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- .... it was our 60th home meeting with the Hammers in all competitions

- and we've won all of our last 4 encounters at all venues
- we've also now lost none of our last 13 matches, home and away, against them - a 9-4-0 record
- and we're 4-3-0 in their last 7 visits to Goodison and 11-5-1 in their last 16 trips

- in all competitions we've now won 6 matches on the bounce at Goodison
- and strangely, home and away, our last 7 games have produced this pattern of results ...
- ... W-L-W-L-W-L-W
- let's hope the pattern doesn't continue!

- Romelu Lukaku's scored against West Ham, of course
- that means that an Everton sub has now scored in 3 successive games at Goodison
- and that's only ever happened once before in our history ...
- ... that was in 2007 beginning with this match

- Romelu's goal was his first of 2014 and his 10th for us in total - all of them in the Prem
- he's now joint 32nd on our Premier League Goalscoring list

- talking of goals, Frank Lampard has now been credited with Chelsea's recent late winner against us
- that's his 10th against us in all competitions
- and he's now joint 26th on our Top Opposing Goalscorers list

- in the Premier League, his total stands at 6 goals against Everton
- he's now equal 14th on that particular chart

- Tim Howard kept his 111th Everton clean sheet against West Ham
- he's in 4th place on our All-Time Clean Sheets list, just 9 behind the legendary Ted Sagar

- Kevin Mirallas didn't play against West Ham
- that brought to an end his run of 42 consecutive Premier League appearance for us
- that's the joint 13th longest run for us in the Prem

- Steven Pienaar did play against West Ham
- and he's now made 200 starts for us in all competitions - well done him!

- Tim Howard meanwhile has now made 336 Everton starts
- that's the same as pre-WWI half-back Harry Makepeace
- they are both in joint 21st place on our All-Time Starts chart

- Leon Osman is 24th on that same list with 329 EFC starts
- and Leighton Baines has joined Alan Ball in 57th place - both with 251 starts for Everton

- talking of Ossie, he's now made 311 League appearances for us (273 starts and 38 as a sub)
- and he's moved into 17th place on his own on our All-Time League Appearances list
- it's a rare old group of players above him on that list, by the way!

- Leon heads our Premier Leaue Appearances chart with those 311 appearances
- and Leighton Baines has now moved level with Joseph Yobo in 10th place, both on 220 appearances

- Sylvain Distin was 36 years and 75 days old when he played against West Ham
- he's now Everton's 20th Oldest Player in all competitions, the 18th in the League

- and so we move on to Arsenal away in the FA Cup Quarter-Final on March 8th
- Yikes!

- we've never played Arsenal on March 8th before

- but we have played 4 previous FA Cup games on that date
- all of them were Quarter-Finals and we have a 2-1-1 record in them

- the last one was this 2-1 Goodison victory against Middlesbrough, back in 2009
- the one defeat came against Oldham way back in 1913

- we've only had 3 previous FA Cup meetings with Arsenal
- 2 were at Goodison and we won both - 2-0 in 1981 and 5-0 in 1910 (when they were still Woolwich Arsenal!)
- the one away meeting ended in a 4-3 defeat at Highbury in January 1928

- overall, we have an absolutely hopeless recent record against the Gunners!
- okay, we've drawn our last 3 meetings - 2 of them at the Emirates
- but our record in the last 13 encounters, home and away, is W0 D5 L8

- our last win over Arsenal came courtesy of Andy Johnson's late winner in March 2007 at Goodison

- at their place things are even worse!
- our record in our last 19 visits in all competitions is W0 D4 L15
- in the last 29 trips it's W1 D6 L22 ... yikes again!
- our last win at Arsenal came in January 1996 at Highbury

- it's little surprise, then, that including only teams we've played more than 4 times .....
- ..... Arsenal are officially, home and away and in all competitions, our Least Favourite Opponents ever!

- 2 goals this time round would take us to 100 scored away at Arsenal in all competitions
- whilst 2 conceded would bring up 200 for them at their place in all meetings

- if he plays at Arsenal, Leon Osman's Everton playing career will stretch to 11 years and 55 days
- that will put him 22nd on the Longest Everton Playing Career chart

- and a final optimistic omen!
- Everton are currently unbeaten in 9 successive away FA Cup matches (W6 D3 L0)
- our last away FA Cup loss was at Chelsea in 2006

- we've had 2 previous 9-match unbeaten away FA Cup runs before
- from Jan 1984-Jan 1987 and Jan 1988-Feb 1990
- but we've never gone 10 straight away FA Cup games without defeat before .....