Everton references in popular culture

[gazzle_toff]

Welsh version of Hollyoaks, Rwnd a Rwnd.
Had loads of characters who were toffees.

 

[Pat's Van]

gordon honeycombe, former newsreader on good morning britain was apparently a blue

and i remember moxy (christopher fairbank) in auf wiedersehn pet making a couple of references to the toffs. when the police are after him back home he states his chances on merseyside are about as good as everton's

 

[Milk]

(Colin) Bateman mentions Everton in one of his books "Driving Big Davie" ... but in a negative context as he's a big RS supporter. His character Dan Starkey says that "one of the few times I laugh is when Everton lose".

Canute

 

[potato]

Flynn from Breaking Bad is a blue, so I'm told

yeah beetch

 

[EFCPaul]

Amanda Holden wore an Everton scarf on This Morning if that counts?

 

[potato]

Amanda Holden once said on This Morning that she loved Everton if that counts?

it doesn't

in fact you get -1

 

[EFCPaul]

it doesn't

in fact you get -1

Riddick Bowe proper bums of Everton on twitter though, even said he wanted Liverpool supporters to die.

 

[rascal]

If you look closely when watching 'The Dark Knight'

 

[ToffeeDan]

There's an Italian crime film from 1968 called 'Seven Times Seven' which is set in London during the 66 Cup Final and features footage from the game including Trebilcock's equaliser.

From 57m 1hr 05 and then at 1.22 and 1.28

 

[ToffeeDan]

One Summer with Ian Hart (Blue)

 

[Big Neville Southall]

There's a really good film about Tottenham journalist in the 80s recalling her youth supporting Tottenham and Danny Blanchflower in the early 60s, Those Glory days(?), at the beginning it shows Tottenham vEverton at WHL.

 

[bflefc]

I read a cracking book a few months ago called Attention All Shipping - A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast.

Charlie Connelly, a Charlton lad undertakes a voyage through the Met Office shipping forecast areas both historically and physically. Among many fascinating destinations the trip takes him to Scandinavia and Iceland. While on Utsire Island off Norway (as in North Utsire, South Utsire) at a bar, a local lad comes over to talk footy with him:

"English football is hugely popular in Norway and this lad, a little the worse for drink by now, professed relentlessly that his heart belonged to Everton. Such was his devotion to the Toffees that the following weekend he was taking the ferry to Newcastle in order to have an Everton Crest tattooed over his heart"

"Everton pointed out a number of Liverpool fans around the room, expressing his contempt for them by referring to Liverpool as a 'cesspit'. 'I'm proud that in my heart I come from Everton,' he said. I couldn't bring myself to break it to him"

There's another reference right at the end in Iceland, but to quote it out of context would be a spoiler and ruin the end of the book. I'd really recommended it if, like myself, you've got a love for that strange piece of British culture.



http://www.amazon.co.uk/Attention-All-Shipping-Journey-Forecast/dp/0349116032/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404654964&sr=8-1&keywords=attention all shipping

Good man! I actually used to chat with the author via email a few years ago, in fact whilst I was living and working in Norway (I'm not the one he's referring to in that snippet!).

I've got every book he's written, with his best being Stamping Grounds (he follows Liechtenstein on their quest to qualify for World Cup 2002), and Attention All Shipping. His latest, 'Elk Stopped Play' is typically irreverent. He's a superb travel writer.

 

[Tower Toffee]

The best selling 2006 novel "Gentlemen and Players" by Joanne Harris refers to Everton on page 268.

If i remember correctly one of the characters says something along the lines of " he must be an ok guy he supports Everton"

 

[witchdoc187]

Mystic meg said everton would win the cup live on the lottery show before the third round on 1995!!

haha i vividly remember this

 

[Pat's Van]

we get a couple of fleeting mentions in Pele's autobiography too