Ah, the day of love.
To wake up in the arms of the warm afterglow of a derby victory; not quite a Valentines' (eve) massacre, but a one-sided shellacking all the same.
The only 'love' Everton felt was if football used the term like tennis to mean zero.
It feels like a turning point for the Reds, but turning points are only clear once you've moved past the fog of the present moment and seen what happened.
“Man proceeds in the fog. But when he looks back to judge people of the past, he sees no fog on their path. From his present, which was their faraway future, their path looks perfectly clear to him, good visibility all the way. Looking back, he sees the path, he sees the people proceeding, he sees their mistakes, but not the fog.”
― Milan Kundera, Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
Still, it's a turning point in several factual ways, for the following reasons.
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