Fans who don't "get" our club

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bluestevon said:
Interesting but revisionist in the extreme, basically ,mate, it is you saying that once upon a time we had a complete set of fans that happened to be immaculate and recently that has changed, utter nonsense really, we have and always will have a mixed set of fans like every club does, just that our 'cross the road to avoid them' element is a lot smaller than other teams - and still is really

Easy to look back at the days before social media became what it is nowadays and see it through rose tinted glasses.

Basically the post should read - why is football different to how it was in the 1980's-90's?
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Just add 'and the whole world' after the word football

and the short answer is; because it is and mostly not for the better

but then again some famous guy in ancient Greece was going on about much the same general thing nearly 3000yrs ago...country's going to the dogs, kids have no respect for their elders, etc etc...he was right then and it's true now.
 


BlueLlama said:
Not sure if this is a recent thing or just social media etc makes it more noticable but it seems to me a good chunk of our fanbase has no concept of what it means, or traditionally meant, to be an Evertonian. The old "School of Science" worked two ways. Not only were our team techinically gifted but the fans were knowledgable and sensible. We left the stupid banners and cringy songs to the mutants across the park and actually went for a football match not a circus.

Everton fans are supposed to be grounded, smart, with a strong sense of tradition of all things Blue. That includes being winners by the way. We used to win stuff you know.

So when I see people advocating Rafael (RS darling who called us "a small club"), Moyes (did a wonderful job initially then back stabbed us after he left - remember how we should have let Baines leave for his own good?) I wonder do they actually "get" Everton at all?

Like wise on the last poll there were a huge number of peopel wanting Bilic in - the man who screwed our club over by feigning injury and costing us a fortune only to be magically cured when his contract was torn up.

Surely no real Evertonian wants any of those people given the honour of running our club?

There is more to it than just wanting anyone in charge.

Look at how Bobby, an awful manager but by all accounts a lovely man, is being treated. We have had people abusing the manager while he was out with his wife, referring to him as "scum" amongst other insults on this very website that used to be better than that.

Not to mention those who wanted us to lose games just so he would get sacked quicker.....

A while ago some people here were patting the kopite "heroes" on the back after they snuck into the away end. Ridiculous. When did being a lad and a trying to appear to be hard case be more important than being a true blue who detests everything about their club?

I could go on but I think you get the idea. Maybe I'm out of touch (Im in my 40s, old enough to have seen us win stuff in the 80s and the witnessed the full horror of most of what happened after) but it really does seem like many fans just dont get what this noble club is (or should be) about.
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Stands and applauds, brilliant post mate and i couldnt agree more with you.

Post of the season.
 

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