No Red Mersey - Liverpool 1-0 Everton

Pity emphatically off Rafa’s agenda
Dirk Kuyt glanced the only goal
Ten man Reds shook Mersey Blues
Top four ambitions take a positive roll

Knock Kuyt wriggled, writhed and twisted
Gerrard’s corner struck accurate and free
Dutchmaster nodded his fiftieth in Red
Resolving a fractious Mersey derby

Oodles of rumbling in a brutal game
Kyrgiakos's first-half red card
Lunge at Marouane Fellaini
Atkinson’s neglect left the game marred

Cahill with Everton's optimum chance
Contest of blood, toil and a great deal fun
Before Pienaar's late red card
Here ends the Toffees nine match unbeaten run

Fixture with more dismissals than the others
Ref Atkinson always a key trait
With eight in the last ten league games
Seventeen in all doubling the going rate

06.02.10

Number 7
Emdad Rahman
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