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me said, “If you keep me seat, I’ll get you a pint in” which was extremely decent of him.
We started to put the pressure on and Yedlin won our first corner in the eighteenth minute which culminated in a Kaboul header on target. I heard that Norwich were 2-1 up but I wasn’t going to worry about them unless I had to. Next thing Kaboul, who was clearly in the mood for a goal, went storming down the left and lashed in a good low shot that went just wide of the right post. By the half-hour mark we were still having the better of it but Everton looked pacey on the break. In the thirty-eighth minute we won a free-kick in a great spot when Defoe was fouled and my new pal moved his pint in case it got knocked over in any ensuing mayhem. He was quite right to do so as PVA lashed it in, leaving Joel hesitating, to send the pub into ecstasy. “Shearer is a wanker” had just started up when we went two ahead with Kone slamming it in from close range after Everton had failed to clear a corner. Cue further mayhem and beer on the keyboard as I typed. The euphoria carried us all through to half-time and I felt so good I smiled as I waited ages at the bar again but this time I managed to get two pints in. Norwich were winning 3-1 apparently but so what?
The first real action of the second-half was when Kaboul conceded a free-kick in a dangerous position but Baines’s shot was easily dealt with. Next thing Kirchhoff had a header from a corner that went just wide and the pub were chanting, “Are you watching, Newcastle?” Elsewhere
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