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"He's a triffic lad, with a triffic attitude"

Everton travel to North London tomorrow for the ‘dinner time’ kick-off against Tottenham.

Recent seasons have seen Everton’s performances at White Hart Lane improve dramatically, last season’s first-half apart.

Despite Redknapp’s ironic whingeing prior to the game about a virus infecting the club, Everton’s poor first half display ensured the hosts were comfortably ahead at half-time with goals from Pavlyuchenko and Modric

Although there’s talk of Yakubu banishing the demons of his injury tomorrow, he did manage to pull one back for Everton 10 minutes into the second-half, immediately before Rodwell drew a good save from Gomes. Ultimately the first-half is were the game was lost, painfully highlighted with three more chances from Pienaar, Jagielka and Donovan, the latter an absolute sitter.

Tottenham’s defence can be described as ‘leaky’, and after their mid-week excursion we’d hope we’re at them from the first whistle to avoid a repeat of February’s game.

So let’s hope for a triffic game played with a triffic attitude, and if Harry’s kite is twitching off the bone at the end of it, it’ll be a triffic bonus.