Terrace Talk - Everton: This is Toffees' time to begin tipping the balance of power

The sense is that this is Everton’s time to readdress the balance, to start settling old scores

Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 16:34

Paul Theesk

SHIFTS in power usually are gradual, especially when the power balance has been skewed heavily in one direction over a sustained period. Only with a huge change in circumstances will a shift be decisive. Yet despite the odds and previous disappointments, Evertonians will watch Saturday’s 288th derby from a distance with renewed optimism and hope.

One can only imagine the atmosphere at Goodison Park at lunchtime if fans were present. Everton buoyed by seven straight wins, occupying first place in the Premier League and a genuinely world-class player in their ranks for the first time in a generation, against a Liverpool team chastened by a 7-2 loss at Aston Villa and, perhaps more importantly, a club exposed as having purely selfish motivations rather than the interests of the game as a whole in such a time of crisis.