It is kinda funny how in the media everyone who’s finished in the “top 6” now is considered a big club straight away, even those that didn’t but got close. Literally even take all the history and everything out of it and it still makes no sense.
Spurs, Newcastle and Brighton have all won a packet of crisps between them in about 60 years but are all big clubs now, Villa are “awoken” and have reclaimed their status as a big club, all these except Spurs are after literally one decent season.
Everton spend basically all of the 2000s until 2020 as a European challenging top 4th-7th team in the league, yet we’re treated as some insignificant relegation fodder by the media. No one will ever be able to convince there’s not a clear media bias against Everton, I don’t know why but it’s so obvious. Maybe I’m too young to know but did we as a club genuinely do anything to deserve this in our history?
Unpopular opinion INC.
It doesnt matter what we did in the 80s, its 2023 and we are a club that has survived relegation twice in 2 years, we last won a trophy in 1995, thats ALMOST 30 years ago, its a whole generation.
All I read about is how the media dont respect us, you know who else they dont respect, 2 times European Cup winning Forest, do you know why? Cos they arent relevant in 2023, nobody cares about them.
I dont think we get the rum deal from the media as most, personally, when we do something, something worth talking about, they talk about us, they use words like sleeping giant, they mention our long-standing stay in the top flight, so I think we get our props. But why would they big up us currently? Talk us up?
You mentioned Villa, they finished the season like a train, they have a good manager, owners willing to invest, they are a club currently on the up, they will be bigged up.
I think our average league placing since the inception of the Premier League is 11th, we arent a top 6 club, we havent finished in the Top 6 since 2014.
In short, the media will "champion" the clubs who are deemed worthy.
Newcastle with their massive investment, CL next season, worthy.
Brighton a team that recycles their players and still performs, worthy.
Villa, as I said, good manager, willing owners, worthy.
Everton, relegation fodder, Chairman dressing up as Spiderman like a jarg Fathers for Justice and hanging on to the club hes killed with everything hes got, NOT worthy.
I love/hate Everton and even I wouldnt big them up, what possible reasons would anybody have to say anything positive about a club that was relevant in a time in which the only Sky people knew was in the, well, Sky.
As for your last comment, about being young, I hope this doesnt come across as me being an arsehole, but I do feel sorry for your generation, I was lucky, the younger me saw us win the lot, well, not the BIG thing, but we all know the reasons for that. And then that slime said we have had good times. Utter joke. But that doesnt mean I dont suffer, seeing this great club on its knees, existing, thats all we do now, exist and we were a goal or 2 away from not even doing that a month ago.
The road to the top again for this club, well, its blocked, there is no road to the top, for now. So just try and take pleasure from the good things we do and attempt to block out the bad, not easy, I know, cos theres so much freaking bad. But theres still nothing like walking out of Goodison with 3 points, for me anyway.
Soz for wall of text.
