Everton protests are not about money, they are about hope and connection

I just read it despite. Sounds like an Ian Wright apology to me. Way too sweet and sugary.

I don't believe a word that paper says and neither should you.

"..outside the game's VIP circle nothing good can ever last. For fans of smaller clubs, perhaps you make your peace with this fact sooner rather than later. But those one level removed from the elite, your West Hams and Aston Villas and Hamburgs and Sampdorias, are essentially trapped in a doom cycle from which there are only really two escapes: relegation or an autocratic benefactor. This isn't entitlement. It is simply the howl of a club and fanbase that, whether they make the right choices or the wrong choices, will simply never be allowed to grow."

"One of the interesting elements of this protest is how young the banner-wavers and slogan-shouters are. They're mostly young men in their 20s and 30s, some even younger. These guys aren't high on nostalgia. They're not pining for the days of Sharp and Sheedy. But they are slowly realising, perhaps for the first time, that the dream that was sold to them no longer exists, at least not for them. The game they were bequeathed by their parents, a thing of romance and aspiration, has been sold off and converted into crypto."