I think some lids on here, including your good self Dan, are not grasping why some of us are ....well, upset is too strong a word, but why we are ticked off by it.
What he says is undeniably true......but in my eyes he is not saying it because it is true, he is saying it to belittle Everton FC.
I made the point earlier.
But for his attitude, Ballotelli would still be in a Title winning side at Manchester City.
Could you see Lawrenson belittling the RS by stating the undeniably true fact that "if his attitude was better he wouldn't be at Liverpool"?
Some chance.
Or De Maria.....who was dragged kicking and screaming out of Real Madrid and wound up at OT.
If he scores two goals and has a great game on Sunday will Lawrenson say "oh, if only he had done that more often at Real he wouldn't be playing for United".
Not on yer nelly.
Now, don't get me wrong.....I am not in the least bit bothered what the washed up arl bugger has to say about us.
But he is a prominent figure in the football media and he is forever trying to belittle our club.
He can rarely even tip us to win in his weekly prediction column, such is his bile.
Make no mistake...that was a calculated insult to us.
We often discuss on these pages about how negatively the media portrays our club....how they are always playing it down when we do well.
It is seemingly innocuous remarks like that which colour the public perception of EFC.
And I think it sad that many of our own fans just shrug it off so flippantly.