Everton F.C. supporters - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Everton Football Club are an association football team based in Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

, England. They are one of the least supported clubs in English football.

Demographics

Everton have a large fanbase by virtue of being an original founder member of The Football League

The Football League

The Football League, also known as the npower Football League for sponsorship reasons, is a league competition featuring professional association football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest such competition in world football...

and contesting more seasons in the top flight than any other club. For the first nine seasons in the football league Everton had the highest average league attendances of any team in England. Recently the club has averaged around 36,000-38,000 in league games at Goodison Park

Goodison Park

Goodison Park is a football stadium located in Walton, Liverpool, England. The stadium has been home to Everton F.C. since its completion in 1892 and is one of the world's first purpose-built football grounds...

which has a capacity of 40,158. This despite having the most obstructed views and poor sight lines in the Premier League. A 2006/07 fan survey by the Premier League returned listed 15% of Everton fans as being unhappy with sight lines at Goodison Park. Only 19% described matchday views as “very good” as compared to Arsenal

Arsenal F.C.

Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups...

fans who described the Emirates Stadium

Emirates Stadium

Ashburton Grove, currently known as the Emirates Stadium, is a UEFA elite football stadium which is home to Arsenal FC, where they moved from Highbury in 2006. It has an current capacity of 60,361, and there have been rumours of an expansion...

as having 75% positive sight lines. For the 2009/10 season Everton sold over 24,000 season tickets. In the same season, around 7,000 Evertonians travelled to Lisbon

Lisbon

Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...

for a match against Benfica.

The 2004/05 Premier League survey which asked almost 1400 Everton fans various questions found that 40% of matchday fans live within 10 miles of Goodison Park. All together 77% of Everton fans lived less than 49 miles away from the stadium.
The 2007/08 found that on average Everton fans live 44 miles away from Goodison Park, 3 miles less than the average and a huge difference compared with rivals Liverpool and Manchester United who were 82 and 78 miles respectively from their stadium. Everton draws the vast majority of its support from Merseyside

Merseyside

Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. It encompasses the metropolitan area centred on both banks of the lower reaches of the Mersey Estuary, and comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, and the city of Liverpool...

, Cheshire

Cheshire

Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...

, Lancashire

Lancashire

Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

and North Wales

North Wales

North Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales. It is bordered to the south by the counties of Ceredigion and Powys in Mid Wales and to the east by the counties of Shropshire in the West Midlands and Cheshire in North West England...

. Although no conclusive studies have been undertaken, its often considered that the heartland of Everton support comes from the north of the city in areas such as Aintree

Aintree

Aintree is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside. It lies between Walton and Maghull on the A59 road, about north of Liverpool city centre, in North West England....

, Anfield

Anfield, Liverpool

Anfield is a district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward.-Toponymy:Originally common pasture land, the area had the name of Hanging-fields or Hangfield - the name originating from the deeply sloping nature of the terrain. The name was also frequently written as...

, Bootle

Bootle

Bootle is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England, and a 'Post town' in the L postcode area. Formally known as Bootle-cum-Linacre, the town is 4 miles to the north of Liverpool city centre, and has a total resident population of 77,640.Historically part of...

, Croxteth

Croxteth

Croxteth is a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward. Although housing in the area is predominantly modern, the suburb has some notable history. It is known locally as "Crocky"...

, Everton, Kirkdale

Kirkdale, Liverpool

Kirkdale is a district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council ward that covers both Kirkdale and Vauxhall. At the 2001 Census the population was recorded as 15,653.-Description:...

, Vauxhall

Vauxhall, Merseyside

Vauxhall is an inner city district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is located north of Liverpool city centre, and is bounded by Kirkdale in the north, and Everton in the east, with the docks and River Mersey running along the west side....

and Walton

Walton, Merseyside

Walton, originally known as Walton-on-the-Hill, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, is an area situated to the north of Anfield and the east of Bootle and Orrell Park. It is largely residential, with a diverse population.-History:...

. Fans can tag their location on the Everton Fan Map on the official club website.

Everton has a large overseas support, especially in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, Republic of Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

, Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

and United States of America.

The 2003/04 Premier league survey found that 71% of Everton fans earn under £30,000 a year. The lowest average income in the league. Chelsea meanwhile had the lowest amount with only 41% of fans earning below £30,000 per year.
While the 2002/03 report found Everton had the highest number of season ticket holders from the two lowest social classifications with 16%, 1% more than Sunderland.

In February 2009, Everton F. C. became the first Premier League club to have an official fan page on social networking site facebook, which publishes important club news and even in-match score updates. The page allows users to interact by uploading photographs and commenting on posts. As of July 2011, there are over 166,000 fans.

Rivalries

A 2003 survey by The Football Fans Census found Everton's many rivals are Liverpool, Manchester United

Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...

and Tranmere Rovers

Tranmere Rovers F.C.

Tranmere Rovers Football Club are an English team based in Birkenhead, Wirral. The club currently compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system...

.

The inter-city rivalry between Everton and Liverpool FC is regarded as a "friendly" rivalry, with households in having both Everton and Liverpool fans. Whilst performances on the pitch are heated and passionate, the off-pitch behaviour of fans is largely amicable in comparison to the Old Firm

Old Firm

The Old Firm is a common collective name for the association football clubs Celtic and Rangers, both based in Glasgow, Scotland.The origin of the term is unclear. One theory has it that the expression derives from Celtic's first game in 1888, which was played against Rangers. However, author,...

for example. However, isolated incidents have seen vandalism to both the Dixie Dean Statue and the Hillsborough Memorial in 2002/03.

Off the field, Everton fans have been involved in high profile clashes with fans of Manchester United, Manchester City and Middlesbrough.

Supporter groups

Everton have supporter groups located all over the world. The three largest clubs outside of England are "The Irish Toffees" located in Dublin, "ESCNI" located in Belfast

Belfast

Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...

and the "Everton Supporters Club - Isle of Man".

Famous Fans (footballers)

The following footballers have claimed they were Everton fans in their youth.

Graham Allen

Graham Allen (footballer)

Graham Allen born 8 April 1977 in Bolton is a former professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Bradford Park Avenue.Graham started his career at Everton making his debut against Middlesbrough on the 26 December 1996, He played 6 times for Everton before signing for Tranmere Rovers...

John Bailey

John Bailey (footballer born 1957)

John Bailey is a retired English professional footballer who played in the 1984 FA Cup Final with Everton.-Career:...

Leighton Baines

Leighton John Baines is an English footballer who plays for Everton and the England national football team.He started his career with Wigan Athletic, with whom he won the Second Division in the 2002–03 season and was a runner-up in the 2004–05 Championship and the 2006 Football League Cup Final....

Eirik Bakke

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Michael Ball

Michael Ball (footballer)

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Joey Barton

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Daniel Bennett Jim Bentley

Jim Bentley

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Ian Bishop

Ian Bishop (footballer)

Ian Bishop is a former footballer who played as a midfielder.He was born on the Cantril Farm housing estate in Liverpool and on leaving school in July 1981 he joined Everton, turning professional for the 1983-84 season under the management of Howard Kendall - who had taken over during the same...

Paul Bracewell

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Jamie Carragher

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Matthew Kinsella Dixie Dean

Dixie Dean

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John Ebbrell

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Robbie Fowler

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Ronnie Goodlass

Ronny Goodlass is an English footballer who played for English Premier League club Everton.Ronny played for Everton during the old First Division...

Tony Grant

Tony Grant (English footballer)

Tony Grant is a former professional footballer.-Early career :Tony Grant signed as a trainee for Everton. He made his debut for 'The Toffees' two years later. In the 1–0 defeat at Manchester City in December 1993, Grant scored his first professional goal. He bagged his first league goal at...

Colin Harvey

Colin Harvey is a retired English footballer who is best known for his time as a player, coach and manager with Everton. He is married to Maureen and lives in Aughton, Lancashire.- Playing career :...

Wayne Hennessey

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Tony Hibbert

Anthony James "Tony" Hibbert is an English footballer, who currently plays for Everton. Originally a midfielder, Hibbert now plays at right back.-Club career:...

Dave Hickson

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Craig Hignett

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Andy Holden

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Lewis Holtby

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Barry Horne

Barry Horne (footballer)

Barry Horne is a Welsh former professional footballer and former chairman of the Professional Footballers Association.-Playing career:...

Bryan Hughes

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Kenny Irons

Kenny Irons (footballer)

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Francis Jeffers

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Dave Jones Brian Labone

Brian Labone

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Henrik Larsson

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Anders Limpar

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Mick Lyons Cliff Marshall
James McEveley

James McEveley

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Steve McMahon

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Steve McManaman

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Billy Meredith

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Derek Mountfield

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Carlo Nash

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Ian Nolan

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David Nugent

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Iffy Onuora

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Michael Owen

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Billy Paynter

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Kevin Ratcliffe

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Jack Rodwell

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Wayne Rooney

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Joe Royle

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Ian Rush

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Robbie Savage

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Kevin Sheedy Neville Southall

Neville Southall

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Gary Speed

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Alan Stubbs

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Derek Temple

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Mickey Thomas David Thompson Lee Trundle

Lee Trundle

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David Unsworth

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Ryan Valentine

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Roy Vernon

Thomas Royston "Roy" Vernon was a Welsh international footballer who played for Blackburn Rovers, Everton and Stoke City.-Career:...

Jonathan Walters

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Tony Warner

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Alan Whittle

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Ian Woan

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Billy Wright Stephen Wright Eddie Youds

Eddie Youds

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Famous supporters

A significant number of famous individuals are known Everton supporters;
Actors/Entertainers

Jake Abraham,
Jennifer Ellison
Jennifer Ellison
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Ian Hart
Ian Hart
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David Vitty
David Vitty
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Amanda Holden
Amanda Holden
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Gethin Jones
Gethin Jones
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Victor McGuire
Victor McGuire
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Roger McGough
Roger McGough
Roger Joseph McGough CBE is a well-known English performance poet. He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please and records voice-overs for commercials, as well as performing his own poetry regularly...

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Jimmy Mulville
Jimmy Mulville
James Thomas "Jimmy" Mulville is an English comedian, comedy writer, producer and television presenter. Jimmy Mulville is best known for co-founding in 1986 the British independent television production company Hat Trick Productions with Denise O'Donoghue and Rory McGrath...

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Simon O'Brien,
Tom O'Connor,
Leonard Rossiter
Leonard Rossiter
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Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone
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Ed Stewart
Ed Stewart
Ed Stewart is a radio broadcaster from England. His real name is Edward Mainwaring but he is known by the nickname Ed Stewpot Stewart.-Early life and career:...

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Claire Sweeney
Claire Sweeney
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Norman Wisdom
Norman Wisdom
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Andrew Lancel
Andrew Lancel
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Music

Mike Lewis
Mike Lewis
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Lostprophets
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Ian Astbury
Ian Astbury
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, - The Cult
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Ian Ball
Ian Ball
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, - Gomez
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Pete Best
Pete Best
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, - The Beatles
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Paul Draper, - Mansun
Mansun
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Lee Mavers
Lee Mavers
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Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
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The Beatles
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Liz McClarnon
Liz McClarnon
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Damon Minchella
Damon Minchella
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Ocean Colour Scene
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Nicola Roberts
Nicola Roberts
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Girls Aloud
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Donny Tourette
Donny Tourette
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Towers of London
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Osmo Tapio Räihälä
Osmo Tapio Räihälä
Osmo Tapio Everton Räihälä is a Finnish composer of contemporary music. He has mainly written instrumental music for various chamber music line-ups, fourconcertos as well as for symphony orchestra...

, composer
Composer
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Lee Latchford-Evans
Lee Latchford-Evans
Lee Latchford-Evans is an English pop singer, actor and dancer, most famous for being a member of the British pop group Steps.-Biography:...

, - Steps (group)

Politics

Warren Bradley
Warren Bradley (politician)
Warren Bradley is a British firefighter, politician and a former Liberal Democrat . He is a councillor for the Wavertree ward as well as the former Leader of Liverpool City Council, Before taking over as leader of the council from former Liverpool Liberal Democrats leader, Mike Storey, he was the...

, - Liberal Democrats
Liberal Democrats
The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...

councillor
Andy Burnham, - Labour MP
Derek Hatton
Derek Hatton
Derek 'Degsy' Hatton is a broadcaster, businessman and after-dinner speaker. He won celebrity status as a local politician in Liverpool during the 1980s, where he was deputy leader of the city council, and a supporter of the Trotskyist Militant Tendency.-Early life:He attended Liverpool Institute...

, - former Labour Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council
Liverpool City Council
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Eddie McGrady
Eddie McGrady
Edward Kevin McGrady, known as Eddie McGrady is an Irish nationalist politician and a former member of the British Parliament.One of eleven children, McGrady was educated at St...

, - SDLP
Social Democratic and Labour Party
The Social Democratic and Labour Party is a social-democratic, Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. Its basic party platform advocates Irish reunification, and the further devolution of powers while Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom...

MP
Eric Heffer
Eric Heffer
Eric Samuel Heffer was a British socialist politician. He was Labour Member of Parliament for Liverpool Walton from 1964 until his death. His working-class background and consciousness fed in to his left-wing politics, but to an extent disguised the depth of his knowledge: with 12,000 books in...

Labour MP for Liverpool Walton constituency from 1964-1990
Nigel Dodds
Nigel Dodds
Nigel Alexander Dodds, OBE, MP, BL is a barrister and Northern Irish unionist politician. He is Member of Parliament for Belfast North, and deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party. He has been Lord Mayor of Belfast twice, and from 1993 has been General Secretary of the DUP...

, DUP
Democratic Unionist Party
The Democratic Unionist Party is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of the...

M.P. for North Belfast.

Sport

Tony Bellew
Tony Bellew
Tony Bellew is a British professional boxer and a former three time ABA Heavyweight Champion. He is promoted by Frank Warren, trains out of Arnie's gym in Manchester and is the reigning Commonwealth light heavyweight champion.-Amateur career:...

, - Boxing
John Conteh
John Conteh
John Conteh is a British former boxer who was world light-heavyweight boxing champion.Conteh is one of Britain's most successful boxing champions. At his peak in the mid to late 1970s he was considered good enough that he was touted as a possible opponent of Muhammad Ali...

, - Boxing
Matt Dawson
Matt Dawson
Matthew James Sutherland "Daws" Dawson, MBE is a retired English rugby union player who played scrum half for Wasps and Northampton Saints. During his international career he toured with the British and Irish Lions three times and was part of England's 2003 Rugby World Cup winning side...

, - Rugby Union
Austin Healey
Austin Healey
Austin Sean Healey is a former English rugby union player, who played as a utility back for Leicester Tigers, and has represented the England national rugby union team and the British Lions....

, - Rugby Union
John Higgins
John Higgins
John Higgins MBE is a Scottish professional snooker player and the reigning World Champion. With four world titles in all he is fourth overall in the modern era, behind Stephen Hendry , Steve Davis and Ray Reardon...

, - Snooker
John Parrott
John Parrott
John Parrott MBE is an English professional snooker player and TV personality.He won the World Snooker Championship in 1991, defeating Jimmy White in the final. Two years earlier he had lost 3–18 to Steve Davis, the heaviest final defeat in modern times...

, - Snooker

Although not an Everton fan, Paul Whitehouse

Paul Whitehouse

Paul Whitehouse is a Welsh actor, writer and comedian. He became known for his work with Harry Enfield and as one of the stars of the popular BBC sketch show, The Fast Show. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was in the top 50 comedy acts voted for by comedians and comedy insiders...

, when asked to describe his childhood bedroom on the Danny Baker

Danny Baker

Danny Baker is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter. Since the late 1970s, he has worked for a wide range of publications and broadcasters including NME, LWT, the BBC, and Talk Radio....

radio show stated that on his wall is an Everton and Tottenham poster. Whitehouse states that "I really liked Everton, they were the champions at the time and they would still be sort of my second team after Spurs."

In popular culture

Everton fans have featured in a variety television shows and films.
In Alan Bleasdale

Alan Bleasdale

Alan Bleasdale is an English television dramatist, best known for writing several social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people.The Bleasdales live in prescot,liverpool,wales and london.-Early life:Bleasdale is an only child; his father worked in a food factory and his mother...

's Liverpool based series Boys from the Blackstuff

Boys from the Blackstuff

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, Socialist plasterer Snowy Malone tells Chrissie that his militant trade unionist father brought him up "to believe in what was good and proper." Loggo quickly quips "I didn't know your dad supported Everton".

The Rutles

The Rutles

The Rutles are a band that are known for their visual and aural pastiches and parodies of The Beatles. Originally created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes as a fictional band to be featured as part of various 1970s television programming, the group recorded, toured, and released two UK chart hits in...

a parody of Beatlemania

Beatlemania

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sees Eric Idle

Eric Idle

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interviewing respected Liverpool poet Roger McGough

Roger McGough

Roger Joseph McGough CBE is a well-known English performance poet. He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please and records voice-overs for commercials, as well as performing his own poetry regularly...

(a real life Evertonian). He introduces him to the camera as "he was born in Liverpool, grew up in Liverpool, drank in Liverpool, wrote about Liverpool and his football team is of course…...Everton."

The 1997 UK television drama The Fix

The Fix (TV film)

The Fix is a 1997 television film first shown on BBC One and directed by Paul Greengrass.It tells the story of the British betting scandal of 1964, following which a number of British professional footballers were jailed and banned from football for life for conspiring to fix the results of...

told the story of the exposure of a match fixing scandal in 1963 that centred around Everton player Tony Kay

Tony Kay

Anthony Herbert Kay is a former English footballer who became notorious after being banned from the professional game for life following the British betting scandal of 1964....

. Jason Isaacs

Jason Isaacs

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played Kay while Colin Welland

Colin Welland

Colin Welland is a British actor and screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his script for Chariots of Fire ,,,....

portrayed then manager Harry Catterick

Harry Catterick

Harry Catterick was an English football player and manager. As a player Catterick played for Everton and Crewe Alexandra, in a career that was interrupted by World War II, but he is most notable as a manager...

with a broad Liverpool accent, despite the fact catterick himself was from Darlington

Darlington

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. The drama also featured lifelong Liverpool fan Ricky Tomlinson

Ricky Tomlinson

Eric Tomlinson , known by his stage name Ricky Tomlinson, is an English actor and comedian, best known for his roles as Bobby Grant in Brookside, DCI Charlie Wise in Cracker and James "Jim" Royle in The Royle Family....

playing Gordon, a fictitious character and Everton fanatic.

The 1979 television advertisement for ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

's Oracle

Oracle

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teletext service a disembodied voice in the strong Liverpool accent asks "Ow Did Everton do?" To which he receives the response, when the page is searched on the teletext service, "Everton 1 Stoke 1."

In the comedy series Harry Enfield and Chums episode The Scousers visit that London, one of the three stereotype scousers is an Everton fan. Starting off on the National Express coach to Wembley, he sits cross from the two Liverpool fans singing You'll Never Walk Alone
You'll Never Walk Alone
You'll Never Walk Alone is a song from the musical Carousel, a pop standard and football club anthem, for example that of Liverpool F.C.You'll Never Walk Alone may also refer to:* You'll Never Walk Alone , studio album...

. When they finish he replies "Up the toffees" which then erupts into an argument.

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