Grand Old Team prides itself on offering Everton fans a place for intelligent and respectful debate about the issues that matter to them, offering a feature-rich, moderated forum for our readers to share their own personal views on all things Everton FC related.
Our priority from day one has always remained the same – to endeavour to ‘Nil Satis Nisi Optimum’ in providing the very best place on the web for fans worldwide to congregate to discuss Everton Football Club.
The website derives its name of course, from the renowned Everton ‘Grand Old Team’ song/fan chant;
It’s a Grand Old Team to play for, It’s a Grand Old Team to support, And if you know your history, It’s enough to make your heart go oooooooh… We don’t care what the red side say, What the heck do we care? ‘Cuz we only know that there’s going to be a show when the Everton boys are there
Time Line
5th February 2007 – Established as a forum.
5th February 2008 – 1 year old! 950 members accumulated 97,810 posts
5th February 2009 – 2 years old! 4,539 members accumulated 270,377 posts
5th February 2010 – 3 years old! 7,189 members accumulated 482,908 posts
5th February 2011 – 4 years old! 9,143 members accumulated 735,329 posts
22nd May 2011 – Double-Award Winning! GrandOldTeam won both the Readers Choice and Editors Choice awards for best English Premier League Club Forum.
25th July 2011 – New Crest! Unveiling of new crest
24th December 2011 – 1 million forum posts.
5th February 2012 – 5 years old! 12,336 members accumulated 1,061,248 posts
15th May 2012 – Double-Award Winning! GrandOldTeam won (and retained) both the Readers Choice and Editors Choice awards for best English Premier League Club Forum.
5th February 2013 – 6 years old! 16,925 members accumulated 1,697,112 posts
21st May 2013 – Award Winning! GrandOldTeam won (and retained) the Readers Choice award for best English Premier League Club Forum.
5th February 2014 – 7 years old! 22,553 members accumulated 2,472,667 posts
22nd May 2014 – Award Winning! GrandOldTeam awarded ‘Best Football Forum’ at the 2014 Football Blogging Awards.
5th February 2015 – 8 years old! 25,854 members accumulated 3,326,321 posts.
9th May 2019 – Award Winning! GrandOldTeam recognised as the ‘Best Forum’ in world football at the prestigious Football Blogging Awards.
5th February 2023 – 16 years old! 49,560 members accumulated Over 10,153,085 forum posts.
Disclaimer
Grand Old Team is 100 per cent unofficial, completely independent, funded and managed by Everton fans for fellow Blues. Grand Old Team is not affiliated to any other Everton FC related fans’ networks, websites or organisations. The views and opinions on Grand Old Team in no way represent the views of Everton Football Club. Moreover, the views and opinions within the website are not always those of Grand Old Team and should be attributed to the contributor.
