Blues seemed to be dealt the wrong set of CARDS yet again

IT'S always illuminating to hear what others think of the flashpoints in a Merseyside derby and the historic first one at Hill Dickinson Stadium was of course no different.

- By CHRIS BEESLEY

After Everton and Liverpool faced each other in the league for the first time in more than 11 years on September 1962, Leslie Edwards wrote in the ECHO of the day's contentious decisions: ‘Just as 73,000 saw all these incidents so there must be 73,000 different versions of what happened and why. They will mostly be coloured by according to the redness or blueness of the people who hold them.”

Quite. So, it was interesting to be in earshot of a couple of neutral fans who support other clubs when it came to digesting Liverpool's 100th minute 2-1 win over Everton.

Even they felt there was an air of inevitability to the game's dramatic final act but they both concurred that if there is a God then he wouldn't keep allowing Everton to lose Merseyside derbies in such a fashion. This once evenly-matched fixture has, on the whole, become ridiculously lopsided in recent times, but of course the Blues are just expected to grin and bear it.