The Blue and Red thread

[mythbuster]

Arl feller's a blue. First Everton memory is '84 cup final(aged 6) First game was 84/85 season. The atmosphere, and particularly the singing, blew me away. My heart has belonged to the toffees ever since...

 

[Toffeelover]

So we've done this periodically...I think one of my first threads was asking this question actually, but since it's Xmas time and a period of reflection and giving thanks thought I'd do it again, with a twist.

I think Liverpool and the football culture in Merseyside is the most unique in the world. I just don't think you see the randomness and mixture of who supports whom anywhere else in the world.

So two part question: 1) Why and how did you become a blue and not a red? 2) This one is for the local Blues...Neither side likes to admit the other one has more supporters locally. So instead of limiting this to just the city of Liverpool, I want to include Merseyside as a whole (it's not like everyone on here is from the city...plenty of Blues from Kirkby, Huyton, the Wirral etc. So question #2 is, do you think the split is 50/50 or favoring one side or the other? Has that ratio changed in your lifetime?

I know this is the opening thread, but there are other clubs on Mersyeside who have their own supporters, Tranmere Rovers, Marine Fc and South Liverpool. As to your question I am a blue due to family roots. It is not half and half as I just explained about other clubs that have their own supporters but based on match attendances then it would seem our red neighbours have more support.

 

[AdamEFC]

My dads side of the family is Blue and my mums is Red. My granddad (mums side) tried to get me support Liverpool but my dad wouldn't have any of it and started taking me to matches (first one I can remember was a Derby and we had Mark Hughes) and from then on I have just supported Everton.

From my experience I think the City has more Liverpool supporters, majority of my school year supported Liverpool I would say about 80% Liverpool and 20% Everton but obviously that is massively different around the city.

 

[Toffeelover]

Johhnydawg68, I think you need to realise that on here as well as on RAWK there are twerps and and I am being kind who call/attack each other which is really quite un-neccesary, there really is no need for that kind of extremism. Ask yourself why on RAWK do they have a thread devoted entirely to Everton wherein they for the most part enjoy ****ging off or ridiculing Everton, note there is no Liverpool thread on here.

I truth the vast majority of fans who live and work in the City and nearby get on okay, many in fact work together.

 

[Stoic Ape]

No back story, just born blue! All these percentages that are being thrown around are kind of misleading. 1 Evertonian is worth 20 Liverpudlians. IS RIGHT!

 

[Jimmy Flangemoth]

Around 1986 a school chum of mine asked me what football team I supported. Being very young I didn't even know what to reply as I knew absolutely nowt about football. He then went on to say he supported Everton. I've been a Blue ever since. I resided in the town, and birth place, of Alan Ball, so there has always been an Everton FC connection within the area.

 

[peteblue]

Father, grandfather, great-grandfather, back to the beginning were blues. All direct family members were blues, every now and again one of the girls might marry a red. I had 2 blue brothers and 1 red (he was the only one in the family that couldn't play football). During the 60's there were far more blues than reds, then TV arrived and the RS were all over it like a tramp on chips. No idea what the split would be today, but I'd put money on the fact that the better footballers all grew up as blues........

 

[roydo]

Johhnydawg68, I think you need to realise that on here as well as on RAWK there are twerps and and I am being kind who call/attack each other which is really quite un-neccesary, there really is no need for that kind of extremism. Ask yourself why on RAWK do they have a thread devoted entirely to Everton wherein they for the most part enjoy ****ging off or ridiculing Everton, note there is no Liverpool thread on here.

I truth the vast majority of fans who live and work in the City and nearby get on okay, many in fact work together.

Yes there is. And they get dogs abuse most of the time. Its footie.

 

[Toffeelover]

Interesting Roy, I cannot recall seeing a LIverpool thread, is it in World Football, Alehouse or Toilet?

 

[johnnydawg68]

Interesting Roy, I cannot recall seeing a LIverpool thread, is it in World Football, Alehouse or Toilet?

http://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/40028-ECHO-Comment-quot-Fears-of-Witch-hunt-Against-Liverpool-FC-quot

Started off just being about an article in the Echo and just morphed into a Liverpool thread.

 

[johnnydawg68]

Father, grandfather, great-grandfather, back to the beginning were blues. All direct family members were blues, every now and again one of the girls might marry a red. I had 2 blue brothers and 1 red (he was the only one in the family that couldn't play football). During the 60's there were far more blues than reds, then TV arrived and the RS were all over it like a tramp on chips. No idea what the split would be today, but I'd put money on the fact that the better footballers all grew up as blues........

Considering almost all of their great players except for Gerrard, grew up as Blues, I don't think you're far off there mate.

 

[Toffeelover]

I did not realise it was that one, never posted on it and never will.

IMO, must state not shared by anyone probably but we should rise above it and close the thread.

 

[peteblue]

Considering almost all of their great players except for Gerrard, grew up as Blues, I don't think you're far off there mate.

Stevie G as a kid.....

 

[canuckblue]

If Kirkby is pretty wool - what the hell is North Wales?

The Lost World?

 

[Matthew Martinez]

Me grandad named me (middle name) after Dixie dean so I pretty much had to support us. I would've anyway cos blue is for men an red is for girls lol.

Part two of the question well......I'm from wool (lol) territory. Runcorn and I can tell ya this as a kid growing up we seemed to be about 50/50 with the RS with a few mancs but nowadays it's more like 50% mancs an 75/25 in their favour everyone else. Ffs you can't even buy an everton shirt in this pos town but you can buy utd, chelski, real etc fkin joke.