Adam

I really hope this is Everton turning a corner. It's a shame Luton but the psychological boost it'll give to have actually won a bloody game is huge. After Chelsea away next Monday, there's three home games in a week - Brentford, Liverpool and Forest - that could make or break the season.

City are relentless, they know how to string the wins together, but they could slip up in any fixture. They've already lost to Wolves this season for instance, and neither Fulham or Forest will be easy away trips. People always do it at this stage of the season - they look at the fixture list and go "they've got nothing to play for so they'll win" etc. It's just not how football works. Look at Palace famously drawing 3-3 with Liverpool in the run-in all those years ago now. All this to say - Arsenal and Liverpool have every chance of doing it, they're both playing well and have plenty of threatening players in good form.

Probably because three teams are within two points of the top. It'd be ridiculous to claim Liverpool and Arsenal don't have a great shot at winning the league as well.

It's not just Liverpool fans to be fair, there is a definite top 6 "bubble" with media focus. Take Crystal Palace, and their January signing Adam Wharton (who has an assist today in fact). The other day I saw the Guardian describe it as Palace "unearthing a gem" in Wharton...they spent £20 million on him because he was one of the best players in the Championship for Blackburn. They didn't dig him out of the ground as a complete unknown, they spent their Premier League cash to poach a young star from the lower leagues.

I love Arthur Morgan and Red Dead as much as the next person, but he isn't even the most iconic character in that series. John Marston for life. Ultimately it's just a vote held by Bafta, it means nothing. The write-ups essentially just aggregating how many games these characters have been in is super dull, too.

And @Colly is an even more regular member than you!

The thing is, Pickford's been remarkably consistent for Everton and England for literally years now, I can only recall one real wobble against Newcastle and it was a while ago too. The carry-on every time he has the ball, and the dinosaur nonsense, surely it's getting old by now but I guess not. I genuinely think it spurs him on in these sorts of games too.

Aye, when County beat us 3-0 on Boxing Day they were 15 points better off. We're now above them in the table, which is mad really.

Doncaster 1-0 Wrexham - have that, Ryan Reynolds? Five wins in a row now for Rovers...somehow gone from relegation battlers to an outside shout for the Play-Offs in a month.

Thoroughly enjoyed being in the away end at St. James' tonight. I don't go to many games anymore, my only other one this season was Donny's opening day defeat to Harrogate. A battling second half from Everton and a deserved point. Do Newcastle fans not get bored of saying the same old crap about Pickford, mind? Man of the match again tonight.

Yeah, but what if all your shots that hit the woodwork actually went in?

It's absolutely nothing like them, to be honest. It's his second season as well - he is about to do something that is extremely difficult by winning the Bundesliga ahead of Bayern, with a club who have never won it before, and they haven't just edged it - they've blown them away. Lampard, Gerrard and Solskjaer have achieved nothing between them in a top European league. It only emphasises the point that the likely successor to Klopp now instead is either Amorim, who has never managed outside of Portugal, and De Zerbi, who has never managed a top team. Both will be a risk themselves. Plus, Alonso has nowhere to really go but down at Leverkusen after this season. I can't imagine the club expect(ed) him to stay to be honest, so I'm sure they had plans on retooling in the event he does leave now, especially with two of the top 5 clubs on earth after him. If he does stay another year, it's really admirable and I do think it's because his preference would be the Real Madrid job. Do anywhere near as well again and he's cemented himself at that point as a world-leading coach.

The extra place for the IPP player on the Practice Squad makes it a no-brainer to give him a chance, really. There's no risk involved.

Yes, his propensity for the drink is why we let him go and he ended up in non-league in the first place. The lad has fabulous ability, but seemingly not the tools to put it all together.

I thoroughly enjoyed that race, very glad I avoided spoilers as well considering the outcome. That crash at the end was big, bet Russell felt a bit vulnerable stuck in a beached car in the middle of a fast section of the track there.

Okay so these are friendlies, but whatever. Christoph Baumgartner scored the fastest goal in international football history tonight, striking after 6 seconds for Austria against Slovakia Almost unbelievably, later in the evening Florian Wirtz scored for Germany after 7 seconds against France...if not for Baumgartner, this would have been the quickest goal ever. Bizarre coincidence.

Yeesh. I do get it because Albon is vastly superior to Sargeant, but that can't be good for team harmony and when both drivers have zero points in the championship, it seems markedly unfair. It's embarrassing enough that Williams don't have the capability to replace the chassis.

It is cynical though that they have banned front-of-shirt sponsors, so clubs are falling over themselves to get money from them while they can before the ban comes in. Football is about money and revenue. Players, fans and all the rest pale into insignificance behind it.

I guess Leicester won't be suing Everton over their relegation then.

Hey, I was right. They've said Wilson is the definite starter but surely it won't take too much for them to put Fields in, of Wilson continues a downturn. It will be extremely funny if Williams doesn't end up being all they say he is, since the Bears got basically nothing for Fields.

You may well end up with Fields. The fact the Steelers are only on the hook with Wilson for a year at minimum salary might mean they take that punt, but I know they'll have told Wilson he's the starter already or else he wouldn't have signed.

Conversely, I'm not surprised at all. It was rumoured last off-season, he's put a lot of miles on his body. Hell of a career, it goes without saying. It's also great news, as a Cardinals fan, that we don't have to play him twice a year anymore.

I'm not really seeing that, beyond the fact that City and Real are playing each other when they're probably the two best sides. I don't think there's too much to choose between the rest, honestly. Bayern are having a dreadful season by their own standards, for instance, and Arsenal have the least (recent) pedigree at this level.

Told you there was nothing to worry about @Cymbols

Sure, but it's not the only factor. There is only so much room in any squad, I feel like every time there's a squad announcement so many players get mentioned as being unfairly left out - but Southgate and his team assess all the options, weigh them up for multiple reasons. If I'm being honest, were we to suddenly need an injection of attacking threat behind Kane from the bench, I'd be more enthused by seeing Toney or Watkins come on than Solanke. But it's a toss-up really and ultimately whoever he takes will likely, hopefully, be sitting on the bench watching Kane score the goals because he's the best centre forward on the planet.