Could losing 4 nil to Liverpool be the greatest thing that ever happened to Everton?

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It us all about reaction and if we can positively react to it starting vs villa then who knows? Spurs have proven for goes out the wwindow when playing a better team. On tuesday Liverpool were better than us and their strike force is better than ours generally but they rely on it to win games and we have been winning games all over the pitch. So if we keep doing what we are doing then hopefully we can look back and say it was a catalyst rather than reality.
 


Absolutely mortified and gutted at the scoreline and the after effects, and the knot in my stomach, but the positives are a. we went into the game without fear, b. we outplayed them in footballing terms (they were much stronger tactically and had immense counter-attacking), and c. we will no doubt see a reaction to this. The downsides are a. another injury to a key player - we are straining badly, and b. inspite of our positive football, defensively we were....Wigan. But we don't go from the best defensive record in the prem to date to the poorest defence out there overnight. I think there will be a significant reaction, although we may not see the full effect of this until we see key injured players back and/or we see a key defensive signing today (:dodgy:)
 
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When the love of my life dumped me, it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

As a result I wrote dozens and dozens of whining self-pitying ballads which almost got me a contract with Virgin Records in the mid 80s.

I would still rather have had her.

...

Where's me guitar...
 
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Sweet Baby Jesus.

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I got to ask.where is that from?
 

I'd only argue there were mitigating circumstances for the big loss - it doesn't ease the pain a lot but there you go. Luck played a huge part in our conceding the first - I'm not talking luck in the 90 minutes of the game sense, just the freedom Stevie Me had to get ahead of Barry and the further loss of Romelu. We had no luck in our best spell of the game (prior to conceding the 2nd goal - airshot by Pienaar, Barry wide when well placed, Mirallas inches past the post) - the rest of the game - well the game was lost at 2-0 so it hardly matters how many does it (except for the matter of pride etc.) but we also managed to go missing for goals 2 and 3 and gift them number 4 - so there are lessons to be learned there and take on board. Also we can argue that luck was again absent in forcing us to put a weak back four out which they exploited to the full - yeah, they had a weak back four too but that's something we failed to exploit. This is not clutching at straws but a simple analogy that sometimes the luck goes your way and sometimes it doesn't - I doubt many Reds would dispute that, had it been 1-1 after 30 minutes the game could easily have gone the other way.. but they might also argue it might have been 6-3. Just depends how objective you wish to be and how detached you allow yourself to become when you talk about these things.
 
Look I am upset as anyone over the manner of that defeat - but in my eyes LFC did not play that well football wise just long balls - which unfortunately our defence looked like they were tortoises - I looked in my history book of all EFC games and Anfield is a graveyard for us getting winning results in fact in the 1960;s we lost 4-0 and 5-0 there - other grounds we do not win at much are Elland road, and Craven Cottage - the most worrying thing is the injury list and BK reluctance to give RM funds now not next summer!
 
I am looking at Tuesday in a different way and I hope to god that RB and the players that were out on that pitch too are aswell. If I were them I would promise myself that that would never happen to me again as long as I breath the air that is around me, never again......ever. I am still utterly dejected by what I witnessed on Tuesday, so much so that I spent the rest of that night drinking alone at a late night bar and failed to show for work the next day. If a result such as that doesn't gut you then something is badly wrong.
 

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