Won't be popular on here, but I was so taken aback by the level of hatred I wanted to have a word...
Have we done something in a previous life? For the life of me I can't think of any serious bother between our clubs? As for the reasons some of you have given...
1) Big club...Who actually gives a ****? Genuinely? 90% of our fans don't! On the evidence of the past 2 seasons, we've been big enough to attract some great players, but too small to stop them leaving if one of the 'established 4/5' come in with a big offer (Andy Carroll)...We've got big attendances and we're proud of them, **** knows we've had very little else to celebrate over the past 40 years. Everyone wants their club to be the best, surely that's the point of being a fan? And if some smart-arsed per-pubescent scrote started running his mouth saying "you're ****, you're insignificant and you're small" are you not going to argue in favour of your club?
2) Expectations...Please, right now, find me evidence of the 'majority' of our fans expecting CL footy...I think you'll struggle 'cause its not the ****ing case. We've come off the back of 3 amazing years (promotion, a season where we beat our rivals 5:1 and the team who sent us down 6:0, and finishing 5th) so the good mood is high up North, but we're far from unrealistic. If you go and read the fanzines, or the main forums, you'll find that most of our fans will be happy with 8th-6th and a cup run - is that unrealistic considering we have the same first 11 as last season? Is it delusional in any way? Aye, we'd love European qualification, it'll keep our bigger names happy and help to increase our reputation on the continent - do you not want that for Everton? For **** sake, are we not supposed to dream big as football fans? If asked at the start of the season what you want from the year ahead, ****ing none of you will say "Well, I'm really hoping for a record number of nil nils, to finish in the lower half of the table and for the game of the season to be a snore draw at the Britania" - As football fans we all want goals, we all want attractive football, we want success and most of all we want that illusive silver thing so many other fans refer to as a trophy!
3) You talk about our idiotic fanbase, and refer to the mongs you see on SSN...Errrrm, its SSN for **** sake. They do anything to keep you watching, so showing a 5 second snippet of some dropped-on-his-head dole warrior, only keeping himself balanced by simultaneously drinking cider from a tin in each hand saying "aye, weh, I reckon Pardew will have us winning the league like coz we a massive club n that", its like Jeremy Kyle with shin pads and a magic sponge! Before you tar us with the same brush used to mispell the 'Boycoutt The Club' bedsheet SSN so famously filmed, how about you actually speak to a few genuine Newcastle fans...
Some of you won't bother reading this, others may read it and still tell me to **** off, and that's your prerogative, but then at least when you make all your claims about what arrogant, ignorant, deluded [Poor language removed] us Toon fans - feel free to quote any of what I've just said!