There’s nothing good at Goodison right now.

I felt really sad for Evertonians this weekend. Watching the slow decline of a once great club - no, great club, for the die-hards these past few seasons has been painful.

I know that because I sit with one every week. Andy Gray - who was a big part of the greatest era the club ever had. I listen to him sharing thoughts with old team-mates. The worst part is they’ve almost all become immune to bad news, bad games and bad predictions about what lies ahead.

This is not Man Uniiiiited. This is Everton. But sadly the demise in the fortunes of both clubs is very similar.

I said I feared for Everton after last week’s home defeat to Brighton - largely because I couldn’t see where any improvement might come from. Improvement? It got worse at Spurs.

Everton were hopeless. Hapless. In some ways they were lucky it was only four.

And what about those pictures at Euston Station of Evertonians abusing their team as they boarded a train for Liverpool? That was bad.

I’m half with Neal Maupay, who made the point on Twitter scenes like that shouldn’t happen. Of course they shouldn’t. But are they understandable? Too right they are. If you’re an Evertonian right now they definitely are.

The players will always get it in the neck when things don’t go well on the pitch, but the mess at a Goodison isn’t this groups fault. They don’t go out to play badly.

It’s not their fault half of them - like Maupay - shouldn’t be at the club. They’re not good enough. But it’s all Everton have got right now. And that won’t change any time soon.

Looking for a small crumb of comfort Andy reminded me (when we went to work Sunday) that Everton didn’t win any of their first five games last season. I have to admit I was a little bemused. ‘So?’ I said. ‘And your point is….?’ 

I know really. He’s trying to say things got better. They did in fairness. But, even then, they were miles off where they should be. And it’s worse now.

Do we blame Dyche? Yea - a little bit. But it’s not his fault either really. He’s doing his best. The bottom like is it’s a shit-show at Goodison.

It’s clearly Moshiri’s fault. I’d still like to know the real reason he got involved at the club. You’ll notice I didn’t say ‘bought the football club’. Alisha Usmanov has a whole lot of questions to answer as well.

I can’t write half the things I hear about the pair of them. If you want more - follow Simon Goodley in The Guardian.

Is there hope? John Textor might be the answer, but he’s got to shift 47% of Crystal Palace before he can make a move. And even then - is a hard nosed American businessman going to spunk good money when he could probably buy the club out of administration a few months from now?

Everton is a fine football club. Most of my close friends are Evertonians. I have grown really fond of the club down the years. Why? People there were good to me when I worked in Liverpool. Add Andy, David Moyes, Reidy, big Joe Royle, Andy King, Adrian Heath, Elton Welsby and his boy Chris, who I work with again - there’s so many of them.

David Moyes? I wonder. I love big Dychey - but David Moyes? I don’t know. But I do know this - his heart lies at Goodison. It always has.

It didn’t take long for VAR to get busy did it? Or for managers to be raging about it - despite what we were promised by Howard Webb (no - not this time 😂) pre-season. Of course Bournemouth’s winner should’ve stood. Iraola was spot on. Why did VAR get involved? Didn’t Webb (nooooo) tell us on-field decisions would stand unless very clear and obvious mistakes had been made?

It was a subjective call as to whether Outtara handled the ball - therefore a decision for the ref - not VAR. If VAR wanted to get busy ok - but David Coote should’ve gone to the monitor to make the final call.

I’ll tell you what was ‘clear and obvious’ and that is the ball was rolling when Sanchez smashed it to Jackson before Cole Palmer scored for Chelsea Wolves. Why didn’t VAR get involved there?

Oh that’s it - ‘technology doesn’t get involved checking re-starts’.  What a load of bollocks. Why not? I hate to see goals disallowed, but if we’re ruling them out as we did at Bournemouth or for stray toe-nails, then we should in ‘matter of facts‘ such as a moving ball. More likely is VAR didn’t spot it.

Chelsea were terrific by the way. As good as I’ve seen in recent memory. Admittedly, Wolves fell to pieces after an encouraging first 45, but Chelsea were ruthless. Maybe? Just maybe? And I guess that’s why we never give up on our team. I know Evertonians won’t.