Everton are drawn away to Preston North End in the Carabao Cup

Moyes can then say we didn’t need a cup run cos we need stability in the Premier League.

I want to see another trophy before I toddle off this earth.

I guess we need to look for an update on that when the fixture is scheduled.

My understanding is that Preston North End hosted Huddersfield Town at Goodison Park on Saturday due to extensive pitch installation work taking place at Deepdale.

Over the summer, Preston invested £1.5M in a state-of-the-art hybrid GrassMaster pitch — complete with modern undersoil heating, new drainage, and irrigation systems. The ongoing seeding and bedding-in process meant the playing surface was not yet ready to host competitive fixtures for the opening week of the 2026-27 season.

Huddersfield offered to reverse the tie and host at the Accu Stadium, but Preston opted instead to hire Goodison Park, where only 6,120 fans turned out. It would certainly make things interesting if the new pitch is still not ready in a couple of weeks.

Giving himself, in his eyes, good reason to stick with all his favourites.

Usually the benchwarmers will start this game as most Prem. teams always do. They don’t get serious about the Mickey Mouse cup unless they get to the quarter final.

Moyes old club will want to do a number on him.

Jack @12 that would be amazing but I reckon I’ve got more chance of winning that new Powerball lottery game

So, that’s us:

(1) Knocked out of the League Cup by Preston with the only (own) goal: Everton right-back Michael Keane’s attempted chipped back-pass took his hapless and helpless keeper completely by surprise.

(2) Already slumbering in the Premier League drop-zone: drowning not waving.

(3) But, in the last hours of the window, in what is known in the recruitment world as ‘a Cox fudge’, our crack recruitment team pounce to bring in three new fellas with a combined age of 105, instantly known affectionately as the ‘three B’s’ because each one of them has a last name starting with ‘B’.

(4) Manager Moyes declares himself to be ‘bouncing’ and ‘thrilled’ with the ‘three B’s’. ‘They have a massive amount of PL experience between them’, he enthused, ‘and they will hit the grass running once they shake off their various injuries’.

(5) In a smart piece of business, our ace recruitment team cover the costs of the ‘three B’s’ by selling Harrison Armstrong to Liverpool (undisclosed) and Ndiaye to Nottingham Forest (31.5 million).

(6) In his second statement this year, CEO Saint-Angus-the-Silent in what is now termed ‘Targeted Controlled Publicity’ (TCP) at the club, reflected on the window: ‘If I may use a pun’, he said grinningly, ‘it was a summer well spent. There is only one direction that this club is going in’. (Did anyone else see SATS in his cameo in the TCP Norgaard video?).

(7) Everton are spanked 3-0 by Manchester United at home on September-5 in front of 36,267 fans. All tickets were sold, so the official attendance was 52,769.

(8) The wild celebrations of the Manchester fans after the third goal – a lovely cut inside and twenty-three-yard finish by the left winger, who left Everton right-back Beto sprawled and slumped on the grass like a deflated blow-up lady – were drowned out by the South Stand chorus chanting ‘We can’t even be arsed to sing Moyes out anymore’.

(9) Rugby League executive administration announce on September-6 that the 2027 Super League Magic Weekend will be moved from Hill Dickinson to Anfield, on the same day that Shakin’ Stevens cancelled his Hill Dickinson Christmas concerts.

UTT

Not exactly a ringing endorsement Ian (15).

Only then did Alex ring up Davey.

It’s in the new Mou documentary on Netflix. I haven’t seen it but I hear it’s a Special One.

Belter that, and er probably about right.

Our attitude is that of a club that is playing Champions League football and we just pass off our entry into the League and FA Cup like it’s something that has merely got in the way of our charge to facing PSG in some exotic location in late May.

FFS try and give the fans some damn success rather than trumpeting finishing 12th

Hopefully lesson learned.

So yeah, hopefully lesson learned.

Another absolute gem from Paul Griff.

On a more serious note he’ll play a weakened side and we’ll perish hihf.

And we are such comedy as a club I can almost believe it will happen.

Lesson for Moyes from last season’s exit to Wolves in the Carabao cup – don’t play youngsters ever.

It doesn’t matter how much we paid for them or how talented they are, they don’t hold a patch on your bang average, post-peak 32 year old premier league journeyman.

The less minutes they get the better.