Pompey well on their way to outscoring Man Utd.

Shame that all the goals have been at their end.

When Fellaini left Belgium and Standard for England, he said that he was going to a country where the refs would be more "fair" to his style of play and will get booked a lot less than in Belgium (he was booked a lot and complained that he was picked on by the local refs)...
On another note and as a Belgium fan, I have nothing but contempt for him because of his attitude towards the national side.

That 'OG' fella is prolific for Man United - he's the second-highest scorer for them this season (more than Berbatov)

Man City lose at Hull. Spurs and Villa to muddle through to a draw in a bit and Liverpool to gather enough momentum over the next 2-3 months to get 4th place in a fairly comfortable manner. Predictable enough.

That third own goal was very emphatic. He really fucking nailed that one. It's down to man utd flooding the box and putting defenders under enormous pressure. it's what they do to get around the fact that they don't have any real centre forward, so they bang the ball across the six yard box.

George: Hofmeister bear wrote:
Man City lose at Hull. Spurs and Villa to muddle through to a draw in a bit and Liverpool to gather enough momentum over the next 2-3 months to get 4th place in a fairly comfortable manner. Predictable enough.

Feet on the desk and tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles then.

And tomorrow I'll tell you how to beat the spread in the superbowl.

The Mighty Kubelgog!!! wrote:
Yakubu is amazing. it's not often in this day and age that you get to see a 120kg centre forward

He's the Black Latchford.

Absolutely amazing game, that. Not a lot of football, but handbags everywhere. Pissed myself laughing when the ruck that led to the first red card broke out, and Mascherano was again the first on the scene, pushing and shouting and gesticulating like a stereotypical angry little Latino.

Like someone else said, if the ref had been applying the letter of the law, it would have been six-a-side by half time. Mental.

Carragher led the way in the first 30 seconds clattering into (I think) Pienaar, and Gerrard did the same to Phil Neville a few minutes later. That's true captaincy for you, setting an example for the non-Scousers who, I noticed, don't even touch the This Is Anfield sign in the tunnel these days.

Fucking hell, how did Piennar stay on after that? How did Carragher not get a yellow for the first challenge of the game? (And thus have been off for the afters on Piennar - although of course, Piennar shouldn't have been there to tackle) How did Fellaini not go off at the same time as Kyriagos? Kyriagos was 2 footed - fair red, Felliani went over the ball and stamped on him. Also a red.
And I've only watched up to half-time so far.

By the way, Tim Cahill appeared to be wearing stockings and suspenders on his right leg, and at least one other Everton player also had some sort of black strap protruding up his leg from the top of his sock. What's that all about? Were they off to a Rocky Horror party after the match?

Here's a compilation of some of the highlights of the game

You're being very generous there hobbes, carragher should have been sent off for that first tackle. He lead with his arm into pienaar's face. It was nasty and deliberate and hopelessly disproportionate. Steven pienaar is also one of least physically imposing adult males I've ever met. It didn't help that I saw him beside zlatan, but he's absolutely tiny. Cahill's foul on lucas is pretty nasty and should also have been a red. But Steven gerrard is a cheating, vile, cowardly violent shitbird.

You can understand why the ref didn't send off fellaini as it looks from his angle like he's hurdling a dangerous tackle, and you can't see him land on kyrgiakos's leg, he also couldn't really see pienaar's foul on mascherano, but he rolled down mascherano's socks with his studs, what the fuck did the ref think happened? That mascherano's garter had snapped?

but bottling out of a red card for gerrard was criminal. That was a real coward's challenge and even the tackle was unnecessary. Pienaar was nearly lying on his face by the time the two footed tackle came in. and then the way that gerrard pretended that pienaar had elbowed him in the back of the head was just priceless.

This compilation doesn't have the early tackle by mascherano on fellaini which I'd love to see again. It was such an entertaining match.

Steven pienaar is also one of least physically imposing adult males I've ever met
Small man syndrome, innit. He wasn't shy of putting it about yesterday.

well given that he was smashed in the face after less than 30 seconds, maybe he decided that the only way to protect himself was to have his foot higher than the liverpool players. I don't think i've ever really seen him commit a foul before.

No-one knows what was going on with those Everton suspenders, then?

Maybe it was the only way he could keep up.
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It's some kind of muscle protecting tape I think. It or something similar has been around for a while as I remember Baker and Kelly commenting once about Veron at Man U appearing to be "held together by gaffa tape".

That lunatic Algerian keeper had a strip of it going up his neck in the CAN semi-final.

It's become the new bemusing football accessory after those nasal strips and that strange splodge of Vicks like gel on the chest of players' shirts.

If there was a worse game of football played in England over the weekend then I pity the poor sods who had to sit through it. What made it so painful from an Everton perspective was that Liverpool clearly wanted it more.

The Kyriagos-Fellaini incident? They both should have gone.

Tactically, Benitez did well when they were reduced to ten men. Although, you don’t have to be Rinus Michels to realise that allowing Phil Neville to see plenty of the ball would go a long way to negating the loss of Kyriagos.

Didn’t they introduce a law a couple of years back whereby a player waving an imaginary yellow card, would themselves get booked? In which case, why isn't Mascherano sent off every game?

Everton were abysmal and deserved nothing from the game, but I’d take that than having a cheating shithouse like Gerrard in our team. Yes, I know, sour grapes and all, but even Liverpool fans must be embarrassed by him.

Christ! 48 hours on and still pissed off about everything to do with that game. I really must grow up.

In which case, why isn't Mascherano sent off every game?
In which case Piennar should have been sent off (again!) for doing the same when Kyriagos and Felliani tried to break each other.

For the record, I fucking love $tevie Gerrard so much I'd refuse to play Phil Collins for him, just to feel the tender caress of his fist.

hobbes wrote:

In which case Piennar should have been sent off (again!) for doing the same when Kyriagos and Felliani tried to break each other.
Yeah, I'm fine with that. But with Mascherano though, it's every bloody foul! He must run an extra ten miles a game chasing the referee every time a foul has been committed. It's not like Saturday was an unusually busy one by his hectoring standards, he's like that every game.

hobbes wrote:
For the record, I fucking love $tevie Gerrard so much I'd refuse to play Phil Collins for him, just to feel the tender caress of his fist.
I was thinking of Gerrard yesterday when I saw those banners held aloft by Chelsea fans in support of Terry. For football fans, love really is blind.

For the record, I fucking love $tevie Gerrard so much I'd refuse to play Phil Collins for him, just to feel the tender caress of his fist.

Even when he pretends that the smallest man on the pitch somehow managed to smash him down on the crown of his head rendering him nearly unconscious, when he only collided with his chest? Or when he jumped two footed at a player who was falling on his face at his feet? He's a shitbag, a hypocrite and a coward.