Season 2011-12 Fan Articles

Enough is Enough

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Vaughan: £1.5m

Being lied to by the "best Evertonian in the world": Priceless

I saw this on the Internet the other day.

If we were redshite there would be banners with this all over the stadium at the next home game. But there won?t even be so much as a murmur of discontent versus Blackburn. Yet the Blackburn fans will shatter the Goodison silence in their attempts to oust their shit Scottish manager ? we won?t say a word against a brand of football which would be considered blasphemy 20 years ago. A blasphemy that is directly attributable to a dour manager and his board who have provided us with nothing but smoke and mirrors for a decade.

Kenwright?s latest claim is that, ?no one can sell the club better than me.? What utter horseshit this is. So far, in a decade of ?trying?, his success rate in this is zilch. Peter Johnson, Kenwright?s much vilified predecessor, has clearly outperformed our Chairman in this one simple task.

Evertonians are all too depressingly familiar with watching their club being dismantled, but the current plight is an order of magnitude greater than the dips we have witnessed in recent years. Many who make a very good living out of the hot air that surrounds football don?t dare say it, but there is a major storm brewing at Goodison Park, make no mistake of that. So much so, that the well remunerated sycophant and apologist Graeme Sharp, sounded decidedly worried in the Radio City phone in after the latest in a long line of flaccid performances at White Hart Lane.

Listening to Moyes turning up to games already beaten has now reached the point of utter tedium. His lack of money excuse is lazy, unimaginative and insulting to all Evertonians. From my experience playing football, if you went out on the pitch wanting and expecting to win, your performance was subconsciously elevated to a level whereby winning became second nature. What chance has this team got when their manager admitted defeat in a press conference two days prior to a ball being kicked? But what chance has the manager got when his chairman and associated backers and cronies, dig up all the foundations he has laid over the years?

Evertonians have gotten to a point where enough is enough; this back-slapping cozy club of Moyes and Kenwright is strangling the life of Everton and it has got to end. We simply deserve better, but while we sit and let Moyes and Kenwright off the hook, this is all we get.

The way the redshite mobilised against Gillet and Hicks was not without merit. Credit where credit is due, they refused to sit back and watch their club being dismantled in front of their eyes. They thought they deserved better - I thought they got exactly what they deserved, but that is a different issue for a different day.

Perhaps the past of the redshite has afforded them a greater ability to unify under a common goal. When their backs are against the wall they unite, they have a coherent strategy and they focus their energies. It gets results. They are certainly more accustomed to campaigning and in that sense alone, they absolutely run rings around us. In a city where Militancy once ruled, we are shamefully not Militant enough. We may laugh at their banners, we may laugh at their videos and marches; but it is them who are laughing at us now. Loath them or hate them, we could do a lot worse than take a leaf out of their book.

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