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Now I see why @Dr. Gonzo has a cat. Gets it to do his dirty work for him

Sorry to hear that mate, lots of love. Bloody hell. Never heard of anything like that before, cannot imagine what the bloke is going through. Was it a stray dog? Oddly (perhaps) being careful around dogs (especially stray ones) was always instilled in me by my mum growing up, I don't know why but that caution is one of those random things that have stuck with me in life.

Sorry for your loss

Really sorry to hear that mate.. my condolences

Shit man, hate that. Sorry for your loss and condolences to your family If you need a chat, give me a PM.

Couple of pictures from the above getaway... Rotterdam train station: Main square in Amsterdam View out in to Rotterdam from our hotel:

I'm only messing about mate, hence the ninja face. All generations of the fanbase are the lifeblood of the football club. Things change over generations though. The kids waving flags today will be 50 year old men and women themselves one day sneering at whatever the next generations start doing at football matches. It's the circle of life. I definitely get where you're coming from overall. I personally don't think plastic flags are going to make a huge difference to anything, if I was there on Saturday I'd probably have been reluctant to wave mine as a self-aware grown man, but probably would have joined in to acknowledge some of our fans trying to make an effort to improve the atmosphere. But why I'm seeing it as a positive is that I'd rather see people trying to do something than nothing at all. They got a lot of kickback on social media before the game and tweeted that if it goes down like a lead balloon they'll try something else. The fact that they've tried out plastic flags specifically is irrelevant to me, what matters is they're trying to do something positive for the fans and the team. This is the key point though, it wasn't done by the club itself. It was done by a small independent group of fans who put a group together called The Originals towards the end of last season. This isn't a commercial thing by the club, even if they've obviously had to approve it being set up. I'm all for it, Goodison's atmosphere has been criticised by our fans and other fans over the painful last few years, someone is trying to do something about it and if their first attempt was a bit cringeworthy then so be it, they've said they'll try other things to help get the place rocking again if the first things they try don't work.

You know what, I probably am overreacting, so I'll hold my hands up and withdraw my criticism. Sometimes I allow the daft Reds' posts on Twitter and elsewhere to colour my perception of what gets posted on here, it happens. I have no desire to read such sickening blasphemy as what you've used to finish this post.

Every club in England tbh

Football is supposed to be fun. What's the fucking point in going to a game for the prices you have to pay these days if all you want to do is grumble about how American and commercialised your club is becoming when a small group of fans have made a small, simple effort to improve the atmosphere for the benefit of the team? Everton do nothing for the atmosphere = worst fans in the world, shit atmosphere, no wonder the team look nervous when they're playing at home. Everton fans do something proactive for the atmosphere = that's so forced, that's the type of thing you see in America, oh my god all those flags are made of plastic, that makes all of these match-going Everton fans "plastic". Just goes to show you shouldn't pay too much heed to negative opinions because a lot of the time it's just down to people inherently wanting to moan and criticise everything they see in the world around them, or it's just people like @LFCMadLad who criticised our fans last year and actually called them the worst fans in the world because they were groaning at our poor performances, and now likes a post about how the atmosphere has to come from the team. Go figure. The best thing to come out of this is the irony of @NairobiRed calling match-going Blues plastic fans for waving flags at a football match .

Yes, if that's the state of the fanbase that's the state of the fanbase. A good atmosphere comes from the innate feeling of the fans, you can't create that with flags. It's all so false, so cheesy and commercial.

Personally think the Reds edge it.

@Batard

@Teso dos Bichos

Saw this today. Just in time for Spa...

Diaz is back bois

Kante is one of the best box to box midfielders in Europe, I’m not surprised he made a massive impact. I think most sides would look much better with him in the midfield. He’s an absolute beast. I also thought Pulisic and Pedro both looked very good. When Pedro is in form like that, I love watching him play because you can see him just reading the play so well. Although I don’t enjoy it as much when it’s against us and he’s causing problems for us. Where Chelsea’s problems lie, imo, are at the back. Mostly at CB, where Zouma (who looked quite good at Everton last season) just looks like a mistake waiting to happen. And Christensen is a kid, he’s a good kid but it’s a position where experience matters and sometimes he’ll show naivity. And they’ve also got problems at the striker situation, but they’ve also got a kid they’re developing. But if Giroud or Tammy were better finishers and their good chances were at least on target, there’s a good chance that’d have ended with a FT result in Chelsea’s favour. That might be a bit harsh because Giroud scored, but he also spurned good chances. And Tammy missed a sitter after winning that (non) penalty (also that was the moment where I lost all faith in VAR, although I think the summer should have taught me that - but that’s besides the point). But there was plenty to be encouraged with for Chelsea. Yeah, there are obvious issues - but there’s a lot of positives about the current squad and a long season to work out those issues. Looks like Chelsea have a bit of an easier run after starting with 2 matches against our top 6. I think they’ll pick up plenty of points

My Grandad just died. He was one of the greatest people I ever knew. I just want to go home right now

Looked more like Chubbs from Happy GIlmore

Had my mate down from Notts yesterday for a stopover before going on to Coventry to say goodbye to one of his old workmates... turns out his mate got bitten by a dog a couple of weeks ago and after giving him his tetanus they took some blood samples to check everything was ok and that was on a Friday, by Monday they called him back in to tell him the results had shown up a problem and he has been given just 2 weeks left to live... unreal.. he says he feels fine and is still laughing and joking like he normally would, told my mate to hurry up because his time is nearly up and all that... only in his 40's as well.. How devastating is that..