View: Everton must get payback on Ben Foster after his ‘horrible’ fan view
The Everton players need to get payback on Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster after what he said about their supporters not so long ago.
Frank Lampard’s side travels to Vicarage Road on Wednesday [May 11] to face a Hornets side who are already relegated from the Premier League.
The fans have given the Blues a massive boost in recent weeks, helping them to several hugely important wins but the former England international has been quite clear about his opinion of the supporters.
Foster previously said on The Fozcast: “One thing I will say though if you can get on top of Everton early doors, the Everton fans are horrible to the Everton players,” he said.
“They are horrible, they get right on top of them. For sure they get in the players’ heads, for sure.”
Jekyll & Hyde.
The fans respond to what the players show them out on the pitch and for a long, long time that led to a very toxic atmosphere at the club.
For years now it has felt as if the Everton fans and team were against each other rather than all striving towards the same goal.
You can hardly blame them for their frustrations with the past decade being shambolic whilst Farhad Moshiri throws hundreds of millions at the club.
Now though, as the Toffees sit in 16th, just one point off the drop zone, the fans have come alive.
They understand that if the players as much as possible – the Merseysiders may as well prepare for Championship football now.
The support in and around Goodison Park, Finch Farm and on their travels has been absolutely class. There is not one element of surprise that now the fans have united with the players – the results have picked up.
One man who deserves a lot of credit for that is Lampard – the work he has done to bring this club back together has been superb. All they need to do now is avoid the drop.
In other Everton news, Martin Keown says that Everton must respond to a “tremendous body blow” in their “phenomenal” relegation war.
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