Everton v Stoke City. 28th Dec at 1500.

[The Equaliser]

Absolutely true that mate. The only people in the refs ear are the likes of Cleverley and Gibson.

Who are both former SAF charges. Interesting.

 

[streeky]

Feeling a bit for Cleverley tonight ,the kid is beginning to show some great form, achilies tendon does not sound good.

 

[Coffee and TV]

Can't believe we were winning with about 10 minutes to go and we ended up losing

 

[The Mighty Quint]

Shearer, Lineker and Wrighty both say the Swedish dwarf's worldy was a cross and he fluked it...

 

[neil999]

clattenburg deffo had a look at john stones and thought 'i'll put you in your place lad, penalty'

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

MOTD unbelievable. Loads about Stoke's goals in the analysis, not a word about Rom's, especially his second one. Off switch. CBA about the other games. Mind you we were on first so early to bed!!

 

[Ring master]

Shearer, Lineker and Wrighty both say the Swedish dwarf's worldy was a cross and he fluked it...

said that when it went in,you can clearly see hes looking sideways,mis hit cross that goes in for me,didnt know it was supposedly his wrong foot though,off course the player would say he meant it lol

 

[Fansince1988]

Shearer, Lineker and Wrighty both say the Swedish dwarf's worldy was a cross and he fluked it...

I'm sure he's Swiss.

 

[The Mighty Quint]

clattenburg deffo had a look at john stones and thought 'i'll put you in your place lad, penalty'

He didn't give it at first then changed his mind, sh!thouse.

 

[The Mighty Quint]

I'm sure he's Swiss.

Whatever, he just claimed he meant it in the interview, clearly looking for his buddy when he hits it.

 

[Jonahjones]

He didn't give it at first then changed his mind, sh!thouse.

He didn't give it, took a few paces back waving his arms and then all of a sudden gave it.

Lino gave it for me and was in his ear. Same wth Arsenal's pen at Villa a few weeks ago.

Changes nothing of couse but that is how I saw it.

 

[PhilEFC]

I thought it was a pen at the time to be fair. Doesn't excuse the schoolboy defending by us though, absolute joke.

 

[nsno-chris]

Pen is irrelevant.

We'd already conceded 3 goals at home, again

To Stoke.

 

[evertony]

You never know, but with Besic and Gibson why aren't they starting Barry

ive just got the feeling Martinez is lost at what to do, there must be something in the contracts of some of the players, as Howard,Barry start every game no matter what, I even think when Jags is back it wouldn't be a bad idea giving stones a rest as he's no better than Mori at the moment.

You mustn't have watched many games .....Barry has been outstanding this season, and even though Lukaku was unplayable today, everyone around me felt Barry was MOM.

 

[Darkhorse]

How. Frustrating.

I thought Stones looked fatigued from the get-go, he's been carrying an extreme amount of responsibility this season and is still developing so an imperfection like this was eventually inevitable. One poor game from the man and we concede 4 - so imagine how many we'd be conceding week in week out if he was n/a - he is not "overated" as some are alluding to.

Watching Tim Howard is cringe-worthy. We must get a keeper in January because we can't expect to do anything this year with a back 5 like ours. Jags coming back isn't going to miraculously solve all problems. Roberto Martinez, our manager that resembles a backbone-less private schoolboy, should have shown faith in Cleverly and played him for 90. Conversely i think the Kone inclusion worked well even though he squandered a few opportunities.

Bottom line: I feel the only reason Martinez isn't under an immense amount of pressure if the fact that we are still in the league cup. If that avenue to silverware wasn't still available then all of these poor results would trigger an uproar - from fans and players alike. He can try and charm us all he wants, but Evertonians are hustlers and you cant hustler a hustler, we call bs a mile away. And at the moment this is smelling a lot like bs.