Everton around the world ??

[Robert Jarvis]

This is precisely why we need to stop the United bandwagon in the semi, to deny them the quintuple. This would raise our profile. This what world support and money is all about, to be known.

 

[BlueSquid]

When I was in Borneo I came across a couple of local guys who were wearing Everton shirts. On asking them whether they supported Everton and knew anything about it, they were actually quite knowledgeable.

But they also followed Liverpool closely and said they were their joint favourite team. I'm not sure they quite get it.

hehe, in Singapore i still bump into a few RS supporters who seem to be living in the early 80s. when they find out i support Everton they're all like "yeah!! alright Merseyside!!! we hate Man Yoo!!!" and i'm sort of like, "yeah, but i hate you too, what you on about?" lol

but since they don't give me grief or try and take the piss, i'm semi-amiable towards them. it's the recent fans who jumped on the RS bandwagon in the 90s and later that get up my nose. don't know their history, any of them.

personally, i think in se asia, the large support for the big 4 isn't solely down to the media. it's always been there from before. lots of fans started supporting Man U, Arse and Loserpool from the 70s. it then got passed down to their children of the 80s, where Liverpool gained another substantial support base because of their dominance. but here so did Everton, and this is the era when most of the local fans i know started supporting Everton. myself included, in 1988. in those days, we only got to watch English football once a week for 2 hours on Sunday afternoon, when everyone would rush home from church to catch the game of the week on telly and the highlights from the other games that followed. cue the 90s and the start of the PL, henceforth known as the Dark Ages. now we got to watch up to 4 or 5 games live every week, so whilst Everton was staving off relegation or wallowng in mid-table mediocrity in those days, fans here witnessed the likes of Man U, ****e, Arse, Blackburn, Spurs and Newcastle on prime time telly every weekend. and when that's all the kids of those fans from the 70s see on telly week in week out, they're gonna keep supporting the team their dads did and pass it on to their children.

the odd ones out, i find, are the Chelsea 'supporters'. before they bought their first premiership, the only Chelsea fans you'd find around here are blokes who preferred Serie A to EPL and Chelsea was their 'second' club because of the number of Italians they had in those days. for the same reason Chelsea also gained a fair number of fans from the fairer sex. but that's another story...

 

[eponymous]

Here in the States if anyone has been exposed to Everton its likely due to Fox Soccer Channel (that's how I largely became aware of Everton). FSC has weekly EPL matches (along with Serie A), so it's not as if anyone who watches FSC doesn't know who Everton is.

However, that being said, FSC does have other shows dedicated to football - Fox Football Fone-In comes to mind - and the emphasis tends to be on the Big 4. So while people who watch FSC know about Everton, they're probably one of the followers of the big 4 (or some other club like Tottenham or West Ham). Show is hosted by a Cheslea supporter - Steven Cohen (who is quite good, actually) and Nick Webster, who I believe is an Arsenal supporter (used to have a ******** support called Nick who was OK but not as objective as Steven).

Another show called the Fox Soccer Report comes on every evening in the states and they have an analyst, Bobby McMahon (a Scot), that shows up on Fridays and Mondays. I tend to watch it when he's on as he is quite good and generally always has good things to say about Everton whenever they get mentioned or talked about (he's a big fan of Cahill, aparently). Downside is that whenever the EPL is discussed it's usually the big 4 that garner the most attention (although to be fair, all of the EPL gets most of the attention on Fox as that is likely why most people watch the matches and other shows on the channel).

As to Everton supporters in the States, there seems to be a fair number. However, we are likely spread out over the entire country. I'm located in Central Ohio so there has to be a few other than myself (I was actually surprised how many US Everton supporters showed up when Everton played the Colubmus Crew a few years ago).

I suspect that at least in Ohio, Aston Villa has a bit more name recognition than Everton as Randy Lerner is from Cleveland and is also owner of the Cleveland Browns (I quite sure that because of Lerner's relationship with Villa that people in Northeast Ohio know about the team, at least in passing)...