Where’s your famous atmosphere?
‘Everton Spoil The Party’ sings the Liverpool Echo this morning. Kenny Dalglish’s return to Anfield didn’t go the way some people hoped it seems.
One of the few things I was genuinely worried about in the run up to the derby was the atmosphere that can be generated in their gaffe on occasions like this, and the pessimist inside me felt that a few or all of our players may freeze like a bang to rights adolescent being caught with a crumpled copy of ‘RAZZLE’ in one hand and his….you get the picture.
Either way after after Somerset’s and Belfast’s finest had cleared their throats and put their erections away, the famous Anfield atmosphere didn’t really seem to get going. Phew…
In what represents a decent point away from home for the Toffees, it still feels like it was two points dropped. The first half was a typically scrappy affair with Liverpool looking marginally more assured of themselves on their home turf, utilising the hateful Fernando Torres’s pace on the counter attack to good effect. Dirk Kuyt clearly hates us too and absolutely relishes games against Everton, fair play to the butt ugly frigger too, so he should. He doesn’t even have to endure any more ‘Sloth’ shouts from Everton fans these days either, due to Marty Feldman-a-like Jay ”fucking hell is he, like, ok?” Spearing has stole his thunder.
The first goal in a derby is always important and there was a feeling yesterday that maybe this was going to be even more pertinent than usual. The goal itself came mid way through the first half after some good work from Glen Johnson down the left hand side for Liverpool, yep…that did actually happen.
Tim Howard parried the resultant headed effort from Kuyt and his close range rebound, but he couldn’t do shite all about the ball fortuitously dropping to Raul Meireles and him firing home the proverbial rip snorter through the advancing Baines and Everton defence. Here we go again… or so we thought.
The rest of the half ebbed and flowed like any derby would and it is worth acknowledging that for the first time in years, although he got a handful of little decisions wrong, Phil Dowd managed to keep a lid on things throughout getting all the majors decisions/talking points right and more importantly, keeping 22 players on the pitch. Good on him I say, still wouldn’t go in the trap after him though, no way.
It all felt a bit deja vu at half time, ”fancy getting off if they score again?” etc etc, depressing stuff, another opportunity wasted and all that, ”ah well, they may surprise us…who knows eh?”. Then quite inexplicably, within a minute of the restart, we won a corner which Arteta floated to the back post and Sylvain Distin who hadn’t had the best of halves in the opening forty five minutes, planted his glorious shaven light bulb shaped head on the ball. Get in, and indeed game on.
The goal gave Everton a real lift and they began to show what they are capable of doing to teams when they play the high tempo passing game that Moyes likes his teams to exhibit. A punt from the back was flicked on by a resurgent Anichebe, who in this 10-15 minute spell made a real nuisance of himself and also had the haters and boo boys from the other week looking a little bit silly. He flicked it onto Leon Osman who’s close control was absolutely exquisite, if Berbatov did that for United we’d be seeing replays of it all season, who in turn squared it to Jermaine Beckford who managed to curl the ball beyond Reina whilst falling backwards onto his arse. Pandemonium.org.
Tending to shin injuries in the away section, Evertonians watched on as the team grew in stature again after pushing themselves in front and seemed to be in full control of the game. Something it’s fair to say we haven’t done at Anfield for as far back as I can remember anyway. For me, this was down to David Moyes, from his positive team selection at the start, after being shorn of two of his most gifted players in Pienaar and Saha to his substitutions, it felt like he’d finally realised what he had to do be in with a chance of winning a derby on unfamiliar territory, he was being proactive rather than reactive and generally reminding us all of why deep down we all love him so much.
How long would that last for? Frig off Bloosers. Tim Howard having one of his better days, had no other choice but to go for a ball that was breaking for Maxi Rodriguez in the box, in front of the baying and hooting famous Kop, they clashed, Liverpool penalty, Kuyt slotted, 2-2.
Moyes not content with a point, made three positive changes trying to force the issue. Although it seemed to unsettle the balance of the team slightly, he can comfort himself with the fact that the players are now pulling together and seem to be serious about turning around the stuttering campaign we’ve had to endure so far this season.
A home loss to Big Sam Allardyce’s West Ham anybody? C’mon Everton, these really are shite.
Juice_Terry
www.juiceterryjournolism.blogspot.com
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You must be watching a different game. Everton were clearly outplayed for 80% of the game and on another day could have been 4-0 down by half time.
Haha! Comic genius! It’s like listening to Moyes himself – standard format of (1) talk up Everton above their stature, (2) sly insult to Liverpool, and (3) make out Everton were the better team in any given game and were unlucky to drop points.
An exciting and competitive derby where the Reds should have taken the 3 points but where undone by 2 refereeing blunders which just so happened to lead to 2 soft goals. Though if you believe what this joker writes, the Blues were the better team which begs the question – was he actually watching the game?
My advice – take a look at an independent match report instead of this rubbish
YNWA
Great write up, Terry.
Couldn’t help but feel disappointed at the end. We won’t get a better chance to beat them on their own patch.
Definitely a view through blue tinted spectacles. You could have summed it up better to say that you were fucking lucky to get anything out of the game having only played for about 15 minutes of the second half. We should have been out of sight at the end of the first half to be honest.
Come on Terry, I think you are going a bit far by summing up the first half as they were “looking marginally more assured of themselves”.
We didn’t show up and could easily have been 3 down at Half Time.
Moysie has admitted that a number of our players froze.
“The 2nd half was much better though and at 2-1 we should have seen the job through.
Liverpool shaded it overall. Liverpool battered Everton in the 1st half. Everton were the better side in the 2nd half. However, Liverpools first half performance was far better than Evertons second half performance.
Tom
You could sum up your Champions League win in ’05 by saying you were “fucking lucky” to win it as you played well for 6 minutes. Grow up. We were lucky to go in 1-0 down at half time, but you only scored one goal and that’s your fault. We went 2-1 up and didn’t look like conceding before or after the stupid needless pen, as you are utter shite bar Torres. Fellaini was head and shoulders above anybody else on the pitch.
It may have escaped the notice of a few of our friends from across the park but ifs and buts don’t win games … eg If Dowd had penalised Torres every time he kicked out at one of our players he would be facing a 3 match band right now , If Pienaar , Cahill , Saha and Jagielka had been available for selection then there could have been a different resultas we all know Cahill would have scored again , and finally WTF is Jay Spearing ??? He certainly isn’t a footballer , do the players use his head for a ball in training ? I thought Rooney , Luke Chadwick and Kuyt were ugly , do they pay his appearence fee ? I’d sue them if I was a RS ‘fan’
“There are two teams in Liverpool: Liverpool and Liverpool Reserves.”
I thought the first half was more Everton not showing up than Liverpool playing well. Torres was impressive, annoyingly back to the form he showed in his early Liverpool career and, if we’re honest, should have been down by more than one goal at half time. Having said that, the goal we conceded was down purely to terrible defending and in the second half we sorted it out and were the better team.
If you wanna be petty and talk about luck & refereeing then it wasn’t a free kick that lead to the Liverpool pen and Torres should have been sent off etc etc…
@ Tom “Definitely a view through blue tinted spectacles”…what do you expect from a site for Everton fans, you soft blert. Go and buy another badge for your scarf.
Mr Bombastic is just so hilarious – how old are you 7? Knock knock – who’s there?
the atmosphere is the greatest in sport however it is not turned on full for mediocre hoof ball merchants, only for respected threats, bacelona, chelsea, real madrid, st etienne, who by the way all lost !
Go away kopites you are all fools, go to your own forums and talk the shite you normally do to each other on there. WE DONT CARE WHAT YOU SAY!!!! You are clearly being overtaken as the best team on merseyside and our passing and passion yesterday with a very weak team showed that, we were there for the taking and you failed miserably, with rank awful play.
damn everton were lucky, liverpool in form would delete everton yesterday,but we werent lucky!!! and yes fuck u terry!!! hahahahaha
Mr Bombastic, wot an original comment! you dimshit!!
Torres should have been sent off. First booking should have came after about 2 minutes for kicking out. The linesman clearly say it but bottled it. He sums everything about Liverpool up that cunt. Stroppy little mard arse. Never thought i’d see the day that the red shite are over the moon with a point at home against us. Steady decline, even with King Dickhead in charge.
You are very bitter aren’t you Colonel Bogey a true Evertonian I suppose! Not over the moon with a point at all. If anything a little peeved that we didn’t get the win we deserved. Both your goals were in a large part due to inept officiating after all.
If you look at Red sites the talk is all about the reds, visit this site and the talk is all about the reds!!!!
was sub vaughan actually instructed to barge into every red shirt he saw – school of science that !
HAHA!!! Fuckin Kopitepakiwoolnorwegian bastards playin for a draw at home. You were bound to come out of the dressingroom all guns blazing, it was a derby an you had a new manager. I’ll sum it up with the comments on MOTD last night, “Liverpool played well and should have gone in at the break more than a goal up!!!” Then we go to “In the second half Everton were AWESOME!!!!” Never mind though, normal service will resume away to Wolves as you wont have the impetus of a derby to fire your shite squad up!!!
I think Toffees should be disappointed with the point.
As someone said earlier, you’re not gonna get a better chance to beat us at Anfield. Although we were buoyed by Kenny’s return, the squad is the weakest it’s been since pre-Rafa. We’re a bit all over the place tactically too.
Without Gerrard and Carragher our defending is disorganised and sloppy. Coleman should have had Johnson’s pants down more than he did. Agger’s our best defender by miles and his exit at HT was clearly a huge blow that you exploited, but not as much as you could have.
Not interested in this “my dad’s harder than your dad” stuff above, but I think we’ll both start to see improvements in form over the next few games. I’ve no love for Everton but it pains me to see two Manc teams up where ours once were.
Ha ha. Hows that DJ?
How fucking dare you shower of murdering bastards comaplain about luck or refereeing decisions not going your way in a derby!!
Do you murderers realise what a sad bunch of twats you look with every sad fucker with a scarf wrapped round their scrawny necks? You look more like a non league club on a day out to a big club in the FA Cup and also play like one!Just shows how low you`ve sunk with you welcoming back Queen Kenny after he shit on yer 20 years ago and yesterday showed how much the derby means to yer after years of making out its just another game. Sad twats!
Oh dear me, Evertonians never change eh? As long as Liverpool don’t win anything & you get some kinda result out of your 2 cup finals, it’s job done for another season.
Facts are, liverpool dominated 1st half, fell apart for 20 mins then came back. Not a very good derby if the truth be told.
@Steve Harris.
Right there is everything that’s wrong with Evertonians. You’re showing your class there son.
Total idiot!!!
Liverpool fans – please note:
1) This is an Everton forum – you have your own. Go there.
2) We’re so bitter according to you lot – read your own comments on this page and then re-assess that statement. You didn’t deserve to win and that’s your problem. You lot think the League should be given to you because of your past record. Are you already looking for a back door route to the Champions League next season- just ask your mate Platini he’ll sort you out.
3) Finally one of you speaks some sense – so much so that I’m sure P Dubz must be an Evertonian deep down…..
4) Ref’s – you lot have a nerve even talking about being robbed by refs in derbies. Don Hutchinson’s ‘goal’? Clive Thomas? Gerrard getting away almost every year with assault and battery?
Torres surviving the whole 90 yesterday? Ugly Spearing’s challenge on Baines taht went unpunished?
Need we say more…..
5) Ballz – yes Mr Harris’ comments are in bad taste, and not reepresentative of all Evertonians – so don’t make sweeping statements such as ‘that’s whats wrong with Evertonians’. You look as foolish as him. Showing your class their son.
6) At what point in the 2nd half were you better than us? Please re-run the game if you believe it to be so. At 2-1 we were comfortable, your first major threat on goal in the 2nd period was the penalty. Granted you should have been 2 or 3 up at half time. You weren’t – don’t blame us, blame your own.
7) On that showing you’re going to need all the luck and ref decisions you can get. Your 2nd half as as clueless as your first was good. Remember we’ve been shit for years according to you lot – so we know what we’re on about……
BD
This may be an everton forum but when the game in question concerns Liverpool, we’re in our rights to have an input here. Nowhere does it state this is a ‘closed’ forum.
In my experience 90% of Evertonians are the same, classless comments such as ‘murderes’ are common place at Derby games & the days of ‘fans sitting together’ are long gone. I wonder why?
Liverpudlians are under no illusions, were not the force we where but then again we’re not the bad team our league position dictates as I’m sure Everton aren’t. Not one Liverpudlian thinks we should win the league by our past glories but we should be up there but ‘shoulda’s’ & ‘coulda’s’ won’t help.
Arguments over Sunday’s game could & most probably will continue till the end of time so I’m in no doubt there will be a follow up to this.
YNWA
Ballz
“In my experience 90% of Evertonians are the same, classless comments such as ‘murderes’ are common place at Derby games & the days of ‘fans sitting together’ are long gone. I wonder why?”
This coming from supporters of a club famed for singing songs about the Munich Disaster is more than a tad hypocritical. Yet anyone mentions heysel and you lot get hysterical. You obviously lodge all the blame on us for derby atmosphere – poor again and a short-sighted, classless view in my opinion. ’90%’ – you must know some lowlife and scum then. I know a percentage of Liverpool fans who enjoy singing about Neville’s ( or Carsley’s in days gone by) kid and were always up for ‘Joleon Lescott The Elephant Man’ – as disgusting as comments on Gerrard’s kids parentage or Torres’ sexuality. But of course, according to your view, Kopites are all innocent and good humoured. Wasn’t it one of yours assaulted Phil Neville during a derby game? That’s class that is eh? Blame on BOTH sides is readily there for all to see – it depends what you want to see really doesn’t it? A friend of mine was shot at with a pellet gun last night by a Liverpool ‘fan’ – blameless eh?
Once again the problem with you lot is you see no fault with yourselves, always the victim, always the innocent. History dictates otherwise, but you just keep your head in the sand and put it down to..what’s that Kopite word used in their defence… ah, ‘banter’ – that’s it!
You’d do well to remember that many, many Blues have stood shoulder to shoulder with you when you went through your most darkest, tragic time and still do and will contimnue to do so until justice is done.
Not all black and white is it?
BD Top reposte M8. That is the same crowd that sang about Munich for YEARS an now kick off cos Man-u sing about Hillsborough (I dont condone any blues singin about that, its disgusting). The “friendly” derby is well and truly a thing of the past, maybe its because we were allways on the shitty end of the stick an we had to take our lumps with good humour, but its funny that when it doesn’t go there way the trouble starts, as you said both sets of fans have a nasty element but its no coincidence is it? As corporal Jones in dads army used to say “they dont like it up em!!!” COYBB!!!
I’d like to know where I said kopites are innocent? I know the bullshit that goes on, not just in derby games but matches in general.
‘anyone mentions heysel & you lot get hysterical’ Really? Hardly hysterical but I’m sure you can understand it is a touchy subject that has no place at all in any chant. Neither does anything to do with Munich & people who find this amusing are brain dead.
Sadly for every Lescott chant there’ll be a Gerrard chant & this won’t go anytime soon.
Any Redshite fans whinging about reffing decisions costing them the match should really look to the past at when they have benefited from such.
Dowd was fairly appalling on Sunday, but won’t cop too much stick because there weren’t any red cards, and it didn’t cost Man United points.
For the record, instance in this derby that raised eyebrows as to Phil’s qualification to ref these games are:
- Torres kicking our players (begging for Howard to be red carded shows his true colours.
- The corner awarded to us that led to Distin’s goal – goal kick.
- Various Liverpool handballs that didn’t seem to get Dowd’s attention.
- Osman’s “foul” that led to the play setting up the penalty.
- The penalty – while it was a foul by Howard, the reason why it shouldn’t have been awarded is that Kuyt took a shot on goal after the foul, then the whistle went. This is not lawful in anyway. If the whistle had have gone before or during Kuyt’s shot, fair play, but if you play the advantage, play cannot come back to a foul that has been waved on. Bit of “well you didn’t make the follow up so here have another go at it.”
- Allowing the game to proceed with 2 invalids on the field in Osman and Spearing. I’m all for equal opportunities, but allowing these two charity cases to go into a match of this stature is like sending a 15 year old with flat feet into Veitnam.
oh, and Seamus coleman took a shot in the 2nd half that deflected off a Liverpool defender in a big way, and the Reds got a goal kick out of it. May have been payback from Anichebe’s corner at the start of the half?
Horrible shit on here lads, fucking hell. A draw was a fair result and I know neither side is willing to accept that but even so, that’s the result you’re gonna have to accept so why don’t you grow the fuck up and stop bickering.
halfway through the worst season in lfc’s history and one useless manager sacked. moyes who’s team are level on points with the above, still holds court like he is bob paisley ? and evertonians seem to be happy ? am i missing something.
there are some sick individuals on this site, this site appeared on the news now liverpool fc list, hence liverpool fans getting involved.
Dontcha just love ‘em?
“this site appeared on the news now liverpool fc list, hence liverpool fans getting involved.”
Quiet day in Oslo today lads?
@Dave1878 – BEST.POST.EVER.
me and my mates a mix of reds and blues often went to anfield and goodison together each secretly of course wanting the team they never supported to lose. banter that would put to shame the best comedians, the odd rabids on both sides went a bit overboard at times but knew how far they could go. so if any of the lads red and blue from the old spion kop (the devonshire arms) the clock or the valley pubs – should read this – all the very best.