Everton fans take Jordan Pickford jibes to heart but can benefit from more England heroics from him
Has there ever been an English top flight player whose performances have been more scrutinised than Jordan Pickford’s? Perhaps it’s just a sign of the times and the fractious, partisan and polarised society we seemingly now have to inhabit – particularly on social media where the keyboard warriors and trolls who (quite rightly) would never dare spit such venom in your direction if confronting you in the streets, feel they have a right to take individuals to task so readily, especially those in the public eye, without a shred of common courtesy – but it seems many have an agenda against Everton’s goalkeeper.
Both Neville Southall and Kevin Campbell have gone as far as describing it as “a witch hunt” and when you look at the magnitude of what in many ways could be described as being a personal “campaign” against Pickford, it’s about as rational as one. Taking away all personal bias, beyond the Brazilian pair of Alisson at Liverpool and Ederson at Manchester City, nobody could seriously suggestion that any other Premier League goalkeepers are consistently operating at a level head and shoulders above the Blues man.
