We can dare to dream....

That very difficult spell with Fulham in control of play reminded me of some bad days both during and before Moyes reign BUT what we do seem to have now is sheer self-belief and a certain amount of competency going forward that gets us through. It's a good sign when you play well and score 1 and play badly and score 3!

Can someone enlighten me? I don't look that far down the table.

Is it any wonder we are called bitter? I hope they get twatted today. Horrible bastards.

I have just logged on to say the exact same thing mate. It's unbelievable.

Can you ever imagine an all-Spurs line-up like that? Or all-Everton? It just wouldn't happen with any other club. I'm surprised they haven't got Redknapp sitting on the end too.

That's it, I'm putting £10 on a Spurs win.

When we take over the world and they finally give us the sort of over the top and pointless attention they reserve the rest of the sky darlings, then they can still go eat themselves. Punditry is the biggest pile of shite on tv, like white noise or a tory party election broadcast set on repeat.... and when we're beating Barca it will still be the biggest pile of shite on tv.

I'm as biased as they come, but Soldado went straight through the 'keeper's back. It was never 'shoulder to shoulder'.

Agree with Phil. Soldado was still behind the keeper so it was a foul. Refs aren't consistent on this type of challenge anyway, but a keeper will get the decision vast majority of the time.

We were every bit as good as Liverpool when we played them....

Are people expecting them to have a much better second half of the season just because they have done before?

Yesterday's game showed that come January with suspensions or injuries and rumors that both Heitinga and Jelavic will ask for a move our options without more players will look pretty grim.

As we are going to rely on BK and his board to supply some finance I do not think we should go for players like Donovan but bring in proven younger players who are going to stay at the club.

As it has been stated before Everton so far have given the club a solid platform to build on but require more proven players to continue.

Going on past experiences BK and the board have failed us miserably
but hopefully even they can see what an opportunity they have to move both the team and most of all Everton Football Club forward.

In regards to my opening statement I live in Canada and the Liverpool game is on TV but I went outside to clear snow.

A truly awful, disjointed and expensively assembled bunch of foreign mercenaries. AVB should be in trouble after this.

All credit to the dark side though, they have ran their socks off from the first minute.

I would say we can discount Spurs from the top 4 race after this showing - no excuse for that type of effort on your home turf. Motivation issues, and that comes from the manager.

I am actually not sure that simply holding the ball and patiently waiting for a chance to appear is the way to beat Spurs (and may be why we struggled against them); The RS have shown a way to do it, move it quickly from back to front as often as you can.

Obviously we will have a couple of blips along the way but this year who isn’t? We are only 4s now for a top four spot — even the bookies are not taking any chances. Keep it up, lads, and do the club proud. We are all behind you, no manager or player divisions amongst the fans this year, which can only help more.

I don't understand why one of these players who gets sent off doesn't say "Fair enough", and then jump on his leg.

There is something very surreal about the Premier League this year. Spurs get battered repeatedly and are just 4 points behind us, we never lose, and either beat or run rings round the best in the league and never go up the table, the RS seem to lose every other match and jump three or four positions in an afternoon and are now second.

Get him off.

WHAT?!?!?! He's the most horrendous diving cheat the division has ever seen. Unbelievable.

Fulham’s second-half performance came as no great surprise: there has been unrest in their dressing room, but they have some talented players and, under a new manager, they were always going to be a difficult hurdle to get over.

You often hear of top sides "finding a way" when it’s not going according to plan. You can’t play dazzling football every time, the league is too demanding, but we found a way and yesterday’s result was every bit as satisfying as anything else we have done this season.

Not sure my liver is up to this...

Of course, not quite as incomprehensible as Dogleash. ("Ayyzz kukuminaheed, anafrayedmarrzbarenbottr")

Souness made a stupid comment,you are right there. You are very wrong when you say he was talentless. One of the best midfielders of his day, imo.

Souness made a stupid comment, you are right there. You are very wrong when you say he was talentless. One of the best midfielders of his day, imo.

The Liverpool way has always been the cowardly attack from behind (Suarez on Distin and Miralles epitomised it last year), or on a player lying on the ground (Gerrard's speciality).

I would not argue abount Souness's effectiveness in an era of low standards and easily intimidated refereeing, but I think today he would be off after 10 minutes or be run ragged by the likes of Barkley.

Kenwright failed us last January if he were to do so again this January it would be tragic!

Anyway, some boys, ages, I would guess about 8-10, were at the front and hanging off the bars and shouting at Case during the warm up. He hammered the ball at them and got one kid's hands. I was next to a very decent Liverpool supporter who was absolutely horrified.

It was deliberate, brutal, disgusting and, in my view, summed up that club.

Alonso and Callaghan were decent enough players, I don't really mind Skrtel these days, and they also had one of my favourite players (as a man), John Barnes, even Bignose was an acceptable person. But for the rest, I regard them as I regard Maradona, a man so deeply flawed that any talent is outweighed by his personal foulness.

One suggestion might be to let refs decide how long a player who 'has' to receive treatment should stay off the pitch to recover, depending on how many rolls he makes. 3 mins for one, seven for 2 and 15 for the full 'Triple Suarez'.

By my count, we made around £12 million from transfers in the summer (not including whatever loan fees we paid). Our biggest wage earner also left, Martinez is on half of what Moyes was on, and Ireland are paying Gibson's wages. Can't think of anymore savings to boost our kitty.

Currently Heitinga is on £90k and unfortunately can't see him going now that Gibson is out all season and Geri is injured. I think having Barry sign a pre-contract agreement for £50k pw is realistic also McGeady for the same.

I also wouldn't mind sneaky bids for Siggurssen and Dembele, both can play comfortably on the ball and have an eye for goal. Get in now while Spurs are all over the place and want to recoup some of the £115m they've spent. Also having another Belgian may just tip our hand for Lukaku.

I'd leave signing a top class striker until the summer. RM will obviously be off to the WC and can scout them first hand.