Everton fans

[johnsusername]

Goodison Park is boss. There, I said it. Proper ground, unlike Reading, Arsenal etc.

 

It's made of wood. You feel like you're in a barn. And you cant see all of the pitch.

 

Actually it's perfect for everton.

[Magic Sponge]

 

Yes that's the one I know - don't know one in West Derby

 

They used it in a scene 51st State didn't they as a Manc pub?

 

I live next to the cemetery.

[aws]

I remember a fella coming into the yew tree in west derby years ago saying a bus had just gone into the back of a lorry over the road. the pub fucking emptied

 

Operation Yewtree. Another first for them.

[liverpoolsno9]

ifithadntavebeenfor the Redshite coach driver.

[TheHitman]

Sounds like Taffs tavern could be vandalised if the binman has his way.

 

Neville Southall knows a thing or two about loyalty at a club. He played 747 times for Everton in a career that spanned three decades. This season he joins the Paddy Power Blog as columnist to offer no-holds-barred insight on what’s become of the beautiful game. This week, he discusses Manchester United’s ‘derisory’ joint bid for Baines and Fellaini.

 

The joint bid stinks. The way David Moyes has gone about it stinks. The entire world knows Marouane Fellaini and Leighton Baines are worth a lot more than the £28 million offered and Moyes is disrespecting Everton.

 

If you’ve got a good relationship with the club and you’re supposedly best mates with the chairman – and Moyes was always saying how they were when he was at the club – would you go back to your mates business and try to pinch them off him knowing that the business is skint? It’s really despicable behaviour towards Everton and disrespectful towards the fans.

 

The stupid offer – and it is a stupid offer – isn’t entirely down to him, but he shouldn’t go in with an offer that seriously undervalues the players just to unsettle them. Doing it this way stinks. It wouldn’t have happened under Ferguson.

 

There’s a real danger he will lose all his credibility with the Everton fans. He might think that in order for him to succeed he is entitled to go for players he knows and trusts, but he can still operate ethically. The manner in which it’s been done is rubbish.

 

If Baines goes, our chairman will be lynched. It’s the equivalent of telling the Everton fans ‘stuff you, we’re not interested in what you think, we want the money’. If Fellaini goes, not as many people will be bothered. They love Baines because he’s been great – a model pro – and letting him go would be a real kick in the teeth to Everton fans.

 

SIR-TAIN TO SUCCEED? - Moyes is Sir Alex's pick, but will he live up to the expectations?

Expecting bidder from you

 

The Everton fans were brilliant with him. They showed massive loyalty to him because the bottom line is he won nothing in 11 years at the club. They never got on his back. He did a great job for Everton, but he was allowed to do a great job because of the fans’ patience. When he comes back to Goodison he is going to get slaughtered.

 

He apologised for the way he left, but it feels like an apology just so he can come back and nick our players. Baines is the best left back in the world at the moment and he’s worth what they offered on his own.

 

There should be a rule brought in to stop managers who move to a new club going back to take the best players for a season. It’s like insider trading otherwise. He knows the inner workings of the club; he knows the finances and the clauses in the contracts – it’s too easy. I can see why Moyes is doing it, it’s because he trusts them, but ethically, it’s poor.

 

The underlying issue is why is Moyes struggling to get players at Manchester United? United have always been renowned for playing attractive football. Moyes is coming from 11 years of quite negative football. That’s partially because of the players he had to work with and partially because he’s quite a cautious guy. He’s renowned for keeping things tight and pinching results, not going out, playing good football and smashing the opposition. His reputation for being quite negative has stuck with him and its part of the reason the likes of Fabregas aren’t so keen on going to Old Trafford. It’s starting to look at bit desperate.

[BCM]

Sounds like Taffs tavern could be vandalised if the binman has his way.

 

Neville Southall knows a thing or two about loyalty at a club. He played 747 times for Everton in a career that spanned three decades. This season he joins the Paddy Power Blog as columnist to offer no-holds-barred insight on what’s become of the beautiful game. This week, he discusses Manchester United’s ‘derisory’ joint bid for Baines and Fellaini.

 

The joint bid stinks. The way David Moyes has gone about it stinks. The entire world knows Marouane Fellaini and Leighton Baines are worth a lot more than the £28 million offered and Moyes is disrespecting Everton.

 

If you’ve got a good relationship with the club and you’re supposedly best mates with the chairman – and Moyes was always saying how they were when he was at the club – would you go back to your mates business and try to pinch them off him knowing that the business is skint? It’s really despicable behaviour towards Everton and disrespectful towards the fans.

 

The stupid offer – and it is a stupid offer – isn’t entirely down to him, but he shouldn’t go in with an offer that seriously undervalues the players just to unsettle them. Doing it this way stinks. It wouldn’t have happened under Ferguson.

 

There’s a real danger he will lose all his credibility with the Everton fans. He might think that in order for him to succeed he is entitled to go for players he knows and trusts, but he can still operate ethically. The manner in which it’s been done is rubbish.

 

If Baines goes, our chairman will be lynched. It’s the equivalent of telling the Everton fans ‘stuff you, we’re not interested in what you think, we want the money’. If Fellaini goes, not as many people will be bothered. They love Baines because he’s been great – a model pro – and letting him go would be a real kick in the teeth to Everton fans.

 

SIR-TAIN TO SUCCEED? - Moyes is Sir Alex's pick, but will he live up to the expectations?

Expecting bidder from you

 

The Everton fans were brilliant with him. They showed massive loyalty to him because the bottom line is he won nothing in 11 years at the club. They never got on his back. He did a great job for Everton, but he was allowed to do a great job because of the fans’ patience. When he comes back to Goodison he is going to get slaughtered.

 

He apologised for the way he left, but it feels like an apology just so he can come back and nick our players. Baines is the best left back in the world at the moment and he’s worth what they offered on his own.

 

There should be a rule brought in to stop managers who move to a new club going back to take the best players for a season. It’s like insider trading otherwise. He knows the inner workings of the club; he knows the finances and the clauses in the contracts – it’s too easy. I can see why Moyes is doing it, it’s because he trusts them, but ethically, it’s poor.

 

The underlying issue is why is Moyes struggling to get players at Manchester United? United have always been renowned for playing attractive football. Moyes is coming from 11 years of quite negative football. That’s partially because of the players he had to work with and partially because he’s quite a cautious guy. He’s renowned for keeping things tight and pinching results, not going out, playing good football and smashing the opposition. His reputation for being quite negative has stuck with him and its part of the reason the likes of Fabregas aren’t so keen on going to Old Trafford. It’s starting to look at bit desperate.

 

 

Ha ha he has nailed him there. For a Blue he is a top bloke is Nev.

[shanks69]

This the Yew Tree on Finch Lane? I worked there for a few months in 1989. Then it was regarded as the 'quieter' of the two in the area. The other being the Bow and Arrow!

I did have to crawl from the bar to the lounge to raise the alarm once when someone came and started lobbing bottles and glasses at me behind the bar. I remember seeing all the optics smashing above me!

 

the bow and arrow is a chippy now,a good one too.they are turning the other part into a chinese restaurant,but he must be doing it himself as they have been working on it for about 2 years.

[sir roger]

I remember a fella coming into the yew tree in west derby years ago saying a bus had just gone into the back of a lorry over the road. the pub fucking emptied

 

The ceiling in the lounge of the Western Approaches in Crocky collapsed a few years ago. There were about 3 owl fellas in there watching the racing, but by the time the ambulances got there people were jostling for space on the floor & some of them had even bought their own wooden joists from Jem DIY over the road.

[gmac]

Apparently, in his latest piece in the Mail tomorrow, Dignity Dave saying that Everton should let Baines and Fellaini go for the good of their careers haha.

[Anubis]

Apparently, in his latest piece in the Mail tomorrow, Dignity Dave saying that Everton should let Baines and Fellaini go for the good of their careers haha.

 

On the day of a game that's a shithouse trick. The Martinez March may turn into an angry protest march with Changy at the head carrying a burning a picture of Gollum.

[williby]

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