Best responses to kopite taunts

is that true? i know we have more local support
We sell out more percentage of are capacity than them and have done for years.
Look at midweek games unless it's a glamour euro night they rarely sell out.
They call us Welsh, nothing wrong with that really but they are the best supported club in Wales Everton are far below.
Are season ticket fans are predominantly local.
There's is one of the lowest local fan bases in the prem.
Funny that they have followed them for so long but very few locals have season tickets?
In short they talk rubbish
 
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We sell out more percentage of are capacity than them and have done for years.
Look at midweek games unless it's a glamour euro night they rarely sell out.
They call us Welsh, nothing wrong with that really but they are the best supported club in Wales Everton are far below.
Are season ticket fans are predominantly local.
There's is one of the lowest local fan bases in the prem.
Funny that they have followed them for so long but very few locals have season tickets?
In short they talk rubbish
If memory serves didn't our own research conducted for the planning application for the stadium state it was a 2 to 1 ratio of reds in the city?

After a quick search to see if I was remembering it correctly this is the document.

 
If memory serves didn't our own research conducted for the planning application for the stadium state it was a 2 to 1 ratio of reds in the city?

After a quick search to see if I was remembering it correctly this is the document.


Everton are a north end football club.

2:1 is an exaggerated figure for the city as a whole and that will be wrong (and the PA statement offers zero sources for the claim it makes), but Liverpool FC pull in fans from the north end and probably mostly from the more leafier suburbs of the south end.

Everton are a much more solidly working class club than Liverpool FC in the city of Liverpool.

Everton are a north end club with fans also from the overspill areas where north end people were 'decanted' out to: Kirkby, Huyton, Halewood etc.

North enders and working class. That's our identity.
 

I think there are far more "Nominal" Liverpool fans than Everton Fans in the city and greater city region nowadays. By that I mean people who are not really interested in football, but if asked, will more naturally gravitate towards the club with the city's name. Of course, there is the glory-hunting element too. Let's face it, our club must've lost the bulk of one or 2 generations of new local fans either side of our window of success in the mid-80s..... and the club also did its best to make itself an "almost irrelevance" for the past 30+yrs too!

So it's no wonder our proportion of the population has shrunk. What's worrying is that my kids were all massively ournumbered in their schools, at least 3:1 (schools all in South Liverpool but drew their intake from the whole city). It hasn't always been that way. When I went to School 1969-83... it felt like it was roughly 50:50 (maybe slightly in favour of them). My brother who was 10yrs older, always claimed there were far more blues in his school days, and my oldest brother who was 20yrs older said: you couldn't play Everton v Liverpool in the school yard, because you couldn't find enough reds in his day. Of course, this is pretty much reflected in historic average gates too.

All that said, the statistics about numbers of local season ticket holders etc are very telling about the difference in character of the two fanbases. I knew hundreds of local matchgoing reds growing up and in early adulthood. I only know a handful now! Lots stopped going in the early to mid 90s when they sampled their first period of mediocrity... and the growing number of out of towners moved in. Many of the local reds lost that match-going habit and they became tellypudlians en masse. At the same time, blues just kept going.... and many of their kids did too..... in increasing numbers. It almost defies logic. However, we desperately need some success soon to halt that slide and build on that solid, loyal fanbase.

Best retort? Just say 17, 26.... when they ask if they're your Lotto numbers, say no, they're the bus numbers to get closest to their ground, incase they ever need to know.
 

Ask them: Why do you bang on about winning the champions league 6 times? you've won it 2 times ,
They'll obviously respond they won the European Cup 4 times prior to it being the champions league ( well, i say obviously....)

Just respond, "ahh, i see. like our 9 premier league titles we've won"
 
We sell out more percentage of are capacity than them and have done for years.
Look at midweek games unless it's a glamour euro night they rarely sell out.
They call us Welsh, nothing wrong with that really but they are the best supported club in Wales Everton are far below.
Are season ticket fans are predominantly local.
There's is one of the lowest local fan bases in the prem.
Funny that they have followed them for so long but very few locals have season tickets?
In short they talk rubbish

Our not are.
 

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