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No Pressure

By Nick Toye :  22/01/2011 :  Comments (17) :

Great things happen when you know you have to make great things happen. When you know that failure is not an accepted option.

This kind of pressure is not very prevalent at Everton Football Club. I don't believe many members of staff are under that much pressure.

They should only have to look at the club motto and instantly feel that pressure from those who formulated the club and set down the benchmark for which that motto was penned.

Now David Moyes is a very good manager. He's passionate about Everton, he loves football and he has the patience of a saint. He is working under strict guidelines and although this season has been a let down, he's not doing a bad job, considering.

However, I don't believe he is under any pressure at all from the board to succeed in his role and to do the best job he can. I don't believe that Bill Kenwright is demanding better results at home for example.

Now I'm not saying that Moyes should be sacked, but I do believe he should have that pressure. He is not going to be sacked by Kenwright, regardless of what happens at that club. Bill Kenwright loves David Moyes, and David Moyes loves Kenwright. Well if I had a boss who paid me £65k a week with no pressure to get the job right, I'd love him too.

Now lets move on to the players. Certain individuals from Spain, Holland, and a couple of older heads from England (ie Neville and Osman) will always play regardless of form. Maybe not Heitinga, but Arteta will play regardless of how well he is playing. Now I don't think he has been at his best for a long time, but there is no pressure from Billy, or Rodwell to move into that central midfield role.

Mainly because the manager will always pick his favourites regardless of form, so you have a bad game, play better next week. Arteta on this form wouldn't get into many teams in the Premier League, so why is he getting into this side? At a time when we need players firing on all cylinders.

Now finally I come to the fans, and this is probably the sensitive issue, but its not aimed at one group of people, it's all Evertonians. We don't put pressure on our manager, players or board to get the results. We just pay our money, buy the shirts, drink the Chang and buy the programmes. We complain to our mates next door, on the train, in the boozers, or on the forums. The forums where all hell breaks loose.

Is that enough? Is the message getting across to the players? managers, coaching staff and board? It's muffled to say the least. Everyone on a forum is a warrior, who would have it known that he/she is able to rustle up a protest at will, yet nothing happens. Partly because the hippy culture on certain forums hates to see members of Everton criticised regardless of what has happened. Some will flatly refuse to allow any criticism of the chairman, citing the David Moyes appointment as evidence. Unfortunately as many of us know, that is the only good thing he seems to have done.

So any kind of canter becomes a slow trot, and then the horse just slowly beds down and goes to sleep. Twitter campaigns, Facebook campaigns all get shot down before anything is even conceived. It's almost like this is the way it is, this is the Everton way, and we all need to be happy that Walter Smith is not in charge and that we are in the Championship.

So all that boils down to is no pressure from any part of this illustrious club to get the job done right. Instead we have breeded an army of altruistic people who are happy with floating along the mediocrity highway.

A successful company is a company that puts it's neck on the line in order to go that next step. It's the difference between being there and existing, or people knowing that you are there and existing because of you.

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