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A Qatari, Indian, Chinese man and American walk into a football club…well I say walk I mean get the tour of Goodison park from your friend and mine Robert Elstone, writes David Martin.

Today’s result had a crushing inevitability from the minute we kicked off and sat back, says David Martin. Rather than starting with a 4-5-1 or a 4-2-3-1 as we have done of late we sat back even more playing what seemed more of a 4-3-2-1 formation with Osman, Neville and Rodwell all sitting deep and [...]

Amidst all the excitement of possible takeovers it would be easy to forget that we were beaten by Manchester United at the weekend. However, while we all wait patiently for news let us look at the shorter stuff that is being forgotten about, the stuff that happens on the pitch, says Dave Martin.

Disseminating the Chelsea result is a sobering task, says David Martin.