Everton 0 Liverpool 2

I had been looking forward to this game all week; the pre-match build up was amazing, and as the Everton team took to the field the roar was deafening. For the first twenty minutes all went according to plan. Then Jack Rodwell got sent off for an inoffensive tackle on Luis Suarez, the Liverpool attacking player. Suarez is a man of immense talent, but he lacks sportsmanship. He fell to the ground and rolled around in agony, enough to convince the referee that Rodwell should get the red card. In reality the dismissal of Rodwell meant that Everton could not win and despite desperate defence it was inevitable that Liverpool would eventually score. Suarez was, inevitably, one of the goal scorers. The mood of the fans soured; it had all turned on a poor referring decision. The post match comments on the radio compared football to rugby where a 'video' referee would help make key decisions. It maybe the way forward, but football is such a fast game that the constant halting of the action might not be acceptable. However, it might have prevented the ruin of a big game on Merseyside today.

My view of the action; it was one of the warmest October days ever recorded with the temperature around 26 degrees.