*Shakes head* Everton again.

[satansmutt]

Looks like the staff in that Everton tent are all wearing red t-shirts

 

I wonder if they are selling half season tickets in there, or free with a burger and fries

[Guest davelfc]

(The Arsenal one is the one with some customers.)

 

"Everton aren't we!"

 

I liked

 

"it doesn't even sell any merchandise. Its just a ring toss game"

[Dr Nowt]

That's the one! Nil Marquee Nisi Big Top.

 

Fucking hell that horse is ground down to a fine powder and still he's going. 

 

They stopped being funny in about 1986, Trumo.

[Tony Moanero]

That shit's supposed to be funny?

[Anubis]

I mistook the Everton one for the portaloo tent at first.

[Anubis]

Looks like the staff in that Everton tent are all wearing red t-shirts.

And they're probably Norwegians.

[MokTheAfflicted]

Oh we went to a bullfight and they have six bullfights in total. We decided to get off after the first three Bulls were killed and I said "I can't see the Bulls coming back to 3-3 like us in Istanbul". The Evertonian then goes off hi head again "FUCK OFF, JUST FUCK OFF, THATS ALL YOUSE EVER FUCKING GO ON ABOUT, IM FUCKING SICK OF FUCKING HEARING ABOUT THAT, FUCKING TWATS, ALL OF YOUSE SAY YOU WERE THERE AND YOU WERE ALL WATCHING IT IN THE FUCKING PUB".

You should have said "Youse?" "YOUSE?...oh you mean Emlyn Youse"

[Paulie Dangerously]

Work Blue: "Sterling scored in 3 minutes of his debut for city!! Hahah brilliant"

 

Me: "How do you know that?"

 

Work Blue: "Been following it online"

 

A new level of obsession, watching pre season friendlies of teams who have recently bought a Liverpool player

[GUS]

Blue in work. "Chelsea should be done for tapping up Stones. Martinez said he was not for sale but they are bidding £36 million for him. The rule should be, if you tap up a player and sign him, you should be fined the same amount as you pay for him. Therefore, Chelsea owe us £72  million for Stones" 

 

I was speechless. 

[an tha]

Thats the way dont worry about your twenty year trophy drought..just pacify the fans by talking about what liverpool have spent and how you want to finish above them...

[GR10 LFC]

Even the ex players are bitter. It was retweeted by Sheedy.

just looked that Twitter account up properly. He works in my place that lad, knew he was a blue, seems alright to talk to. I know different know!

[Trumo]

just looked that Twitter account up properly. He works in my place that lad, knew he was a blue, seems alright to talk to. I know different know!

 

Tell him that they're selling Mirallas to West Ham for £7m in order to sign Adam Johnson from Sunderland for the same amount.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Blue in work. "Chelsea should be done for tapping up Stones. Martinez said he was not for sale but they are bidding £36 million for him. The rule should be, if you tap up a player and sign him, you should be fined the same amount as you pay for him. Therefore, Chelsea owe us £72  million for Stones" 

 

I was speechless. 

What?  Are they tapping him up (i.e. making unofficial approaches direct to the player) or making a bid (i.e. going to the club)?

 

Does he understand that these are two different things?

 

Or is he a shit-for-brains?

[Harry Squatter]

We should get another £75m for Suarez then and another £18m off Barca by that logic. We should build the new Anfield Road end with the cash but rename it the Blueshite Logic stand.

[PestiRed]

Due to Kitbag having exclusive rights to sell the shirt via the club shops and the Internet only, they weren't allowed to sell their own shirts from that tiny tent in Singapore. They make Rick Parry look like a commercial genius

[Dr Nowt]

What?  Are they tapping him up (i.e. making unofficial approaches direct to the player) or making a bid (i.e. going to the club)?

 

Does he understand that these are two different things?

 

Or is he a gobshite?

 

The latter Mal, without a shadow.

[Dr Nowt]

Everton FC News ‏@LivEchoEFC 3h3 hours ago

Nevermind YNWA in Brisbane - #Everton were pioneers Down Under http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/everton-were-pioneers-down-under-9698786 … pic.twitter.com/XYRDVHDf7r

 

Cringe-fest alert.  Some little nuggets in the below as well, mind.

 

How Everton FC were pioneers Down Under in Australia pre-season tour

• 05:00, 22 July 2015
• By David Prentice

Everton cracked Australia in Sixties and even embarked on very first foreign tour

 

Everton football players inspecting the pitch at Sydney cricket ground during their tour of Australia. 7th May 1964.

 

The Red half of Merseyside has just taken Australia by storm – sell-out arenas, mobbed malls and packed city centres everywhere Liverpool have played.

 

But it was the city’s original football club who were pioneers Down Under, half-a-century ago.

 

Everton were the first overseas football club to tour Australia after a FIFA suspension on the country had been lifted.

 

The then governing Australian Soccer Football Association had been punished for poaching overseas players and was suspended in 1960.

 

The Association disbanded and it was four years before the newly created Australian Soccer Federation was readmitted to FIFA, allowing foreign clubs to tour again.

 

Attracting the reigning English champions Down Under was a considerable coup for the new body.

 

Wives and girlfriends of the Everton football team wave their last goodbye as the plane taking them off to Australia for a tour departs from Speke airport. Left to right: Mrs Janette Brown, with daughter Dawn, aged 2, next two adults are friends of Alex Scott with his twin sons Alex and David, Mrs Ann West, Mrs Beryl Harris, Mrs Eggleston holding Mark Harris aged two and Pat Lynam (girlfriend of Brian Labone). Liverpool, Merseyside. 28th April 1964.

 

The Outside90 Australian website revisited the Blues tour this week and reported: “That Everton were synonymous with class, recognised not only in English football, made for an attractive draw on tour.

 

“It was the chance for Australian audiences to see one of the leading lights of English football in the day, an exposure to the highest level of the sport hitherto.

 

“Two games would be played against the Australian national team (known in later years as the Socceroos).

 

A young Colin Harvey, one of many Everton goal scorers during their successful tour of Australia in 1964

 

“In Melbourne on May 10 1964, Australia found themselves overwhelmed 8-2 by the visitors in front of over 32,000 people. Jimmy Gabriel and Roy Vernon helped themselves to hat-tricks and Derek Temple got a brace for good measure.

 

“Six days later in Sydney, 40,000 saw Everton win 5-1 with Johnny Morrissey getting a brace, while Gabriel, Alex Scott and Colin Harvey also scored.

 

“Matches against state representative teams (remember this was pre-NSL days!) were also played.

 

“New South Wales were beaten 4-1, South Australia 3-0, Western Australia 14-1, Victoria 3-1 and Northern NSW 8-1.

 

Everton team members wave before their plane bound for Australia departs from Speke airport, Liverpool, 28th April 1964

 

“Interesting to note that some of the state teams kept the scorelines somewhat respectable, whereas others wrote themselves into the record books for the wrong reasons. In any case, crowds through the country on tour were generally large.”

 

The tour actually took place at the end of the Football League season in May.

 

The Blues had looked set to win back-to-back titles in 1964 but lost three of their last five fixtures and fell away, allowing Liverpool to pull clear and win Bill Shankly’s first championship.

 

Everton's Sandy Brown and Roy Vernon pose with toy Koala bears during the club's 1964 btour to Australia

 

The Everton minute books for that period explained that manager Harry Catterick would not be joining the touring party, although the minute which followed perhaps underlined the more pressing matters he had to deal with back home!

 

“Mr. Catterick reported that he could only name 15 players for the Tour at the moment,” read the entry for Monday, April 13, 1964 “the other three would be named after the F. A. list was available. It was agreed that it would be better for Mr. Catterick to remain in England, and that R. Lewin be included to assist the Trainer.”

 

It was followed by the entry: “TONY KAY: It was reported that following allegations of having fixed the result of a match whilst with Sheffield Wednesday, Tony Kay had been relieved from match duties, till the allegations had been investigated by the F.A.”

 

IN PICTURES: Everton's 2010 tour of Australia VIEW GALLERY

 

The Outside90 site added: “The late 1950s and early 60s were a tumultuous time for the round ball game in Australia. Immigration from Europe brought enthusiasm for the sport from new communities establishing themselves in the country, from which the basis of clubs and the culture which dominated the sport in Australia until the revolutionary process began in 2003 developed.”

 

Everton were clearly part of that development process.

 

It would be another 46 years before the Blues jetted Down Under ... but they made a telling impression on Australian football.

[alles ist gut]

Five seconds after that pic, Sandy Brown dropped that koala and it bounced into the net...

[razor]

Loving the old skool wags.

 

Proper women!

 

These days they'd all have sunglasses on, and little dogs in those handbags.

 

Modern football...

[Anubis]

That's some embarrassing shit. Some seriously embarrassing shit.

[johnsusername]

"the city’s original football club"

 

Wanker.

[Josef Svejk]

 

Wives or mothers?

 

Both?

[Anubis]

Ever since The Echo made the mistake of trying to pander to the downward-trajectory motherfuckers after they'd been accused of bias, they've gone overboard to placate them. But there is going overboard, and going overboard into raw sewage. This is the latter.

[Harry Squatter]

An if yer know yer istry.....

[Kant]

That's some unbelievable stuff.

Good to see them celebrating in an empty stadium in 2010 in the last pic