Everton celebrate 125 years of football

Come on! KNOW YER HISTORY!!

And unbroken run of 108 years? I wish .... and almost.

So 9 years of mowing the grass and tiddly winks?

Begs the question similar to that of Notts County the oldest team ... "let's form a footie team" "a what now?" "who will we play?"

I'd have had us, at least for the last big anniversary, wearing black shirts with a ruby sash. It's so sad, but bloody typical of the "we know our place, plucky little Everton" mentality that pervades our club and sections of our fanbase ("small" my arse!), that we don't make enough fuss of ourselves.

"The history of the Everton Football Club is the history of Association Football in Great Britain."

Liverpool were absolutely carried by Billy Liddell who was a true great and put the fear of God into me whenever he received the ball in derby games. They had to wait until Shankly brought them up in 1961.

That was a time when both Liverpool clubs ruled the roost over Manchester and London. A fantastic period when no foreign players were in the league and level playing fields sorted the men from the boys.

Now we don't produce decent English players in sufficient numbers and I blame the onset of the computer age as nowadays you never see kids playing football, they are all in their bedrooms playing with computers. Thats why we see so many obese kids.

When I was at school we were all skinny and fit and walked or ran everywhere. Ah well, nostalgia ain't what it used to be!!!!

Oh and I think we (and the remaining founder members) should have a large gold embroidered FM on our shirts.

It would be a constant reminder to kids who we are and how long we've been around and even better, 'they' couldn't have it.

People say 'yeah but the the PL wouldn't have it coz it's a different competition', but so is the CL.

Actually, if you're allowed them little CL stars, why can't we have a number denoting title wins?

Our 9 would piss all over Chelsea's 3 or..whatever it is (psychology innit though blood).

Etc.

A rose by any other name still smells as sweet .... though the EPL does have a bit of a whiff of the stench of cheating and the clamour for raw cash about it.

If the EPL don't like it - why not incorporate it onto the the Everton badge - eg Everton 1878 Founders

Wasn't the Liverpool Cup played prior to this? With some big matches played against Bootle in the Finals? Just because they're not big competitions now it does not mean that we were not big then. They were very competitive affairs with players being carried back to Stanley Park from Hawthorne Road.

As I recall the ref was a baldy Italian bloke with a Rolex pocket watch and the only carriage and six in the carriage park. 125 years and we're still talking about it.

Phil Bellis has it about right. Why couldn't the black away kit have had the 'sash' (not the one me father wore) across it this season? So simple, so significant.

Arsenal were never promoted to the top flight, they're there because of a behind closed doors 'vote'. Let the sun shine on the Accrington Stanleys of this world, but let's always remember that we are original and genuine.

Change has to come, but tradition should never die.