We have preconceptions.
When I grew up Everton were the greatest team in the world, we won trinkets, my son has grown and we havent won a sausage, but his Dad has told him how great we were, wiki has shown him all the trophies we won, I mean the first paragraph on Wiki tells us how great we are.
Everton Football Club (
/ˈɛvərtən/) is a
football club in
Liverpool,
England, that competes in the
Premier League, the top flight of
English football. The club have competed in the top division for a
record 116 seasons, missing the top division
only four times (1930–31 and three consecutive seasons starting with 1951–52) since
The Football League was created in 1888. Everton have won 15 major trophies: the
League Championship nine times (
fourth most as of 2017–18), the
FA Cup five times (
ninth most) and the
UEFA Cup Winners Cup once.
So of course, we have that extra thing, we have a proud history and for all the media bias we cry about, when we are good, we always get a good press, I think a lot of the media give us the respect we deserve.
So in my heart, we are still the greatest team in the world, but my head tells me its been 24 years since we last won a trophy and my head tells me that we are miles away from where we need to be, were we SHOULD BE and oh look, theres my heart again.