That or Chelsea away.
Or Man United away.
Actullay, when you're in the rut Everton are in the prospect of playing Darlington would be a daunting one!
The only ray of hope for the Blues was that Liverpool are shite too - a fact that even a couple of their own fans have started to realise - and, with only two wins in ten, a visit to Goodison Park was probably the last thing they wanted too.
Unfortunately for Everton, Liverpool had the luck on the day and that's effectively what earned them all three points.
Everton had been enjoying the majority of the play when Javier Mascherano picked up the ball 30-yards from goal and hit a speculative shot that was dragging wide to the right of Tim Howard's goal until it took a horrible deflection off Joseph Yobo and spooned into the left-hand-side of the goal.
Cue the weird little Argentine running the length of the pitch kissing his badge to the delight of the travelling Svens and Kens in the Bullens Road...so the talk of wanting to move to Barcelona was a lie then? We'll see...
But even this didn't throw the Blues out of their stride and they continued to be the side playing all the football, with Steven Pienaar showing us exactly what we've been missing in his absence whilst John Heitinga and Marouane Fellaini were winning the battle against a jaded Steven Gerrard and, the basically shit - let's be blunt - Lucas in the Liverpool midfield.
And Everton's presistance should have been rewarded in the 19th minute but Diniyar Bilyaletdinov somehow missed the target from six-yards out.
A throw-in was flicked on first by Fellaini, then by Jo and fell kindly to the Russian midfielder just yards in front of Jose - why the fuck do they call him Pepe? - Reina's goal but he dragged his shot horribly wide!
It didn't look like it was going to be Everton's day!
Bilyaletdinov had another good chance five minutes later, which he did get on target, but Reina did well to keep his volley out.
And the chances kept coming for Everton but they just couldn't get the ball past Reina and, even when they did, the linesman ruled the efforts offside.
Jo had the ball in the net twice but was correctly ruled offside on both occasions and was unlucky to not get a firmer touch on a Fellaini flick on that would have steered the ball past Reina.
And the Spanish stopper stood firm to keep out a powerful drive from Pienaar.
But even though it had been all Everton in the first half it was Liverpool that went into the break in the lead and they could've doubled their advantage just before the interval but Tim Howard pulled off a great save from an Insua header.
Everton picked up in the second half where they left off in the first and, with better anticipation, Jo would've had a celar run on Reina's goal after Pienaar fed him through with a wonderful defence splitting pass.
Then the South African hit a wonderful volley that Reina looked to have saved comfortably until the ball bounced down between his legs but he managed to turn quickly and gather the ball before it managed to dribble into the Gwladys Street goal.
Jo, having his best game of the season, was replaced by Louis Saha on 65 minutes in the hope that the Frenchman could pull his usual rabbit from the hat.
Liverpool then entered the game for five minutes as they exeterd a little pressure on Everton but when Dirk Kuyt - I often wonder if he has changable heads like Worzel Gummdige coz he's a friggin ringer for the scarecrow - got his shot away Yobo was on had to delfelct it wide.
The came the game's pivotal moment and Reina, once again, denyed Everton in spectacular fashion.
Tim Cahill thundered a header towards goal the the Spaniard parried out to Fellaini who prodded the ball on target only to see Reina recover and make a stunning double save...the bald-headed shit!
It was definitely not going to be Everton's day!
This was nailed home on 80 minutes when Yobo did one of his weird clearance attempts - something he's been teaching Sylvain Distin if recent performances are anything to go by - that fell straight to the ineffectual Steven Gerrard.
The Liverpool captain picked up the ball under pressure from Tony Hibbert but, unlike a couple of seasons ago, declined the invitation to go down for a penalty and prodded the ball to Albert Rieira.
The Spanish winger hit a shot across Tim howard that the American parried onto the foot of Kuyt who wrapped up the three points for the Shite.
It was an undeserved victory for Liverpool and, when Liverpool find themselves on the back of such a result they opt to either attack the opposition for their negativity or call it a 'moral victory'.
There'll be no such bleating from the Everton camp, it was a crushing defeat and one that we didn't deserve, but it was a defeat all the same and - as abject a side as this Liverpool one is - we've been beaten by worse this season and that's why we now sit three points above the drop zone.
That or Chelsea away.
Or Man United away.
Actullay, when you're in the rut Everton are in the prospect of playing Darlington would be a daunting one!
only ray of hope for the Blues was that Liverpool are shite too - a fact that even a couple of their own fans have started to realise - and, with only two wins in ten, a visit to Goodison Park was probably the last thing they wanted too.
Unfortunately for Everton, Liverpool had the luck on the day and that's effectively what earned them all three points.
Everton had been enjoying the majority of the play when Javier Mascherano picked up the ball 30-yards from goal and hit a speculative shot that was dragging wide to the right of Tim Howard's goal until it took a horrible deflection off Joseph Yobo and spooned into the left-hand-side of the goal.
Cue the weird little Argentine running the length of the pitch kissing his badge to the delight of the travelling Svens and Kens in the Bullens Road...so the talk of wanting to move to Barcelona was a lie then? We'll see...
But even this didn't throw the Blues out of their stride and they continued to be the side playing all the football, with Steven Pienaar showing us exactly what we've been missing in his absence whilst John Heitinga and Marouane Fellaini were winning the battle against a jaded Steven Gerrard and, the basically shit - let's be blunt - Lucas in the Liverpool midfield.
And Everton's presistance should have been rewarded in the 19th minute but Diniyar Bilyaletdinov somehow missed the target from six-yards out.
A throw-in was flicked on first by Fellaini, then by Jo and fell kindly to the Russian midfielder just yards in front of Jose - why the fuck do they call him Pepe? - Reina's goal but he dragged his shot horribly wide!
It didn't look like it was going to be Everton's day!
Bilyaletdinov had another good chance five minutes later, which he did get on target, but Reina did well to keep his volley out.
And the chances kept coming for Everton but they just couldn't get the ball past Reina and, even when they did, the linesman ruled the efforts offside.
Jo had the ball in the net twice but was correctly ruled offside on both occasions and was unlucky to not get a firmer touch on a Fellaini flick on that would have steered the ball past Reina.
And the Spanish stopper stood firm to keep out a powerful drive from Pienaar.
But even though it had been all Everton in the first half it was Liverpool that went into the break in the lead and they could've doubled their advantage just before the interval but Tim Howard pulled off a great save from an Insua header.
Everton picked up in the second half where they left off in the first and, with better anticipation, Jo would've had a celar run on Reina's goal after Pienaar fed him through with a wonderful defence splitting pass.
Then the South African hit a wonderful volley that Reina looked to have saved comfortably until the ball bounced down between his legs but he managed to turn quickly and gather the ball before it managed to dribble into the Gwladys Street goal.
Jo, having his best game of the season, was replaced by Louis Saha on 65 minutes in the hope that the Frenchman could pull his usual rabbit from the hat.
Liverpool then entered the game for five minutes as they exeterd a little pressure on
Everton but when Dirk Kuyt - I often wonder if he has changable heads like Worzel
Gummdige coz he's a friggin ringer for the scarecrow - got his shot away Yobo was on had to delfelct it wide.
Then came the game's pivotal moment and Reina, once again, denyed Everton in spectacular fashion.
Tim Cahill thundered a header towards goal the the Spaniard parried out to Fellaini who prodded the ball on target only to see Reina recover and make a stunning double save...the bald-headed shit!
It was definitely not going to be Everton's day!
This was nailed home on 80 minutes when Yobo did one of his weird clearance attempts - something he's been teaching Sylvain Distin if recent performances are anything to go by - that fell straight to the ineffectual Steven Gerrard.
The Liverpool captain picked up the ball under pressure from Tony Hibbert but, unlike a couple of seasons ago, declined the invitation to go down for a penalty and prodded the ball to Albert Rieira.
The Spanish winger hit a shot across Tim howard that the American parried onto the foot of Kuyt who wrapped up the three points for the Shite.
It was an undeserved victory for Liverpool and, when Liverpool find themselves on the back of such a result they opt to either attack the opposition for their negativity or call it a 'moral victory'.
There'll be no such bleating from the Everton camp, it was a crushing defeat and one that we didn't deserve, but it was a defeat all the same and - as abject a side as this Liverpool one is - we've been beaten by worse this season and that's why we now sit three points above the drop zone.
