Premier League – Week 24

Bernardo whining about his yellow card when it could have had 2 already, what an unlikeable chap. Gripping match though!

Cracking game. I just can't imagine watching us in a game like this, the top 2 going at each other with the title up for grabs!

My Dad did in the 80s, he told me all about it when I was a kid. And I'm still waiting 30 years later!

Could do without the rolling around and fakery at every tackle though.

Okay, that's better.

That felt inevitable. 1-3 City.

Chelsea-Dortmund is making a nice double feature for a Wednesday afternoon. I'm only pretending to work. Watching two TVs while sending client emails.

As a kid I saw Arsenal as the poor man's Everton and City as the poor man's Arsenal.

Now, we try to survive by scooping up fragments of horse poop and selling them to the tanner. But we've had some great times under old Fuzzywig.

Mike,

It's amazing that, now Pep has stopped fooling around and leaving all his best players on the bench, Man City look good again. Maybe he was just lulling Arteta into a false sense of security all along.

Yey, Jags has scored. Not bad for 40, a good solid pro! Wish he was 10 years younger and still with us.

Extraordinary counter goal from Dortmund's Adeyemi.

Kieran 6, brilliant stuff!

Was this the same league we play in?

Arteta must be really pissed off with us beating them. Pity we can't raise our standards every game. Referee handled the game well with the yellow card getting worn out.

Bill @11,

I've watched the last few Arsenal games and since they defeated Manchester United, they have struggled to over-run teams, and Everton may just have caught them at the right time the other week.

It will be interesting to see how Arsenal get on in their next two away games at Villa and Leicester, before they return to The Emirates to face Everton on March 1st.

They will hammer us, I would think.

City were always going to catch them.

I seem to remember that Arsenal used to get touted as champions elect around October or November under the latter years of Wenger.

Just as for us. The season ends in May.

Just finished watching Man United play at Barcelona, wonderful game, lots of skill, very fast paced, and all action game with quite a few mistakes. It was a lot like the Premier League match between Arsenal and Man United. I've not given the score away, in case people are awaiting highlights.

Professional Game Match Officials Ltd has confirmed that VAR Lee Mason has left the organisation by mutual consent.

His position was untenable after last week's almighty cock-up.

Mutual consent! You've got to laugh.

Watching Villa v Arsenal what a difference a #9 makes, as Watkins scores for Villa

Watching Villa v Arsenal.

How can these teams play fast, attacking one-touch football when we are so fucking slow?

Mind you, the guy next to me here in the pub says half of it’s due to this shite playing out from the back.

Did we start the downfall of Arsenal, Villa winning 2--1

Villa 2-1 up after scoring a classic Arsenal type passing goal.

Makes our game all the more important to get the 3 points today. I just don't see us beating Villa.

Forget anything else 3 points today is a must
Hopefully by the time we get to the Emirates Arsenal will know they’ve blown the league to City and, unusually, we can roll them over down there
Danny will be made up not having to spend hours getting home!

Zinc is a fighter. 2-2. Wish we could have conned him into coming here

Tony (17)they should have a good look at all the mistakes he’s made throughout his career and I’m going easy on him saying mistakes, maybe some of the other useless, bent(?) officials need a good coat of looking at as well.

What a third goal for Arsenal!!!

Can I urge my fellow Evertonians to head at once to villa talk. You'll not regret it.

Well, at least Villa let in four today, so hope springs eternal.

see the other lot are bursting Newcastle,s balloon

Geordie melts getting shown up today as usual against the laughing porn stars Redshite.

Might be pie in the sky but I'd love Fulham to sneak in there and get 4th.

Newcastle down to 10 men with Keeper handling the ball outside the area misses 3 games including the cup final

What was the keeper thinking? He didn't need to use his hands there.

His brain turned to mushy peas under pressure.

Looks like the Barcodes wheels have come off. Best they can do now is damage control.

Looks like the Barcodes wheels have come off. Best they can do now is damage control.

Happy Newcastle are losing

But incredibly daft by Nick Pope.

Watching Match of the Day, waiting for the Everton match.

Newcastle running out of steam or just unlucky?

Potter's position looking precarious and Chelsea don't normally hang around. You can see it in his body language.

Couldn't get my head around that red card for the Brighton manager in the tunnel. How pathetic that a referee reacts like that – although perhaps Roberto de Zerbi was mad about losing the game and couldn't stop himself taking it out on the ref with something he said?

Apparently, according to our former centre-forward, it was about Howard Webb wasting 2 hours of Zerbi's life trying to justify dreadful VAR decisions by his referees – prompting an attempted funny comment from Lineker about him "not liking Howard's Way – look it up on YouTube"!

Cheeky Gary!

Why yes!! I will be delighted to hope that Ushited and Spuzz get 3 points today Knell

Leicester taking this to Man Utd. Two very good chances.

What do they say about not taking them though?

Yes Ushited lucky to not be chasing the game which would play into Brenda’s preference.

Heh heh! Utd 1-0 LC

Wow, miss of the season by Dalot. Right in front of goal, about four yards out, and puts it wide. Why he used his right foot I don’t know.

I missed that. The Haaland blast over from closer than the spot was a candidate.

Another howler by VAR? Surely Sabitzer should have got a red for that dangerous, over the top challenge on the knee of Faes? Didn’t even get a yellow card, and if that was not dangerous play, then I don’t know what is? I can only assume because the referee didn’t show a yellow card, then VAR cant get involved.

Michael @39. Lineker said “ look it up on the Web (b ) “ Gerrit “ ? Was meant to be a funny.

Red all day that Rob.

A potential leg breaker.

So they let the play go since they could get it wrong? Oh, i thought that was being ruled out. Yay 2-0

Officiating definitely going backwards, whether by VAR or referee. What the hell's going on?

Surely offside

Leicester falling apart or United touting themselves as title dark horses?

I know hindsight is a great thing and none of us are prophets, but Ten Hag before we appointed Benitiez.

Danny

It’s funny watching United as they’ve had all these managers spending a fortune on different attackers and the guy making the difference is Rashford who’s been there all along. As to Ten Haag at Everton? I don’t think we had the squad to suit his style or the money to recruit his kind of players

Richarlison getting a rare start vs West Ham, wishing him a hat trick today!

It is good to see the same LC 11 that beat Spurs go flat. Some teams at the bottom may overplay the better squadmembers out of desperation for results. I didnt think we would catch Leicester but they haven’t got away yet.

Meanwhile elsewhere Gomes on the losing side with 2 assists, is he due back here at the end of the season?

Kevin

Unfortunately he is. Just imagine him trying to play Dyches high energy football

So tight from mid-table down to 20th. Anyone of us could go down. It ain’t over till it’s over.

Danny 52 ~Ten Hag was winning things back then, why would he come to us. He knew the PL would come calling

Maybe Lille will make us an offer we cant refuse (which would be any offer I would suspect).

Kunal @ 22 I just don't see us beating Villa.

You have your opinion and thanks for your uplifting insight! I wonder how many goals you thought Arsenal would sink us by? I personally think, sometimes it's better to say nothing rather than negative presumption, but that's just me. Every game, anything can happen. Do you boil your piss to make a cuppa? Just wondering. . .

Obviously hand balls don't apply to West Ham

How on earth was that not a penalty??

So much over-analysis now, Danny, no-one officiating can make a decision or see the obvious and hence we end up continually seeing different outcomes in different games for the same event. It's ruined.

Kieran, I wonder Ronaldo being in the team and Rashford being distracted by his school lunch campaign cost united mangers their jobs?

Great football on the floor there.

Davies to Royal. Unlikely but we’ll take it thank you. Spuzz 1-0 Hammers

Well in, Spurs.

Kevin #60, yep, he had his first two assists of the season and played very well in perhaps the Ligue 1 match of the year so far. Lille were winless in five when he joined them, but they've had a fine season since then, with Gomes as a part-time starter. Maybe they'll want to keep him and we can get a bit of cash out of them.

Nice acting by Kane there.

Moyes is one ugly motherfucker. Not really a football observation but there it is.

Ritchie not looking too happy at being subbed.

Wasting his time there, Mike. Another spell starting on the spurs bench coming up.

Rich off after 66 minutes and very little contribution. Now 0-for-15 in the Prem with only six shots on goal.

Rob and Mike, there's no question we miss his attacking aggression, but I still say £60m is one hell of a good sale.

Son comes on and scores. Ricky will be gutted.

Son is back. Ritchie back on the bench for the next few games.

Rob, he's going to have a loooooooong rest.

Ben Davies trying to do a Seamus, but bangs it into the side netting.

Looking like this is going our way. Saints play Leeds next week, Bournemouth home to City, so it's another big opportunity for us, we need to beat Villa.

I remember some of the comments and surprise when he went to Spurs, it was good money for us but the move to Spurs surprised as they clearly had several players already contending for the same place. Clearly it's not working out for the player or the club. He is being reduced to bit parts rather than main man, Ricky won't like that at all. Can we have him back on a free? Actually, a loan would be good!

Some moves don’t work out for players and I think Richie to Spurs is going to be one of those moves. That said, if he still hasn’t scored in the league by the end of March then we all know when and where his first league goal is going to be.

Will, what do you think would suit us most Southampton v Leeds? It's a tough call. Draw?

Saha, Pienaar, Richy. There is a pattern. Spurs are evil.

Hi Andy!

I'd love a draw in that game.

Yep, draw it has to be, Andy - the less points to others the better. Second choice, Saints win.

Unfortunately we need the RS to beat Palace too, if we win only 2 behind them.

Mike @73, would you have him back?

Jeff, there is a limit to what I'll wish for...

Christine #80] I made the same point on another thread a week or so ago. The other issue for Ritchie is that he’s risking his place in the Brazil side by not playing regularly.
If we stay up I wonder if we could use the Gordon money (& anything left from the Arteta money) to buy him back - if he’d come back of course?

Moyes, Nolan and Ings all relegated together. Perfect. What will the Moyesy widows on here say?

Danjuma also on the spurs bench today. Another one who could have been playing regularly instead of gathering splinters. He’s got no chance of a regular game either.

Encouraging look to the table this evening.

Colin @90, Nolan was a vile footballer and a stain on the game. His tackle on Anichebe remains one of the Premier League's most disgraceful moments.

It would be marvellous to see his coaching "career" collapse. And, of course, he's a dumb Kopite.

Robert, it is. Funny how expectations adjust with reality!

"What will the Moyesy widows on here say?"

Fire away. You're one of them.

I read on here recently that someone thought West Ham, wolves and Leicester would probably be safe, come the end of the season. This time next week, we could be above two of them, and level on points with the other. FFS, if we had a decent goalscorer we would probably be easy mid table by now.

Answering my own question @87 to Mike Gaynes, the correct response is "no".

WHU have some tough fixtures, yes their sqaud is better than ours but they aint safe by any means. The decision of leaving it to the last day of the transfer window for a strikesr is so frustrating. Just one striker would have done, do the board not realise the financial consequences at stake?!

Rob, a few of us said from 12th downwards no one is safe last week, it looks more so this weekend. And yes, we are a decent goalscorer away from mid table. If DCL could get fit I’d be very confident now we could climb to low mid table this season . Simms done himself no harm on Saturday in staking a claim. I suspect the manager will be watching him train and considering starting him.

Tony Hill @93.

Gerrard on Naysmith.

Roy Keane on Haaland senior was a bit tasty to say the least.

Tony H, I wish Richy had not left but it rarely works second time around. Just another chapter now in our precarious recent history.

As to the striker/goal-scorer situation: quite something that we're not already gone really. Suicide by the board and owner.

Maybe not next week or the one after but come mid March

Patterson played for U21s this weekend. Bring him back or keep Seamus at RB?

Garner had 72 mins. Where does he fit in? Replace Doucoure with him or keep it as it is?

Townsend's injury was 11 months ago. Lampard said he would be back in January. Will he make any difference?

Thoughts.

Feel sorry for Richie he was never as good as some made out and being the best of a crap team certainly doesn't make for a great player. Mid table drifting notching here and there is where he's at and a comfy number in one of the noddy European leagues after spurs is likely to be his next move.

Despite us having Spurs pants down over the fee he certainly shouldn't come back to Goodison the old adage "never go back" exists for good reason as Gana is proving

It's no good crying over spilt milk.

The board left us high and dry over the Richie transfer but we have to compensate for it the rest of this season.

The bonuses have come from the back line in the shape of Tarkowski and Coleman with precious goals.

In the meantime we have to hope Simms is getting some good experience in the absence of DCL and that Maupay along with Gray (if Dyche fancies him) to pop in a few goals.

We don't have the wealth and reserves of firepower like Manure and RS so we will have to hope and pray that defensively they can become a more difficult team to beat especially by lower table dross.

There were two pleasing results today that keeps everyone close to the nervous drop zone and hopefully Everton can sneak another three points against pesky Villa this weekend to ease the problem a little more.

Is this where the Red Shite hate-in happens? I’m in.

Dale@105. We just need to concentrate on ourselves, stop worrying what that lot do. I just don't get it.

Damn it Carlo. Fix that. [score suppressed until acceptable]

Dale, you should know by now that they win things and we don't. Don't torture yourself mate.

Joe and Paul, yoi are not helping. Neither is Courtois. What the fuck!

For fuck's sake, Courtois, what the hell are you doing? Spawny bastards.

Unfortunately we're to blame for this, they were in a slump when we played them and we've let them get their mojo back.

Get in!

Indeed. 2-1

Good man Carvajal

Did I just see that?

Hahaha…….Bearded lady fucks up now! 2-2.

Fuuuuuck yeah 2-2

Delicious from Vinicius!

How sad!!

Phantom foul. Classic. Fuckhead

Henderson is a twat. Referee plays advantage after a foul on salad, which the RS then fuck up, and Henderson then moans that the foul should have been given. Twat!

That was looking decidedly bad for a while until Madrid showed some class.

Still time for a classic CL meltdown. Up 2-0 on 15 minutes at home and ….

Yeeesssss. 3-2.

Yaaaa haaaa! 2-3

Come on Carlo you beaut...

Steve Macbiased c**t aman does my head in

2-4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In Carlo we trust

4-2……Own Goal!

This is fucking fantastic

Ok go to the corner and do the 4with legs celebration

We want 5, we want 5!

Did I just see the great man blowing the steam off his tea..?

Somebody's brightly shining teeth are about to fall out on the floor!!

Anthony @128
Do you mean “Steve ‘Rightly So McMananamanmanaman

Didn't more than one poster on this site refer to Carlo as a dinosaur.

Valverde has been Velveeta today or it would be worse, I mean better

Ray he does my head in

Ancelotti has to be one of the coolest people in football. always so calm, even 2-0 down he just seemed unfazed. when they scored, again, he hardly reacted. he's seen it all and just doesn't react.

what's that he's called, the Italian Dinosaur well he's a heck of a dinosaur

That Benzema kid look like a player, the French DCL :)

Some dinosaur. Carlosaurus.

5!!

FIVE FUCKING TWO!!

5 Lol

Still time for more! Tonk them...

I’ve got an erection

Haha, Klopp the smiling gimp.
Some dinosaur eh?

5!!!!! Modric pure class

We had a lucky escape with that Ancelloti - thank god we got Benitez in instead.

Carlo Fantastico, Carlo Magnifico!

I wish Everton were getting beat 5-2 by Madrid in the CL. We can't even qualify for it.

The tourists behind the goal don’t look happy.

Rob, you beat me to it. Love that man.

The crowd views are worth paying for.

Chris, I was more disappointed we didn't give the job to Unsworth!

The likes of Sky make you think the shite and Manure are the greatest clubs in world football. Wrong! Its Real Madrid by a mile.

Robertson and Fabinho will start putting the boot in now, pair of dirty bastards

Norwegians! All of them 🤣🤣🤣

Are the stands emptying yet?

Well done Madrid.

Let’s make sure this Saturday, Everton can beat Villa., that would be some great week of results, for Evertonians.

Carlo the dinosaur... he's like a sleeping TRex.

Wake him at your peril...cmon Real stuff fucking 7 past em.

Whilst it is fun seeing the shite being torn a new one, it is sad on another level as to how far away we are from these levels.

Joe 138

Two posters did. Both disreputable characters

Agree Andrew Everton shit themselves when they play at Anfield and most of the time against them at Goodison.

I can't believe anybody would actually call Carlo a dinosaur.

Ancelotti is shite - anti football
It’s his fault where we are today
Of course he only went to Madrid for a last pay day

John

Remember all those great times we had under Koeman and Silva until Carlo ruined it all

Kieran and John, he was never good enough for us.

Delicious! Bwaa Haa Haa Haa!

Ah! Those Triassic and Jurassic era. What a time!? And magnificent dinosaurs!!!

Kieran, to be fair to Silva he brought in Richie and didn't we beat Man U either 4 or 5 nil? And won at Burnley 1 - 5. That was very unlike Everton.

Get up Salah you little turd

I'm not watching. Is he doing his nervous smile?

Did he have to put his fist pump back in his glove?

… and Luca Modric is about 10 years older than Seamus

Joe

Yeah he had his moments as did Koeman actually like when we beat City 4-1 but few and far between

Tonight is why that stupid fist-bump and manic running up and down the line at other times is ill-advised - you just look even more stupid when you're just sat there.

A toothless performance!

Italian Dinosaur. Magnifico.

I almost want to be in the Arkles right now, but I'd probably get kicked out and barred.

anyone who grins like that when getting schooled is insane.

Terrible night for the lads.
The flights back to Oslo and Stavanger will seem endless
Hopefully they go straight back to John Lennon and don’t get involved with the fisticuffs between those Madrid supporters and the rest of the lads from India, Egypt, Korea………and the 10 local lads

I wonder if the RS don’t qualify for the CL this season, UEFA will find a way of including them

Anthony, they will. Like they did when they finished 5th!

PS: Klopp is a maggot!

Liverpool are the first team in Champions League history to take a 2-0 lead but then lose the game by a three-goal margin.

Real Madrid are the first team in Champions League history to come from two goals down and win by a three-goal margin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/64104782

so BT have Macca, Owen, Gerard and Crouch. Does any other club get such a crowd of pundits?

Carlos Magnifico.

Never lost to them since he became Everton manager. Once Everton touches you,, , , , ,

Just seen the score, lol. But anyone celebrating this victory doesn’t know or understand Satan FC. Best thing to do is put an emotional hedge on them fluking a 5-1 victory in the Bernabeu. They never go quietly.

"Remarkably the stats were actually pretty even.

Liverpool had 51.6% possession. Both sides had nine shots. Real edged efforts on target 6-5.

On expected goals, the stat which shows how many goals you should score from your chances...

Liverpool actually won 2.01 to 1.66"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/64104782

Yeah, but you lost 5-2. At home. From 2-0 up. Fuckwit club, fuckwit support and fuckwit media groupies.

Such a somber group on CBS Post Match. I really think Kate Abdo is gonna take Carragher on her lap and give him a cuddle, he's so devastated.

Actually Thierry Henry (former Barca) looks pretty sad too.

Eddie, don’t forget beglin, carra, souness, fowler, mccateer, etc…. They are everywhere like a plague

Beglin hates us. Mind that was a shocking leg break. Happened right in front of me as for reasons I can't remember, I was in the Main Stand that night and we were hardly sympathetic.

Poor Jamie. You have to feel for him!!

RS finally created a record that I like. First team ever in the Champions league to blow a 2-0 lead and concede 5 on the bounce.

Couldn't have happened to ''nicer'' team !!!

I know Colin!!! BT almost apologising for showing the goals!!!

Colin, this may sound sacrilegious, but I don't mind Souness. But that's it, none of the many others.

Theeeeeeee sun has got his hat on, hip hip, hip hurraaaaaaaay!!!

Michael Owen seemingly quite balanced on BT Sport. Then again … he played for Madrid & his dad was on Everton’s books.

Poor Reds :-(

And spare a thought for Peter Drury and other such media "big" team droolers.

Just looked at RAWK, they’re slaughtering FSG. They’ve been the best run club on the planet and won everything possible since they took over. They call us deluded and irrational.

Posted on the Leeds match thread that Don Carlo would sort out the red shite!

He always does.

Macca claimed this game is the champions league biggest rivalry. Hardly, Madrid always beat them. Some rivalry that.

Steve, Carlo psyches klopp out every time.

Great result for Madrid but I hope they don't do a Barca and think the job is done.

A stake through the heart is needed in Madrid to finish 'em because whilst the hate is palpable among the red heathen now come the return they will be as one totally convinced they will score enough to go through.

Nonetheless a very nice evenings work by blue Carlo.

After 15 minutes of the US broadcast Beglin and whatsisface were fantacizing four zip for the shite. I love it when they have to eat shite.

Love Carragher’s gob on this clip - deluded reds crashing into reality:

Link

So we’re struggling to stay in the PL, and we're taking the piss out of the rs for losing a CL match. Unbelievable.

Of course, Paul.

I've had banter with that lot (family) all my life and they give it back.

There's no harm and it's natural to have a pop at your closest rivals.

Probably not my greatest moment was jumping the gun in 2005 when, at half time with them 3-0 down, I was furiously texting red friends and family. Well that came back to bite me in the arse!!

We've had a progressive couple of weeks and can go into the next few matches with more positivity.

It doesn't mean we can't laugh at Lucifer's Children when we get the.opportunity.

How did the Italian dinosaur and the man who started our demise pull off such a great result, having given them a 2 goal start? Nice to see an Everton manager not turn to jelly when playing at Anfield, and he has beaten them in his last 3 encounters.

Leaves us; wins La Liga, Champions League, World Club Championship and still some on here refuse to realize that we had the greatest manager this club has ever had. He had the 3rd best win ratio of any Everton manager with probably one of the worst teams we have had, the man's a genius.

I've just watched his interview, Brian. The words and phrases that stick out are that after going 2 - 0 down after 15 minutes against the durable bunnies.

Stay calm
We don't lose control
No panic

I didn't watch it, did he cool his coffee off after the 5th goal?

He's won league titles in all of the 5 major European Leagues and I think several Champions Leagues. That's just as a manager.

How we screwed that one up still confuses me. What an opportunity for someone who called himself an Evertonian.

Danny # 207,

If you get a chance, it's worth watching the game. Some of the passages of play from Madrid – particularly in the second half – were a delight to watch.

Watching 67-year-old Luca Modric sprinting forward to create the 4th goal reminds us that we shouldn't be writing Seamus off yet.

Dam that auto type. Duracel Bunnies!

Thanks, Mike. I don't think I could bring myself to watch a replay of them, but you highlight one of the best players of his generation.

Like Pirlo, regardless of age, the ability and quality never goes away. Especially when they use their brain, anticipation and reading of the game.

Didn't watch it, but saw the goals on the news, made me smile, and the little devil in me was hoping for them to repeat it on the second leg, just 3 or 4 will do.

A 9-2 aggregate score... I can live on that for quite a few days — especially delivered by Ancelotti... Tell me again how we managed to stuff that up???

Some comments in The Daily Mail about last night's game...

On of the best, to me, was: “The King of Norway has declared three days of public mourning after that result.”

Phil @ 186.

He lost an FA Cup tie to their kids' team.

Danny #205. Oh yeah.

Half time in 2005, my dad and brother went out and bought a bottle of champagne, I texted all the RS I know.

Never drunk the champagne. Turned my phone off. Lessons in life.

I wonder what Carlo’s win ratio is against Liverpool overall? It must be pretty high.

Andrew, good call out.

I'm happy to be be called out as wrong, but I don't think that was a team full of kids that night. Yes, a teenager scored the winner and it was a second-string team, but kids? Milne, Lallana and Chamberlain featured, if I remember. Probably amongst others.

I guess Chelsea fans could bemoan only drawing to Everton last season given that by the end, we had several very young kids on the pitch, one who scored the equaliser.

I've said it before, Klopp built a system (hopefully that's past tense). Those players could step into the system. We've been ad hoc buying at jumble and car-boot sales to try and assemble a collection of players and our youngsters haven't known if they are coming or going.

Anyone watching the CBS feed of City vs Leipzig? If so, is that Ray "MAGISTERIAL!!!" Hudson on commentary? He doesn't sound well if indeed it's him.

City starting to make a big dent in Bournemouth goals against