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Yet another season in the top flight
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In the warm afterglow of the humiliation of Manchester City on their own midden and the disappointment of a myriad missed chances against Wolves, another milestone went largely unnoticed this weekend.
It became mathematically impossible for us to be relegated this season (short of going into administration!)
It must be all those nailbiting dicings-with-death of a few years ago that are to blame but I start doing the calculations at the end of February each season and always breathe a sigh of relief when the magical point is mathematically achieved and, if nothing else, we can still lay claim to the record of spending more seasons in the top flight than anybody else.
We should get a trophy for that!
Dave Roberts, Posted 29/03/2010 at 16:09:27
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It's now a disappointment to be on the top-side of mid-table, so relegation just isn't possible with the players we have.
Hurrah to another year in the top flight, and a hurrah to being pissed off that we will probably not get Europe this season.
For most of my own time as a Blue, relegation has not been an issue for me either but the close run things of a few years back made it one. Perhaps even more of one because, in my own way, I have experienced it.
For those who think the players we have now make it 'impossible' for Everton to be relegated, they need to look no further than West Ham and Manchester United when (basically) decent sides went down not because the players weren't good enough but because the clubs were badly run/managed and a downward spiral began from there. We were very close to that situation ourselves not so long ago.The same thing happened to Newcastle last season.
I watched Newcastle the other night playing another of the top sides in the Championship (Notts Forest) and they played better footy against another decent side than a lot of the stuff I have seen from Premier League sides this season. But they went down last year... not because of the players directly but because the club was in turmoil. Virtually the same side is winning the Championship this season with ease. They will stay up because they have the money, once they are back, to attract good players. We do not. If we went down we would have a lot of trouble getting back. That is why I worry!!
No, to answer somebody above, I am not a Kopite wind-up merchant, I am an Evertonian who loves this Club and who was frightened to death for a few seasons a few years ago when we could have gone down and when we looked as though we would. Maybe I will stop worrying about it in a year or two, who knows... perhaps when we are no longer in the bottom three at Christmas! Until then I will be happy when I know relegation is not a possibility.
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My only pre-94 `flirtation' with relegation was early 70s (72-3?) when, if memory serves me correctly, "Howie kept us up" — Even then the popular thinking was we'd always buy our way out of trouble.
For a spell in the 90s, when I got my `traditional' Everton-related book for Christmas, I put it on the shelf and wouldn't open it until we were safe — how bloody sad! Even now, I get a slight shudder on Christmas morning...
I understand exactly what you're saying — for old school Blues, the 90s were psychologically damaging.
We were a poor side, with a poor manager, the classic recipe for disaster, but if we did not get relegated that year then I felt we would never get relegated.
I still cannot believe we got away with it that day... Wimbledon, although we gave them 2 goals, missed chance after chance, Holdsworth in particular.
The redshite, with the coffins, were poised; if I remember correctly, even if we won, Sheff Utd had to lose for us to stay up??
The day, although stomach turning, showed how big a club Everton were, the support unbelievable, but I still think something went on there that had nothing to do with football, but I don't suppose we will ever find out the truth.
Within a year, fortunes had changed, we had a young vibrant manager, won the FA Cup and could compete against the RS, within another year we had thrown it all away again.
History is repeating itself, will the board support this young vibrant manager, or will it all be cast away again?
I trust in Moyes, but his 'late start surge', now well spotted by the press, can do one's head in. Like Phil and others I say we must never go back to those dark, dark days experienced in the 90s.
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