To be honest, Everton were a good team last year, a very good team, and the year before. This year, meh, while Graveson(a while ago) and Carsley I don't rate at all, they do need that mould of player, as in someone defensive and semi decent in the team, the defence has completely and utterly gone to pieces, which is why even if they get some goals frankly they might get trounced tomorrow due to conceding. Yakubu, just like, a Crouch, Elano maybe and that type of player seem to come into a new club, do well for 1/4-1/2 a season and then go to complete crap. Yakubu went to Everton got a bagload of goals to start with and nothing since. Lazyness, boredom, who knows, but he's not a good striker. Johnson worked his socks off for the team and is a huge loss, not a clue why they'd get rid of him. They aren't clicking upfront at the moment and defensively I can't even imagine why they are soo soo bad this year after being very solid last year.
Anyone can perform well against anyone in any game, thats life, but most likely it will be a dull afair with Man U running rings around Everton's defence.
Not sure why you can't pick and choose your games at the moment, I think they are still floating this ridiculousness that is if they put all the games on live no one will go anymore. Even though other sports worldwide who play just as much prove thats incorrect. I find it embarassing and pathetic that I could go and live in Asia and see every last Arsenal game live in full quality while being a Gooner living in london I can't see more than what 1/10th of their games lives(officially) and not in good quality cept the few on sky. I swear we are one of the only nations and only sports worldwide where you can't at the very least see your team live on tv.
At the end of the day, Arsenal 60k seats every other game, or charge us £150 a year for a channel that provides all the games live, except 10 million people would pay that amount to see all the prem games, even if turnout reduced slightly it would be more than compensated for. Yet all the games that are on live, cup, CL, the all sell out anyway.
Frankly providing more coverage and coverage for every match and an option to pay for the tv channel to see them, wouldn't it provide far more money to the lower clubs per year and enable them to compete slightly better with the bigger clubs?