Everton: Howard, Neville, Neill, Heitinga, Baines, Fellaini, Pienaar, Cahill, Osman, Donovan, Saha

Bench: Vaughan (Saha), Nash, Coleman, Bilyaletdinov (Donovan), Mustafi, Baxter, Duffy

Referee: Peter 'John Boy' Walton aka Les Battersby

How many time sin recent years have we come away from a Ground like The Emirates and feel robbed that we have not taken all three points. Answer, not many, but yesterday felt like a real kick in the teeth. Before the match we would have jumped at a share of the spoils, but at full time, the 2-2 draw felt like a loss. It even takes something when Arse of The Arse says 3-1 to Everton would have been a fairer score line that the 2-2 we witnessed. The Blues were to put it mildly awesome. We saw a debut for our new boy, well for ten weeks only Landon Donovan who replaced Billy. When we have him up to full match fitness I am sure he will do a job for us. Moyesy also had a few tricks up his sleeve, Captain Phil moved to right back replacing Hibbo, Ossie made the starting eleven, as did King Louis.

The Arse were in a match from the off, and it did not take long for the Blues to take the lead when Ossie of all people rose like a salmon to power home his header from Jason Donovan pin point corner. The Blues did not rest on their laurels after that, King Louis went close as did Tiny, who was on fire all match. The Arse did pull level against the run of play when a deflected shot wrong footed Tim Howard, it certainly wasn't deserved.

The Blues dusted themselves down and went back at The Arse, Nuts and Ossie were as creative as ever in the middle of the park, Screech was making a nuisance of himself breaking up play, and generally keeping Arse's play maker Arse shavin quiet all afternoon. Phil Neville was a giant at the back, blocking and flying in front of anything that got in his way. Jonny Boy grows in stature with every match, and maybe he is the centre half we have been looking for to partner The Jag on his return, but hey that is for the future.

Tiny as I said was a pest all afternoon, and with ten to go, he fed a superb defence splitting pass through to Nuts who had half the length of the pitch to run. It seemed like an eternity till the diminutive South African get up to Arsenals eighteen yard box, but as Alumnia came to close him down, Nuts dinked the ball over the on rushing keeper to give the Blues a 2-1 lead. As Moyesy said afterwards, if Henry or Ronaldo had scored that we would be talking about it for years to come, it was an act of pure genius from a player who in the last few weeks has steadied our season.

It was not a case of hanging on, as straight from the kick off Vaughny who had come on for King Louis, found himself in a similar position. The defenders were a bit closer to him, but in essence it was a one on one. More composure was needed as his shot was saved well by Alumnia, if it has been 3-1 there would have been no way back for title chasing Arsenal. As it was five minutes went up on the fourth officials, and within two of those added on minutes another deflected shot found its way into the Blues net.

Two two it ended, but it felt as if Ronnie Biggs had done a job on us. Keep your chin up though boys as no one has beaten us in the Premiership since November 28th, and even on that day we played the shite off the park. Our play on the whole has been getting better week by week. We have now drew at Chelski 3-3, The Arse 2-2 in recent weeks, and we still have to come back our last two our of star performers in The Jag and Mikky. Sitteh are up next weekend, and if we can do those money grabbing mercenaries, we can say at last we may have turned that corner as we push ourselves up the table and try and claim one of those Europa Cup slots.

Starman, a few candidates, Nuts and Timmy were superb, Jason did well on his debut, but in my eyes Captain Phil led by example. Well played lads, keep it up, keep believing, and our rise up the table will happen. COYB FTRS

Full Time: The Arse 2 EVERTON 2

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Andy's Rankin

Marks Out Of 10
Player	Marks	Player	Marks
Howard	7
Neville	9
Neill	7
Heitinga	8
Baines	7
Fellaini	8
Osman	7
Cahill	8
Donovan	7	Bilyaletdinov	6
Pienaar	8
Saha	7	Vaughan	6

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