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So the other day, I think after the Man United Match Thread was put up, I receive a mysterious 'Unread Private Message' notification. Now I don't get too many of these. It's usually just Finners asking me insane questions or Jock and me ****ging about people we don't like. But oh no....this one was awesome. From Chico. Asking if I'd do him a favour write the Everton League Cup Match Previews. Of course I said yes, and was also kind of honoured he'd even asked me. I enjoyed doing the England Euro ones, even though they tended to end up in non-Englander vs Englander fights nearly every time, but never really knew if they were any good or not.
So here we go...Everton vs. Leyton Orient...WARNING: This may contain some Asian stereotyping.
Daniel-san, never put passion before principle. Even if win, you lose.â€
Mr Miyagi from The Karate Kid Part 2
After a summer of ace sport next comes up the most pointless cup competition in the world. I mean seriously. We've never won it, them lot over there are the current holders and the teams in Europe aren't even joining in until the next round. Gay or what?!
Well no actually. This still probably represents our best chance of actually winning a trophy again. As long as we don't get so far by looking fairly decent and then sh*tting ourselves when it actuall starts to feel real. So no, it's not gay. Not gay at all.
In a Li Tie drawing us Tamworth in the cup type stroke of luck the draw for the second round of the ridiculously named Capital One Cup sees the might of London come and visit us in the from of Leyton Orient. Now I know jack sh*t about Leyton Orient! Well I say that, I know that Tyler Moon in Eastenders supports them and I know they play at Brisbane Road (which i've later found out that it's now rubbishly called the Matchroom Stadium). Oh, and they want to play in the Olympic Stadium....which would be insane.
After a bit of research the first thing i've found out is that their last game was postponed on Saturday after a waterlogged pitch ruined their game with Hartlepool. This means they will be fresh and well up for a visit to ours. Having said that, they currently sit second bottom of League 1, having had the exact opposite start to the season to ours. They've lost their first two games. Surely we should have these?
Looking a their squad, there are few names of any note. Jouney man Kevin Lisbie leads the line, and Lee Cook (just signed from QPR) can run the wings to a decent standard. However, no Li Weifeng in sight. Upsetting.
Now Everton. Lovely boss goalcoring ace Everton. Is it just me or is going to work loads better when Everton are being all beast and stuff? It's awesome. I'm so shocked with how well we've started it almost doesn't feel real. The League Cup should be taken seriously this year. Very seriously.
Be interesting to see what line up we go with here. I can see a few being rested. Fellaini and Gibson are so important to us at the moment I wouldn't mind them given a break, West Brom at the weekend will be tough and is arguably more important. Still, I see no harm in giving The Sexy Vellios, The Knee Popper Barkley and S Club Junior a go. Just make sure we have some big guns on the bench just in case our young blood isn't quite as good as we hope it is. I'd even keep our new boy Kevin Miralles out as well. He's clearly going to be ace so let's not let some League 1 centre back kick the sh*t out of him hey?
Oh and our brand new Chinese Super Signing Waxon WaxOff signed on Tuesday should start. #Oracula
Moyes has a tendancy to play quite a strong team against lesser opposition so will be interesting to see what he uses here. I'm sure you lot will discuss it until the cows come home anyway so i'll leave it to you.
This game does have a hint of Brentford/Shrewsbury/bloody Ian Bogie about it but surely we have enough to take this lot apart? Everton have been really good so far, we are all happy, but lest we forget how quickly it can all be taken away from us. We should take nothing for granted. Nothing.
Surely we do? Don't we? We do. I think.
You don't like rice? Tell me Michael, how could a billion Chinese people be wrong?
David (Keifer Sutherland) from The Lost Boys
