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Interesting Fact 1: Everton used to play at Anfield. Interesting Fact 2: The Liverpool/Everton rivalry isn’t a Protestant/Catholic thing, both clubs were founded by Methodists. Interesting Fact 3: The best way to check if an egg is boiled is to place it on a spoon and observe how quickly the shell dries.
As enriched as you may now feel, the real issue at hand is the Merseyside derby on Sunday, which could ultimately go towards deciding fourth place in the Premiership. Despite a decent away record this year, Everton have not won at Anfield since 1999, and have failed to win every away game with the Big Four in the past five seasons. So it looks like the bookies have it spot in in placing the home side as 4/5 favourites.
The statistics
* Manchester United just beat Liverpool at Old Trafford - on each of the last seven occasions this has happened, Liverpool have won their next fixture.
* Five of the last six meetings between the two teams have seen over 2.5 goals.
* Everton haven’t conceded a goal in the first half of any of their previous six League away games.
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6 responses so far
1 Tom // Mar 28, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Everton drew away at Chelsea this year, and drew away at Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal last year so to say ” Everton have lost every away game to the Big Four in the past five seasons” Shows just how much bollocks this article is!
2 IberianBlue // Mar 28, 2008 at 3:30 pm
We drew at Stamford Bridge this season…
Interesting fact - the ‘dirtiest’ game in PL history. What price another few red cards?
3 Ryan Bailey // Mar 28, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Sorry, I’ve now changed ‘lost’ to ‘failed to win’. My bad.
4 Darren Cowzer // Mar 28, 2008 at 5:09 pm
The Protestant/Catholic thing only really came into it after World War 2 when thousands of Irish Catholic Families moved to Liverpool City to get jobs in re-building the City.
As Everton had many Irish Players at the time, the Irish (also known as toffees) followed Everton and to this day thousands of Everton Fans have Surnames like O’Brien / McCarthy etc.
5 Loz // Mar 28, 2008 at 6:17 pm
The author should be sacked for this appauling article. What a waste of 2 mins of my life reading this utter rubbish.
6 RedbyDawn // Apr 1, 2008 at 1:38 am
“Interesting Fact 1: Everton used to play at Anfield. Interesting Fact 2: The Liverpool/Everton rivalry isn’t a Protestant/Catholic thing, both clubs were founded by Methodists. Interesting Fact 3: The best way to check if an egg is boiled is to place it on a spoon and observe how quickly the shell dries.”
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