Oh well as I feared they came down on Slot like a ton of bricks but Everton got a slap on the wrist with a fine!
He has been charged, but there is no automatic sanction and no word on what if any will come.
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I just wanted to bring it to attention
I agree with apologising about his emotions, their should have been an however, then he should have listed the numerous errors from Oliver
Saw the same one and made a few comments of him making a twit of himself.
Nicol had just before mentioned our possession stats and the foul stats, Darke then said “Everton went about it in a rough housed way” so how come Oliver controlled the game and if Everton were rough how come the foul count was 20 - 9 in Evertons favour - fookin idjut!
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I chuckled at that.
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Here’s the thing about Ian Darke - he’s a fat drunk cunt who shouldn’t be allowed to voice opinions on a major television network. Basically on a par with Merson.
He made himself look a fool
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He always does.
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Nice article about the derby from the perspective of it being the last at Goodison. Definitely the end of an era for Blues and Reds alike. Will be interesting to see how the move pans out for them. Experience elsewhere has shown it’s not easy to supplant 130 years of history to a new stadium and replicate that atmosphere.
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There’s a difference between a stadium and a ground. You know it, even if you can’t precisely define it. Stadiums are where Taylor Swift comes to play in the off-season. Grounds care for nothing but the game. The MCG is a stadium. Wembley is a stadium. Victoria Park was a ground.
One of the glories of the Premier League is its proliferation of grounds. No one plays at Wembley, which is reserved for England and cup finals. For every Old Trafford there is a Bournemouth with its 11,000 fans. And for every Anfield – Liverpool’s magical home stadium – there is Goodison Park, a mere half a mile away, and home to the Everton Football Club since 1892. When Taylor Swift comes to Liverpool, she doesn’t play at Goodison.
It has been an adornment. The first purpose-built football ground in England. The only ground to have a church – St Luke’s – in one of its corners. The first club ground to hold an FA Cup final, in 1894. The first in England to have dugouts. The first to have four stands, one on each side of the pitch, and to have a three-tier stand. The stage for the first penalty shootout in the European Cup, when Everton beat Borussia Moenchengladbach in 1970.
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Football clubs are nothing without continuity, story, place. Grounds matter because they distill that fact; because they show this is not a theatre of corporations or brands, but of blood and bone and sweat and devotion.
Do Goodison’s rickety stands and steel pillars provide a great fan experience? Yes, but only by the most elemental, spiritual metrics. “So come on, come on, get down to Goodison Park,” they sang, basking. “Everton, we never shone so brightly.” Perhaps. And perhaps not again.
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I will be honest i may have missed but i can’t remember any comment from the God of football ot Carragher on the game. We all know God likes commenting on everything Liverpool.
It needs knocking down.
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The number of pieces across multiple platforms I have seen focusing on Goodison getting the send off it wanted and deserved really drives home why it feels like there was a specific sort of game Oliver had in his head he needed facilitate with his approach to the game.
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Exactly Konate could have been baseball batted around back of head and they would have found a way to give the goal.
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While there may well be an element of truth to that, it still makes it sound as though this was a one-off from Oliver.
His previous record in Liverpool games clearly illustrates that it isn’t.
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His record in the derby should be evidence enough.
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I’ve just looked it up: played four, drawn all of them under Oliver.
In the period since Oliver first took charge of a Merseyside derby, our overall record in the league against the Bitters is P 25 W 10 D 13 L 2.
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It should not be presumed that I saying it was a one off. A man who can influence the result of one game because of the narrative he thinks need to be achieved is a man who can do that for any game.
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