Aar_the_Toffees
Player Valuation: £10m
Fair enough. I'll admit I could've chosen the wording a bit better.
- Status
Fair enough. I'll admit I could've chosen the wording a bit better.
Aar_the_Toffees
Player Valuation: £10m
True mate. I regret to inform you however, we are not considered underdogs. The RS are.
sorry, long, and going to reveal a deep, dark secret.
i honestly dodged a bullet.
grew up in Massachusetts before moving to Arizona in the mid-80s. grew up a fan of all the local teams - Bruins, Pats, Celtics, and, of course, the Red Sox. liked football, but didn't really follow anything but the World Cup's from 1990 on. Played some Fifa (Celtic or Leeds back when they had Viduka) on whatever console was it at the time.
Red Sox owner John Henry bought the rs. I could very well have jumped on that (viking) ship... but still no real presence in the US so nothing. by the time matches were being aired in the US on "regular" channels, the Sox had sacked their manager Tito Francona after he erased an 86 year drought winning two World Series in four years. Not content to say "thanks for your service but it's time for a new direction" they dragged his name through the mud to the point he wasn't even going to show up a year latter at the 100th Anniversary of Fenway Park. He did, and drew the loudest cheers of all from the Fenway Faithful.
So when the Prem came to tv, i certainly could not support an organization run by such (premature bad word filter self-applied), so did some research. Couldn't jump on Sky Four or Citeh, so scratched them right away. Went through what was left and Everton were the most appealing by a longshot.
Great history, with fantastic players and titles. Historic ground (see Fenway Park above). Team that "punched above it's weight" or "brings a knife to a gun fight" had a lot of appeal to me... Factor in a direction connection with the US of A and the fact i like blue, i started following.
Lurked here for a while and that pretty much sealed it. Seemed a bunch of raving whums and misfits... but one that seemed where i belong. Caught a terminal case of the Blue Flu Roberto's first season.
Chelsea at Goodison, with Naisy, the object of much derision on the match thread, popped in the winner. Never forget the rush of that day when the final whistle blew. Banged/punched my desk so hard in celebration i bruised multiple knuckles.
side note, should @Yid4life visit this thread, Spurs were on my "let's do more research" short list and one of my friends shook out that way. if @Garrick ever sees anyone in a Spurs kit around the greater Milwaukee area, it's either my friend or his daughter.
i honestly dodged a bullet.
grew up in Massachusetts before moving to Arizona in the mid-80s. grew up a fan of all the local teams - Bruins, Pats, Celtics, and, of course, the Red Sox. liked football, but didn't really follow anything but the World Cup's from 1990 on. Played some Fifa (Celtic or Leeds back when they had Viduka) on whatever console was it at the time.
Red Sox owner John Henry bought the rs. I could very well have jumped on that (viking) ship... but still no real presence in the US so nothing. by the time matches were being aired in the US on "regular" channels, the Sox had sacked their manager Tito Francona after he erased an 86 year drought winning two World Series in four years. Not content to say "thanks for your service but it's time for a new direction" they dragged his name through the mud to the point he wasn't even going to show up a year latter at the 100th Anniversary of Fenway Park. He did, and drew the loudest cheers of all from the Fenway Faithful.
So when the Prem came to tv, i certainly could not support an organization run by such (premature bad word filter self-applied), so did some research. Couldn't jump on Sky Four or Citeh, so scratched them right away. Went through what was left and Everton were the most appealing by a longshot.
Great history, with fantastic players and titles. Historic ground (see Fenway Park above). Team that "punched above it's weight" or "brings a knife to a gun fight" had a lot of appeal to me... Factor in a direction connection with the US of A and the fact i like blue, i started following.
Lurked here for a while and that pretty much sealed it. Seemed a bunch of raving whums and misfits... but one that seemed where i belong. Caught a terminal case of the Blue Flu Roberto's first season.
Chelsea at Goodison, with Naisy, the object of much derision on the match thread, popped in the winner. Never forget the rush of that day when the final whistle blew. Banged/punched my desk so hard in celebration i bruised multiple knuckles.
side note, should @Yid4life visit this thread, Spurs were on my "let's do more research" short list and one of my friends shook out that way. if @Garrick ever sees anyone in a Spurs kit around the greater Milwaukee area, it's either my friend or his daughter.
Hahhahaha!
I used to play beer pong in college, as well as play FIFA (see post above). Used Scotland in international matches with my beer pong teammate.... so when we played Beer Pong they started calling us the Scots, I was McAlister, he was MacCoist. Someone even brought back one of those small desktop flags from a visit to Glasgow, so we'd that we put on the table during our matches. We were undefeatable. If I was a drunken mess, he pulled out victory and vice-versa.
SO what does that have to do with East Fife?
I went to a Champs Sports in Tucson, around 1997 and saw a kit, Le Coq, with a small Scottish Flag on the crest. Bought it and wore it proudly on Pong night.
The kit:
Well, just confirms things. I did the " Which Everton great are you" thingy on OS and it came up with :
"You are the Golden Vision!"
BainesonToast92
Player Valuation: £50k
Was born into a non football family, through school I was a glory supporter UTD fan. The day my mate took me to a everton game at the age of 15 my head was completely turned. 'Once everton has touched you'. Now a season ticket holder of 7 years
Born... wandered... found love
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
Born to it, support in the family goes way back to as far as I was told very early 1900s.
- Status
Welcome
Join Grand Old Team to get involved in the Everton discussion. Signing up is quick, easy, and completely free.
Shop
