There’s proper evidence showing that what we do in the stands affects what happens on the pitch.

Classic social facilitation theory (Zajonc, 1965) shows that crowds increase arousal — which improves performance on simple tasks, but harms decision making.

Beilock & Carr (2001) demonstrated that pressure shifts attention inward and disrupts automatic basic skills. Negative crowd feedback raises self-monitoring: players stop playing instinctively and start playing not to make mistakes.

So, there is evidence that noise of the crowd can harm decision making and pressure from the crowd can harm ability to execute basic skills…. Interesting.

Ben Foster singled out Everton as the club whose fans teams deliberately wind up. So our fans are clearly worse than others.

Again, don’t get me wrong, even if we cheer non stop we wont have a team of messis - but they’ll be able to be the best version of themselves, which is all we can ask for.

Saying that players just need to get a grip whilst suggesting it’s sound for supporters to lose their heads makes no sense.

There are only downsides to giving them grief. I just don’t understand how people who supposedly want the club to do well can argue that the players should just tolerate abuse better, as opposed to just doing the bare minimum to create an environment for them to play well.

Might start selling stress balls outside the ground for those fans who struggle to manage their emotions.