Annoyman

Confidence is a hell of a drug

I hope we don't start out cagy and nervous today, home crowd won't take much of it without the vibe turning bad

Everton are one point clear of the relegation zone, they were only two clear in the as it stands table while they were still level with city

Gave MOM to Cash for settling the nerves with a bit of quality

So nice to go from a  nervy first half where wound up home fans are screaming blue murder for every tackle, and then by the final ten literally half of them have gone home because the game is so clearly over. You'd think you'd changed the channel by accident

Hope little Emi was just being rested or has a minor thing that he wasn't risked for, good to get through the 90 without him with a competent, solid performance if so

God forbid but if Martinez ever plays a game against us for another team his time wasting would make the veins on my head pop out

Lucky Cash missed, the mad bastard would have taken his shirt off again

I hope that wasn't the good half

22 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

Completely off topic whenever I say ASM in writing i think of something quite popular (with the ladies probably)in smutty movies. 
 

"Assistant Service Manager" for me

1 hour ago, Kiwivillan said:

I love him. Cracked up at attempt at day butt for Argentina instead of primera. 

I played ringer 7 a side game for all Argies in NZ and whole game I was yelling "time" and everyone ignoring me then after game I ask them what do you say for time when you have time on the ball and they said "Solo" Lesson learned. Long story short we won 1-0 and I got assist from long ball inside own half *kisses fingers*

Good knowledge! Hopefully the club can disseminate this info so everyone at VP can shout solo at the Emis when they've got space to turn.

Not that it really makes a difference to Buendia, the boy wants to turn he'll turn

Hope not, don't think we've had a youth team player whose name inexplicably floats through my head more often. Don't know what I'll do with the information if I have no use for it

I think it reflected somewhat badly that we had basically no apparent threat on the counter at all in the second half, Everton were playing like an angry Championship team in a cup tie, not Liverpool at Anfield, with the players at your disposal you can at least try and get a second and shut them up for the rest of the game

But we still kept a clean sheet and won, so yeah, not cataclysmic or anything

Haha, pretty much the only info I've retained from 30 years of them is Pickford massacring van Dijk ¯\(°_o)/¯

3 hours ago, El Segundo said:

 And despite ultimately not influencing the outcome, he seemed to be doing his best by adding 5 minutes from nowhere, and then playing an extra one on top giving Everton one final chance from a corner.  You may rate that as acceptable,  I think it's a sign of the appalling standards we are used to that some people do, and I'll have to disagree.   

The ref definitely got a couple of glaring decisions wrong against us in the first half, but our goal came from being allowed to take a corner after the two minutes of first half injury time were up, Everton were obviously going to be given the same chance and Martinez was fairly obviously ridiculously time-wasting and continued to do so in a toned down way after the yellow and into injury time, so I dunno that his timekeeping was the biggest issue he had

I was originally thinking this was just a bad time to play them in terms of the new manager bounce thing and how up for it they'd be, but they're basically going to treat every game like a Merseyside derby now because of Gerrard Derangement Syndrome aren't they

I don't blame them for not liking Gerrard, it's not like we'd have any reason to if he hadn't started managing us and appeared to be reasonably good, but some of them clutching their pearls over him pulling funny faces at them after they've been chanting that his kid is someone else's all game is pretty hilarious

There is something kind of grim about having to psyche yourself up with this "Big Dunc's gonna get us right up for it, Villa won't know what hit them" stuff pre-game; in the end I thought it was reasonably obvious to everyone that what had hit us was one shot on target plus a plastic bottle

I don't necessarily think their bottle-chucking fans are representative of them any more than our ones who booed taking the knee are of us tbh, though some of the loudmouths saying it was only a plastic bottle and Cash and Digne made the most of it should have a full plastic bottle thrown at their head so they can show off how minor it is for us all

The illicit thrill of rooting for Leeds United is a hell of a vibe

2 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

I think I'm going to choose to remember just two things from this one:

• Emi Buendia's header
• Steven Gerrard's litte smile as he walked off at half time.

Lovely.

This is like a cup tie against a Championship team, which kinda doesn't fill me with confidence somehow

what odds can you get for McGinn committing an actual crime at some point in this match

Going for "mixed but the boos will be more noticeable"

Thought the free kick for the first was quite harsh to be fair, it looked like he nicked the ball fairly cleanly from the side

They signed Mykolenko on 1st Jan as his replacement, I guess having known since December that Digne and Rafa weren't going to work together, so they were always going to need to move Digne on from FFP pov

Mykolenko had a mare yesterday by all accounts

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1482736857939169281?s=19

Judging by yesterday their problems are going to take anyone a while to sort out

Ramsey MOTM hahaha, give him a framed printout of this thread