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I think there was bonding period after Hillsborough - I certainly felt that - where there was no great appetite for internecine warfare. I can only speak from my own experience, but there were quite a few touching moments that put a lot of the old nonsense into a proper perspective. Then Joe Royle came along, with all the 'Dogs of War' crap, and not only did he encourage a revival of the old bitterness (on and off the pitch), but, for many of us (I think) the sheer cynical regressiveness of doing so after so many had seemed to have 'grown up' and moved on really caused a lot of anger. You know, you get to the stage when you stand back and think, 'I love this city so why should I hate half of it?' and you pull back from that old attitude, and then that lot eagerly bring all of that poison (and more) right back again. That's what did it for me. And since then (thanks in part to Moyes' pathetic 'People's Club' garbage - which, if such an insult had come from us to them, there would have been mayoral interventions, marching protests and probably court cases led by the Barolo-cheeked Kenwright!) the bile has grown worse and worse, to the point where I never want to go to Goodison ever again, to sit amongst all that real naked hate. They've brought all of this on themselves and there's no real way back for them now.

My first game at Anfield was against Leicester on 28th August 1971. I was 12 and my dad paid 50p each to go in The Anfield Road End. Fast forward 50 years or so and it was my turn to take him to game to celebrate his 88th birthday. Spookily it was also against Leicester. This time in the Main Stand at £45 a pop. Really enjoyed the game, the performance and the result. I also managed to buy a copy of the ‘71 programme and to frame it with the latest programme and the photo attached. Anyway, that’s it. Cheers

Its the internet and fan forums, social media etc. People can sprout any old shite and can be viewed by thousands instantly. Years ago you had to talk to someone you knew and very few would say some of things youvread about now. You have to be careful to think a few knobheads on GOT or twitter represent the entire fanbase. Same with our fans too.

That kind of shite from bitters is EXACTLY why i want them to go down.. Never used to feel like that - always saw it as bad for the city, bad for blue mates etc. But fuck all that now - the bitterness and toxicity from so many of them now is off the scale - and it is growing all the time especially as they get shitter, it has gone beyond the banter and wind ups that used to make up the rivalry and has become horrible, using deaths and tragedies for example to score points - fuck them..... I hope they go down and never return.

Beef carpaccio with balsamic roasted beets, rocket and Parmesan.

Imagine financially doping your team, spending more than the vast majority of your rivals, stiffing the local authority on payment of bills and using very dubious accounting methods to avoid being sanctioned and still being threatened with relegation due to how inept you are at utilising the advantages - do you know how shit you have to be to achieve that? Bill Kenwright could produce a musical to rival “the producers” based on this saga.

Leicester fans are some of the biggest knobheads in the country.

I'm glad that posting less in here for a while has allowed everyone to settle down a bit.

Pretty sure I’ve lost weight in the last two weeks because I’ve not been feeling great and I’ve pretty much stopped eating. Can’t confirm how much because the battery in my scales has recently run out and I’m a lazy cunt, but I can tell by the fit in my jeans and my belly turning wobbly instead of being like a solid football. She’d bought a taco kit and a nacho kit. Nowt special, just the Old El Paso gear. Still, Mexican is probably my favourite dinner. It needed eating today because the mince had been defrosting since last night. One of the kids is out, another one doesn’t like Mexican and the youngest just had a couple of taco shells with cheese, salad and sour cream. I’ve eaten the lot. It’s just too nice to put in the bin. Nine tacos and a huge tray of nachos. Once the taco shells ran out, I lobbed the last of the mince, cheese and salsa in with the remaining nachos and went at it with a fork and spoon. I literally cannot move. I need to clear the table and do the dishwasher but it’s gonna be an hour at least until I can get up off the couch. Tacos and nachos. I’ve eaten a meal for six by myself. I probably weigh more than I did three weeks ago.

To be fair, Everton fans also buy caps and shirts and scarves of teams we are playing.

Kelly from Saved by the bell.

You turned out ok despite your parents and because of your grandparents.

Nah I genuinely have no ill-feeling to him at all, I'm indifferent. My granddad filled that role for me and filled it brilliantly. He could fix anything, picked me up from school when I was sick, always came to sports day with a bottle of juice, and when he worked in the railway used to stand outside the signal box in Garston every morning and wave to me when I was on the way past going to school. All my happiest childhood memories involve him.

Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha in Bewitched. Oomph!

Debbie Harry.

Done two complete watches of the Wire. First time I thought it was great but it left me a little cold sometimes. Second time I found it just the best type of long-form televisual storytelling. It's like a novel and the ability to criss-cross characters, stories and narrative focus is sublime. No show has been able to do what it did by layering it so much across the different parts of the city. I prefer the Sopranos, it's funnier, more accessible and you can drop into standalone episodes and enjoy it. The Wire doesn't work watching an episode as a standalone for the most part. But they are both the pinnacle and forerunners of any TV show of the last near 20 years.

Actually it shows that Ukraine has fewer far right nutters than Russia and, indeed, most other countries in Europe. Keep on pushing that Kremlin propaganda about denazification, though.

Won these on twitter in a comp.I will be framing them .!

It's not a poor argument at all. Every year people say they're going to win it, every year they shit their pants. Being the best team in the world is about more than having 87% of the ball against Burnley.

I wouldn't get my hair washed once and cried uncontrollably when my mum said she was going to tell Terry from Minder.

Listened to NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on desert island disks today. Interesting guy: trained as a statistician and was president of Norway, twice. Presided over the country during the Oslo bombing and the Brejvik massacre. Talks the language of peace and engagement. Made me wonder whether he’s an useful lightning rod much as Johnson is for the Tory party. There to soak up the noise whilst those under him do the dirty work. IMO it’s probable NATO are already ‘clandestinely’ balls deep in this war. There must be a reason why the RA havent established air superiority over Ukraine and are getting their arses handed to them on the battlefield. We’ll never likely know the truth. But given the depth and breadth of sanctions against Russia, there must be a coordinated proportionate and conclusive military response to Russian aggression. In short; economic actions are being complimented by proportional and appropriate military support. Cunts like the red brigade on here might baulk at this theory. Fuck em. Good people are dying horribly at the hands of a morally corrupt and indiscriminate aggressor and whilst we can stop this, we must. And fucking stop with this ‘who’s the biggest nazi shit. It’s a sideshow to mollify Russian babushkas into accepting the needless deaths of their sons In this pointless and illegal war.

Julia Sawalha - Press Gang

Home made pizza tonight.

She held sway?

Yep, had posters of her all around my room as a kid, my mum had to fold my sheets with a lump hammer.

Salt and pepper king oyster mushroom sandwich with griddled spring onions and salt and pepper mayo. Veggie toad in the hole. Eating is good tonight. I await Lifey's critique on the batter.

Not sure which event was worse tbh.

For the me the wire is the second best tv show ever behind the sopranos.

I don’t tend to tell my mates I love them, but that’s mostly because they’re cunts. However, I met Kenny Dalglish about twenty years ago. We had a brief chat, he signed something for me and I told him I loved him. I didn’t think to say, “I’m in love with you, Kenny”, but I wish I had.

It might be a hit job on Sunak, but it goes to show you that the rats will always cooperate with each other until you trap them in a barrel. Theyve known about all his weasel behaviour and have remained silent until it’s come to the time when they have to eat themselves. Same with others in government. Fucking imposing brutal austerity on the populace while enjoying an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Sunaks is able to claim £45000 tax relief on his £100k "gift" to Winchester College who in turn can claim £20000 gift aid. So it cost him £55000 and the UK population £65000 in tax relief. Fuck these chumps, where’s my pitch fork?

As many as me

I blame this for my strange dream last night! First he was the manager of my local Sainsburys when I was complaining about a cashier and then I was in a high speed car chase with him and he was the driver!!! I worry about myself sometimes.

The only punishment that would hurt their owners would be to strip them of titles and cups. fines won’t hurt them, points deductions also mean nothing as it leaves the previous years unpunished. All clubs should have their accounts and income independently scrutinised (although they could prob bribe them). You can’t sportswash if you’re publicly called cheats. none of this will happen as they will just drag it out for years in courts bankrupting any challengers.

If they sack lampard that's another pay off and pissing money up the wall when they have already massively broken FFP rules it would be a slap in the face to the integrity of the sport and all the clubs who have played by the rules. They have to be punished. Personally with no bias involved it should be 40 points deducted 20 points taken from this season as its wrong another team that played by the rules will go down trying to compete against cheating and 20 points off next season in the championship to level the playing field because of their cheating. It's for the good of the sport. Sod it another 20 points the year after too.

Watching Breaking Bad in its entirety (again) and just finished 'Crawl Space'. What a magnificent bit of television that is. 10/10

This cunt can come in the summer.

Tough getting a doctor's appointment these days.

Get him on the right PED’s early.

New Hamburg’s purchased

Number 1 option. The most legendary season in English football and then the big reset after. That would be unbelievable emotionally.

They believed that Moshiri and his money and shadowy backer would put them back at the top of the pile after a decade and a half of obscurity. But poor decision making, them falling away, and us building some success has led to a very hostile atmosphere from their younger generation of fans. Now it's ok to label us murderers, wall-pushers, sing Hillsborough victim songs, make face against fence gestures relating to Hillsborough, and suggest that our success is down to a combination of PEDs and an overarching conspiracy to help us succeed that would put the efforts of SPECTRE to shame. Exacerbated by Everton the club pushing the local vs out-of-town argument, despite all of the evidence to the contrary. And it winds them up doubly that we respond by treating them as an ongoing source of amusement.

I don’t give a flying fuck what you think. You’re an apologist for a man who’s ordered kids to be raped. Think about that instead you cunt.

The School of Subsidence.

Grass is always greener isn't it I suppose, and that applies to time too. Sometimes I'd like to be back in Mr Smith's drinking myself to death and ogling poon, but as I'm sat here typing this I'm sat in my warm house sipping Glenmorangie in my Next lounge pants and watching Rise of the Footsoldier on 5 Action. And if you'd told me that back then I'd have said that sounded like a fine life, just a fine life.