Alan Green with envy: The curse of Everton's greatest detractor

Tend to agree with your overall impression of Mr.Green but can't really fault his argument about the big four. It is often said that the Premier League would be much better with more challenge to the big four and this is absolutely spot on but only if we had,say,eight teams playing at the level of the big 4. Unfortunately this is not happening and anybody who has had the misfortune to watch Everton,Aston Villa,Man City recently will easily recognise that they are light years away and the only reason thay are sometimes competitive is by playing a horrible,ugly game.If this somehow continued over a full season and they were let loose on the Champions League,what an embarrassment to the Premier League their style of football would be.Bolton at least appear to have passed their sell by date and hopefully the same will soon apply to Everton and Aston Villa.

Agree wholeheartedly with your comments - as an Arsenal we get enough of it as well, belive me he would be happy if Spurs made the top 4 instead of us. His pro-Liverpool bias that he refuses to acknowledge is an embarrassment to the BBC. I undersatnd there were a lot of complaints to the BBC after his totally one-sided comments during and after the Carling cup final last year.

Typical Bitter.......

Where does that leave Liverpool, then? They are nearer in points to Newcastle than they are to Utd. Would you put your mortgage on them claiming 4th? One season of them finishing outside the qualifying 4 (and not winning the `Champions' League or not obtaining a rule change) and they will be, financially, toast. And, Green is a totally bigoted waste of space and I resent part of my licence fee going to this totally unprofessional `broadcaster'.

Big 4 ?. Can't argue against the might of ManU ,the skill and good management of Arsenal or the limitless cash of Chelsea. The 4th place is anyones - with Everton one of several contenders. Liverpool ,despite their recent expenditure, are nothing special and could easily decline further and join the also rans. Remember Leeds were once a powerhouse and even made the CL semis this decade. Long gone are the days when teams feared playing at Anfield and LFC only had to show up to win. Top THREE is probably a more accurate description of the Prem. with about 8/9 teams below them chasing the European slots.

....is dire. The sooner he retires the better off football will be.

I believe the bias towards the "big 4" and especially Liverpool goes further within the BBC than Alan Green, although he is a major contributor. Just look at the pundits on Match of the Day. I believe The BBC feel it is in their best interests to have this elitism in the Premier League and will continue to tout this so called "Big 4" for as long as possible. It is more like a "Big 3" now, but do you think Hansen, Lawrenson or Alan Green would admit to that?

I feel Mr Greens problems is that he doesn't have a detailed knowledge of the game. He lets his heart and his Love for Liverpool take over. If anything Mr Green appears Jealous to me. As for Brian who feels we play an ugly game, the only teams to outscore us so far this season, is Man U and Arsenal. We have been playing some great attacking football!!

I cannot understand the level of negativity being directed towards Everton by Alan Green. Everton are a club with a proud history but who have fallen by their standards of the past. However, they don't profess to be a "big" club or feel they have a God given right to success as supporters of other "small" clubs clearly do. They have built slowly and steadily for the last five years without splashing the cash (no guarantee of instant success)by buying sensibly and by bringing players through the ranks. They have proved in 2005 that the underdog can gatecrash the big four party, giving hope to others teams. Perhaps Alan Green can draw certain parallels between Everton and his own career. I am certain he would like to break into the top four of television commentators. To work in the same arena as the Motsons, Tyldsleys, Tlylers and Pearces of this world is something I am sure Mr Green aspires to. However, unlike Everton, he doesn't seem to be getting anywhere near breaking into this group! They same empt

alan green is a liverpool fan,its so obvious,he is biased towards the red-side.

Oh dear ,how bitter are we?Youre clutching at straws because the truth always hurts.Alan Green is spot on.Your season is over!! IfithadnabinferAlanGreen...Lmao!!!!

Controversial though that may be...because the signs at Goodison at the moment are SO positive. Nobody can deny that we're making real headway. Pipped Liverpool to 4th a few years ago and have a chance of doing it this year. Even if we don't make it, we'll keep building and challenging for years to come and it will, eventually, happen. So...I love Alan Green and all the other 'experts' who hate the non-Big 4 teams. I love all the dumb, deluded Liverpool fans (not saying all LFC fans are deluded - just those that post on Everton boards, usually!) who claim we'll never amount to anything. Coz I don't need to answer back. I don't need to get into an argument with them. I can just relax and be confident that, over the next few years, Moyesy and the boys will make them eat their words on the pitch. Brilliant!

The man is an odious little toad.

That would be absolutely fantastic, if it costs Liverpool a place in CL! £30 deficit next year should add to the turmoil!

[quote]Typical Bitter.......[/quote] Typical Kopite, no real argument. Great piece the man is a top drawer beaut, born from his love of all things sky sports, he is adamnat that the top spenders should be known as the top teams and anyone trying to achieve anything in football should firstly sell their souls to the highest bidder or be dammed for not. We are not in that position and dont have the wealth of other clubs and we should be commended for trying to redress the balance and surely a good honest decent reporter should see a real story in this rather than just peddle out the same old tripe.

He's a fat ugly rancid bigmouthed kopite and makes no bones of where his allegience lies. I can't believe the biggot is still on radio. I can't stand the man, his face or his self-styled controversial phoneyness. So there.

Before the game started he said he wanted Everton to win so one of the big 4 did not win the Carling Cup. You are talking rubbish.

Clearly a day out at Wembley would have been nice, but as a real measure of progress surely Uefa cup success or top four in the league would be preferred. Great season so far, i believe if we beat Spurs next week we will finish top four - As for Liverpool they will pay for their greed, their inflated egos and struggle with lack of finance when the yanks do a runner after stipping out the assets.......could be Leeds all over again......shame really....lol!!!!!!

How can Everton's season be over when we are vying for a Champions League place and are in the last 32 of the UEFA Cup? Although I wouldn't be too upset if the season was over because we would have a Champions League spot and the sh**e would not. Which after all is the only thing deluded, up their own arses Liverpool fans think is important to us "bitters". Rafa - all that money and no idea. Liverpool fans must be over the moon at how their season is panning out - again. Still if Rafa buys another 33 players, the law of averages suggests there may be one or two decent players in there to take them to the next level! It must be embarrasing that so much money has been lavished on a team, with no improvement in the end result.

liverpool have actually got worse over the past decade, and have gone backwards not forwards. man utd and arsenal are teams that have built success up from the bottom and are rightfully respected for that. No one respects a team like chelsea who have bought their way to success through money and monopolistic traits. If thats the way Liverpool want to go then let them...but it looks like they are about to be saddled with £160m debt on the club's books. shame. maybe i'm just being bitter....

I always thought that the BBC prided its journalism with its impartiality and professionalism, this guy should be asked to go. Its like having Clattenburg referee a derby match. Alan Green is obviously isnt as up with the facts and figures as he should be professionally if he thought that 4th place at the table he oversees like the old knight in Indiana Jones and the last crusade did over the Holy Grail. If he is to remain a commentator, I would suggest the BBC look at what happened to Ron Atkinson after his inflamatory comments during his commentary, Green is biased and scathing, hardly what you would expect from a constructive, impartial, informative journalist representing an internationally acclaimed organisation reknown for its integrity....get him off the air.

YOU SAID "Goodison was as electric as ever, and even with that 12th man we couldn't budge Chelsea" Are you kidding - it was well documented that the very few Chelsea fans outsung you lot for the whole game. The sky cameras even focused on the EFC stands to reveal everyone slumped in their chairs lifeless. Were on Earth did you hear that Goodison was electric haha? If that was electric, I'd hate to know what its like on an average day. Chelsea fans sang aloud for 90 mins - including 'your support is fing s***...'. very, very amusing. It is extremely embarressing to be outsung by about 1500 CFC fans - and guess what - you lot were. Your lack of atmosphere even made the papers. Even internet forums were laughing aloud. QPR absolutely hate Chelsea - but here is what their lot had to say: http://www.clubfanzine.com/QPR/forum.posts.php ?id_t=23171 and you have the audacity to say Goodison was electric

Oh get a life you prat. Who is interested in your foolish rantings on this thread? Go and play with your bricks child.

Jobo - ready any national newspaper and they will attest to the amazing atmosphere - random example: the guardian - In terms of who craved a place in the final more there was no contest. Goodison provided the team from west London with the kind of Merseyside welcome usually reserved for Anfield in a Champions League semi-final and the only empty seats in the house were those in the away section. The visitors requested 6,000 tickets for this semi-final. They sold 2,600. Grant's admission that the competition meant more to Everton after 13 trophy-less years may have riled sections of the home support but it was undoubtedly true. The occasion bore that out although, unfortunately for Everton, the Chelsea players were not as compliant as the attitude of their manager and supporters indicated.