Neil Warnock has told Frank Lampard that he needs to go “back to basics” to ensure that Everton avoid relegation but what might that actually mean in reality?
For those of us old enough to remember, the phrase came to prominence when it was adopted by another ailing faction of ‘True Blues’ through a speech made by John Major delivered on October 8, 1993, following a period of infighting within the Conservative Party. The then Prime Minister proclaimed: “The old values – neighbourliness, decency, courtesy – they're still alive, they’re still the best of Britain. It is time to return to those old core values, time to get back to basics.”
The Tories of course never held much sway here on Merseyside and Major’s ‘Back to Basics’ campaign became the subject of ridicule following a series of political scandals.
