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Famous Everton fans

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jayonenote said:
Yes. His Son in Law is a big Evertonian who posts on Toffee Web.. He takes his 2 Sons to the Game (Bill's Grandsons ofcourse) Bill has been to Goodison and couldn't understand why all the people around him were constantly referring to the German Philosopher Kant
Anyway he wrote that he thoroughly enjoyed his Goodison experience even though most ppl in the ground appeared as if they didn't.
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Was he sat in the away end when we were playing Millwall????
 
firefighterblue said:
The story goes that when he visited his sister Bridget in Liverpool in 1912 for a few weeks and he went to a few Everton matches. Seems he became a top blue. He met a couple of directors who laid out their ambitions for Everton. Firstly they wanted Everton to become a major force in England. After that Europe. And then the world.
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His half Brother lived in Toxteth..
An Urban Myth that he visited him at Upper Stanhope St in 1912 and his brother took him to Goodison.
 

firefighterblue said:
The story goes that when he visited his sister Bridget in Liverpool in 1912 for a few weeks and he went to a few Everton matches. Seems he became a top blue. He met a couple of directors who laid out their ambitions for Everton. Firstly they wanted Everton to become a major force in England. After that Europe. And then the world.
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Total myth. There is no evidence that Hitler was ever in Liverpool, though he had a distant cousin who lived there.
 

Cameron Manning said:
He was a Newcastle fan, so he said, and they were welcome to him.
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Used to stand behind the goal and watch Jackie Milburn so he said. Even though Milburn retired before he was born.

My great uncle was his Constituency Secretary in Sedgefield until he became leader and said he got well into the barcodes in the 80s. He had no idea about anything to do with the north east, however.
 
Eggs said:
....it’s a bit like the SAF situation when Moyes took over at Man Utd, but they handled it well.

Shankley gave that club everything and was banished because they didn’t want him interfering. Shameful, you wont ever hear any Reds mentioning it.
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Don't know if it's true but I heard that Paisley felt undermined by his presence in training sessions because the players kept calling him boss.
 
Jamo Martinez said:
Don't know if it's true but I heard that Paisley felt undermined by his presence in training sessions because the players kept calling him boss.
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Not sure how far to trust David Peace's fictionalised account but that and other things I read said he was there every day because he didn't know what else to do with himself. He was at the offices every day as well because he still got bags of mail... So he was frozen out without ever being spoken to about it and they never even gave him a season ticket or invited him to go to matches as a guest. If he went, he paid in. Red or Dead has him out for 5 hours a day playing street footy with neighbourhood kids but that's obvious rubbish.

He could see Bellfield from his house and the story i heard was that he would go and watch training or reserve team stuff there just to have something to do. He had a fall at home one time and one of our physios saw him limping about and had him in to work on him a few times, out of respect, word got back to Bingham who invited him formally a few times and the club reached out with invitiations to matches, because we're a classy organisation who respect people's achievements.

Bill Shankley died a Blue.
 

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