DAVID MOYES was apparently going to take his Everton squad to the Grand National at Aintree next Saturday as their reward for beating Liverpool in the derby.

That’s been cancelled now however.

Ironic really, that will be twice in a week Everton have not been at the races.

Had Liverpool capitalised on their superiority we’d have gone in 5-0 up at half-time.

There was an attempt at wit from the Everton supporters in the Anfield Road at the start of the game.

Some banner supposedly “Welcoming all the Liverpool supporters to the city”.

They’d have done better buying a Sat-Nav for the Everton coach driver, as surely the team on the pitch wearing blue in the first half was a scratch team of Goodison Park stewards hastily put together?

To paraphrase Dennis Healey, Everton’s challenge “was like being gored by a dead sheep”.

It was a practice game for Liverpool.

In fact Liverpool deserve a fair bit of stick for not putting Everton to the sword to a much greater extent.

Quite how we got to 90 minutes with still only a one-goal lead, needs some explanation.

Liverpool seemed conscious of having our most important game of the season approaching this week and took their foot off the gas in the second half. But that is always a dangerous game.

The highlights of the game – apart from in Fernando Torres’s hair – were his excellently taken goal and Gerrard’s first-half strike that hit the post.

All too easy for Liverpool I’m afraid.