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Born into it. 4th Generation, myself.
Robert Jarvis
Player Valuation: £35m
It is in my blood, born to it.
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surreytoffee
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It was my dad's fault and he wasn't even an Everton fan! It was around 1985 and I was only nine when I started getting pressure at school to say who I supported. Back then I didn't even really understand what supporting a club was all about. I remember some kid telling me I must be a West Ham fan because I had purple on my P.E. football socks! 
So I ended up asking my dad what team I should support. I basically said something like "I want to support a good team that isn't one of the ones that everyone else round here supports". I'm sure you can guess who the teams I didn't want to follow were. I'm not even sure why I wanted to be different either. Anyway he suggested I follow Everton and of course we were just hitting some great form back then. I've stuck by them ever since and don't regret it for a second.
There is something special about being an Everton fan. You can't really describe it you just feel it somehow. It doesn't matter how bad things are going you know that every match the same old blue optimism will coming flooding back (for 90 minutes at least) cos this week things are going to be different
I regularly take stick about supporting a team so far from where I live. "What's the connection with the city of Liverpool" is a favourite question. The way I see it supporting a team has nothing to do with where you live so long as you choose your colours and stick with your team until you die.
So I ended up asking my dad what team I should support. I basically said something like "I want to support a good team that isn't one of the ones that everyone else round here supports". I'm sure you can guess who the teams I didn't want to follow were. I'm not even sure why I wanted to be different either. Anyway he suggested I follow Everton and of course we were just hitting some great form back then. I've stuck by them ever since and don't regret it for a second.
There is something special about being an Everton fan. You can't really describe it you just feel it somehow. It doesn't matter how bad things are going you know that every match the same old blue optimism will coming flooding back (for 90 minutes at least) cos this week things are going to be different
I regularly take stick about supporting a team so far from where I live. "What's the connection with the city of Liverpool" is a favourite question. The way I see it supporting a team has nothing to do with where you live so long as you choose your colours and stick with your team until you die.
It runs in the family. Grandad, dad, me and my brothers ( sister is a red 
. There's always a runt in a litter) . My kids are all blues and so is my grandson...coz I SAY SO !!!!
. There's always a runt in a litter) . My kids are all blues and so is my grandson...coz I SAY SO !!!!
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian
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this fella will take some beating.
It is also in me, 4th generation and take along 5th generation.
When I pointed out to the kids that their Great Great Grandfather, Great Grandfather, Grandfather, Father and then them, had all watched Everton from Goodison Rd in the shadow of the church it really did blow them away, that's when they realised that they had been born into something special, a birth-rite that had been bestowed upon them.
It is also in me, 4th generation and take along 5th generation.
When I pointed out to the kids that their Great Great Grandfather, Great Grandfather, Grandfather, Father and then them, had all watched Everton from Goodison Rd in the shadow of the church it really did blow them away, that's when they realised that they had been born into something special, a birth-rite that had been bestowed upon them.
The Esk
Player Valuation: £70m
So true Reidy - wait until they take their kids!
Bedfordshiretoffee
Player Valuation: £1.5m
My blood is blue, I was chosen when I was born at Mill Hill maternity hospital in Everton.
Life without my blue boys is not possible...cannot imagine what it would be like
Life without my blue boys is not possible...cannot imagine what it would be like
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian
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I'm hoping that I will still be around for that honour. I'll have 'em tattooed at birth to stop anyone else getting in 1st.
Tommy Chong
Player Valuation: £70m
Been supporting the Toffees since I was born....
I remember when I was a lad, and I used to have these giant He-Man and Thundercat
posters on my bedroom wall... I used to go to be bed at night thinking how awesome He-Man was...
When I woke in the morning... Those posters were covered with posters of Neville Southall, Gary Linekar et al... And I couldn't understand were they came from...
My old man used to sneak in to my room at night and place them there!
So maybe I was brainwashed from an early age...
I remember when I was a lad, and I used to have these giant He-Man and Thundercat
posters on my bedroom wall... I used to go to be bed at night thinking how awesome He-Man was...
When I woke in the morning... Those posters were covered with posters of Neville Southall, Gary Linekar et al... And I couldn't understand were they came from...
My old man used to sneak in to my room at night and place them there!
So maybe I was brainwashed from an early age...
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surreytoffee
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Tommy that's genius! I've got a little one of my own on the way and I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how to make sure he becomes an Everton fan. I've got a fight on my hands as the Mrs and all her family are Spurs fans and she swears he's going to follow them. Now I've got a new weapon for my fight!
born2b blue
Player Valuation: £225k
Why do I support / love Everton.
My name on here says it all really lol I really was born to be blue.
My father was a blue as was his father and his father, do you spot the connection lol
My name on here says it all really lol I really was born to be blue.
My father was a blue as was his father and his father, do you spot the connection lol
why these days i sometimes wonder.but it brought me some good mates and good times.
trebilcock66
Player Valuation: £8m
My grandfather worshipped WR Dean. My father and his brothers all followed Lawton then Hickson and introduced me to a certain Alex Young. I can't match your heritage, Esk but we share being born into the blue tradition. My uncle - the bluest blue I ever met - held a season ticket in the Bullens Road for 50 years. I miss him.
I'm an Evertonian because that what I was born to be. No argument. No choice. I think of Everton every waking minute.
Hope the children are well Esk - and Mrs The Esk.
BiggyRat
Player Valuation: £35m
My first trip to the UK, where me Ma was born, was in 1973 and that's when my cousins took me to Goodison Park. I didn't know a great deal about Soccer, as we called it but on that trip, I met my Grandma & Grandad for the first time. He was a proud & loud Evertonian & he was a gentle giant to a little bloke like me...at the time.
I never saw him again as he died in 1975 but for that brief period of time when I was with him, he left a lasting memory with me. Following Everton was my nod of respect to the man, but it has become so much more to me than that.
We love underdogs in Oz & for so long in recent history, that's been Evertons lot. To be honest, I'd hate Everton to be as "popular" as Manure, Chelski, or the RS. I'd hate to walk past 100 Everton kits a day & none of them know any player outside of Timmy...no thanks. I prefer to be able to go up to someone (down here of course) who is wearing an Everton kit & start having a chat. Often its tourists, but sometimes, you get to meet a local that has also been touched by Everton!!!
I never saw him again as he died in 1975 but for that brief period of time when I was with him, he left a lasting memory with me. Following Everton was my nod of respect to the man, but it has become so much more to me than that.
We love underdogs in Oz & for so long in recent history, that's been Evertons lot. To be honest, I'd hate Everton to be as "popular" as Manure, Chelski, or the RS. I'd hate to walk past 100 Everton kits a day & none of them know any player outside of Timmy...no thanks. I prefer to be able to go up to someone (down here of course) who is wearing an Everton kit & start having a chat. Often its tourists, but sometimes, you get to meet a local that has also been touched by Everton!!!
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