*Shakes head* Everton again.

[Harry Squatter]

Can remember my Dad telling me one of his old Evertonian stories. They were bragging for weeks that they were going to win the European Cup and the day of the game my Dad asked some bitter blue he worked with whether they would win. He replied "we'll steamroller this chippy owning cunts". Stayed off work for ten days after they went out. My Dad bought him a doner kebab and put it on his desk when he finally came in. It got flung across the office hitting about 3 people.

[Harry Squatter]

Can remember my Dad telling me one of his old Evertonian stories regarding Panathinakos.. They were bragging for weeks that they were going to win the European Cup and the day of the game my Dad asked some bitter blue he worked with whether they would win. He replied "we'll steamroller this chippy owning cunts". Stayed off work for ten days after they went out. My Dad bought him a doner kebab and put it on his desk when he finally came in. It got flung across the office hitting about 3 people.

Should have quoted the Panathinakos game. Was there any reason why the bitter in the Echo thought they should have won it that year?. We're they better than the Ajax team who eased to victory in the Final?

[torahboy]

Should have quoted the Panathinakos game. Was there any reason why the bitter in the Echo thought they should have won it that year?. We're they better than the Ajax team who eased to victory in the Final?

 

 

I doubt that they would have beaten the Ajax team but Everton were favourites to beat both us and Panathanaikos, so it was a jolly good larrf when they missed out on two finals.

 

To be fair Everton had a pretty good team back then; they were reigning champions and the much adored (by bitters) holy trinity of Ball, Kendall and Harvey were a great midfield combination. Bison head Royle and the schoolgirl loving Alan Whittle could score goals while they had Tommy Wright and Brian Labone in defence, so they had a good local presence in the team. They actually were a good team. Their fans were cunts. Though not as cuntish as they are today, but still cunts.

 

Ajax went on to rule Europe for a few years. Everton went on to rule County Road.

[PestiRed]

I doubt that they would have beaten the Ajax team but Everton were favourites to beat both us and Panathanaikos, so it was a jolly good larrf when they missed out on two finals.

 

To be fair Everton had a pretty good team back then; they were reigning champions and the much adored (by bitters) holy trinity of Ball, Kendall and Harvey were a great midfield combination. Bison head Royle and the schoolgirl loving Alan Whittle could score goals while they had Tommy Wright and Brian Labone in defence, so they had a good local presence in the team. They actually were a good team. Their fans were cunts. Though not as cuntish as they are today, but still cunts.

 

Ajax went on to rule Europe for a few years. Everton went on to rule County Road.

Yeah but only because they robbed the idea of total football from Joe Royle

[Creator Supreme]

Latest chuckles on faceache, apparently the clocks were only going back an hour last night, not 30 years for us Liverpool fans!!

 

Pots Kettles dark colour etc!!

[Trumo]

Nil Tzatziki Nisi Optimum.

[Harry Squatter]

Latest chuckles on faceache, apparently the clocks were only going back an hour last night, not 30 years for us Liverpool fans!!

 

Pots Kettles dark colour etc!!

Yer haven't won the league for 24 years. Yeah but you haven't for 27 and haven't win anything for 20 years. Sounds like a perfectly well thought out insult.

[Faustus]

But dey went ter Beeernley!

[Dr Nowt]

Osman's vital book, per The Echo:

 

In early February we drew 0-0 with Liverpool at Anfield. We were set up not to lose that day and hope we could find a way to win.

 

In a derby, that can sometimes work. Liverpool were a good side and Davie Moyes liked to be difficult to beat. As we had beaten them 3-0 at Goodison, we got four points out of six against Liverpool that season.

 

Rafael Benitez didn’t like playing us and he resorted to shouting his mouth off a few times, calling us a “small club”.

 

I always remember the press conference where he kept saying “fact” when he was talking about Sir Alex Ferguson. He used to get really sucked in to mind games. He couldn’t have been that good at it because he constantly lost his head.

 

“You’re only good at mind games if you can take the emotion out of it and Benitez was far too emotional.

 

“I think he wanted to beat us 3-0 that day to even the score and he was really frustrated that they couldn’t break us down. AJ had a great chance in the second half, so we could have nicked it ourselves.

 

“Personally, I find that Benitez type of stuff really funny. It shows you’ve got to them. It shows that they’re frustrated and wobbly.

 

“Benitez didn’t win the league over here because he was competing against Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho, who are brilliant at the mind games. Benitez wasn’t.

 

“He had an excellent record in Europe because there is less emphasis on the mind games. I felt he really struggled with that side of things and it showed when he was coming out making foolish, ill-thought comments like ‘small club’.”

 

Such a brilliant mind as to the nuances of English versus continental competition.  It woz mind games all along.

[Russ Atmosphere]

In ‘Ossie: My Autobiography’ the midfielder offers his fascinating insight on everything from his ups and downs with Moyes, finishing fourth in 2005 and losing the 2009 FA Cup final.

[JohnnyH]

Mind games got a reaction once in the history of this league. And that was Keegans explosion in 1996. And even then you couldn't really call it mind games as Ferguson had made some properly disgraceful comments and Keegan just reacted to them and rightly called Ferguson out on them.

 

That's actually amazing that a footballer would allow that to be written down. It's such moronic nonsense that it's embarassing. As if prattling on in a press conference makes any difference as to who wins the league. Properly daft.

[Dr Nowt]

Gollum will feel especially let down, having spent 10 years telling everyone it was only due to money that he performed such average feats.

[ratcatcher]

Osman's vital book, per The Echo:

 

In early February we drew 0-0 with Liverpool at Anfield. We were set up not to lose that day and hope we could find a way to win.

 

In a derby, that can sometimes work. Liverpool were a good side and Davie Moyes liked to be difficult to beat. As we had beaten them 3-0 at Goodison, we got four points out of six against Liverpool that season.

 

Rafael Benitez didn’t like playing us and he resorted to shouting his mouth off a few times, calling us a “small club”.

 

I always remember the press conference where he kept saying “fact” when he was talking about Sir Alex Ferguson. He used to get really sucked in to mind games. He couldn’t have been that good at it because he constantly lost his head.

 

“You’re only good at mind games if you can take the emotion out of it and Benitez was far too emotional.

 

“I think he wanted to beat us 3-0 that day to even the score and he was really frustrated that they couldn’t break us down. AJ had a great chance in the second half, so we could have nicked it ourselves.

 

“Personally, I find that Benitez type of stuff really funny. It shows you’ve got to them. It shows that they’re frustrated and wobbly.

 

“Benitez didn’t win the league over here because he was competing against Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho, who are brilliant at the mind games. Benitez wasn’t.

 

“He had an excellent record in Europe because there is less emphasis on the mind games. I felt he really struggled with that side of things and it showed when he was coming out making foolish, ill-thought comments like ‘small club’.”

 

Such a brilliant mind as to the nuances of English versus continental competition.  It woz mind games all along.

 

Benitez was spot on about the shite being a 'small club.' They still are. I was actually massively disappointed when he apologised for the comment. he should have told them to fuck off while you're at it.

[Russ Atmosphere]

Seems like the book was launched at his testimonial.

 

[SlugTrail]

Seems like the book was launched at his testimonial.

cant of been, there are more people in that still than were at his testimonial

[PestiRed]

Good news, the broadcasting money appears to be bailing them out of the debt situation. Of course they still have zero assets, a screwed up, money-draining ground, no ability to finance a new stadium, no real commercial income and little hope of ever becoming a Top 4 team. However it does mean that Bill can stop pretending that they are for sale and their fans will never be able to get rid of him.

 

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/29843746

[Paulie Dangerously]

Haha nice one Mr Ghost writer. Stick something in about the RS and guarantee book sales

[Harry Squatter]

If anyone fell for mind games it was Everton. He didn't actually say "Everton are a small club" he criticised the way they played and the fact that they had absolutely no ambition to attack or win the game, just hold on for a draw. He then says "this is what happens when you play the small clubs". Referring to most teams who are battling relegation and come to the big clubs just to get away with a 0-0.

 

Cue Evertonians and the club acting like hysterical bitches trying to tell everyone that they were massive and moaning to the press about them to be the first team in Liverpool to play in blue and have a church in the corner of their ground. I'd say he was a master of mind games.

 

They even admitted they were small themselves anyway when they had their radio adverts for season tickets. They were due to play us, Arsenal, The Mancs and Chelsea after Christmas and the advert said "Get your half season ticket, the perfect Christmas present and watch Everton tal on the big 4 at Goodison". That got a few of them riled to say the least.

[Russ Atmosphere]

I think the actual phrase used was 'smaller teams' which naughty British managers and press paraphrased as 'small clubs' to suit their non too subtle agendas. I've yet to hear a cogent argument that they weren't a smaller team than us in 2007, or most of the rest of the time.

[aws]

They're still pissed off about it so Rafa's mind-games clearly worked on them. Nice one Rafa.

[Dr Nowt]

The Lilliputian People's Club.

[Paulie Dangerously]

The Lilliputian People's Club.

They took 20,000 to Lilliputian the other week

[stringvest]

It's funny how impotent and angry their fans are.  They're like internet angries, except they go the game.  

[VladimirIlyich]

Osman's vital book, per The Echo:

 

In early February we drew 0-0 with Liverpool at Anfield. We were set up not to lose that day and hope we could find a way to win.

 

In a derby, that can sometimes work. Liverpool were a good side and Davie Moyes liked to be difficult to beat. As we had beaten them 3-0 at Goodison, we got four points out of six against Liverpool that season.

 

Rafael Benitez didn’t like playing us and he resorted to shouting his mouth off a few times, calling us a “small club”.

 

I always remember the press conference where he kept saying “fact” when he was talking about Sir Alex Ferguson. He used to get really sucked in to mind games. He couldn’t have been that good at it because he constantly lost his head.

 

“You’re only good at mind games if you can take the emotion out of it and Benitez was far too emotional.

 

“I think he wanted to beat us 3-0 that day to even the score and he was really frustrated that they couldn’t break us down. AJ had a great chance in the second half, so we could have nicked it ourselves.

 

“Personally, I find that Benitez type of stuff really funny. It shows you’ve got to them. It shows that they’re frustrated and wobbly.

 

“Benitez didn’t win the league over here because he was competing against Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho, who are brilliant at the mind games. Benitez wasn’t.

 

“He had an excellent record in Europe because there is less emphasis on the mind games. I felt he really struggled with that side of things and it showed when he was coming out making foolish, ill-thought comments like ‘small club’.”

 

Such a brilliant mind as to the nuances of English versus continental competition. It woz mind games all along.

I actually think there is some truth in those comments.

It is of course mostly about players and tactics but in one off games between evenly matched sides anything you can do helps to maybe influence somebody else's behaviour.

 

He was spot on about them being small time most of all.

Never a truer word spoken in jest.

[Trumo]

A more than healthy profit for them last season but it still doesn't hide the fact that 75% of their income is from TV broadcasting. They've made no headway on matchday revenue and their commercial revenue is a pittance for a club that claims to be one of the biggest in the land.

 

Liverpool's figures for 2013/14 will be published early in 2015 and I'd expect that our commercial revenue is a similar amount to Everton's total revenue.

 

Yet they'll keep telling everyone that they go the game despite it plainly not being true, and the ones that do go spend fuck all at the ground anyway.