Why Everton fans expect better of Lescott - MirrorFootball.co.uk
Decent little read there.
From a neutral's point of view if someone asked you to move up the M62 and do roughly what you do now, oh but we'll give you an extra 30,000 spods a week, I'd be cranking up the sat-nav before Garry Cook had even slapped a baseball cap on my head.
The thing is we just expect better. Football fans are fickle, hard to please and expect loyalty. Forget the recession, ticket prices and the "we pay your wages" argument, the bottom line is we expect our players to want to play for us.
A truly great, little ginger midfielder famously said, "Once Everton has touched you nothing will be the same."
It may be unfair, unrealistic and naive in the modern game but it's what we expect.
To make matters worse, Lescott has 'done a Rooney' waited until just before the season with a couple of weeks of the transfer window left and then asked for a move. This probably won't overly help his cause with the crowd, should he play on Saturday.
Hopefully he won't get booed. From a personal point of view I'm just not that bothered.
Should he stay it would save us replacing him but ultimately he's a centre half and City are willing to pay more than £20m for him.
It would just be nice though if Lescott came out and openly said, "They offered me more money and I took it."
Any crap about "furthering careers" or "looking forward to doing that wicked samba dance with Robinho and Micah" should guarantee him a lifetime of Goodison abuse, file under Speed, G.
A reception of complete indifference would be far more productive, saving the Goodison atmosphere for the visit of Arsenal, where we really need the crowd fully behind the team. Yeah, it would be nice; not going to happen though is it? A fired-up, well-oiled Goodison has never been the Kofi Annan of English football.
Decent little read there.
From a neutral's point of view if someone asked you to move up the M62 and do roughly what you do now, oh but we'll give you an extra 30,000 spods a week, I'd be cranking up the sat-nav before Garry Cook had even slapped a baseball cap on my head.
The thing is we just expect better. Football fans are fickle, hard to please and expect loyalty. Forget the recession, ticket prices and the "we pay your wages" argument, the bottom line is we expect our players to want to play for us.
A truly great, little ginger midfielder famously said, "Once Everton has touched you nothing will be the same."
It may be unfair, unrealistic and naive in the modern game but it's what we expect.
To make matters worse, Lescott has 'done a Rooney' waited until just before the season with a couple of weeks of the transfer window left and then asked for a move. This probably won't overly help his cause with the crowd, should he play on Saturday.
Hopefully he won't get booed. From a personal point of view I'm just not that bothered.
Should he stay it would save us replacing him but ultimately he's a centre half and City are willing to pay more than £20m for him.
It would just be nice though if Lescott came out and openly said, "They offered me more money and I took it."
Any crap about "furthering careers" or "looking forward to doing that wicked samba dance with Robinho and Micah" should guarantee him a lifetime of Goodison abuse, file under Speed, G.
A reception of complete indifference would be far more productive, saving the Goodison atmosphere for the visit of Arsenal, where we really need the crowd fully behind the team. Yeah, it would be nice; not going to happen though is it? A fired-up, well-oiled Goodison has never been the Kofi Annan of English football.
