It’s amazing how sad you redshite cunts are. A shit second division team who bored their way to countles championships in the 1970′s by playing the most negative keep ball football England had ever seen. Your amazing fan base comes from Scandinavia, the Home Counties and the far east but never from Liverpool. You’re about to sell your sorry arses to a multiple bankrupt, sub-Glazer and you spend millions each year in search of a premier League you will never win simply because you are a shite club. The best bit of all, is that you get so wound up by such a small club as Everton. Our cup final? It’s your sad little obsession. And you can’t fuckin beat us. 3-0 to the People’s Club. You’ll never find a Liverpool fan on Merseyside. You thick Scandinavian banjo playing inbreds.

Well I guess I was right about those intellectually challenged blueshite fans! But at least he had the sense to accept that they are a small club.

thick twat.

Intellectually challenged? Who taught you spelling and punctuation? Why the need for apostrophes in “Everton’s,Watford’s and Wigan’s”? And shouldn’t “excepted” read “accepted”? Get back to school for some basic English lessons.

Gerry,
Your nasty little ‘piece’ shows little respect for and is insulting to people that live and work in the same city as your club. The very same people that supported your club through the tragedies experienced in the eighties. I suppose that was your intention. I went to the Wales Ireland rugby international today, brilliant game, fantastic atmosphere. Both sets of supporters intermingling without the partisan petiness present in the derby yesterday. Your article is yet more proof, demonstrating how football, (despite Hillsborough and Heysel), still brings out the petty vindictiveness and hostility present in all of us if we are prepared to shoot from the mouth without thinking first. It would have been better if you had kept your thoughts to yourself in my view, instead of airing them in public. Its inevitable that your article would result in the reply that you received above.
You see, supporting a more successful club does not make you better or bigger than those who choose to support a less successful or ‘smaller’ club. People support clubs for all sorts of reasons, family tradition, history, nostagia etc. Many individuals attach personal ‘honour’ or their ego to their club and Rafa’s comments therefore insulted a lot of people in Liverpool. Despite your red tinted spectacles, can’t you see that! I remember both sets of supporters chanting ‘Merseyside’ at the 1989 Cup Final. That seems a long time ago now. I suppose articles such as yours are the reason why Gerry.

You make an argument about the size of Everton which although accurate in a sense, is also its undoing. You see you speak in terms of relative size and are also niave enough to equate this with winnings and unsupported statistics. You ough’t to be reminded, I will oblige, that if your own winnings over the last 15 years are compared to, for instance, Manc Scum United, or Juventus, AC Milan, Barcalona and Real Madrid, by your own argument Liverpool FC is SMALL. You have won little more than EFC other than the Champions League a couple of years ago, even that appearing to be the exception rather than the rule, it was a luck of the draw, cup competition after all.

Be carefull labelling anyone small based on your poorly thought out Einsteinien relative based arguments, they can equally be applied to your own.

Just a couple more points, I live down in Leicester and there are as many Toffees as there are Kop shites.

No, we don’t consider taking 4 points out of 6 against you as success when matched against the big picture, but it is a success.

Oh yeah, bye the way both clubs are BIG clubs and no-one with any knowledge of the game would be stupid enough to argue otherwise even though I am at pains to accept that your scum was even allowed to exist in the shadow of the mighty Everton.

Both teams will be winning exactly the same thing this season, FUCK ALL.

Oh, and what’s that, 102 years of TOP FLIGHT FOOTBALL. Match that.

On very last point, I work with 5 other Evertonians. Where do we work? As teachers at on of the top 10 schools in the country. So we can’t all be that thick.

Sorry Gerry but I feel moved to say that your standards have definitely slipped.

I used to find your articles insightful, interesting and from a genuine fans point of view. I’m afraid you seem to have been drawn into slagging all those around us rather than concentrating on what is happening to Liverpool on the park.

The game on the weekend was completely frustrating with our forwards drawing a blank from 27 shots, 10 on goal. Rafa’s only injection of inspiration was to bring Fowler on replacing Bellamy whereas I thought Crouchie had a shocker, the amount of wayward through balls was abysmal. How he stayed on the park for the ninety minutes I do not know.

Please concentrate on all things Liverpool as I used to cherish this site as an oasis in the mediocre desert of football reporting. We’ve got a real drought on our hands here in Oz.

All the best
hugs
jonesy

ToffeeDan, you posted your comment on the wrong blog so I’ve copied them here and I’ll respond to them below.

ToffeeDan Says:

February 5th, 2007 at 2:54 am e

“Everton Hurt By The Truth”

I neither know nor particularly care whether you appreciate fully the local sensitivities of a Merseyside Derby, and furthermore I am sure your jibes are both well-intended and cater for the vast majority of your readership. Notwithstanding this I believe your comments on Saturday’s match are so far off the mark as to merit derision. However, I am not the sort of individual to pander to Wind Ups or deride – just to set the record straight. Perhaps you might be generous to spend some time to read this reply and the sincerity with which it is written – not with the intent to mock or score playground points but to attempt to reeducate you in your assessment of matters.

1. You say you totally dominated possession – and I might concede that in terms of the amount of ball you had (in the 2nd half) that this was true. Just how relevant is this when, if you watched the match objectively you will have observed that both keepers were called upon precisely ONCE each to make a telling contribution – Howard to parry a close shot and Reina to save Johnson’s one-on-one. Whatever possession advantage Liverpool enjoyed was both negated by Everton’s excellent defensive performance and Liverpool’s own ineffectiveness. Apart from a period from 10-20 minutes and a similar length in the 2nd half Liverpool WERE PATENTLY NOT ON TOP of the game.

2. I note the apparent “generosity” you afford Everton by referring to the word “smaller” in speech marks. Maybe you do know your history or you feel an imperative to reiterate the words of your manager. Perhaps you might enlighten your readers. Additionally you lay claim to Liverpool’s players matching Everton’s for effort and having a greater level of quality – surely if the former were the case you would have won the game.

3. You refer to Steven Gerrard’s efforts. Frankly you must have been watching a different game – maybe it was last season’s FA Cup Final – Steven Gerrard was COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS in Saturday’s Derby – he spent large tranches of the game allowing other players to work hard whilst he stood around in the centre of the field doing absolutely nothing – Yes he ran over to take a few corners and was first to the free kicks (”I’ll take this one lads”) and in the final 5 minutes he had a long-range shot blocked at the edge of the penalty area. He also managed to save himself for the 90th minute foot race with Yobo which went for a corner – he managed quite a spurt for a man who had done next to nothing for the previous 89 minutes! I’m sorry if you don’t like what I say – you can call me a dickhead if you really want – but maybe reviewing the match action would just confirm what I have just said – Gerrard was ANONYMOUS.

4. You also contend “Pennant saw a lot of the ball on the right and although he did ok, he consistently failed to deliver any real quality into the box”

If this were the case he wasn’t “ok” was he?

5. You made a cheap jibe at Andrew Johnson – I am sure your readership enjoyed that.

6. You lump Everton with Watford and Wigan – how amusing you must have found that.

7. You defend your manager’s comments. You seem to think this is more important than the performance (lacklustre as it was in it’s failure to break down the “smaller team” (his words not mine)). Naturally you fail to appreciate the irony in David Moyes dignified response to what many would consider an ill-advised comment. Rafa Benitez reiterated his comment later. I think you might find this comment coming back to haunt him as this is just the sort of team motivating comment an opponent needs when facing the “larger” team that Mr Benitez seems to think his team are. Incidentally you might be interested to know that Everton’s record vs Liverpool in League games is better than Arsenal’s and that Man Utd have the edge on Liverpool in head-to-head meetings. You then support your manager (how admirable) with a series of cheap jibes aimed at Everton – factually inaccurate, gramatically incorrect, basically fatuous.

Finally you refer to Everton fans as intellectually challenged. Maybe you need to look in the mirror my friend before you decide to publish cheap taunts for the benefit of fellow Liverpool supporters and behave like a human being.

I welcome your entirely objective response, should you be big enough to volunteer it.

Toffee Dan

Toffee Dan, you make some good points but I think you’ll find my answer to most of them are already contained within the blog. However;

1. We did dominate possession but that isn’t always enough to earn a victory. I think you’ll find that I also said we didn’t use it effectively and were lacking quality, so you’ve just made the same point.

2. I put the emphasis on the word “smaller” to reiterate the managers words and because I agree with him, as is obvious in the rest of the blog.

3. Gerrard didn’t have a great game but I would have thought it was obvious that I was referring to his efforts in general terms not specifically in this game. This is further emphasized by the fact that I also mentioned Sissoko and he wasn’t even playing!

4. Pennant didn’t deliver any quality crosses into the box but he did deliver some ok ones and the rest of his game was ok. Ok?

5. It wasn’t a cheap jibe, it was the truth.

6.I lump Everton with Watford and Wigan because they both came to Anfield and played with the same negative tactics. The only difference is that you guys got away with it and they didn’t.

7. I’m not sure there’s a point to be answered here, except to say that I agree with the managers comment and if you really feel that they will act as a motivational tool for your team, then perhaps you should be thanking him. Outside of my cheap jibes, I also made some valid points to support the point, which I notice you have failed to address.

On your last point regarding my reference to intellectually challenged Everton fans. No I don’t need to look in the mirror, I only need to look at some of the stuff they post on this site and on some of the Everton messageboards for ample prove of it, perhaps you should check them out for yourself.

i can’t believe that so many bitters read this page, let alone get login names and passwords so they can leave their rubbish thoughts on a liverpool site! surely you guys must have somewhere else online to chat about your club. the fact of the matter is that rafa did not mean what all the everton fans seem to think. you guys are reacting like angry teenagers with no self confidence. he was simply frustrated with the way everton played. he used the words “smaller clubs” because that is what the smaller clubs come to do at anfield – they play for a draw. they do not come to win the game. honestly, in what way is everton a big club? oh, and daveinoak seems to be forgetting a few FA cups, Euro super cups, League Cups, and a uefa cup, but no hard feelings.

Rafa did not make this comment in order to incite all you bitters up. he was just pointing out a fact about the way you played the game. big f****** deal.

Haha, just when you think Evertonians couldn’t get any thicker, one of them responds to an article about their smaltime status with a user name called ‘murderingscum’

Thanks for proving Rafa’s point, you sad, pathetic little mongrel.

Forever in our shadow.

Been a RED for 35yrs and could not stop myself after I saw this negative advert for our club.
To admit that the ‘measure’ of our big club is how much money we have to spend and then say we need to sell out to buy players due to the lack of class in the team at present is a rediculous admission and makes us look fools to the other side of the park.
Sure we have won lots of cup trophies in the past by big spending (CL IS a cup for gods sake ) but you measure a club’s success by winning the league which we must admit we have miserably failed to do and as SG says, showing a pic of the league table to your grandkids where we were always 4th and nearly won is no good to us.
We have won alot so why stoop to the level of aimless insults at supporters who respected the Hillsborough event and respected Shankly’s statue when our supporters desecrated Dixie Dean’s memorial.
I love this club but if people like you feel so insecure as to believe this is the way to address rivalries when all you need to do is point to the Trophy Room – count me out.
Yes we will get the money which will pay for a chance at winning the big one after decades trying but it will be because we sold our great tradition to do it when the Moores family have enough money and clout to do it themselves – if they want to.
Maybe you are disappointed at lus osing against that lot at goodison last time but thats not an excuse for this type of insulting insecure language.
keep it real

Well Gerry you have definately taken some flack over your last blog. My small piece of advice for what it is worth: DO NOT EVER CHANGE.
This is your fucking webpage and you go ahead and say whatever you want. If you ever cross a line that I think you shoudn’t have, then I might stop visiting your site. That will probably never happen though.
Unless I am mistaken the purpose of this website is for you to vent your spleen, make suggestions, offer discussion points and encourage feedback from anyone, no matter who they support, or what they think. I think this is admirable. I respect the fact that you never try to stop anyone from airing their views, and encourage open debate.
For the record, here is my opinion on the game. Blueshite supporters please take note, this is an OPINION, don’t get your sad noses bent out of joint by it:
1 Everton defended liked a bunch of scared little fags.
2 They needed to because they were the worst team on the field.
3 Everton is a tiny club, with a small petty little bunch of followers who get pissed off because they haven’t truly competed in anything for a LONG TIME.
4 You may have 102 years of top-flight history, but that just means 102 years of mediocre football.
5 I hope you keep putting nine players behind the ball for the rest of the season and see where it gets you.
6 Don’t Everton fans have their own blog? Surely there’s a website where ten or twelve Blueshite supporters are wanking each other off about “a great result on Saturday”. Go there, leave us alone.
Go on ya Gerry, keep telling it like it is.

Griffrocks,
Thanks for your well thought out, well written opinion – not! You are exactly the type of individual I am referring to above that ruins the game for everyone else, full of anger and hostility, us and them mentality. I think you need to go on an anger management course. Also its easy to insult people from the safety of your computer isn’t it!
Fair play to Gerry he does allow contrary views to be expressed. I came on here because its more interesting having a debate with opponents rather than being on an Everton site where everyone is agreeing about something. I’ll be interested to see the new brand of exciting attacking football that Mr Benitez is obviously going to employ at the Nou Camp, so we can see how ‘big teams’ play?

Hi Gerry. I don’t want to comment about your remarks concerning our fellow Liverpool club and its supporters; but as usual your analysis of the game was spot-on.

I’ve been critical of Alonso’s commitment, effort and creativity, but always get jumped on by fellow Kopbloggers. So I was interested when you said he had a poor game on Saturday. I agree, but I don’t agree when you say he’s “one of our few quality players”. I think this side – the best we’ve put on the pitch since the Dalglish managerial spell – has quality running all through it. But Alonso is the weakest link. He flatters to deceive, being elegant and comfortable on the ball. But, as on Saturday, when we desperately needed some crucial inventiveness, he failed to deliver even one telling pass. You only have to watch Scholes in action week after week, in the same role, to see how ordinary Alonso really is.

Gerry, I’ve been thinking long and hard about this one, but as you say the truth hurts. The only problem I have is that I thought all we deserved was a draw. I thought this game highlighted some real lack of desire in several players.

1. Pennant is not good enough to play for Liverpool on a regular basis, he is soft in tackles and should only be a squad player. I’ve waited this long and I still don’t rate him.

2. God forbid what I’m about to say but SG was ordinary on Saturday, his megre contribution left Xabi in tatters, luckly I only get to write about SG’s bad ones once a year, if that.

3. And this is where the truth hurts, Everton were not the only team playing for a draw, the substitution made by Mr B left me stunned. I love Robbie and he should have been on the park 30 minutes earlier. However he used him as a time wasting sub with about 5 minutes to go.

4. The first thing that would have come into my mind as a player on boths sides would have been, oh well it’s over. This in no way is showing disrespect to Robbie, what would he think when the team is bereft of ideas and he’s given 5 minutes to wind down the clock.

5. Gerry I like your attempt at rallying the troops, but sadly just mentioning Everton gives them the reason to exist. They did there bit in what I thought was a rather drab derby game but I think they came out happier.

Keep up the good work Gerry debates what it’s all about.

Cheers for the comments guys, as gaz and griffocks say in their above comments, its all about debate.

Thank you Gerry for your dignified reply,

To those that ask if we have our own blogs/forums – of course we do. We also read Newsnow!

Keep it clean lads, reserve your bile for something shocking and unacceptable.

TD

All joking aside, I still remember how our blue neighbours supported us through Hillsborough. The FA cup final in 89 is burned into my mind too.

Now I’m the first to call them blueshite when talking to mates about them, but that is purely on a football level. I actually have a lot of respect for the blue half of Merseyside, for me Hillsborough brought out the best in them, and us.

“some people say that football is a matter of life and death…….I can assure you that its much more important than that” – variations on a theme quoted by the late great shanks at various stages. Some forget that he said this before the two lowest points in our clubs history.

Have we lost all sense of the past, apart from the memories that suit us? Surely it is more important to think of Hillsborough than our league titles, cl’s and FA cups. No one died when we won this stuff. If this is the case we should honor our blue cousins contribution during these difficult times instead of blasting them with cheap insults. Or at least acknowledge the part they played in our past.

They too lost family, supported our call for a ban on the S*n and shared our rage at how families of the 96 were treated by the authorities and by the lies, bullshit and cover ups which followed. And guess what, most of them still do.

I’ll unleash hell on chelshit, or the mancs, or anyone else. But I haven’t forgotten, and wont forget, the friends who stood by us when we experienced our darkest hour.

Our reclaim the kop movement probably should include a sub section for reclaim our pride. I remember a time when we weren’t so bitter and cutting – when we had some class…..

Maybe I’m just getting old, but sometimes I despair.

YNWA.

p.s. Rafa wasn’t around for this part of the clubs history so it couldn’t have affected him, and he is quite possibliy unaware of the links between the clubs because of this. No excuse though, he should know better, or at least be briefed by someone at the club.

However, some of us were around then……..have you forgotten already?

We lost plainly because we could NOT break down Everton’s defence. Why?… I can plainly say that it is because Crouchie did not do his job well enuf. He had to win balls… he had to hold up play… he had to put in shots.. but he lost his composure too many times… our passes were not up to mark.. we have to admit our mistakes…

Rafa explains his comments in the following link.
icLiverpool

In this context he refers to any club outside the top 4 as small/smaller clubs. I don’t think his intent was to cause offense.

Great Blog Gerry!

Even though what Rafa said is without a doubt true, i don’t think he meant it in the way it came out, it gave me a laugh nevertheless.

I’m sure Shankly would be laughing in his grave if he heard his comments… in the words of Bill Shankly..

“There are two great teams in Liverpool: Liverpool and Liverpool Reserves”

“If everton were playing at the bottom of my garden, i’d draw the curtains”

Enough said me thinks.

Hi everyone.
Just a quick note to mention that it looks like the Gillett deal is about to be closed. Interesting to see how this is going to turn out.

Hyde frm JPN

As always I enjoyed reading your blog and it gave me a good laugh. The uproar it caused among Evertonians clearly points to one thing and that is their inferiority complex towards our beloved club. If what you wrote wouldn’t be the truth, they wouldn’t have reacted. Whenever I read something sarcastic about us on any rival site I simply smile and move on. Poor old Everton. Lacking any sense of humor too.

I just posted the below, on my Vital Liverpool site so I thought I might put a copy here as well. There will most definately be a blog to follow later.

American duo George Gillett and Tom Hicks have reached an agreement to buy Liverpool in a deal thought to be worth £470m.

It says: “Kop is supportive of the current executives and the football team management at Liverpool to provide stability to the club.”

Gerry, anything on the horizon concerning Tesco’s,Knowsley council and everton, it’s mind blowing, the outlet’s and money making source’s the blueshite will have,imagine walking into Tesco down the “phil neville” aisle looking for bargain’s or browsing the “michael arteta” delicatessan for something exotic like stuffed alan stubbs with carsley,sage and thyme who cares about George jnr and Tom Hicks when you have all this.
We could be very well living in the blueshite’s shadow,especially if Knowsley council build a block of flats right next to the new ground in stanley park,aptly named ” We are not bitter and not small height’s”, a quite nervous red

In response to ( daveinoak ) i’m just glad you’re not teaching my kid’s, you sound 1 step up from SIMIAN, Liverpool might not win anything this season,but you see the thing is you shower of gibbering fuckin ape’s are used to it, we are not.
By the way dont forget to water and feed your 5 monkey’s, sorry your mate’s,and give them plenty of hay tonight, it’s going to be 5 below zero.
Oh and congratulation’s on your advancement from P.G. TIP’S advert’s, way to go hairy arse

What a charming – and illiterate – chap you are, theredman.

Nice one Rick or as your parent’s called you DICK as in head, anyone who think’s Alonso is an ordinary player has got to have the brain power and thinking capacity of a dead owl, by the way thank’s for the compliment “illiteread”.

Thanks for proving the point, theredman: “think’s”, “parent’s”. Maybe you should atend some of daveinoak’s infant classes.

Nice one DICK,try looking at the way you spell attend nah,nah,nah dont you just love it when a gobshite make’s a cunt of himself. join me in the infant classes.

Lighten up, theredman! It was just a deliberate mistake to see if you could spot it. Let’s get back to discussing FOOTBALL!

Ok Lick?

murdering scum do me a favor go an shag your mam tell you what meet me anytime am willing to go 8days a week lad anytime me an you straightner all day please please please get back intouch an LETS GET IT ON NAME THE TIME DATE AN PLACE LAD hope to here of you soon you sad twat that supports a team with no history