Everton FC

Greetings my fellow toffees, first of all my apologies for the lack of updates of late, but between my internet/pc being on the blink and spending some time in our fair capital I've been a bit short of time to report all that is good, bad and indifferent about our fair club.

After missing the first 20 minutes of the game whilst trying to find a pub in London (the natural home of the Man U supporter) which was actually showing the match, the outlook was not good. We were one-nil down to Darren Fletcher's nicely taken goal, and United were starting to turn the screws as they so often tend to do. However, after a few excellent saves from Howard, some hard tackling from P Nev, and some shameful histrionics from Ronaldo, it looked like we were getting a foothold in the game and managing to disrupt United's usual attacking grace. Beforehand I was dreading this game, not so much in that we might lose as I expected, but more the manner of our loss - all season we've looked short of confidence and even when a goal or two ahead we've looked shaky defensively. But the performance from the boys in the second half was as good as I've seen all season - with Fellaini managing to win the aerial battle in midfield (and seemingly getting more used to the pace of the Prem), and Jags and Yobo managing to contain the attacking threat from Rooney and Ronaldo.

When big Maz managed to glance the ball home from Arteta's sweeping corner kick, things were starting to look up, and literally seconds later Yakubu should have made it two-one after a rather uncharacteristic fuck up from the trembly-lipped wonder that is Rio Ferdinand. After another twenty minutes or so of excellent football from ourselves, the game was over, we had gained a vital point, and Ferguson was cracking out the old "the referee didn't give us enough protection," chestnut. Not only that, but the Gwladys Street End managed to wind Rooney up to the extent that he kissed his Man U badge, then stared darkly at anyone within spitting distance if they so much as looked at him funny, causing ol' Red Face to sub him before he bit clean through someone's leg in pure bovine anger. All in all, a good day.