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From (qualified) Dumb and Dumber on Moyes' team selection(s). From Crap and Crapper on the ref. From Shite and Shite-er on the RS themselves. From Stupid and Stupider on Benitez. From (un)lucky and (un)Luckier on the the actual result, depending on your colour. All in all a typical Derby, ie, If it wasn't for bad luck we'd have no luck at all!

I got up at 8.00AM Sunday to watch the rugby, now there was defeat with Honour. Took the dog for a run down on the beach, then into Starbucks for Brekkies, It's a tough life but somebody's got to do it.

And so to the game, I am, I confess, paranoid about Hoofball, hate it! but I also know the value of effort and attitude. Joined-up football PLUS effort and attitude has been the hallmark of all sucsessful sides, both at Everton and elsewhere. Now by hoofball I mean, you're 6 yds out from your own penalty box and under no real pressure somebody launches a ball to the same position in the opposition half. After 33 mins we were averaging one every 3 mins, that comes to 10 or 11. Out of those 10 or 11 we won one and had one given to us by a poor defensive header. Not the most effective tactic, or so it would seem.

But then it all changed, for some reason or just blind luck we started pinging it about on the floor, the ensueing pressure lead to the goal... OG! Who cares, we are owed more than a few, going back to Sandy Brown... Karma rules.

In the teams I coach over here, one of the first rules is, don't let it bounce. Your man Hibbert was guilty of that in the first half, though the sun MAY have been a factor. The same in happened in the the second half, he should have bounced him on the halfway line.... 20 / 20 hindsight, don't you just love it!

It was always going to be a pen, with no video ref like in rugby, at real speed it looked a pen and we have seen them given for less, just what is that earpiece for anyway??? Last man, red card, done and done, no matter what Stevie G said or did'nt. What more have we come to expect from the RS, poor losers and even poorer winners. Oh how I hate them!! (as a group, but not of course personally). Roll on Thursday.

Do the red cards count in the Uefa Cup? I really don't know to be pleased or not, what ever the outcome.
Derek Thomas, Torbay, Auckland, NZ Posted 21/10/2007 at 06:32:12

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Carbon'silicon
1 Posted 21/10/2007 at 19:13:57

the red cards dont count in the eufa cup,your spot on with Hibbert letting the ball bounce between him and yobo in the first half you think he wouldve learnt his lesson but no he was at fault for the gerard dive pen.