Evertonians in Ireland

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Khalekan said:
It doesn't surprise me that a team from the city of Liverpool would the most well supported English club in Ireland, given the fact that so many people in the city are of Irish descent, stretching back to the days of An Gorta Mor when the Famine boats pulled into Liverpool en route from Ireland to Boston and New York and half the wretched people on board could take no more after even such a short hop and jumped ship on the dock and somehow managed to eke out a living and prosper on Merseyside.

Not for nowt was Liverpool dubbed the "capital of Ireland".

No.....the amazing thing is that it is the RS rather than EFC which is the most popular.

We have discussed on here before how back in the 20th, Everton were the team of the descendants of those Irish survivors and the Irish who came afterwards, such as just about every ancestor yours truly can trace ;)

We also have anecdotal evidence, brought to my attention by Dave and which certainly seems to fit a pattern, that Liverpool Football Club operated a de facto ban on employing Irish Catholic players from the auld sod up until the mid 70s when they signed Ronnie Whelan from Home Farm.

(Elisha Scott and Steve Heighway don't count.....one being an Ulster Prod and the other being English raised and playing for Skem :))

It was a mini Belfast or Glasgow here before the War, with Everton the Celtic to the RS Rangers.

So given all this, how did do many Irish Catholics take this abomination of a club to their hearts?

Now you Irish lids......be sure to let the RS buggers in Dublin, Cork and the Falls Road in Befast know this history and tell them to hang their heads in shame, the traitorous barstewards :whip:
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Best thing I've read in ages.
 

Would imagine the majority of RS clowns in Ireland date from the 80's and after, glory hunters just like how Man U supporters spread like a pandemic across the globe with their 90's dominance and endless cheerleading and propaganda via SkySport.... I grew up 20 miles north of Dublin and as a nipper my football coach used to be the only other toffee I knew, fair play to him he used to bring me back a program when he went over to Goodison...
 
Tipperary blue anseo ;)be interesting to see which county had the biggest concentration of blues outside of the big population centres like dublin,cork,limerick etc.:)
 
I've noticed a growing in our numbers in recent years which is reflected on here. Good news when you consider the amount of RS and Manu about.

Hopefully the days of me being the only Blue in the pub watching us live on TV amongst a swarm of RS are long gone.
 

Well done to the Irish Blues. Got great Everton mates live in Rathfarnham in Dublin. My uncle used to tell tales of socialising with Eglington and Farrell, Sheedy did his bit in the 80s and I live in hope that Seamus Coleman does something special for Everton in the second part of the season and then the boys in green this summer in France.
And as for the cheek of that lot adopting the Fields of Athenry!!!!!!!
 

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