Newcastle find Everton are the new Liverpool

Liverpool Football Club have left a hole at the top of the Premier League table that is waiting to be filled.

It has been for some time now.

Liverpool have been a natural fit at the top boasting titles, pedigree, history and talent.

That has been in decline, over the last three years in particular and a few clubs have been lining to take over.

While Brendan Rodgers gets his tiki-taka revolution going at Anfield there are others who, having done the time in the middle and lower ends of the table are ready to rise to the top.

Tottenham Hotspur have time and again emerged as their own worst enemy.

Last season, Newcastle United revealed themselves a tour de force to be reckoned with.

This season, all indications are the club with the under-the-radar top four credentials, or at least top six, is Everton.

Everton could be the new Liverpool.

Not just in footballing terms, but off the field too.

While Liverpool are still trying to shake the dregs of the ugly Luis Suarez race row, Everton was all class, rising above footballing rivalries in a touching tribute to the victims who lost their lives in 1989 the Hillsborough disaster.

Before the game between Newcastle and Everton at Goodison Park, one young girl in blue (Everton) and one small boy in the red of Liverpool, led the players on to the pitch.

The girl wore the number 9, and the boy had the number 6.

A show of support to the families of the 96 victims of the disaster.

Moyes said: “I, and everybody at Everton, stand alongside the families who have challenged the authorities over what has been proved a travesty.

“I'm a football manager, a supporter and a father, and I applauded the families who continued to fight for the ones they loved. I believe everybody in the world of football will have been shocked by the wrongdoings surrounding Hillsborough which were exposed last week.”

Then came the game and Everton showed that on the pitch, against a team fancied to rattle the big boys and stocked with European talent, they were ready for third place in the Premier League.

Everton were robbed of third place in the Premier League last night by referee decisions.

Linesman Ceri Richards flagged Marouane Fellaini offside for a second-half strike when he was not and worse, a Victor Anichebe header that crossed the line was disallowed.

Even Newcastle boss Alan Pardew admitted the officials got it wrong.

Pardew may have also got it wrong, leaving Demba Ba on the bench.

Ba the fact that Demba came on as a sub and headed Newcastle’s 90th-minute leveler, Everton are ready for the top.

Liverpool meanwhile lie fourth from bottom, above QPR on goal difference.

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