Happy Blue Year!

And a Happy New Year to all our readers!

A very happy New Year to you and your family Christine and to the wider Everton family on here and everywhere.

Sometimes differing opinions & views but one driving passion. We won't be moved and we're coming again.

But that's my more recent experience. From the 1984 Cup Final, I always remember the noise, atmosphere and sheer jubilation in a pub near Wembley Park station that for the life of me I can't remember the name of or find to this day!! I too have photos of that day. As on a previous thread, the day I nearly got abandoned as a kid when my dad tried (but failed) to invade the pitch at the end with no consideration for my whereabouts or welfare. I wonder where we get it from!!

In 1984 we took over the Bonnington Hotel on Southampton Row, still hotel of choice for London games.

To this day we talk about singing the Lineker song to the tune of Living Doll in 1986 until we were hoarse.

Brian, Plymouth 1975, simply the best away day ever.

Hope to see a few in there and will try not to make friends with too many Brighton fans on the way up!

Behind the station as you look towards Wembley stadium.

“You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” —Hillary DePiano, playwright and author

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” —William E. Vaughan, journalist and author.

“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” —Rainer Maria Rilke, poet

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot, novelist

“The sky isn’t the limit—the sky has no limit.” —Sarah Barker, astrophysicist

“Life’s not about expecting, hoping, and wishing; it’s about doing, being, and becoming.” —Mike Dooley, author and speaker

“Next time you are discussing an important issue with someone, ask yourself, ‘Is this a monologue or dialogue?’ Personally, I’m only interested in the latter.” —Reese Witherspoon, actor

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.” —Dan Millman, gymnast, coach, and lecturer.

Happy new year to you, yours and to all Evertonians. wherever you may be.

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May I wish you, the family and all fellow blues a better 2022 and a safe and prosperous one.

Just sayin’.

Warmest wishes to the entire TW mob and all true Blues everywhere for a happy, healthy and fulfilling 2022.

Take care. Enjoy and, be safe.

Nice touch Graham.

Happy New Year!

Andy #39, spot on sir

Bill, yes the one on the corner near Lime Street station.

Tony Dunn @9; with you on the Tattershall / Hispanola thing. Maybe we can have our own version lined up next to BMD? Convert the old Isle of Man Ferry?

Thought I had got them mixed up. The other pub I go to when I go back is The Old Post Office as the people who run it, Stan Jones and his wife, are good friends. I was at school with Stan and he used to be in the group we used to go around with later and we were both at each other’s weddings..

You wouldn’t recognise The Post Office now, it’s gone all modern with TV’s all round the pub catering for younger clientele and I don’t think they do meals there anymore but not sure about that, Stan and his staff attracted a lot of customers with the meals they served and he will be missed by a lot of people who drank there including me and my mates, The Post Office was our meeting place on our Monday night pub crawls.

By the way Bill it is called The Post Office, The Poste House is in Cumberland St which runs down from Dale St. to Victoria St, the Beatles were rumoured to have drank there when they were starting off.

We went to Stoke a couple of weeks later and the support was the most insane I can ever recall. A lot can change in a few weeks.

Best wishes to you and your family, I look forward to seeing you again.

Any idea why so many went - and why it seems to have gone down in blue folklore? Perhaps because so many non-regulars made that trip?

I plan to be be in Liverpool around 11am and will be around town for an hour or 2 before and after the match.

And Mohammed Ali was training in Hyde Park, surrounded by Evertonians.

The previous cup final in 1965 also coincided with a Dylan concert in the city, I believe. Another team won that day!

All the best to everyone, and nice to see you posting Chris W, hopefully it’s not long before Wembley stadium, is once again tangled up in royal blue🤞

I tend to emerge a bit this time of the year. I hope you’re ok.

Just listening to Rhiannon Giddens, the Felice Brothers, And James McMurtry new albums. Drinking Glen Morangie. Feeling fine.

Just did my first footing responsibilities.

More immediate to me just now than Everton FC sad to say.

Things change though.

I hope you and your family are well.

Thanks for your comments on Stan and his wife Marie. That was their 3rd pub, the first one was The Vernon on Dale Street, opposite the Mersey Tunnel. Their next one was the Horse and Jockey in Melling.

I was surprised he went into that business after the Merchant Navy as he couldn't hold his drink very well when he was younger.

The last time I met Stan was in 2010: I had gone back home for a funeral. Unfortunately, I ended up in the Royal, had to sign myself out to go to the funeral, and the comments were I looked worse then my brother-in-law in the coffin.

I’ll admit that parts of the last year were as low and as frustrated and as I’ve felt as a Blue. Time will tell if 2022 offers us any more hope that EFC will get back on track towards where we want to be but I remain proud of the fact that we provide a forum for the Blue diaspora to share in the highs and lows of following this dysfunctional but beloved club of ours.

Best wishes to you and yours for the New Year!

However, she and I wish all Evertonians everywhere good health, safe times and we do believe that Rafa will get us going in the direction we believe we should be going in - NSNO to you all - for 2022...

Something wrong, something not quite right, but this all changed on the night we beat Arsenal, when loads of people left the ground and continued to sing in the street.

Then we were absolutely awful at Palace, followed by a real rolling up of the sleeves at Chelsea, which seemed to be really appreciated by the same people who had left London four days earlier full of hate and despair.

I'm feeling optimistic, but I always do once I've got away from Christmas for another 340 days, so I just hope Christine bringing in the New Year brings us all a bit of luck, and we can hopefully look forward to a bit more unity (a nice thread every so often is a good thing, Michael!) which will only mean one thing.

Best wishes for the New Year to everyone, but especially to Lyndon and Michael, and hopefully 2022 brings a lot more happiness to us all when we are watching Everton play.

This year will be a good Blue Year for us, and the best of health and good fortune to everyone.
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