Moyesy says: "Liverpool were always favourites, I’ve said that many times. We are just going to try and win as many as we can and keep going. We’ve been on a great run but today was not one of our better performances. The players have been terrific but today we dropped below the high standards we have set. I am disappointed with today’s game. The players have been excellent and this is our first defeat in I don’t know how many league games but we’ve not got a great record at Fulham.

The mood has been good and the club has done great. I am just disappointed we didn’t play well but I have to give Fulham credit because they made it hard for us. I didn’t think it was a game of many chances and they shaded the half chances more than us. We should have done much better and stopped their goal. I don’t like anybody scoring against but Brian is a great player, great professional and he deserves everything he gets.”

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Bacon Butty Reports From The Smoke

Right. Here are the facts:
- we lost on pens in midweek despite a great performance and were gutted
- we’re out of Europe
- unless you’re selling tickets for the end of season party, 4th place is the target
- we have lost every Prem match away to Fulham
- we have not won at Fulham since 1966 (God Bless Alan Ball)

So here we are, Fulham away, the breeding ground for ex-Toffeemen (and redshite) & Yanks (is that racist?), where we had not won for nearly 42 years. What would your tactics be given the following?

- we want 4th place
- any result we get today then the shite must match next week ‘v’ Man U away
- we all know about ‘hard luck’
- a few of the squad told us about what we could expect here on in – must win.

Now bear in mind, WE do not know the facts but when we saw the squad today EVEYONE thought – ‘look at the bench’! James Blunt, Hibbo, Nuno, Bainesy & Rodders!! Not a goal between then in their Everton career. OK so we are going to try for the win, but the draw will do.

Not forgetting we’ve not won since 1966 and they are fighting for survival, despite being shite.

So we kick off and quickly realise that despite being shite, that they are up for it. It took us over 30 mins to get going, luckily the were so poor that it did not matter. However, by then AJ had gone off for Hibbo – no he did not go up front for his first goal, Hibbo went full back, Nev went to midfield and Ossy went up front.

Ossy – was disputably the best player on the pitch on Wednesday, today he was pushed up along side The Yak – the place he was when Moyesy arrived, to show us what he could do. It didn’t happen. Surprise. It got worse for Ossy layer when Moyesy decided to put Roger up front!

The 1st half was bollocks. They had the majority of play without threatening us, in the last 15 mins we got a grip and brought out a couple of easy saves from their keeper but if truthful, both teams were looked as if they were trying to avoid relegation.

As half time approached, we agreed, a draw was no good to either team. We need a result which the shite needed to match away to Man U (that’s if we beat the ‘ammers & Fulham need to get out of the drop zone.

HALF TIME 0-0

We started well in the second half taking the game to them, again without causing much problems, but it would all change soon.

We had ex-Toffeemen Davies and Mc Bride in the side and they combined to win the match. Remember Davies? He was shite for us. We thought his first name was ‘Fuck Off’ as all you ever heard was ‘Fuck off Davies’. Well ‘Fuck Off Davies’ crossed, in the absence of the meandering Hibbo and the Harry Hill lunge, and McBride duly despatched a header to put the Cottagers one up. It was no surprise.

There were a good few who had not turned up today, none more so than the star of the second half on Wednesday – Our Tater! Surely he should be destroying team like this?

The next incident beggars belief.

We are one down. Moyesy has chosen a bench who have never scored a goal. Ossy is up front alongside The Yak.

Moyesy brings Bainesy on and pushes Roger up front and drops Ossy back into midfield. It had the desired effect FUCK ALL. Joey missed a fee header from a corner but that was our only chance.

We were poor today. The Yak worked hard and had a few efforts, we looked solid at the back apart from the goal which was lucky given Joey’s assist. My Blue Kipper Star Man goes to Roger, played out of position from the start, moved to centre forward and he looked like a fish out of water but chased everything.

As for Moyesy, once AJ went off we were struggling. Once we saw him leaning against the dug out with negative body language then we knew that it was all but lost.

COME ON, LET’S RALLY AND CHALLENGE THE SHITE, IF WE GET 4th PLACE & THEY LOSE IN EUROPE THEY’RE FUCKED.

WE MUST BEAT WETS HAM & THEN WE MUST GET A RESULT AT ANALFIELD. COYB FTRS.

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The lads are going to have to dig deep after their heroics on Wednesday night. But we have been good at beating hoodoos of late. Fulham have beaten us in the last 8 games in London. Beyond belief that stat. But whoever Moyesy puts out in the blue shirt should be enough to get the 3 points

Timmy is touch and go and Manny is deffo out. There could be a few changes after the efforts on Wednesday, because there were some tired legs at the end of that grueling night. But in saying that it will probably be the same 11 that started the game against the Italians. If there are changes you may expect Hibbo and maybe Tommy given a run out.

Sausage's XI To Start: Howard, Neville, Jagielka, Yobo, Lescott, Osman, Arteta, Pienaar, Carsley, Johnson, Yakubu

Everton from: Howard, Wessels, Hibbert, Neville, Yobo, Jagielka, Gardner, Lescott, Valente, Baines, Osman, Arteta, Pienaar, Cahill, Fernandes, Yakubu, Johnson, Anichebe, Rodwell. Gravesen

Last Season's Fixture

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They play in white and are not very good. But we haven't beaten them on their turf since 1966 when Alan Ball scored the only goal on his debut.

Fulham from: Niemi, Keller,Stalteri, Volz, Hughes, Hangeland, Stefanovic, Bocanegra, Konchesky, Bullard, Davies, Murphy, Smertin, Seol, Bouazza, Andreasen,McBride, Dempsey, Johnson, Healy, Nevland, Kamara.