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2010-2011 Season Promise!
I.... Mr A Nicholls hereby promise... by popular demand... to update this site every month during the forthcoming football season!
I will add pictures and answer e mails during this monthly update.
Season Review 2009-2010
If you read my preview to last season I was not far off with my predictions! We never ended mid table but at one stage we were looking at a lot worse and Moyes and the players must be given great credit for even giving us a bit of hope near the closing weeks that we could have once again made Europe. End of the day we probably finished in the correct position, as much as I hate harping on about money facts are we have got very little, the clubs above us have (apart from the shite) so it's gonna be tough to get near the so called big 4 without Blue Bill finding us a buyer.
One plus point was seeing the lovable rats celebrating Europa League qualification and finishing above us!! How the mighty have fallen. Years ago, like it or not they ruled Europe and only a couple of Silver Pots a season was regarded as success, today old Shanks must be turning in his grave! or Gwave as there new boss calls it!
Season Highs:
1.Lescott £22 fucking million quid in the bank. You silly Manc twats.
2.Baines Rodwell and Cahill signing new deals, Arteta and Peanuts take notice and realise how much Lescott's life and career has improved since he left, mind you he did make James Cordon's World Cup programme 
3.Beating Citeh home and away, which proves that money can't buy you passion and hunger.
4.Beating United and Chelsea which proves we can at last take points off the top sides.
Season Lows:
1.Not fucking Lescott off before the Arsenal game, his sulking mood and attitude cost us points early on that ultimately cost us European Football.
2. The defeats to the shite, when everyone bar the players on the pitch knew they were there for the taking. they really are no better than us anymore. Fact!
3. Rafa TFSW leaving Anfield. The bloke was doing a great job and would have had them mid table in 12 months. How the horrible bastard walked into one of Europe's top jobs beggars belief, he won 2 Cup for Liverpool, both on penalty shoot outs, spent about 300 million quid and still had to rely on good ol "Stevie Gee la" to bail them out of the shit week in week out.
4. My appeal to be let back into Goodison after 7 years being rejected. Sad but understandable given I was arrested in Liege which meant I was still regarded as a security risk. (What will be the excuse in 2 weeks when I try again?)
Later we will look at our European tour and mention the World Cup, add some E Mails and photo's and continue to update the site .... as promised!
Keep The Faith!!
Andy
Happy New season!
Thought it would only be right to finally update the site on the eve of the new season!
2008 - 2009 was half decent for us, 5th place and a cup final had most of us thinking we were about to push on and challenge the so called elite "Big 4" What a load of bollox that turned out to be! Once again Bill "I love Everton but I have not got a pot to piss in" Kenwright has let the summer come and go without spending a penny and I honestly think this could be the season when we are found out and slip back into mid table obscurity.
I feel sorry for Moyes he keeps pulling results out of the hat, has to sell to buy and then watch the likes of Tottenham, Sunderland and FFS Wolves outspend us. I am actually a fan of Blue Bill but the time has come to sell up and enjoy a day at the match as the way things are going he will once again become a hate figure at Goodison Park and the bloke does not deserve that in my eyes, his heart is in the right place but his wallet is empty, simple as!
Manchester City are the big I am's this season, money to burn and I'll tell you what if they pay £22 million for Lescott I'll carry him to Eastland's myself. Yes he is a greedy twat but that's football today, loyalty is a thing of the past so why would he be any different? City for all there spending however will win bollock all for a year or two and the way they are wasting money by that time the rich owners may have said "fuck this for a lark" and pissed off to wherever they come from, fingers crossed, as long as the cheque for Lescott has cleared!
Have to mention our 2 trips to Wembley, the first against United was a dream, have never seen United so badly supported at a game there, Blues everywhere and I was lucky enough to secure a 3000 + venue to make sure my fellow Evertonians had a good day away from the nasty Mancs who for some reason are still harping on about Everton Valley. It was a quality atmosphere at Silverspoons and my thanks go to Eddie from Pompey for sorting it. The record bar takings for a game there was £42,000 for the Pompey V Cardiff final, that was smashed by £24 grand and it was no surprise when the owner asked me did I want it for the final!
We had another full house and although the result was not as good the players and fans did Everton Football Club proud, and at the end of the day Chelsea needed it more than us as they try and build a history that us proper clubs already have!
So enjoy the new season, stay out of trouble and log on here weekly as it will be updated whenever time permits!
Book Reviews
It is now 6 years since Scally hit the shops and it's still selling well enough to go into a further re-print, for that I thank all the punters out there who bought it and especially those who took there time to write reviews on sites like Amazon, as these do affect book sales, good and bad depending on the review of course.
I stumbled across the US site yesterday and saw reviews that I have not previously read, one from a fellow author Ian Hough, who wrote a Terrace classic "Perry Boys" Ian is a Manc but now lives in America, who can blame the lad from jibbing Mancland for a better life, it seems to be the in thing at the moment, my old rival "The Wing Commander" did the same and is doing very well abroad according to a few mates who have visited him of late (where's my invite Gary?) I believe even another old enemy Eddie Beef went out there recently but spent more time in jail than on the beach, some things never change with Mr Cornforth!
Anyway back to the reviews, I know Ian reads the sites and keeps in touch so cheers for the review mate, when I get a spare week I'll do the same for you as you know how much I enjoyed your "Buke"
Here are a selection of the reviews Scally has had, if you have not bought it please do so as xmas is coming and Mrs Scally has expensive tastes!
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E Mails
After hundreds (well about half a dozen) requests to publish the E Mails I get I have decide to do so. Unlike one lad with a site similar to mine who I wont name but he supports Chelsea and doesn't like Irish TV Investigators I will also print the bad ones, as I feel your better getting such constructive criticism out in the open!
Name: Anders
Email: ....Subject: General
Message: Hi Andy.
I am writting to you because I would like to get in contact with someone from the Firm(s) around Oldham Athletic. I think we may share some of the same kinds of interests as them.
Ultra White Pride 176
Hooligans of Denmark
Aarhus
AGF
Thank you!
Anders, I have a few mates involved in the scene at Oldham, or Owdem as they call it however before I pass on there details I'd like to know what interests you may share with them. One of the lads I know very well is a cross dresser and likes to pour hot candle wax over his willy, the other is into pet gerbils and plastic tubes, if you know what I mean. Let me know if you share the same interests and I'll errrrr pass on your details... like!
Name: Andreas Platzl
Email:
Subject: Information
Message: Dear Andy!
I´m a lad from Austria and read two of your books. Scally is a fantastic read and not the usual stuff and crap. Besides I follow the english national team whenever it´s possible, but nowadays there are mostly scarfers and other idiots. Bratislava a few years back was the last good turn out. Last year I went to vienna where I met a lad from Bradford, who is a decent chap and obviously totally wrapped up in the scene like me. He was sentenced for his part in the violence with aberdeen a few years back. I´m ever since looking for the CCTV picture with is in your book for my personal photo collection. Maybe it would be possible if you could send it to me or name a adress where I can get it. This would be great.
Keep up the good work and kind regards
Andi
Andi,
Many thanks for such a pleasant e mail, the lad from Bradford does inded sound like a decent "chap", however I would imagine it would be wise for him to unwrap himself from the scene as if he has been to jail already the police may decide to wrap him up in another trial which in this day and age is not good.
In England child killers and rapists have been known to get less jail than some football hooligans, which most of us find strange, but, what the hell do we know?
As for the CCTV picture if it's the one of them and Aberdeen throwing large objects at each other it came from a poor quality police film so doubt it's available as a photo. I'll ask the man at Milo books and let you know.
Name: andy rigby
Email:
Subject: Information
Message: Alright Andy
read the book mate and thought it was a true reflection of what happened at the time.I attended many of the games you covered .Dont agree with your journal of watching the blues on tv though i saw you at Hull and roumers had it you were at standard liege lol.
Best regards m8
I was indeed in Hull and Liege as my ban only covers good old Goodison Park. It seems silly to me that after 7 years Ian Ross still sees it important to ban me, there must surely be more pressing matters going on at the club beside a fat bald 46 year old trying to sneak in to watch us play Fulham at home wearing a ginger wig and pencil skirt? Mind you with the way the gates are dropping I would not be surprised if Mr Ross was sending a car to Scally HQ to pick me up and drive me to home games before the season ends. Here's hoping!
Name: Villa HC
Email:
Subject: You Fuckin Prick
Message: You are fuck all and your book was shit wrote by a nobody read the Hardcore book for a proper footy violence book wrote by proper lads. We have been everywhere and run from noone as you and youre mates no from when we smashed you in the dive of a pub by Lime street. Come to villa and you will get what you deserve another kicking and why do you watch everton when you live in some shit town near Cardiff LOL?
Many thanks for such a well wrote E mail! I wish the lads all the very best with the HC book, why Villa or any firm need 2 books though is beyond me, unless the first was written by "nobody's" Knowing the lads who wrote Villains I beg to differ that they are.
One thing I find amusing with you lot is the fact that for years you were the Big Bad C18 and Racist firm but now have token black lads for PC reasons? Also you slate Danny Brown and the likes of my good self for signing books yet do just that on your site, make your minds up aye!
As for The Crown incident, read mine then read SF's account, I sleep well knowing which one I believe. As for coming to Villa, I go every year, 2 or 3 times and usually in the company of far bigger fish that the HC lads.
Last but by no means least, get your map out and see how far it is from Flint to Goodison Park, then do the same thing with Flint to Ninian Park and you may just realise what a total cunt you have made of yourself with that last statement!
More to follow!!!
November Journal
Once again sorry for the lack of activity on the site, a spell abroad and some ill health both with myself and my pc has made it difficult to keep this updated.
Excuses over I'll now have my quarterly Everton rant!
How the fuck we are 7th god knows, the lack of investment pre season saw us in the bottom 5 and to be honest a few wins has hardly lifted the gloom over Goodison. We are lucky that there are about 10 sides as good as and no better than ourselves or it would be a case of back to the Walter Smith years.
Rant over, apart from Europe! It was short and sweet, how the fuck we ended up getting drawn against the Champions of Belgium, being seeded and finishing as the highest placed English representative in the UEFA Cup is baffling. I suggest this season we finish bottom half and kick and foul nobody, the Man City way, then you get in via the fair play league and are drawn against some part time outfit from Cyprus?
On a sad note we lost one top Evertonian last month, when a good friend Rory Colquhoun lost his battle with cancer. Rory was a true Terrace Legend, a big name on the rave scene and an all round top fella. My thoughts are with his family during this sad time. RIP mate.
Over the next few days I will be catching up on lost time and adding pictures to the site I have also been asked to add many of the e mails I receive on the site, just like Jason Mariner does? Not really my idea of fun but if that's what the public want I'll have a nose through the latest ones to arrive at Scally HQ and slot them on here.
Happy New Season!
Football Moan!
Greetings from Scally HQ, hope everyone had a boss summer and earned as much money as Bill fucking Kenwright has.
After finishing the season on a high there was an air of sheer optimism at Everton, what a load of Henry Collocks that turned out to be. Once again we are a laughing stock and it's just as well the Dark side seem to have the same financial problems as us or it really would be worth turning the lights off and packing in for good.
Now I am no financial wizard or great football genius, but the goings on at Goodison would worry someone with an IQ lower than that bloke with a funny lip on Emmerdale never mind people like me who are deemed to be of average intelligence. We are in a mess and only a few big signings in the next two weeks could remove the doom and gloom that has already descended over Goodison just one game into the new season.
Letting Carsley go was right, if we had a replacement, we never, so it was wrong, selling AJ was right if we could spend the money, we haven't ,so it was yet another own goal by those making the decisions. Now if that is Moyes, i'd be amazed as he seems to care, as for Bill and his bluffers my message is simple, you have been rumbled, you are pushing through a ground move, that few want, on the back of a unfair vote, quite simply to give you the opportunity to cash in and make millions.
I must have been the only fan sorry to see Wyness go, as he had agreed to consider letting me back into Goodison, just my luck, off he went so it's a season of watching us on a dodgy Arabian channel in the boozer i'm afraid.
My main worry is that Moyes will say enough is enough and do what the Bully Keith did, if that happens we are in the mire as nobody in there right mind would take the job, it could be worse though, we could be Man City fans!
I had a few weeks in Cyprus over the summer and missed the majority of the Euro's, was gutted Spain won it, not because there team is littered with Red Shites but because it's the first time in about 10 years I have not had dough on them to win the fucker! Now with all the players on show there, surly Moyes must have seen 1 or 2 players he could afford, maybe not given the way valuations soar after a good game or two. That Russian, Ashavin, is the perfect example, I saw him at The UEFA Cup Final and he was decent, £8 million of anyone's money, 2 good games in the Euro's and they want £25 mill for him! The good thing about that is that there are some cocks out there who will pay it and our lovable neighbours are the best at it. £20 mill for Keane, another born Kopite who has waited for the chance to play for them since he was a kid was available for £8 million last season, well done Spurs, "Like taking candy from a baby" springs to mind!
I opened a lounge on Saturday, The Everton Icons Lounge, it not luxury by any means but we have ex players there every game, quality memorabilia and a good crowd in so if you don't fancy paying hundreds to sit in the ground or the tent before the game e mail me for membership details.
I was a guest at The Aston Villa v Man City game yesterday, hate to say it but Villa are on the up and I believe have the best chance of breaking into the top 4. They have refurbished the complete directors area and it now seats 400 punters paying top dollar for the privilege, well 399 were!
I was introduced to their owner Randy someone and he was quality, even admitted that he visited Everton before buying Villa with a view of investing, probably took one look at the tent by the Park End and got the next flight home.
All in all it was a good day, we moved up 2 places without playing and if that carries on we'll be top 6 by Easter! In all honesty I think we will struggle, I had Neville Southall with me for a few dinners last week and even he said top 10 would be a result, now when you set your standards as high as Nev does that means we are in the shite!
Can't end this moan without wishing my old mate Cass Pennant good luck with his film, very cleverly called.... "Cass" I think he will need it, as after 2 weeks it has hardly been easy to see and his producers need to pull there fingers out before the Chinese are flooding the boozers with the snide DVD version.
New photo's and links etc will be added asap, so keep sending the things over.
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum (And it does not mean move to a breeze block carbuncle in Kirkby and sell to the highest bidder Mr Kenwright!)
Andy
May Diary
Just before we shut the doors at Scally HQ for the summer I'll skim through what happened of interest throughout the merry month of May, and due to the amount of media attention I have had over the past few weeks it seems plenty has been going on, on and off the pitch.
Firstly, I am happy to be going on another European tour with the mighty Blues next season, yes we limped through the final 1/4 of the season, yes were never had the squad to challenge for a Champions league place and yes we don't have the millions to try next year, but for what we have we have done just fine thank you very much
Once again next season Scally Tours will be running flights to all Everton's games in Europe, if you missed out last year just mail me via the site and I'll get back with details once the draw has been made.
It's been a Good season for the Blue 3/4's of Merseyside, Everton climbed a place in the League and had a couple of decent cup runs and although we met our match in the League Cup and probably did not deserve to get to the final I will beg to differ that the 2 sides in the UEFA Cup Final were any better than us.
I was lucky enough to be invited to the Final and enjoyed once again the fine hospitality that Manchester City offer, the food and wine was far better than the football that is a nailed on fact. Watching rangers was like going back in time, a dour part of my life when entertainment was in short supply and watching Everton was as bad as I can remember.... this sad time is also known as "The Walter Smith years"
No doubt the fella sets his stall out as he sees fit but watching Rangers play is not my idea of fun. there support was fantastic, but it's not just me having a pop, most lads I spoke to said they were glad to be at such a prestigious event but feared that Walter's tactics would be slightly negative, even the bookies would not take bets on it!
On the day the best team won.... easily, a team we had beaten earlier in the tournament, and I think if David Moyes has one regret this season it will be that he never had a better go of getting at Fiorentina in the first leg at there gaff, they we not as good as people thought, FFS Rangers knocked them out!
I spoke to Moyes at the game, he was in the Legends Lounge beforehand and was truly gutted that he was there as a TV pundit not as a manager, believe me so did we Davey! There is a picture going on the site of the 2 of us, lets hope that this pre season is the one that Everton Football Club do the decent thing and let me back in, as even Moyes said he misses me!
I walked back to the City centre and was not surprised to see the odd broken bottle and shop window put in. It is not big and clever but given the amount of Rangers fans on the piss all day, it was not unexpected. The Gers had over 150,000 fans down for the game and lets make this clear to all those absolute cocks in the media and in Universities trying to say Football Hooliganism is back to it's worst... You my friends are simply talking UTTER BOLLOCKS, yes folks, as Forest Gump once said "That's all I have got say about that"!
The scenes of so called mass destruction and a lone policeman getting set upon sells papers and makes these so called Hooligan "Experts" plenty of money. While it was major news for many who have not seen things like this happen, it used to happed on a far lager scale EVERY WEEKEND, so it is a credit to the police and the authorities that such things are limited to once or twice a year. A minute minority played up, the big TV Screen failing played a small part, drinking Mancland dry played a major part!!!! All in all I think that given the size of the Jock invasion, the amount of damage caused and injuries sustained could have been far worse. Ask the bizzies who were in London on 4h June 1977 what it is like when our friends from North of the border really play up, the Mancs were lucky!
The Champions League Final passed off with reasonably little trouble given that there was supposed to be deaths and wide scale riots between Chelsea, United, Russians, The NF, The full film crew from Green Street, A kick boxing club from Kiev and some highly trained hit men from the salt mines of deep Siberia. As it was there was thankfully little trouble and once again the media had to trawl through the streets of London looking for new headlines, always easy of late the way Gazza is playing up.
Now this is where I get on my monthly soap box..... and here is my take on some of the headlines that have made front page and prime time news headlines regarding the recent outbreaks of football violence:
The problems with Rangers fans in Manchester City centre and even more so with a pub load of Chelsea fans in London after there defeats is NOT football's problem, it is a social issue, these things happen every weekend all over Europe when people put too much cheap ale and bashed powder into there bodies. FACT! To blame football is plain and simply mischief making FV is dead, not quiet buried but dead and the sooner the media and there ilk realise this and start reporting and trying to highlight the real issues like knife crime on our streets I for one will keep slating them for as I said spouting "Utter Bollox" FFS I read this weekend on the front page of one, albeit, a poor Sunday tabloid that England thugs were going to the Euro's to cause mayhem and show the Russians and Germans and anyone else who wanted to know that we were still the top hooligans in the world. Please tell me this was a late April Fools joke, the lads over there will be selling tickets and swag and having a good time, and I hope to be one of them if Mrs Scally lets me shoot off out there after our return from our yearly 2 weeks in Cyprus!
I was a guest on Radio City last week trying to tell a live audience just what I have posted about, it's not easy doing live radio, as you have to bite your tongue a bit and more to the point not swear, something I struggle trying to achieve! It went quite well and anyone interested in listening to the show log onto Radio City talk, Duncan Barkes page and it was on last Thursday at 9.30am.
Finally, glad to see my mates from Stoke will be visiting us next season, Jasper and the lads will no doubt enjoy a season in the Premiership, it will be just the one by the way, I have already put £100 that all 3 teams promoted will go back down. One unwelcome guest at Goodison will be that snake Nick Barmby, lets hope he falls asleep on an air bed in the sea at whatever resort he spends his holiday at and drifts out to some outback island where the natives dry bum him before cooking him in a large pot for tea. it will save 1000's of Evertonians wasting valuable breath on the horrible little wank stain. (For legal reasons can I point out that I don't really hope young Nick gets eaten to death by natives on some outback island, dry bummed yes eaten no!)
On that fine thought I'll bid you goodbye and wish you all a great summer break.
Be lucky
Andy
Happy May Day!
Just a quick scrawl to wish everyone a very Happy May Bank Holiday weekend!......
Go on then while were here I'll mention the last couple of weeks in April
First off was a narrow home defeat at the hands of Chelsea. A load of shite was thrown around about this game getting moved to suit Sky, and Chelsea even dug deep and gave their fans free tickets and coach travel to attend. It was the only way they would ever fill the away end by the way, but still a decent gesture!
Now my take on this is simple, when Sky were throwing money about in the old days, when Chelsea were getting about 18,000 for home games and Kerry Dixon was there star man, never once did they say.... NO, fuck off... keep it. They banked it, well Ken Bates probably put it in a hole in his back garden... and then they played to whatever tune Sky asked them to perform to. I remember years ago having to go down there on a Friday night due to TV wanting it on, 1985, long before The Russian fella bankrolled the club to the dizzy heights of hanging onto United's coat tails! We never got a free bus, we had to pay in and as far as I can remember never even got so much as a thank you very much for coming. It was what fans do, support there club through thick and thin and if you don't like it stay at home.
It seems that Chelsea are the new Liverpool, moaning and dictating to the league that they should be the ones making the rules up as they go along. Lets see if they cry arse to Sky in a couple of years when the Rich Russian decides he has laundered... sorry invested enough of his dodgy... sorry hard earned cash into the scam.. sorry club and buggers off to somewhere warm and sunny on his posh boat full of clean cash.... sorry a return from his investment! Me thinks that then Chelsea, probably managed by Glen Hoddle and with Kerry Dixon back up front will be happy to play in front of there loyal hardcore of 18,000 fans on a fucking wet Thursday night every week!
Next up was Villa and the battle to finish top of the so called Premier 2nd league. In all honesty without serious investment that is all we are playing for, the "Big 4" are light years away from the rest with money coming in from Champions league revenue, however like I said regarding The Russian all is not safe as houses elsewhere in the Top 4 and fingers crossed Liverpool could soon be the new Leeds United given the quality pair of whoppers who have taken control of the once Mighty Reds!
Back to the game, Villa are on a roll, they have clawed there way back to within a point or two of piping us for 5th and it's going to go to the wire. Top game though and I enjoyed the company of a few of the Old Villa lads who came over. Tony Morley was with them, I need some what ever he takes, the fucker looks like he did in the early 80's when he scored a goal of the season against us. I watched the match on the TV
while everyone else enjoyed it from inside Goodison and I think a draw was a fair result, knowing the Villa lads they probably think they battered us... they had more fans at Old Trafford for the LC Final 2nd replay in 1977 than we did you know
Anyway... lets get to what this update is all about THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL, good luck to both Chelsea and Manchester United, lets hope the game passes off without problems, i'm sure it will now that..... of fuck I'd better not say it.
Facts are, I believe a merry band of lovable Reds have taken UEFA to court after the so called "badly organised" Final last year and there ain't enough dough in The Scally Coffers to defend a slur against the so called best fans in the world. Not sure if people heard the tale but a large number of Liverpool fans have indeed taken UEFA to court, as they were refused entry into the ground in Athens as it was full. I feel truly sorry for them, however once again they fail to get to the root cause of the problem, and that is.. why was the ground full? Once again we won't go there, these people know why..... at the end of the day "In's in la"
Top performance by The Drog, what the fuck TFSW was doing winding him up before the game, Rafa must be the best motivator about as The Drog proved! Can't go without mentioning the real reason the Reds aren't going to Moscow, John Arne Risse... ooooh ahhhhh, I wanna know... what the fuck you were thinking off!!
Happy Days Indeed
Gallery Updated
Many thanks to those who have sent pictures in from recent trips abroad and Charity events. I will try to put as many on as possible however as children view this site those with bare arses, and there are indeed many will not be added to the site. If you wish to bare your backsides and manhood there are plenty of sites on the internet suitable for people like you.. this is not one of them!
Please keep sending them in there were hundreds taken on the euro trips and it's the same old faces sending them in, you will get them back and I will send a free Real Football Factory T Shirt to anyone kind enough to do so.
These T Shirts are due out next month and are quality items please view the shop for booking details.
Crap month so far football wise, Everton may limp to 5th place, we are knackered and running out of steam quick. Bill needs to get the cheque book out asap and sort Moyes a decent budget before he pisses off to Celtic and Howard Kendall comes back for another spell.
Was a guest last Saturday in Birmingham, sat in the box next to Karen Brady who had just been released on police bail, join the club girl, innocent until proven guilty and all that! Nice to see Bill Kenwright greet her with a hug and kiss, what is it with Good Old Bill and people who shall we say have been in a spot of bother with the Bad Old Bill! I am close to asking him to pop round for tea to discuss my ban given the sightings of late involving Bill and people making national news for all the wrong reasons! Regardless.... it was a top day out and made better when I had decent money on Lescott at 20-1 for the first goal, an unbelievable price for such a prolific goal scorer! In fact almost as unbelievable as Brady getting a kiss from Bill.... and bail!
Enjoyed and Evening in the company of Steve Kindon the night before the Brum game, one fantastic speaker he is and I highly recommend a night in his company if you get the chance. As usual e mail me for prices and availability!
2008 diary
Once again I have been away for a few months, no not jail.... so sorry for the lack of updates, back on home soil now so we should be back up and running on a weekly basis. The upgrade of the site is almost complete, just a few minor technical details etc to sort, alas it's fuck all I can sort so bear with us!
Since I last posted in detail on here quite a bit has gone on so I'll go through it in diary form, if I have missed anything out of importance, well obviously it was not that good or it would be on here!
December 2007
Highlight for me apart from seeing the kids open there presents and the re run of Spartacus on ITV was a trip to Alkmaar. Shit hole of a place and the coldest I have ever been at a football match, but a top time had by all. Secured executive tickets and was privileged to shake hands with the players as they left the pitch after an excellent 3-2 win. The Dutch were a bit moody and seemed to be on the look out for odd Evertonians dotted about the place and there were plenty of targets given our pathetic allocation. Quite a few were battered by mobs of local Hooligans who were not worth a wank to be honest, still they are 15 years behind us in most aspects of the game so it was no surprise to see them behaving like Geordies! The Dam at night was classic, hundreds of young Scally's outside the windows singing "Get Your Tits out for the lads" being chased for taking pictures and basically making a nuisance of themselves. Just what trips to Europe is all about!
The last few days of 2007 saw us lose our long unbeaten record, stretching back to the "fixed Derby" in September with defeats against United and Arsenal, no shame in that given the money and talent both clubs have at there disposal. I also attended The NSNO website Christmas bash with Kevin Ratcliffe and i'm sure everyone had a boss night, in a short time Rats has become one of the best speakers on the after dinner circuit and i'd highly recommend an evening in his company, e mail me for details and prices!
January 2008
Not the best of months on the pitch with exits from both the FA and League Cup. I entertained 100 Oldham fans in a mates pub before they ceremoniously knocked us out the cup. My old mate Carl H Spiers, another reformed hooligan and author brought them all over and had a great day, last time I ever do that, was expecting us to dick them about 5-0 to be truthful, so sorry lads for not meeting you after the game for that drink I promised, I was back in the house watching Ant and Dec! I believe a mob of Hibs were on there way down to guest for Oldham's mob, never realised this still went on, alas they had a wasted trip when they were pulled near Warrington by the local plod and sent home. Stick to fighting in Scotland lads, they have got CCTV and even police dogs this side of the border so there is a fair chance you may get your arse bitten or even arrested if you cause trouble in England!
Our best chance of silverware came and went thanks to the Billionaires from Chelsea. No great shock there but I think we had a decent chance to see them off at there place and blew it. Our support was awesome down there and I doubt anyone has ever roamed around the place with such ease. There's up here was pitiful, much preferred the old Chelsea myself, good lads and game as they come, today the club, on and off the pitch if full of whoppers. That is a point agreed by many of there lads by the way so don't be sending Jason Mariner an e mail saying I am slagging them off!
Ended the month with a night out in Nottingham as a guest of John and Boatsey for an audience with Stan Collymore, fair play to Stan he was funny as fuck and did not mind talking about some of the more, shall we say colourful goings on in his life, off the pitch that is... raise a glass to Stan... top shagger and top perv!
February
It began with a trip to Blackburn, now don't get me wrong I have nothing against these... but why the fuck are they still in the Premiership. We took about 6000 there and the crowd was les than 25,000 for a game that could turn out to be a UEFA CUP decider. They take about 500 away and just plod from season to season, fuck them off with the likes of Fulham to The Championship, they are shite.... plus we never get a decision there, another blatant pen turned down and another good goal disallowed meant a point instead of 3.
Things picked up with a win in Norway, albeit after making hard work of it! That's one gaff you would not want to live in, £8 a pint and £52 for half a crispy duck in the Chinky, fuck me even old Scally would be down to 13 stone if those prices were slotted in over here. Thanks to a free bar at the ground in the company of some ex Everton legends and no other than DC Neil Manson from "The Bill" the night was quality and another Scally Tour went to plan with over 200 happy punters joining me on my 2 trips to Bergen.
The return leg was a formality and a 6-1 win had some fools tipping us for the UEFA Cup, in a nut shell Brann were shite although there support was quality, even brought a firm, aided by some, err Chelsea, Pompey, Linfield etc etc, the mind boggles!
Finished the month with a win at City. I was a guest of a mate of a mate and the hospitality was first class, anyone harping on about a ground move needs to take a reality check, we simply can't compete if we don't move, Kirkby NO but move YES! Had a beer with my old pal Kevin Campbell. I met Kev shortly before Scally first came out...in a lap dance club in Brussels the night we had chased the locals and there police force and army into the distance. I told him about the book and the short piece where he gets a mention for being the first coloured player we had signed worthy of wearing our shirt and he said he would keep an eye out for it. When it hit the shops I bumped into him at the training ground and he complemented me on the book and thanked me for the bit about him. Everytime I see him he says hello and unlike some of the twats playing today is a top bloke and perfect gent. 2-0 to us saw us see off City's hopes of Europe and give us a real chance of 4th as we entered the last 3rd of the season, we played as well as I have seen us play for years at City things were looking good, even though some miserable twat said we had peaked too soon and were likely to hit a bad patch..... The fucker must have a Crystal Ball!
March
As we were beating Pompey 3-1 I was comparing an audience with Ex Chelsea Headhunter Jason Mariner. In fairness we have not seen eye to eye over the years on a few things but I think we both know where we are coming from now, the blokes good company and his story is one everyone out there with a bad habit needs to take notice of, be it drugs, nicking or violence, there are people out there who can get into your lives and get you nailed. I highly recommend you to buy the lads book , its scary how easy he was stitched up, believe me. Met some good lads at the do, Rochdale and Stockport were well represented, although I believe they came close to falling out later, which was a shame, keep your narks away from the get togethers lads, i'm trying to earn a few quid! Jasper, Boatsey and Gilly were there, Boatsey for once was not "off his nut" and had a few lads from Cologne in tow, nice blokes, thanks for coming!
Things went down hill quick from then, the trip to Florence was shite, in a nutshell the police fucked it up for everyone and Scally tours was in disarray after they Italian Bizzies sent my plane to Rimini and the lads on the day trip had to endure a 4 hour coach trip to the game. Luckily 60 of us had flown out the day before with no problems but the place was dire, nowhere to get a drink, a sightseers paradise but a drinkers hell hole. The game was worse, it pissed down non stop and the ground was a disgrace, no roof on it for fucks sake! (Apart for the main stand, which I luckily happened to be in) Everyone agreed it was the worse trip by a country mile and a 2-0 beating meant we were as good as out. Over there we bumped into our Chairman Bill Kenwright who was with no other than Michael Barrymore. Now i'm not concerned about those who bat for the other side, each to there own and all that but Barrymore ain't just gay, he's a druggie who is still under suspicion for helping some lad meet his maker after a "E" and Charlie fuelled orgy in a swimming pool. As I mentioned to Bill, if he's happy to walk about with such people, I have no problem, we are all God's children, but how the fuck can he ban me for writing a book then consider donning his Speedo's and going swimming with Barrymore!
Missing the return leg pissed me off, a great night and we so nearly turned it around, was not to be, so won't dwell on it, just find it hard to get my head round the fact that Bill's new mate was probably allowed into Goodison wearing a rubber ring and arm bands while I was not.
We went to Fulham and got our usual "No points" like Blackburn, shit ground no fans, now fuck off back to The Championship and don't come back... thank you very much.
We were never going to get anything from The Derby, given the fact our luck with injuries had finally run out. Could not believe that some chanting at players from both sides made front page headlines in the papers though. I am almost certain that if I was on over £100,000 A FUCKING WEEK I would not give a flying toss if a load of pissed up Kopites questioned if I had fathered my children, and that goes for most of us no doubt. Problem is today's players are above all this and the superstar treatment they get is sickening. Total tools like The Fat Waiter from Spain in charge of the shite don't help, his comments that Everton fans are "disrespectful to his side" are laughable. Lets hope another season without a Cup see's the silly bearded little twat sent packing as he has no idea how much he is damaging relationships between the two clubs by continually spouting utter bollocks!
On the eve of the Derby I compared an evening with Andy King and Kevin Sheedy to celebrate the 12th anniversary of The Mid Cheshire Blues, one of the most well run and respected supporters clubs we have. The night was as good as it gets and anyone with photo's of the night please send them in, as usual I need them to remind me how good a time we had!
On a final note the store will be upgraded this week, I believe there have been quite a few instances of people ordering books and not getting them. This is down to money being sent to the wrong paypal account, it's now sorted, so anyone who has been let down mail me and a copy will be sent out.
New photo's and features will also be added this week from the European trips and Sports Evenings so keep logging on and mailing as your support and interest is appreciated
Be Lucky
Andy
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