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Some of our proudest records could all go this season

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So the potential is there that we could lose our record of being an ever present in the Premier league.

We could lose our 70+ year consecutive top flight status.

If we take a while to get promoted again our record of team who has played the most top flight seasons in England could come under threat.

If City win the league they will go joint on 9 league titles with us as the 4th most successful domestic team In English history.

And to cap it all off Haaland could potentially break Dixie Dean's unbreakable goalscoring record.

Everton that
Have you ever thought of a career in motivational speaking?
 

Nobody is ever beating Dean's record. Every game back then was about 8-3. It's pointless comparing it to today's game.
Someone had one of the sport channels on the radio in work the other day and they were comparing Haalands record to some of the other goal scorers and obviously Dean was top of the pile.

They had one of the media rentakopites on and he started laughing and said something along the lines of “there’s an argument to be made that record shouldn’t even stand, as the game was so different back then.”
 
I would love to keep these records going but I'd rather be a team that gets to finals and win things, loads of clubs have done that while bouncing around the leagues. City for one.
 
I don't want to go down so I guess that those records mean something but I don't care about the others. To be honest, I feel like our history has become a millstone around our necks. It's led to complacency as we keep referring back to how we're historically a big club whilst we've ignored the fact that we've been getting smaller by the year. It's been 4 decades since we won a league title. 3 since we won anything. Those aren't the 'records' of a big club.

If losing records makes us focus on the present and plan for the future I'm all for losing them. Except being in the top flight, obviously.
All records are broken eventually and I am sick of 'if you know your history.' It is like the Tories constantly referring to Churchill during the war as if it changes anything about them today. Some time back (when Moyes was papering the cracks) I used to believe Kenwright was doing his best for the club. I even supported the idea of a stadium in Kirby as it would generate more cash it seemed. Back then, a number of people were slagging Kenwright off, how right they were and how wrong was I.

His idea of Everton is him at the helm, no matter what else is happening it is all about him and he has managed our terrible decline. Nobody cares about our history except those who cling-on to the past.
 
I'm not really arsed about any of them apart from not getting relegated. Football is the most uncompetitive sport on tge planet in its current incarnation. Modern day outfits with obscene resources winning pots isn't comparable to previous eras of team building. Everything pep wins is par for the course.
Yes as good as City are to watch, as were Chelsea, nobody can deny that every trophy they have won in recent years were bought. Would I moan if Everton had done the same? Maybe not but I couldn’t argue that they were not bought.
 
The game and our (and every) club is so unrecognisable from 30+ years ago, let alone 100, that these records are all kind of an abstract concept, to me.

A load of people want to put an asterisk next to that lot’s PL title because there were no fans in stadia, but are getting all frothy-mouthed over the suggestion Haaland might break a record set by a striker playing a completely different game, with different rules, and probably with a ciggy hanging out of his mouth half the time.
 

Yes as good as City are to watch, as were Chelsea, nobody can deny that every trophy they have won in recent years were bought. Would I moan if Everton had done the same? Maybe not but I couldn’t argue that they were not bought.
How come United haven’t won anything despite eye-watering spend in the last few years? How come Chelsea are closer to relegation than Europe this year? How come we are likely going down despite outspending the vast majority of PL clubs over the last 6-7 years?

Spending money to win trophies IS the game, now. There are just some clubs far better at it than others.
 
How come United haven’t won anything despite eye-watering spend in the last few years? How come Chelsea are closer to relegation than Europe this year? How come we are likely going down despite outspending the vast majority of PL clubs over the last 6-7 years?

Spending money to win trophies IS the game, now. There are just some clubs far better at it than others.
Chelsea got the right manager in pretty quickly and City after spending brewsters and wasting some of it eventually got the right manager in. You are correct, how you spend the money is what it is all about, but without the money you will win nothing. Before you reply to that Leicester City were the exception not the rule.
 
We have 12 years to bounce back up...

Considering Arsenal were elected to the league and never had to play for it, we also hold the most consecutive seasons in the top flight. It would take 8 years for Liverpool to take over.
 

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