Season 2001/2002

Everton are one of those funny teams — not funny ha ha, of course (unless having your wheels nicked by a load of Scousers on a day out is your idea of fun), but funny in the sense of results.

Have you been thinking who could, or should, be player of the year in this season of underachievement?

If ever a game had ‘banana skin’ written all over it, this was the one. Pilloried by the press if we lost, yet hardly a murmur if we won, this was a no-win situation.

Chelsea travelled to Villa Park on the back of a run of three straight wins in the Premiership — their best series of the season. So perhaps a fourth successive victory was too much to hope for, especially as...

Wednesday night started badly but ended brilliantly. Delays on the District Line meant that many supporters did not make it to Upton Park in time for the kick-off.

Chelsea’s goal-scoring machine, otherwise known as Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, proved the team’s saviour at Filbert Street.

If ever confirmation was needed that the FA Cup is in decline, you just needed to look at the swathes of empty seats dotted around Stamford Bridge today.