I'm Sorry, I feel I have to reply on behalf of my Everton friend. You clearly don't understand the history of our club. Let me enlighten you with a few of the many facts about Everton.
* Founder members of the Football League in 1888
* Founder members of the Premier League in 1992
* First club presented with the League Championship trophy
* First club to be presented with League winners medals
* First club to stage an FA Cup Final in 1894
* First English club to go on an overseas tour in 1905
* First club to build a purpose-built football stadium
* First club to have a four-side stadium with two-tier stands
* First club to have a stadium with a three-tier stand
* First club to issue a regular match programme
* First club to have a player score 60 league goals
* First club to wear numbered shirts, 1-11 in 1933
* First club to install dugouts
* First club to install floodlights
* First club to install under soil heating
* First club to play 4,000 top-flight games
* First club to amass 5,000 league points
* First club to play 100 seasons in the top flight
* First British club to stage a World Cup semi-final
* Have been in the top division of English football longer than ANY other side
There are more trivial ones I could quote and I haven't mentioned titles or cups but you get the picture. This club has more History than any other club in the country and Everton fans are rightly proud of this fact. So to compare us to the likes of Wolves and Burnley is misguided and foolish.
I will admit that the love of that history combined with 30 years of frustration and over excitement has led to some ill advised, condescending and downright nasty comments by some of my fellow supporters, but I am sure you will agree there has been an equal amount of vitriol on behalf of some of the Southampton fans.
We all love our clubs and we want what's best for them but there is no need to turn it into a hate campaign.
To clear up some other points made on this forum regarding the so called "ambition" of the club. As I see it, a site on the Mersey waterfront has been identified for a 55/60,000 seater stadium which with Everton's large fan base it will fill, together with a massive improvement in corporate revenue (which is nearly non existent at Goodison) and stadium naming rights will massively increase revenue for the club to be able to compete at a much higher level financially. Obviously the biggest resource is the fan-base and the new stadium.
As for poaching managers, that's football. It happens. Personally I hope he doesn't go back for any of your players, Its not that they aren't any good but just that we would have to pay vastly over inflated prices.
finally, before you say it, no I don't have a job as I am retired after working for the same company for 30 years. I went to my first match in 1971.
