Recent content by icburns

Classic Everton twist of the knife there to get through the queue and find no tickets remaining. Well, I'm here (4500 miles away) hat in hand if anyone is willing to part with a West Ham ticket.

Message was just updated ^ Feels like another stoppage time equalizer to see that come in. EDIT: and to follow the analogy, now there's an hour of VAR review before I can get through the queue and actually wind up with a ticket.

Getting that message in the West Ham queue as well. Not what I was hoping to see at 1am on the other side of the world with all of my travel booked to finally see Goodison, but, well, Everton that.

We have all witnessed the grim trudge toward relegation and insolvency under Moshiri/Kenwright. There is a wealth of documented reasons not to be excited about 777, but I don't see how possible doom is worse than inevitable doom. As far as the poll is concerned, I can be in favor without being...

I'm fine with Dunc at the helm for an extended period of time so we have time to make a solid, long-term appointment instead of rushing into the next doomed era. The challenge is actually finding someone with a solid, long-term vision for us and the ability to carry it out. Maybe big Dunc has...

ok mate

You can't please all supporters all the time, but you should be able to please some of them some of the time.

Carlo ushering in two new eras of Everton football in as many seasons.

10-80% of battery charge, accounting for around 200 miles of driving range based on early estimates.

Just rolling back the years and reminiscing on the abundance of hours I whiled away wandering these virtual halls. The insurmountable debt of lost sleep, the thoughtless waste of fleeting youth, and the prevailing, unfailing joy that this community brought. I don't know how long I've been gone...

I appreciate the leniency here, what is the preferred euphemism for fly m*****f***** these days?

As it happens, yes, so that might be worth exploring. It's spooky reading about him from Chinese sources since the establishment began to accept him the 1980s. The revisionism in his obituaries and biographies is striking. That said, he wasn't a politician, he just wasn't liked by the government...

I definitely will, thanks for the leads. Is that library public? Would any prior arrangements need to be made to access records? Sounds like these cats down at LJMU may be keen on this type of connection. If they don't know already, they may be pleased to hear that one of China's premier...

That would be boss, do you remember if you needed to fill out anything beforehand, or could you just request one on the spot?

From what I understand, he finished his studies in Liverpool before returning to be a professor in China. It's possible something is lost in translation here, but it's also possible that there is some tomfoolery going on with the claim: He technically would have graduated a few months before...