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Kári Tulinius gets in touch: “This is one of the most extraordinary bicycle kick goal I have seen. It’s up there with Gareth Bale’s in the champions league final, Zlatan’s against England, and Jürgen Klinsmann’s for VfB Stuttgart, a familiar sight in Bundesliga best ever compilations.”

Half-time reading:

Half-time: Everton 0-1 Manchester United

45+2 min: Young and Garnacho clash once more, the Everton man already on a booking. Back in defence, Rashford comes back to clear up. More boos, Fernandes sweeps away McNeil and escapes being penalised.

45 min: Two minutes are added on. The boos are still audible but not quite as loud.

43 min: Dalot’s cross finds Anthont Martial, previously a passenger, offside. At the other end, Doucoure is soon enough guilty of the same technical offence.

41 min: More Everton pressure. Ashley Young’s cross is a belter and Calvert-Lewin heads over. And then Gueye gets the chance to shoot after the ball is slipped inside from Calvert-Lewin. They might hit the target soon.

39 min: Simon McMahon gets in touch: “Hi John. Mitchell van der Gaag spent a couple of seasons as a player with Motherwell in the mid 90s. If nothing else, it means he should at least be already familiar with the feeling of mid table mediocrity, while the big boys fight it out at the top.”

38 min: Mainoo takes the ball forward, exchanges passes with Rashford but gets a cross cut out. He’s played very well, living up to his billing. The same cannot be said of Rashford, who next loses the ball by seeming to trip over it

36 min: Just as Garnacho launches a United attack at last, he overdoes it and the ball is soon enough back with Onana. There is relief when Shaw is fouled by Doucoure. Everton on the rampage. Doucoure’s not too many fouls off another booking.

34 min: Mainoo blocks a McNeil shot. United have been all over the show, a mirror of their many dismal displays this season.

33 min: A golden chance for Doucoure but he…misses. Oh Everton.

32 min: This is all Everton now. They must score soon. United have to make two saves, with Mainoo the hero for the second. Calvert-Lewin’s shot is saved by Onana then Mainoo slides to stop Harrison scoring the rebound.

31 min: Good defending from Mainoo but it’s an Everton corner he concedes. And Garner takes, and it’s a free header for Calvert-Lewin, but straight down Onana’s throat.

29 min: Booooo. Referee Brooks books Doucoure for dissent after the Everton player complains that Garnacho has kicked the ball away. Garnacho escapes censure.

27 min: Mitchell van der Gaag is Ten Hag’s man on the sideline. They share the same hairdresser and beard trimmer, by the looks of things. This game is bitty now, and the home fans are continuing to boo, well, everything.

25 min: Gueye and Young collide after McTominay kicks through the back of Young, and Everton have a free-kick in a dangerous position. It fails to beat the first man and Mykolenko scuffs wide. Still, United are being pushed back.

23 min: Everton looking a little more comfortable if short of a final ball at the moment. Mainoo is robbed as he tries to go on a weaving run out of defence.

22 min: Yellow card for Ashley Young, legging up his successor as United left-winger, Garnacho. Young did not live up to his name there.

21 min: Jeremy Boyce gets in touch: “ You lucky man to get this MBM at the end of a fascinating weekend of Premier League action, and the 60th anniversary of Dr Who. I am old enough to remember the first episode, what a mind-blower, and still The Beatles and Stones to come ! But have we time-travelled back to the 80s here, looking at the top 4 ? In the 11 seasons that had an 8 in them, the only winners were The Reds, The Arse, and Villa, currently occupying 3 out of 4 of the top spots ? Which was scarier, the Daleks, playing at Anfield, or Ron Atkinson in full bling, belly and heart attack trying to live up to the Busby legacy ?”

19 min: Garnacho tracks back well to cover Garnacho, as Garner looks to send away Harrison. Then, McNeil zips the ball across goal and nobody goes to it. The age of the header and cross is behind us.

17 min: United have dealt with this fine so far and are passing the ball around nicely, and looking for gaps when Everton push on. Onana is the first to wobble, and hacks the ball out of play from a wonky McTominay pass.

15 min: The fireworks continue, as do the Everton, Everton chants. The team haven’t really responded to the, er, firecracker atmosphere. Not yet anyway.

13 min: Almost another spectacular United goal. Fernandes takes and Shaw volleys over. Did it take a deflection? No, says the referee.

12 min: Now some fireworks are going off…

10 min: Let-off for United when they allow Harrison to play Calvert-Lewin down the left, and he cuts in and back out, but can’t beat Onana.

Now, here comes the chants and the boos in the 10th minute – for 10 points. The Sky sound mixer is working overtime, like Larry Levan and Terminator X at their best, to cover up the rude words directed at the Premier League. The effect is a wash of sound that also reminds of Pink Floyd’s Fearless.

9 min: Some dogs of war stuff gets the crowd going. The crowd approve, some heavy tackles.

7 min: Everton get a free-kick on the halfway line and Jordan Pickford takes it. Some Dyche-ball classicism for you there. Mainoo gets involved for the first time, tackling Harrison and lucky not to concede a corner.

5 min: Did the Everton fans applaud? That’s even stopped the booing…but only for a short while. They barrack Andre Onana when he dithers over the ball.

4 min: Michael Olise’s goal of the season as Luton has dropped to second place. You will rarely see a better executed overhead kick. Garnacho himself barely seems to believe it.

Goal! Everton 0-1 Manchester United (Garnarcho, 3)

2 min: Boos for Rashford as takes the ball. Even more boos as Branthwaite and McTominay clash and the United player goes down.

1 min: We are away at Goodison. Erik Ten Hag, in the type flat cap you used to see in The Sullivans, is banished to the stands, and must be deafened by all the boos.

Z-Cars rings out and there are boos as the teams take to the field. The banners are out and the boos get even louder as the Premier League anthem rings out. This is booing of a high grade, you can taste the bile from through the screen. Then the Everton fans cheer their team, and boo United’s.

Sean Dyche also spoke to Sky.

“It’s a tough challenge, but we’re willing to take it on. The fans have driven us on since I’ve been here. I’ve mentioned it many times, they’ve questioned us and rightly so at times, but they’re always here in numbers, they travel in numbers and they’re right with us.

“The players have paid that back this season with some very good performances, some good points on the board until the deduction, but there’s a good connection and that’s very important.”

Erik Ten Hag spoke to Sky Sports, beginning on Kobie Mainoo.

”We have all seen him in pre-season, but then he dropped out with a bad injury. He worked hard to get back, he’s back and match fit, has played some games and he’s prepared and ready. You miss every player, but Luke Shaw is massive. We’re very happy he’s back because he will definitely contribute to our success.”

The table, following Aston Villa’s win at Tottenham leaves both Everton and United five points from where they want to be.

Evertonian and Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has had his say.

“The fact that the Premier League sought to introduce a new sanctions policy in the middle of this process amounts, in my view, to an abuse of process,” writes Burnham, who has also requested any evidence that the Premier League discussed Everton’s case in relation to the proposed introduction of an independent regulator. “From my experience of regulation, introducing new rules in the late stages of a process would be regarded as regulatory malpractice.”

Duncan Edwards gets in touch: “You do realise that your nice “Martial testimonial” wind-up ensures he’s going to notch today? The most frustrating United player I can recall. Skillful, bone idle, great finisher, injury prone. In the unlikely event he gets a testimonial, has the brass neck to accept and is fit to appear, I’ll be crying off attending due to a knock. It’s what he wouid have wanted.”

The big news for Manchester United fans is Kobie Mainoo getting a long-awaited firsty Premier League start; he starred on the club’s pre-season star and then broke down with injury. Luke Shaw is back at left-back, and Anthony Martial, just 18 months short of his United testimonial – Shaw’s is next year – starts in place of the injured Rasmus Hojlund..

Amadou Onana is Sean Dyche’s sole absentee from Everton’s win at Crystal Palace. Idrissa Gana Gueye comes in. Seamus Coleman in the squad for the first time this season since his knee injury.

The teams

Will Unwin on a big week for Manchester United, on the field.

Injuries have caused huge problems. The return of Luke Shaw to the squad for Everton is welcome news but Casemiro, Christian Eriksen, Jonny Evans, Lisandro Martínez and Tyrell Malacia will be missing and Rasmus Højlund is a doubt. If the Dane does start it would give him the chance to score his first Premier League goal. He has scored five in four in the Champions League but struggled domestically. “It [the relationship between players] is growing but you can see we are creating chances,” Ten Hag says. “It’s a matter of time and he will net in the Premier League as well. If you score in the Champions League you will also score in the Premier League.”

Everton director of football Kevin Thelwell spoke this week.

We are shocked by what we believe is a wholly disproportionate and unjust ruling by the Premier League’s commission. We cannot say anything further on the commission’s findings until the conclusion of the appeal process – and the players and manager cannot be drawn on any specifics relating to the commission’s ruling in the media duties they will be fulfilling in the days and weeks ahead.

Jonathan Wilson on the Everton punishment.

There’s a sense that, if you have to be docked 10 points, this might not be the worst season for it to happen. Sheffield United and Luton are clubs of obviously limited resources, while Burnley have been unexpectedly poor. Once it became apparent that Vincent Kompany’s side were not going to produce at the higher level the form that enabled them to dominate the Championship, the three promoted sides felt like a probable bottom three. For those lower mid-table sides glancing anxiously over their shoulders, Bournemouth’s slow start under Andoni Iraola has offered an additional buffer.

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