MikeO

Was a hugely embarrassing, verging on shameful, time for the club. I'd honestly have felt prouder to be an Evertonian in the Championship rather than have him at the club; as a Blue you get used to taking a bit of verbal, most of it you roll with because you know you have 150 of history and dignity that few clubs can match to fall back on. For six months we lost that completely for me. Horrible time and a horrible man.

They wanted twelve first time around, so they were actually looking for seventeen in total.

Speaking just for myself obviously; don't know that at all, have never once claimed to know anything, just quoting what the original report said and comparing that to your version of events. They don't add up.

Think you might just've hit on a more rational way of doing it!

Well that's me well and truly put in my place

Garbage. I'll question anyone if I have have questions or disagree with anyone if I disagree, 100% of the time, not 99%. No preferential treatment at all.

Original report said it, "caused a stir among fellow restaurant diners" which would suggest non-club people were present. So, in your view, "somebody" spoke to the Daily Mail, might've been a staff member or a member of the public, but the person chose not to be named or even directly quoted. You don't know who they are but your source says the noise caused was ear shattering, and he's been assured of this! He/she's told you more but you can't give details because you don't want to make it public information, in case there's repurcussions; but the information you've already divulged is OK, less repurcussive repurcussions as a consequence of that I guess.

Point stands, you'd not hear a slap on the head if it was on the other side of a library.

Talking about the other restaurant customers, what's their motivation for not talking about it?

I'm still waiting for one of these "everyone" people to actually come forward and corroborate that. Why has nobody done so do you think? There's also the fact that a blow (hard or soft) to the back of the head actually makes very little noise, so in a public place with all the ambient noise going on the chances of the noise being heard are minimal. Have you ever seen a fight break out in a pub? You see it first or you hear shouting, you don't hear the noise of a slap. That just happens in bad movies. If your story was that Patterson shouted, and that's what drew everyone's attention, it'd be more plausible.

Two points apparently. We're appealing, quite rightly. https://x.com/ALANMYERSMEDIA/status/1777320212229935188

Entitled to your opinion of course, but I still don't see how the whole trip becomes a sham. If I went on holiday with my family and fell out with one of the kids over dinner one day, it wouldn't mean the whole thing was a write-off. The rest of it still happened.

If we'd have started and then stopped it'd more than likely have never been completed.

One incident with one player, whatever you believe the seriousness of it to be, doesn't define the whole trip though does it?

Very good.

What's the "Portugal sham"?

Team has won thirty-five points and the league table says we have twenty-nine, so we're self evidently better than what it says.

Every manager has personal thoughts on it I guess, players always came under their own steam when Moyes was in charge; think the close interaction that gave them with the fans was probably beneficial, but can also see the argument for them arriving together.

Not dyslexic myself so not sure how it manifests but personally, if I'm going to talk about or mention a player whose name I'm unsure of, I google it before typing so I get it right. Would that then not make any dyslexia not relevant? Like if I had maths issues and was unsure on 8x7, so stuck it in a calculator to make sure I had the right answer? Not judging in any way, have no idea what it's like, just wondering.

Everton 2-0 Burnley Calvert-Lewin

*Schoolboy

Wife loved it, god knows how many times she watched each episode, but I reckon I knew every storyline from just walking through the room occasionally

Not wanting to reignite the discussion but this made me laugh...

Just checking the site's working OK, no posts today which is odd....is there anybody there? Or are you all just sulking?

Yup, know the feeling...fortunately home now so rice on the go for a big bowl of chilli, had a sarnie on the way home as well My eating's been so fucked up for the last decade for one reason and another, it's nice to finally have a proper appetite and behaving taste buds