Could you just as easily have been a blue?

[Kvarme Ate My Food]

Three of my grandparents were blues.

I went with the other one.

Thank f***.

[Billy Talbot]

One of my Grandads was. He turned one of my cousins.

[Kvarme Ate My Food]

Just imagine it.

Everything would be different. Everything.

Their whole outlook on life is nothing like ours.

[JonShar]

My older brother is a blue, and he's a huge part of the reason I wanted to be a red when I was about 4.

[DecidedByPoll]

My dad was a blue, and went to loads of their games but binned them off when they sacked Johnny Carey in a taxi.

[smithdown]

Catholic family but always all reds by blood. I have often walked by their ground and felt an odd chill thinking how different it must be for them, how wrong it is. I couldn't be one. Just wouldn't recognise myself. I can't do the walk for a start.

[Chewie]

see, not from the city but am a red cos my dad's a red and basically it's all I can remember.. have tried to bring up my own kids with the same level of open-mindedness and opportunity to think for themselves ;-)

 

can't imagine if any of them grow up to be anything other than a red..

 

anyone go against their dad / mum on being a red, and how would you take it if then, in turn, one of your kids didn't follow in your footsteps?

[Stanley Leisure]

My oldest brother's a blue. He left home when I was 9 or 10 and not that interested in football, the remaining brother was us and so it came to pass.

 

It can't be stressed how terrible being a blue would have been. They hate us, they hate football and they hate life.

[Red Yoda]

Go and wash your mouth out with soap and water immediately

[meredithmathieson]

 

My oldest brother's a blue. He left home when I was 9 or 10 and not that interested in football, the remaining brother was us and so it came to pass.

It can't be stressed how terrible being a blue would have been. They hate us, they hate football and they hate life.

Most of them seem to actually hate Everton, too. Bizarre.

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[muleskinner]

Uncle (dead now) and cousin are blues. Can't imagine life like that.

[kop205]

My dad was a blue, and went to loads of their games but binned them off when they sacked Johnny Carey in a taxi.

Wasn't it Harry Caterick got sacked in a taxi?

 

My dad's dad was a blue but wasn't really that arsed and hardly ever went.

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[Stevie H]

Just imagine it.

Everything would be different. Everything.

Their whole outlook on life is nothing like ours.

 

you'd never have met your wife and wouldn't have kids. or any real friends.

 

being a wool everton was never really a question for me. you went liverpool or united round our way.

[Sion]

Always find it strange when kids don't support their dad's side.

 

Grandad went to both Everton and Liverpool home games when he was young in the 20s and 30s and for whatever reason picked Liverpool over Everton.

 

To be fair if the footy cost a couple of quid I'd probably go watch Everton too. Although back then it was probably great to go watch Dixie Dean and appreciate him as one of the best about. Nowadays you'd want him to snap his leg.

[blago]

My uncle was blue and so are two of his three sons. All the rest of the family are reds.

[Jarg Armani]

My Grandad was a blue and took my dad to both. Thankfully my dad saw the light or I'd be an awful human now.

 

We should get presents for whoever it was who made us a red instead a blue. There should be a day for it every year.

[mrjunk]

but blood is red no?

 

My Dad is a blue. To this day he views my brother and I as a pair of anti-christs

[Falconhoof]

There were no blues in the family.

But when my brother became a born again Christian after violence, strong drugs and prison years, he started to go weird and say he preferred watching Man U because they played better football, or any good team in Spain.

[Earl Hafler]

Three of my grandparents were blues.

I went with the other one.

Thank f***.

 

There was an Everton a few miles away from where we lived when i started supporting Liverpool in the late 70s. About a dozen houses and a pub.

I was never going to support them.

[Bogman]

Back in the day, due to my locale, it was Luton or it seemed Man U.

[Cobs]

only if Everton won the European Cup in 1977 and then signed Kenny Dalglish

[PhilM]

My family are half Liverpool, half Mancs, so it could have been much worse.

[chiefy]

see, not from the city but am a red cos my dad's a red and basically it's all I can remember.. have tried to bring up my own kids with the same level of open-mindedness and opportunity to think for themselves ;-)

 

can't imagine if any of them grow up to be anything other than a red..

 

anyone go against their dad / mum on being a red, and how would you take it if then, in turn, one of your kids didn't follow in your footsteps?

Like you, I am not from the City. My dad is not interested in football so no influence from there. My neighbours when I was a little kid were big reds from Liverpool and used to take me to some of the aways.

 

I gave my kid no choice. I couldn't face the risk of him choosing United or Chelsea. He is now 10 and loved his first Anfield experience last year. It is special sharing this with him.

[DecidedByPoll]

Wasn't it Harry Caterick got sacked in a taxi?

 

My dad's dad was a blue but wasn't really that arsed and hardly ever went.

Nah, Catterick took over. One of the things that my dad took issue with was that Moores had already appointed Catterick behind Carey's back.

 

My Dad never suited being a blue he's too (annoyingly at times) positive. He was adamant that we'd still win at half time in Instanbul. It was the first and last time he's ever been right about something like that.

[libero]

only if Everton won the European Cup in 1977 and then signed Kenny Dalglish

This.