the Beeb.

I can't see West Ham sacking their manager!

He'll come good in long run.

Actually, 52,094!

Newcastle were shite second half. No response at all after going two down, except from Howe to bring on subs.

Isak was shockingly absent.

Everton U21s boasting Broja, Patterson and O'Brien lost 1-0 to Watford who lost their previous U21 game 8-2! Perhaps that's why we haven't seen much of Patterson and O'Brien!

Would have been too much to ask that Broja could lift our spirits with a goal!

Thanks David!

Second dive by Red Shite.

LOL, dickhead Salah.

Just watching Liverpool vs Real Madrid. If that game they are playing is football, then you may as well call the game we play Rugby.

We're a division or more below Liverpool, a massive gulf in class and the concept that we can get near to that in the next few years seems laughable. I guess that miracles can happen but we need more than that.

I read somewhere that the RS have spent more than £800M on players since Fenway took over. Thus the gulf in class.

Let's see where we are after a decade of Friedkin.

So much for the RS falling apart once Klopp left. This Slott fella has them playing better.

He Slotted in nicely.

I had a feeling Slott would start very well, Paul, because he has been left a very good squad of players who are superfit, because they have been getting hammered by Klopp's very tough training regime and cheating with inhalers for years.

I imagine it must be a pleasure working for the new manager if he doesn't train them so hard, especially with their bodies being used to getting pushed so much.

It's very early days, though, and like Sergio Ramos supposedly said to Rafa Benitez, "Don't worry about results in October, worry about them in April and May."

Yank madness for PSV. 3 goals in the last 8 minutes (sound familiar???), the final two by Malik Tillman and Ricardo Pepi of the USA. Win 3-2 over Shaktar.

And a goal for Gio Reyna in Dortmund's win.

Mike,

Look at the players that have come through their development system though and how about their net spend too?

They looked very good tonight. It was a bit depressing really.

What about the goal the American scored against his home team at Parkhead tonight Mike.

I had an eye on their match as well as Villa's.

They deserved it. Carlo's Real a shadow of their recent selves. They messed around with it at the back too much and gave away possession too much to the Duracell bunnies.

Villa's match was a stalemate.

Good to see Liverpool replacing Klop without missing a beat.

You have to hand it to both clubs, we've both been remarkably consistent now for about a decade.

Tony, didn't hear about that one, but I don't even have to guess who the guilty party was... Carter-Vickers, right?

Guy is a blunder machine. Awful. Has maybe a dozen caps and he'll never get one again, not with Poch in charge.

Amazing one team changes managers often and gradually get worse, other teams changes managers and get better.

I'm starting to feel really sorry for our Merseyside and area supporters for the abuse they must get. And really, is there a light at the end of the tunnel?

Mike 44. Celtic are my second team. I watch nearly every game in full. Carter-Vickers has arguably been Celtic's best defender this season and today, Chris Sutton, who is at every Celtic game, said he was the best player of the season so far.

I don't care how many caps he has won but on his form this season your comment about him never making it 13 seems silly. How many Celtic games have you watched this season MG? But you call him'awful'.

'. with Poch in charge'. As if he is a messiah who will sort Yank footy out. He may have continent hopped because he is a perennial non-winner on the other side of the ocean, who did however scrape a couple of trophies at the biggest club in the worst big league in Europe!

Poch, who has been a decent club gaffer so far will be watching Carter-Vickers. It's not as if the Yanks have a great defence.

Madrid and the shite, you have to admit it, play football from a different universe to us. As much as I dislike our neighbours, their Football is at a different level. We are now definitely in their shadow and it will take enormous effort, and time, for us to move out of it.

It was a hilarious og though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIS81KnUwaA

I hate you for being right CG but my skies are always blue

Can we please do our best to buy Daizen from Celtic. Please. He's still within our range, I think.

If there is one club, that it’s worth taking players off, then the success rate of players moving on from Glasgow Celtic, and then producing better things, must be as high as most clubs?

It seems our reputation isn't confined to the UK, as Real Madrid fans poured scorn on last night's performance and Carlo Ancelotti.

“Someone remind Ancelotti that he is not at Everton, that he is coaching Real Madrid, that if he wants to play like a small team, he should go back to Everton.” @TsubasaMisaki11 was ruthless.

@Moru84_cb commented: “Ancelotti should be sacked today. We seem like a small team. Everyone is at the back. He has returned to Liverpool and believed that it was the derby and that he was still at Everton.”

Unhappy Madrid fans

Arda Guler for Real Madrid caught my eye last night. He's only 19 too.

The night before, when I watched Sporting Lisbon get a pasting from Arsenal, I couldn't help notice how many chances they got, but blew most of them high and wide.