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13Nov

“No doubt that Everton are the top team on Merseyside”

Everton’s well-earned victory over Sunderland last Saturday saw them keep their place in the top four as their cracking start to the season continued. And the Life’s a Pitch team believe the blue half of Merseyside fully deserve their plaudits. So can David Moyes’ team can justifiably call itself the best team in Liverpool?

“They are at the moment,” says the People’s Tom Hopkinson of Everton’s obvious superiority over Liverpool this season. “There can be no questioning that – they’re playing some terrific football. They’re getting results – the 2-1 victory over Sunderland at the weekend, for example – that they perhaps wouldn’t have got in years gone by. All of this comes against the backdrop of a manager who is out of contract in the summer, which is hugely significant. There can be no doubting that Everton are the top team on Merseyside.”

Regarding Moyes, the Sunday Telegraph’s Jason Burt reckons the Scotsman’s unfounded reputation for being dour counts against him. “I know for a fact that Tottenham decided they didn’t want to look at him because of that. They actually thought he was a defensive manager, that it wouldn’t work, that kind of football. But he’s not a defensive manager, he’s a very positive manager.”

Crucial to the Toffees’ blistering start to the season has been the form of Marouane Fellaini and fellow Belgian Kevin Mirallas, says the Mail on Sunday’s Ian Ridley. “I saw them at Fulham a couple of weeks ago and they were a very potent combination. They know each other’s games. Fellaini was absolutely unplayable that day. He was a beast and he’s at the peak of his game at the moment.”

The team also chart the progress of Brendan Rodgers and his young starlets at Anfield.

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  • Eddie_Honda

    18 Years and counting, no team with a trophy drought longer than Leicester City’s can claim to be ‘top’ of anything.

  • Tim

    Everton can claim to be top of Merseyside…they finished above Liverpool last season, and are well above them this…despite spending several hundred of millions less over the last decade. If Moyes had been given Liverpool money over his reign, Everton would be title challengers.

  • Dave

    And you call us bitter!

  • Eddie_Honda

    Little everton have been above LFC for about 9 months during a period of upheaval for Merseyside’s most successful club, have been comprehensively beaten 3 times and always outplayed in every derby over the past few years, have not come close to winning a trophy for almost 18 years, have a laughable record in Europe on the rare occassions they actually qualify, and are unable to fill their delapidated, wooden, s**thole of a ground unless it’s a derby and LFC fans fill it for them.

    Now contrast with LFC who, despite their aforementioned upheaval and turmoil over the past couple of seasons, have still managed to qualify for Europe a couple of times, won a trophy, reached another European semi, reached another cup final, and finished above their ‘top’ neighbours every season bar the last one, when they where one place behind.

    Hardly the massive ‘shift in power’ the everton wools would like you to believe.

    18 years and counting.

  • Mike

    hmmmmm Everton finished above you in 2006? Basically shows me you know fuck all about football.

  • Mike

    You also do not draw an argument on the MASSIVE investment Liverpool have had in comparison to Everton, because of this the teams are not comparable.

  • Eddie_Honda

    You mean 2006, when LFC finished 32 points above little everton? Talk about knowing fuck all about football, stick to rugby or cricket you clueless bitter blueshite wool.
    As for investment, LFC have had investment because they’re a much bigger club with a much, much bigger fanbase which comes as a result of having much more success. It’s nobodies fault but your own that you’re skint, it’s because you’re a small club who never win anything.

  • Mike

    Apologies I meant the 2004/5 season, but considering our “little club” and poor investment we have been getting closer to Liverpool over the last 10 years, and Liverpool have more fans because people are glory hunters! An overwhelming chunk of their fans come from Norway and Ireland, I know this because I see it all the time. You’re a sinking club and you and the other deluded fans can’t handle it……I am a born and bread scouser and no doubt you’ve been a great fan since 2005. Well done, bravo. Sheesh, I’ve probably sat in Anfield more times than you….I don’t hate Liverpool, many of my family is red…it’s just people like you who I have no respect for.

  • Eddie_Honda

    If you really are from Liverpool ,which I seriously doubt, then you will know that LFC fans in the city outnumber bitter blues by at least 2:1, the proof can be found here – http://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/articles/rightmove-news/youre-supposed-to-be-at-home.

    To be honest I’m surprised it’s not more than
    66%, I think if you took a full survey you would find that at least 80% of scousers are Red, there’s hardly any bitter blues in our city, which is one of the reasons why you never fill your wooden ground.
    As for foreign fans, of course we’ve got loads of them too, are you saying that’s a bad thing? It’s what happens when you’re a big, famous, successful football club, something you as a little everton fan wouldn’t have a clue about.

  • mark knoll

    everton fans and toffeeweb are totally mental
    fantasy land with captn pip leading the way and director moyes all bog eyed and useless

  • Mike

    To start, thank you for proving to every one here that KAGS (kopites are gob shites). You’re using Right Move as a source to back up your argument hahahahaha that is awful. Next you’ll say the pies at Goodison are shit because you read reviews on Trip Advisor! Even if the source was reliable, then a huge chunk of those fans will be international students and those who have moved here from Ireland. I was born in this city, I have lived here my whole life and I have been a season ticket holder for over 14 years. A huge amount of my student friends are Liverpool fans and they’ve moved from all over the country and Ireland….and some are turning over to Man City now ha what a joke. And clubs become big and famous through investment…..Chelsea being a prime example of a club with no history. Everton are the 4th most successful club ever in league history and we won the league at ANFIELD before Liverpool FC even existed, how’s that for history? So get off wikipedia and go to a match :)

  • Mike

    is that why Liverpool fans say “this season is our season” EVERY year.

  • Kris Finch

    the bitter toffee’s have done alright for a dozen of so games….they have a long long way to be the best on merseyside, class is not temporary….everton’s position is !

  • Kris Finch

    You are deluded son, everton will win the same again this season….naff all

  • Kris Finch

    Liverpool are magic, everton are tragic; Crazy Horse

  • Scobby

    Yawn…….what have Everton won in the last two decades? so they’re above Liverpool in the league, big deal. Unfortunately for Everton, they don’t give out trophies for this massive feat!!! 17 years and counting…..

  • mark knoll

    if moyes had been given liverpool money he would still have bought neville and possibly all the other manc rejects. moyes doen’t know which socks to wear each day, as a simple man he does simple things, badly

  • mark knoll

    you are correct and after today’s brilliant result at reading everton have proved, yet again, that with moyes they will never win anything

  • It wuz chelsea

    ‘at least 80% of scousers are Red, there’s hardly any bitter blues in our city’ merseysides and formerly englands most sucessfull league club and 75% maybe more of these so called redshite have never seen their team win one of these trophies apart from when the parade goes along queens drive and yet there is still more of the 20% of scouse toffees that actually go the game than this so called 80% of you kopite clowns that sais it all about you filthy animals really your idea of ‘supporting your team’ is just buying the new shirt or a shiny new lfc coat ‘but i cant get a ticket’ we hear you cry ‘derza twenty year waiting list for season tickets laaa’ yawn you plastic part timers just cant be arsed to really support your team your more plastic than chelsea fans all these norwegians must spend a fortune going to that toilet of a ground you play in every week and yet you so called staunch reds cant even be arsed to get the bus or taxi down the road to watch your team really to call yourselves ‘reds’ is false you think going the boozer and buying two pints to watch the shite makes you good reds ahahaha L14 reclaim the kop or whatever its called ever heard of it? i bet 79% of these gormless scouse reds dont even know what it is do you know what it is? have you ever even seen your team lift a trophy? oh yea i forgot you bums all want a ticket if theres a semi and or a final but not all the rounds before you got to the final have you ever been to a game? do you even know the way to the arl kemlyn road? do you even know where that is? deluded shameless and an embarrassment to my city you fools are you constantly bring shame on the name of my city…..always the victim its never your fault hahaha thank god we have you around your always good to laugh at retarded bitter red clowns

  • Roy

    How many games have been played so far?

  • Eddie_Honda

    Do one you snivelling little shithouse wool, I’ve seen my team lift more trophies in the last 10 years than you have seen yours lift in your entire, pathetic, cowardly existence.

    We fill our ground, you gobshites don’t, your argument about support if therefore null and void.

    Bye bye wool., EIGHTEEN years and counting.

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