Everton and sectarianism

Everton are

  • Celtic

    Votes: 13 26.5%

  • Rangers

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Neither

    Votes: 19 38.8%

  • Cheese on toast.

    Votes: 3 6.1%

  • Getting relegated

    Votes: 11 22.4%

  • Not for wools

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Or the Wirral mostly

    Votes: 1 2.0%
  • Total voters
    49
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Joey66 said:
Total myth our club originated from St Domingo's Methodist church changing its name to Everton - the area back then had all mixes of religion ......
Bootle was our Derby rivals - LFC never existed ......the rest is history -
I have read many books on our birth as a football club not one mentioned us ever as any religious team other than the church we started off as.......a cricket team that took up football......

John Holding the Brewery Magnet of the era then funded us to find a ground after twofailures we rented Anfield of him - he got greedy hiking the rent X 3
Hence we moved to a vacant piece of land by Goodison road it was a disused Market Garden Mere garden.....

The Directors who funded it built a top notch Stadium - Goodison park .....

John Holding tried to pinch our name - the FA fortunately forbid him ......

A brief outline of the birth of our club other than us being a Methodist Church team originally - Our club Everyone FC were invited to join the new football League without attending the formation of the football League.......
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We were called St Domingo’s, representative of the Methodist Church our ground was build around Joseph. We even played with an orangey sash on our kit. We still do, bet you never bought our await kit this season.

Your research is clearly bunkem and you detest Protestants by putting your head in the sand this much. So sad.
 
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chicoazul said:
We were called St Domingo’s, representative of the Methodist Church our ground was build around Joseph. We even played with an orangey sash on our kit. We still do, bet you never bought our await kit this season.

Your research is clearly bunkem and you detest Protestants by putting your head in the sand this much. So sad.
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Good morning ?
 

Groucho said:
Ok for the record.

Everton and Liverpool were formed from a Welsh Methodist church which is neither Protestant nor Catholic but perhaps errs on the side of Protestantism.

There is a CofE church in the corner of Goodison, and an influx of Irish players in the ‘50’s resulted in a large Irish following.

Neither reds nor blues are strictly Catholic or Protestant, and there is no allegiance between any of these four clubs aside from scousers and Glaswegians being the salt of the earth.

We don’t need religion in football and we on Merseyside realised this 70 years ago.
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Pretty much spot on, but just for the sake of pedantry, Methodists are, by definition of not being Catholic or Orthodox Christian, a protestant denomination. No "erring on the side of".
 
For the amount the club put their hand in your shirt and squeeze your nipple till it’s blue we should just accept they’re part of the Church of Scientology
 
I grew up in Liverpool in the 1940's. Started supporting Everton when the leagues started after the war. We had a lot of Irish players in the team and I remember being aware (as a good Catholic lad) that the club was also Catholic. I was never aware that Liverpool were supposed to be Protestant and there was never a religious element to the relationship.
There was a story did the rounds (I am sure apocryphal) regarding Everton's two goalkeepers. No.1 keeper was Sagar and no.2 was Burnett. The story was that Sagar was injured and Burnett took his place for a game on St Patrick's day. The story said that Burnett came out in an orange woollen sweater instead of green. Apparently, he was booed all the way through the game.
 

St. Luke’s church had nothing to do with Everton. We built the ground around it as it was a tight squeeze due to the available space. Obviously now we have close ties to it due it’s location but a lot of other supporters think it’s actually part of the stadium and club.
 
Methuselah said:
I grew up in Liverpool in the 1940's. Started supporting Everton when the leagues started after the war. We had a lot of Irish players in the team and I remember being aware (as a good Catholic lad) that the club was also Catholic. I was never aware that Liverpool were supposed to be Protestant and there was never a religious element to the relationship.
There was a story did the rounds (I am sure apocryphal) regarding Everton's two goalkeepers. No.1 keeper was Sagar and no.2 was Burnett. The story was that Sagar was injured and Burnett took his place for a game on St Patrick's day. The story said that Burnett came out in an orange woollen sweater instead of green. Apparently, he was booed all the way through the game.
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We have always had great support, particularly away from home - we have had some share of hooligans in our fanbase like any other club - in that time we were given incorrect titles religion wise - hence my first post it's all a myth - my father was a catholic a true Evertonian - never once did I hear as a kid we were a catholic team - it's a myth - if you read about the history of our club its roots etc -

There were even false rumours that were anti alcohol Methodist broke our club away from John Holding the {Brewery Magnet money man } just simply not true, it was over his greed - putting our rent up x 3..... at Anfield .....
 

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