Stoke City 1 Everton 1 (Baines, pen.)

Everton travel to the Brittania stadium on New Years Day, finishing 2013 in the top four of the table. Jags is out, but Alcotrash made for a decent replacement on Saturday gone. Leighton is back, Gareth Barry is back, Tim Howard is back. With any luck, Steven Naismith will be anonymous on the team bus and one of Pienaar or Mirallas will be recalled too.

In Stoke City team news, Stanley Matthews faces a late fitness test, and Gordon Banks may get the nod ahead of Thomas Sorenson in the absense of Asmir Begovic.

0-2, Naismith x2

I think we will take the cloggers apart with our ticky tacky touchpassball & win a very comfortable 0-1 with a late late 97th minute Naismith goal.

Dixie (who ruined Christmas) will inwardly cry as his belov-ed Stoke take a caning

Barry Horne's Equaliser wrote:Everton travel to the Brittania stadium on New Years Day, finishing 2013 in the top four of the table. Jags is out, but Alcotrash made for a decent replacement on Saturday gone. Leighton is back, Gareth Barry is back, Tim Howard is back. With any luck, Steven Naismith will be anonymous on the team bus and one of Pienaar or Mirallas will be recalled too.

In Stoke City team news, Stanley Matthews faces a late fitness test, and Gordon Banks may get the nod ahead of Thomas Sorenson in the absense of Asmir Begovic.

0-2, Naismith x2

Roy Vernon!!!   

Hi, Anyone know if you can get away tickets on the gate at Stoke?

Anyone got any spares to sell?

Thanks

skanks123 wrote:Hi, Anyone know if you can get away tickets on the gate at Stoke?

Anyone got any spares to sell?

Thanks

Very much doubt it.

3-0 Stoke. MArk Hughes, Charlie Adam and Crouchie. All from long throws.

skanks123 wrote:Hi, Anyone know if you can get away tickets on the gate at Stoke?

Anyone got any spares to sell?

Thanks

ask MC if he's getting any?

I'm sure Dixie will be able to get you seats with the home fans as he is a season ticket holder at the Brittania   

Armchair Evertonian wrote:I'm sure Dixie will be able to get you seats with the home fans as he is a season ticket holder at the Brittania   

    

Never stepped foot in the shithole. I think you have to have a misspelled, racist tattoo to get in the home end.

Shit nearly missed this!

Stoke are playing really well now under Hughes, kind of a Tilka Klogga style, Charlie Adam is a twat and his job will be to try to cripple Barkley or Osman or just anyone he can get away with.

We've got our key defensive players out so really we stand no chance against Abay Clancy and the tall fella.

1-0 to Stoke, kone to get a hattrick

hard to call. tight game. not one for the purists.

Stoke to make around 250 all out.

Everton to win with a couple of overs to spare. Quick fire 60 from barkley with some good backing up from mirallas and coleman.

What a lot of shite being spoken on here, ffs, Its Stoke not Chelsea, 0-2 the mighty blues

Baines & Barkley  

We will bang another 4 past this bunch of shit. Barkey, Mirallas and Pienaar will dance their way around the cloggers defense and Lukaku will have a field day against old man Sorensen. 4-0 to the Mighty Blues and Mark Hughes sacked after the game.   

don't give a fook what the score is, as long as we maintain our current position or better it   

TEAM NEWS

Stoke welcome back Glenn Whelan and Marc Wilson after suspension, and Marko Arnautovic following illness.
However Andy Wilkinson faces a spell on the sidelines after injuring his heel in the defeat at Tottenham.
Everton have Tim Howard and Gareth Barry available after both served one-match bans against Southampton.
Sylvain Distin is expected to shake off a minor hamstring problem, although fellow centre-back Phil Jagielka is out with a similar injury.

Super wrote:TEAM NEWS

Stoke welcome back Glenn Whelan and Marc Wilson after suspension, and Marko Arnautovic following illness.
However Andy Wilkinson faces a spell on the sidelines after injuring his heel in the defeat at Tottenham.
Everton have Tim Howard and Gareth Barry available after both served one-match bans against Southampton.
Sylvain Distin is expected to shake off a minor hamstring problem, although fellow centre-back Phil Jagielka is out with a similar injury.

It will be like 2 new signings.

Howard, Baines, Mirallas, McCarthy, Lukaku, Barry, Barkley, Pienaar, Coleman, Stones, Alcaraz

01 Robles
02 Hibbert
07 Jelavic
08 Oviedo
14 Naismith
21 Osman
27 Vellios

Stones and Alcaraz going to have their work cut out against a physical, experienced forward line for Stoke

Albert wrote:Stones and Alcaraz going to have their work cut out against a physical, experienced forward line for Stoke

Going to be a good test for them and the whole team

Win this one - will show we can cope with some injuries

COYB

We're doomed.

Meanwhile, got my parents round for New Year's Day Lunch. Would it be very wrong if I handed them their coats at five to three?

at least Barry is back to offer some deep protection..

could be tough this

Not much height at the back then. Stones and Alcaraz barely over 6 ft. Corners and free kicks will be like penalties to Stoke. Big games needed from Barry & McCarthy today to help out at the back. Hopefully we can hurt Stoke early and play on the counter.

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COYB   

http://www.eplsite.com/stream29.html working.

It'll be interesting to see how the backline will do with Stones and Alcaraz the center pairing. Cue loads of long balls towards Crouch. Oh wait, that's normal for Stoke....