Hello and if you're thinking that doesn't sound like Gab Mar Cotty, that's because he's

swanning around America. I think watching some team called The Eagles in a sport I'm not familiar with.

But we're going to talk about something far more important

English football, while Gab but yeah watches a bit of NFL or whatever it is.

I'm Matt Dickinson, Chief Sports Writer of the Times and I'm joined by two of my finest colleagues.

Sitting opposite me is Bill Edgar, our football writer and Stats Guru as you all know.

And down the phone line from somewhere in Yorkshire

Lancashire north somewhere is Ollie Kaye our chief football correspondent but

don't worry this is one week only I I'm going to be sitting in this chair.

Gap will be back next week with his usual unique enthusiasm and you actually do get a fix of him on this

show. He sat down with Raphael

Honegstein to discuss his fine new book clop bring the noise so that's

coming up but only after we have looked back at the Premier League

weekend and we're going to start

actually with Southampton Everton I know probably going into the weekend

Liverpool Chelsea seemed the biggest game but results have proved otherwise and I think we're going to

start on the blue side of Mersey side and well I think shambles is probably the word

for Everton at the moment ollie wouldn't you agree? I think there are various words, none of them complimentary and in fact a word like

shambles might in fact be slightly flattering to them at the moment.

They just look awful, dreadful, horrific.

I think there was a lot of over-excitement when they spent all that money in the summer and then of course they'd

lost Kukaku and they didn't replace it. And I think some people were not me were expecting too much of them given that there was an

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