It is surprising in this country how we learn to play sports as kids without ever getting to read the rules. The “two-hands-on-it-is-keeper’s-ball” ‘rule’ is one we all get wrong, because the laws of the game do not in fact say that.

Casey describes “rife drunkenness” and “drug-use.” Police dogs were kicked, officers attacked, bodies were “flung to the floor” and families of some of the players were “scared for their lives.”

At no stage between the taking of the corner and the ball crossing the goal-line did the referee blow his whistle. The injury to de Gea, from which he recovered very quickly, did not appear to be serious, and was in any event inflicted by a team-mate.

Everton blunder their way to EPL record derby defeat 1st December 2021, Goodison Park Everton 1-4 Liverpool (Gray 38 – Henderson 9, Salah 19, 64, Jota 79) Rafael Benitez’s return…