dear everton fans, will we still be friends after tomorrow? and then after Saturday?
only joking of course. this will be the 1st comeptitive home match of west ham that i will not go to. not on my season ticket and frankly I fear that everton's passion may be a bit too much for west ham's pure skill and tactical beauty. let's hope the city of liverpool has used up it's good luck tonight (at least I noticed that Liverpool was winning 2-0 after 30 minutes, which ain;t bad)

Phew! I didn't want to talk before the game Wout, because things usually go wrong when I open my mouth. But, this game, Everton certainly deserved their win.

do us a favour Pete and talk before the match on Saturday ......
rumour has it we will be playing with 2 goal keepers, 6 men across the back 2 men in midfield and 1 striker who weighs 500 kilos. the famous Christmas tree approach.
as I said on the phone, any team that plays at home in the cup with the score level at 1-1 and then subs the leading striker (Ashton was playing deep behind the striker; after all, who would play at home with 2 out & out strikers?) with a right back does not deserve to win.
Curbishly for England!

I personaaly liked the result. It gave me a double result out of 4 correct score matches to win me a few quid ;-)

Man Utd was the other score I had up.

Dear Wout and Peter

I remembered you both last night as I watched the game last night with my son. It was a double celebration in my household - new telly and now Spanish TV is showing English football games (as opposed to pay-per-view). Didn't care who wins, though Everton did look slightly better. My son and I were both rather impressed by West Ham's right back/half(?), who is built like a truck!

Regards to all

Mike