Toxic rival fans

[sbbefc]

If I didn't support us I'd probably want us down too.

It's a big story when a big club (and a potential rival) goes down.

I'd want Spurs, Arsenal, RS, United, City, Chelsea and Newcastle down.

I've wanted Leeds, West Ham, Villa and Newcastle down in the past.

 

[brieverton]

We would be the biggest relegation in PL history. That's why people would love to see it.
That's balanced a bit by the respect we garner due to our history and tradition.
It means something that we have been a top-flight club so long, and that changing would be the end of an era not just for Evertonians.
People have a morbid fascination with seeing us go down but also a quiet respect once the dust settles.

The one thing I don't like, and it's on the board entirely, is the implication we have cheated on FFP, and would deserve relegation as a result.
People will point to any vulnerability, but the fact the board/owner have put us in a position where scrutiny of the clubs dealings is fair play, is yet another indictment on them.

 

[everton1953]

Don't make the mistake of taking the tripe on social media seriously. Judge on what probably few personal relationships you have with fans of other clubs. I know no-one who expresses negative views on Everton. OK, GOT is a type of social media and local rivalry causes me to type things like RS and analfield etc. Beyond that seriously negative views of other clubs is probably non existent apart from half wits.

 

[Groucho]

cheese rooms

Hang on, what?

Sign me up.

 

[toffee82]

Had a look in on the Leeds and Leicester fans forums after the game on Sunday, and the snide comments were really pathetic! A total bunch of saddos, the lot of them! The fact is, despite all of our problems this season, their sides mustered less points than we did after 38 games. That is the realistic truth, and they are furious, and totally blind to the reality of what has occurred.

The league doesn't lie.

We have been poor but there were 3 worse than us.

City the best team

Had we gone down we could have said that we didn't have much luck with injuries and VAR but Pickford saving the penalty against Leicester was huge in our favour.

Leicester might claim we were lucky due to that but they managed a point off Newcastle who hit the woodwork 3 times.

 

[mahermi1]

I have found the reaction from the supporters of other English based football clubs of our survival very interesting.

It is not just the RS it seems to be right across the board a real disappointment that we have survived.

It is strange on one hand as we are a poorly run club who have not won a trophy for nearly 30 years and are unlikely to offer up any threat to the sharp end of the table for the foreseeable future.

I do start to wonder if on some level there is a bit of jealousy towards the club and its position as the old lady of English football. One of the founder league members. A club that is still integral to its local community with a highly concentrated local support base

For the Sky 6 success has come at a price. Prawn sandwiches, cheese rooms, half and half scarfs. It is a diluted experience. Look at the RS when they experienced a little adversity under Hodgson their attendances started to drop as people from Denmark no longer wanted to make the journey. Same thing happened to Arsenal a couple of years back when they were struggling. They still reported sell outs but some season ticket holders stopped turning up. We have been served up poo on a stick for large parts of the last 30 years. The last two seasons back to back relegation battles yet we have still been filling a stadium that has thousands of restricted view seats. The support should be proud. It also highlights how important it is that the transition to the new stadium is done properly to ensure we don’t lose our soul

Fine post mate enjoyed reading it, I think jealousy does come into it, atm I couldn't think why, but it in my view, probably has something to do with how many times we have flirted with relegation and have narrowly avoided it, they think we deserve to go down. Some will have to do with how our owner has squandered millions and has flirted with ffp regulations, though if you look at our squad, you'd rightly think, How ? Especially with what every other club are spending, which their fans strangely forget or ignore. But there is definite jealousy over our record amount of years in the top flight, a record we seem definitely trying to lose the last few years. Maybe we trumpet that too much.

 

[helpimonfire]

I have a few mates who are City fans and they wanted us to stay up. They say on the whole we are pretty respected by the City fans, unlike our neighbours.

Anyone who does not like us can sniff it! I ain't arsed.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Worry about when people are not talking about you not when they are.

 

[PhilEFC]

I wouldn’t worry about it, we aren’t in it to make friends.

As others have already said social media brings out the divvys. The lads I work with all think we are alright especially compared to Liverpool, or aren’t bothered either way.

The only one who has pipeda Newcastle fan who has only just piped up when the beat us this season. I’ve known him for years!

I don’t dislike any team really, apart from the neighbours obviously.

I do like Villa, West Ham and Palace though. All good clubs with good fans I think, (and I liked there kits when I was kid which probably influences it.).

 

[Yarrgh]

We would've been a massive story had we gone down and people love the drama. Simple as that really.

Basically this. As long as your team isn't involved in relegation, the bigger the fall, the bigger the story.

We'll fall off the radar now for neutrals.

 

[lancs blue]

Walking around town today, with a massive grin on my boat=

Don't give a monkeys for any other team or fans.

Don't loiter behind Lime Street mate.

Tou might get a reputation

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Let's be honest, we are very much one of those teams that folks on here would want to go down if it wasn't us

There's always a "can't wait for THEM to go down" sentiment regarding 1, 2 or even all 3 of the eventually relegated sides on this forum every season

I don't know why folks are shocked that other supporters do the same thing

It's the internet, the very worst place on Earth where the very worst people on Earth can essentially do what they want, usually under a shroud of anonymity should they wish to

Frankly I'd be shocked if supporters of other teams didn't want us down. We're an awful football team to watch, with a squad of mostly crap players, owned and ran by reprehensible idiots, and we haven't done anything for beards

Again, swap out us for another team in that same situation and I guarantee that you'd get the majority of this here forum cheering on their downfall. Just look at how many were doing victory dances on here when Villa went down for instance

And I thought it was preferable for people to hate us? I thought people were sick of Everton being a lovable side of under achievers that people liked?

Make your minds up lads

 

[Socistep2]

I live in Leeds, a Leeds fan at work told me last week that our result against Brighton was dodgy and needs investigating, as does the late equiliser versus wolves ..he then said he'd been emailing the FA/premier league regularly about our FFP investigation, made me laugh at the time

 

[The_Street_End]

Our twitter spaces are hilarious. That plays a pretty large part in social media football fans wanting us down.

And like others have said, it's good to see a giant fall.

 

[BornBlue76]

We need to stop wanting media and other fans to think we are special. I've found everyone I know wanted us to stay up. Even an avid Liverpool mate posted how happy he was we stayed up on social media. This victim mentality doesn't do us good. We haven't deserved a seat at the table for years. We aren't owed anything by other fans. People by their nature can take joy in seeing others knocked off their perch. The day we think anyone owes us anything.. let alone a premiership place we deserve what we get.