 Hello, welcome to the Everton News Daily. Metro Mayor Steve Rotherham has spoken out on Everton's appeal against their 10-point deduction. He said that whatever the outcome of the appeal, this entire OPAC process has left us with more answers from the overly harsh initial sanction. Small clubs and the Premier League's attempt to shift the goalposts midway through. This culture of secrecy has done nothing to foster trust and he's absolutely spot on. The whole process has been a shambles from start to finish. Richard Masters has had an absolute nightmare. I think he thought he was being clever and puffing his chest out trying to head off the independent regulator, but the whole process is pathetic. It should never have dragged on. This long evidence shouldn't be left in limbo. Notting him forward shouldn't be left in limbo. It's a pathetic way of doing things. How can you have open-ended processes? It's an absolute joke and it needs shorting. There you go. Trevor Steven today spoke exclusively to Toffy TV and gave us his opinion on Everton's point of deduction. Well, I'm going to be really boring here, right? You can only deal with the next game. A home or a wing doesn't matter. They've got three points there to win. I don't look beyond that. Honestly, it's not worth it. I know the fans have to and they're plotting down how many points we might actually get. What they might get and how many points we'll get back from the deduction. Just we need to take care of ourselves, take care of the next game, take care of business. And the fans have got to stick with the club and not look too far down the line. Just deal with the next game. That's when we're going to get as much energy behind the team as we can because we need that. I felt at times we were running around for no purpose sometimes, I thought, in the game on Monday night. It means the heads have gone a bit. We need to get back to being collective and that means with the crowd as well. I'm still confident we're going to stay up. I really am confident. No matter what happens, points wise, and that's how you need to think about it. Eric Dyer has opened up on his time at Everton Football Club. Speaking to the Everton website, he said it was such a great club. When I was there, it was a fantastic place inside Finch Farm. There was a fantastic culture. It felt like a family. Obviously, it's huge Premier League club, but inside the training ground, it felt very tight in it. You have Phil Neville, Michela Tete, Marwan Fellini, Sylvan Distan, Leighton Bain, Seamus Coleman, Phil Jagielke. He's basically just naming the team. So many top players and to see them in action was great for me. I had Bill Kenne night two. I think the club was a reflection of him at that time. Very warm with a real family feel to it. He does say in the interview, he wondered whether he'd ever be physically ready to play in the Premier League after looking at Sylvan Distan and the shape he was in, but obviously Dyer did go on to play Premier League football for Tottenham. He also says he was Everton wanted them to stay, but in his mind, he wanted to go back to sport and because that was his club and he was only young at the time, but a good interview. You want to check it out on Everton's website. Finally, last night, Everton released a statement backing Mason Holgate after the Everton defender received racist abuse following his sending off in the 5-0 home defeat by Brighton and how well being on Sunday. Everton said, Everton Football Club strongly condemns the racist and discriminatory abuse Mason Holgate has suffered. Such abuse is vile, will not and should not be tolerated. The club offers Mason its full support and praises his actions for speaking out. We must all take a zero tolerance stance by reporting such behaviour to social media platforms and the authorities. Racism has no place online in our stadia or in our communities. Holgate did post some of the conversations, some of the comments that he had been sent, which were absolutely disgusting. Yes, it was a red card, this challenge, but to receive that kind of abuse following it is an absolute disgrace and it doesn't have any place in our game. Sheffield United also condemned the abuse that Mason Holgate has received following that red card. And finally, there will be an interview out with Trevor Stephen, Everton legend, so make sure you check that out on this channel, give that a watch as well. Give this video a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't and if you want to become a Toffy TV Premier member where there are no adverts on the videos and there are daily live exclusive shows, click the link in the description or the QR code that will be on the screen now. Thanks for watching, see you later.