Rival watch

They ought to give the winners a CL place, it would make every team take the competition seriously.

 

From UEFA regs pdf

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2.06 Unless the UEFA Europa League titleholder qualifies for the UEFA Champions League through its domestic championship, it is guaranteed a place in the group stage of the UEFA Europa League. If the titleholder qualifies for the UEFA Europa League through its domestic competitions, the number of places to which its association is entitled in the UEFA Europa League does not change. If the UEFA Europa League titleholder does not qualify for either the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Europa League through its domestic competitions, its participation in the UEFA Europa League is not at the expense of the contingent of its association.

 

Osman's hit from behind the goal:

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That's a lot of curl.

 

Do we care about the Everton / City game. It depends if you think we can catch City and or Everton can catch us? A draw I think.

 

What I said then.

 

We want to see as many bookings, sending offs and injuries as we still have to play them both.

 

Pienaar will be suspended against us as well. A good weekend so far, No Pienaar, no Fellaini.

 

Red card -Pienaar!

 

Never in doubt! Do you not see the irony in the last sentence, if you change EL for CL and applied it last year, what comp would we have been in this season.

 

Dzeko with a horrible dive and yet again it's unpunished. Very cowardly from Probert, as it would've been his 2nd yellow.

 

Agree - that was such an obvious dive and he was looking right at it.
Everton deserve to get something from this game as they are certainly not getting a fair deal from Probert.

 

We just need Dzeko to get sent off and the Judge to send Tevez down for the driving offences and we will be laughing.

 

Can we sign Fellaini in the summer? A midfield of him, Sandro, Dembele, Bale and Lennon would be frightening.

 

Probert is ****ing useless.....

 

Now Probert's bottled it the other way. Fellaini blocks a shot with his hand and it's inside the box. Gives a free-kick and no second yellow.
We've seen quite a few of those ignored completely when they've been against us this season, though.

 

Sitting here, virtually cheering Everton on.

They have some admirable qualities, especially playing at home and for pure heart and effort deserve to survive the next few minutes. Coleman has been superb and Anichebe has been excellent as well.

 

Booked Osman for time wasting delaying Citeh when it seemed like he had given the freekick to Everton!!!

 

I thought he'd given it the other way, too. Dire.

Goodbye Mancini!

 

Yes!!! 2-0

 

What an awful display by the officials. The ref bottled a penalty for Everton in the first half, bottled a second half penalty for Citeh, disallowed a decent goal for offside when it wasn't offside for Everton. Missed dozens of fouls. The right result but more by luck than judgement.