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The one absolute certainty about a foreign man, woman or child supporting Everton, is that they ar not glory hunters! So as far as I am concerned they are sound and as much part of our often wonderful, mostly infuriating club as me, my dad or my brothers and sisters who are all mental blues! My only reservation about a foreigner supporting us is that they must be severely masochistic!

I got wellied all around Wolverhapton years ago, because a load of the local grocks were facing up an obviously German or Austrian bloke wearing an Everton scarf! When i went over to stand by him, they asked me why i was standing up for a Kraut, i said he wasnt a kraut, he was a blue-boy, one of ours!

Sadly that act of selfless comraderie didn't stop them webbing the pair of us all over the street, but my god me and him got bevvied later! It was his first game too, he just happened to be in the UK on business! Chose us entirely at random for some strange germanic reason, but i lost his contact details and so have never been in touch since!
 

Nothing wrong with what you're doing @Zaschrona. Everton haven't been very good for a very long time so there's no glory hunting plastic about you. Plus it's different for Everton anyway, it just is.

I on the other hand started supporting Everton when I was a little lad running round St.Helens during the early 80's. As such I am a thoroughly contemptible plastic, glory hunting wool with a ridiculous accent but I've made my peace with that.
 
Generally speaking, I do think that people should support their local/family club, but then that's easy to say when it happens to be a Premier League team.
 
If you're pissed off something chronic when we get beat, youre a fan. If you switch off your stream and just go back to normality, you're a follower.
 
It's weird when fans are fans just because they are
I understand certain nationalities were footy isn't or was as popular even before the pl footy saturation
I get fans who were taken in by our success in the 80s even the fa cup in the 90s
Or a player from their country playing for us
But without doubt once everton touches you ........
As mentioned by others it's embarrassing for me living 6 hours drive away and hardly going and these non locals spending thousands each season for a handful of games
 

Whenever I'm abroad and I see someone in an Everton shirt I will always go and talk to them. It really is a brotherhood and I love the idea of foreign fans falling in love with the club.

As people have said, it's a bit different when you have glory-hunting day trippers who arrive at Anfield with their selfie sticks watching the entire game from behind their Ipad- luckily that doesn't exist at Goodison (and hopefully never will!).
 
Zaschrona said:
Apologies in advance for bringing this topic here today, but I've been wanting to talk about this for while with my fellows on this forum.

Everton FC are like my family. I was born in the Czech Republic and I still live here. Still I grew up watching our games, playing computer football games as only EFC, always went training with my Everton kit in my local football club here. I love hearing, reading and talking about long stories about the history of the club, the battles, the social issues, the culture of Merseyside and Everton position in it, the greats. I try to meet with other our fans here in my country, to watch games together, to take a trip to watch us in England once in a while.

And now I have a felling, that if you love watching the game and love watching Everton, great, but it becomes a problem when you go against that history and think you as an overseas adopted fan have equal entitlement as the families who have been going to the match for the last fifty, even hundred years, equal weight and importance as the kids growing up around Goodison. I always feel bad when I see our fans laughing at LFC fans that they are plastic, Norwegians, etc.

So I wonder, what is your real view on foreign Everton fans? Do you see foreign Evertonians as one of us or do you see them as an other type of Everton fans? Do you see them as a positive or negative for the whole club? Thanks for your opinions.
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Apart from the Irish especially Dublin folk..all sound mate
 

Bluebonic said:
The one absolute certainty about a foreign man, woman or child supporting Everton, is that they ar not glory hunters! So as far as I am concerned they are sound and as much part of our often wonderful, mostly infuriating club as me, my dad or my brothers and sisters who are all mental blues! My only reservation about a foreigner supporting us is that they must be severely masochistic!

I got wellied all around Wolverhapton years ago, because a load of the local grocks were facing up an obviously German or Austrian bloke wearing an Everton scarf! When i went over to stand by him, they asked me why i was standing up for a Kraut, i said he wasnt a kraut, he was a blue-boy, one of ours!

Sadly that act of selfless comraderie didn't stop them webbing the pair of us all over the street, but my god me and him got bevvied later! It was his first game too, he just happened to be in the UK on business! Chose us entirely at random for some strange germanic reason, but i lost his contact details and so have never been in touch since!
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Great story, mate!
 
Got no problem with foreign fans, more power to them. They help get our name about and they clearly don't support our gang of bottlers for the glory do they?! The whole thing against 'Norwegian Kopites' or foreign Kopites is more about their behaviour then them being foreign. As far as I'm concerned you can be from Toxteth or Timbuktu and its sound providing you act like an actual human being rather then the embarrassing trashy lot that follow the dark side.
 
Any foreigner coming to watch the beloved blues is fine by me .Just don't get one of those dreaded half and half scarfs like you get at old Trafford or the pit. I'm from Walsall obviously not a scouser but since I've been going to watch the blues for 30yrs all I can say is always been welcomed and feel at home when I'm at goodison. I go to a lot of away games and you see faces regularly who just give you a nod of the head in approval I just love all you blues
 

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