Do Everton have a secret brother!!

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I?ve supported Everton from a distance since the FA Cup run in 1983 when the scottish pairing of Gray and Sharp fired the Blues to glory at Wembley and kicked off the magnificient run throught the 80s. Funnily enough, I live in and support Aberdeen who are almost the Scottish mirror image of Everton having become the Scottish team of the eighties but spent most of the nineties trying to keep themselves in the Scottish Premier League and working through a merry go round of very average managers.

Like Everton, Aberdeen have spent the last few seasons challenging for Uefa Cup places one year and finishing mid table the next but throughout this time we?ve had no real relegation fears and the club is progressing. This season has started off poorly and we?re out of the Scottish League Cup after two rounds and the fans are becoming restless. The main point with both teams is that progression has been made throughout this time but with the large amounts of money flying around it will always be hard to compete with the Celtic, Rangers, Man Utd?s and Chelsea?s of this world.

Stability and a level headed approach is needed and both Davie Moyes and Jimmy Calderwood bring this to the clubs but are currently feeling the heat of the fans which in my opinion is unjustified.

Like Everton, Aberdeen are not the biggest club in the league and probably won?t win much each season if anything at all. Like Everton we?ve had good and bad times and have a proud history, I?m fully aware of the history of both clubs. Aberdeen?s gates are generally higher than the scottish leagues average apart from Celtic and Rangers and even during Fergie?s years they generally were no higher than they are now apart from the odd european game, cup final and big league game but league gates don?t make clubs big just ask Newcastle.

How do you gauge a footballing pedigree because if it?s on honours then the 1983 Cup Winners Cup Win and the 1983 European Super Cup win and the 1984 European Cup Winners Cup semi final and the 1985 European Cup quarter final probably puts Aberdeen ahead of the majority of England?s "big" clubs. I could go on!! A similar list of honours apply to Everton especially domestically when both dominated the SFA and FA cups dring the eighties.

I?ll say it once again we are Scotland?s Everton as Celtic are the Man Utd of Scotland, the similarities are frightening.
Mark Davidson, Aberdeen     Posted 27/09/2008 at 22:11:42

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