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in the mad rush to get this week's show recorded and thus the more challenging job of actually getting into your minds, i forgot to mention the fa cup final. it's fourteen years since everton were last in a final and since then the nature of the game has changed so much. the fa cup in itself is contantly being held-up, scrutinised and shown to have been devalued by those with an interest in more lucrative matters.


for me the fa cup is still a fantastic cup competition, and while it doesn't have the allure of playing barcelona or juventus every few weeks, for the other 88 clubs in english football it is still a mountain worth climbing. because it's there. everton's route to the final this year has been enough to swell your heart, having taken on liverpool, boro, villa, the other shite and the mighty macclesfield town, we find ourselves on the cusp of a monumental day.


to win the fa cup this season would be a massive vindication of eevrything david moyes has done for the club. his epithet about 'the people's club' has seemed to ring true in recent weeks, everywhere the buzz has been electric, evertonians basking in the full glory of truly worthwhile season. i'm fully aware that if you can afford the luxury of champions' league success then the fa cup final may seem a minor distraction, what it means to a club like everton and their........diehard supporters is the first real opportunity to lay our hands on some much deserved silverware. if awards were dished out for effort and enthusiasm then everton, and in turn their fanatical supporters would be teetering on the top of a league of their own. we are where we are through hard work, dilligence and eye-popping management skills and if we had the sort of bread that gets fittered away on garbage at the top end of the prem, then who knows where and when we would be.


last week i posted an interview with mr. moyes on facebook which prompted an horrific slanging match between 'bitter' lfc-wallahs and meself, i don't want this to happen here. let's just allow us as hard-working, genuinely put-upon supporters to have our moment in the sunshine. win or lose it means a lot to us as evertonians. but to win, that would put the icing and the cherry on the cake.


don't take my word for it, here's what some friends and family said...

"This is massive for us. Despite the obscene amounts of finance pumped into the game these days Everton and their fans have proved beyond all doubt this season that a pile of passion can still prove itself to be worth WELL more than a pile of money." - Mr Weezle Weezler.


"for david moyes to win manager of the year for a third time without actually laying is hands on any silver is a monumental feat for both club and manager. we don't man city's trillions we just need a bit more to be able to compete. we'll use this saturday as a springboard for something much greater. but then, can you imagine anything greater than this? COYB" - Captain Cumberland -the blue & white kid.




"As yet an other febrile and pulsating season reaches Its' inevitable mind shuddering climax and the hyperbole machine of fate starts spitting copper bolts...now is surely the right time to take stock of Everton's performances this term as pissed up befuddled journalists used to say (will this do? Etc).
After a summer of watching spaces and coyly making overtures towards the likes of Joao Moutinho and Stephane M'Bbia, the blues belatedly broke the club's transfer record on Maroune Fellaini a gangly Afroed Belgian who had impressed against our lovable neighbours in a "Champions" League outing in August for Standard Liege who then promptly dumped Everton out of the UEFA cup, early doors as they say.

The Mexican Stand Off of Moyes’ contract wrangle in the autumn dovetailed with some poor results for the blues which featured such highlights as home tonkings from the likes of Blackburn (Twice!) Portsmouth and Roffa's champions elect.

Later in the autumn following on from a spirited 1-1 draw to Man Utd, injuries began to spasmodically hinder the manager’s selection plans. Firstly Yakubu and Vaughan then Saha and subsequently Arteta all fell by the wayside as Jagielka was thankfully now playing next to a revitalised Joleon Lescott, who seemed to score a dramatic late equaliser versus the Villa before that Ashley Young joined the likes of Garrincha, Pele and Maradona in the pantheon of football greats by slotting in at the death for the much fancied Midlanders.

A siege mentality was adopted following the harrowing Villa game, which proved to be the catalyst for an inspired run of away victories augmented by a corking last !0 minute cameo from Balsa boy Louis Saha versus the former Thames Ironworks.

The injury to Joseph Yobo cemented the pairing of Lescott and Jagielka and enabled the partnership between the scary voiced Steven Pienaar and former Camberwick Green left back Leighton Baines to flourish as did Everton’s home form post Christmas.

The FA cup run started with a professional display against those plucky silk men Macclesfield town and has included to date: 2 games against LPL, and seismic clashes against Villa and er.. Boro before THAT semi against galactic champions Man Utd and their flaccid penalty kicks
So Everton find them selves cast as underdogs pitted against that Nouveau Riche Behemoth that is the current incarnation of Chelsea in Saturday’s FA cup final (coverage starts with Cup Final pages from Ceefax at 4.50 am).

The Blues have exceeded expectations all season and have held the expensively assembled Londoners twice already this season. There is no shortage of confidence in the team at the minute and victory would surely be the glace cherry on what has been an exceedingly good season for The Toffees all round.
Hang on!

It’s getting far too hot for cake metaphors as the late Richard Harris may have said if he was still with us. Madames et Monsieurs.

Let the vinegar strokes commence."

-our tone -a sage for our times, knows his onions.


this week: we shall dare to dream.


WE WILL NOT SHY AWAY FROM POP MUSIC.


dream scene.....george harrison.
sound.....james
fences.....phoenix.
life's a beach.....studio.
ice cream man.....the clover
goin' against your mind.....built to spill.
friendship train.....gladts knight & the pips.
private armies.....vivien goldman.
angel eyes (extended remix).....roxy music.
in fine style.....dennis alcapone.
say you don't mind.....denny laine.
back-street.....edwin starr.
dot org green consumer.....diamond watch wrists.


the plan was hatched beneath the light of a forty-watt bulb by mr bernard and dragged kicking and screaming into the daylight by weezle weezler. EVERTON FOR THE CUP.