ToffeeWeb - Season 2007-08

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Congratulations to all at TW Towers - you made it into the press here.

A tabloid here (New Paper) is my preferred read on a Sunday over a couple of pints in my local. It's not like your UK Sunday tabloid though - aside from local stories invariably proving the saying "a fool and his money are soon parted", there's a very extensive sports section, especially what is now known here as the BPL, from EPL last year (amazing what the new TV deal does).

Anyway in Club Corner it was the turn of Everton (although the cynic says that's because Sunday is their smallest print run). So aside from a story about Vaughan clarifiying Vic's comments about his injury, and a story about why Yak took 22 (all lifted off the wire by the way) there was the Fans bit ? featuring "Toffeeweb.com". They ran the results of a poll, about whether we'd prefer success for the national team or Everton. Think that was from last year right? Then again, with Singapore being a small place and a permanent construction site, christ knows what they'd have made about all the polls on the ground move, and the vote for the fans (I'm not going to start talking about democracy here...)

So that's it. Now you've been advertised to the Asian world, well, the 40-50 people who read that paper here ? most of whom are died-in-the-woolyback Liverpool / Man U supporters.

Singapore out.
Matt Traynor, Singapore Posted 10/09/2007 at 01:34:04

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Michael Kenrick

Hehe... thanks for that news, Matt. Where do we send the invoice for royalties???

michael, singapore
1 Posted 10/09/2007 at 08:52:41

heh, glad that everton was recognised as the top 7 clubs to have a ’club corner’ feature for each day’s edition, ill be outraged if they don’t. the others namely the wretched top4, geordies and spurs.

as for the link to that article, check this out.

http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/sports/story/0,4136,141477,00.html?

cheerios.

ryan crest
2 Posted 10/09/2007 at 10:34:11

Matt - what does BPL stand for?

Peter Singer
3 Posted 10/09/2007 at 10:54:28

Barclays Premier League, I suppose.

Dave Roberts
4 Posted 10/09/2007 at 19:31:41

Glad to hear we are a worldwide phenomenon!

Jason Heng
5 Posted 11/09/2007 at 14:02:34

Singapore’s hardly the world.

As Everton inches toward the "big 4", we can surely expect more Singapore and Asian "fans", who were extremely loyal - to teams with money and trophies.