Funes Mori apologises for Origi incident

All that I've heard from them lot all day is how much of an animal Mori is, unbelievable.

They still laud over Suarez now, taking on his every goal at Barca like it's a personal achievement of each one of them kopites.

They bang on like it's the worst they've seen, well news flash, there hero captain Gerrard done much much worse on Campbell, Suarez does worse most weeks and so do many players.

I say well done Mori, kick him harder next time the big girls blouse.

What I do have an issue with is that over the years we have seen some horrific challenges - Kuyt on good old Phil Neville who got up straight away, Suarez who stamped on Mirallas and injured him plus numerous others..... the ref and his linesman couldn't wait to get this one right...

Bad tackle - stupid mistake, but the holier than thou attitude pisses me off. Surely 4-0 and 40 shots is enough to be crowing about, you'd think.

Who remember Suarez's stamp down the back of Distins achilles?

People in Glass houses!!!!!

Liverpool always have had forgetful memories just ask Juventus

They could apologize for forgetting a football match, namely a Merseyside derby was meant to be contested.

No apology though, why would they when they can go and collect the big fat mega wages they are all on.

I agree 100%.
About time we had a bit of nastiness in our challenges.
We have powder puff tacklers in our team apart from a few.

It looked accidental more than on purpose and all this without the ref and linesman having the benefit of a action replay unless that headset he was wearing goes to a fourth official watching a TV monitor? I wonder if he would have been so quick to send a player off had it been a RedShite?

On the other hand, it was similar to what I assume was a style of tackle much practiced on Liverpool's training ground, judging by the number of times we have seen it. Had it been done to Gerrard, Souness, Suarez, Kuyt or many others I'd have simply put it in the "well deserved and about time" category.

It's always good to reflect on the hilarious utter disaster that was the end of Gerrard's career - single handedly losing the Premiership, and getting hammered by Stoke in his last match.

I do get a little tired of the other lot causing a media storm over every team or player(s) that puts their foot in on one of theirs, it's not as if Mori had pulled a gun on the lad and shot him dead.

Every club has had a player or two who made silly tackles in many games and for them or us to suggest that Mori is some sort of animal is way over the top. The badge kissing was stupid and we've never really liked that sort of thing at Goodison, but please spare me the faux injured party of our neighbours who believe that they invented the game, believe that they are the only club that play the game fairly and believe that they are the only club that matters. Case, Souness, Smith, Yeats, McMahon, Gerrard, et al have all had moments of madness, some more often than others, I can't recall the media getting upset with some of their antics on the pitch, but of course they are followed by millions and can behave in any way they like.

I can't defend FM here, it was malicious and stupid. He needs to pay his dues and then get back to defending.

Funes has played in the white hot River - Boca derbies where the hatred is so intense that it's quite normal for players to try and injure each other. He was probably pissed off with our weak, heartless, spineless show last night and wanted to stir up some passion.

What makes me want to puke is this fucking nauseating holier-than-thou hypocrisy from the rs. Where do they get all this moral outrage from? From their animals like Case, McDermott, Souness, Gerrard, Kuyt, the greasy Greek, Smith etc....? They can fucking do one as far as I'm concerned.

What I do think is that he knowingly went in "hard" with a "stomping" tackle.

When you go in that way you know it's dirty. Filthy in fact because if you mis-time your challenge anyone in an honest moment knows that type of tackle can severely injure.

So it wasn't intentional as I think he was late, but the "spirit" of the challenge was premeditated, and therefore indefensible.

If that makes any sense whatsoever...

In short, he knew what he was doing.

I sincerely hope Origi mends very quickly. I don't care at all about the color of his jersey. He never once did anything "dirty". He looks a promising, talented, young kid who plays the game clean and properly. Not caring about a malicious injury on an individual with those character traits is animalistic. Challenges like this should be color-blind in my opinion.

Next time, his same tackle will be successful and we will all love him for it. Anyone out there who ever actually played football will know it's a thin line.

And yes – Martinez Out.

I didn't see him kiss the badge. To all those outraged did any of you see him kiss the badge?

So what he went in hard and did one of theirs - isn't that what they have done every derby to us? why should we be the ones on the receiving end all the time. I remember that Suarez rake down Distins calf that went totally unpunished and there was no apology or universal condemation for him.

I say well done Ramiro - at least one of the players showed some fight and looked like he cared. and don't give me that rubbish about how we should be above all that - that attitude is why we're where we are now.

It was a good decision by the ref and FM should've just taken his medicine and walked. A fair cop.

I do understand the business with the badge as he seems to be one to wear his heart on his sleeve. I think he was just expressing his frustration to be honest.

These things need to be nipped in the bud though, people'll be biting each other next.

We need to be brave, bold and strong - all the things you don't associate with Everton at the moment

But seriously, he went in knowing he could hurt someone, knowing he was protected, if he got the ball it would of been okay, but instead he got the planted foot and carried on some lol. could of been really bad but it's not apparently? Linesman mouthed "it's a bad one" and obviously after a few words from the RS it was red.

Most Evertonians agree that Mori's red was deserved and his punishment more than accentuated by the fact he misses a Wembley date and his clubs possible/probable exit from the final barring a miracle turnaround in form. rather ironic meaning that both Manc teams will have kicked us out of semis this season

I've seen it described as high and studs up. It wasn't either, he stepped across to play the ball - I don't think his foot was ever more than about 5 inches off the floor. Origi plays the ball first and Mori is fractionally late. From that point his weight is all on his right foot and is coming down through Origi's ankle.

A red card shouldn't be about the outcome, players get terrible injuries in innocuous incidents. It should be about whether it was intentionally bad or reckless. I don't think it was particularly either.

Carragher and Gerard were dirty fuckers and both got away with murder.
Suarez biting and kicking - did we hear Carragher raving about that.
Yes it was a bad tackle, mistimed but not deliberate as some on here as suggested.
Fair play to him for trying !

P.S. If we appeal the red card he could still play the semi final but we are Everton and we don't do appeals, do we?

I'd have been happier if Mori came out to the blues fans and apologised to us for now missing the Fa cup semi.

I don't care about any apologies to the red shite, as they have enough in there past to apologise til the cows come home, but we'd have to wait forever and a day for that.

People apologizing to them is embarrassing, small time and just compounds our second rate status in this city.
Mori got stuck in, it was no snide Suarez on Distin and Mirallas or a two footed Gerrard battle cry. They love it when they do it to us, they gloat and revel in it ; we bleat, simper and apologise to them.

The media ignore their deads, highlight ours and our whimpering apologies, which just makes it easier next time for a pro red referee to go easy on them and rip out a red card on one of ours at the first opportunity. Pathetic.

He's apologised, that should be an end to it.

Ramiro plays his football with a typically Argentinian passion, for better or, occasionally, for worse; we shouldn't try to stifle it. I suspect he was pressured into an apology

And i´m glad he did.

Tackles like that isn´t passion, it is mistimed and detrimental to the team. I´m sure he meant well, but I am happy that he apologized for letting his team down. Just not sure if "team" is the proper name for it.

Any worst than Gerrard, Kujt, Souness or Suarez, no and I am sorry Liverpool cannot take the moral high ground after some purely despicable acts.

It was a bad challenge, he let the club down, he apologised - move on.

Really!

Ramiro Funes Mori has had death threats over his Merseyside derby foul on Divock Origi, despite saying sorry.

Can only assume such a threat would come from the RS. What short memories that pile of shite have. You all know what I'm on about, so no need to go into detail.

The most hateful, despised bunch of fans to walk this earth.
God how I hate John Houlding. Why couldn't he have just paid the rent money?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/7096054/Ramiro-Funes-Mori-gets-death-threat-and-vile-abuse-for-horror-challenge-on-Divock-Origi-despite-making-a-public-apology.html

I mean, I can cope with the red card issued, but this was not the 'horror challenge' it's being reported as.

Complete over-reaction. It's tough on Origi, but people often walk away from that kind on stamp without any injury. Not trying to justify it...but you will see worse tackles this weekend that will result in no injury and maybe no red card. And certainly no sodding apology!

As others have said, it's about time someone showed some passion and wasn't embarrassed about saying to the world "We are Everton – we don't care what you think about us."

I would have done the same thing myself walking off at Mordor with all their fans screaming at me.

Accidental or reckless, players have to take responsibility and their penance. I hope Funes Mori learns from it and Origi makes a full recovery, we move on....

As others have mentioned at least it was a bit of passion.

Only last week Terry McDermott was saying he still has the scar on his hand, from hitting Gary Stanley in the Derby.

It was a bad tackle, but nowhere near as bad as the two by Suarez on Mirallas and Distin in the same game, beggars belief he didn't get sent off for not one but two nasty sly tackles.

I do not agree with the tackle, but to have the red shite bleating on and on about it, is another classic airbrushing by the shower.

He was an even bigger dickhead considering lack of defenders we already had, and pulling on his badge was even more embarrassing.

That said, the phoney outrage from their fans, considering the tackles our players have had off them over the years, really knocks you sick.

He was slightly late and his studs were slightly up and it resulted in a painful and potentially damaging tackle. I thought a yellow might have done. I guess it was an orange card.

Who gives a shite what anyone says. The badge thing was a bit silly but fuck it, he's a young lad in a pumped up atmosphere.

Best post on the thread

They call us bitter.

https://twitter.com/john_w_henry?lang=en-gb

As the song goes " Always the victims..." They've even managed to turn that into a song that is about Hillsborough which it isn't and never was. Especially as we used sing it to them for years before Man U picked up on it and as soon as they picked it up, so did the press and all of a sudden it's a song mocking the Hillsborough victims.

'Houlding purchased the land at Anfield Road from Orrell in 1885 and charged rent to Everton F.C. Orrell owned land next to the ground and planned to build an access road across Houlding's land. The only way to stop this was to rent Orrell's land or buy it. Houlding wanted Everton F.C. to buy his land and Orrell's land by floating the club. If his proposals had been accepted, Houlding would have made a lot of money from the purchase of the land and the club would have been run by a small number of large shareholders

Not to be confused with our own poster of the same name.

From the Italian for 'clown' - spot on! :D

I can relate to that so well. When I was growing up I had this one wish - to play for Everton just once. It would be a derby game and I would break St. John's leg and be sent off.

Massive respect for Funes Mori from this Evertonian.

What is wrong with Evertonians at the minute, are we all pussies!?

He got stuck in, mis-timed his tacke, kicked the ball away in frustration (plonker) and got sent off. Hardly a jail term scenario Mr. Aldridge you utter moron.

Again the pro Liverpool and anti Everton media all over it like a friggin rash, (red of course). Makes me want to vomit.

Funes Mori is one of us. Passionate, and along with Besic and as with Naysmith we appreciate that.