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The price for Everton was from 2 years ago. Everton have more debt than us and it needs to actually be paid down. They have a shite stadium that they've been planning on knocking down for ages and they live in the shadow of their red neighbours. Their playing roster is vastly superior (including their youth setup) but they're behind in just about every other respect, excluding board.

Hahahah

Joselu. Oh dear.

I'm with the two of you. Hope we don't rue our missed chances.

Could be a good sign. It's run by FIFA, in Russia, quality of refereeing may not have factored in the selection of referees.

Wouldn't include Watford but otherwise agree.

Haha, he not only managed to miss it, but missed it by a fair bit. It was a quality head on from Perez. We were vastly improved in all aspects, including set piece taking, you just never know which side of ours will turn up.

Happy New Year @Noelie may Rafa surprise you with his team selections in a positive way, and here's hoping you find a use for your dusty anaconda.

We were a tad lucky Murphy didn't see red against Man City, but otherwise I agree. In particular in regards to getting penalties and free-kicks im our favour. Still can't believe that miss from Clark, on his preferred foot too! If I'm being incredibly generous I'll concede it did bounce immediately before it came to him, but he'll be very relieved that we managed to get the win here. I only watched the first half and then the highlights (unable to select the match for on-demand once it had finished) but if it was more of the same in the second then we should have pummeled them. As it is I'll take any sort of victory. The saves from Darlow were critical, good to see him put in another good performance. He can make the straightforward look difficult at times, but has a knack for stopping the point blank range. If only he had stronger hands and positioning when coming for the ball. As others noted from what I saw this was Perez' best game for us in a long time, he was making good runs, good passes and generally good decision making which has been a weakness of his. Deserving that he got the goal and Murphy got the assist. The latter could do with the confidence boost, we're starting to see why he was bought. I've been a big critic of Diame in the past and wanted him rid in the summer but credit where it is due, from what I saw he was excellent. We were a completely different side to the one against Brighton, hopefully this signals the end of Joselu starting matches.

Possibly, it's through Optus is Australia. Whoever is responsible for it should be ashamed. Ball being cleared off the line from a very clever shot not showed at all, admittedly poor challenge shown in triplicate, who does that sort of north korean style coverage ultimately benefit?

I watched the highlights package from this game, I assume the same one that is shown on MOTD and it showed the Murphy tackle from three different angles, one in slow motion and yet completely failed to show Aaron's chip being cleared off the line. There's favouritism and then there's outright fucking incompetent bias, it's utterly embarrassing for them that it extends so far through the reaches of the company that the editors of the highlights packages show selective highlights that suit their narrative.

He's past his best but he'd be straight in for us.

Nope, you are wrong.

Not cheating, not a pen. There was contact but it was minimal and their player was pulling out.

Noelie, the changes were made because we have another game in three days. One that we have a much better chance of getting something from.

A momentum building loss. We were better once they scored. Trooper, I still think they'll knock another 3 by us.

Yeah no way that was a yellow, he went down softly but there was contact.

Took the goal for our players to realise that we're allowed to play as well.

Aarons has displayed an excellent range of bad passes. And there it is, noone following his run... how do you try to change things from here...

It was a horribly clumsy tackle, and that's giving it a good PR spin.

I swear the clock just clicked back a few seconds there.

Great save Elliot, but we're not going to cope with those balls in behind for long if we let them attack like that.

More like 2.3%

Wake up call for Dummett there.