I’ve seen some moans on social media and heard some bleating over the radio — but those people need to give their heads a wobble. They need to realise that all teams in this league are going to be good and we won’t be able to turn up and effortlessly turn anyone over.
I understand that it’s a minority of fans who are whinging but I find it hard to believe that anyone within such a committed and passionate group of supporters can be shameful enough to moan about the current standings.
We have a great
group of players who are playing brilliantly, but most of them are still young and learning, and they aren’t always going to be perfect. Some supporters need to remind themselves of that, but we have a clan of rock steady defenders and an abundance of dangerous, free-flowing attackers that are causing opponents problems.
We’re fourth in the Premier League, on the same points tally as Liverpool and one point behind Man City.
We’ve just Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, are unbeaten at home and are eleven points clear of eighteenth-placed West Ham. None of these things would’ve been on anyone’s betting slip at the start of the season and we’ve done amazingly well, but we can’t get complacent — there are twenty eight “cup finals” to go.
Ahead of Everton, many might’ve pencilled in a Sunderland win, so I can maybe understand some people’s frustration with the result and especially the opening thirty minutes, but not anger or outrage.
Everton are an established Premier League club with some great players who came to Wearside looking for a draw. Overall, it wasn’t our best performance of the season, but we still came out with a well-earned point.
Any fans who came out of Monday’s game grumbling and whining need to grasp the difficulty of the league and the importance of the result.
