Browsing through the Everton forums finds a lot of uneasy fans worried about thier injury hit side up against us on Wednesday night. Jagielka, Cahill, Osman, Rodwell, Hibbert and Coleman are all doubts, but Fellaini and Drenthe both came through their previous match unscathed and should feature.
They point out that the key to them winning this fixture will be controlling our midfield, a task that is made infinitely easier if Parker and Sandro are both out.

Seamus Coleman is one of a number of young Irish internationals focused on making the Ireland squad for the Euro 2012 finals in Poland next summer, but all must convince Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni to include them on the European adventure.
The Everton defender is one of a number of players fighting to make Trap's final 23 man squad for the Group C games against Croatia, Spain and Italy.

Thomas Vermaelen will play in the left back position

All four centre backs have been deployed against Everton. Thomas Vermaelen at left back, Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny form the central pairing, and Johan Djourou at right.

For Arsenal the danger men are Tim Cahill who loves to lose himself in the thicket of tall defenders rising from nowhere for his headers, Leighton Baines who will fancy himself against a relatively static Djourou to bomb forward, and Louis Saha who still packs in an explosive finish.

Coleman: Fulham can march on after Liverpool win

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Liverpool are reportedly interested in Everton youngster Seamus Coleman and will hope to take advantage of their fellow Merseyside club's perilous financial position by making a significant January offer for the Irish international.
Anfield director of football Damien Comolli has earmarked a move for the right sided performer and boss Kenny Dalglish is also said to be a fan of the former Sligo Rovers man and could see the Everton man as a player who could ably fill a role out wide at Liverpool.

Ireland international Seamus Coleman believes his background in Gaelic football has put him in good stead for life in the Premier League with Everton.
The 23-year-old tasted success with underage Donegal teams and well as his club side Killybegs before opting to pursue a career in soccer when former Sligo Rovers manager Sean Connor saw enough of the St Catherine's defender to offer him a contract in the League of Ireland.

de Gea; Jones, Evans, Vidic, Evra; Park, Fletcher, Cleverley; Welbeck, Rooney, Hernandez

Subs: Lindegaard, Ferdinand, Fabio, Nani, Valencia, Owen and Berbatov.

Everton: Howard, Hibbert, Baines, Heitinga, Jagielka, Coleman, Bilyaletdinov, Osman, Fellaini, Rodwell and Saha.

"CONFIRMED LINE-UP: Everton vs United" was originally published at The Republik of Mancunia.

The mist has cleared from derby day. Undoubtedly Jack Rodwells red card has been on everyone's lips.Everyone on the blue half of Merseyside is bemoaning the the sending off, but common sense has prevailed over at Anfield this photo has done the rounds and tell me these challenges aren't worse Foul Play.

By Alan Duffy

David Moyes' Everton side produced a valuable 3-1 win against Wigan despite putting out a first 11 with no natural strikers.

Tim Cahill lead the line for the Toffees but it was debut goals from Apostolos Vellios and Royston Drenthe (after a strike from Phil "Jags" Jagielka) which won the game for the home side.

U.S. WNT forward Alex Morgan threw out the ceremonial first pitch last night before the Kansas City Royals hosted the Chicago White Sox and a fun time was had by all. We'll have a video up on ussoccer.com shortly. And special thanks to Rouals Eric Hosmer, Louis Coleman and Aaron Crow for coming out to training and saying hi to the team (and giving Alex a few pointers).

Everton utility man Seamus Coleman is once again being linked with a surprise move to bitter rivals Liverpool by fanatix.co.uk.
Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish worked hard throughout the summer to strengthen his squad and it had appeared as though there would not be anymore transfer activity at Anfiield this season.

Everton have confirmed that striker Jermaine Beckford has left the club in a £3 million deal. The transfer sees Beckford drop down a division to the Championship as he joins Sven Goran Eriksson's Leicester City side. Beckford failed to make the grade at Goodison Park, often frustrating Toffees fans by missing countless goalscoring opportunities.

In most of the season previews I have read about Everton, most of them have stressed the importance of keeping their small squad fit and being lucky with injuries if they are to succeed.
So to have one of their brightest young prospects and key attacking threats, Seamus Coleman, crocked before the season began, is an ominous sign for the Toffees.

[UPDATE! Rich weighted the data according to playing time! See below]

[UPDATE ii- just moved this up as I think it's worth a look and don't want it buried under the Split stuff. Interesting that when we pro-rate age for playing time you've got an almost absurdly consistent line upwards.

Piggybacking off Rich's post from the other day, I've been looking at the average age of our squad over the years. Remember learning mean, median, and mode, along with standard deviation from math class? Well, it's back Fulham style!

We all know that the side is in some (not dire) need of youth, and that our stalwarts aren't just getting older, they're nearing the end of their careers I for one would not be surprised to see Danny Murphy and Damien Duff hang up their boots after this season.

As a blue I always know we aren't going to launch audacious swoops for top level players. Extravagent wages tempting foreign mercenaries to be joined by cherry-picked England internationals...nope it's fair to say that Everton are not a "Money" club.

Instead Moyes' revolution, whilst no less seismic than the City/Chelsea uber-splurges, has been all about players with a point to prove being given the perfect place to prove it.

When Rotherham United departed from Millmoor at the end of the 2007/08 season, the departure of this football club from its home of one hundred and one years was, perhaps, not granted the attention that it should have been. Rotherham, who had a wretched few seasons during the last decade, had failed to reach agreement with their landlords over disputes that had been running for several years, and left for pastures new at The Don Valley Stadium in nearby Sheffield.

Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni has named his team for tomorrow night's Carling Cup clash against Nigel Worthington's IFA side.
A number of players have already been ruled out including Anthony Stokes, Ciaran Clark and Caleb Folan because of injury, while those involved in the Champions League final and the play-offs also wont feature.

Accrington 0-1 Stevenage (Beardsley 89)
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Stevenage will face Torquay United in the League 2 playoff final at Old Trafford next Saturday. A place in League 1 is up for grabs for the winners after they beat Accrington and Shrewsbury respectively over two legs.

I'm not going to do a preview. There's no point. Everyone know's what the situation is, who's fit, who's in form etc. According to Accrington's manager, the tie's already over, so what's the point in previewing it.

Here's Coleman's quote to the local Lancashire paper which says it all really.

Irish international Seamus Coleman scooped the Everton Young Player of the Season award at the BT convention centre in Liverpool last night
Having broken into the first team last season, the Donegal born Irishman has made massive progress since making his full Premier League debut at Fulham in September, making 39 appearances and scoring six goals.

League 2 Playoffs: The prize of beating Accrington is the final at Old Trafford

Stevenage welcome Accrington Stanley to Broadhall Way tomorrow evening in the first leg of the League 2 playoff semi final. I use the term welcome loosely. There's nothing I want more than for us to smash Accrington into oblivion and force them into another season in League 2.

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Last week the nominees for the PFA Young Player of the Year were announced. That list includes such names as Jack Wilshere, Seamus Coleman, Joe Hart, and Gareth Bale. This list sparked quite a debate on the EPL Talk website as every fan has an...
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Ireland international Seamus Coleman has been speaking about his delight at being shortlisted for the Premiership PFA Young Player of the Year award.
The Killybegs born player has flourished during the season for Everton and has become an integral part of David Moyes starting eleven.

Just as things starts to goes in the right direction for Everton with their position improvement on the league table, injury issues keeps on coming for the Toffees as latest reports suggested that they might be losing their main striker, Louis Saha, until the end of season.

Confirmed by the club's manager, David Moyes, Saha, who has just an operation recently will not be available again for the team's remaining matches because the Frenchman's recovery time would take a while.

According to Philip Kirkbride at the Daily Post, Everton defender Phil Jagielka, who recent signed a long-term deal, wants to see the club bring in new faces this summer. Jagielka said,

"We haven't got the biggest of squads so I don't think there will be many out (in the summer) but we need some in to strengthen the squad .

Everton's 2-1 win over Fulham, and a Seamus Coleman goal was the perfect way for the young Killybegs born international to head into next Saturday's Euro 2012 game against Macedonia and the Uruguay friendly the following Tuesday.
The young Irishman says the win over Mark Hughes' side has given Everton a big lift ahead of the fixture gap, and he hopes to see the team return to Merseyside with the same level of optimism once the international fixtures are complete.

Go north, try hard, lose. The annual Goodison defeat is out of the way and we are now free to concentrate on more plausible opponents, such as Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers.

Fulham were poor in the first half. We couldn't keep the ball, we didn't do especially well getting it off Everton.

Here we go. A weekend of Premier League football is upon us and the title race is as open as ever as Manchester United travel to Liverpool and Arsenal take on Sunderland at home (without RVP or Cesc). Let's take ... Continue reading →

By Tom Flatt, writing from Chelmsford, England. (Follow Tom on twitter @ZolasBackHeeel)

Well, maybe a blessing in disguise is an exaggeration, but there is no doubt that the Chelsea ‘haters' in the football world have, and will continue to, boast the significance of this result.

Irish international Séamus Coleman is looking forward to the prospect of going up against Chelsea left back Ashley Cole on Saturday, and hopes to come out on top as Everton look to secure their place in the fifth round of the FA Cup.
Cole is widely regarded as one of the best left backs in the game, and the young Irishman believes these are the kind of challenges you should be enjoying.

Séamus Coleman admits tasting international football with Ireland has left him wanting more.
Coleman's friends and family from Killybegs and other parts of Donegal were inside the Aviva Stadium on Tuesday night to see him make his international debut against Wales in the first game of the Carling Nations Cup which ended in a comfortable 3-0 win for Ireland.

The Rep. of Ireland got their inaugural Carling Home Nations off to the best possible start to-night as they thumped Wales 3-0 at the Aviva Stadium.

After a drape scoreless first-half the game came to life mid-way through the second half with 3 unanswered Irish goals from Darren Gibson, Damien Duff and Sub Keith Fahey who replaced the disappointing Seamus Coleman.

Ciarán Clark and Séamus Coleman will make their Ireland international debuts in tomorrow night's Carling Nations Cup opener against Wales, However Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni has lost Robbie Keane, James McCarthy, Keith Treacy, Liam Lawrence and Leon Best to injury.
Despite his hope that the Killybegs born player might develop into an attacking right back over the coming years, Coleman, the Italian said, will start on the right side of midfield for the Wales game while Clark will be used at left back.

You know, we could be sitting here this morning in the midst of a massive, massive argument. Was Saha offside? Does the fact Koscielny take a touch play him onside? Do any of us know the offside rule? What precisely makes anyone think Lee Mason is a referee?

The fact is Arsenal made Saha's goal an irrelevance.

Lee Mason's refereeing was atrocious. Louis Saha was miles offside when Seamus Coleman launched his pass to him making him active. The linesman should have raised his flag there and then. End of story. However FIFA's rules are also clear when it comes to Koscielny's situation. An attacker will be penalized for playing the ball being in a previous offside position even if the shot or pass rebounds off an opponent and comes to him.

What a fight back. When a team can play 11 V 14 and make a comeback like that you know they're special. This game showed us the best of Arsenal against the worst of typical Premiership Rugby and officiating.

Everton started at a high tempo discussed in the preview. They were pressing high up and not giving the Gunners any time on the ball.

That felt...awesome.

When we got the draw a few weeks ago, I thought our Cup run was over before it began. We hadn't beaten Spurs in the Cup since Queen Elizabeth, or something around then. Harry Redknapp actually takes this competition seriously, and the match date wasn't close enough to Spurs' Champions League duties that we could catch them distracted.

The much-maligned other Ivorian spares Chelsea blushes by earning us an undeserved draw at Goodison. As if this threadbare squad needs an added fixture with which to deal. Bummy.

You got beef?

I do have beef, Carlo. With that shit I had to watch yesterday.