Goodison is a Special Place to Visit

[john_r]

A thoughtful, interesting a well-written article in The Times this morning.

Oliver Kay Chief Football Correspondent

 

[By god I'm blue]

Finally! A journo that "gets it"

 

[Debaser]

What a boss article.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Wonderful article. Everyone should read that.

 

[Boss_Blue]

Enjoyed that.

 

[deipnosophist]

For all its issues, and there are some very salient ones, Everton is a club I am very proud be a passionate supporter of.

 

[ste d' indica]

Could of done with a bit more praise for the Blue Dragon, but otherwise a fine read.
@JordanianEmbassy

 

[hullefc]

Finally! A journo that "gets it"

Does he rarely 'get it'?

Oliver Kay responds (Merseyside Vitriol part III) - Red and White Kop

"It just comes down to what you find acceptable. I don’t find the "murderers” chant acceptable. I don’t find “Without killing anyone, we’ve won it three times” acceptable (and that, unlikely as it may sound, was actually sung by the United players on the pitch at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow in May). I don’t find “Where’s your famous Munich song?” acceptable. I don’t find “2-0 to the Murderers” acceptable. I don’t find chants about Michael Shields or Harold Shipman acceptable. I find the chants about Steven Gerrard’s family utterly despicable, as I do the Evertonian “joke” of covering your face with your hand as if to signify someone being crushed at Hillsborough. I actually feel sickened as I write this.

Kay has never apologised for this slanderous 'matter of fact' statement about Evertonians. I wonder what this Kopite hacks real agenda is for this quaint piece about us?

 

[strummer]

That was a good article.i haven't been to all the new stadium's that have sprung up but Bolton.Wigan and Man City spring to mind as dreary and characterless. Goodison is unique and should be cherished

 

[davek]

A thoughtful, interesting a well-written article in The Times this morning.

Oliver Kay Chief Football Correspondent

We lament so much that is distasteful about the sport these days — the growing number of ignorant, uncaring, carpet-bagging owners, the detachment of clubs from their communities, the avarice that sees owners regard brand-exploitation and money-making not as a means to an end but as an end it in itself — then we see a proud old club lambasted for being weighed down, supposedly, by the twin millstones of local ownership and an old stadium with little scope for redevelopment.

Ha Ha Ha. The irony.

Another apologetic piece served up by Kenwright and Green's cronies.

 

[davek]

They are one of precious few clubs who remain under local ownership,

...erm, an American national using a financial vehicle in the British Virgin Islands?


I dont think I've read a more patronising pat on the head load of claptrap in years. 'You're "authentic", there, there...leave winning stuff to those '"corrupted" clubs, there, there.'. KNOW YOUR PLACE.

What a repugnant bit of drivel.

 

[TrixyStevens]

Could of done with a bit more praise for the Blue Dragon, but otherwise a fine read.
@JordanianEmbassy

Curry chip is the best in der werld

 

[Boss_Blue]

Another apologetic piece served up by Kenwright and Green's cronies.

No doubt but still nice to read ostensibly positive articles about the club regardless of any ulterior motives.

 

[Stanley Parker]

If he thinks the Press Box - now called the Media Centre - is uncomfortable, he should try the back of Lower Gwladys Street Stand.

Goodison shouldn't be preserved as a monument to the sixties or the eighties. We want somewhere that looks towards a better future.

 

[davek]

No doubt but still nice to read ostensibly positive articles about the club regardless of any ulterior motives.

Is the right word.

It's a trojan horse bit of nonsense to smuggle in the message: "All's well at Everton, so STFU with your bellyaching about your owners and being a big club and wanting success".

That article would never have seen the light of day if the recent criticism and actions against the Everton board hadn't have happened.