Media relishing Everton’s demise

[Dario Terracotta]

I stopped listening ages ago. Is Micky Quinn still on?

Total embarrassment of a station that is, only bothered about the RS and the SLY six, oh and the Jawdees now as they think they may give it a go, so Lahndan orientated too it is a joke, who gives two hoots what Leg ends such as Jason Cundy and Jamie O'Hara think?lol

 

[sbbefc]

Reminds me a bit of when Newcastle went down with Shearer at the helm. The media went crazy for that too. A club with a big fan base that had a relatively successful run in the Premier League playing a fair few seasons in Europe. Close ups of fans crying in their seats.

I don't think we're necessarily being singled out. It is a big story. And mostly of our owners own doing. But it might be a tad worse and nastier due to the seer amount of RS in the media.

If it was Chelsea, RS or any other big club I'd probably want them down too given the circumstances.

 

[daza_1973]

Reminds me a bit of when Newcastle went down with Shearer at the helm. The media went crazy for that too. A club with a big fan base that had a relatively successful run in the Premier League playing a fair few seasons in Europe. Close ups of fans crying in their seats.

I don't think we're necessarily being singled out. It is a big story. And mostly of our owners own doing. But it might be a tad worse and nastier due to the seer amount of RS in the media.

If it was Chelsea, RS or any other big club I'd probably want them down too given the circumstances.

Newcastle haven't won the top flight championship since 1927 - Huddersfied town have won it 3 times since then - a bad comparison the sort a 'football started in 1992' acolyte would spout.

 

[riddick]

If you think about it, it actually takes a lot of effort to be this bad. You'd think Moshiri would get SOMETHING correct eventually, right? Nope. Not one thing he did I can stand back and say "yep, good on ya". Every single choice he's made, every single transfer he's done outside of his DoF, every single managerial decision he's done he's gotten completely and utterly wrong. He's spent more than half a billion and we are about to be relegated for the first time in 70 years.

We deserve nothing but scorn for the way our "leadership" has steered us in to oblivion.


On a flip side, think about Schalke in the Bundesliga. Everyone basically says they are/were essentially Everton's kindred spirit. They went down last year(?). Most clubs "of our size" in the Premier League can buy their way out of this. We have bought our way in to this. Just completely resigned to going down.

 

[sbbefc]

Newcastle haven't won the top flight championship since 1927 - Huddersfied town have won it 3 times since then - a bad comparison the sort a 'football started in 1992' acolyte would spout.

I was commenting on the media reaction. It wasn't a comparison of the clubs history etc.

 

[MrGrumpy]

In my opinion it's the novelty of it all which will drive clicks and views. It isn't very often that a giant of English football falls out of their ivory tower to their death. Fans of teams that are less successful historically will relish it because they can point to it and say look at how "big" you are now. The slimey six want us gone because we rock the boat too much. They don't want any formerly great team to rise up and usurp them.

In short, the only ones who will be upset by us going down will be us. Everyone else is actually excited by the prospect and are hoping it happens.

They laugh and chuckle till the big 6 steam roll them with loads of new rules to benefit only them and they don’t have Everton to stand up to them

 

[MrGrumpy]

Newcastle haven't won the top flight championship since 1927 - Huddersfied town have won it 3 times since then - a bad comparison the sort a 'football started in 1992' acolyte would spout.

Yeah but your forgetting the Keegan meltdown which makes the a big club…apparently

 

[daza_1973]

Yeah but your forgetting the Keegan meltdown which makes the a big club…apparently

And losing two consecutive cup finals 98/99. 70s Texaco Cup legends too.

 

[Ofcourseitsnotfair]

Yeah but your forgetting the Keegan meltdown which makes the a big club…apparently

There's very little in the modern history of either club to suggest they are 'big'. But what does 'big club' actually mean? My dad and grandad would often say Liverpool were for many years seen as a second division club, whilst Huddersfield were seen as a big, first division club. Over time, it's transient, but one thing is for sure - big club now means you have enough money to buy the pots and the medals. Maybe Leicester aside, tell me any Premier league winners that didn't have enormous sums of money? Everton are a rare exception. As for your Newcastle comments, the schadenfreude is well deserved lads and lasses. No one has forgotten how you rolled over for the mackems and celebrated sending us down... You can claim Newcastle are not a big club as much as you like. We know we are, and due entirely to foreign money, we are about to get a LOT bigger. I wish it wasn't like this, but there you go. Every dog and all that....

 

[Dr Baxter]

I haven't read anything on this thread but I thought I'd post something based solely on the title. Not sure if anybody has posted this before but basically we should take all of this as a compliment. I think if it's a big news story then, despite the fact that we haven't won a trophy for 25 years, it's because most people still consider us to be a big club. It will be big news if we go down. I suspect we will get a 10 minute spot on TV on the footy shows in countries where football is popular where we probably don't ever get mentioned. There again, hopefully we so stay up.

 

[Bkk Andy]

Newcastle haven't won the top flight championship since 1927 - Huddersfied town have won it 3 times since then - a bad comparison the sort a 'football started in 1992' acolyte would spout.

People don't talk about Preston winning the double either. The media focuses on recent history because people who are alive can still remember it. Newcastle had been in the champions league not that long before going down.

 

[Khalekan]

Much as I hate seeing it, our actions by being one of the biggest spenders over the last few years in British football have brought this on, coupled with how we go through managers at a rate of 1 per season.

If this were another club I'd be laughing at the thought of them going down.

Sadly over recent years, or at least since Moyes/Martinez left this is far from the Everton I've loved and supported since birth.

The board and their inane actions over time have tarnished us badly, we did used to be well like by a lot of other clubs fans.

Manchester United, Spurs and Chelses go through as many managers as us without incurring scorn from the media.

 

[Bluerover]

People don't talk about Preston winning the double either. The media focuses on recent history because people who are alive can still remember it. Newcastle had been in the champions league not that long before going down.

There is far too much money washing around - players paid ridiculous amounts. I will leave it there ...... work out the rest

 

[BigDunc'sFod]

At the end of the day the same happened when villa went down and in particular when the horse punchers dropped down

So long as we don't become the next Leeds (but without the Champions League footy) we'll be alright, is never been about what other people think of us anyways

All this being said, Moshiri is a divvy who's made terrible decisions, allowed himself a plaything that's pissed his fortune up the wall, we've been like a fella about to be homeless who won on the bookies and instead of paying his rent and putting money away for a rainy day instead bought everyone an open bar and loads of electronics then had a party in his house, feel asleep bevvied and wondered where all his stuff went the following day

 

[Daytripper]

This “everyone hates us” thing, I don’t get it. I used to see it being said pre Moshiri too. I’m sure there is a few arseholes in the media with a chip on their shoulder particularly fans of Liverpool and ex players but everyone else?

I mean we are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, we don’t challenge for leagues or cups domestically and in Europe so why do people think everyone hates us?

If anything we are easy pickings for ridicule rather than spite.

It’s like with the Geordies, I don’t get that either. Never cared for them or seen anything occur that would cause aggro .