Last night was the first time I've lost it with the crap that was going on.
The refereeing was just totally predictable. Walton gives most of the routine decisions correctly to both sides but the important ones get waved away if the result would favour us and given if favouring Everton.
Moyes instilled his own personal hatred for our club into his players and instructed them to play as if their lives depended on it and not to fear the concequences of fouling and other infractions as there wouldn't be any. He knew it and we all knew it before the game kicked off.
Mancini was naïve to think that attempting to just win the game by playing the superior football would succeed.
He took the blame in the post-match interview I saw and rightly so.
The last 2 visits to that ground and refereed by Walton gave him plenty of opportunity to see what had to be done for a result to be gained. If that meant a return to the tactics of last season then so be it as Everton certainly do not have enough to beat us by taking the game to us.
Lessons learned? I hope so.
As previous posters have mentioned we need to get as sly, dirty and hard as the Rags or they will be carrying off the title and giving us that smile and lecture about history and experience of their genius manager.
