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In The Guardian, Jonathan Wilson summarises the economic and societal drivers behind the inception of the Premier League and weaves in Everton's role in the breakaway before undergoing the gradual decline that has them on course, he believes, for a fourth successive season battling to avoid becoming the first of the original "Big Five" to be relegated

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Matt Traynor
1 Posted 08/09/2024 at 03:48:47
Not really an in-depth analysis of the way the game has gone, more of a cursory overview bookended by Everton being one of the breakaway five.

Like us, Tottenham are the other breakaway side to have not won the Premier League. Their sole honour was a League cup in 2007-08.

The reality is in recent years the Premier League has been dominated by foreign wealth, state or state-linked (bar Leicester's "aberration").

Looking at Everton, and being of a vintage that remembers the transition to the Premier League – indeed working at the club immediately before – I'd posit that Everton's failure was at board level.

Whilst other clubs restructured to meet the new challenge and opportunity, Everton simply carried on, and ran it like a £5m enterprise through the years, rather than exploit the revenue opportunities a global behemoth (the Premier League) offered.

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