"Get a grip it's pantomime.... his badge kissing will have come as a result of him getting some serious personal shit flung at him by the fans."
- Doesn't matter, he should know better to kiss the badge and it wouldn't surprise me if he deeply regretted it.
"He was sold - do you honestly think we tried or intended to keep him? He wasn't even used in the team photos before he was sold."
- No, of course I don't, nor did I ever elude to that.
Just to clarify, I understand why he left Everton, and I would have done exactly the same to further my career. I have nothing against him for that. It's the shit house actions from him that followed his departure.
He can call himself a blue, go to all the games he wants to, dress his kids in full blue strips and paint their bedrooms whatever fucking colour he likes, he's not a blue, not to me.
Call me bitter, but I have my reasons and I'm not so easily lead into changing my mind so quickly, just because the possibility of signing him is now real.
I saw a poll on Twitter yesterday that 80% of voters agreed that they want him back to the club. had that poll been 6-12 months ago and it'd have been a different story.