Henry and Carragher...

[dandydan]

I suppose if your dream is to play football and your team doesn't want you then maybe the next best thing is to prove them wrong at your rivals.
Got to remember it would have been the parents making all the decisions at that age as well. ££ signs can make any parent turn a blind eye.

I'm sure the money and loose women would soften the blow.

 

[Azzurri]

Rooney's always going on about how much he loves his club.

Not surprising, given that he's been there for 13 years.

Absolutely no way is Rooney a United fan in my opinion, their fanbase hates him more than ours at the moment. He's a blue, no doubt about that.

 

[Khalekan]

That's very true. I don't think the RS have done any business with the Mancs (United) since I think Chisnall many, many decades ago. Silly really. Indeed there was a spell when I went to whichever Merseyside team was at home on a Saturday, and Tranmere Rovers on a Friday night( for a while Tranmere played all their home games on a Friday night) Its only when I started playing(in the Shipping League) that I missed games. I'll bet a lot of other Evertonians went to RS home games as well, but would never admit it. When I finished playing, I started going to lots of other grounds when Everton were away...even Barnsley and Huddersfield etc! Even went to Rochdale !! As you say, it was different then!(late 40s to the 60s)

I thought Tranmere only played their home games of a Friday in the 80s.

Were they doing it in the 50s, Steve?

 

[Rook]

I've heard Carragher speak about Everton without any malice at all. Not saying he isn't a red, but still.

McManaman has come back, though, I believe. Judging by things he's said in the paper with his own bye line.

McManaman was pretty PO'd when we started our B team in the derby a few years back. He also did a pre-match stadium tour of Goodison for ESPN in america and point to where he used to sit.

 

[Jeff Jones]

To be honest the game was different back then. Many fans would go Everton one week and Liverpool the next. They could afford to and there wasn't the intense rivalry that exists today. Liverpool are everton's arch rivals. I suppose Liverpool consider United their main rivals. I wonder if United had shown any interest in signing Steven Gerrard in his prime, would Gerrard have considered it? I doubt it.

I went to Anfield most Saturdays when Everton were away when I was a kid. I was either there or at the
pictures.

I remember being in the queue outside the Tunnel once and suddenly changed me mind and caught the bus to Anfield.

I've just discovered Google Earth and made that journey from Tunnel Rd to Walton Lane and the walk to Goodison.

Geez, it's changed a lot since those days.

 

[Steve Wigan]

I thought Tranmere only played their home games of a Friday in the 80s.

Were they doing it in the 50s, Steve?

Late 50sand part of the 60s, from memory....It would be around '63(?) when Dave Hickson bought us a pint at the Villiers in Douglas Isle Of Man, when he was on tour with Tranmere, so it was certainly around the time he was playing for them.(Historians can confirm or tell me exact dates, etc) I started work Liverpool in July 57 and it was not long after that I started going to Tranmere with some guys from work. Hickson, Eglington and the RS Alan ACourt played at Rivers...in fact I think Peter Fareell even went there when he finished at Everton(Prenton Park was like a retirement home for old Everton players. I certainly didn't go to Prenton Park in the 80s, I left Liverpool in 1972.

 

[Khalekan]

Late 50sand part of the 60s, from memory....It would be around '63(?) when Dave Hickson bought us a pint at the Villiers in Douglas Isle Of Man, when he was on tour with Tranmere, so it was certainly around the time he was playing for them.(Historians can confirm or tell me exact dates, etc) I started work Liverpool in July 57 and it was not long after that I started going to Tranmere with some guys from work. Hickson, Eglington and the RS Alan ACourt played at Rivers...in fact I think Peter Fareell even went there when he finished at Everton(Prenton Park was like a retirement home for old Everton players. I certainly didn't go to Prenton Park in the 80s, I left Liverpool in 1972.

I used to pal around with some chaps from over the water in the 80s and now and again time I would have went over there fir a Friday night game, then we all came back over for a night out in town

I quite enjoyed the Friday night football.

 

[Groucho]

To be honest the game was different back then. Many fans would go Everton one week and Liverpool the next. They could afford to and there wasn't the intense rivalry that exists today. Liverpool are everton's arch rivals. I suppose Liverpool consider United their main rivals. I wonder if United had shown any interest in signing Steven Gerrard in his prime, would Gerrard have considered it? I doubt it.

Loads used to do this

 

[LydiateLee]

Carragher tries to hide his bitterness but it's obvious to anyone that he hates us. Takes every opportunity to belittle us and hides it with insincerity but at the end of the day he is just a huge headed, over-rated, red divy.

Worried about Everton like the rest of them that's what is making them worse of late. They are terrified of whats happening at Everton.

 

[St James the Less]

Loads used to do this

I used to take me dad when I came home on leave, he would only stand on the K*P. Wasn't able to go by himself. Used to really enjoy being surrounded by redsh*te when they scored. Not!

 

[Groucho]

I used to take me dad when I came home on leave, he would only stand on the K*P. Wasn't able to go by himself. Used to really enjoy being surrounded by redsh*te when they scored. Not!

Mr The Less,

Please try not to swear.

Swearing while quoting staff is like, y'know, grassing yourself up.

Ta....

 

[St James the Less]

Mr The Less,

Please try not to swear.

Swearing while quoting staff is like, y'know, grassing yourself up.

Ta....

Nabbed by the asterisk police. They're everywhere!