EVERTON FC supporters have waited a long time for one of those days – and Tuesday provided us with one.

Beating big spenders and Premier League leaders Man City and being active in the transfer market too. One tweet from an Evertonian simply read “I haven’t been this excited since I lost my......” – well I will let you fill in the blank.

You can’t blame Evertonians for getting over excited. At one point we were thinking we would need a bigger dressing room with us being linked with Adam Johnson, Steven Pienaar, Kostas Manolas, Alessio Cerci, Guillaume Hoarau and Nikica Jelavic. By midnight, most of them did not end up in an Everton shirt but the most important one has. Pararded on the pitch at half-time, Jelavic could well be the man to fire some much needed goals for the Blues.

A proven scorer in the Scottish Premier League, we now hope he can produce the same south of the border.

One striker who is becoming a Goodison cult hero is Denis Straqualursi. Everyone in the ground was overjoyed to see him break his duck last Friday and he followed that up with another good performance against City.

But it was not just the Argentine – it was a typical David Moyes-inspired display full of running and determination as Everton ground them down.

Who gave Tony Hibbert a chance against the likes of Aguero and Dzeko before the game? Surely he deserved the man of the match champers at the end.

If the cheers at the Gwladys Street End where loud when Darron Gibson fired home then I’m sure they were just as loud down the East Lancs too.

Gibson along with Everton’s own enigmatic Belgian stood tall against Barry, Milner, Silva and co with Fellaini producing another star showing following on from his second half one man match winning game against Fulham.

The FA Cup has always had a special place in all Evertonians hearts so making it through to the fifth round draw was pleasing and seeing the draw made it even more so. What does everyone say?

A home draw please? Tick.

Lower league opposition too? Tick.

How about lower league opposition who have bigger fish to fry in going for promotion as their main priority in their respective divisions? Tick again.

But for now all Blues will have a big smile on their face – and it’s about time too.