Everton VS Liverpool: Merseyside Derby, a game that no one in Liverpool is looking forward to – Everton reporter notbook | Football news
They asked me this week if I was looking forward to the 245th derby Merseyside at Goodison Park. I think most Evertonians – or Liverpudlians on this regard – admitted that they are not really looking forward to it. It’s a game that just needs to win, at all costs, and only then can you really enjoy it.
As an open blue sports journalist, the last league derby playing at the Goodison Park will not only be a nervous experience, but also extremely emotional.
I always remember that Rafa Benitez took Steven Gerrard at a derby in Goodison, because he suggested that he play with his heart, not his head. Of course, Everton will have to keep that in mind because they also go into this game. I am sure the atmosphere in Goodison will be angry on Wednesday as the ‘old lady’ ever testified.
One of the great things about Derby Week is the memory of the good, bad and ugly previous games – and my memory is full of all three.
As a fan, 4-4 in a cup and Andy King’s Volley left me in Goodison, but then there was Glen Keeley Derby, who was initially sent by the defender only in the game only for Ian Rush, and all were afraid of all Everton fans for They scored four.
The hard part was that I bought a last minute ticket with Reds fans outside the country and I had to sit next to it at the Park End stop for the whole nightmare. He was constantly apologizing, a poor guy.
However, when I became a club officer for the print in the late 90, when I got the right insight into how tense and special these games are. Goodison games were the only live experience I needed to enjoy because of a self -sacrificing ban on going to Anfield for those games.
In the 80’s, he revived me as a fan of winner Ronnie Rosenthal in the 94th minute, and to say that the stress level increased as an employee of the club a bit underestimation.
My first experience was to work for manager Joe Royle who seems to have touched Liverpool. His first game, a few years ago, earned a 2-0 win with Duncan Ferguson and Paul Rideout, securing a famous victory for ‘Psa of War’.
There were several dark days at the time for the blue side of the city, and it was fair to say that Liverpool had dominated in the hub with some heavy points in recent years, but it always seems when the chips down when Everton withdrew the performance performing outside the bag.
One game that comes out for good and bad reasons in October 1997. Everton fought again at the wrong end of the table under Howard Kendall. No one saw the result coming that day – especially me – as the season of real pressure and stress was already. But just before halftime, he hovered the angle and Neil Ruddock looked at the defensive header in his own goal. Goodison went crazy – and I took a little bit.
Part of my duties at the time included reading teams through the system and announcing the goalkeeper. I excitedly announced 40,000 inside the ground: “Everton goalkeeper, Neil Ruddock!”
As you can imagine, he welcomed the total approval of the Goodison crowd, or certainly most of them. Then they invited me to the administrative room after the match said that then the head of Sir Philip Carter was then that he was an unprofessional, crime, to which, of course, I owned immediately.
Humor is something very obvious on the derby, even today. So I think Reds fans would take it in a good spirit.
When I joined the club in 2013, I remember then manager Robert Martinez, hearing my ignorance at Anfield, telling me that I should go to the match. I got stuck in my politics and saved the trauma of looking at Everton torn in a 4-0 defeat.
Once again this time, Everton is in the game as a underdogs with the Liverpool top of the league and flying – but, as they say in Derbies, the booklet goes out the window.
David Moyes knows all about the passion and importance of derby Merseyside, and both sides won 41 games in Goodison, along with the Blue Half of the City and beyond, they will not want to worship by losing more games than their old rivals in the famous Everton FC home.
