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Blues abroad needing to explain why they are Blues...

Being from the northwest but outside Manchester and Liverpool (I am a wool and proud) my options were either of the scumbags in red or Everton.

We were quite good in the mid eighties when I made my choice but I have no option but to stick with it.

I certainly wasn’t going to follow my local team (the Alex).

Then back when I was 17 I had a Sunday job on the green trainer truck in Stanley Dock market. Had some great bants with a fellow local toffee Who worked it too.
 
I was referee at my lads youth game last season. I had a quick chat with both coaches before the game and the opposition coach picked up on my accent, asked me if I was red or blue (in hindsight with some apprehension in his voice). When I said Everton his face lit up, he was also a fan. Helped me through a couple of dodgy decisions lol.

I've found that is pretty typical here. There's quite a few blues and I've had a few good chats in the club rooms over a beer. Even other clubs are pretty good (if they are ex-pats). But kiwi born ones tend to be uneducated- I've been asked what part of London Everton is from by a kiwi Arsenal "fan".

RS are a different matter. Tbh the ex-pat RS I've met are good lads. Happy to have some banter but are also remarkably respectful that I'm a true fan and not a Man City/Chelsea etc glory hunter. Kiwi RS are an entirely different beast, Culltists of the worse kind and to be avoided at all costs.
 

varnish said:
(I am a wool and proud) my options were either of the scumbags in red or Everton.
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BlueInNZ said:
I was referee at my lads youth game last season. I had a quick chat with both coaches before the game and the opposition coach picked up on my accent, asked me if I was red or blue (in hindsight with some apprehension in his voice). When I said Everton his face lit up, he was also a fan. Helped me through a couple of dodgy decisions lol.

I've found that is pretty typical here. There's quite a few blues and I've had a few good chats in the club rooms over a beer. Even other clubs are pretty good (if they are ex-pats). But kiwi born ones tend to be uneducated- I've been asked what part of London Everton is from by a kiwi Arsenal "fan".

RS are a different matter. Tbh the ex-pat RS I've met are good lads. Happy to have some banter but are also remarkably respectful that I'm a true fan and not a Man City/Chelsea etc glory hunter. Kiwi RS are an entirely different beast, Culltists of the worse kind and to be avoided at all costs.
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Pretty similar here in Oz. The aussie born RS fans are terrible and usually have no idea why they support them.
 

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