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• I've not considered Labour even remotely socialist since Blair, they're the same as the other lot but wearing red ties instead of blue....
  Eric Myles in Fan organisations call for a halt on Premier League ticket price rises
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  Eric Myles in A Goodison Tradition returns: The Toffee Lady
• Agree Mark #36, although the Christmas Fayre at BMD is of no interest to me as I won't be there to sample it, I'm sure many attendees will find it useful info and appreciate it, as I would if I was going to be attending....
  Eric Myles in Next up: Everton vs Newcastle Utd
• Ironic & fitting serendipity - or clever planning - that we bring back the distribution of the traditional black & white striped Everton mints the same day we host the black & striped shirts of Newcastle!! ...
  Lord Hughes in A Goodison Tradition returns: The Toffee Lady
• So here's a story that might warm the cockles of your hearts... or not. From a family of Liverpool supporters, I was born in Birkenhead so naturally supported Tranmere Rovers. Still remember the cup match against Coventry we won in the 60's, bedlam. Then around about 1967 or early 1968, one of my aunties asked if I wanted to see Everton. She and my Uncle had season tickets but he was a bigwig in Crawford Biscuits so often was working Saturday. Aged 7, I found myself in this massive stadium (I thought Prenton Park was huge) and then the Z cars theme, my favourite program, struck up. As the teams walked out to a massive roar, there were women throwing sweets into the crowd. I thought I had died and gone to heaven, especially as I managed to grab one. Caught, hook line and sinker... I know it must have been 1967 or early '68 because we played WBA in the cup final that season. I was so sick with anxiety, I had to go to bed with a massive headache and didn't see extra time. St...
  Mark Taylor in A Goodison Tradition returns: The Toffee Lady
• I managed to get 2, the first was against Inter Milan which somehow made it more special. There is a web site " Liverpool 1207" which carries many articles on the history of the city of Liverpool. It includes one on the history of Everton Toffee from 1760 until Barker and Dobson took over Nobletts in the 1930's. just enter the site and search Molly Bushell. ...
  Geoff Cadman in A Goodison Tradition returns: The Toffee Lady