McBain
Player Valuation: £80m
Two games to go and the season still to play for.
Three of the four heavyweights are still punching on and its come down to us and the Villians as to the best of the rest crown. We could have bagged it last game, in the 'final' as it were but as games go against red hot opposition we took the game to them and they took it right back to us.
A stalemate only prolonging the agony of this forums elite, dividing opinion and fueling the fires for at least another two games. So be it, says I, used to the rollercoaster that is supporting this club. Used to the one eyed and the naysayers abounding with a negative position one takes after years of abandon. Not unlike the factory worker, or the public servant after years of dull mediocrity doing the same repetitious chores and abused by the upper levels.
I dont concur or condone, knowing that someone once said 'its a funny old game'; and you know what? It really is.
But once from winning titles and competing to dross and mismangement comes full circle within the generation that remembers it, only then a true renaissance can be acheived. The longing for skill and quality supply, for characters home grown and likeable to follow to the bitter or glorious end; we still bite our nails and shout at the screen and wallow and relive and buzz for the blue army.
What was once called a game came and lit up imaginations now is packaged and gift wrapped and now more than ever the top shelf is as plainly out of sight as it is out of reach. The ladder becomes ever the harder to negoitate; as it always was but now more so. Now the brain of a Clough, a Ferguson, a Wenger becomes ever more attached to the funds it can generate to create the body of the team to bring success to the whole. Ever more the souls part to play is squeezed out and lives on the minds of those clicking through the turnstiles and sliding cards through glad eftpos machines in superstores.
A club like ours, built on the backs of the gifted cannot be allowed to settle in mediocrity! And it isnt. The last few years we have been blessed with the stability to moore our footings and to once again rebuild the dream. Whats to say if a few years ago a certain Russian hadnt wandered into Goodison decided his dream lay here? You'd want more than anything to be given the tools to compete with the brightest once again. But we took the low road, the only one presented to us, the way frought with uncertainty and now instead of fighting to keep our place at the table, we have smartly and rightly moved within grasp of the cream. Against public opinion mind you.
Our team are learning by the taste of defeat, by the lessons learned through experience. Where once a team of men became a team of boys, once again we are standing tall; and not without the usual drama.
We'll get to Europe. This is a team that proves it belongs there. Its not supposed to be easy.
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