Aston Villa Match Report

Everton were left to rue some poor refereeing decisions and a glut of missed chances when gobshite speedster Gabriel Agbonlahor nodded in a late equaliser to share the spoils at a nicely raucous Goodison. There was definitely something in the air pre game, a bit of needle if you like, was it the horrific free Milkshakes they were handing out or was it the boistrous Blue Union march? It could even have been the surreal presence of a scary as fuck clown holding a birthday cake that did it. More than likely, it is the increasingly fractious relationship between pro and anti Blue Union'ers that did it.


Moyes predictably ignored the claims of the inexperienced Stracqulrsi or Velios from the start and gave the nod to Cahill up top with Leon Osman behind him, and to be fair it worked quite well. Cahill set up Osman for a tap in after a bright start by the team who were clearly inspired by the atmosphere. They certainly did little to suggest they missed the influence of Mikel Arteta anyhow, with some high tempo football creating a flurry of chances that almost come off for them, Rodwells deflected effort and two Jagielka headers being the closest. Things looked like to be a formality as the first half drew to a close, with Fellaini in particular clearly relishing the chance to flourish in the absence of the once lauded Basque.


The second half began with more of the same from Everton as Barry Bannan, a wee Hobbit of a player, gave away a stonewall penalty as you are likely to see, Baines being the player he is though, tried game-fully to keep going and the ref failed to point to the spot. The bad posturing tithead. That was the clincher right there, 2-0 up and able to lower the tempo a bit, you would argue Everton may have been able to take the heat out of things and gone on to win, as it was though they criminally stood off the sallow skinned snide that is Stilian Petrov and were punished with a barnstorming Bulgarian equaliser. ''Fuck Off Kenwright!''.

The referee made amends for his earlier penalty howler, when he awarded Everton another stonewaller just 5 minutes after Villas equaliser. Leighton Baines who was toe curlingly under supported all afternoon by an out of position Bilyaletdinov, calmly slotted home to put the game back in the hands of the superior hosts. Games against these beauts though, seem to always have a bit of a sting in the tail. This time it was a great cross by Albrighton in the 83rd minute that evaded the 6 foot odd Everton defenders and landed square on the short arse light bulb head of Agbonlahor.


Ah well, plenty to be positive about, a heartwarming round applause for Bill Kenwright when flashed up upon to both screens, interspersed with a few boo's like, but you'd have to be a one eye'd twat of a nazi propaganda officer to claim the support lies anywhere else but at the chairman's door. Fellaini visibly excelling with a new found sense of responsibility. Coleman back and as waspish and direct as ever and Drenthe getting on and looking a tad over eager but with obvious pace and class which could be a huge asset for us this season.

All in all, onwards and upwards Everton. Let's go out and veritably fuck Wigan all over the place.

Up the Toffees!