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Abide With Me
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There's going to be a lot of noise at Wembley tomorrow. Even if the serried ranks of Chavskis leave their voices in the wine bars and brasseries of south west London, the Evertonians will make sure that Wembley's noise abatement society gets into a tizzy.
But will we raise the roof with Abide With Me? Older readers will know that this song was introduced into the Cup Final in the early twenties, in memory of those who were slaughtered in the Great War.
We all have our own reason to remember someone tomorrow: I'll be thinking of Mike and Terry Graham, two great Evertonians who will surely be looking down on us from their blue Heaven. Perhaps all of us could remember young Rhys, and in the 20th anniversary year, those who fell at Hillsborough.
Whatever our particular reason, could we give a lead to the rest of the stadium in giving Abide With Me our full Evertonian voice?
Mike McLean, Posted 29/05/2009 at 14:55:39
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Let's all get behind the Blues tomorrow and sing our big blue hearts out for our team. COYB
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Out of order - I think not.
Of course I remember 96 people died (not all Scousers as you claim btw) because it is constantly rammed down our throats!!
What is forgotten is how many Italians died directly as a result of being charged and chased across terraces by the murdering red bastards ? or did you think they just wanted to tic?
It was these I was refering to murdering red bastards ? read the post properly you prick!!
I will remember the Hillsborough disaster with exactly the same reverence that the red-shite remember Heysel ? none what so ever. They have air-brushed history.
I?ll be singing Abide with Me with rest of us blues and remembering lots of blues who can?t be there ? not mourning followers of a club with no class
now is not the time to argue about this. Let’s not moan about those red recta across the park on what is our biggest day in 14 years. There’s a time and place.
Back on topic, I will be unfortunately be watching from a pub in Rotterdam, but I hope you all give it great gusto - my grandad passed away three-and-a-half years ago and never saw us win anything after the FA Cup in ’95- I wish he were still alive today to witness this.
On the subject of Cup Final songs, I’ve been playing All Together Now all week..
I feel for the famalies and friends of the victims at both disasters. For you to use such language, hostility and bial is nothing shoprt of pathetic.
I hope you never feel the loss those famalies did.
I guess you will object to singing "Abide with me" to rember those who have fallen fighting for their country as some of those who made the ultimate sacrifice were liverpool fans.
Take a long hard look at yourself in the mirror, you are a bitter little man and shame this football club I love on this day of days.
Ive wasted enough time on you, grow up, show some god damn humanity, you bitter little fuck
Using the behaviour of a handful of trouble-makers at Heysel to tarnish the memories of innocent victims at Hillsboro is an act of cowardice in my book. We do not make this club of ours great by spitting in the faces of our neighbours - or anyone else for that matter..
You acknowledge both were tragedies ? so do I but the red bastards don?t. They have forgotten that they caused 39 Italians to die at Heysel ? they have air-brushed this from history ? not one word of regret or sorrow has been officially issued from Anfield over this but they expect us to mourn forever for them. Well this Blue won?t until they pay the same respect for Heysel as they expect nay demand the world to do for Hillsborough.
I am just about to go in to in and will be singing Abide with Me all my heart (read my mail).
Bitter I probably am, as Blues we have a right to be following the European ban, but I am far from a little man ? at 6?4 I would be delighted to meet you anytime and see how gobby and brave you are in real life. Name the time and place
Come on you Blues ? Abide with Me!!
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1 Posted 29/05/2009 at 19:10:04
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And to all those lucky bastards with a ticket, it would be nice to show the Chavski?s that you know not just Everton?s history but that of English football in general.
Make us proud to be watching, fans as well as players. As they say over here: Make Noise!
Bring it home.