Premier League — Matchweek 29

I guess TNT means Through The Nose, as that's what subscribers have to pay?

TNT Sports are a British company, partly owned by Warner Bros. They serve the UK and Ireland.

TNS maybe? The redshites favourite European opponents.

Or TnA? Ah, no, that was something completely different.

Never felt more like singing the Blues

Why have I gone around the houses? To show people that the three clubs immediately above us aren't really pushing up any trees, so let's get more positive and we might just still do the unthinkable, because whatever way you analyse it, this simply hasn't been much of a league, this season, and with just nine games left to play, anything is possible if we can keep getting a few good results.

But final game... beat Spurs and hopefully send them down.

I can dream, can't I?

I looked at your post and thought Liverpool were playing tonight - - I’ve just looked at the highlights from that game

There weren’t that many, just one from the first half and three or four from the second but thankfully Wolves had two of those that counted. I just wish that the own goal(?) had come from Van Dijk!

Jacob Ramsey yellow card for simulation that he was tripped by the goalkeeper.

His second yellow... he's off!

Looks wrong tbf, goalie just catches his trailing foot, which makes him fall awkwardly. Why was it not even looked at by VAR?

Gordon to take... and scores, right down the middle. 1 - 0

If Lammens had stood his ground...

A

Goal!!

Carrick looking sick, can't believe he's losing to 10 Skunks.

That Joelinton is some player!

I would rather see Spurs go down than the Hammers.

Did they sell Kulesevski or did he get a long-term injury? He was very good last season but I don't remember seeing him this season.

Richie's too good for them shite.

Weird but sweet.

To quote a former member of this parish, "Big Club? My Arse!!"

Sometimes a team just looks done. Romero has been a big part of the problem. I'd rather have Gray than Richarlison.

The Stuarts follow the Tudors so expect to see Stu Pierce in charge next week.

Still fun to watch them struggling though!

There were men, woman and children all lost in their gloom and misery. Football can bring you absolute happiness but also complete misery — I hope those Spurs fans find the former in the last few weeks of the season preferably before they play us on the last day of the season.

The self-proclaimed big club. They actually think there bigger than us.

I sort of agree where your coming from, I felt a tiny bit guilty laughing at those Spurs supporters tonight, thinking that was us a couple of times recently, but you know what, they would have been praying for us to go down when we had points deductions and the world was going against us.

Now I hope it is us who puts the nail in their coffin on the last day of the season, I really do.

I agree it was sad watching their supporters suffer - and it always is with the relegation teams.

But it's Spurs!

Laugh, Laugh, I almost bought a round... I haven't had this much fun since granny caught her tit in the mangle.

I dislike their fans as they think they are a great club. I like to point out that I am 62 and have never seen them win the league, it pisses them right off!

It's the Premier League and life, Dave, you don't need telling that, and each year three sets of fans get relegated and this year Spurs could be one of them.

Burnley fans and Wolves fans by now often do so with gallows humour and a good dose of realism (although Wolves recent good run might end up being a bad thing for the fans!). Spurs fans will not do that and nor did we.

I'm sure that there were thousands and thousands of Spurs fans who would have loved to see us go down. Me? I would love to see Spurs go down.

To be honest, their plight has been a wake-up call for me and a reminder of how terrible I felt at half time against Palace. The thought of us going down was unbearable.

So I have to say, although I don't like him much, if Moyes was their manager, they probably wouldn't be in the position they are in.

Having said that, I reserve the right to lambast him on here, whenever he makes a decision that drives me up the wall.

Finally, in the end, it was the Evertonians who dragged us from the jaws of disaster -- the Spurs fans need to get their heads up and take a leaf out of our book. They can make a difference.

' I believe more after this game than I believed before. I saw something - the boat is going in the direction that I want to go [me too Igor], and needs to go, and who is in the boat can stay. Otherwise they can leave the boat'.

I'm sure that Dyche must have mentioned 'the boat'.

Oh, and I couldn't resist this: 'Forest Green Rovers defender Jili Buyabu will be back helping his side's promotion push just two days after delivering his own baby -- Buyabu, who has been on loan from Sheffield United all season, is in line for a starting berth'.

Listening to Dyche talking about the Bournemouth game made me realise just how close we were to the dreaded drop. He spoke about a few things, but he also said that, in all his years in football, he had never in his life, heard louder noise than what he heard that day when the final whistle went, but it was the Spurs fans' call to arms, which meant a lot more to me.

I'm sure thousands of fans right around the country would have wanted Everton to get relegated but I'm sure there was even more who probably said, "You have got to hand it to those Evertonians, because we were simply different class."

"Rumours are going around that Spurs have asked for the dog!"

Our second place in the top flight without interruption makes the countless many green with envy. Although, needless to say, we are the neutrals' favourite team in our city.

Even if Liverpool went down, I would at first be chuffed to fuck but later start thinking about the many decent Red fans I know and how they were feeling -- even though I knew many of the other Red fans who were praying that we would go down!

There are all sorts of football fans. I'm proud to be an Everton one so I'll leave it at that.

I'm gonna text my Arsenal mate and ask him would he sooner win the league or see Spurs go down, and it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if he chose the latter.

Love your dad's post - 44 - except that I would stay 'chuffed'.

I share all the sentiments you express in your posts. I take no satisfaction with any club getting relegated -- not even the other lot. The managers and players move on but it's the loyal fans who have to stay around and suffer.

As you rightly said, this scenario was very close to us over the last few seasons and, with the expense of a new stadium, it mirrors what could have happened to us.

I hate it when fans taunt a team in relegation trouble with the chant "Going down, Going down". I don't feel sorry for the manager or the players but I do feel sorry for the fans who travel hundreds of miles to follow their club knowing they could go down. And none of it is their fault.

I do think that there are lessons to be learned, as most of the teams in trouble have changed their managers way too much. Ironically, the ones at the top have had their managers for a few years: Guardiola, Arteta and Emery.

Yes, I remember seeing the pictures, and sadly all clubs have their crackpots. I am sure many of my age will say that they used to go to Goodison one week and Anfield the next.

There was banter but no hostility between Blues and Reds back then as there seems to be now. I blame Sky for stirring up the trouble with their encouraging the animosity at games.

As a youngster going the game, there wasn't any segregation and you could chat with opposition supporters, with little or no trouble inside grounds, but how things changed in the '70s.

My post wasn't aimed at you, mate, just a general post.

Apologies in advance, Brian. I would rejoice and celebrate if them from over the park were ever relegated.

I imagine Brian that you have always felt that way about opposition fans and how they feel about being relegated.

I have myself but I have got to be honest and admit that age has mellowed my feelings about Liverpool. When I was younger, I hated them seven days a week and twice on a Sunday... Now, it's just Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays!

I'm the opposite: the older I get, the more I despise them.

Now I'm not sure if it's the fans? (I've got some very good mates who support them)... Is it the players and staff? ( I have a grudging admiration for how they played under certain managers.) Or is it the total arse-licking by the media etc?

Maybe it's just ingrained in me, as most of my life I've had to suffer them having the upper hand (apart from our glorious mid-eighties spell). Maybe I should explore therapy or hypnosis!!!!

Just to make sure I am not being misunderstood, I want Liverpool to lose every game, but for my mates who support them, I wouldn't want them relegated.

Unless they are playing us, I never watch Liverpool, only on MotD. I can well understand why most of our fans would love to see them relegated.

The rest don't bother me.

I think it is completely rational and logical the way you think and I imagine the media mafia has a lot to do with the way a lot of Everton fans think.

It is well over the top and the amount of ex-Liverpool players who come on as pundits is ridiculous. I hardly watch MotD and, when I watch football, I never have the sound on.

Reading about them and their fans from all corners of the world but never been to Liverpool never mind Anfield is laughable — you've got me having a go myself now Edward mind you it is a Friday!

I actually had that in mind on Tuesday. And correct me if I'm wrong, Brian, but I didn't hear any 'going down' singing from us.

' I want Liverpool to lose every game, but for my mates who support them, I wouldn't want them relegated'.

If they lose every game, Brian, they will get (you know what).

But the animosity between Everton and Liverpool goes back way before they got involved, mate.