You know the saying, 'The Toffemen never let you down'? Well as Toffemen we knew that today should have been an easy 3 points, turn up, twat Pompey (we always do, home & way), have a good few beers to celebrate, feel good Sunday and all next week. Yes?
No. No surprise either because WE know the Toffeemen!

Having been entertained by 'Westy' in the BK Lounge, the pre-match bevvies were following and the lads were in top form, we were well juiced up and in a confident mood. But hang on a minute, we'd lost four out of our last five matches so far this season (don't include last season as well because you will only get even more depressed!), never mind that, today was the day we were going to launch our campaign, fortress Goodison and all that, fuck the stats, this was the one we were going to win.

Moyesy must have thought so too as he went with a 4-4-2 formation with Benty and Big Dunc up front. No Tom Cruise due to suspension and Nuno was making his debut at left-back. Killa had received an overdue kick up the arse from Moyesy through the week so we were looking as though we were well placed to take Pompey apart - little did we know!
At half time someone said,'Hopefully they can't play any better and we can't play any worse', that about summed it up. We were lucky to go in all square because apart another excellent free-kick from Mikey and a Benty snapshot it was Big Nige who was the busiest of the two keeps and he kept us in the game, We even allowed ex-shite players Vignal & Diao to look good!

Big Nige pulled off a blinding double save to keep out Silva and up front Lua Lua was causing all kinds of trouble with his pace. On the plus side at least we had kept them out and half time hopefully Moyesy would sort things out as it was not looking good. Maybe Biffa would come off the bench and belatedly launch his Everton career, maybe Timmy would produce one of his trademark late runs and score, maybe Simon Davies would recognise at team mate - maybe not.

HALF TIME: Everton 0, Pompey 0

The second half was slightly better, they must have had a kick up the arse at half-time, Killa's must be well bruised by now but it only served to improve for a short while as on the hour mark Big Dunc scored in the wrong end!

From two corners in quick succession the big fella was back defending and from the second one he went up to challenge and ended up nutting it past Big Nige, Moyesy reckons our keeper should have done better - maybe he meant he should have punched it clear before Big Dunc got to it because he certainly had no chance to save it! It just seemed to epitomise our season so far, plenty of effort, not creating much and certainly no luck.
We had a couple of penalty appeals turned down, the best shout was when Timmy appeared to be pushed from behind when trying to reach a header which Duncan had nodded on but the ref didn't see it that way.

The ref was making his Premiership debut an in fairness he had a pretty good game and might be one to look out for.

We went gung-ho after they scored, bring on Ozzy, Biffa & Jimmy Mac but the old favourite of lumping the ball up to Big Dunc seemed to be the order of the day and it was not paying off. Indeed I don't think Benty read one of his flick on's and it really showed that they have not played much as a partnership. The lack of goals and points is worrying even at this early stage of the season, we still rooted in the relegation zone already with just 5 games gone, four defeats and just the one goal and with the Arse away next in the league things could be looking even bleaker in just over a weeks time!

Nuno crowned his debut with a booking for a cynical foul which he had to commit otherwise Pompey may well have been through on goal, he also had a couple og long range efforts a screamer from 25 yards which flew just wide and an even longer range effort which their goalie saved.

In the last minute Big Dunc tried to make amends from a Mikey corner but again their young keeper saved, so it was not to be and just goes to show that there will not be 3 easy points off anyone this season and more worryingly we have lost three games already in the Prem and five out of six this season! Bucharest on Thursday then the Arse away on the Monday night! Then again, you just never know what might be around the corner because the Toffeemen never let you down!

Blue Kipper Star Man goes to Big Nige because without his efforts things could have been even worse!

FULL TIME: EVERTON 0, Pompey 1

It Hurts!

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Report from Goodison Park

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