Regis Le Bris has confirmed that Bertrand Traore is now available for selection after recovering from his knee injury. The winger is out of contract in the summer and it is unclear whether the one-year extension will be triggered at this point, but Le Bris insists that the 30-year-old's contract situation will play no part in his selection decisions in these next two games. KEPT OUT V MAN U “At the minute, we have a full group, so I had to make a decision last week. His trajectory was...

On this day in 1963, David Moyes was born in Glasgow. A man who nowadays is heralded for his work at Everton and West Ham United but his failures at Manchester United and Sunderland are swept under the carpet. His first big job came at Everton, after going from player to manager at Preston North End in 1998, he made the move to Merseyside in 2002, staying for 11 years, and he did a decent job with what he had to be fair to him. He kept Everton safe in the Premier League without spending too...

Born on this day is our first signing under the Bosman rule, Thomas Helmer. Surprisingly, the outspoken German defender only featured twice for us, with rumours hinting that he expressed his criticism of Peter Reid's training methods which resulted in him barely playing for us. Arminia Bielefeld were the team who gave him his start in football, in his first full season he played in the second division of German football. The club had just been relegated and he was placed in the squad that was...