WHY NO BLUES CAN HAVE ANY GROUNDS FOR COMPLAINT

Don’t blame home form on the stadium — it’s still ‘the best thing to happen to Everton for a long time’

- By CHRIS BEESLEY

IAN Myers, a passionate lifelong Evertonian who worked for the club for many years and has gone on to follow that up with a long and distinguished career in sports broadcasting, hit the nail on the head with his message to fellow Blues on social media the morning after the night before.

Taking to X (formerly Twitter), he wrote: “Just to add a bit of balance, we may be struggling at HD form-wise but the new stadium is the best thing to happen to Everton for a long time.

“Tt will form a big part of the club's recovery in the coming years, Goodison’s wooden seats are best where they are, in a box on the wall!”

On the same platform, John-Paul, who uses the handle @Huytontoffee, put it rather more bluntly: “I can’t believe there's grown men blaming a stadium for Everton being s**t and not the manager/players”

After the victories over Brighton & Hove Albion, Crystal Palace, Fulham and Nottingham Forest in 2025, the balance at the Blues’ inaugural Premier League season at Hill Dickinson Stadium tipped with Bournemouth’s comeback win, as it meant David Moyes’ men have now lost more games than they've won at their new home on the Mersey waterfront.

But let's be plain about this now from the offset, the disappointments are down to how the team is playing rather than their surroundings.

It's time for Evertonians to face some harsh truths.

First the absolute nonsense, and it is just that, suggesting these kinds of results would not have occurred at Goodison Park.

As recently as 2022/23, when Everton survived what would have been a first relegation in 72 years by a single Abdoulaye Doucoure goal on the final day - against Bournemouth of course - despite posting the lowest equivalent points total in their history, they lost 10 home games.

The Blues bowed out at ‘The Grand Old Lady’ with just five wins in the league last season, their joint lowest total ever, tied with 1957/58.