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Is he injured? You'd think he'd be making the bench at least if not.

We'd probably be coping with this situation a lot better if we had figured out a way to keep Guthrie, come to think of it. Hopefully one of the lessons learned from the summer is the importance of trying to hold on to squad players like Guthrie and Best.

I know nothing about tactics but it is very hard to explain Shola central and Cisse wide. Best explanation I can come up with is that they had done match preparation in anticipation of playing Ba central, but had to switch at the last minute so he just slotted Shola in to minimize displacement.

We'll be too busy looking for a new manager to sign any players. Then we'll fail to find a manager and end up with Mark Hughes on January 30th. We all know what will happen. I've mentioned this before, but it's far more likely that Pardew will have a epiphany and improving as a manager rather than us actually appointing someone useful.

Marveaux and Obertan made reasonable attempts, Shola tried as well. The thing about Everton is they didn't need to rely on individuals trying to change a game on their own. Baines' 35 yard free kick was a bit of a game-changer surely? Yes it was, but they were tearing into us time after time anyway. It was practically inevitable. Correction: Martin Atkinson was tearing into us time after time. We were decent before the goal.

El Diego. It's fate.

Atkinson handed set piece after set piece to them on a fucking plate until they decided to score one. Ridiculous. Heads dropped leading to a pathetic performance after going 2-1 down but it wouldn't have got to the point if the ref wasn't wearing a blue shirt.

This is the most bent referee I've ever seen in two decades of watching football.

Every single loose ball falls to an Everton player. Every single one.

Belief has just gone. Too many sucker punches

this is just all around depressing

We're never getting any luck ever. Fuck this shit

Surprised he didn't give Everton a free kick for Anichebe pushing Santon there.

This referee

Was utterly confident that was going in as soon at it hit the rebound on Williamson

I guess that's the danger of fouling a lot. Referee just starts to assume guilt.

No contact whatsoever, free kick, goal. Textbook.

Now that's the Shola I know

Even our corners are better

Judging by the performance so far, the entire squad really, really, really hates Ba

Who are these players and what have you done with Shola and Obertan

This is a comical performance from QPR. Couldn't happen to a nicer manager.

Suarez is going to hell, but man, what a footballer.

Yet another outing for the "guess who wins again' smiley

I'm not happy he's going but I had resigned myself to it since Pardew brought up the clause again in September so it doesn't hurt that much. Was already gone in my mind. Not happy by any means but he's leaving early in the window to a team we're not in competition with so it's the best and cleanest possible departure.