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Liverpool vs Everton FA Cup Semi-final post match celebration thread
Dispelling the myth of two of the most overrated managers in the league.
David Moyes
Ten trophyless years for Moyes were compounded by Everton throwing away the lead against Liverpool at Wembley. And although perhaps not as severe as failure, it does bring into question Moyes's ability to manage at one of the top Premier League clubs given his relative inexperience at challenging for honours.
Since the Scot took over at Goodison, Middlesbrough and Birmingham have won the League Cup while Portsmouth have won the FA Cup and appeared in a second final. Moyes has just one final to show for his ten years of graft - equal to Millwall in the same time frame and one less than Cardiff. Sunday was the perfect opportunity to add to the tally, against a Liverpool team in disarray and pressured by the need to salvage their season. However, despite being gifted a 1-0 head start, Everton bottled it, with Moyes unable to rouse his team in the same manner Kenny Dalglish ordered Liverpool to recover. Dalglish is a winner, Moyes is not.
While it should be acknowledged that Everton's team cost substantially less than Liverpool's, there is something of a fallacy about claims that the Toffees team was bought with pennies. Indeed, the total expense was near enough the same as the Newcastle team currently punching above their weight in fifth, with sizeable fees paid for Nikica Jelavic, Marouane Fellaini, John Heitinga, Phil Jagielka and Leighton Baines. There are many other clubs in the Premier League whose teams were cheaper to assemble than Everton's and yet would have been able to overcome Liverpool at Wembley.
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Thischarmingman 2.48pm
No it's not, we're above them, and the better team. A freak result at Wembley can't change this, no matter how much the rats try to tell us that. Everton have been the most successful team on merseyside so far this season.
Maybe, but how did results go in both the derby games this year, particularly the one that was played only a month or so back??
"That's how I found myself on the Kop that day I had my blue-and-white scarf safely tucked away inside my coat as I listened to Liverpool songs and swayed with the masses.
Then City scored and I screeched and this big bloke, a Liverpool supporter, made towards me and I thought he was going to throttle me. But he just pulled my scarf from under my coat so it lay on the outside, and said: "You should always be proud of your colours, lad."
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