Season 2011-12 Fan Articles

FAN-tastic

It?s been 3 days since that debacle down at Wembley and I keep replaying it in my mind, day and night, until quite frankly I?m becoming more and more unhinged. I have a recurring, and completely illogical, feeling that the FA will find out that one of the Liverpool players was ineligible to play in the semi or that King Kenny was videoed passing a packed brown envelope to Howard Webb after the game. Then we are awarded our place in the Final. But it won?t happen and in a way it wouldn?t really help. For the simple reason that we had too many players that didn?t turn up at one of the most important games in our history. We were the architects of our own downfall. And by ?we? I mean the players and management.

Because quite frankly, the only people who didn?t let the side down were you and me?? the fans. If Wembley victories were dependent on how the fans behaved then we would already have one collective FA Cup winners? medal with another on its way next month. It just isn?t fair but then what in life is?

For those of us ?lucky? to be inside Wembley we did everything we could to support/lift/encourage the team bar actually running onto the pitch and getting stuck in ourselves. We?d already had hideously early journeys down from Merseyside before the ?dawn chorus? had even started tuning up. Most of us probably hadn?t slept properly all week let alone on Friday night. Most of us probably haven?t slept much since.

It?s bad enough losing a game we really could have won but to our local rivals it is just unforgiveable.

But the really galling after-effect of the match is the way we have to listen to the same old pathetic excuses being wheeled out from players and management. As if we should be grateful that we at least got to another semi. That they are devastated and feel sorry for the fans. That they appreciate the support we give them. How they thought it was finally ?our time?. Etc etc etc ad nauseum.

AND how ?we? all now need to crack on with the remaining games and just aim to finish above ?that shower?. Starting with an away game against Man U next Sunday?! Who are you kidding?!

I?m usually a glass half-full person but right now my glass is cracked and leaking badly. And a huge black cloud is still hovering over my head. It?s a good job I live on my own!

As for the excuses/reasons/platitudes we keep hearing from the players etc, well they just leave me cold. My memory of the match will hopefully fade with time but the memories of last Saturday which will remain with me are:

The hundreds of Blues at Lime Street lining up at 6am waiting to board our trains for a date with destiny??

The thousands and thousands of us Blues fans singing outside and inside the stadium willing our team on to deliver our own form of justice??

The two little lads outside Wembley Central, dressed all in blue and white, running up and down the payment waving a huge Everton flag and singing Blues songs??AFTER we?d lost.

The feeling we all shared together as we waited for the train to take us home??no words were needed.

And finally inside Wembley Central station before the charter train arrived, the young Evertonian lad who was shouting back at a bunch of smug koppites. They?d obviously said something which only smug koppites can say. The young Blues fan was shouting ?I don?t care, I don?t care!? His voice crackled with emotion and you just knew he did care... too much. And that?s why we?re Blues. And that?s why it hurts.

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