Why do you keep supporting Everton?

[Curtis]

I guess that's the question I'm inquiring to myself as well. Why do I continue to devote extensive amount of my life and in sure there are other fans especially in the U.K. who sacrifice a lot more than me especially those devoted to follow Everton on the road. I just see this club in a perpetual quagmire of ineptitude and shabbiness due to the halfwits that operate this club and I understand hard time befall teams but this feels unyielding and I just want to watch a game of football where I'm not glum, and ultimately its football a game where it shouldn't affect me so but I truly despise the people on the board who enable this dreadful yearly dismay.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

Deep down it's the same for all of us. A perpetual sense of self-loathing that leads us to believe we aren't deserving of anything better. Also, better than being a kopite.

 

[TrailerTrash]

I'm a pervert.

 

[4737carlin]

No choice, it's one addiction you can't brake

 

[Toffeepot]

I guess that's the question I'm inquiring to myself as well. Why do I continue to devote extensive amount of my life and in sure there are other fans especially in the U.K. who sacrifice a lot more than me especially those devoted to follow Everton on the road. I just see this club in a perpetual quagmire of ineptitude and shabbiness due to the halfwits that operate this club and I understand hard time befall teams but this feels unyielding and I just want to watch a game of football where I'm not glum, and ultimately its football a game where it shouldn't affect me so but I truly despise the people on the board who enable this dreadful yearly dismay.

Habit at this stage.
The World Cup really awakened me to how much more chilled out I was week to week without your perfectly described 'perpetual quagmire of ineptitude and shabbiness'
For some reason though, I'm being dragged back into the rubbish. Habit

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

FC United of Manchester fans had enough and managed to cut ties .
Begs the question, proper fans?

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

They're the alcohol of the football World. Occasionally you'll have a boss time but more usually they facilitate feelings of angst, insecurity and anger that manifest in irrational and antisocial forms.

They leave you feeling crappy for days and fundamentally undermine every other aspect of your existence, making life less pleasurable.

But you can't stop. "No sir, I don't have a problem. I'm in control of my drinking / Evertoning".

*hic*

 

[allen]

Serious answer, it's a sentimental link to my late dad that I couldn't drop even if I wanted to.

 

[mightyblues78]

Cause we are divies haha

 

[Gilbert..]

Genuinely feel for younger Evertonians as at least i saw good sides and trophies.
We havent even played Good football for the past 20 odd years.
Im generations family tied to this club.
I wouldnt choose it if i was just getting into football.

 

[Simon Buttle]

No idea but I'm getting very close to knocking it on the head tbh

 

[Toffeeslam]

Born that way I’m afraid

No other club but Everton……what did I do in a former life ???

 

[JLW]

They're the alcohol of the football World. Occasionally you'll have a boss time but more usually they facilitate feelings of angst, insecurity and anger that manifest in irrational and antisocial forms.

They leave you feeling crappy for days and fundamentally undermine every other aspect of your existence, making life less pleasurable.

But you can't stop. "No sir, I don't have a problem. I'm in control of my drinking / Evertoning".

*hic*

I would say more like the heroine than alcohol

A very short ‘buzz’ followed by a life of misery
An addiction we can’t get rid of that will eventually kill us.
The board and owners are like the dealers just keep drip feeding us new managers and players to keep the habit going.

#Smackhead FC

 

[BNJ1878]

Mugs. That's why.

It's irrational. We support them 'just because.'

As others have said, I feel for fans below 40 who have no real memory of success. Even the cup win in 95 was a cruel tease for them.

"Yes! We're on the way back!"

 

[GoldenToffee]

Would love to turn my back on the club once and for all. Would be a huge burden lifted.