Thanks for your reasoning. My instinct was to play him and bench Bowen, despite my Arsenal bias against Spurs. Or maybe I over-rate Spurs for that reason, hmm, interesting.

Villa are third in the table, though, so Everton might not show form against them?? Still, I imagine a tight game, where Villa don't have the quality or nous to find the killer blow

Same. I like a challenge, and I bet he plays all the time (and with a smile on his face, unlike my partner). I heard somewhere that he plays against Pickford during the warm-up, but can't get Pickford to sit still. Apparently, Pickford has a small set of tiles in his duffel bag, which has the number of each tile type written on the back of each piece. Unfortunately for him, he struggles with spatial reasoning, so when trying to align the city pieces, he sometimes dives across the room into the game of Brass: Birmingham, which Grealish and Iroegbunam are playing in the middle of the dressing room. This isn't great for the team's focus-building before the game, and generally arouses the wrath of David Moyes, who empties his Connect 4 discs from the Connect 4 frame (which he is playing by himself), and walks intimidatingly round the room, placing one disk on each table. He then splits the players into the smart defenders and stupid attackers, and instructs the teams to rearrange the tables to connect 4 of the tables with like-coloured discs on them. When Tarkowski's team inevitably wins, this demonstrates that the strength of the team is in the back four and that James is going to get lots of defensive contributions against Villa.