Isn’t this exciting?!
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It is.
Waiting for this is like the glimpse of a stocking top, the expectation of romance, the charge of electric anticipation, the fever of eternal hope, the eagerness of callow youth…
The waiting is the sweetness…
The build up to the crescendo of emotion…
The magnificent high of waiting…
I can’t wait.
This is a time to cherish…
The springtime that promises a sparkling summer.
If we cannot appreciate this.
If we cannot suffer the gnawing doubts.
If we cannot look at every talisman that guides our fortunes.
If we cannot endure the love and hate, that inner emotional conflict…
Then we don’t deserve this.
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My only worry is Oliver will ref the match in the same lop-sided way we have to endure virtually every week. He needs to do his job properly and Slot needs to call him out on it asap if he isn’t.
Them being physical is to be expected, it’s a derby. We have to match them in that and our quality will tell.
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These were the times, eh? An absolutely packed Goodison. The atmosphere must have been terrific at the time.
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If Nunez starts , Moyesy will have one instruction for his players ; Wind him up , get him sent off.
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And it’s up to Arne to drill into Darwin that he can’t retaliate, no matter what the provocation.
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In one ear …
Honestly of late he seems more likely to embellish the contact and play Uno Reverse.
I think one of the Laws of Chaos states that if you try to wind Núñez up deliberately you might just get sent off instead…
Darwin’s too smart for that.
Don’t see it
Darwin has a bit of form for the red mist to descend. It doesn’t follow that it will, and hopefully Slot will have a word to make sure his head is fully in the game and focused on the job in hand.
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Ian Rush has been relating how, being an Everton fan, he was devastated at being rejected by Gordon Lee and when he later signed for LFC, he was determined to make them pay. He succeeded and how 
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Does Joachim Andersen ring a bell?
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That was in his first season, coming to 3 years ago now. I’d hope he’s rather different now.
Like our final game in front of the old Kop and it was Jeremy Goss who scored and we lost 1-0.
These things rarely play out and it’s not like it’s the last game anyhow
Joachim Andersen was when he was new to the league. He’s been sent off once in his entire career, hardly a Balotelli is he?
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Not to mention, referring to the above photo, that if my wife and young children were being threatened, I’d be up in the stands ready to go also.
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