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Can't say much, haven't got time, going out with the Mrs, and what a night it'll be....... because THAT was My Everton!... end of!
Brian Williams, Posted 16/01/2010 at 16:36:38
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Play the ball on the deck and we create chances
We have our confidence back and players now look interested
WE ARE A UNIT AGAIN
Was also nice to see Moyes admit in the post match interview that he’s been a miserable git for the last few months! Even better Beneathus has just been squirming in his post match interview. Only six correct numbers tonight can make my day get any better!
Have a great night lads.
Great team spirit and as always the fans have been brilliant
A great saturday nite boys and girls *****
Felli was unbelievable and the rest of the team put in a first class display.
It was obvious Moysey had done his homework for this game and he totally outpointed Mancini.
Will we see some credit being given on this occasion? Surely not, as we should have won by 4, doesn’t moyes tell them how to shoot on target at training. It was good to see DM finally talk to the boys about playing flowing football at training this week, rather than his usual talk about trying to nick a goal and hoofing downfield all the time. I wonder why he hasn’t thought of this before.
Our season has definitely kicked off now - still in FA and Europa, we can make a right run at Top 6 I reckon now.
Fellaini giving Bellamy the big "see ya later!"? How good was that? I mean, really - how good was that!
The lads worked their arses off for each other today - particularly 1st half. Awesome,
Also - laid £20 on RS not to win and £15 on City so £35 up too.
Off to get myself absolutely shitted!
Brilliant.
Cahill also missed an easy header to hit the bar.
We sat back in the second half and should have had 6 or 7 if we’d been positive instead of just keeping possession etc. I mean this was only City we were playing and Everton should always be able to beat City as they have done for the last 130 + years - never mind the relative finances of the two teams.
Many more performances like this and Moyes has to go, can’t stand the man anyway. I mean if City’s strikers (starters cost c. £50m between them - with their replacement, who got subbed again cost another £30m +) had got goals from two lucky deflections, we would’ve dropped two points. It’s not as if City were on any run of form or won their last 4 matches on the trot with ease.
Awful, and Moyes has ruined my Saturday night AGAIN.
Make no bones, Man City are in form and have a wealth of talent to choose from, they are the most likely to finish 4th and we tonked them. 2-0 flattered them we where better everywhere on the pitch.
The last three or Four games he has shown he is a £30 mill player not a £15 mil. I was praying that the fee was 15 mill euros, but it was pounds. Now that seems a drop in the ocean.
What he did to Bellamy near the end was better than what Fernandes did to Fabregas.
He was WORLD CLASS today and will only get better.
I loved the shouts of USA when Donovan was taking the corners, and he can really take a corner, not to mention play a bit.
The whole team and backroom staff should take a bow, that was class, that was Everton Football Club.
The Ref also had a good game and as far as I could make out he never booked anyone.
I think young Jose Baxter should treat the lads to some of his stash tonight!!
But what about the best midfield display you will see this year and any other year, by one man, The Man! Stand up, the best midfielder of his generation — FELLAINI!
I've always thought he was a class act, but fucking hell, when was the last time any of us saw such a dominant display from a player in that position? Yes, we know Stevie GeeLaar saves the red shite with a goal most of the time, and Lampard does great for Chelski, but fucking hell what a complete performance, and in a blue shirt!
Warning to Bill! Sell him at your peril, remember what happened to Agent Johnson with Big Dunc.
Awesome, truely awesome... and he's ours.
This manager has the money at his disposal to deprive Everton of the services of these two ’World class’ players should they (like Lescott before them) wish to cash in.
Can we keep hold of them? There are 2 weeks left of the Transfer window. It could be interesting... or worrying!
I know sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but just could’t resist after last week here !
YOU VERY WISE GUY!
We had width, pace, perseverance, we covered each other... Saha held up and laid the ball off with aplomb... it could have been 5 nil... the defence was solid and assured and... well... the midfield (all of them) were sublime! Baines was brilliant! Coleman comes on for 20 minutes and looks as if he’s been there all week!
We Blues are pretty simple folk overall. All we expect is proper footy and tonight we got it in abundance. If ever self-belief and confidence were an issue for these players, all Davey has to do is sit them down to watch a video of this game to show them what they are capable of. I could not find a fault anywhere on the pitch.
Made me proud today Blues. Love Ya!
Conor, I was crying readin your post, I know you were being sarcastic but it’s sad to think there are people on here who think like that.
Moyes has slowly built this team and gradually turning it back into a good footballing side which our first 11 are capable of and a couple of good subs can cover but, when you have as many key players out that we’ve had this season, anyone would struggle and Moyes should not be criticised for this.
Needless to say, I thought Felli was awesome, so to Peanuts. We played the game the way it's meant to be played. Also nice to see Distin make a trouble-free comeback (touch wood).
Well done, lads... and well done, Moysey, or would some have us believe because of this one result that we are again looking through rose-tinted specs. IF that's what you think then I say "Fuck you!" and let me enjoy my night!!!!!!!!!!!!
Solid performances all round, Donovan was excellent, Pienaar sublime but my MotM by a country mile was Fellaini who chased everything, the piss take of Bellamy at the end was some of the best skills I have seen at GP for years.
For anyone that didn’t go and hasn’t seen the game elsewhere, please let MoTD do it justice, we played Man Citeh off the park this evening. Comedy calls from today "Tiger Woods" for Robinho and the song from the Park End "A billion in the bank and you’re still shite".
Had that been Fabregas or some cunt, it would be talked about for months.
These fans have every right to be smug, they’ve backed their team and manager through the tough times when some of you haven’t and now they can really enjoy that it's coming good.
I could control ball hit to me at pace, pass accurately to an unmarked team-mate 3 yards away then use my litlle legs to move into space when I was 7 years old — and my manager was a 75-year-old nun!
I’m all for criticism when it is merited but some on here go beyond the pale. They can dress it up as not settling for second best when in reality they are just miserable twats.
Phil, as Mike says, you were up against 7-year-olds. I used to get called the little Brazilian and Maradona when I was at primary school but once you get older and come up against half-decent players, people get wiser, some of my tricks that worked as a child didn't fool everyone anymore.
Put me in the Prem were every one is faster, stronger and close down quicker... it’s a completley different ball game. Add to this 40,000 people are watching. Suddenly simple things that you could do as a child become very difficult. You can't have played football for a very long time is all I can say.
You don’t need a billiionaire backer to be able to pass a ball — the lads proved that yesterday.
And you don’t have to be a tactical genius to work out the benefits of leaving your nippiest player on the halfway line when defending a corner.
Also we still have some key players missing and can perform like that, without spending £100m on players. Once they are all back competing for places, I wonder what heights we can achieve, even in the second half of the season. Go unbeaten in the league? Win a cup? = keep all our players and attract new ones.
Tony, I agree that we should aim to win every game and every competition but at the same time we need to be a little realistic and not expect to win every game. If football has taught me anything, it is that any thing is possible but let's not get carried away.
If they were automatically fit enough, or, realistically, talking long term, then it's Jagielka for Distin and Arteta for Cahill, allowing Pienaar to be even further forward. The other option is Pienaar on the left again and Bily dropped. No-one would be out of position in either line-up.
When we lose 1-6 to Arsenal and are a national embarrassment, that’s still MY Everton, I don’t have a choice, and when we play so well we’re ‘Marseille Roulette’-ing (probably my favourite name for the trick Marouane pulled off on Bellamy) the richest club in the world and unlucky to only win 2-0, that’s MY Everton as well.
The only other obvious interpretation of that phrase is that he was talking about how he would like to see us play, but I'm afraid that's then meaningless, because we all agree with that as well, and for him to say so implies that he thinks some of us thought it was great when we played shit and lost. We didn't. when we don't.
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1 Posted 16/01/2010 at 19:35:47
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Some stats - first win on a Saturday evening since 1967 when we won a cup match 1-0 and Alan Ball scored. Can’t name who we played :-)
Also now only 4 points back on last year’s equivilent results so it is not all doom and gloom. Top 8 is on, no problems. Spurs now +3 (yes that is all!) on equivilent fixtures, can they make up the gap.
In fact, can I see us dropping points compared to last year in any matches remaining - probably not on this performance, we can only recover!
DM you are a genius - especially for the programme notes.
Great Night - Great Performance - Great Team