Why are they crying…they’ve got a new ground …oh yes…that’s a shit tip aswell…
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It is a great shame that they are leaving Goodison Park.
133 years 
I understand their fans well…
This is just sad, and I think it is sad for the league as well.
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It’s a shame that Goodison Park is being lost.
Can never get the fixation of having more and more matchday revenues. Arsenal lost character when they shifted. Not that Everton had character but still.
I’d def want the older stadiums to be retained and that goes for the idiots down there at Manchester too.
Not that I’m against increased stadium revenues. But Everton is trying to target a dying fanbase to fill their stadium. A further 10 years of non performance and mersey side will be almost totally red.
Why do you say that? All the season tickets for the new stadium are already sold and there is a waiting list of 18000.
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Just let the cynnie age geezers go. Lack of success will kill any further fanbase.
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Not everyone is a glory hunter, especially in the local community for any club.
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You don’t know this city do you? You don’t choose to be a red or blue. You are born one or the other and no-one but no-one changes their allegiance. You are either a rednose or a bluenose for life.
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Is that why families have both red and blues in them?
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In my experience, I would say it is pretty rare to have siblings following different teams. There are mixed marriages of course and it depends which parent gets their way. My wider family is totally red whereas my wife has a much larger family, 20+ first cousins, and not one red amongst them.
Edit…she has just told me there is one red but he is an idiot.
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Made all this fuss and yet it’s still going to be there and used.
Time moves on. It’s not fit for modern purposes and whilst I get the heritage and history argument, sometimes it just makes more sense to build something new.
At least they’ve tried to make it interesting and unique and there’s a plan for the old one. All those other clubs in a similar position to Everton built those soulless bowls during the noughties. The likes of Boro, Southampton, Leicester, Derby, Wigan, Bolton. You could pretty much swap the seats and some branding and you wouldn’t know whose was whose.
I drive past the site of Leicester’s old ground when I go into the office. Aside from a block of student flats the place has basically been a bit of wasteland for more than 20 years. The old stadium car park remains but that’s about it. The new one is a massive improvement but lacks any identity and they continue to struggle to expand it further. No doubt that plan will be shelved again now they’ve been relegated.
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I have a brother who is an Evertonian. Again, pretty much the only one in the family. I think he was dropped on his head as a baby.
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My brother supported Man Utd but he got bored and thinks they are all paid up primadonas now. He’s gone quite leftie.
My dad didn’t like football so there was no direction from youth.
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Just noting that one knows football is serious bussiness, when people are talking about it as it is racial segregation and “mixed marriages” in 1968.
(note this isn’t criticsm of you or what you wrote). At the same time, I suppose I am big fan of more social inclusion, also when it comes to football fanhood. Less hate; and more mutual respect. Banter is what I want, bile not so much.
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I hope you had words with her and told her not to talk about you like that 
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My sister is one. She’s as bitter as they come, seems to spend her life on the internet looking for anything she can beat Liverpool with despite being well into her 60’s.
I think most Reds felt some empathy with them today, it truly is the end of an era and it would be gut-wrenching for me if we ever left Anfield.
They wont afford us any goodwill next Sunday though, you can be sure of that. Their forums will be full of the usual bitterness, bile and blatant lies that have become the norm.
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Bullshit. Loads of families have members of both. Individuals choose
True dat. (But they first chose their side)
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Just reading a post on FB and one comment to a Liverpool fan said they would have more class than to boo their own players.
The satire writes itself.
Also didn’t they confront their players getting the train home from Euston in a rather appalling manner?
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Yes. true day. My dad was a Blue as was his dad, but I saw the light at a young age. I was six when I converted to the one true faith.
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The sectarian divide still exists in Glasgow to this day, and it is deeply unpleasant.
My kids aren’t particularly interested in football, although occasionally take an interest in me (who you watching now, Dad?) But when they were growing up in Scotland my eldest did think that he had to “take sides”. I really didn’t want him actively following Celtic or Rangers and I tried taking him to our local lower division team. I think the thing he most liked was the Scotch pie and Irn Bru…
Anyway, he asked me why I supported Liverpool and I pointed out that it was the team that most of my family (certainly on my mother’s side) supported and that it was the stadium closest to where I was born.
As he is adopted, I wasn’t sure what my son’s local “birth” stadium would be, so we dug out his hospital records and looked it up on a map. It turns out that he was born nearest to Old Trafford. I suggested that he follows cricket instead…
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