Sunderland Preview

Off we go to The Stadium of Light then, lying in 16th position, a point off the bottom three and a win away from the top half of the table. As has consistently been said, it's been a weird old season thus far, with back to back wins from any frigger putting them into contention for something, be it staying up, Europe, Champions League, the title....delete as applicable.

Sunderland will probably be quite happy with their season, where, apart from being comprehensively snotted by their closest rivals at St James park, have strung a few decent games together and sit in 7th after handing out their own snotting last week, to the League Champions no less. Bah!

Old Chod Head himself, Steve 'Cauliflower' Bruce, has a bit of knack of picking up decent players from relative obscurity and seemingly turning them into a running, tackling, goal scoring adverts for other ''bigger'' clubs, which was all very well at Wigan, but now he's at a side who's supporters(and owners may it be noted) probably wouldn't stand for any of that, well, not like it very much anyway. Either way, his managerial style seems to be quite suited to the team he's at these days.

You cant argue with some of the players he's picking at the moment who are doing the business for him. Eyebrows a plenty were raised when Asamoah Gyan arrived for a club record fee, with simplistic bordering on racialist whispers of him being ''an athelete'' not ''a Goalscorer'' has him sat on 3 times as many goals as Everton entire forward line. Ah well, the real stickler in their side is always Darren Bent, who could return tonight from injury by the way.

You look at him and his record at every team he's played for and think ''Shitting Hell Everton, we could have had that twat for frig all...'', I'm referring to the time were incidentally, another vegetable headed fellow called Joe, apparently offered him to the blues for a bag of used Bellefield balls. Suffice to say, he's the type of centre forward Everton are crying out for, with Yakubu and Saha being two of the most enigmatic, lazy, talented footballing conundrums that have ever wore the Royal Blue.

In terms of our injuries, we've got one or two ourselves and Fellaini is serving the second of his 3 match ban. But when you look at it, especially with the record we have against them in the last few years, 10 wins in 12, you still think a sneaky little away win isn't out of the question even with the way we are playing. It wont be easy though, the likes of Cattermole, Onuha, Henderson and Wellbeck will make us work for it, but come on Everton, let's do these.

It would be nice to see Moyes not trying to be too cute with his team selection as well tonight, knowing and putting his strongest team out(stop laughing at the back!) and possibly being a bit more proactive with his substitutions should it be needed.

A win tonight then what on paper looks like a home banker(yikes!) against West Brom on the weekend would be just the welcome we need for Landon Donovan's mid season arrival from The Galaxy....YER WHA? Like I said, let's do these.

Up th Toffees!

Juice Terry