TheSecondComing
Player Valuation: £35m
is the chant we have to endure as we crash to another defeat at Anfield year on year, something that would have been even louder this season after they have secured their first league title after 30+ years.
My first thing is to go back to Goodisons loudest and special chant when the ground is bouncing after a huge win, "we don't care what the red side say". We shouldn't care what they say but we also shouldn't ignore a fact, they are speaking the truth this clubs has not won a trophy since 1995.
You then revert your attention as to why this has been allowed to happen and what factors have caused this. You look at managers, since Big Joe walked up the steps creating history, with a team that I can barley remember due to being 5 at the time, he created an group of players who weren't technically gifted but worked for the shirt and Everton meant something to them. Since then these gentlemen have had the honor of managing our great club, Walter Smith, David Moyes, Roberto Martinez, Ronald Koeman, Sam Allardyce, Marco Silva and Carlo Ancelotti.
I have purposely left out Howard Kendall as he doesn't deserve to share a sentence with these men, he was special a true Everton legend on and off the pitch.
I think the little we speak about Walter Smith, Sam Allardyce, Marco Silva the better, al truly out of their depth managing this club which is clear by the football played.
The lonest serving manager since 1995 was David Moyes, a man who changed this club in many ways, some positive and some negative, in the majority he put together a group of players who worked hard and it meant something to play for this club, something us as fans loved to see. Now the bad, he cultivated an inferiority complex, maybe in a way to create a siege mentality or to point out to his next bosses he was always constrained financially only he will ever know that. We had a habit of bottling it at big games, especially away from home, but he will always argue that he was never afforded the luxury of purchasing a difference maker "knife to a gun fight". He brought us the closet ending a barren spell in 2009, some fans will say we bottled it after going 1-0 up against Chelsea, I myself in this instance believed that losing Arteta, Jagielka, Yakubu and taken its toll and it was too big of a task but they gave it ago but we just weren't good enough with the players we had left.
From the summer that followed, things changed with Moyes, instead of being backed further to turn a very good squad, into a top class one we had to break up arguably the second best if not best center back partnership in the league, with Lescott leaving to an ambitious Manchester City, which was hard to swallow at the time, although his replacement was a good servant for the club. Moyes became more defensive minded and money became tighter, banks where breathing down our necks for repayments which in one instance came in the form of the Best Little Spaniard we knew and the infamous video involving Bill Kenwright, a fence and some questions on missing funds was born and is still uttered to this day.
We did get to another semi-final but this time we did bottle it and the same happened in a quarter final at Goodison which signaled the end of Moyes and introduced Roberto Martinez to the Goodison faithful.
Roberto Martinez, still confuses me to this day, and I am not just talking that West Ham game in his last season but in general, after a first season which was pleasure to watch home and away, with some great performances, no game to this day has been a better footballing lesson than that Arsenal game, we wiped the floor with them. We finished 5th and just missed out on top 4 now some may say we bottled it, I am quite indifferent I decided to take the positive it was great stepping stone and things could only get better.... how wrong was I?
His second season started ok but there was a game that would be something that would encapsulate everything that would come, we played Arsenal and in my opinion played even better that we had in the March of the same year, yet we conceded to late goals and drew 2-2. We played well in Europe but the season was overall poor but he got the benefit of the doubt with many.
The next season would just be completely bonkers, winning games like West Brom away being 2-0 down something we hadn't done a number of years, it also gave us that Bournemouth game which still makes my blood boil now along with the Chelsea game in the same season, where his lack of defensive coaching / knowledge and poor players would see us throw away leads time after time.
We did get to two semi-finals though, the second one is what irks me and brings me to the point of this article, the crowd had turned on Roberto, we no longer believed in him, he had lost the fans and some of the players by all accounts but we had a semi-final to play against a poor Manchester United team. A decision needed to be made, do we cut our loses now and try and make something of the season by winning a cup or do we carry on as we are, nobody will be surprised we went with the latter, we lost to United and Martinez was subsequently sacked but that was it, another season of nothingness was complete.
It was put to one side though as the optimism of Farhad Moshiri took hold and we moved onto the next season and this has been repeated since, with some very demoralising seasons but real positivity took over the fan base again with the arrival of Carlo Ancelotti, a true football giant as a player and manager was now leading the toffees.
Fast forward a year, a global pandemic the arrival of James Rodriguez, Allan and Doucoure we sit in February with the feeling it's about to happen again, but why?
Some will say we are cursed, some will blame Carlo and some will blame the players and even some will put it on all 3 but one man has overseen all of the above and I haven't even mentioned the fact we haven't beat our neighbors for over 10 year now or the multiple failed ground moves.
His name is William Kenwright and he may no longer be the majority shareholder he still has the title of "Chairman" some will say he has no say but he still does, he hired his current CEO and still has a lot of responsibilities, he isn't an honorary chairman, a similar role which Philip Carter held, he is an acting director of this football club.
He is the chief architect for some of the issues I raised above, the banks squeezing us dry from 2009-2012, the failed ground moves, and failing to sack mangers to some bizarre loyalty to the concept of the Everton way, or acting as gentlemen. Those qualities can be kept when winning and they're not mutually exclusive but someone needs to explain this to him.
They're all should be reasons for him to be hounded out of this club but for me his biggest crime against Everton and it's history is the culture he's cultivated here, winning is not everything, living up to our motto which acts as mission statement for this club, well used to is probably not even an after thought to him.
We hire former players as some weird loyalty and give people clearly out of their depth promotions, please see Denise and David Unsworth, everything seems to casual and easy, your turn up you're a nice person and what you do in your job is not the most important thing, every manager we have sacked has been too late or the fans have had to take it upon themselves to basically do it via mutiny.
It's about time it changed, I would love to see Moshiri take a more active role in the running of the club, removing Kenwright and Baxendale from their roles and in the former put her back to her former role as she's clearly very good at that. We go out and hire winners, at board level and we restore this club to former glories before we drop further into just existing and ending that chant about 26 painful years and make that chant that is like no other when the entire ground sings in tandem a more regular occurrence.
"It's a Grand old Team to play for it's a grand old team to support....."
My first thing is to go back to Goodisons loudest and special chant when the ground is bouncing after a huge win, "we don't care what the red side say". We shouldn't care what they say but we also shouldn't ignore a fact, they are speaking the truth this clubs has not won a trophy since 1995.
You then revert your attention as to why this has been allowed to happen and what factors have caused this. You look at managers, since Big Joe walked up the steps creating history, with a team that I can barley remember due to being 5 at the time, he created an group of players who weren't technically gifted but worked for the shirt and Everton meant something to them. Since then these gentlemen have had the honor of managing our great club, Walter Smith, David Moyes, Roberto Martinez, Ronald Koeman, Sam Allardyce, Marco Silva and Carlo Ancelotti.
I have purposely left out Howard Kendall as he doesn't deserve to share a sentence with these men, he was special a true Everton legend on and off the pitch.
I think the little we speak about Walter Smith, Sam Allardyce, Marco Silva the better, al truly out of their depth managing this club which is clear by the football played.
The lonest serving manager since 1995 was David Moyes, a man who changed this club in many ways, some positive and some negative, in the majority he put together a group of players who worked hard and it meant something to play for this club, something us as fans loved to see. Now the bad, he cultivated an inferiority complex, maybe in a way to create a siege mentality or to point out to his next bosses he was always constrained financially only he will ever know that. We had a habit of bottling it at big games, especially away from home, but he will always argue that he was never afforded the luxury of purchasing a difference maker "knife to a gun fight". He brought us the closet ending a barren spell in 2009, some fans will say we bottled it after going 1-0 up against Chelsea, I myself in this instance believed that losing Arteta, Jagielka, Yakubu and taken its toll and it was too big of a task but they gave it ago but we just weren't good enough with the players we had left.
From the summer that followed, things changed with Moyes, instead of being backed further to turn a very good squad, into a top class one we had to break up arguably the second best if not best center back partnership in the league, with Lescott leaving to an ambitious Manchester City, which was hard to swallow at the time, although his replacement was a good servant for the club. Moyes became more defensive minded and money became tighter, banks where breathing down our necks for repayments which in one instance came in the form of the Best Little Spaniard we knew and the infamous video involving Bill Kenwright, a fence and some questions on missing funds was born and is still uttered to this day.
We did get to another semi-final but this time we did bottle it and the same happened in a quarter final at Goodison which signaled the end of Moyes and introduced Roberto Martinez to the Goodison faithful.
Roberto Martinez, still confuses me to this day, and I am not just talking that West Ham game in his last season but in general, after a first season which was pleasure to watch home and away, with some great performances, no game to this day has been a better footballing lesson than that Arsenal game, we wiped the floor with them. We finished 5th and just missed out on top 4 now some may say we bottled it, I am quite indifferent I decided to take the positive it was great stepping stone and things could only get better.... how wrong was I?
His second season started ok but there was a game that would be something that would encapsulate everything that would come, we played Arsenal and in my opinion played even better that we had in the March of the same year, yet we conceded to late goals and drew 2-2. We played well in Europe but the season was overall poor but he got the benefit of the doubt with many.
The next season would just be completely bonkers, winning games like West Brom away being 2-0 down something we hadn't done a number of years, it also gave us that Bournemouth game which still makes my blood boil now along with the Chelsea game in the same season, where his lack of defensive coaching / knowledge and poor players would see us throw away leads time after time.
We did get to two semi-finals though, the second one is what irks me and brings me to the point of this article, the crowd had turned on Roberto, we no longer believed in him, he had lost the fans and some of the players by all accounts but we had a semi-final to play against a poor Manchester United team. A decision needed to be made, do we cut our loses now and try and make something of the season by winning a cup or do we carry on as we are, nobody will be surprised we went with the latter, we lost to United and Martinez was subsequently sacked but that was it, another season of nothingness was complete.
It was put to one side though as the optimism of Farhad Moshiri took hold and we moved onto the next season and this has been repeated since, with some very demoralising seasons but real positivity took over the fan base again with the arrival of Carlo Ancelotti, a true football giant as a player and manager was now leading the toffees.
Fast forward a year, a global pandemic the arrival of James Rodriguez, Allan and Doucoure we sit in February with the feeling it's about to happen again, but why?
Some will say we are cursed, some will blame Carlo and some will blame the players and even some will put it on all 3 but one man has overseen all of the above and I haven't even mentioned the fact we haven't beat our neighbors for over 10 year now or the multiple failed ground moves.
His name is William Kenwright and he may no longer be the majority shareholder he still has the title of "Chairman" some will say he has no say but he still does, he hired his current CEO and still has a lot of responsibilities, he isn't an honorary chairman, a similar role which Philip Carter held, he is an acting director of this football club.
He is the chief architect for some of the issues I raised above, the banks squeezing us dry from 2009-2012, the failed ground moves, and failing to sack mangers to some bizarre loyalty to the concept of the Everton way, or acting as gentlemen. Those qualities can be kept when winning and they're not mutually exclusive but someone needs to explain this to him.
They're all should be reasons for him to be hounded out of this club but for me his biggest crime against Everton and it's history is the culture he's cultivated here, winning is not everything, living up to our motto which acts as mission statement for this club, well used to is probably not even an after thought to him.
We hire former players as some weird loyalty and give people clearly out of their depth promotions, please see Denise and David Unsworth, everything seems to casual and easy, your turn up you're a nice person and what you do in your job is not the most important thing, every manager we have sacked has been too late or the fans have had to take it upon themselves to basically do it via mutiny.
It's about time it changed, I would love to see Moshiri take a more active role in the running of the club, removing Kenwright and Baxendale from their roles and in the former put her back to her former role as she's clearly very good at that. We go out and hire winners, at board level and we restore this club to former glories before we drop further into just existing and ending that chant about 26 painful years and make that chant that is like no other when the entire ground sings in tandem a more regular occurrence.
"It's a Grand old Team to play for it's a grand old team to support....."
