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Respect
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The Moyes era has had its fair share of ups and downs and I certainly will never say that it has been perfect, far from it at times. However, what does please me increasingly, as a supporter since the FA Cup Final of 1966, is the fact that respect for our club, among the media, other clubs and their fans, seems to be on its way back.
Not so long ago, we widely held to be a laughing stock. Tipped for relegation every year, scorned by the media as being a once great club on an inevitable and unstoppable decline into obscurity, Everton FC is now becoming a byword for good old-fashioned values of hardwork, team spirit and resilience against the odds.
The Reds on Match of the Day now praise us; the serious press now give us credit when we play well and the tipsters now give us more than a semblance of a chance of success before every match.
Of course I want us to win silverware and I hope that the club's financial situation improves, with or without a ground move, to allow us to move up another notch and be serious competition for honours. But for now, I will accept looking forward to every match, against whoever we play, with the belief that we will compete and moreover that the broader footballing public is equally expectant of our success.
Living in London, I am surrounded by fans of all clubs. A few years ago, I was a proud but slightly sheepish Evertonian. Now, I can look my mates in the eye knowing that they respect our great Club. Long may it continue!
Chris Goldie, Posted 29/01/2009 at 10:35:08
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it’s not respect - it’s sympathy.
who else would want to be in the premiership with a such a small squad, half of whom are injured, very poor management and a ground dilemma that knows no bounds.
no, I think people are only too pleased it’s not them in this position.
This is a good time to be a bluenose, the carry ons across the park have provided light relief of late, and Benitez has made a blooper of epic proportions with what he said to a eager media.
I can’t wait for the replay, they cannot fare without Gerrard it seems, and one man does not make a team. The Wigan result was great although the late events at Goodison made it a far than impressive night.
I think it's been another smoke screen with no REAL effort going into finding re-inforcements. The lads have performed fabulously but the burn out beckons if nothing is done!! I reckon a few of the lads were treading water in the last ten mins against Arsenal.
Everton what were you thinking about!! A natural goal scorer cool on the ball, makes massive amounts of space for himself AND YOU LET HIM GO. Shame he?s gone we could have give him 1st choice team selection every week.
What can I say? Just gutted...
(And Jon - get a grip man! Derbyshire has been around for a while now, can’t get a game for Blackburn, and Allardyce (no fool) obviously doesn’t like the look of him. I think Jukiewicz may be a better prospect!)
When was the last time we were on match of the day and the ’experts’ actually took the time to analyze the match from our point of view?
Only this morning I was listening to the sports news on a national radio stattion and they mentioned Van Persie equalised for Arsenal late on and that Wenger was happy with a point...they didn’t mention our scorer, what Moyes thought or the fact Cahill hobbled off! The only reason they even mentioned our name was to let everyone know who "the arsenal" were playing.
Stop talking bollocks. See a doctor about your depression.
Sky4 or not, I’ll take substance over glitter.
OT, but funny - two links:
First for Blue Bill, and worth it on musical merit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLWoiC-3b60
Next, for Senor Benitez - also stands on its own for musical merit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmLS_jkxPRs
The media churn up shite every week and instead of being the hoofball team of yesteryear we’re now everyone’s favourite second team. It’s ok if we win but not against the manure, shite and chelski. It’ll have the media do some thinking which means during some work. I do admire our honest teamwork but when you mention against the odds sometimes I feel we just make it difficult for ourselves. Like having a striker crisis during a transfer window.
I think when we get a hard time in the media, it is usually from low-grade, non-professional types that have either problems with intellect (ex-footballers), have problems with impartiality (Green types) or are not particularly knowledgeable about the game (junior reporters and the like).
I think the problem is that we have a great striker in Yakubu, a potentially good player in Saha who will probably never stay fit and 2 youngsters to make up the numbers. Then we have Cahill who is tucking them away as quickly as just about any other striker in the Premier League....
So that means that for no money, because (A) we don?t have money and (B) Moyes will not spend money on players that don?t improve the first 18, we have to bring in a player who is better up-front than Cahill and who knows that they don?t have a future at Everton once Yakubu comes back from injury.
I don?t think there can be too many players of the required quality knocking about for free can there?
It is inevitable that fatigue will take its toll if the players are not rested from time to time... if any of the above players lose form or get suspended (Fellaini, Cahill etc) who will come in and do a job?
Why do you blindly believe we have no money?? If we have no money, how do teams further down the league have it? I'm not talking about the rich clubs, just look at the activity of virtually every team.
When a team is at its best IT BUYS... that's how it stays at the top. We seem to become complacent. AMBITION is lacking and complacency is evident in everything we do.
It's not just a striker we need, although I cannot agree with your rating of the Yak as world class... he is definitely in and out as far as I'm concerned... Saha has a touch of class but he is always injured.
I do not believe all this poverty talk.
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1 Posted 29/01/2009 at 14:53:12
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Media people have differing agendas and varying degrees of knowledge, judgment, prejudice and lazy ignorance, so you can’t lump them all together. Just within the BBC, Hansen and Lawro are much more likely to give credit and be positive about us than Alan Green, but he’s more of a blinkered kopite than either of them.
As a footnote to another discussion - Lawrence Donegan in the Guardian today called el gordo "an emotional pygmy, a man unworthy of being in charge of a great club like Liverpool" . Well, except for his assessment of greatness, that sounds about right.
Respect and dignity go together.