Everton thread 2020/21

[Dirty Harry]

Let’s also not forget that when Moyes went to United, he pissed off a lot of Evertonians with his attitude when trying to poach Baines and Fellaini with that pathetic lowball bid.

Let's also not forget :-
rags - " we'll give you £17m for Baines and £13m for Fellaini" ?
Everton - " erm no"
rags - " OK then, we'll give you £27m for both" ?
Everton " Woodward, you're a fuckin clown" !

 

[FantasyIreland]

I'm annoyed we didn't get Gazzaniga or Romero, apparently the rags won't let Romero go.

This is how desperate and sad they have become,but i guess needs must when you're club are now a genuine threat to their standing and future.

 

[wolviedinho]

Since the takeover Everton fc and their fans have been hateful wankers towards us. They deemed themselves a bigger club and jealousy clouded their mind.

Now they have money and are getting a team together the hostility has diminished to some extent.

Let’s show them as fans of Gods own that we welcome the competition in the right way.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Fuck the red scum both lurking in Salford and the Mersey.

James looks a steal. Great player and fantastic buy.

 

[lasereyes]

I think some people forget just how toxic things were between both clubs and both sets of fans back then. Games between City and Everton had been pretty tasty for years off the field anyway but often slipped under the radar of a wider audience compared to when United and Liverpool played each other. I’ve seen more trouble at matches between us and Everton down the years than I ever have in games against Liverpool. Sure, back in the day it wasn’t a walk in the park going to Anfield but when we played both teams in 1981 in the League Cup semi (against Liverpool) and in the FA Cup 6th round (against Everton), many City fans who were at both reckon that the match at Goodison saw more trouble. Thankfully, I was too young to go to either!

Fast forward to our takeover and the Lescott transfer saga. I get that Moyes was desperate to hang on to him or failing that try and get us to cough up as much as possible for him but some of the comments he came out with about City stoked the fire. IIRC, it was Moyes (and Everton) who disclosed news of our bids and Hughes only started talking freely to the press about it following that. I recall an interview with Moyes in one of the Sunday red tops before Lescott signed saying that Chelsea conduct their transfer business far more respectfully than City do. A bit weird considering Chelsea’s very public tapping up of Ashley Cole just a few years before.

Naturally this seeped through to the Everton fans and when we played them for the first time after the Lescott transfer at Goodison, their fans were bang up for it and they won quite comfortably. We then played them at home in a midweek game a couple of months later. This was a rearranged game from very early in the season and for months we’d been banking on this game in hand to get an advantage over Spurs in the fight for 4th place and again we came up short. I can still hear the chants of Everton fans singing “2 nil, and we spent fuck all” ringing round our stadium. Of course, these days Everton have plenty of money (and appear to be getting things right following a few false starts) and I think their fans can see things a bit more from our side. Let’s also not forget that when Moyes went to United, he pissed off a lot of Evertonians with his attitude when trying to poach Baines and Fellaini with that pathetic lowball bid. A thawing in relations is probably also down to us stopping their neighbours winning the league in 2014 and 2019 plus from our side we can now see what they’ve had to put up with in their own city for years in terms of the cult like mentality of some Liverpool fans. However, I bet when fans are finally allowed back in matches between us and Everton will still be lively enough!

There was also the fracas over Howard Kendall poaching

 

[super_city_si]

I like ancelotti. Guys a class act. He’s built a good first 11.

 

[FightLikeAGirl]

Let's also not forget :-
rags - " we'll give you £17m for Baines and £13m for Fellaini" ?
Everton - " erm no"
rags - " OK then, we'll give you £27m for both" ?
Everton " Woodward, you're a fuckin clown" !

The AUDACITY. I'm glad we kept Baines, guy was our best penalty taker for ages.

 

[mat]

The title is staying on Merseyside this season. It's just moving across the road.

:)

Oh the steam from the piss boiling would been seen from space should it occur.

 

[Vienna_70]

The title is staying on Merseyside this season. It's just moving across the road.

:)

Oh the steam from the piss boiling would been seen from space should it occur.

It would be almost as sweet as City regaining the title.

 

[mat]

It would be almost as sweet as City regaining the title.

I'd happily see us finishing 3rd if they got an aguero moment against those bastards

 

[FightLikeAGirl]

I genuinely don't think we'll win it - the Manc teams, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Leicester will be tough - but it would be hilarious if we did.