What a difference a week makes…. Liverpool 1 - Everdusting the empty trophy cabinet 0
Its sunny and we won the derby. Oh, yeah we won both. Imagine (put on husky female voice) taking six points in an away controversial match and a home match where Everton never really got going… imagine taking six points from the second ugliest team in the league( Utd have that distinction), imagine seeing Gollum gulp as once again the team in blue are singing the blues…
This isn’t any old gloating, this is derby gloating…
People say that derbies aren’t for the football purist. Well damn right they’re not, they shouldn’t be. They should be attritional warfare, of interest only to the fans of the teams involved. Liverpool v Everton is for the fans of the teams, the build up, the game the pub after, not your artisan analysis.
And personally I only like these matches if we win. Which we did. And almost as sweet as the 3-0 earlier this season (didn’t think I wasn’t going to mention it do you?). Because yesterday Everton were beaten fair and square. Yakubu (84 points on a scrabble board) looked less likely to track back and get back towards the Everton goal than Reina did..
In fact the only time he got the ball he fell towards it tumbling, diving, falling like the death of a tree in a forest. Sami meanwhile had arrived half way through the fall, cleared the ball and headed off for a cup of Finnish tea, in fact he’d washed up and had a sauna by the time Yakky landed.
Torres scored, Everton bored, their fans ignored, the Kop roared.
Say all you like, but its not about 4th, its about pride in the city, pride of the derby and we won. Both. Did I mention that already?