Everton banter 3

25 Nov 2025 08:47:12
A special word for Barry,14 headers won there’s a player in there and it’s starting to show, I was one of his biggest critics but the lad has done well in the last couple of games, oh and as for Zirkzee no thank you, he’s worse than what we have.

{Ed025's Note - Barry worked his arse off GB and all credit to him, but he still has to offer a lot more to his game to convince me mate..

25 Nov 2025 09:01:30
He did well winning headers and worked hard.

But, still hasn't had a shot on target this season.

25 Nov 2025 09:03:29
Yes he has mate and I still expect us to get a striker in Jan, I reckon Barry will get the nod over Beto in future.

25 Nov 2025 10:28:32
Barry starting to work well with Ndiaye. That can only continue to improve. The lad just needs a goal now. Please can it be this weekend.

25 Nov 2025 10:57:04
Great result and performance last night from the lads. I actually think if we had 11 on the pitch it would have been more comfortable. We were playing really well.

As for Barry he was excellent. He's a good player and you can see he's got all round gameplay. A goal would sort him out but we also need someone who helps the rest of the team and that is something he's doing really well in the last few games.

UTFT COYB NSNO.

25 Nov 2025 09:38:01
Agree Ed. Always ready to commend a player on their application and Barry deserves his praise for his effort last night but that really should be a baseline performance every week with the amount of money that they get paid mate.

{Ed025's Note - i completely agree BN..

25 Nov 2025 01:08:53
Ed 25.great result, but the sending off was nonsense, rules is rules, but has this idiot ever heard of discretion, a word in the players ?, and maybe a yellow card but this ultra clueless referee jumped to a conclusion, without stopping to give the situation a monuments thought.

The consensus of the majority of pundits, all seemed to suggest the decision was way over the top. can the incident be appealed.

{Ed025's Note - i dont think so AB, we will be told its the letter of the law mate and the ref gets his day in the spotlight..

25 Nov 2025 10:29:20
Absolutely no way that gets turned over.

25 Nov 2025 11:12:13
If anyone should be suspended, it's the idiotic ref, for lacking critical judgment, and comon sence.

25 Nov 2025 07:39:04
{Ed's Note - SamiKewell has posted a new article entitled, Liverpool FC Team Issues and Misjudged Expectations

25 Nov 2025 05:15:27
Gana apology on his Instagram story

"I want to apologise first to my team-mate Michael Keane.

"I take full responsibility for my reaction. I also apologise to my team-mates, the staff, the fans and the club.

"What happened does not reflect who I am or the values I stand for. Emotions can run high, but nothing justifies such behaviour. I'll make sure it never happens again. "

And so he bloody well should. I thought at the time it would cost us dearly because the referee couldn't wait to brandish the red card. Yes I know it's a strike to the face in the letter of the law and in the rules he would have to go off.

Manchester United were awful I think it's fair to say. Even my United supporting mates couldn't believe they didn't capitalise with the extra man advantage. A solid defensive display and Pickford was back to his best. Big shout out to Thierno Barry as well because that's the best I've seen this lad play. He was winning headers all over the place. 14 out of 23 aerial duels won.

25 Nov 2025 07:36:16
Looks like Moyes is ok with it? Good win and it takes us over the reds.

25 Nov 2025 08:44:58
This lad was players player of the season last year. Realistically, we might not see him play again, Moyes will need to find a solution next week and when he’s at AFCON, and he’d have to play his way back into the team in February.

It’s a daft decision, which I’m sure he regrets. At least it shows passion, something the Man U fans would welcome. Sure I’ll get pelters for this but heyho.

25 Nov 2025 10:31:40
All for showing passion but the lad actually lost the plot, and if it wasn’t for Pickford we could have ended up having two sent off.

25 Nov 2025 13:03:23
Spot on BMD.

24 Nov 2025 23:06:44
Everyone was brilliant tonight and I can’t slate anyone except Gana.

As for the red card, it a bit funny isn’t it really? Only team in premier league history to have a player retroactively banned for diving, only team in premier league history to have a player booked for taking a quick free kick too quickly. Then this today when I’ve literally seen worse in other premier league games.

If that was Casemiro and Yoro tonight, is that a red card?

Of course it isn’t.

{Ed025's Note - spot on Swan..

24 Nov 2025 23:21:11
Gueye fing idiot, what did keane do insult your ego, call you a c##t, I have heard and been called worse for messing up on the pitch. White Honkey comes to mind. He didn't call you what I said, he rightly called you out for being a dick head. I hope Moysie has a proper go at you. It's called professional football.

24 Nov 2025 23:23:44
Letter of the law Swan117 mate. The fact ManUtd couldn't capitalize hilarious. Gueye was a pratt simple.

25 Nov 2025 05:59:47
Ref was a few feet away watching it all. Gueye was a fool and lacked self control for which he has apologised. If that turned out a loss it would’ve been a travesty on the travelling fans. As it is though they had a night to remember.

If the team can move on then we can too.

25 Nov 2025 10:35:20
Yep what’s done is done move on now. Though I’ve got to say bit worried that they’re now building a boxing ring at Finch Farm. I mean there’s no way Keane can make the weight.

24 Nov 2025 22:53:26
I see Gary Neville didn’t name a MoM tonight, too hard to pick one from our team? Or unable to give it to a Man U player?

{Ed025's Note - there were 10 of them Big C..

24 Nov 2025 23:08:18
It was a real defensive masterclass. I’m really proud of what I saw tonight.

25 Nov 2025 10:36:09
Pickford showed everyone why he is number one.

24 Nov 2025 22:12:50
Well slap me silly, that was bloody brilliant!

24 Nov 2025 22:07:37
Moyes took a load of flack on here a few weeks back, I’m sure everyone can agree that him, and the whole team did us proud tonight. Superb defensive performance and Pickford World Class again. UTFT.

24 Nov 2025 22:39:35
They really did JB. It was such a decent performance from us tonight because we normally wilt in that situation. I will be the first to admit that when the nonsense happened between Keane and Gana, I thought 'here we go', same old sh*** where things just seem to go against us in the most ridiculous fashion. How many times have we witnessed us crumble in situations like that, so fair play to each and everyone of them tonight.

I know it sounds a bit daft but it may have actually helped us going down to 10 tonight. We can compete with the best defences in the league when we sit in and soak up pressure, as we have been so used to it over the years. Add to that the fact that United are dreadful playing against a low block.

I thought given how things went, Barry was so much better tonight from a physical and work ethic perspective. He won 14 ariel duels tonight, more than any PL player has managed this season. One thing I noticed tonight as well and it might sound weird but he looked like he has learned to run properly again. Watching his Villareal highlights, he looked like he had some decent acceleration and pace to him but showed nothing of the sort in a Blue shirt before tonight. He always looked like he struggled to get going, resembling a baby giraffe at times.

Pickford was top drawer as he is most games these days. We don't get 3 points without him tonight.

Michael Keane was also brilliant. His mentality is something that has been called into question during his time with us (rightly so) and I thought his arse would go after that incident with Gana but he turned in another quality defensive display for us.

The way that Grealish appeals every decision to the ref, not just involving him but his teammates is invaluable to us. It is something that we never do so it is great to see from Grealish, something he has clearly got from being at a top performing club.

Hopefully we can get to January in and around the same position we are in now and then it will be over to TFG to decide whether we gamble and go big on bringing a striker in. Imagine where we would be if we had a goal scorer. We have an embarrassing 1 goal from our strikers this season and yet still, we find ourselves only 3 points off the top 4. You would expect that we would have been able to get those points from the West Ham, Villa or Sunderland games had we had someone who can put the ball in the onion bag.

Worth keeping in mind that historically, Moyes is better after Christmas.

Here's to hoping that we bring the Barcodes back down to earth after their good result against City at the weekend.

24 Nov 2025 22:58:07
Also pleasing to see that, before the red card, we set out to press them and impose ourselves on the game. Long may it continue.
A couple of astute signings in January and who knows ay?

24 Nov 2025 22:07:06
Right first things first to those 10 players they could of downed tools but every single one of them put a shift in after 15 mins so big shout out to the lads who put that shift in cause could of been the opposite and got a right hiding but fair play 2nd topic what was gana and Keane all about serious questions need to be asked on what caused that silly red card just absolutely daft from the pair of them especially inside 15 mins me personally both need to be dropped no idea how it's going to get addressed but yano what am going to praise team performance tonight absolutely fantastic result was we lucky was we not lucky that's the question but 3 points away at old Trafford never easy UTFT well done everton.

24 Nov 2025 22:41:38
A fine and a stern word off Davey will do me.

Apparently Gana stood up at half time and apologised to the entire team.

Keane certainly doesn't need dropping. He was arguably motm tonight and struggle to see what he did wrong tbh mate. Gana was the silly one.

{Ed025's Note - Gana was the silly one BN but thats never a sending off mate, thats handbags all day and a stern telling off should suffice..

24 Nov 2025 22:55:57
I agree Ed. Other than Bowyer and Dyer, which was a full on scrap, I can't recall ever seeing that happen. Only ever happens to us, just like the whole Niasse red card mate.

{Ed025's Note - it was pretty pathetic from the ref BN, could have handled it a lot better but he would not be the talk of the evening then would he?..

24 Nov 2025 22:59:13
Could have been dealt with with a stern word from the ref, he couldn’t wait to get the card out. Daft. As BN said, perhaps it did us a favour in a strange way, we can take a lot from that performance.

24 Nov 2025 23:04:31
Ed 025 great result that mate to go to old Trafford and not only get 3 points but to be down 10 men inside 15 minutes and still hang on to the 1.0 lead the lads deserve all the praise and not the gana an Keane scenario hopefully that will be addressed behind closed doors but was silly from gana tbh but Newcastle at home next so am hoping we can bring tonight's momentum into Saturday cause again the geordies won't be an easy match but happily buzzing with the 3 points UTFT.

{Ed025's Note - yeah Andy, 10 hero,s out there tonight mate..

24 Nov 2025 23:25:44
It is violent conduct, exactly the letter of the law.

{Ed025's Note - then the law is an ass DMS, it was handbags at dawn mate..

24 Nov 2025 23:28:46
Course they were. Big girl Gueye lost the plot.

24 Nov 2025 23:41:32
To be fair to the ref he was only following the rules as they are laid out. Apart from that I thought he had a pretty good game.

25 Nov 2025 02:37:14
Issue is Fernandez literally slapped James for Chelsea a lot harder than Gana slapped Keane. Was whole celebrating a goal but violent play is violent play is it not?

Watched Van Dijk full on elbow people off the ball and nothing gets done. Watched him elbow about 4 players, 2 in the face off the ball and not only does he not get punished, the commentators ignore it or say “he loves a physical battle Van Dijk”.

So if the law was consistent, great, but it isn’t.

Also forgot Ndiaye got booked for pretending to be a seagull against Brighton.

But Vardy never got booked for:

Pretending to be an eagle against Palace, kicking a corner flag out of its position, sticking his tongue out at opposition fans to wind them up. Never even a warning.

24 Nov 2025 23:39:24
If that had been a Utd player swinging his handbag Ed you would have been calling for the hangman and his hood.

{Ed025's Note - i wouldn,t you know DMS, the game has gone soft mate you cant tackle or shoulder charge any more and all the players love rolling around as if they have been shot these days when challenged, what next...will they all be playing in tutu,s and have angel wings and a magic wand?..

24 Nov 2025 22:02:40
5 points off second place. Up the toffees. My head fully fell off when we got the red but the team played very well. Big performances from Keane and Pickford, England's number 1 all day.

24 Nov 2025 20:07:18
On paper that isn't a scary Utd team. We can get a good result tonight i think.

24 Nov 2025 20:19:03
Down to 10 men so back to the wall.

24 Nov 2025 20:31:59
Cannot believe what just happened, what was Gana thinking of?.

24 Nov 2025 21:04:38
Man are rubbish we can win this.

24 Nov 2025 21:06:07
Off to the Afcon early now.

24 Nov 2025 21:57:44
Geeeeeeeeeeet In ya beauties. UTFT.

24 Nov 2025 22:03:30
Well what a win, unfortunately game is not on Fubo, some problem with NBC, have to wait to see the replay tomorrow.