Everton 2:1 WBA and Manchester United lodge a 2nd bid.

Everton 2:1 WBA final score. Reports etc later.

The official site has just confirmed that Man U, you know, the media darlings who:

[a] are always granted enough injury time to score

and

[b] sing, 'In your Liverpool slums,' [they can talk, have you ever seen urban Manchester? It's a fr'ggin hell-hole] and 'If you all hate Scousers ...' with a saarf Laahndan twang

... have lodged a 2nd bid for Rooney. It is in excess of Newcastle's £23.5m effort, but would no doubt still see him join them at an absolutely bargain basement price. Don't forget, they spent £32m on Ferdinand who is perhaps only marginally superior to Yobo! We should tell Man U to sod right off, but we won't, because we're not being run properly.

Expect Man U to seal the deal and make perhaps £20m+ per annum [extra over their current revenues] from his signature.

'Rooney die' was painted on a wall near the ground today, OTT if you ask me. As treacherous as he appears and bad as this Aldi-level transfer fee situation is, it must be remembered that we're better than the shyte that sink to that level.

Preview of WBA 6-pointer and Beatt-route, or the Saha-way?

Match Preview: Everton v WBA [Sat. 28th August at 15.00]

All together now. Expect a half-time walk-out [ToffeeBlog last night].

Firstly, the match prediction poll has now closed and the results are as follows:
Predictions: Home v WBA [Sat. 28th August at 15.00]
Everton win 100% 9
0:0 0% 0
Score draw 0% 0
WBA to win 0% 0
Only nine votes as the site has been effectively closed for a week due to holiday.

Some preview articles: here and here.

Latest odds for the WBA game [from Betfair
the P2P betting exchange]

Everton to win
Back at 2.1
Lay at 2.14

The Draw
Back at 3.35
Lay at 3.4

WBA to win
Back at 4.3
Lay at 4.4

On the same site, WBA prices to descend Jacob's Ladder are:
Back at 1.93
Lay at 2.0

Everton's prices to go down are 3.9 and 4.4 to back and lay respectively.

Other Odds and Sods

Beattie is thought to be a possible replacement for Rooney. Then again, so is Saha. We are crossing the shyte's greasy palms for Traore

More classic farce from the Everton production company.

You just knew it would be a rock-strewn path didn't you.

Are there any organisational skills whatsoever? Imagine trusting them with your wedding plans. On current form, you could end up involved in a gay marriage with a steward.

Back from holiday an hour and feeling bluesy already...

Baby, I'm back for more.

You know how it is when you return from holiday, usually the benefits are washed away within an hour of returning to work. Well this year's proved to be even worse. I've been back home an hour and have been catching up on the news sites.

Sun stroke.

Well what do you know, Wayne and Colleen's good friends at The S*n have been making big of his alleged dalliances with some minty brass. Besides selling more copy to the ear-ring wearing, tattooed, lard-arsed, burgeoning, fairground-worker-lookalike, peasant underclass [see ChavScum], what a great way to make the lad do what they have wanted him to do all summer. Little more than amateur psychology, encourage him to run away and start afresh, by making him feel uncomfortable at home. Wayne and Colleen must be so happy that they let the S*n shine right on in through their back door.

The in-crowd.

Make no mistake, certain media roaches have been slobbering at the prospect of him moving to one of their croney, P5 [top 5] clubs. Rodent-like, every crevice has been meticulously explored with this aim in mind. For some, it would never do for England's finest to be playing for some shytehawk outfit, outside of 'their' top 5. The media networks are built in such a way that only the trendy or mega-rich are worthy of courting. I consider that the rest, including ourselves, I'm afraid, are merely tolerated trespassers on the stage. Our weekly 25 second highlights on The Premiershit proved this postulation, wouldn't you say?

If you can keep you head, whilst all around you are losing theirs.

This post is creditworthy, he has certainly not been fooled, I suspect that he is speaking for many of us.

I must unpack.

My heart rate feels like it's topping 80 bpm now. It's as if I've never been away.

More tomorrow, my fellow cast members and malcontents.