Everton v Portsmouth: Toffees eye Pompey payback

Last season’s beaten FA Cup finalists take on this season’s FA Cup finalists in a game which means little in the grand scheme of things. Everton can’t qualify for Europe while Portsmouth are already looking at life in the Championship. However, Everton will still be smarting from the last time Pompey arrived at Goodison and left with a 3-0 win under their belts.

The grim financial situation at Fratton Park appears to get grimmer with every update and it’s widely believed that their whole playing squad is up for sale in the summer.

Everton made a terrible start to the season but David Moyes deserves great credit for their turnaround which almost saw them finish in a Europa League position. The Toffees have only won on the final day of the season once in the past 13 years but they won’t get a better chance of improving that statistic than here today.

Everton v Portsmouth; Kick Off 4pm 09 May 2010

Prediction Panel

Our panel contains both Squarefootball writers and readers, the writers are marked: (sqf).

Dave Blackburn : 2 - 0
Chris Cox : 3 - 0
Graham Enwright : 2 - 1
Sue Gardener : 2 - 1
Chris Goodwin : 2 - 1
Paul Grech (sqf) : TBC
Colin Illingworth (sqf) : 3 - 2
Hugh Larkin (sqf) : 2 - 0
Peter Lee : 2 - 0
Don McMahon : 1 - 0
Antony Melvin (sqf) : 2 - 0
Paul O'Meara (sqf) : TBC
Dave Nash : 2 - 0
Stephen Orford (sqf) : TBC
Tony Ratton : 3 - 1
Peter Rendle : 1 - 1
Dan Taylor : 3 - 3
Andy Wakeman : 3 - 1
Mark Williams : 2 - 0

Panel Verdict
The Panel believes it will be a happy end to the season for the hosts.

Home: 14; Draw: 2; Away: 0; TBC: 3.

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