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[Jim Keoghan]

You’ve got to hand it to Spurs, they played a blinder over Son. A masterclass in how to weave a story in a post-truth world.



The idea of ‘objective truth’, the concept that certain facts and events can be established as definitive has taken a bit of a battering in recent years. In the old modernist world, to establish a ‘truth’ you scoured sources, gathered supporting evidence and built a picture of what happened. The idea was to present a case so robust that it would be immune to challenge. The evidence supported the story and the story told the truth.



In the post-modern world, all that goes out the window. Facts or truths are unattainable as all evidence is relative. All that remains is perspective and interpretation. At its best this was a refreshing challenge to the dogma of modernists. At its worst, its relativism, the idea that my story is just as valid as yours, led inexorably to some dark corners.



If all this sounds a bit heavy, bear with me. In the aftermath of...

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[blulouie]

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[magicjuan]

Been saying this for a while.

We need to be snide savvy on and off the pitch because everyone connected to football, leagues, teams, media, they all walk over us every single time and it's no surprise our players have a fragile mentality.

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

Your overarching point is a good one. We’re too bloody soft, we have been for years. I remember a certain Phil Neville trying to persuade a ref not to send an opposition player off. Our current attitude gets you absolutely nowhere in modern football, we’re seeing that right now.

 

[orly]

Good evening, Jim

 

[everton fan number one]

Can't believe what we did to Son. We should be ashamed of ourselves. We should apologise to Tottenham.

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

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Exactly my thoughts, Jim. Between Son's tears and his antics in the Champions League game mid-week, he really has played a blinder in the modern art of the perpetrator generating empathy as the perceived "victim".

Though, I think Everton were put in a difficult position - if we had shouted from the rooftops that Son quite rightly wanted to have a crack at Gomes, the media no doubt would have been quick to portray us as petty and directing social media anger towards poor ole Heung-Min.

 

[Tonymckinn1878]

Brilliant piece...oh so true!

 

[Benedict]

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So true, this post got me thinking about the last series of the X Files, the Mandela effect one, no one wants truth anymore, lies are much more fun, i can't see how the world can carry on like this.

 

[Jim Blott]

All sounds a tad bitter to me.
Did Son get an attack of Red Mist ? Yes.
Was his tackle deserving of a Red Card ? No.
Were the consequences horrendous? Yes
Were they intended? Not for a second and surely even wearing our blue tinted specs none of us really think Son deserved a Red do we ?

Have we been done over by VAR ? Yes
Should we cry about it as a club ? No that is for us supporters to do. We are not the only ones to have received rough justice from this farce.

And if you saw Silva on MOTD last night he defended Richarlison pointing out that he has never been booked for diving .

So we as fans can moan about all the injustices that we suffer and we undoubtedly have this season but if the club went down that route it would show a lack of class and a Balotelli why always me attitude.
I don’t agree with the article at all.

 

[peteblue]

It’s about time this club got up off its knees and started putting itself around again. As was said, we roll over again and again while the RS and c literally get away with murder. I’m fed up being the nice guy, I want the club to start kicking arse, because being nice does sod all these days......

 

[Blues Harp]

So true, this post got me thinking about the last series of the X Files, the Mandela effect one, no one wants truth anymore, lies are much more fun, i can't see how the world can carry on like this.

Say a lie often enough, and it becomes the truth; a lie goes halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on. Look at the "government" as an example......it works doesn't it? The club needs to get its act together and respond to these incidents, not just sit there and say nothing. The silence is deafening.

 

[chrismpw]

Your overarching point is a good one. We’re too bloody soft, we have been for years. I remember a certain Phil Neville trying to persuade a ref not to send an opposition player off. Our current attitude gets you absolutely nowhere in modern football, we’re seeing that right now.

I'd rather be this kind of too soft to be honest. I'd rather just switch off to modern football (as I pretty much have done) than compromise my decency and integrity by plummeting to the depths of anti-sporting behaviour seen in the modern game like this.

Despite what the rs thin, you don't win by cheating - you don't truly win.

 

[AndyC]

@Jim Keoghan - excellent article mate, said similarly myself when I questioned...

When will Everton grow a pair?

After the Brighton game.

Our media communications are simply dreadful as the club don’t appear to understand the need to “control the narrative”

 

[gonetomorrow]

I'd rather be this kind of too soft to be honest. I'd rather just switch off to modern football (as I pretty much have done) than compromise my decency and integrity by plummeting to the depths of anti-sporting behaviour seen in the modern game like this.

Despite what the rs thin, you don't win by cheating - you don't truly win.

I agree. Richarlison is letting the side down though. I've never seen such diving about since Nureyev played the Palladium.