I waited 45 years for Everton moment - Liverpool supporters feeling glum should get some perspective

The Everton version of the classic Guy Mitchell ditty was being played loud and proud on the Goodison Park PA system after the final whistle.

Earlier on, Liverpool fans in the away section of the Bullens Road Stand had mocked Evertonians with the chant of: “You’ve not won a trophy since 1995,” but they were drowned out in the end by the home supporters taunted their title-chasing visitors with: “You lost the league at Goodison Park.” Given that Jurgen Klopp once described the Merseyside Derby as being “like a World Cup final” for Everton – just a few weeks after he’d been fined for running into the centre circle of the pitch to celebrate a stoppage time winner in the fixture – perhaps Blues fans could follow the neighbours’ example from 1960s title triumphs by fashioning a homemade piece of silverware to mark this occasion?

Along with their long-established local support, Liverpool’s decades of success have brought them a huge global fanbase of patrons eager to share in the reflected glory of latching on to a dominant football team. But even though only the Reds had won more League Championships than Everton when the title last came to Goodison Park in 1987, the Premier League era has generally been a trail of tears for the Blues, especially these traumatic last couple of years.

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