Probably worth me clarifying my point of view on all this seeing as people still question me on why I didn't want this to happen. I've taken some flak for it, whether rightly or wrongly I still believe my point of view.
Important to start with the fact that I do not want it to take anything away from Leicester's achievement. It is remarkable. Unreal and spectacular. For me it isn't the biggest football achievement ever, but it is up there and is easily the biggest Premier League achievement ever. But football didn't start in 1992. Leicester deserve it for being the only teams seemingly arsed about winning it!
So to make clear again, I don't want to take anything away from Leicester. I have no issue with them at all, one of my best mates and best men at my wedding is a Leicester fan, and
@FOXINPEACE is one of the most sound 'other clubs' fans we've had on this site (and one of the only people who has got my most obvious of popcorn in this thread!).
So it is not that it's them. I would feel exactly the same if it was say Swansea, West Brom, or god forbid bloody Saints.
The reason is because I see no good in this for Everton. Nothing. And Everton are the priority. For me, and you honestly don't have to agree, disagree or whatever with me, I feel we are seeing yet another club over taking Everton. For those saying 'what about Spurs?!', it's pretty clear to me they over took us about 2 seasons ago when they hired a decent manager. I'm not saying they are a 'bigger' club than us, whatever that means, but in the here and now it feels like this is another club streeking ahead of Everton.
Leicester are not a poor club either, so the notion that they've done this without spending doesn't wash too well with me. Yes they haven't totally Man City'd it which is great, but they have a billionaire owner and swanky new-ish stadium, as Swansea do, as Spurs will have, and as West Ham are about to have. If Leicester were as skint as some people make out they'd still be in League 1 mate, and they're about to get a hell of a lot richer (although deservedly so).
Then there's this notion that this will give 'every team some hope that they can do the same'. Can somebody please explain why this is good for an Everton fan? I go into every season thinking maybe, just maybe we can win the league. Mental as it sounds. Apparently every team from Burnley to the usual big teams will now think they can repeat this. It's made it so much harder for Everton to do anything like this from my point of view. Harder than ever before.
Even if I'm wrong with that, and I don't mind being wrong as James McCarthy can sort of testify, do you really think the usual big teams will let this happen again? I highly doubt. Even Ranieri himself said something like this won't happen again for 50-60 years.
I reckon people will argue back that Leicester won't overtake us. Why not? They've been winning games very consistently since January last year. I guess extra European commitments might mess them up a bit but even that isn't certain. Ranieri isn't Martinez.
I feel like I have to apologise for not towing the popular line with a minority view on this. I can fully understand why people do think this is great for football, and it is a brilliant story and one that we'll never ever forget, I simply don't see it as good for Everton, and they are the most important thing in football.
I am jealous of course. Why would you not be jealous?
So far nobody has managed to persuade me otherwise, but I'm happy for people to try and sway me of you want. I don't mind being wrong.
