What sums up your club?
Honour, History, Everpresence, Community (nowadays global and connected via sites like GOT, NSNO and others)
What’re your favourite Everton related quotes?
I love the famous quotes already posted in this thread...they deserve to be everyone's favourites. Here's a few more personal favourites of mine which neatly sum up my feelings for Everton:
"I've been a bluenose all my life and always will be. I'm a very proud and privileged man to be able to say that."
Derek Mountfield
"Football was never the same for me after I left Everton and although I always wanted to win, losing never really seemed to hurt anymore."
Kevin Ratcliffe
“We had Neville Southall, we knew we weren’t going to concede many goals”
Andy Gray
“Why anyone would want to leave Everton is beyond me anyway. Even for Manchester United, Chelsea or anyone. This is the place to be.”
Neville Southall
"Ladies and gentlemen today we are joined by a man who ranks amongst the greatest there is, Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Bach, this man is Dixie Dean"
Bill Shankly
I didn't initially want to post one relating to the red side, especially as now we've so many threads about them, but couldn't resist this one, which remains eternally apt:
“Everton have always been noted for going out on the pitch to play football. We got called the school of science quite rightly. The other lot, the Reds, well they were a gang of butchers. They should have been working in an abattoir. McNab, McKinlay and the Wadsworths, God bless my soul, they’d kick an old woman.”
Dixie Dean
What is your favourite Everton related symbol?
The Royal Blue shirt. Goosepimps.
What would you like to see on an Everton related Sculpture?
Our greatest figures: Dixie, Catterick, Kendall are the main three for me, neatly encompassing three key eras for us. We've dozens more, if we're to limit it to 5, then I'd add Labone and Southall to those three. Even then leaving out Ratcliffe just feels wrong. Then there's Joe Royle and Alan Ball...so many legends in our history.
But I'd still stick to the trio: the statue representing our greatest player and the two managers of the post-war era who've ensured we've remained true to our historical Everpresence. Not just merely surviving in the top league, but being the very best (Nil Satis...). And Kendall was a hell of player too, Catterick played for us in the 5 or 6 years directly after the War.
