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16 Comments: As we are still coming to terms with the disappointment of Saturday, I am just proud to be a supporter of Everton Football Club. Like the hundreds of Bluenoses who made The Green Man their watering hole on Saturday, some fans came up to me and asked me why I supported Everton when they heard my accent.
A bit like a comparison to Bryan Hamilton's goal from 1977 that never was and explanations afterwards ? it's difficult to explain why. I feel you are are part of a big family. Very masonic like but something other teams would be envious of. We share glories and disappointments but one thing no-one can take away is the true loyalty of our fans. Players come and go, managers and chairman alike... but the fans are the heartbeat of any club.
As someone who has no family connection with Liverpool itself, I will always count myself a true blue.
Here's to happier times in 2012-13.
COYB!
Lee Marman, Posted 18/04/2012 at 12:38:35
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Friends and family always say to me, "Yeah, but you've done well for the club (smallish) that you are with no budget" ... but it's always difficult for people to understand that we should be up there competing will the rest, with what we have achieved in the 80's and being one of the oldest clubs still playing in the highest league.
It's frustrating when people who know nothing about Everton pity us and say "You've done well", not knowing that we should be doing more that just 'well'...
Why else do we hear/read stuff like "be careful what you wish for" and "he's got our best interests at heart"?
...2 stadium fuckups
...plunged into a blackhole of ever increasing debt
...no long term plan
...no assets
...a list of botched investment bids
...lies (about transfer targets, about funding, about GP, about Kirkby)
...Keith Wyness
...Rooney
Clearly we aren't the best, but maybe the most blinkered.
With success comes the 'Tag alongs'. You know the type, have every shirt that have ever won the title since Sky re-invented football.
We are shit and have had no success since the prem was instigated, therefore have no ' Tag alongs'.
Look at the limited support given to the Blue Union, and a response from others that ranged from apathy to downright aggression, "kopite behaviour" and all the other shite thrown at fans who tried to take on some responsibility for seeing through a change.
Where are they now, btw? Seems to have gone awful quiet!
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203 Posted 18/04/2012 at 15:27:08
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We were all gutted with the way we played in the 2nd half and result, but I've got to say the fans were awesome and, as long as we the fans stick together, regardless where we hail from, we can overcome anything COYB!