I don't even see why anyone has to do this regardless. It was probably ok in the 50s when Sir Charles Charley Charles played but now it's more of a business and competitive. There is no friendly rivalry in football anymore.
Imagine being forced to do it, all the RS will save it to their phones forever and post it on social media, get t shirts with it on and never ever shut up about it. That Jamie Webster the "boss" scouser will make a song about it and Dave Kirby will do a cringeworthy poem about it if he has finally shut up about going to Rome on the train in 1977.
It's going to be bad enough about 2500 of them in the away end constantly goading us about being Champions and their ever so original 1995 chants. They will be looking for a reaction the whole game. Yet if one of us flips and there's trouble inside or outside the ground I wonder who will get the blame.
If any of our fans clap while this guard of honour happens they should receive a lifetime ban from Goodison. I'm being serious and I'll have a go at anyone around me in the Park End who claps them.
No way should we ever pander to this disgusting club ever again. The players were forced into sharing an open top bus with the RS in 1986 and loads of them felt uncomfortable, yet when Peter Reid refused to comply he gets called bitter and a sore loser. The last thing you want after losing out on 2 trophies is to go on a parade with the winners. But Everton got railroad into it.
Stop being plucky little Everton, stop pandering to the RS, I'm sick of this club just shrugging their shoulders and letting them dominate the city. We are Everton Football Club and we bow to nobody.
God I hate them so much.