We're no closer to any kind of success than we were 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30 years' ago. There is a vein of ineptitude that has run through the club in these years, which is continually mined by whomever is in charge,whether it be the owners or manager. The reasons are many, we all know what they are. The two that irks me the most are :
The sentimentality that is rife throughout the club, for all the wrong reasons. We can all love our history, and the players that made it, but rewarding mediocrity because they've been here a long time, and they 'get Everton' is no way to run a business. It rewards the also-ran rather than the excellent, the player happy to go with the flow rather than one who seeks to improve.
There's also it seems within the club, an almost tangible fear to improve, to set goals and expect to achieve them, to appoint people with a vision. Not vision as a buzzword, but people with a plan, willing to expound their vision within the club and to the supporters. Instead, we get managers with no ambition, no distinctive attacking plan, or indeed very little plan indeed. There is no cohesive strategy to improve season by season apart from meaningless mission statements.
'If you know your history' is now a tired anachronism. Tired, that's what the fans are, tired of the nothingness, the stupor, the miasma, the total irrelevance of Everton. And then we hear what that failure of a manager came out with tonight and we despair, because, deep down, we all know nothing will change.
And for my next joke....
