Source: Liverpool_Echo
DAVID PRENTICE: Magnificent Marouane Fellaini’s pirouette now part of Everton FC’s folklore
EVERTONIANS are cussedly different - some would say downright bloody awkward. Because while most football supporters celebrate goals, salute star players and roar their approval at victories, Blues fans are quirkier.[LNB]Sure, they love their triumphs, but the greatest roars are reserved for the unconventional.[LNB]Goodison folklore is littered with idiosyncratic cameos, moments you won't find in any history books, but incidents still spoken of with dewy-eyed pride years later.[LNB]Joe Parkinson's drag-back in an FA Cup semi-final; Jimmy Gabriel checking an imaginary wristwatch by a Wembley corner-flag; Duncan McKenzie running from Goodison Road to Bullens Road in a cup-tie against Stoke City, feigning step-overs every four or five yards; Big Neville's one-handed catch...[LNB]To that eclectic mix you can now add 'Marouane Fellaini's pirouette'.[LNB]'Just listen to the crowd roar!' declared Match Of The Day's incredulous commentator on Saturday night as the big Belgian showed footwork which would have shamed James and Ola.[LNB]It was the perfect ending to a near perfect afternoon.[LNB]Plenty of Evertonians fancied their team to end Roberto Mancini's perfect record - to become only the third team to inflict defeat on Manchester City this season.[LNB]But few expected them to do it with such overwhelming dominance. And fewer still expected them to do it in such style.[LNB]A bright opening 20 minutes apart from the visitors, Everton were utterly magnificent.[LNB]They outworked, out-passed and totally outshone their £200m visitors.[LNB]And boy did the Goodison crowd appreciate it.[LNB]Saturday teatime saw fan and football machine in perfect harmony.[LNB]The home supporters got behind their team impressively, and the players responded in style.[LNB]There wasn't a weak link in the starting XI, from the confident Tim Howard, through to the returning Sylvain Distin, the mesmerising Steven Pienaar, the back on form Diniyar Bilyaletdinov and the non-stop Louis Saha.[LNB]Then, of course, there was the imperious Fellaini.[LNB]Any debate on his merits or otherwise are now surely redundant.
