It ‘went missing’ a few minutes earlier when Robbo was waiting to take a corner…all part of an elaborate mastermind plan to get the game stopped during a dangerous attack
We were 1st to that one too.
Totally dominant 
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Duncan Ferguson
Watching T.Rex last night and the way he lumbered about his goal-line… then thinking back to that challenge on Virgil last season… reminds me of seeing a traffic accident once of an old Cortina that probably had no road tax or likely insurance, crashing into the side of a Bentley…!
Prickford is a fraud of the highest order who has no right to be called Englands No.1
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I was just messing with you.
I totally stand by my comment on Salah not having a good game. I think if you asked him he would probably say the same.
It’s typical of a world class player like him though. Mess up a good number of passes ( I don’t think he had a key pass all game), but put away two beautiful goals. Do those two goals make a good game? Not for me. Ok maybe a good game but not a great one. Ronaldo can score breathtaking goals and be generally pants for the remainder of the 90 mins. Judge on the 90 mins. Not just the 25 seconds of dribbling and shooting.
Btw it’s worth watching Klopp’s post match interview - not the sit-down one - if you are questioning whether we were flawless or not. He had a similar opinion to me. Messy performance. Lost our heads in parts. But with the quality to get the job done.
I am 100% sure Rafa did not want to disrespect Liverpool with that statement. That comment was aimed primarily at Everton owners for not giving him any funds before the start of the season to assemble the squad he wanted.
The “we have seen how much money they have been spending” comment should thus be interpreted in one of the two following ways:
A) we have seen Liverpool spent £36m on Konate this summer, while I did not have even a tenth of that sum at my disposal this summer,
B) we have seen that Liverpool had been (net) spending less money than Everton in the last few years, but still assembled a world class squad, while the recruitment of Everton was utterly miserable with a greater net spending.
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It’s more the mistakes thing in my view, they frankly couldn’t live with us that first 25.
Unless he classes picking Pickford as a mistake
Everyone connected with Everton should be embarrassed with themselves after last night. The crowd with all the ‘intimidatory’ antics and faffing around with the ball and chucking back on the pitch to try and disrupt play, their players with all the arseholery we’ve come to expect from them diving around all over the place and Richarlison thinking he was being smart by ‘giving’ the ball back by gently playing it where we didn’t have a player and then running after it (thick cunt over hit it anyway) and then Rafa doing himself no favours with his comments.
They’ve become a parody.
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The Everton players, as usual, put him under a lot of pressure, surrounding him whenever a decision went against them.
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But seriously, this kind of shite should be punished by the PL. It’s ultimate unsportsmanlike conduct!
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I’d say make them play in an empty stadium but that would probably help them. Their fans are toxic
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Mike Trebilcock came before Cliff Marshall. He scored for them in the 1966 FA Cup Final, the first black player to do so.
Yes, that was all very nice before the kick off, but I’m a little bit cynical. I think they had a minutes applause instead of a minutes silence, to drown out any insults from their gobshite fans. Notice, it didn’t take long, after that, for them to start with the Hillsborough taunts.
I can’t use the words ‘class’ and Everton, in the same sentence.
TRex looked like he was crying every time the camera zoomed onto him. Cracked me up. 
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Haha that was brilliant, VVD expression in his body language was like what the fuck.
The fact we did it for their player made it all the worse, one of their players even chased after the ball when Matip kicked it off before realising what Matip was doing.
I assume he thought it was a wayward pass considering their numerous ones throughout the game.
Which reminds me of that wayward pass that Mane nearly got on to and then left something on Pickford. Instantly I thought he’s going kick that back into no man’s land and he did
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No, I wouldn’t say we were flawless either - the goal allowed came from a period where many mistakes were happening. That period really ended with Salah’s breakaway goal, which appeared to break their belief.
I generally thought we were ok second half anyhow, I expected them to come out with intensity but they seemed to revert to the first 25. Yeah they had that free kick that went for a corner and then led to Salah scoring but beyond that (and it was a dive) they did nothing after that chance at the end of the first half.
After Salah scored we could have scored 4-5, need to look at that scenario at 2-0 mind, does seem to be a bit psychological.
Sure he’s a pretty poor keeper, but I think Virg’s injury did affect T-Rex in this game and made him play quite soft. You could see that with Coleman’s outburst early in the game when he wanted T-Rex to come out and decisively clear there ball. That’s the sort of thing that caused Virg’s injury and he didn’t do it this time.
I’m not suggesting respect because the cunt kept VVD out for 9 months, but I wouldn’t say he didn’t give a crap about injuring him.
What did John Motson once say during commentary? “It’s not always a good thing to go 2-0 up”. For years, I’ve laughed at that line, but I’m beginning to think he may have had a point.
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I was delighted for us to score a third so quickly against Soton after our second especially as they had a few chances.
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Rafa is the Everton manager so he’s not going to say it as factually as he might, after a beating at home, as they will crucify him. He’s not going to say we are the smaller club, with a toxic culture, with no long term strategy as evidenced by five managers in five years, and at the time of my arrival, the purse strings have been tightened. Though I did buy Gray for buttons, and he scored for us.
He is going to say something like we made mistakes (and they did) and while the money spent thing wasn’t really a fair thing to say, especially since Everton have spent so much under Moshri, I interpreted that as Rafa talking about himself as Everton manager, and not being able to spend.
He gets some benefit of the doubt from me as he is a Liverpool legend. He won us number five, went close for number six, went close in the league too, though unfortunately he coincided with G&H, which eventually undermined everything, but even then he was fighting for Liverpool FC.
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I can forgive Rafa looking at what he can field on the pitch and not being able to remember that Everton has spent fortunes over the past three years. I have trouble with that myself.
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