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I've been living in Bristol now for 7 years. I'm a born and bred blue from Clubmoor, just at the bottom of Pinehurst Avenue.

I often wear my various Everton tops out and I see countless Liverpool tops when I'm out and about in Bristol. I have never been inclined to say to any of these beauts 'where abouts in Liverpool are you from mate' as I know full well that they're not! However, every last person adorning an Everton top has always been a scouser. It's who we are.

I'm not saying that there aren't any Liverpool fans in Liverpool when they are clearly in the majority. I don't care about them though. What I care about is My Club and its great history. My Club is from Liverpool and when people ask me why I support Everton and not Liverpool it's easy: we ARE the People's Club. We put up with the bad times and long for the good times.

I'm off to live in Thailand for a couple of years at the least but I don't want to be meeting those beauts with the red tops on telling me that my club doesn't represent the City of Liverpool any more. Liverpool City Council should be ashamed of themselves. Let's face it though, half of them probably support Liverpool and the rest are probably wools as well.

As neither a shareholder nor season ticket holder, I don't get to vote. However, as a youngster I followed the blues all over, an ever-present in the good and the bad times.

I saw probably the worst game ever to grace the top division when we played out a goalless draw of the direst quality with Coventry City. It was that bad it was almost funny. Some fans were throwing their season tickets on the pitch (there wasn't that many games left though). I was also present at the likes of Bayern Munich at home and the Epic comeback.

The point is these memories, both good and very bad, are what makes me and countless others Evertonians. It's not just about going to whatever ground we end up at. It's supporting the club whoever is in charge and cheering when it's goin well and moanin when it's not.

The one thing we have other than our rich history is our Identity. I can't vote but mark my words: Kirbky will be the beginning of the end.
Colin Grierson, Bristol Posted 09/08/2007 at 21:00:51

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Toffee Rapper
1 Posted 09/08/2007 at 23:27:37

Dont worry they probably dont even know who everton are, and if they do they most certainly wont know and probably dont care that everton are from liverpool.
I know this to be a fact from personal experience. And when exactly did we become the pride of liverpool? it has always been pride of merseyside to me...

Treacle Toffee
2 Posted 10/08/2007 at 00:45:50

T Rapper - Yo ma man! How’s things in OZ, cobber? We’re you born in Liverpool? When did Mersyside come into being? Have you any idea?

Dom Eaton
3 Posted 10/08/2007 at 00:27:30

Top call Toffee R. I always believed we were The Pride Of Merseyside too!! so says the chant anyway.
Small point of fact MR Grierson...I, like many of my true blue sothern mates was not born in Liverpool, but my dad was, right next to the ground! and I too walk around with my numerous EFC T-Shirts to the same abuse that you seem to receive, family split both ways just for the record. Just holdin the torch for us not fortunate enough to have been born on mighty Mersyside, have made amends and own a season ticket though! 10 hour round trip journey to home games of which I attend at least 80% ( will be at THFC on tuesday as well!)as I was last year!! Big up to all that travel to away games and big up to all that live far away and travel to home games, thank god for Richard Branson (those who understand NEED NO EXPLANATION)
As for the vote, I love Goodison but understand we need to move etc. and have just ticked the No box.
Top site boys and glad the tour T-Shirts are a tad cheaper this time round.

Eric Myles
4 Posted 10/08/2007 at 02:59:57

Don’t worry Colin, all those that I’ve met in Thailand that are RS supporters are either Thais or ’out of towners’ that have never set foot in Liverpool.

Welcome to LOS.

Kieran Doyle
5 Posted 10/08/2007 at 06:03:19

Bit surpised by your sweeping statement there Colin i.e. "every last person adorning an Everton top has always been a scouser". That is so far from the truth its untrue! I know quite a few evertonians who are not scousers. Ok like myself a lot (but far from all)probably have a connection to Merseyside but they dont call themselves scousers. Myself, my mum and all her family are scousers and continue to live there, but I left Liverpool when I was 4, was born in Lancashire and dont have a scouse accent. I do go back roughly once a year to visit and alomost always get to Goodison. Scouse or not I love EFC, it runs through my blood and so does it for countless other non-scousers around the world. If you left UK, which you are doing you may well just come accross some. So if you came accross me with my EFC top on, and I said I wasnt really a scouser..what you going to say...that Im not a true Evertonian?? Boillocks to that!!!

Kieran Doyle
6 Posted 10/08/2007 at 06:19:43

Didnt mean to type "Myself" before chatting about my mum, family etc! Typo! Makes it a confusing read with that word in there!

Liam Reilly
7 Posted 10/08/2007 at 09:29:20

Well said Kieran. I wasn’t born in Liverpool and I don’t speak with a scouse accent either, but I’ve supported this club for more than 30 years, so it’s an insult to read such shite.
Presumably Colin, if you have (or ever have) children and they aren’t born in Liverpool, you won’t regard them as Evertonians either.

Eric Myles
8 Posted 10/08/2007 at 10:58:10

I think you guys got the wrong end of he stick. The way I read it Colin is saying that every person that he’s met in Bristol sporting an Everton shirt has been a Scouser. Not that everyone in the world that wears an Everton shirt is a Scouser.

Although he may well run into me in Thailand and I’m a Scouser.