Everton v Newcastle: Carabao Cup fourth round – live

⚽ Grealish misses last-16 tie over ‘breach of discipline’ ⚽ Scores | Football Daily | Mail Scott with your thoughts PM 4 EFC. Andy Burnham is in the house tonight, offering his support to his beloved Everton. He’s the first prime minister to support the club, though Harold Wilson

⚽ Grealish misses last-16 tie over ‘breach of discipline’ ⚽ Scores | Football Daily | Mail Scott with your thoughts PM 4 EFC. Andy Burnham is in the house tonight, offering his support to his beloved Everton. He’s the first prime minister to support the club, though Harold Wilson used to frequent Goodison in the 1960s and 1970s, albeit as a Huddersfield Town fan.

Newcastle United have to make do with Tony Blair, famously photographed playing keepy-uppy with Kevin Keegan back in the mid-1990s. As in so many other ways, Clem Attlee rises over Blair and Burnham like a colossus, on account of having actually played the game for non-league Fleet Town, but we’re going well off piste now. There are only three clubs left in this season’s competition to have previously won the League Cup.

Liverpool and Manchester City have 19 wins between them, Newcastle another one. Everton are one of three clubs to have at least reached the final (1977 and 1984), Sunderland (1985 and 2014) and Bradford City (2013) being the other two. Crystal Palace, Bournemouth and Fleetwood Town are yet to make it to a final.

So while the door’s not quite yet at the stage of flapping wide open for some history makers to barrel through, it is at least ajar. Possibilities ahoy! Continue reading...