Why do you support Everton?

everton_tony · February 4, 2011

With all the chat that has gone on, negative and positive, it got me thinking.

We all love Everton. That's why we are all on forums like this..... talking about the club that mean's such a lot.

But why?

It's not for the big transfer window spending...
It's not for the trophy cabinet....
It's not for the glamour....

For me it's down to the feeling you get at Goodison. Whatever the weather, whatever the result. Goodison is a special place.

Why do you all support the club? Would you ever stop? Evertonian till you die?

Deleted member 28206 · February 4, 2011

The underdog status, the anti establishment of it all, the stadium, Duncan ferguson, Andy Gray, smelly
Toilets, terrible marketing, romantic old chairmen.

For me, it's seeing the mass of blue shirts, something about that amazing colour, and being a blue

RFUS · February 4, 2011

Born into it.

And if you can change the team you support you're not a real football fan at all.

Ezekiel · February 4, 2011

i support everton 'cos my dad said so. in my childhood when i took notice of the world outside my star wars toys and, amazingly for a merseyside school, i think i was only in a minority of about three for my class as a blue. anyone in the right mind would have gone and supported the reds as this avoided abuse and embarrassment. the 0-5 rush4/glen keeley red game stands out as a humiliating childhood scar - i think it moulded me into the unpleasant person i became.

thats it dad said no i couldn't be a red i was a blue and that was that. now i need all my skills to do the same with my own, ones a season ticket holder, ones been blooded and one could be at the mercy of my disgusting wife and evertons inability to be attractive to..................anyone really.

Alio · February 4, 2011

I support them, because my elder cousins said it was "the right thing to do" in the back end of the 80's

They weren't wrong

I carry on supporting them because of what Bryan just wrote. Take out Andy Gray and insert Andrei Kanchelskis though for me.....

Felt kind of cool supporting a team that was miles away, and wasn't Man Utd at school. I was edgy....for supporting Everton! Yeah, that's how I roll..............

Welton Toffee · February 4, 2011

I honestly have no idea. It just sort of happened when I was about 5 or 6. So 1996 ish. What a young fool I was.

chicoazul · February 4, 2011

Who's this Everton you speak of?

everton_tony · February 4, 2011

chicoazul said:
Who's this Everton you speak of?

Everton = LCAB. We all knows this.

BlackToffee · February 4, 2011

I'm what some of you guys would call a wool. My only association with the City of Liverpool was my fav pop band the Beatles.

I started to support Everton because I believed in 1969 that they would win the league (which we did) I began to read about them our wonderful contribution to football. I chose Everton. Or did they choose me?

I could have supported Chelsea. They were in London, a glamour club. No, not for me.

I could have supported Manure with the stories of Munich and Georgie Best. No, not for me.

I could have supported Leeds Utd, but they were always a snide, dirty bunch.

When I read that we were the first team to have undersoil heating (OK, laugh), that was it for me. I realised that we were more than just a football team; our name weaves through the fabric of footballs existence and development.

Despite everything, I love Everton Football Club to the bone.

Waddy · February 4, 2011

I dont wana support anyone else, thats why!

tsubaki · February 4, 2011

I honestly cant remember, all I know is that it happened when I was very young.

The Esk · February 4, 2011

I never had a choice!

My great grandfather scored for us in the 1897 FA Cup Final. His son (my Grandfather) was the greatest blue I have ever known - he never missed a home game between 1927 and 1973. In attendance terms I'm a poor comparison but the passion is just as great!

FinchFarmBlue · February 4, 2011

Got taken along to my 1st game in '84 and even back then had butterflies in my stomach as I walked up the steps to my seat in block GS3- naturally we lost the game 4-1 to spurs but if thats Everton touching you it happened to me before kickoff- didn't get to go much again before '86, but again there weren't many blues at my school but none of that mattered- whether we were losing away at Oxford & QPR or battering Wimbledon, Sheff Wed etc during our purple scoring patch in Winter 86 to the boring 0-0 draw with Charlton when we were just 6 or so weeks away from clinching our 2nd title in 3 years- I do miss the old Gladwys Street terraces though where I spent most of my time post 86-87 season - getting rammed against the barriers during the 4-4 with the RS in '91 will live long in the memory as will Wimbledon 94 with the airwaves filled with news of the Wimbledon team coach getting burned out in Warrington in the morning to the nervous tension as we got up to the ground- never hugged so many blokes in my life when that ball bobbled under Segars.

Long & the short of it they are just my team and it will always feel right.