If your reaction to us winning the league is to assess the quality of the other fans out there enjoying it with you and moan if they don't meet your standards of authenticity then frankly you need to pull that stick out of your arse and beat yourself to death with it.
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If your reaction to us winning the league is to assess the quality of the other fans out there enjoying it with you and moan if they don't meet your standards of authenticity then frankly you need to pull that stick out of your arse and beat yourself to death with it.
Its actually true, I went my first game in 85 like, if only I knew then what I know now.
FFS
stick and move, stick and move...
"Football has now developed into a degrading commercial spectacle. Players requiring no birth or residential qualification are bought over the counter like sacks of beans. If the richest club fails to come out top of the league it must be that the directors are bad business men. There is nothing else to it.
It is a most astonishing mystery why 40,000 people should collect on a football ground in London and shout themselves hoarse with enthusiasm for a team which labels itself Chelsea, or Arsenal, or West Ham, or Fulham, when everyone knows that these teams are almost exclusively made up of Scotchmen or Lancastrians, who have never been to Fulham or West Ham, never heard of Woolwich, never eaten a Chelsea bun! They might just as well label themselves Hampstead, or Honolulu. Where is the esprit de corps, the tribal sense, the love of one's soil, which is the very essence of sport?
The whole game is riddled with corruption and the worst kind of shoddy commercialism, because it has ceased to be a sport, and remains only a spectacle."
Article written in 1925.
I'd rather look around and see lids that get what I'm feeling, not a group of twelve foreign lids in replica kits and scarves or a #BANT3r loving fan from the Home Counties with a tea towel on his head. That's just not Everton is it?
Me too lid.
So you'd rather all the current evertonians be miserable than for us 100,00 to be happy and some extra people to be happy too?
I was picturing Taiwanese in my head when I wrote that like. If it helps.
Read back what I wrote.
deipnosophist
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"Football has now developed into a degrading commercial spectacle. Players requiring no birth or residential qualification are bought over the counter like sacks of beans. If the richest club fails to come out top of the league it must be that the directors are bad business men. There is nothing else to it.
It is a most astonishing mystery why 40,000 people should collect on a football ground in London and shout themselves hoarse with enthusiasm for a team which labels itself Chelsea, or Arsenal, or West Ham, or Fulham, when everyone knows that these teams are almost exclusively made up of Scotchmen or Lancastrians, who have never been to Fulham or West Ham, never heard of Woolwich, never eaten a Chelsea bun! They might just as well label themselves Hampstead, or Honolulu. Where is the esprit de corps, the tribal sense, the love of one's soil, which is the very essence of sport?
The whole game is riddled with corruption and the worst kind of shoddy commercialism, because it has ceased to be a sport, and remains only a spectacle."
Article written in 1925
Couldn't agree more...and that's what I have bee n saying (substitute 'soul' for 'esprit de corps')
It is a most astonishing mystery why 40,000 people should collect on a football ground in London and shout themselves hoarse with enthusiasm for a team which labels itself Chelsea, or Arsenal, or West Ham, or Fulham, when everyone knows that these teams are almost exclusively made up of Scotchmen or Lancastrians, who have never been to Fulham or West Ham, never heard of Woolwich, never eaten a Chelsea bun! They might just as well label themselves Hampstead, or Honolulu. Where is the esprit de corps, the tribal sense, the love of one's soil, which is the very essence of sport?
The whole game is riddled with corruption and the worst kind of shoddy commercialism, because it has ceased to be a sport, and remains only a spectacle."
Article written in 1925
Couldn't agree more...and that's what I have bee n saying (substitute 'soul' for 'esprit de corps')
Yeah the mere presence of twelve asians or one ijjy is enough to put you off from enjoying something that would make half of liverpool happy.
There are 100,000 modern day evertonians who will be made up if we win something. As long as we're all happy who cares if some extra lads join in too?
But, my point was that was written in 1925.
We've had nearly a 100 years of this status quo.
Each to their own but I like my Everton snarling, not a brand, not the darlings of Sky, not the preferred choice for any gloryhunter wanting some reflected glory in our name.
Not like we don't already have gloryhunters though.
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