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After the great victory today, I visited the BBC website to see their ?impartial? view on how the game seemed for a neutral. My eyes were drawn to the 606 feature and I started reading banter, argument and counter-argument between fans of Everton, Villa and Arsenal. One comment popped up which hit a nerve on something that has been itching me a while now. It came from a Manchester City fan praising David Moyes and then stating along the lines of: ?.... he should be given a bigger club, and I would love to see him in Manchester?.
Obviously it was slammed down by the Evertonians on the forum but it showed me further that modern football fans of certain clubs are like Augustus Gloop of Willy Wonka fame. Fat greedy stupid spoiled kids.
Manchester City, Spurs, Chelsea, Newcastle and obviously more seem to have this inflated sense of who their team actually is. The media?s love of Spurs, Sky raving about the ?toon? and Man City?s new wealth seem to give their fans a brainwash that whoever they want they can have, and then disregard them when finished. To then move onto the new flavour of the month to start the process again.
These idiots do not see that Moyes has had both positive and negative periods as Everton?s manager and spells where their trigger happy chairmen would be forced to relieve him of his duties. The reason Everton are in the position they are in, is stability and slow progress.
I remember Newcastle fans booing Bobby Robson, effectively getting him sacked, and turning on Allardyce because they never fancied him and then expect a top manager to go there?!
Spurs at Goodison three years ago turned Everton over and finished 5th, with a big strong, athletic side until Jol. Their head was turned by a ?name? of Ramos and look at them now!
Modern football is ridiculous and Everton like any club have fans whose views are wide of the mark to say the least. But listening on phone-ins and reading on the internet some of the nonsense that comes out of these spoiled fat kids mouths makes me proud we?ve stuck by our manager through good and bad. And proud we never fell for the multi-million pound foreign coach idea which seems crazier and crazier by the passing day.
Ged Jennings, Posted 15/02/2009 at 20:55:59
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The problem is when our players feel the same way too! Manure wanted Rooney and nicked him in broad daylight, regardless of agents involvement. Barmby anyone? It’s not just barcodes, spuds, shitteh - the ’top4’ fans are lemmings too, which is why I would just love to win this fucking league.
No need to worry about barcodes, spuds, shitteh and villa - let them be in their little pond.
The media fascination with Spurs is now just a stale joke. They’ve won the league twice in their history and not for 48 years. In recent times they’ve won a Carling cup and had two 5th places. Whoopy-fucking-dooda.
They’ve fallen into the hole that tells them they somehow have a right to success (whatever that means in their bizarre vocabulary). It is paradoxicaly Everton’s current lack of (unearned) wealth that has played an important part in our standing. Whatever our shortcomings on occasions, it is a club clearly at relative peace with itself from top to bottom.
City are just a music-hall joke, and their CEO Cooke is the biggest joke of all. This guys drivel about their "journey" and how "AC Milan bottled it" with Kaka are living proof that verbal & sporting diarrhoea are the order of the day at Man City these days. They now measure success by which megastars they can prize away from their clubs with grotesque financial inducements. Wayne Bridge now earns more per week than our entire defence!!
The irony of Everton supporting Moyes when we finished 17th and missed relegation by a point, after the worst run in our history, will be lost to the wankers who follow the media darlings. And right now, I couldn’t give a toss what they think about anything. What we are doing and how we are doing it brings more satisfaction than can ever be the case with these other circus’. Can you imagine our expectations if we’d spent what Spurs or City had?
1) Stability is vital. It is no coincidence at all that the clubs in the top six tend to be the best run with the longest serving managers. Chelsea are the exception that proves the rule - their chopping and changing has turned a championship winning team into also-rans in 2 years.
2) The so-called big clubs of Spurs, Man City, Newcastle etc. are an embarassment to football. Why on earth would DM want to leave stability he has at Everton for a one of these fantasy-big-clubs and get the ’opportunity’ to have the chairman spend lots of money on his belhalf - on players he doens’t want - and to be sacked after one season when, funilly enough, the team doesn’t gel as a result.
This is clearly one very disturbed individual.
We play hoofball and they don’t? yeah right.
Amazing the things you say when you lose (and we’ve all done it).
Just ignore them, we are Everton.
We were outstanding yesterday, and putting Villa to the sword was doubley exciting for me, as not only did we owe them one, but I have a HUGE dislike for their manager (who I cant even name such is the dislike of the man) with his constant whinging and irritating voice. I cant even look at him when he?s onscreen.
Up the blues!
I’ve wished for a big money buyer similar to the Saudi’s in charge of Man City. So if I’d have had my way, we’d have sacked Moyes and we’d have some total jokers in charge of the club trying to sign Terry and Kaka. I’m glad I don’t run Everton because we’d be in a mess, and that goes for a lot of other Evertonians!
(martin o’neil)
Saying that, I hope Citeh keep hold of Hughes 'til we?ve scrapped enough pennies together to get Jo, cos if rumours are correct and Scolari goes to Citeh, Jo might not want to stay!
Maybe I?m getting ahead of myself, let's just get top 4 and win the FA Cup!!!
I did once take great pleasure in going to watch them play Huddersfield in the third division though with a pal. They got beat. They had two Russian centre halves and Michael Brown in the midfield. If we think we have suffered as Evertonians believe you me, nothing compares to the ignominy they have suffered in the past thirty years.
I?m glad Moyes?s contract is sorted. We?ve poached their manager on a number of occasions (Kendall twice I think) and, much as I respect them, I wouldn?t want our dire financial situation to come and haunt us. I think Hughes is getting it badly wrong though. You can?t build a team around the likes of Bellamy, he?s crackers. They are going to have big problems trying to build a team, they?ve got a lot of promising young players and they are going to need time ? time they haven?t got.
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1 Posted 16/02/2009 at 06:07:37
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Over the past how many years these "Fashion" supporters all come out of the woodwork as soon as there club is recognised with a certain level of fame through wealth or a passionate session of arse licking two and from the media.
I am extremely proud that we have demonstrated to most of the Premier League that we have stuck behind our manager, through good and bad, on a shoestring over the past seven years. No other club or Manager in the English Prem could have achieved so much with so little and still retained a passionate and loyal fanbase.
I was only saying to a couple of pals yesterday that this is probably the best Everton side I have seen for over a decade; so full credit to Everton as a club for staying with Moyes; I know it hasn?t always been pretty or pleasant, but surely we are due some Silverware soon.
COYB?s