Ryan

GT4

[Ryan @Ryan_Elliott86]

@bluekippercom Loved this goal. Can see me and the lad used to sit next to at Goodison just as the ball hits the net, mouths open. Were not expecting it 😂

[Ryan @Ryan_Elliott86]

@AmorimEra @johnmerro1 Someone stepped into Salah’s place already 😂

[Ryan @Ryan_Elliott86]

McNeill is turning into Dwayne Dibley

[Ryan @Ryan_Elliott86]

Only going to end one way this game 😒

[Ryan @Ryan_Elliott86]

Just need to not crumble in the second half as per usual now…

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall is not a dirty player. He’s played 5,219 Premier League minutes and gets a booking every 401 minutes. One booking every seven hours (roughly) hardly constitutes a one-man footballing crime-wave. Yet, this season, the midfielder is the first Premier League player to accumulate five bookings and so has to serve a suspension for Everton’s difficult home game against Crystal Palace on Sunday. He’s playing well, Everton will miss him and it’s a patent injustice.

Dewsbury-Hall’s first three bookings of the season were for fouls against Brighton, Wolves and Villa. His next two were, frankly, a joke: dissent for taking a quick free-kick against Liverpool (when the advantage should be for the team fouled against) and, last night, for a fair tackle on West Ham’s Kyle Walker-Peters in the 90th minute. Dewsbury-Hall’s offence was listed as a foul.

His reaction, and that of Jack Grealish closeby, spoke of experienced professionals who knew it was a ridiculous decision to punish a fair challenge with a free-kick and booking and who instantly expressed their frustration.

Dewsbury-Hall then went full Basil Fawlty, beating the ground. His frustration was understandable: he was trying to launch an attack, trying to win the game, and instead found the referee awarding the opposition a free-kick in a dangerous position for a fair challenge – it’s still a contact game - and also found himself banned for an important match. If the booking had been for dissent there could have been some logic but it was listed as for the foul.

The ref may have been swayed by Walker-Peters' reaction to the challenge. There was contact but no foul. Dewsbury-Hall was going for the ball and won it fairly. Dewsbury-Hall is, of course, culpable for the first three bookings that led to his forthcoming ban. They were fouls. He has to analyse clips of those and work how to avoid bookings in the future. But there is widespread sympathy for him over bookings 4 and 5.

Yellow cards can’t be rescinded but, at the very least, Dewsbury-Hall is owed an explanation from PGMO for the type of decision he described as “mind-boggling". Respect for officials would actually be enhanced by some acknowledgement of their mistakes. A phone-call from refs' chief Howard Webb to Dewsbury-Hall or his manager, David Moyes, would be diplomatic. #EFC

[Ryan @Ryan_Elliott86]

@Everton

[Ryan @Ryan_Elliott86]

Cried that one in

[Ryan @Ryan_Elliott86]

3-1 up, comfortable. Now waiting for the inevitable equaliser…

[Ryan @Ryan_Elliott86]

@MollyOHarrison @efc_fanservices 🤷‍♂️ sorry, out of ideas then. Good luck

[Ryan @Ryan_Elliott86]

Although it was accepted the same day

[Ryan @Ryan_Elliott86]

@efc_fanservices any idea how long it takes for a transferred ticket to show on the app? I transferred a ticket for the Brighton game on Thursday but still not showing

[Everton FPF @EFCFPF]

One last tear jerker for you! This was the official ⁦@Everton⁩ commentary on the final whistle last weekend 💙😢

[Classic EFC Matches @ClassicEFCGames]

Saturday was Jordan Pickford's 80th clean sheet in the Premier League for @Everton. Since signing for the club back in 2017 only Ederson and Alisson have kept more clean sheets than Pickford, at the same time, no keeper has had more shots on target against them than Pickford (1200). 509 more than Alisson and 555 more than Ederson. #EFC @JPickford1

[Ryan @Ryan_Elliott86]

Brighton fans having the audacity to complain about time wasting. Seen them many times start time wasting when taking the lead. Seen them start half way through the first half at Goodison a couple of seasons ago!

[Ed McCosh @EdMc_Cosh]

Me watching Carlo Ancelotti managing Everton, 2020: This is the life, isn't it?

Me in 2025: Man, I hope Baines and Coleman have enough in them to see us to victory over Peterborough

[Ryan @Ryan_Elliott86]

Signed anyone yet @Everton??!

[Ryan @Ryan_Elliott86]

12 years! Crazy! #MyXAnniversary

[Ryan @Ryan_Elliott86]

. @evertonspares spare for Chelsea on Sunday. Lower Gwladys GT4 £50