Match Thread Everton V Man United. Sat Feb 22nd. 12.30.

[Charlie Sweet]

I hate this fixture because it is the fixture that most accentuates our massive inferiority complex.

With Liverpool, the very fact that it is a blood feud, a derby, means we gather ourselves - no matter how bad we are and how good they are - and we throw what we have at it with fury. It doesn't always work, but given the usual disparity in quality between the two, we get better results that we are entitled to.

But all of those primal feelings disappear with United and we simply genuflect far too often for my comfort.

Even though they are now officially Ralph Milne/Billy Garton/Clayton Blackmore rubbish, we find a way to implode.

I expect nothing different today.

Years of domestic (football) abuse has lead to this mindset in the fans (me too, btw). I cannot wait to end these thoughts.

And this is it with Moyes - he crowned entire subservient mindset when he and Kenwright announced triumphantly that he'd been picked by SrAlex to be the next United manager and probably 90% ot Goodison lapped it up giving him a lap of honour. The absolute state of it.

Hopefully Moyes comes out and says something to put that to bed today.