View: Maxwel Cornet penalty miss could save Farhad Moshiri and Everton millions
Everton fans will have been watching on nervously as Burnley took on West Ham United in the Premier League on Sunday.
It started horrendously too, with Wout Weghorst giving the Clarets the lead before Maxwel Cornet won his side a penalty at the London Stadium.
Thankfully, he hit that wide of the post and Tomas Soucek went on to equalise with the gap moving to three points.
One man who will have screamed with joy as Cornet hit his spot-kick wide was Farhad Moshiri wherever he was.
These are season-defining moments, and much like his open-goal miss at Norwich last week, the Ivorian has cost his side many points.
This is the difference between staying in the Premier League and playing in the Championship next season and beyond.
Staggering.
The difference between TV revenue alone in the Premier League compared to the Championship is frightenning.
Alone it could even be enough to bury the Toffees, with a £100million+ falling below even a measly £10million.
It makes little sense, but that is why parachute payments were introduced to make sure it doesn’t destroy teams dropping out of the top flight.
Should Everton be relegation, no one has ever crashed out of this league with debt like it, and even those close have gone on to stay out of the top flight for years.
Look at Leeds, they only returned last year after nearly 20 seasons away from the big time – that cannot be allowed to happen here.
Moshiri will be more bothered about his purse strings than the club, we all know that, but if that keeps us in the Premier League, for now, we have to take it.
Cornet has had a nightmare couple of weeks, and thankfully, he is giving us more confidence that it will be Burnley taking that final relegation spot.
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