The Middle Children Of History

"We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives."

Tyler Durden's iconic monologue from the film Fight Club, I watched it with my girlfriend over the weekend and it seemed to hit home, we are the middle children of Everton Football Club.

Starting in recent history there was the 80's Everton's most successful era, all the trophies all of the stories, lifetime experiences happening over the course of 90 minutes.  If you are like me (early thirties) you just missed that............DAMN!!!

What you might remember however is Barry Horne's shin against Wimbledon, and Gareth 'The New Sheedy' Farrelly's magnificent strike (well, he didn't do much else) and seeing a overjoyed Howard Kendall sporting his centre part (sort of) lift his arms aloft and be embraced by (Ooh, Ah) Mick Madar, those moments of sheer jubilation when the final whistle went and Evertonians went streaming on to the Goodison turf (from that day against Coventry there has been a bit of Goodison turf growing in our back garden) and the feeling that took over your body was immense.  In my adult life I have never known Everton to lift a trophy, but I dont think that no matter how special it would be even to win the European Cup against the Shite at Wembley with Tony Hibbert scoring the winner it could not compare to what I had felt that day in May 1998 as a Seventeen year old season ticket holder looking into the Abyss and coming out the other side, it was not just joy and celebration it was relief and a new found hope.

Fast forward to today, we have moved on from those 'dark days' and are now consistant finishers in the top half of the Premier League, we have a great manager in the eyes of most supporters and the best team that we have had since the glory days, but somehow it seems a little beige.  We had the Cup Final and the UEFA Cup run for bits of added excitement but it didn't feel like it used to, I feel sorry for the Everton fan aged 25 years and younger, they are the middle children of history, they have no great war, no great depression.

Personally I believe that this has a huge part to play in the division of fans in the Blue Union vs The Board struggle, people like excitement in their lives especially if they have not truly experienced it before and will call for progression with the Blue Union, and maybe there are the element that will say "We remember what it was like before Kenwright", they remember Claus Thomson, Danka and selling Duncan Ferguson, they remember exactly how close we come to being in football's wasteland, a club being relegated from the Premiership can spiral into a huge decline. Don't believe me? Look at Forest, Southampton, The Sheffield clubs, Leeds United, Charlton Athletic and Manchester Cit.........errrrrrrr scratch the last one, but you see the fucking point!

Have your opinions, discuss with each other what is going on at our club, debate it, argue over it if you must but respect each others opinions and LISTEN to each other, but stand united behind the team, as the old saying goes, you are born an Evertonian, you cannot choose so stay loyal, proud, determined and true and keep the flag you fight for blue.

The Bullens Ultra
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