Everton vs Manchester United

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I'm sure the players will do likewise, as will the supporters.

We are getting media attention. Not for the best reasons. But most are siding with us. It feels welcome, but unusual.

Make it passionate. Make it unbearable for the opposition and the authorities.

But don't let the emotion of the occasion get to us and the players. I recall the same fixture after the sad departure of Alan Ball and the emotion got to us. That didn't go well.

Stay focussed. The manager has done a good job to date protecting the players and keeping their minds on the pitch. Controlled passion, aggression, and focus on the football.

See you all there. Strap in. Seat belts on. Tomorrow is not the be all and end all, but a win will send a message of defiance to where it matters most.

On the football pitch. The Premier League, the FA and football in general has lost its way in that respect.

Like many, all I can do is sit in the Lower Gwladys Street, where I stood as a teenager and get behind whoever is selected to have the privilege to wear that Royal Blue shirt.

Spirit. Forever. We shall not be moved. Fight, fight, fight with all our might.

It's good to see other clubs' supporters and the media siding with us, we have to make the most of it, as I am confident we will. Whether it actually changes things is a different matter of course, let's not worry about that on match days, just go out and crush the opposition.

Every game is a cup final and we will be up for it.

UTFT

As Mr Dylan wrote sixty years ago, "The ship's wise men will remind us once again that the whole wide world is watching ".
Then again, years later he wrote "Wasn't too small and it wasn't too big. Think I'll call it a pig."

Ye pays yer money…

Dylan also wrote “Money doesn't talk it swears”. Could have been written for the Premier League.

ps: I hope we haven't started a “Find an appropriate Dylan quote” chain!

Stirring words from Dyche, hopefully the right man at the right time for us. We could do with some luck too, as it's all gone pear shaped for a few years now. Onwards and upwards.

COYB!!

When she said, "Don't waste your words, they're just lies, " I cried she was deaf.
And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes, and said, "What else you got left?"
It was then that I got up to leave, but she said, "Don't forget
Everybody must give something back for something they get"

The central midfield battle is going to be a massive factor, Gana and Garner with Doucoure advanced is going to need plenty of support from McNeil and Harrison. I think we can keep it tight enough and be the team that can squeeze the win, especially with the crowd being like an extra man.

COYBLUES!

No running on the pitch for any reason.
No throwing of missiles or flares for any reason.

Impeccable behaviour is needed at all times.

COYB!

Dyche in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm in the Street End
Thinking about the government
Big Frank in a trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off

Look out, kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new friend
The man in a sheep-skin coat
From the Boys Pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten.

Sunday headline I dream of:

Everton beat Utd and positive, raucous atmosphere was 13th man, not just 12th at Fortress Goodison.

Or, as I am an ex journo

"You still can't beat us"

Sub Ed may like that more for space!

To the PL

You got a lot of nerve
To say we broke the rules
When the others did much worse
You stood there grinning

You got a lot of nerve
To say you do things fair
You just want to see the
The rich clubs winning

This is not too hard to sing and we should deliver it with the venom that Dylan puts into it because these bastards have an agenda against us and the City of Liverpool.

"The answer, my friend..." Will be blowing through the thread.

On a different note, I can't remember a Man U shower that throws itself on the floor as much as this shower of shite. I am really concerned that they will cheat, and leave us a man or men light.

So many Dylan Titles thrown in too from many which in our continued and present situation are so apt. I didn't know Robert Zimmerman was a frustrated Blue from Duluth either ! :-)

Onana with a Calf Complaint ? I didn't even know he kept Cattle. Learn something new on TW every day ! :-)

COYFBB, Let's twat the Mancs. Onwards and Upwards!

I wouldn't put anything past this crew at the Premier League.

Re Positively 4th Street When your red acquaintances express "sympathy" at our demise:

"When you know as well as me you'd rather see me paralysed, why don't you come out just once and scream it."

1. Luton docked 10 points for using a non-registered agent - Tottenham warned not to use a non-registered agent again after selling Defoe.

2. Barnsley removed from the cup for fielding an illegible player – Liverpool got given a small fine for fielding an illegible player.

3. Everton given 10-point deduction for an over spend of £19.5m with Stadium increases and players suspended paid in full – Tottenham converted £600M stadium debt into bonds 🤷‍♂️ - Man City never paid a player who got suspended.

4. Premier League forced us to sell players and to not sign players to meet requirements. Selling Richarlison for £20M less because Tottenham knew we had to accept to meet requirements. If the Premier League have made us sell players impacting our performance, surely that should've been considered in our punishment. Everton have been open and honest which has not helped or been considered.

5. Super League breakaway was an attempt to break the football pyramid. The clubs involved got a fine of £20Mbetween them. 🤷‍♂️ How is this not worse than Everton not anticipating Covid, War in Ukraine, Payer X suspended, cost of living crisis and stadium increased costs??? 🤷‍♂️

6. Leicester City breaching FFP rules and getting a £3.1Mfine then going on to win the league then the FA Cup. 🤷‍♂️

7. And Man Utd this season getting a €300k fine for breach of ffp

Fucking corrupt against EFC.

Rat boy Penandez up to his usual antics and the ref doing nothing about it.

The ref will probably turn up with the Man Utd coach with his list of instructions and corrupt prize money waiting.

Wanted Club by Leicester City
Wanted Club by the KC of Leeds
Wanted Club by many others
Wanted by the Premier League.

I expect a controlled, professional, clinical performance by our club.

(...to eviscerate these bastards and toss their entrails to the buzzards and their bones to the hyenas, and then spew the remnants of their blood over the denizens of the Commission.)

Oops, did something just slip out there that I shouldn't have said?

My apprehensions:- Players being "Too up for it". Thus giving the referee the easy and unjustified excuse to follow Premier League instructions for booking our lads for nothing challanges.

I see nonsense sending-offs. The VAR giving penalties to the cheating diving Mancs. I do believe we will be cheated out of a result.

I fear a pitch invasion which will be media sensationalised into something sinister and sanctionable.

Remember the bent twat KC hitting us for 10 points is the same KC who set a record fine on our club for the pitch invasion vs Palace and is the same bent twat who now has to decide how much compensation we owe to other clubs including his beloved Leeds.

In any just world, it should be the Premier League that are responsible for any such compensation if it is to be applicable at all.

No doubt it will be a bear pit tomorrow at the Old Lady, so let's put on a show for the faithful and put two fingers up towards the absolute pricks that sadly run our game!?

COYBB

Here comes the story of the Everton
The club the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that we never done*
Put in the bottom three, when one time we coulda been
The champions of the league.

* Not quite true.

what album was that on? Great lyrics!

Link

But this is Everton. We are the team everyone wants to play when they haven't won away for a year, when their striker hasn't scored for 10 games, when they haven't had a penalty all season etc etc.

With the weight of expectation being so great and most neutrals behind us, why do I have this nagging fear that tomorrow may not go well? That would be our beloved Everton. Please prove me wrong.

That's it. They have nothing else special. No dodgy penalties or red cards because they have white shorts.

I wonder what odds you can get on Doucoure being given an early yellow card and for good measure? If we are leading, Pickford getting a yellow, to add on additional minutes to help Man Utd out.

No guarantees on the result but Dyche has had them well organised of late and I'm sure he won't need to fire them up. First goal will be crucial but Man Utd are no great shakes.

"What album was that on? Great lyrics!"

The Very Best of The Bullshit Blues! :-)

So today we will drive Man Utd back, earn the 3 points, raise the hairs on the back of the necks of all Evertonians, no matter where they are... We will not be beat!

To gain 3 points here will require a mighty effort from the players.

Neville Southall:

If the attitude is not good, the people don't want you
A harsh and unforgiving place
They don't suffer fools gladly
And they don't back down from anybody

Now that last comment resonates. Don't back down Everton. Stand and fight.

The non-independent commission has shafted us, but we will have our day. Turn it around, Blues.

We are behind you. As always, we will be there in person or following however we can. And be vocal. Regardless of the result, we make a statement today. How much this club means to us and how much football means to us. Something those people in suits in their Paddington offices seem to have forgotten.

Or never even understood.

Anyway. Onto Goodison.

No surrender!

UTFT!

Cool heads (players), strong hearts (fans). The players must control their emotions to win this game.

I fancy us today, but we need to understand that Man Utd are also under siege. They have better players than us. They will want to silence an increasingly critical football community.

Make no mistake. This is a toughie. We have to be at our very best to get a result. The fans will have to play our part. My concern is the damage a reverse result may inflict on morale.

There will still be 75 points up for grabs after this game and, while we would all like to see enough points on the board to secure safety by the turn of the year, that isn't going to happen.

We are at war with the Premier League. One battle will not determine the outcome.

Every pundit appears to be on us to win. You all know how that normally goes. As long as we can hold our heads up high at the end of the game.

I just hope the non-effective stewards have had their shredded wheat this morning because there will be international nobheads hell-bent on pitch invasion, no matter what the outcome.

Today doesn't mark the end of our season.

We go for the 3 points just as we should do for every match.

But after today, there are still over 70 points to play for and this team has shown recently that it has enough to go and get some of them.

Euston bound. Lime Street bound. Goodison bound.

I'll probably get home around midnight, but I have to be there.

It's a long season, and we need to make sure we start to create a unity, that will last for a lot longer than the disproportionate results of this UN-independent enquiry.

Cool heads win football games, especially when you play for a team that is slowly getting built on defensive discipline. It's not always easy getting behind these tactics when you are going into the stadium on the front foot so I'm just hoping the fans don't end up being at odds with the team by the end of today's game.

However, the second team have recorded debts of over £1 billion, but apparently that is okay.

Funny business this Premier League, still I expect they know what they are doing and just maybe FairPlay doesn't mean what I thought it meant.

Yes, the first game after the great debacle would be a great one to win but it's the start of the long, hard road back up the league table.

Right, it's like this. As my new brief, you need to advise me this time better than the last lot I had – my last lot of briefs were dumb asses and didn't do too well in my case. It's like this, see…

The area I live in is patrolled by PC Plod. He's not a great fan of mine, thinks I'm a bit of a low-life but I've got on reasonably well with him. Until, that is, a new sergeant came in who wanted to be more hands-on in the area and send out a few harsh messages – he didn't think PC Plod had a good enough grip on things. Plod didn't want him interfering so he went out with the intention of shopping a few of the low life.

What happened was, I'd mismanaged my money so got into debt. A lot of my family egged me on and we had this plan to make a few quid. Spent a lot of money on the “tools” to do a job.

Plod spotted me tooled up and about to do a break-in. Felt my collar. He's also caught a few others in our area doing the same thing – one of them a much bigger job, mind, real plush mansion. Anyway, I was first one up before the beak.

The family didn't help. They'd given me all sorts of bad advice all along and had now gone quiet and some had even pissed off (well, I'd already told them to piss off, if truth were known).

So, I went down, got sentenced. Too big a sentence I think.

Thing is, I didn't help myself; I was up to no good, so bang to rights, and I pleaded guilty (cos I know I'd looked to make a few bob). But I said in mitigation that the tools cost me a lot of money and the job hadn't worked out – doesn't that count for anything? And another thing, I'd spent a lot on this one device to get me in but I couldn't use it as it had a fault – so doesn't that count for anything?

I know I was bang to rights but I'm going to appeal it because Plod had it in for me and I think the penalty is too harsh. I know I got done for being rowdy a year or two ago, but come on. And I'm now losing out on my usual wage. I might end up being bankrupt after all this and I'll then get evicted. Where do I go then?

And another thing, I followed up one of my “leeds” (think that's how you spell it), and this guy who was on the bench and sent me down, well a few years ago he'd been in court representing the family that I tried to burgle, so obv a mate of theirs! They're all in it together, Plod, the beak, the lot of them.

Anyway, I'm appealing. But I don't know whether to appeal because Plod wanted to get me and he knew the beak. Should I say that? Or do I appeal cos the sentence was stiff? Or appeal on both grounds? Thing is, if I appeal and accuse them all of being in it together, I've heard the new judge who's hearing the case is a mate of theirs and won't like that, so he might even increase the sentence. Think I might just appeal for leniency.

A load of my mates are planning to hold a noisy protest march in our area, banners and all that. I think the TV cameras will be there. Great lads, salt of the earth. Just hope it doesn't upset the powers that be.

Anyway, you're my new brief. What do you reckon?

Just get me out of here. There are some right unsavoury characters around here where they've put me.

Tempus fugit, may arse.

If the players perform and give it their all, as they have been, then that is all we can ask of them. We can hope Man Utd have on off day, I'd love Calvert-Lewin to give Maguire a torrid time and to get on the scoresheet!

Wish I was with those that will be there, do us all proud.

Your little story is rife with intent to commit a crime – a break-in.

To parallel that with Everton's incompetence and naivety in failing to correctly define their financial matters within the dubious construct of the P&S Rules is not only completely inappropriate but wholly disingenuous.

We will now face the full range of weapons at the Premier League's disposal and you can rely on the officials and VAR to play their part. No one should take the bait no matter what the provocation, as further mega fines and points deductions will ensue, courtesy of Leeds's biggest fan.

I'm expecting that by January we will be facing £100 million plus in 'compensation' payments so that we are forced to sell Calvert-Lewin, Branthwaite, Pickford and Onana at knock down prices to Man City, Arsenal, Man Utd, Spurs et al. This is to guarantee the Premier League's target – our relegation and it helps keep the Sky 6 expenditure within limits. Job done.

If we do go down, let's go down fighting.

As for today, I fear Martial and the diving diva Fernandes, but most of all Hojlund is a worry, because he hasn't scored a league goal yet. We all know what happens next. Everton that.

Nevertheless I'm hoping for a big fighting win. 3-1 and f**k the rotten and corrupt EPL.

COYB. Give 'em hell.

I think Hoijlund is injured – he's defo touch & go for the game today anyway.

EFC needs to be alive and kicking, don't go down without a fight. If we lose the game (and it's a tough one) all fair and square then so be it.

The media can spin this however they want to, but we must be heard both on and off the pitch.

UTFT!

Goodison will be loud, vociferous, hostile, and partisan. There's a good team bubbling under the surface. I think on pitch they'll need to not lose their heads at any point, simply play, stick to the plan. It'll come.

Martin Samuels in The Times has it right... it's a shame it's taken rape of Everton to lay bare the corruption of fair play, the abandonment of any pretence to having a level playing field. But most of all, it's the determination of the Premier League to kill Everton at any cost that is naked in its use of a so-called "independent" commission. Independent from who or what, or even how?

What I would like to know is what club or clubs are driving this?

Clever.

Danny - All the way back at post 4.

"Don't let the emotion of the occasion get to us"

Coming from you, that sounds a bit like Corporal Jones shouting "Don't panic".

No offence meant Danny. Just a gentle leg pull. The emotion in your posts is what makes them.

I didn't get a ticket so won't be there to protest today. Would you kindly throw a few fucks into the Premier League on my behalf please!

Onana supposed to be out with the calf injury, why did he join up with Belgium and aggravate the injury?

We admitted to the Premier League that we messed up. We need to see what the appeal says and move forward.

The points matter more than anything else. A lucky 1-0 would suffice. Confidence will have been dented. We cannot afford the occasion to get to us. We must grind out 3 points, end of.

Having said that, I am sure that our boys will be up for this.

Time to dig out some Lennon classics.

Power to the people, Revolution, Gimme some truth

Imagine there's no corruption, easy if you try
No need for greed or hunger, or points deductions to.
Imagine all the fairness, living in the Prem.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

I hope some Day the 14 will join us
And the also rans will be as one.

Let's give them hell today, show them they have picked on the wrong club, and the wrong fan base.

I think all players selected for international duty have to attend to show that they are genuinely unfit to play. I doubt if Onana did any serious training, went but came back early to be treated at Finch Farm.

We can definitely get at this Man Utd team. Hope the fans are raucous for the whole game and the players step up. Oddly, the points deduction could improve Dyche's standing with the fans because he's the kind of manager we need in this scenario.

COYB. Let's get 3 points and get ourselves back up the table.

A very honest and sad tale, had me in tears to be honest. I think your brief will tell you, when he dries his eyes.

“Live and learn mate, just do your time, you'll do that sitting on your pot, you'll be out in no time.”

“Oh by the way, here's my card for next time.”

England were decent under Venables, especially the 4-1 game against the Dutch and Gazza's goal against Scotland.

Come on Blues let's take our rage out on Man Utd and send them packing and get the 3 points, UTFT 💙