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The best part I can say about to have been described this was Boobah.

It's Roger, it's Friday and we made it through another...

Well, the magical week, this is the morning after the night before a very

hongo for warning the Everton, beautifully hopeless Everton, looked death in the eye and said, not today.

We will be the fourth worst team in the league, but never the third.

Let's start this off properly.

Oh my god, that song, Spirit of the Blues, I was singing it until 3 in this morning and I woke up at 5 again

so I could write the newsletter as Tom Davis would say, I'm buzzing la, but honestly,

to hear that song played before kickoff, songs are about context, then now when I hear it, I just

got it, it makes my nipples tingle, but when that same tune played in the moments before kickoff,

yesterday against Crystal Palace, I felt only a darkness.

I mean, those lyrics, those lyrics are just so ironic, they'd make a lot of this more

intense head explode. Listen to them, because we're hot on the trail and there's no way we're going to fail.

All we've done, all season from the appointment of Rafa Benitez onwards, is do exactly that, that's what we do Everton, aren't we?

We do fail. Next line, so get your coat on and get moving, because we don't know the meaning of losing.

I mean, aren't we like 73% about losing in this cruel season of relegation doom and for listeners who do not know what a

relegation season feels like, it just eats you up. It devours you. We have all Everton fans,

Leeds fans, come on Leeds, Burnley fans too, you know Brentford fans, you were there as we'll discuss later in this podcast for a period.

It is, it is months, months of anger, of frustration, of fume, humiliation and shame.

And yesterday in that 45 minutes of, of alchemy, it all just lifted and rolled away.

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