We shouldn't be so whiter than white all the time. Dint dive, dont play for a pen, even if theres contact its probably not a pen - we wont win anything with that. Liverpool look for a pen everytime they are in the box, they all appeal every shout, they build pressure on a ref so that hd eventually thinks he has to give one their way to even up all the ones he's 'missed'. Then if they dont get their way they kick up a national media storm and get Webb banned from their big games so that Clattenburg comes in instead.
This game is corrupt from top to bottom, we can either learn how to compete or keep finishing mid table. This whole 'we're a team of head boys' act is tiring. McCarthy needs to land a few tackles on people, we neef to know when to do the tactical foul, we need to play for pens, we need to pressure refs. Its what everyone else is doing. We're the most moral fifth placed team ive ever seen.
The core tenant of being an Evertonian is that we are naturally good whilst they represent the forces of evil. That mught have worked back in the school of science days but the gentlemans game is gone. There are a new set of rules but we dont play by them.