OTF

Everton are 2 up from a ... beckford double..

Half time 1-1. We really shouldn't have conceded like we did. We've had more chances. Overall it's been scrappy but end to end stuff. Nothing much happening in the centre of the field.

Good move from Sturridge to get by enrique. His uncle commentating is loving it

Fantastic run from Enrique, went past several of their players. SHould be doing it as much as possible. I haven;t mentioned it until now, but I think their right back Robinson is shit.

We need to be taking the ball to Robinson.. the amount of space he gave Jonas was ridiculous. Is slow and knows it, so make them pay.

They've scored Sturridge. After some pretty ordinary touches from our defense. Tiote's pass was silly in that position.. gave it away and they made us pay.

Has to be a yellow? Didn't see it.... Raylor special coming up? into the far corner...

Great leadup work there. Fantastic slide ball from Jonas, great run and good cut pass from Lovenkrands... their defender just managed to come in to break things up. End to end stuff. Elmander just puts on wide after a neat little turn.

Fantastic swinging ball in from Enrique.. Loven just missed getting his head to it... ball fell to Best with a good chance... unfortunately the shot was blocked.

...we're missing Barton's calming presence out there. Not loooking great in posession. ..and Best was definitely off-side, wasn't that marginal (from the replay).

Noone at home at the back post from Raylor's corner. There's definite penalties from this bunch with Wheather and Robinson...

Very marginally off depending on interpretation.

Six weeks? Ouch? where did you hear/see that? Best off-side again... marginally would have been a penalty by Robinson otherwise.

Pretty sweet nightmare if we're 1-0 up so far... (touchwood)

Horrible cross from Enrique.. on the wain obv.

It was a brilliant header. The good placement and pace on the cross from Tiote made it possible. Good attacking game so far...

NOLANNNNNNNN!!! Great header across and down... Tiote cross.

Cheeky shot there from Lovenkrands. Good save.

Enrique and Jonas should be owning Paul Robinson all game. Best... wanted too long in the box. To be fair though it was never in a great position to shoot. Close at the other end... good block...

Besty just flashed one marginally wide... well struck shot off his left foot.

On that OzT, what div you guys this season? And are you interested in a pre-season game? Div 5.. and yeah could possibly be.. this one is one that we've organised ourselves.

Raylor.. I guess they wanted someone to take over on free-kick duties. Thigh injury it was for Barton. If Raylor is too rusty I'd think about Lovelyhands down the left with Jonas switching to the right.

To keep everyone else updated on mundane shit... by the time this game is over it will be roughly 6 hours before I play a pre-season friendly. The problem? I also need to try to slip in some sleep.

I know papers make up shit, but if the figures are anywhere near accurate then it's actually a proper sign that they're keen to keep hold of Tiote. Otherwise they'd sell him in the summer and not have wasted any money on giving additional wages to a player already on contract until 2015. Accounting wise that sort of bullshit maths I wouldn't put past Ashley and co. As others have pointed out if it's accurate you'd have to remove Carroll's wages and deduct Tiote's previous wage which would effectively cancel out the increase. Otherwise they would have to spend 35m plus the 7m+ that would have been paid to Carroll until 2015.

Tiote's for sure.