I don't think I'll ever not be arsed. Relegate us for times and play Osman at centre back until he's forty and I'll still be an Evertonian.
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Bedfordshiretoffee
Player Valuation: £1.5m
Me too, so used to taking it on the chin. Just get on with it and try not to let it get under my skin as much...had 50 years of it.
Season has been poor, but still got at least one more euro trip to do before we get knocked out by someone rather good.
Season has been poor, but still got at least one more euro trip to do before we get knocked out by someone rather good.
A week is a long time in football.
royalblue66
Player Valuation: £70m
Quite right mate, wish we had a real miserable manager and go for a few nil nils.
I'm worse the older I get. I'm 36 now and I'm actually getting worse. When we get beat I say "I'm not arsed about Everton anymore" and the after 4 minutes I want to chin myself for acting like a soft arse. My son as he gets older can take over the reigns and he will then stop me from being a dad who gets too old to be arsed. I always want to be arsed and I think I always will be arsed about Everton. It's in your blood, an addiction you can't keep away from. The love that hurts you most but you keep going back for more. FFS Everton just a trophy every now and then will do, you find yourself saying after another bottled performance. It's impossible not to be arsed. Try not being arsed for a week. It will wind you up so much that you will be more arsed than what you were before because missing any kind of game whether that be at the ground, TV or radio there ain't many better feelings than winning and it makes a lot of folks weekend ( mine included I might add!! ).
diggerdestroyer
Player Valuation: £40m
just made it 63-63 with my vote. Made my day.
AndyC
Player Valuation: £70m
OMG, how I 100% relate to this... post of the week for me !!
I was fuming on Wednesday like I've not been since we lost to Palace at home last season, but not being arsed lasted the time it took me to walk halfway back to the car.
COYB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ImKoneKoneKoneKone
Player Valuation: £1m
See that pienarr tweet there? Shows the players aren't even arsed. Hope the member that deducted me reputation points for starting this thread is wounded. Disgrace
evertony
Player Valuation: £50m
Football has changed, supporters expectations have changed, prices have changed. Everton and the royal blue jersey remain a constant in the turbulence around it.
If you go the match with the view we'll win every game, play like world-beaters, have the best players in the money/media controlled shenanigans and that you'll be walking back down Priory Road post-match each week having seen perfection, then Football, and more specifically Everton is not for you. Jack it in and go and get involved in something more structured and sterile...take the dog for a walk or do a crossword where you are in control of the outcome. Football is random, complicated, unconventional, subjective, sometimes bordering on bent ( thinks of Andre Mariner and his scarily reminiscent eyes and facial expression of Collina.....did only I notice that?...). You cannot control the outcome and ultimately that's why it's so popular.
Everton is all that and more times'd by a billion. It sounds corny but it is in your DNA....it's a massive part of our existence, and as a result you have to endure the dross and heartache to really enjoy the few smattering a of elation that come along every now and then. Call me perverse but I even enjoyed the Gordon Lee and Walter Smith days.....purely because I love the Old Lady, the night games under the lights, the away-day banter, the European away trips, and generally being around people I don't know from Adam who have exactly the same passion.
Everyone's entitled to a view. I don't agree with or remotely understand some of the points in here or the booing off of a team in Blue after a poor performance, but if that's your poison then fair enough.
One last thing. Mr Martinez is an absolute breath of fresh air.....with the exception of a purple patch in the mid-80's I cannot recall a period in the last 40+ years when we went away and actually tried to win a game. Martinez wants to win every game, albeit sometimes too elaborately, but he does play to win, and that for me means he can stick around with my undivided support for as many seasons as he keeps the same philosophy.
The time I get to the point of scribing something like the original post is when we have a Sam Allardyce at the helm rejoicing the work-rate of the new Denis Straquilirsi.
Think about the turnaround....from Straquilirsi and Anichibie to Lukaku and Eto'o...........
If you go the match with the view we'll win every game, play like world-beaters, have the best players in the money/media controlled shenanigans and that you'll be walking back down Priory Road post-match each week having seen perfection, then Football, and more specifically Everton is not for you. Jack it in and go and get involved in something more structured and sterile...take the dog for a walk or do a crossword where you are in control of the outcome. Football is random, complicated, unconventional, subjective, sometimes bordering on bent ( thinks of Andre Mariner and his scarily reminiscent eyes and facial expression of Collina.....did only I notice that?...). You cannot control the outcome and ultimately that's why it's so popular.
Everton is all that and more times'd by a billion. It sounds corny but it is in your DNA....it's a massive part of our existence, and as a result you have to endure the dross and heartache to really enjoy the few smattering a of elation that come along every now and then. Call me perverse but I even enjoyed the Gordon Lee and Walter Smith days.....purely because I love the Old Lady, the night games under the lights, the away-day banter, the European away trips, and generally being around people I don't know from Adam who have exactly the same passion.
Everyone's entitled to a view. I don't agree with or remotely understand some of the points in here or the booing off of a team in Blue after a poor performance, but if that's your poison then fair enough.
One last thing. Mr Martinez is an absolute breath of fresh air.....with the exception of a purple patch in the mid-80's I cannot recall a period in the last 40+ years when we went away and actually tried to win a game. Martinez wants to win every game, albeit sometimes too elaborately, but he does play to win, and that for me means he can stick around with my undivided support for as many seasons as he keeps the same philosophy.
The time I get to the point of scribing something like the original post is when we have a Sam Allardyce at the helm rejoicing the work-rate of the new Denis Straquilirsi.
Think about the turnaround....from Straquilirsi and Anichibie to Lukaku and Eto'o...........
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