Our thanks this Monday go, as most Mondays, to the News of the World for revealing just a little more about the human condition than we were previously aware. “I always say” says a woman who has slept with a thousand men, “a slut will sleep with anyone but a tart will pick and choose.” No room for such subtle distinctions in the Premier League, where you go with everyone whether you like it or not. Manchester City and Everton are two such chilly bedfellows, not because they’ve tried before and it just didn’t work out, but because they’ve both got strong feelings for Liverpool, or rather Liverpool’s fourth place in the league. Considering what’s at stake, tonight’s game ought to be epic, as before they can get at Liverpool, they’ve got to kill each other off. And then if they do achieve the fourth place dream by season’s end, with its Champions League supercash, they can have all the fur coats and stripper heels they want.

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The statistics

* City have won five of their last six home meetings with Everton in the Premier League, including a 2-1 win in January last season.

* There has never been a Premier League draw between the sides at Manchester City.

* Eriksson’s side have only conceded eleven times at home this season and only three of their thirteen Premier League visitors have managed to score more than once at Eastlands.

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