If somebody watched Everton v Liverpool on Wednesday night time with zero context, they may very well be forgiven for pondering from the scenes prompted by James Tarkowski’s last-gasp equaliser that the Toffees had simply received the World Cup, Champions League, Ryder Cup, Tremendous Bowl and Olympic gold all rolled into one.
In precise truth, it elevated David Moyes’ facet from sixteenth to fifteenth within the Premier League desk, a full 14 locations and 30 factors worse off than their Merseyside rivals.
There have been chaotic scenes after the ultimate whistle as Curtis Jones took umbrage with Abdoulaye Doucoure’s goading of the away supporters, whereas Arne Slot and Sipke Hulshoff had been proven crimson playing cards by Michael Oliver, with the previous’s punishment seeming fairly extreme for the alleged offence he’d dedicated.
Everton gamers continued the dangerous blood within the tunnel
The ailing will didn’t finish there, with an insightful report from the Day by day Mail revealing what went on within the Goodison Park tunnel ater the match.
It’s talked about that whereas Liverpool gamers ‘continued to vent their anger’, with Alexis Mac Allister significantly livid by all accounts, these in Everton blue ‘danced round and laughed within the faces of their bitter rivals’.
The report added that each golf equipment are ‘doubtless’ to face punishment from the FA for failing to manage their gamers because the stadium’s last-ever derby produced scenes of mayhem.
Not precisely a champions’ mentality from Everton gamers…
If it’s true that Everton’s gamers laughed within the faces of their Liverpool counterparts afterwards, it offers fairly an perception into their mentality – infantile, petty and downright weird from a workforce who, regardless of their enchancment underneath Moyes, stay nowhere close to the place they need to be within the Premier League standings.
Some Reds followers might really feel their blood temperature rising upon discovering these revelations, but when something it’s all fairly amusing if that’s the response from their native rivals to climbing to the heady heights of fifteenth.
In fact we have to apply context right here, with it being the last-ever Goodison derby and the Toffees scoring a 98th-minute equaliser. In these circumstances, there’d be one thing unsuitable if these of a blue affiliation weren’t jubilant at roughly 9:30pm on Wednesday night time.
Nonetheless, for Everton’s gamers to purportedly be so scornful and ungracious in direction of their opponents is pathetic behaviour, and their celebrations should have been stored to the sanctity of the dressing room.
To not fear – the Liverpool squad received’t have forgotten that when the following derby is held at Anfield in seven weeks’ time, by which stage the Reds will hopefully be considerably nearer to claiming the Premier League title.
