It's far from any sort of momentum or very unlikely to be the miraculous turning point that were desperately seeking, but putting one over them on their back yard doesn't fail to bring some warmth to an Arctic night.
It was nice to see some semblance of a Moyes team turn up with a disciplined, resolute performance but ultimately it means [Poor language removed] if we can't put some kind of winning spell together to get us moving up a very close league. We're sat in fourteenth place at Christmas, a long way from the pre season optimism.
Boxing day entertainment is provided this week my Birmingham City, and our first chance this season to take six points off one team. In our first false dawn of the season we produced a cracking performance at St Andrews to end their year unbeaten at home which turned out to be the prelude for a derby win that frankly seems beards ago.
Birmingham are not sat too pretty either, currently sat two places and three points behind us in the league, suffering a loss last time on the road to their slow talking cousins at Molyneux, prompting some of their fans to wistfully dream of replacing their ginger Scottish manager with everyone's favourite stocking filler this year, Martin Jol.
The Birmingham this season was different to the one we faced last year who were tough, well rounded and likely to have a goal in them but just as were looking to turn that corner, so are they. Built upon a really solid bedrock of Roger Johnson and Scott Dann at the back they're obstinate to play against. It's similarly up front where the problems have been with them being a bit crap in the final third. Having the sorcerer of [Poor language removed], McFadden, to rely on is hardly a comforting fact, and that big galoot Zigic has turned out to be somewhat of a Peter Crouch lite. Their top scorer with five is Craig Gardener, he of the shrunken lips like a Star Wars figure.
What is becoming increasingly apparent is that Everton are generally at their best when they're up against it. It's dispatching the lesser teams where things become trickier, and sometimes painful at home.
Is Anichebe suspended for this one? If so then I'd bet the [Poor language removed] haired Saha will start so save your boos for minute twenty. It's likely there won't be too many changes other than that unless a certain Russian is given a throw of the dice, unlikely as Osman didn't do much wrong and Pienaar should be back. Arteta returns from suspension but Fellaini and Rodwell, while nothing spectacular, have certainly done a job in the middle. Distin is just ace at the moment, I just wanted to put that in.
Hopefully the snow and ice have departed a little bit and that turkey curry manages to stay down for the entire ninety minutes, I've never actually had a [Poor language removed] in Goodison. Does this really go on?
Anyway, here's to three points and a better bank holiday's entertainment than Jason and the Argonauts.
It was nice to see some semblance of a Moyes team turn up with a disciplined, resolute performance but ultimately it means [Poor language removed] if we can't put some kind of winning spell together to get us moving up a very close league. We're sat in fourteenth place at Christmas, a long way from the pre season optimism.
Boxing day entertainment is provided this week my Birmingham City, and our first chance this season to take six points off one team. In our first false dawn of the season we produced a cracking performance at St Andrews to end their year unbeaten at home which turned out to be the prelude for a derby win that frankly seems beards ago.
Birmingham are not sat too pretty either, currently sat two places and three points behind us in the league, suffering a loss last time on the road to their slow talking cousins at Molyneux, prompting some of their fans to wistfully dream of replacing their ginger Scottish manager with everyone's favourite stocking filler this year, Martin Jol.
The Birmingham this season was different to the one we faced last year who were tough, well rounded and likely to have a goal in them but just as were looking to turn that corner, so are they. Built upon a really solid bedrock of Roger Johnson and Scott Dann at the back they're obstinate to play against. It's similarly up front where the problems have been with them being a bit crap in the final third. Having the sorcerer of [Poor language removed], McFadden, to rely on is hardly a comforting fact, and that big galoot Zigic has turned out to be somewhat of a Peter Crouch lite. Their top scorer with five is Craig Gardener, he of the shrunken lips like a Star Wars figure.
What is becoming increasingly apparent is that Everton are generally at their best when they're up against it. It's dispatching the lesser teams where things become trickier, and sometimes painful at home.
Is Anichebe suspended for this one? If so then I'd bet the [Poor language removed] haired Saha will start so save your boos for minute twenty. It's likely there won't be too many changes other than that unless a certain Russian is given a throw of the dice, unlikely as Osman didn't do much wrong and Pienaar should be back. Arteta returns from suspension but Fellaini and Rodwell, while nothing spectacular, have certainly done a job in the middle. Distin is just ace at the moment, I just wanted to put that in.
Hopefully the snow and ice have departed a little bit and that turkey curry manages to stay down for the entire ninety minutes, I've never actually had a [Poor language removed] in Goodison. Does this really go on?
Anyway, here's to three points and a better bank holiday's entertainment than Jason and the Argonauts.
