Ancelotti Teaching Everton a New Language
Everton s comeback at Old Trafford was illustrative of a change in mindset that is underway under Carlo Ancelotti
How are you feeling? Nervous? Dreading it? Confident?
It felt different to years gone by, didn’t it? It felt a bit different to the crippling anxiety and dread pulsating through your veins that you’ve probably felt half-a-dozen times a season for most of the last 3 decades.
Even a hint of a slightly different feeling you felt is very important. And you were right to feel it.
I don’t think Everton deserved anything from that game against Manchester United. But I felt vindicated in the feeling I had pre-match that this wasn’t going to be the white flag job of years gone by. Mental fragility, inferiority complex – call it what you will, but visiting the elite in the Premier League doesn’t have anywhere near the bewildering stench it used to under Carlo Ancelotti.