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View image in fullscreenAnalysisEverton’s logic-defying derby leveller reminds us football cannot be tamed at Goodison Park

Tarkowski’s goal against Liverpool didn’t undo the mistakes of the past but Goodison sure embraced the madness

Before the actual ending, and then the melee that followed the ending, there was the original ending.

The Liverpool fans are singing about winning the league at Goodison Park.



Certainly it would have felt truer to where Everton and Liverpool are right now, at the start of 2025, a park and an ocean between them.



As the clock ticks over to 97 minutes, the Opta supercomputer is doing victory laps of the office and taking high-fives.

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But then, as 2011’s Ashley Young hoists the ball forward, with time already on the verge of running out, a kind of madness seems to take over.

And what a moment this was for Beto, a striker long since written off as a £26m disappointment and yet who, when presented with a clear sight of goal, doesn’t lash, doesn’t snatch, gets his feet right and takes every last microsecond available to him.

It doesn’t tell us anything new about Everton or about Liverpool.
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