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This rant is about an on-going 'problem' at Goodison Park. It is something that really gets up my tits and I'm sure many others — why oh why when Phil Neville has the ball anywhere within 40 yards of the opposing team's goal do people in unison decide to shout 'Shooooooooot!'???

It really winds me up... what do you think he is gonna do? Shoot and bury one in the top corner from the half-way line? We are Everton Football Club for god's sake! Leave that for dickheads who follow Newcastle Utd etc to make idiots of themselves.

Jesus, we'll be chanting 'Easy Easy' next... Soccer AM you have a lot to answer for.
Brian Winterburn, Lancs Posted 19/01/2010 at 10:12:32

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Eugene Ruane
1 Posted 19/01/2010 at 14:48:38

Erm... yes I know what you mean and I suppose I agree (in a miserable old bastard type way); however, the things I hear from ’Evertonians’ that REALLY go through me and are of REAL concern, are more influenced by Enoch Powell than Helen Chamberlain.

James Stewart
2 Posted 19/01/2010 at 15:15:50

I agree it’s annoying & moronic.

Ragnar Thorisson
3 Posted 19/01/2010 at 15:16:56

I think Phil Neville is experienced enough to know when to shoot and when not.

Ciarán McGlone
4 Posted 19/01/2010 at 15:23:52

Irony.

A wonderful tool.

Derek Turnbull
5 Posted 19/01/2010 at 15:27:09

What’s with all this crap people are spouting nowadays all fan behaviour as ’Soccer am’?

Surely to know what Soccer am behaviour is, you would have actually had to watch Soccer am, thus making you a zoccer am type yourself?

Secondly Easy Easy was chanted at the 1966 Cup Final and was regularly heard at Goodison up until 10 years ago.

So please stop talking shite. I’m sick of fans trying to tell other fans how to act.

Dave Lynch
6 Posted 19/01/2010 at 15:32:38

Totally in agreement Mr McGlone.

Where would my shirts be without it?

Sean McCarthy
7 Posted 19/01/2010 at 15:30:48

Eugene, surely you're not suggesting there are racists hiding within the Goodison faithful??? Surely not!!!

Like the wag who couldn't understand that his constant ’jokes’ about Arabs at the City game were offensive especially to the two middle eastern looking gents in Everton scarves sat two rows behind??

I think we have bigger issues than shooooooooooooooot!!!!

Tom Bowers
8 Posted 19/01/2010 at 15:17:21

Nothing wrong with shouting "Shoot!" if someone is in range but it should be expected from all players. Is this not something practised in training?

In these days of 11-man defences, sometimes the long shot may be the only option but it seems it is becoming a dying art except for a few players. Goalkeepers don’t really expect long range shots and that is exactly the reason teams should have at least a couple of defensive players coming forward to have a pop at goal.

Everton have nobody in the whole team capable of scoring from outside the box except from free kicks. I saw Osman run at the Arsenal defence last week and the shot was on but he had no confidence and passed it 10 yards sideways instead, which is what most players are doing these days.

Dave Roberts
9 Posted 19/01/2010 at 15:28:04

Can’t remember the game now off the top of my head but two seasons ago he took everybody by surprise and did shoot from about 25 yards, got a bit of a deflection, and it went in. Everybody was a little pleasantly nonplussed. That was when this ’chant’ started.

Why anybody should be upset about it though is beyond me. As Ragnar said, Pip will know when it’s worth a pop...and when it isn’t. Don’t see the problem.

I am more concerned about what Eugene says. Must admit I’ve not heard anything racist from my seat in the Upper Bullens and I hope I don’t.

Charlie Percival
10 Posted 19/01/2010 at 15:57:28

To be fair, I've seen Phil have a few good digs from range!

Shaun Brennan
11 Posted 19/01/2010 at 16:03:02

I thought he was in range of the sniper who assumingly nodded off whilst watching Everton and the fans were only trying to prompt him to........ Obviously not now after reading above posts.

Gareth Humphreys
12 Posted 19/01/2010 at 16:12:18

I don’t like some of the whoppers that they got on Soccer AM but I also don’t like some of the whoppers I see at Goodison.

If it's a problem with a chant, why not pick on "Murderers" when Liverpool turn up? It makes me ashamed to be in the ground when that one is wheeled out.

Paul Baxter
13 Posted 19/01/2010 at 16:14:28

That reminds me, did I REALLY see Phil do a step-over on Saturday?!?!

Karl Masters
14 Posted 19/01/2010 at 16:31:38

Is this post for real?

You should be sat in the Balcony watching the muppets.....Grumpy old man. Maybe the library would suit you better?

Ste Traverse
15 Posted 19/01/2010 at 16:45:23

I agree the cry of "shoot" is highly annoying but the most irratating thing to rear its head at Goodison is the emergance of the "Who are ya?" chant. It's cringeworthy and not worth of our support, leave it with the lower division clubs.

Howard Don
16 Posted 19/01/2010 at 16:59:01

Ste Traverse I’d go along with that, "Who are ya?" belongs in the ’70s. However, a close second has to be "kopites are gobshites" — what has that got to do with anything happening in any given game, apart from maybe twice a year? And even then, it’s also cringeworthy.

Ciarán McGlone
17 Posted 19/01/2010 at 17:15:31

Maybe we can save "USA, USA" - for whenever the USA play at Goodison in the World Cup...

Shaun Sparke
18 Posted 19/01/2010 at 17:10:43

You can’t half tell that it is a slow news week! We played some of the best football seen at Goodison for years on Saturday. Going into work had been an absolute pleasure this week tripping over the long faces of the kopites. Yet somebody has still got to find something to moan about.

Well, for what its worth I don’t give a rats fart at what people want to shout about at matches, and unless it is offensive, then I don’t see why anybody else should either.

Andy Codling
19 Posted 19/01/2010 at 17:38:05

I'll shout it all the more — knowing it pisses you off, Victor Meldrew. Get a fucking life.

Duncan McDine
20 Posted 19/01/2010 at 17:42:53

Brian, I think you’re missing the joke... it started happening after pip scored from outside the box (think it was against Newcastle actually) - and majestically miss-kicked the ball against his standing foot, and looped it over the keeper.

I’m pretty sure it stems from then. Lighten up mate - we’re actually good at the moment!!!

Dave McCarten
21 Posted 19/01/2010 at 18:16:19

Well bugger me, ooh er missus.

You can’t even have a laugh when you go the match now, everybody knows it’s a wind up... and as for the "kopites are gobshites" — that's just a FACT.

Tony Doran
22 Posted 19/01/2010 at 18:51:46

I always thought people where shouting for someone to shoot Pip, glad they never as he’s doing ok now.

Stephen Kenny
23 Posted 19/01/2010 at 19:17:04

I love it at the match when the whole ground is singing, taking the piss, and winding the opposition fans up etc. also the only time we shout "shoot" is usually when were comfortably winning, so long may that continue.

More than all of these, I love the banter with the other teams fans especially away from home. "Who are ya?", "Time to go" etc are all a good laugh, especially when it’s you singing them.

If we didn't do any of the shouts mentioned as annoying, moronic, idiotic etc we’d be the shittiest most boring fans in the country. Fucking cheer up!

Gavin Ramejkis
24 Posted 19/01/2010 at 19:24:57

I’ve seen Phil Neville smile when he heard it, if you’d seen his shot mentioned earlier against Newcastle and his low tally of career goals you’d know it was humour. Suppose you want the culprit who came up with the Hibbert scores, we riot slogan hung drawn and quartered? Get a life. Ciáran, my favourite for irony was from Blackadder who asked Baldrick to explain it; "it’s like goldy and bronzy, only made out of iron"

Alex Kociuba
25 Posted 19/01/2010 at 19:46:44

So many grumpy arl bastards!

Jesus Christ!!

Jimmy Crack
26 Posted 19/01/2010 at 20:13:02

Perhaps it has something to do with his hesitation to play the ball on the ground, and how he lobs it up the field every chance he gets? His hoofball was one of the few issues I had with the team’s performance at the weekend.

Phil Bellis
27 Posted 19/01/2010 at 20:33:30

Never understand the bias towards Shoot!
I was always a Goal! - The World’s Greatest Soccer Weekly reader...

Kevin Sparke
28 Posted 19/01/2010 at 20:50:17

Sorry Phil, ’Shoot!’ was better than ’Goal’ - you got cardboard league tables with ’Shoot!’ and ’You are the Ref’ with Jack Taylor.

The cardboard league tables were great until your brother lost half of League Division Four down the back of the settee...

Shaun Sparke
29 Posted 19/01/2010 at 21:19:50

Cheeky git bro, nothing ever got lost down the back of our settee, you always hand your hands down there looking for my lost pocket money!

Bill Goodall
30 Posted 19/01/2010 at 21:24:35

Isn't it just a response to the cracker he scored against Birmingham a few seasons back?

Luke Berry
31 Posted 19/01/2010 at 22:52:17

I am sure it warms Pips heart when he hears that, because we know and he knows that the likely hood of it happening are minimal and is just a sign of affection shown in a bit of a friendly banter kind of way.
Long may it continue because it warms my heart as well, so go on Pip.....shoooooooot ! ! !

Jamie Crowley
32 Posted 19/01/2010 at 23:27:10

Our entire house roars with laughter when we hear it over the television. I think it's absolutely hilarious.

Try decaf....

Matthew Mackey
33 Posted 20/01/2010 at 10:40:07

Brian,
Calm down, calm down!

One of these days Pip will say fuck it, and he’ll release a bullet that takes the back off the net.

The way Everton’s fortunes are changing for the good at the moment, anything can happen!

Danny Burke
34 Posted 20/01/2010 at 11:04:38

This really isnt a big deal. Its a bit of light hearted banter that I will continue to shout. Get over it guys.

I also remember everyone shouting SHOOOOT to Sami Hyypia a few years back after his OG in the Clattenberg derby.

Charlie Dixon
35 Posted 20/01/2010 at 12:10:49

Ha, I do agree that Soccer AM has alot to answer for.
What really grinds my gears, is that OPERATION Goodison nonsense. The tannoid is too loud anyway and that bird repeating OPERATION GOODISON sounds fucking wank.

Karl Masters
36 Posted 20/01/2010 at 19:19:05

Yeah, OPERATION GOODISON in that really annoying voice. Usually just as we are about to create a chance too and the player with the ball nearly has a heart attack!

Now that IS something that should be stopped!!

Fucking wank - spot on Charlie!

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