Everton: Hysteria or History?
If yer 'no' yer histery, Everton were once Man City. As a kid, I remember weeks after we'd won the FA Cup making a card board cut-out (almost life size!) of Alan Ball from an Echo "special pull-out" in 1966 and being absolutely ecstatic that we had stolen THE best player in the FINAL for ã110,000. God, were we rich?!! And as we watched a ginger gem lift Rimet's reward and the hearts of a nation, our Ken's timely prophetic summation of England's win must have rang hollow through the archaic arcades of Blackpool: "Some people are on the pitch. They think it's all over. It IS now!" As the catalogue 'ker-ching' of cash registered another sale, from Littlewoods grew the mighty oaks of the Holy Trinity and the poor sick Seasiders watched their hopes of glory plummet like the stomach-churnng drop of the Big One and quickly fade like the last lick of funfair candyfloss. In a pre-Premiership pantomine, the Blues went to the Ball and Blackpool played Cinders. The deal was brokered and hearts were broken. History was made and the future was not orange: it was blue.
And so it goes and so it goes. The Wolves couldn't keep the Moyes from the door and now it is the time of the Blue Moon to bellow and beckon. And as the howling Wolves wanderer rides off into the city sunset and then basks in the moonlight millionaire money, we should not harbour hysterical but historical thoughts: it's all in the game; it's all in the greed. Kiss the badge one more time for luck Lescott. Not love, not loyalty and but loadsamoney. Man City or mendacity?
So maybe we needed that pre-season seaside Tangerine Nightmare (I know it's an obscure '70s syntheised reference!!!!) to remind us what football is all about: the Big Fish eat the Little Fish and kissing the badge is the new kiss-me-quick: fun but hardly fair.
ENDS
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