Rhapsody in Blue. Congratulations to everyone at Everton and the architects, contractors, construction workers and all who made this magnificent new home/instant iconic landmark at Bramley-Moore Dock happen. Great for the Club, the city, for English football, for jobs. #EFC 🏟️🙌
I wrote about football, family, memory and loss. About going to watch Everton with my dad, taking my son to Goodison for a final pilgrimage and why that place means so much to so many of us 💙>> https://t.co/6thTp61E9Z
18/
Thirdly, in a world which is often dark and stormy, be the lighthouse.
Where this is division, build bridges.
Where people feel lost, reach out a hand.
Where there is a sense of hopelessness, hold on to hope.
After a video of Everton fans went viral this evening abusing the playing squad, we wanted to point out this was just a minority of supporters. Whilst we do not speak for everyone, we’d like to think Everton fans do not condone this sort of behaviour. Performances and results have not gone as well as we would have all hoped, but our support for the players and staff will not waiver. A frustrated fanbase but also a fanbase that will support the team no matter how far 💙
@GiuliaBould It makes me sick. They don’t represent me or any evertonian I know. Every club has got a section of stupidity but it’s shameful when ours do things like this.
Who knows what the children have seen on the news or heard at home this week, or over the coming weeks.
When we get back to school we must show them the value of tolerance, inclusivity, empathy and respect.
Right from day one, in every classroom. Show them what really matters.
I have never forgotten telling man after man in cell after cell how long they would get in prison for the 2011 London riots.
Once enthusiasm for lobbing bins at police has waned, once your pals have been arrested, once the booze & adrenaline subside - you realise.
Then regret.
Victoria Derbyshire, "Look at what you're doing to young people.. You're going to force them to do National Service.. You've tripled their tuition fees.. You froze the threshold at which they have to start paying back their student loan.. You've extended the student loan repayment terms from 30 to 40 years.. Meaning many graduates will be paying off their debts in their 60s.. You've invested only a third of what was recommended by the catch up tsar to help kids catch up after the pandemic.. Rents rose nearly 9% in the last year.. And houses at their most expensive since 1876.. Have the Tories got a problem with young people?"
Mark Harper, "No, not at all"
Fucking cheek of it. Young have had so much taken away from them - can’t go find work in Europe, can’t afford a house, can’t afford education, no public spaces to hang out, kids growing up in poverty. The people who need to ‘give back to the communities’ is your thieving lot
James Cleverly, "National Service could be uniformed public services.. Special constable.. On call fire-fighter.. Emergency health responder.. Environmental protection.. Flood defence work"
Cleverly is describing actual jobs, that should be paid for work. Instead the Conservative party wants 18 year olds to work for free 🤷♂️
And imagine a team of fire fighters heading out on call with their 'volunteer' on call fire fighter.. Or someone having a heart attack and your 'volunteer' turns up as an emergency health responder instead of a paramedic 🤦♂️
🇺🇸 "If Manchester United is the biggest football club in the world then Everton without doubt is the greatest." - Former Everton Goalkeeper, @TimHowardGK after being inducted into the @soccerhof 💙