The sun was shining, the mood was good – verging on buoyant – but always underpinned by a sense of reality. You thought about how David slayed Goliath, but in the back of your mind you understood that if that fight took place 100 times, 99 times David was crushed into oblivion.
The atmosphere inside and outside the stadium was incredible. Everyone wanted to believe. Everyone was entitled to believe. The songs were sung, the team and the manager and the club backed to the hilt.
The game was strange. The early goals elsewhere had an impact, there’s no escaping that. Everton’s fans sang ‘You nearly won the league, you nearly won the league’, and look, they’re entitled to have their fun but this morning I hope 777’s takeover goes through and in 2 years time that club has been turned into a cryptocurrency that is worth half of nothing and a bit less than that. In a new stadium that gets turned into a car park.
They scored via a deflection from a free kick. We equalised through Takehiro Tomiyasu. Then we heard it was 2-1 elsewhere and for a few seconds it was said it was 2-2 but nobody around me believed that because the scoreline on the phones stayed 2-1. It was 1-1 at the break in our game.
I don’t think we played particularly well. But we huffed and puffed and got away with some stuff, and in the end won the game 2-1 via a Kai Havertz goal. Martin Odegaard with his second assist of the day. It was 3-2 elsewhere but then it wasn’t, and everyone knew. Everyone understood.
I think it was important that we won, regardless of whether it had an impact on the final destination of the Premier League, and for the fourth successive season, football Lance Armstrong won it. Football Ben Johnson lifted the trophy. A unique achievement in English top flight football was met with a shrug and zero respect from anybody. Nobody cares. Everyone knows. It’s meaningless, soulless, empty success. Maybe next season we have to get 115 points to win it.
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