Prompted by the ludicrously over the top reaction to Moyes's subsitution last night. It was a crippling dissappointing way to lose and we've seen far too many of these game where we finish seemingly comfortable games playing like we're down to ten men. Fitness? attitude? It's something that really needs addressing...but the hysterical "Moyes out" reaction is just stupid. Anyway :
Blues reach nadir as they fail to complete double over Spurs by Football correspondent : A. Moaner
Inexplicable like-for-like substitution blamed
Liverpool, England.
It was the straw that broke the camel's back. The once patient & vocally supportive ranks of Evertonians could finally stomach no more as they saw their side concede a late winner at Goodison last night. It meant that the club lost it's chance to complete the first double over their North London bogey team in decades. Under previous regimes this sort of thing would just never, ever have happened and it's a sign of how far the once perennial relegation strugglers have sunk as they slip further into the mid-table mire.
Previous Everton teams have shown pluck and courage to stage late-season fightbacks to drag their way out of season long battles with the drop. The current Everton side look timid by comparison as they tamely surrendered their two month long un-beaten league record.
It was clear for everyone to see that he is man bereft of ideas as his threadbare squad, lacking any fully fit fullbacks and two of it's key midfield/attacking options squander yet another opportunity to close in on a European place. They say when the going gets tough the tough get going...well Moyes should learn from his illustrious predecessors. Smith's strong centre-half dominated squad had the versatility to play in numerous positions...last night Moyes was forced to take off tiring foreign new-comer Fernandes adding yet another defender. This heralded a desperate reshuffle with stand-in fullback Neville having to fill in in his favoured position of central midfield in order to make way for the clubs most talented right-back. The game swung on this gaff and whereas before Everton had somehow weathered the storm of four or five chances coming from the Spurs left flank they eventually conceded high quality 89th minute goal.
A man like Walter Smith got to this stage in the season with a team scoring less than a point a game, he grabbed them by the scruff of the neck and somehow, by sheer force of will, managed to limp them over the line to safety. True grit was on display in those great sides. Something today's Evertonians rightly hark back to. What abundantly clear is that Moyes isn't the man break Everton into the G14 elite and he needs to be replaced sooner rather than later. A man like Capello, Beckenbauer, Mourinho, Wenger or Ferguson need to be brought in otherwise arguably the best Everton team in the last twenty years might never again have the chance to add to their solitary Champions League qualification.
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Monday, September 18, 2006
Entire population of Earth lines the streets of Merseyside as Rafa's heroes create chances - Chris Bascombe (aged 14 and three quarters).
Just in case our favourite LFC "journalist" is feeling too depressed after yesterday I've ghost written his column for him...free of charge!
Entire population of Earth lines the streets of Merseyside as Rafa's heroes create chances - Chris Bascombe (aged 14 and three quarters).
It's a feat that's rightly being heralded as the greatest acheivment not only in the history of football but in the history of humankind itself.
Hapless, cynical Chelsea were limited to just one goal by the brave liverpool defense and surely now the lost opportunity to increase their goal difference will be a crushing blow to their attempt to buy the Premiership title once again.
How those Chelsea players love to emulate liverpool's skill and courage. Brave £120,000-a-week captain Stevie Gerrard and his band of big money foreign and domestic signings stood up to Abramovich's mercenaries and actually created chances. Time and again liverpool hoped for a penalty or brilliantly hit shots just off target. Faced with this onslaught The Pensioners, clearly rattled, could only respond with a single Didier Drogba goal. The nerves were etched on the face of players like Frank Lampard and John Terry and their minds were clearly plagued by thoughts of that historic night in Istanbul. This result surely vindicates Raffa's brave and innovative policy of resting key players in the build up to this crunch match between the supposed champions and the high flying 15th placed Anfield club.
Whilst embittered Evertonians danced for joy after winning their 'cup final' last week Benitez was already plotting the slight decline in Chelsea's goal scoring rates. Indeed, so deep is Mourinho's obsession with beating the mighty reds that Benitez decided to base all his recent selection policies on keeping his first-team fresh in the lead up to the crunch, grudge match.
It's a result that's sure to delight to liverpool faithful and further stoke the inexplicable, none-jealousy based dislike of the classless, cheating money-obessed Londoners. As one liverpool fan stated yesterday "The whole footballing world was behind the red's crusade to single handedly save football from the grasps of these none-g14 big spenders".
In other news the council have been unable to trace the source of a grinding, oscillating sound heard at the cemetary where Bill Shankly's remains are buried.
Apologies to The Liverpool Echo.
Entire population of Earth lines the streets of Merseyside as Rafa's heroes create chances - Chris Bascombe (aged 14 and three quarters).
It's a feat that's rightly being heralded as the greatest acheivment not only in the history of football but in the history of humankind itself.
Hapless, cynical Chelsea were limited to just one goal by the brave liverpool defense and surely now the lost opportunity to increase their goal difference will be a crushing blow to their attempt to buy the Premiership title once again.
How those Chelsea players love to emulate liverpool's skill and courage. Brave £120,000-a-week captain Stevie Gerrard and his band of big money foreign and domestic signings stood up to Abramovich's mercenaries and actually created chances. Time and again liverpool hoped for a penalty or brilliantly hit shots just off target. Faced with this onslaught The Pensioners, clearly rattled, could only respond with a single Didier Drogba goal. The nerves were etched on the face of players like Frank Lampard and John Terry and their minds were clearly plagued by thoughts of that historic night in Istanbul. This result surely vindicates Raffa's brave and innovative policy of resting key players in the build up to this crunch match between the supposed champions and the high flying 15th placed Anfield club.
Whilst embittered Evertonians danced for joy after winning their 'cup final' last week Benitez was already plotting the slight decline in Chelsea's goal scoring rates. Indeed, so deep is Mourinho's obsession with beating the mighty reds that Benitez decided to base all his recent selection policies on keeping his first-team fresh in the lead up to the crunch, grudge match.
It's a result that's sure to delight to liverpool faithful and further stoke the inexplicable, none-jealousy based dislike of the classless, cheating money-obessed Londoners. As one liverpool fan stated yesterday "The whole footballing world was behind the red's crusade to single handedly save football from the grasps of these none-g14 big spenders".
In other news the council have been unable to trace the source of a grinding, oscillating sound heard at the cemetary where Bill Shankly's remains are buried.
Apologies to The Liverpool Echo.
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