{"id":297938,"date":"2023-11-17T23:25:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T23:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=297938"},"modified":"2023-11-17T23:25:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T23:25:45","slug":"fan-view-goodison-park-will-be-bear-pit-when-man-united-come-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/soccer\/fan-view-goodison-park-will-be-bear-pit-when-man-united-come-to-town\/","title":{"rendered":"FAN VIEW: Goodison Park will be bear pit when Man United come to town"},"content":{"rendered":"
It has, quite understandably, been labelled a dark day for Everton. But as a life-long fan, I believe this could be the moment that the club regains its belief, its identity.<\/p>\n
The past few years have been the bleakest since I first attended Goodison Park as a seven-year-old in late 1985 \u2013 a 3-1 victory over Sheffield Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Indeed, they have been among the bleakest for the club since my late grandmother made her first trip from Birkenhead to L4 to watch Dixie Dean in his debut season for Everton in 1925.<\/p>\n
She was there, too, 55 years later in March 1980 when Dean died after suffering a heart attack in the stands following a game against Liverpool.<\/p>\n
There have, of course, been ups and downs throughout my family\u2019s 98-year love affair with Everton.<\/p>\n
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It has, quite understandably, been labelled a dark day for Everton after our 10-point deduction<\/p>\n
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However,\u00a0I believe this could be the moment that the club regains its belief, its identity<\/p>\n
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But there have always been periods of enormous success, of great joy, of pride in a club whose identity is so closely rooted in the local community, the city and the history of English football.<\/p>\n
Until these past few, bleak, painful years, when it seems the club has been at war with itself. Not anymore. This 10-point deduction \u2014 the rights and wrongs of which I\u2019ll leave for others \u2014 can serve as a catalyst.<\/p>\n
The club is once again united. The fans \u2014 who did so much to keep the team up over the past two seasons \u2014 once again have fire in their bellies. The team \u2014 already improving with every game under the impressive Sean Dyche \u2014 will be galvanised.<\/p>\n
Goodison Park will be a bear pit for the visit of Manchester United \u2014 one of the six fined a meagre \u00a33m or so for trying to destroy English football \u2014 next weekend.<\/p>\n
The message to the Premier League is clear \u2014 we won\u2019t let the bastards send us down.<\/p>\n
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