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Everton 7 - 1 Sunderland

For quite a long time now Michael has complained that a David Moyes team has never thrashed an opposing side.

Was it four or five goals you wanted Michael? I'm not gloating, Michael was quite correct, it was about time we stuffed someone.

Great result and with a fully fit squad it now looks like Everton are firing on all cylinders and doing the impossible, competitivly competing in both the Premiership and Europe.

Great results, improved football, is this what Moyes has been building to over the last five years, have we finally reached that next level?
Dutch Schaffaer, London Posted 24/11/2007 at 16:39:21

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Michael Kenrick

It was a great result Dutch, and a great performance, and some absolutley great goals. I have indeed been asking for this for a long time, Dutch ? and judging by the slaming I get from many fans for daring to ex[pect such wonders from our charismatic manager ? I was in a small minority who believed it was possible. I expected it: Moyes has finally delievered.

AND ABOUT BLOODY TIME TOO!

Chris Marston
1 Posted 24/11/2007 at 16:47:18

Oh my God!!!!

Hugo Kondratiuk
2 Posted 24/11/2007 at 16:51:24

75,000 seats? They're having a laugh, aren't they? Many more games like today's, and that won't be nearly enough.

Dan Parker
3 Posted 24/11/2007 at 16:54:23

Moyes 100th win in-charge. Congratulations Moysey, a great day on Moyseyside and allayed inital fears around Irvine's departure.

Paul Olsen
4 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:03:26

Happy,happy,happy,happy, happy!!!

Erik Dols
5 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:04:00

It’s getting better all the time
better, better, better
It’s getting better all the time
better, better, better

John Cottee
6 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:03:17

Did Alan Irvine spend 5 years wispering into Moyes ear, hold them back Davie, no need to get another goal.

Only kidding. Like Dutch says Moyes has spent 5 years building a team this good.

Richard Jones
7 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:06:29

I’m getting very very drunk tonight!

Rob Heaton
8 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:04:30

I’m not why didn’t we get eight? ;)

Seriously though I think my neighbors have called the men in white coats I was screaming and laughing so much!

Chris James
9 Posted 24/11/2007 at 16:58:31

Not bad at all...incisive attacking football from the preferred 4-5-1 formation, multi-million striker bags a brace, Cahill back doing his thing, AJ given a quarter of an hour and a confidence-boasting goal and Lescott looking unaffected by Wednesday’s humiliation...could the Moyesiah’s halo is on the rise again?

Then again, we didn’t keep a clean sheet!

Mike Murray
10 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:05:22

The BBC say....."Everton delivered a dazzling attacking exhibition to destroy Sunderland."

Get that..."dazzling attacking exhibition"...

....I’m made up. Looking forward to a pint or two tonight!

It’s a grand old team..........COYB

Declan Brown
11 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:05:26

Forget the stadium stuff for a day or so lads, no sarcastic remarks needed right now Hugo.

The boys played an absolute blinder today, so let’s all sit back and enjoy it for the next few days.

Everton hitting 7 goals doesn’t happen very often so as i said let’s enjoy it and no sniping at each other. The stadium stuff can wait for a few days yet.

Well done Moyesy and the boys. Take a bow, for i must doff my cap to everyone involved. Proud of you all today. That’s more like it. I can honestly say that we’re now starting to go in the right direction.

Jason Broome
12 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:09:10

I fainted after 5, what happened?

Steve Baptiste
13 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:01:52

WOW great performance from the team. Now I’m greedy I want more. We need to build from that. Blast everyone in sight. Goodison hasn’t been that loud in quite a while.

OIllie Michael
14 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:15:15

Brilliant!

When was the last time we scored 7? I?ve got a feeling it was against Southampton way back in 1996 but have no idea to be honest!!!

Bert Trautmann
15 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:15:41

That was something else. We scored seven and really could have got 10!

WOW!! :)

Alexander Marsh
16 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:19:58

Absolutely thrilled!!! Truely a wonderful game to watch! Wish Arteta had gotten a eighth though! COYB

Ed Casey
17 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:21:04

Awesome!!!!! Heres hoping that MotD give us more than the customary 5 minutes at the end of the programme!

Dave Donovan
18 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:12:06

WHAT a day indeed......and when I look at what that squad has cost to put together and across the city we have a certain individual looking for yet more millions to add to the obscene amounts he has already spent it makes me laugh. He should be bloody well ashamed of himself if he can?t build a Premier League winning side with that sort of spending....... and hopefully he won?t!! COYB!

Nick Broadhurst
19 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:22:53

Aye, what an excellent start to what will be a very drunken evening!

COYB !!!

Elaine Stirling
20 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:17:31

What a superb win!! we don’t often put 7 away, well done blue boys! Can’t wait for MOTD later to see just how ace we were.

Dave McKittrick
21 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:30:14

Moyes is just about to be interviewed on Sky Sports News..

Trevor Thompson
22 Posted 24/11/2007 at 17:46:25

7-1!! Great result! For those without Sky enjoy the 1 minute highlights that the BBC will award us.

Connor Rohrer
23 Posted 24/11/2007 at 18:17:18

Dutch, do you still think Yakubu offers nothing except goals? Because if you do you need your head sorting (no offense mate).

He was quality today and some of his passing, hold up play and vision was brilliant. Pienaar also deserves another mention. Started quietly but grew in confidence as the game went on. Sign him up Moyes!!!!!!

Valente who has also had critics showed what an able deputy he is. His performances against the likes of Nuremberg, Chelsea and Sunderland have proved this. Baines should be number 1 but I think we should keep hold of Nuno as he’s still a good player.

All in all the team played excellently. No one had a bad game and every time we where in the last third we looked dangerous. The only thing that needs improving is our ball retention but it is improving and will come with time. I love the way we are attacking in waves with the likes of Pienaar, Osman, Cahill and Arteta interchanging. Fantastic.

COYB

Paul Olsen
24 Posted 24/11/2007 at 18:24:12

On another note a get well to Dave Hickson who was taken to hospital today, hope he’ll be ok!

He would have loved this :-)

Dutch Schaffaer
25 Posted 24/11/2007 at 18:26:20

Connor Rohrer, when/if Yakubu hits that 20 goals per season mark and then repeats it the following season, then I will admit he was worth the £11 million.

As I said when we signed him, with Yakubu sometimes you get Thierry Henry (today) and sometimes you get Lenny Henry (remember how dire he was against Metalist [H] and Liverpool?)

I would love nothing more then to be proved wrong concerning Yakubu but its going to take good performances and goals over a couple of seasons not a couple of goals in a 7-1 win.

John Colborn
26 Posted 24/11/2007 at 18:37:30

I blame the missus......we’re off out early tonight so clever old me left on 85ish minutes to beat the traffic and managed to miss the 6th and 7th. Ah well, I’m just happy as fook to have watched an everton team demolish an admittedly poor sunderland side. All the plaudits will go to the attacking players but Lee Carlsey was brilliant in nipping their attacks in the bud. Let’s give Moyes credit for his attacking subs instead of protecting our lead. I’m a happy blue tonight

Philip McAvoy
27 Posted 24/11/2007 at 18:48:13

£11mil for a striker to consistently score 20+ in the Premier League would be an unbelievable bargain. And Yakubu is one!

Connor Rohrer
28 Posted 24/11/2007 at 18:40:54

Dutch, he wasn’t dire in the Derby at all. It was actually probably one of his better games. No he didn’t get many chances but who is going to with Jagielka and Neville as your central midfield. He was bad against Metalist I’ll agree with you on that but every player has bad games and again the creativity wasn’t there. In the first leg he was playing as the left side of a three man strike force which isn’t his game and in the second leg the whole team couldn’t keep hold of the ball.

Anyway Dutch you seem to believe he is just a goalscorer which is far from the truth. Look at his all round game as it is very good. Every player needs time yet because Yakubu cost 11.25 million he should just fit in straight away which frankly is not the case. People saying get rid of him in January really need to take a look at themselves because its disgraceful. 6 goals in 12 games is a good record and long may it continue.

Dutch Schaffaer
29 Posted 24/11/2007 at 18:55:12

Like I said 15-20 goals per season, every season, then I’ll admit I was wrong and Moyes was right to spend all that money on him.

Barry Butterworth
30 Posted 24/11/2007 at 19:09:49

Last time - November 16 1996 7-1 against Southampton and I?ll take a 1-0 win next week as well please!

Simon Gemine
31 Posted 24/11/2007 at 19:17:44

Fuck me. 7-1. Cant stop smiling.

Gordon Blair
32 Posted 24/11/2007 at 19:33:48

How cheap does Pienaar look for £2M? We’ll have two, if you’ve got em, thankyouverymuch

COYB :oD

Albert Velthuijsen
33 Posted 24/11/2007 at 19:40:11

Got my first EVERTON FC tattoo today and a brilliant victory... happy times in Holland

Ray Robinson
34 Posted 24/11/2007 at 19:44:44

I say boot the elephant into touch and make Mr. Testicles the official mascot! But he’ll have to have a shave next time, scruff bag.

Anthony Jaras
35 Posted 24/11/2007 at 20:10:35

What I want to know is why the hell SKY have got Bolton vs Manure as the ’Game of the day’?

Did they not see that spectacle at Goodison earlier?

New chant for sure...’It’s just like watching the Blues’!!!!!

Ricardo Edward Humphries
36 Posted 24/11/2007 at 20:14:50

I missed the game, well done guys! I hear Yak played a great game, true? How was Pienaar performance? And Cahill?

James Elworthy
37 Posted 24/11/2007 at 20:17:46

The Yak was superb today as was the rest of the team, Osman & Pienaar were buzzing, Arteta in the first half was magic, fine game by Valente, Cahill & Carsley again played well.
Just like to see a tighter defence still the odd lapse with the goal they scored and the missed sitter by Chopra.

Ricardo Edward Humphries
38 Posted 24/11/2007 at 20:21:35

Thanx James! Did Tm Howard had to save us a few times?

Adi Francis
39 Posted 24/11/2007 at 20:30:14

7 - 1 cracking game so had to be game of the day on SS1...But no of course it was always going to be Bolton 1 Man U 0...Not sure why they bother calling it game of the day

James Elworthy
40 Posted 24/11/2007 at 20:28:54

Howard had very little to do and was involved in two assists for goals, When Sunderland scored he made a double save but the third attempt went in, that gave Sunderland some heart and for the first 10 minutes of the second half they had the better of the exchanges when Cahill scored though any hope they had of coming back was gone, though they did miss a sitter at 4-1. The last 20 minutes could of seen us score 10 never mind 7.

Michael Newton
41 Posted 24/11/2007 at 20:40:35

My ratings
Howard 8, Neville 7, Yobo 7, Lescott 7, Valente 8, Pienaar 8, Cahill 8, Carsley 8, Osman 8, Yakubu 9, Arteta 8

Michael Newton
42 Posted 24/11/2007 at 20:42:46

Press the red button at 10:15 for extended highlights on Sky. Can you tape programmes on sky plus that you watch interactive or do you get the game on the main channel.

Dave Roberts
43 Posted 24/11/2007 at 21:06:56

Sometimes the most telling comments are the shortest. Walking back to the car my mate said to me...’ We’re no longer part of the dross’. I replied, ’Yeah, now we really have moved on. We’re going somewhere’. Then I had a smoke. Drove home with a big smile on my gob and wondered whether we had finally broken out of the straitjacket. I have a feeling we have. It will not all be rosy from here on in, there will be disappointments, but I am now sure the players will believe much more in themselves and all kinds of goodies can flow from that!

Kunal Desai
44 Posted 24/11/2007 at 21:16:08

Back from a 7 hr round trip from luton to liverpool and boy was it worth it!!! My first game in 2 yrs and you blue boys did me proud. Each and everyone one of you were fanstatic. Well done boys.

Dave Roberts
45 Posted 24/11/2007 at 21:15:30

Michael Newton.

Arteta 8?

TEN!

The lad’s a genius!!

Michael Newton
46 Posted 24/11/2007 at 21:50:20

10 for first half Dave in the second half he gave the ball away 4 times and his dead ball kicks are definitely not a 10

Tony Williams
47 Posted 24/11/2007 at 22:01:45

His dead ball kicks of late have left a lot to be desired but by fook you cannot fault him when he has the ball at his feet and is taking on players.

Folow, follow, follow.......

Mark Morton
48 Posted 24/11/2007 at 22:03:26

Settled down with a few tinnies to watch an awsome performance from the boys but, Sky have Bolton V ManU. fuckin disgrace.

James Elworthy
49 Posted 24/11/2007 at 22:04:53

Arteta is a marvellous player with the ball at his feet, I would like to see an improvement in his free kicks & corners, or perhaps him not taking so many.
What I do want to see is Arteta performing like this against the so called big four as we havent seen the best of him in these games.

I thought Osman showed tremendous ball skills today and doesn’t get the credit he sometimes deserves.

Simon Jones
50 Posted 24/11/2007 at 22:58:14

Brilliant and on MOTD before the r-s. Seventh heaven and all that. Who gives a bollocks about England now?

Chris Jones (Wakefield)
51 Posted 25/11/2007 at 02:23:44

Just been watching that lovely 7th goal again and I was reminded of somthing I thought the first time I saw Osman play. When he’s in full flow, like for the 7th, he does remind me of Trevor Steven (if only in the way he moves). Just watch today’s 7th and the 3rd vs. Bayern and you’ll see what I mean.

COYBB