Money Talks and year after year after year, we spent nowhere near what our "rivals" did and we even allowed more teams leapfrog us like Spurs, City, Chelsea.
We had a miracle season getting to 4th thanks to Moyes and even then we cut our cloth like paupers incase we did a "Leeds" but at least they had a go!
If the board had ambition, we would be sat with a dock side stadium with 50k over 10 years ago.
Kenwright macromanaged Everton for one of the Top 4 into a nodding dog of a club who allowed teams to cherry pick players here and there and didn't bat an eyelid.
His surrounding board members allowed it and while the Premier League grew into a Global Business, we sat on our hands, happy to get a few quid and a rub on the head.
At one stage we had some of the continents biggest star players in Rooney, Howard, Cahill and Pienaar so we had pre-seasons in Bury, Port Vale and Paderborn.
Under Kenwright, we became a soulless vessel who bobbed along and the saddest thing about it, it's US that let it happen.
We allowed them to pre-program US into thinking beating a Top 6 club is a good thing, going on a unsuccessful cup run is a good thing, selling our best players and not replacing them with better is a good thing and achieving nothing is a good thing.
10 years ago, we lost to Chelsea in a FA Cup Final with Arteta, Yakubu, Jagelka all missing since then 3 semi-final defeats (1 league cup, 2 FA Cup) and some European cup runs. To most fans, they would LOVE that, your Newcastle's or West Ham's, they would cream themselves for it. We now do!
We are EVERTON, we are better then well done, credit where credit is due, best of luck, best team won etc etc. IF IT'S NOT US, WE SHOULDN'T CARE.
Let's stand up as fans now, set a new standard for this club and our future, don't take defeat lightly and expect victory every single game we play because if we are fans don't, you can bet the players won't or the press won't or our own board.
The Kenwright years are Dead, Long Live EVERTON