[theo_luddite]

Carabao (EFL) Cup R2
Old McGalphsmiths Pharm
By the still to be built ski slope
and the closed Costa Coffee and Rope Walk
You can still get a Pizza Hut salad and pizza though
A short walk from Leeds Road
HD1 (something or another.)

Kick-off 19:45 UK Time
Tuesday 24th August 2021

The carabao (Spanish: Carabao; Tagalog: kalabaw) is a domestic swamp-type water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) native to the Philippines.
So there you have it, it's low calorie, fruit flavoured water buffalo piss, just in case you were wondering.
Except this is Thai manufactured low calorie, fruit flavoured water buffalo piss.
I like to keep you all informed. 

On the tellybox
All over the world apparently - apart from our sainted little isle.
https://www.livesoccertv.com/match/41063...s-everton/
We can watch Barrow v Villa on Sky though 

Everton Mints - The History


The Bassetts Everton Mint is a traditional British mint best known for its distinctive black and white colouring.

The mints were first produced in a Liverpool sweet shop close to Goodison Park, home of football club Everton FC – hence the name.

The owner of the sweet shop, one Mother Noblett, created the mints to appeal to Everton fans, making them black and white in honour of the team’s then black and white kit.

She even persuaded the club to let a girl walk around the ground before matches, throwing mints into the crowd!

Needless to say the mints caught on and remain hugely popular – even if Everton have since changed their kit colour to blue!

Match info

Hold the front page
We played football for 15 minutes in Sheffield on Saturday and won.
Can we keep that up for 30 minutes in this game?

I won't hold my mint flavoured breath.

Town have drawn The Toffees in the 2nd Round of the EFL Cup again.
Last time, almost 11 years to the day (tomorrow actually, 25th August 2010, wow, so long ago?) in what was then known as The Carling Cup, Town lost 5-1 in their midden.

Will Town continue to play like they are running through toffee, or will we now get out of our sticky patch, get a bit jammy, run through what may be a softer Toffees side and bag a win?

When The Toffees take their wrappers off, will they play like they are all in mint condition or will they, like their wrappers, get blown away in the wind?

The mostly light breeze that has been Town's (er, not quite so) whirlwind start or (edit: mostly) toothless attacking play will not, in my opinion, give Everton too much to worry about and I very much doubt we'll be too bothered about who we get in the 3rd Round draw as I don't expect us to be in it. The draw is being held Wednesday evening.

We've played 'em before
In the "Tale of the Tape" from 2010, Smithies started in goal for then League 1 Town, but was replaced by Ian (Gordon) Bennett just after half-time.
He later saved a penalty from Johnny Heitinga, thus helping to keep the score, er, respectable.
Pelts got himself sent off in the second half for two yellow cards, as Town were pushing to try get a 2nd goal, and Gary Roberts picked up a yellow.

Heitinga had a helluva match as he also scored Town's only goal.
Town only scoring through an own goal?
That would never, ever happen these days. 

Everton scored through Fellaini, Rodwell (just released by The Blunts, not yet contracted at the time of writing) in the 7th and 14th minute with Heitinga scoring for us to make it 2-1 at half-time.
Beckford scored from the spot in the 50th minute, Pelts got sent off in the 71st minute and Everton then rubbed the salt in with goals from Louis Saha (77) and Leon Osman (85).

Jordan Rhodes was an unused sub for Town that day - something else that will also 'ardly ever 'appen these days. 
(I wrote that before the news of his back injury broke and he now won't even be a sub for a few months - I didn't realise I was that psychic).

Phil Jagielka was an unused sub for Everton, he's just rocked up at Direby. Good luck with that one.
Other unused subs for Everton that night were two lads called Mikel Arteta and Tim Cahill. Wonder what became of them? 

Full squads from that game below.




Otherwise Head2Head we've never beaten Everton in the EFL Cup (D1 L2).
I don't expect that to change anytime soon, and our recent record against them otherwise isn't that good either.

The previous results were from 1998 in another 2nd Round tie when Wayne Allison equalised for Town in the 45th minute after Dave Watson had put Everton in front. Everton won the replay (what's one of those?) 2-1 after Marcus Stewart put Town 1 up in the first minute only for Olivier Dacourt and Marco Materazzi (isn't that a car?) to put Everton in front by half-time.



What happened next?

We finished unbeaten in the 2nd half of that season, getting into the play-off final at Old Trafford and well, we all know what happened next.
Yup, Everton finished 7th.
A position (give-or-take a place) they made their own for many of the following seasons and will no doubt be striving to get back to this season having fallen into mid-table mediocrity in most of their recent campaigns.

Tuesday night's squads
I expect both sides to pick from fully fit B Team squads with a sprinkling of first teamers around, particularly on the bench, just in case a result is obtainable/in doubt (take your pick depending on the side you think most likely/unlikely to progress).

David Moyes was Everton Manager/Head Coach when we last played them in the EFL Cup, but this season the guy that gets to throw the most money at a team that almost never quite gets to finish in the Euro Qualifying spots is the Fat Spanish Waiter himself, a former tenant of the other end of Stanley Park.



The Everton win in their home opener probably helped to convince some of the doubters about his appointment, but maybe not all of them. The draw at L666s means they've an unbeaten start so far and are currently joint 5th on 4 pts with Man U and, er, Brentford who, like us, made a big noise on their first appearance in yonks in the top division.

Everton seem to pick a new coach every season these days. Sometimes more than one.
Not that you'd see Town ever do that.   

About that new stadium
How long Everton will remain at Goodison Park is another matter. They keep threatening to build a new stadium, down by the docks, but their last plans were slated as a reason for UNESCO withdrawing World Heritage Site status from Liverpool earlier this year.

Why a view of the docks where folk thought 10% of what came off the ships was their right to take home with them and why where a "Ferry 'cross the Mersey" and another one to The Isle of Man ties up needs UNESCO World Heritage Site status is beyond me, but some clown awarded it to them. Did they really think they can still see and hear The Beatles down in "The Cavern" from there? What is now Penny Lane, with all the touristy music things moved there for convenience, isn't even on or visible from "The Docks".
As I'm not aware of a shovel going in the ground yet, I guess the planning application process in Scouseland must be A Long and Winding Road.

This all leads us to the traditional ....

Musical Interlude

Some of their "famous fans" include
Sir Paul McCartney, – The Beatles
Pete Best, – The Beatles
Shane McGowan – The Pogues
Mike Lewis, – Lostprophets
Ian Astbury, – The Cult
Ian Ball, – Gomez
Paul Draper, – Mansun
Lee Mavers, – The La’s
Liz McClarnon,- Atomic Kitten
Damon Minchella,- Ocean Colour Scene
Nicola Roberts, – Girls Aloud

amongst others.

Right, so that means I get a damned good excuse to play this again .... 



Like I need one. 

Last time out
Town were in Sheffield again, where we scored, twice, yes twice, unbelievable Jeff. 
Even more unbelievable, we won again. Two games on the trot for the first time in ages.
Everton were up t'other end o' t'A62 at t'weekend, where they scored twice to go in front 0-1 and 1-2 but had to settle for a share of the points.




I also noticed on MOTD that the Bellenders have stuck a "Believe" sign on the "moveable" bit of their players tunnel.
I wonder where they got that idea from?

(Still got the t-shirt ).

Not that any of that matters in a Cup Match mind.


Next up?

Back to Chumpionship action with Reading at home on Saturday.

Pressers

Careless calls it (in Esperanto)

No Rhodes or Pipa for the next 2-3months.



Naby Sarr per the Unexamined - https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/foo...n-21383309

The "Good, he's on" Wine Waiter's point of view

Rafa's ramble on the Everton website

Kwik Kwiz - A Toffee flavoured Curly Wurly - not too hard, even I know the answers to these   



1) Yorkshire Puddings with Golden/Maple Syrup or Sticky Toffee Pudding and Custard?
No, that's not an anti-gram, yes I've asked something like it before, but you've had chance to try it by now. It's an opinion, maybe I should do it as a votey thingummy? Then again, maybe not. 

But these below are anti-grams, some may or may not have been used by others before. I don't pay that much attention.
Many may or may not have an Everton link (hint, they all do really, but not everything is mentioned above).

2) SUNKEN COT
3) SODA OR POKING
4) DID MY SAVOY
5) LAB ANTIFREEZE
6) PORN ID JACK FORD
7) R I IS NO LARCH
8) POLO SKID CLOVER
9) GREEDILY EAR ME ALARM
10) RED WALL JOCK
11) TEST NO VERMIN

All we are saying, is give us a (shot on) goal
or preferably 2 or 3

Oh, hang on, we just scored a couple. How the hell did that happen?

Normal service to be resumed in the Reading thread.

[Lord Snooty]

Nice one, theo.

I know Goodison is a traditional, old style football ground and many people love it for that. But it's a right dump.

Luckily, this match will be played in our beautiful stadium, so it doesn't matter.

And we're not going anyway. Not forking out thirty quid to watch that tripe. Especially as Carlos has said it's a chance for squad members to get some game time. Not taking it seriously again.

[Lord Snooty]

5. Rafael Bentley

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Is numbers 6 worked out by using your Grandad's name and the first car your drove?

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4. David Moyes

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11. Everton Mints

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Going on that idea for no 6. My porn ID would be Eddie Viva.

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It's Jordan Pickford at 6.

[theo_luddite]

Have a word with your spell checker on 5 Snoots

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6 how else would you work it out?

[Lord Snooty]

Oh I hate it when it does that.

[ritchiebaby]

2 is Ken Tucson (except it's not my grandad's name and Hyundai didn't start until after I started driving).
8 is my Russian grandad, honest, Clodverski Polo (too easy, that one).
Have I got the gist of this pornogram idea?

7 could be Richarlison, but nobody has a stupid name like that, surely? No, I know, it's Harris N Clio.

[theo_luddite]

Nice to see everyone is taking this seriously

[theo_luddite]

A link to Rafa's ramblings has been added to the Pressers section

[WakeyTerrier]

Another here not bothering tonight, I'll be sat in front of the telly watching on a foreign channel

FYI

Huddersfield v Everton
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Arena Sport 1 HD Slovenia
Arena Sport 6 HD Croatia
beIN Connect FRANCE ?
beIN Connect MENA ?
beIN Sports France 3 HD
beIN Sports MENA English 1 HD
beIN Sports MENA Xtra 2 HD
Cytavision Sports 7 HD
Diema Sport 3 HD
Digi Sport 1 Hungary HD
Eleven Sports 1 Poland HD
MATCH! Futbol 3 HD
Nova Sport 2 Czech HD
Sport 2 Israel HD
Sport TV1 Portugal HD
Stöd 2 Sport 2 HD
V Sport Jalkapallo HD
ViaPlay Baltic HD
ViaPlay Denmark HD
ViaPlay Finland HD
ViaPlay Norway HD
ViaPlay Sweden HD

[theo_luddite]

The joys of interweb TV feeds eh Wakey. I'll be keeping an eye out for any that my random web page search device finds too.