Season 2011-12 Fan Articles

Where's the Everton Twitter/Legend Backlash?

By Rob   Teo  ::  29/08/2011   50 Comments (»Last) Just read an article at the ESPN Soccernet site: Seaman: This is not good enough, about the backlash surrounding Arsenal's 8-2 capitulation to Man Utd, and it's got me wondering: Where's our "legends" and/or Twitter backlash?

I mean, we've been in the pits for quite some time now, and every comment that is highlighted in that article about Wenger and Arsenal could be applied to Moyes and Everton - except, in our case, that it's been far longer since we last won anything, that the team Moyes puts out almost always lacks a Plan B, that there's been countless occasions where "shocking" is the only apt epithet to describe our play, and where a League Two team could put our team to shame, and that the situation surrounding Everton has for a long time now simply been "not good enough". (You may have to read the article first to get all the references I'm making.)

Considering how long we've had to put up with the crap that masquerades as football from Moyes and the team, why is it that none of the high profile names associated with the club has come out to speak out against them? I mean, we had our own capitulation to Arsenal two seasons back (and, again, in the season when we finished 4th). Yet, I don't recall any ex-Everton player/pundit (Snodin, Cottee, Kendall, Nevin, Ratcliffe, etc) criticise Moyes to the same extent as what the ex-Arsenal players have done with Wenger? Why is that so?

Granted, while there hasn't been any 6-1 or 7-0 capitulations suffered by Everton for two seasons now, the football that's been dished out has continued to be dire at times, and some of the performances by the team have been nothing less than humiliating and shameful (yup, shameful ? even if, like our recent win at Blackburn, the scoreline may not reflect it). I mean, if I were the great Dixie, I'd be wondering (maybe not always, but often enough, I reckon) how some of the current Everton players deserve to wear our Royal Blue jersey.

So, my question is: why is it that no former Everton player or director has come out to criticise the current regime, even though, if I'm being honest and in light of the comparisons I made in the second para, Moyes and the team probably deserve the criticisms more than Wenger and his team? Is it because they've been co-opted? Or is it because we, as a club, simply don't do this sort of thing (in which case, I think it's daft, especially as if Lady Bracewell-Smith was prepared to voice her disapproval on Twitter, I don't see how anyone might be able to claim that it's "beneath" us as Evertonians)?

On a side note, if anyone out there had agreed with our Captain Pip and how he implied that true Everton fans would not criticise the club no matter what, the criticism currently levied against Wenger and the team FROM former Arsenal players and directors should surely convince them that it is not only OK to criticise your team, but it's NECESSARY to do so when the situation is dire.

As such, perhaps it's time we as fans started being more vocal on players' Twitter accounts (especially since quite a few of them have their own accounts) when their play has been shocking. At least that would let them know in no uncertain terms what we expect from them as Everton players.

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