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.Sure, they love their triumphs, but the greatest roars are reserved for the unconventional.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.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.To that eclectic mix you can now add 'Marouane Fellaini's pirouette'.'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.It was the perfect ending to a near perfect afternoon.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.But few expected them to do it with such overwhelming dominance. And fewer still expected them to do it in such style.A bright opening 20 minutes apart from the visitors, Everton were utterly magnificent.They outworked, out-passed and totally outshone their £200m visitors.And boy did the Goodison crowd appreciate it.Saturday teatime saw fan and football machine in perfect harmony.The home supporters got behind their team impressively, and the players responded in style.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.Then, of course, there was the imperious Fellaini.Any debate on his merits or otherwise are now surely redundant.