Class

[Ducado]

Rags, Dippers and Chelsea fans accuse us of not having any, but what is class in footballing terms.

And when I ask them what do they mean they struggle to define it, anyone got any ideas as to what they mean by class

 

[Damocles]

"You spend more money than us without earning it through footballing means" = "You have no class"

 

[LoveCity]

All of these teams have spent excessively on players and their fans are trying to demean our rise to prominence by casting us as a pantomime villain and their clubs as the noble, grassroots football teams. Desperate hypocrisy.

 

[Blue Haze]

Class is undefinable, therefore requiring no proof, and as such it is easy to level the charge of classlessness against rivals. When asked to justify this charge, they can point to almost everything from spending to fan support to conduct of the manager, even the crappy pies or beer at the ground.

 

[Breaker]

Class = bending over for the top teams at their every whim and accepting when they come in for our talented players.

No class = challenging the top teams and finally having the ability to go after their players and transfer targets rather than the other way around.

We had class up until approximately August 31st, 2008.

 

[warpig]

You have class if you get of the bath to have a piss.

 

[Mogadon]

Could be described as humility in spite of success or good fortune (or bad I suppose). Humility is rarely attached to a competitive sport, especially football given it's many miscreant inhabitants. We, as a club and as fans, have displayed bucketfuls over the years and in the main will continue to do so - no case to answer.

 

[stony]

You have class if you get of the bath to have a piss.

That's me out then

 

[southern muppet]

I think it's all tied into the worst parts of the British psyche. A sociological truth (in past times, and still to a point today) being reflected onto football. That no amount of accumulation of material wealth can allow you to jump 'rank' you were born into.

Problem for them is, it ain't true in this context. This is football, this is 2010 - and he who has the money and is at the top for the most sustained period of time will eventually come to be seen as having 'the class'.

Them trying to tell themselves that somehow they will always be better no matter what transpires is just a desperate, slightly embarrassing act of self-delusion.

When you have 550 billion quid, you decide what the fuck class is. The mock-genteel among us can delude themselves otherwise, thinking they're characters from an Oscar Wilde play or something - but the bottom line is money is ultimately everything here.

 

[dw7]

Regarding everton it must mean instead of spending money on players save it in the bank just invade you have to bribe a keeper to stay in the top division