Fight like your fans
“Fight like your fans” – a short but sharp message to Everton’s players from those same supporters who back them through thin and thinner up and down the country and displayed on a banner in the away end at Selhurst Park.
Despite winning just once on their travels in the Premier League this term and having just three victories away from Goodison Park since coronavirus restrictions were fully lifted on crowds at the start of 2021/22, less than half the figure of the next-worst teams to have competed in the competition over both seasons, Everton continue to fill out allocations up and down the country with their loyal but long-suffering fans offering a level of support far greater than their lowly position in the table.
Again they turned out in great numbers here for a fixture in the most far-flung corner of London with – as outlined by the Everton Fans Forum in response to the chairman’s statement on Friday – “up at the crack of dawn to go again.”
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