Our fans propensity to disbelieve any sort of good news, and in some cases go out of their way to make up reasons why the club would somehow be unable to take advantage of legitimate and available mechanisms of investment.
Like claiming we would somehow be punished 10 times harder than anyone else on the grounds of being Everton. Or the claims that we are skint and won’t be able to do much business this summer, when our de facto owner is wealthier than Roman Abramovich.
It’s an extension of the 'Everton That' mentality; a term that is being used to describe the conscious belief that the very nature of Everton is that of failure.
I think this is true. I know it's a product of partly the incompetence of the last 20 years or more, and partly due to unfortunate events in (primarily the mid 80's).
We do have to start challenging the narrative though, as it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. If you keep telling yourself things will just go wrong, and whatever news we get will always end up bad, it tends to follow that direction. Go and observe most successful people/institutions, what you will see with 90%+ of them is that they believe they can make a success of something irrespective of how improbable it seems. That then flows through their organisations.
Like I said last night, CAS don't even know who Everton are. They couldn't care less about Everton. If I'm being frank, we are too irrelevant to even peak their attention. We are a small, provincial sports club, playing in one sector. The idea that judges, lawyers, court staff etc risk their professional integrity to bear out a grudge for a provincial sports team in another country to them is laughable. I can complete understand there is a bias in Sky, or the FA, or even potentially UEFA, however this will not extend to courts.
Lawyers will look at what Manchester City did, see the precedent is that this was deemed acceptable, measure what Everton (or any other club) did in relation to this, based upon the facts of the case and make a judgement if it's broadly in line with City's behaviour that the same outcome has to be followed. Thats how law works.
If we take too many liberties, and go far beyond City there may be a problem, but if we continue to spend at the same level we are now, we are substantially within the boundaries of where Manchester City were. We really do have to move away from the idea that everything will just be a replay of the Heysel disaster played out again and again.
