| Who Would Be An Everton Fan 12:39 - Sep 28 with 1080 views | SaintNick |
I haven.t put up this post to annoy Solent Toffee, but I hadn't realised the fact that an article on BBC Sport brought up today.
Since the turn of the century, Everton are the only club in English football's current top four tiers who have not won a trophy - their last being the 1995 FA Cup triumph against Manchester United at the old Wembley - or been promoted.
Of course to be promoted they would have needed to be relegated and given they have never been relegated from the Premier League, one of only 6 clubs who can claim that in nearly 35 years of it being in place, I don't think they are bothered about that.
But in the last 25 years they have not troubled the scorers much so to speak, their last trophy being the FA Cup in 1995, a little better than our only trophy the Johnstones Paint trophy.
But I suppose that does ask the question for any club outside the big 7 hopefully a number that will reduce soon, about whether it is better to sit in mid table most seasons or enjoy the roller coaster ride of relegation and promotion as we have done.
They have had 3 FA Cup semi finals including 1 final as runner up, plus 2 semi finals in the League cup and 5 seasons of European qualification, but that isn't much better than us .
In that same period we have had 4 FA cup finals including 1 as runner up, we have only had League cup finals but we did reach the final in one of those and we have had only 3 seasons in Europe to their 5.
But overall our record since 2000 is fairly similar to theirs, so perhaps that JPT win shades it for us it terms of excitement in that period.
Ok perhaps I am baiting Solent Toffee at the end lol, but perhaps the clincher is that when they moved grounds they only increased their capacity by around 12,000 whereas we increased ours by 17,000. |  |
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| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 12:43 - Sep 28 with 1055 views | Chesham_Saint |
Andy Burnham supports them you know - so what's not to like? Even though I hear he might be from Manchester, although I'm not quite sure about that. |  |
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| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 13:15 - Sep 28 with 940 views | SaintNick |
| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 12:43 - Sep 28 by Chesham_Saint |
Andy Burnham supports them you know - so what's not to like? Even though I hear he might be from Manchester, although I'm not quite sure about that. |
It says he was born in Aintree a suburb of Liverpool, although his family moved out to Cheshire when he was young so his upbringing was not in Liverpool.
He likes Rugby League I have never met anyone from Liverpool who will admit to that
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| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 13:50 - Sep 28 with 863 views | PatfromPoole |
| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 13:15 - Sep 28 by SaintNick |
It says he was born in Aintree a suburb of Liverpool, although his family moved out to Cheshire when he was young so his upbringing was not in Liverpool.
He likes Rugby League I have never met anyone from Liverpool who will admit to that
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Really?
Isn't Widnes only a few miles away? |  |
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| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 13:57 - Sep 28 with 834 views | SaintNick |
| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 13:50 - Sep 28 by PatfromPoole |
Really?
Isn't Widnes only a few miles away? |
Widnes is not Liverpool, St Helens is not far away either, but I have never met anyone from Liverpool who likes Rugby League | |
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| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 15:08 - Sep 28 with 717 views | Chesham_Saint |
| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 13:15 - Sep 28 by SaintNick |
It says he was born in Aintree a suburb of Liverpool, although his family moved out to Cheshire when he was young so his upbringing was not in Liverpool.
He likes Rugby League I have never met anyone from Liverpool who will admit to that
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| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 17:06 - Sep 28 with 523 views | HytheFerrytales |
| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 13:15 - Sep 28 by SaintNick |
It says he was born in Aintree a suburb of Liverpool, although his family moved out to Cheshire when he was young so his upbringing was not in Liverpool.
He likes Rugby League I have never met anyone from Liverpool who will admit to that
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I can safely say that I could not be classified as an Everton fan.
However I did have the distinct pleasure of being at a couple of their games when Ball, Kendall and Harvey made up their midfield. They were some force, maybe amongst the best combos in the last 60 years. For that alone I give Everton a pass mark. |  | | |
| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 19:13 - Sep 28 with 329 views | Chesham_Saint |
| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 17:06 - Sep 28 by HytheFerrytales |
I can safely say that I could not be classified as an Everton fan.
However I did have the distinct pleasure of being at a couple of their games when Ball, Kendall and Harvey made up their midfield. They were some force, maybe amongst the best combos in the last 60 years. For that alone I give Everton a pass mark. |
I’m guessing you weren’t at Highbury in ‘84 then..? | |
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| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 20:14 - Sep 28 with 275 views | HytheFerrytales |
| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 19:13 - Sep 28 by Chesham_Saint |
I’m guessing you weren’t at Highbury in ‘84 then..? |
Neither were Ball. Kendall or Harvey for that matter.
Funnily enough I was in Highbury that day but not at Highbury on account that I lived in a flat close by. Along with a couple of Saints mates and 400 neanderthal Gooners we gathered in the local battle cruiser to suffer the pain and anguish.
42 years have surely numbed that....or maybe not  | | | |
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| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 23:05 - Sep 28 with 160 views | Gennaro_Contaldo |
| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 13:57 - Sep 28 by SaintNick |
Widnes is not Liverpool, St Helens is not far away either, but I have never met anyone from Liverpool who likes Rugby League |
Rugby League is odd. It should be played much more and supported much better than it is. Union still has a hangover of being "posh" and whilst I've watched England at Twickenham several times (with whisky in the stands!), I've never been fully into it.
League I really enjoy watching as it's faster, harder and more entertaining. Plus on thread of books, there are some great rugby league autobiographies to read.
But I have never understood why it's not been more popular. Why has it never caught on down south? I mean some of the teams up north have really decent followings, some better than football; Wigan being one.
Pretty sure if Sky threw money at it though it would take off. |  |
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| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 23:12 - Sep 28 with 150 views | SaintNick |
| Who Would Be An Everton Fan on 23:05 - Sep 28 by Gennaro_Contaldo |
Rugby League is odd. It should be played much more and supported much better than it is. Union still has a hangover of being "posh" and whilst I've watched England at Twickenham several times (with whisky in the stands!), I've never been fully into it.
League I really enjoy watching as it's faster, harder and more entertaining. Plus on thread of books, there are some great rugby league autobiographies to read.
But I have never understood why it's not been more popular. Why has it never caught on down south? I mean some of the teams up north have really decent followings, some better than football; Wigan being one.
Pretty sure if Sky threw money at it though it would take off. |
There used to be that programme with Eddie Waring back in the 1970;s a bit like a Rugby League version of Match of the day | |
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