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• Gerard (30)A very good summary of the way football once was, the rot started with the formation of the premier league with Skye and other TV companies making football all about money, then VAR making football rules a guessing game and bias added to this rotten mess we now have adhere to.rnrnFootball is now getting watched by more people than ever but a lot of football fans are really sick of this once unmissable game....
  Dave Abrahams in Premier League — Matchweek 4
• What I have learned is that we are a very well organised team,and they are playing for each other. ...
  Laurie Hartley in What we learned: Tottenham 0-0 Everton
• Whilst I’m not usually a defender of Moyes I feel a little sorry for him at the moment. It’s probably his last season with us and he MAY have wanted to give it a good go.rnBut the Beto / Balogun fiasco has severely limited his attacking options and I’m afraid the first half of this season will be all about battling points like this one. Even Beto coming on there for the last 20 minutes could have seen us finish them off - they were gone!rnI sincerely hope we are still afloat come January and in both cups. And that he is backed in the transfer window with some firepower to have a proper go in the second half.rnUntil then I’m going to cut him some slack and hope that Thierno Barry comes good AND avoids injury....
  Mark Murphy in What we learned: Tottenham 0-0 Everton
• One slight shot across the bows, is that it\'s fair to say that each of the teams we have played are pretty badly out of form, not just Tottingham. And a haul of six points does point to us also not being in the best form. Especially when you factor in we needed two last-gasp equalisers to get two of those draws. And to be honest, you could argue that, other than awful Crystal Palace, the other teams have dominated these games more than we have. ...
  Kevin Molloy in What we learned: Tottenham 0-0 Everton
• Great achievement, well in Pickers! rnrnHe’s a Toffee through and through! ...
  Steve Jones in Everton's Rock: Pickford brings up 100 Premier League clean sheets
• A point in the bank away at Spurs is a good point based on our absolutely abysmal North London record. Yeah, it feels like we could have won but Moyes will always be loath to lose a tight game -- that conservatism can be frustrating from the outside but it\'s why we pick up points with Moyes where we would have lost them in dreadful recent seasons. And if football was as simple as if George had stayed on and not Johnson we\'d have won it, then we\'d all be earning millions in the Premier League. We don\'t know the defensive roles and abilities and shape and the tactics to counter specific threats etc. It can be very, very boring at times (how many Everton games would genuinely be an interesting watch for the neutral?) but we do need this grinding out results stability more than we think before we ever have a chance of taking bigger strides forward. ...
  Benjamin Dyke in What we learned: Tottenham 0-0 Everton