The actual football story at Everton should be aroumd young English manager turning the fortunes of a struggling team. Again it’s more bullshit from the premier league and fans having to become part time accountants to make sense of it.
Also just feels like blatant elitism. Yeah the board fucked up but this league is built on financial doping and it’s so obvious. Not even an Everton fan and hope they stay up.
Most of them aren’t. The only ones who are genuinely downing tools are Sancho (that’s pretty obvious) and Varane/Casemiro are both being not exactly professional while looking to get a Saudi move. Varane’s body language was genuinely shameful last night.
The rest of them aren’t downing tools. They just don’t have the skills, are out of form or can’t handle the pressure. Or for some, a combination of the three.
Sounds ridiculous to say after last night but I think they’re starting to turn a corner. Not saying much, 5th or 6th place finish is the realistic hope, but it looks like they are emerging from relegation form at least.
I think yes. Not necessarily because they are better, but just because we have this cliquey self-serving situation where they recruit from an extremely narrow band of British society and watch out for their own way too much. If you break that up, increase the training standards and pay, recruit from a wider pool, I think you see standards improve.
I think introducing more rigor in the recruitment, making it a proper degree level qualification where you also study things like coaching and sports science, sports psychology etc. Opening the recruitment up to all parts of British society and yes foreign refs as well.
More subjectivity for the refs to interpret differently every week