I went to the derby yesterday, although I regretted doing so for three reasons.
Firstly, the result. Secondly, I've been ill all week and going to the game has only made me feel worse (much of the action passed me by in some sort of Beechams/Lemsip/Lucozade haze).
And thirdly, the absolutely hatred-filled horribleness (I know it's not a word) coming from our oh-so delightful small club supporting neighbours.
Where do they get off singing songs like that all game? Do you reckon those songs will be passed down over generations? Fathers will be sat round fireplaces and drumming the words into little Duncan and Neville Jnr's heads, 'Oh Steven Gerrard...'
Of course, it smacks of bitterness. Horrible, hateful, spiteful, disgusting bitterness.
Yeah, we sing songs about them, but they are your normal, banter type stuff. 'Diving *******', '**** off to Tesco' and, a song that possibly gave Rafa ideas, 'You're just a small team from Kirby', were all heard on Saturday. Insulting? Jokey? Yes. Hateful? Bitter? No.
The derbies are of course, Everton's biggest games of the season (expect a DVD of their glorious 0-0 draw to hit the shelves soon enough), and the fact that they've not lost either of them means that 2006-07 will go down as one of their greatest campaigns in living memory, but just because they hate us so much doesn't give Blues fans the right to sing about the things they do. There is an acceptable line in football chanting. Evertonians are so far past that line it must look as small as Moyes' chances of ever winning a trophy.
But of course, our Blue friends aren't the only ones who seem to spend half of their games singing about us, a far more successful team's fans do it all the time as well.
As I type, it's half time in the Spurs-Man Utd game, and I've heard approximately 3 Liverpool related songs from our Mancunian friends in the first half, the worst of which rips off our '5 times' chant with 'without killing anyone, we won it two times'.
Sick.
What is it with Everton and Man U fans that they have to sing about us all the time, whoever they're playing? Watch a Man U home Champions League game from the group stages (the equivalent of slow death I know) but I bet you won't make it to 10 minutes without hearing a song about us.
Watch an Everton game on the telly (these small clubs need the exposure) and you'll hear the brilliantly witty 'Kopites are Gob****es'. (p.s. when they were handing out Scouse wit, did we get it all? Where were the Blues?)
Yet do you ever hear songs about them at Anfield, other than when we play them? The odd chorus of 'stand up if you hate Man U' may start from the away end, or Anfield virgins who know no better, but it'll get shouted down. We're here to support Liverpool, so we'll sing songs about Liverpool thank you very much.
Yes, we have had tragic periods in our long history, and 135 lives were lost in Brussels and in Sheffield that will always be in our minds. But songs about death have no place in football, and the fact that we have to sit there listening to these disgusting words also has no place in football.
Rafa may or may not have been right about Everton being a small club, but their fans, along with United's, are the smallest in football.
Firstly, the result. Secondly, I've been ill all week and going to the game has only made me feel worse (much of the action passed me by in some sort of Beechams/Lemsip/Lucozade haze).
And thirdly, the absolutely hatred-filled horribleness (I know it's not a word) coming from our oh-so delightful small club supporting neighbours.
Where do they get off singing songs like that all game? Do you reckon those songs will be passed down over generations? Fathers will be sat round fireplaces and drumming the words into little Duncan and Neville Jnr's heads, 'Oh Steven Gerrard...'
Of course, it smacks of bitterness. Horrible, hateful, spiteful, disgusting bitterness.
Yeah, we sing songs about them, but they are your normal, banter type stuff. 'Diving *******', '**** off to Tesco' and, a song that possibly gave Rafa ideas, 'You're just a small team from Kirby', were all heard on Saturday. Insulting? Jokey? Yes. Hateful? Bitter? No.
The derbies are of course, Everton's biggest games of the season (expect a DVD of their glorious 0-0 draw to hit the shelves soon enough), and the fact that they've not lost either of them means that 2006-07 will go down as one of their greatest campaigns in living memory, but just because they hate us so much doesn't give Blues fans the right to sing about the things they do. There is an acceptable line in football chanting. Evertonians are so far past that line it must look as small as Moyes' chances of ever winning a trophy.
But of course, our Blue friends aren't the only ones who seem to spend half of their games singing about us, a far more successful team's fans do it all the time as well.
As I type, it's half time in the Spurs-Man Utd game, and I've heard approximately 3 Liverpool related songs from our Mancunian friends in the first half, the worst of which rips off our '5 times' chant with 'without killing anyone, we won it two times'.
Sick.
What is it with Everton and Man U fans that they have to sing about us all the time, whoever they're playing? Watch a Man U home Champions League game from the group stages (the equivalent of slow death I know) but I bet you won't make it to 10 minutes without hearing a song about us.
Watch an Everton game on the telly (these small clubs need the exposure) and you'll hear the brilliantly witty 'Kopites are Gob****es'. (p.s. when they were handing out Scouse wit, did we get it all? Where were the Blues?)
Yet do you ever hear songs about them at Anfield, other than when we play them? The odd chorus of 'stand up if you hate Man U' may start from the away end, or Anfield virgins who know no better, but it'll get shouted down. We're here to support Liverpool, so we'll sing songs about Liverpool thank you very much.
Yes, we have had tragic periods in our long history, and 135 lives were lost in Brussels and in Sheffield that will always be in our minds. But songs about death have no place in football, and the fact that we have to sit there listening to these disgusting words also has no place in football.
Rafa may or may not have been right about Everton being a small club, but their fans, along with United's, are the smallest in football.
me too, was there when Sami was sentoff 1st few minutes
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