Personally,I couldn't care less if they outnumbered us 1000-1,I'm happy to be the one. My own experiences as somebody from the city (school in the late 70-'s'80's, friends,family,work etc...)is that numbers wise, there isn't a great deal of difference between us and them in terms of fans who take an "active" interest in the game,whether they be S/T holders,occasional match goers,or even people who used to attend regularly but have,for whatever reason drifted away from watching in the flesh,but still closely follow their team. Where we are getting trounced is in the battle for the "hearts and minds"if you like of the city- people who don't take a great deal of interest in the game,they'll spend their weekends doing anything but following the game but maybe see it as a chance to indulge in a bit of civic pride when one or both of the teams are doing well(though some of them had a strange way of showing that civic pride recently),they'll be the ones who are going out buying kits for their kids (who as pointed out above,will probably never ever enter that stadium in their lives)and that won't change until either they fall away again(they won one league cup,on pens against a lower division team between 2006-2019,they weren't in our faces then were they?)or until Everton start being competitive at the highest levels again so that kids want to be running around with an Everton players name on their backs.. Having a team which shows a bit of bottle in the derby matches wouldn't go amiss either.