I HOPE it’s freezing cold at Goodison tomorrow. Cold enough so you can see your breath while the team’s warm-up.
I hope the noise builds from very early on and then the roar to Z-Cars lights a fire in Royal Blue bellies and lends extra chill to those in neon.
I hope the Blues are just fired-up enough but not too fast and furious. We need to stick to our plan to avoid being picked off by Chelsea.
Our centre halves, and Phil Jagielka in particular, should take heart from the way they subdued Nicholas Anelka during Bolton’s recent visit.
Granted the Frenchman is a top player who will have better service, but Jagielka should not be intimidated.
It’ll be very hard for us tomorrow, maybe our toughest test yet, but we’ve proven capable of upsetting the odds lately.
With Osman back in the side and Fernandes a strong option from the bench we will pose a few more creative questions of Chelsea than we did in the first leg too.
Alongside the Uefa cup second leg qualifier in Kharkiv, this ranks as our biggest and most definitive game of the season.
In pre-season, me and Tony Barrett were asked to do a piece for the paper about our hopes for the new season.
I hoped for consolidation in the league, a pop at Wembley glory and a decent learning-curve in Europe.
We’re on the way to achieving the first two, and stand on the very brink of the third.
What we’d all give to see Davie in his whistle at Wembley and then a chance to get his cream cardie out of the wardrobe again...
Meanwhile, I found this pic in the Echo archives. Get on a youthful Moysie rocking the old school Lyle & Scott jumper during his Celtic playing days. I won't say anything about the hair because Charlie Nicholas' mullet is worse.
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Oh ah Domo-la wrote...
Get on Moysie looking all smart there. And he's even sporting a polo top underneath...and to think a certain blogger was claiming he invented that combo for town the other week. Now we know he robs his style from big Davey Moyes himself. With a bit of work i think you could pull off the hair as well.
Posted by: Oh ah Domo-la | January 22, 2008 12:05 PM