Powerful Official Everton Statement on Super League [Everton FC]

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Statement From The Board

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Everton is saddened and disappointed to see proposals of a breakaway league pushed forward by six clubs.
Six clubs acting entirely in their own interests.

Six clubs tarnishing the reputation of our league and the game.

Six clubs choosing to disrespect every other club with whom they sit around the Premier League table.

Six clubs taking for granted and even betraying the majority of football supporters across our country and beyond.

At this time of national and international crisis - and a defining period for our game - clubs should be working together collaboratively with the ideals of our game and its supporters uppermost.

Instead, these clubs have been secretly conspiring to break away from a football pyramid that has served them so well.

And in that Pyramid Everton salutes EVERY club, be it Leicester City, Accrington Stanley, Gillingham, Lincoln City, Morecambe, Southend United, Notts County and the rest who have, with their very being, enriched the lives of their supporters throughout the game's history. And vice versa.

The self-proclaimed Super Six appear intent on disenfranchising supporters across the game - including their own - by putting the very structure that underpins the game we love under threat.

The backlash is understandable and deserved – and has to be listened to.
This preposterous arrogance is not wanted anywhere in football outside of the clubs that have drafted this plan.

On behalf of everyone associated with Everton, we respectfully ask that the proposals are immediately withdrawn and that the private meetings and subversive practises that have brought our beautiful game to possibly its lowest ever position in terms of trust end now.

Finally we would ask the owners, chairmen, and Board members of the six clubs to remember the privileged position they hold – not only as custodians of their clubs but also custodians of the game. The responsibility they carry should be taken seriously.

We urge them all to consider what they wish their legacy to be.

Everton FC Board of Directors
 
This board wasn't in charge 30 years ago so that's a redundant point.

I like much of what they say, but I'd have liked a comitment to never joining a SUper League themsleves.
 
atypical_boro said:
It wasn't the exact same people to be fair.
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Fair enough, but to put out that statement without any reference to what they, as a club, did 30 years ago is disgraceful. It says "it was OK when we were part of it, but now we are not we don't like it."
 
Its says nothing of the sort and what a club said or did 30 years ago is totally irrelevant.
 
I read this and thought its a superb statement and pretty much nails how everyone feels👏

That said being a cynic I also feel Everton maybe feel slightly 'burned' that they weren't invited. They have a history and brand name (also very wealthy owners and new ground coming).

I just get the feeling they wouldn't have been so public had they been invited (still could be as 5 places up for grabs). It's also a great way to have a pop at the outfit accross stanley Park.
 
Capybara said:
Fair enough, but to put out that statement without any reference to what they, as a club, did 30 years ago is disgraceful. It says "it was OK when we were part of it, but now we are not we don't like it."
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Didn't Boro threaten to form a breakaway league only two years ago?

I know there was uproar about the PL at the time and I am too young to properly remember it (or understand why it happened) but all they were really doing was putting the power in the hands of a separate body? Promotions/relegations still worked the same and it didn't change the rules that much. Admittedly it brought a lot more money about.
 
S7DiscoDown said:
I read this and thought its a superb statement and pretty much nails how everyone feels👏

That said being a cynic I also feel Everton maybe feel slightly 'burned' that they weren't invited. They have a history and brand name (also very wealthy owners and new ground coming).

I just get the feeling they wouldn't have been so public had they been invited (still could be as 5 places up for grabs). It's also a great way to have a pop at the outfit accross stanley Park.
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Other clubs need to come out against this now like Everton have. Players too should be following Milner's lead.
 
Capybara said:
Fair enough, but to put out that statement without any reference to what they, as a club, did 30 years ago is disgraceful. It says "it was OK when we were part of it, but now we are not we don't like it."
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The difference between 30 years ago and now is that there was no "guaranteed place" for the teams which founded it. It was still attached to the football pyramid. So the two examples are not the same.

The biggest problem people have is the fact there's no need for the big teams to qualify on their sporting achievements. It basically renders all other competitions meaningless. What's the point of Boro going for promotion next season to a division where the best teams have nothing to play for. Will the FA and League Cups survive or will the top teams opt not to play since they're already competing in two league competitions.

None of these were ever risks when the Premier League was formed as the only difference between the Premier League and the rest of the football pyramid was the way the TV money was shared. And this was not too dissimilar to the Football League not sharing TV revenues with the Non-League sides. If you're not in the club, you dont get the rewards - but you have to earn the rights to play and stay in the club on the pitch.
 
rbmfc1985 said:
The difference between 30 years ago and now is that there was no "guaranteed place" for the teams which founded it. It was still attached to the football pyramid. So the two examples are not the same.

The biggest problem people have is the fact there's no need for the big teams to qualify on their sporting achievements. It basically renders all other competitions meaningless. What's the point of Boro going for promotion next season to a division where the best teams have nothing to play for. Will the FA and League Cups survive or will the top teams opt not to play since they're already competing in two league competitions.

None of these were ever risks when the Premier League was formed as the only difference between the Premier League and the rest of the football pyramid was the way the TV money was shared. And this was not too dissimilar to the Football League not sharing TV revenues with the Non-League sides. If you're not in the club, you dont get the rewards - but you have to earn the rights to play and stay in the club on the pitch.
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Exactly it’s not a breakaway league it’s a closed shop.
Nothing like the prem League at all
 
S7DiscoDown said:
I read this and thought its a superb statement and pretty much nails how everyone feels👏

That said being a cynic I also feel Everton maybe feel slightly 'burned' that they weren't invited. They have a history and brand name (also very wealthy owners and new ground coming).

I just get the feeling they wouldn't have been so public had they been invited (still could be as 5 places up for grabs). It's also a great way to have a pop at the outfit accross stanley Park.
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Nailed it on all fronts.
 
Make no mistake about it, if Everton or a lot of other clubs and possibly our own would have been invited, they would have signed up too.
 
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