Season 2011-12 Fan Articles

Dignified Inferiority

By James   Martin  ::  14/03/2012   31 Comments (»Last) I have been one of Moyes's supporters for a long long time. Even in the depths of despair in the middle of the first half of this season, I was still 100% behind the man. The usual complaints of negative football, 4-5-1, Moyes favourites (who on reflection have been overharshly pilloried), and tactical ineptitude I never did buy. I accepted that every manager has their failings and this was just an overreaction to the odd gaps in Moyes's impresive overall package.

Last night changed everything. I can accept the worst of Everton performances (and there have been some bad ones), bad players, lethargic attitude, bad luck, whatever the reason for them. Every team has them, they're just an expression of inconsistency. I have never, however, seen an Everton manager send out a team to purposefully lose a game in the manner that Moyes did last night.

The fact it was a derby ? and he knows how important derbies are ? just made it all the more unforgivable. Even if he wins the FA Cup he will never get this stain off the collective memory of Evertonians.

Moyes has always had a negative (what I used to call realistic) outlook on the big teams in the league. Despite this, I've always fancied us against every single one of them but Liverpool. Quite simply, Moyes has an inferiority complex about them and is only too happy to play the role that every kopite wants him to play:

"Thanks for saving Everton from relegation but not making them too good, giving us 6 points a season, but doing it in a graceful manner 'for the good of the city', hobnobbing with all of Liverpool's and Everton's past players."

The usual crap they come out with about "I'd love both teams to get to the Cup Final (as long as they win of course); it's good to see both teams doing well in the league; we don't hate Everton we only hate Mancs".

Basically, for the kopites, everything is alright on team Merseyside as long as they're winning, and if they're not they'll kick off. Moyes is only too happy to accept this; I'm sure he had a nice glass of wine with Kenny after it... (wouldn't have happened the other way round though, would it?)

As much as I hated Benitez, he insulted us when he drew or lost to us and they loved it. He loved winding us up, sticking the boot in and beating us. I don't think I've heard an inflammatory word about Liverpool from Moyes ever.

It would be great to have a manager with the spirit of Mourinho who was absolutely detested by rival fans. Moyes is every Liverpool fan's second favourite manager, they should hate him the same amount I hate Dalglish. Instead, he tells them what a great team they have, gives them 6 points a season, and keeps up their ridiculous benevolent neighbours 'proper football club' visage.

They've never been worse, they have a crap team and some of the most moronic undignified players and fans in the entire league, there hasn't been a better decade to not only win football matches agianst them but to win propaganda battles against them. Instead, they're battering us incessantly in both departments and all I ever hear is Moyes telling everyone how good they are. Every season Moyes has got near Liverpool, he has choked, whenever he gets inside the magical 3 point margin of them, we invariably lose.

Moyes needs to remind himself that he's not some sort of manager for the city's PR or to keep Everton's 'dignity'. SAF, Wenger and Mourinho haven't got a shred of dignity, instead they just have hatred underlined with begrudging respect because they win. LIverpool fans should hate Moyes like they hate Ferguson but none do. Moyes needs to get back to the people who make up The People's Club rather than working for the approval of those up in the LMA ivory tower or Merseyside's footballing alumni.

The pundits are exactly the same: Aldo, Rush, Phil Thompson ? absolutely despicable characters who are as biased as anything, make sly patronising digs at us all the time and backing Liverpool to the point of looking stupid. Sharp, Nevin, everyone else who played in a team after 87, are all too happy to fall into line, be objectively critical about Everton, and not say anything too controversial about Liverpool ? all in the name of city unity.

It's a stupid game that only we play and only we are losing out heavily on. Get a manager with a bit of self-pride who understands Nil Satis Nisi Optimum and hates the RedShite as much as we do because I'm fed up of having to constantly accept our inferiority in a dignified manner, an inferiority that doesn't exist but is constructed from Moyes's adherence to this ridiculous ideology.

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