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AsiaAsia82
Player Valuation: £35m
I always recall the Monty Python (at least I think it was them) sketch about Liverpool and supporting Everton
Even in semi-rural Yankland you run into this. Worse for my kids whose classmates and friends support City or the others. I try to keep the explanation simple, something along the lines of "because I love/hate life" depending on how I feel at the moment.
Maybe I'll start using the family excuse, "because all of my kids support Everton..."
I just flash my Tatt on my arm and tell them to FFFF OFF
There is an element of that in Hungary, but the attitude prevails in other countries, too. PS. Szoboszlai never played for any Hungarian team, he left for Austria when he was a kid.
BigDunc'sFod
Player Valuation: £35m
I just say "They're the Mets/Rangers of football" depending on whether I'm taking to a baseball or hockey fan and they immediately get it
Drico
Player Valuation: £50m
Here in Germany, they understand completely when I mention that Everton can be considered 1. FC Liverpool - as in the First Football Club of Liverpool - just like 1. FC Köln or 1. FC Kaiserslautern, etc. We are a "Traditionsverein". Which basically means we used to be fantastic and are now second division fodder (almost). Germans have loads of clubs like that... They know.
JimmyJeffers
Player Valuation: £70m
That was my first album. Remember they used to write a bit bio underneath each player and where they were born.
I'm not from Merseyside, though my dad was.
I get asked why I support Everton a lot when conversations with new people move to football.
It honestly doesn't bother me. I don't feel like anyone ever questions whether or not I'm 'entitled' to be an Evertonian - and I don't think I'd care much if they did, as its no one's business but mine.
But by the same token, I find myself looking down my nose at any Liverpool fans who aren't from Merseyside.
I reckon non-local Liverpool fans are - rightly - treated with more disdain generally. They have to justify their support, but I don't think we Evertonians do.
Merely wanting to be an Evertonian is enough. To consciously choose this life of pain and suffering is the literal antithesis of glory hunting.
I get asked why I support Everton a lot when conversations with new people move to football.
It honestly doesn't bother me. I don't feel like anyone ever questions whether or not I'm 'entitled' to be an Evertonian - and I don't think I'd care much if they did, as its no one's business but mine.
But by the same token, I find myself looking down my nose at any Liverpool fans who aren't from Merseyside.
I reckon non-local Liverpool fans are - rightly - treated with more disdain generally. They have to justify their support, but I don't think we Evertonians do.
Merely wanting to be an Evertonian is enough. To consciously choose this life of pain and suffering is the literal antithesis of glory hunting.
Supporting Everton is such a massively questionable choice that I don’t think it’s just foreign blues who get the third degree.
Bluebonic
Player Valuation: £35m
I tell them that in the dim distant past Liverpool aided with the NZI’s whilst Everton sided with the communists. As years went by the political divisions softened so that nowadays, the rs are all right wing tories and police informants, whilst the blues are mostly socialists and humanitarians.
Shevin Keedy
Player Valuation: £35m
I think it was Eric Idle (from Monty Python) interviewing Roger McGough, but it was in The Rutles (Beatles spoof)
Think I had the previous edition (86?), the thrill of opening the packet and getting a shiny (even if it was Luton Town).