Just what we need, a visit of the slow talking zany mczanyers of "the" Villa. Thankfully we shouldn't be subjected to their hilarious chants aimed in Mr Lescott's direction. What they will bring however, is our closest rival for the past couple of years to the patronising moniker of best of the rest - although they're miles better than us at the moment.
Its a fixture we'd have looked at, sucked air through our teeth and been quietly confident that we'd take worst case scenario a point on paper before the onset of severe trenchfoot took over our players who can, well play a bit. And the two Phils. Now with the morbid depression hanging over our brethren, were in all likelihood not expecting much from it.
You know what to expect with Martin O'Neill's third incarnation, Ashley Young being a massive weapon on the wing, scrunching his face up when fouled, and generally turning *insert right back for the day* inside out before delivering some really wonderful balls into the box, usually towards the oversized but under-rated John Carew. A smooth edged modern day Wimbledon if you will.
No need to go through the injury list but it would be a huge boost to have Bily and Pienaar's names on the starting list but for this one you feel its about cutting out the lapses of concentration and silly defending mistakes that have made us feel all retro nineties lately. Goodison needs to be at it's moody and evil best for this one and the team have to turn up and show real desire from the start. Here's hoping.
For the lesser eagle eyed of you it's on Halloween, the quip packed Sunday papers ain't going to pass this one up for any unfortunate side to take a drubbing that day. You can almost taste that "Everton shocked by Villa thriller".
There's kudos on offer for Halloween themed Everton player, past or present.
Vaughan of the Dead is a feeble starter.
Its a fixture we'd have looked at, sucked air through our teeth and been quietly confident that we'd take worst case scenario a point on paper before the onset of severe trenchfoot took over our players who can, well play a bit. And the two Phils. Now with the morbid depression hanging over our brethren, were in all likelihood not expecting much from it.
You know what to expect with Martin O'Neill's third incarnation, Ashley Young being a massive weapon on the wing, scrunching his face up when fouled, and generally turning *insert right back for the day* inside out before delivering some really wonderful balls into the box, usually towards the oversized but under-rated John Carew. A smooth edged modern day Wimbledon if you will.
No need to go through the injury list but it would be a huge boost to have Bily and Pienaar's names on the starting list but for this one you feel its about cutting out the lapses of concentration and silly defending mistakes that have made us feel all retro nineties lately. Goodison needs to be at it's moody and evil best for this one and the team have to turn up and show real desire from the start. Here's hoping.
For the lesser eagle eyed of you it's on Halloween, the quip packed Sunday papers ain't going to pass this one up for any unfortunate side to take a drubbing that day. You can almost taste that "Everton shocked by Villa thriller".
There's kudos on offer for Halloween themed Everton player, past or present.
Vaughan of the Dead is a feeble starter.
Hopefully will have the bodys to go 4-5-1- with Cahill behind Yak.
