So we entertained Sexy Sven’s Sitteh at Goodison, or was it not so Sexy Sven? What is going on with his teeth?! We were expecting an intriguing game, the battle for 4th place, if we were to beat Sitteh and the shite were to lose at Boro then we would take that Champions League position. We had been entertained at the Bluekipper Lounge by Gary Jones, a real gentleman, a top Toffeeman who told some great tales, fancy being phoned by George Best to be asked ‘fancy coming out for a drink’?!

Another near full house beckoned and the Toffeemen were up for the challenge, Lavo certainly was, having a triple vodka slammer before we left, must have been thinking of dear old Besty! We glanced over at The Blue Dragon as we walked to the ground, back up and running after the Oldham fire, rumour is their curry is hot!

Moyesy was without the African Nations Cup absentees, Joey, Peanuts and The Yak and it was a surprise to hear that AJ was injured following an incident in training, later we bumped into his Dad in town (not in Specsavers) and he said he could be out for up to 2 weeks! Hopefully not and we will have him back for the 2nd leg of the Semi. So the line up virtually picked itself, same back four, Nev & Cars in the middle with the enigma that is Jimmy Mac, Big Vic & Timmy up front but the great news was that we welcomed back the best little Spaniard we know. It is such a joy to behold watching Our Tater grace the hallowed turf with his sublime skills; you need to have a tissue handy just thinking about it.

In honesty, the game was not a classic. We bossed the first half, and should have been further ahead at the break, Sitteh changed it around after half time and had the majority of the possession but Tim only had the one save to make. It was a day when we looked like we wanted it more; a day when there were some top performances, there had to be because in effect we were playing with 10 men! What the fuck is up with Jimmy Mac? He turned in a shocking performance, he just did not look interested and rightly got the curly finger on the hour mark and what a difference when Vaughny came on! It makes you wonder whether or not the King of Scotland is on his way out, it would certainly be a good time to cash in. One player who deserves mention is Big Vic, he was up against The Dunneymonster and Micah Richards, he ran himself into the ground and rightly went off to great applause in the final minute.

Our goal came from a corner taken by Our Tater, it was headed clear to Nev on the edge of the box, he returned it to the Spanish Magician who fired it into the box hard and low, Roger was first to react and he slotted it in nicely and ran to the Park End to milk the adulation. This was his sixth of the season and we could perhaps see our first defender to get into double figures since Degsy Mount. We should have already been in front following the move of the match, Nev to Our Tater who found Hibbo on the overlap, Hibbo to Timmy, Timmy to Tater, Tater chipped into the box to Big Vic who shielded it well before feeding Timmy, The Blue Kangroo’s shot was on target but was well saved, it bounced back to him and he fired over the bar with an open net at his mercy.
So we went in at the break one up and Tim had not had to make a single save. One great little cameo was the crowd getting ex-redshite Hamann booked for the softest of tackles and ‘Kopites are Gobshites’ ringing around the ground.

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We really had bossed the first half so it was a real surprise when we saw the turnaround in the second half. Sitteh dominated possession without creating much, in fact it was the last 10 minutes before Tim was called into action when he went down and saved well from a shot by Petrov.

In the first half there was an incident when Corluca booted Cars and got away with it, obviously Harry Hill had remembered this because he was lucky to stay on the pitch when he reaped his revenge. The short sleeved Cars clattered the polo necked glove wearing Manc and went into Halsey’s book.
Speaking of the ref, once again we got an official who had an absolute stinker, God only knows how we have done so well this season with some of the dick’eads in black that we have had. I relish the day the Clattenburg returns, it can’t be long now. We defended really well as Sitteh used all their subs trying different alternatives to break us down, all to no avail.

So we won the battle for 4th place, news came through that the shite had managed a draw at Boro so it was up to 5th place on goal difference, that will do for now. There were some stars today, great to have Our Tater back, Jags played well as did Roger, Cars and Nev did great work in front of the back four and Big Vic ran his socks off. My Blue Kipper Star Man goes to Hibbo who had the difficult job of marking their main man Petrov, he did a great job and must be a real boost to his confidence. A good win without a few regulars, so bring on Wigan and then for the big one, the sell out ‘v’ Chelsea, all this and Norway still to come! Things are looking pretty good, isn’t it great to be a Toffeeman? COYB FTRS

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